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OK first the Restroom issue...Can we Please LET THIS GO!!! There is NO RULE saying that I have a limit or restrictions on Restroom use. I can use the Restroom as much/often as I need. I have Never peed in a bottle or trash can Nor have I seen anyone does that either!! I have never gotten written up or in trouble for using the restroom. Really this rumor needs to be put to rest!! Its tired and old.

The last time I checked Slaves do not have Freedom and I have freedom to come and go as I please, Slaves do not get paid and I Get Paid VERY Well and get pay raises. Slaves do not get benefits and I get FULL Benefits with all the bells and whistles. I am NOT A Slave. There are no shackles over here.

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A blind man shouldn't be able to purchase a car for his son?
At first glance Imba reminds me of Coffescript, in a good way. A language that replaces JS' unfortunate Java-like syntax and helps reveal its simple and elegant semantics.
Building isn't the bottleneck in the system - it's land that is zoned for residential development.
They hook someone with mental health problems, usually with a trust fund or a rich spouse, and then tell them they are all caused by past lives that need to be regressed to or chakras that need to be remotely cleared. They then charge for remote chakra clearing and past life regression and it goes on for years. The retail location is just to hook the whales and then the rest takes place over the phone or Skype usually.
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I live on Long Island and I see an obscene amount of Psychics' "practices" on the day to day, they're everywhere! And they've been around for a time now, I always think that theres no way they can be getting business, but it would seem that they do. A lot more people seem to buy into this nonsense than you'd think, for instance: if I go to meetup.com and restrict the search to groups that are within a 20 mile radius of me, there is not one, not two, but three entire meetup groups dedicated to "harnessing/practicing psychic ability"
Have you been to Amazon? I don't think I saw anyone with a laptop that was newer than 4 years old. Being Frugal seems to work for them and they are the top cloud company.

I would say most developers don't need new hardware unless they are building games or developing CPU intensive application. Most laptops today have more resources than your microservice will have in the cloud.
Simple implementation, convienent UX, secure; pick two.

(Its not necessarily true, but tons of engineers assume its true. Hence, when making a low-cost product for home consumers, security is purposefully neglected.)
It'll destroy chiefly the minority rich though, the minority capitalists. And since they are in fewer numbers than the workers, I don't know if it'll impact the greater economy so much. Somewhere in this, Vancouver might become being a neat place to be I think.
There was some interment of Germans during WWI, and of Japanese during WWII.
Is that the best approach, though? You might not be the only one who feels like the practices are harmful, and by speaking up could help the people around you.

You can also just leave without quitting. Tell your manager that you are unable to work in the current workspace, and walk out the door no matter what time it is. If you still get your work done and your co-workers catch on, you can help to improve the culture without needing to stick around in unreasonable conditions.

Management might not be thrilled, but if your plan was to quit anyways and you are professional and honest, where's the harm?
Most law draws a distinction between something purely personal, and something done commercially.
Heck Yea! I didn't know this was a thing?!
I agree as long as it can be done without degrading the experience for everyone. Most importantly, it needs to be implemented by people with the knowledge of what is possible instead of a being designed by the bureau of wishful thinking.
What does this have to do with Treasuries?
I always read it as a kind of pushback against the meeting; the engineers saying "fuck this" to the project manager. But, I agree, whether it's self-inflicted masochism or basic corporate sadism, it's stupid either way.
And completely unsuitable for a wide range of important grievances.
Reply by Jason Wright:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129244045916861&w=2
Does anyone have good books to recommend on global warming?
Your opinion of what an insight is is much too narrow.
True. And giving advice like the parent poster ignores reality that most people don’t have an “active lifestyle”. Giving any kind of advice that doesn’t take into account the reality on the ground is not good.
Ask HN: Pinterest for Text?
I keep text snippets saved from webpages (thousands of them) and would like to present this collection online.

I haven't found anything good enough for this.
Ideally it should be like Pinterest (or maybe Instagram) for text, an unlimited canvas of text previews (masonry.js style or stacked design). A search function would also be useful.

I was thinking that this description is close to a blog but I'd like it to be optimized for displaying a lot of different snippets (as in Pinterest and giving the choice to the user to "peruse" through the entries quickly) but clicking on an entry should result in expanding into full content (again like Pinterest).

A Hugo blog offers a clean view of the titles (one after the other) but no preview of the actual content. Wordpress is optimized for only a posts per page. On the other end something like Bret Victor's quote page is too simple and doesn't offer the "read more" feature: http://worrydream.com/quotes/

Anyone has seen anything out there that matches my needs? I don't mind paid services.
Sounds like a good thing to me?
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Isn't that just when they run my credit and check for past evictions. How much of a rogue renter can one be, and get away with it?
Other People’s Messes
> each increase of 10 dB doubles the loudness.

I understand a 10 db increase to represent an increase by a factor of 10, and that an increase of log(2) = (~3) db was a doubling.
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MIT Gen: General-purpose language for computer vision, robotics and statistics
Looks like http://strlen.com/lobster/ is in the C++/D bucket, with unconstrained template parameters.

The article makes it sound like "errors occurring in the library code" is a major problem, but forgets to mention how much that also contributes to its strength and simplicity. in Lobster I took great care to make these type errors look very readable, like a compile-time stack trace.

Also monomorphization does not always produce code bloat. All these copied (typically small) functions tend to get inlined, and inlining has a habit of cascading, allowing parent code to be simplified and reduced in size etc. Contrast that with boxed generics that use virtual calls, which act as a barrier to optimization since we have no idea what it will do, and which of the many methods it will call. That can result in a lot of code that is present in the compiled code that is not actually needed (which would be a bigger problem for AOT languages like Go than JIT languages like Java, since "dead" JVM bytecodes don't produce code cache misses).

In a sense, monomorphization is a good match for AOT and expressive type systems, and boxing works better for more dynamic implementations and simple or no type system. Languages like Go straddle these the two extremes uncomfortably.
It's not that interesting though. I mean, it's not 100% worthless information, but it's not as valuable as people pretend. Especially if the legal environment continues in the direction it is going today, private data (especially medical data) becomes pretty devoid of monetary value if not legally obtained, and even becomes a liability. The threat of Big Companies spending billions on cracking your encryption for filthy lucre is pretty much an unrealistic fantasy.
Never thought I am gonna read a science article on Forbes
I recently read, The Uninhabitable Earth. It came out this year I believe, and pulls absolutely no punches... Not even in the title!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41552709-the-uninhabitab...
Jeffrey Katzenberg is not interested in your skepticism about Quibi
Sloshing around in pee, aka surfing
> Doesn't Chrome send your entire browsing history to Google as well?

Most browsers/users do, essentially. When a person searches Google for example, results are links to Google that redirect to the target sites. Try it, mouse over a result, and look at the URL. Then a user clicks on one and finds a page that likely has doubleclick.net/adsense/analytics/fonts, which all feed back to Google. Or buttons/pixels/whatever for Facebook. Or both. Or both and 10 more organizations. Then since all mainstream browsers by default send referrer info, and since tracker code is so pervasive, and since browsers are easily fingerprintable, trackers follow you along as you click links going from page to page. Trackers are getting redundant high quality data. They're right there with you as you browse; they see what you see. Although some browsers are easier to configure for privacy, IMO the browser you use is less important than how you use it.

Multiple organizations have the potential to possess a near-complete view of your browsing history.
Hacker News can't fetch submission titles
I was poking around at the "fetch title" function on new submissions because I wanted to use it in a personal project and I found that fetching the title of a HN submission won't work.

If you put a url from a HN thread like "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13069841" and click fetch title you will get "null value not allowed" as the title.

HN uses this to fetch titles: https://textance.herokuapp.com/
The brain requires change/pattern for anything to reach consciousness. A "frozen" image is still oscillating light on your photoreceptors. Your brain is always incorporating some kind of memory or recent change with every experience you have...sound isn't special.
Should We Employ Our Own Kids? (and How Much to Pay Them)
A willingness to waive references, fees, et cetera for any halfway decent looking tenant. I've benefited from that in the past.
if this case holds, it gives the govt the right to regulate every worker in every field (including software) so long as it declares that the intent of the regulation is for a good reason

no need to prove that the regulation actually helps, no need to prove that the worker caused harm
I heard that people from new Orleans didn't say say "Nawlins," that it was a neologism used by people from outside the state.

Is this true?
No. You're going to have to expand on that. Active noise cancelling means there is less sound reaching your ears. It works by -- quite literally -- cancelling the sound waves.

Insert "now you're thinking" meme image:

Sound can't hurt your ears

If it doesn't exist
US airline websites have had to be accessible for quite a while now via a DOT directive. I agree some thought needs to be put into a rollout, but we do have some precedent.
I actually have seen the opposite trend. You don’t want to standardize the search engine and that has been a major problem with SOLR.

Instead, you want to custom build the data retrieval system so it’s tailored to your use case.

One example from experience was needing to add hard filterable metadata to an in-house search index. We solved this by actually calculating bit masks that represented all the filtering criteria and having a frontend preprocessor that would first restrict to the filtered subset and then do TFIDF-based relevance sorting.

Creating the bit mask tooling ourselves (instead of relying on whatever baked-in method of scanning items and filtering that comes with out of the box search engine tools) allowed us complete control over the trade-offs, particularly managing document deletions and optimizing run time performance in certain ways that just weren’t available in out of the box tools, as well as being able to integrate any in-house code into the search engine as needed (since the whole system was in-house code).

You want to create data models that are highly application specific, and then route data into them. The mistaken approach of one-size-fits-all tools, especially in information retrieval, is to pre-define the supported behavior of the application, like a web service wrapping a search index, with baked-in assumptions about the trade-offs and only limited support to modify or configure the trade-offs under the hood.

The gravest mistake is thinking just because your use case seems to function OK with those assumptions now, that you can marry yourself to the underlying data model. Then in the future you’ll hit the point where you have to throw it away and create something custom, but it will be far more costly to do so and extremely hard to migrate gracefully and ensure integrations are working.
Last I calculated, All energy needs of all of the world would be supplied with solar plants worth a trillion dollar.
> I understand that in the USA public transportation is quite lacking except for a few big cities.

I won't pretend it's the greatest but I've lived in quite a few 2nd and 3rd tier US cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, Jacksonville Fl, Nashville, Knoxville TN and quite a few others and the buses are certainly capable of getting you to work and back. Everywhere I've lived the buses run 7 days a week from early in the AM to late at night and some run 24 hours a day in Atlanta. Pretty much any bus route will see a bus come along every 20 or 30 minutes with some stretching out to 45 minutes. Some routes though will see a bus every 5 or 10 minutes depending on the day and time.

Even in Jacksonville FL which has more land area I think any other US city, there is no urban part of the city that is more than a half mile from a bus stop. You can even take a bus from the north extreme end of the city to the extreme south, where a shuttle connects that will then take you to St. Augustine (a suburb of Jacksonville), a grand total of probably 60 miles, for less than $4 total. That doesn't seem too bad. Is it perfect? No. But I think the public transportation system problems may be a little overblown at least in the cities I've lived in.
Sure is nice to live in a non-zoned area. I built an addition to my garage and poured a large concrete pad next to my driveway without consulting any government authority, here in western Kansas.
I love the Institute for Justice and the types of cases they take on. This one, unfortunately, is weak. If we say that paid health advice is protected speech, then we can no longer have licensing requirements for doctors who merely give advice.

I like doctors to be licensed. I'm normally anti-regulation, but this is an exception.

The real issue here is the onerous occupational licensing requirements in Florida. To be a nutritionist in Florida, you need a degree and 900 hours of work. That's far too much.

Occupational licensing has become a way for an industry to form a cartel. It's a major public policy problem, and the IJ is right to take it on. They've fought against it in a great many cases and had some success.

Unfortunately, though, the First Amendment is a blunt tool and doesn't work very well in this particular case. I wish they had a better tool.
Can’t wait to hear about Linux’s gamma corrected antialiasing in future posts (or lack thereof).
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That’s not collusion, that’s called a union.
Nobody complains that Google Maps are using JS. People are complaining that developers abusing JS just to show simple page or video which is perfectly doable with HTML 5.
One can only dream that prices correct that much. But while expensive for Canada, prices are not wholly unreasonable for such a desirable city. And the population here is expected to increase by a million (33%) by 2050. That just won't be handled on the supply side the way zoning is done. So long term I expect prices to continue on the upward trajectory. Speaking as a renter with no house in the race.
Brussels changes its mind AGAIN on .EU domains
Current research isn't debunking these claims.
Your argument is so general that it can be applied to almost anything. All the examples you give are very different, if you examine them. Books and mass media were revolutionary and both reguired a lot of new rules and regulation.

It is not given that new technologies will be used in fair and sustainable ways. Facebook scadal is a result of people beginning to think digital technologies more critically. That seems like a healthy thing to me.
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What the Space Age taught us: Earth is the best option we have
Your position patronizes young adults. Most 22 year olds, regardless of gender, would not accept this unless their job depending on it, in which case it’s your employer abusing you.
You should work with more 22 year olds, they are actually adults, you know...?
If they wanted to fix the problem then they'd tax capital gains at the same rate as income and would eliminate all of the other tax benefits related to owning a second (or third) home.

It was common 20 years ago for people in their mid-forties to use the massive equity in their home to buy multiple properties for the rental market. House prices at the time were growing so they not only had someone else basically buy their house over 25 years they also profited greatly from the inflation in house prices. With the increase in prices they could increase the rent so the whole thing is a triple-whammy.

This didn't happen as much in other countries because other countries reduced the tax benefits for this scenario.
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Ask HN: Trying to recollect the name of a 20th century philosopher
As a man I don't feel patronized by that comment and the women I know aren't so fragile as to need to believe women can't be criticized. Why manufacture outrage if you don't have to?
The best place to find the answer to this question that I know of it David Z. Albert's excellent book, "Quantum Mechanics and Experience." But the short answer to your question is that Bohmian mechanics has two problems:

1. In order to account for the outcome of Bell-type experiments on entangled particles it has to assign a temporal ordering to space-like separated events. The technical term for this is that you have to choose a "preferred foliation of space-time". There has to be a preferred reference frame. But you can never actually know what the preferred reference frame actually is.

2. Yes, particles "have positions", but you can never actually know what those position are (which is why I put "have positions" in scare quotes). This is where all the quantum randomness hides in Bohmian mechanics. It's all "pre-computed" in the infinite precision of a particle's position, but that position is necessarily hidden from observation. I call this an IPU, an Invisible Pink Unicorn. It's exactly the same thing as universe-weights in MWI -- a set of numbers that are part of the theory but rendered immune from observation not by practical limitations on technology, but by the theory itself.

This is the fundamental problem with all attempts to make quantum mechanics look deterministic. The simple fact of the matter is that it's not deterministic, so any attempt to make it look deterministic that makes the same predictions as QM has to hide the randomness somewhere. Bohm hides it in particle positions, and MWI hides it in universe weights. But it doesn't matter what you call the place in the theory where you've hidden the randomness. What matters is that there is a place in the theory where you've hidden the randomness, where it must forever remain hidden from the prying eyes of experiment. So the claims that both Bohm and MWI make of being deterministic are misleading at best.
Well, by default, Chrome sends whatever you're typing in the URL bar to Google for auto-completion. No need to catch Google in such situation, it's a feature of Chrome.
He wrote a treatise on the nature of space and time and I believe his surname was Bergman.
I am now going through "Climate Change in a Nutshell: The Gathering Storm" paper by James Hansen [0]. It seems to give a good overview of the current state of the art.

I would second "The Uninhabitable Earth" as well.

[0] http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2018/20181206_Nutshel...
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Active noise canceling adds sound pressure. It doesn’t stop outside sound, it adds an inverse sound to prevent your perception of sound.
While this may work, I don't want this coming out of my tax dollars. It's been well known for 50+ years that smoking causes cancer.

If someone wants to smart smoking and subsequently gets addicted, they should take personal responsibility and quit.
How do you figure that not doing this would cause less sea level rise? The article states that proceeding with this plan might slow sea level rise to nearly one-third of its current rate:

> To put that into context, removing that much seawater from the ocean would lower global sea level by about 2 millimeters per year. Current total sea level rise is a little over 3 millimeters per year, so it would be like nearly halting sea level rise… by bailing water out of the ocean. We can call that a bonus positive.

On what grounds do you dispute this? I'm not saying you're wrong (I'm too uneducated in the relevant fields to know that), I'd just like to know your rationale?
I don’t want to act like other groups are shining examples of competence and sanity, but after moving back to graduate school and technology type stuff (after working as a programmer in an accounting group) I was astounded by the sheer amount of insanity/mental illness in these apparently successful people. Plenty of manipulative narcissists in accounting but I never saw someone start ranting about the Jews and then start sprinting around the office and try to fight people about Postgres vs. MySQL
Interesting that her lawyer makes the argument that occupational licensing boards act as though the First Amendment doesn't apply to them. Wonder what his response would be if someone wanted to dispense lawyerly advice without a license.
Henri Bergson? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/
That makes sense. There really is no reason the FBI would ever need backdoor access to EOUSA, let alone compromise open source VPN software in order to get it. There are much easier ways for them to get what they want.
It would be nice if they could incorporate some indication of respect for deposits as well. From personal experience, the current deposit protection schemes might be legally regulated and they aren't quite as unhelpful and sometimes shady as the private car parking enforcement firms, but they seem to be cut from the same cloth.
Agreed. I let the author’s brain temporarily take over mine by thinking the words of the book for so long. And, instead of copying the material to my brain, it becomes more of an index. I know these ideas exist, can be referenced, and roughly where to find them if necessary.
Heidegger?
Showing a simple video isn't simple without JS, it's just clunky in all aspects.
Nobody has made me install a ramp to my front door, because I don't operate a business open to the public out of my home. So I'm not too concerned.

(That said, I would sooner make my blog accessible to the vision impaired than make my home wheelchair friendly. Web accessibility is trivial unless you go out of your way to do fancy shit with style sheets and JavaScript, or unless you do dumb shit like put important text in images with no alt-text (just... why??))
Although I sympathize with the blind person, going as far as suing the company is, to me, an asshole move.

To be fair, no one has stopped the man from ordering from a store. This is akin to a person with no smartphone suing a company for not making an app for his "dumb" phone.
There’s a super-fast, no bullshit, mobile-friendly, absolutely wonderful version of twitter you can get if you disable javascript...
(i’ve only used it through tor tho)