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>Bras serve a much bigger purpose than covering nipples (hint - what's a jock strap used for? imagine needing that all day, not just when you're running...)

This doesn't work. Jockstraps were designed for protection a century and a half ago with mostly flawed logic. Today they're mostly used to hold protective cups and not for support.

You'll find the vast majority of men that have played sports in school or pursue an athletic sport as an adult have never owned or worn a jock strap. A properly restrictive sports bra would be the female equivalent and will make a world of difference.

I can run flat out and don't care one bit about my genitals flopping around, my 'moobs' however flop around considerably and in a jarring fashion which actually causes pain and they are considerably smaller than many women's breasts. Watch a woman running with an adequate sports bra, you'll see minimal movement of 2 pieces of tissue wearing considerably more than any man's genitals.
Exactly. Companies have as much oversight on their agencies as they want. The problem is that companies don't care and shady agencies will do whatever is cheap. Every person in person in the chain is culpable here.
While others where first implemented in Java, e.g. Default Interface Methods. tiered compilation, JIT cache,...

I use both platforms and enjoy that they copy from each other.
How likely would open sourcing DirectX be? My understanding is that DirectX is a big reason that game developers prefer not to support other platforms. Wouldn’t that let competing platforms have a better chance?

That would be a change I’d love to see. But I think a better change would be for newer games not using DirectX and choosing Vulkan instead.
I always remember how they used to nickel and dime me about hotels and flights (I couldn't even get the "comfort" seat on two 9 hour flights in a row), however the Director positions and up (about 20 people at my office) used to fly First Class everywhere. I had to fly from SF to Germany to India in the worst, smallest, most uncomfortable seat for 18 hours in a row, but they could spring for First Class from SF to LA!
If 30% of your employees are committing "fraud" on expense reports you either work for a criminal organization or your expense reporting system is broken in some way.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of what they are counting as fraud is simple errors due to a badly designed expense system. For example, when you reimburse a hotel you have to manually create a second category with an obscure label for the taxes, and anybody who hasn't been told about it never knows, so they put the whole cost of the hotel room in the hotel line and suddenly are both overbilling (the room charge) and underbilling (the taxes).

Another easy way to commit fraud is to forget to include your travel hours in your expenses. So you aren't charging them for the time sitting on the plane, which is a violation of reporting guidelines and expense charging guidelines.

There are tons of ways an ordinary employee can screw up their expense report without realizing it. This is why they are supposed to be checked by a knowledgeable third party before being committed. If the person in the example was blatantly overcharging for hotel rooms for years without being caught then that's a failure of the expense reporting system.
This doesn't come across in the press that is being made. Perhaps it is just the join messaging with Docker. The purpose of CNAB isn't clear as a generic spec as the examples are all with duffle and dockerapp. Still reading the spec though.
It seems the like the newer Dart FFI effort will benefit current users of the Dart C API, which is great news...

Dart C/C++ interop hasn't been a super-bright spot so far, and I am _beyond_ glad to see it's about to change.
The dig at .NET as being less innovative than another "enterprise" language ecosystem is a little disingenuous, don't you think?
Hey, I'm one of the founders of HashiCorp.

We'd like to make more of Vault Enterprise available to smaller companies with lower palatable price points. This will be reflected in certain features omitted as well as a lower level of support.

For now, please understand that our target _enterprise/commercial_ customer at the moment are Global 2000-esque companies. We currently have almost 10% of the global 2K as paying customers of Vault Enterprise. The features we've built along with the support you get reflect that (dedicated TAMs and so on). But we recognize that certain features of Vault Enterprise would be useful to smaller companies (replication and so forth).

To that end, we're currently planning some new packaging/pricing aimed at this type of user. I have no timelines on when we'd publish that, but its something we're actively doing now. This should make Vault Enterprise more affordable by smaller companies (think 5-figures/year instead of 6-figures/year).

Meanwhile, we're also making more "quality of life" features like auto-unseal available in Open Source. As we continue to add more features and value aimed directly at the Enterprise user, this lets us reevaluate and move more features into OSS and we have continued to do so throughout the life of Vault Enterprise. We hope this helps smaller companies adopt Vault successfully. And note that this is a great example of the model working: our success in Vault has funded growth in Vault staffing and that growth in Vault staffing has directly led to more OSS features and the growth in funding has led to our ability to more confidently make more features free. The community plays a huge role here, too. This is exactly how we intend for it to work!

One thing we learned rather painfully is that selling to the 4-figure vs 5-figure vs 6-figure vs. 7-figure/year customer is each a _very_ different company-building exercise. The expectations of the 7-figure customer (and we have a number of those) is dedicated TAMs, dedicated support reps, quarterly in-person meetings about the state of the install, high impact on the roadmap, and much much more. That of course requires a certain kind of staffing. Very often this staffing scales "down" to lower price points but very rarely does the staffing at lower price points scale "up" to higher price points.

As a company, we chose to go after the large enterprise deals first. This of course alienates some of the smaller deals since the large deals suck the air out of your org a bit. But as we've acquired more and more customers, grown, acquired more funding, etc. we're moving in that direction rapidly.

So, hopefully we'll get there soon! I'm sorry that you were quoted at a point that didn't work for us mutually and I'm glad you find an alternate solution that worked for you. For others in a similar position: we're working on it!
The number 1 feature I'm going to miss from Tumblr is the video seeking. The ability to place your finger on a video and slide forward or backwards is to-date the best way to seek IMHO.
Right. Back in the day when CS:Source was still one of the main games played on steam, whenever they released a new single player game, the limiting factor for how long until it was on the pirate forums was how long it took to write up the forum post. The Steam DRM itself was generally cracked at all times.

I've not kept track, but I'd not be shocked if this was pretty much still the case. It would certainly explain why so many games still have another layer of DRM when sold on steam.
I agree that it shouldn't be called a fully featured ML stack. Still, the most important feature (optimized compilation of models) is handled quite well. Whenever I have to look at Tensorflow source code to understand how it works, I see an over-complicated system that is too far from the research papers (which makes it hard to work with it).
Yeah if anything that's even worse. Dropping the price of your product to unsustainable levels to gain a competitive advantage is called "predatory pricing" and is a valid cause for anti-trust suits.
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Yeah. I totally agree. I understand why companies have a call us message on their enterprise pricing pages (don’t want to give your competitors an edge). But at the same time I just want the matrix of features are in the community edition and ones that aren’t. And then if we still want we will call and negotiate a good price. The guys at Cockroach Labs did just this but again their pricing is hidden behind an email to sales. That’s their prerogative but a bit annoying.
> There's a difference between Signed out, and Incognito (no cookies)!

Is there? I was under the impression that Incognito and its cousins generally still accept and preserve cookies for the duration of the temporary session. This means that for this purpose, there isn't really a difference.
Agreed... Neat project, but a hard dependency on AWS is an issue for us.
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It's never too late to do the right thing.
Really? I did not know that at all. I say legal insider information is a very, very interesting market then.
Can you elaborate? It's not completely clear from the README.
Looming shortfall of patients for cancer studies
Okay, I kind of get where you're coming from... but if you're good enough to get hired at Facebook, why not get hired at another BigTechCo?

Maybe you'll get a bit less on salary, but that may be offset by stock options that increase in value. As opposed to joining a company when you are already convinced its value is on the way down, or even hoping for that scenario. It's weird, it's like you're betting against your own team.
Heh - I was stuck at Costco getting tires installed the other day and ended up buying one of those watches. My favorite part so far is the Bixby app, which presents itself as a Siri-like assistant that collects all of my contacts and GPS data, because hey, but fails on everything I ask it, including dead simple questions like "Where's the closest Starbucks?"
Please note, this only represents a (likely small) portion of Chinese audience. There were a lot of people opposing the idea. They initially posted their opposing view on GitHub issues so it was overwhelmed by disagreements. However, the author disabled the issues on that repo so it looks like it is the widely accepted opinion, which is not true.

Then, people start to write articles in order to show their disagreements. For example, there is one: https://github.com/CT-ABT/Also-as-a-mainland-Chinese-why-do-.... The only problem is that it does not have an English translation.
> nobody seems to be maintaining it there

That's factually incorrect. Development of Dart for the Web has never stopped. AngularDart is still officially supported, and under active development.
Because individual choice on something that few people care about isn’t really anything to a company with Samsung’s power. It’s like saying “blowing on dust makes it disappear, why wouldn’t they work with Mount Everest?”
Ironic how everyone emphasizes speed and ease-of-use nowadays with new toolkits and frameworks and all I witness is more clutter and slower, clunkier applications all over the web.
Forecasting the future of cloud computing in China
I like XMPP but this honestly just seems like a weird fit to me. ActivityPub seems like the more appropriate protocol for this. Also gives you federation with stuff like mastodon and peertube.

Or just RSS would work as well.
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I agree on the operational load, but Vault is free. Did you mean Vault Enterprise? There's two versions - OSS and Enterprise, but a lot of small and mid-sized companies are able to use the free version at scale. Especially if you're a smaller org, OSS should be fine, so your costs are the VMs it's running on and the humans running it.
For parameter estimation. In parameter estimation, you have to evaluate the derivative of a cost function based on an ODE solution, which is usually something like the L2 norm between your numerical solution points and your data. The gradient of this cost function requires calculating the gradient of the solution with respect to the parameters, which can be done quite well via AD. We are finding that AD methods work better than the traditional sensitivity analysis methods in many cases.
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It's about rocks but really it's about everything.
What if your fingers are.....sticky
> I was shocked that Steam sells games that quite
> literally do not work on anything more modern than XP!

Interesting since they have EOLed the client on pre-Win7 systems. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-AFC...

This annoys me because I had Skyrim[1] in Wine on Linux for the occasional run but after the update I'm faced with working out what broke as I can't back out.

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[1] Purchased as a real physical DVD. Except the installer requires the use of the Steam client even for the base game.
Question for mods: why is this post getting flagged?
This sort of thinking on brands is always a puzzle to me. Samsung certainly takes credit for every good thing done by their employees and contractors. Why does a radically different standard apply when they do something bad?

Even if it made sense in some light, it's still a bad approach, because it means people with power and money are never held accountable for things that happen on their watch.
Yeah this just isn't going to replace Tumblr, Movim's user base and Tumblr's user base are two totally different user bases.

I do like it though!
I also usually accept those requests. I don't see what all the fuss is about.
DO they also inspect the hundreds of npm packages an extension might use?
NULL is an alias for UNKNOWN on many systems (like MySQL.) Other DBs don't even have UNKNOWN.

UPDATE table set col=value1 and value2 works fine IF value1 and value2 are booleans.
Safety-related clothing is also deductible. When I worked in the oil business I could deduct things like steel-toed boots, overall, gloves, etc. off my taxes (or the company could have provided them for me as a business expense). At the same time, as you say, even if I only wear a suit for work, it's not deductible. Such is the simplicity of our tax code :-)
BIOS (W17) raises $4.5M to further develop its neural interace
> Somehow people have gotten it in their heads that if it's on the internet it's free

The VC funding model of investing for growth has helped to create this perception. The sad consequence is that this has made it difficult to run companies that don’t scale to sizes that interest VC investments.
Weren't there some cases where people had made anonymous answers but there was a way to find out that they had written such an answer?
I think this was misunderstood due to not being phrased right; I do not believe, let alone wish to insinuate, that torstenvl is a newbie who doesn't understand pointers. I mean, that doesn't even make sense. Though flagged, it was also upvoted to +2 at one point.
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Yes and yes. You shouldn't be making a monthly payment after 3yr and 1.2k/yr is a lot unless you drive a German car (same number of repair bills but higher dollar amounts) or are having so sideways much fun that you wear through a set of tires every year.
Ask HN: How to Stop Annoying Google AdWords Customer Service Reps?
I was wondering if anyone has had this problem and knows how to solve it. We've had someone with a google.com address emailing us multiple times in a matter of weeks asking to speak about our AdWords account. When we tell them we are not interested in a conversation, they continue to spam us, or assign us someone else to our account.

At this point, they've started escalating by CCing myself (VP of Tech) and our CEO on the emails and demanding we speak with them.

I'm just really surprised because usually Google is pretty cognizant of this type of stuff and tries to avoid it. When I try to escalate with these people and tell them to cut it out, they act really rebellious as if I'm causing them some huge harm by not getting on the phone with them rather than dropping it. Makes me think they're being compensated based on how many conversations they have, which makes me think they don't work for Google, but then they have an @google.com email.

Does anyone else have this issue?
Virtual clothes to look cool are not really any different from real life clothes. I mean, some dads refuse to let their daughters buy makeup, I guess that's kind of the same thing.
hi bassam here (CEO @ Upbound). Our business model is still firming up, but we're thinking we would be hosting crossplanes among other things. We want the crossplane project to be community driven (and not vendor driven) and welcome other contributors (see our governance model).
> Does anybody buy a phone/car/... based on manufacturer ads? In a sense this is a self-selecting scam. If you don't check 3rd party reviews, then well, you get "advertised"

Yes, and that's exactly why ads are regulated (there are limits to what you claim your product can do), and why there is so much money in ads: they're designed to influence you and make you buy things that you might not otherwise.
The funny thing is that what DuckDuckGo is doing is actually working... By limiting ads to the search words they manage to provide relevant ads (insofar any ads are ever relevant). It turns out that when I search for "office chair" I'm actually not shopping for the Macbook Pro I was looking at a month ago... :O
Verizon/AOL helped advertisers track kids online
If you put the word "margins" in quotes in your query, all of your results will contain that word. Similarly, you can force words not to appear by prefixing them with a "-".

> The only solution I can see is for a search engine to support both styles of communication.

Isn't this exactly what you're asking for? Non-technical users can be imprecise and let Google figure it out, while technical or power users can get more precise results with the various search operators?
Organizations most definitely have their own cultures including codified practices, management frameworks, and a culture of "X." Patterns of behavior emerge from those cultures, and can lead to success or failure. It's been studied quite extensively - browse HBR.org to see research and theory about this.

If you're fortunate, the company you deal with as a customer or employee has a culture that rewards competence and high standards of behavior.

If you're not, you as an employee or customer or member of the public may suffer. Look at recent scandals involving Wells Fargo, Uber, police forces in certain cities, and others. Or companies that release crappy or copied products time after time. These aren't cases of "rogue employees" or "isolated cases." It's often a broken culture or one that encourages people to break rules, or even break the law. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/technology/uber-workplace... about how this manifested itself with Uber.
a) For this one, it's just an opaque Y Combinator. A highlights post is about the highlights.

b) 'Cause we thought they were interesting. Don't you think some of these are interesting?

> Why have people infer the relationship.

'Cause It's like a secret society where you have to figure it out over time or be clued in.

> What's preventing anyone from coming up with a handle and the acting like a mod?

Nothing! It's a community site, and communities can function surprisingly well without too much ceremony.
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It sounds like the plan is to eventually automate fabrication in order to achieve such economies of scale; that they're currently doing it manually in part because they didn't yet have enough information to properly automate.
The real reason behind the disallowing of NSFW is Tumblr positioning itself to be bought by Verizon.
Sorry, I misread your comments; it seemed like you were saying it was unreasonable to expect the kind of answers I was asking for.
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Almost certainly. And then post-WWII, good medical benefit plans got enshrined in a lot of collective bargaining agreements and became pretty much the standard for large employers generally. At which part, taking them away is going to be very difficult.
As Cloud Auto Unseal is now part of the Open Source version, that mitigates the biggest operational overhead, doesn't it?
It conveys a kind of breezy familiarity, which could be intended to suggest personal experience, or could be subtle snub - you hear plenty of people call the USA "the States" to potentially both ends. In this case, people also use The Kingdom or KSA as short forms for Saudi Arabia, though the former doesn't save a lot of keystrokes...
Why is this flagged? Advertisers calling out Facebook is a big shift in the industry. Two years ago, agencies talked about their love for Facebook's people-based marketing.
I'm not overselling zero values in Go. Simply try to envision the cascading consequences on the language if you removed the zero values; no existing Go code would work, and I think the language would need to shift so much that even hello world couldn't be automatically translated to such a language. All to prevent a single type of runtime error among many, one that Go developers are not complaining about the way that Java, JavaScript, C developers have.
I understand. I guess I was thinking about how Scuttlebutt works where you have multiple client apps (with radically different UIs) that can federate over a common protocol.
Microsoft President Traces US K-12 Learn-To-Code Craze Back to His Own Driveway
If you know something can't possibly be null, then store it as a non-nullable type as soon as you know that.
It's strange to me that after all this time, every time a thread about Flutter reaches Hn or proggit, there are multiple comments about the choice of the Dart language.

I think they've made it pretty clear by now that they don't have intentions of switching from Dart. Heck, they've published an entire "Why Flutter uses Dart" article explaining their reasoning.

It's like beating a dead horse.

Besides, you could always just not use Flutter if you dislike it that much.
It's not sending back "the software". It is sending back data about you. And who knows what.

Indeed, human greed is faster moving than regulation, so its no wonder we are in the transition phase.

And if you tell me all this identifiable data about me is safe, this is simply not true. Safe from motivated 3rd parties, then this is also not true.

Unfortunately, we do not live in this ideal world where data is used for only good.

We live in a world where people get away with undetected overreach all the time.
My company has a list from somewhere of all of the cities around the world and what you should spend for a hotel in that city. I'm sure it's mostly a regional thing. If you go over you have to provide a reason or pay for the difference out of pocket. Valid reasons include things like "local price inflation due to event in town" and "staying at hotel attached to conference we are attending". For the latter the company can save a lot of money on cab fare or car rental/parking so it's pretty easy to get.

Seat upgrades on planes are pretty hard to come by these days. The only time I've managed it is when literally all of the flights into a city were booked and the only seats left were first class. Also, weirdly the price delta on those first class seats were way lower than I expected, only a couple hundred bucks.
Scrolling sucks on iOS since it doesn’t have momentum.
What consistency model does FDB provide?
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Do you find that you're saving a lot more than if you just moved to a cheaper place and took the lower salary to begin with? Why not just make the move now?

I've met people that do the "we just wanted to experience living in New York, but we know we'll leave soon" and I've never totally understood it. I moved to New York because I can't imagine living anywhere else in this country. I've been here for more than 10 years and sure, sometimes you get fed up with the city, but that generally just means I need a vacation and should jump on a plane to Latin America.