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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17904070 and marked it off-topic.

This is the sort of reply that we're asking people not to post in these threads—see the root text. I appreciate that you were polite about it, and have no reason to doubt what you said, but we have no way of adjudicating which posts are fair and true vs. not.

Comments on a job ad are not a context in which both sides of a story can be aired. The companies aren't free to respond, the employees posting the jobs typically have no idea of what happened, and so on. Even if they could respond, the resulting threads would often become long and off-topic. Worse, they would be vulnerable to abuse. I'm sure you wouldn't do that, but others unfortunately would.

These are all issues that we can and do deal with moderating in the general forum, but Who Is Hiring threads aren't the general forum—they're a job board planted into HN like an embedded DSL, and statements that are valid in the general language don't all work here.
I was about to comment the same thing. It’s a great photoshop alternative and it’s inexpensive (and not a subscription!)
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It's interesting that Jefferson had thoughts about the original intention of the lottery system. The logistics of buying each ticket seems nightmarish. I wonder if this same gaming can be applied to other things
When I was in my final year of high school, Coca-cola was giving away an iPod Nano to lucky winners who entered codes from plastic bottle caps or glass bottle labels.

An iPod was given away once per day, except Monday, when they were given out once per hour. I was competing against the rest of Switzerland. Each code had to be entered on a website, earning 0, 5, 10, 20 or 50 points. You could then choose how many points to gamble during the day/hour, and would hear at the end of the day/hour whether you won.

The school had a bottle-cap recycling bin. Every day, I dug through that looking for Coke caps. I volunteered for GAOS (a theatre group) and served drinks outside their show, collecting many paper wrappers from glass bottles.

After collecting 1500 points, at 2 am on a Monday night, I struck with half my points. And I failed! Shocked, I tried again at 3 am, risking all the remaining points I'd saved up. And I won! I was the "lucky" recipient of a 2GB iPod Nano.

Was it worth it? Yes, because I was under the employment age. I couldn't have earned money legally, so my opportunity cost of time was low.

Earlier, in primary school, the classes bought Pizza Hut once a week. During a promotion, their pizza boxes were printed with stars, which could be saved up and exchanged for free pizza. So I went around and asked all the teachers for their old boxes, cut out the stars, and got a second pizza every week!

If only it were that easy for me to find a job nowadays, despite a first-class MEng in Electronic Systems Engineering and 4 years continuous relevant work experience. Even trying to follow the rules and get all the qualifications doesn't seem to work.
> We have large amounts of testimony and evidence for DPRK concentration camps, dating back decades. It's not like we are relying on a single person's testimony.

For camp 14, the supposed concentration camp, we have two eyewitnesses. Shin Dong-hyuk, and Kim Yong. Both of their stories are hugely inconsistent, and they get paid based on how crazy their stories are.

> For instance, we have satellite imagery of the prison camps.

We have satellite imagery that they have prisons. We don't have any imagery of abuses.

> Also, the guardian article that you linked to literally states that just because there are inconsistencies doesn't mean that there aren't serious human rights abuses, including the existence of prison camps.

Yeah, it's a Guardian article. You can't rock the boat too much.
I often wonder why Oliver Heaviside, John Von Neumann and Claude Shannon were not awarded the Physics Nobel.
A4: http://4mhz.de/download.php?file=Cook1971_A4.pdf

Letter: http://4mhz.de/download.php?file=Cook1971_Letter.pdf
Have your supervisor take credit for your work, as is what appears to have happened in Burnell’s case.
Both are probably perfectly secure, as long as you disable the FPU, speculative execution, SMT...

Processors themselves are insecure. There is no hope this war can be won.
I find that really useful
From the linked article [1](Romanian language) it sounds like he had claimed to have a special mathematical method to convince his early investors in Romania but it was entirely made up. He was basically scamming them and had no idea if they would actually win.

[1] http://www.bursa.ro/industria-de-gambling-iulie-1994-primul-...
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How does this entire article get written without a single mention that much of the road infrastructure here, bridge included, had been privatized and was being managed by the Atlantia corporation. The article actually seems to put the reader on the mistaken impression that Autostrade (former name of Atlantia) is some sort of media management company.

"Autostrade, which handles media queries on behalf of the subcontractor, Spea Engineering, declined to comment."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italy-bridge-collapse-genoa-atl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantia_(company)

The technical specifics of the bridge collapse are interesting, but the privatization of multiple road systems should have in theory let the company be cognizant of the systemic issues of the design practices of various eras, but how was this missed? The company was managing the bridge since 1999, almost twenty years now. This is as much or more of an organizational question as well as a private vs public ownership question as it is a technical one.
> It still should be an option under save-as.

Why? I don't understand this. You're not "saving" what you see on the monitor by storing the information to a .png file; the moment you "save" you'll lose some information decided by an algorithm you do not understand, so it really is not "saving" anything, it's "exporting" what you see on the monitor to a different format. When you actually click the "save" button in gimp it stores the content in a format it can recover 100% of the information you'll need tomorrow. These sort of terminological differences between Photoshop, Paint.NET, Gimp, Krita etc... do not point a deficiency in Gimp, rather just a cultural difference decided by rational arguments. I think people should be more thoughtful about what are the targets of Gimp Project, Gimp does not want to be a Photoshop clone, they're trying to make a great image manipulation program; and as software engineers they make their own decisions how to structure/name their program.
Thank you!!! I will give this a shot. I am absolutely in love with the text only web and it would be great to support open source or indie projects rather than Google Chrome, which has a hard time on older phones.

I was in Chile with barely any electricity and prepaid internet. I spent most of my time reading wikipedia and cr.yp.to
[1]: https://www.fedscoop.com/air-force-cio-says-role-become-much...
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So... I've had to read this about eight times, and two or three of those together with someone to figure this out... But what you're saying is "gimp developers work on gimp because they like gimp, while blender developers work on blender to see what people can do with it -- so they will not be able to spend this money effectively." -- or am I still misunderstanding you?
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I'll admit they kind of fade in and out of usefulness for me. But I always feel free to bleed into a break, too, if I'm right smack in the middle of something. I have found it important to actually take the break at some point, though. Timer rings, take a minute or two to finish the thought, then reset the timer for your break.
Ok, fair to your examples, I for some reason wasn't thinking about high-ish level decisions like that (and some annoying memories of people writing "optimized" code that was hard to read and not any faster than what the compiler did with the simple one)
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Scientific research can be used to answer questions. We don't need to rely on faith one way or the other. That's why these scientists are calling for a moratorium and safety research.
I also wonder whether congressmen would be alright with corporations defending users' universal rights in the US, or if it suddenly became a matter of national policy.

(I guess that Freedom House and Human Rights Watch, cited in the article, would like that very much.)
While true, expected value isn't necessarily a useful metric at that point.

If I have a one in a googol chance of winning a googolplex dollars, it doesn't really matter that the expected value is going to be huge, I still won't win anything because I'll be insolvent before the requisite number of tries to have a reasonable chance of winning.
Isn't the idea to give probiotics to people who do not have a healthy gut? Such as someone who had been taking antibiotic for a prolonged period of time? So why did they give the probiotic to 25 healthy individuals?

Also 25 seems like a very small sample.

Edit: it appears they also did a study on 46 people after taking antibiotics but that I still find to be a small sample size.
I am convinced that they could easily do this with the existing 900 line that has WiFi and "advanced vision" technology. They basically threw the hardware in, added some marketing buzzwords, and never really changed the software other than to show a coverage map. The software is the weakest part of roomba. It's navigation system is so naive despite the load of sensors inside. I wish they would unlock the damn thing and just let me script it myself.
In Shanghai I'm able to connect through the meek-azure bridge, but everything is incredibly slow. I'm still having the best results using Shadowsocks on a VPS (although I'm on a 200Mbps China Telecom line at home). Commercial VPN offerings, such as ExpressVPN and Astrill, were slow in comparison.
> flags the user as interesting/has something to hide (i.e. they are probably using Tor Browser, not just Firefox).

Tor nodes are known and it's trivial to detect users using Tor.

> There's also usability to consider - if this results in more people using Tor Browser, or not disabling things to try and work around it, that might be a net gain.

I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Sharp corners on tabs most certainly won't attract more users.

EDIT: Ok I saw the issue with mobile users and some other edge cases. I would still agree with bo1024, it's a weak argument.
Iteration time is everything
I have to say: I love my Roomba; this device meant I had to use an upright once in the past three years - when I moved out of my previous apartment.

And one of the things that I love about it is that it's simple. It uses a random walk for its cleaning algorithm, which means that it gets its job done on the average if you let it run long enough.

Random walks are easy to understand. I can re-position furniture in my apartment to make it a bit more Roomba-friendly, or I can shift an office chair before a run to make sure Roomba gets under the table when I'm going away for work.

The nice thing about it is that there's nothing that can break in this scheme. It's dead simple. If Roomba doesn't get to a corner, I know exactly why, and what to do about it.

With persistent maps, that aspect is out of the window. If a Roomba doesn't map your apartment right.. good luck figuring out how to deal with it.

KISS, I'll keep repairing my Series 600 until the spares run out.
Does this potentially also have consequences for fecal transplants? That has been an upcoming area of research and relies on a similar idea: You can colonise bateria. If they aren't going to stick around via probiotics, they may also not via fecal.
Seems like a lot of "social network bias", in that angellist is wildly popular in California, but here in Colorado it is little utilized and often derided as out of date and useless.

Depending on a single social network like this to make sweeping generalizations about geography when social networking is very much a geographic/social proximity phenomena is pretty dubious.
Thank you. I've thought about making this exact thing multiple times. Word docs and dropbox just weren't cutting it for my organizing needs. Combined with the scrapple product oh man. The only thing they are missing is a wiki feature for character/show bibles
I'd conclude the opposite.

If in half the cases the newly introduced bacteria "lingered" before being expelled then that demonstrates some kind of traction. e.g. You might just need to combine that with a diet that favours the new bacteria you're trying to introduce.

i.e. Some sort of effect in 50% of the cases is better than I expected honestly
I've used GIMP for years but I have no idea what you're talking about. Perhaps it's not the #1 priority because you're one of a small percentage of people who need it?

While I'm not someone who needs image editing professionally or who makes amazing things with it, I did take my time to learn GIMP properly for my use-cases, and the things I find lacking do not include "non-destructive adjustment layers".
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I think there are 2 common cases for SAAS startups here:

1. The founding team is very technical and doesn't want to make sales/talk to customers themselves. In this case, it will be difficult to achieve success without taking on a non-technical cofounder to do customer development and then early sales.

2. The founding team has technical talent but also at least one person who's happy to go out and do customer development and then make sales. In this case, they should probably wait on hiring someone with Sales experience until they feel that they have product market fit, which means they've probably made enough sales to answer these questions.
If anyone is interested in a fun toy-program to learn Temporal Difference Learning on, the game 2048 is amenable to the approach - in fact it gives the best current results of any current AIs.

It uses the N-tuple technique - an instructive paper describing N-tuples and TDL applies to 2048 is here: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1606/1606.07374.pdf

An alternative project would be a game like "connect-4", which is amenable to the same approach.
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Newmann -> Neumann

Well, neu ist German for new
Did you even read the article?

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The research group also looked at the impact of probiotics after a course of antibiotics, which wipe out both good and bad bacteria.

Their trial on 46 people, also in the journal Cell, showed it led to delays in the normal healthy bacteria re-establishing themselves.

Dr Elinav added: "Contrary to the current dogma that probiotics are harmless and benefit everyone, these results reveal a new potential adverse side effect of probiotic use with antibiotics that might even bring long-term consequences."

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Does anyone believe anything these articles say anymore?

About two weeks ago, two somewhat prominent doctors from Harvard Medical School got into an enormous disagreement over whether or not coconut oil was “healthy” or “killing you”. No one knows anything under the current system.

There is absolutely no way the public can reasonably believe yay or nay on any new thing about healthy living.
That's a good read. I extended my version of monkey to add a ton of new features and found it easy:

https://github.com/skx/monkey/

Over the past two days I also switched a toy-project for deploying software via SSH/SCP to using a lexer/parser, rather than parsing via regular expressions and string-splits. I guess that means that I learned something:

https://github.com/skx/deployr
bro you are dead wrong. dead wrong.

LITERALLY FROM THE ARTICLE

"There is now fierce debate in Italy over whether the company did in fact do enough — along with calls to roll back the privatization of much of Italy’s roadways.

Autostrade won the concession to run nearly half of Italy’s highways from a cash-strapped Italian government, starting in 1999. After that, there were no major renovations of the Morandi bridge.

In late 2017 or early 2018, tests indicated that the bridge had weakened by an “average” of 10 to 20 percent, Roberto Ferrazza, superintendent at the local ministry of infrastructure and transportation, told The Times in an interview.

Experts in bridge construction say it is notoriously difficult to measure the exact amount of degradation of steel elements buried in concrete, in the way that they are on the Morandi bridge.

“There’s nothing more imprecise than trying to evaluate the condition of internal cables,” said Gary J. Klein, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States who studies structural failures and is executive vice president at Wiss, Janney, Elstner, an engineering and architecture firm in Northbrook, Ill. “It’s a very imperfect science.”

Because the weakest point could be anywhere on the structure, Mr. Klein added, “you have to be in the right place at the right time, and so I’m very skeptical of the accuracy of any such estimate.”

A decision was made, by Autostrade in accordance with the Ministry of Infrastructure, to refurbish and repair the stays on two towers, including the one that would collapse. But the work was not yet scheduled."
This all depends on the capabilities of the current exec team. Generally my experience has been:

Exec team with mature sales presence/leadership = hire less experienced (3-6 years).

Exec team with immature sales presence/leadership = hire more experienced (6-10 years with opp to become a VP of Sales).

Good guide - thanks for putting together.
Having tried to revise for exams while they landed a few miles away, I'm going to suggest that the article is including noise pollution as well as particulate pollution. It was bloody loud.
You read a different article than me:

> He warned the company that manages the bridge, Autostrade per l’Italia, or Highways for Italy, but he said that it never followed up on his recommendation to perform a fuller computer study and to outfit the bridge with permanent sensors.

> For reasons it has not fully explained, Autostrade, which took over management of the bridge in 1999, did not carry out the same operation on the supports of the other two towers — including the tower that collapsed.

> Autostrade won the concession to run nearly half of Italy’s highways from a cash-strapped Italian government, starting in 1999. After that, there were no major renovations of the Morandi bridge.

... etc ...
Doesn’t this have profound implications for 3D printing?
Wait, library management is supposed to be the main value prop? I didn't get the point of libraries - I already have my images in separate folders, what does the library actually add to that dynamic? Different folder, different instance of lightroom works for me.
As the other comment mentioned, extensibility. Their API is much easier to navigate. Their commands line up exactly with the name that shows up in the fuzzy finder, so dispatching a command or adding a key binding is a breeze. The settings menu supports things like drop down lists and color pickers. The UI is both beautiful and consistent. And Vim Mode Plus feels far ahead of Vscodevim.

You do lose the dedicated python developer, first class LSP support, and integrated debugger though.
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In Canada at least,probiotics are largely bought of the shelf by healthy people.

Last week I accidentally bought a bottle of water from seven eleven,which turned out to have probiotics added. Cost the same as regular water too...
It's not required if you know CMake and know what you're doing. There's even resources, if you search for them, e.g.:

https://github.com/gerkey/ros1_external_use

But if you're looking for good documentation and tutorials, then yes catkin is basically required, but I don't think that's unreasonable.
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I think there is more to it then that. By that argument alone, I should enjoy a song more, the more I listen to it. Then why do we get tired of old music and look for new music?
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The formatting you chose forced me to have to drag a scrollbar to the right to read your comment...

please no :(
I'm honestly and sincerely wondering if you read the same article.

"Autostrade won the concession to run nearly half of Italy’s highways from a cash-strapped Italian government, starting in 1999. After that, there were no major renovations of the Morandi bridge."
one yakult a day has been highly beneficial to me.
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Can you detail some of the rock solid solutions in 2008 for the problems addressed? For example, building multiple C++ packages from source. Google's Bazel wasn't open sourced until 2015, so solutions were still appearing long after 2008.
Why are they using the wrong name of the company? I think I missed it because I was looking for the Atlantia name. Looks like I did miss quite a few references that way!
Sandberg should have asked Rubio what he thinks about the US govt support for Saudi Arabia. US claims to stand for democracy and human rights, but then goes on supporting dictatorships around the world (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, ...) as well as having large trade relations with such countries (eg. China). It is almost as if the US stands by their purported values as long as they don't interfere with their geopolitics.
The banner image is a woman in a Chinese flag turtleneck and the man has a Japanese yen symbol on his mouth?
Yep. This is irritating. I don't want to export I want to save. In fact, whats the £(£*I%KF difference! :) <\rant>
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That's why companies shouldn't try to uphold certain values. Bay Area values are not the world's values, and to try to engineer discourse to make the world agree with the Bay Area is the epitome of moral hubris.

Platforms must allow everything that's legal. The legislative chamber, not some cutely-named meeting room, is the proper forum for deciding what content is to be allowed into the public sphere. I know the people advocating social media censorship think that they're trying to stop "harm", but it's always the people on some mind of moral crusade that commit the worst atrocities. Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

It's not possible, when you're swept up in some more current, to really know whether you're actually the good guy or not. No matter what you do, it feels like the right thing. That's why we can't trust feelings. It's why we need some god damned humility.

Companies should optimize for profit. It's at least honest. You can reason about profit. It's the job of the public to incorporate the public good into the profit equation. Having done that, we balance concerns automatically.

What doesn't work is creating lax laws, then relying on opaque and unaccountable internal processes to create a concern for the public good. What you end up with, as you do with any opaque and unaccountable rulemaking process, is rules that fit the private interests of the rulemakers and not the public. And in the present environment, these private interests all involve wanting to feel sanctimonious.
Seems like you've invented hypothetical problems to complain about. The existing Roomba has none of the issues you speculate it has, and as long as there is a way to force-delete the persistent map it is unlikely the new one will either.