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If you mean Nazi Germany then your example is indeed quite interesting. Hitler did not come to power through mass consensus, or really any consensus. He came to power through political maneuvering. The Nazi's largest victory in anything like an open election was in mid 1932 [1] where they gained 37% of the vote. Failing to form a government, a new election was called in late 1932 [2] where the Nazis were down to 33% support.

In spite of the lack of support, Hitler gained the chancellorship through a series of fortunate (for him) events and backroom dealings. His supporters then escalated things they had already been doing which included disrupting meetings of opposition, preventing their speakers from speaking, engage in often violent conflict with supporters of other groups, and so on. This culminated then with the formal banning of speech that spoke negatively of their politics. The net effect of this was that in 1933 [3] the Nazis managed to get 44% of the vote.

After that, the ban on free speech and politics was escalated with him ultimately banning all political parties except the Nazi party. Had Germany had strong and real protections of free speech, it's very likely that the Nazis would never have been able to come to power. And they certainly would not have been able to hold onto it. And this is a recurring theme in nations that end up going down the path tyranny and oppression. The first thing to go is free speech, often started on the ground level by political supporters who work to stop people they disagree with from being able to speak.

It's easy to condemn things in hindsight and claim people should have seen what was coming. But that's disingenuous. People generally want to do the right thing, though we all disagree on what right is. Germany and the German people were struggling and felt they were being exploited by capitalism and certain unfairly privileged groups within society. Hitler used this to gain a minority support of people by with rousing talks against capitalism and against the privileged few. Few were thinking about the implications of such rhetoric -- the dangers of when groups become mobs.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_July_...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_Novem...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March...
Perhaps I'm missing something, but how could patient-reported outcomes possibly be objective? Patients are notoriously bad at assessing their own conditions and establishing causality for changes. We know that patients tend to give positive survey results if the physician was "nice" and if he wrote a prescription, regardless of actual quality of care.
This struck a thought: how does the vending machine industry get around this requirement? I.e. sure they have the mandated labels on them, but as a consumer I can’t see them until after I purchase. Off to researching I go!
I had a few simple reasons:

1) PoE wired backhaul.

2) Way more management and configuration control.

3) Separability of routing, switching, and wireless.

4) Simple L2TP VPN endpoint support.

I'm very happy with my choice, and I just installed AP's only at my folks' place over Thanksgiving. Simple remote management may be Overkill, but I'm willing to wager that the lifecycle in this gear will be much better than the once-every-18-months dance that they've been doing with extenders, routers, etc.
Haha don't reach for Orwellian buzzwords so quickly =P. A lot of successful Chinese tech companies don't succeed just because competitors were banned. Even when Google was in China, Baidu catered specifically to local needs whereas Google just paratrooper dropped their product in. Baidu was more successful. As for Wechat, given how Facebook messenger has been shamelessly copying Wechat features for years, I highly doubt Wechat was at danger of losing marketshare to Facebook.
I wasn't really making an argument, just alluding to the fact that western governments/media have a history of undermining/overthrowing democratic left wing leaders in the region, so mocking the idea as you did was disingenuous.

That said, I think it's possible the revolution has deteriorated since the death of Chavez and that corruption is indeed rife. I'm just wary given the history of propaganda.

I also think its possible that the administration still has popular support in spite of its real problems, given the violent right-wing nature of the opposition and the apparent lack of credible evidence suggesting otherwise.
Similar to Cryptopunks 6 months ago, although they hit only 250,000 USD in sales.

Total Value of Punks Sold
518.47 ETH ($241,413.99 USD)
Average Sale Price
0.46 ETH ($213.83 USD)
Estimated Market Cap
2,899.15 ETH ($1,349,933.50 USD)

https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks
No, I'm sorry, the way I wrote that was misleading. When I was at the bigco, I was quite happy with the quality of engineers around me. I joined a tiny startup after that and was the lead eng on a Python codebase, and that's where all the headaches of a dynamic codebase with untalented engineers came into play.
Given the volatility of the market, this isn't as wild a theory as it sounds, especially when you account for not only the app's direct impact but also the following chain reaction of news stories.
This is just a terrible idea.
The flipside of this is the wisdom - "I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things".

This is of course ignoring the reality of being forced to purchase cheap because of money pressure, but the saying does hold reasonably true when you can afford it.

>Some others know higher prices doesn't necessarily mean higher quality.

But this is true too of course...
Your list should include Standard Chartered and Barclays. Standard Chartered probably has the largest commercial Haskell codebase in the world, it has over 30 full-time Haskell developers and many more users.
No I don’t think there are reasons to never do it. There are simply so many situations that come up that I cannot comprehend why never doing it is the right choice.
Please note though, I’m not saying that the reason you’d not do it is laziness. Hell no. If anything that approach is more work.
Government backed crypto? No thanks...that defeats the entire purpose.
AWS on blockchain reluctance
Nice theory, but in reality there's no way to do accurate risk adjustment. We just don't have enough data and so many physicians would end up unfairly penalized due to factors outside their control. Perhaps in 100 years we'll be in a better position to do something like that.
Would it ever be possible to program an fpga to run your HTTP server? So you'd have hardware that was specially designed for your program. Deploying code would just be about reprogramming the FPGA.
I also used to have more gear, but hav really scaled back and consolidated. I now have one fairly beefy server (storage array, decent zeon, lots of ram), run a few vms (dev, plex, etc), and export storage. Then I have a pair of NUCs doing various things.
>Ocaml's features don't flow well together

May you provide an example of features which don't flow well together?
TIL:

* people loves to draw penises (don't know any good way of preventing this, except require accounts)

* never be lazy with xss
The FDA does have a fast track process, but it's more of a "we'll review your submission in two months instead of a year" kind of deal. You still have to do all the clinical trials, although in a few cases (e.g., the ebola vaccine during the recent epidemic), it is possible to overlap the trials a bit.

According to the people who actually work on these drugs, the FDA is neither excessively or insufficiently bureaucratic. It's worth remembering that only about 10% of the drugs that start the process actually finish it, and half of the submissions turn out to fail at the final, expensive step because they don't work.
I've been wondering if there could be a crypto currency based on time. For example, perhaps each person in the system could automatically given one new coin every day. Assuming there there was some way to validate new users coming into the system as real people.
All filesystems inherently trust the data that is in RAM. There's nothing any piece of software can reasonably do about memory it can't trust. It's therefore a good idea to run ECC RAM, regardless of which filesystem you run. You can be running your filesystem on Ext4 or the legacy BSD Unix File System, and it would still be a good idea to use ECC.

That ZFS needs ECC moreso than other filesystems is an often repeated misconception. It's just that ZFS (and e.g. Btrfs) is often run on file servers, on which ECC is recommended.
Just a few
- world class manufacturing techniques
- world class drone technology
- world class civil engineering (high speed rail, bridges)
- world class super computers
I tried emailing like a CEO and it made my life better
Yes, China can ship to 5 Billion people, but what do you think countries will do when China starts dumping products on their shores? levy duties or create awareness in the masses.

I am from India and trust me, even a small shop keepers (I don't mean to be offensive) refuses to carry Chinese goods because "Why support a country who screws up at the global stage".

It is a surging wave which might hurt China.

p.s. the 'screw up' is about designating a Pakistani terrorist as a global terrorist in the UN and China has been vetoing against it.
This is ridiculous and completely unrealistic. Most conditions are never really cured and diagnoses are seldom "proven correct". We only have varying levels of improvement and confidence. Patients generally lack the skills to confirm anything themselves, especially because most of them don't understand causality. Did my condition improve because of my physician's treatment, or in spite of it?
China's Billionaires Boys Club #trilliondollarroundtable
These seem pretty standard for 2 years experience?
Baidu won out because of porn, technically illegal in china. It used to be that almost every image search in baidu, no matter how innocent, would lead to a bunch of naked pictures. Google of course, not being a chinese company, would never have gotten away with that. Baidu is otherwise a horrible search engine for anything productivity related.

That wechat would have won over Facebook is completely hypothetical given that they weren’t allowed to compete. Facebook, WhatsApp, and YouTube are dominating in china’s backyard, including newly opened internet markets like Cambodia and Myanmar.
In the US the homeownership rate is around 63%. This is the ratio of owner occupied units divided by total occupied units so would not count those where the owner sublets to others but may give a ballpark.
Hillary Clinton had Donald Trump beat by millions in the popular vote. I suspected it was more or less the same conservative base, with Democratic voters less enthusiastic in rural/suburban America.
spoken like yoda, you have...
Are there any demos for this still available?
The Yemeni court system?
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OP means, in the least provocative reading, Cook was making a profit, notwithstanding whether profiteering were morally flawed or not.
When a scarce resource is free in terms of dollars, other factors come into play that act as costs. Common methods are rationing, waiting times, social status, favors, donations, etc. Something has to happen to match up supply with demand.
That doesn't work for a single hospital in isolation since hospitals mostly only treat patients that present with serious problems. If you're going to use a capitation payment model then it has to cover a complete integrated delivery network including acute care, ambulatory care, laboratories, imaging, physical therapy, etc.
I believe the parent poster is looking for examples of software applications, not companies.
Commodities maybe, but most of the new liquidity is being soaked up in the real estate bubble.
>Because we don't know its a problem. We have ideas that may or may not be sound. But we push them on the world with a fervor far beyond that which is justified by the facts, going so far as to criminalize non-abusive spanking in some places.

We should operate on our best understanding, no? You're right we don't know it, as we don't know anything. I suppose we should not act like we know it, as you say, and should not punish people too severely for such things. Thats not to say we shouldn't use our best judgement, which is that such parenting styles are perhaps "savage" (i hesitate to use that word in particular, but maybe you get the meaning). If verbal conflict is enough to be incredibly stressful, can you imagine physical conflict? Verbal conflict already gives me immense anxiety.

>These just aren't the types of judgments that a make sound basis for widespread forcible change of parenting styles.

Why not? And then what types of judgements would? THis sounds like a comment just intended to resist change, and the kinds of judgements I imagine you supporting are ones that dont cause change.
I'm pretty sure this goes against European (or at least Dutch) privacy laws because it's not just company domains being searched. There isn't any privacy-overriding reason to keep a database with this kind of identifying information. Since these laws are currently barely enforced, nothing will happen of course.

More info in Dutch: https://blog.iusmentis.com/2017/11/08/internationale-domeinb...
Not really. If you look at Baidu, the company formed because Google left/was kicked out. China is a tightly controlled market because of the banning culture. That's why, they had to build everything from scratch, their own OSes, routers, phones, car, electric cars, AI etc.

Also they are opaque because no copyright law exists and it is too big of a market that other countries will do something offensive against it.

wecash is used as an acceptable form of currency by everyone, including Starbucks in China. That's WeChat's currency launched way back. Tencent can't repeat WeChat's success elsewhere because we have an open market and they do not.
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I was under the impression that they were going to decommission the EdgeRouter line as more and more features get added to their UniFi line.

(I have both and my EdgeRouter X feels definitely in “maintenance mode”).
None of those are inventions, innovations at best, refinements in the average case.
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Really? Anywhere else in the world they'd be classified as "insane".
I think as a broad generalization over European populations, it's fairly accurate. Few people whose job does not require English proficiency are going to come anywhere close to fluency.

Of course the subset of the population that is likely to end up on "European Hacker News" would mostly consist of at least part-time English speakers. But then what is going to keep non-European English speakers out of that forum?

I don't think HN would look any different if it were hosted in Europe. Any website with mostly English content is going to be dominated by visitors from the US.
I just read through that. Nice debugging.

Binary planting, incidentally, was one of those persistent bugs in all Windows versions, since the local directory in Windows generally is in the beginning of the path. That variant is called DLL planting or a DLL loading vulnerability.

That single design decision to execute from the local folder has caused untold havoc, including half a dozen APIs for how to handle DLL loading.
I have an okay homelab, and while I'm still looking into a custom router box, I did replace my router's built in wireless access point with a standalone dedicated Ubiquiti AP. Part of this was that my router only had wireless N, and like you say, it does do port forwarding and max out my connection fine. Also I do plan to add a second AP in the coming week, and Ubiquiti can handle them both easily enough.
While I agree that kind of ease of access to an Rx that would have otherwise required a doctor’s office visit sounds great, antibiotics is probably a bad example. Over-prescription of antibiotics is a known problem. Was your friend seen by a PA or nurse or something? Maybe that model makes sense but I hesitate to give pharmacists the added power of diagnosis.
This was on the front page on Saturday, discussion from then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15830788
I live in the UK, to me these numbers are insane. How are these salaries at that work experience possible? Is the pay increase from then on slow? Are these salaries sustainable for the industry long term? I know experienced professionals who would be considered successful in the UK who finish their careers nowhere near this level of salary (not programmers but certainly engineers). I’m astounded.
I don't doubt that, but either browser is so secure that if you are afraid of being hacked through that, you're basically afraid of nation states. (Assuming you keep your browser up to date.) If they're interested in you, you'll have to take whole other security measures anyway. At that point I don't think using Chrome, Firefox or Edge makes a difference.
Jesus christ, $50k as a sign on bonus.

I haven't seen anything like that in Aus for that sort of experience.
Literally the word I just used in my comment above.
Or...the publically signaled demand for those relatively high paying jobs would encourage more people to seek training for those opportunities.
What % of developers can get these kinds of offers? Do you need Ivy League? Insane algorithm / whiteboard testing prowess? A hot company in those 2 years of experience?
This is what I wonder also. It's like here in Australia, where blue-collar truck drivers can get paid $200k/year. It doesn't seem sustainable... because it isn't.

Edit: This has resulted in what people are calling a "two-speed" economy - http://archive.treasury.gov.au/documents/1421/HTML/docshell....
I haven't tried it out personally, but amazon rents out FPGA capabale instances.
I guess I need to move to Silicon Valley. These numbers are insane for two years and an undergrad degree. I have 32 years experience and I don't get these kinds of offers. This is either complete BS or the guy is a savant. Something smells fishy here.
>Thankfully I had FB and Google referrals else I doubt I would have gotten a reply at all.
Consider that it might be the reverse. Why are we paid so low? How come companies extract so much profit from UK developers? Can businesses get away with being much less efficient with dev resources around the world vs. USA?
I think that holds true for Politicians also especially since there is no standard framework to see whether what they have done/built had worked.
Exactly. Even the lowest offer is more than twice my pay, after 10+ years of experience in Sweden.
SF must have some insane margins to afford this.
If you check research related to this and the DEFCON talk where somebody actually put thermite into the drive, there won't be a puddle of molten metal.

You can put thermite on it once you burned the parts if you want.
> HDDs are pretty much magical. It's insane how delicate, yet robust it all is.

Absolutely. It's bloody amazing how my laptop has a device with finger-sized actuators that read/write bit cells that are about as small as couple-year-old semiconductor feature sizes -- and that can survive mistreatment that one doesn't usually associate with micromanipulators.
Where are you located, and how did you find out about these pages? Do you know who handles the burden of shipping to you? Do you know what the difference in price is b/w buying locally and buying from the US/ wherever you are?

Would love to join some of these groups. There are a few Whatsapp groups that do these imports as well, but those middlemen slap on a significant fee leaving the creators with not much more than what they would get selling locally. Some of the original creators don't know that their sarees are being sold in the US for much higher.

I've been curious about how a transparent platform would work where the platform handles the burden of shipping and international trade legalities for the creator (which can be a huge headache when selling abroad).
I loved my AlphaSmart 2000! It was a really great piece of hardware, and a real pleasure to use. I remember the feel of the keyboard very fondly...

Thanks for making such an excellent product! And I agree- there would certainly be a place for a modern version, at least in terms of functionality. No idea if there would be enough of a market, though...
Again, it's not like they don't work, but the point is that it's hard to shrink and make cheaper while retaining good performance.
It's been years since I was involved in the hat economy (TF2, way back when keys were 2.33 ref, to be specific), but the two hypotheses aren't exclusive. Valve gamers are willing to spend money on hats, but someone using the economy to launder money is willing to take a percentage loss, so it was cheaper to buy keys (the default currency) with Paypal from people who had bought them Valve using stolen CCs than from Valve directly. If I remember correctly, the official price was $2.50 per key, but they could be bought on forums or subreddits for around $2/each.

Again, it's been a while and not a topic I actively tried to remember, so please don't take this as necessarily authoritative.
A good way to enforce this is to always estimate things in steps of 2^x. Eg you are not allowed to estimate something as taking 20 days, it's either 16 days or 32 days. That way it's obvious that the larger the estimate becomes the more inaccurate it is and you are forced to automatically double to 32 if your "inner" estimate is 17 days.

Scrum has a similar technique only allowing Fibonacci numbers, I think the reasoning behind it is similar.

Obviously the receiver of the estimate should know that you are using this method, otherwise they might start questioning you thinking this estimate should only be 17 for example.
Sounds high to me, but not BS-high. Just a bit surprising to see 160 base. <130 would be more commensurate with 2yrs exp.
The equivalent in the UK that I can think of are Pimlico plumbers in London, over £100K. But it’s a very small subset of an otherwise normal industry pay wise
I knew a 19 year old girl who was driving trucks in a mine in Western Australia. She was on $180K/year. She gave it up after a year though apparently, and I don't know where she is these days so cannot ask her why she left a job that was paying that much only a couple of years out of high school.
An online flea market that pays people instantly for their used goods
https://imgur.com/a/VpCJT

Is this for real? This is Ministry of Truth levels of double-speak.
I think there are two core parts of the issue here:

- he claims to be from a "unicorn startup" -- this matters a lot in SV for some reason

- my impression, in SV, years of experience against salary seems to be a skewed bell curve where >= 2 years is near optimal and >= 5 years is too much (for whatever reason)
Getting everyone to come to a consensus on what should or shouldn't be included would be very difficult. Then there's also the issue of backwards compatibility. At the end of the day they're opt in so you can just simply not use them.
From the post

> Previously from a unicorn startup

I think he graduated (says 2 years experience), picked the right company, and that put him on this kind of trajectory. It could be a different story if the last start up he was at was not a "unicorn".
I'm working on surveying existing Ruby & Python profiling tools so that I understand what's been tried already.

If anyone has tools/techniques I've missed, I'd love additions to this list:

https://gist.github.com/jvns/b81eb039f6373bc577d7dbdd978581b...
This is nuts unless it's AI/ML.
That, plus this:

>Previously from a unicorn startup

Still, must have been some referral for those kind of offers.
Sure but these companies develop mission-critical software applications in Haskell. They are not open source for the most part, but in terms of demonstrating that Haskell is practical they are good examples.