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I did buy some 3 GPUs makeing aobut $5-$6 a day. Probably would have done better just buying BTC when it crash a month ago.
With apps that are utilities, it's fine to charge once. Like how one would charge once for their hammer in store.

The "in-app purchase" thing is good when someone designs their "app" like a fucking cigarette hit (or a cup of coffee). They have to make the user desire that hit every day. Games do that because they are addictive.
You wouldn't see the shadows individually. The sun would just be a little bit (1.8%) less bright.
Is Denali worth it, given its remoteness, horrid weather patterns, and distance from the equator?
Which country would that be?
The quote from the parent comment is about halfway through the abstract you just quoted...
Which again does not contradict what i wrote does it ?
You may prefer it to be the norm but it cannot be considered a universally the best approach. I mean look ... some people actually prefer the steretypical american way. And then there are people like you that have different preferences.

What I was trying to say is that in the US you get to get nice salary and the euro perks quiet often but in Europe you are pretty much stuck when it comes to money.
I made the move to Canada some years back. Coincidentally, there was a thread about H1B and here is my comment why I moved to Canada.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15100981
That's all true, but there's a reason that we define "safe languages" in this way: it's that you can isolate parts of the program from other parts of the program, and know with confidence that a failure in one part of the program will not corrupt data in another part of the program.

Again, my proposal is to wrap only that part of the program which doesn't interact with shared state in a giant try/catch block (and you can know with 100% reliability what that part is in a safe language). The parts about taking a request off the queue, or storing results in a shared data structure, or whatever, should be outside of the try/catch block, because if they break, your shared state is indeed at risk.
I'm highly dubious that all marine photosynthesis is going to be stopped easily. Do you have citations?
Certainly not negligible, but it's only about 5% of our total annual carbon emissions.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/climate/carbon-in-atmo...
Those are some really interesting points; I wonder if you could elaborate a bit? Thanks!

(Feel free to edit your comment to add detail instead of replying; keeps the thread shorter that way.)
Shame how such a cool project as node.js can drown in political fingerpointing. The only measurement that counts (in my opinion) is cold hard code contributions.
Indeed. We added 'executive' above.
Derek Sivers' book notes are worth looking at:

https://sivers.org/book
That is what happened in Russia. First they got nazis, fighting people with armature, knifes and acid in the streets (car in USA). Then antifa (autonomous action etc.) stand up and start opposing nazis. Then nazis kill people (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_Baburova, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Khutorskoy). Then government suppresses both nazis (many of them got life sentences, especially those from BORN) and antifa, with the support of people (those like you). Then you have no activists in your country, Putin/Trump reigns forever.

Nazis are intolerant and should be opposed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Update: the website used to track nazis is still alive: https://nazi-watch.noblogs.org/ See archives section: it starts in 2008 and ends in 2013. Now antifa in USA are doing the same thing, exposing nazis to their employers and doxing them. USA is repeating Russian history.
Does anyone have pointers on where I could get an estimate on average maintenence costs / flight hour & fuel costs for a Boeing 737-900ER?

Interested in working up a rough number for how much this cost to make happen. Can't imagine it was profitable.

And very cool!

Edit: Per Boeing [1], they quote $151 / flight hour in actual service on a 737-800. Random site [2] gives fuel on a 737-900ER as 0.17 km per litre / 0.40 NM per gallon.

Edit2: After some digging, here's the flight track: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA9671/history/20170821...

[1] http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_15/costs_...

[2] https://www.aircraftcompare.com/helicopter-airplane/Boeing-7...
For a smaller startup (< 10 people), I'd recommend going with a person's email. Bonus points if you use your own.

We do that and get the occasional reply, but when we do, people are usually happy to get a quick, personal response.

Once you're larger, using more purpose-suited emails that route correctly is better (e.g. marketing@example.com or billing@example.com routed to the correct customer service teams).
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> and the government won't do anything

Actually, chances are that the government funds you.

I don't have a source at hand right now, but I recall reports that the NPD (the German nationalist party) would have gone bankrupt many times over if it weren't for a substantial number of its members being recruited by the domestic intelligence service as confidential informants, who then donated their informant salaries (or parts thereof) to the party.
My favorite bit about this is from a lecture by Daniel Dennett. 10K years ago, Humans and their associated animals (livestock, pets) accounted for less than 1% of the land animal biomass. Now, we account for 98% (mostly cattle).

This has had a drastic effect on the biosphere.
So? The actual career is still not worth it. That what you just said is true is almost the worst part about it!
The inner Lagrange point is always between the sun and the earth (by definition), so the "shadow" would always be centered on local "noon" and would pass the each longitude at the same time every day.
It's also been speculated that the same idea could be used to have the opposite effect on Mars. A cloud of small satellites trying to push more sunlight towards the planet, thereby heating it up.

It's all space-nerd talk for the moment, but none of the technology needed to achieve these goals is very far from reach today.
Most real world hardware bugs I've come across are problems with power-on-reset as pin state problems (smoke included), garbage data in/out, or such stupid timing requirements that they couldn't be used in an integrated system without some sort of isolator.

The few FPGA projects I completed all had async reset released synchronously. This wasn't taught to me, I was just so paranoid of making a crap device that I wanted to be sure, and it was the only scheme I could come up with. It always ended up being a fairly significant part of the routing, considering what it was doing.
Yeah, I guess I normally don't deal with enough properties like that for it to be a big deal in my workflow. When it's come up I've generally done something like:

class Foo:
bar = 42

def __init__(self, **kwargs):
self.__dict__.update(**kwargs)

But I agree that's not a super robust solution
So altering the climate is fine, if it's a side effect of making money. It's just doing it at a financial loss that's a problem.

Maybe we should focus on ocean fertilization with iron as a way of increasing fish yields. Who can begrudge some poor fishermen trying to bring home more fish? It's not their fault if it also sequesters CO2.

Solar radiation management also offers possibilities though. We already spew lots of soot and other pollutants into the air without anyone rolling out missiles. We just need to figure out industries with the right kind of pollution and we're good.
Just pointing out that cheap labor and immigrants are not synonymous.
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Would you please not post unsubstantive comments here? Just because a thread is bad doesn't mean you should worsen it.

If you know more than others, don't put them down; teach us.

Edit: your recent comments have been crossing into incivility and you've done that (and we've warned you) many times before. If you keep doing this we will ban you, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and start being scrupulously civil when commenting here? We'd greatly appreciate your help to stave off the decline of this place at least a little longer.
I am also on an E-3 visa, but as far as I understand there is no path to obtaining a green card. The intention of the E-3 is that you will not remain permanently in the US and so it is not possible to become a permanent resident.
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Why will they not, do they fear they will not get a fair trial in the US or will be punished worse than their crimes dictate?
Seems more like the tub is overflowing rather than draining.
Wait, they aren't making chips with Iris Pro graphics anymore? That seems like an odd decision.
It saddens me how the discussion here is focused on what i will call "fair" censorship, where because X was censored, Y should also be censored to make it even.

My American political bent surely influences this, but the censorship of ideas on the internet leaves a foul taste in my mouth. I would hope that was an opinion shared among the majority of tech folks, but comments lately on HN lead to me believe that is no longer the case.
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It was a hyperbole; anyway, his current position is irrelevant, important is what positions he held while developing this software (which was deployed for many years). Article mentions "Liang is still employed by Volkswagen but no longer works as an engineer".
A certain loss of safety is common when you're using FFI.

Take any language's FFI and bind to the C library atoi function. Poof, you have instant undefined behavior for bad string to int conversions.

If you want a safe, robust module that is based on FFI, you have to write some padding in the higher level language that avoids misusing the foreign API in any way.

Directly exposed FFI stuff is not safe and cannot reasonably be safe; it makes no sense to expect that.
That's not my position.
Not sure if it's related to load, but whenever I try it on a long-tail site (i.e. not one you would have precached) it comes back with information about google.com instead of the domain I'm on.
So what happens if a big volcano goes off and we suddenly need that sunlight again? Not too easy to clear debris out of a Lagrange point.
This is a shit test.
Is anyone else bothered by the term "American" eclipse? I don't think astronomical events have any notion of nationality.
"Stereotyping" is an excellent scare word to dismiss those who present factual data of average rates of N and tendencies to M across demographic groups.
If I add a "yellow" option to the enum, then I _want_ to get compiler errors (or warnings) about all the places in my code that need to handle that new case. That's what compilers are for, that kind of busy work.

Is there a way to write that SuperheroFromColor function so that I will get a compiler error (or warning) if another option is added to the enum? (Imagine that function is far away from the Color definition so it's not visually obvious.)

When I create an enum with three possible values, I reason about it as having only three possible values. As long as I never cast from an int, that should be true, right? So I don't want to consider the "and others" possibility. It's hard to even think about what to do in that situation, since it shouldn't happen.

I said that I'm willing to put some keyword before or after the if statement to tell the compiler to make sure I'm handling all valid enum values. So it can only give me these errors (or warnings) when I ask for them.

I think pattern matching in Haskell will make sure you handle all possible cases and give you a compiler error if you don't. I'm asking for a "poor-man's version of pattern matching for enums" in C#.
Worse is better - too much nuisance and nobody's gonna care.

Rapid iteration - throw ideas out there, see what sticks. Also, you can perpetually broadcast different, even slightly conflicting takes on the same general idea. Very powerful when combined with targeted advertising.
"Talent is Overrated" is a great pop exploration of this and similar findings. If you find this interesting, I highly recommend that book as a jumping off point for exploring similar findings.
I'm not sure that it would; the preferred route would be to refuse to perform the illegal request, and then make a claim against the employer if retaliation ensued. Of course, one could say one was under economic coercion, but that may be hard to demonstrate (as opposed to merely infer) and it's a difficult equitable argument to sustain.
This is basically the root of most coordination problems.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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From the little I know about rocket surgery, probably not. There are better places to launch from.
I remember this pain point vividly from 20 years ago, growing up in Delhi. This is a massive long term problem and a great opportunity. Good luck!
As the author of the article ... I was also self-taught.

Dan
Incitement to violence isn't necessarily protected speech in the US.

The boundary is of necessity vague. IMNSHO: arguing that free speech should be absolute is almost tantamount to arguing it is irrelevant. Isn't the point that messages matter, and being able to exchange them is powerful? Then clearly that power can be used - and abused. Thus to argue that it is right to never constrain speech implies you either believe it is of no consequence; or believe harm is good (i.e. are malicious or insane); or believe enforcement is impossible or counter-productive.

A dose of rationality in the free speech debate would be appreciated. Heck, it's not like this is the only exception... libel, fraud, and a variety of IP laws all suggest a long history of consistently democratically-backed infringements to free speech. Were our ancestors all crazy?
Pax Americana can't last forever. The world must inevitably move on from the the old "gods playing chess" paradigm of East vs West. Something has to come next.
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I'm not planning to answer that, but there are dozens (dozens!) that fit that description.
They are considered a terrorist organization by the state of New Jersey. I don't know how many other states classify them as such.
That sounds nice until you think about it -- what code are you writing? Who decided on the the feature you're writing? Who's writing the docs, and tutorials, and putting together conferences and paying bills and maintaining tax status and filing paperwork, and...?
It's the only adult thing for him to do, considering that he didn't even know that people were offended.
I'm sure we don't have the technology to do this today, nor will we have it this century, but if TFA is ever practical then the weaponization thereof will be soon after. At that point artificial-light agriculture will probably be less expensive than today, but still more expensive than the outdoor kind.
> And it is very unlikely that the german court system will prosecute them.

Germany is cool that its citizens conducted international fraud at a scale the world has never seen?
Just a minute! I'll second this.
> I definitely agree that I do not want extremist groups to grow and become even more of a 'thing' in the US. However, I do not know if I am OK with stripping people of their 4th amendment rights just because they have been 'associated' with a terrorist group (or visited a terrorist group's website...) That's a dangerous path.

Me neither. I'm about as gung-ho about personal privacy as it gets.

I'm also practically minded and understand the difference between things that are and are not in your control. The log of whether I visit a particular website on my computer is under my control. You need a warrant for that. But that same website has it's own logs and I know that I have no privacy or 4th amendment protections[1]. Now they can demand a warrant from the government for their records, but they can also give it willingly. Either way it's up to them, not me.

> I also still fail to see how the information taken from Dreamhost would help them track somebody who committed a crime. What, are they going to subpoena everyone's ISPs to find out who every single person is, then arrest them and see if they happen to be someone who committed a crime? That's wrong. What am I missing here?

I can imagine intersecting whatever lists they get from here with other similar data. Maybe mixing in the geolocation of the anonymous user's IP addresses. Combine in email address to name lookups. Without knowing what else they have it's all conjecture, but I'd imagine they've got something to tie it against.

> How could this be used in any way except to build a list of 'potential terrorists' in some 3 letter org's database?

I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing that and bet most three letter agencies have multiple lists of potential undesirables on which they want to keep tabs. I mean that is their job right? You don't just want the FBI to arrest people after they commit the crime, it'd be nice if some of the crimes were stopped before they happened right? It doesn't have to be a full on Minority Report style world but proactive measures are necessary to stop crime before it happens.

The other approach would be confirming the involvement of known offenders. They arrested a number of people. If they can tie those specific people to known usage of a site, say by linking their IP address to a known location or a known email address, then that would further build a case against them.

[1]: NOTE: I'm purposely ignore medical and legal related content here as they'd be covered by separate confidentiality provisions.
They were both first author, details are on my very out of date website link in my profile if you are interested. Definitely no red carpet rolling out, not sure if you are in academia but those days have passed. Could I possibly have done another postdoc and managed a faculty position somewhere in the USA, probably, was it worth it to me, nope. Felt like I failed for a while, its hard to escape from the academia cult.
How do all of these keyless digital door locks get power? Do you get locked out of your house when they run out of juice?
For every person you can cherry pick, I can name you 50 names of cannon fodder that nobody ever heard of.

For most of my career, I've watched as shitty body shops stuff unqualified candidates at low rates to "farm" them into more valuable workers. They don't hire onshore workers because they lose the visa leverage and hose many of them with "company town" style bullshit like corporate housing.

I'd love to have the opportunity to pull in some equally unqualified urban and rural high school students whose only prospects are Walmart, truck driving or the army and give them the same opportunity. Many would suck, but many others would flourish and build meaningful careers.
Atalanta isn't that bad of trip but agreed.
Author here.

I'm writing from the perspective of a customer. As a customer, I don't care how your email queues work. I do care that you sent me an email and forbid me from replying to it. It chafes. And you want my money?

From the perspective of a company, I can sympathize. I've been directed to create noreply-sending mailers in the course of my job. In every case, it would have been better sent from support@, but because of understandable but dumb reasons (bureaucratic laziness; not-my-problem-itis), it's way easier just to turn on the mailing hose and forget replies. So that's what we did.

I've also worked on handling bounces of both email replies and (cringe) faxes. Yes, handling bounces can be annoying, but to create a good customer experience I think it's worth the cost.
Are long-winded quarrels and dysfunctions unique to node core, or is node core just transparent in documenting the making of the sausage?
I fully agree that it sounds awful for a project to go down due to politics. But only paying attention to code reviews ignores how the community feels, as well as non-code work. For example, look at Rod Vagg's contributions to node: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commits?author=rvagg

At least from the first page, it seems he's mostly working on documentation, specifically changelogs. But honestly, those changelogs are fantastic and definitely make a difference in my life (I don't want to comb through tons of commits to figure out what has changed between versions of Node). It might not be code per se, but the contribution is noticeable.

Even if all you do is make people feel welcome in a community or bring people in, those are still worthwhile (new people can mean more code). And if you're an amazing programmer but make everyone want to leave the project, one can see how that would also affect the code (contributors leaving).
Confucius said it better and shorter 2500 years ago:

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
On mobile so I'll let you search for it, but start at Wikipedia for anoxic oceanic event. You don't have to stop much photosynthesis for the oceans to produce huge amounts of deadly hydrogen sulfide
In the introduction I would begin telling the story of Najdorf playing blind chess: http://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2011/12/after_64_years_ne...
simpsons did it https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/article-1300967...
It was called that because it hit all of North America, and very little outside of North America. It's not really so much nationalistic as it is descriptive.
There are lots of examples of Americentrism, but I don't think this is one. The eclipse was basically only visible from the United States.

For reference, here's the chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SE2017Aug21T.png
I didn't get one for a first-author Science paper, but got them for co-authored Nature papers.
Why are they allowed to request this with no reason? Why can the government dictate what I'm doing with no legal basis?
I was using free tools, so maybe that's was the issue, but I always found that trying to even approach abstraction would always totally explode my routing requirements. Is this the case with professional tools, or is abstraction avoided?
You can't have it both ways just to disparage libertarianism. Do you believe children are mature enough to make that decision, or not?
The article I got that from was from when he entered his plea, I'm pretty sure it is describing the role he had that was related to the charges.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-09/veteran-v...
It's not just academia and a bleak social outlook. I've been playing around with starting a business, and the USA is not, not, NOT a good place to bootstrap anything involving R&D or manufacturing. Without enormous capital reserves to back you or political connections, you're dead before you leave the gate.

Case in point; my state offers a 40% tax break to manufacturing companies. No, sorry, the governor vetoed that. They offer a 40% tax break to ONE gargantuan manufacturing company. I'd have to pay full price.

I could compete from China. I could play on an even playing field in Europe if I'm gonna pay out the nose anyways. Or I could stay in the US and get bled like a stuck pig until incumbent players can pay a pittance for my operation's desiccated corpse. American dream, my ass...
At least with a Pi you can install the latest security patches. Of those millions of phones, many are simply locked, and even the others very often don't have drivers compatible with the newer kernels.

Becoming a node on a botnet to save $5 is not very attractive.
How much do flights like these cost?
Not for all problems but for some technical ones I use lovely curated awesome lists.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome is a good starting point.
By this token if the only activists we're supposed to have are antifa and nazis the situation is already borked up beyond any repair.