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Not all cockroaches fly. It's likely you had the wrong type (or thr right one, if you don't love roaches flying into you).
Kimchi is one of those things that might seem slightly off putting on the initial taste, but god lord it’s addictive beyond that point.

I don’t know if anyone has the experience of making it themselves but I would definitely like to give it a go.
Trump has commuted the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson
The only way to get some COLA is to get a new job.
Agree, a Rigol 1054z is easy to come by inexpensively, and it can be software modded to unlock some extra features.

The scope also works great on Linux with Sigrok.
It’s perfectly suited for a name directory however. In fact it would be faster because every resolver would have the global view of the entire name space. Anyway, DNS propagation is not exactly instant, either; so it’s not like you can make a worse system very easily.
Oh fuck off.

Someone has to say it. Down vote away.
Can you explain why you think Lisp is involved here?
There are two problems with SS, one fixable, one less so. The hard to fix problem is slowing population growth. SS depends on young workers to fund the payments to retirees. But this is really only a problem if aggregate income growth declines with population growth, and it hasn't; the aggregate income of all Americans has quadrupled since 1982, the last time this shortfall occurred. The problem is that the vast majority of the income growth has been captured by a small portion of the population, who don't pay withholding taxes on it. If we had sane progressive tax policy in the US, the SS shortfall would evaporate.
AI can't create Art.
> No one is coerced or forced into an involuntary association

That is provably false in at least some states, because joining some professions in certain states required you to pay agency fees whether or not you chose to be a member of the union at all.

That's been the case since 1977, and was decided with __Abood v Detroit Board of Ed__[1], hich compelled teachers to pay union dues, no matter their stance on the union.

To whit:

> A Michigan statute authorizing union representation of local governmental employees permits an "agency shop" arrangement, whereby every employee represented by a union, even though not a union member, must pay to the union, as a condition of employment, a service charge equal in amount to union dues.

That issue is currently up for dispute in __Janus v American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31__[2]

[1] - https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/431/209/case.htm...

[2] - https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-1466
Sorry, there is always a new developer thinking "I can do this much better if I just start from scratch, getting rid of all the bloat".
Market rates are inflated due to lack of price controls in programs like Medicare and Medicaid, plus employer-sponsored insurance plans are not as incentivized to negotiate for lower prices as individual consumers are.

Couple that with the supply side problems where doctors need 7+ years of training before they can perform simple procedures like testing for strep throat or prescribing antibiotics, and the fact that a large fraction of medical spending does very little to prolong life or improve quality of life and you can see that the current health care system is incredibly wasteful.
I think they're talking very specifically about the London Underground.

It's very easy to build automated trains when they're brand new, but much harder to do so on legacy lines.
grsec may maintain state of the art, but it doesn't matter if one can't use their code because of the potential for breakage and toxic licensing conditions under which one would have to use it should one choose to do so. I also would not want to support a group which,according to the OSI, violates the spirit of the licence upon which their state of the art work is based - and which certainly violates generally accepted community norms.
Find out, in detail, why they want it.

For us, Crucible was a significant improvement over Phabricator in terms of daily use. My team had been trialing it for several months, and upon demoing it to other teams and our managers, convinced them it was worth switching.
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Not to mention when folks talk HA and you ask about federation they just give you a blank stare.

k8s is HA in the same region if you are using GKE. Not really what you can call HA
Ah, sorry, I misread. Given his earlier comments about UPS, I glossed over the second 'S'. Thanks for the catch.
Who do you think is going to fall for this? Please just stop trying to play the cool internet company that cares about the privacy of the average user. These kind of actions are just cringe worthy. And its so obvious that this is just a big data collection of privacy minded people. It essentially cripples the circuit decoupling of the TOr-browser. I know your little company drone voting ring will downvote this. But anyone who takes you seriously after cloudbleed deserves no respect. And there is no way to resurrect after a failure like this. Especially because you claim to make stuff safer.
I used Phabricator for 4 years in a previous company. I used also Differential, Arcanist (for pre-commit code reviews), herald, Maniphest, Paste among others.

Personally, I really liked it, except for the fact that the interface feels clunky and outdated. When I was leaving, the company was moving to GitLab mainly to use the "pull request" flow, which is not available in Phabricator.
Perhaps, and that already exists with Namecoin, but if I had to use it for _all_ of my DNS records like the GP suggested I'd quickly shoot my computer.
I should say, definitely not mine. I don't know where I got it, or where they got it.
>The tricky bits are all the hacks to limit resource usage which took a bunch of engineering time to implement and test and aren’t reusable across engines.

Interesting.

I built the same thing. Through some basic script examples, such as `while(true) {}` or `new Buffer(1000 * 1000);`, the conclusion that I came to was that it is impossible to truly interrupt/prevent resource exhaustion attacks. A bug anywhere that would allow reflection to be accessible would have been disastrous as well.

In the end, I built a JNI wrapper over Duktape+flatbuffers, which gave me super fine-grained control over memory allocation and CPU time.

I'd be very interested to hear a summary of how/whether you managed to make Nashorn safe for user scripts.
Okay but Google doesn't actually want to hire the best -- everybody knows that. So your point is not relevant.
Newer automated systems have the benefit of foresight, and usually contain walkways the length of a tunnel with evacuation cross passages.

In a legacy system like New York or London where these facilities don't exist and introducing them would be very disruptive, if not completely impossible, you probably need at least one person on a train to assist with evacuation.
Do we even want that anymore and is it still a smart idea?
I love Kimchi - I love Korean BBQ and the veggies are my favorite part. If you ever find yourself in DFW, try out OMI in Carrollton.

I've thought of trying to make my own with greens like kale, collard, mustard etc. I should just try it out.
The article cannot be accessed at all Firefox/linux, when browsing from Europe.

A consent page is displayed, but no action buttons. browser console shows error messages about failing to load the consent script.

Same happened in another website browsed from hackerNews yesterday. Works kind-of-ok when I open chromium. Redirected to the site's home page instead of the article after accepting cookie policy, plus presented with another modal to accept even more cookies...
What's also kind of buried is that the 'employees' are a small fraction of Google's staff and do not represent the overall staff at company, as the headline kind of implies.

Imagine if the proposal were put to company-wide referendum and quashed?

I suggest that a policy representing the 'balance of views' would look something rather different than something proposed by a group of highly motivated 'slightly activist' employees.
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I like your analysis of the "problems" from an industry perspective. Here's the user perspective:

(1) The problem with subscriptions is that it's unfathomable to subscribe all over the place. I live in New Jersey, so I'm not going to subscribe to the LA Times even if they have some great coverage of a particular topic.

(2) The problem with ads is that they are INSANELY annoying to see all the time. Period.

My company, reallyread.it, is going to be uniquely positioned to make "pay per use" (aka just reading something) a reality. It's the Holy Grail for all of us: Spotify for News - one premium subscription that unlocks everything, everywhere. We're on it. ;)
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Those people are fundamentally confused because they only look at group identity rather than individuals.

And if we look at groups for fairness, then we must also look at groups for responsibility, and that leads to tremendous suffering. Are you ready to be responsible for whatever your "group" does?
>>> "but not with indirectly killing people?"

I'm absolutely not OK killing (innocent) people, and clearly, the pentagon isn't too. The aim of the program is to increase accuracy to prevent and minimize collateral damage.

If you truly cared about protecting the lives of innocent, you'd support this program.
Fun fact, the spicy pepper was only introduced after the Portuguese brought it to East Asia.

The original Kimchi was not spicy and red.
Yes, this is not only about tech-sector. You see it everywhere there is humans. There is always new people thinking that why do they do everything so stupid? I can do it much better if I do it this way. Sometimes they are right and everyone is happy, sometimes they do it exactly the same way it was done ages ago and found out to be inefficient or fail in some way and they get to hear "There was a reason we did it the other way".

I try to explain why we do things the way we do and if they still want to try to change things, I make sure it's easy to go back again in case it fails the usual way.
If I were to ever run my own business I would never allow these stupid non business related discussions to proliferate. I still can't believe they dropped the Pentagon contract.
So this is a bit of a tangent, but your Santa Claus example really clarified something I've been reading about recently. I'm reading Lloyd's "Foundations of Logic Programming", which essentially explains the fundamentals behind logic languages like Prolog. We write programs using uninterpreted functions[0] to represent our data, and define predicates to drive the program. The idea of using the Herbrand universe is that it gives a convenient universal starting point: if the program has a model in some universe, it will have a model in the Herbrand universe, and if the program does not have a model, it cannot have a model in the Herbrand universe.

Your Santa Claus example helped me understand why the Herbrand universe is only useful if you restrict yourself to clauses (disjunctions under universal quantification). The Herbrand universe consists of all objects one has named (and objects one can form with function symbols, but we have none of those here), so it must necessarily falsify "~E x. x = Santa Claus". It's easy to find a model where this statement is true (take the empty universe, or the universe which contains only the Tooth Fairy), but there is no model of this statement in the Herbrand universe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterpreted_function
> If we had sane progressive tax policy in the US, the SS shortfall would evaporate.

Our tax policy is among the most progressive in the developed world: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/us-taxe....

The real problem is that the average income earner doesn't pay enough Social Security taxes to cover what they will receive in benefits: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/feb/01/.... The system is set up so not only do the needy get a public subsidy, but most people do.

Caps on retirement taxes are not specific to the U.S. Germany and France, for example, have similar ceilings. Germany, for example, has a 19.6% payroll tax up to $80,000. The U.S. tax is 12.4% up to $127,000.
Wholly irrelevant, the paper is specifically concerned with recovering a dialectic between W. O. Quine and M. Dummett. Even if the question was the more general, "Is Logic Metaphysics?", knowledge of formal logics isn't even of concern. It's trivial that we can construct a plethora of axioms with their own definitions, the problem remains: to even adhere to those definitions one is exercising another intuitive logic—even in the case of computation which is an engineered construction to proxy this very intuition, otherwise we would have never been concerned with the linear properties necessary for computation to begin with.
Well, since npm was the de facto default, it had enough time to catch up, I guess.
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s|he didn't say that only White and Asian men were capable of working in tech. Only that those groups tended to be most interested in computers. There is nothing wrong with pointing that out. If we use majoring in computer science as a proxy for "interest in computers" the data certainly backs up this claim.
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There is good evidence that diverse teams lead to improved creativity, at the cost of added conflict because of fewer shared assumptions.

In a technology company, where it's critical to maximize creativity and question assumptions, and where conflict can be navigated with good communication practices and professional management, can you understand why diversity may be a net-positive tool in building great teams and great products?
Pretty much. People already pay a premium for photochromic lenses that take minutes to adjust, LCD can do the same in milliseconds.
Yeah I read this article and have zero idea what is going on.
If you don't pay extra to get it specifically before noon, I don't see how you can complain about getting it at 5pm
The EFF's representative to CA/B (Seth Schoen) suggested that DV certs for .onion make sense in the v3 onion service world.

There wasn't exactly rapturous support, but there were constructive comments from some of the usual suspects on the Browser side of the equation. So far I as know/ remember this discussion died out without anybody producing an actual ballot that could be voted on.

Most notably there wasn't a fierce backlash of CA reps yelling that this was an awful idea and they wanted no part in it. So either they're OK with it, or they've decided it won't go anywhere and they don't care. Without a ballot changing the actual Baseline Requirements you'd never know for sure.

Personally I'm not convinced DV .onion certificates are a great idea, but I'm not opposed to them either, and it seems some people who own .onion services that aren't legal, or need to be anonymous for whatever reason would like to have such certificates.
My understanding is that most diversity proposals do not have evidence showing that they work to increase diversity (other than affirmative action type policies). I would love to be proven wrong on this.

I'm not criticizing the goal of increasing diversity. I think it's important to provide the same opportunities to people regardless of background, but we should judge policies by their effectiveness rather than their intentions.
Do you consider ethics business related?
Per the article, "several hundred employees", out of a 2017 Alphabet headcount of 80,110.
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If you're a public company, you really don't get to make this call.
I'm curious if anyone has examples where diversity led to better product creation, or counterexamples where companies were hurt by since the designers overlooked certain groups.
One notable example was Google photos racist blunder:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33347866

Arguably Apple not focusing on women's health for the longest time could have also been mitigated by more female product people as well.
This wasn't something that all employees wanted. Tying pay to diversity initiatives creates a terrible perverse incentive that leaves all parties worse off than how they started.

-t. a "minority" in tech
It's worth noting that the problem in the article is not that the MTA negotiates poor contracts with the construction unions, it's that they don't negotiate with them at all.

The contractors that do the negotiation are more than happy to oblige the union's demands, as long as their margins are fat, and so far the MTA has not cried uncle about the costs being passed on, although that looks to be (very slowly) changing.
> If you hire the best, you don't get diversity

[citation needed] This is very contrary to my experience.
https://manifold.co ;-)
Heroku is a perfectly valid solution. If you want to keep some of the auto-build PaaS benefits whilst containerizing for (any of) lower cost at scale, running exactly the same app configuration in dev as in production, security, attaching services not available on Heroku, distribution to clients to run on their own cloud; then Docker does offer a nice solution - see gliderlabs/herokuish or redhat s2i for a familiar autobuild environment.

And despite the one-size fits all dogma of some of the kubernetes crowd, there are many solutions to docker deployment and orchestration at different scales, especially if you're looking to retain most of the benefits of Heroku and its PaaS workflow; From the low end there's AWS Elastic Beanstalk multi-docker, flynn.io, docker swarm mode, AWS ECS and logistic sugar on top of that like Remind101/Empire, convox etc., before you get to PaaS-ish kubernetes behemoths like OpenShift or flavours of Cloud Foundry.
I don’t disagree but here’s your downvote anyways, since this doesn’t help dispell gp’s views/comments, just says that it isn’t polite to talk about it.
The HN title is faithful to the actual HTML title tag, including the word "Fate". The headline on the page differs.
I'd say your intel is far out of date. Async-everything + async/await makes Node more elegant than the same programs in Ruby/Python.

Even little things like "make these two database requests in parallel and wait on them both" or "process these urls but only have 8 requests in flight at a time."
Some comments by millenials say that they expect to receive SS benefits, but this is not a secure basis for financial planning. A person's retirement planning should be independent of any expected SS receipts and if you happen to receive SS then it's just a windfall.
>There is good evidence that diverse teams lead to improved creativity, at the cost of added conflict because of fewer shared assumptions.

What kind of diversity? In what problem domains?
Is it better to hire a woman from MIT to join a bunch of men from MIT, or to hire a man from a Chinese university. Which is the real diversity?

Of course you could go all out and hire the Chinese woman.

In either case how much are you willing to adjust hiring standards in order to achieve the diversity? I don't imagine anyone has quantified this kind of thing. So everyone would just be guessing.
>and via the decreasing numbers of physicians who refuse to take Medicare or Medicaid.

do you mean "increasing number of physicians"?
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Anki Cozmo [1] looks cool. Does anyone have any other suggestion about a programmable robot with wheels and a camera, either more "bare bones" (and cheaper) or one that has some extra features, like a arm that can grab stuff?

[1]: https://www.anki.com/en-us/cozmo
Thanks for the plug saamm, I'm one of the creators of Pachyderm. I think Torus and Pachyderm would work very nicely together. You could go straight from developing code in the
image Torus provides to deploying it on Pachyderm as a production pipeline that runs on new data as it comes in with just a few commands. Similarly, their Dockerized data science cookie-cutter could work nicely as a Pachyderm service, this would work similar to using the service on your laptop, except that you could easily deploy it on a cloud provider and schedule it with GPUs and it will get updated with new data as it comes in.

Very exciting to see more people applying containers to data science.
So employees don't sue for unfair firing?
Unfairness is arguably in the eye of the beholder. If someone “responsibly saved” then they are not relying on the benefit as much as someone who didn’t or couldn’t save. Is it fair that a person who does not need financial aid receives it anyway?
Equality of outcome is an ideological rather than rational stance and is losing its foothold on account of rationally justified kickback. Both because it necessitates active, purposeful discrimination to enforce and because the result is less value to shareholders (at least on account of the cost to enforce).
> A true meritocracy is blind to race and sex

This is absolutely true. It's also something that has never existed. "Black-sounding" names on job applications get fewer calls for interviews, women of childbearing age are hired less frequently because of fears that they may choose to prioritize children over their job, etc.

Additionally, this ignores the number of people who would be able to advance further if not for the systemic issues holding them back, e.g. rampant sexual harassment, men talking over women, and politicization of human rights (especially trans rights). A push for increased diversity may lead to a temporary drop in average skills (though I find this exceptionally unlikely), while leading to a large increase in the long term by breaking down the issues holding back minority (in tech) populations from achieving their potential.
That is a really great series that has a lot of depth.
Another thing to consider on this is the management that has to be done to arc. When using arc, it has to be setup in every new computer, and it becomes messy if you want to use Client Certs.

We had a big Wiki page for newcomers on how to setup arcanist, and it was not that funny.
Yeah I've noticed that pattern when I implement numerical algorithms by hand. A lot of the time they're pretty simple. But you need the analysis to be confident that it will work. A point in favor of formal CS / applied math :)
Yep, that's the "switcheroo" that reverses the long successful logic of science. I'd suggest starting with Meehl 1967:

>"In the physical sciences, the usual result of an improvement in experimental design, instrumentation, or numerical mass of data, is to increase the difficulty of the “observational hurdle” which the physical theory of interest must successfully surmount; whereas, in psychology and some of the allied behavior sciences, the usual effect of such improvement in experimental precision is to provide an easier hurdle for the theory to surmount."

https://meehl.dl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/074theoryte...
When they sold their business it was not their responsibility to make sure the buyer was getting a good deal. It was the responsibility of the buyer to honor the agreements they made as part of the purchase.
A business and the world around it are not divorced entities
From a reddit post at r/chrome:

> Here is a screenshot. https://i.imgur.com/aPdZRNz.png

> The play/pause button in the center of the player distract from the actual video, and places it too far away from the other video controls.

> The volume control is now a on/off toggle, without the ability to adjust volume at all.

> The download button is the only item hidden behind the new three dots menu, requiring two clicks to achieve what used to need one click, while taking up the exact same amount of space.

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/8npg8w/the_new_vide...