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I've never met a Perl developer who doesn't know and use other languages. By contrast it's much more probable that a "kid" writing Python or JavaScript has never been exposed to anything else.

When you say you wouldn't use Perl again, that's a fine personal choice, but has zero to do with the merits of the language or the people who use it.
You mean if you aren’t automatically blocked because you are coming from a TOR exit node and that user has never done that before?
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Just wanted to say you're not alone, I'm on 56 for the same reasons.
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As a technologically literate individual who takes pains to protect myself online, yes, my feed is inherently more "fine" then the general population.
This!
If I have at least one tab with Dev Tools open, then FF becomes unbearably slow.
Will check if it is fixed in FF58 though.
Also, many cryptos' primary use case is a replacement for fiat that isn't centrally controlled. Saying that you shouldn't pay taxes on crypto to crypto is similar to saying that you shouldn't pay taxes at all.
Honestly a lot of these "global" rating systems are ridiculous. The US easily produces the most innovation globally.

This is similar to ranking systems that consider McGill the Harvard of Canada or consider Babson College the #1 for Entrepreneurship.
You may want to check with your CPA as you can certainly deduct health insurance as an expense as a 1099 contractor. It’s actually easier as a contractor to deduct these as straight business expenses than as a w2 employee.
https://stripe.com/blog/pricing-update-for-europe

edit: 1.4% + €0.25
Calling people morons isn't being confrontational. It's being an asshole.
>who were amazingly casual about dodging between everything else that was moving - the accidental death toll was probably huge

Probably less than you'd think.

Traffic now likes to forget that while the legal rules offer redundancy 99% of the time (if only one party follows the rules the other party should be able to take action to avoid a conflict if it is following the rules that apply to it) the legal rules do not supersede physics.

I walk to work every day. Morons on foot cut off morons on bikes who cut off morons in cars who cut off heavy trucks.

You only need to see a horse turned into taco meat once or twice to learn why you shouldn't rely on other traffic's ability to pick up the slack for your dumb decisions. People learn what to do and what not to pretty quickly when the stakes are higher than someone slamming on their brakes and honking at you.
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I'm not so sure about this; part of my father's business involves rebuilding electric motors and I was surprised by the rebuild intervals of some of them.

I'm sure they will be engineered to a certain life expectancy, but I'm interested to see how long they will end up lasting in modern automotive applications.
You make great points. There is a concern that not all of the incentives will be in terms of infrastructure improvements. Look at Wisconsin's deal with Foxconn - they're literally paying Foxconn money and giving them a license to pollute wetlands and waterways in exchange for 13,000 jobs.
Can you share a few companies that are that low? Stripe and Paypal would be my go-tos for adding any online purchasing to a site, so I thought the 2.9% was unavoidable (for small revenue sites).
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It's also different price models. Google plans to make more money on the things you do with your Home mini. Apple has to price total cost for product since they are less likely to make money after the purchase.
I find people on both sides of the political spectrum who think healthcare should be entirely decoupled from employment (but available for all), and I absolutely agree.
For what it's worth, in the last year (since January 23, 2017) we've merged ~440 merge requests labeled "performance"[0]. It's not perfect right now and there's still plenty of work to do, but compared to when I started at GitLab almost two years ago it's night-and-day.

We've also got an entire team dedicated to porting our Git layer to Go with Gitaly[1], which has been a major bottleneck that we've started resolving over the last year or so.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?label_...
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly
I don't think this is the type of thing they can really elaborate on for obvious reasons.

But the genuine holder is probably going to be blocked when they start throwing flags like that, and that's probably just standard everywhere with any type of automated fraud protection.
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Caffe2 is a Facebook project, so they’re not exactly being “forced” to release it or any downstream projects under Apache 2.
That's great. I wish they'd put more stuff out to public spots though.

PS when you say members only blog that's a Long Now membership?
I have some minor background in control theory. After going trough the paper I had a very same thought thus I googled and found this: http://www.control.lth.se/media/Staff/KarlJohanAstrom/Lectur...

After checking out the slides I kind of feel that there might be some oversimplification in the used simulator, like producing _the desired lean angle_ might not be enough. But I am no expert.
> We’ve proven that this public/private partnership is basically the most effective growth engine we’ve got

I believe you and would like to learn more. Do you have some sources I can look into?
This makes me think. Why not add a Google Science or Google Dev with those features removed. Basically Google Scholar but also showing stackoverflow, blogs and GitHub code/gists?
Let's say I bought bitcoin on coinbase. Two days later, I sell it to a friend. He gives me cash, I give him the private key. Then he does whatever he wants. Am I now responsible for every transaction he makes from that address? Also, if I mined bitcoin, how would the IRS know?
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> here you've gone straight into making a value judgement

Much like you did when you said:

> to serve fake images and shitty news

?
Respect for the fact you give generous credit to Dynamicland while also saying honestly how your project is differentiated. It would have been easy not to
Right but as far as I can tell there's nothing "crypto" about that, it's still a privately owned ATM which offers financial services, like every ATM does. You still need some private entity to provide the service, like the parent wants his bank to provide a service to transfer cash to his account.

One big difference with crypto is that if you actually own your coins on an address you control then you could have several third party services competing instead of having your money "stuck" in a bank, but again I don't expect most people to do that.
If you look it with modern history-rewriting lenses (e.g. what most people born after 1970 would have heard about) no.

At the time though, they did a heck of a lot of good basic research -- plus the whole "first man on space" thing.
I would love to see a chart of the energy required (both theoretical and "currently best working system") to produce various hydrocarbons from CO2 and H2O feedstock. Methane, propane, heptane, etc., and then some mixtures like gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt. I quick search did not bring anything up for me.
Or maybe read the thread beyond Linus' rant. You'll get a better appreciation for the context. My impression is that Linus probably just misunderstood what the context/purpose of the patch & he's frustrated by the whole process & venting (which is fine). One thing Linus chiming in did accomplish is that the Intel engineers did a much job better explaining the motivation for the patch. To be fair it would have probably helped if the Intel engineers called it out up-front & explained why that patch is there (although maybe they did - I didn't read too much of it). They explain they knew it would prompt some volatile discussion & was the one they weren't happy about (not that anyone is happy about these flaws) so they made it last so nothing else would depend on it. Once the context was explained other Linux engineers chimed in with a cleaner way to accomplish it. All of these are senior Intel SW engineers and AFAICT they seem extremely competent not just on the Linux part of it but also in terms of understanding all the security implications on the Intel chips (these are easy to hand-wave explain & very hard to fully understand & fix).

All these engineers are in impossible situations trying to fix years of chips while at the same time providing a path forward for chips without these issues. You can call them morons all you want but from the little bit I've read I'm very impressed with their professionalism & knowledge and 100% do not want to be in their shoes right now.
Yes, the ticker is great! I would love a chrome extension that could attach a ticker like this to HN.
What drags the US down most in these rankings is "tertiary efficiency": roughly the fraction of people in grad school or with graduate degrees.

Ranking countries is a dodgy business, even more than ranking colleges. A different set of weights or ways of measuring things could give you totally different answers.

If you're looking for a way to claim the rankings are biased, you might argue that this up-ranks countries that value credentials over actual innovation. Or you might claim that these days, an undergrad education is enough to go out in the world and innovate and that countries that send more students through grad school are wasting their time. Or you might claim that the US is a developed country with a developing country attached, which drags down the averages. And probably California, NY, MA and a few other states considered independently would rank highly.
Excluding the coast and the east bay, it is not really a concern. A tsunami would have to come through the golden gate channel and make a quick turn to get to Mountain View with any strength.

The inundation map for Mountain view is here: http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/Tsunami/...

And here is one for the entire bay area: http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/Tsunami/...

The remainder of the inundation maps can be found here: http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/Tsunami/....

Here is an animated simulation of a tsunami hitting the bay area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_AIWgknfI
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I realize it is a rant. It is a rant in which she says she has never bothered to explain it because [excuses] and asserts that she doesn't want to hear your opinion if you didn't read the white paper 5 years ago.

So it is a lazy, elitist snob rant that asserts that she has no plans to explain it to us unwashed morons and we should just take her word for it. My general opinion of such attitudes is Fuck you, which is part of why I walked away from a National Merit Scholarship and dropped out of college in my youth.

I already said I would be interested in her explanation. But I am not holding my breath. Her rant suggests she can't be bothered to explain fuck all. She is too busy stroking her ego on twitter.
> what would of once of been a neat C macro

I agree on the overboard marketing spiel but the idea is actually rather clever.
I wonder what Apple would do if you leased some rooftop space in the mall across the street from the entrance to their new HQ and aimed cameras at the entrance, recording every license plate going in and out? Then buy the CA DMV records, which you can do for marketing purposes, and use that to build an employee list to be sold to recruiters.
But then it wouldn't look as "scientific" (i.e. anyone could understand it, it wouldn't look complicated). At least that's what I feel like, reading and writing a bunch of papers for my master's. We are encouraged to put math stuff in ours just because it looks more theoretical that way. Whenever I do something of worth I also make sure to blog about it so I can write down in normal terms what we did and found, with code, (online) demo, and anything else that might be useful.
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I worked in both ways and there are pros and cons.

If you are a good negotiator then contracting is best. I prefer negotiating the best rate then minmaxing I’m buying my own “benefits” rather than having my employer pick for me.

At the end of the day you pay either way in the sense that high benefits affect salary.

I’d rather get the straight hourly or daily rate and then build on costs for vacation, pension, insurance, etc.

Now it stinks if the rate does not cover necessary expenses as I’ve seen IT jobs try to straight line convert FTE to contractors (eg, $100k salary to $50/hour rate) but that’s why you need to be good at negotiating.
> could care less

Bait?
Employees at major exchanges can trade on insider information about whether a major exchange will support a new coin. Employees at token-funded companies can insider trade on that same information.

There's already some evidence these schemes are happening at major exchanges. Coinbase's launches of Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash come to mind.

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/coinbase-insider-trading-lite...
The previous sentence makes it more egregious

>Suppose you’ve been working all day at your startup, and someone gives you one tiny choice: for the next five minutes you can either (1) keep working, or (2) goof off on Netflix or Hacker News. Which one do you choose?

Suppose you've been working all day

If you've been working all day then one of two things is true:

* You're tired and the quality of your work is decreasing (as well as the risk being introduced increasing)

* You're not tired and can continue

The only real answer here is to judge yourself and do quality, risk-conscious work.

If you've burned hard for six hours and know you're not going to be writing quality code for the last hour or two, maybe you're doing admin work, maybe documentation, or maybe you're goofing off.

The idea that each minute is equal to each other minute is ridiculous, and it's entirely likely that average programmer gets five good hours a day of intelligent, aware, quality programming, and using tricks to turn that into 8 or 10 or 14 hours of coding only sacrifices quality and increases risk.

But then again, he also says "start-up" so I guess concepts like work/life balance, healthy work environments, healthy work habits, responsible coding practices, real risk analysis, commitment to quality, etc are heavily selected against (or maybe I'm too much of a cynic)
So my question would be how many legitimate customers do they reject as fraud (false positives) in order to eliminate false negatives? :)
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I haven't tested on FB, but it works with Github.

IIRC you have to enable it, as it was experimental
also, didn't work with Google Accounts.
Literally the only reason I ever drop back into Google.
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I do realize it's hard to tell for these type of things. But let's say you got 1000$ to invest on cryptocurrencies, which ones would you choose? Would you use everything up, on one currency or divide it up onto many?
Exactly :-) We're here to compete on revenue lift + value-add. If we do not generate significantly more revenue than we charge, our customers turn us off.
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Your average gasoline engine is kaput after 5,000 hours. Same deal with standard automatic transmissions.

Electric motors, power electronics, and simple reduction gears can last 5-10 times longer.
Around 50% or so of Russian PhD Dissertations are plagiarized.

Here’s your source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/03/...

Russia did a lot of innovation in the 1950’s - 1970’s. They then made two terrible decisions. One was to stop producing their own computer parts and steal from abroad, which worked at first but then it became harder to steal and reverse engineer than simply make themselves. The BESM-6 mainframe was an incredible computer, sad they didn’t continue working on it. Second was the move against the Jews in the 1970’s. Kind of ironic they didn’t learn the lesson of Hitler, lots of great future scientists left. Anyway this is why the Google founder Sergei Brin is now in the US. His father was Jewish and wanted to be a mathematician, but since he was a Jew he could only be a janitor.
Loving the competition in the market. Object Store would be nice. Can't wait to see what happens when NAND/DRAM markets start clearing and there are multiple competitive 7nm nodes.
For those who don't like PowerShell's syntax and choices, I highly recommend looking at http://xon.sh/tutorial.html - it's a marriage of Python and a shell done right, and it's cross platform.
I love the idea of having multiple AR display techniques to 'hand-off' between experiencing AR on glasses and AR from a projector. I can imagine fatigue can occur by wearing glasses and projector AR can help facilitate longer AR use. I wrote a technical report and developed a prototype of this hand-off characteristic if anyone is interested in reading more.
My AirPlay experience is a lot better. From my Mac I can play music simultaneously in my living room and kitchen very reliably. From my phone I can play to either speaker, however the kitchen unit (Airstream S200) stutters when I move the phone into a known poor signal area at the back of the kitchen.

There’s about a 2-3 second buffer with current AirPlay. It warns you of this when use use the a GarageBand app.

Try enabling IGMP snooping on your router and see if that helps.
I think we probably agree on most things re: utopia, cryptocurrencies vs. gov't control.

I'm not sure about your claim that valuing liberty for myself and others is about "taking as much as you can for yourself", though...
Sure, but that doesn't mean they don't bring values that don't fit there.

I actually sat next to a woman and her son at a Seahawks game in Seattle; they live in Pocatello, ID but had moved there from Redding, CA a handful of years ago. Some amusing (to me) bullet points from our conversation:

* She wanted to make sure they went to an afternoon game because she didn't want to be in "the city" after dark

* As a reaction to moving to Pocatello, "when we moved to Idaho, I thought WE were conservative, but..."

* She was successful in her career and her husband was a stay at home dad and had difficulty meeting people/making friends as someone not in the workforce and who didn't 'fit in' to the social fabric of non-working folks (Eg, female homemakers).

They might even be more conservative than the average Idahoan, but it's not a binary thing; likely they've got "California values" they didn't even realize they held, but folks in Idaho could spot a mile a way.

The same way (say) cops in populated areas of California might be VERY pro-law-and-order and consider themselves very conservative, but not bat an eye over LGBT issues that might rile up a bible-thumper from the midwest who is otherwise a moderate.
And it will be amazing if there are actually 13,000 jobs. These things have a magical way of never materializing. The jobs turn out to be temp construction or count jobs created in the "economic impact" of having the company there. It's very rare for these deals to come out with the city on top or even equal.
The US will have huge numbers of broke old people in future decades.
I'm not a fan of cities dishing out perks, but what you said amounts to NIMBYism. I'm sympathetic to those concerns but housing prices aren't solved by keeping out newcomers or being against development. There can also be an indirect income boost that comes with an increased demand for labor, and it can help make the local economy more robust.

I do think the concern about unforeseen infrastructure costs are warranted, especially if a city doesn't excel in urban planning or has problems with NIMBYism derailing good plans. But I think most of the cities on the shortlist are fair game and could handle a project of this scale.
No, talking about women’s role in white supremacy is Not blaming women
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They started doing that recently :-/ I guess the appeal to ape leader is strong, even if leader lost its ways. But I am running out of options for search so have to live with it...
> * I can save way more for retirement with an SEP IRA than I ever could with a company-sponsored 401k...it's $55k/yr for 2018 (assuming you contribute 25% of earnings or make $220k/yr)

Note on this point: many company-sponsored 401ks do allow you to contribute up to $55k/yr - though a good chunk of that will be after-tax money. (Though again, the after-tax can often be converted to Roth, which has its own benefits)
Since there's no demo's I had a look at a couple case studies..

https://i.imgur.com/TBTF63h.png
https://i.imgur.com/HP0DNNg.png

It looks / feels like stripe but without the brand recognition, I'd hope it's more cost effective than competitors but having to contact them for pricing doesn't inspire confidence. I also don't see how this is any more frictionless than competitors. On the flip side I'm a little blown away by how big the team is and how many jobs they have listed considering it's only launched a couple hours ago - whoever bank rolled this has a lot of faith. Congrats on the launch either way.
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this is called linguistic prescriptivism and its wrong
I was just looking into trying out YOLO. Does anyone know how both compare?
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

> Exclude words from your search

> Put - in front of a word you want to leave out. For example,

jaguar speed -car

- seems to still work for me.

roses -flowers

returns chocolates and a theatre.

roses

returns the flowers.
Its reasonable that if you are individually not profiting from it, you should vote against, but most people will benefit (every single landlord, lots of businesses that will sell stuff, and all the people that would move and get a job there). If it were to be put up to a vote, the vote would be positive. If it were to be put up for an economic analysis, the economic analysis would be positive.
> Fixed that for you. Do I need to get the CIA and various wars lists from Wikipedia?

Please, do tell me of the CIA's murderous and oppressive domestic activities since 1950 [1], and how they have been of a comparable magnitude to China's.

[1] The PRC was founded in 1949, so this time period is to make it comparable.
Also Google without country redirection, my pet peeve. I can't use Google in private browsing mode any more since it insists redirecting to German results (yes, I'm currently physically in Germany), so I've started using DDG too.
Quite simply they can ask you to prove the origin of the bitcoins when you eventually want to use them/convert them to fiat/etc. Didn't buy them on an exchange or from another person? Well, then you probably mined them and they'll be taxed as income.
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How big are these studios? With only 19 people, I'm guessing this was 'just' a few million dollar deal, does that sound about right?
Cool idea, too bad it seems to be abandoned (no git commits since May 2016 and the latest binaries on the website are from Aug 2014). Anyone interested in picking this up and maintaining it, or at least releasing a new "stable" build (other than just downloading the zip in the bin folder on github and hoping for the best)?
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