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> We try our hardest to minimize problems that we ourselves don't experience rather than work on the very real, very clear, issues at hand.
>This feels like we have a maturity and empathy problem as an industry to me...

Fully agree.
Press seems to love screwing this up. Look at mainstream sites and how they love to say "Synthetic Heroin" when referring to other opiates. Purely for the scare value against the ignorant. "OMG it's like Heroin...BUT WORSE". Not to mention, we should actually want more powerful opiates, as less would be required. It's like those idiots that say "hey the pot today, it's not like when I was a kid, it's got MORE THC". Uh, doesn't that just mean you need to smoke less, making it better for your lungs?

(The only real issue with "synthetic heroin" is when people cut heroin or other drugs with more powerful ones, like fentanyl, leading to overdoses. Once again, the illegality introduces these dangers.)

Same people probably don't know that Methamphetamine (the evil devil drug) is Schedule II and legally available to be prescribed in the US. And that speed is amphetamines, very similar to meth, and prescribed to 6 yr olds. Or that when your 7-yr-old gets a small surgery, they likely hit her with fentanyl (much, much, stronger than Heroin).

It's just throwing around words to scare and promote ignorance and fear of actual science/medicine.
It's 25 BTC + miner fees per block. According to the website linked, it's about 20-30 BTC per block, so at $250 USD/BTC, that's ~$12,000 USD per block of electricity.
Thanks for the feedback, I totally agree. I'll see if we can work something up that shows the whole flow -- from creating a pull request, to approving via PullApprove, to merging.
I lived on the second story of a crappy apartment complex. There were no backdoors or fire escapes. And why should I have to grab my wife and run? What is it about this dangerous criminal invading my home that requires me to risk my wife's and my life over his? How is that just in any sense of the word?
Okay, imagine you're working on the hardware of the engine. Pistons, bolts, lubrication. One Friday afternoon you leave work depressed because the emissions suck, they've sucked for months, and they won't get better without a major redesign.

On Monday morning, the emissions tests are suddenly passing.

"Ha, just one of those things," you say, "I thought we had emissions problems, but I guess we don't after all. Let's ship the engine and have a party!"

There is no way that this happened.
I've always liked the concept behind GoboLinux[1], it makes so much more sense in comparison to the legacy mainframe style file structure other linux distros use. Debian dropping LSB might pave the way for more distros adopting a more modern and sensible file structure.

1 http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance
That is precisely what happened with PDT, correct? It was spin out from MS
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How could you spend so much effort typing all of that without even bothering to read what I just said? Or are you literally incapable of understanding how irrelevant what you are saying is to the point that is being made?
Even when Zuckerberg said that, I think he had made clear that he wanted something for the situations where "liking" is not appropriate.
I still think that ignoring is much better than disliking.
We integrate with Slack, TFS and JIRA. Yes we intelligent group things. From our home page you can click sandbox on the top menu and play around with most things.

We do some unique things like when looking at error show you all the log statements related to the same transaction.

Our pricing is similar to our competitors. But there are self hosted open source options as well, like you mentioned.

A lot of our customers like our product because we combine monitoring, errors, logs, metrics and even apm on one easy to use platform. It's very unique.
English-speaker here (UK) - just to let you know that Yay! is very definitely used in a non-ironic fashion all the time as a light-hearted, perhaps slightly jokey, expression of delight. In text, and sometimes even in speech.

I can 'calibrate' a Yay to indicate a negative sentiment based on context, but it's a bit jarring and not even very strongly negative. Examples like "Two more weeks of working overtime. Yay" is obviously a negative use but, to me, that's you indicating disapproval of a fairly trivial inconvenience or annoyance in a rather light-hearted way. If you really disliked something I'd expect a more direct statement like 'damn it' or your whatever your chosen flavour of profanity.

The idea of Yay as a general meme for negativity is very jarring, at least to this native reader, and I'd really struggle to imagine it ever catching on as a result. Hope you found this perspective useful!
Isn't one of the big performance advantages of HTTP2 multiplexing/Server Push? It'd be nice if they spent some time talking about how to take advantage of those improvements on their platform.

Inside my request handler, I ought to be able to say "If you're on HTTP2, push out these files:" and have AppEngine behave accordingly.
Don't count on it. It's probably going to be this: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarc...
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People have asked for discussion rather than down votes when they know a point they've written is controversial. But that's for very few posts.
I wonder how it compares to scapy (a python library for doing interactive packet crafting). http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
That view isn't HN's culture. Yes it always gets mentioned, but so does the opposite view. The community is divided.

To the extent that HN itself has a policy it was set years ago by pg saying that downvoting for disagreement is ok.
Meanwhile here in the US we let people mod their diesel engines and nothing is done about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
“You know, there’s still some people out there that say "What does being PC really mean?” Well, I’ll tell you what it means. It means you love nothin’ more than beer, workin’ out, and that feelin’ you get when you rhetorically defend a marginalized community from systems of oppression."
This is most likely a form of "credit-check" on the part of the landlords... They see stable, well-paying job, and trust that you'll stick around, pay on time, and generally not be a hassle. Has nothing do do with the apartment owners "sponsoring" employees of a certain company.
It's a good thing that there are stiff penalties for perjury during congressional hearings. Few examples just during this past year, when people lied under oath, got caught, and... Oh, never you mind.
Go ahead and enjoy your world.

I don't subscribe to any of the "hate groups" on Reddit, frankly, I never really noticed it.

But I stopped visiting the site after all of this.

I don't want a sanitized watered down "approved" bull shit feed of news and opinion. Guess what, Reddit, has a mechanism built in to manage site behavior. Its called the Downvote.
I think that's somewhat if not greatly dependent on culture. In Japan and parts of China you get great service from staff who are typically paid only slightly above minimum wage. Parts of Europe have good service, and many places are seemingly contemptuous of customers, maybe foreign customers? In my experience its not exactly tied to tipping or not.
My mom was a school teacher, and I think she approached $50k maybe her last one or two years before retirement.

I'm not saying that the assumption that all tech workers are rich is correct, but you might want to rethinking how much money $50k after 5 years really is.
This is the problem right here.

History has shown repeatedly that humans are prone to emotional responses. And people that were otherwise law abiding right until a moment of anger now have easy hip-level access to a 'thing' to act out their anger.

Take the case a couple years ago of the retired cop that shot a guy in the movie theatre during previews for throwing popcorn at him. (Guy called his baby sitter during previews, the retired cop yelled at him to be quiet, guy threw some popcorn back at the cop, retired cop shoots guy dead) If this retired cop, who was a law-abiding citizen his whole life and was professionally trained in firearm safety and usage couldn't control his anger during an argument about a guy using his cell phone, I don't see how the average American can be trusted.

And speaking of guns in movie theatres, there's the case of the guy who accidentally dropped his handgun under his seat during a kids movie and then left. Luckily the ushers found it and not a kid. Guy had the nerve to go back to the theatre and demand it back.

I don't see how the average American can be trusted to keep their gun safe.
It's a little more subtle. and subtle is the point. Human emotion, heck, all of human experience is analog. Love for a child is different than love for a parent, for example. And it's fractally complicated. If you look at how a word, phrase or novel matches up to an emotion you'll see the flaws where it doesn't quite match up at every scale.

So, anyway, discretizing these 6 states and fast tracking them is ok, i guess. It certainly allows people to shade their like in an interesting way, but it blows away complexity. The simple like can convey more meaning, imho, based on the sender. A like from an ex-lover, for example has a different meaning than from grandma. In some sense, they're both "i'm thinking of you" but they're nuanced based on sender.

It's not super clear to me that providing the 6 states will actually convey more information. Really it just requires a bit more effort on the user. A guy hits like on a pretty girl's photo because of love or lust, same guy hits like on a fast car because of awe. The context is more than enough to infer the meaning. It does make the sympathy connection explicit, so that's something. The sad face is probably much quicker than typing in "sucks about the cancer, bro". Is optimizing that case for speed better for humans?
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Yes. But again, abortion and eugenic murder are orthogonal issues to genetic manipulation. Plenty of good has come out of my brothers disease. My parents started an amazing non profit to serve parents of kids with special needs or terminal illness. I would still trade it all for a cure that changed him and helped cure more.
You gotta tell us why man. Don't leave us hangin'.
Looks like the 200K number is from just part of the buyback. That was from memory in an article I read. But either way, 650k to 1 million doesn't change the point much.

As for door to door raids and stop and frisk, that's the only way to get guns out of american hands. How do we know this? Because many cities and states have had draconian gun laws in the past. There have been buy back programs by the dozens. None of them worked. Just life France and much of Europe, guns are easy to get in restricted jurisdictions.

And why would you think telling people they have to turn in their guns will work? They won't even register them when required by law.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/new-york-gun-registration-law/2015...
Before you posted this comment :)

In all seriousness, I'm interpreting poverty as lacking the basic capacity to participate in society. In that sense, the average score of something like the human development index is not relevant to whether or not systemic exclusion of classes of people in society is prevalent. The organization of resource-controlling groups in industry and government are generally what determines the social and economic mobility of a population. Before some point in civilized history, these constructs did not exist to create such vast disparity in human dignity and wealth. In other words, neither the cause nor the existence of poverty is measurable by the average standard of living.
Some things people have made so far:

megaman: http://paint.reednj.com/p/-208/149/14)

some cubes: http://paint.reednj.com/p/-180/-24/10

cookie monster: http://paint.reednj.com/p/439/-79/17

a race car: http://paint.reednj.com/p/-346/37/17
Its really understandable why that would piss them off and I sympathize. At the same time, it seems like the only solutions are for me to quit my job and "fuck off", or to live in the suburbs and suck up a > 1 hr commute. People deserve to live a good life and improve their station, and that includes techies who are well off, in addition to the poor and middle class.
macho culture that drives gun nuttery

I was with you until here. Sorry, but what you call "gun nuttery" is very likely what I call a simple, principled belief that private individuals have a right to be armed, and a recognition that there will be "gear heads" around any hobby. Guitar players tend to own lots of guitars, shooting enthusiasts own lots of guns. Owning lots of guns and defending the 2A doesn't make somebody a "nutter" nor does it make them any more prone to committing violent crime.

'stand-your-ground'

What exactly is your problem with "stand your ground" laws?

'fuck-tha-police' sentiments

Sorry, but as long as police are "men with guns" using violence to enforce unjust laws, and especially as long as many of their numbers act like schoolyard bullies who never grew up, I'm going to remain firmly in the "fuck the police" camp.

for the most part, the police aren't broken.

I'm calling bullshit on this. Haven't we seen enough videos of cops abusing / beating / killing people who were clearly not posing any aggressive threat (including people who were already handcuffed and pinned to the ground) to realize that this is not true? Obviously not all cops are "bad" but to ignore the systemic problems in policing in America today is like sticking your head in the sand and pretending there's no problem because you can't see it.

Let's blame the politicians who criminalize everything

Now this we can agree on.
Is anyone else at least a bit worried about a bunch of developers running around doing "machine learning" without much understanding of mathematics and probability? E.g. consider the creation of fragile models that overfit data being used in finance, infrastructure, medicine, etc.
Sounds like Finland/Scandinavia. Well, they were the ones to supposedly settle Ballard, I guess.
I was curious if a HN reader could make an anti-drug argument, and you have written a nice one.

I've lost a lot of friends and family to drugs and alcohol - unfathomable damage. My best friend is using a lot of speed right now - I worry that he will be next. But damn he works like a tornado.

I've worked with tons of people who use drugs of some sort or another. My experience is that they perform fine until they don't. When they crack the bottom falls out and they're tossed into the rubbish pile without a second thought - disposable.

I can see the possibility that drugs could enhance your work performance. But can't see how drugs would help when trying to maintain relationships/kids/family.
Absolutely! Our plan is to release support for the container registry as soon as it's generally available.
Interface Builder has successfully produced every UI in the system since 1988, you know. NSCoding, nibs and IB are older than most systems with UI declarations in code.
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If your ISP really wants to provide customer/household level tracking to advertisers/partners, they could easily provide an API to them like getCustomerId(IPAddress, Timestamp).

It's not entirely clear from the article whether it's "Set-Cookie" being injected in to replies, or the "Cookie" header in to requests, or both.

Interesting times nonetheless.
I visit Seattle often and find the traffic to be wonderful! Of course, I live in Beijing, so my perspective is a bit unusual.
Thanks, this helped.
He can't control what the media writes. For example, the article was titled "Facebook working on 'dislike' button, Zuckerberg says", but here's the actual quotes from that exact article:

"It's important to give people more options than just 'like'" to help express empathy and sympathy, Zuckerberg said. "Not every moment is a good moment."

"Some people have asked for a dislike button because they want to say, 'That thing isn't good.' And that’s not something that we think is good for the world. So we’re not going to build that," Zuckerberg said at the time.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/09/15/facebook-worki...
I don't think the genetic manipulation in the near future is going to be powerful enough to create the situation you describe. If only because of the legal structure we've set up around it, but also because right now out capacities are far more limited, we know a few single genes that control for diseases or other invisible properties. The genetics of things like height, strength, and intelligence are many orders of magnitude more complex. We hardly understand how the brain even works. I realize we'll be making exponential strides, but we're still way early in that curve.
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Same here, and I think that may have been the idea. One of the things I loved about LJ was the ability to set moods, nested commenting, and a community spirit. Mood likes, better commenting, and Groups have started to adopt this LJ spirit (as much as don't want to admit).
I work at a US government research agency and am in the process of applying for a couple of patents, so might be able to provide some insight.

We do not patent things to make money. The most profitable patent that my organization (NIST) has makes in the low six figures of royalties per year. If we started pulling in real money, I suspect congress would shut that down.

The stated mission of our tech transfer office (and the whole organization) is to make US businesses more successful and competitive. The unstated mission of researchers is to figure out interesting things and to get our ideas into practice. Fulfilling both of those missions, we might patent something for a few reasons:

- So that we can license it to US companies and not German or Chinese companies. Not unreasonable, considering the US taxpayers paid for the work.

- So that we can offer an exclusive license to one company in exchange for commercializing the invention. Many inventions require more investment to be commercially useful, and corporations are more likely to put up the money if they can't get copied by a competitor.

- So that we can offer the invention royalty-free (or at least below market rates) to anyone who wants to use it. Sometimes this is easier and more reliable than trying to get the invention into the public domain via a journal publication.

- So that we can get the lawyers to do the writing for us instead of having to write a paper.
"t's not the tool, it's bad developer practices. See my other comment on multiple people editing the same interdependent constraints. Never a good idea, even in obj-c or swift code."

That doesn't address the fact that properly reviewing changes made by others to xib files generated by Xcode pretty much requires you to check out those changes and review them in interface builder. That's a lot of friction for larger teams who don't just do iOS development.

As I said in my article I don't think interface builder is terrible or anything, I just think it's a poor fit for larger teams doing cross functional development.
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Batten disease. I don't mind the question, it's been 6 years now, but thanks to my "defenders" ;)

Also, my family doesn't suffer from it. It is autosomal recessive, so only the unfortunate 1/4 have any symptoms at all. My other brother and I are carriers, so we have a 50% chance of passing our gene on to our kids. Neither of our wives are carriers.
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Not sure why the downvotes - you're being articulate about your position, and folks are allowed to prefer what came before to what is coming... I get the sense that folks are threatened by the labels Criscitello throws around because they resemble them and are challenging his right to them in reaction. Thanks for providing cultural context to the anti-tech backlash in Cap Hill.
>The whole consensus network of Bitcoin is based around burning so much energy/space/infrastructure on hashing that a single actor wouldn't be able to invest a bunch of money and take a controlling majority.

If you have the time and you don't mind, could you elaborate on that? It just doesn't sound right to me. What is the mechanism that discourages big investments? As far as I can tell, there seem to be some economies of scale, that's why there are mining farms.

From the bitcoin wiki "Attacker has a lot of computing power":

"Since this attack doesn't permit all that much power over the network, it is expected that no one will attempt it. A profit-seeking person will always gain more by just following the rules, and even someone trying to destroy the system will probably find other attacks more attractive. However, if this attack is successfully executed, it will be difficult or impossible to "untangle" the mess created -- any changes the attacker makes might become permanent."

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
Any "best" list that has Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers on it (great thought they may be) and omits Double Star and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably untrustworthy. MHO, YMMV.
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I was speaking more to the loss of future earnings because of the lower demand for traditional taxis. Any earnings you do get out of ownership are already calculated into the value of the medallion, so not only are you losing the difference in value but also the earnings that it enable you to receive (but you'll no longer get even though you spent the original price expecting them).
A 1 year CD is a terrible investment, but a lot of 5 year CDs have very generous early withdrawal penalties. Unless you are making over 2% in your FDIC-insured money market account, a 5 year CD is probably a better investment.
Stocks and bonds of all kinds are available as ETFs that can be sold anytime. And you almost certainly don't need to sell the whole thing at once, so running low on principal value isn't that much of a problem. (Instead it's a tax break.)

https://www.betterment.com/resources/personal-finance/safety...
Following the juror model...

Step 1 - From the district lists randomly select a small number of electors.

Step 2 - Sequester the electors.

Step 3 - The candidates present their proposals, background, arguments, counter arguments.

Step 4 - Electors listen, meditate and cast a secret vote.

Step 5 - Eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of votes.

Step 6 - Repeat from Step 3 until one candidate has more than 51%.

Step 7 - Dismiss the electors.

Some advantages:

- No need for expensive campaigns. Takes money out of politics.

- The "Trial" can be televised. People would get involved on what is going on.

- It reduces the need for tactical voting. Electors can vote for their first-choice candidate without fear of wasting their vote.

- Lesser-known candidates would have better odds of winning.
??? Seems you missed my point entirely.

Parent claims guns shouldn't be restricted since someone can make one on a lathe if they cannot buy one at a store.

Meanwhile parent almost certainly locks their house doors despite a thief with crowbar being able to bypass their lock.

Therefore, the parent's reasoning that gun control won't work because a criminal can mill their own gun is not logically sound.
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