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The Microsoft culture was one of fighting for your own resources. If you failed to receive them you were to blame.

Bill Gates formed a highly competitive internal environment. You were expected to stand up and fight for your cause - even against BillG himself. If you were right against Bill it was extremely good for your career. This was a time where the success of a BillG review was determined by how many F-bombs came out, and it was never zero.

For more information:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

Also understand MSFT culture has changed dramatically since that time. Its no longer representative of the company today.
I still use Eclipse but only because I'm accustomed to ignoring the problems (e.g. the "marketplace", Orion, defaulting to external editors, etc).
Making Mythic in MTG Arena; Estimating How Long It Takes to Reach the Top
Their money is mostly stored in regulated and insured banks and investments. Even if you get their bank password, you can't just move all their money at once to an untraceable account in an irreversible transaction leaving them with absolutely no recourse.
When Can a Distributed Ledger Replace a Trusted Third Party?
Sorry, what? Are you sure you aren't making claims based on your particular experience with it? What about new types of jazz like Dilla jazz?
My advise will be probably different: do a job that gives the highest salary and try to invest in something that gives you some (near) passive income. You're young so you have many possibilities and your earnings can be almost endless. Then in several years you will be selecting job only by they fun-ratio.
Maybe this article overstated things and someone will clear it up in the comments but that was painful to read.

I live in Vancouver and weed's been officially legal throughout the Canada for several weeks now. It's still relatively new but nothing noticeable has changed aside from fewer people discussing such a frivilous and previously mishandled issue. It's not perfect but far, far, far better than strict prohibition with draconian sentencing laws.

What bothers me the most about this story is how marijuana is supposedly 'legal' yet some locals seem Hell-bent on treating it like an illegal and necessarily dangerous. Instead of vocferiously refusing shops to open in a municipality you'd think the free market would be enough to determine where there's not enough demand for a product.

I guess if some people prefer being judgemental and pious to actually getting a handle on social issues that's their prerogative. It's a frustrating position to reason against, in fact that almost never enters the equation, but it sure seems to resonate with a lot of people.
The first submarine internet cable in the Great Lakes is laid
It's incredibly obvious that housing, homelessness, and general city livability are major problems in SF to everyone, even passing tourists. How much clearer does it need to get?

Government officials are constituents too and they should be able to figure this out even without any public feedback. This is their job. Ignorance and apathy have no place there and they would be fired in any other industry for this kind of incompetence. Unfortunately they're also in charge of any rules around accountability.
Bubblin Superbooks: An online café of books
There are periods where you don't want the cold air to move into the refrigerator. Direct exchange allows the cold air to move around at all times -- regular refrigerators just turn a fan on and off, but some heat is always exchanged through the holes. A heat pump would just make the exchange more controllable.
Optimize by ditching Electron and use Qt instead. You will gain ~50% performance increased and ~50% smaller app
That's a mighty large statement. He may have made one of the most popular games but he certainly did not come up with the idea in gaming (Minecraft mods based on movies) or in movies (Battle Royale is a Japanese movie from 2000).
You haven't heard "love is a crying game" by Amy Whitehouse then - I though it was a lost Billy Holiday side when I first heard it.

Id agree on the performers when you have to have done a degree in music theory to appreciate it.
I would not retrain such a model on all data, just do online updates. Also I still think for that use case training times and latency are negligible (nobody cares or nobody notices any difference between training a BoW and bi-LSTM.)

If you are deploying on resource-constrainted devices (IE: low-end PC's without GPU), it is not unusual to take a lot of time training a model on a very powerful computer (which nobody cares about), then distilling or transfering the result for test time.
What's obvious specifically about their intent? Did you watch the talk?

Would most Chinese agree with you, or is it only 'obvious' to people who've never set foot in the country?
Small language note, "public school" is an ambiguous term when used internationally like this.

For whatever reason in the US, Canada (and probably some other countries) "public school" means "free government run school". Meanwhile in the UK (and wikipedia tells me India and Australia) "public school" means "non government school you have to pay to go to".

I'm guessing that you mean the American version of "public school"?
Can confirm. Typical fine for 21-29 kph speeding is 20% of your monthly income, and for 30-60 kph speeding, 40% of your monthly income.
I have confused these when they were handwritten, but not in typed form in a reasonable font.
Any reference to this "holy grail" problem?
It’s not a fallacy, it’s an ideal, a goal to be strived for while accepting human limitations. No one can perfectly design and build a house, but we don’t shrug and say “Perfect right angles are an illusion, enjoy your crooked house.” Besides, there are laws around this concerned with something called *the appearance of impropriety” which is to be avoided by judges, elected officials, and others. You can legitimately get yourself in deep muck, not only by being improper, but by merely seeming to be (to a reasonable person standard).
In Germany, which didn't change its laws, prevalence of drug use fell during the same period.

Also note that it's significantly reduced opiate use among youth (15-34 y.o.): total opiate use only went down a little, which means that it likely has increased among people over 35.

Point is, even if overall drug problems decreased in Portugal (which is not clear to me at all, since total drug use increased), evidence that it's the decriminalization that helped, is flimsy at best.
It's been a point of contention recently, the question of who created battle royale. Perhaps Greene is responsible for the modern iteration of it, but the last-man-standing concept has been around in gaming since Bomberman in 1983. And the concept of battle royale in general was popularized with the Hunger Games and of course the film named Battle Royale. And, "battle royale" as a phrase was used by Ralph Ellison in 1952 in his classic novel Invisible Man, describing a free-for-all boxing match that the protagonist must participate in. So Brendan Greene didn't come up with this out of thin air, or at least he wasn't the first.

On the other hand, I see no problem with him trying to profit from it either.

Edit: I correct myself -- in Invisible Man, the phrase was "battle royal," not "battle royale." It's still clearly similar however.
Try optimize imports?
What I Learned After 1 Year of Blogging
I agree with the above. I would also start actively looking. A similar thing happened to me, and I'm glad I was already in the process of interviewing BEFORE I asked a lot of questions.
Charities like Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley already exist and do good work. Any company that wants to help improve the low income housing situation would probably achieve better results by contributing to an existing charity rather than reinventing the wheel.

https://www.habitatebsv.org/
I only “know” the code it gave me for what, a few seconds? If at all... macOS now automatically copies them from texts and 1PW automatically copies TOTPs for relevant logins to the pasteboard. I think the “know” part is something _you_ create/control and use over many instances.
I can use mac if I'm forced to do but my sanity is worth more than some extra money I can get doing so

and seriously, using slow and noisy machine with poor multitasking and overall terrible UX WILL slow me down considerably, it's not worth it also for employer

and you know what? I've done it before already and been the happy guy in the office laughing at all the trouble people forced to use macs had

EDIT: ofc if I'd know beforehand that mac is the only option I simply wouldn't apply to that place, there's no reason to make your own work lower quality
What's your point? The nature of cryptocurrencies make them easily lost or stolen compared to money in the bank. Banks are regulated and insured so customers never risk losing their money due to ineptitude. They get nothing in exchange for the hassle and risk of cryptocurrency.
This was addressed perfectly by Robert Glasper at a workshop that I attended. To paraphrase, he was talking about current day jazz school students talking about jazz like it's a work of Mozart or Beethoven, to be reproduced perfectly. "Hip-hop musicians are more jazz than jazz musicians today"

I wouldn't write off modern jazz though. I truly think that we're experiencing something phenomenal these days. I highly recommend anything by Snarky Puppy. Case in point - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc
I absolutely love this one particular brand (Linda McCartney) of mozzarella-riddled vegetarian burger they sell in the UK. I'm a lifelong meat eater, past redemption really, but my wife is vegetarian and introduced me to them.

I would rather eat these textured soya protein burgers than even the best beef burger I've ever had. They are that good.

Also, upvoted because a difference of opinion isn't what down voting is for, surely ?
I've always felt he was one of the more interesting personalities on the tech scene. Surprised he doesn't have a bigger following than he does, though I think maybe he likes it that way.
Ask HN: What kind of revenue alternatives to advertising can websites employ?
Whenever I see a popup that says "We see you're using an Ad-Blocker, would you please disable it?", I immediately think "Nope!", and if they don't let me to the webpage, I entirely lose interest in what I'm doing there. No offense to the website folks, but keeping intrusive ads away is high priority to me and many others. I wish I could send you an email describing my utter distaste is advertising and targeted marketing, but I also understand their need for revenue. So the question is, how can these websites get paid without relying on advertisements? Can we brainstorm?
Yeah, I watch movies and listen to music.

I pirate movies (via bittorrent) mainly because it’s easier than maintaining subscriptions with Netflix, HBO, Amazon Video, etc. I’m not against paying for movies, I’m just not interested in walled gardens. If movies were sold like bandcamp sells music, I’d gladly pay. I also hate running into buffering issues, disappearing content, and netflix’s atrocious UI. I just google what I want and download the movie in a few minutes.

I don’t use Spotify because of the same “walled garden” issue. I’ve bought plenty of music through bandcamp, and for free listening I use YouTube and various internet radio stations.
> But if Ford found a major safty defect in the airbags of old models, people would expect a fix.

If Ford gave everyone a new car as compensation nobody would complain they didn't fix the old one.

FWIW I hate the new design and moved to FireFox, but I don't think chrome needs to support the old one.
I can ask you the same thing, but in reverse. What is your strong opinion on believing that people should have no responsibility for the obesity, when we know it is caused mostly by over-eating?

Why do you presume people are completely hopeless at controlling what they put in their stomach?

How many experts did you consult with to form your opinion?
I think we all know that it's just not that simple. There are too many things to vote for which is half of the reason for delegating to officials in the first place. However there's no real way to know what people are going to do in office and it seems they are increasingly unpredictable and ineffective, led astray by apathy and greed rather than any duty to the people.

A large part of it is likely the vast isolation they see from the actual issues. More skin in the game would greatly change things if they actually had to face these problems themselves instead of just answering public feedback with empty platitudes.
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It’s not “sometimes,” it’s “mostly.”

> In the U.S., according to its National Pork Producers Council, 80 million of its 95 million pigs slaughtered each year are reared in industrial settings.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_animal_farming#Con...

> pigs are placed in a crate made of iron bars that is the exact length and width of their bodies, so they can do nothing for their entire lives but stand on a concrete floor, never turn around, never see any outdoors, never even see their tails, never move more than an inch.

Much more disturbing text and images can be found at the source:
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...

And that’s only for pigs. Conditions are no better for chickens or cows at factory farms.
Show HN: Exploiting XSS on YouTube demo
The thermal mass trick applies to all refrigerators/ice boxes, not just off-grid scenarios.

I tend to keep a number of filled water jugs occupying any otherwise unused space in mine since I don't keep them brimming with food stuffs.

It smooths out the temperature swings from opening the doors, and generally results in the compressor running less as a result.

Edit: it also buys more time before food spoils in power outages.
>Cross an insecure manager or exec in your company by saying something that's true and better for the company, you'll get dingined without knowing it.

This is a bad example. This is an at-will (in most cases) relationship with your employer. The social credit system is a relationship with the government, and the services it provides.

Because the two are different, the social credit system should not be dinged because of whistleblowing a private company / badmouthing a manager. It would make sense if you are working for the government, however.
I'll gladly read that in a textual format. Podcasts tend to be long-winded with a lot of useless fluff.

If you have a link to one of his papers, I'll gladly peruse it.
Given the fallen prices of photovoltaic panels, it is frequently cheaper to use them rather than to build a passive collector, particularly if you have to deal with freezing weather and already have some photovoltaic infrastructure in place.
I’ve bought the Critical Chain by E. Goldratt two weeks ago and I’ve been enjoying the anticipation of reading it. The Goal was a real eye opener and I hope that the Critical Chain will bring me new insights on project management specifically (the Goal is a great introduction to lean methods but it is heavily geared towards manufacturing processes).
If you are rich and live in Canada, you can cross the border and pay out of pocket to receive treatment in the United States. I wouldn’t be surprised if Taiwan (the only other country with a Canada-style one-tier single-payer system) has a similar relationship with Singapore. Britain also has the ability to pay out of pocket for private practice care as an alternative to the NHS.
> If you don't believe me then post a help wanted ad with a >$50 hourly wage for unskilled work and watch the applications roll in.

This proves nothing. For example, if a >$50 hourly wage is well above market rate, it may lead currently-employed people to apply. If they leave their current job to take your offer, then you've just shifted the job vacancy from one employer to another. This is clearly not evidence that a labor shortage does or does not exist.
Bitcoin is yesterday but look at Ethereum. You can now trade dollar backed tokens issued by fully regulated banks for the cost of an Ethereum transaction. This lets you use smart contracts backed by US dollars, or write contracts to trade US dollars for other currencies. The writing is on the wall, more regulated tokens are on the way. Public stocks to municipal bonds. Why wouldn't people want to cut out the middle man?
Don't post about owning large amounts of cryptocurrency.

Spear Phishing / Whaling is a real threat, and you are simply not clever or diligent enough to anticipate all attacks. Once multi-millions are involved, it becomes practical to execute very elaborate attacks on high-potential targets. This can include meat-space 'monkey wrench' coercion or spy-novel style guile.

This is not a theoretical risk! https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/maste...
I'll second that with the Akka Actor model. There's a lot of criticism about it, but it's nice to work with.
I had a friend who worked at Google as a contractor and took the shuttle in to work. I think there was some detail about having to badge in so her rides could be reported and deducted from her pay[1]? The details are fuzzy, but as I recall she just ignored the rule and nobody seemed to care much. The upshot was that she used the cafe and ride services much the same as I (an FTE) did. The existence of those hoops to jump through makes me think that you're probably right that an official service for contractors would probably violate their contractor status, legally speaking.

[1] I'm pretty sure I'm remembering part of this incorrectly, because us FTEs were supposed to badge in too to avoid non-Googlers from riding.
That'd still assume cows, land and labor are free. Which I'll just go ahead and say is probably an invalid assumption :)

And if you read the actual data[1], you'll realize that 73% of the returns come through subsidies. Or $0.35(cdn)/liter, so ~$1.40/gallon.

Really, that energy/water consumption number in the OP is bogus. There's no way around that. It doesn't mean that milk is particularly environmentally friendly, but neither is it anywhere near as devastating as OP made it out to be.

[1] https://www.realagriculture.com/2018/02/u-s-dairy-subsidies-...
Oh, for each stickler I’ve worked for who cared about waste, I’ve still worked for 3 others who couldn’t care less. I’ve seen heartbreaking amounts of perfectly edible food go in the trash can. Not even employees could eat it, they had to buy their own meals afterwards.
No drugs are used as selective imprisonment of the underclass and minorities. Even the arrest by itself is a significant disruption to someone's life.

Rich people get to use drugs all the time without even any worry of arrest.
I would echo a bunch of the comments in this thread. I am only posting this because I own a healthcare startup and your question put the fear of god in me. I would strongly advise that you build a different app if you do not already possess the knowledge required to do this. If you have the means hire a professional and you will be better off. You need to get this right from day 1 or people will get hurt, you will be fined into oblivion and/or possibly thrown in jail. There are also numerous other security concerns that you should be worried about since Auth is just the tip of the iceberg.

I will add the following details which are specific for healthcare companies and a bit of inside baseball. Typically people use an email address as the lookup field for a user account. Since email addresses are considered protected health information under HIPAA, I would highly suggest you use usernames instead (possibly auto generated to be safe). HITRUST includes some details about password rules for their certification process. No one will question you if you follow their rules (I think it's 12 characters minimum 1 Upper/Lower/Symbol/Number each). Use a banned password list, you can find one here[0]. You are going to want to set up some manner of 2 factor authentication (I would recommend U2F or TOTP) for all accounts with manual code backup. OAuth and OpenID are goddamn nightmares. You need to own and manage this process entirely by yourself.

[0]: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
Except that you had to have a California drivers license. Marijuana tourism seems to be a big thing in CO.
Forecasting societal events in 2019 and onward
This is still possible at CMU. Guaranteed to annoy your friends doing their homework.

mesg y is the default and write works. However when you try to run wall you get "-bash: /usr/bin/wall: Permission denied."
Agree. But generally irrelevant here, since the minke is not in danger of extinction.
Suffering wasn't brought up. Just the comparison of being bred for food vs slavery.
I say yes. Can we breed humans as slaves and say “would it be better that they didn’t exist than live a horrible existence?” to justify breeding them? Because that is the exact logic slaveowners used.

Same with dogfighting. If we breed dogs for dogfighting that wouldn’t otherwise exist, does that make dogfighting acceptable?
There was a paper released recently to do deep learning on Halide[1] that I'm excited to see merge[2] with the main Halide codebase.

Seems like the creators of Halide are in this comment thread, does anyone know when this is happening?

[1]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/tzumao/gradient_halide/
[2]: https://github.com/jrk/gradient-halide
Heating's optional around here but we use LPG (propane) for cooking. Cooking's the last big hurdle, wife refuses to consider a wood burner.
Merge recursive strategy (2011)
Your physical analogy attempt is not merely incorrect but it doesn't support you even taken at face value.

>If you go buy an apple at the grocery store you pick it out of a hundred others but that does not mean there is anything special about that particular apple.

It is a well known fact of marketing that much of the population absolutely will look carefully even at something like a crate of apples and try to pick "the best" one as well as they can, something which has resulted in unfortunate phenomena like supermarket fruits and vegetables being bred for appearance and resilience against shipping rather then taste such as the infamous Red "Delicious" (of course people specifically choosing against appearance for flavor aren't selecting at random either). Also compared to IP where there is infinite reproducibility the more apt analogy to choosing between various photos would be choosing between varieties of apples. Or one kind of apple, but some are organic and some conventional. They're all apples, and you can acquire as many as you wish to pay for, but they aren't all the same nor will their pricing be the same.

>And I'm sure we'd all be equally annoyed if some apple picker e-mailed us saying they normally charge 500 per apple picked but they'll settle for a 100 dollar donation in this case.

Sorry but not all of us would think picking an apple at random would entitle us to walk out of the store with it without paying for it. If after we took $500 worth of apples without paying the actual legal owner emailed us and stated that normally they'd call the police but would settle for a donation of 1/5 normal price to a charity yeah, that'd be pretty decent deal.

It's genuinely kind of weird how you seem to think that you not caring would mean you can have whatever you want on whatever terms you want.
Even better, there are people who honestly believe the creators of Electrum didn’t do this themselves and try to make it look like the work of completely unrelated hackers.
I don't believe that you have 2,000 Bitcoin. Nobody that interested in Bitcoin would even think of using blockchain.info to hold a fraction of that much. I don't even like, use, or think Bitcoin is useful, and even I'd know better than to do that.

I can't believe someone holding more than $50k in blockchain.info, and even that is ridiculously unadvisable. Web wallets are not secure. I very much doubt anyone interested enough in Bitcoin to acquire 2,000 of them early enough on would do such a thing.