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This is past silly. It makes absolutely no sense for "big beer" to try to "crush" craft beer.

First, it's not possible: it's too easy to start new breweries, and too easy to get local distribution to bars and the kinds of stores that already do a good job of stocking craft beer. The capital costs to start a new craft brewery are small. There are tens of new brewery starts in major metros every year (we're flooded with them in Chicago). So AB InBev takes out Goose Island. Who cares? For every Goose Island, there's a dozen Half Acres.

Second, it doesn't make economic sense. Macrobrews and tiny local craft brews are not substitutable products. Macrobrews are defined not by quality but by availability: they're produced in enough quantity and their logistics are managed competently enough to be reliably available in the places where people who buy macrobrews shop. The same is absolutely not the case for craft beer; even the best-run largest-scale craft breweries are often on allocation systems with retailers.

By the way, AB InBev's customers generally aren't trying to maximize IBUs, don't give a shit which hop varietals got used, and would probably assume a brett beer had somehow gone bad. Again: not substitutable products.

Meanwhile: on the off chance that a Three Floyds or Bruery "graduates" to real nationwide distribution, in 6-pack/case format, Big Beer will simply buy them. They can, in effect, use craft breweries as laboratory for product development: the products that succeed in the market get acquired, and AB InBev supplies its logistics and distribution to milk profits from the acquisition. It's a very old, very effective business model (see, for instance, Cisco).

Finally: I call BS on the idea that Big Beer somehow ruins acquired craft breweries. Goose Island is if anything doing a more consistent and competent job now than they were prior to the acquisition.
I'm not the same commentator as fnordfnordfnord. As for your linked question, it's heavily verging on RTFM territory, so I'll let you do that.
So does this imply an opportunity to improve computing speed by 2997?
All areas that are going to be increasingly disrupted by technology and digitalization. So sure for now but this will change.
If a type system can be easily escaped, does it really offer you much?

If it's still transformed to run in the runtime of a late-bound dynamic typed language where the types can't be used by the compiler to produce optimized code with early-bound type function/method dispatch, does it really offer you much?

I guess I don't really see optional static typing as giving the best of both worlds, as it cannot deliver on what a good static type system can give you.
Which 10 beer brands would those be?
Btw, Mark Bowden, the author of the story that's cited as the "official" version, makes his case here.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/mark-bowden-bin-laden...
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>What's the WWW or the way it's built have to do with it?

What it has to do with it is that putting an HTTP server on the public Web signals the intention to serve up resources to anyone who sends an HTTP request. Any restrictions to this default must be implemented explicitly on top of the default.

Leaving my stuff lying around does not signal my intention for anyone to take it, unless I let it lying around next to the bins.

So yes, intentions matter. The question is how we learn about them. Sometimes the choice of technology implies particular intentions by default.
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I've been using a similar script for years and found it very useful - http://denilson.sa.nom.br/prettyping/
> I'd think your assertion at face value is abhorrent.

Doesn't make it less true though. Reaison d'Etat and Realpolitik are at the base of anything we hold dear in the modern world. Otherwise we would have had Hapsburg theocracy in Europe and the modern world would have been impossible.

It was Richelieu going against his god, to service his country and Disraeli and Bismark that made the modern world possible.
The only problem with MOOCS is you can't be an engineer or a medical doctor by only doing the courses you're "interested in".

IT is one of the few "fields" where people can get away with a half assed academic background and the end product shows it.
We're using twisted, but I believe Python 3's asyncio has a similar feature with use of non-blocking sockets, which is that you can add a hook to be triggered when too much data accumulates in user-space (can't be flushed to the kernel's tcp buffer).

In our case, when notifications buffer for a slow client, this API gets triggered and we mark the client connection as 'paused'. Until that state is cleared by more data getting to the client, notifications go to the database instead with just a flag on the client connection to check the db when the pending data was retrieved.

We do a similar thing on the receiving end to pause reading off the socket if we're already doing more work on behalf of the client at once than desired.

twisted documents this as producer/consumer: http://twisted.readthedocs.org/en/twisted-15.4.0/core/howto/...
I wondered about this, I figured someone had figured out they could use pretty standard click fraud techniques to milk money out of the pay-per-play ecosystem.

No doubt someone in operations over at Spotify spends their nights trying to detect these kinds of patterns. It would be interesting to hear their take on it.
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It's a pretty sad world when the conspiracy "nutjobs" turn out to be right..
That's a good thing: it creates exit opportunities for new craft breweries, while also offering serious distribution for good beers that would otherwise be stuck in small geographic regions.
If we're speaking in technicalities, wouldn't Anheuser be Brazilian (InBev)?
Humpback whales synchronize their songs across oceans
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Honestly?

> What makes you think one can make up for freedom lost during childhood? Our brains become rather rigid as we get older.

If this was true in a practical sense, we'd have the government raising up kids, because parents pose too much a risk of producing a suboptimal generation.

> And personally, I'd be proud to be the parent of the world's most mentally stable barista because life is about more than status.

That's what those of us who didn't get to the top spots like to tell ourselves so that we may sleep better at night. Life may not be about status and money, but having the two makes it an order of magnitude better. Trying to tell yourself something else is denial, really.

Don't get me wrong - I definitely don't encourage turning kids into zombies and making them jump arbitrary stupid hoops that one needs to get to a top-tier university or otherwise gain status. But that's the world we live in - rewarding bullshit instead of actual value. There is no point in pretending otherwise, and seeing things for what they are is (almost) always helpful.
Economics isn't responsible for lack of resilience. There have been plenty of severe economic climates before, and we haven't seen the same issues from those. Having all your money go on shelter and food, and having to share housing... these things are not new. They're also seen all over the world right now. It's really not harsh economics - more likely it is the lack of resilience from things like helicopter parenting that makes life stressors like economics have more effect.

And even though there are problems like climate change, every generation has it's problems. Billy Joel got so sick of his generation being blamed for everything by the next generation, he wrote a song about it - way back in 1989! "We Didn't Start The Fire" is a song listing scandal afteer scandal, issue after issue, showing that this stuff has always been happening. Climate change wasn't the issue back in the 80s - instead it was things like Mutually Assured Destruction. There's always something. We need to stop making excuses like "it's current affairs issue X".
Wow, you must have drunk a lot of SV kool-aid to be in favor of such business practices.
yes! the fantastic craftsman 1903 prohibition style lager (brewed in pasadena) is for me a signal of a good local bar/pub in LA.
Who owns the rights to the product, though? Was it a work for hire?
So Russia occupying Crimea is just politics, just drawing borders in a way favorable to you?
Most things just take practice especially being a human being.

The point — I think — is not that you become superman by being able to cook yourself. The point is that helicopter parents are wrong in thinking that they are doing their kids a favor by being constantly there for them.

Whatever their motives are they are not putting them in a better position in the long run. It's more an attempt to control the destiny of their childs future by controlling it for as long as they can.
American Budweiser has never been brewed in Belgium, and didn't begin as Belgian company. I assume you're trying to be funny here; Bud is the archetypical domestic.
I don't agree that helicopter parenting is anywhere near a prerequisite.

In fact, amongst my peers it seems to have been the reverse. The kids with over-involved parents were the ones who ended up seeming too "cookie-cutter" and ended up going to "second-tier" universities.

The hypothesis of helicopter parenting being a prerequisite for elite admissions also seems to be undermined by the consistent success of boarding schools in college admissions. It's a lot harder to be a helicopter parent when your kids are hundreds-thousands of miles away.
Sprint to throttle 'unfair' customers using more than 23GB of data per month
Sure they are. They won't be inventing new devices or running successful businesses, but they will probably enrich the lives of anyone in their social circle
I'm not entirely convinced that what Theranos is promising is even that great.

A couple weeks ago I got a blood test. I walked into the test center, which was staffed by a single person. I waited in line (there was one person in front of me), and told the person my name. She walked me over to a chair, drew enough blood for a whole bunch of tests, and that was it. I was in and out in 12 minutes (I timed it), and it was almost completely painless.

This wasn't Theranos. It was "Lab Corporation", an utterly non-unicornish testing center, and the local branch was staffed by a competent phlebotomist. It turns out that, once you stick a tiny IV needle in, you can draw a few vials of blood very quickly and painlessly.

In contrast, I once had a test at Theranos. The tech poked my finger with the magic lance (which stung more than the IV needle), put the little magic capillary collection widget over the drop of blood on my finger, and squeezed REALLY FUCKING HARD, repeatedly. My finger tingled weirdly for a few hours, because the REALLY FUCKING HARD squeeze hurt and probably broke a few capillaries. And the process took considerably longer than the blood draw at Lab Corporation. See, a little needle with a vacutainer at the other end draws quite a few mL of blood very easily, but a little finger prick struggles for more than a drop or two.

(Next time you give blood and get the finger-prick hematocrit test first, look at the tiny amount of blood that they get. Then imagine the rather large multiple of that amount that you'd need to fill the little Theranos collection widget. Ouch!)

I suppose if I were afraid of needles, then maybe the squeeze-the-finger-really-hard approach would have been an acceptable idea.
Most of the best craft brews are fairly local in distribution so it depends on where you live. (I'm more of an IPA and stout drinker anyway so my recommendations on lighter beers aren't going to be all that informed.)

I agree that the original piece seems overblown. In my experience, even the "craft brands" of the big brewers cater to pretty mass market tastes and aren't really that interesting.
Well, that was a mean, superficial, and unproductive response to a thoughtful comment.

It's also stupid: "those business practices" will do more to help craft brewers than it will to harm them.
> please don't post these asinine articles here

HN's guidelines state Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In many cases failure to helicopter parent is a crime. If a minor under, say, 14 or 15 is caught without an adult their parents can be cited for neglect.
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Privacy as a legal construct is relatively recent.

It's as old as the fourth amendment.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
But are they actually doing non-standard stuff?

On a new ASUS X205ta ("Windows 8.1 with Bing") the audio drivers are broken, and which don't have Linux drivers yet. (at least, the websites I read from July suggest that.)
Renewal is every two years.
People who protect other people's communications security are special and important.
This is an interesting question. I was promised shares but was given nothing. Therefore the "contract" I have with the company is void. The argument could both ways.
Without the control group, you don't know if the change you think you made is the change that made a difference.
It's pretty striking. In northern Washington you mostly drive at least an hour between ocean and mountains (e.g. Bellingham to the Cascades). In southern coastal Canada the mountains rise straight from the ocean (e.g. driving between Vancouver and Squamish).
We did express processing. It took about seven weeks.
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Ok, in that case this submission is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400807. Thank you!
I mean; 8.1 here, I can _not_ verify this, I'm seeing the same "upgrade to windows 10" option as I have been for months.

I ran windows update literally 10 minutes ago as well.

Meaning that the only chance that this is true(for windows 8.1 at least) is if I missed multiple micro-updates on my windows box and in that period of time they pushed an update enabling this forced conversion to windows 10 and then pushed a subsequent one returning to current functionality.

Previous update check to the latest performed update was ~22 hours ago. That's a very small window.

I doubt this is true.

edit:
I think it's far more likely that some specific individual, perhaps the author or his friend was on the specific update effected by -> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/window... and as a result was 'forced to update'

Pretty ridiculous to publish this without looking into it though.

Not saying that Microsoft didn't mess up here, they very well may have, just that this article seems to be flagrantly false and it's disappointing how much attention it's gotten in spite of that fact.
Extensive discussion 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9854160
I posted this in a different thread yesterday but am reposting here for the folks that do move to Win10.

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PSA: For people with Windows 10 installed, I've found the following tool quite useful in shutting down the large amount of information collected.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
If you're a parent then, your decision looks like:

Let your kid be a kid and bank on society having advanced far enough to allow success without a big-brand school on your CV. Barring that, hope your kid will be driven/creative/wily enough to make do without that stamp of approval.

Or, take the "safe" route and go full helicopter-parent, and give your children the best possible guarantee of success in the world as it currently stands.

That's a brutal decision to have to make.
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So we should go back to slavery because slavery was thought of as a good idea for a couple thousand years?
Stanford has 27 billionaire alumni. At any given time, there are ~15,000 students studying at Stanford.

Getting the top 10 schools for creating billionaires, it accounts for 206 total. (Though this number also includes Cambridge, and I'm not sure if the 11 billionaire alumni from there are part of the same 500ish US billionaires)

Out of the 500ish billionaires in the US, nearly 100 of them have no degree at all.

So, these top schools produce about double the amount of billionaires that zero degrees do, and roughly the same number as the rest of the schools combined.

This is such a relatively small sample size and there are so many factors in play here that it would be silly to draw any sort of strong conclusion from this, but even going with shoddy science on this and playing fast and loose, we can see that while, yes, you do gain an advantage in the 'become a billionaire' game, it's still a ridiculously insignificant chance, and the population of billionaires without a degree or with a degree from a school not known for producing billionaires is still higher.

All of this to say: There ain't no easy path to billionairehood besides being born one, and getting in to Stanford or any other school does not increase your chances of becoming one to a statistically significant number.
Perhaps obviously I resonant with her message, not letting your kids stand on their own, gives them weak legs. But as a parent I am viscerally aware of how hard it is to watch your child make bad choices.

From the parents perspective looking backwards through time they "see" how something today will have huge repurcussions later. Nobody can stand by and watch their child turn down a dark alley filled with hazards.

So what to do? Find ways to teach your kids failure is the step toward success early in life. Let them work out things for themselves, talk with them about how they went about it. And most importantly start early. As kids get older their ability to completely screw up their life goes up exponentially.

I don't think anyone who is not a parent can internalize how hard it is to do.
It's all global media. Even colorful lifestyle magazines. Those celebrities you read about are carefully selected top N of 7 billion people. The chance of meeting any single person like that in one's neighbourhood is practically zero for a normal human being, yet you treat them as next-door neighbours in terms of comparing yourself to them, because media hijacks the availability heuristic. That effect is a reason why I start to think mass media is doing more harm than good to humans (a lot of ways in which general population turns batshit insane can be attributed to availability heuristic).
If it didn't work, this former Dean wouldn't be complaining about it.

I see her complaints as more sinister. She comes from a privileged background, and she's concerned that people from her social class are getting pushed out of her university by kids whose parents made them work hard.
I think people draw the distinction because there's a huge difference between finding someone sexually attractive, and sexually assaulting them. (This applies to attraction to adults, not just children. "I find that person attractive" is very different from "I'm going to have sexual contact with that person without their consent".)
The control is either "no treatment" or "treatment as usual".

Those have problems of blinding, and treatment vs no treatment is difficult to get through ethics committees.
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Yes, this is tongue in cheek. I never liked the domestic terminology, though. Craft beers are domestic. They're also owned by people in their country of origin. The joke about bud is that it's primarily owned by foreign corporations.

Country of origin tells you nothing about a beer.
I'm glad to know about the stuff he revealed. Interestingly enough, nobody has any doubt that China and Russia already knew about the extent of public surveillance that Snowden revealed. His most heinous crime was informing the public.
It gives you something. Compare Facebook Flow or Google Closure Compiler.

It gives you the flexibility of not having to prove types to the compiler sometimes, but the safety of proving it other times. And yet you can write both programs in a familiar language.

You could do early binding. Closure, for example, transforms non-polymorphic functions into static functions. But you are correct that performance is not the primary objective; it is verification.

I personally prefer static typing all the way. But it's possible to make a decent argument for optional static typing.
I feel like the writer of this article has a fundamental misunderstanding of Spotify's business model. The number of plays influences how much money Spotify brings in from advertisements. As far as they are concerned fake and real plays are not much different beyond maintaining credibility with their advertisers.
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My state of knowledge leads me to think, that bypassing the kernel requires some non-blob network drivers with which you can tinker around. Am i mistaken?

So right now, i am missing the information on what kind of NIC they were using. Any thoughts or comments on that HN-community?

What vendor and product model would be a reasonable entry point for such endeavours? Answers very much appreciated.
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What are some business examples that were/are based primarily on a new metric or algorithm, like Pagerank and Google?
Deep understanding? Really? I don't think so. For example, You can do a lot of web application development with out actually knowing the first thing about the request/response cycle..
God, I just love the Chrome debugger. It is, hands-down, my favorite computing environment.
I should also mention that the protocol to verify x is separate and is a valid ZKP.
Which is why it's important to build that trust with your kid early on. The longer parent wait with letting go of their fear of any harm to their kid the more damage they potentially inflict on them later on.

Just like in the entpreneurial world. Making mistakes when you are young is much safer than later on in life.

But yes as a parent I understand exactly what you are saying.
It wasn't called privacy then or analyzed as a right to privacy until 1890, although courts have agreed since then that "privacy" is part of what the fourth amendment protects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_%28articl...

Sometimes courts have thought of the privacy protections in the fourth amendment as very narrow and specific. For example, they've carved out almost everything we do that's intermediated from fourth amendment privacy protections!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
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Something has definitely changed recently. A friend of mine is in this exact situation as of a few days ago. He's in another state, so I can't examine his PC in person, but I had him walk through all of the conventional "remove the Windows 10 installers from Windows 7"-type guides, and none of them work anymore.

I've been a Windows user since 1995 and a huge fan of certain MS products, but I'm done with using it as my desktop and laptop OS when I replace my current systems. I'll be running Linux or Mac OS as the base OS, and only using my existing Windows license in a VM where necessary for specific software (the list of which is growing shorter every day).

I'll miss Visual Studio in particular, but if I have to use the least-user-friendly OS to get the best IDE, I'm saying goodbye to the best IDE :\.