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> I'm not convinced most states should be spending the time or resources setting their own individual educational programs. With the global economy we are in, it's not like the needs of students in Washington state are that different than Oregon or North Carolina.

But this is true of state law as well: in principle, there's really no reason why you'd need to have different laws in different states, but it turns out the ability to respond more quickly to challenges and to try out ten different solutions in ten different states is really useful. It's not like we've discovered the perfect curriculum yet, either. And it's not even clear we know what we want or need: ask 10 companies and 10 universities what they expect out of a high school student and you'll get 20 different answers.
Too funny! I had to check it out for myself... Thanks for the laugh.

"Sorry. Error occurred. We are already working on it - SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'rollio'@'localhost' (using password: YES)"
"Unfair Advantage" compares to "Creative Destruction" that way. Neither mean what an un uninformed reading of the word pairings would suggest.
Yes, I definitely would pay for that. There already are some docker hosting companies. However, they seem kind of complicated to use (at least more complicated than it has to be):

https://www.dotcloud.com/ (was originally built by Docker creators, then sold)

https://www.tutum.co/ (bought by Docker a few months ago)

https://quay.io/

http://sloppy.io/
As per my other comment below, the intended use case for SQLmap is more around exploitation rather than identifying injection points. Penetration testers will usually identify the injectable parameters through other means (e.g. using purpose built security HTTP proxy software such as 'Burp Suite' and 'Zed Attack Proxy'). After they have confirmed the existence of SQLi, they will then feed the HTTP request and vulnerable parameter into SQLMap to automate exploitation (i.e. dump DB contents and hashes etc).

I would say that SQLmap is normally effective at determining whether a HTTP parameter is injectable with a high degree of confidence. However, sometimes there will be Web Application Firewall (WAF) filters or unusual/inconsistent application behaviour on certain inputs which means it can't confirm whether the parameter is definitely vulnerable or not (less than 10% of the time in my experience). For the same reasons, often it won't be able to successfully automate the exploitation for you. On those occasions, we have to craft our queries manually to exfiltrate database contents and so forth.
We do that because off-topic tangents lower the quality of the subthread they're embedded in. Providing a link to the original parent gives everyone access to the original context if they want it.
@rhytmvs Have you considered using SILE [1][2] instead of LaTeX (and maybe even InDesign)? (I'm not affiliated, but I believe it may become a worthy successor to TeX in future.)

[1]: http://video.fosdem.org/2015/main_track-typesetting/introduc...

[2]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/introducing_s...
That's going to be terribly off-topic, sorry for that, but I have to: I hoped the article was about "Pip pan" from amazing kids book "Kastrullresan" ("The Saucepan Journey" in English) by Edith Unnerstad.

If anyone of you have kids (6+) don't miss that one (and others from that author too)!
A standout for me was this nugget early on:

Instead of the user clicking a button to edit old Contacts, they would type, “I want to edit the info about my contact Jenny Hei,” and we would then find the info about Jenny Hei and offer it to the user so they could edit it. That was the new plan.

This was a brilliant idea.

Oh dear...
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Good point. I'll remove the repeating animation after the first search. Thanks for your feedback!
Nice phrasing, unpleasant was the feeling I was going for.

Sometimes I wonder about giving up.
P.S.: I think tutum comes closest to what you describe. They act as a middle man and support Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, Packet and SoftLayer as hosting providers. However, I'm not sure if it's a good thing that they have been bought by Docker at this early stage ..
Yes they had the permit but it was issued in violation of apparent rules. Appeals to lost investment and appeals to how great science is don't automatically trump this or do you want to live in a world where one government bureaucrat's wrong decision is set in stone?
Did you maybe have a look at SILE [1][2]? (I'm not affiliated, but it got me interested very much and I believe it may become a worthy successor to TeX in future.)

[1]: http://video.fosdem.org/2015/main_track-typesetting/introduc...

[2]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/introducing_s...
Elon might want to investigate the issue he's talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQqPQ0i_fl0

>> Don't you hate when Fox News and the other MSM spin-meisters use simple tricks to skew and misrepresent data and statistics? How about when the World Meteorological Organization does it? Or NASA? Or the Journal of Climate? Or GISS? Join James for today's thought for the day as he shows you some of the grade school level parlour tricks the global warming alarmists use to misrepresent their data and bamboozle the public.
From a lenders perspective: Credit worthiness, free cash flow, ability to service loans, lack of collateral.
Negotiation is a matter of finding an outcome that works for both sides. Perhaps one side gains a bit more than the other, but working to squeeze money out of one party is sure to eventually backfire.

The issue that you're trying to solve here is that you're wasting time. The solution to that is simple: go in with a salary that would make you happy/delighted. Sure, is it possible that you might be leaving money on the table? Yes. But, that's not the problem we're trying to solve here. This is an expectations problem where the two sides expect severely different outcomes. Those need to be aligned before negotiations can really even take place.

If the issue was that you thought you were constantly leaving money on the table, then yes, perhaps a different approach would be necessary.
I think it's meant as a convenient "rule of thumb" in juxtaposition to the more commonly known "10,000 hour rule" (which also has some controversy[1]). They are just saying you can be pretty good at something with 2 less orders of magnitude than mastery.

1. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027564/asides/scientists-debunk...
> In 2005, a court-ordered environmental impact statement concluded that 30 years of astronomy had had an adverse effect on nature and culture on the mountain.

Wow, really ? It's like reading some document from the Middle-Ages or something.
Yeah I was a big fan of Elon Musk, and then he says this. Ugh.
Tax never solved anything except letting politicians take your money for their own uses.
He's fallen for it.
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And the location probably wouldn't be too surprising. I remember reading that some number station transmitter was tracked down to a Russian military base. Pretty much where you'd expect it to be.
From 1887 on, foreigners have been stealing from the Hawaiians. Now they're trying to steal Mauna Kea, and with all that money in play, broke their own laws to issue a permit. Thankfully, the Hawaiians have succeeded and have stopped yet one more thing - Mauna Kea - being stolen from them. The people against them have the same attitude as a thief - they want it, so they'll do whatever is needed to steal it.
It's our latest experiment in giving good submissions a second chance at the front page. I've written about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10537417 and in earlier posts linked from there.
Are you joking? It is harder to find a tighter consensus among experts than the conclusion that a tax is the best policy to curb carbon emissions.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/03/12-taxing...
> well thought out taxes that cover the negative externalities of every part of pollution so that the market can efficiently allocate investments

But it's not "the market" that decides how electricity is produced in a country, right? It's the government.
We're sending fewer of those emails now because a lot of users don't like the repost aspect. But we still do send some, e.g. if the post is older than a day or two, or if it's a Show HN and we want to make sure the submitter is aware that the story may get a discussion after all.
Nice point; thanks for the link!
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I'm not sure if you meant to say moron, but maroon works here too in the sense of "to abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape".
Still don't believe it's at all an accurate account of the company. If it was accurate, I don't believe the author would be competent to write an accurate assessment of anything. I realize I'm sounding incredibly harsh, but "cargo cult startup" is a generous assessment of what is described in the article, and the supposedly 15-year veteran is completely oblivious to this.
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That's an interesting variation
Can you elaborate on your last sentence?
Yes, I happend to have a strong mathematical background.

the difference in our points of view might be that I work on a code base with some ten million lines of code. Anything in there that is not purely flat stupid python, anything clever in fact, will be an annoyance some day. For example, someone started to use a "clever" `template.render(locals())` 5 years ago, and now we have no way to tell where the variables come from.

Inside a list comprehension, how do you print? branch? comment? emit logs? (I know you "can" do that, but then it becomes a mess not worth it). Moreover, if in you 5 line long-list comprehension, if there is an error, will the traceback tell you where it is?
What about a speech recognition API? That would be awesome!
Magic HTML generator.
Probably the lack of power going to the iMacs, which could also explain why they have to use their mobile devices instead... :)
Oh god, that article, classic /r/badeconomics

No, we don't have to worry about heating up the planet from our energy use, the only major factor is the degree to which the atmosphere traps heat
You might be surprised about what does some random writes. Imagine you have a bunch of services which don't directly use the disk, but all log to some rotating log files. Or maybe every once in a while, something needs to fsync a random bunch of config files.

Yeah that's not so hard, but look again at just how slow random writes can be. An improvement in that (by far worst) statistic is often much more significant than a much larger improvement in linear read or write.
I heard somewhere on the internet (actually /r/crypto) that after being bought by Facebook, they are cancelling or backdooring it. Sounds like conspiracy to me but then again it's Facebook...
Yea, I guess that also explains why gradients don't look that smooth.
> nothing reflects entanglement better than a formal semantics

A formal semantics is just a way to translate from one formalism to another.

It's rather obvious that choosing the target formalism determines how simple the language will appear, when you talk about "formal semantics" you should specify "which one": operational? denotational? axiomatic?

Stricly speaking a compiler or an interpreter represents a formal semantics for a language: operational semanthics rules are often very very similar to the code of an AST interpreter, for example.

One could interpreter your statement to mean that the smaller the compiler the simpler the language, which means that assembly language was the simplest language all along!

For example, in your reddit post you claim that := is problematic, and indeed its semantics is tricky and often trips beginners (and even experienced!) programmers. However := semantics is not actually that complicated "define every variable that isn't defined inside the current scope, otherwise assign them" and the errors stem from the fact that people assume that the scope lookup for := is recursive, which would arguably result in a more complicated formal semantics.
You'll want to divide again by hours worked per year, since that's where the true payoff comes from running your own business.

Imagine a SaaS product that brings in just shy of a single Bay Area dev salary. Is that a success for a single founder who has put six years into building it? Of course not, right?

But what if said single founder now needs to put in roughly 100 hours per year to keep that business ticking along and delivering that salary? What if he can spend another 1000 hours per year building the next product, leaving a little over half the year to pursue his dream of competitive kite surfing?

Stick that into your curve, and I bet it'll trend a little more up and to the right.
Another great Czech artist from that era is photographer František Drtikol. I strongly suggest you do an image search of his name to see his highly abstract nudes.
Can you give us some explanatations about your text? What's a FUD? and a nominal carbon tax?
How do GADTs or type families weaken parametricity?
Any astronomers want to weigh in? If the natives are so against it being built, why not build elsewhere?
This can become very useful, especially if expanded by others as well. If I understand correctly results refer to raspberry Pi 2? They would probably be similar for both rPi B+ and rPi 2 although it would be nice to mention the model somewhere.
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Obviously a carbon tax would benefit Musk, but the fact that he chose to start Tesla in the first place, when he already had more money than he could ever need, strongly suggests that he actually does care about climate change.
Misunderstanding. I believe we have enough reasons to think that ancient/medieval folks were smart enough to NOT believe gods live on the Moon.
All other countries have inferior surveillance.
It won't. Bitcoin p2p traffic is unencrypted and does not use TLS.
I should say hundreds of millions. This[1], for example.

Munis sell these projects on the "expectations that the corridors will attract much economic growth," but the finished product has shown not to be a reliable multiplier of community investment and development.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_Transit_Initiative
I hoped the article was about Python's pip. I love me some `pip`.
You mean the fictional Bill Murray they lied about was right?
Another thing that would help is to stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industry! The IMF estimates that about $5.3 trillion is spent annually subsidizing fossil fuel energy. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215...
Isn't that exactly what Rob Pike is saying with the vector space analogy?
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"Crown jewels"? You mean a git repo? You know it's a matter of minutes to migrate between git repo hosting, right? :)
You're getting cause and effect back to front - Musk started Tesla because he wanted to play a real part in reducing emissions. He is on record as saying so. So arguing for a carbon tax is just another effort in that direction, not an attempt to bolster his business.
I agree that a subsidy is infeasible policy. But it wouldn't be effective even if it were feasible to pull off.

Suppose the government gives out free Priuses. Well, then people are going to drive more. Even though some people may be driving more fuel efficient cars, it's not clear that total carbon emissions decrease.

Suppose the government provides free solar cells for everyone. Then people will use a lot more electricity. But solar cells require some carbon emissions to produce, and since people use so much more electricity overall, it's not clear whether carbon emissions decrease or increase.

Either way it's just a totally goofy thought experiment, since a carbon tax is exactly the right answer, and this subsidy idea is so misguided that it could possibly even increase carbon emissions
Not being a language doesn't mean you can't do meaningful things with it. My car is also not a language but a very valuable tool. Just like something is a car because it has 4 wheels, a motor and an enclosed space to sit in, in the same way something becomes a programming language by having a defined grammar. That's all. No reason to think I disregarded someone's favorite tool.
Go is a simple language, with 1970's features.

It is very easy to implement, and leaves a lot of the complexity (null pointers, generics, etc) to the user instead of solving it in the language.

This is a classic example of worse-is-better.

An MIT-style language would be Rust, which indeed struggled to get to v1.0 and Go vs. Rust plays out quite similarly to what worse-is-better would predict.
Thinking about your post, I think you have a point there.

I noticed that in his speech, Elon Musk doesn't talk at all about what form the carbon tax should take.

In reality, if a carbon tax went into action, 90% of its effect would hit fossil fuel companies and nobody else.

Am I wrong? How do you implement a carbon tax then?
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His quibble with the bar graphs there doesn't make a lot of sense given that a Y-axis starting at 0 degrees is just as arbitrary as starting it at 13.4 degrees.
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In theory all of it. The complication is quite a bit of the "underground carbon" is owned by governments, but these can also be bought off. The key is stop fighting the owners of carbon and start working with them.
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Yes. Porsche made cars but also purchased a stake in Volkswagen. http://priceonomics.com/porsche-the-hedge-fund-that-also-mad...
It seems they removed the page
FUD stands for "fear, uncertainty, and doubt," referring to studies that question global warming

Nominal in this context means a tax passed just symbolically as a feel-good measure, i.e. a tiny and ineffective tax
Wow, that's cool. It could be integrated to the clothes, maybe. I'm buying for a shirt which monitors my heartrate.
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> to try out ten different solutions in ten different states

Interesting, I never quite thought about it in these terms. If you squint at it right, it's almost like A/B testing laws.
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It's a fairly famous line from Bugs Bunny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
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Me? Not really - I don't think the morality of compulsory taxation is dependent upon geography.
Hawaii Supreme Court Invalidates Permit for Telescope Construction on Mauna Kea
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It seems to me that the cost of retyping code each time is much higher than the cost of forgetting something.

I get the underlying idea, that you "feel" and understand the code more if you type it, but holy hell would that be annoying !
The question is who will pay that tax? In Musk vision governments should lower other taxes (which one?) and introduce carbon tax.

I am afraid that the devil is in the details and it may turn out that this tax will be paid mostly by car owners (rising delivery costs, so food prices would grow) or people in rural areas who use coal heaters. The poor will suffer most in such case.

I am also afraid that governments wouldn't do anything else to lower carbon emission - doing that would be stupid, they get more money thanks to large carbon emission.

I think it is time to figure out honestly, without any eco/anti-eco bullshit what it the best (clear, cheap and practical) way to produce energy.

I suspect this will never be done, as eco people would have to admit that nuclear energy is a viable option to go (I don't believe we can base modern economy on energy sources that depend on weather). Anti-eco people would have to admit that fresh air is something more important than coal mine owners interest (and coal mine workers interest too).

I really regret nuclear energy had such a bad press and, as a result, there weren't any significant innovation in that area (in particular how to reuse nuclear wastes).
Indeed. Even more strange is that they are handling it with a (temporary) redirect on that specific article.

$ http --print h http://telecom.kz/en/news/view/18729
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 154
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:41:31 GMT
Location: http://telecom.kz/en
Server: nginx
> how does a spending tax disproportionately affect the poor?

Because they need to spend more of their income in order to survive.

If you spend all of your income, a 10% sales tax reduces your income by 10%. If you only need to spend half of your income, a 10% sales tax reduces your income by 5% - or less, if the money you don't spend earns interest.
Just because Porsche and VW both makes car don't make them competitor. One is a luxury car maker and another is mass car producer. Adjacent market deals are common, direct competition are uncommon.
My first thought was some sort of nuclear assurance. In the UK we have radio 4 broadcasting constantly, if there's no communication and radio 4 isn't broadcasting then we assume a London may have been bombed and a nuclear alert is issued.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchest...
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No you are right. The basic problem is it is much easier to block something new than bring in something new. By trying to fight the owners of carbon you are giving them all the power, because they will find it much easier to block a carbon tax than you will find introducing it. More fundamentally there is no good reason why most of the cost should fall on the owners of carbon rather than the whole community.

The cost of buying out Exxon and co would not be too bad given we can't stop burning carbon today and any change will take 20 to 30 years. We can basically buy an option today on the carbon to be produced 20 years from now and this should be much cheaper.