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> If it were an antiquated view it wouldn't be so popular!

I don't know: there's more than enough ignorance around for completely absurd views to be popular. Look at Trump ;-)

Microsoft is actually more cross-platform than either Apple or Google. It has stuff on everything from memory sticks to mainframe class servers, and it has a cloud business (which supports Linux, as well as Windows). It has dozens of apps on iOS and Android, not just on Windows.

Office runs on Windows and Mac OS X, in browsers, and there are apps for Android and iOS.

Visual Studio Code is free and available for Linux and Max OS X as well as Windows
https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

It's not everything, but who does more?
A little naive, IMO. Parents don't actually have freedom and flexibility because they are constantly watched by paranoid neighbors on a hair trigger for any possible sign of abuse. When the government creates a rule like this, it actually enhances parental freedom by officially declaring that leaving your kids alone is OK. Personally I'd like to see the age limit a little lower, but this is great news for parents.
why would Russia poison viktor? sounds like the author is wearing a tinfoil cap
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>giant pile of reasons for ill-will that the US state and Federal governments have been collecting.

Lets please not attack the other states because of Texan shenanigans. The fifty states are each semi-autonomous and as such can implement programs like this. This is an exception, not the norm.

>blowback happens through the democratic process

Why should it? Maybe Texans who work hard and pay their fines want the scofflaws to be caught like this? Democracy doesn't mean "things I like." It often means "things the average voter likes." Maybe this is "ill will" to you, but to a red state with a strong law and order culture to it, it may not be very controversial at all. You can't clamor for states rights in Texas, but also expect liberal soft-on-crime values. All politics is local.

Also, these people have capias warrants out for them at the time of this collection. Deadbeats who don't pay child support, ignore a civil judgements, ignore fines, etc get these. I don't really see a problem with this. If there's abuse here, it lies with how capias warrants are given out, not the technology used to enforce them. Why aren't we addressing the root issue here? Is there really an issue here other than SJW wankering?
Awareness of governmental overreach and tax funding for police helps us make informed votes. For instance, if (when) your local representative pushes a bill like this you now have some information to fight it.
> I am generally opposed to welfare, because is does little to ameliorate the human issues related to joblessness,

it is a safety net, a helping hand society extends to let people to not starve to death on the streets, it is not a tool to solve structural economical/political/social issues.
Yes, of course people don't like repetition per se abstracted from the particulars of what it is that is repeating. Someone likes repeated palm-muted metal guitar riffs; but thinks that someone else who likes knitting sweaters, loop by loop, should get a life.
This guy put into much better words what I've been thinking for a while.

It doesn't matter to me at all that Bill Gates has more money than God, because he's empathetic to people who aren't as rich and aren't as great as he is, and wants to continue to use his strength to lift people up instead of feathering his own nest even more.

It's when people get the idea that "I'm better, so I deserve better than Them!" that really raises my eyebrows. I have no problem with people having more money than me, it's when they make a new world for themselves (like the movie in the article) and cut themselves off from the world they served in order to get rich is when Really Bad Things Happen.
See, for example, COPACOBANA which uses FPGAs to crack some crypto, including DES. That was in 2008.

http://www.copacobana.org/

> COPACOBANA, the Cost-Optimized Parallel COde Breaker, is an FPGA-based machine which is optimized for running cryptanalytical algorithms. COPACOBANA is suitable for parallel computation problems which have low communication requirements. DES cracking is such a parallelizable problem: an exhaustive key search of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) takes no longer than a week on average with COPACOBANA. Other ciphers can be attacked too, and COPACOBANA can also be used for parallel computing problem outside cryptography.
Dude is writing database interfaces on Windows. He's not doing ninja things.
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I have a mixed feeling about this.

On one hand, having law enforcements make money for private organizations sound really terrible; on the other hand, letting people get away with breaking rules will create a terrible culture that I experienced first hand.

A bit on the later, if the rules are too strict, or punishment(fines) too high, then rules should be challenged/modified. Whereas if you create very strict rules, but only enforce it selectively, either due to officer's personal judgement or lack of policing resources, it creates incentive for police officers to become corrupt, less deterrent for people breaking rules and making bad rules more tolerable (because most people do not get personally affected).
Well to make any reasonable comparison we need to see it at a human scale number like dollars per person per day or something otherwise it's just posturing and politics... Big numbers are always manipulated to serve one interest or another
> they're planning to turn the Texas prison system into de facto debtors' prisons

Whoa there, hold on a second. That's not what's going on at all. The plates are being run to detect if the car's owner has outstanding court fines, which are not akin to a simple debt. These are (probably) justified, punitive fees imposed on an individual for some kind of offense against the law (and by extension, the public). It's not the case that the police are extorting people that are behind on their rent/credit card payments or something.

That said, this behavior is still troubling insofar as it is likely to disproportionately result in the targeting and punishment of the poor, which is in itself a rather problematic issue. And it's certainly troubling that the additional fee being imposed to process payment for the fines collected is far above what seems to be (at a glance, anyway) a reasonable margin for operating costs.
Sounds like you already made up your mind and are just trying to justify it to yourself. If Amazon is better - then of course the answer is yes.
Yeah, the title in the article does says "Apache Kudu", maybe it was changed later. What it should really be is "Apache Kudu (incubating)".
25% tacked on ??? That's government enforced shakedowns.
If you're expecting that pile to topple any time soon or if ever, I think you're going to be very disappointed.

You see, the modern police state has learned from the mistakes of Stazi, and technology has made the police-state surveillance very seamless. Most citizens don't even realize what's going on, and when told, they have too much to worry about.

That their's no external force working against the interests of our system makes it all the more hopeless.

Seat back, folks, and enjoy whatever freedom you have now.
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You could argue the "privacy" factor and I get it, but I don't really see a problem with this. You're already registered with the state, and the license plate identifies you. You chose to break, evade the law, and not pay your fines. Everyone else obeys the law. So you get pulled over, pay the fine, and be done with it.

I'd consider taking it a step further in the efficiency department. If someone doesn't follow up with a ticket after ninety days or whatever, auto debit their account. Thoughts?
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The empathy gap is just one way in which the distribution and flow of capital organizes social relations.

My position is that it isn't even the wealth gap that is the issue. The wealth gap is itself just one way in which the distribution and flow of capital organizes social relations. I think it is short-sighted to focus on particular rich people and their exorbitant wealth even though it is a grotesque experience: gawking at the rich has a visceral appeal like watching a horror movie or reading a Kafka novel.

Nobody talks about the 'wealth gap' between governments and people. Nobody talks about the 'wealth gap' between banks and people. They talk about the relationships i mentioned, they just don't frame it as a 'wealth gap'. Nobody talks about the 'wealth gap' when the police harass homeless people. Ultimately though, the relation between government and people and financial institutions and people and police/army and people is as much a consequence of the dynamics of capital as rich people being inconsiderate assholes.

And of course it's a self-referential non-linear system. Governments and financial institutions and individual capitalists and armies shape the rules and command the forces that make capital a thing. Even so, governments, banks, capitalists, and armies may each in turn fall as the wheel of fortune turns, but Government, Bank, Capitalist, Army in the abstract are part and parcel of capitalism.
Pretty cool.

I wish Lambda supported Go natively, the node.js wrapper hack to invoke the binary and proxy the stdin/out is really dumb.
The model I used to calculate 0.74% assumes Bitcoin's market cap is $1 trillion(!).

We can all agree that IF the market cap gets this large, it will mean Bitcoin will have had a huge positive impact on society. Therefore it will have been worth it to spend 0.74% of the world's energy.

Edit: I am puzzled by the downvotes. I would like to hear (and respond to) counterpoints if what I am saying is incredibly silly.
>_much more performant_

LOL. Benchmarks and citation please.
Setting up a private git repo is easy[1] and a web interface with OpenVPN only access on a VPS. I've done it for a small team in the past.

I don't know your use case so I might be wrong, but I believe your mistrust in Github and Bitbucket is unjustified.

As far as encryption schemes go, everything depends on what or who you're trying to avoid.

[1] https://www.convalesco.org/articles/2009/07/24/how-to-set-up...
>But, as Paul Graham points out, that is not the same thing as saying that inequality is bad. What it says is that poverty is bad. And that’s something that I don’t think anyone would argue with.

I think that's the point isn't it? The rest of the post talks about how you don't have empathy with a wealth gap, but the examples given are really showing how it is hard to empathize with those in poverty and that's where the the problem is. It is hard for someone who even was in poverty in the past to empathize with people currently in poverty because you aren't going through it every day.
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Ok, we changed the url from http://www2.erlang-solutions.com/l/23452/2016-01-26/3kcj7b. Thanks!
There will never be a way to test everything in an automated fashion. For those you can either have your expensive software engineers to painstakingly run very scenario regarding a change, or have a less expensive QA person do this. I guess it's management's call, but for large, complex systems it can take days to go through the scenarios for some some bug fixes - and those are days not spent fixing other bugs or adding features.

That being said, I definitely think software engineers should be writing the unit tests and automating as much as they can - it's just that you can't automate everything.
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I'd hazard a guess that it reflects Google's approach to dependency management. Internally, Google only uses a single version of any library. If you want to update your version of library X, you have to go around and make sure that every project that depends on X works with the new version of X.
This should also highlight Jobs' non-plated vehicle loophole that he used.

Eveyone should be using that loophole... oh wait you have to be the $1% in order to afford such an exploit.

I recall getting a C&D order for making a comment on HN here a while back warning of a particular company who was installing LPR devices at their HQ.

LPR is an insidious technology.
I know very well that dang is a moderator. I had expected that a moderator would actually consider the site's own guidelines when someone displays what they describe in their own words as "regular aggression with sarcasm"+.

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10973857
Lua is famous for breaking compatibility between versions. And Lua users are quite aware of the situation. But outsiders tend to overblow the situation, making more noise than the people actually having to deal with it.

The Lua creators are very careful and deliberate in how they break compatibility.

One such thing they do is they avoid subtle changes that can lead to incorrect/different results, and prefer hard things that lead to obvious compile time errors.

But most of the time, the changes between minor revisions aren't a big deal. On the Lua side, authors have been pretty good about figuring out how to make their scripts run across all versions because the changes haven't been that big. On the C side, the API changes can be a little more dramatic, but authors have been good about handling the differences.
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You're hypothesizing something that really wouldn't be Java anymore.
Can you give some examples of the "Really Bad Things" you are thinking of?
you can probably have a pretty good guess based on the behaviour of the stream, and the size of the packets involved

also the ip...
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A better argument here is that we must compare it to the current banking system. Sum up the cost of supporting banks, bankers, bank failures, runs on currency, etc. and bitcoin would clearly a good deal efficiency-wise if it was our main currency.
Kids are ready for formal operations when their earlier experience has prepared them for formal operations. In some places around the world, students in fifth grade--including below-average fifth-graders--are already learning algebra. In quite a few whole countries around the world (for example, Taiwan, where my wife grew up when Taiwan was still a developing country) all seventh graders study algebra and geometry as part of their regular school math lessons, yes, including the below-average seventh graders. (In Taiwan, they also learned enough of the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe General American English at that age, but now that skill, which most United States reading teachers lack entirely even with a college degree, has moved into the elementary school curriculum.) Good education at the beginning produces better results in the middle grades.[1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

http://condor.depaul.edu/sepp/mat660/Askey.pdf

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf
Doesn't that require switching account based on tab? Seems easier to just use two browsers than deal with sign-in settings many times / day.
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Love the idea of Slack games but no screenshots or explanation on the site? Not even a video?

Pass.
>I don't know if we could, even theoretically, let everyone in the US live a decent life.

In theory, yes. There are enough resources that people would live free of want and hunger. But, we can't because there is some portion of the populace that consistently exhibits zero self control. If given the self-control/candy test, they'd eat the candy and then fifteen minutes later tell you what a horrible person you are for not giving them the other piece. You could go out and top off everyone so that they have $50,000 liquid cash, find housing, explain how rent works, etc. and within three months there will be people being evicted and homeless with no money to their name. So you repeat. And three months later you have to repeat again. And again. And again. And after loading and reloading people with money, now you're poor and have nothing to give.

It's basic reality that there are people we are told we need to have compassion and empathy for, yet they have none for us. This is exhibited by the fact that if they did they would make a realistic effort to not be a burden on others. And for many of these people there is no amount of money and resources they can be given that will cause them to say "enough, stop, i don't need any more."
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For myself, I love math. I also never understood, even now, the need to spend so much time memorizing multiplication tables.

In fact, I've never learnt it. From time to time I still find myself multiplying on fingers; as a kid I used it a lot, now the table went into my head automatically simply from continued usage. The way to multiply two natural numbers from <6; 9> on fingers was one of the most important things my mom tought me :)

There's also a way as presented in the article (87 = 88-8), but I mostly use it when double checking, as I find it slightly more error-prone when doing it in head (and obviously very inefficient when done on paper). Works great for bigger numbers though.

Once in junior high school my math teacher caught me on multiplying on fingers and ordered me to learn the table for the next lession. Managed to pass it, but quickly forgot in following days. I never cared - I was always doing very fast and well on math classes anyway.
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It's not my argument that the environment plays no role in obesity. It clearly does. I too think liquid calories are a major culprit.

I just think the "thermodynamics" argument oversimplifies immensely. Even the variance in resting metabolic rate is unlikely to capture the whole difference between multiple subjects consuming 3500 calories of oil (or, for that matter, bacon or butter), because resting metabolic rate captures the variance you'd see between people consuming refined sugar, and there are more variables involved in metabolizing fat.

Later, because this is bugging me a bit

And that's all before we get into satiety, which is a hormonal response. I had some cheese and rillettes for lunch. I'm not going to be hungry for the rest of the day. If I'd had the equivalent calories in carbohydrates, I'd be hungry in an hour. Upthread, the term "willpower" is being bandied about as if people can simply will themselves to eat a fixed number of calories. That's true only if you eat carefully, and if you don't have any hormonal dysfunction; it's as true as saying I could will myself into coding for 48 hours straight, if I just focussed my "will" on it.
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It was used during the Cold War, because it was important to simplify, demonize the enemy. Russian Ivan with bottle of vodka, in a tank, driven by a brown bear with ushanka creates an a lot more simple image; you add Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Armenians, dozen of languages, without profound racial discrimination - and people will start having the Thoughts; counterproductive for the narrative of the Cold War.
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I get that sponsors of the bill are trying to protect young children from neglect. The motivation is good. The one-size-fits-all solution is poorly thought out.

My issue with this bill is the penalty for parents who leave a 9yo alone for a few minutes to pick up food, milk, help a neighbor down the street, etc. As someone pointed out last night in a FB group of parents in my community, are the kids better off in the foster care system while the parents fight an expensive, time-consuming battle with Child Services? There has to be a better way than a human purse-seine technique.

This is a poorly thought out bill. The problem of children being left for long periods unattended requires multiple solutions for the different "use cases" for lack of a better expression. At the least, we have parents who pursue drug habits and the like, are immature, and ones who are stuck on 3rd shift jobs with no support system to watch the kids. These different populations require different solutions.
What I understand is that URL is encrypted, including path and parameters in URL and in POST requests. However, the IP address is public, and it's probably quite easy to link an IP address to a website.

There are several websites that offer this service: search an IP and get a list of all known websites that use that IP.

A link to an article from an authority in this field, that really explains this, would be really welcome!!!
all his anecdotes really showed was he hasn't got a damn clue what "poverty" is.
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Evidence? In which cases was tracing Bitcoin transactions used?
Stunning that Bill Joy ever thought interpreted Java could be faster than C++. I thought he knew more than that...
> Given that Microsoft already restricted a C++ version of Minecraft to Windows 10, do you really think they will ever ship this new C++ version of Minecraft for Linux and Mac? At the same time, not years later? Or will they split the community?

Considering that this named and marketed as a separate product ("Minecraft - Education Edition"), I don't really see where you believe you have a standing here. It certainly wouldn't be the first time a company put out a new version of something in order to move on from previous commitments. For instance, "Minecraft - XBox Edition" and "Minecraft - Android Edition" are not in sync with "Minecraft - The Original PC Edition" either.

And I certainly won't pretend to know where they're going with this, and I also want and hope for this new version to be a cross-platform product. I was more addressing the general opening statement, which is exactly what I quoted in my response.
re [1]: technically yes, practically no.

You're going to be detained to appear in front of a judge who is going to say 'you have outstanding unpaid court fines - you can pay them now or be subject to imprisonment'.

All that is happening in that case is changing the location of the credit card swipe.
In that case, Lua makes a lot of sense, frankly. I can write 100 lines of code in perl, but trying to get that deployed on mac, windows and linux can be a nightmare, especially if its using a library external to perl.

(EDIT: LUA->Lua)
I think the common complaint here is that there are plenty of "crimes" that are committed on a daily basis like minor speeding (going 1-5 mph over the speed limit), jaywalking, etc, that are nearly impossible to entirely enforce. This gives police the ability to selectively enforce said laws simply because they can't totally enforce it. As you noted this can be used to punish the poor far more than others. The combination of all of these factors and the ability to track these "offenders" down more easily, it isn't a far shot from what the parent poster was saying by comparing it to a debtors' prison.