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Talk to an employment lawyer. If you were fired soon after you filed your SS-8 then it sounds very much like retaliation. The only people who would blackball you (IMHO) are the sort of people who would like to run this sort of scam themselves.
Inputs are not instances of a computing language. They are arguments or parameters to the program.
I am going to use your bookmark. Thank you for making it.
The part women play in domestic violence
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> it's totally worth noting that NYC does a much better job than most cities at permitting the construction of new luxury units

NYC builds fewer units per resident than any city in the US except probably SF. It just looks impressive because each new building adds a mark to the most visible part of the skyline, but when you consider the volume of units across NYC it's really, really low.

Prices aren't at SF level, but they are still getting unreasonably high.
So they can scale up the strength of a connection. Can they also scale down the strength of a connection? You can't build a properly functioning neural network unless you dial the strength of the connection both up and down.
No, that is just an iteration of a cat and mouse game. It doesn't matter if the technically-weak position can be overcome when it is used by parties with exponentially more money and legal power.

Fighting this fight on technical grounds alone is a surefire way to accelerate the inevitability of locked down computing platforms that restrict what the owner is capable of.
Baloney. What we have is a culture that has largely undermined the concept of constructive and well structured argument. One should read the exchanges between friendimies GK Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. They respected each other and were friendly but if you read their output about each other they would be fired today. Why?

We are pansies.

We assume, wrongly, that argument about ideas and even light jabs at the person are tragic. They are not.

Worse we have enshrined that into law in most places with "hostile work environments". Some ideas deserve to die and you only discover that through _vigorous_ debate.

Do we have to be pricks about it? Probably not. Should we fire pricks that are often right? Absolutely not.
>> I'd be less annoyed by a downvote from pg, because I probably deserved it, than a downvote from someone completely random, who I might not care about.

I admire PGs work too, but don't you think this criteria would introduce to the community a herd-like mindset of following perceived moral leaders instead of evaluating ideas for their own standing?
It may “make sense”, but it’s also an ahistorical just-so story.

If you want a more accurate description, I recommend the first half of David Graeber’s book Debt: The First 5000 Years, also mentioned by another top-level comment.
This question can't be answered so pick one and go with it.
And the solution to prescription drug addiction is prison time or fines? How does that help the families?
This is madness. Have you ever heard of constructive dismissal?

California Supreme Court:

"the employer either intentionally created or knowingly permitted working conditions that were so intolerable or aggravated at the time of the employee's resignation that a reasonable employer would realize that a reasonable person in the employee's position would be compelled to resign"

Wikipedia:

"In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge, occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation was not truly voluntary, it is in effect a termination. For example, when an employer makes life extremely difficult for an employee, to attempt to have the employee resign, rather than outright firing the employee, the employer is trying to effect a constructive discharge."
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tremendous. truly.
What I find is that people tend to vastly underestimate the role that path dependence has on explaining history and then work to come up with just-so stories that explain the result, absent path dependency.

Nobody ever sat down and rationally assessed the relative risk of motorcycles vs seat belts and crafted a law to take the two into account. Instead, what happened was at one point in time, a group of people lobbied and succeeded in changing one status quo and at another point in time, some other group of people lobbied and failed to change another status quo.
The only problem with that is that, recently, there has been a resurgence of the notion of sub-turing complete languages as still being valid programming pursuits. E.g., see Coq.

I have not really come down on one side or the other (mainly because I do not have the requisite experience and have not yet had the time to research the question thoroughly enough to form a well-founded opinion). But, that programming languages must be Turing complete is not necessarily a given.
Darwin waited 20 years, and only published after another naturalist was about to publish the same theory.
There is a Bill Gates quote (I read it on the "Becoming Steve Jobs" biography that was recently published) : "Lots of people want to be like Steve. They have got the asshole part down pat. All they are missing is the genius part.".
Beautiful flying car
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/41976-flying-car-has-unexpected
I interpret 'master data' as meaning something different: a uniform set of schemes used throughout an enterprise that supports an organization's data stores. Master data is a canonical representation.
But that is not the point. The point is that the problems with Mozilla that actually matter has nothing to do with either.
We get so caught up in what is the "correct" answer. We forget software is made by humans and almost always meant to make human lives better (in some cases make life even possible). So it makes sense to put humanity ahead of the work. Otherwise, isn't this the grandest conflict of mission?
Got up to 900ft: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/41976-flying-...
> Some ideas deserve to die and you only discover that through _vigorous_ debate.

Patently false.
I've not been in this exact situation but your question seems to leave some gaps. Was your firing as part of a retaliation for filing the ss-8 or was it separate? If it was retaliatory you might considered consulting an attorney.

Also, did y have an employment agreement that detailed your status? Being terminated shouldn't prevent the IRS from making a determination of your employment status.

It's unlikely you will be blackballed as employment disputes are not uncommon. That is, unless the pool of employers is very small. If asked why you're looking, be creatively vague. That's usually the best thing regardless of reasons.
That's fiat money.
Really? I didn't know that. That flight out of New York where "Captain Sully"? made the first successful water ditch of a commercial airliner in the history of aviation had a flame out from geese, but that was an entire flock.

They're so small I doubt they'd have much of an impact on light aircraft either.
Awesome examples.

And to fill it all in, some classic 303 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7cylz6tl4

With a couple 303s, and 808 and a 909 (and a sparse set of effects), you can produce a big part of late 90s, early 2000s EDM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5IQm6ke18Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1X4rl8m3ng
Sure. But it isn't clear to me it should work with zero length input. Not working is consistent with the builtin int, int("") throws an exception.
Interesting article, I had no idea Frank Gehry led the rise of BIM software.

Though the article didn't really go into it, there is a distinction between Building Information Modeling (BIM) software and parametric design software.

BIM programs combine the architectural model with the other elements of the construction - such as things like wiring, plumbing, etc - so that as one thing changes, everyone can be on the same page. They also have version control. The programs can also track construction timelines and costs.

Parametric design software is different - it lets you create more complex designs through algorithms. You can make small tweaks in the parameters of a design and see how it affects the final result, as everything is tied together. This is behind a lot of the crazy and organic-looking architecture you see today. To do that stuff by hand in a 3D modeling program could be quite painful. I know Grasshopper[1] is a well-known Rhino plugin for this.

(I don't know a ton about this stuff, as I switched from an architecture degree to CS after a year once I realized tools like Grasshopper existed. I decided I'd rather learn to program and apply it to architecture then learn architecture and try to pick up some programming)

[1] http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
I agree with you.IMHO, graying out text is a way to convey censorship. Allowing each individual to configure his HN experience sounds positive to me. I like reading controversial opinions just like you. For me, it's both a way to challenge my worldview and a way to understand a particular community better.
I won't dispute that, but there are many dangerous hobbies that require no license. I'm also not against the thought of some level of certification or licensing. The problem is that would fall, again, on vendors until the government formulated a universal standard. And while it would be good to help provide better understanding of flight and operation it would likely not do much for failure scenarios.

There are the two similar, but very different scenarios: 1) controller crashes RC aircraft into person because of negligent flying, or 2) loss of control due to hardware failure crashes RC aircraft into person

Both are real scenarios with cars and scenario 2 isn't accounted for during license testing. What people need to understand is that these devices shouldn't be outright banned because of impending accidents. Yes, those will be unfortunate - but the hobby has good recreational and business use cases in my opinion.
But anyone who can get this signed message can also get the session token?

Or are the rules of the game this has to work over an unencrypted channel? In which case you need two keys and you do DH.
I am definitely more of an 808 fan but on the surface I would agree that the 909 is a better machine in almost every way. The snare is great. The kick is nice and punchy, but while offering more knobs it's less adjustable. I think if the 909 offered the long kick the 808 has it would have a much larger place in more types of music. For me what kills the 909 is the cymbals and hi hats. They are definitely great for 120-140bpm music but if you slow the tempo to 80-90bpm the machine sounds disjointed and doesn't "flow". When the aria videos came out for the tr-8 the original engineer said that if he were building a new sampled drum machine today he would use the same hi hats and cymbal. I just happen to disagree with that decision. I wish they would have made the 909 100% analog or at least had an option for analog or samples. I think the 909 samples sound really bad.
Money is evil
On the one hand, I've been in situations where dickheads would undermine me behind my back to management, tell me other people were undermining me, act like I was I a dickhead if I responded to a direct question from management directly instead of clearing it through them.

On the other hand, the dickhead always thinks he's a non-dickhead.

If everyone you meet is a dickhead, you're the dickhead.

So be kind to everybody, dickhead or non-dickhead.
Not many Russians in New York, mostly Ukrainians.
From the article: “There’s a good chance it’ll take the engine out at high power,” says Morse, but not necessarily."

Take out some/all of the thrust of an engine or takeoff or landing might make things interesting. Damage the wing surfaces or penetrate the wing might get far too interesting. Random, based on what happens to the fan blades and the heavy parts.
Also Haskell Ligatures https://www.google.com.au/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-...
Also that's going to potentially add a ton of work for people developing libraries. With a single engine behind it, the coding efforts can be focussed on writing and profiling something to be fast on v8. If you get replaceable engines, now developers have to either:
1) Ignore all but V8 (or spidermonkey, or chakra etc.)
2) Create different versions of their libraries for different engines.
( 3ish) write multiple paths in their code depending on the target engine)

I'm not sure exactly where I sit on this one. In many regards I think I like it, allowing developers to use the right engine for the right job, for example. Each engine has its own strengths and it may be that v8 isn't the engine for you / your workload. It's just this could hurt as much as it helps.
>Who are the victims in this supposed "crime?"

I've been working on this theory harm I tentatively call "moral environmentalism". It is actually very similar to anti-abortion or anti-homosexual stance: some people feel that certain behaviors taint the "moral environment", and this constitutes real harm to them personally. The mechanism of harm is usually, but not always, predicated on the existence of an enforcing deity. The idea is that if you don't work to stop harm (even self-harm of others) that you are somehow culpable.

A deity is not required, however: some claim the these morally 'dirty' actions will result in other wrong actions that do have victims. (it's usually a cover for a deity, though). You see this in the anti-drug (and anti-alcohol, historically) movement, with claims that legalized drugs will cause an orgiastic violent apocalypse.
Any scheme that protects against MITM is used to establish the baseline encrypted channel. Then what follows is used to authenticate the client, right?

The message you generate will only work for the server you generate it for, and likewise, you must ensure you are securely delivering the message to the correct server. It's often useful to treat these as two distinct problems solved at different layers in the stack (1) establish secure channel to shared public server, (2) authenticate.
Unless it's easier to break DRM than it is to build a new implementation... Then we're just causing the companies that invest in DRM to lose more money than the companies that respect freedom.

I can't say from experience how difficult it is to break and implement the DRM used on the web, but if it's anything like the DRM used in videogames, it should be doable in a couple weeks (with enough motivation).
That's all money. If you're thinking of Bitcoin, the definition still applies other than the part about government backing.
Great track. For me the best 808 bass track has to be hold it now hit it on licensed to ill. It's not obscure or cool to think this but it's just a monster beat. Having seen the beastie boys perform this live adds some bias for me though.
I dunno. I'm not a big fan of the "be kind" angle on things. Too often that translates to, "Withhold the feedback you have for fear that you'll upset the other person." Or, "Don't tell anyone that you think you have a better idea than the one someone else is championing."

I generally think that people are "too kind" at work in a lot of ways, and it leads to a lot of grousing and internal stress on the part of the people who have to bite their lip rather than contribute to their fullest.

Rather than "Be Kind", I prefer the duo of, "Be Honest, but Be Thoughtful First".
And artificial teeth.

(Interestingly, when they talk about the artificial jaw (see end of article), they mention having a dental bridge, because, of course, a jaw needs teeth. But I assume these teeth aren't real ones. Maybe false teeth just aren't exciting enough? But I bet patient satisfaction levels are pretty good.)
Thanks for the response, yes it was retaliatory. I was fired soon after I confronted my employer about the situation.
The Platinum Rule isn't very good either. My preference is the converse of the Golden Rule: DON'T treat others as you would have them NOT treat you.
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Actually it's interesting to note the parallels of the relevant laws in New York with prop 13 in California, the idea was to encourage and enable people to stay in their homes when inflation was high in the 1970's, but weren't rolled back, creating issues.
Ran here to see this comment. If it isn't Turing complete, it's not a programming language. Arguably it's not necessarily a programming language even if it's Turing complete. E.g. c++ templates.
> I'm not criticising your preference for using hardware, that's your call. Some people still like to use vinyl, and I guess that's pretty cool.

The sound is incredibly hard to get right in some cases. You can simulate vinyl remarkably well with a timecode record or DJ controller and special software, but: the plugins have extremely limited range compared to the real thing and the controllers require the same investment as a turntable and timecode still needs the turntable. Nearly every used record store and thrift store has a pile of nearly-free records which are ideal for sampling: obscure stuff no one has heard of, ancient stuff that is no longer recognized by today's audience or may have even been obscure in its day.

As for preferring hardware, in my opinion it's the responsible thing to do. Because:

* Say you want to play a show. Are you going to bring a laptop in there and pray it doesn't do something insane, say... auto-discover the wifi, start installing updates during your gig? Or just crash because it has an undiscovered cooling problem an it's hotter than your usual environment with all those bodies dancing around?

* Software tends to cost money too. There are free options, but chances are you will want _something_ in your software setup that isn't free.

* Idiosyncrasies. Just like your audience wants to hear that vinyl sound, producers often want those hardware quirks. A lot of this amounts to fetishism, but sometimes there are more objective reasons.

* Dedicated functionality. Portable instruments. Playable instruments. Jamming on a PC keyboard does not give you the same response as jamming on instrument keys or pads, or whatever the instrument has that is designed to be played. You could buy a controller, but then you're back to buying hardware.

* Workflow is king. Nearly everything software needs a mouse these days. Or a dedicated hardware controller. It's a workflow-killer.

I learned the hard way that I can't produce very well with software. A few years ago I went with a nice portable piece of kit that does a little bit of everything from sampling to synthesis and mixing. When I did that everything changed drastically. I thought about music differently and really started to get my hands on it.

Hardware isn't that costly unless you need to have the most badass kit or a large setup. When my wish-list is complete, mine will have cost me about $1500. A decent laptop + Ableton Live + midi controller would be cost at least that much. That will take you far, but it's not an argument against just buying the hardware instead. Some people work better with software, and that's cool, but for anyone who works better with hardware, the word "preference" only works in the sense that "I would prefer not to have my hand chopped off." It probably goes both ways, but I couldn't tell you about that. ;)
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The point of the parent commenter is that a misuse of HMAC that gives attackers knowledge of the key admits much simpler attacks than this.
This is a fantastic post and hits really close to home. I'm currently going through almost the exact same situation, where I'm effectively being demoted due to my general lack of kindness.

It's also important to note that if boz is anything like me, he probably had to be almost fired for the lesson to go through. For most of my life, people have been telling me I need to be kinder (especially my parents), but I've never cared until now. It's certainly held me back socially, but never professionally. I never received a worse grade for being unkind. I never lost out on a job opportunity (being unkind is different from being an asshole). Until getting demoted, I never felt kindness was relevant to success.

It stings, but I've finally realized that I need to act on this. I'm re-reading Dale Carnegie and am, more importantly, trying to deliberately consider the emotional impact of everything I say. (If anyone has advice or resources, I'm all ears.)

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I probably should have posted this on a throwaway, but decided to be transparent. Please be kind.
I liked this one too

http://www.piratehearts.com/blog/2014/03/28/crt-simulation/
I found this very interesting since I'm working on something similar where I need to be able to measure how long certain operations take.

And I had no clue that js-engines has come this far, optimizing code during runtime this efficiently(if you ignore the bugs.. :)).
See this kind of snark is usually what gets 'pbsd to come out of the shadows and smack me down. Your turn this time!
The promise of the US dollar is that you can use it to pay US taxes.
> Those people "making a huge fuss about it" were denied equal rights
> Where do you draw the line?

At "anger doesn't justify actions that hurt others". I'm not sure what your point is, getting him fired didn't help... A guy was denied the first amendment and mozilla lost a talented engineer, a net loss.

> Rights are rights - I don't see how tolerating someone who thinks gays are inferior is one whit different than tolerating someone who thinks blacks or women are inferior.

Provided they do not act on those beliefs, I agree, people should not be persecuted based on some beliefs ingrained in them from childhood. Looks like I'm more tolerant than you are.
Agreed. I have to say, for the most part I keep running in to issues with Jython which I don't with JRuby. Note that Jython has focussed on language compatibility, and that doesn't include stdlib compatibility. That's where almost all my frustrations with it have come. Stuff just doesn't quite behave the same. Plus a number of major libraries, like Twisted, won't work on it for what on the surface seem to be bizarre reasons (https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3413#comment:41 was the state of play 9 months ago and isn't changed now, you can see other conversation around problems with Twisted here http://bugs.jython.org/issue1521)
> Instead of finding a direct motive they found out a person was committing fraud with prescription drugs.

Where does it say that? All I see is this:

Pyle had been prescribed short-acting and long-acting opiate-based painkillers for years after being diagnosed with an inoperable mid-back disc herniation from a dirt-bike accident.

If that counts as evidence of fraud sufficient for criminal charges to be filed, I think we have a problem.
"Re-base the assessment" : yes, but how?

In a metrics-based way (#BR, #Baths, square footage)? In an aggregate neighborhood-based way (all 02138 is up 3% this year)? Via drive-by appraisals? Via invasive inside the house appraisals or "broker price opinions"? (The last clause would seem to have significant Fourth Amendment concerns.)
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lmao, 256 character max_path is a joke and it's surely not on the fault of node devs who targeted SANE development platforms first.
Where do you operate, and what is the cost/markup? Those are questions people want answered before they go though the trouble of installing the app, creating an account, etc.