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really? Like what?

I'm looking through the change log and although its large, it also seems rather mundane.

Are there new standout features beyond the new network protocol?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8775772
True. You're right, it only devalues the degree but that's a huge part of the reason that I go to school at all.

Much of my education is self taught, and hour-for-hour knowledge-wise I believe my time could be better spent in self-directed learning, but that degree does have value and people who cheat make it worth less to employers and myself. I think it makes sense to try and catch people who abuse that.
Where is everyone getting the idea that Docker is for creating reproducible environments? I know when I first heard about Docker, it was mentioned, but Docker does not claim to provide that. Seems like a confusion between distributable and reproducible.
Most customers are unreasonable and hate it when you take anything away, no matter what it is. Just look at when Netflix dared to raise their already low prices and the hell it caused.

The customer is not always right...
Thanks, that's interesting, but doesn't explain why "federated net 10 islands" can't work, except to say it can't. New York (time warner) and Chicago (Comcast) are obviously managed separately. Why can't Comcast manage Boston and Chicago as separate networks? Is every single customer nationwide working off the same dhcp/update/management server, etc.?
I've learned a fair amount of both Python (plus Django) and Ruby (off and on Rails). I learned Python first, almost switched to Ruby, then went back to Python. Ruby, on Rails especially, has too much magic. I could simply rely on the magic, but I felt like my growth as a programmer would be inhibited as a result.
> There is a certain neutrality to the western-canadian accent, much like that of Minnesota.

??!? I don't think any American who isn't from the middle Northern tier can watch Fargo without at least noticing the accent, or cracking a mild smile. The accent was practically a character in the movie.

However, TBH, I don't know if I know any Minnesotans, and I've never been there.
People like you never seem to distinguish between (a) pointing out what is unreasonable/imprudent, and (b) claiming that a given misfortune was deserved.

It would be comical if you weren't so unpleasant and rude.
Thanks for posting this. I work at a place with a similar policy and in my experience, it's exactly as you describe.
Why are half of the charts missing axis labels?

Figure 1 is completely non-essential and just repeats the prior sentence in huge text.

Figure 2 I guess is "percentage of people doing once per day" from the following sentence, which does not reference the chart and uses different numbers than the chart.

Figure 3 pyramid plot seems like a fairly suboptimal visualization choice usually reserved for abstract hierarchies like human needs, not for trends and percentages because it has no numeric information.

Figure 4 should read "Total Number of Worldwide Internet Users (In Billions)", the growth would be the derivative of this plot (which actually would have some cool features from 2013-2015 and 2005-2009 that I would be interested in knowing about).

Nothing is technically wrong with Figure 5, however I immediately question numbers like 71,727,551, rounding them is more professional. Also a nice touch would be to have the names drawn on the pie slices, instead of using a legend.

No clue what Figure 6 means. In the world? In the USA? In a specific age group? The next sentence talks about Millenials...

Most of the time the text has little or nothing to do with the associated graphic.
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You'd have to check which version of v8 added fat-arrow support... I've been using babeljs for most of my stuff regardless of node/v8 version as I want async/await support which is a ways off still.
Being from New Brunswick, I've never actually heard anybody say 'aboot'. (Except perhaps after watching South Park and wanting to confuse people.)
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It sounds low. Here is a very simple test to find out if it's fair: ask the owner if he'd sell you an extra 3% for $2160. Does your gut tell you that the answer is "no way?" There's your answer.
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As a mathematician, I prefer the expression "converging towards perfection" :-)

More seriously, might be a urban legend, but I was once told that upon Knuth's death, the TeX code will be frozen and all remaining bugs will be permanently declared 'features'.
I'm from the maritimes. Can confirm.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. As one who works for a company with an unlimited policy, I'm enjoying it, taking full advantage, and am getting things done.
Previous HN discussion of youtube-dl, including its remarkable contributor community and frequency of updates:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647943
Videos are super too!
And yet virtually no ones does this.
Yes, it is the duty of every thinking person on this planet to examine viewpoints of others.

A famous Aristotle quote that you may not have heard of: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

If you disagree, that is fine! No one is saying you must agree with everyone, just endorse the possibility they are presenting and think reasonably about the evidence they provide to support their claims. Who knows, they might be right.

Do you think Roman forums would have yielded the intellectual progress they where responsible for if people just ignored everyone they didn't agree with 100% of the time?
First salary calculator I've seen that was worth a damn. They didn't demand my email address, they asked relevant questions, and they separate by geography.

I'd prefer to just give my info and then see the salaries in each of the cities... but this works well enough.

Very interesting to see the different numbers of expected offers for the different areas.
As someone who was identified as gifted and talented in Australia, I think the parents often want things that are not particularly useful, eg early university entry, or their goal is some special university program.

In high school I did training for the international mathematics Olympiads (which was too much work but otherwise a great program) and that was all the extra input I really needed. In university I did an ordinary math program, and my parents really didn't understand that the math department is more than capable of challenging high iq students.

I feel that the system let me "fligh freely" because I always had access to challenging material if I wanted it (I also did debating). However my parents weren't satisfied because they wanted to be provided with a clear path from my youthful intelligence to future success.
The speculation for that particular number is trivially falsified: It's based on assumption that all unmoved coins in the first year were mined by the system's creator (no justification is provided for this assumption).

And it is false, many other people mined during that time and lost keys (myself included).
On the other hand, his personal information is probably in a ton of marketing databases now, being sold to other companies, and I guess he'll be receiving plenty more "free stuff" in the future due to that.
Couple good points in your comment, some not so good. But trust me, I appreciate your comments.

On milk factories and breeding, yes. That is part of the current game. But I would argue that selective breeding has been done for centuries, we've just gotten better at it. Capitalism has basically forced dairymen to become more efficient -- which is good and bad. My grandfather's cows gave 40-50 lbs of milk per day, my father's cows give 80 (some up to 120). There are consequences when that happens. How you get there is better breeding and better feed (feed has a lot to do with it).

On cow longevity, the lifespan of a dairy cow is actually a little longer than that, but the actual longevity it depends on the breed. Holsteins go for about 6 years (lets not kids ourselves, that is not a huge jump in longevity compared to your stated 4). As a comparison, the typical beef cow lives about 2 years. I would talk about veal....but even I don't eat veal. After 6 years the animal is "beefed", as kids we would called it "sold to McDonald's". My next door neighbor was a butcher, basically the only parts unused in a cow are the tail and the moo. Almost nothing goes to waist.

Never heard of a "rape rack", I had to look it up. I know a lot of AI breeders as well, that isn't how it is done on the dairies I've seen. From what I've seen it is not necessary, it is pretty easy to get the job done. But, lets talk female cows...ok, lets bring in biology here, female herbivores of almost any herd species (cows, buffalo, goats, sheep, etc) don't have many periods if there are functioning males around. If those animals are ovulating, the males notice -- even the females notice and tell the males about them.

On subsidies: most subsidies are "floors". No one gets money from the government unless the price of their product drops consistently below a set point. This happened for a brief period in 2009, and even then a lot of operations went out of business (which is by design actually). This isn't like farmers being paid to not farm (that happens -- ugg). But you also can't say the government is completely out of it either, because the government does buy a lot of milk product, usually powdered milk protein, which is often sent as aid to other countries.

Finally, I don't know if I would say a that everything is broken, but lets agree that things could be better. Somewhere between the ideals and where we are now is probably a workable solution that is good for the cows and keeps people's livelihoods.
It might be possible to write a wrapper function that pulls a larger function from S3. I think you get up to 500mb of /tmp storage per function. Obviously the initial startup time would be atrocious but if you have a high enough TPS it wouldn't be hit too often.

I could also see Lambda adding a paid-for option to keep a function "warmed up" at all times.
Ahahaha. Just look at the NSU neonazi shithole if the ass-kissing to the NSA doesn't show you enough, we Germans have capitulated to our and FVEY secret services too.
That movie was great. Yay Canadian arts!
That's not the whole story. The student's honor is considered good enough that we shouldn't spend time locking things down, but at least when I interacted more with undergraduates here, Caltech had an investigation process for undergraduate academic dishonesty that was student-run and utterly dysfunctional, apparently involving scenes that would bring to mind the Spanish Inquisition, complete with 2am interrogations and insistence on confessions.

I was told of severe disciplinary actions for accusations that were ridiculous when students would not confess, and an administration that stood behind the decisions of students who judged other students more on their opinions than anything else. One student, for example, was apparently expelled for an instance of claimed cheating that would have involved him running back and forth on campus at the speed of a competitive athlete. He quietly returned a short time later, and was also admitted here as a graduate student; there were rumors of legal threats and a settlement.

At least when I was hearing more about such things, essentially, Caltech placed tremendous trust in students who were well-liked by particular people, and treated those who were disliked very poorly.
I've worked with Canadians and just thought they were Americans. This one guy told a joke, an the joke ended with, "It will cost you two loonies!" We looked up and asked, "What are Loonies?" (Their dollar bills)

I asked how come you don't have an accent? (I did apologize about our educational system--we weren't taught anything about Canadians?)

Well, he started to get mad about the accents. He said most of us don't have accents. I won't say what he said next, but from the few words I can repeat; he was burned in his formative years by a French woman, and didn't like Quebec accents? I asked, "I just thought the French accent would sound beautiful?" He said there's nothing beautiful about a Quebec accent! (We were both tired, working construction, and hated our jobs.) I was suprised how Conservative he was though--always complaining about Canadian taxes. That changed one Monday morning when he got the bill from the hospital he took his wife to for a suspected Panic Attack? He couldn't believe we pay the amount we do for medical care. (That entire summer's wage, and then some went to that bill.) His last words to me were, "I'm never coming back. It's not just because I was "jacked" by the hospital, but the amount of stress you have here is just not worth it. If those blood suckers are going to charge this much, why don't they hand out price lists in the lobby?" I agreed, and gave him half my anxiety pill.
I hired a driver to take me to and from work. This gives me about 1 hour 45 minutes more work time per day, and keeps my neighbor from working a night shift 2nd job to make ends meet for his family.
I understand your feelings on this, but after you've been working for 3 years or so, nobody is going to give a damn about your degree or where you got it. They'll value what you can do, and that's where your education will pay off.
Try the contact link at the bottom of the page. Reasonable reasons may fall on reasonable ears. Raising a fuss for fuss raising's sake may not, however, get you anywhere.

Good luck.
I spoke all of the examples at the beginning of the article, and I don't sound like any of the "new" examples; furthermore my mother was from the U.S., so I should sound more like them if anything.

I've also lived on both coasts(as well as nearer the center), and honestly I don't remember anyone speaking like this.

I've never actually heard "aboot" either.

I don't actually see any references, so I'm not sure what "linguists" they're talking to.
I really enjoyed this one that was required reading for an ecommerce class I had in college. Don't worry, not a textbook: https://books.google.com/books/about/Inbound_Marketing.html?...
I'm some countries if you can be charged if you don't assist a victim. Especially medical practitioner who can lose their licence for failure to help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue

While there is always going to be grey zones there should be rules these companies fall under 'Duty to rescue'. So at least in the more obvious cases they can have a chopper sitting there idle because someone doesn't have the funds. This can be considered a cost of doing private business in the disaster recovery business and would remove some ethical dilemma.
Math is probably the class that most easily follows this pattern: the teacher demonstrates how to solve a category of problem, the entire class practices it together with the teacher calling on students to provide answers, then after students are confidently solving the problem together they try to solve them independently -- a process that usually continues after class with homework problem sets.

Science classes in higher-income schools often follow this method too -- present a problem/question, introduce some bit of science knowledge, then investigate with a lab -- but low-income schools lack the resources to do lots of labs and as a result it's a lot of copying vocab/notes and doing problem sets that tend to be vocabulary-heavy.
I agree cheald and I'd like to build upon your stipulation. CJefferson, I disagree with you on this account but I do agree with your position from the "A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative" from a few days ago.

Had I not been able to come to the conclusion you had on my own, I might have endorsed something that was ultimately worse than another solution.
It's likely because HN users are sensitive to threads being used for promotion rather than for interesting conversation.
I have a 1yr old System76 Galago UltraPro. I like it, works well, fairly quiet. Purchasing experience was good, even with importing to Canada. My two problems are 1) it will occasionally (once every 2 months) experience a power loss and reset the laptop. No clue as to what's happening, so infrequent that I don't care to look too deep, 2) the wrist rest finish is rubbing off in the corners, looks dirty, but it's just the black plastic showing through.
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> I find it intriguing considering Microsoft's conservative notion on backward compatibility, but even Microsoft seems to have finally reached the point of refreshing a version number.

Alternatively that bump could be caused by a request from a marketing manager
Even if it selects for that trait, it doesn't mean that there isn't a significant level of cheating. You can reduce the incidence of X and still have problematic levels of X.

Edit: An example: the US homicide rate has fallen in recent years. That's good news. But the US still has a serious problem with homicide, as its homicide rate is an outlier at 4-5 times that of all other first-world nations. Americans are getting less murderous, but murder is still a serious problem there.
Also, where's the innovation? I want better battery life, more memory, cellular data, a memory card slot.

My existing tablet is "good enough" but I'd upgrade for something that is better, otherwise I'll wait until it dies and buy something at a similar price point.
I'd love for there to be some sort of indication of moving towards using a lot of ES6 features in the Node.js API. Having the file system module returning Promises would be amazing, especially when async functions are standardised. What'll also be awesome is if the streams and HTTP module become Observables (async generators, an ES7 proposal).
> I take more vacation now than I did when I had 2/3/4/5 weeks a year

So, does that mean you take more than 5 weeks per year?
Docker has major security issues. Guix and Nix allow for much more security via build reproducibility, extensive checksumming, and of course, containers. I don't know what "random damage area" means, but you can't shoot yourself in the foot with Guix or Nix. If you screw up, you just roll back and try again.
You will out level the main quests if you do too many side quests. That's not related to difficulty or the economy.

Of course, they could have made the main quest scale in difficulty according to your level, but the last RPG that did that was Oblivion and it basically broke the game for most people.
The computing market is in a weird state.

I'm sure we all remember netbooks. They sprung up overnight. I remember Sony and others calling them a "race to the bottom" yet they seemed to disappear almost as quickly as they appeared.

I honestly thought the tablet market was going to be huge. FWIW I use my iPad a ton.

In both cases there was a certain amount of convergence. Costs on laptops came down so you could get good specs for a relatively low cost. The 2nd Macbook Air was (IMHO) game-changing here and it took competitors several years to match the hardware/price point.

With tablets phone have gotten larger to the point where the line between phone is blurry when phones can be 6" and tablets 7". Personally I hate this trend and still have an iPhone 5 because I like the size.

Now I think device longevity has something to do with all this. I'm sure there are people happily using the original iPad, or at least the iPad 2. There's really no reason for most people to upgrade or replace any computer until it dies.

So I don't really know where the market. Laptops/desktops aren't a growth market. If tablets are in decline and netbooks are essentially extinct, what's left? Are phones the only growth area? What happens when that market hits maturity as I'm sure it will at some point?
This happens in the real world too. Imagine travelling to a poor country as someone easily identified as wealthy, for instance. It happens on a microscale within a given country too, if anyone identifies your wealth, you'll find prices creep upwards, especially for work of a contracting variety.

To really confirm this, try bringing two watches to a watchmaker at different times, one a $5,000 watch and one a $500 watch. Ask what a service costs. The gap tends to exist even if the movements are the same!
I'm from the Maritimes and have never heard anyone here i know say aboot I think to certain people in the US it just sounds that way.

I knew a girl from Liverpool England and she thought I was from Ireland, not 100% convinced but more so than Canada. I'm from PEI which at one point was going to be called New Ireland.
The pay in my city is relatively low compared to other cities worldwide.

I'd expect at least 50K USD in a major city if no longer junior-level, anything less and I would prefer to contract/bootstrap.
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You can only sue for defamation if know who the culprit is. On the internet it is relatively easy to remain anonymous.

Case in point: the dairy abuse video that was shot (let agree, it was bad). I've seen it rework and targeted at a milk creamery in Oregon (all via YouTube and Facebook). The video state that this was how the Oregon creamery treated its cows. Couple problems: the dairy wasn't in Oregon, it was in Idaho. The dairy in Idaho doesn't sell to the creamery in Oregon. And the creamery in Oregon DOESN'T OWN ANY COWS. They contract their milk from dairymen in Oregon.
This was actually tech support call #1 at a hotel I worked at previously. We were only able to fully resolve it by using an obscure section of the 172.16.0.0/12 range -- almost all companies use the other two private ranges.
But that's exactly how you presented their supposed argument: "Caltech students don't cheat because they're not representative of the general student population", with the vague assumption that Caltech students are more honour-bound.

Not being representative of a population doesn't give any information about the makeup of the subsample, unless you have more information to add.
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A public broadcasting webcam or three might go a long way towards making it clear what's real and what's fantasy. For example, it would be simple to say "go to webcam.myfarm.com and you will see that the images in that movie don't even depict my farm."
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Maybe now I will get a decent mark in Philosophy :P
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As one would think, but then why not include Central/South America and the Caribbean?
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