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> asking a woman if she wants to come over to your house tonight to taste whiskey with you

Does she like whiskey? Have you talked about this before?
If a co-worker invited me (who never talks about alcohol) to his house to come "taste whiskey" I'd be confused and try to figure out the pretext. Were I a woman, the obvious pretext is "sexual advance".

> group ski trip with a reservation for only one hotel room

That's weird man, regardless of whether it's co-ed.

> join me for dinner to talk about project/feature.

Again, weird; I'm looking for the pretext. Unless we're already good friends, in which case this is a non-issue even if I'm female.

> let's go visit the hot springs

Where the hell do you work?? These are not things you do with co-workers, these are things you do with close friends.
Vault of Glass released merely weeks after launch, just like how Destiny 2's raid (Leviathan) did too. A lot of Destiny 2's complaints about end-game aren't about the quantity of content, it's the lack of incentive to play it; loot from the raid is underwhelming, loot in general doesn't offer anything to chase with fixed rolls and everything feeling much more homogenous (less perks on items and perks are less impactful), big design changes to PvP that massively affect the way games play out.
The opposing viewpoint is that you can't dissect a person like that. It could be Linus' abrasiveness that makes him an amazing engineer.
Because you’re not in a legal state. Iron law of prohibition and all that.
Upward mobility is a lie. There are tons of studies and books on this - Thomas Piketty might be one.
Anyone interested in this should check out Radiolab's episode on the state of collegiate debate:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/debatable/
Barrie's company Freelancer.com was just outed as a bunch of scam artists on HN front page yesterday, now he's an economic mastermind?

This whole article is basically "the entire world economy is a house of cards wtf!" Yeah, no shit. We've known that for a decade now. Australia rises and falls with the world economy and if/when China crashes things will be ugly everywhere.
This is a tangential attack on the source, not the content. Please address the article, not the publisher.
Maybe there could be a search engine that finds videos on all video sites, and shows them according to some well-tested algorithm, without any bias? Oh, but the owners of such a search engine would need to be entirely neutral and unbiased. For instance, they should not also be owners of a video site that they would like to promote.

It's been a long time since the USA Justice Department went after a company for having a vertical monopoly, but this is a reminder of why vertical monopolies can inhibit innovation, just as much as horizontal ones.
Social spaces work differently to patrol areas. 1 player won't occupy a full party worth of spots in a social space, it's possible you try to join your friend at a social space and get an error that the area is full.
Note that that build isn't technically guaranteed to be the 57.0 release, and there have been 11th hour updates pushed out before.
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Why do we need to know how the brain works? We didn't build flying machines by creating artificial birds with flapping wings... likewise, nobody says we need to replicate wetware in order to create useful AI tools.
A somewhat misleading headline. Only the "Amazon Web Services' China business"
It doesn’t help that not every manufacturer (especially ones from China) don’t release the source code. And when they do, they sometimes contain opaque binary blobs that don’t tell you what is happening.
FWIW These days 1password supports TOTP directly, pretty smooth in the browser.
This all might be true, but as a reason to not install patches, it still makes no sense. If you don’t trust the baseband or the OS, why did you buy the phone to begin with? You trust iOS n, but not iOS n+1?
When does the clock for long-term capital gains start?

Better solution: the US tax code should eliminate the short-term/long-term capital gains distinction and just copy the model used in Canada (and elsewhere, I'm sure): capital gains are taxed as ordinary income at a rate of 50¢ on the dollar. So $2 capital gain is equivalent to $1 of ordinary income. The usual rules apply for day traders and such where their "capital gains" are active rather than passive income. The rate doesn't have to be 50 cents - it can be 40 or 60.
It's the playbook. They need competition to drive improvement of their local blessed firm. Once they are globally competitive they can compete internationally and monopolize the China market.
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Unless the founder is of Theranos.
Women are different due to cultural norms and have also different needs; for just one example, while both parents of new born kids might need paternity or maternity leave, women who give birth face a much more physiologically taxing experience than men who do not. You cannot merely treat everyone the same with a "for all" universal quantifier next to it because you'll end up discriminating against someone.

This isn't even a group or women or whatever issue, this is human interaction 101. Some people don't drink, some people don't smoke, some people don't like sex, some do. You can't accommodate everyone, but you should do what you can and are comfortable with and be sensitive for those you can't. Then you can treat people the same after that. So I don't think you disagree, it's just we might be defining the word "equally" differently.
Two things I take away from this.

1. Amazon decided that the risk of doing business in China (handing over information & know-how to the government, helping it suppress the human rights of its citizens, etc) was not worth the revenue that it would make.

2. It sold for $300 million. That means its run-rate was probably only $50 million a year or so annually (or maybe less). That's not very much at all, given that AWS' annual global business is about $10 billion and rising (so China's cloud share accounted for less than 0.5% of AWS global cloud business.)
In favor of niceness, community and civilization
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I guess Jeff Bezos still need to learn few things from Jack Ma. Would be cool to read the inside stories.
Disney will probably do ok with their new park, if only because it's only 43% owned by Disney.

Apple and Starbucks are among the few still thriving, for now. GM is also still doing ok there, via a typical partial ownership arrangement.

McDonald's and YUM! Brands threw in their towels, after initially having booming businesses.
Can one run the new version alongside a previous version?

I need to access occasionally extensions unsupported in the new version: namely Scrapbook and the extension that provides maff file support.
Do they have commercially available products or just R&D?
Neat. Would be useful as a Unity plugin which might not be to hard to achieve as it’s already written in C#.
"But what is matter, exactly? Imagine a cube of ice, measuring a little over one inch (or 2.7 centimeters) in length."

Gasping. For. Air.

I love that an article on units gets a unit conversion massively wrong.
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I thought it was less about "creepy" and more about the military aspect. It's hard to "don't be evil" when you have a subsidiary building what people were describing (hyperbolically) as some kind of precursor to the Terminator. If they put some big anime eyes and a cute tail on the new one, rather than an empty face place, it'd probably go down just fine.

Edit: Boston Dynamics also didn't help themselves with the "dog kicking" video. It (sort of) looks like a dog, and people were kicking it (well, not really, they were pushing it with their feet to show it good it was at balance). Obviously it's just a machine, but a lot of people saw some dudes kicking a dog.
To be fair, I think that only applies to if you have something negative to say.
If cheating is defined as looking up the solution on Google, I frequently cheat while performing my job responsibilities.
I agree, but I’d like to add my 2¢ and mention that it’s not impossible either. Skilled trades really are in short supply and the pay is still good.

My dad lost his job as a construction worker during the recession, in his 50s. At that age we knew it was going to be an uphill battle to continue to rely on his physical health for work much longer. So he hit the books while my mother continued to work part time, which allowed them to live off their savings longer at least.

Upon passing class and getting his license, I helped them bootstrap all the way through to his first customer. A simple website + a few hundred a month spent on google ads does wonders. My mother now spends her time answering customer emails/estimates/calls/paperwork and it’s has become a self sustaining machine, and I have stopped running their ad campaign (Running off the good reputation/reviews).

Now their biggest problem is finding enough skilled/trustworthy labor to complete their bids in a reasonable amount of time. As well as capex (still bootstrapped, which means expensive equipment rentals that eat heavily into margins)

I’m not tying to trivialize this, it was/is an insane amount of work with much to do before one can consider that “he made it”. Just pointing out that there is hope.

More details:

- Bay Area

-Parents speak English as a second language and only went to high school
is take home great? if you have a full time job, any sense of home life, is being asked to code a small project in your spare time (and on a limited time basis) sane? I did two this year, and tbh I think the next company that assigns me one I'll just decline.
Like how to leverage the state to keep foreign competition out. Let's hope Bezos doesn't learn that lesson.

Keeping in mind that half of Jack Ma's wealth derives from one of the greatest thefts in world history, of Ant Financial from Alibaba shareholders (including Yahoo and Softbank). Equivalent to Bezos discharging AWS into his own private hands, without compensating Amazon shareholders. Let's also hope Jeff Bezos doesn't learn that trick.
At an hour per abstract (seems like a reasonable amount of time to understand the abstract), I get:

400,000 hours = 50,000 days (at eight hours a day) = 208 years (at 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year)

If the abstracts wern't really read and understood, just skimmed, perhaps it would be possible to do in a tenth of the time, so 21 years.
Amazing what happens when you step out of the "group think" environment and into the real world. They should have expected the unexpected.
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With the caveat that I know nothing about tax law, i feel like it's also terrible because it's procyclical for the employee. If you get taxed on vesting and it loses value when you exercise or liquidate you do get to take a capital gains loss, but you're likely to be doing that when you're jobless (due to business cycles and/or personal circumstances) so you're in a lower tax bracket anyways.
It seems we are trading one behemoth against another. I would much prefer if we had more smaller companies competing with each other.
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It's a difficult situation, I think. I think a linear combination is best, but which axis the vector points along, it might be hard to say.

I think the only thing I'd want is to not have a newcomer feel shut out because they can't adapt.

You've actually given me something to think about. Cheers.
If you genuinely only use the phone features of the phone, that doesn't matter anywhere near as much. You only need to update if someone finds something like a text messaging buffer overflow. That sort of thing generally makes the news these days.
>> [overcompensating]

> I kind of think Pence is being smart.

The problem is that Pence takes it so far as to be creepy. My feeling on him is that in a different time (and not as far back as you'd expect) he'd be in the "Ankle? To the stocks with her!" crowd - and god help you if someone accused you of being a witch.
I like to leave at least something small ambiguous to see if clarification is requested. My clients rarely give unambiguous requirements, so I feel it’s pertinent to the job.
Is rewriting in GraphQL the new rewriting in Rust?
This is just too much. No way. These people are crazier than the patients.

I mean, ingestible RFID is a conspiracy theory trope.
Does this deal include datacenter/HW designs? Software? Operational practices?

Seems like a pretty massive technology transfer.
AWS did $4.58 billion this latest quarter. They're tracking to a $20+ billion annualized run-rate.
Well I do not need supercomputer in my pocket (and I guess most people don’t). Phone and text plus decent browser that honors my privacy and security will do.

Music app, Maps and perhaps Youtube as luxury but beside that?

I would rather like a smartphone < 100$ that I can replace every year and do not worry when it breaks or if I loose it.
Why couldn’t they? No/little international pressure to do otherwise and a currency printing press to subsidize back room deals.

This is a great strategy for China and it’s utterly insane that we allow this situation to continue.
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Why would high-quality employees be willing to do that, when they can get jobs at other companies that operate during normal working hours in their timezones?

You can either be flexible about working hours for people in different timezones, or you can end up with people who couldn't do any better than take hours they don't want to work.
I am skeptical that there is anything you could do that would never offend any men but would offend a significant percentage of women. Even more skeptical if we're restricting the scene to professional interactions.
The real question is how can we reduce the cost of education (or training) while simultaneously better aligning training with the most valuable careers.

Trade schools are much cheaper than college. In addition, we don’t have enough trained craftsmen.
My objection is when people in the work place want to shake hands, pat someone on the back, hug someone in distress you want to aggressively forbid it.

It's not your thing, and that's totally ok.

But putting these values onto other hurts them. Cold workplaces cause mental illness for many people.

Forcing your values on other consenting adults if what I disagree with.

If you don't want to shake hands, I wouldn't think twice. Stopping others....
Thanks for that info! That means AWS's China business accounted for less than 0.25% of its global business (based on sale price.)
I was wondering how they’d address real-time latency. Guess they didn’t.
An AFK analogue that I’m fond of is taking a photo of the box with the price visible. Unfailingly I see the photo days later and have the same puzzled thought.
It’s true, that H.N. Commenters guy is a real piece of work.

... But in all seriousness, there is a diversity of viewpoints here. It’s a conversation and people vote up things they find thought provoking. Would you prefer only people who think React and Vue are great post here?
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I liked the tutorials at Python Programming, sometimes the python details goes a bit fast and there are typos but over all it's the one that got me most understanding the practical parts.

https://pythonprogramming.net/machine-learning-tutorial-pyth...
This is true but there is a growing feeling that 2 of the 5 radios on my device shouldn't get to make up >20% of my BOM on their license alone. While the poster above you is right that they're aren't trolls per se, some of those patents (and there are a lot, all clustered around a few areas) are broad and vague and more of a wide claim than a useful description of something new.
Sure, and I didn't advocate doing otherwise. My point is the larger context - there is no "secure" on mobile.

Likewise, my point about losing a datacap was that it was preferable to having more personal info backhauled into commercial surveillance databases. It's not an either-or and I'm not desiring either one - just calling attention to the larger context of user-security versus the myopia of marketing/corporate security.
I like drinking IPAs at home because they make me sleepy, which means I go to bed without drinking too much!
Totally. That's the definition of a hostile takeover. In principle, the board just represents the shareholders, and if they're not doing what the shareholders want then they have the absolute right to replace them.
What phone? Samsung maybe? On my Google Pixel, there's nothing calling itself "Internet".
Phoenix creator here. Happy to answer any questions. This article does an excellent job diving into the underlying details of Phoenix channels and pubsub.

For those that want a thousand foot view and are curious what makes Elixir and Phoenix unique compared to other solutions, think of Phoenix channels as trivial realtime communication that is distributed out of the box. With Elixir, processes (green threads) are load balanced on both IO and CPU so no single channel client will block another, regardless of the work you may be doing. Channels are also multiplexed on a single concrete connection so the same client can be doing intensive work in one channel while receiving messages over another. The runtime is also distributed, so process messages can reach any server in the cluster which is what allows you to `broadcast(socket, "event", msg)` in a channel and it Just Works across the cluster.
One of the highlights for Phoenix WebSockets came from the insights of one of my co-workers. I was having a problem where I only wanted to send websocket traffic up to 1 time every 3s (debounced essentially). I was struggling with this solution and came up with a hacky solution that would debounce on the event broadcast side (vs the socket side). This means it would be up to 1 time every N seconds per server.

Co-worker showed me that sockets are just processes, and that once the process exists, I can treat it like any other process. We wrote a fairly simple state machine for debouncing, and made it debounced on the socket side. It's awesome because it's debounced even in a distributed setup. Less than 25 lines of code for all of that!
I really want this to work out. 18% of the US population is rural, and the rural economy is disintegrating faster and faster. The social costs (not to mention the hardship for those people) will be enormous in a decade or two without a sharp change.

I don't expect it to work, but I wish the project luck.
The typing lag put me off immediately.

I've measured the input latency and its ~3x slower than chrome.

Filed a bug around a month ago https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699
I don't really get it. As far as I can tell, a coin that uses something like, for example, proof-of-spacetime is just going to push the resources "wasted" to whatever's required to create hard drives: land for mining raw materials, metals, the energy required to create the hard drive and ship it, etc. Is there really anything better than proof-of-work?
Actually curious: Why are you talking about British companies in a thread about American taxes?

Or do you happen to be British so you use FTSE 100 as a shorthand for what most Americans would use the S&P 500 for?
How was the property market crash in the US not a case of a bubble bursting? Some other obvious cases would be Ireland and Spain around the same time. How they were inflated and what triggered the collapses is irrelevant. The pattern is the same - speculation drives prices to unrealistic levels and eventually a major correction occurs.
20 years ago walking out was the right choice - not necessarily because of the blatant sexism but because of the massive glaringly obvious and uncorrected mismanagement in that particular environment. The problem was not just that there were a bunch of jerks with pinups on the walls, it's that any competent management in the late 90s should have eliminated that within the first 5 minutes of walking into that room.
I am confused - What is the flaw exactly? Voting through mining hashrates has been the hallmark feature of cryptocurrencies - the "decentralized" network.
Both are symptoms, not causes. If people want to be emotionally detached, we should ask why.

In my experience, such desires are caused by a feeling of lack of agency and/or progress in one's professional and personal life. For example if one is stuck at a dead-end job they are more likely to self-medicate, which can quickly turn into addiction.
Well yes, alcohol lowers inhibitions. Hence it's common nickname, "liquid courage".
With regards to your last paragraph, OP uses words like "never" and "always" so it doesn't sound like just unsavory situations, it sounds like rules he uses for all interactions with women in his company.

In this case, since OP put it forward, I think the onus is on him for clarifying what he means.
One is forced to buy a phone, as an expectation/requirement of modern society. This does not imply they wish to spend even more money in support of the broken ecosystem every year/six months/etc.
I think `jq` is more powerful, but for those afflicted with xml instead of json, there is `xmllint`. In a pinch, one can use it to hack something together (along with xpath and xslt).
It'd sell just like butter coffee sells.
The flaw is that people are nervous their basis for wealth is tied to a democratized system. There's never been anything like it in history.

Maybe it will prove to be a strength. But the BTC/BCH war makes it less than clear. If your net worth can evaporate overnight, people are inherently less trusting of the system.

It's a nice tulip farm though. I think it will top out in the 5 digit range.
What class did he take and what license did he get? I couldn’t figure it out from your comment.

Does being a contractor in SF require passing a class / license?
If this is any indication, traditional venture capital seems to be doing pretty well:

https://www.crunchbase.com/lists/recent-funding-rounds/f535c...

And those are mostly just rounds raised today.
I think WSJ misinterpreted this. Sounds like a bit of an ownership shift, but Sinnet will still pay AWS to operate the regions.
OK, I'll bite, who calls it "abuse"? Because without an example, it looks to me like you're presenting a straw man to trivialize legitimate complaints.
The parent post said they used static linking to remove much of the process spawning overhead.
There's a middle ground here guys.

If you're talking about 2-4 million seed rounds, sure, back a great team. But when you're talking about nine-figure equity raises, you probably need a tenable financial model.

Another thing: software is high-margin. A lot of dumb VC is getting thrown into low-margin reinvention of relatively old business models (food delivery, hotels, livery), evaluated through software-like metrics. Maybe finances matter in low-margin scale businesses. It's just not as important in businesses based on pure software/design/IP-driven innovation.
It seems like an easy way to generate some publicity for an Attorney General to sue Google. I watched with interest when the Mississippi AG did this (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/mississippi-ag-j...).

It always seems to go back to some sort of privacy and/or surfacing web data that someone else doesn't want surfaced. I don't know if there is an easy answer here.
30 euros? Try 350 in California.