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Are you assuming only rich people do that, or only interested in rich programmers? (Whatever 'rich' means exactly. Whatever definition you have in mind, I mean.)
I'm guessing the company offers them on some exchange, maybe slightly discounted.
Note, as mentioned by others, that's probably 3k to 13k "job years", so more like 6M to 150M usd.

Not a very good deal. And 70k avg salary seems high?
>I mean, it looks to me if FCC has the right to introduce certain rules for Internet providers that Mozilla supposedly liked, in 2015, then they have the right to revert those rules back to pre-2015 state as well? So what is the basis for the legal claim against them?

Basically, the law all of this is based on largely predates the internet. The 2015 rules the FCC pushed forward by saying they were considered "common carriers" under the 1934 Communications act, which mandates that preferential treatment isn't shown, allowing net neutrality. The current decision changed their classification as "common carriers," so they aren't legally required to enforce net neutrality.

Mozilla is arguing that they're clearly common carriers, the court agreed that they were, and changing their status would violate the law.

The political theory around the FCC hasn't been updated sufficiently, they were mandated to deal with telephone lines and much of their control over the internet is based on vague interpretation. This was always going to be decided by the courts or congress, the FCC had no certain power.
Thanks for your great work!

> In the past what I've seen is that the police will ask you to identify who was using an IP and also to help them catch the person in the act if they do the thing again

What's the method to catch the person in the act? Is it something like creating a rule: "if [this website] was visited between [foo] and [bar] notify me" at the routing level?
It's not just disrupting YouTube, it's also about creating a sustainable service. Video streaming has enormous costs which you need to get back somehow.

Unless your niche audience is willing to pay per minute, it is going to be difficult to pay the bills.
Couldn't you put the paratroopers in a drop vehicle, purpose built for that?

The Osprey is probably the fastest troop carrier, so you would need to identify some use cases it can’t do then figure out if the cost is worth it. Traditionally SF get there by jumping in and then hiking cross-country, is there a use case for getting them on the ground in a couple of hours?
Who gives a shit how much money you have if you don’t have time to spend it.
> Many classically trained pianists are excellent at improvisation.

I would not say that, the example you give are the most reknown composer of all times. I think they are more the exception than the reality of professional musicians. Not every one is able to reach such level of genius. It seems, proficiency in both style seems rather rare. I don't think I could name a single current world class contemporary jazz player which could reach the same level in classical music interpretation.

Regarding jazz improvistion, from my little experience of amateur player, jazz musicians mostly improvise together as a band, this is not a solo activity.
PHP also has runtime errors for deprecated functions when using strict mode, which everyone should use
Vancouver tech CEO here. We Canadian CEOs would love to pay our staff more, but our companies frankly suck compared to the powerhouse companies in the US. We just aren’t profitable enough.

I think if you dig around, you will find that US tech companies are far better funded and thus working on things that generate more upside - for everyone.

Another thing to consider is that there is a massive bull market going on. And tech is at the frothy end of it. Those RSUs are great when stock is valuable and companies are flush. When the market tanks, they won’t be so hot anymore.
> I don't think there's any particular reason to apply the label of "bug" to erroneous reasoning that cannot result in erroneous behavior.

Undefined behaviour. Can't go wrong now on current compilers with current architectures, but who knows what will happen at the next rounds of optimisations.
Initially yes, but they have been making the Roslyn tooling the same across both IDEs.

Visual Studio for Mac has many new features that weren't present in Xamarin Studio, like .NET Core support, ASP.NET types of workflows. And all new Xamarin.Forms improvements are shared between both IDEs.
But it would suck compared to the old option. So not comparable.
Welcome to Vancouver.
Ask HN: Is there a space for version control of neural networks?
Hi nn trainers of HN, is version control of neural networks a problem you have? I am a developer and recently have the time and resource to tackle on this problem. Let me know your thoughts!
That CEO is delusional.

The work culture is actually miles ahead in the United States too. A lot of it has to do with the respect that comes with a good salary. You are far more likely to treat an employee worth 120k as less expandable than someone worth 60k.
I had turned down a lot of job offers till date for one/more of the following reasons:

* Poor work culture

* Lack of opportunities to learn at work

* Not a competitive pay

* Dated tech-stack

* Sensing toxic work atmosphere

* Company ridden with ivy-league grads that it boasts of during the course of interview. Sure-shot path to 2nd grade treatment should you join such place because it's not your knowledge that they see but only your certificates. [Confession: I learned this a hard way :(]
From Wikipedia: The FCC's mission, specified in Section One of the Communications Act of 1934 and amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (amendment to 47 U.S.C. §151) is to "make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges.

It appears as a government agency they have acted against their legally defined mission statement by putting consumers at greater risk of discrimination.

I don't know if this is a legal argument to be made and it doesn't answer your question about Mozilla in particular but still I wonder if there is some legal standing here. The repeal seems to put them odds with their stated purpose as an agency.
Four principles of internet usage were codified (but not made law) by the FCC in 2005; these kinda represent what we commonly consider "net neutrality". In 2010 the Open Internet Order was put in place, making these principles law. It mandated three things, no blocking, no unreasonable discrimination, and transparency (disclosure of network management practises, expected performance, terms and conditions).

In 2014 Verizon challenged the order and managed to get the blocking and discrimination parts vacated. So the FCC introduced net neutrality to restore the intent of their order in the first place. There have been other such challenges by ISPs before as well, and various violations.

So, in 2015 we got NN as a replacement for the open internet order which was a legal description of the FCC's principles of network neutrality that harks back to 2005...

NN isn't arbitrary, and seeking to have it restored isn't; it's an attempt at restoring the spirit/intent of legislation, rather than how case law has caused some aspects to be interpreted.
It's still in beta. It's common for betas to do that, so you can have enough information to fix problems that might occur. Unless the beta is already a RC and is basically just released for advertising reasons...
> Every single thing in your post makes zero sense

Not true. Most of the post makes sense. Trustlessness and decentralization are pretty much the only benefits to bitcoin and others like it. There are obviously real costs for these features, but also real benefits. Do the benefits justify the current valuations - only the market can determine that. I personally am quite bearish on almost all cryptoassets (so I would not be considered a "pumper"), but certainly you must see the threat they pose to the incumbent masters of the monetary system?
It's the political cost of failures that makes progress so slow.

Compare SpaceX and SLS / Ares.
I know there's a show called This Week in Tech, but do people actually call it 'twit'?
Second grade tech attracts second grade employees and second grade funding. That's the law of the market.

Vancouver is interesting because it's also where a lot of american firms set shops in order to house employees that can't qualify for a US visa.
I'm not sure I'd call or accept that behaviour as being one Of 'guru'.

The difference is similar to parents who raise adults to remain children and subservient vs. parents who want to raise children to be adults.

The same can be said for "gurus". True gurus want to raise equals so the student surpasses the teacher.
I sincerely believe you can design for maintenance, however. It's the only form of future proofing that seems to work.

There are analogs in the mechanical world. Some of the most beloved motorcycles, bikes, cars, boats are easy to work on. Chevy made a straight six that people modified so heavily that people got multiples of the original horsepower out of it. It was simple, sturdy, easy to hang things off of and to modify.

The Open-Closed Principle tries to capture that idea in a sentence. But from all appearances the nuances of the concept seem to entirely escape people far too often.
iirc it's flowstone DSP, last time I looked there was still a free version though it's not an open source project. Would recommend to anyone as an example of good UI in this area
If you can't figure this out - don't do business...
> The things about which we are totally ignorant are much smaller today, of course

One would have to disagree with this idea. The more we study the universe around us, the less we actually know. As a somewhat philosophical point, there are many times when our mental (mathematical) models get in the road of understanding. Very often, people believe that because we have a model that works and appears to give good predictive results about some phenomena then we understand the how and the what (and even the why) of those phenomena.

When this happens, we get into a situation where alternative models are actually discouraged. If one looks the the history of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, one can see that more and vaster avenues of investigation have arisen as time passes. Our increasing knowledge is continuing to be shown as ever smaller in relation to what we are now seeing.

No theory is ever complete, nor is it ever accurate to the extent that it describes the reality of the universe around us. All theories make those simplifying assumptions that when taken too far lead into inaccurately describing and predicting what we should see. Too often people get enamoured by the beauty of the mathematics and forget it is only an attempt at reflecting reality.

Mathematics is a magnificent and useful tool, but it is a foolish master. Too often we forget that.

Theories and models help us gain some understanding of the nature of the universe around us. This understanding, however, is always subject to change, no matter how "perfect" the theory may appear to be. There are too many scientists, both theoretical and practical, who are so infatuated and enamoured with their current models that they have forgotten that the models are approximations only and are subject to change or even overturning.
I don't have a problem with the feel of the "scissor v2" keyboard on the 2017 MBPs. It's reliability and robustness is an open question though.
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You can pay for lower latency on your end.
And the exchange of subs to boost both your counts and hit 1000. No doubt there will be auto player scripts emerging that will randomly watch 4000 hours of content by Friday.
I feel there's other things that identify it as a possible hoax - the screenshots at the start, for instance, seem unfinished - but I've dealt with many powerpoint presentations over the years like this - way too many words for an overhead screen, but these sorts of presentations get shared around quite a bit with the intention of being just read on the computer screen..
YouTube doesn't understand or care about the true underlying value of its platform, let alone its potential. And they continue to make bad choices to steer it in entirely the wrong direction. It could be a powerhouse but they keep screwing it up. This is all part and parcel of google/alphabet being horrendously bad at product management and customer interactions.
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All you'll get from manufacturers is PR speak, most qualified CPU architects would also not be able to speak publicly due to corporate media policies.
I really enjoyed reading about Daniel Tammet and his book (Born on a Blue Day) is fascinating, but I'd hesitate to describe him as 'ordinary'. He's likely somewhere on the autism spectrum and also has synesthesia which affects his perception of numbers (amongst other things); his relationship with the world is going to be very different than for most people.
Oh, and if you’re concerned about the cost of testing on mainnet, consider running a dogecoin node to start off. It’s an early fork of bitcoin, so the functionality and interface is similar, but it’s extremely inexpensive.
The difference between a pulse jet and a ramjet is quite small if you compare it with a rocket or a turbofan: Basically they're both air-breathing without a compressor or fan to compress the intake air, so I'd stand by "basically a ramjet".
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkfIQ4IGaM
Interesting read about the level of effort and process invested in the Space Shuttle's software (~1996):
https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff. For a TLDR, this answer (https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9260/how-often-if-...) is great.

My favorite excerpt: The Shuttle software consists of ca. 420,000 lines. The total bug count hovers around 1. At one point around 1996, they built 11 versions of the code with a total of 17 bugs.
We had so many Canadians applying for remote jobs at the last company I worked at. Honestly they got treated just like the "Indian Undergraduate Internship" [1] mails my old lab used to get. Piped straight to dev/null.

The fact that couldn't even qualify for a US visa was a big red flag in terms of qualification.

[1] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41687/what-is-b...
He had one epileptic event in his childhood which may be why he was called 'ordinary.' The confound with autism of course makes the 'ordinary' designation hard to justify though (as you suggest).
The motivation is obvious when you look at it from youtube's perspective. They do not value content creators much, but they lick the boots of advertisers. They want to create a system that is as smooth for advertisers as possible, regardless of the impact on any other aspect of the platform. They want to reduce the risk of bad PR (which causes advertisers to run away). All they care about is the product of eyeball counts and ad impressions yielding dollars, they don't understand at all the goose that lays the golden egg or how easy it is to kill it.
Ask HN: What is the most egregious misuse of AI/ML marketing you've seen?
I'm looking for samples of bad marketing material regarding AI/ML/DL.
It doesn't have to be "badly made", but more along the lines of misused terminology and just plain generic "marketing fluff"
None, or they would have used it, but that doesn't stop people on the Internet from gossiping.
Why not use stairs? Many low cost carriers do that for smaller planes. People who don't want to walk stairs can still wait and exit via the front but others will appreciate getting out quicker. Many business travellers only use carry-on so that it doesn't matter to them when luggage comes out. And even a business class in a A380 can currently take long to deboard.

Using stairs is usually safe enough, the left side of the plane tends to be clear and having one person monitoring that no one leaves the area is sufficient.
I like the simplicity of the library. I haven't tried it yet, but this behavior is a bit unfortunate choice

> If there is an error, it will be JSON encoded, including a message and a standardized error code.

Why not to return standard protobuf error when the source was a protobuf? It massively complicates things when you have to expect errors in one format and responses in the other.
Exactly my impression too.

Reduced inhibition reveals formerly hidden skills. Extreme focus (even fanaticism) leads to its improvement.
"Copyright infringement" is not "trademark infringement" and shouldn't be in the title.
This story (or at least one very similar) was recently in the Hidden Brain podcast[0], so I'm kinda wondering if there's a clear understanding of who's the dog and who's the tail, influence-wise.

But to your point specifically, in the podcast, I believe the guy was able to play the piano quite soon (I think days or weeks after his accident).

So to me, this points not to just an Adderall-like mental state, but an enhancement (though, sure, due to a compensation of one part of the brain for the damaged part).

To me, it feels like there are triggers or switches that perhaps optimize for certain tasks, or, it's the real default, and it's the majority of us who are off.
But it's tough to guess what, if any, are the trade offs, other than potential brain damage, I guess. But it deeply intrigues me to think about what else we'll be unlocking in ourselves in the future.

[0] https://overcast.fm/+Ht3jI6KDw
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Exactly. And although it sucks for small content creators to not get any revenue from their videos anymore, it sucks even more for Google because not only do they get no money from advertising on those videos, it costs them to host the video.

I'm sure they're hoping fervently that this plan leads to more lucrative ad deals considering how knife-edge YouTube's chance at profitability has always seemed.
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Traffic jams, 9-to-5 job.. I'm not sure what those have to do with the topic at all. Yes, the 10,000 hours thing doesn't include every possible human (in)activity, no-one thinks it does.
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I think it was Pownce, as Kevin Rose co-founded it and he was associated with Tech TV all the way back to 2002 (I think). Blast from the past...
Can you post that util file as a gist?
> what I don't understand is how does it make sense to hire a coder whose code (a real (though not necessarily big) app code, not a 5-minute puzzle code) you have never seen.

Well, let's break this down a bit:

- if you hire a junior, all you care about is smartness & maybe culture fit. You get both of these better through interview than GitHub repo
- if you hire a senior, you hire for social/organizational skills, problem-solving skills, diverse expertise etc. GitHub is not particularly relevant

GitHub makes sense when you look for someone with deep specific expertise in a narrow, open-source-related technical area. Which is rare. I think it's more often used to check that "this person has coding style preferences similar to mine", which is IMO not really a great idea.
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I'm also in Seattle and would be interested in working on this if you're looking for partners, shoot me an email? magrimes@mtu.edu
Microsoft was never a monopoly and Google can never be a monopoly. It's not something that a company is, it's something that a company has. In Microsoft's case, it was Windows and it was considered a monopoly not because it was the only operating system, but because of its market share. The only product that Google has that has anywhere near the required market share to be considered a monopoly is Google Search.

Even so, Microsoft didn't get in trouble with the Justice Department for its Windows monopoly, it got in trouble for leveraging its monopoly to support its other, non-monopoly products. If you want to argue that Google should be constrained under anti-trust rules, you need to show how they're abusing a monopoly to compete unfairly with other products. People have made that argument but it's less cut-and-dry than it was in Microsoft's case.

As it is, your lack of understanding of the basic definition of 'monopoly' makes what you're saying somewhat nonsensical.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply! I will hop over to the GitHub issues for more detailed discussion. A few thoughts in the meantime...

I tried the A icon in the docs - thanks for pointing this out, I didn't notice it at first. The light theme is an improvement over the dark one, but it isn't very readable either. The problem is that nasty Quicksand font. It is very hard to read! I knocked it out and the page fell back to Helvetica Neue, which is much easier to read. The line-height: 1.7 seems a bit excessive too, but that is a minor thing.

I'm viewing the page in Chrome on Windows 10 with displays in the neighborhood of 200 DPI and display scaling set to 225%.

> Working with white theme a whole day could be a pain

It certainly isn't for me. I use light themes for everything - all my editors and other tools, all websites, everything.

I wonder if the idea of light themes causing eye strain may come from having improperly calibrated displays? I calibrate all my displays to a pure white background. This is essential for me, since most laptop displays I've used have a pronounced blue-green tint. The worst one was a ThinkPad Yoga Gen 2 WQHD that I helped a friend set up. Out of the box, the display had an intense green cast and was truly painful to look at. After I calibrated the display it was a pleasure to use.

I did try installing Studio on Windows after I wrote my first message. The darkness and lack of contrast in the installer made it feel a bit sad, as if it didn't really want me to see what it had to say. Alas, the installer got stuck at 34% with no files installed, so I didn't get a chance to try the actual app yet. I will revisit that when I get some time.

Of course this whole area is one where different people will feel differently - you guys love the current theme, where I find it very unusable. So I'm glad to hear that customizable themes are in the works, because I would have a hard time with the current one.

Regarding proportional fonts, yes, I use them for all of my coding, and have done so for at least 10-15 years. In particular, proportional fonts let me use a larger font size and still fit more text on the screen than I could with a smaller monospaced font.

I don't use monospaced fonts at all any more except for specialized situations like hex dumps. All of the editors and tools I use support proportional fonts beautifully. So my advice on fonts is simple: don't assume that proportional fonts are unusable for coding and development; give them the same support as monospaced fonts.

Looking at the animated screenshots, I don't see much there that would have any difficulty with a proportional font. The one possible exception is some right-aligned text. If you use spaces to line that text up, it won't work well in a proportional font. But if you use truly right-aligned text it will be fine.
Could you give an improved version of the sentence, if able? Thanks.

edit: Could the downvoter explain why? Thanks.
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There's a difference between going through the motion and actually doing something that improves your skill. Commuting doesn't help with improving your "driving skill" (whatever that means) just like eating 3 meals every day doesn't make you a master champion eater that wins the hot dog eating contest.
If all parties involved did the right thing, we wouldn't need regulators, would we?