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Right, but why is there always such a fuss about gun control laws? Every time politicians propose some restriction, gun advocates talk about how this is dangerous because it will leave us unable to resist tyranny.
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It’s never that simple, but we should examine and learn from what they do, and try it if it seems likely to work.
Having scanned over some of what you link, I would suggest learning a bit about fractal geometry and the possibilities of non-integer dimensions. I suggest this because code and modules probably don't multiply exactly as an area. This will be especially true if you try to go beyond 2D, because the discrepancies between the full R^n space and what software actually does (streak through it in something like a powerlaw distribution) will become worse and worse. (See something like https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/55269/why-do-fra... .)

See also some ideas in https://codeburst.io/software-estimation-in-the-fractal-dime... or https://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-softwar... for more thoughts that head in that direction.
What kind of alternative are you looking for? DV security is already quite good, and it's getting better with new measures like Certificate Transparency.
They already have the villain image. Doesn't matter though, as everyone is forced to use their services anyway.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up! Makes sense.
You have to dig a little deeper. Swiss gun ownership is primarily guns owned by those in mandatory military service. The have guns, but most do not have ammunition with the guns. The majority of Swiss gun owners simply cannot shoot someone with their guns without first obtaining difficult to obtain ammunition.

Looking at the numbers alone is not enough. Just like looking at the US numbers alone doesn't really tell the real story. Guns are definitely part of the problem, but it's the rest of the culture and economic factors that tells the story of why the US numbers are so high.
How can this _possibly_ work? You can't make a connection to Wifi or implement any of the protocols that run over by passively reflecting some signals. All of them require some processing and two way communication. The article just makes no sense at all. It is 1st April?
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So if I'm worth 500k a year to Buffer they will not be able to pay that to me. So stupid.
Just tried to find two "modern" composers:
Vasks and Gulda. You have neither.

Peteris Vasks [0] is "now is one of the most influential and praised European contemporary composers."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%93teris_Vasks
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Would the certificate really help you here though? If we look back at most of the big data breaches over the last few years then we regularly find out long after it's happened. It's generally a news story or a headline somewhere that xyz company was hacked.

I see what you're saying but I can't see where this would happen whilst the user has the browser window open showing EV information. If Twitter leaks your data you'd likely get an email notifying you or watch it on the news and then take action as a result of that.
"Nobody wants to deny creators a living"

I don't know, it might still be better than the current system.
Another possibility is that Warwick's manner might be acting as a filter for patients who are already determined to go the extra mile for their health, and causing any other patients to leave.

Perhaps any doctor would have better stats if they got to have the same pool of patients as those who remained with Warwick, without having other less motivated patients to drag them down.

We can't know if this is the case until we collect the data on patients who left Warwick's care.
Just to emphasize, Portugal didn't legalize any drugs. It decriminalized drug use and possession.
Which mean you are not going to be judged and sent to prison, but you can still get fined, especially if you refuse the treatments they suggest.
Drug trafficking, defined as possession of more than the average dose for 10 days is still a crime.
> a free market and the social contract

you have to pick one!
Everyone I know who uses Firefox is happy with it. None have switched from Firefox to Chrome due to the plugin system changing. I think you vastly overstate the number of people this has adversely affected.
> The most popular Marvel and Star Wars mobile games have used loot boxes since their respective releases 2+ years ago.

Is it possible Disney execs simply did not recognize that an in-game mechanic not commonly called "gambling" was in fact gambling? Is it possible when they do a more thorough analysis, they may be upset by this?
You pay salary in regards to the market the employee is in, not where the company is located. Google/Facebook have a lot of offices in the EU and pay competitive salaries, but they are still a lot lower than in SF obviously.
Ask HN: Rails, Django, or Phoenix?
OK, I'd like to get serious about web development to launch a few side projects that I hope will become my main gig. The three stacks I'm considering tripling down on are Rails, Django, or Phoenix. I have played with all three, but playing isn't creating more complex, production projects.

What I like about each:

- Rails: It's highly productive and I currently know Ruby the most. Plenty of jobs, if needed.

- Django: It's fairly productive and I know Python. Faster than Rails. Can use data science/ML in my web apps. Python's adoption is growing fast. An okay amount of jobs, if needed.

- Phoenix: It's fairly productive and much faster than Django and Rails. Functional programming and the Erlang ecosystem could lead me to write better code. While I know Elixir the least, I like the language and don't mind dropping OOP.

What I don't like about each:

- Rails: So much magic. Slowest of 'em all. Ruby adoption is going down, so I feel I'm investing in a depreciating asset and Ruby is mostly used for web development so I can't reuse the language that much in other areas.

- Django: the most explicit (by design) so I feel like I'm hand holding Django. It's slower to develop than Rails and less flexible. I feel like I'm investing in old technology, right or wrong, that hasn't progressed as quickly as Rails has. In a way it's the opposite of Rails' situation. The language is going places unlike Ruby, but I'm not sure the framework is.

- Phoenix: it's a niche, there are fewer libraries, few jobs if I lose my current one, and there is so much to learn at once to get both Elixir and BEAM/OTP.

Do you have any thoughts on this? What would you do?
WAN-optimized consensus protocols like Mencius and Egalitarian Paxos indeed are better for writes because any node can commit a write in one round trip, but they don't allow for reads with zero round trips. Every read must go through the consensus machinery in order to ensure consistency, whereas in CockroachDB the leaseholder can serve reads without needing to consult other nodes.
A short optional sample of every composers and songs would be nice, just to get an idea of the music. I can't remember music in my head (kind of Aphantasia for music), so it's really hard for me to choose just from the list.
Right, not the same devs. Resque originally was from GitHub folks. Now probably maintained by other people.
"Dedicated"? Can't the devices that is already nearby, like a router or your smartphone, query it when needed?
I'm now thinking early Shostakovitch-ish. Very "inside" for him though. Why do you want to know? You could probably transcribe the passage... but if you like it, you know who else you'd like too now. ?
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Can something activate the perception of the sound in the brain, maybe a high intensity ultrasound or another frequency that with enough intensity would activate the hairs in the inner ear or the nerve signals. For something to cause brain damage through the skin and skull bone it would have to be pretty intense I would imagine...
Well, Amazon directly is allowed. They just don't want to ;)
Reactos is a great project that can help to preserve old Windows software. Also their work can be used by Wine (not a Windows emulator) developers.
You might as well claim C has garbage collection since there are libraries for it. It's a hack. Might as well claim no language benefits from generics since you can always code gen.

For practical issues you have things like compile time, extra tool dependencies and up front setup time to enable a given type.

It makes c++ templates look down right elegant in comparison.
It seems odd that places in very low COL areas, particularly internationally, are getting 3-4x median salary for the same role, while places in rural/suburban US will be at or just slightly above median for that geo area.
Would be useful for stuff like;

- kubernetes
- elastic beanstalk

I'm currently using the "custom" section with a plugin I developed to deploy to environments. In the default build it pushes the build to Elastic Beanstalk and then deploys to test. The custom builds merely promote the build for other environments.
Please cite where financial gain was mentioned in the previous post.
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One more reason that the user-agent has to go.
When was Amazon Prime Video available on non-Amazon Android devices?

Why did Amazon pulled chromecast from the Amazon stores?

Casting is an open API with many device and app manufactures supporting it. Same goes for YouTube. I don't buy the argument that Amazon couldn't make YouTube app work on their devices.

Amazon sells things from other vendors for most of the things that they sell under Amazon brand. They stopping sell of Chromecast was clearly anti-competitive practice. This was a miscalculation on Amazon's part.

Or they both are playing smoke and mirrors game for the regulators to crack down on, enforce competition, claim victory, meanwhile forgetting about the real important stuff that these companies get away with.
Author here: out of curiosity, what would be your priorities for future exercises? Right now my list looks roughly like:

- DDL
- Advanced datatypes (JSON, arrays, etc)
- GIS

This order is partly informed by the current support of the site: adding DDL exercises is a relatively minor bit of technical work, and then it's just writing. Everything else involves schema changes (or, possibly, a second database).
This is ~30% under market.
(I'm not going to take a position on loot boxes here because I spent seven years working on games that had them and I don't want to get into that debate right now.)

And yet, that's the core of the piece, and that core is pretty well articulated and damning.

Edit: I just want to add that on a personal level, I avoid any game with these manipulative elements in them. I love the idea of for example, For Honor, but the mechanics are perfectly tuned to abuse the player. Who has time in their life for that nonsense?

I'll just play another CDPR game.
yikes this is what prompted my question because I figured it had to be an extremely bad deal like this, I just didn't want to believe that was the case !
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This is interesting.
One implication is that if I was in the dating market, I’d be worried my date would google me, find that I work for buffer, and instantly know how much I make. While that information isn’t exactly super important or secretive, I just think I’d rather reveal that kind of info on my own terms.
> Maybe I'm over-interpreting "work", in the physics sense, but won't any proof-of-work scheme have the same problem? To get more coins, miners need to do more work, and that takes more energy.

Only if we assume mining, in it's current BTC implementation, is the only acceptable PoW.

I think there are other PoW alternatives that could be used. And they'll be identified and implemented soon, in the next couple years, as people realize we can swap out SHA hashing for an algorithm that does something productive, and use the output of that algorithm to be the proof of work.

The amount of computing power in ASIC miners running today is quite large, and has grown quickly. If we think of those computing resources running something else, and verifying work across nodes, then this is quite possible.
It's not like they have a choice. That's the magic of the consumer market - people don't buy what they really want, they choose from what's available. Companies are focusing on improving smart TVs instead of offering dumb ones, so if one wants e.g. a good, high-tech display, one usually has to accept the "smart" "features" that come with it.
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Anything goes.
>Which is why we have guns. If you try to take my gun by force, I will shoot you.

So, just to be clear, if the government outlaws your guns, when they come for them, you're going out shooting?
Sounds like they were poisoned
Great article, but previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861136
I agree. Culture plays a role, especially in places like Singapore. Similarly (for good or bad) in the US, especially based on our history and Constitution.
Maybe they should be afraid of this negative analysis. You don't get a pass on bad decisions just because you're making them openly.

From my cursory glance, I have a bunch of problems here:

1) Most egregiously, it looks like they're slashing a bunch of salaries. Not the CEO, of course, but a lot of others seem to be going down. I would be immediately headed for the door in that scenario. Talk about a way to keep only the poor performers who can't get another job.

2) Related to the above, what signal does this send to future hires? "We'll pay you $X based on this fancy formula...until we decide to change the formula and slash your salary by 20%."

3) Large COL adjustments make no sense to me. So I work for a remote company and choose to live somewhere cheaper and they think that the value I'm providing is less? The end result of this is that remote devs get screwed on average, while the best remote devs avoid companies like this, rightfully so.

4) I didn't look very carefully, but they definitely seem to be underpaying in general. An advanced engineering manager (mobile) in a HCOL area gets $145k? I'm a senior mobile developer and I'm pretty confident I could significantly outearn the CEO if I lived in SF or NYC.
Without getting into whether I agree with this or whether there's any data supporting such a statement, I think you could make the argument that the EV indicator might make users feel like there's a legal entity behind a site that they could go after, compared to sites without EV indicators.

I don't think you can make the argument that businesses don't adopt EV because that'd expose them to legal risk. That's just doesn't fit into my understanding of how the law and courts work. I'm not aware of any evidence or precedence that would support this, and the EV guidelines don't mention anything of this nature either.
...And then see those measurements independently reproduced over and over, and does the result offer fundamental insight into the universe we occupy?
This story is weird and getting weirder, but the important context is how eclectic electronic surveillance is common at diplomatic facilities. It’s possible if not probable that the injuries were a side effect of some other weird electronic espionage effort, rather than the direct objective.
grins for that I'll have to say that I'm from the UK and that situating the exercises in the US was probably an error :-)
Thanks jdemler for reporting, you can also add composer requests in the website itself at https://classicalmusiconly.com/request/composers

I will add all pending requests before the weekend
> I was somewhat sympathetic to poor old Yahoo

Isn't it weird how we anthropomorphize companies like that? It's just a name. One that can be bought and worn like a mask by pretenders.
> I'm concerned that given Roy Moore's example, we'll have more people that decide their best course of action is to continually deny everything in the face of strong evidence.

It is disconcerting, OTOH it's a reminder that not everything is about merit. Most of the other famous people brought down recently faced allegations with less evidentiary support, but Moore survives because of politics. Even as much as the rest of the GOP despises him, he represents an important vote on matters (as far as the GOP is concerned) far bigger than his personal integrity and sexual morality. Think of how the bills on healthcare and taxes have come down to 1 or 2 votes in the Senate.

Had even a hint of these allegations came up during the primary, when it was between Moore and the incumbent, Lester Strange (who was backed by Trump and the rest of the GOP establishment), no doubt Moore would have been demolished in the primary.

I'm somewhat surprised that given the GOP's dominance in Alabama that they didn't make a bigger attempt at staging a write-in campaign. After all, one of Trump's biggest Republican opponents, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, won via write-in and her last name is a fuckton harder to remember and spell than "Strange": https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/murkowski-writein-campa...
Silver cars are just the worst...! And the National Silver Car Association too. Damned be the National Silver Car Association!!!
> I'll point out that there is a very obvious use-case for Windows-on-ARM: low-power rackmountable/high-density server hardware for applications like web-servers and IO (not CPU)-bound database servers

...but why is this better than linux-on-arm? Windows server hasn't been generally very successful.
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Am I to believe that the cost of living in Spain are 85% of San Francisco? I am Spanish and it is nowhere near, it'd be more like 20-50% depending on where in Spain.
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For reinforcement learning, I hear Barto and Sutton is very readable, but I haven't read it myself. You can just pick the concepts up by reading papers. The introduction in the Deep Q-Learning paper is not great, but it's how I first learned the concept.

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Applause from Slovenia to Buffers' Croatian developer! I'm sad to see actual reduction with this new 3.0 salary scheme. One would also need to factor in another 10-12% loss this year, which is depreciation of USD vs. EUR (HRK)
Imagine 50 years from now inheriting a vase from your deceased relative that has been an undetected malware portal for decades! How exciting!
That makes lots of sense if you're working onsite in those places. I think the parent was saying that if someone is already working remotely, it seems odd to move to a high CoL area to increase their remote salary vs. staying put and just finding a better-paying remote job.
There can be value in talking about non-quantifiable, vauge, things too. And besides, this is just a random blog on the web. It hurts no-one and exists mostly to provoke thoughts; it's not yet a finished product.
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I completely agree that death rate per million is going to let the US off the hook on mass shootings. But statistics is hard. I'd be significantly more worried about being in a shooting in the US than in Norway :D
Yes thanks.
I just can not get over the fact that antirez doesn't call a replica a replica and instead uses 'slave'.

Redis might be good technology, but this is just massively behind the times.
Put differently, it's like a branching DAG with economic incentives to always treat the longest path as "master."

Quite a lot like a Git repository: you usually want to follow the branch with the most cumulative work on it.
> Andromeda, for the twelve people who bought that game

I was one of those twelve. First Mass Effect game I didn't finish, let alone play over and over again, because I realized I just didn't care about my party members.
Dig up all the paved streets and replace with soil, with train tracks on top. Adapt vehicle wheels to train wheels and provide platforms on train wheels for the ones you don't adapt. Provide overhead lines to power vehicles adapted to use them.

You get 1. drainage, 2. reduction of heated urban micro-climates, 3. elimination of emissions, 4. "driving automation" in the sense that you don't really need to steer something on rails.
> My comment was about their predictions about number of seats each candidate will win. What does that have to do with "predicting the popular vote." .

Why are you using “seats” to refer to Electoral College delegates?
What is service mesh? Seems that I need some more info to understand what is this for...
I'd love to work for Gitlab but it's a shame their salary ranges are insultingly below market. I'm a lead/senior developer right now. I could go to Gitlab with a promotion to manager and even at the top of the advertised range (my locale, manager, and "above average" experience which is generous) I'd be looking at a pay cut in the high teens as far as percentage. Senior developer with everything else the same is upwards of a 40% cut. That's just ridiculous and I have a feeling it's pushing away a lot of otherwise talented technical folks. I'm not even in an expensive locale (still eastern US though), I can't imagine they have anyone working from San Francisco using this formula.

Edit: It seems the COL is pegged to NYC but averaged for the entire state if you're not in one of a few select major metros. Someone who lives in Atlanta will make the exact same as someone living in rural Georgia? Come on.
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