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I constantly use this feature, even today. I regularly use Dash, and when I’m working on a personal project I like to use SiteSucker or safaris WebArchive save format to collect the docs, information and blog posts I need.

With this, I can then turn off my internet and dive deep into the task. It’s how I learn!

About the only missing thing I have is an offline cache for language package managers — I use so many that it’s a bit difficult. I should really go look for some Docker images that have already tackled it...
My thoughts:

You are there to burn brain cycles for a fixed pay, a high pay at that. Experienced older crowd demands higher pay. Most gigs could care less about their experience; 95% of the gigs consists of mundane task completion and pump out code demanded by often micromanagement processes.

Older crowd is more likely to question, call out bs, and demand work life balance.

Young are more impressionable, willing to burn the candle night after night. 24-hour long hackathons on soda and pizza anyone? This is unhealthy in so many ways lol. This says more about the profession rather than ageism. Name another profession where people willingly accept working under such unhealthy circumstances, especially off the clock. Lunch at your desk is the norm.

Fuck it! Frankly, the profession is ideal for a (wo)man-child, crippling any mature, healthy social development. End of the day, it's you and the computer 1v1. No one outside IT/tech gives two fucks about your abstraction flame wars, coding practices yadi yada unless bottom line is suffering. They'll throw bodies at the problem. Meanwhile Stfu and code.
The government already spends millions to help increase population... they might be interested.
Has Ubuntu fixed Alt+Tab yet? It drive me mad the last time I tried to use it. Why can't it just cycle through windows like a normal window manager?
I'd like to give my thoughts on unsustainable interest rates in Canada. Living here, I see it as yes, a raise in interest would be catastrophic for many home owners and their mortgage payments. But we are tied to USA's Fed. If they increase the rate, and we do not, our dollar will plummet in USD CAD terms. So in my eyes, it is a trade of between devaluing the CAD, thus every Canadian absorbing the blow, or home owners taking the interest rate hit. I am not sure which is the best outcome :)

edit to clarify why CAD will drop, is because CAD will be given up at the lower rate for USD which offers higher rate.
There's also an argument to be made for Bell labs, back when Bell had a monopoly on the phone lines there were some amazing developments to come out of Bell Labs
Basic truth: the only reason pure datagram networks work is because long-haul fiber optic backbone bandwidth became so cheap. If long-haul bandwidth cost even 0.01% of what it cost in the 1980s, we'd be doing this very differently. We still can't deal with congestion in the backbone.

I didn't see that coming, and I thought things were going to have to be far more efficient.
D'oh! I mispelled "lieu" but corrected it within the edit window. Heh.

That's classic: I'm scolding the other fellow for not looking where he's going and I walk into a pole myself. Heh.

but... I'm a rando posting in anger. They're a brand company that just released a thing for Google with a typo in the "Brand Guide". (It's in the PDF, is it in the hardcopy? I'd be mortified if this was my project.)

I don't really have a response for your point about screen reading.
I think “the last mile” of this process is going to be the hardest to automate.
> It's not even hard to find places where Poettering has said something that makes him look less sympathetic than this stuff.

Right, like this:

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

That is a CCC talk where Poettering takes the presenter's invitation for a single response as a cue to interrupt the rest of his presentation slides. Responses like, "Do you hate handicapped people?" give you a taste of the general decorum with which Poettering handled himself.

That's not to say that Poettering isn't entitled to some response, nor that all his responses in that video are unfounded. But interrupting a presenter's presentation is extremely aggressive behavior. Even the CCC presenter who trashed Perl 5 two years in a row in a fairly distasteful fashion was met with polite responses from the audience.

What's amazing is that Poettering consequently wrote a piece blaming Linus Torvalds for the sorry state of communication in open source[1]. I'm certainly not a fan of Linus' outbursts. But an audience member making a hostile takeover of a tech presentation is the stuff of nightmares. Anyone capable of doing that has no business opining on the health of open source communication.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...
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In this case, sites like 23andMe were only used to generate leads on suspects. Two independent forensic DNA tests were used for evidence of guilt. I agree that DNA testing has flaws, but that's the purpose of the criminal trial. Defendants have due process rights to cross-examine the DNA testing process, present their own testimony, and provide exculpatory evidence.
WeWork $500M bond sale financials analysis: owes $18B in rent
> this strange form of 'smart' that involves sitting and reading for hours on end, usually of subjects that have no meaning towards the actual career objective-

That's not a form of 'smart,' but a form of discipline that greatly influences how successful a person will be. Lots of careers require people to spend hours learning material that they have absolutely no interest in for the sole purpose of achieving some goal.

Lawyers don't give a crap about Clark v. West Virginia, but there might be a time when they need to learn ever single detail of the case because it is relevant to their job. The same situation applies to many top-tier careers.
For the same reason it is ok to collect felon's fingerprints to compare to crime scenes...the felons have shown they commit crimes.
Apologies, but I disagree with basically everything you're saying here.

Branding isn't hard; forcing a constructed brand is hard. That's the real source of friction here.

A brand might be way more than a logo, but THIS brand is not. That logo is literally the only thing this design agency contributed at all. Even the colors were already in use around the project. If the difference between "a brand" and "a logo" is "ten pages of marketspeak" then I'm even less convinced that branding is hard.

I read the "brand guide." It's exactly what I expect from a professional design firm: meaningless noise, carefully typeset. The entirety of section 1 is a PR quickref chart, of no interest or use to anyone but project managers dealing with micromanaging executives. Section 2.0 is breathless pseudo-art crap and some trademark defense. 2.1 contains pointless backstory for fonts that are firmly in the "Google already had lying around" category. Finally, the cartoon gets its own section, expressly to head off the whining from the old guard.

I've also seen a ton of this crap over the years, and none of it has ever made the slightest bit of difference. This is exactly the kind of time-and-money-wasting that occurs when some facet of management has gone off the rails. Let's hope the derelict in question is somewhere in marketing, and unable to affect the quality of the actual technology in question.

As for the actual logo, I don't have an opinion about it. I don't think there's anything there to have an opinion about. I've never been a big fan of the gopher cartoon, but at least it had some character, which likely comes from the talent of a real artist.
I'm a high-scoring user who has been put off by this exact behavior. The problem is, the behavior is pervasive among other high scoring users, and whenever I advocate against this kind of behavior, I get a whole bunch of pushback about it.

No one seems to want to change. No one seems to want to even engage with criticism about the culture; they just push back and pile on when criticism is brought up.

After a couple times of seeing this kind of behavior, and pushing back, and then getting piled on by people rejecting the criticism, I started to get tired of it and withdrawing somewhat. Later on, I some blatant sexism in a chatroom that was laughed off when I pointed it out to the moderators.

I've pretty much given up. I'll occasionally reply to questions people ask on my existing answers or if I see something that needs an answer or edit I'll make it, but I don't really feel like fighting the overwhelmingly elitist, sexist, and uncaring attitude on the site.

I think that this post is a nice gesture, and good that it's coming from the company and not just another user, but I worry that's it's much too late. The community has been attracting people who like it the way it is, and repelling people like me who don't, for a long time.
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If I had to guess, I'd say the mechanism behind that is it's expensive to be antibiotic resistant, and when you revert to normal times the mutation becomes a burden. That's serendipitous, but if it turned out the mutation was OK in either case we would be screwed.
Pied Piper's decompression algorithm works
Not for long I think, they probably will redesign their entire site too.
You might like the TV series Black Mirror. Especially Season 4 Episode 4.
It's all fun in games until the project you just started yesterday already needs an, albeit simple, upgrade.
>> we would not have nearly as much innovation in medicine without a profit motive

> Most economists? That feels like a claim in need of a citation

The usual best place for finding out what economists think is the IGM Economics Experts Panel[1]. I mention it because it's a great resource to be aware of, but they haven't addressed this question, though it's covered in textbooks. I checked the Mankiw textbook on Principles of Microeconomics[2], which if I'm not mistaken is the world's most popular one. In the introduction, it says that people tend to supply things when the returns are high:

"Incentives are crucial to analyzing how markets work. For example, when the price of an apple rises, people decide to eat fewer apples. At the same time, apple orchards decide to hire more workers and harvest more apples. In other words, a higher price in a market provides an incentive for buyers to consume less and an incentive for sellers to produce more. As we will see, the influence of prices on the behavior of consumers and producers is crucial for how a market economy allocates scarce resources."

That becomes a background assumption for discussion of incentives in the rest of the book. For example, when talking about externalities, it notes that the patent system increases the incentive to innovate:

"Research into new technologies provides a positive externality because it creates knowledge that other people can use. Because inventors cannot capture the full benefits of their inventions, they tend to devote too few resources to research. The federal government addresses this problem partially through the patent system, which gives inventors exclusive use of their inventions for a limited time."

[1] http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mankiw#Textbooks
When government pays for your healthcare some civil servants who look at you as merely statistics make that call to keep you alive or to let you die. In that sense the money spent is actually controlled.

In USA there is this weird concept that "all lives matter more than anything else" and hence doctors spend millions.
Tinder and Bumble (and Coffee Meets Bagel, the League, etc.) have each party approve the other. The only major thing that distinguishes Bumble from Tinder is the female-message first policy, which is often side-stepped as described above.
I think the point is to set an upper bound on how much a government ought to be willing to pay for a given procedure, and to compute that upper bound by counting QALYs and multiplying by their official dollar value.

For example:

Value of stitching knife wound: (40 QALYs) * (30,000 GBP/QALY) = 1.2M GBP

Cost of stitching knife wound: (let's say) 1000 GBP

Decision process:

Is the cost less than the value? 1000 < 1.2M, so yes. Therefore, pay for the procedure.

Whereas:

Value of expensive cancer procedure on 70-year-old: Let's say 5 QALYs just to make up something, taking into account expected lifespan and QOL and chance of remission, etc, times the same 30k GBP, = 150k GBP.

Cost of procedure: 1M GBP

Decision process:

Is the cost less than the value? 1M > 150k, so no. Therefore, don't pay for the procedure.
Do you find Golang to be that much harder to develop in, or is it that Python has libraries whose equivalents are missing in Golang? When would you actually choose one over the other?
The linked article mentions that there are zero UI customization options. You can't even change the font or colors. They are certainly not listening to their users.
> there is no stigma, there is a stereotype

For this thread, there is no difference.
I'm not from such a country, but I do listen to The Weeds (a policy podcast) and they have discussed how it works. Roughly speaking, there are committees that look at the efficacy of new treatments and their costs, and they decide what they will pay for a given treatment. Then the drug maker decides if they will sell it at that price. There are cases where the government will not pay the drug maker's reserve price. For example, there was a period of time where Kadcyla was not available in the UK. Then, after a while, the drug maker decided to reduce their reserve price, and now it seems the Britons can get the drug.

This national pricing leverage is a big part of why drugs are cheaper in countries with national price setting. Socialized medicine is actually less of a factor in this space. What matters is whether a single entity has the ability to set prices for the entire market (or a sufficiently large slice of it).

https://pharmaphorum.com/news/kadcyla-set-regular-nhs-fundin...
In China, the poor living in rural areas cannot easily move to cities (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system). In India the poor can move to cities.
Everywhere I look land is cheap and lifestyles are good. They can’t build SFR houses fast enough.

And I’m ignoring downtown Renaissances happening all across the Midwest.
You kids ever hear of Strange Days? Loved that movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/
This is a major part of the Japanese "dating app" experience - they're known as "Sakura"; same as the offline version of people who are paid to, for example, play pachinko and win or stand in line excitedly to buy something. Most Japanese dating apps also don't have a free mode, and require you to use coins or some such token to message or even view profiles. They use Sakura to run down your coins, and then message you saying they want to meet up -- "Message me back! Let's make plans!". Rinse and repeat.
I'm not from an EU country, but I'm familiar with it.

A lot of European countries do a health technology assessment to determine the cost effectiveness. If it's not cost effective, they don't pay for it.

Glybera was approved in the EU and Germany pays for it and it costs $1M.[1] Of course, very very few patients have or will be treated with it.

[1]http://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2015/03/03/1-million-pr...
truestory. I've been doing this for 2 decades and I've only ever posted one question on SO because it was super obscure technical thing that was totally un-googleable. I know not to ask anything less obscure. For community and "normal" questions there's reddit. I also only answer questions on reddit. I know there's prestige and it's good resume material to answer on SO, but reddit is a community whereas SO is documentation. Answering on SO is too aggravating.
Could you please stop posting uncivil comments to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is?

If you'd (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended, we'd appreciate it.
There's a delicate balance for moderators to achieve and I don't envy them.

Some questions are clearly daft, the person hasn't done any prior research, the question is vague, the problem is not apparent and it's a big waste of time trying to help. These questions are often shut down mercilessly and I think that's probably the best thing for them, but I've no doubt it's a terrible experience for the guy asking the question. I think the SO blog post addressed it pretty well by outlining a more streamlined question form with clear prompts for each part of the question.

Other questions are not daft, but perhaps are not asked well. They need to be edited, re-framed, boiled down to the essential parts, an example included, the expected output included, that sort of thing. It's tiresome to run into questions like this over and over, and I can understand how people might comment out of frustration, but it's good to prompt the OP to fix their question up so it can (and probably will) be answered well. Kid gloves and kindness are important here, it's not always easy to ask a good question. The SO blog post went a long way to addressing this and I look forward to seeing some changes on the site.

Overall I think SO is a fantastic resource with many amazing contributors, so it's good to see them responding to this problem and I hope they can make it even better.
Only that: TANSTAAFL.

Also: variable mortgages can also convert to fixed. If the rate is sitting flat, you're better off variable, with the option to switch to fixed if it looks like it will climb, than vice versa.
Any idea how he fared when oil and the loonie tanked circa 2014/2015 ? A lot of Canadian jobs are resource based which means they get cut when the price of the relevant commodity falls low enough.
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they are getting wealth creator's money and they are doing nothing for it as they are rentiers.
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I checked the date to make sure this wasn't an old April Fools' joke. The new design language is minimalistic, but it's not simple, and doesn't reflect the programming language at all.
> The additional level of moderation doesn't seem to have added much value over my time participating. The closest thing I can think of as nice is combining duplicates, though moderators often seem to miss subtle differences between questions and in some cases information gets lost in the end. Generally, the moderation focus often seems legalistic or driven by artificial incentives rather than primarily focused on improving the breadth, depth, and quality of the site as a technical resource.

The problem is, they added the review queues, which prompts people to review questions on topics they might know nothing about, and give badges based on how much people review. So people go through those review queues and might be motivated to just get through things quickly without thinking very much about the effect of what they are doing; there is no meta review, no downside to just making hasty decisions that just prevent other people from engaging in useful discussion.
I downed this comment because u wrote: “Koch bros hate solar”

Ur repeating something, I guess... but it’s totally not sourced. I read a rolling stone article before posting this message that suggested they fund ALEC, but that same article seems to hate on "profit" in a way i have difficulty relating to. I’d bet even SolarCity funded ALEC.
The so-called 'RESTful' web in 2018 and beyond
What's your application server setup like? Is there a standard for this? I tried using UWSGI and Gunicorn with varied results. It was just a pain to setup. I hope things have improved.
Maybe it's odd that it was reported.
I'm stuck in this rut. What can I do to break out of it?
it is actually possible. one time pad
Agreed. Their service is great.
The resulting entirely speculative pandemic could have a speculative outcome. Versus actually saving lives now in reality.
This seems like a problem that needs a cultural solution, not a technical one?

Because knowing who submitted the code, I can better manage my time. E.g. if the submitter is known for producing high quality code, I only need to spend minimal time browsing through it.

But, if the submitter is known to cut corners I can prepare myself to spend more time and review each line carefully because I most certainly will find issues.
To address logging offline you need a log shipper that will do reliable logging and pick of where it left off. I think rsyslog, Elastic Beats, and Splunk forwarder will all do that. Then logs are sent when a machine connects to a network.

For mobile (online but outside corporate network) there are two options I've heard of being done:

1. Have each endpoint have a unique TLS certificate, and have the log shipper do mutual TLS to the logging server which has a public IP.

2. Have a backhaul VPN that is allows connected, automatically, to the monitoring network, and send the logs over that. That VPN is different than the user VPN that gives access to the corporate network.
This is not really the best way to cognate about mutation at the bacterial scale. A better way of putting it is that every possible simple mutation is happening right now. If a mutation were truly neutral, it would already be fairly present in the population. It is possible that a complex mutation could emerge with these properties, but the likelihood is much less that the likelihood of many other things that would screw us more.

All that aside, these antibiotic regimes have been carefully designed by people who have already thought very hard about these problems. The single-dose model is designed to produce a significant response with a non-durable mutative result in the population. There's an awful lot of literature about the design process for third-world medication (see e.g. tuberculosis treatment) if you're curious.
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This is really the wrong move. Really sucks the personality out of go. I felt the old brand clearly highlighted the important thing is, and where the most time is spent, is the code
https://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-...

This guy gave his parents the gift of divorce.
The evidence of a stronger male sex drive is overwhelming.

”The sex drive refers to the strength of sexual motivation. Across many different studies and measures, men have been shown to have more frequent and more intense sexual desires than women, as reflected in spontaneous thoughts about sex, frequency and variety of sexual fantasies, desired frequency of intercourse, desired number of partners, masturbation, liking for various sexual practices, willingness to forego sex, initiating versus refusing sex, making sacrifices for sex, and other measures. No contrary findings (indicating stronger sexual motivation among women) were found. Hence we conclude that the male sex drive is stronger than the female sex drive. The gender difference in sex drive should not be generalized to other constructs such as sexual or orgasmic capacity, enjoyment of sex, or extrinsically motivated sex."

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15327957PSPR050...
What about your LSTM-based model that didn’t converge in your earlier TPU benchmarks in February?
Not everyone spends >$2200 per year on Amazon purchases. I do not come anywhere near that.