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My father was an alcoholic and went to meetings for over 20 years. Then, one day he felt strong enough to stop going to meetings. A few years later, he was dependant on opioids, which began as a perscription to back pain. I have my doubts he would have gone this direction had he still had the support of being "in the program".

Also, I'd say I've been to well over 100 of these meetings as a youth. I'm really happy I did, as it led me to see how some of the most beautiful people lost everything due to their substance abuse issues, which in turn led me to lead a clean life.
The passive listener case is, IMO, a bit more severe since when several web developers complained after having their websites broken, the chrome devs merely yelled "it's faster!" and there was that.

Chrome shouldn't be going around breaking webstandards without atleast consulting with other browser vendors, if Chrome breaks passive listeners and Firefox and Edge don't then that is an issue, period.
Yes, the limits of prosecutorial discretion are legally murky. What I'm referring to is the legality of enforcing a valid federal law that conflicts with a state law; there is no question whatsoever that the federal law is supreme and may be enforced.

As for grand-standing state AGs, that's not just a red state thing. A few examples come to mind from recent months alone. Look at the Washington State AG, filing all sorts of clearly losing political lawsuits, e.g. suing a motel for sharing guest-list information with the federal government, on the theory that it violates state consumer protection law. Or look at the various state AG's who are hopelessly suing over the net neutrality repeal. These are losing cases, filed as a red meat for their electoral base.
If you are interested in compensation numbers and have thick skin (its anonymous so there is a lot of racism/sexism/bullshitters/negative hostility and more), I recommend getting the mobile app blind as there is a ton of this information there. I will regurgitate some of that information here for you though.

For level comparison at different companies, lots of people point to http://levels.fyi

Here is a compensation poll for amazon employees only based on job title and level with 161 responses: https://goo.gl/V9QKHh

The total compensation rages I have heard for Amazon are 145k for new grads, 170k-230k for SDE 2, 250k-350k for SDE 3, 400k-600k for principal engineers. There are 2 more levels after that but have not really seen any data for those levels.

Here are Facebook's total compensation numbers quoted from "fmwf":

E3: 107K-125 Salary, 40k stocks a year, 10% bonus.

E4: 140k-160k Salary, 70k stocks a year, 10% bonus.

E5: 170k-195k Salary, 120k stocks a year, 15% bonus.

E6: 200k-220k Salary, 200k stocks a year, 20% bonus.

All Facebook numbers assuming expected performance if you kill expectations you get more (25%-200% more shares).
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elisp ist the programming language. Emacs is an environment with text-oriented interface. Pretty much like modern browsers, just more mature. One could even say, Emacs is the spiritual ancestor of the electron-framework.
Yes, but constitutionally, does the federal government have the power to make pot illegal. They certainly didn't in the early 1900s when they first tried, thus their stamp act work around.
I agree.

There is no reason we can't pursue both simultaneously. Nothing in the ACA prevents posting of price lists or incentivizing patients with cash payouts for finding cheaper than average care.

That is what has driven me crazy about politics -- it is more about making noise about the other side than actually doing something that might push things forward. Republicans could have pushed open market reforms the moment ACA was passed. If they did it on a state by state level they could even point to data of success vs pure ACA states to bolster their agenda.
No chance on this being open to remote applicants at all? Because this looks exactly like what I'm after right now.
I highly encourage you to watch this and P2 on synthesis. The concepts haven't changed since then. You will find the same things on all synths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvtBE6t48M

Also, go ahead and try Propellerhead Reason (free to play with, you can save, but can't open saved files). It's the best one on the UX side. However I have to admit I'm using it for 10+ years now.
technically not a startup. but a side project. Rick Rolled retargeting. It's a website you send your "friends" to then they start seeing a sampled Rick Ashley video ads all over the internet.
Mr. Hwang believes the technology will evolve into a kind of A.I. arms race pitting those trying to deceive against those trying to identify the deception.

That's like a chess game. We have seen AlphaGo and other MCTS implementations take the "trying to detect the deception" into account.

By the time the image is generated, it would have already been factored in.
Having claimed to have gone to a tropical disease expert, what lead you to believe a link to info meant for broad consumption is more accurate?

Is there science to undermine the CDC’s positions? Sound possible. What’s the process for updating that site?

The government recommended flossing for years then retracted it recently when it turned out there was no science to back it up. Seems the industry had been peddling the notion and it got on a government document

Not saying this is the case with malaria but there’s history for it

The drug industry doesn’t make money when someone is cured. Again, no evidence for that, just history of “hmm maybe government information isn’t iron clad”
“Legal” is incorrect in the headline, as there is no “legal pot” in the United States (well, aside from very narrow research, etc., allowed by the feds, which is not the focus of this policy.)

The fact that states don't have espionage laws covering everything in the federal espionage act doesn't mean that those states have “legal espionage”.
Great PR but none of the faces look human, with the weird position of the nose, the strange curly thing around the hairs, there is still work to do to trick the most fundamental tool of the brain, recognize a fellow human face.
There is value in being able to package up the issue into something that is understandable and presentable to a larger non-technical audience. If a "cutesy logo" increases interest and engagement from a larger non-technical community, I'll take it.
Prelude does this too (I'm guessing that's what inspired them), and I've gotten very used to it. Since emacs maintains a pretty deep edit history, it hasn't caused me issues. But it probably is worth mentioning.

I wouldn't go back now that I'm used to it.
Against the synchronous society
> concern for parity within the organization.

That sounds a bit silly. If you're doing so well you need to turn down contracts, why not look further out for new talent, attract people with generous relocation/signing bonus, and then give everyone a raise once your marginal revenue is increasing?
In English being "green" can mean being "new," like a sapling or new shoots on a plant, which are often bright green.

I don't know for sure if that's why they chose to make new users green but that's how I view it.
> It's not necessarily about being _content_ with earning that much.

I think this was poor wording on my part, as it implicitly assigns blame on the employee. I've edited my comment to reflect that I'm more curious as to why the market as a whole compensates devs less.
> Sessions will instead let federal prosecutors where pot is legal decide how aggressively to enforce federal marijuana law, the people said.

He's pushing the choice to whether "to defend every law" down to regional federal prosecutors. Prosecutors always decide what laws to enforce by deciding how to allocate their scarce resources. This is an established legal custom called "prosecutorial discretion."
Top comment in that thread is an expression of hesitation over the pricing. Looks like they kept largely the same scheme over their lifetime, except by replacing the next step up from the $99 tier -- $299 for 50 servers -- with a $499 for 75 servers:

http://web.archive.org/web/20151205162125/https://appcanary....

http://web.archive.org/web/20171026173951/https://appcanary....

I like the idea of smartly compiling and packaging vulnerabilities and building a business off of that. But was the pricing competitive to what a company devops employee would typically spend in monitoring this? It looks like they provided monitoring and reports with these plans but not anything else on top of sending the alerts.
I think your other post is getting downvoted because you comments can come across as being in support of the fact that -- the only person who can prosecute someone for a breach of aadhaar is the UIDIA itself. It is entirely possible that you are stating a fact but don't support that position, it is not clear if that is indeed so.
This is excessively cynical, for two reasons; in the Buffer model, the CEO's pay is subject to the formula too, and in a startup where people are getting equity, your financial outcome is tied to the success of the company, and your main risk is the failure of the company, not some faceless person siphoning the dollars off.

Whenever you sell your labor, obviously the buyer of that labor thinks it's worth more than what they're paying for it, otherwise they wouldn't do it. So you're always working for someone else to make money unless you own your own thing.

It's just a question of degree there.
That's still enforcing the law. Not enforcing the law would be witnessing the person driving 50 in a 35 zone and doing nothing.
Yea, I'm using JWT for authentication, but I still find myself doing a db query for the 'authorization' piece (so I don't bother putting any 'role' information in the JWT, since that seemed rather a bad idea to me, anyway).

Still don't have a great solution for revoking tokens before they expire.

At least it's stateless :)
It's still a bar that no AI has passed yet. It's not hard to steer the discussion into directions where the difference between a human and an AI becomes evident. This is likely to be important because a common-sense reasoning ability that the current AIs lack is likely to also be useful in more specialized fields.
Reading this, I had a thought come to mind that Tesla's brand might not be very valuable. I think everyone wants a Tesla because not many people have a Tesla. It's exclusive. But if I start seeing Teslas all over the place, I'm not going to be very interested in one anymore. It loses the mystique. And it used to be that electric cars weren't good looking, but I think that will improve as well. A Tesla will only have an advantage to the extent it has better features, but I if GM, Volvo, etc. do a decent job with self-driving cars, I don't see how Tesla can justify it's current valuation.
I think the government has gone way overboard on sentencing of having a video, as abhorrent as it may be. If you can take the morality out of it.
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This post seems to indicate that there is no kernel-level workaround for variant 1, that contradicts AMD’s statement: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution

LWN seems right on this one, that makes me question AMD’s honesty and knowledge of the issue.
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And the one hour movie of celeb faces generated by the Progressive GAN (ProGAN) is here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lE9tV9vm0

The most amazing AI video I have ever seen, actually. I spent hours staring into it - it works great as background for many pieces of music, you can think of it as the AI version of the burning log video.
Yes this is easy to do with cpu shields. But it means a system call might need to go onto another board... this would work only for the apps that ran mainly in user space and wouldn’t be very impacted anyway...
> If they're solvent based on the state's investments, then the employee is getting a raw deal compared to having just invested the money themselves.

Institutional investors have access to investment opportunities that individual retail investors don't. Many pension funds are big LPs in VC, PE, and hedge funds.
The linked entry states:

The original coordinated disclosure date was planned for January 9 and we have been driving toward that date to release fixes. Due to the early disclosure, we are trying to accelerate the release, but we don't yet have an earlier ETA when the updates will be released. We will release Ubuntu Security Notices when the updates are available.
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Oops meant "one week of vacation"
I may give Ubuntu a go again. Having a dual boot system was nice in the past, but I also found myself needing one thing that justified using Windows more. In high school it was Warcraft 3, in college it was powerpoint, Visual C++, plus others.

Now that I don't game as much and get to choose the software I use, Ubuntu might work out.

I do enjoy Apples approach to system UI, though. Windows and Ubuntu have always "made sense" where as OSX makes sense and feels nice. Something weirdly intangible that I didn't understand until I was an OSX user.
No doubt. I read this article upon waking and honestly, the destruction of lives that will take place if Sessions moves ahead with his bullshit is very upsetting to me.
As an aside, if you believe the Emancipation Proclamation to be legally binding, slavery was legal in the North longer than it was in the South.
Empty land doesn't have a right to suffrage, people do.
Agreed, and undo-tree-visualize is a nice tool for winding through Emacs edit history, with branching!
This brings to mind Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust"[1] -- after all, all I have to do to write code with the exploit is be able to remove the patch and rebuild the compiler and build some executables.

Trusting in a compiler you hope was used to build all the executables on your system isn't trustworthy enough to be the final solution.

[1] https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
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Isn't that a bit like a firefighter saying your house burning down is "glorious"?
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For the benefit of others, I wanted to note that what you're describing is subtractive synthesis where you shape sounds by subtracting (filtering) components from the initial waveform. Additive synthesis is also a technique, where you add many sine waves together (this is difficult/expensive to do in hardware and so doesn't seem to be widely used). There is also Frequency Modulation synthesis where a simple waveform is modulated using another wave at a close frequency. FM synthesizers were popular in the 80s, such as the Yamaha DX7.
Perhaps hunter gatherers are generally content with their existence and see no need to invent, whereas farmers and agricultural societies are frequently unsatisfied and unhappy (because they spend more time working and less in recreation) and are therefore more motivated to try to change their circumstances.
Reducing the resolution coming from system timing sources is not going to stop attacks which have potentially infinite execution timelines.

Limiting JS execution resources, and in particular CPU cycles, will actually stop instead a whole swath of timing and resource-dependent attacks.

Please put your thought and chime into this thread:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1414675

Allowing infinite resources for remote programs is something we don't even do for local programs. Giving a ceiling to the JS runtime is a sound reasoning.

Please comment on the bug tracker!
It doesn't have to be a huge city. I'm in a midsize city not in the Bay area, and I agree with everything you're saying about places like Boulder.

I wrote this to contrast any size city with places like the endless suburbs or rural areas, not to create a hierarchy of "biggest is best".

Problems do also scale with size, so it's not like the massive benefits of cities are tradeoff-free. For as great as San Francisco is purported to be, they have a huge homeless problem that they seem to do relatively little about.
World economics is finite, so bitcoin price is limited, even if we would assume that it'll skyrocket and other currencies would collapse.
I feel the same way. Passing 'laws' (maybe decrees is a better word?) through the Executive Branch and even a memo in this case just sets up horrible precedent, as well as being temporary.

In a perfect world, this would actually ignite the public to the point where the Federal Government is forced to actually remove Marijuana from the banned substance list. Republicans aren't so against it today where they wouldn't be able to get it in through a compromise bill of some sort.
I'd like to add my perspective as a struggling inventor. I can't speak to conditions 50k years ago, but a number of the challenges listed are still pretty relevant, and I've had to justify "why are things taking so long" to my friends and family enough times to pay close attention to this.

The big factors I see are: 'poverty trap', 'crude hacks', and 'full-time craftsman'. These interact. For example, most people need a day job. Even in R&D shops, day jobs are largely concerned with marginal improvements. I spent 12 years working as an R&D physicist, but I had to do my inventions on my own time because they weren't relevant to the incremental improvement products I was paid to develop. It's very hard to spend time working on a home run when your competition is hitting a thousand singles, and that is especially true with regards to possible uses of your time for paying the bills.

The craftsman thing is a big deal. I suck as a craftsman, mainly because I'm usually doing something for the first time. Need to weld it? Guess I'm learning how to weld. Need to polish it? Time to learn again. MATLAB is too slow? Hello C++. Oh, hey, now electronics are surface mount? Time to learn how to solder all over again. So, unless you are inventing something in a field you have specialized in as a craftsperson, everything you build kinda sucks. Then you have to figure out - is the problem with the idea or the implementation? Is there a different implementation which would be easier to build? What techniques do I have to learn to do that?

The workaround for this is to work with specialized craftspeople. Unfortunately, this adds different challenges. Now you have to pay them ('poverty trap') or convince them it's worthwhile (I didn't see 'social proof' on the list, but lets put it under value). Now you have to manage a project, which is a different skill set than inventing something in the first place. Sometimes, it's better going back to being your own craftsman.

In modern times, then you get to go to commercialization, which is the barrier which kills most inventions because the inventor rarely has the skills to do this right, and the people with the skills aren't usually incentivized properly to do it for them.

So, in short, I see the biggest problems for inventors not in the mental realm, but in the social. Inventors generally need help, and it is not until after the invention is a success that people see the value.
>Often, the only way for us to have a working body of law that makes sense is for the government to simply stop enforcing the outdated ones.

Fairly enforcing every law on the books regardless of a person's income or gender and ending plea deals, which would tie up the court systems, would create a disaster. But it is something we need, because the law as is, where everything is illegal and the police target whomever makes them mad is even worse of a disaster. (Yes, police do consistently enforce some laws, like no murder, but there are far too many laws on the books police pick and choose to enforce as it suits their prejudices).

>with a lot of very costly court cases and headaches for the various agencies tasked with enforcement.

Sounds good to me. When those agencies are so low on budget they can't enforce the laws and people get sick enough of the status quo they elect law makers who'll actually remove bad laws, then we will end up better off.
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Is this a 5% to 50% performance hit on all workloads or specific workloads?
As mentioned before, slavery was legal during the antebellum period, and Lincoln never publicly said he would abolish it (until he did). The political theory though is if new states are required to be slave-free, then the South would end up being suffocated by anti-slave votes over time.

It's an interesting time to try to understand.
States are completely arbitrary political constructs. Why should Albany have power over both New York City and upstate, for example?

You need either much smaller units, or one system with a more democratic structure.
I prefer the Wait But Why article on this subject: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/01/your-family-past-present-and-...
It's not everyday that a security issue is borne out of a side-effect of underlying theory; in this case, how out-of-order execution works. It's almost as bad as if someone proved P = NP, rendering all cryptography useless on the spot.

The game is changed forever, and CPU designers across the industry will likely have to can some or all of OoOE, setting performance back considerably. It can take years to reachieve performance we're used to today at the security level required.
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Maybe some future architecture will allow software to tell CPU which regions it considers to be secret from the point of view of each other region.

Something like that could allow the CPU to speculate agressively while preventing information leak exploits.
Contrary to the idealistic view courts do not simply judge cases on the merits and the law but most definitely do take into account practical concerns about enforceability and public opinion.

Courts will generally not make rulings that undermine their own authority, so if they see that their ruling will be ignored anyway, that does shape their opinion.

After many state referendums legalizing cannabis, especially in western states which are already hostile to the federal government, the Supreme Court would think long and hard about the potential constitutional crisis that could arise from going against the popular will on this issue.

I expect they will find some new justifications for a more nuanced approach if the issue is put to them again.
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Things will start moving if stolen Aaadhaar details are used to 'inconvenience' members of the parliament of the party in power. As long as that does not happen you might see some grandstanding at best, nothing concrete will happen.
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Is there a way for an outsider to figure out which level they would be slotted into if they passed the interview process? For instance if you are a "senior engineer" at an average company, would Google only interview you for Senior+ roles or could you potentially interview for any available job and be evaluated and hired as say SWE II or something?
link to the in the wild exploitation or get the fuck out. Most over-hyped bug of 2018 /smh EternalBlue was 1000x worse than this but had a more boring name.
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>Now how racist did you have to be in 1986 to be too racist?!

About as racist as today. If you want to see what racism really looks like (and not merely bigotry), look to the 60s and prior.