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Agreed! She smuggled that in like we'd all agree. Twitter's so problematic with its contrarian defense of free speech and technical problems, right gang?
I teach an intro to Python class for people with no programming experience whatsoever that definitely goes through for-loops within the first few hours.

If someone has basic proficiency in any other programming language at all, then learning how to do a for-loop in Python is a trivial matter of minutes to maybe half an hour, in my experience.
Probably HipChat
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Soon enough we'll realize the world we (developers) created is one we are no longer a citizen of. Our voices are tiny in a world of social media avalanche and billion (and now trillion) dollar companies. See Macbook Pro, Twitter, etc.
Like a $5 wrench[1], but more socially acceptable.

1: https://xkcd.com/538/
That's probably how I as middle class would look from the view of a poor person in the third world :-).
>>Because they are a well known company, and OP assumed they could pay competitively?

There is no way IBM would pay $200K to a fresher graduating out of college. I can't imagine any company doing that. Including Amazon.

In fact if you remove Ad revenue driven companies, I guess apart from Apple, nobody would pay that much.
I'd pay more for a flight where they just sedated me in advance and I woke up at my destination.
All the reasons hold, though. You discriminate based on address (and oppose discrimination among people at the same address.) You cite that different addresses have different needs, and this justifies that discrimination.

That's true.

The same is true for discrimination based on other mutable or immutable characteristics, though. It's all well and good to ingore minority issues, until you get a lot of other angry people with no political outlet. (Because presumably, one person, one equal vote is not good enough for them.)
Anonymous Programmers Talk About the Most Unethical Things They've Done
Guess you haven't been to Hong Kong. The street there are very small and yet there are 30 story buildings all over

https://www.google.com/maps/@22.2816017,114.156159,3a,75y,31...
I'm really interested in this info, can you tell me where you got the 7% from? Are there good in depth breakdowns of this?
Agreed. I'd wager that most people on this board, if they fuck up at their job and get fired, are not going to get any kind of golden parachute. They're just going to be kicked out on their ass.
Sorry but few times a week is not recreational anymore.
your brain needs rest for some months to rebuild/rest the receptors.
truly these substances are controlled because they need little to get an overdose (at least in developed countries).
It is a risk prevention measure because not everybody has the iq of 100
"but if you consumed MDMA at any where near the frequency it is safe to consume alcohol it would not go well"
And in my hands, before the helium ran out too.
I don't quite understand what you're saying. If you change the code to

for(uint8_t i = 0; i <= 255; i++) { ... }

then it still doesn't halt.
I was thinking IRC :D
The authors complaints about the API are valid and I agree with other posters that we shouldn't rely on a service so much that we are highly impacted when they change it. The rest of this blog post reads like a rant about all the ways Twitter has changed over the years. People hate change.
Tangential: The opening to this article is remarkably bad.

This article opens by saying it's difficult to like Twitter because it refused to censor a conspiracy theorist.

We cannot in one breath say we are in favor of free speech, then in another breath say we want corporations to censor people whose views we don't like.
Blanket banning platform users based on hate speech, is still the loss of freedom of speech. The question is where do you draw the line? There is an good conversation about this on the JRE podcast with Jimmy Dore. https://youtu.be/k3YcGRCGEuY
It doesn't do any of those things.
This looks like a cool project, but I don't know how I feel about the non-primitive type loaders. Date strings, email addresses, urls, colors, and lat-long are hard problems, and trying to handle them in the spec is a misstep. Leave the complex loaders out, strive to handle perfectly just the core list of primitives, and let devs write their own email or url parsers. (Who is asking for lat-long parsing?)

(Seriously, the email parser doesn't match most of the Examples [0] on the Wikipedia page about email validation. Don't use regex to validate unless you're gonna write `/.* @.*/`.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Examples
Wouldn't that be TOML?
I think you're wrong. Let's investigate the trigonometric functions from the point of view of differential operators. Those are essentially functions that take in functions and spit out functions. The operators we'll look at are made up of derivative operators like d/dx. Let's say we have a differential operator D. We might want to find properties about it. One good place to start is to find its kernel (all functions u such that Du = 0) and find it's eigenpairs (all pairs (k, u) such that Du = ku for k a constant. We'll focus on the latter problem

Let's look at the simplest D, that is D = d/dx. What function satisfies du/dx = ku? An exponential, of course, because functions of the type u = a^x have derivative u' = ka^x for some k. What'e the most fundamental such function? Well, it's the one where du/dx = u, i.e. k = 1. This is none other than the exponential function e^x with e as currently defined. Every other choice of a "fundamental" exponential function will run into a lot of inconveniences later on.

What about another example. Let's look at D = d^2/dx^2. It's simple enough. What functions satisfy d^2u/dx^2 = ku. It appears the solution depends on whether k > 0 or k < 0. If k > 0, we can show that the hyperbolic trigonometric functions do the trick, so we can rehash the discussion above. If k < 0, however, we get into the usual trigonometric functions, namely what we now know as sin(rx) and cos(rx) for some choice of r, since for both u'' = -r^2u and you can find r from there. Again which r is the most fundamental? r = 1 of course, and this leads to the usual trigonometric functions.

If you choose r to be something else, we'd have a problem as we'll no longer have the nice property that sin'(x) = cos'(x) and so on. Also, these two examples are really the same example since e^(ix) = cos(x) + i*sin(x).

As a side note that should really be the main note...aesthetic calls are very important in mathematics. No one likes scaling factors to their identities. We like using fewer symbols to talk about common concepts. If we could make e = 1 or pi = 1 without inserting the opposite problem of complicating almost every single identity in mathematics needlessly, we would have done it a long time ago.

I think the reason c = 1 works in physics is because you can change a few other constants around (usually to 1) and things works out well. I fail to see how we can do the same in mathematics where things need to work on many many different layers. Also, if you look at any "Natural units" systems, they all have pi in them. Why didn't they get rid of it? Because it's even more fundamental than c!
I'm not confident that Unions would work for huge issue that is coming up - Mass Mechanization. There will be very few jobs Robotics will not be able to replace in a decade or so. This will easily facilitate few people owning large chunks of means of production. I don't see any serious solutions to this issue on the horizon.
Most would probably say no.
Doctor's pay is not the driving factor behind increasing medical bills... administrative expenses at providers in insurance, opaque and arcane cost structures negotiated as deals between providers and insurance companies, and record profits at both insurance companies and providers point to a system that's cannibalizing itself. This will do nothing to costs even if implemented universally as it does nothing to address the actual causes of rising medical expenses.
It might not be a reasonable, logical justification, but it exists.

Operating on and creating a framework of laws that operate on flawed concepts of human nature leads to operational failures. It's one of the main problems with economics, traditionally. The right laws and system of government works with an understanding of human nature including jealousy, laziness, greed and other weaknesses.

In fact, one of the arguments used at the constitutional convention against Madison's proposed Negative was jealousy on the part of the representatives, as the Senate would hold powers that the representatives did not. It's not an incredibly convincing argument to me, but it happened.

MA isn't that much of a special case, as it's the case in the majority of states and Federally. I'm surprised that it's not in places like Iowa - especially as urban populations grow while rural decline, but maybe that's balanced by the majority of industry being related to agriculture.
No, it is ambiguous for humans too as evidenced by the gazillions of problems of the form "N1, N2, N3, what number comes next?".

Just decide on some rule for how decide and let people make their own standard if they don't like it.
> It seems as though the assumption is that higher pay for bosses comes solely at the expense of line workers.

This assumption comes from evidence in our not-so-distant past. In the 1940s-60s, income was taxed at a much higher rate in the higher brackets (50-80%+ depending on the time); this served a similar function of the executive pay cap in your hypothetical. After the highest earners in a company reached the top brackets, it didn't make much sense for the company to further increase their pay (much of it would be lost to taxes so the ROI wasn't great).

So now you have all this leftover profit that, in 2018, would have went to CEO pay or bonuses. What is there to do with it? Invest in the company of course: give the best performing line-level employees raises, start internal training programs, kickstart moonshot R&D ideas, and so on.

(Unions also helped in ensuring that the rank and file got pay increases commensurate with management's raises)

Don't get me wrong, the highest earners were still very wealthy (and had plenty of yachts/summer homes/other symbols we associate with the 0.1%) and it was common to give them raises every year, but the higher marginal rates really did help in "forcing" profits downward.
So this is a confusing situation on Windows.

Commandline applications on linux rely on a TERM setting (with termcaps) to be able to know what VT sequences the terminal is able to support. On Windows, we only really have one terminal, conhost.exe, and our goal there is to be compatible with TERM=`xterm-256color`. That's why you'll see that WSL has that set as the default term setting.

Now even with ConPTY, when a client writes VT sequences, they still need to be interpreted by conhost. This is because technically, a console application could use both VT and the console API, and we need to make sure the buffer is consistent. So clients should still assume that they should write out `xterm-256color` compatible sequences.

Now on the other side of thngs, the "master"/terminal side of conpty, we're going to "render" the buffer changes to VT. Fortunately, we'd dont really need a deep VT vocabulary to make this possible, so the VT that's coming out of a conpty is actually pretty straightforward, probably even vt100 level (or I guess vt100-256colors, as insane a termcap that would be).

It's definitely a future feature that we'd like to add to make conpty support multiple different TERM settings, and change the sequences we emit based on what the terminal on the other side is going to expect.

We haven't really gotten into the nitty gritty of all of this quite yet, so if you find bugs or have feature requests, we're happy to take a look at them. You can file issues on [our github](https://github.com/microsoft/console) and we'll add them to our backlog
> His idea of human beings as rational, self-interested economic actors that is a ludicrously narrow model of the human being

Sure, but in order to understand human behavior on the scale of millions of people making billions of transactions, you need to start with a simple axiom and move on from there. I think people hear the word "self-interest" and think "greed", and assume that mainstream economics must be predicted on a very cynical view of human beings. That's not the case at all. We all want to survive. We can't possibly understand the individual needs of other people outside of a small circle of people that we love and care about. None of us are omniscient. The beautiful thing about markets is that none of us need to have perfect information in order to participate. By simply buying the things we need and selling things the things we don't, prices emerge in a totally decentralized way.

If you can think of a more accurate way to describe human economic motives, I'd like to hear it.

> has been disastrous for the working and middle classes all over the developed world.

Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty. Sure, there's a large gap between the richest and poorest, but the poorest people of the world are also materially better off than at any other point in human history. I don't see how this is a bad thing.
But who is going to pay off that $450 million ?
It seems like the term "overdoses" is obscuring the problem which is more "toxic (lethal) stuff is increasingly being mixed into illicit drugs of all kinds".
Fiscal or calendar?
Sounds like it'll break 0.25% of Twitter's user base in no time.
Well, even if one wanted to, a marketing exec really couldn't advertise Nintendo NES as a "general computer" since it had no keyboard nor ability to connect a disk drive and printer.

This was a conscience choice by Nintendo of America though. The Japanese counterpart of the NES has the hardware and software capabilities of a computer, like a disk and cassette recorder, BASIC, and a keyboard. These were never released in the US.
IMO, it does invalidate your point. You said: "It really puts the salary in perspective." It doesn't.

To take the cost of living into consideration:

$100k after tax in SF is ~70k. With 2k in rent, you have ~$46,000 p/a. An "average" grad in London is probably grossing at most $40k (£31k) After tax, that's ~£25k, and in London, you can easily be set back £800/month on rent. So you're left with less than £14,000 which is about $18k. Are you really telling me that to maintain the same standard of living in SF will cost you 2 and a half times more after rent?
I remember Kaybee blowing out Intellivision games for next to nothing when the bottom fell out. We filled up our cabinet quick.

But it was prophetic, because it was the Commodore 64 I moved to next, and I hardly touched the Inty after that.
I checked the Slack status page but it hadn't been updated yet. I thought it was me so I restarted the app and messed with my Wifi a bit. Should have looked here first. :)
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Seems like the only logical solution is to carry a hammer to destroy your phone if necessary.

If the heat hasn't told you they want your phone, there's nothing legally stopping you from destroying your own property if you see them coming...
A "baseless allegation" is one with no evidence or reason. This guy has a reason and presumably evidence, so his allegations are not baseless.

A baseless allegation would be if I were suing AT&T for losing all my crypto investments. I have none and am not an AT&T customer.

An "allegation without merit" means no rational interpretation of the law would result in a guilty conviction of the allegations. Baseless ones are almost always without merit.
No. This is horribly, horribly naive. Not everyone is in the position where they can just up and quit like that. Does that mean those people should get fucked over?
Unfortunately that destroys accessibility. If you want to support accessibility, then you need a more complicated rendering target than something like a canvas.
There is time for life outside of residency. My wife started residency with a 5 month old and had another child half way through, this delayed her graduation a total of 4 weeks.
I agree. The reason that I started playing it was because my three friends and I all played guitar and wanted to start a band. I was the worst guitar player so played bass.

The only downside to the bass for me is that it's not as fun as other instruments to play by myself. I love playing it in a band but when I'm by myself I'll usually pick up the guitar instead.
I mean, it's at least free cake. And an hour or so where you don't have to do work.
> Yeah, I'm not talking about gender/race though. I'm talking about regions.

The point is that the same underlying principle applies in both cases. If you're going to extend extra voting power for minorities for geography, why not for {set of other personal attributes}?

In practice, most people defending this setup -- it often comes up in discussions around the electoral college -- seem to support it simply because it happens to align with their own political objectives. It gives their state extra votes, so awesome! Understandable, but hardly principled.

> And actually, yes, most of this anger is linked to a feeling that people in rural areas have too little representation compared to major population centers,

Well yeah, they have less representation because we're in a democracy and there are fewer people there. I'm not terribly sympathetic to "I deserve extra voting power because of my lifestyle choice".

> So this illustrates what happens when you've got proportional representation but a completely unbalanced population distribution

What does "balanced" even mean in this context? Most people lived in rural areas when farming was most people's job, and now that we live in the information age, most people live in cities. Are both of those imbalanced? Because to me, it just sounds like in both cases, people simply adapted the needs of the time.

Simply pointing out that most people live in urban areas to prove "imbalance" is like pointing out that we have far more believers than non-believers around, therefore the religious belief distribution is "imbalanced". Who exactly is deciding what "balance" looks like for things like this?

> It's fine when everything is going well, but when the mills close down and the farms go out of business, you get a lot of angry people who feel they have no political outlet.

There are certainly some people who feel that way, but unemployment is low, and moving to where the jobs are (in the cities) remains an option.

I don't have a ton of sympathy here, given that the very same areas we're talking about usually practically worship the free market and like talking up how "self-reliant" they are (while simultaneously being heavily reliant on government subsidies from urban areas and demanding that the government protect their way of life). It would be nice to at least see a little more ideological consistency, a little less hypocrisy.
Worker pay is a function of the available supply of people capable and willing to work the job and the opportunity cost of not filling the position.

The opportunity cost of not filling a low paying job is generally quite low. Likewise, the wages for such jobs vary quite a bit, moreso than cost-of-living differences would account for.

If you want to price wages based on some moral virtue, you will risk losing investors, or hurt poor people (aka your customers) by raising prices. In your scenario, it isn't Walmart that's being subsidized, it's a community with so many people desperate for work but not qualified enough to get a better job that they're willing to take a job that doesn't pay enough.
They might run an instance on a different host and update path.
> I don't think addiction is a disease or a moral failing, it's more a product of the environment of the addict.

Diseases are very often products of the environment.
ReactOS: Booting from BTRFS (Google Summer of Code)
This was a good article about how to prevent these types of attacks. https://medium.com/@masonic_tweets/minimum-viable-security-3...
HN shouldn't be used for that.
Paris is not remotely as dense as Tokyo or Hong Kong. Stats lie because there is some random defintion of density based on some arbitrary area / population where area = unused parts of the city. For example "Tokyo" has unpopulated mountains as part of it's very large "official" area. Same with HK. Choose the actually city parts and the actual "city" of Tokyo and HK and many X more dense than Paris. They are night and day different. Paris is quaint compared to Tokyo and HK.
Suing the people with the money is rule #1 of lawsuits.
I remember in the late 90s going to the KFC in the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall section of Jerusalem. It was cute, but I didn't find it to be particularly special. perhaps now I understand why.
Plus anything that can be done to juice the supply side of the healthcare curve is a big benefit. Cheaper school means more doctors means lower labor costs means cheaper healthcare.
Real Work/Fake Work
> but it's not a disease

In what precise way is it not?
> ...people who were on the fence maybe think he was right.

It's clear that Twitter et al. are more interested in users who don't currently know who Alex Jones is; they clearly believe that the number of people who haven't been exposed to Jones is much larger than the number of people who have been exposed but are "on the fence".

IMO Twitter et al. are probably correct at least on this point. Jones isn't exactly an "on the fence" kind of guy.

Supposing we are purely concerned with the efficacy of these bans, as opposed to their moral/ethical/social implications, the question is: does banning Jones substantially reduce the number of people who see his content?

I don't have an answer to that question, but IMO it's the right question to be asking (again, from a purely "supposing your goal is to shut down Jones, is this action effective?" viewpoint).

> There seems to be a dumbing down of America, where we expect corporations to be the ones to decide things are right or wrong

I see exactly the opposite. There seems to be a heightened awareness and importance of social/political issues, where we demand corporations implement our own notions of what is right and wrong.

My hope is that the ultimate effect is that corporations effectively remind us that their property is private property and that this reminder renews interest in preserving the commons and enabling individual ownership.
Heh, I'll chime in as I did residency at a busy program and advanced my coding skills on the side. Even working 80hr+ weeks you find downtime. Some of that you use for sleeping and studying. With whatever's left, some of my co-residents liked to read. Others had sort of social lives outside the hospital. For me, I coded with most of my freetime. It helped scratch an itch-- problems are solved with 100% certainty, errors can be found with testing preventing many mistakes before they actually affect people, you can build something with your creative juices and get a level of independence not possible in medicine... The list goes on. But my point is, residency is demanding, but you still have a little downtime here and there.
I’m in trouble with the entire article. Quick skimming through it gave no idea what it’s about, unlike other complex texts. It must be either very spoken/headline english or almost non-english, as far as I can tell.
Have I been to “china town”? Yes, I’ve lived in Chinatown.

Bloomberg’s point was that it’s cheaper than all grocery stores, not just the “upscale” ones... I live next to a C Town and the WF is much cheaper. A lot of the street vendors in Chinatown have produce that is less expensive than certain items than a(ny) grocery store, but they’re not grocery stores, and that’s what I was responding to. And unless you’re planning on eating your durian and bok choy solo—or planning on using some toilet paper after—you’re not really “getting it”.

It’s also cheaper to just eat at Vanessa’s every day, but again, you’re missing the point.