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If you don’t have opportunities to reinvest the money to grow the business (which you should...), I’d start paying yourselves higher dividends. Why not try to grow the business though?
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Well just don't mention that part.
If things go as they should, PhD may not be a bad deal at all.

It's also useful to note that the money and working condition issues are country and field dependent. For instance, in many European countries PhD students in many STEM and also humanities fields are most often employed full-time with standard work contract(s), with OK salary (but less than in industry), and full benefits with excessive unpaid overtime in principle forbidden, small or no tuition, etc.

The situation with academic career prospects after PhD as I understand however is that situation is similar to US everywhere, and going eventually gets tough after that point, and most people are culled before finding a "permanent" position.
My only requirement is I'm looking for remote roles. I don't mind going in to the office a few times a week but would love a remote component.

Recruiters usually have more onsite roles.
Website should be up, I just rebooted AWS :)
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>there are still places running RHEL6 in production

We just got off of RHEL5, so I can understand why there are people still running 6.
They may not market it that way, but they definitely do. In my program, you are admitted by a specific professor behind the scenes. You may end up working for someone different during your first year, but there is a specific advisor who said "I think this person is good and I have money for them."
That's only if UK's debt is in pounds and without provisions for currency fluctuations.
If you need to configure a computer, understand the difference between an email and a webmail and imap, what is a certificate and why it matters, you need a basic understanding of how these things work.
I edited my comment and added a link to a typical video. The child watching this is already fluent in English.
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Then we all hope the trial will reveal that they're not guilty?

I mean, the court system isn't perfect, but do you have a better idea? What would you do when we a court finds somebody guilty who maintains that they're innocent?

If you accept a trial's outcome that the accused is guilty, it follows logically that they deserve to be punished more for denying it (or at least, more than they would be punished if they confessed.) If you don't accept the trial's outcome because you can never be 100% sure, then how do you propose to run a criminal justice system?
My guess is that this is a symptom of only specific people being competent/engaged. Alternatively, this is specific team members hating process.

In the latter case, I think that means you adjust process to be lighter. In tbe former, there is no procedural fix, only hiring fixes.
It already has jumped the shark for me. I go online for HN, arxiv, stackoverflow/other online documentation, and google groups for my ulti league. I don’t use the internet for recreation anymore at all. It’s a cesspit. I have an rss reader that I check for headlines every couple of days, a Spotify account, and Hulu/Netflix/hbo go that I don’t use enough to justify the expense. If there were a way to find non-toxic, non-bullshit content (sort of an anti-reddit), I might consider using that if it were completely ad-free. I really miss the old days of the internet before there was any significant amount of money to be made. Forums, personal web pages, etc were fucking awesome. You could really feel the personal passion for what people were doing. People felt entitled to be themselves without fear of retribution, offending others, or failing at some standard set by society. Now it seems like everything is about chasing either money or likes. I fucking hate it.
Really? My impression is that there's a permanent shortage of good programmers. Although my impression is that a big part of the reason is that Dutch companies are unwilling to raise the wages of programmers; that way they create their own shortage, of course.
I agree with you - it is impossible to say if it will be good or bad in the end.

However, I believe individual investors will bridge the information asymmetry, since regulation of anonymous fungible crypto is bound to fail (or to be "as successful as the war on drugs" if your excuse my french)

Since it can't be regulated, enough people will be scammed to cool down the taste for risk for the remaining ones. Whether the remaining ones is >0, IDK. Maybe yes, because out of a few billions, there will always be a few hotheads?

In any case, I see the funding of highest risk business as a positive. I want to see crazy innovation like transhumanism!
I might join em.
It can be used anywhere there's a middleman/ intermediary or where trust is required.
>> vast majority of interviewers will tell you that they're looking for a good thought process as opposed to the correct solution, but they're 100% full of shit so don't believe what they say.

I am actively interviewing right now. Also interviewed at FANG companies. This is absolutely 100% correct. Those people don't give shit about thought process as much as they do about correct bug free solution under 15 minutes. If you take even JUST 2 MINUTES to think they start looking at you suspiciously and reject you in their mind. This is really a fucked up situation.
You'll find a lot of those on YouTube.
But isn't it impractical to test every feature of every library you are using? In an ideal world you would have everything tested in isolation as well as integration. But in practice there will always be a corner case that remains untested because you don't know all internals of the libraries you use.
CEO is now "Courageous Evangelizing Officer"?

My, my, what the world came to, etc, etc..
A few people have done this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr220CbJTQc

It usually confuses them a lot.
While it's easy to say, how far do you go? Do you test every bit of every upstream library you use? The ideal is probably yes, but the reality is this rarely happens.

Even with a test, you may not find this. In the IOException example, the author calls out why:

> When we upgraded, all our tests passed (because our test fixtures emulated the old behavior and our network was not unstable enough to trigger bad conditions)

The only way to catch this type of thing is to emulate the entire network side of things, and that's still only as good as your simulation of the real world. Again, reality is even if you test your upstream to this extent, you're probably mocking a bunch of things, and that may mask something in a way you won't see until possibly production use.
>So it's an additional factor for authentication, not a way of identifying fraudulent sites to the user?

It doesn't identify fraudulent sites (tls is the tool for that). but it won't give a properly signed login response for gmail.com to a request from the site fakegmail.com.

That's a poorly worded answer to your question, but here are some slides I made to explain the specification:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AkcTHahME5xY-FExm6vN...
That is better, actually. If it's proven for that many years why mess with it? Why assume that older is unilaterally worse?
Same here.

Seems like (someone correct me if I'm wrong) the "network" part is about how users can have profiles and use these profiles as their portfolio. So a network of people/ providers.

Also, the SaaS part seems just thrown in there, like ketchup on French food.
As of the Euro 6c emissions rules, gasoline engines are subject to the same particulate count limits as diesel engines. This has resulted in the addition of particulate filters to certain 2018 model petrol vehicles (BMW, VW) in Europe.

This suggests that prior to Euro 6c, some petrol engines were getting away with higher particulate emissions than would have been allowed for diesels.
Sigh.

I think you're spot on with your cynicism. But maybe the market won't let them get away with it, if there's sufficient competition?

Here's my sad story of what you allude to, regarding a washing machine (or maybe it was a dryer I forget now):

An electric motor is fundamentally an incredibly reliable part. I'd venture that there are still some 100-year-old electric motors in daily service.

The "contactor" (fancy word for a high power relay) failed. This contactor controlled the electric motor which made the drum turn. Turns out that the field replaceable unit is not the contactor, but is an assembly that combines the motor and contactor. So instead of being able to replace just the relay (which can be prone to failure after some years of use), the entire assembly must be replaced. A perfectly good motor thrown away because the contacts on the relay controlling it went bad.

The replaceable unit cost $320 (this was a while ago) instead of perhaps $20 for the relay itself!
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put an email in about and ill contact you. I try to say anon on this site.
The legislation is proposed by the government, as they have a majority is is usually expected that it will pass due to their majority but it is not guaranteed, depending on how controversial it is and how much of a majority they have. legislation can also be proposed by individual MPs.

In this situation this new legislation was introduced by the government.
IME it's not weakness. People just don't smile without a reason. And meeting or talking to a stranger is not a proper reason.

>>The virile ruler, the vodka, the endless mounds of sour cream—they are pleasing to some. It’s just that grinning without cause is not a skill Russians possess or feel compelled to cultivate. There’s even a Russian proverb that translates, roughly, to “laughing for no reason is a sign of stupidity"
That video is stupid but it is worse than reality TV shows or cartoons? It’s entertainment. Doesn’t always have to have a further purpose beyond passing time and satisfying curiosity.

My comment about English was just an example, when completely stupid (by my own admission) videos still somehow still managed to contribute to my life and career.
You can get a Samsung Chromebook for $75. The FCC operates the Lifeline program, which provides subsidized Internet access to low-income Americans, but the program was gutted about three months ago, dropping about 70% of enrollees.
> If you accept a trial's outcome that the accused is guilty, it follows logically that they deserve to be punished more for denying it (or at least, more than they would be punished if they confessed.)

No, it doesn't; it seems illogical, I would say, to impose additional punishment for people asserting their Constitutional right to compel the government to prove criminal allegations beyond a reasonable doubt without relying on testimony provided by the accused. It is contrary to the entire idea of a Constitutional right.
Rust takes a similar approach. For unit tests, you use the #[cfg(test)] attribute (/ pragma / directive) for conditional compilation, and #[test] to mark a function that is a unit test, which is run whenever you run the `cargo test` command. Also, any Rust code in Markdown fences in documentation is, by default, also run by `cargo test`, which you can disable for an individual code block by marking it as `rust,norun` instead of `rust`.
So who should you trust to weigh risks? Every group that needs to weigh risks sometimes gets it wrong, that is what makes something a risk (uncertainty)
I was prescribed Ambien after being a routine Tylenol PM user when I was in my upper teens. I had incredible trouble sleeping that affected my school life. I expected Ambien to behave similarly; at some point I'd start to FEEL like I was going to fall asleep where I was sitting. Sort of that drunk Tylenol PM feeling where your eyes start to close and you're drifting off so you head to bed. Hell I'm pretty sure my doc even told me to take it instead of TPM because it wasn't as harmful to my body.

That didn't happen at all, instead I started to see the room and objects in my peripheral floating, heard voices, etc. Thankfully I just had the urge to wander around my back yard and stare at the faces I was seeing in trees.

I never took it again after that. I don't think the risks of Ambien can even remotely be understated. I have friends that take it, not abusively, but every once and awhile they have some crazy event happen like being found naked on the beach or in someones house (thinking it was their own). Maybe it's a chemical reaction like the article describes but I don't see any harm in more people being aware of what CAN happen on it.

There are people sleep walking, sleep driving, etc on it. Seems like it has a huge affect on inhibitions/repression like the article mentions. The guy I know who went streaking on the beach would never do that in his wildest dreams if he were sober.
This is different though, because the user themselves does not get a portion of the income. In fact, click fraud is much less likely with this idea than with current web advertising, because with current web advertising, site owners are incentivized to click on their own ads to generate profit. Under this model, EFF would have to go pretend to be other people and click on everybody else's ads, a pretty long con.
That's pretty funny. When I was in college I had a roommate from Colombia and mentioned that I'd like to learn some Spanish. He enthusiastically recommended watching the Spanish language soaps on Telemundo, he told me watching American soaps is how he learned most of his English.
I have coworkers who believe AWS is "Amazon WorkSpace" and complain "my AWS is slow, please reboot my AWS."
Shouldn't that depend on how bad the disease is that you are trying to cure with the drug?
>> high IQs exclusively

I agree and I think its illegal to do so. Its a form of discrimination so they have disguised it as a "coding challenge".
There are places that just forked RHEL5ish and update the kernel and packages. At some point it's a mess, but until then, just keep patching.
All people should fear self incrimination. Prosecutors don't know you, your history, or care. If they suspect they can get a conviction from anyone, they will try, regardless of their role in unrelated cases. One normal healthy human accidental inconsistency in your story can ruin you forever. Accidental self incrimination of the innocent is not to be taken lightly. Always have a lawyer present when talking to a prosecutor.
It doesn't tell the whole story, but it reflects a real and current axis of variation.

Actually it conflates and muddles several different axes of variation, leaving a situation where almost nobody is actually correctly described by the term "left wing" or "right wing".

American “libertarians” (that is, people referred to that way in America) are typically right-libertarians.

That is a myth which has no basis in reality. Libertarians in America adopt huge swathe of positions which are more typically associated with the "left wing" label: drug decriminalization, opposition to the death penalty, religious freedom, etc. The fact that they tend to take those same issues even further than others is how you wind up with the "left of left, and right of right" label:

Typical American "left wing" position: decriminalize weed

Typical American libertarian position: eliminate all drug laws, what you put in your body is no business of the State.

So, "left of left".

Typical American "right wing" position: "lower taxes"

Typical American libertarian position: "taxation is theft, end all taxes".

So, right of right.

You really can't model things in a sufficiently rich way to describe Libertarianism on a one-dimensional spectrum like the left/right scale. It just doesn't work.
> Gov't could enact laws that prevent the end customer from being financially liable above a certain amount per treatment

This basically introduces gov't-supported insurance for treatments above that sum. If they would say that hospitals should just eat the cost, the hospitals will have to put a large part of this cut into increased cost of other, cheaper treatments.

Not that I know the fix for the cost disease in US medicine. But likely it lies somewhere allowing hospitals compete on price.
>SemVer is a social construct, not a contract. It's nice when it applies, but you cannot rely on other developers to adhere to it.

Whats the solution here? Fuck standards? Imagine if we had that same attitude with regards to HTTP.
There's definitely a market. I don't know how many times I've heard people say they would switch to Linux but can't because of some critical app they need. The 3 I hear about most often are games, MS Office and Adobe software, usually Creative Suite and/or Acrobat Pro. I think there would be a market for engineering and design software too. AutoCAD, Matlab, etc.
For your interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy
I haven't to be honest, the couple of companies I have been with that used it have used outdated self hosted versions. Maybe the licensing scheme should encourage organizations to upgrade rather that stay on an old version.
What kind of junk statistics are these? HBR ought to be more discerning in what it publishes.

"How successful teams collaborate"... wait, I meant "the average number of users who update the same directories in Dropbox from institutions that tend to have influential research.

Sound insights. Make sure you're collaborating with no more than 2.3 people or else you'll have to move your research projects over to Yale.
Unfortunately it’s still timing out :(
Every quarter they hire ~4000 employees, majority of them engineers and product managers. In q3 they expect even more due to new grads joining. Does anyone know how this looks compared to other big companies like amazon,microsoft,facebook, etc?
Out of curiosity, have to tried vigorous exercise? Any time I've had issues sleeping in the past, as soon as I got into a workout regiment, it got me right back to a normal sleep schedule.
> If you consider "fundamentalist" a rude adjective

How about no adjective?
In terms of political alliances, American libertarians are very much right-aligned, but on specific issues they end up opposed to traditional right-wing views; criminal justice is one of them.

Part of their right-wing alignment is to downplay these kinds of issues, but Reason as an ideologically purist publication tends to play them up.
> damn difficult to edit and re-organize text

The honest and unfortunate answer is, in my personal experience, that editing and re-organizing text doesn't often happen in students' papers regardless of the tools available to them. Not knowing how to type well is one thing, but a _lot_ of students get to college not knowing how to write a half-decent paper (and then still don't learn squat in their freshman composition class).
My experience is that makes things harder. A lot of companies want to do “rural sourcing”. Where they outsource so they can get cheaper domestic labor in lower cost of living areas by hiring remote workers.
That’s alarming and sad. No pleasure or drug is as powerful as a good work of fiction.
Ask HN: Why are we still not able to debug our bodies?
I mean like in real time, figuring out exactly what's happening with one's body, in order to diagnose problems, track nutrition, etc.​​

Why can't toilet do urine tests every day?

Why can't we ingest some capsule that tracks biomarkers in the blood, in real time?

This is so frustrating. We have all these awesome technolog​ies​, yet ​​we have trouble diagnosing problems for what is maybe the most important thing for us - our body.

As a software engineer in ​my thirties with little knowledge in bio, I'm willing to devote my career into solving this problem. What should I do?
For a programmer, the answer should be "always", because smog check in the US is just self reported car diagnostics.
My 70-something parents keep their cell phones at home, since they are so nice, so nothing happens to them. They carry pens and paper if they need to track something.

My dad was a privacy-conscious bus driver in the 1980s, and has always had an unlisted number. These days, I know he's calling because caller ID shows "Private Number" when he calls.
The harm is that 1) data which seems anonymized can be de-anonymized due to carelessness or advances in analytical techniques, and 2) it’s mine. I have laptops in my house for example that I’ve not used in years and will never use again. That doesn’t give you the right to steal them even if there’s no explicit “harm” to me.
For a few years I studied law. The first lecture was, essentially: "You are not lawyers. Do not give legal advice. Do not claim to know anything. You are not lawyers".

Since I dropped out, I am doubly not a lawyer.
Very little of what you just said actually applies to the practice of litigation in the US.

For starters, most defense lawyers aren't "appointed" from a government-funded pool; they're actually employees of the government: public defenders. (Pool defenders are the minority in the US, generally found in smaller jurisdictions without the budget for standalone public defender offices.) Public defenders frequently attack the crime labs and police departments, despite the fact that both departments are also part of their employer.

On the civil side, outside of specialized areas like insurance litigation or torts, most litigation lawyers do not specialize as plaintiff or defense lawyers. They represent their clients, and this means that they will be the plaintiff's lawyer in some cases and the defense's lawyer in others. (In the case of tort litigation, the "side" depends on the client base. If the lawyer's clients are businesses, they'll almost always be on the defense side. However, if their clients are individuals, they could be on either side.)
> Maintaining innocence when you know you're guilty shows a lack of remorse about what you've done.

Yet pleading guilty only because you get a payoff for it doesn't really say anything about your remorse either.

Not attacking you or your position (whatever that may be) - I know you're just explaining the reason we have this system, but it's also worth pointing out that said rationale isn't uncontested.
Yes I'm talking about victims being jailed for not co-operating as witnesses. Here's an article about it: "Across the country, domestic violence victims who turn to law enforcement for help can be punished if they later decide that a criminal justice response isn’t in their best interest." http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/trials_and_e...
To be fair, the issue here is also that for most of the last 70 or so years the Taiwanese government actually claimed to be the rightful government for ALL of mainland China and even occupied its seat at the UN in that capacity for a time. I don't think anyone argues that Taiwan - outside of the Indigenous population which are a minority - see themselves as anything other than Chinese.
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I have read fiction in the years in question, but most of my fiction consumption lately has been serial TV (by internet). Modulo Sturgeon's Law, the quality in the last decade has gone way up.
But it's literally a heavily studied question in decision theory, and there are tons of statistics that people are too scared by the potential consequences to fight for their own right, when they know they're innocent. Sure, if you are pleading innocent there's potentially no or a lower effect - but the probability of a defendant pleading innocent is _significantly_ impacted by the existence of plea bargains.
Well, perhaps if your purchases constituted some large majority of Amazon's sales. From what I read I doesn't seem like Tesla has that sort of leverage on their suppliers, but what the hell do I know.
A problem with SemVer I often see is that it's unclear whether a project adheres to it. You just can't assume every project having x.y.z version numbers uses semantic versioning.