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> It all comes down to a very simple (although fundamental) question about your morality and character: do you believe ends justify the means?

It's also a question of morality: I obviously don't believe that all morally distasteful things are equal. AdWords is significantly less disasteful than my family starving.

I would bet that most people, probably even including you, find driving much less distastful than going without or moving to an area with and using public transit, even though it's significantly more efficient. Since moving out on my own, I've purposely have always lived on good transit lines and fight for better transit.

I would bet that most people, probably even including you, are OK purchasing cheap, foreign made items without a thought to the working conditions and environmental conditions that purchase is helping to enforce. I specifically seek out items made in countries with environmental regulations at least as strong as the US'.

I would bet that most people, probably even including you, are OK purchasing food raised in unsustainable ways, or that is significantly out of season. I became vegetarian and strive to buy as much as I can from local farms.

These are much more important to me than if I install an AdWords script on a website that's trivially easy to block by the end user. Do I wish I could convince people to use less invasive forms of advertising? Yes. Have I been successful? Not really. Have I found anywhere to work that doesn't have the same practices? No.

Please don't play this game of "just because you do something I don't like I'm morally better than you" game. We're all flawed and not one of us is living up completely of our moral standards.
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> A web without javascript would be welcome.

Why? What is it that wasm or c++ provides you in making a DOM call that modern JS does not?
There is, but this recommendation is specific to the triangle area: the rural trends just don't apply.
Penn is in Philadelphia, not Pittsburgh
Minimal trust of strangers is #1. There can be a lot of drinking baijiu and long parties not talking about business at all.
I see training as the most important thing to change to address the shootings that many of us, outside of law enforcement, see as preventable.

I have two brothers that are CHP. They have never discharged their weapons at an individual, but talking to them, this attitude of their personal safety being the most important part of how they handle a situation, makes it very difficult for them to understand how police actions can actually create the danger they are claiming to want to prevent.
Well, for one, that would require you to be able to have land to do so. I would be shocked if many of these people had an actual, freely available choice on the matter.
Interesting. I'd say we have an embarrassment of riches in terms of XC trails, between Lake Crabtree, New Light, Beaver Dam, Harris Lake, Little River Regional Park, Legend, Carolina North Forest, Briar Chapel, San-Lee, the RTP trails, and all the various "bandit" trails near RDU (especially Sludge, 286, and Rocky Road). And you can arguably count Angler's Ridge up in Danville since you can pop up there in a little over an hour from parts of the Triangle. And I'm not even considering some of the newer trails that I've never ridden, like Wendell Falls or Forest Ridge.

I guess it depends on what you are looking for though. For my tastes, I love parking off of Reedy Creek Road behind LCCP, and being able to ride Crabtree (fast, "flow" trails), 286 (slightly more technical than the crab), Rocky Road (very technical and challenging), Sludge (technical in spots), and then go grind out some training miles on the gravel roads in Umstead.

That said, I'm sure there are places with even more variety. But I've never suffered from a shortage of places to ride here. :-)
"This kind of people (criminals), you cannot treat them as if they were normal human beings, ok? We can't let policemen keep dying at the hands of those guys," Bolsonaro said on TV Globo's main nightly news program. ""If he kills 10, 15 or 20 with 10 or 30 bullets each, he needs to get a medal and not be prosecuted."

Add Brazil to the list. I'm sure it's not a US only thing at all.
You are overly trusting.

Toyota was caught overoptimizing for crash tests recently. They designed their Sienna minivan for small overlap driver's side impacts, but didn't reinforce the passenger side because there wasn't previously a test for that. Now there is. Oops.

"While Toyota has modified the structure of the vehicle to improve driver-side protection starting with 2015 models, the automaker did not make the same changes to the passenger side"

https://jalopnik.com/the-toyota-sienna-bombed-the-toughest-p...

I'm not suggesting Toyota is the only one who designs their cars to precisely pass the tests, either. If Toyota does it, I think it's almost certain other major manufacturers take a similar approach. Volvo has a reputation for being more holistic, but who knows if it's deserved? But any major manufacturer can optimize for crash testing, and it's more economically efficient than going the extra mile, which means it's likely that's just what they do.
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Even in smaller company's you can do that at one UK place I worked at one point everyone (approx. 50-55) was $millionare.

That's 5% of your 1000 right there and I know peope who have made $200,000 effectively tax free on a single 5 year UK sharesave
I really think the best thing for teaching kids would be giving them a fully built 2D game and teach them how to mod it, slowly working into how the core engine works. Not that I have any real evidence to support this. But my casual involvement in Half-Life/WC3 modding scenes during my teens says this is the way to go.
> We understand people want to see the UI, but it's not the key selling point. Pretty apps isn't what you'd use Alan for (although you could).

In my humble opinion, I would suggest rethinking this.

I imagine you don't intend to sound that way, but a response like this might suggest to people that you don't value user experience or good design, which would rule a lot of otherwise-interested people right out. For any serious project, how it looks and how it feels is every bit as important as how it functions. (Even for B2B or internal-only needs, this regularly remains true).

If I can't build a gorgeous, industry-leading well designed app in Alan, then there needs to be clear information about how I would do that outside of Alan while using your platform. Otherwise, Alan is just for disposable apps / throw-away apps / Excel-replacement apps, and for any serious work, I'm eventually going to have to rewrite the whole app in something else anyway so I might as well start there first.
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LEGO worked with Kidsland for a few years.
>There is no hint of the bars continuing below the axis

Aren't the numbers big and bold enough? Should we only design chart while presuming that viewers can't read numbers?
Ask HN: Dear HN user, should we be anonymous or psycho-profiled?
We live in a surveillance capitalism society anyway, right? So should we care about sites like this: https://hnprofile.com/

I dunno. Do you?
And if they don't, they should be regarded as "cruel and unusual punishment", colloquially known as torture.

Seriously, policemen who repeatedly fire a tazer at their victim, rendering him unable to control any of his muscles (including the sphincter), while screaming "STOP RESISTING!!", should be locked away indefinitely.
You can also consider NCR , India. It's the national captial region which includes Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.
Pros. Internet - 1 Gbps internet at ~20$ a month

Lots of great colleges - IIT D, JNU, AIIMS, DCE Housing - You can get a 2500ft 3BHK high rise condo in gurgaon for ~800$/month. With that you'll get a jacuzzi, modular kitchen, round the clock security, pool , gym etc.

Labour is cheap - Maids which do cleaning, laundry and cooking cost ~150$/month. Drivers cost around 300 . You really don't have to do chores

Great food - Everything is app based anyway, so you can get good quality pasta/salad home delivered to your place at 3AM for less than 10 dollars.

Activities - you get go karting, mystery rooms, great dining places in both delhi in gurgaon, also an f1 track which has track days where you can drive your own car on the buddha circuit for cheap!

Good Roads - Unlike some cities in India, the NCR region is connected by highways since it's made up of multiple states. Though if you have got friends in another part of town, it can mean a commute of upto 70 kms. It has a population of 24 million.

Great quality weed - weed is virtually legal and will set you back by ~10$/quarter and concentrates for ~70$/q. Lots of microbreweries in gurgaon too.

Cons

Pollution - It can get a bit bad in winter, but you can install airpurifiers in your car and home to offset most of the effects.
> car compabies are retooling already every couple of years with each model change

They're putting new nests in existing machines. The fundamentals are largely unchanged. Yeah, the dies in the presses for forming body panels change shape. But they are still made the same way. And, for example, the shape of the engine mounts are not compatible from one year to the next...but the vehicles all have engine mounts.
There is no proof of carbon dioxide causing warming - only a correlation which could very easily be linked with other factors. For example, we're currently leaving an ice age - could this be the reason the ice is melting?
I'm merely nitpicking. "i once saw X trust me ok" is not an example, it's an anecdote.

If you want to put out the point that these shoddy half articles I found on Breitbart are actually representative of CNNs reporting and the industry as a whole then I suggest you do exactly what I did: go to their frontpage and find two completely misleading headlines with borderline xenophobic, utterly misleading content that are there right now.

Of course, this will be super easy right because CNN is the same as Breitbart, right?

Something in me thinks this will be the last I hear from you. It's been nice discussing this with you.
Sure, all things being equal, being closer would be better. I grew up about 6 minutes from the beach, so I can totally relate to what you mean. But there's still a pretty big difference between being close enough that you can wake up in the morning, decide to jump in your car and go to the beach (or the mountains), and make an impromptu day trip of it, vs. being somewhere where you have to fly or drive overnight to get to the beach/mountains.
Interesting that most of these places involve freezing your tits off for half the year. Are warmer places typically less-intellectual?
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They definitely tell lifeguards and firefighters and first responders that their "first priority is to go home safely tonight".

If you have a small group of people who can help, and a much larger group that need help, it's critically important that your helpers don't get themselves killed by being reckless with their own lives.

The overuse of force by police in the US is terrible. It's a combination of bad judgement, bad training, and no repercussions. But that's fully separate from the fact that "keep yourself alive" is a core tenet of all the jobs you listed.
> You've also shown that outcomes aren't equal. You haven't provided any reason to believe that the outcomes should be equal - in particular, that a comparable number of African Americans are actually competing with whites. There's a fundamental assumption here that African Americans have the same goals as whites, and prioritize them against other life choices in the same way. There's a lot of reason to think that both of those things are false.

By subtly changing a few words, I've replicated the same sentiment against African Americans. And before that, the Irish immigrants. And Chinese immigrants.

You come from a superiority position, and that the "inferiors" don't really want nor care. I reject that worldview wholeheartedly.
Have you seriously never seen a car pulled over on a major interstate?
The evidence is that the Earth is warming so it's not odd that there aren't any dire warnings about it cooling. When it cools suddenly then I'm certain there would be dire warnings.

It seems to me that the dire consequences are about the ability of nations to deal with relatively sudden changes. We are no longer at the point where populations can shift easily on a grand scale. Four thousand years ago it was much easier for humanity to shift production of food and seek out new places to live. Today not so much. This is especially so since almost no one knows how to live off the land anymore and the even if we did know this it isn't possible due to the massive decline in animal populations and habitat.
The autopilot hardware IS in every single car. Every autopilot feature as of now is a software feature flag. That's why you can buy "Enhanced Autopilot" and "Full Self Driving" features after your car is delivered at any time.

Someday when Tesla has scaled up, those features will most likely be standard. Right now, they are trying to be profitable and a high number of current orders are willing to pay for at least the Enhanced Autopilot.
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Then why aren't white males on your list?
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> I also don't agree with the author's assertion that Spark is "Scala centric". Yes, Spark is written in Scala, but PySpark is definitely a first class citizen.

To be fair, prior to Spark Dataframes (i.e. the days of pure RDDs), the only way to get performance out of Spark was to write Scala code. The serialization overhead of PySpark precluded it from large-scale data engineering workloads. Most companies rewrote their PySpark code in Scala for production.

Now that we have Spark dataframes, PySpark performance is mostly on-par with ScalaSpark for many SQL-amenable operations. And with Apache Arrow in-memory support on Spark >2.3, the Python serialization overhead problem goes away.

But Spark is still to some extent Scala-centric. The documentation is trilingual, but there is still a distinct Scala-first culture.
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There is a lot of focus by SV figures these days about philanthropy for social things like schooling, basic income etc.

As someone who lives in Ireland and is well aware of the positive/negative effects of tax minimisation by large companies (and the costs that has for small companies here) - I'm curious, what is the average rate of corporation tax paid by YC companies? (Say in the US and/or Europe for example).
https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/auth/index.html
Thanks for sharing this, I really like the site a lot. I was impressed by the variety of search criteria. How do you reliably gather such disparate pieces of information?
i really like this.

would be useful to future date the tasks further than 1 week.
The future of devices is multi-assistant, like Sonos does with the Play One. I expect a V2 model of this device to incorporate Google, et al
MBP for work like almost all tech companies provide nowadays; and for personal/hobby dev work a Lenovo Ideapad 720s, with Antergos Linux loaded on it (dual boot with Windows).

I have to say that installing Linux on that laptop was not the easiest, multiple challenges including wifi drivers and trackpad drivers issues. But once it's all fixed up, it works well. I chose it for a combination of low price and lightweight.
Where the world needs changing is it's suicidal path towards extreme climate change.
That's reassuring. If I had to pick between the two (assuming I had a choice), I would pick Norway. How's the job market for developers?
tasers aren't considered "non lethal", they're "less lethal", because yeah, they kill people all the time.

if somebody is advocating "non lethal" tools, and you start in on tasers, you're not even on the same page.
Yeah, the dead comments are generally a good thing. The problem is that there are a large number of dead comments that appear to be false positives.
Yep. Lin is amazing.
Also, if i could double click and edit the list name easily would be great
"I think the big difference is what we define as cheating. Optimising towards test, no cheating in my POV. Using one type of steel, as an example, for crash test and something different for production -> cheating."

Is it still cheating if there is a loophole that allows that substitution of steel?
My thinking is that it implies officers will be training to respond to people that can't or won't listen to reason, or have limited ability to feel pain or comprehend instructions. But this is all armchair speculation. How do they deal with this kind of thing in other countries?
> You even used the phrase “court of law” yourself

yes, in context of resolving dispute with counterparty

> Financial security depends on the ability to show who bad actors are and undo their transactions

no, that's in my opinion the opposite of financial security. i feel financially secure when i know no government, bank or corporation fuck up can affect the state of my account.

> Yes, the current banking system has flaws, but they are not technological flaws and cannot be solved by technological means.

the flaw of current banking system is humans. humans are often corrupt, incompetent, unreliable and with malicious intent.

basing financial security on assumption that only honest, competent, reliable and well intentioned humans end up in positions of power is obviously wrong.

i don't hold that assumption and think that taking humans out of the loop is the best way to address flaws of existing system.

the fact that flaws are not technological in no way means technology can't solve them.
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*was the first European to land in America(Maybe).

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No I'm not, profile loads fine in an incognito window and another device. The comment is shaded because it got downvoted, which was probably appropriate given the snark.
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is this based on the concept of StateCharts?
> We understand people want to see the UI, but it's not the key selling point. Pretty apps isn't what you'd use Alan for

And yet,

> This makes it ideal for administrative tools and data gathering
> Solutions built with Alan include everything from small accounting systems you can build in an afternoon, to large ERP solutions.

I really pity the users of those systems then.
Sure, but the jump is still tempting for the scientific top brass. There's only so much that can be learned in the visible spectrum and only so many Noble prizes, PhDs, tenures and grants to be had. Staying on Hubble is scraping the barrel when the new sexy JWST promises to open whole new fields of scientific inquiry.
Relative to Sweden, I believe there are other European countries where the equivalent job would net you far more disposable income. By quality of life, I understand we're talking strictly about material things (since they cost money, and we're discussing money).

If you're a tech worker in Poland, you will feel far wealthier living in Poland than if you're a tech worker living and working in Sweden. You will be able to live in a nicer home, eat out at restaurants more often, and generally have more money to do stuff with.

Buying things (clothes, gadgets) is a different story, because they can't import the stuff any cheaper than Sweden does, but I don't think the difference there is enough to counteract the general difference in QoL and buying power between living in the two countries.

Edit: Also, to clarify, I did not say that quality of life for a tech worker is garbage. It's actually generally great, as I think everyone here knows. My point is that if you want to reap the financial benefits of being a tech worker, Sweden is not the place to do it.
One important reason to research space travel is to protect our species from disasters that would destroy the Earth. I'd bet our instinctual desire to explore probably evolved for a similar purpose.
The police (or authorities) don’t seem to be keen on counting.

https://govtrackinsider.com/there-is-no-federal-database-of-...

But others are

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_deadly_force_i...
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Waiting to be reactive seems a particularly flawed "plan" if we want to try to survive as a species. That seems as likely an outcome of this to prepare for if we just give up on proactive attempts.
We have Ryzen now..
We were considering moving the company to Spain after Brexit but the reputation of the Spanish tax office as extremely bureaucratic and unfair is a huge deterrent.

Purportedly they can fine you tens of thousands of euros for tiny honest mistakes even if you don't owe one cent of tax (Modelo 720).
Not all of it, just the top talent that doesn't mind the living conditions in SF and NYC
Once again it's amazing what Intel finds in the couch cushions when pushed by AMD. i7 consumer chips went from 4-core to 8-core since Ryzen launched. Where was this innovation before? Oh yeah, why would they bother. Ryzen is the best thing to happen to CPU architecture in years, even if you don't buy one.
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A reminder that the space of architectural possibilities is not merely a binary domain of {microservice, monolith}.
The new i7 without HT and a lower base clock, shouldn't the i7-8700k overall be faster than?
> you now have the frunk acting as a large crumple zone and no chunk of metal shoving a steering column into the driver.

As a first responder who has responded to hundreds of MVAs, I have never seen nor heard of a steering column being shunted into a driver by the engine block. Perhaps in the 60s or earlier, but steering columns are designed to crumple.
Assume you live in a "first-world" nation, how do you propose to become a subsistence farmer?
True, and that never happens with cars with gasoline in the tanks.

(/sarcasm)
But nobody is really pushing back. From the article:

"No officers were prosecuted."

Moral outrage is inferior to guns, cattle prods and poisonous injections.
Or C++ for general software development purposes...
That gif is very confusing without context and doesn't show the actual working app (except one page for a split second)
Do wasm -> builtin calls, e.g. DOM methods still call the JS code if JS code has been monkey-patched?

E.g. if userscript replaces the built-in window.fetch() API to modify page behavior will wasm also be intercepted?
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Canonical is incorporated for-profit but barely pays its bills after 14 years in business, and relied heavily on Mark Shuttleworth wealth and willingness to spend money on things he likes without turning a profit. (Shuttleworth sold his startup Thawte for about $0.5B in 1999 at age 26, and has less than that wealth now.)
We can agree that a successful conversation on this topic requires a shared definition of “rich”. I just don’t think the fleeting wealth that comes with able-bodied employment counts. Rich implies some level of financial independence. One is rich if they can stop working immediately and maintain their existing standard of living indefinitely. This definition includes many more than just the top 0.01% but does not include employees who spend all $500k they make in the year and those who are temporarily well off because they just won the IPO (or other) lottery. I’d call those people merely “currently highly paid workers.”
I don’t know jasonette in detail, but you should think of Alan primarily as a way of building and iterating on apps with lots of guarantees about data quality and matching specs, not necessarily a way to build an app quickly.
Yes, we updated the title to try to clarify.