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There shouldn't even be formal rules. The meaning of linguistic constructs are determined by how the appropriateness of phrasing is captured by usage in context. Whether "old little lady" or "little old lady" is correct is largely a matter of what you are more comfortable with, which is a matter of how people around you spoke when you learned the language.

Formalizing it would be about as silly as formalizing which music sounds good.
Sorry, no idea.
"Atlas is a "free" service but to use/run an alternative "Atlas" would mean reverse engineering it (if there is a spec detailing the endpoints, calls, payloads expected/accepted I'd love to hear about it!)."

No official spec to my knowledge, but there are a couple of attempts at this
https://github.com/hollodotme/Helpers/blob/master/Tutorials/...
https://www.nopsec.com/news-and-resources/blog/2015/3/27/pri...

"Debian's Apt/Dpkg can work from a purely offline mirror on the local disk if you want"

Okay, but Vagrant caches boxes on the local disk too.... if one runs "box update --box --provider" in a scheduled job.
Why did you have to phrase it like that? I don't feel it benefits discussion. It doesn't feel like the HN way.

If you had done an inquiry into the matter, linked to a stack exchange discussion on this bug persisting or being fixed that would've been a lot more useful. Maybe some technological quirks would surface that we could learn from. It's such a shame submissions like these, which the author clearly has spent a lot of time on, will get derided with snark like yours.

Now jkimmel continued in this vain; your comment has anchored the discussion in what i feel is a negative way.
Whether or not they hold the keys at present, Apple is in a position of power with regard to the iOS environment. In a technical sense it would be fairly straightforward for them to acquire the keys.

Trusting the company has nothing to do with it - they could be legally compelled to do so in a secret court, and gagged with a NSL to keep them from revealing such an order. Sadly that's the reality we now live in.
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It's a shame he's retired from doing them, given the grievous collapse in the quality of the writing at Ars Technica, but he's got a life to live. I suppose.
It's just sad that there's yet another player that wants to be at the very bottom of the clustering stack. For physical resource management (memory and CPUs, etc), by definition you have to pick one solution and stick with it (because you don't want multiple cluster managers thinking they exclusively own the same hardware.)

Mesos is the only player right now that's trying to do multitenancy; separating the concerns of resource management from scheduler algorithms, UI's, etc. You put mesos on your hardware as your datacenter kernel, then you play around with various schedulers to support different workloads.

Done properly, I'd much rather see Nomad exist as a Mesos framework, so I could colocate it along side chronos/spark/marathon and see how it fits in. Instead if I wanted to run this I have to partition up my hardware and dedicate some to it, which is the whole thing that cluster managers are supposed to save you from having to do (by running multiple workloads on the same hardware.)

I get that this is operationally simpler to set up and install, but with that simplicity comes a huge amount of lock-in, because you can't do anything else with your hardware other than run Nomad on it.
Giant and other grocery stores have handheld scanners, but it's not the greatest user interface. There is definitely room for disruption there.
Bring this shit to Toronto and I'll do it on the weekends for extra dosh, no problem.
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"The founder of the Campaign Against Sex Robots, the English ethicist Kathleen Richardson, not unreasonably makes this an issue of gender and power, arguing that giving heterosexual male desire free rein among anatomically female sex robots will only worsen men’s objectification of women and children generally, and thus reinforce the violent inequalities already present in society.giving heterosexual male desire free rein among anatomically female sex robots will only worsen men’s objectification of women and children generally"

Remember folks, men are evil creatures that should be repressed, lest they harm even more women and children.

The argument is basically that listening to heavy metal and playing FPS video games will turn you into a mass murdering child rapist. Simplistic and easily dismissed at best.
That's true. Amazon knows what I've bought and what I've thought about buying.

But Google knows every damn thing about me. Google ads should be slaughtering Amazon suggestions, and they aren't.
Am I the only one that's tired of this bills showing up every 3-6 months? What will it take to stop this type of BS for good... or is that an impossible dream?
To be absolutely clear re: my other reply - while I think there are a lot of frustrated people, there has absolutely been JTRIG-style astroturfing on HN, and it's not recent.

It's dangerous to make specific accusations (many people are just ignorant, confused, or frustrated), but that doesn't account for the reliability, low latency, and consistency of the NSA apologizing in any of these "big" NSA stories.
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> I'm still waiting to see cashiers disappear in supermarkets. Or bakers, since bread and cake production could be completely automatized by now. Strangely they are not going away. I wonder why...

You must be (un)lucky to have avoided the wave of self-service checkout points :). As for bakers, I don't remember when was the last time I saw a bakery that acutally baked anything - the ones I see all have bread and cakes delivered several times a day by whoever owns the franchise.

Also, automation is not a binary proposition - if your central bakery uses big dough machines and industrial baking ovens, it already counts as half-automated, as it employs much less personnel per unit of output as bakeries used to few decades ago :).
Yes, but there are a lot of people who are fed up with the kinds of online media you described. While clickbait works, it's not the only thing that does. It's just the cheapest.
This seems very cool!!!
Sorry, but I find this more confusing than anything. I would explain it more in terms of nondeterministic parsing (i.e. delaying the choice of the production rather than picking the production immediately) or in terms of "bottom-up" parsing (going from the string to the start symbol rather than the other way around). That said, it's way easier to understand what it should be doing than it is to understand it well enough to write one yourself.
I don't use an ad blocker (because I want to experience the web that most users do), but it feels like the annoying ad problem has gotten much, much worse in just the last 1–2 months.
That's true, but I can't help but feel like it was an extremely low bar to hurdle. If "35.6 million tweets during the Brazil/Germany final" is to be believed, that is only 5k tweets per second on average...maybe 50k peak due to heterogeneous volume during a sporting event. Call me uninformed if that's what it is, but that seems like something that should be easily handled by any decently architected system on the JVM. I couldn't even count the number of shit systems at Amazon that process that kind of volume with less than 4 9's of availability.
Yeah, I remember reading about them planning it a couple years ago and just kinda assumed someone would've done it by now.
My understanding is that it was rejected by many mathematicians for precisely that reason, but that many others took up the challenge to answer the question rigorously, resulting in some major leaps in theory. On the other hand, it's good that many others were able to overlook the issue of the infinitesimals and put the techniques to lots of practical use. The lesson I take from this is that both first principles questioning and suspension of disbelief can be valuable tools for learning and discovery.
I find it slightly amusing (and slightly terrifying) that C is still struggling to figure out the safe way to do even the most basic tasks, such as copying strings. Contrast this to Rust, which has guaranteed memory safety by default.
Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit
As they say, it was a simpler time. The dam builders hired unemployed workers, paid them cheaply, and violently broke up any attempts at unionizing or collective bargaining. Over 100 workers were killed during construction. There was of course no environmental impact statement or review; to the contrary, it was broadly taken for granted that it was man's destiny and duty to "improve the land" through massive engineering projects.
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The practice does lead to inane case names (in rem cases do, in general), but by far this is the greatest: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I_Am_The_Beast_etc._v._Michig...
I know these guys: they are awesome! Unfortunately ... I am already a techie :(
Do you mean that the phenomenon of language should not be scrutinized to discover rules, and thus that there ought not exist the field of linguistics?

(If that isn't what you mean, then what do you mean? That linguists should carry on, but not look for patterns and rules? Then what, instead?)

Also, what is a "linguistic construct" if we don't have formal rules? Whatever it is, wouldn't it be less ironic to call it a "speaking thingy"?
Increasingly, I'm finding myself using Stylish to nuke page elements that are irritating or terrible. Unless they make the ad content indistinguishable from the real content, they can't force me to look at their ads (or the parts of their sites that I find useless, distracting, or aggravating).
Actually, I feel myself so stupid right now. >_<
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I think he meant for this service only. The debate between "independent contractor" vs "employee" has been pretty fierce in the state legislature.
You could get a supreme court decision in one of these cases to declare such a law unconstitutional.
The funny thing is that this wouldn't fly in Canada, (and I'm assuming other jurisdictions, like California), since even the inference of an employer/employee relationship constitutes one when it comes to legal entitlements and responsibilities.
There are more, but this is the best known instance, because Boeing lost a lot of money as a result.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-boeing-brazil-i...

"Snowden's documents, many of which were published by Brazil-based U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald, revealed that Washington had spied on Rousseff's personal communications, those of state-run oil company Petrobras - which Rousseff once chaired - and countless Brazilian citizens".
> Redox is a Rust based operating system, designed to be modular and well documented.

How does one design something to be well documented?
Chromecast Audio enables wireless music streaming for your old-school speakers
Making tests strong with mutations
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Yeah, any time I see something like this I think, it would only take a couple of widely read books or widely watched TV shows breaking these "rules" to change what "sounds right" to a lot of people. Having said that, studying the evolution of these sorts of idioms over time seems fascinating to me.
Curious what's the reason for implementing Kudu in C++ and not Java/Scala?
Wouldn't that necessarily lead to an increase in ad quality? If I proxy ads through my server, that increases my costs, which increases what I would have to make from the ads, which means the advertisers will have to see a higher return from their campaigns to justify the higher cost.
What's the recommendation if you're using command/shell utilities on upgrading vs. clean install from Yosemite to El Capitan? I usually do a clean install, but would an upgrade be advisable?
Are you claiming that he could handle all of this by himself? Because unless you're claiming it, you'll have to agree with me that he would have to trust someone at some point. And calling Greenwald a so-called respectable journalist doesn't make justice to the reputation he built. I'm curious to know how would you select a better fitted person to this job.

I also don't think that comparing this to privacy violation is a valid comparison. The government is not a person, you're not violating any civil rights by getting these documents.
When I first learnt perl, twenty years ago, I loved it because it was full of clever devices and syntactic virtuosism. Now, I don't like it anymore exactly for the same reason. It's cool, but the wrong kind of cool.
Google Announces the Nexus 6P
AFAIK, code contracts in .NET still have all the issues they had several years ago. The absolute worst one being that you need to install something for them to actually work. This means different computers will have different code behavior.
The person leaving with the money is not leaving with the necessary evidence that a crime has occurred. It is not illegal to carry money (most of the time).

You follow the guy with the drugs, so that you can seize the drugs and place them into evidence. That, combined with the LEO witness of the transaction, provides probable cause to get a warrant for the person who left with the money. You presumably also have the guy who left with the drugs in custody, and the prosecutor might be able to convince him to testify against the other party.

If you follow the guy with the money, the only evidence you have is the LEO witness testimony. As we have been repeatedly reminded in the smartphone age, that sometimes contradicts the objective evidence. (That is a polite way of saying that some cops lie in order to achieve a desired enforcement outcome.) The jury couldn't know for sure whether the cop saw a drug deal and decided to go after the "bigger fish", or whether he just saw a guy with a lot of cash and came up with a plausible pretext for taking it.

Cops should chase the hard evidence necessary to secure a conviction, not the potential forfeiture targets that pay for all those cop toys.

(Of course, there was no third option that might satisfy someone who opposes the continuation of the "war on drugs".)
Like all designs. You write it down and immediately throw it away and do w/e you want.
Which bill are you referring to that's showing up every 3-6 months?
Understanding Code and Learning How to Sell
How to send sensor data to InfluxDB from an Arduino Uno
What is there to talk about/negotiate in this situation?

Nothing; we're being conned. They know what they want, they know nobody else wants that, so they disingenuously play to human nature. By stating that they should be engaged with directly, they attempt to make blocking seem like an unreasonable rejection of working with them. They have no interest in cooperating, so it's just manipulative.

It's the same exact hustle we've seen with whistleblowers (and protesters) time and time again for ages. Some blowhard says that they're for reform, and support the concept of whistleblowing in general. But in this one specific case, the whistle-blowing just wasn't done right, and there are certainly more-effective routes to that reform, with less collaterally damage that should have been used instead.

Nah, that's just someone that exists to make sure the status quo doesn't change. Sorta related, about the NSA/ATT relationship: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7325100
As far as I know you have very little rights to begin with as a non-US citizen outside of the US.
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I think it's like this. You stumble, smack into someone, and you apologize. Your apology is for hitting them, not for meaning to hit them. In fact, you did not mean to hit them, you just stumbled.

But when the issue is offense, you don't want to apologize, because you think that they think that you meant to cause offense, and apologizing will reinforce in their mind the idea that you really did mean to do it, or at least in your mind it will reinforce that idea in their mind. And you don't want to reinforce that idea in their mind, partly because it makes you look bad, and partly because the idea is simply wrong. So you don't want to apologize.

(Note well: "you" here means "me, too, given the right circumstances".)

Worse: That may really be going on in the other person's mind. They may really think (or at least suspect) that you meant to cause offense, and therefore are determined that you must apologize as penance or proof of repentance or some such. "The good of society demands that I force this person to apologize!"

So maybe the best answer is to say something like: "I did not intend or wish to give offense. Apparently I did; I apologize for doing so." Because the fact is, the offense was real. Apologizing for it is just good manners. But apologize without agreeing that you had intent.

This presumes that you didn't have intent. If you intended to offend, that's a whole different situation. It's worthy of an apology, not just for the offense, but for the intent.
> yet bakers do not disappear. What's not valid about this example?

They transform. "Bakeries" become just a pick-up point, where you buy bread that was baked in scale (probably in industrial ovens) and delivered to the store. Bakery employees nowadays have less to do with baking than McDonald's employees with frying fries (they still do something to them).
Weird. We have a last mile shipper on the west coast they used to use called OnTrac and it seemed to work just fine. I'm not sure if they are still using them though since I think they have a contract with USPS now (even on Sundays).
But not to its application.
Why you should use an IDE instead of vim or emacs
The images in The Fappening came from a variety of cloud services, including iCloud. I think the hackers were getting access primarily via social engineering.

There was an iCloud hole that was discovered around the same time as The Fappening, but no evidence that it was used by them before it was patched by apple.
Because it is frustrating to debug a closed system.

I am all for starting a stack exchange discussion when working on things that built communally and not locked down. However, when you are paying Apple for a product, it is frustrating to deal with things being broken and on top of that you have to circumvent their restrictions.
Do you plan to allow students to attend remotely, or not? What is the grading system like, if your school isn't accredited?

How do you plan on making your students well rounded in the way that traditional colleges are supposed to?
That's a good thing. There are a lot of things in life that constitute "make work". There's armies of writers and researchers out there who are working on creating filler content. They shouldn't be working on that junk. Advertisers don't need to be tracking damn near everything because much of the time that data and analysis is completely ignored.

I think ads are the clearest sign that our society has generated a lot of make-work to keep people busy. Depressing.
creshal has a different point. That does not mean that he/she missed the other point.
Hi Julien - would you mind talking a little about what you see as the value difference to a student completing your two year program vs completing a bootcamp program and say, jumping into an apprenticeship or learning on the job somewhere?
Because it is frustrating. Judging by my post getting positive votes as opposed to negative ones, it appears I am not alone in this. Incremental improvements to the Mail app are lovely, but I (and many others) do not use it. I use wi-fi all the time.

If you Google "macbook wake up wifi does not work" there are plenty of complaints, a couple of half-hearted solutions, but not much else. I didn't link to any of them because it isn't worth anyone's time to have to read them.

Yes, I am technically minded. As such, I could debug this further and further, but:

1) I can only go so far. This problem requires Apple to issue a fix, and they're definitely aware of it.

2) it's a little like asking a car mechanic to do some car repairs in his spare time for fun. My Macbook is a tool, I want it to just work.
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So shit like "suscribe to our newsletter" doesn't popin the second time you visit.

Disabling cookies degrades the experience IMO, u get no performance boost and u get no security benefits other than them not being able to store variables on your browser. Did you also disable localStorage?
The "civil" in the name is in opposition to "criminal". That's what "civil asset forfeiture" means, not parameters to it.
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Really? It seems to me that most articles conclude that it wasn’t iCloud that was hacked but the celebrities.

Apple also released a press release[1] saying that they “have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet. None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud® or Find my iPhone.”

[1]: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/02Apple-Media-Adviso...
I think the story of German WWII tactics and decisions on how to use novel technologies is that no they did not.
Gather friends, find out the primary sponsor, and primary out / support the other candidate next time an election cycle happens. Be very vocal and very clear that any candidate of any party who introduces this type of bill or toxic amendment will get the same. Do not look at any other issue or political party affiliation. Make the politicians fear you.
Hey Todd,

The insert latency seems to be related to the random read latency (seems that the unique key constraint has that effect). Do you have some data on the insert latency distribution?

Thanks,
Cosmin
And yet those additional meanings are really there, and aren't going to go away. So the correct response is to educate those non-native English speakers, as you have opportunity, when they stumble into unintended meanings. Don't think less of them, but also help them to not make that particular mistake again.
Man I couldn't care less who hands me my package if it arrives intact and on time.

I'm not looking for a "delivery experience".
Pointing out possible offense is almost as disruptive to conversation as announcing actual offense, so it should usually be reserved for very clear-cut cases.
Right - but Business Insider, unlike a the "really worthy startups," don't actually provide a lot of value to the world.

BI did.
I think you did about as respectful of a job of taking a position against EFF on HN as possible. Keep in mind the EFF is a non-profit that caters to a certain audience primarily of non-lawyers.

So phrases such as:

"The CFAA does not explain what "without authorization" actually means."

and

"The amendment would make it much easier to prosecute anyone for trafficking in passwords or similar information through which a computer may be “accessed without authorization.” The amendment changes the mental state required to simply “knowing such conduct to be wrongful”"

Sound plenty powerful/logical to the general public who is already inclined to support the EFF, not realizing: 1. As you mention "knowing" and/or "knowledge" is not just a term of art in law but an actual legal standard that has been defined and redefined through case law (same is true of willful, and reckless in a criminal context); and 2. All law as written (in a vacuum) has very little interpretation until a set of facts is applied to the law where a court may interpret the law setting precedent, much like the Nosal case you highlighted. Just as an analogy, when talking about the 4th Amendment I could say the Founders wanted us to be free from "unreasonable search and seizures" and then tell the public how that is ripe for abuse because there is no definition of "unreasonable" in the Constitution...and I would technically be right, simultaneously ignoring 100+ years of case law which defines unreasonable as applied in 1,000's of factual scenarios.