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I mean, it's a fair point that the schedule of this case doesn't matter that much. But cases of nearly every sort take too long.

To be honest I mostly included that line out of frustration with a Canadian Supreme Court ruling today, that said having a juvenile trial go on for 18 months can be "sufficiently speedy". Which is definitely off topic here, but still one I consider important.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-youth-justice...
Have you noticed any pattern of adverse post-op symptoms in your Lasik patients that corroborate the ones experienced by patients in the article?
I've worked at Oracle in an engineering (not management) position, and I've seen the (tail end) of the way they interact with acquisitions. I tend to be somewhat guarded about talking about it -- I don't see a benefit to me badmouthing a former employer. But, I'll be open and honest for this comment.

The analogy I use to describe Oracle is that they're this kind of massive lumbering beast that just lays around and occasionally swallows other companies alive and whole. Then those companies run around inside, burning existing customer good will for a while until Oracle finishes digesting them or generating whatever news-reports or vendor lock-in they wanted in the first place. Then Oracle goes out to find another company to eat.

I saw a slow movement with my particular department away from developing useful software towards, "just keep on releasing things, just keep on trying to figure out what looks good at trade shows, just keep the department moving forward like a zombie while it gets eaten away and resources get shifted to new acquisitions and lawyers and salespeople." The software wasn't even a secondary concern, it was just a very minor part of the company that happened on the side. Writing code was a side-effect of the business, our real business was sales and grand promises and multi-year contracts that everyone was going to regret.

As a developer that wants to build products that actually help businesses and users, it felt really, really bad -- and my impression interacting with other parts of the business and other departments felt the same. Like they were just kind of lumbering on, that they existed because a few companies were locked in or were still buying them, and a few more dollars could be extracted before they starved to death or until their staff was fully absorbed into new projects.

I won't go into any more specific detail than that; for better or worse I feel like I have some responsibility to be a little vague. But by the time I left I was convinced that any company Oracle bought or any project it maintained was doomed as soon as they touched it. It's one of the reasons I won't work with Java -- I just don't want to tie myself to a technology that's owned by a company like that.

The current case with Sun is to me perfectly in character with the company. Oracle bought Sun, killed everything that made it Sun, and now their lawyers are out trying to extract every last penny they can get out of its mostly rotted corpse, all under the guise of 'protecting their investment' or whatever.

I'm very cynical on Oracle now, and I wasn't even at the company very long. Since moving on I've been able to work on industry-scale software that's actually being designed for customers and that actually cares about helping them accomplish business goals. It's a massive breath of fresh air that I'm still grateful for to this day. It makes a huge difference to be able to get up in the morning and feel like there's an actual reason you're going to work beyond buying Ellison a new yacht.
> You'd have to raise the consumption tax ridiculously high (33% !)

I don't think 33% is ridiculously high. VAT is 25% in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, 27% in Hungary; and their economies are doing well.
Don’t you have to pay to use that feature as a contractor? Isn’t that an unnecessary tax?
That I doubt Poe's law is in play here (ie: they were being 100% sincere) is in fact validation of Poe's law being in play here
You'd think that, until you have a conversation with someone who does accounting for the ultra rich and discover that the mortgage interest deduction is a joke compared to the loopholes those people are able to take advantage of.
This is bad since it means that hospitals would not negotiate a cheaper rate for those without insurance, lest the insurance companies find out. This especially affects people of color who are more likely to be underinsured.

A racist policy from a racist president.
Always interesting to hear these counterpoints. I've never worked at Google, but reading internet comments and such you get the impression that most people consider it some ideal workplace (though to be fair, many people selling you this fantasy are also trying to sell you their Google interview prep courses). Yet when I meet Googlers/ex-Googlers in real life, I never got that same impression. Seems like any other corporate job (I'm personally pretty jaded from corporate), just more prestige and maybe more pay. Also it seems like one's experience will vary drastically depending on what team they get placed on (eg. Google X vs. some internal tool).
I heard that Tesla could effectively "run" experiments in his mind, not just visualize them. Another pointer is that some "schools of thought" divide the art of thought into ability to visualize and ability to analyze where the latter has to be built upon the former and only when the former is perfected. My personal belief is that being a genius is about the ability to keep in mind many things at a time without losing details.
Also known as "decontenting" and widely practiced in many industries.
Here's one of Bruce Dawsons articles about debug symbols. It contain links to the rest of the articles in the series. I hadn't realized how much progress Feodora has made on providing a symbol server where packages can be downloaded based on buildid.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/symbols-on-linu...
WordPress has been around for quite a while, yes.
Try doing a mundane task like grabbing a can of beer from the fridge and, as best you can, passively observe the minutiae of your body’s orchestration. There’s so much precision and style happening autonomously that it feels like something else is driving you body.
I get the impression (as a total outsider) that Google went from being a cohesive "us" that had clear inside/outside communication, to a collection of disparate groups (code monkeys/execs, for lack of a better term, as well as others) that do not feel aligned/allegiance to each other. Is that in any way accurate? That the internal unity got balkanized (primarily by senior management)?
You said:
"Everyone agrees that markets produce efficient prices so long as you account for externalities.”

You lost me here, and revealed much about your thinking.
Please explain how a “market” is anything other than steady state if all externalities are accounted for? Profit, by definition, means getting something for nothing. Without externalities, capitalism doesn’t exist.
How do you know the symptoms won't appear further down the road as you age? That's my only concern and fear.
What does that mean to calculate capacity needs of the application? Are you saying base it on something like throughput your app can handle?
That's literally all we wanted from the keyboard.
You do you man. But if you have the skills you have it will be a lot easier to make that much money in corporate than on your own.

That said I'm buying some specialized equipment for a synthetic biology startup I'll be trying my hand at before my next contract. I expect to spend most of the money I made and get no where, again.
Public slack and discord servers are essentially this. Organized by topic of interest and the posts are searchable.

I'd argue its a usenet/irc hybrid.
You shouldnt need to proxy anything, there are in browser js muxers that can splice separate video/audio streams into one, or find jsvideo player capable of playing it directly.
Also, I think you miss the entire point of the review. The point is that the “political angle” is the problem with economics. The entire edifice of neoclassical economics has been highjacked by the political class for their own ends. What about the income tax section did you not understand?
Taken in light of the existence of the glymphatic system, a robust mechanism of clearance activated by slow wave sleep, what is more likely... misfolded protein accumulation is incidental to the loss of sleep during the course of fatal familial insomnia or loss of sleep is incidental to what is actually a disease of misfolded proteins?
[re: upfront parsing - a PSA about validating input]

> A lot of the software ... don't validate upfront

They almost always should be validating all input up front. Deferring validation tends to become many different pieces of code all informally parsing fragments of the input that are needed locally. Without upfront validation of the complete unit of input, the resulting fragmented parsers are just a weird machine waiting to be programmed by a malicious attacker.

For a much better explanation, I strongly recommend Meredith and Sergey's 28c3 talk[1] about The Science of Insecurity.

> you often want to tolerate invalid bytes and show a replacement character

While this validator wouldn't be useful in that situation, it is still important to validate the input upfront. When showing replacement characters, the "invalid bytes" that will be supported with a replacement character should be formally defined and added to the validation grammar, because they are no longer "invalid", but instead will be handled as a special case.

Postel's robustness principle shouldn't be used as an excuse to skip validation. Being "liberal in what you accept" should still be well-defined and validated.

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/28c3-4763-en-the_science_of_insecurit...
There's some data here but isn't even close to 1/3:

The article talks about user "koavf", who is #2 by number of edits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_...
XSLT 2.0 has fewer implementations.
I once called EA a "sarlacc for good game studios". Sounds like Oracle is a sarlacc for business and infrastructure software companies.
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This is actually rather easy to solve without ML/AI. They need to track the change delta (ex: with jsondiffpatch) and weight each part, presumably using levenshtein or text mining with weighted dictionary, and limit changes to 2 or 4 in 24 hours period. Then weekly compare those changes and treat the highest one as need to be reviewed by customer.

Additionally, each customer review should tied to specific change version, that they can easily compare with current one.
> I recorded about 10 seconds of the ENTIRE FM band to a ramdisk, then turned around and pushed it back out in the unlicensed band on a continuous loop.

> Now I had a second problem on my hands: was it the recording itself? To answer that question, I took the file and washed it through a bunch more SDR gunk to isolate a single station, demodulate it to audio, and pushed it to my machine's speakers. The song sounded fine. Other stations were also okay.

Rachel, I would pay double-digit dollars per month for a screencast per week of you doing some serious hacker shit like this. (I've used Gnuradio et al and it's always a screaming pain, at least for a novice like me.) Watching someone hack away at it in a while(!functioning) would be pure pleasure, and I'm sure quite educational too.
I'm a programmer and I care.
I'd say you're right. $70M annual processed by 56K merchants comes out to an average of ~$1.2K in sales per merchant per year.
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Hi HN,

https://youtu.be/S49mkuCdr0o

Have you ever downloaded an app where you wanted to read about topics you are truly passionate about but then you find out that the it is filled with a lot of irrelevant posts ?

I was too faced with such a situation , so i developed an app which is currently available only in India and it is made for Indian people (Indian news channel , Indian bloggers , Indian podcasters etc ..). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podeo

So here is few word about my app Podeo :

It's your one stop destination for reading news, watching videos and listening to podcast.

It is guaranteed to be distraction-free , where there is no ads and more than that many apps use AI to serve you the content based on your browsing history but we don't. We give users the power to choose what they like

Also the app has lot of different themes : infinite scrolling , Flip Pages , Swipe left .

Listen to articles : So the app has Text-to-speech tech through which you can listen to any articles and get information on no time
Highly correlates with what is written in the Incerto[1] series by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/164555-incerto
Oh, yeah, the one where a young Melanie Griffith got mauled by a lion and had to get reconstructive surgery. That production sounds like it was nuts. OTOH, from what I’ve read about Hitchcock, maybe Heddren found this a pleasant break.
You need to know a guy, I met mine when I was running a 3d printing course for an astronomy group of all things.
You have clearly not worked in payments, just dealing with the fraud at that scale is more than 20 people.
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There's another risk - which is rare events. Basically most of the reason why these workflows are not automated already is that there are a host of "once a week per operative" corner cases that don't show in the data for a long time, and when they do show they don't show as anything but noise. But this is where the human intelligence is spent and this is why the jobs are so hard to automate.
Market forced competition always has to grind up against inertia and switching costs.
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but that's the point. if we don't assume that school provides enough socialization, then why bother with it. comparing the parent comments experience with my own and what my kids in school are now going through, it seems that this would be preferable over traditional schooling.
Wow. Reading through the comments I’m finding a ton of bafflegab.

How many here have taken a college level economics course?
Ok. Read yourselves out of the discussion because, if you believed what they taught you, you’ve been brainwashed. Go read Steve Keen to get deprogrammed.

I’ll bet not one of you can even answer this simple question: To what intellectual disciple does money belong? Hint: it has nothing to do with mathematics.
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Bill Clinton would have been nine years old when this was filmed. The boy in the clip looks a bit too young to have a nine year old kid.
Unfortunate use of “to” or the “Krugered” programmers might have listened
Yes you can modify GC behaviour and it's one env variable, the fact that twitch didn't use it makes no sense.
Amazon/Alibaba is making money pulling millions of chinese people out of poverty. The inequality equation is the same as normal, we're just not the focus of economic production at the moment. Comparing a normal western job to a chinese wage & lifestyle makes us look like the 1%. Comparing the average westerner who sells to 10k customers to bezos who sells to hundreds of millions makes him look like the bourgeoisie.

Technology and orgs always outpace regulation. The government is terrified of front-running business. It can't, the point of being a king is to control resources for the sake of generating prosperity. It can't then go and do all the work and be on the bleeding edge as well, it pays people to do that.

For all the control the tech companies have tried to exert in the world they are reigned in by the banks and then government. At the end of the day amazon hasn't made a big difference in my life for all of the $x bezo has. I don't shop there, his lack of quality control is sinking his company. What's there to worry about?
WPP is a holding company for a number of smaller agencies - having previously worked for a holding company-owned agency (holding companies dominate the advertising agency space), no one considers themselves e.g. a WPP employee, and culture is very much set at the individual agency level.
I don't love everything about Google, but the enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Oracle wins, that precedent will hurt everyone in the software industry, including me.

So yeah, I'm rooting for Google and I have no hesitation or shame rooting for Google -- because for better or worse, Google is the company fighting for my rights in this case, and I want to win.
Who decides when an analogy is more accurate? You? An analogy will never be perfectly accurate by its nature.
Something tells me that it would help to make the layout 3D. For example, if housing units are arranged in a pyramid-like layout with transport areas throughout, then there are more points closer to the center than if you have a flat city.
I don't mean to cherry pick this comment as anecdotal evidence, but lately I have been disappointed at the quality of comments on ycombinator. This is comment is vacuous and emotional. Please take some time to back up your extraordinary claims, or else the level of discourse on this website will no doubt degrade to that of Reddit...
I was very confused at first. I didnt log into anything, yet https://invidio.us/ has plenty of creators from my YT subscriptions :o How the heck? Do the owner curate whats on the front page? I can only counts a couple video channels I have no interest in whatsoever (pie, h3, vox), or did Google finally started curating? No low value garbage on first page, something YT is usually struggling with. Still Peterson in related/recommendations tho.
I would consider 1080p less important than a 360p fallback for videos without 720p source at all.
But how could the reason be anything other than both of those things at the same time?
The national average SWE salary is barely 100K. Lots of positions in medicine, finance, and engineering hit that average.
Isn’t it crazy that if you go on reddit now you can only read comments one level deep?

Also if you look at r/all or r/popular right now it’s only images. I remember a time where it was mostly text.

I hate to be that guy, but it did become worse and worse.
Very inspiring Ryan!! Impressive to capitalize on the customer need. This gives the financial freedom and time to pursue other interests. Best wishes!!
We had it and it was beautiful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
A question to mathematicians: what does your mind look like when you prove a theorem?

There is a comment here, saying that many hard theorems require one to build a complex branch of math and use it to prove a single statement. So I asked myself: what does it really look like to prove a theorem at such level?

I can tell what's going on in a programmer's mind. Software is very much like an imaginary mechanism and software engineers are mechanics. For example, this site is a database connected with a html page, so a programmer literally imagines a big gray building that means the database, another building that means the html page and a pipe that connects them. The database has a few tables: one for user accounts, another for posts like this, another for comments. So a programmer imagines 3 big blocks inside that building that are connected with pipes transferring data. Next to the database there is a controller device that sends and receives messages in the pipe connecting it to the users. This analogy continues to tiny things like classes, methods and variables. The entire HN forum looks like a big multi-dimensional city-like structure with numerous pipes connecting pieces together. Experienced programmers not only organize this city well, but can also predict and eliminate complexity, e.g. they know that if you put that kind of building over there, others will inevitable connect to it tens of pipes and the entire city will be a mess, where you see a pipe and have no idea what it connects to and what will happen if you cut it.
I clicked on Add To Slack, chose the channel I want to add it to, click on Allow, and the error comes up. I haven't been able to get past that part. But I'm pretty sure I know why... I'm not an administrator. Just wanted to add this as I work with people in different time zones. I'll ask the admin to add it ;)
XSLT is actually a very good language. It's a declarative general-purpose tree transformer, there's very few tools like that. It's a pity that the general prejudice against XML obscures what really is good tech.
So, a small farming town with a thriving tech scene where one's natural social circle is people with six figure salaries?

Your description doesn't come close to describing the average small city in the Midwest.

Or the east.

Or the south.

Or the west.

Or even most suburbs.

I'd love to know your zip code so I can look at the amazing census data for your area and figure out how to replicate that miracle
> have to integrate with one of India's banks

what you mention as a disadvantage is the biggest advantage. cut out the card men.

Banks' technical prowess will catch up. That is the solution. Not introducing a middle man just because he is technically better now.
You just acknowledged that C++ was not the perfect programming language in your (rather biased for it) comment.
> Isn't it unlikely that a case will be granted cert if appeals courts in different circuits are in agreement?

As I understand, it's generally viewed to be th case that a circuit split makes cert. more likely, sure.

> So while not legally binding, it might be in practice indicative.

I guess that it's indicative that, barring change in membership of th court, cert. would likely be denied in a future case raising the same issue from the same or a different circuit with the same result.

It definitely should not be seen as indicative of anything on the merits other than that the members of the court don't see it as obviously and urgently wrong.
This exact reason has helped me stop frivolous purchases as soon as I discontinued my prime membership.

I hate paying for shipping and most of the time the items in my cart are < $25 at which point I ask myself if I really need this item. If I really need it, I go to the target/Wal-Mart near my place since they always price match. Not renewing my prime membership has been by very liberating!
In my case the most accurate comparison is probably movement through the goddamned snow mush which is due in a couple months. I.e. ‘just keep jerking the legs until I'm at the destination or hopelessly stalled.’
Just a FYI, but you don't need to pay the $12.99 or whatever it is to "jump the waitlist". Simply invite someone else, and when that someone else joins, you're automatically off the wait queue and able to view a feed or create subwikis.

Join the subwiki called "Riffing" if you're into MST3K or Rifftrax. :)
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I can buy aftermarket parts for my car that are designed to be substituted for OEM. The aspects that form the interface to the rest of the vehicle seem like the physical equivalent of an API (of course if the parts have electronics, then there might be a software API involved too).

So, I ask you, why shouldn't inventors of software have the same rights as inventors of mechanical devices?
This was tried: steemit.com. It didn't become very prolific, perhaps because the daemon was difficult to run, and there weren't many good frontends. The founding organization subsidized account creation, but was bad at spam detection, so eventually gave up.
> email is federated but most users are on gmail. IRC is federated but most users are on freenode. Diaspora is federated but most users are join the server with already most users.

I think you underestimate the long tail in all of these cases. I don't think the first two statements are accurate.
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