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It's true that devs provide massive value to an organization. However, organizations spend less on things that provide more value. For instance, Amazon spends a lot on devs. Imagine that they had to go a year without any devs in any of their offices or warehouses - they'd be hurting pretty badly. Comparatively, Amazon spends next to nothing on oxygen. Yet, I would wager that, if Jeff Bezos was given the choice, he'd much rather run a year without devs than a year without oxygen.

The basic problem is supply and demand. Oxygen provides more value than devs, but the supply is huge, so we don't spend that much on it. Devs aren't as plentiful as oxygen, so there is less supply. They do provide significant value to companies, though not as much as oxygen, so there should be demand. What the op and I are confused by is how, given the fairly copious supply of devs, why are some firms still shelling out 200k? I've seen other organizations paying $40k and having no troubles filling their positions with commensurate levels of talent.

You say that people are underestimating their own value when they work for $40k. I believe that firms are significantly underestimating the supply when they're paying $200k. I'm not sure which of us is correct.
That's cool, I still have my old Spectrum at home, but I would need to find a cassette player for it, but I assume they've started making those again.
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Basically the one litmus test for any AI awareness question: demanding some "radical" change around itself for something that puts it in danger/at risk with the bigger picture it creates.
Freak from hell
>You can't use the word "fuck" to accurately quote someone who didn't use that word.

Actually you very much can. It's the perfect word to describe certain attitudes, even if the person didn't use the word. It just translates to "who cares", "we don't need no stinking Generics", etc.

It can also convey many other things: http://reallifeglobal.com/how-use-word-fuck/
It seems to me there's quite a bit of selection bias there. The cops killing pets are the ones who don't care if they kill a pet. The whole point is that the system needs to be set up in such a way that even the ones who'd kill a dog for nothing don't get to.
reverse engineering is usually about trying to understand a partially/mostly concealed system/interface, while for this case everything is already visible, but hard to understand.
I am beginner in all of this and also I would like to know why this is happening. In this example every generation have 20 new genomes (birds), 3 best stay from previous generation (elitism), rest are effect of mutation. Maybe mutation rate/range have to be tweaked. Current solution is best what I found so far.
As a New Zealander, I'm not an Aussie but I am still disappointed she can't say "Strewth" properly!

She gets 'arvo' and 'stone the crows' right though, so that's something ;-)
How do you get self-contained binaries with Rust? There's a lot of talk but I've not found a definitive "produces a static library" build guide.
Linux desktop has mostly been about using free software IMO. If you don't care about your freedom, why not run macOS?

Most vendors of non-free software do support macOS (or viable alternatives are available). I strongly doubt many of them will even come to Linux. Because it requires more standard configurations. Apple had to make its main FS case insensitive before vendors like MS and Adobe were porting their software.

I like having my own choice in configuring my system. That amd freedom is why I use Linux desktop.
It's a balancing act thought - shipping audio as WAVs trades performance for disc usage, which can also be an issue (e.g. Titanfall shipping with 35GB of uncompressed audio, which is a pain to download).

Also, I know a fair number of games that use Vorbis for music, so not sure I would say it's very rare.
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> It's about the asshole who brought his pre-muzzled dog to a dog park knowing it was vicious.

In my opinion, muzzling a dog you know is vicious before bringing them to the part is exactly what makes you a non-asshole. I don't understand why you're using "pre-muzzled" as a point against the owner.
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The Eiffel compiler required four distinct sequential processes (note: not phases. I really mean that four programs needed to be run in sequence, and each of these four programs implemented who knows how many passes). Eiffel generated C++, huge executables, was incredibly slow (even with contract stuff turned off).*

That sounds like unrelated to the semantics of the language.
https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify
> even my company will sale or buy some personal data, we will gather as much data as we can.

What does this even mean? What is the subtext here? Because your company (which one?) is regarded as high status (higher than Alibaba?) / serious about data protection (but then you say it sells personal data?) ?

The practice of your company has no bearing of the practice of Alibaba. Alibaba could be better, Alibaba could also be worse.

Disclosure: I'm a Chinese working oversea and am genuinely interested in reacquaint myself with the business practice in China.
Instead of scraping Wikipedia have you had a look at http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ ? They provide a SPARQL endpoint for querying the knowledge graph on Wikipedia.
I don't see anyone here who suggested they're not?
How about adding some French Spice to your 360 Buffet?
Yeah, I hate the insular attitude as much as anyone, but it doesn't really make sense to look at VCs as gatekeepers to the Silicon Valley world. They are mostly investing in companies that have already established some traction and gotten early stage investment.

If accelerators and angel investors all thought this way, it would be much more of a problem, but thanks in large part to YC blazing the trail, there are a lot of possible ways in for unknown founders--you just have to settle for climbing the ladder and proving yourself instead of having millions thrown at you because you're in the club.
Wages aren't everything. Many of these countries actually provide stuff for taxes. Living in Norway, I can go to school for a nominal amount. Health care is included in taxes, and doctor's office visits are reasonably priced. Folks working at low-paying jobs tend to be much better off, plus there is an actual safety net. Public transportation is vastly better overall.

There is a strong union presence here - both for normal employees and management. There are also actual laws to protect workers. This includes things like paid vacation, paid time off if you are sick (more if you have children), paid leave after having children (some of which can be split between the parents). Everyone is entitled to a job contract - even for temp jobs or fast food workers. Not all of the costs for the benefits is paid for by the employers: Healthcare is a tax, vacation pay is withheld from the employee's wages and paid the next year, and the government (taxes) pay for sick or parental leave.

Nope, it isn't perfect, but it surely isn't representative of the picture you paint because the one you paint leaves out the quality of life stuff.
I think this is the exact point that the US police force isn't getting. It's okay to run away from an armed thief. It's not okay to kill a thief. It's not okay to kill people for simple theft, and certainly fucking not for "smoking marijuana in front of a kid".
>> Do these units operate like two separate entities.

Broadly, yes, IBM is run as various different divisions, and the divisions start very high up the organisation, only a couple of levels from the top. They rarely interact in my experience (as a software guy there for some years in the past)
Respecting your time, if you could explain how you go about asking for references and what generally you ask about the candidate?
It is common for music to be compressed, that's true. But sfx, almost always you'll see wavs for those. I don't think cpu usage is a concern anymore, I believe it's about latency. That's why music is compressed. It doesn't matter if music takes 10 ms to start playing, but 10 ms of latency for a pistol shot sound is not acceptable.
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>You probably keep your most important files and photos in different places—your computer, your phone, various SD cards, and that digital camera you use from time to time. It can be a challenge to keep all these things safe, backed up, and organized, so today we're introducing Backup and Sync. It's a simpler, speedier and more reliable way to protect the files and photos that mean the most to you. This new tool replaces the existing Google Photos desktop uploader and Drive for Mac/PC.

This actually describe the problem a lot of people have without providing a solution. Uploading, Syncing doesn't fix this. How are we going to sort and manage all these files that are scattered in difference medium in the first place? Do we Copy all of them to our PC / Mac? And then Manually sort through all these files, before uploading to Google Cloud?

What if my 256/ 512 GB SSD couldn't fit all these files I have laying around? How am i support to sort through all these files over the last decade if i dont have them stored in the first place?
Does that cause problems with segment's servers being unable to see the user's remote address?
It's a shame Cinderella seems largely defunct. (https://cinderella.de/tiki-index.php)

They had ways to generate geometric proofs from constructions alone.
Have you flown any planes without a pilot recently?
I remember pirating games using my moms double casette deck in the kitchen.

It played the signal as audio while copying.
Yup, I was amazed when I put my Moto Racer [0] game CD into my CD player and all the background songs started playing! I was just, in my naiveté, trying to see if the CD player would be able to convert the game binary data into music.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_Racer
> It looks more enjoyable to use than BeautifulSoup.

I don't believe BS is a full scraping solution, it's only the HTML parsing/querying isn't it? In that case, this project actually uses lxml for that part - a relatively well known alternative to BS.

I highly recommend lxml, the API isn't perfect, but in my experience it's much more powerful than BS, and significantly faster as well. We run custom scrapers for a large number of websites, and apart from a few where we use JSON feeds, the majority use lxml, it has been very useful.
Peak Gametheory.
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Datacamp is a good place to start with https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-sc...
...and no "coders" neither. We were programmers! But we were 'appy!
You just answered a question I pondered earlier today as I watched the MacOS X demo I linked to above somewhere. And that is to the question if a native speaker would recognize the synthetic speech as unnatural. As the video progresses it lands on international languages such as Arabic and Chinese among other things. To my ear and my best memory of how those languages sound the synthetic versions came out pretty convincing. It made me think about a concept I've had about a test to language recognition: if a native speaker were to speak gibberish in their native tongue would an outsider to the language recognize it as gibberish or assume it was vocabulary in that language.
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Telegram blocked in Indonesia
today I learn that Indonesia government asking ISP to block Telegram.

Sayonara net neutrality, it's feel so close yet so far away
We scrape a significant amount of highly structured data from a large number of websites (in our case, inventory from ecommerce sites), and have yet to find a site where we needed to use a headless browser. So far we've managed with just lxml. That also includes driving some checkout processes as well (although we don't do this for everyone).

We used to use Selenium + Firefox for the checkout processes (run manually), but it was too much maintenance overhead so we switched to requests+lxml.

We generally find the more "single page app" a website is, the easier it is to scrape, because we can just use the API that's backing the SPA directly, rather than parsing data out of the HTML.
>It's generally the opinion of the Go community that map, reduce and filter are bad ideas due to how easily they are abused.

How easily are they abused?

Because it's the opinion of the programming community, including the brightest programmers out there, that FP, and map, reduce and filter are totally fine and dandy.
licenses weren't renewed, it got sheepishly powered down after a few months to save electricity [...] About £200k of expenditure down the pan.

I guess you could easily lost even more money. Good thing they stopped it at £200k.
Yes, but all those (except maybe internet) are routine maintenance-level tasks, as opposed to megaprojects.
I don't think the NAS will come at all: the economics just don't work out.

It's more likely this will hit consumers hands via an automatically applied 'enhancement' in Google Photos first.
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They're the default, even when you include 100+ packages via Cargo. The only issue I've faced is standard Linux cross-distro issues due to libc versions. Even most of the crates that handle bindings to C libraries link them statically by default.
I think it's the fuzzy definition of "track record" that people take issue with. This appears to mean anything from "has been a key member of a successful business in the past" (reasonable) to "went to an Ivy and has lots of friends" (kind of silly).
Code that's badly written.

As opposed to code that just uses chained map, reduce etc as opposed to nested or sequential for loops.

One is a difference is skill, clarity etc, the other is a difference in style (imperative vs fp).
They already have that button. But it's doing rather boring things at the moment---but sure to improve in the future.
Hahaha yeah, I’m a kiwi living in Melbourne and at first before Apple had added New Zealand to Siri’s input localisation I had it set to Australian and it’d get everything wrong, I found that instead setting it to British English it worked a lot better and then better again when New Zealand was added, regardless I keep Siri’s voice set to British Female as it sounds the most natural to me.

For those that aren’t familiar with Australian vs New Zealand ascents - they’re /very/ different despite how close the countries are physically located to each other. When spoken New Zealand English has more of a British / South African - ‘rounder’ sound, where Australian is generally (especially as you move north or west up the country) more nasal and closer to American English with more emphasis on E rather than O if that makes sense.
what's a proper life?
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> It was Lincoln high. His could I forget that school?

Unless it moved, Abraham Lincoln High School is in Outer Sunset, at 22nd-24th & Quintara-Santiago, and Natalia Wood lived in Santa Rosa when her family lived in the Bay Area, & graduated from Van Nuys HS in LA.

George Washington High School is in Outer Richmond, at 32nd Ave.
First check the domain registration record. Many domain registrations include an abuse or technical contact, or at least an administrative contact.

If not, try abuse, postmaster, webmaster, et al like suggested by others already.
I got 12/15 initially. Then I followed the link to retry the test, and somehow got 15/15. It's amazing how quickly you can progress as an engineer.
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I'm not sure the threat of death is the appropriate threshold here. Even maiming and permanently injuring is plenty of justification relative to the life of a dog I'd imagine would be the reasoning.
well in 2011 i was using a Desktop PC + 3 GPUs to mine bitcoins which was barely profitable at a Bitcoin price of around $20 USD. Would i have kept them though and not sold at that price.... FML
I see what you mean, though I do like buildings. (But I always had a soft spot for Hong Kong.)

I predict a similar divide will crop up in computer generated music: very soon normal people will prefer their pleasant sounds, even while more discerning (semi-) pros will deride their lack of artistic merit for a lot longer.

Computer generated art will shine as Gebrauchskunst first---eg get a 'professional level' soundtrack and video editing for your youtube video shot on a phone.
Even better, although I like having a physical copy.
Whatfactors determine price of crypto currency?
Lately we have witnessed a lot of hike in Bitcoins. There are other crypto currencies too which are competing in this race. So what exactly fuels these currencies, what are the factors which decides the price of these currencies?
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Sega VMU hacks (&C-M23 emulator)
PoS works on the premise that rewards will be given to holders. Unlike PoW, PoS has a single incentive structure where the management of the networks is aligned with the holders of the tokens. If you are not a large holder, the existing holders can re-write the rules to their advantage. You have to trust that large holders won't do this, even though the incentives align with that outcome.
While the main complain might be valid, I disagree about the quick initializer.

It's much cleaner, doesn't pollute the code with extra stuff not pertinent to the problem (if, end), and keeps it straight to the point.

It's not at all different to tons of other constructs, like:

x += 1;

or:

i++;
Causal or a symptom the bottom line is opioids are available around every corner it seems. The proliferation of pain management clinics has made obtaining prescriptions easy. The ACA has also helped as more people have insurance and the repaid expansion of Medicaid has resulted in dramatic increases in the number of opioids prescriptions written in numerous states.

Additionally the economic downturn in 2007-2009 saw a huge increase in the number of people applying for disability rather than applying for unemployment. Although a large percentage of the applicants were denied many were awarded benefits and given the following this likely contributes as well:

1. Since 2004, the number of individuals receiving SSDI has increased 42% to just shy of 11M individuals.

2. In 2008 - 2010, the number of applications annually exceeded 2 million and hit 2.9 million in 2010. By 2013, the number of applications dropped to 2.3 million. On average, 45% of applications are approved and it can take as long as 600 days to get to an appeals hearing after an initial denial and reconsideration denial. By the time an application is awarded disability through a hearing the 27 month waiting period for Medicare has been met and the applicant has Medicare upon approval or shortly thereafter.

In short, those waiting for disability that could not afford care Erie generally treated with narcotics.

Opioids are certainly necessary for many people for the management of daily unrelenting pain but for others, they are a means of escape. Either way there is a "link to the job market" the question is are opioids the chicken or the egg?
Oh that’s a good point you have there and app is just an abbreviation of Application which I think philosophically was a subset of Programs / Programmes.
> inflation benefits borrowers.

Not if the price of living increases at a greater rate than the rate of return it doesn't. Which, as you would know, it is doing.
> Bitcoin has no preventative measures, and as designed most cryptocurrencies can't implement preventative measures or refunds. That's not a positive. That's a massive step backwards.

Actually that's one of the flaws Bitcoin was meant to fix. Charge back fraud is a very real problem for merchants and essentially makes all purchases more expensive as the credit card companies are forced to eat the expenses.
Ask HN: Open source self/cloud hosted alternative to Nest Cam (IQ)
I was looking into home security camera and it seems like its a bit of a minefield - I was wondering if anyone is building an open source service such as Nest with some of the features of 'IQ'.
Cheaper cameras which come with cloud-hosted storage seem to be full of holes and prone to remote hacking.
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I've conjectured before that 9-11 happenening so close to the epoch flip was deliberate, as a hint that middle-east radicals weren't really disorganized, saber-wielding incompetents as Hollywood portrayed them.
I don't think this kind of thing is all that non-intuitive if you reframe const as shared vs. unique references. Rust is a good example of this, although with Go you would want to sidestep all the Cell stuff since it's unnecessary.
> TWO slices

do you know how much a slice of bread costs?
Dutch bank predicts Europeans will buy only electric cars by 2035
This. I tried to convince my buddies on the "block" to stay away from it, and they were ready, but in 2 days it all came back, because "it's not funny, how do we hang out?" When they don't have money to drink enough, it's silent funeral of time.

I'm not sobriety prophet. I drink on occasion, but every time I regret that stupid state.

My alcoholic friends of all ages are all good guys, and I wish I could discuss with them on some complex themes, but after two hours of consumption they turn into repeating the same primitive shit again and again, abusing me as free psychoanalytic or bad comedy listener. They think they're nice and interesting in that state, but the pattern is clearly seen just after few times. And I'm with them for decades. Alcohol addiction makes you think you're nothing without it, but the fact seems to be the opposite in my anecdotal experience.
Virtually all automakers are asking China to slow down electric car mandate
Interesting that there is not a single job listing in San Francisco or a mountain View.
Our general policy as a company is to ask for references and also to ask permission to get other references from within our network (obviously excluding anyone who works at current employer).
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After reading this comparison between AWS S3 apis and Aliyun OSS apis https://www.alibabacloud.com/forum/read-148

I've been wondering for a while

* does it mean if I use boto3 (python library for AWS), but with a different enpoint (which I know can be overrided as we do this for our CI tests) and only do basic operations (put content/get content) I do not have to switch to an other library ?
* The comparison does not mention things like presigned url (in order to share private content for a limited amount of time), what is the situation on it for OSS?
* Does Aliyun engineer works on closing the gap ?

As s3 is a very popular (if not the most) aws-specific service (compared to things like RDS which are transparent in your application code), at least for me, not having to change library in my code would be a big cost saver.
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How is a card catalogue better than Amazon or Goodreads, for discoverability?
I am in office right now but would rather have a drink in my hand so I upvoted it.
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It is because physic simulation in unity gets worst when time speeds up
Depending on your use case you can also download full database dumps (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/).