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We certainly can have such a thing, and exactly that has been discussed for well over a decade (probably much longer, but I'm only so old) in the ACM, among other organizations. It's a difficult issue. Creating a set of standards and a certification process has a lot of pitfalls. Failing to create such a process has a lot of pitfalls. Knowingly choosing to step into one set of pitfalls over another is never a comfortable choice and people are generally very bad at it until something really, really bad happens that gives a large number of people enough irrational fear of one option to push them toward the other (and they will rabidly and aggressively oppose any discussion of acknowledging or compensating for the pitfalls they're moving toward in that case - they feel entitled to a 'clean' option and they will demand you pretend the option they're going for is that).

Rather than compare it to doctors, lawyers, etc, I would compare it to structural and civil engineers. Those are the sorts of regulations we require. If a CEO of a construction company ignores warnings given by one of his structural engineers while building a bridge, that CEO is held responsible for criminal negligence and he is put in a prison for a long time. The same needs to happen for technology company management who cut the development timeline, deprive developers of adequate tools and work environment, and who hire inexperienced development staff simply because they're cheap.

Would you like to drive across a bridge if you knew the company operated the way tech companies operate? Viewing their engineers as a cost center to be reduced, as little more than spoiled typists whose technical concerns are always viewed as unimportant in the face of business goals, crammed into office spaces proven by over 1000 studies to damage productivity, and constantly pressured to rush through everything in defiance of basic biological fact that human beings are not capable of extended periods of mental exertion especially in the face of constant interruption? Would it make you more or less confident in that bridge if there were court precedent for companies resulting in peoples deaths being let off without punishment with such practices? That's the situation we're in.
It is not just because it attracts beginners, it is also because it is a good tool for a lot of tasks where you can trade some performances for ease of use.

I think a lot of the recent growth is due to theano/keras, the most popular deep learning platform out there. It also attracts more and more data scientists, now that distributions like Anaconda make it 'easy' to install on windows.
The grandparent would be eligible to pay taxes at off-shore locations if he had any income generated at those off-shore locations. The IRS would treat that as foreign income and the first $100,800 of it might qualify for exclusion https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
Why not link to the original article?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-pyth...
Malak, by Peter Watts:

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf
A system that doesn't honestly and unbiased-ly make its best effort to seek the truth, is not justice.
I'd say the logical place to start in the US is by finding the streets that have negative cash flow just from maintaining the infrastructure, and start handing those streets back over to the home- and business-owners located on them, in whatever way seems the least politically suicidal. If you live in a cheap SFH on a whole acre,or own storage units, there's no reason you should expect urban-quality roads, water, sewage, and emergency services.
Is it possible to set Twitter (not a third party client) to show you all unread items- that is, to give you a gap-free view of your feed? Or is it still just "whatever was most recent, mostly"?
It's one of those things where either everyone has to do it, or no one does. Nobody wants to be the first schmuck to pay higher taxes while allowing the competition to accummulate larger cash reserves and gain better margin flexibility.
Structural engineers have to deal with these sorts of issues. They do not build a bridge and say "this bridge is safe." They build it and say "this bridge will function within X, Y, and Z parameters for A number of years if maintained in this way" and similar things. They're dealing with a system which is known to not be totally invulnerable. They do it through comprehensive testing, scientific methods, and, above all, through trusting those technical concerns to the total exclusion of business goals. If it is 90% cheaper to use a weaker concrete, they do not substitute it in and cross their fingers. And if the CEO goes behind their back and does the substitution, or he refuses to provide them with the expensive physical simulation software necessary to do their job, or he ignores safety concerns raised by his engineers, that CEO goes to prison and the company is usually destroyed. This is starkly different from technology companies where suggesting such practices is basically asking them to completely restructure their entire organization fundamentally.
90% of people used to work on farms. Should we return to that lifestyle?
The article starts by saying that "lazy ants" and inactive workers have been observed for a long time. What this work does is confirm one of the hypothesis for the is phenomenon: they are a reserve work force (and not living food stores, as has been suggested)
This violates the same principle as:

"Dear NYT, We Decided the Stories You'll Be Reporting on for You"

"Dear John Smith, We Picked Your Next Girlfriend for You"
As soon as you personally take advantage of the money on that account, it's treated as personal income to you. But IRS Does have a concept of foreign income https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
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Playing semantics games is almost guaranteed to piss off the judge. Pissed off judges are not nice.

It's a very long-winded story, so I will try for the short version. Courts default to being open to the public. You can go down and watch them. Chances are, you can even make use of a law library.

Anyhow, this is sort of a hobby of mine. I know, I'm a strange person - but I love watching the court. Like I said, it's a long story.

I think my favorite was a guy who was in district court and argued with the judge about the definition of marijuana and the word possession. Now, the judge was pretty polite and told them that they were trying to give them a very small fine.

The kid persisted and had no idea about procedure. I mean, he could have argued those things but there's a procedure. Procedure is very, very important to judges. Seriously, they love proper procedure so much that they will even tell you what you need to do. She tried to explain this to the kid.

But no, he persisted and tried to fake his way into appearing to be a legal scholar. Again, this was district court.

Suffice to say, he kept going before finally admitting guilt and she gave him the maximum fine and just until the end of the day to pay that fine. At which point he decided it was time to double down and refuse to recognize the court - though not as one of those sovereign citizen things.

I'm not sure what the end result was, but he was taken into custody by the court officers. The rest of the day went quite smoothly.

The best part of this story? He had the chance to speak with the DA prior to this and the State provides an attorney of the day. He took advantage of neither one.
"If you can rent and invest, you can also buy and invest"

Not necessarily, the less you put into the downpayment the more you pay in interest, the less the calculation makes sense.

I'm not disagreeing that there are many scenarios, likely including the 6k/mo example, that buying makes sense. What I take issue with, and I imagine other commenters did as well, is the idea that "When you rent, your money is gone. When you buy, you normally get most or all of it back later." This is far too simple, and there are many cases where the two are equivalent or renting comes out on top. It's easy to find such scenarios in the NYT calculator [0], even when you assume your house goes up in value.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
That's why so many corporations keep their money offshore and figure out creative ways to spend it without repatriating it.
Connotations are not meaningless. It's a question of redundancy when encoding information and should be treated like a checksum.
Funny, this thursday, I just used jupyter notebooks to teach basic python to beginners who wanted to plot graphs and clean up a data file: https://github.com/Hackerfarm/python-workshops

1 to 3 are introductions to basic concepts. 4 is a bit more specific to the work we are doing here at the hackerfarm.
That would be acceptable if we were talking about buildings, a blue collar job. But if you try to apply it to a white collar executive you're going to run into social resistance of a great magnitude. White collar crime is a social norm and only very rarely even lightly punished. It is, to a degree, expected. White collar crime kills more people and does much more economic damage every year compared to street crime, but our society has established as a norm treating street crime harshly while turning a blind eye to white collar crime. If the builders company gave the builder substandard materials to build with and refused to supply him with the tools needed or the time needed, few will get behind the idea of executing the executive who got his shareholders a 0.1% bump in profitability that quarter through those cuts, no matter who it killed.

Just look at Toyotas "unintended acceleration" case. If their firmware engineers had access to static analysis tools (a few grand for a license), the bug would have been pointed out to them immediately. Instead, Toyota hired inexperienced engineers, deprived them of appropriate tooling, and pushed the cars out to the marketplace where they killed people. The result? Toyota was cleared of any wrongdoing. They're computers. They're too complicated. No one can know how they work.
I used to work for Experian. When I left, they paid me an extra month's wages before their payroll caught up to the fact that I was gone, then had to ask for it back. (I paid them back, FWIW.) If you can't run your own payroll, why should you be trusted with a credit bureau?
You can't build a functionally useful credit score that way. The amount of credit is accounted for in the model, not just the percentage used.
There are tons of financial firms that will set it up for you on a consulting basis. Here in the bay area, Duff & Phelps work with a lot of the big tech companies. Don't know of anyone who's automated the process or turned it into a SAAS product yet (for obvious reasons).
All those thing are indeed being paid ... through taxes, thus the whole point of collecting them.
Here're examples of things that could be included in such standards:

* Passwords should be stored only in salted and hashed form

* Code injection attacks shouldn't be possible

* Personal data should be stored in anonymized form with mapping between real and virtual id stored separately

* Only cryptographic algorithms from the approved list might be used (no MD5)
> The day that someone sets up a quadcopter controlled by AI and computer vision

Already been done a long time ago, just not by civilians.
Only works with the foreign revenue, US-based revenues will be taxed regardless of where they end up eventually.

Europeans kinda shot themselves in the foot by not having a similar rule, and looks like they're wising up to that.
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Interesting. Trying to pick up where Pidgin left off? Sounds great.
I agree entirely. It's just a matter of there not being any standards yet. I would hope that eventually we can all agree that even though such standards will never be perfect, and their establishment will be contentious, we need to do it for the overall benefit of society. It will mean licensed software engineers are more expensive to companies, companies will be required to respect those engineers and treat them like competent experts rather than functionaries, and even give the engineers the ability to grind the business to a halt if they point out fundamental engineering problems with the system. Companies will hate that. Some of the practices made standard will seem boring, over-cautious, etc to some engineers and some will not be able to pass whatever tests are put in place and engineers will hate that. The licensing itself will probably end up being a way for some functionary body to enrich itself while providing dubious value as is the case with many of the existing engineering licensing bodies. But, despite all that, the overall social benefits would outweigh the negatives. And failure to accept those negatives will leave us in an even worse position.
Great to read such quick and informed replies by chenglou and spicyj from the team.
How about we actually do something like increase the reserve food supply from more than 72 days? Yellowstone is not the only potential source of disruption to the food supply and right now if anything happens in the northern summer we are totally screwed.
I'm sorry you have such a painful bug, that must be frustrating. Here's hoping you get it soon :)
I made an automatic error fixer once in Powershell. When you load a module, it would catch missing commas between parameters, and update the module file with the missing commas. I want to extend it to catch many more common coding mistakes.

This sounds like the opposite idea, remove the function instead of repairing it. Very aggressive idea.
Related:

Special Forms in Lisp: Fexprs vs. Macros (1980)
http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Special-Forms.html
As someone who lives in a country with socialized medicine, (Canada), the discussion of hospitals removing "normal" (shared) rooms to replace them with more-profitable private rooms is disturbing.

Here, private rooms have become the standard that all new hospitals are built to. Not only are patients generally happier, but they drastically reduct the spread of germs between patients in hospitals. When my kids were born, (they're quite young - <6 years old), my wife had a private room. When my son was hospitalized for a couple of months last fall, he had a private room, with a couch-ish thing that I could sleep on. We didn't pay extra for these, the were the only options at the hospitals we were at. These are not special, private, hospitals in any way, they're just renovated and/or built within the past decade.

It seems like the profit-based healthcare system south of the border is keeping patients in shared rooms, which are nearly a generation out of date here.
Proving that a given error isn't caused by X is a very different matter from working out what does cause it, and even after that, fixing it is another matter again.
I just love how seemingly everyone involved in this is like "Wow this is so much, I mean I can't believe money gets you this, but I have the money/have been given the money so I guess we should do it" like this somehow manifested out of the thin air and everybody was just going along with it. Horseshit.

At some point, someone sat down with a few other people and proposed "Hey what if we charge rich entitled people insane fees so they never need to wait among the proletariat for medical care, you know, the ONE TIME in life when everyone is more or less equal" and they went along with it and now it's a business. Because apparently, when you're wealthy, the best thing you can find to do with your money is demonstrate to everyone else (or at the very least shield your delicate eyes from the suffering of) those less fortunate.

Crap like this really makes me look forward to capitalisms inevitable collapse.
I see you wrote the program. What did you write it in? What are you using for the UI toolkit? Are you planning to open source it?
I'd use that, how would you handle payment with folks who change their mind?
I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!

Maybe someday we'll have steam pipelines instead of gas pipelines?
Pretty much. Different UI and features but all the same rendering engine.
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It should work. Right now there can be a ~10 second delay for very large Slack teams.

If you still get nothing after 10 seconds, could you please submit a bug report via the built-in '?' form? If it's a public team, please include the URL.

Thanks
The UK. The mortgage market is different; terms are rarely 30 years, but rather homes are often refinanced every 2-5 years for a fixed mortgage rate, which reverts to a higher variable rate after that period.

Of course, this means that if interest rates suddenly spike then my mortgage payment will go up. But it does mean that in the short term it would not make sense to pay more off.
And then you get into differing meanings of 'gravy.' When I was on the Subcontinent, it meant what we in America would call a sauce; we use 'gravy' to mean a particular kind of sauce made from meat drippings.

Very weird at first for a Westerner to see vegetarian food described as having a gravy!
> then what language features in any language be good?

Those that obey general principles without exception. For example:

(0) “Abstraction clients must not rely on implementation details”: parametric polymorphism, abstract data types.

(1) “Case analyses must be exhaustive”: algebraic data types and pattern matching.

(2) “Make as few assumptions possible about the intended meaning of programs”: principal types.
1) Go.

2) Nothing. I'm drawing everything directly with OpenGL/ANGLE.

3) Yes, hopefully this year.
John Smith put out a document outlining his preferences and released a document 'submit your proposal" (https://www.amazon.com/amazonhq2).
First, that was still the time when everyone was going to throw out these stupid TCP/IP protocols any day now in favor of the professional telecom people's OSI work. TCP was what, 3 or 4 years old then?

Second, the network was for official government approved use only, which mostly meant research and communication between researchers. Everything else was an open secret, but officially under the radar.

At the same time, USENET was running on UUCP over TCP, which meant that the majority of traffic was alt.binaries, and a big chunk of that was porn.

So, yes, having an overly entitled jackass publicly embarrass them was something most admins feared. (My brush with greatness was Cat Yronwode and the cs.utexas mail to news gateway. But that was a decade after this.)
The money that goes to the state in taxes is spent by the state on services provided by the citizens of the state. The alternative is the money going to a tax haven bank account of a multinational. Pat yourself on the back knowing that your citizens are doing less business and more of their money is going to the multinational for whatever purpose the multinational sees fit.
In general it would not be, now that the personal data of 100+ millions of people have been stolen from these clowns, it seems relevant.

Leadership sets the priorities, and expectations. They get paid disproportionately more than other employees and I think they should be scrutinized and bear responsibility correspondingly.

But I have no doubt they probably found someone lower in the ranks as a scapegoat.

"Joe was in charge of patches. And we are all equally disturbed and horrified by his behavior. But we've reached out to him and let him go. Now give us more of your personal information so you can get free credit monitoring for 6 months [+]. -Sincerely and with deeper regrets, the Executive Team [++]"

[+] (fine print) then charged as $49.99 a month until cancelled. To cancel please visit one of the 3 Equifax location in person on the first Wednesday of the month. Accepting

[++] (even finer print) by accepting the free credit monitoring you agree to binding arbitration and forfeit your rights to participate in a class action suit against Equifax and its subsidiaries.
That's the idea. Except eul is going to be a bit easier to use with everything working right out of the box.
The New York Times is a newspaper, not a city. And ultimately the decision rests with Amazon, not anyone else. The wording of their headline should reflect that, because the way it is written currently is quite disrespectful.
Discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15186025
This is one of the main criticism about how the EU was made: freedom for funds goods and (mostly) workers to move around in the EU zone, without tariffs or constraints but no fiscal harmonization has been done.

Therefore countries with low taxes (Ireland but also Luxembourg) attract a disproportionate amount of big companies HQ. Ikea, for instance, is officially declared in Luxembourg.

Why so many people in EU rejoice about the Brexit is because UK has been one of the main force opposing fiscal harmonization (apparently London is a bit of a tax haven for financial service companies) so hopefully this kind of efforts can go forward.
Wow, that's something I've been looking for for years, especially including xmpp.

Are you the author? It's hard to trust company logins to a binary blob, coming from a page with no information at all (no about/contact, empty github profile). Looks very fishy at the moment.
> He sees no reason that the medical world should not respond to consumer demand like any other player in the service economy. “Whenever I bump into a bleeding-heart liberal, which I am, I mention that schools, housing and food are all tiered systems,” he said. “But health care is an island of socialism in a system of tiered capitalism? Tell me how that works.”

I can't decide if this is the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy or the "whataboutism" fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
what is your plan to respond with more details at the next step, or when you have your day in court? How are you justifying the request for $1,000 and not more or less? I ask because I would be interested in doing this as well.

edit- I realize that OP could be different from the creator of that website, so I guess that could be a general question to someone more legally informed than I. How does one determine what the right amount to sue for is in a case like this? You are suing for negligence but can't prove that you have actually suffered some damage (yet).
Do you have sources on that? I'd like to read more about it.
I understand the value to managing the hardware and software of your deployed devices centrally and with protection from users breaking things or becoming a road hazard, and the significant difficulties in developing for an automotive environment. I still wish we could buy Tesla's hardware and run something open source on it like we can with Apple.
This message is horribly misleading, though: if you're not in the database, by definition you haven't been part of the breach. For example, I have no credit history, but if I put my name and SSN into this site (I'm not going to, for obvious reasons) it would tell me that I was probably hacked.

A better solution would have been to not put this on a website to begin with: give everyone an extra free credit report on top of their usual three yearly, and add a field to it saying whether or not you were hit. This re-uses all of the regular security precautions of that process, rather than hastily inventing a whole new procedure.

I can also see a potential advantage for them: since it's more annoying to request a credit report than to put your name into a website, fewer people would find out that they were part of the mess and get angry at them, while they could say "look how generous we are, we gave everyone an extra credit report!"