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I'm not sure what you mean here, {} looks just as accessible on the keyboard as <> to me.
Yeah, "ultimatum" is a somewhat strong word. I do want to be clear that I don't mean that it was in any way an ridiculous request/demand/ultimatum: expelling them from the community would in my opinion have been the right thing to do, and in my opinion is an entirely fair thing to insist on and not be willing to compromise on.

What I mean to convey is that, if someone makes a demand that they're unwilling to compromise on or discuss, and you're are unable to satisfy the demand as stated, regardless of whether you want to seek a resolution along those lines, you have no good options. Of course in a healthy project there wouldn't be much need to discuss banning people who are harassing other community members. But mechanically it still has the downside of an ultimatum, even if the connotation of the term is wrong.

That is why I chose that word, and I apologize for not having been clearer about what I meant with it.

I do agree that greater willingness to use implicit political authority is generally a good thing for healthy projects. (Though maybe there is something complicated like not actually having technical control of the relevant IRC channels or something annoying like that, I don't know. In some open-source projects I'm active in, the core teams' ability to respond to harassment is somewhat weakened or at least rate-limited by using IRC servers, code-review forums, etc. run by unrelated teams, and I've seen people be hurt by abusers taking advantage of this technical limitation.)
They would be quietly let go
"Is there support for µ±σ instead of [low,high] in the works? "
- There used to be. I'll be considering ways of adding it back.

"Or support for numerical distributions?"
- By numerical distributions do you mean discreet distributions: like, a 40% of being '8' and a 60% chance of being '6'? If so, the answer is no. However, if you use the ternary operator it is possible to do very simple versions of this now. We do support totally random picks of different numbers though, using the pickRandom([3,5,3]) function. http://mathjs.org/docs/reference/functions/pickRandom.html
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Sure... and that's kind of what I'm both skeptical of (and intrigued by).

I'm just waiting for standards-sanctioned A(lgebraic)DT data type support -- it's bound to happen at some point! :)
When was the last successful sustained (1 week plus) CloudFlare, GCE, or AWS DDoS attack?
Imagine the scenario: person A sends a malformed DNS request to a bunch of DNS resolvers, asking them to send the response to person B. Now imagine that person A is actually part of a large botnet, being controlled by person C, via some smoke-and-mirrors.

If you're person B (under attack) it's pretty difficult to track through all of that to person C. You'd need a lot of cooperation from people (likely in many different countries) who really just want to go back to their normal business. They're likely also charging for the traffic, so they're not really that bothered, and they're each only seeing a small proportion of what person B is seeing so they don't see it as much of a problem (so aren't likely to be inclined to get involved).
Talk pages should not themselves be wiki pages. This is the result of all that MVP stuff people go on about. Wikipedia had wikis, they didn't have discussion boards. They needed discussion boards. MVP was to use another wiki page for discussions, and that evolved into the stupidness we see today.

Talk and discussion are completely different process than collaborative editing, and they demand different tools.

I also agree about the markup (it's markUP. "Markdown" is a specific type of markup language which, despite its flaws, probably is the easiest and now most common one)
Your code example is actually wrong. The intended API use looks like:

import { Router, browserHistory } from 'react-router';

const router = <Router history={browserHistory} />;

One perk is that you can then navigate using the singleton if you want, e.g. with

browserHistory.push('/foo');

The scroll behavior stuff is definitely messy; I haven't had time to clean it up. The nice thing about OSS, though, is that the rest of you are all free to contribute changes.
I understand how you were just trying to make a point, but it just doesn't make any sense.

You say that "people who are assholes, aren't assholes". Well... are they or aren't they?

Then you say that they may be suffering from Asperger's and that the commenter above is lumping them together.

The issue with this argument is that the commenter above took problem with the other commenter about saying these perceived assholes have a mental illness, and how that negatively impacts those who actually have a mental illness. Your argument (metaphor?) is that by saying someone is an asshole is lumping those with Asperger's in, when Asperger's wasn't even mentioned.

Regardless of how your metaphor didn't actually make any sense, you then go on to say that "GamerGate" sub-community (what does that honestly even really mean???) attracts 'such people', implying that GamerGate is full of people with Asperger's. Then imply that something needs to 'be done about it'.

What is wrong with people with Asperger's? Why are you picking on them?
50% increase in development speed after making the switch from what?

I am certainly more productive in Ruby or more recently Elixir than JavaScript on either the client or server.
> What happens with 1/10 second's database records not replicated?

You can use a multi-master setup and strict consistency checks, though.
How do you guys re-route traffic for your load balancer to another in another data center? If you change your DNS record it would take x time before it has propagated.

Say I have one server setup on Linode London and one duplicated on DO Amsterdam. How do I quickly re-route the traffic from my two main load balancers London to Amsterdam without much propagation time?
> Thanks for the vicious attack

Please don't. Also, it seems to me that you're taking this thread off-topic and violating the HN guideline that asks you to avoid classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. (Even if you did, this is probably a bad place for it.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820199 and marked it off-topic.
The side effect of creating highly-paid, highly-educated clergy was that smart people who don't have to worry much about feeding themselves tend to do interesting things. It's something we've lost today, and I think it's a big part of why basic research is in trouble today - because science doesn't usually pay off in short term, and is best done by people who are free to do whatever catches their interest. This is also not compatible with the new "neo-liberal university-as-a-trade-school".
That's a good point, although full C++ interoperability may be many years out, and it would probably have to include things like templates for that plan to work.
I'm not entirely sure that it's to the advantage of an operating system development project to have free speech as an ideal.

At the very least, there's the empirical argument that the major operating systems are overwhelmingly developed by private corporations, and you can be sure that if a developer said "hey, this new hire is getting his white supremacist followers on Twitter to attack me," the new hire wouldn't be working on that project very much more. And we generally don't find the price of this less-than-free speech too much to pay.

Can you explain why it helps develop a better net installer or Linux emulation layer to be able to use slurs against fellow developers?
What do you find annoying about React Router?

If anything, working on react-router-relay has only made me appreciate React Router's design more.

A lot of the changes in 2.x are specifically from lessons we've learned in building react-router-relay and other integrations, but they're closer to refactorings and code reorganization than to wholesale rewrites.
I work at a C++ shop, and out of all the hardcopy programming references we have floating around, the most common, by far, are copies of all of Scott Meyer's books.

When 'Effective Modern C++' was released, we formed a reading group to convene bi-weekly to discuss an item from the book. His works have been an invaluable resource to us.

While I am sad to hear that he will no longer be involved in the C++ community, I look forward to seeing what he does next.
Well, you are right.

Most arguments are I support A, and the opposition is I oppose A. Somehow GG is different, it's I support A, and the other side is fuck your A, I support B ,when they don't actually have any problem with A. The first side then responds with, no fuck your B, A all the way. It's mind boggling, it can just as easily be we support A & B.

And that bring us to this post, it has nothing to do with GG. Its simple harassment and the core community handled it poorly. It looks like a good case of lack of precedent on how to handle it.

Earlier harassment used to of the "your mother is fat type" or "shut up you fukin brit" because people didn't have much to go on. Now as diversity increases people have more difference that can be attacked and those differences are very personal and hence affects a person on a deeper level. It's a classical case of school bullying, just that no one here is in school anymore, some people just don't grow up.

Once self regulating communities (those without HR departments) figure out how to handle these cases the right way, which I believe they will, these events should have a quick end.
Thank you for the update. We really appreciate the information and wish you the best of luck in dealing with this.
Yeah I'm leaning that way, largely because while AWS isn't perfect it does at least have the "It's what everyone else uses" factor in my defence, that and when AWS breaks half the internet breaks with it so users tend to be more understanding.
> Frankly, and I am going to be politically incorrect here, these are the kinds of cases where I wish there was a "special forces" kind of task force to hunt down these pieces of shit and put them out of their misery.

Oh, it's certainly in the capability of the FBI and the NSA to hunt them down. Even child fuckers inside the Darkweb got busted.

The problem is priority: unless either child porn or a huge US company is involved, the three-letter-agencies don't give a shit about this kind of crime.
The community consensus is that deprecation warnings don't strictly require major version bumps.

That said, the React Router 2.x release does also include a few actual breaking changes to APIs that were only used by integrations - which is to say that 2.x is a minor release for end users, but is a major release from the perspective of maintainers of packages like react-router-relay or redux-simple-router.
They explicitly don't want original research, so knowing about the topic is only helpful for judging primary and secondary sources. Most experts should be writing primary sources rather than Wikipedia articles.
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it's a valid point. But don't you want to know if it's good enough to be stolen?
I agree. I don't like C++ much and I feel some very strong, objective arguments can be made that it is often not the right tool for many of the jobs that it is chosen for. And yet, Effective C++ was one of the pivotal development books I read, and has affected the way I think about programming in any other language or tool that I use.
This is what I'd like to know too. It's easy to suggest mirroring your infrastructure on multiple providers but in practice it's very difficult. Multi-master SQL in particular is non-trivial and that's just one piece of the puzzle. We have MongoDBs, CouchDBs, Redis, and Elasticsearch -- each with varying difficulty and costs to cluster.
that's so embarrassing. I'm on it. Thanks for letting me know
That's a hell of a reach though and makes her even stranger.

He didn't say anything over than the facts about the literacy rate, since when are pure facts without connotation racist.

I hope it wasn't that.
> A lot of people who are assholes aren't actually assholes, but suffer from a mental disorder such as asperger's syndrome.

You have nothing to support your claim that many assholes have asperger's; nor the converse that many people with asperger's are assholes.
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We appreciate this more than you know. Many of us have had the holidays ruined by these utterly relentless attacks, and it's a difficult thing to try and explain to our loved ones. Support from the community really helps.
That makes sense. It would be very useful to see estimates of how well Presidential candidates would do if they got elected.

In the future, one idea would be to keep track of people's metric estimates in Guesstimate, and later score and rank them on how well they do. So if Charles always reports a 90% confidence interval that's far too optimistic, we could help adjust it automatically next time. This would also allow us to aggregate different opinions directly, essentially being like a mini prediction challenge. This would be a ways off though, and it really depends on what direction the product goes.
This is were Bezos blue origin really surprised me, they won the contract to build the rd 180 replacement. Does anyone have any info on this?
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I agree, managing a private test is much more controlled and feels safer (i.e. just whipping up a landing page to prove some demand)
Most managers won't agree to the types of metrics that you say. Yet most will agree to more arbitrary metrics, like much of what makes up Agile/Scrum.

Many managers do this intentionally, because the greater degree of control over metrics wielded by the manager, the greater degree of arbitrary political manipulation which can be inserted, and the greater freedom to pretend after the fact to have always supported only winning ideas and always opposed only losing ideas all along. Real metrics force managers to be accountable for their true beliefs, which is often what the company needs most and what managers will avoid most.
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> It's only 'valid' because of the particular decisions made by someone writing a random RFC.

You know that's exactly what "valid" means, when talking about something standardized, right?

In HTML there's no reason to use &quot; outside of an attribute value. Should browsers reject it?
I just registered to thank you for the update and to let you know I won't be moving away from Linode as this just gives the attackers what they want.
Push, not pull. Send an email. Don't expect people to go to a status page on their own.
Better late than never: it's hard to get reliable data on such things, CO2 estimates are probably at least somewhat correct.

The larger point being that you have to take into account how many people live in a country, you can't just compare countries without that.
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Yep! I've followed a similar path to you (designer transitioned to PM) and I return to this doc at least once a month as a refresher.
Ideally you could. But because the speed of the ball changes with the angle you hit it, you can throw off your opponents timing and cause them to mess up.
I agree... the tests are pretty bad. They give you time allotted based on how many words there are which is a terrible metric of how hard a question is. The questions are not that hard but they are really bad because you get around 30 seconds to 1. parse the question 2. read all 4 answers when a lot of the answers are subtly different 3. figure out the best answer 4. answer it.
If your company is willing to pay the big bucks, I would get in touch with Jon Kalb (http://exceptionsafecode.com/).
Transmission losses are huge over long distances

I found this document from ABB, http://www02.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh250.nsf/0/2adcc78ab7f..., they know a thing or two about power transmission. They claim:

A 2,000-km long HVDC line rated at 800 kilovolts
loses about 5 percent of the electricity it
carries to heat, while an equivalent AC line
would lose twice that amount, or about 10 percent.

I wouldn't call either of those losses "huge". There are of course additional losses in converters or transformers. Still, that's darn good, better than I would have guessed.

plus you would have the added problem...

Those are fair points, I think much more significant than the transmission losses.
I agree that Breitbart is not a credible news organization and that Michelle Malkin wants to be another Ann Coulter, but I would hesitate to say that she's in big business's pocket.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sold_Out_(book):

>The book's publication follows media reporting that Pfizer,[4] Southern California Edison,[5] and Walt Disney World to name a few, have each forced hundreds of employees to train their foreign replacements or risk their severance, unemployment eligibility and professional references.[6] Additional studies cited conclude that a high percentage of qualified U.S. STEM professionals are unable to find employment in their field.[4][7]

This is not to imply that the book is truth-filled, more that there may not be an alignment on this issue between Michelle Malkin and the rest of her peers.
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No it's not. The majority (by far) of the energy comes from thermalizing the water. The hydrogen-oxygen bond is much stronger than the carbon-oxygen bond and there are many more hydrogen atoms in the final fuel.
Not feasible for you, or not feasible for anyone?
Hmm. I see your point. I've first heard about safe spaces by reading about the "Halloween incident" at Yale which left me with the impression that they're a bad idea since it appeared to me that they not only discourage harassment and violence (and seriously, how can one disagree with this?), but also critical discourse, which I believe is very important to our society.

But I also see how "safe spaces" would be useful and how critical discourse could be used for bullying. I've not read enough about this to make up my mind on this. Was the Yale thing an unexpected outcome?
Time value of money is how money is worth more (not less) today than it is a year from now, which is why you would have to pay interest to give it to me in the future.
I meant more along the lines of a user-entered histogram. But that's roughly the same as what you're talking about. It does seem that such a thing must roughly correspond to some internal portion of Guesstimate, anyway. So for an advanced user to punch a distribution in would be handy. May be out-of-scope for this project? I guess really I'm looking for a way to error propagate my home-grown datasets :)
TOPS-20 and TENEX
When surveillance is accessible by all
Then how do human beings play Go? I've heard a lot of claims about human intelligence been non-replicable in-silico, but I've never heard the claim that it can somehow "defeat" a combinatorial explosion of possibilities just to plan a sales trip or play a board game.
When reading C++, features like colons and brackets are just sort of mentally removed. I don't really see them other than as clutter that at best makes the outline and structure of the program harder to see. I strongly suspect it's a matter of being used to the familiarity of brackets and colons. But hey, this is sort of pthe programmers version of the "blue and white dress."
Trees have the advantage of lots and lots of them. But each individual one is not very efficient.

Making a power plant as large as a small forest is just unrealistic, and would not come close to being powerful enough.

That's why I suggested carbon from coal instead of CO2 - it's just not practical to get it from air.

All we really have to do is reduce CO2 emissions, it's not necessary to eliminate them.
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> from water and co2.

It's not easy to get co2 in bulk, and methanol has no advantages over methane (for this process). You need the exact same amount of carbon.
Didn't the core people behind Sails essentially abandon it for the YCombinator startup Treeline.io?

Also, hasn't Treeline been in 'preview mode' for almost a year now?
There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.
> Perhaps I just paraphrased Kant - and perhaps you just asked an interesting question that was raised hundreds of years ago by people in armchairs. ;)

You were of course paraphrasing Kant, and the very fact that the question remains, from the point of view of professional academic philosophy, unsettled hundreds of years later speaks very loudly about the inadequacy of armchair speculation as a guide to truth.
True, but don't forget: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/21/is-the-us-headed-for-negative...
She explains it herself. I bet it's that.

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Third: with my name, maybe my novel was taken for “Women’s Fiction”—a dislikable name for a respectable genre—but not what I was writing. If an agent was expecting that, I’m not surprised he or she would turn away after the first page or two. A George wasn’t expected to be writing Women’s Fiction, so he was taken on his own terms.
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It's for sure more efficient. Just think about the power density of even a small gas pipeline - it utterly dwarfs any electrical line, and they are much cheaper to build.
Which they could easily do by enabling SMS/email/webhook notifications in their statuspage.io settings. As it is, you can only subscribe to an RSS feed it seems.
>From what I've seen of AS, she believes that the creation of value is good, and that trying to create a system where effort isn't rewarded will lead to people not putting in effort.

Well, that's a very normal idea, and quite widespread. Rand goes far beyond that (and in other directions), praising selfishness and ruthlessness, allowing individuals to trump others, viewing the masses as subhumans who exist solely for the pleasure of the few ubermen, etc.

Here's a quite accurate description:

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/29/10_insane_things_i_learned_a...

But her life story and that of the group of "disciples" she controlled is also enlightening.
This wikipedia article about TOPS-20 and TENEX gives some idea about what they were working with at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-20

>>In the 1960s, BBN was involved in a number of LISP-based artificial intelligence projects for DARPA, many of which had very large (for the era) memory requirements. One solution to this problem was to add paging software to the LISP language, allowing it to write out unused portions of memory to disk for later recall if needed. One such system had been developed for the PDP-1 at MIT by Daniel Murphy before he joined BBN. Early DEC machines were based on an 18-bit word, allowing addresses to encode for a 262-kword memory. The machines were based on expensive core memory and included nowhere near the required amount. The pager used the most significant bits of the address to index a table of blocks on a magnetic drum that acted as the pager's backing store, and the software would fetch the pages if needed and then re-write the address to point to the proper area of RAM.
Yeah, the writing style of the Effective C++ was so influential that there were bunch of "Effective" books follow. Effective Java, Effective Ruby, Effective JavaScript...

This influence is invisible, but possibly the most important impact he made so far. Looking forward to what's coming next.