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It does but I think there is some connection to the line of thinking employed by libertarians and those who champion free market principles. At the base of such philosophies, in the United States, is the notion of every man for himself.

I've noticed over the years such people ridicule things like "It takes a Village" and other notions of community involvement. We've gotten to a point where a Vice Presidential candidate laughed at the notion of paying taxes as patriotic whilst her son was in the military receiving his training, equipment, and pay from taxes. Taxes are labeled theft by many on the far right. The political climate is such that raising taxes is automatically considered bad and hence municipalities resort to non-taxation means of raising money. When that happens the poor get targeted as they are an easy target. It's expensive being poor in the U.S.
This is a pretty balanced article. Absent is Nomad, which claims the world but when you dig into the code pretty large advertised chunks are simply not there yet. Nomad seems like a much more straightforward implementation of the Borg paper, and one day may be interesting once they write the rest of it. A nice Kubernetes feature that is similar to what you can do with fleet is the “Daemon Set” which lets you run certain things on every node. Some cool Mesos features that are pretty new and haven’t been talked about much yet:

* persistent volumes: let frameworks have directories on agent machines returned to them after an availability event happens, which is nice for replicated stateful services

* maintenance primitives: schedule machines to go offline at certain times, and ask frameworks if it’s safe to take nodes offline. This will soon start being used for stateful services so that they can vote on when it’s safe to take out a replica, and to trigger proactive rereplication when maintenance is desired.

* oversubscription: if you have an agent that has given away all of its resources, but the agent detects that there is still some unutilized CPU, it can start “revokable tasks” to fill up the slack up until it starts interfering with existing workloads.
And Texans use the word "European" to mean limp wristed and weak.
Real coders use comic sans.
He did add ".SFNSText-Regular"
I even wonder if there could be some simple questionnaire about their parents heredity directly suggesting people to eat whatever could help their gut bacteria.

Also I've read that the gut bacteria is not very well understood (hard to reproduce in a lab).
The optimization attempts to pick the most easily-memorized poem out of a million possible poems for each 60-bit number. It doesn't reduce the entropy below 60 bits, it starts at higher entropy and reduces it to 60.

Obviously if the authentication doesn't allow the password to be entered then the scheme won't work. That's true of any password scheme.
>Hajj is a great opportunity for the disease to spread between members of these regions.

Is this not also a great place to perform vaccinations though? I mean pretty much every Muslim is going to rock up there sooner or later & it is a mostly stable environment open to somewhat western influences (if the Saudis agree).
And that doesn't recommend a comically brittle solution (as in marathon) or provide no facilities at all (as in swarm).

There's nothing wrong with these decisions. It's just odd to compare this group. It makes me wonder how people are considering these options and in what context.

You cannot field a reliable and available service to the outside world without this component. And the instrumentation and operationalization of this component is tricky.
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The Chinese could call their writing "the Roman alphabet" too (they don't), and label 闩 "A". So what?
Come to England and go to the first floor of any building.

Want to jump off ?
Reminds me of something I read once in an excellent article about the making of the film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" -- that the New York film reviewers seemed to think the scariest world in the title wasn't chainsaw or massacre but "Texas." :)
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As for the outdated info, this was written almost two years ago, but got ported over to Medium recently.
Anders Breivik was certainly texas.
I live on the far west edge of Europe, unfortunately a lot of the population have a screwed stereotype vision of Americans and the US.

Some of it might be deserved (the Bush years done incredible damage to the reputation of the US) a lot of it is not, and this is coming from my multiple experiences over the years of visiting almost every one of the lower 48 states.

As for Texas its probably one of my more favourite locations in US (behind Arizona, Utah and Georgia), these Norwegians should stereotype less and travel a bit more they be in for a pleasant surprise and the place aint that crazy ;)
Ah, but that's hardly a claim that needs substantiating. Everybody knows that people can change, adapting to your environment is a basic survival instinct.

Anyone arguing that people don't... can't change obviously has a deeply twisted understanding of humanity.
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Somewhat related: As an (northern, not southern) American tourist, I was visiting Scotland when I left my car in a parking deck after hours. I buzzed the gate-keeper to unlock the gate, and upon hearing my accent he said, "What? Do you not read signs? Ah, you're from Texas; the lone-star state. We don't have guns here. We're much more civilized." I had not mentioned anything related to Texas. Speaks a lot of his thought process, however.
It seems like the funding coming from outside investors wouldn't really increase the incentive for lawyers to drag things out. If they're paid by the hour, then they already have that incentive, and resist it or not at their own discretion. If they're paid contingently, then their motivation is to get a win as quickly as possible, or drag things out if that will make the payment much larger. Again, they have that motivation regardless of who's paying them. What this would change is make it possibly less likely that the 'client' would run out of money before you can finish the job.
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The PDF might make better reading:
http://chiselapp.com/user/mangoa01/repository/mrtools/doc/tr...

The originally linked command reference is a little short on "what" and "why".
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You mean aside from the rioting and violence that would break out as people scrambled to get some money?
If the IPO holders had held on they would've made bank.
I think the best portrayal of mental health treatment I've seen was Josh Lyman's treatment for PTSD on The West Wing.

And it still had a lot wrong with it.
Could Iran be the next country to legalise cannabis and opium?
Why the downvotes? Has no one read about the quantum mind theory? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
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"like the “wild west,” and at least back when the expression was coined, the “wild west” held very strong Texas associations" - I think that's the key before anyone gets upset. Sounds like it's a holdover/modification of the way Americans use/d "wild west"
Children are the ones who need to be vaccinated.
No, it requires larger font sizes.
Right, next time the police are impolite I'll go to the competition.
If the Fed prints money and buys bonds, then in the future when they need to take that money back out of circulation in order to control inflation, then they just sell the bonds.

If the Fed prints money and gives it to people, getting nothing in return, then the only way to take the money back out is to raise taxes, which will result in deadweight losses.
Ironic given that movie came out in the 70s, the "Fear City" era of New York.
Sentencing him to 21 years in a prison where about $1 million was spent by designers on paintings, photography and light installations, and where authorities hire "friends" so that Breyvik has someone to play hockey and chess with - that seems completely texas to me!
Well that we should, if you look at what Texas does to our textbook selection process for the entire US.

(Edit: downvote me all you want, but it's Texas that's enabling intelligent design proponents to inject their nonsense into our science textbooks. Similar factions are using that inroad to whitewash history, as well)
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I was wondering how you could talk about a video and then link to a single image (I think jpg doesn't support animation). But it turns out all of

https://i.imgur.com/W1X1qFI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/W1X1qFI.gif

https://i.imgur.com/W1X1qFI.png

link to the same GIF. :)
You're looking at this the wrong way. It doesn't work this way for any profession. Do you think that doctors are created by taking a sick person, sticking them in front of an untrained 'doctor-want-to-be', and seeing if they somehow miraculously manage to correctly diagnose and treat an ailment they've never heard of?

No. They train. They study symptoms, and causes, and treatments. They learn about how symptom X is caused by disease Y, and is usually treated by medicine Z.

But medicine Z doesn't work in all cases, it's only 75% effective. So you might need to try medicine Z2 instead. etc.

And they they do this, over and over and over, adding in new knowledge of symptoms, treatments, effectiveness, etc. They do this on paper, and they do this in a controlled, supervised environments until they can demonstrate enough mastery to be able to demonstrate that they know enough of this body of knowledge of problems and solutions to be trusted to apply it on their own.

Programming is no different. Answers don't magically spring, unbidden, from some secret programming organ in your brain - you need to learn the established patterns for solving different types of problems. Then, you need to apply them to different situations.

Right now, you're frustrated because you don't have a very big 'bag of tricks' yet. You've only learned a couple of 'solution patterns'. You said that some problems are easy - right? Well, they're easy because you've already added those to your 'bag of tricks'. You've learned the patterns that solve those particular problems.

The ones that are hard? That's because you haven't learned those patterns yet. Once you do, they'll be easy too.

So, looking up solutions for how to solve these 'hard' problems isn't cheating - it's learning. You're learning new solutions.

As time goes by, your library of problem->solutions will get bigger and bigger, allowing you to solve more types of problems.

So, don't think of it 'ZOMG - I'm so dumb! I can't magically come up with the solution to this type of problem that I haven't encountered before!'

Instead, think of it as 'Hmm. That's interesting. Here's a new category of problem that I haven't solved before. The existing solutions that I have in my toolkit aren't solving it, so let's go learn a new solution pattern. Then I can add it to my toolkit for future problems.'
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Possibly, but what are the chances that the attacker trying to crack a salted/derived key from your password knows you well, instead of being someone halfway around the world?

If a lot of your friends are trying to hack you ... maybe stop pissing people off? idk, that's an attempt at humor, but probably not a good one.
America is insane by any country's standards.
Huh. My (mainland Chinese) wife told me about this story after reading about it in the Chinese press. I thought it was sensationalized a bit, but this article lines up with what she told me pretty well (though maybe that just means the AP is sourcing the Chinese press in its article).

Apparently a lot of better-off Chinese women travel to the US to have their children, though they don't stay there, so they're not technically "anchor babies." Still, given the prevalence that it happens, I'm surprised I've heard so little about it in the US press, especially given how the citizenship-at-birth issue has been debated recently. And apparently this particular woman's other children were also born in the US in the same manner…
So apparently only the T has been replaced, but why is it showing different values for the "a"?
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This always cracks me up. In reality they got the price correct and maximized the money that the company got for doing the IPO in the first place. The problem is that there is an expectation that IPO stocks will 'pop' and allow wall street to line their own pockets. Since they didn't, they consider it a failure.
To be fair any Texan who thinks of Europeans as being limp wristed and weak probably thinks that of anybody not Texan.
Well a lot of it because the prison system in the US is often privatised and run for profit, as is the parole company in the article. Everyone (including the local government) is incentivised to fleece the poor and there is nothing to protect them. Things that would solve this (based on other countries that dont suffer from these issues)

1. Tax corporations and rich people more. Then the local government wont be reduced to fleecing the poor, also it would make the government stronger relative to large corporations and reduce their clout and lobbying power.

2. Dont let private corporations run prisons for profit. (I dont think I need to explain why)

3. Provide stronger legislation protecting the poor and services such as legal advice to make preying upon them less lucrative.
Sockpuppet on my corporate network where every account has a real person verified by HR...
Texan here: this makes me kinda proud.

As a side note: I briefly lived in the UK. Once while on vacation on the continent a tour guide asked everyone in the group where we came from. The other Americans in the group all said "America" or "the States", but we said "Texas". The tour guide said that's always what Texans say.

:-)
Ken Catania seems to be a human who has developed extra-sensory perception.

https://medschool.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biosci/bio_fac.php?id3=9...

What a brilliant read!
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Do people who don't eat sugar ever have a problem with being overweight? I stopped eating sugar 18 months ago to help my sinuses (it worked), and as a side effect lost about 30 pounds. Basically my appetite shrunk. I wasn't even trying to lose weight, it just happened.
This kind of behaviour needs to be filmed. It must be getting pretty cheap to do a button camera?

I imagine the recent US cases of police impropriety will stir some changes. At least it held some attention for a while.

On another note, when I'm treated badly by the system, I tend to feel a bit sorry for the person on the other end eventually. It's dehumanizing to not be able to behave in the way you find reasonable, and I doubt most cops think it's useful to randomly stop people for no reason. Same goes with the bureaucrat who won't approve your passport because you're smiling in the photo. These people would most likely not like to do as they do, but they are as powerless as their victims. When you meet them, you tell yourself not to get angry; they are trained to do as they are told, not to think. And that sucks for everyone.
Thank goodness we have Valgrind these days. Though I don't know how well it would handle a C app with a garbage collector.

Calling printf can (will) change what's beyond the stack of the calling function, so if the pointer in question pointed outside the active stack, printf may have put a safer value there by coincidence.
Agreed. It's also easy to forget that Gates was able to do it all because he was so drastically undercutting the very expensive status-quo.

Had he not insisted on keeping so much control, it might have been even longer before computing was available to the general masses.
It seems like if they don't have enough pressure in their lungs to expel the bite of ham sandwich, you wouldn't necessarily be able to suck it out with this device. On the other hand, I have a hard time blowing up those skinny balloons for balloon animals, but the pump thing they sell with them does it like a champ.
Police is influental enough to eventually get immunity from law, granted by lawmakers. After that they don't bother themself with any sort of politeness. If something goes wrong, they can always use force, blame the victim and get out of it.

This is a standing problem, not one of us is immune, we should be fixing it in the future.
Accurate.

Well, not Russians.
University setup has lot to get inspired from.
The first time I ever heard the phrase "Texas Hedge" was on the floor the Chicago Mercantile exchange. So maybe people in Chicago also think Texans are a bit crazy too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_hedge
People rarely read beyond headlines, so brace yourself for long-winded debates over George W., modern day gun control etc.
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I don't see how credit card policies are arbitrary in anything like the same way traffic enforcement is. The policies are explicitly spelled out and in my experience they are enforced pretty much uniformly. Make a late payment, get charged. Pay less than the full amount on the card, get charged interest based on a rate that was listed when you signed up. It's easy to have a credit card and avoid the fees, and if you do something wrong then it's predictable what will happen.

With traffic citations, it's nearly impossible to go somewhere without violating the law in some way and even more impossible to do so safely. Your odds of getting caught are slim, and your odds of being punished depend entirely on the discretion of the officer who caught you.

Further, it's possible and not even very difficult to go through life without ever having a credit card, whereas it's impossible to go through life without ever being subject to traffic enforcement. (Even if you never drive or bike, there are crazy laws for pedestrians too.)
I would assume a ship with a crew of any significant size would have someone on board who is capable of performing a cricothyrotomy.
Anecdote, but yeah. Texan family members have definitely made fun of me for being from NY, basically lumped in with european stereotypes.

Mostly in good fun though
Nothing wrong with the article itself but hacker news seems to be going south... pun possibly intended
Could you cite your sources? I'd like to know more.
That is neither excuse for them nor for you.
Aptitude is very overrated. I think if you're curious enough to wonder if you're good enough / have natural "aptitude", you more than likely have enough "aptitude" to go with it and can pursue programming.

I think pg has a quote online somewhere to the weight of "if you're spending time thinking about whether you're smart enough, you're most likely smart enough."
Well they can both be wrong.
As a Swede that has visited Norway probably 60+ times (I've worked for norwegian companies since 2004 - cause oil money) I have noticed they have an affinity to reuse English words for different purposes, sort of like the germans.

I also get the impression that their vocabulary changes quicker than that of most other countries, perhaps due to the small size of the population.
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how do you "not eat sugar"? sugars are in every food...
I couldn't get your point. Was the gate not actually locked and you had assumed it would be? I assume you came back with some equally witty country stereotype like "well being Scottish I'm just glad you're sober after 6pm"
obedient?

The people in the US are the ones being ground under the thumb of big business.
People in Denmark are not obedient they are just not being horribly oppressed.

And yes, the US is comparable to the EU, being composed of many different states with varying policies. But overall, the US is far more anarchistic (or libertarian if you like) than the EU in its domestic policy.
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Apparently someone thought "pushing and holding a button for 3 seconds" was a better idea than "turn a key."

You know, that's not completely insane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...

Although, wow, that's an awful article, skimming it there's only this hint of the root cause: "After being asked by Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill whether a GM engineer had apparently lied under oath, [GM CEO] Barra confirmed that this had indeed happened (or at least seemed to)." The problem, besides GM having a procurement system that assumed people in it wouldn't lie through their teeth about lethal problems, was a single engineer who selected an out of spec switch, and then, for example, slipstreamed a better one into the system without a part number change.

(Otherwise we're in total agreement.)
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10430367
and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10426518.
"invisible light" is an oxymoron, unless they are talking about IR or UV. They also call it "bright" in the same paragraph. If it appears bright to the operator of the beam, it cannot be invisible light.
On a similar front, there was recently a kickstarter (that failed) trying to make a cat exercise/play device using a visible red laser: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danprovost/obi-a-smart-...

They also had a couple podcast episodes on the product: http://www.relay.fm/tc
I remember when I first when backpacking across Europe. (I'm American, by the way). This was around 2003 or 2004. I had this preconceived notion that Americans were generally idiotic, and Europeans were much more knowledgable in world affairs. What I came to realize was that they are just as retarded as we are, but have more access to distinct cultures/languages because of how small countries are over there. They don't realize that while we're all "Americans", there is a massive difference between in people from Miami, Houston, New York, and Boise. Just because we speak the same language and use the same currency doesn't make us all the same.

As for the reputation of the States, I found there was a dislike of American politics, but not Americans in general. And jokes made about us are just that: jokes. We do the same about other countries, races, etc.
Darker skin does not equal threatening body language.
Texan native here: This...is true.
We use it here at Streak for streaming log processing. We have it setup such that our backend and client side logs are streamed to our "dataflow job" where we do some pretty simple processing/transformations and then it gets outputted to BigQuery. Sounds simple but there is a lot of complexity its hiding when you're streaming at a large enough scale. We know because we built our infrastructure for this at first and it sucked.

As for pricing, its just consumes your regular google compute engine instances, so its all based on how big your jobs are and how long they run for.
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Unfortunately I cannot see any kind of political support for any of that in the current political climate.
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> How can I know the difference between my meaning and yours if you are unable to produce an instance of what you are talking about?

Take the US economy of 1900 as "the pie". The US economy as of 2015 is more than double that, even after accounting for inflation and population growth. That is what the rest of us are talking about when we say "an entire new pie".

As for the rest, you seem to be deliberately (and needlessly) nitpicky and argumentative, and I'm done with this conversation.