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> What really amazes me is that no matter what information comes out, no matter how stark the facts, how brutal the reality, how corrupt the politics, how illegal the tactics, there is always a band of American apologists ready to step up justify cold blooded murder.

Well, that's not so much an American thing, it's very general. I wouldn't even restrict it to nations only, it's a general "tribe" thing. It can even apply to video games and music, sports, and so on.

The worst part to me is that conflicts can very well be driven where people on all sorts of sides "reason" (it really has to be put in quotes I think) this way. With the result that attempts at fairness, any objections to double standards makes a person a perceived traitor to everybody deeply invested on the self-delusion of any of the sides.

From "Notes on Nationalism" by George Orwell: (as most if not all of his writings, it's available on the web and well worth a read)

> The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. For quite six years the English admirers of Hitler contrived not to learn of the existence of Dachau and Buchenwald. And those who are loudest in denouncing the German concentration camps are often quite unaware, or only very dimly aware, that there are also concentration camps in Russia. Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English Russophiles. Many English people have heard almost nothing about the extermination of German and Polish Jews during the present war. Their own antisemitism has caused this vast crime to bounce off their consciousness. In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one's own mind.
I work for a large mega corp and we do this all the time. It's because we have a contractor who we want to convert into a real employee. You can't just say "This person has been working with us for a couple of years. Can we make them a real employee so we can keep them and they get benefits?". There is a whole process advertising the position internally and externally even though you already have someone.
I think the plugin to block email doesn't go far enough. I think it should be enhanced to autoreply with a markov bot.
Bounty payout can also be phased. My current employer does half upfront and half once the hire has been with us for 6 months (i.e.: trial period). The bonus are small but not inconsequential (think a nice vacation or down payment on a Camry...) This has been pretty successful.
The caption says the image was taken during the summer of 1878 but there are no leaves on the trees. So either the trees around their hide out were all dead or it wasn't summer.
Civilization is formed by technology that provides great access to energy.

As James Burk described in the final episode of Connections:

This was the first great trigger of change: the plow. It appeared
maybe 7000 years ago, and when it did it gave people the chance to
grow enough grain not just to survive, but to provide a surplus to
support craftsmen. That triggered the beginnings of civilization.

With enough food, the population expanded every year. Small viliges
sprang up, and they too grew larger with the population. In the
spreading fields around the villages, the technique grew of irrigating
the land from the nearby river. As the grain supply increased, it had
to be stored. The potter's wheel solved that problem. Who it belong t
demanded the development of writing, and building these irrigation
ditches taught people the skills of engineering and mathematics, that
gave them in turn architecture.

The need to predict floods for irrigation brought realization that
the flood was annual. That gave them a calendar their government could
use to enforce law through a police force and an army who needed
weapon makers to protect the wealth of the country from invasion.

A country that was now an empire... all because of the plow.

The various aristocracies of the past built their standard of living by exploiting the work of others, usually shaped by the available technology. To build a pyramid required a very large number of slaves. To wage war against the neighboring feudal lord required a large number of serfs providing food and practicing the longbow.

In the west, we like to think that we grew out of feudalism into a modern representative democracy for various reasons usually relating to ideology or politics. In reality, we prospered because we quickly took advantage of the energy provided by technology and salve labor. Learning how to take advantage of the greater energy density of coal and oil was much more efficient at providing energy than slave labor.

Every time society learns a better way to exploit energy, society quickly reshapes itself to take advantage of the energy. Modern society now depends on a large amount of energy, and we had better learn some way of sustaining those levels or we will learn the hard way that this ability of society to reshape itself works both ways. Without modern levels of energy that technology provides us, we will lose our freedom to specialize on topics not directly linked to survival.
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From my (mathematician's) perspective, when the solution to the optimal transportation problem corresponds to a Nash equilibrium, this is called a Cournot-Nash equilibrium. This does not happen generically.

In other words, it is very unlikely to simultaneously minimize both the expected commute cost for the group and for each individual.

However, in the continuous case, you can fix this using taxes, tolls or incentives (in theory - in practice I don't know. )

Blanchet and Carlier have some nice mathematical articles including

https://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~carlier/blanchetcarlierfin...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10399854
s/their E-mails/when they call three days in a row and don't take not picking up and not responding to voicemail or e-mail for a hint/

London, this week
> 1. Rick and Morty is not on Netflix, so I'll watch it on Popcorn Time.

So you pay Netflix, but Netflix didn't pay Comedy Central for Rick and Morty. So why does Comedy Central get penalized because they didn't make a deal with a content provider you consider convenient? Also, in this particular case, you can watch it for free (legally) here[1] (please do, it would be a shame for such a good show to get cancelled because they think nobody is watching).

> 2. Rockstar games have horrendous DRM attached, even with Steam, so I just avoid them altogether. I purchased the GTA bundle and GTA IV simply does not work due to DRM. EA and Ubisoft are the same in this boat for me.

I feel your pain. However, my approach is to pay for the games, and then download cracks when the DRM (inevitably) malfunctions. It is some small inconvenience, but I think it is far more fair than paying nothing at all. Also, going that route ensures that game companies will (1) make the DRM even worse in a vain attempt to make it "uncrackable" (2) give up on PC games that aren't entirely online based. Though I think it may be too late already.

[1]: http://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/
Now imagine, sometime, somewhere, someone got a written manuscript from Plato, or the Buddha, or another figure and just used it to make fire.
Much like there was a "hop escalation" in IPAs, there's definitely been a "sour escalation" in coffee. It's fallen off a bit in recent years, but around 2012, it was bad (I'm looking at you, Intelligentsia!).

Roasters became accustomed to the sourness of the coffee, to make each new coffee taste "right", they had to make it more, and more sour. For those of us who didn't consume coffee in quite the volumes of the professionals, it didn't go over well.
Your first point (like the points raised by OP) is not about e-books at all, it's about a certain kind of books sold by a certain vendor.
Actually if the company hired a recruiter there may indeed be reasons you can't apply directly and they can't post job ads themselves. I've seen companies make the mistake of accepting absurd NCAs giving recruiting agencies a quasi-exclusive right to applicants. It's not universally common but depending on the kind of contract you enter (and for some of them it's possible to do so informally just by giving them the go-ahead via e-mail) you can tie your hands.
I saw this at Boxcar last time I was in Denver -- a couple articles about their setup:

http://www.freshcup.com/high-altitude-brewing/

http://sprudge.com/in-colorado-delicious-meticulously-brewed...
The simplest way would seem to be a directive to push static resources:

<Location />
ServerPush /static/css/main.css
ServerPush /static/js/main.js
</Location>

<LocationMatch "^/$">
ServerPush /static/img/gigantic-homepage-image.jpg
</LocationMatch>

<Location /maps/>
ServerPush /static/js/leaflet.js
</Location>

I believe this could even avoid the need to include cache-busters in the URL since you could push with an ETag and the client can terminate if it already has the appropriate bytes without the incredible performance hit of using ETags with HTTP 1.
In the audio community it is actually very common for shared source designs to be patented and/or distributed under non-commercial restrictions. I think this is because many of the best (known) designers actually build, design and maintain the devices professionally. This might be unlike general electronics/software engineers that do not usually make money off their oss ventures.
Just one day after Adobe released its monthly security patches
for various software including Flash Player, the company confirmed
a major security vulnerability that affects all versions of Flash
for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. You read that correctly…
all versions.

Just uninstall this clusterfuck and be done with it.
"Search" is the use case.

For now it's just a Proof Of Concept that looks like a video search engine. But here is a list of use cases we could think of:

A Social Platform to share a specific scene from a video (not the whole video like you see on FB, etc). A video bookmark tool to bookmark your favorite lines in a movie. Or even your favorite scene. A content manager for Youtubers to help their followers browsing their content faster. A media tool to quickly collect a bunch of video content for a given news.
Think of it as a Twitter for video content.

Search engines are looking for text and meta data only. We focus on digital content, which requires some extra steps...
I don't see a contradiction here. Facebook's push to make people share more information about themselves [potentially] helps both ad revenue and in this case LGBT visibility. It's not a huge stretch to say Facebook helped a lot. Personally I think they have all the rights in this world to brag about it. In fact what's so great about technology/startups is you can generate great value for the world and make money for yourself.

And actually no you cannot target ads by non-binary genders it seems.
Really interesting to see, it still looks a little cgi'd, so its really cool to see how close we're getting to the uncanny valley. I suppose with some After Effects, you could make it even more difficult see the difference.

My only gripe is that there is always so much focus on the face. I understand that its subtleties make for a great research topic; however, I'd love to see this research applied to the full body. Given a full body shot, could we apply the same techniques to gait?

One of the major hurdles I see is background estimation if you move a limb (though, this might be able to be resolved with the same techniques used in photoshop for content-aware fill.
I'm always confused by the contradiction implied by the fact that the "free market economy" seems proud that the price of any good or service should be defined by what people are willing to pay, until such time that people aren't willing to pay for it at all. After which, not paying for it rapidly becomes a criminal offense.

Somehow reminds me of Mozart and Allegri's Miserere.
Like the idea, just keep getting media loading errors.
It probably is and there's all sorts of Data Protection rules being broken (that's even if they've registered with the Data Protection Registrar). But it's a mammoth and futile task to report possible violations and by the time it's looked into said recruiter has folded and started some other scam. I've tried this and failed miserably.

Fortunately I've not had to look for a job since 2003, happy where I am mostly, so my old CV's are probably long gone in disk crashes, failed backups or other purges. I've not been contacted by a recruiter for ~6 years now.
Ran into? That's not an argument for ads. That's an argument for serendipity. We don't need ads for chance encounters of things that might be useful. You run across them when you visit someone's house, or a friend tells you about something great, or someone here on HN mentions it. Or maybe you do a web search and it comes up as a recommended alternative to planing doors. All of these are better than ads because the source does not have a conflict of interest, an incentive to deceive.

And we can move away from a web, roadsides, subway cars, buses, everything littered with ads. We can have a web and newspapers or television news that don't put out junk to increase page-views or tv views using any means necessary (e.g. click bait, sensationalistic junk "news" "reports", etc).

We won't have children being programmed to want more and more stuff.

I could go on and on.
What's an unforseen side-effect of so many people posting about their PIDed Silvias on the Internet that I noticed people who were hesitant to buy a Silvia because they thought too many people were manually correcting for a design flaw.
I have no doubt it is reality, and that my comment would do nothing to change it, but that doesn't mean I'll think it's right or not say anything. Brick walls were made to be punched.
Have you ever met a recruiter who actually does this? In my experience, recruiters are about matching companies and people for interviews, and the handoff occurs there. I've never heard of someone having the recruiter negotiate on their behalf.
And I remember being personally involved in the OLPC project, which was not driven by linux conferences. The G1G1 program was a massive albatross that generated almost nothing but bad PR. Nobody 'partnered with' Microsoft. The project never lacked developers (until it began to run aground due to the mismanagement).

I not only read the complaints, I made many of them myself. I disparaged noise on blogs as noise on blogs; the FLOSS community as a whole is fine but was not a major factor in the development of the project. This was not because they were unwilling; it was because the senior leadership made an executive decision not to engage with that community.

I understand that many people in the world confused OLPC's mission with that of free software. But the cold hard fact is that nobody really ever gave a shit about software licensing; the goal was to get computers to kids, and then try to set up a sustainable pedagogical practice around them. I'm not really interested in the completely tangential issue of whether you think Windows XP is sufficiently performant for this task -- the point is that FLOSS was never the point. It was an era where anyone's use of GNU software was considered to be some kind of philosophical statement on the validity of GNU, sure, but this was never the intention at the executive level. It was gratis software that was easy to customize. The decisions involved were primarily pragmatic. Any 'loud promises' you felt betrayed by are merely further examples of the wildly terrible expectations mismanagement perpetrated by the leadership.

I remember when the FLOSS community abandoned OLPC. It didn't make a damn bit of difference. But I'd be interested in which countries received Windows loadouts -- I don't recall ever seeing a single support issue regarding it, which makes me think you may be mistaken.
I'm truly confused by your message, because your latter statement sounds as if you are in agreement?

No one (intelligent) is trying to make a moral argument for 'piracy' or media entitlement, but rather saying that there do exist circumstances where the letter of the law deserves to be ignored as it runs contradictory to the spirit.

The spirit of copyright law is to ensure rights-holders are fairly compensated, and the unfortunate confluence of many complex factors has precluded this.

Rights-holders are understandably scared of technology's ability to level the playing field (by increasing access and decreasing their exclusivity advantage), and thus far most have chosen the historically-impotent strategy of hardline enforcement over adapting services and creating new revenue streams. What bothers me is that they hold the artists out to the public and say "look at this poor starving fella," meanwhile no one has any idea that their new streaming-media licensing agreement entitles artists to ~2-5% of the total earnings generated.

I'm particularly sensitive to this issue because I work in ad-tech. People (myself ironically included) love ad blockers, and I'd argue it's for good reason. Unless the implicit contract between those monetizing and those consuming is respected, everyone loses in the arms race that follows. In our industry it's been adapt-or-die (create products that don't hurt the user's experience), and that's the way it should be. Thankfully nobody is lobbying in congress to stipulate how you may use your eyeballs.

Hollywood and Telecom have historically received unprecedented favoritism in this country, and it's possible we're all on the verge of paying the price. It will only continue to encroach upon our individual rights as society becomes increasingly digital.

I don't think anyone is entitled to anything for free, but I'm a realist and a pragmatist. I will reverse engineer and circumvent the things people say I can't until the day I die :)
Sorry about that, the servers are overloaded. I'm setting up more servers to handle the load. Try to clear your DNS cache and CTRL + F5 the page to see the new server list.
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Ansible 2.0 should have some new strategies to speed things up, depending on your requirements:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_strategies.html
It will be interesting to see how performance is after it's released.

We eventually settled on having Ansible build an AMI for us that can then be spun up by as part of a Cloudformation template (also initiated by Ansible).

We've actually been moving further and further away from having Ansible handle the configuration management side of things, and deal with Orchestration primarily.
Stimulants do a pretty good job of keeping people awake (with the corresponding effects kicking in after a couple days) and have already been abused by both industry and especially militaries. Not sure a novel method of inducing wakefulness is more dangerous than Germany pumping its soldiers full of amphetamines in WWII or the junior partner that abuses modafinil or the college student that binges on adderal before exams.
"It has been independently appraised at $5 million..". Ba ha ha ha, maybe it's raining money in California but in my part of the world there is a saying: "It's not a fool the one who asks, it's a fool the one who offers.. [an exorbitant price for something]".
I haven't ironed anything for at least 10 years.

http://www.moss.co.uk/non-iron-shirts
> Request Invite

A sign-up page can't be a Show HN. You have to have something people can try out now. Please read the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
If you cook for an hour a day, you're not doing it right.
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Thanks. The problem is, I actually have already read the appropriate sections of the FAQ & some rumpkernel.org pages, but I'm still confused. (I've written my original question out of frustration that things didn't become clear after all the reading.) I'm starting to think it may be best to dive in and try reading the "book" referenced in the FAQ (i.e. the Antti's PhD paper). Seems actually very approachable for a regular non-sciency engineer, from first looks. And/or maybe the "tutorial" I've found at https://github.com/rumpkernel/wiki/wiki/Tutorial:-Getting-st...
Come on, the important part is "intrude enemy systems, intercept enemy communication and manipulate transmissions"

The big red flag for you should be "enemy" rather than "someone I disagree with politically."
Because everyone is really bad at recruitment. Companies hire recruiters because they think it'll help dampen the badness of their own recruiting abilities, but really it just makes it harder, as recruiters scare away decent candidates.
Basically, you're overworked so you're not as focused. One little example I can remember was this - we were maintaining a less than impressive codebase under a lot of time pressure (bad management practices, such is life). There was a bug caused by me using two functions together that looked like a pair, but in fact the function to transform data was not idempotent, and the function to undo that transformation would sometimes mangle the data. I should have tested the code involved instead of just using it naively, but I wasn't in the mental state of mind to watch for such things.

Little things like that. Programming takes a lot of mental discipline, so you need to be at your best.
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Narratives of doom can lead to paralysis. Better to remember that the past is reversible by action, as described in this review of Public Citizen's yeoman effort to raise TPP awareness and decipher the implications of draft texts,
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/stopTPP#.VhmJ-sT3arV

"Enlisting a core band of labor, environmental, and community allies, the dozen trade-watching stalwarts at Public Citizen divided into five teams and went after the Brobdingnagians of global corporate power ... it's important to spread the story of the progressive coalition's successful confrontation with the Global Goliath. Its methods and achievements give us a new template for organizing (and winning) future populist challenges to the corporate order. And the breadth, depth, and intensity of this effort show what it will take to forge a real populist movement--multifaceted and with the long-term capacity to pursue our country's deep democratic principles. We can get there if we build on what we learn--and keep pushing."

Do you remember Jon Oliver's video on tobacco lobbyists suing Australia for plain-paper packaging, https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8? That ISDS video got so much attention that the TPP excludes the entire tobacco industry from suing government with lawsuits like http://isdscorporateattacks.org.

To slow/stop the TPP, public interest stakeholders need to lobby corporations to take a stand and declare their position on freedom of speech, freedom to tinker, freedom to compete against all business models. Wikipedia can go dark for one day a week, to raise awareness of the TPP. If the TPP passes, it will be easier to censor future online protest and raising of awareness on any issue. If the Web as we know it is about to change, now is exactly the time to use the Web in its own self-defence.
Jerry always writes long, but solid, stuff...worth following on twitter too if your so inclined -> http://twitter.com/ganeumann

He's the most hacker-like angel investor I follow/read (and no he has never backed any of my projects...yet) ;-)
You should definitely PID your machine, the increase in taste and consistency is amazing.
Oh no disagreement there. I was just disagreeing with the GPs disparagement of jinja2, which is a limitation of how Ansible was implemented and has absolutely nothing to do with jinja2.

Ansible is great stuff, but some of those decisions were quite weird.