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https://github.com/klarna

Yup.
Something I've read about Irish folk music, is that putting it into classical notation is awkward. It's precise about what should be flexible, and lacks notation for things that are important. Somebody could play it precisely and professionally off a sheet and get it wrong.
I've seen precisely one use of QR codes that was a benefit and that's with WhatsApp's web app, you point your phone at the screen and it instantly syncs your profile to the web app, I thought that was clever.
-> Billboards are pretty helpful. They often tell me I can get food by taking the next exit.

Usually I find the state-made info signs on the sides of freeways more informative than the advertisement billboards because it displays everything I need in one quick glance. The tiles of each "food" or gas or whatever option partitioned left or right, denoting which way I need to turn after the exit. That's just me, though. And I'm a weirdo who sometimes drives with his phone in airplane mode and chases NPR on the dial.

-> If there weren't so much bullshit, you'd be less immune to it when it matters.

I don't think this is necessarily true. It's not like it's 2 alternatives of content we're talking about, one legitimate and one not. I think it's more that there's legitimate content that's constantly getting interference from this extraneous and meaningless noise.
If there's a workaround and you don't use it, that's up to you. You're also unable to view an article if you refuse to click on it.

The choice is between two bad options: having to do a bit of work and losing many substantive articles. For HN, it's obvious which is the lesser evil. The policy has been the status quo here forever.
This was a Kickstarter a year ago (i baked too): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751759988/sicp-distill...

Unfortunately the author still not be able to fullfill the goals :/ So, bookmark this and visit it in a year or two again.
To rephrase your observation, the human utility function might have a maximum. Imagine the best day of your life; now imagine every day of your future life was this good, even a bit better, and that you live a rather long life. If you're altrustic, you can even imagine this number multiplied by the Earth's population. If you're a sci-fi fan/futurist, you can even imagine this number multiplied by the number of expected planets in the universe, multiplied by the amount of time until the stars burn out (as an aside, this is extremely optimistic because it's highly unlikely that even with arbitrarily large wealth that you would be able to figure out how to spend it in such a way to give every person a perfect life until the end of the universe). There's a good chance that you can't get much better than that, no matter how wealthy you became.

The paradox wants you to imagine that, for very small probabilities, you can get utilities indefinitely large. The paradox wants you to say, I'll devote my entire life to earning as much money as possible and spending it all on this game because the payoff is so large that this is worth it for the tinest chance. But if there's an upper bound on the human utility function, then this doesn't work. It doesn't work because when you imagine how happy you'd be with arbitrarily large wealth, you don't imagine an arbitrarily large utility, you imagine the "max utility" situation described above where every day is like the best day of your life, which is nice but not as nice as would be required to justify almost certainly throwing your life away for a small chance of this.
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This is called the just-world hypothesis - the idea that people "get what they deserve".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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hah this was pre-SouthPark
But legislation and implementation was largely backed by the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Carnegies, and the other shadowy economic 0.001% people of their day.

(citations left as an exercise for the reader)
Pearl Harbor is part of the reason for anti-nazi propaganda: America was mostly isolationistic or even pacifistic at that time (maybe not everything was bad back in the days?) and the people had to be convinced why they would want to fight in Europe while they were being attacked by Japan.
> Otherwise, it might get a flag for 'no content at this link'

Just so it's clear: this is a sure way to lose your flagging privileges on HN
Ending with (non-adjusted)$35,000 in the bank is hardly "ruined".
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I will give an example how the system is broken. I am a masters student, and my advisor assigns me full reviews without even asking, in the fields that I do not even understand anything a little bit, not even in my area. I review them for him. Some dude's approval to a conference is at my hands. I do not feel in any position to review most of the papers I have been given and talking to my advisor does not help. So, I just accept them all if they do not have major style issues, and that's it.
> modern software is a team sport.

I couldn't agree with this more, especially when team count is >= 2 && <= ~10.

...working hard during the right hours, eating together, paying attention to the boredom factor, showing each other cool moves ...er code, having each-other's back when we're injured, respecting our non-team lives, being supportive when a team member leaves for a new team.

good teams are painful to move on from ..the only salve being years of stories and mythology to drink beers over :)
You use a lot of big words without actually saying anything.
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Interesting! For an active Nuclear Fusion project in the US (San Francisco Bay Area), check out the 'National Ignition Facility' -

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

For more links and my modes overview of the project see http://blog.ehuna.org/2009/05/national_ignition_facility_192...
They seem to spin up (reuse?) an entire instance for each request

There are some clever platforms running on bare Xen (no direct OS) that can spin up an entire instance and destroy it on every request pretty quickly. http://erlangonxen.org is a great example. 100ms to boot your entire "system" for production usage.
Is it only paywalled outside the UK? Would be a bit odd, but I can't think why else I'm not seeing it.
I'm using this one at work which is quite similar.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Natural-Ergonomic-Keyboard-B...

It feels much less straining to type on compared to a regular laptop keyboard. I got it after I started having RSI and it has worked wonders combined with other treatments
Well, he did created the Von Newmann Architecture [1] and various other concepts that are still used in modern computers. So, I would say that his work is very influential in CS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
Shouldn't the uses you mentioned be covered by NFC and iBeacon in this day and age?
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Caching is also bad in distributed systems, because by definition you're creating tail latency: the cache miss case. In a distributed system, you're more likely to hit the worst case in one component, so the cache may not buy you any end user benefit. It might just make performance more difficult to debug.

A cache can still be useful if to reduce load and increase capacity... but latency becomes more complex.
It's not like it's 2 alternatives of content we're talking about, one legitimate and one not. I think it's more that there's legitimate content that's constantly getting interference from this extraneous and meaningless noise.

It's important to remember that such abstractions enable you to reject the content you don't personally see as meritorious as unwholesome. And that's a sure way to fool oneself. Rewind the clock a hundred years and you might be arguing for prohibition. It's also classic no true Scottsman, for what it's worth.

One's noise is another's music. Why is it there if no one finds it helpful?

A better distinction is mistaken or not mistaken.
You just made an apples oranges comparison. In the UK a bank or consultancy will hire you regardless of the degree, which is true for a ton of places and in my experience including Germany, that's just the nature of many multinational consultancy companies. But don't think you can do EE in the UK without an EE job, or that an EE graduate can become a structural engineer or something like that, which is no different from Germany, either. I've studied in various countries in three continents and I feel it's mostly the same.

Then the argument you make that follows doesn't make much sense, either. If Germany has such a strict degree-to-job path relative to other countries, you'd think Germany's engineering companies wouldn't mind paying rewards through salaries for engineering graduates (or indeed paying direct sponsorships for students). I'd say Germany's police is such despite the fact businesses don't strictly require it, but that it's simply better for society in general because it improves everyone and works as an equaliser, as a way to boost equal opportunity. After all the notion 'anyone can take a loan if they want to climb the ladder' differs immensely. Even if tuition is completely 100% free, the fact some of us are already providers by age 18, means the opportunity cost of merely dedicating time to studying in the first place for 4 years, is an immense one. Sure its great you don't have to pay to go to school, but if you have to forgo a full-time job and you're a or the provider in the family, that's a heavy burden that requires decisions to go into debt even if tuition is inexpensive or free. It's part of the reason why those in lower socioeconomic groups go to college disproportionately less often for their success in high school and 'eligibility' to access and do well in college. In that respect I think Germany made an excellent decision.
I think it was probably an unjustified replacement for a simple bar code in your case. I check in using bar codes usually :)
> When a kubelet starts up, it registers itself as a node with the API server and starts watching for pods to run. This is really great, because it means that when we get to running a multinode cluster, we can add nodes without having to reconfigure the API server

I really like the parts of this series that emphasize Kubernetes' design decisions -- it also says that all state is stored in etcd and that the API server is the only component that has access to etcd.
All of this "bullshit" exists because it works.

What's amazing is that the author pays his own bills as a result of such bullshit existing. The companies he's consulting to don't magically make money from nothing.[0]

[0] - http://bradfrost.com/web/
I've done a lot with Pd and enjoyed the noise-making aspects. I find the composition orientation of Alda appealing, but I would want to be able to pipe in sound from something like a Pd. Any of the above inhabit this middle zone?

I particularly like the idea of visual flow programming for synthesis and markup with control flow for composition.
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go.cd fills a different role. Funnily enough go.cd was the main CI system used for Cloud Foundry, though it's being steadily replaced by concourse.ci.

Cloud Foundry is a bear to install because you will probably wind up needing to wrap your head around BOSH, the IaaS orchestration tool. Once you get past that hump it's relatively obvious. Getting past the hump is tough.

Bear in mind that it's a complete PaaS. The kind of thing you bet your company on (and our customers do). BOSH is a heavyweight system that predates a lot of later tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation. On the other hand, we use BOSH to update Pivotal Web Services to the latest cf-release every 2 weeks or so and basically, nobody ever notices. It just works.

The easiest way to start is either Lattice or a public Cloud Foundry installation. The former has the advantage of being easy to install on a laptop, and it's intended for developers to tinker with. The latter has the advantage that someone else ran `bosh deploy` and is provisioning the VMs that Cloud Foundry runs on. Pivotal Web Service (based on AWS) and IBM BlueMix (based on SoftLayer, I think) are the two main ones.
In common usage, NFS is more commonly used as the name of the network filesystem / protocol, like ZFS, XFS, and FAT are the names of local filesystems. They all have official expansions, but nobody talks about, say, the "File Allocation Table" filesystem.

It is not being used here as an acronym for the general concept of network file systems. It's a specific filesystem/protocol named "NFS", originally the Sun Network Filesystem.
I've seen a bunch of these articles recently, and I'm tempted to agree to a certain extent. But I feel that its a bit misdirected maybe ? Seems to be plenty of other positions where ppl "behave" much like this, were it hurts just as much.
Really, you have never been rebooted?
I like, unwittingly or not, the incredibly bullshitty framing of the title of that post.
many many moons ago, reddit had a special agreement with NYTimes to un-paywall any links from reddit (that neighborly deal expired a long time ago), but HN could potentially do the same magic with WSJ, NYT, Economist if someone did the dealmaking legwork.
By the same logic I should be able to open up sweat shops in the US and employ a bunch of migrants to work at them.

Like why are there any employment laws at all? I should be able to pay below minimum wage and employ children of destitute families.
It wasn't by the book, which is why they (or actually, the city) had to pay $125k to settle.

Popehat's take on the case: http://popehat.com/2014/04/21/guest-post-peoria-mayor-jim-ar...
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Please do link to good books and good software.

HN is a little like startup investing in that missing out on good posts is the worst that can happen. Bad posts suck too, but flagging and moderation work.
its philosophy for sure :)

BTW - what I found most enlightening in the book is how he articulates the difference between the "bull session" and bullshit.
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Advertising in the US doesn't create demand. It just moves it around.

America is spent out. The US personal savings rate is under 5%. Everything else gets spent, and the saved money gets spent later. There's no "pent-up demand" waiting to be unlocked by advertising.

Advertising is thus a net lose for Americans. All that effort adds to cost. For some products, including movies, long distance phone service, and many prescription drugs, the advertising cost exceeds the manufacturing cost.

This is an argument for a tax on advertising. Advertising expenses should not be deductible business expenses at all.

Note that neither Amazon nor WalMart advertises much, compared to other large businesses. Target spends more on ads than WalMart does, although WalMart is much bigger.
Seems like a sublime text language syntax highlighting file would be more than adequate here.
What an incredibly elitist and dismissive view of music. You are aware that there are entire musical traditions that do not employ notation, right?

You're excluding tons of music outside of 12 tone temperament, not to mention plenty of electronic, jazz, and experimental music.

And you're idea of Mandarin being more complex than English, French, German, etc... I would challenge you to find a single linguist who agrees with that. I for one do not.
I think your pricing scheme[1] could put a lot of people off. I fall into the category where I'd be fine on the free tier (< 10 private services), and yet I don't want a free service.

I know if it's free, then it's going to be under some kind of fair usage policy, and you're going to rate limit me or have some kind of restrictions eventually. There's no way it can be sustainably free if I start to push it really hard. I'd prefer to just know the limits upfront, or have some kind of usage based pricing.

[1]. http://stackhut.com/#/pricing
We both agree that the decision makers have to increase funding public defenders and that their numbers should not be reduced with the uptake of technology. This dilution would simply bring us back to square one. It’s about augmenting with technology not replacing.

If done correctly we wouldn’t run into the bigger backpack scenario as the underlying reason for bringing in technology to help fix the justice system would mean ideas have changed and they would know what is essential to carry – to use your analogy.
Since he's sysadmin in a university computer-science department (and going by the first paragraph of this post), I think group-type sharing is the specific use-case that the post author might be hypothetically tempted to solve using ACLs. Unix groups work for this but require the sysadmin to be involved every time you want a group created, users added/removed from the group, etc. It'd be nice in some cases if a regular user, say the PI of a project or the instructor of a course, could manage their own sharing permissions, without having to open support tickets every time they need a group created or modified.

Conceivably you could hack up a custom solution for this, where certain groups are tagged as "owned" by a user, and the user can run a setuid binary to add/remove members. Or do it via an authenticated web interface or something. Would require some careful design/testing to avoid being a security risk. There are more esoteric possible uses of ACLs this wouldn't solve, like giving certain users append-only permission to some files. But a way for users to manage their own groups would probably handle 90% of the likely uses of ACLs in this setting.
> As much as I dislike some of the current trends (and I do digital media for a living mind you), I do have to point out that this stuff wouldn't be done if it didn't work.

Are we sure of that? It might depend on our definition of "work". A lot of the people responsible for doing this stuff may just be doing it because if they admit that none of it works, they'll have nothing else to offer and will be out of a job. It's not terribly hard to make up data showing some kind of effectiveness, or just to misinterpret real data in a way that can convince others to let you keep doing it. For every marketing or advertising craftsman out there who builds something that works, gathers useful data, and interprets that data honestly, there are probably 20 people who have no clue and just keep churning out the same stuff because they don't have anything else to offer. Whether it's profitable, or profitable enough to be worth doing, is anyone's guess. Given how cheap impressions are, especially the kind of ultra-low-value impressions that bullshit provides, it's pretty difficult to imagine this stuff paying for itself, even if most of it is autogenerated or written by the world's most desperate English-speakers.

It might help more to come up with other jobs for the people who are putting the bullshit out there. Jobs they can do well, ideally. As it stands, I'm not sure the bullshit is serving their employers as much as it's just something for them to do so they keep getting a paycheck.
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I also love the thinkpad trackpoint, and I got one of the keyboards as well. But I can't deal with the control/fn key swap; I swap it in my laptop's bios, but can't do it on the keyboard.

And I use ratpoison with vim bindings on everything :)
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The EU has a population of half a billion people, even if UK/EU fees were dropped and all non-EU fees stayed very high, his point still stands, you'd probably see a ton of European students flock to the UK. And seeing as there's nothing you're allowed to do to prevent discrimination between EU members, they just decided for the UK to be more expensive than everyone else. This keeps UK schools relatively british and generates a ton of money on the comparatively fewer foreigners who still decide to make the trip. It also filters out a lot of the 'bottom socioeconomic class', and that lack of social mobility for them will probably create tons of inequality and friction later down the line. Some of the rates at UK schools are absolutely insane for European standards.
On the flight/product plus insurance pattern, if it's difficult to cancel the insurance, I wonder what the effect of cancelling the entire product purchase would have on this problem. Just cut to the chase, pull back all your money, leaving a nice, obvious "fuck you" in the resulting vacuum. That is, assuming they haven't inserted the same bullshit cancellation for the purchase itself.
I'm also in the UK and don't see a paywall. Though I just figured it was because I'm using uBlock.
"...it is the most rewarding and enjoyable thing I've ever been a part of."

That's your Achilles heel. Beware!
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I'm fully aware, but allgemeinbildendes Gymnasium and technisches Gymnasium account for nearly everyone at university in my state. There are a bunch of different ways of getting into uni, which also kinda vary by state, but that's not all that relevant here.
Specifying a solution is easy; that's a purely technical exercise. The hard problem is figuring out how we get from where we are now (A) to where we want to go (B); that's a political problem.
They don't really have a choice. When a state trooper so much as gave a speeding ticket to city police officer in Florida, it caused a state wide unofficial standoff.

In the aftermath, some idiot police officer pulled over a state trooper for no reason and it turned out the trooper was related to the sheriff and got the idiot suspended.

Then in New York, some police officers allegedly threatened emergency workers to watch their backs themselves after this incident http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-emts-turn-office...

It isn't just isolated incidents of power trips in individuals. It is a culture that sustains itself. Maybe it is just human nature. Apparently, it is completely legal for on duty police officers to not help people in distress from let's say a lunatic trying to stab them. What is to say an officer assigned to protect a judge will not stand back and watch the judge die if the judge had a reputation of being tough on cops?

http://nypost.com/2013/01/27/city-says-cops-had-no-duty-to-p...

I shouldn't be partisan in this case that affects all of us across party lines but doggamn Justice Scalia! http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-pol...
Don't miss the "Turn on bullshit" link in the upper right corner.
> I guess there's some anxiety that there would be a storm of foreign students at British universities if fees were dropped.

Scottish universities have no tuition fees for undergrads from the EU, except from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
all to maintain Etsy,

Etsy is a strange thing. Founded by a literally borderline insane person, taken away from him, given back to him, taken away from him, run as a complete engineering organization for what would seem almost like a trivial website. They routinely release world-class tools, but why is a silly yarn-based-economy website incentivized to even create such things?

It's like the Twitter problem: twitter has so many developers, but nothing seems to change. What are all the engineers doing and why isn't there anything to show for it?

Part of easy being a tech powerhouse is: they are also a cultural landing hub for people who just want to live and play in Brooklyn. They end up with a lot of talented "well, I live here and I want a job, where do I work" people shuffling through who can do good work but don't want to live far from their apartments. There aren't many tech companies nearby to compete against, so they have a weird concentration of talented people for being an oddly non-tech company.
Looks like P↔Q is only two blocks of difference… Which means that a single-block damage is unrecoverable. Unfortunate…
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