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>This is ridiculous for a million reasons. It's simple, and I say this as someone who has studied classical music for many years (including conducting): classical music isn't that much fun, compared to so many other options today. The kind of people who like classical music are the kind of people who enjoy watching documentaries or reading Shakespeare. It's high-effort, high-reward for a particular kind of person.

And yet, working and middle class folk, far less affluent and educated than today's consumers, used to be very much able to enjoy classic music, including singing opera arias
for fun, in Europe at least.

Why take it that "classical music is not fun", and not the inverse, but equal reading "the modern music consuming public is crude".
I don't understand your point. Even if Kindle doesn't let you open DRM-Free epubs (no idea if this is the case or not) there is plenty of software that does.
NES games are the classical music of gaming. Sure, some people enjoy them, but I would bet that the vast majority would rather play 2019 AAA titles.
Because investors don't need to lobby on behalf of their companies; the companies they fund can lobby.
What We Learned After 10 Years in PR Tech
I've always seen it as a thing of habit.

If you're used to understeer (FWD loss of traction), then for safety reasons, you should stick to understeer. If you're used to oversteer, then stick with oversteer.

Its not like it snows every day. Your opportunities to practice loss of traction are few and far in between.
> Look, this isn't mysterious. Rich people are associated with evil in films, and their stereotypical "too-good" pursuits -- mansions, opera halls, tuxedos, and yes, classical music.

I don't think it's that simple. Rich people today are more modernists than classicists. They live in modern buildings and listen to any music. They work in modern office buildings.

Classicism is about man vs man. Man vs nature, man vs God. The fight between two men, is a classic conflict. Modernism does not celebrate the fight between men, it cannot without undermining its fight with the self, it's fight with the non-existence of God.

A fight between two men is classical in western literature, hence the classical themes when a fight on film breaks out.
I think you nailed it; there's relativism at play. Classical music was the vibrant, popular music of its day. It was the showiest kind society had. As that goalpost has moved, classical has become - comparatively - austere. Over the 20th century, but especially the past decade, more and more immediately-satisfying media has come to pull attention (and change tastes) away from the now-slow-burning classical. It's become the vegetables of the music world.
I wholeheartedly agree with this comment.

If we are to compare US vs EU salaries, we must take into account healthcare cost, retirement, welfare, parental leave, PTO and so on. Otherwise the whole purpose of the exercise is pointless and it may embellish on side of the argument vis-a-vis the other.

How do you call that sort of tactics already? Propaganda, right? The POTUS would respond "Fake News!" (although I'm not fond of him).

Ignorance and complacency run amok on HN these days.
I think you are projecting your own biases here. OP said "DP question", there is no mention of a 'puzzle' anywhere. As I said in another comment of mine on this page, I have had to use DP in each of my last three years in real projects. If i were to hire someone for help with these, I would definitely be looking for comfort with DP styled thinking in a candidate. In order to do so I do have to simplify and abstract out the problem statement.
Yes, staying another year wouldn’t have made a big difference. My net worth is around $1.4M with $1M in liquid savings. In the last 2 years I added ~$200K per year in savings. I just didn’t want to keep postponing. Otherwise there’s always a reason to wait another year or two.
That's the problem. The draft is vaguely formulated. They seem to concentrate and take down Tor websites and "darknet admins", but the difference is nowhere mentioned, let alone acknowledged in the draft.
Activists successfully shut down the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic (GIC), in Toronto run by Dr. Kenneth Zucker, formerly one of the leading researchers on trans health, who led the team that wrote the DSM-5 criteria for gender dysphoria.

These activists claimed that his clinic was using "conversion therapy". Instead of following the gender affirmative approach, this clinic instead had child patients work through their dysphoria with therapy and explore their gender with play. His research found that 80% of children with gender dysphoria usually end up desisting and leading healthy lives, which directly contradicts the narrative that children who are gender non conforming need to get on dangerous puberty blockers.
https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-r...
I think the author is distinguishing "real" classical music from "movie music", which isn't the same just because it uses the same instruments.
XCode is free and has been for ages. To this day you can develop whatever you like for the Mac and not pay Apple a penny. You don’t even have to use XCode to do it. It’s even free for iPhone development for your own device now, though you have to pay a fee to publish stuff. I’m not sure what you comment about emulators is about to be honest, The iOS emulator for the Mac is free.

True it is all free except the whole having the purchase a 1000 dollar computer part.
This is a proposed bill. The title posted here suggests that it has been ratified and is going to implemented but that has not happened. The translated (and paraphrased) title is "Those Who Make the Darknet Possible Could Soon Be Offenders."
The discussion about "bias" and perceived "neutrality" is one that I see ten times a day on the internet and it truly baffles me. When it comes to hard sciences it makes a certain amount of sense but as soon as you enter any kind of social or political subject then good luck finding the "neutral" point of view. And even if you actually manage to find it somehow that won't stop people on either side of the issue to say that you're biased.

As such arguing about Wikipedia's biases is a waste of time. For instance I see people in this thread who seem to argue that qualifying GamerGate as a harassment campaign is biased, personally I think it's a fairly accurate description of the movement. Am I wrong? Maybe, but good luck settling that. Ditto with, say, anything regarding the Venezuelan situation, Donald Trump etc... Look at the discussion thread for Wikipedia articles about subjects like astrology, homeopathy, climate change or the holocaust and you'll find people with fringe opinions accusing Wikipedia of bias.

I think the most important factor is not this absurd concept of neutrality, what matters is honesty. Are the authors deliberately trying to hide or misrepresent some of the facts in order to push a narrative? Are they genuinely trying to inform or do they have ulterior motives?

Clearly paying an editor to whitewash an article is not honest so that's a big problem for me.
Pilots offer insights on Boeing 737 crashes
Security, Accessibility, and Internationalization Improvements to PyPI for 2019
What about e2e encryption and then you don't have to care about the infrastructure?
> instead setup e2e between consumer devices, some risks are mitigated

Only some, though. The metadata will still be there to be collected, which I understand is more valuable than you'd assume on first glance.
Contrariwise there is huge demand for a language with a trimmed-down set of concepts from C++ and a much improved syntax.
indeed, from the cited article (https://www.arts.gov/news/2018/arts-contribute-more-760-bill...):

The arts saw a $20 billion trade surplus, leading with movies and TV programs and jewelry.
It does depend on the job, and I don't doubt that there exist jobs where DP in the interview process is reasonable, especially if it's a "CS job". I'm particularly talking about software engineering interviews, to be clear, not research positions or anything like that. Even in software engineering, I could imagine DP being important if the product relies heavily on high-quality string diffing, for example. I'm certainly interested to hear your real-world applications if you're able to share. I guess I have seen memoized DAG traversal come up, so in that sense I've seen DP, but it's not quite the same as "take this non-recursive-looking problem and make it recursive so you can memoize".

Two situations come to mind when I think about DP being used in real-world applications (both just things I heard about): a talk I heard about how Google News compares news pages before and after the publisher makes an HTML change, and DNA sequence alignment problem. Both of them went like this:

1.) We want to find a perfect solution, but the search space is exponential size.

2.) Hey look, by using dynamic programming we can reduce the complexity to n^2 time and space.

3.) Wait, n^2 time/space is still too inefficient for many real-world use cases. Rather than trying to find a perfect solution, let's settle for a good enough solution by rethinking the approach and applying some heuristics. By putting some clever thought into it and sacrificing a little bit of quality, we can get something that takes O(n) time in practice.

So I think an initial goal of looking through an exponential search space for an optimal solution (often what DP is solving) is often misguided anyway, since often "optimal" isn't actually so important.
MUME was the MUD I played the most. On the plus side, I absolutely loved the world size, complexity and quality. On the negative side, the gameplay balance was horrible. And, since I was playing from South America, my ping didn't help either.

I tried some other MUDs later, but most of them have smaller worlds, not so intricate or well-described. I just couldn't get that same magic of exploring that I did from MUME.

I still visit ElvenRunes once or twice a year, to see how you guys are doing ;)
There doesn't seem to be a line of reasoning here.

I don't see how:
1)Romans were upper-class foreign rulers
2) ???????
3) Romans have English accents.
Yes, dpp has issues with C++ constructs according to its readme unless that changed recently. I am talking about the inverse: have dmd generate a C++ header automatically for extern(C++) declarations during compilation. This was discussed quite recently.
This is a comment chain from someone saying that the Wikipedia Gamergate article is horribly biased...

Edit: I think I misunderstood the parent. To be on GG's 'side' in this sense would be to be a gamer who believes that games journalism should abide by some basic ethical standards and/or be a horrible mysoginist who hates the idea of female characters and catering to people besides straight white men, depending on who you ask.
While I understand your point, I would gently argue that to develop a truly great macOS or iOS app, you somewhat need to live in the Apple ecosystem to understand the design guidelines and quality that Apple customers have come to expect.
I don't agree with their conclusion that this shows the internet is "inadvertently moderated" but I do agree with them not basically writing a biography of the perpetrator.
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To add to this a bit, it also provides a motivation for developers to make games that are too hard and will force users to pay if they want to enjoy them, but people who play like I do will get bored quickly.

This is why I loved the old Peggle games from PopCap but hate the new mobile one.
It's worth noting those graphs are about what power is generated in-state, not what power is consumed in-state.

In VT's case, they shut down a nuclear plant with no in-state replacement for the power, and now they buy 60% of their power from out of state. A lot of which comes from Hydro-Quebec, so it's often still renewable in their case.
because of range, design and autopilot, I can’t imagine my next car to be anything other than Tesla
While there's some psychology (parental fear of abduction by strangers), there are also significant environmental problems at play in the US that don't exist elsewhere:

1. Kids are more spread out. A suburban neighborhood is huge and fewer people are having kids. The people that have kids will have fewer of them. For kids to coagulate together for playtime, you need higher density.

2. American roads are fucking deadly. Bigger cars at faster speeds with ever less attentive drivers. Cars are by far the number one killer of children and American voters do fuck all to fix it. If we banned all cars, I'd probably let my 2 year old mostly wander around by himself until dinner.

3. Dual working parents plus shitty workplace policies mean there are just fewer eyes out there. Even in the old days, "Free Range" didn't mean Lord of the Flies. It meant the kids roamed around but there was always an adult nearby, even if not in any official capacity.

A combination of 1, 2, and 3 makes for American parents structuring a kids' life around schleping them to various scheduled events and places. Even when a kid gets older, they've never developed the habits to do it for themselves.
I've traded $ for time twice so far, and overall I'm okay with that.

1999 23k first full-time job, hourly, Maryland
2000 25k
2001 28k
2002 30k
2003 34k
2004 36k
2005 39k promoted to salaried position
2006 76k moved to Silicon Valley as SWE, Mountain View
2007 88k
2008 106k company bought
2009 158k residual stock
2010 153k new gig in RWC
2011 133k
2012 149k new gig in Mountain View
2013 146k
2014 137k
2015 168k company bought, new gig in SF
2016 181k
2017 165k new gig in Santa Clara
2018 161k
The "ethics in game journalism" was basically a weaselword for what they really wanted - women out of gaming. It's a lot like how "economic anxiety" elected Trump - it's a way to excuse people's inexcusable attitudes towards others.
> Not only do you still have to hassle with Apple's clunky provisioning profiles

No you don't. XCode takes care of all of that automatically, I haven't had to hassle with provisioning profiles in years.
> Here's an entirely novel concept for evaluating if somebody can write code that solves actual problems. We could ask people to, IDK, write code that solves actual problems. They're there for a day. A good coder can solve some pretty interesting problems in a day.

My last interview was structured like this. Remote. Able to work on it outside of work hours (so no missed office days). Tracked a shared repo. Was paid a retainer up front for n hours worked on the task at an agreed-upon hourly rate.

Needless to say it was a great experience.

I've also had interviews in the past where the interviewer didn't have the correct answer to a question they asked me, and just got confused when I tried to explain my answer more fully. In the end they said I was incorrect, due to their incorrect answer (that they must have taken down from another source). I didn't get that job. Probably for the best.

There are also some people who just shouldn't be interviewing others. They just don't have the emotional intelligence to manage the situation.
Agreed, while both the proposal and the article contain lots of the usual dark net FUD, the proposed law seems pretty constrained on the platforms themselves.

I honestly fail to see the larger point of that legislation, if a platform is as clearly targeted towards the crimes specified in the proposal it should already be covered by a plethora of German and EU wide law.
The article actually details that the proposal on the table is to make it a crime to run sites whose access is restricted by specific technical measures and whose purpose or activity is oriented towards the goal of aiding crime.

The notion that it would become a crime to run a tor exit node is actually speculation on the part of the authors of this article.

But is not apparent to me how that would follow from such a law: For example, since anyone can access tor, and, by implication, any tor exit node, access to a tor exit node is not restricted in any way, so it would not seem to fall under this law in my opinion.

As for running a tor hidden service, this would seem to apply but still: How do you draw the line between running a service where it just so happens that criminal business is conducted over that service, versus running a service whose purpose or activity is actually directed towards aiding crime?
> They called themselves Romans until the very end

And to this day the Turks call the Greeks in Turkey Romans.
From https://secure.ssa.gov/mySSA/start

Total income. Never received stock/RSUs/etc. All positions were more-or-less individual contributor. Never worked in a large city.

2000 $ 37,663 First real job (software developer)
2001 $ 42,164
2002 $ 42,561
2003 $ 50,567
2004 $ 50,001
2005 $ 89,541
2006 $100,541
2007 $108,299
2008 $114,333
2009 $122,458 Team lead
2010 $133,764
2011 $135,101 Went 100% remote
2012 $145,651
2013 $151,963
2014 $152,985
2015 $156,734
2016 $172,678 ~$50k bonus pre-tax
2017 $176,794 ~$60k bonus pre-tax
2018 $225,846 ~$80k bonus pre-tax
To some extent at least, any country/empire/polity is a ship of theseus.

Is the US the same polity that was founded by the American revolutionaries? The geography is more different than similar. The social order (eg slavery, voting rights) changed. The political system (from pre/post civil war) changed. Is it still the same ship?

How about "England" or "Britain." Is the UK a successor to Alfred's kingdom? Successor to the Norman empire (Cyprus, Lebanon, Sicily, Jerusalem, Normandy...)?

Lines of continuity and discontinuity are usually narrative and subjective.

Ultimately, the reason western historians considered the Byzantines separate is because (a) they spoke Greek and (b) they didn't have Italy and (c) there were/are western claimants to the "successor of Rome" seat.
Hoo boy, Iron Realms. Achaea was my very first experience with pay-to-win multiplayer games. I don't know if the rest of them are any better, but I know that Iron Realms was the first game company that made me feel disgust as a player. In that sense, they were the precursor of EA.
> Do you want me to give you a hard time or do you want an answer?

> Both.

That's good journalism.
For most of the '00s and around '10-12, CFS wasn't even seen as a real thing, but purely imaginary.
A Clockwork Orange
> Kids are taught to memorize and often by teachers (esp in grade school) who don't understand the math.

On the flip side, if you don't know e.g. your times tables by heart, you are in for a shitton of trouble when it comes to doing the higher level stuff. The best way to achieve the arithmetical competence it takes to successfully do math at secondary levels and above is drilling. Educational history is littered with the wreckage of alternative attempts: New Math, some of the approaches derided as "Common Core", etc.
You should talk to the 8bits guy, he's on the process of creating his own dream 8 bits machine, and it looks like you've beaten him :)
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Thanks, that's interesting.
Still, Epic does not have to commit the same amount of resources. That is my point. The Unreal Build Tool and Unreal Header Tool do not come for free, but this is still less than two sets of optimizing compilers in my book.
I too think it might be some AML warning but at the same time, use it as a reason to drop BofA.
>> As a passenger I expect pilots to fully know the plane they are flying

Never going to happen. Modern aircraft are far too complex for anyone to have this sort of complete knowledge, let alone be able to use it properly in a crisis. This one reason, of many, that pilots work from checklists created by the manufacturer.
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