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Can’t get used to those iPhoneX screens. Still look awful to me.

Congrats on the work though. A major item for becoming a successful anything is having a large community. Broadening access to the technology helps a lot to achieve it.

US AppStore only it seems. Or at least not in NL.
Are you supposed to boil it?
Considering Portland is about 80 miles inland, earthquake is the major risk... But that's no different than the other major cities on the Pacific Rim.
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There are no-bullshit alternatives out there now.
This is why there are marketplaces where you have to compete against other insurers. And companies in particular will evaluate their group plans critically.
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> You really need a healthy testing pyramid.

I don't think you do. I think a testing pyramid is a sign of an unhealthy approach and an unhealthy codebase.

I think what you need is a testhenge. For those who aren't familiar with henges, here's a typical (although poorly maintained) one:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/remote/www.english-herita...

Rather than being massive at the bottom and then getting thinner as it goes up, there is a continuous band around the top, covering everything, supported by uprights that dive deeper down, just where needed.

That is, you need a layer of high-level tests for everything (for a web application, some mix of browser tests or controller-level integration tests), along with component-level integration tests and isolated unit tests for the bits of the system that are particularly risky (complex, error-prone, critical, new, old, etc).
You don't understand the problem.
Or "Rocky Chode"
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you should add pybullet as well.
I believe the classic joke goes,

"Now Bruce Schneier needs to change the code on his luggage"
22 here. I agree with everything except the ads part.

Me and my friends are so used to identifying and quickly ignoring ads from a young age, that they have become largely uneffective on us.

Comparatively my not-so-techie friends and family, that haven't grown up so used to ads, tend to be more influenced by them and purchase more stuff (my dad clicks facebook ads more regularly than me and my friends).
Purely anecdotal but I've never had a problem getting a GP (Doctor) appointment for the next day (and get same day if they're not busy). Not sure what would be urgent enough to warrant same day but not ER?

That said I am fairly healthy and can probably count the number of doctor visits in the last 10 years on one hand so I may have just been lucky in my limited experiences.
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Interesting, because a paper was released early last year that reduced the RDI for vitamin D by about 1/2

"After re-measurement of vitamin D by improved technology, the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamin D intake drops from 800 to 400 International Units (IU) per day, new research reports."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170403083103.h...
Yea... the moment the author used iGen they lost all credibility.
Doesn't work on ios
Go throws an exception with 1.0/0.0. Unless you specify the type as float64.

Ok overall I'm wrong.

But either way poor design from a usability standpoint and from a consistency standpoint because ints don't do this.
Why don't make this permanent and for everyone? At least add indie developers to the list.
Smart. INTC is at a 15+ year high in a huge bull market. Just makes sense to shave some off.
That is Martha Stewart's catch phrase.
I really feel like the #1 problem for all crypto stuff is that it is completely unapproachable without having to learn a massive amount of new terms/vocabulary.

Look at this description: "The Power of Ethereum in the Palm of Your Hand
Cipher Browser is the world's first full-featured mobile dapp browser and wallet for the Ethereum blockchain. Cipher allows you to interact with dapps powered by Ethereum on your mobile device and makes it easy for you to securely store, send and receive Ether and ERC20 tokens."

I have absolutely no idea what this is saying. Whoever can crack the nut of user experience for the layman (hell, even just technical folks who haven't spent the time to study all of these technologies/terms enough to know what the fuck they're talking about) is going to be very rich. Until then, this is just nerds catering to nerds.
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How about a change in diet only when reaching mature size (the rock eating suggested in the article)? Doesn't seem too farfetched, and I think it would allow for growth when still developing.
One could call this "eugenics" in the same way you could when women disqualify short men as romantic partners for concerns about having short children.
Funny story, while working for a large company in 2012, that may or may not have written this article. I followed these exact steps on the advice (via podcast) of Merlin Mann who talked about how a sane person gets a raise and keeps their dignity and job.

I didn't get the raise.

Two months later I took a better paying job at a different company. Upon putting in my two weeks notice, the management came to me and asked "Why didn't you bring a competing offer, we would have given you a raise if you did?" and then offered to give me a raise in order to stay on. They also said it was common in the industry.

I was happy to leave after this. I wouldn't change anything I did, leaving was the best thing I've ever done for my career.

If you feel like you are providing more value than your employer is paying you for and they won't give you a raise. Then apply at other companies and ask for the rate you want. If you are worth what you think you're worth you will get a job offer close to that rate, otherwise you won't and you'll learn the value that the market places on your skills.
Thanks! It should be available on every store except China (Apple didn't allow). Search for "Cipher Ethereum".
Pure evil? Really? I think you are being a little hyperbolic.

I have an Echo and it is helping Amazon get better at selling me stuff. When I try to list the probable or even possible harms from this, I can't come up with a lot.

Compare that to something like driving my car. 100 people every day are killed in their car. Even so, I still drive because the expected utility of getting to point B is much greater than the expected harm from doing so.
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I work for one of the big three, though just a technical staff, so I am no where close to knowing the full details of how licenses are signed, but enough to understand at the high level.

I see your points and I think they are very real. Streaming is one of the biggest sources of revenue today for the major players. Territories in music industry is what's squeezing business like Spotify. You can have a deal such that Warner has exclusive right in North America for all licenses, and can then sell to Spotify. Then perhaps another deal is reserved to a Sony-owned label in Eastern Europe. So if Sony doesn't want to sign the deal with Spotify, sure, Greek users may never get to play that song on Spotify.

I remember jumping from Apple Music and YouTube to Spotify because Spotify offers by paying monthly subscription, I have instant access to many music catalogs. Unlike Apple Music, I had to pay $0.99 or whatever per album/song. I am not sure if that has changed since, but it was the #1 reason I left Apple Music.

Since the Big Three has made so much more from streaming deals, they are going to choke Spotify's throat, but also have to deal with Spotify. After all, there is a solid and a strong growth of active users on the Spotify platform.

Big Three will flex muscles, but they won't just let the deal fail. Both sides need the revenue desperately. Netflix is in the same position but it has been producing its original contents so Netflix is less dependent on outsider producers. I think Spotify will do the same: create its own label and production companies, sign artists and make deals with the Big Three at various levels. Perhaps even buy a show ticketing company. Maybe begin to create a broadcast and video platform.

Warner Music Group's owner (Access Industries) is an investor of Spoifty (Access Technology Venture is owned by Access Industries which owns WMG). There's a humor whenever I look at music industry: we play the game of music chair, because your ex-worker might just show up to your conference call the next day representing another music company. Since artist X may have separate deals with separate labels (which in turns separate music recording companies), or because WMG needs Sony's help in India or whatever, in conclusion everyone has a stake in Spotify at the end of the day, even if you are not a direct investor of Spotify.

Unfortunately, every dollar collected is split up 50 times just because it takes many parties to publish a music and then collect the money. Everyone wants a piece, and everyone will have a piece. The pie might be small, but just enough to feed.
Most Christian denominations teach, to one degree or another, "love the sinner but hate the sin." So while they may think of homosexuality as a sin, they don't hate people who are homosexual. All people are sinners, after all.
Yeah, floats and ints are just fundamentally different, especially when you're at the level of caring about how hardware deals with things.

TIL about Go:

Numeric constants represent exact values of arbitrary precision and do not overflow. Consequently, there are no constants denoting the IEEE-754 negative zero, infinity, and not-a-number values.

https://golang.org/ref/spec
I suspect a lot of this has little to do with government vs. private sector and a lot to do with the APWU [1]. There are unions in the private sector too.

I'm personally just fine with paying the postal workers a living wage, even if it means the lines are a bit longer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Postal_Workers_Union
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Officehours started as a goodwill sort of project. Anyone could offer/request sessions—with the caveat being that those sessions were free, and limited to 10 minutes.

Since then, we’ve received requests for longer sessions (we added an option to extend them), and the ability to sell one’s time through the service.

We added the latter item, last night. It allows anyone to create a profile, set a rate, and get paid through the platform. (The free option still exists for those who just want to lend a hand.)
There also is a Radiolab episode

http://www.radiolab.org/story/nukes/
Yes, because its overall societal effect and role is more important that how some specific people use it if it's unrepresentative.
This is really nice, it’s a bit annoying having to enter the entire recovery phrase during setup, could you just pick a few random words instead to enter?

My biggest concern with these types of apps is the security of the wallet, given everyone is rolling their own build, so personally I probably won’t put any real funds in here for some time.
Eventually those companies will have to start lobbying for those alternative public investments - the emotional argument is far more effective when <emotionally-charged need> is on the same ballot.
I've always seen those companies as the commercial wing of the NSA/CIA. I view them as one and the same.
Yeah some sort of revenue metric like 50k would be nice.

But they have the fee probably as a slight deterrent to just anyone uploading anything or abusing many accounts/company setups as there is a cost.
I'm reading this as a side-effect of just how absolutely hated broadband companies like Comcast and Verizon are. They've spent decades ignoring consumers, doing exactly what they don't want, providing shoddy service, providing shoddy support, doing absolutely fuck all other than continuously raking in money.

Now they want us to help them by stomping out government competition? Fat chance. They'll just have to do what they did with net neutrality: spend years and years planting people in agencies and political positions to push their self-interests. I hope they do and I hope it backfires.

I doubt they can blow a million on lobbying in every city that starts talking about municipal broadband, so I'm guessing if this trend continues they're going to switch focus to attempting to outlaw it entirely. Certainly possible, but it seems like a harder target than dismantling net neutrality.
From a couple of months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15762485

There is a lot of information on Reddit about what is new, but it lacks the same quality filters that HN has so I have not really enjoyed it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/ is a place to start
Random NYC shot from the 50s: http://i.imgur.com/SoG7Yqh.jpg
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I think this is the most rational analysis on this thread.
> New York City’s subway, meanwhile, is falling apart. If you are a regular rider, you know this firsthand. But even if you aren’t, it has probably become difficult to ignore all the stories about the system’s failure: the F train that was trapped between stations for close to an hour without power or air conditioning, the Q train that derailed in Brooklyn, the track fire on the A line in Harlem that sent nine passengers to the hospital.

I am a regular rider, and there are very few facts and a lot of anecdotes thrown out here. I do not think the subway is falling apart -- there are always problems, but in general, I see incremental improvement; we see more newer cars as the old ones phase out, and we're getting train arrival information throughout the system. Crowding is a problem as demographics shift, but trains run frequently during rush hours. From what I hear, the L is the worst for overcrowding, but most of the other lines handle the capacity fine.

The problems that we continually have with broken switches and rerouted trains and shutdowns, etc., don't seem to have gotten worse, but are just a perennial problem. I can totally see why it has been hard to fund it, because despite articles like this trying to stir up things, things really don't seem to be getting worse. That's not to say things are great -- you only have to ride another subway pretty much anywhere to see what you're missing out on. But the NYT's attempt to paint the subway as being on the precipice of a disaster rings false and only serves to hurt the cause of improving the subway by creating an air of alarmism.
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> Cars these days are way too fast

Compared to the Ford Model T, maybe.
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We never did anything to the water wells at places we lived in for 10+ years. Were we just lucky?
This sounds like a generational thing. I suspect there are up-and-comers who are hungry to be better programmers, and are interested in the abundant better tools. So maybe the problem to solve isn't so much getting people to switch tools as aiding education and discovery for people who don't yet know what tools to use.

Edit to add: I know a couple folks with backgrounds in statistics. One of them taught a data visualization class using R during his postdoc and is now teaching data science in Python for a code school. The other works for a big established company that does lots of data analysis, and still uses one of the old-school tools you listed, but is always very interested when we chat about the newer tools that are out there. So I think it's a mistake to think most folks are stuck in their ways.
Systems which both need lots of maxed-out CPUs and traffic directly from wild internet are pretty rare.

That's a good description of basically every cloud environment out there, from AWS on down.

In other words they are extremely common.
What do you mean "if the state ever figures its shit out"?
Yes, sorry, above. And I should've linked a source:
https://lifehacker.com/the-perfect-salary-for-happiness-by-s...

Obviously this is referring to people in general and not you personally.
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Having tried to migrate from godep to dep a couple of times now I always gave up seeing how many additional unneeded files dep will pull into my /vendor folder.

Just a few days ago using dep instead of godep on a medium-sized web application gave me a delta of 1,920,834 additions and 1,942 deletions (_after_ manually pruning _test files), mostly caused by depending on aws-sdk-go.

Do you have any strategy for keeping your vendor small with dep or do you just accept it the way it is?

There seems to be this: https://github.com/golang/dep/issues/858 , but it looks like it's not implemented yet and the status is highly unclear.
There's a difference between being skeptical about all things and being a "climate change denier" which is just a label to batter opponents with.

Science, first and foremost, must remain objective. All too many times in the past humanity has learned that everything we believe ended up being wrong. In fact, that is a law of humanity--what we perceive is wrong, what we measure is flawed, how we measure and deduce is subject to change.

Thinking evolves via a marketplace of ideas and experimentation, not because one group or another tells us all this is how it is.

Copernicus was not believed about Heliocentrism. Galileo was put on trial for his beliefs about the same issue.
FWIW selling 100 albums/month, if you’re touring, was far far incredibly far more feasible than getting 180,000 streams is now.

Also it seems a bit unclear whether Spotify’s payouts are as egalitarian as they claim. It may be the case that a bunch of cash went towards getting existing catalogues signed up.

I’m all for Spotify btw, I just think it may not be as idealized as we like, and has some structural problems that make it infeasible for certain types of artists to make any sort of living.
> Selling all $10,000,000 of shares kinda reveals that fig leaf for what it is: giving himself the shares was never about aligning his incentives with shareholders - he just wanted the cash.

And the low tax burden. The capital gains tax rate on those shares are 20% while if it was income, it would be taxed at 39.6% fed + whatever the state/city taxes are.

> If shareholders' interests were represented competently and in good faith, you'd expect a very different incentive structure.

The execs interests align with short term shareholders. Not the long term shareholders. It essentially fosters a pump-and-dump environment.
Should we call this generation the "Solarians"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaria
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I've had well water with a lot of sulfur in it a few times. Not sure if I'd say I like it but it's an interesting experience.
If you bypass the page cache you do not have read()/write() and mmap you avoid the syscall overhead. This matters a lot for high IOPs devices. Also these new fangled devices claim support word cache line sync using normal cpu flush instructions. Also avoiding fsync syscall.
Because they're a way to compensate highly skilled government workers for the fact that their salaries aren't competitive.
What coastal cities are 2100 miles away? Maybe for few that are retired, but 210 isn't the best for trips that far, and that's assuming the chargers are exactly at where you need them to be
My parents home has a well into the kirkwood-cohansey aquifer, with no filters at all, and it is some of the best tasting water I've ever had. Literally the only thing in my life that has beaten it was glacial runoff in the Wapta ice fields
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30% is a worst case for a workload optimized to hit the performance bug as hard as possible.

How big it will be for your workload is a function of what your workload is. Benchmark if it is important to you.
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Remarkable that no throwaway HN accounts considered that a challenge.
fluoride isn't a mind control drug. They are too hard and don't work. From memory Cyclizine which is a motion sickness drug was originally a "truth serum", so you know, scandal and all that.

Social conditioning works far better, with facebook and twitter its fairly easy to do at scale (see bubble bias)

Tap water (in the uk at least) must be filtered and sterilized, which should remove microplastics.

However, some places just take river water, a rough filter and a massive UV light. (I've been to many a camp site that has this, heavy rains make the water taste different.)
unless you consider plant life some form of animal ;)
Ignorant question (I'm not very familiar with the music business): what do the labels provide to the artists - why do they need to sign with Time Warner/Sony/etc at all, rather than just releasing their music to all distribution channels (Spotify/Apple Music/etc) themselves? I understand for smaller artists the labels can help provide advertising to them, but the larger, well-known stars you mention seem like they should have leverage to negotiate themselves?
There aren't really performance guarantees for CPU and the ones that are there won't help here. When this patch is released big providers will have the same hardware as before and sell it in the same way - but the OS and userspace will just be slower for some use patterns.

There isn't a guarantee that will compensate for that any more than if you updated some piece of your software infrastructure to a new version that just got slower.
Yeah, I know that feeling. I've concluded that I'm simply not a very good employee.

Don't get me wrong, I perform! And they've let me make a lot of changes that fix many of the problems they've had.

But my mind's always on my side jobs and how fast I can grow them into a business that can support us full-time. The inefficiencies at a mature business just bug me so much.
""If every staff member met with their boss simply for a chat and received a raise as a result, there would be a lot of high-paid salaries and complacency among staff," says Steve Pritchard, an HR consultant for Cuuver"

Well to quote Mandy Rice Davies well "he would say that wouldn't he" Just Paroting the HR line is not that helpful for an employee looking fro a raise.
Then there is also the evolutionist's reply to this question: because the ocean has a lot more calcium than iron, (in ppm Ca: 400, Fe: 0.003[1]). So all the evolved mechanisms from shells to (cuddle) bone were in place due to available materials long before any other possibility presented itself.

[1] http://www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/seawater.htm
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