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There is a nice article here that is updated with numbers (to at least 2015) that shows both sides of these issues: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/pets-shelter-euthan...

Here is PETAs numbers compared to one of the local shelters:

> the Lynchburg Humane Society, also in Virginia, took in about the same number of animals as PETA but saved 94% and without PETA’s millions. Seagoville Animal Services in Texas took in 1/3 of the numbers (about 700 animals) but only 1/20th of 1% of the amount of money that PETA did, saving 99% of them on a paltry $29,700 budget. In fact, hundreds of cities and towns across America are saving over 90% of the animals and doing so on a fraction of PETA’s wealth.

This PETA quote offers some explanation:

> It’s easy to point the finger at those who are forced to do the “dirty work” caused by a throwaway society’s casual acquisition and breeding of dogs and cats who end up homeless and unwanted, but at PETA, we will never turn our backs on neglected, unloved, and homeless animals — even if the best we can offer them is a painless release from a world that doesn’t have enough heart or homes with room for them.

And:

> the vast majority of which were “owner surrenders,” meaning that they’d been relinquished to PETA voluntarily.

If PETA gets all of the re-homable pets that all of the no-kill shelters denies, then I understand why their numbers are so bad, I wonder how it compares to the public run shelters.

The no-kill shelters also needs to answer for what to do with all of the dogs that can't find a home due to illness, behavioural problems or aggression, is a life in kennels the best we can offer them? And what about the space that a non-re-homeable pet takes from a re-homeable pet?

There have been stories of no-kill shelters that would "donate" their pets they can't re-home to another entity, that will then do the killing.

But in the end, and I think this needs to be addressed, all of the shelters are trying to solve a problem that is created by irresponsible breeders and owners.

The situation in the US is insane at the moment, and there simply isn't kennel space or homes for all of the pets that needs it.

Sorry for the long message, but this issue isn't as black and white, and I have done a lot of thinking on the subject, but I haven't seen a solution that I prefer.
This might be true, but I think that ship has sailed. Email for 99% of internet users is html. Thinking that some large fraction of news letters, outlook emails will ever be plaintext is just naive. I use html emails in outlook simply because I don't want my emails within the corporation to appear differnet from anyone elses. I certainly don't want to return something that looks different from what the sender wrote,.

The mail client is a web browser. In many cases it's an actual web app in an actual web browser. The solution has to be to make them safer for the user. Maybe a subset of html can be whitelisted, maybe link targets should be rendered more clearly, maybe something else.
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Yes, that would be a problem if it was happening. But that is regulated by international agreements, and as far as I know, China is not doing it.
Can you create it self hosted and sell it that way? This way, you compete on 2 spaces.

Self hosted and in the cloud.
I have seen one scenario where engineers get sales commissions: quants in investment banks. Typically in banks traders will get 3% of PnL before costs are stripped out, or 10% after costs. Traditional sector coverage sales will get a volume based commission. This always leads to tension between sales and trading as one is compensated on volume and the other on margin. Etrading sales get sales credits on channel volume, not sector volume, which is often another source of tension. And finally, the quants coding up new pricing models may get sales credits on trades priced with those models. No doubt there are some interesting comp models at automated or systematic trading hedge funds where there's no real distinction between traders and coders, but I have no first hand experience there.
I'd rather have a sales person that is as much a part of the team as anyone else.

Daniel Pink's ["To Sell Is Human"](http://www.danpink.com/books/to-sell-is-human/) makes a strong argument against commissions, which is echoed in these articles:

https://hbr.org/2012/07/a-radical-prescription-for-sales

> Mitch Little began questioning the received wisdom on sales commissions in the late 1990s, shortly before he became vice president for worldwide sales and applications at Microchip Technology, a large semiconductor company headquartered near Phoenix. He oversaw 400 salespeople whose compensation plan was the industry standard—60% base salary, 40% commissions.

> “That made sense 40 years ago, when the Fuller Brush salesman went door-to-door,” Little told me. “But the world of business-to-business sales has shifted fundamentally.” So in an act of sacrilege for a onetime sales guy, Little killed commissions altogether. He established a new plan in which salespeople received 90% of their compensation in a high base salary, and the other 10% was linked to corporate (rather than individual) measures such as top-line growth, profits, and earnings per share.

> The result? Total sales increased. The cost of sales stayed the same. Attrition dropped. Retention rose.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/business/smallbusiness/for...

> The proponents of ditching commissions believe they foster negative behaviors, such as focusing on an individual’s profit over the company’s, emphasizing short-term outcomes and encouraging unproductive competition among sales representatives. Even companies that pay commissions can face costly turnover as representatives chase more lucrative offers.

https://blog.fogcreek.com/why-do-we-pay-sales-commissions/

> In the year since we dropped the commission system our sales have gone up. In fact, four of the last five months have been record months. We can’t reasonably say that our record sales were caused by this change, but we can reasonably say it didn’t hurt, and that’s worth having a hard think about in your own company. There is no guarantee that this will work for everyone, but it’s unlikely to be a disaster either.

> Our salespeople all estimated that they were spending about 20% of their time just keeping track of what money was due them. There was constant horse trading. And, most worrying, we created a heavy disincentive to do all the service stuff that makes customer service shine. Why would you want a system that sets up after-sales service as competition against new sales, especially if you have a small sales team? Reputation and retention, after all, are both paths to revenue.

> Removing commissions has changed the sales team. It has taken their focus off their compensation. They have all that administration time back for more useful things. They take a longer view of the value of a prospect, and are less worried about who is going to buy right now. They feel less stress about taking vacation. They don’t quibble among themselves over accounts. And best of all, they feel more integrated with the company.
Just as a reference point, I use a LOT of electricity compared to my peers.
650kwH/month at the moment (and that is before I turn the heaters to max for winter..)

* Lights

* Various electronics (TV, router, speakers etc)

* Floor heating in the bathroom

* AC/heater for warming 2/3 of my house

* electric oven, stove, dish washer, washing machine, coffe machine, toaster etc..

All in all ~72€/month for 650kwH. Living in Europe, a bit colder climate than Germany.
Ok thanks to @temporal here is the diagram. It's a cross-section of a subduction zone, i.e. it's in a vertical plane (not map view).

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0 depth (km)
o->____====Δ== <-c -0
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(fast) * <-e -50
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d-> \ -100
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The 'o' is the oceanic plate (thin line), the 'c' is the continental plate (double lines), 'd' points to the downgoing slab, 'e' points to where the earthquake occurred. O and C are the surface of the earth. 'fast' and 'slow' indicate that the slab is sinking/subducting fast at shallow depths and slower at deep depths. The Δ is an arc volcano that is smoking (like Mt. St. Helens or Fuji) that are always present above subduction zones because at ~100 km depths, the subducting slab loses some water which rises and then melts the upper mantle and lower crust of the continental crust above (these rocks are very hot and adding water lowers their melting temperature without changing the actual temperature much).
ISO is not just software gain. On a lot of higher-end cameras (read: just about any ILC) there's a definite analog gain stage prior to ADC.

Since there's a fixed level of sensor noise, when you increase the analog gain you decrease the level of noise in the shadows relative to the sensor noise, essentially increasing SNR. This isn't true for all cameras, however.

This chart [http://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR_Shadow.htm#Canon%2...
] demonstrates the difference between three cameras, one of which is known to be largely "ISO invariant" (the Nikon D750), one which is not (the Canon 6D), and one which looks like it has a 'native' ISO of 800 (the Sony A7R II)

As you can see, the D750 doesn't gain much (heh) from increasing ISO -- the total image noise in the shadows isn't improved by increasing the ISO through the range. If you're shooting a 6D in a low-light situation, however, you see improvements in shadow quality up to about ISO 3200, after which it turns out that you will be fine if you just raise the shadows in post. If you're shooting an A7R II you might as well just leave the ISO dial on 800 all the time.

That's not all, though, since it turns out when you increase ISO you basically lose 1EV of highlight off the top of your image, as you allude to, and you also lose around 1EV of DR. (Chart here: http://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm#Canon%20EOS%20...)

It is, like all things in life, a balance.
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> you’ve shared x days in a row and your friends are responding

A month ago, FB's first senior software engineer was saying on the Internet History Podcast that FB would never create useless features/tactics to bring users to the platform like the Snapchat streak. Listen here, 27:20 mark.
http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2017/08/facebooks-firs...
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The coin flipping approach is called "Randomized Response" and dates back to the 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response
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If you like that kind of book check out Daniel Suarez.

Daemon had me hooked, it's great when an actual techie does sci-fi.
True but for this argument, I'd say the specific location of the backdoor isn't the relevant part.
And you can get your daily dose of economic sense directly from Bill Mitchell's blog.

He's just done a two day debunking of the usual nonsense that has now found its way into literature.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=36850
my town has just gone to LED now, so its a bit harder to do :/

Still I'm sure one could filter out the peaks from the LEDs (they are phosphor based still) but it's not going to be effective as taking out the sodium notch.
If someone sets up a program to do something, do they own the output from that program, e.g. compiled code? My understanding is yes -- is that wrong?

I also imagine writing the program to create songs would count as a creative act.
AFAIK the first time you go from Commbank > Wespac (for example) the recipient receives an SMS instructing them to enter BSB/Acc number in Commbank's site. From then on, Commbank has paired the number to the bank account and it just goes direct from then on.

At least that's my observation. I do it from Commbank > other banks all the time and they don't have to do anything manually each time to receive the money - just a day or so later the money appears in their account.
The answer is the 500 rule. To avoid star trails, exposures should be less than 500/focal-length-in-135-equivalent.

In other words, if he shot this on his 'favourite' Rokinon 24mm, an exposure time of 20 seconds is reasonable to avoid all star trails.
I agree that Atlanta is a good choice. The others not so much.

Toronto has average housing costs that are $700K, plus you're going to have a hard time getting Americans to move there.

Austin is bursting at the seams already.

Boston is way too expensive, which the author acknowledges.
the problem with threads is that unless you spawn an ungodly amount of them, you might still not be able to issue enough pending blocking disk IO operations to saturate the disk bandwidth.
> Currently it's impossible (?) to have filesystem i/o in the same select/poll loop with your network i/o because of this issue.

Hacky workaround: don't do filesystem i/o in the first place. Have the kernel serve an iSCSI target, then consume it over the loopback interface entirely in userspace. Your disk now has network semantics! (But you have to bring your own filesystem driver.)

If you don't mind some extra abstraction overhead, you can skip past iSCSI and instead build a userspace NFS client lib into your app, consuming a loopback NFS share. s/NFS/9P/ if your disk server has in-kernel 9P.

(Is there any use to these approaches? Yes: they're actually nearly-optimal ways to persist state from a unikernel running on a hypervisor, because all the disks are remote one way or another anyway. Erlang on Xen uses the 9P approach, for example.)
I wonder what happens if you have some EU citizens posting copyrighted content on your site. I didn't check if they're going to make it a felony, but in that case are they going to ask for your extradition? If not, are they going to ask for damages? With no protection from the actions of our users it's a mess.
Wow what a fantastic tax evasion scheme, especially for real estate developers!
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Can you give an example of this kind of argument being made by an economist affiliated with The Heritage Foundation?
I'm not sure the ship has sailed. If HSBC switched to only mailing out text-only emails with URLs written out in full, after a while HSBC users would get used to only receiving text correspondence from their bank. I think that would be a step towards reducing phishing attempts, though certainly not a complete answer.
The third one, datalegreya, looks amazing.
In Sweden there is a widespread system called Swish that lets you connect your mobile number to your bank account and people can send money to you via an app. I've seen buskers and street performers (as well and charity and church collections) ask for money that way.
As an engineer, the way you get paid for the value you create is by starting a company. In fact, that's the way you do it in pretty much every profession.

The only difference between the guy who owns a successful Veterinary practice and the guy working as an underpaid veterinarian is that one of them went out and leased some office space.
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Quite the opposite actually, if you're a citizen of it you have some constitutional protection against your own government spying on you, at least in the U.S. AFAIK. If you are outside of it, you're fair game.
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> Let's say you want to read a specific page from a file.

pread() is an unusual case. I'd be happy if poll() simply indicated read() would succeed, and I'm happy doing an lseek() before every read().

However a pread() with O_NONBLOCK could return EAGAIN and poll() would then know what pages I'm interested in.

> what action, within posix, would you take to change it?

The general (POSIX-compatible) strategy (as I indicated) has been to fork a thread off to handle reading so that my application is notified when the data is in the fifo. This works for me when I'm reading (say) five files from a slow (or remote) storage, but it's not ideal since it causes a copy.
Tell that to ReactJS devs, those mad men include even HTML in their JS files, how insane do you have to be.
You say you have seen it first hand? Isn’t that second hand knowledge your describing?

You ask what would proving it accomplish? It would allow everyone to actually know what’s going on instead of stringing together a bunch of conjecture and anecdotes. It would enable change.
and you should send that info to royal mail and tell them they should bump some numbers up.
Vagrant updates can wreak havoc too.

Vagrant is very bare-bones, so you need plugins, but those are ... picky.

Also, handling Linux / Windows / OSX with the same Vagrantfile results in interesting things. (Let's say you want to use NFS for Linux, so you put there an if, and you want to set up bridging for a local interface, you have to guess the interface name - or do shell and cmd.exe wizardy .)
For a good example of slippery slope in action wrt anti-semitic hate speech, look at how the BDS movement is attacked as both of these things.

Note: I don't support BDS. But I don't consider it to be either anti-Semitic nor hate speech, and the fact that many people who support hate speech legislation genuinely believe that BDS does qualify as hate speech, puts me firmly into the anti-hate-speech-laws camp. Simply put, I don't trust democratic majoritarianism to provide a definition of these things that I would consider acceptable, much less good.

Furthermore, given that hate crimes are directed towards minorities, and hate speech legislation is passed by majorities, I would posit that in any case where that speech actually makes a difference (i.e. where it can translate to tangible action), the majority will always immunize itself. Meanwhile, it will use such laws selectively against minorities (e.g. see all the right wing politicians referring to BLM as "hate group").
I've noticed that "if it's not plaintext, it gets deleted without being read" seems to be a pretty common rule among Germans on the Internet, who also have a tendency to like specifying very exactly what they want of email to them. Here's a few examples:

https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/email.en.htm

http://problemkaputt.de/email.htm

https://www.gaertner.de/~neitzel/email-to-mn.html

http://www.karo-electronics.de/448.html

...and of course there's this:

http://arc.pasp.de/
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Vote cost is not a crazy hyperparameter: it's only an arbitrary unit of measure.
If votes "cost twice as much" everyone buys sqrt(Xi/2) votes rather than sqrt(Xi), by spending a fixed sum Xi that depends on the utility of winning the vote. Results are unchanged.
> "An engineers actions are so far removed from revenue that they can't make a claim so directly"

This statement is simply not true in my experience as an engineer in the tech industry for over 15 years. Sell a bad product 'once', and the sales person 'ability' to sell it again will decrease. Sales people ultimately sell a project and its features, interpreted by engineers. You must incentivise an engineer to be creative, write better features and good code or you run the risk of having something that destroys a sales person reputation along with the companies revenue!
what about uuid, a well researched and established standard?
this kind of thing has made me wish delivery firms would have a "don't attempt delivery i'll pick it up from the depot" option.
This is when you expect the top HN comment to be: "hey I live in one of these homes, AMA."

Fun post though. Something to add to "what developers should know about addresses"
>What I’m saying is they quite possibly didn’t even know just how many little things, things I won’t mention here for the sake of DF readers who are trying to stay spoiler-free for Tuesday’s event, were spoiled by this leak. That person should be ashamed of themselves, and should be very worried when their phone next rings.

This is a bit of an extreme reaction for what is essentially spoilers for a company's product launch happening in days.

Does this person work for Apple? They seem way too invested.
Competition. It's just like advertising. The more your competitors advertise the more you feel you have to.

Notifications from people are fine, e.g. 'x messaged you'.

Notifications from machines are the problem, e.g. 'x just did y'.
The politeness is refreshing compared to slashdot
> The more changes get made, the more privacy the user has.

This is a minor, pedantic point, but what you really mean to say is "the closer the changes get to 50%, the more privacy the user has". If you change all results, then it is easy to flip them all back.

This distinction trips up several folks, where the research world initially believed (and some in official stats still believe[1]) that a part of privacy is literally not publishing the true answer (e.g. above: literally flip every output).

What you actually want is

Pr[output | input] ~= Pr[output | input']

which may mean that you should leave things alone, which feels weird but is important.

[1]: Noise addition is a common way to obscure real-valued data, and some official stats bureaus have the ridiculous rule that "you always add noise, and you never add less than X in absolute value", leading to releases where you can be 100% confident that the true value is not in a range around the published number.
Not quite. The JSON overhead can become quite problematic. Not to mention, Postgres's JSON support isn't where I'd like it to be. :(
It's not only what you pay directly, it affects virtually all prices. Let's take a bread for example: most modern bakeries use electric ovens, and as far as I know, it's one of the biggest part of total running cost. Moving that bread to the malls using electric trucks? Add % to that too. Mall also uses electricity to power HVAC, lighting, refrigerators etc. See how that % increase of electricity prices adds up in every step and might lead to much higher increase in a final price?
I can't believe thay did such a deceptive manipulation in JS! We can acces this JS code, how stupid are they?!
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> The dogma of the day is Free market/capitalism GOOD , all other systems EVIL! Never mind understanding what precisely any of those words mean or correlating taught concepts to real world business to see how well they hold up.

You have hit the nail on the head with regard to all Political "discussion" in the USA now.

It is all black or white. You are right or wrong, yes or no. There is actually no discussion, no learning.

There is no stopping to consider the other opinion or side. Or learning about it thoroughly so as to shed more light on the situation or circumstance.

It's a shame, because it means nothing is moving forward.
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That would require HSBC to value some kind of improved security so much that they'd accept not having the HSBC logo in the email. That's what I think is out of the question.

You could maybe see banks having plaintext communication as an optional, but I doubt they'd make it default (allowing users to switch to html).

Isn't this problem already solved with certificates online? Shouldn't this be solvable the same way? E.g. a bank sends an email containing a link to the content with some special attribute. The web browser displays the content if and only if the sender domain of the email (e.g. hsbc.com) is also the domain from which the content will be downloaded.
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to be able to criticize modern economics, you need to first have a sound technical understanding of the subject. steve keen doesn't.[1]

[1] http://chrisauld.com/2012/12/06/steve-keen-still-butchering-...
Let's not forget Wikipedia/Media's role in this as well: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11015672/Wikipedi...
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