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> I have long wanted to see programmers experiment with taking this IDE thing much further. Almost every other authoring tool has an opaque file format, manipulated via one or more views. E.g. when a digital artist wants to create and manage a complex 3D scene, they use a tool like Maya. They're not fussed about whether they can read the file format!

Interesting choice of example, because over the last few years open formats like Pixar's USD (https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/index.html) have been emerging for managing complex 3D scenes - precisely because of problems with opaque file formats.

That said, we're now seeing more and more things like Unreal Engine's Blueprints, Apple's "Swift Playgrounds" and so on. I think your wish is slowly coming true.
Something to show for effort. This matters a bit.

One of my young-adulthood colleagues went on to be an early googler who is influential in relevant policies. We built our relationship sharing bugs and analysis techniques. Quite a few years ago some scoundrels whose trust I gained proudly showed me how they were using youtube links to drop malware. Since my old mate worked there, I mentioned it and they were quite interested.

We hadn't shared anything in a while, both of us demonstrating loyalty to our employers and not talking about work details. I said that it would be really cool to have a one dollar check from Google for a bug report. I probably offered to send something cool from my workplace too.

They said, "We don't pay for bugs" Fifty cents? "We don't pay for bugs!"

I felt like I was simply after a piece of paper and the evildoers were a mildly useful source, but I could easily do without them and the souvenir would have been treasured.

I was unreasonably miffed that I couldn't get that piece of paper, though. So I reviewed the links I'd collected and passed some general information but withheld details that would be obviously unique to these attackers. They expressed disappointment with me the next time we spoke. It turns out that what I gave wasn't specific enough to easily identify the lame cross site exploit, despite my actual intent to lead them to the bug.

Interesting they have a bounty program now.
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> > > > > do secret charges exist?

> > > > The best info we have is from Comey's testimony which says 'maybe' and they want to arrest him

> > > It says nothing other than they have an investigation- well we knew that.

> > and they want to arrest him

> Well yes. We knew that already too.

Anything else that we already know you would like to add?
You could share the pre-trained models that take tons and tons of data and compute time to generate? The models themselves are abstract enough to be considered anonymous, by their very nature.. I think.
This isn't an accurate assessment or headline.

The accurate headline or assessment is "Equity Crowdfunding sites fail to attract legitimate, investment-worthy startups"!

I've seen the startups posted at the crowdfunding sites and they look terrible / borderline scammy e.g. a site that's not growing and doesn't have much going for it raising at a $25 million valuation.

Part of the reason is that there's a big gorilla in the room and it's Kickstarter! If you have a great product, it's better to take it there than to an equity crowdfunding site -- at Kickstarter, you get pre-orders, gauge demand, get actual buyers/users, and don't lose any equity or have those legal complications. It's much better than equity crowdfunding.

I also think AngelList should be evaluated as I bet it's enabled a lot of brand new folks to get into angel investing.
I'm confident that in 20 years we'll have a very different conception of privacy. Certainly, one of the worst privacy outcomes would be if government had a monopoly on ubiquitous surveillance.

Already I don't expect to be anonymous in any public location. Given a public enough lifestyle and enough acquaintances, the likelihood of someone recognizing you anywhere on the globe or in a random pub is non-negligible.
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Do you have any kind of anti-virus tool running? I experienced several slowdowns for autocompletion in VSCode, which turned away once Avira was deactivated. I think VsCode (and especially some plugins like the language services) are working with lots of files in the background, which got slowed down due to the filtering of these tools.
> at a societal level we substantially blame addiction on "drug abuse" which is not always an adequate model.

While I agree that this model is not accurate, I'd also point out that just because you're taking a drug as directed doesn't mean you're not abusing it.

For whatever reason most people in the U.S. seem to have a wildly unjustifiable level of faith in western medicine, either way too much or way too little. Belief and disbelief in various forms of medicine have been successfully marketed as personal identities, which is easy to see from reading most HN comment threads on health issues.
It's not for everyone. You can often see middle-aged men escaping their homes and working long hours because they feel miserable around their wives; for them office is the only "safe space" they have. But for self-motivated high-performing communicative people WFH might be a much better arrangement. They might have a different problem - not knowing when to stop and risking a severe burnout which would be limited by office hours.
So, my first thought was Textbroker. But then I searched and couldn't even find a Wikipedia article profiling them, though I did find this:
https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/textbroker-raises-multi-mi...

And then it occurred to me that their thousands of writers are not employees. They are 1099 contract positions.

And then I remembered the awful stuff that went down when the Fortune 500 company I worked for created WFH positions for my exact job. It was a big fat nope for me for reasons that boiled down to the company invading my home and trying to control my life in ways I found highly objectionable. And then thing got worse as it went along because they put your quota 30% higher if you worked from home for no real reason. This was literally a figure pulled out of thin air by a person high up in the department.

When they found that people were working 11 hours a day and this was a violation of the law on their end, rather than lower the quota, they just got psycho controlling about how many hours a day you could be logged in. So I guess at that point people needed to log off to go pee in order to preserve the 8 hours a day of work time they were allotted.

This has me thinking that there may be deeper systemic issues with the very concept of a WFH employee than just "Well, it is new and different and weird and it just needs good PR." Perhaps the (apparent) Textbroker model is the actual sane thing: If you want to work from home, you get a contract position and are not classified as an employee.
> JetBrains are mad geniuses. In Intellij, with a hotkey you can convert Java to Kotlin. A couple of Alt-Enters and you have something almost idiomatic.

The same works for Scala.

> powerful yet still easy to understand (sorry Scala)

Kotlin is way less powerful than Scala. And if you dumb down Scala to Kotlin level by just not using the more advanced features (it is easy to turn them off globally), you're basically writing Kotlin. I can't see how Scala is less readable then - the differences are really cosmetic.
I meant at the last mile. I could see a mesh network first taking off in a city/neighborhood.
The root cause is Purdue Pharma, who successfully marketed the drug to primary care physicians by lying about the risk of addiction:

Perhaps knowing that doctors would be vigilant against prescribing drugs with the potential for abuse, Purdue set out to distinguish OxyContin from rivals as soon as it dropped. The cornerstone of its marketing campaign was the drug's incredibly low risk of addiction, an enviable characteristic made possible by its patented time-release formula. Through an array of promotional materials, including literature, brochures, videotapes, and Web content, Purdue proudly asserted that the potential for addiction was very small, at one point stating it to be "less than 1 percent."
(http://theweek.com/articles/541564/how-american-opiate-epide...)
Take a look at the literature on de-anonymization. It's easier than you might think.
> Harm in vice will always occur. We just have to decide if we want it in the form of overdose, or the form of black market versus police state violence.

I think this is one of the key insights. Although, thankfully, I think it's more than a binary choice (either a) legal or b) illegal).

Regulated legality combined with heavy restrictions on marketing and sustained support for rehab / support / education seems to me the best of all worlds. Still keep things accessible enough to cut out the motivation for the black market. But don't let the less scrupulous side of legal society run amok and actively exploit that.
Poor diet and lifestyle, plus drug culture
Java was originally designed to run on set top boxes that had a wide variety of chips in them, and which loaded code on the fly from disks or over the air transmissions I think. Such boxes may not have even had much in the way of persistent storage, so I can see how they ended up with that design. Then they started down the speculative opts-with-deopt route and I guess the rest is history.

Java 9 does have an AOT compiler, at least for Linux (they're using the platform native DLL formats unfortunately so the AOT compiler tool has to be manually ported to each platform). Unfortunately it isn't just saving the compiled hotspots. They compile everything without speculative opts and then you can make it re-JIT on the fly from native->native.
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It's also important to mention that a rising share of compensation doesn't come from cash. It comes from stuff like health insurance and 401k matching. Sad, considering that those non cash benefits just make you more dependent on your employer.
Imagine if this strategy was applied to anything outside of business. Let's take the civil rights movement, and argue that the reason why a country isn't ending slavery and then racism and the sexism etc. is because no other country has managed to empirically prove that protecting civil rights is the foundation to national prosperity. And we just utterly dismissed out of hand everybody sitting in and marching and being civilly disobedient in the name of ending injustice.

What the WFH movement needs isn't proof, because you're not going to get proof without first having activists. And if companies like Basecamp and Automattic aren't wildly sucessful, is not evidence against WFH, because clearly WFH is not the sole determinant of business growth and success.
Actually, his 'conditions' for meeting with the Swedish government were absurd. Basically guaranteeing his freedom no matter what. That's not how criminal investigates are done.
>Assange spent 26 more days in the country and then flew out hours after his arrest warrant was signed.

You are spreading many falsehoods here, first of all, it was NOT a junior prosecutor who dropped the case, chief prosectutor Eva Finné was the one who first handled it and immediately dropped it due to there not being any grounds for a case.

It was a junior prosector Karin Rosander who then suddenly brought the case up again, at this point (20/10 2010) Assange WAS questioned by the police.

The day after this, senior prosecutor Marianne Ny decided to restart the preliminary investigation.

At this point Assange left the country, three weeks later, Marianne Ny filed an arrest warrant on Assange for further questioning.

Assange agreed to be interviewed by video link, something Swedish prosecutors have done many times before, by Marianne Ny refused and demanded that he'd return to sweden for further questioning.

This for accusations which even well known feminists working daily against rape say are laughable:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/interpol-the-worlds...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-rape...
Overeagerness to prescribe. Other countries have similar problems too.

Conversely, the country I live has a benzo problem. Hell, go into any doctor complaining you haven't been sleeping properly and he'll happily prescribe you clonazepam to help you with that. You have just been prescribed an addictive and strong psychoactive drug, just like that. He won't care if you have been working too much, or not eating or sleeping well, he will not care at all about possible factors that may be causing your current insomnia.

"take this and come back to reassess in 2 months", the doctor will say, and ofc, in 2 months you will come back saying this helped immensely, and from that there's a whole slew of problems that everyone knows: try to wane off it, insomnia comes back, sometimes worse. or maybe some new anxiety gets thrown in....

They want money, because if they wanted you to get well they you'd be treating the cause of your symptoms and not your symptoms :D
Which BMW 3 series gets 80mpg?

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2017_BMW_3_Series.sh...

Are you talking about the i8?
Not just CO2 - methane is about 25x as potent in terms of global warming as CO2
Yes, evil capitalism.

You know, don't want to think you actually think that. Perhaps you meant, "fight the negative outcomes sometimes found in capitalist societies."
Doctors should be more skeptical of pharma companies' marketing claims, right? Who believes everything they read? There's probably a case to be made that the FDA should have been more involved, too.

The data on how fast OC released its drug would have been available to the FDA, if not doctors.
Sadly I think you vastly over estimate what the majority of people will do. There is an energized minority of people who will change skill sets as their employment needs warrant or simply because they need a new challenge.

there are many who are just willing to grouse about their situation and not, how do you change them?
From what you say in that article about the importance of listening to language used in context, you might be interested in a method of language learning called TPR (Total Physical Response). I've written about it before here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13910080

It's been super effective for me at learning vocabulary and grammar (in context), and I much prefer that method over things like flashcards, Anki, supermemmo, etc.
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Or you should realize both problems cannot be fixed and we need to choose the option that will do the least harm. Reducing the abusive police state and treating increased numbers of abusers is likely a much better problem than the one we are currently experiencing.
>What caused it, why it is more than in other parts of the world and why so many painkillers?

>Is it cultural?

That's actually a really common misconception on HN. The United States ranks 27th among countries which abuse opiates, [1] behind many first-world countries like the UK, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, and Russia, to name a few.

What's the cause? A lot of HNers like to pin it on unemployment and low-wage, low-skill jobs. I think that's narrowing the field in the right direction, but it isn't quite right; I know many very happy people who just make ends meet. There's something more that no one has been able to pinpoint quite yet.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalenc...
> The reason this was easily possible in my case is because of the peculiarities of bioinformatics. Namely, equipment costs are low, so there is more money for staff per grant dollar.

Ironically, I'm in just such a field as well. But that also causes another bit of pressure, because it does mean that I could stop sooner and go back to science if I wanted to fund less people. Covering myself and a grad student can be done with a few bits and pieces of funding. As I noted in the back of napkin calculation, a staff scientist vastly increases the amount of money I need to find.

> Yeah, although I said in my OP that "I just want to do science", in reality I write parts of grants, mostly the technical parts, all the time, and I go to grant strategy meetings, where I feel my input is valued as I can often give a better idea of what's feasible than the PIs can. I guess more precisely, I don't want the responsibility and pressure of being in charge of the whole package, and I don't like dealing with all the paperwork. So in our case the funding is a team effort as well.

In fairness, I reacted to this because I have met some people who meant it seriously - they want to be left alone in a lab to answer their questions while someone else keeps the lights on. And well...yeah...you just described the perfect job.

> I have been with him since grad school. In the early days, the way we got around this was titling me as a postdoc and paying me like a staff scientist, which was fine by me.

And this hasn't backfired by having one of his "postdocs" not progressing very fast?
I'm sure this is an easy question to answer, but it was bugging me during the whole article.

What's preventing a pill that releases a dose immediately and one after 6 hours? Or something like a diabetic pump that dispenses medication continuously? Surely such systems have the potential to be safer and more effective for patients?
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People take painkillers because they can't afford surgery.

Say you have a messed up disk in your spine. Surgery is tens of thousands of dollars. Getting a prescription for opioids from a primary care physician is a bit cheaper.

You don't see doctors in europe routinely prescribing hard pain killers because they try to fix the problem instead.

Healthcare in america is set up in such a way that hospitals just bill whatever and then have the lawyers argue over whats reasonable. That kinda works when youre part of the medicare system and their lawyers represent your side, but when youre on your own, you're suddenly in hospital recovering from major surgery, facing bankruptcy and have to hire a lawyer to tell the hospital to suck it.

So you just take the painkillers and hope for the best.
Something I've noticed: in the US people generally have an aversion to being even mildly uncomfortable.

And, it's culturally acceptable to be on medication so people take it for basically any inconvenience.

Sweating a little? Crank the AC. Small headache? take a pill. Bad day? Have a drink. Workout left muscles sore? Another pill. Sprained ankle? Obviously you need pain medication!

It's easy to see how there is a low threshold to abusing pain medication.
Feed anyone sufficient doctor prescribed heroin and they will start to act like the people Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants mandatory sentencing for
Nobody is "rewriting history," that's absurd.

>this is an edge case where nobody is right or wrong

It's not some sort of edge case, the "right," (polite) way to refer to someone is the way they prefer to be refereed as. If someone named James introduces themselves as "Jimmy" and you refer to him as "James" and he says "it's Jimmy" and you say "Nuh uh your name on your birth certificate is James, you're wrong I'm right!!" you are just being a dick.

People change what they like to be called during their life all the time, that's not new nor is it an edge case. Kid nicknames go to the wayside of adult names/nicknames. I've known a "Peggie" who changed to "Margaret," an "Anthony" who changed to "Tony," and a "Robbie" who is now "Bob." In fact, many/most women change their name at some point in the future. It's normal/accepted/polite to call someone by their current name/pronoun even when referring to past actions.

If I recall a childhood story about my friend Tony I'm going to call him Tony in the story even if he went by Anthony at the time. It's weird/confusing/stupid to do otherwise and certainly not "rewriting history" or "changing the rules."
Hmm, I can see how you got there, but I don't think it has worked out that way in my case.

The amount of time you have to spend writing grants is a function of: 1) how much money you are burning, 2) how much help do you have writing, and 3) how good is your science (better science will be more successful).

No doubt I hurt on #1. But I think I help enough on #2 and #3 to compensate, and therefore I don't think my PI spends a net larger percentage of time writing with me than he would without me. Anecdotally, over my time with him, I think has been a slow decrease in the fraction of his time he spends writing.
Marijuana absolutely can and does cause far more significant withdrawal than just a few sleepless nights. Under certain circumstances, the withdrawal can persist for much, much longer.

It's irresponsible to assume that marijuana is harmless and non-addictive or only mildly addictive, and too easy to justify as being benign, when juxtaposed wth the withdrawal process of harder drugs.
I ve spend a good part of my lifetime making that program- it deserves to be the star of the desktop. And calling the wizard of OS to find out what happened after it took gratuitous time to load for the user-attention-whoring is simply cowardice.
Plus prison in Sweden is like staying at a Best Western.
I've been told by a friend of mine that speaks Japanese that the most difficult aspect is that how you speak changes due the social setting. It's not just the syntax, you must learn how to speak in each different situation.

Here is Richard Feynman talking about the same problem:

While in Kyoto I tried to learn Japanese with a vengeance. I worked much harder at it, and got to a point where I could go around in taxis and do things. I took lessons from a Japanese man every day for an hour. One day he was teaching me the word for "see." "All right," he said. "You want to say, 'May I see your garden?' What do you say?" I made up a sentence with the word that I had just learned. "No, no!" he said. "When you say to someone, 'Would you like to see my garden? you use the first 'see.' But when you want to see someone else's garden, you must use another 'see,' which is more polite." "Would you like to glance at my lousy garden?" is essentially what you're saying in the first case, but when you want to look at the other fella's garden, you have to say something like, "May I observe your gorgeous garden?" So there's two different words you have to use. Then he gave me another one: "You go to a temple, and you want to look at the gardens..." I made up a sentence, this time with the polite "see." "No, no!" he said. "In the temple, the gardens are much more elegant. So you have to say something that would be equivalent to 'May I hang my eyes on your most exquisite gardens?" Three or four different words for one idea, because when I'm doing it, it's miserable; when you're doing it, it's elegant.
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What's the evidence backing the explanation of overeagerness to prescribe?

I know a handful of doctors as well as pain patients, but I'm curious to get more context outside of the small bubble I know.
By the way, I checked the source and it appears that setting SSLStaplingStandardCacheTimeout to a large value (larger than typical OCSP reply validity) effectively creates this behavior.

Apache checks if cached reply is still valid and if it's not it attempts to renew it.

At least in 2.4.10 shipped in Debian Jessie. Relevant code is in modules/ssl/ssl_util_stapling.c, stapling_cb()