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> As far as I'm concerned, freedom is it's own end and needs no further justification.

That's your opinion, you have a right to it. And it would be perfectly good thing if you were the only human in the universe. But I think you haven't simulated the evolution of a system where such thing was the primary value and there is more than one human present - where you can't have everyone having perfect freedom to do anything. Let's try and do it.

First, you start with humans who value their freedom to do anything. It means that I value my freedom of taking food you collected. You value your freedom to fight me back. The system is one of violence defining bounderies of freedoms. It's not a very productive system. Humans are smart, so we notice that if we mutually agreed to suspend our freedom of taking the resources of others (which we will now call "theft" or "robbery"), we can reduce our defense spending and put the work to satisfying other goals. It works well, but it's a fragile arrangement - the first person to defect and draw their sword gets the resources of the rest. So (skipping some stages) we figure out that we may codify the agreement to not steal/rob and outsource the enforcement (including violence) to a group of people that will get some of our resources as a reward. And hence, the rule of law is born, and everyone is happier and more productive.

Going through this process is what defines civilization. And I want to live in a civilization.
>I have zero interest in "political correctness".

That is truly and honestly good to hear!

>I'm in favour of considering data at a finer granularity than you are in order to obtain a more accurate picture.

I understand where you're coming from, but interactions are only interpretable after you've considered the main effects. To be sure, I'm not advocating that people not employ finer-grained measures, but in evaluating risk, you must consider overall trends (if only to discover that your specific case is an exception).

Moreover, a healthy intellectual environment demands that we be able to discuss large trends without being accused of bigotry.

>Is it better to use the generalisation about that country having a poor education system, or the more detailed case-specific facts?

This is a false dichotomy. It's note one or the other. I will -- again -- repeat my arguments:

1. We should consider both large trends and specific cases.

2. Considering general trends -- which necessarily imply some non-trivial degree of generalization -- is not xenophobic in and of itself.

3. Willful ignorance (in the sense of "ignoring") of large trends is a Bad Thing.

I'm willing to believe you have no interest in political correctness, but then I must insist that your rhetoric is in contradiction with your values. You're ultimately endorsing something you oppose.
Details? I don't work for BB, but have worked in the backup industry for some time in my past, and always curious.
Calling this ruling a "big win" is rather hyperbolic. As the article admits, the scope is extremely narrow and applies to only one law firm, as well as the fact that the program will (supposedly) changed in the coming months. Besides, a federal judge already found the program itself unconstitutional and we can all see how much that changed things.

Laws can change, as can public opinion. In the grand scheme of things, I can't tell how this changes anything at all.
Then you'll drive down wages for U.S. citizens in those higher cost of living locations. The H1B shops won't open up in rural locations, they'll open up next to door to the companies and put the U.S. citizens out of jobs.
Thanks, I hadn't even realised the scope of it, I really thought there was a dozen of them. This link is worth its own posting!
Oh, you switch to MongoDB if you are bored with your current job ;) Otherwise PostgreSQL is what you switch to.
Of course. Not having a single common fabric for all the DSLs can be a nightmare.

For this reason, eDSLs built on top of a common, sufficiently powerful metalanguage are much better than any standalone DSL.

The said Maru seems to be sufficiently powerful.
Prices for the HDDs themselves? Doubtful, but maybe. The nice thing about consumer-grade HDDs is that consumers are not very price elastic, meaning if consumer HDD prices go up too much, consumers will just stop buying them (we saw this happen after the Thailand Drive Crisis). Hopefully what it'll mean is that drive manufacturers will instead start making lower-cost "professional" drives for this exact purpose. Cheaper than "Enterprise Drives" but slightly "better" to justify a slightly higher price than their consumer counter-parts. Hopefully...
What exactly makes a text a hyperlink?

Does it have to be only the usual <a href="#">text</a> ?

What if I do this: <div link="#">text</div>

And then I use JavaScript to redirect, is it still considered a hyperlink?

Have I just found a loop hole? :)
To play devil's advocate, the dispersant contained the damage to low-impact areas (the deepwater ocean) and away from high-impact areas like beaches and shallow-water fisheries.
Key pinning is not a panacea either, it just makes browser/OS vendors another authority to be compromised and subverted.

While a healthy dose of cynicism is appropriate with-respect-to government control of TLDs, in the western world they are still at least nominally accountable to their constituents. Wholesale forgery is not likely to go over well with them, most importantly not with large tech companies. Targeted one-off forgeries would be easier to get away with, but they are also still perfectly doable today.
> A contract is not a rule, it is an agreement between two parties. A good contract spells out the penalties for what happens when one party doesn't adhere to the terms.

Actually, contract law spells out the penalties for what happens when one party doesn't adhere to the terms; a contract may opt to do so for certain cases, but doing so doesn't make it a "good contract", there are costs and benefits to doing so, and whether it makes sense to do so depends on the context of the contract, the types of violations being addressed, whether the parties envision continuing the relationship after the violations addressed, and other factors.
I don't think the cost difference comes from the type of review, or at least not entirely.

Consider that PLOS ONE, because it doesn't review for importance, has a much higher acceptance rate. Only accepted papers pay processing charges, so each accepted article has to subsidize the review and rejection of all the rejected papers. In PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine, with a low acceptance rate, each accepted article has to subsidize review of numerous other articles, driving the cost per published article way up.
The problem of "asshole controls the TLD" is not solvable via ANY protocol. That dosen't mean DNSSEC is worthless, or handing over the keys of the internet to the government or miscellaneous hyperventilating.

You are falling into the classic trap of "this dosent solve every problem so we cannot permit it to solve any problem" that has held back security for decades.

DNSSEC is real, it is deployable and stuff is capable of supporting it, and it does solve very real issues. That counts.
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I have a bit of a love-hate relationship going on with Go.

On one hand, it addresses many of the pain points I've experienced with other languages. It's easy to build and deploy, reasonably performant, and has a powerful and consistent standard library.

On the other… developing in it feels like a total slog. It manages to be simultaneously far too anal and overly forgiving about syntax. Visibility definition using upper/lowercase is a shite idea. Package names (and packaging generally) are a mess. Magical built-in globals are a huge design smell. The lack of generics, as cliché a complaint as it is, results in loads of duplicated or generated code when building anything more complex than the simplest app. And so on.

I find the whole experience of using it to be unpleasant (rather like using a blunt knife), and yet it fits a set of requirements that mean I keep developing new projects using it – particularly high-performance small services that do things like fling JSON around, for which the built-in HTTP libraries + Gin are brilliant.

I'm looking forward to the point that a (trans|com)piler which smooths over the bad parts is available.
Ask HN: Where do you go for exciting and objective articles?
I've noticed a trend in opinion articles where the author uses a slew of hyperboles to make what they are saying exciting, but the article never seems to be objective. Everything seems overdone just to get people to click on it, and lots of this gets posted on HN even. Is there another source you go to for finding articles that can be both exciting and objective?
> Are they planning to pay for personal assistants for everyone?

In the new rules of the new economy, this won't be a problem. Money grows on trees. "Ad" infinity!
Perhaps a future where modern English has become archaic but still spoken only by computers to each other, because the upgrade is not cost effective
Translation services and hooking input to Siri.
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I've found this to be true of a lot of time, but the shipping I somewhat disagree on. I don't know any third party store that offers free two day shipping with a prime equivalent. Maybe if I stopped buying Prime and used the savings to upgrade delivery on sites it would be equivalent. But on things like microwaves and refrigerators, I don't see anyone beating two day delivery. The Amazon markup is worth it at that point, for me at least.
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Then price would go since there's less demand, and people would start bidding again.

Exactly how its meant to work.
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Cannot speak for OP, but the thing, that makes Fedora better developer experience than Windows is dnf (yum) and especially -devel packages.

Windows or MSVC does not really have a standardized way how to cope with third-party SDKs. It is basically unzip the libs and includes somewhere and configure that path that in your project (good luck making other people build your solution). It kind of works with shallow dependencies, but not when your dependencies form a nice graph.

In Fedora, these things work out of the box and you don't have to waste your time.
I didn't. I tried node.js for a couple of months and it was like a breath of fresh air. But later on drowned on constant promises and never called back ;)
I wish that they had more detail on that "loophole" - every H-1B application I've seen has to meet the prevailing wage determination for the place where the person will be employed. Perhaps they use a rural location.
I accept that I should have elaborated my point by using better words than shit.

I am from a small town in India and my family was lower middle class. My parents burnt up all they had just to pay for my Bachelor degree. That is the reason I could not afford a Masters degree in the US. And there surely are many students from my background who worked hard to get to where they are.

That does not take away from what I see: Indians who have zero interest in computer science or even in their own work are grabbing the H1B of Indians (or Americans) who have that love and work hard.
>The current flows in a C-shape through the device. This C-shape produces outward force in all directions, like water flowing through a bent rubber hose.

One really shouldn't expect any measurable force from this effect. I don't claim that this effect doesn't exist, but electron mass is really small and electrons usually travel really slowly in metals (mean velocity, not to be confused with Fermi-velocity, which is usually quite large), even at relatively large currents. I can make a simple calculation for the author's construction if anyone's interested.

One can build guns based on induction and Lorentz-force but I think using the electrons' inertia is completely unfeasible.
OpenDNS isn't a competitor in any way. They provide recursive DNS, not authoritative DNS. CloudFlare provides authoritative DNS, not recursive. Simplistically: Their customers are web surfers, ours are websites. We've partnered with them on multiple initiatives, supported their technical work, and I consider David Ulevitch, their founder and CEO, a personal friend.
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Oh, I am not being facetious at all.

There are millions of Americans who believe that women should not be working outside the home, should not be "taking up space" in higher education, should not be associating with men they aren't related to or married to, shouldn't be dressing "provocatively" and "enticing" men to harass or rape them. There are millions who don't think women should serve in the military at all, let alone in combat roles. Disowned for dating or marrying the wrong boy or girl.

I will happily admit that the US is not the worst place in the world. Honor killings and throwing acid at people doesn't really happen here, even if spousal and partner abuse still flourishes and murder by an intimate is (one of) the most common sort of murder.

The equality and respect for human rights you can find in the US is fantastic, and I'm glad pop culture promotes it as a given, but it is not a universal aspect in American culture and in many places it is just a thin veneer over some very ugly deviations, held in place by the continuing hard work of dedicated activists.
That's certainly a valid viewpoint, that there simply shouldn't be anything other than electronic only journals. Or to take it further (which I acknowledge isn't exactly what you said) that there shouldn't even be journals that attempt to bestow prestige at all (ie that should be a process of post publication of some sort). But it's also about the realistic challenges of running a sustainable business in academia.

PLoS figured out a formula that works for a portion of the market with PLoS One. Note that that doesn't really work for the humanities and social sciences because the funding situation is so different. So then you have Open Library of Humanities, which is surviving currently on grant money with the hopes that they can get universities to fund their journals (not all that different than subscriptions to be honest, just that they are a nonprofit). But it's entirely unclear if that's going to be sustainable.

So even a brand new state of the art low cost journal needs to find funding somewhere. How that works in STEM might make sense (APCs coming from research funding) but how it works outside of that is entirely undefined.
OO is such an overloaded term, it's not possible to really draw the line in any concrete way. Much in the way that "functional programming" tends to mean different things to different people... but OO is even more varied in its actual meaning, in general.
As the article points out, having to exclude communications for that one law firm night very well require sitting the whole thing down.

Also, there's now a precedent for others to sue and get their communications excluded.
Yes. I actually do accept this, and it's OK with me. Prime has saved me so much time -- and, arguably more valuable, attention -- obtaining objects I need. I literally do not care about the price difference between a $1 and a $5 roll of tape: as long as I don't need it sooner than 2 days from now, it's comin' on amazon, because the alternative is either searching online and actually thinking about it, or leaving my home -- and my time and attention are worth much more than that.
Amazon applies for H1Bs under many different names. For instance:

[u'a2z computer services inc', u'a2z inc', u'amazon fulfillment services nc', u'a2z devleopment center inc', u'a2z signs', u'amazon services llc', u'a2z consulting inc', u'a2z technologies llc', u'amazon coporate llc', u'amazon fulfillment services', u'amazon media group llc', u'a2z signs llc', u'a2z healthcare services llc', u'amazon technologies inc', u'amazon web services', u'a2z field services llc', u'amazon pharmacy inc', u'amazon produce network llc', u'amazon mechanical turk inc',u'amazon construction inc', u'amazon produce network llp', u'a2z global llc', , u'amazoncom dedc llc', u'a2z mobile home services llc', u'amazon fulfillment services inc', u'amazon consulting corp', u'amazon web servicse llc', u'amazon studios inc', u'amazon payments inc', u'a2z development center', u'amazon cargo inc', u'amazon fulfillment services llc', u'a2z', u'amazon watch', u'amazon digital services inc', u'amazon logistics group llc', u'a2z systems llc', u'amazoncom nvdc inc', u'audible an amazon company', u'amazon web services llc', u'amazon captal services inc', u'amazon herbal company', u'amazon fulfillment service inc', u'amazon professional care', u'amazon capital services inc', u'a2z development center inc dba lab126', u'amazon corportate llc', u'amazon society inc', u'amazon electric fire alarm inc', u'a2z development center inc', u'amazon global resources inc', u'amazon corporate llc', u'amazon builders hardware inc', u'amazon hut inc', u'a2z development center inc dba amazon music', u'amazon web services inc']
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Me too. I found that most frameworks actually get in a way instead of helping. stdlib FTW
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I have contacted Amazon several times to inform them about their Javascript that loads images from related/sponsored products. It causes Firefox to lock up and freeze with every image request because they are doing something that is out of the ordinary. I always tell them I would be glad to work with one of their teams to figure out the issue, but it just goes into some bin on their end to be forgotten about.

Basically just accept it and deal with it taking twenty seconds per page load before the web browser is usable again.
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Well in this specific case the shit apparently really hit the fan when a high ranking government official was kidnapped and the criminals were using unregistered MTN sims to communicate.

So here we are.
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According to Alan Key, who invented the term:

> OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them. [1]

You can do this easily with multimethods, in fact they allow for significantly "later" binding than traditional OO languages like Java or C++.

[1] http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
> Go supports green threads (goroutines)

As far as I know, goroutines are NOT green threads (threads managed by run-time environment instead of OS). Go produces native code (no VM). And, the goroutines can be multiplexed (depending on implementation) to OS level threads.
I was saying there's more than fear of getting sacked to motivate someone to work off hours. If you set up the right environment, they'll be doing it without anyone asking.
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> note that this project can be done by any random teenager

This thing is optimistically as powerful as a handgun. Any random teenager with over $50K and two years of time to sink into this kind of project can get a gun.

A teenager with $50K can obtain a car and just run people over, too. That's both more likely and more effective.

> The point of the quote is - our technological advancements tend to raise the amount of damage a single person can do

Our technological advancements also tend to raise the amount of "the sky is falling" paranoia. When drones first started getting popular, I saw several articles about how terrorists were going to build smart bombs with GPS-guided drones. This is a legitimately plausible scenario. The question is whether someone with the resources to build a drone with sufficient range and carrying capacity to do real damage could do the same without drones, and the answer is most certainly yes.

New tech doesn't necessarily mean more danger, even if it means new types of danger.
On the upside when a gov project works they are often willing to keep it for a very long time and killing a project does not mean the original need is not still there. So, often really old government boondoggles are often 2 or 3 separate projects which keep the name after the first one fails.

> cannot simply stop paying taxes and go somewhere else

Plenty of people leave the US every year. It's generally really easy to do. At a local level choosing a city or state based on tax rate is even easer.

ED: Unless you meant the moving was the hard part, which seems reasonable.
I saw these guys at Velocity in NY this year. Pretty impressive product. I felt like the query language they built was easier to work with than setting up queries and filters in elasticsearch's api.

Really interesting to hear about the innards.

Thanks for the post.
I remember some time ago somebody proposed that scientists should supply entire virtual machines with all the relevant setup and data for a better reproducibility.

It was before the dawn of Docker and alike, so now this idea is probably a bit less insane.
I recently ran some entity-resolution code on the h1b applications from 2008-2012. Here are a list of the companies that Amazon has applied as:

[u'a2z computer services inc', u'a2z inc', u'amazon fulfillment services nc', u'a2z devleopment center inc', u'a2z signs', u'amazon services llc', u'a2z consulting inc', u'a2z technologies llc', u'amazon coporate llc', u'amazon fulfillment services', u'amazon media group llc', u'a2z signs llc', u'a2z healthcare services llc', u'amazon technologies inc', u'amazon web services', u'a2z field services llc', u'amazon pharmacy inc', u'amazon produce network llc', u'amazon mechanical turk inc', u'a2z medical supplies co', u'amazon construction inc', u'amazon produce network llp', u'a2z global llc', u'amazoncom dedc llc', u'a2z mobile home services llc', u'amazon fulfillment services inc', u'amazon consulting corp', u'amazon web servicse llc', u'amazon studios inc', u'amazon payments inc', u'a2z development center', u'amazon cargo inc', u'amazon fulfillment services llc', u'a2z', u'amazon watch', u'amazon digital services inc', u'amazon logistics group llc', u'a2z systems llc', u'amazoncom nvdc inc', u'audible an amazon company', u'amazon web services llc', u'amazon captal services inc', u'amazon fulfillment service inc', u'amazon professional care', u'amazon capital services inc', u'a2z development center inc dba lab126', u'amazon corportate llc', u'amazon society inc', u'amazon electric fire alarm inc', u'a2z development center inc', u'amazon global resources inc', u'amazon corporate llc', u'amazon builders hardware inc', u'amazon hut inc', u'a2z development center inc dba amazon music', u'amazon web services inc']
Add-on items (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_... it possible to solve the first part.

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