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> Subjective virtue, perhaps. And that gets us squarely into the territory of "religion".

> I'm struggling to think of a time when it's ever a good idea to cast pragmatism aside.

When choosing what ideals you want to strive for and what you want to see in the world.
I've checked out Wable - are there any other providers that you know of that provide resource bundling like Wable? I really like Wable but I don't see an API, and for what I'm doing would have to have an API to control creation/deletion of servers. Thanks!
Thanks scrollaway!
Sure. This is also not exhaustive, by definition.
Slightly off topic but is RoR still the web framework of choice for developers? Could be just me but it seems most unicorns still continue to use it, even with all of the Python/Node/PHP frameworks out there.
Unless ad blockers are used on a massive scale?
Sergey/Larry explain it better than I would.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Scroll down to "Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives"
NASA Shares 360° Image of Mars Made with Facebook's Oculus Rift Technology
Hmm, I hate to be a downer but this is a bit of a disappointing announcement for a major upgrade - basically, one very minor addition and a bunch of features removed - not that they were needed/widely used, but there's nothing else to show for it. Am I missing something?

Also it's a bit unfortunate there's still no easy way to do site translation in Jekyll.

Anyway, well done on the upgrade. Love jekyll.
It had a top-line of 4.6B, but 1.2B in fixed costs and a little over 3B in payroll expenses.

Yahoo's problems have absolutely nothing to do with Mayer having a "nursery" put into her office. She could have taken minimum wage and no other compensation, and no part of this story would have turned out differently, except they might have sold the company by now.

Arguments about Mayer's performance on threads like these are frustrating because the consensus (elsewhere, not here) seems to be that her first order of business should have been a significant layoff. But at this point, now that we have lurid stories about logos, nurseries, and poorly-timed jokes, there's no winning: their core business has been on a downward trajectory since long before she took over, and nobody believes they're appropriately staffed.

Later

For what it's worth, if you look at what I'm saying, nowhere am I claiming that Mayer is a good CEO. But I have doubts as to whether a good CEO could have done much to change the outcome here, except perhaps by fetching a better price at auction for Yahoo.
I remember seeing Ruby on Rails constantly burning something like 10% CPU even when it was ostensibly only waiting on the machine (though this might be an issue that has been fixed since, I am not particularly optimistic given the day and age), and anyhow, even in the RAM department, I only have 512MB to work with (of which most is in use most of the time anyway).
Hey, I'm working in GAM UK at the moment. What part of wealth management are you working in? Awesome to know theres other HN's in RBC
Toml support in go is... lacking? Did you try https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml ?

That author also wrote a test suite in go that compares all the other toml implementations for interoperability. I'd say it's pretty high quality.
> 2^-80 is an incomprehensibly tiny number.

When one wants a 128-bit security margin, 2^-80 is 2^48 times too big.
The thing is that chrome sandboxes every tab, but firefox doesn't and it's easier for firefox to restore tabs than for chrome is to do.
i think it's fair (and prudent) to consider workers in strategic vision. on the other hand, to "slowly die while paying the last of its money out to workers" is not reasonable
They exist, they don't offer good working conditions, but chances are that the majority of the items in your home and almost all the clothes you wear were made under similar conditions. I don't see any empathy being expressed by someone who's complicit in a (mostly) bad thing but then denounces and dehumanizes anyone who openly acknowledges it.

I think you're confusing 'empathy' with 'virtue signaling.'
this is so awesome. My wife and I have been thinking and working on how can family productivity be improved. It's not an easy task as we are figuring out. There was a recent blog post that became reasonably popular. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-slack-moms-slackformoms...

The challenge I feel is to determine if one should take a broad-based approach to family productivity that addresses all aspects or should one take a narrow high-value problem and solve for improving the productivity of that task. We have approached it from the point of view of making kids' activity planning as a task easier. We are going into beta in a week or so. We'll know if this works.
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Uhm, ZNC runs on the console, there can not be a "tickbox labeled 'log'" because there is no GUI?
To some it is.
Good news. We're using Jekyll 3 at Static Website Manager [1], but we're moving to support older specific versions as well as custom Gemfiles.

[1]: https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com

Are there any features the community would love to see offered in a Jekyll-based CMS?
Figures I just switched my site to Ghost.
I guess I did assume that since there are quite a few Greek roots in English, that there was more direct influence.
They are getting better, every single year, over more than a decade, in a way that click growth outpaces traffic growth. Despite circumstances that would counter the effort. It seems unlikely it's just targeting, without spilling over into something that's bad for consumers.
Or someone made a mistake copying and pasting.

Edit: wow. that is serendipity. Just accidentally posted twice. Does hitting "submit" twice do that?
Ask HN: Best update strategy python application on beaglebone?
For the moment I've created an Python web application running on uwsgi with a frontend created in EmberJS. There is also a small python script running that is controlling I/O and serial ports connected to the beaglebone black.

The system is running on debian, packages are managed and installed via ansible, the applications are updated also via some ansible scripts. With other words, updates are for the moment done by manual work launching the ansible scripts over ssh.

I'm searching now a strategy/method to update my python applications in an easy way and that can also be done by our clients (ex: via webinterface). A good example is the update of a router firmware. I'm wondering how I can use a similar strategy for my python applications.

I checked Yocto where I can build my own linux with but I don't see how to include my applications in those builds, and I don't wont to build a complete image in case of hotfixes.

Anyone who has a similar project and that would like to share with me some useful information to handle some upgrade strategies/methods?
I'd expect years, if not a decade for those to make money.

I'm fond of how Google's voting structure is designed to prevent common stockholders from changing the direction of the company (for the same reason Elon Musk won't take SpaceX public until there are ongoing flights to Mars): investors are too concerned with short-term enrichment.

If all of your ventures are making money hand over fist, you're not trying anything hard.
The comparisons between Google and Apple aren't as apples-to-apples as everyone in the media seems to think. If we're talking about the future of these companies, and their earning power, they are situating themselves very differently. Apple is really a consumer electronics company, Google is an artificial intelligence company. And investors think more money will be in the future of AI instead of consumer hardware and software, so even though Google's earnings are smaller than Apple's, the future earning power is so much more.

If Apple starts going faster on AI then I think it will be very interesting between these two companies.
So it seems you are not satisfied with your first Master's Degree. I am curious, why do you think a second one would be more satisfying? Perhaps you should move on to a new phase in your life?
I missed putting the not in the quote. My bad. I'm still sticking with it though - I don't think having or not having one makes much difference either way.
A conspiracy theory is merely a theory without corroborating evidence. The reason conspiracy theorists tend to be disbelieved is that, more often than not, their assertions are a matter of faith, and when they're right, they're right in the way a stopped analog clock is right twice a day. If someone's paranoid fantasies happen to correspond to reality, that doesn't make them more trustworthy.

So while conspiracies shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, they also shouldn't be given special credence, either, and skeptics should be assumed to be part of an attempt to suppress the pursuit of truth.

That said, A lot of skepticism is as much an attempt to reinforce confirmation bias as is conspiracy theory - and one could say that conspiracy theory is a form of skepticism about the apparent natural order of things. So both sides tend to suffer from a tendency to not actually care about the truth when that truth could contradict their prejudice.
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Edit: Unless you work for a international company with budget.
Yeh, at a PE of 36 I like what your saying, but still not close an the Amazonian 850+ PE!
I'd order a raw veggie appetizer! Bring on the celery, radishes and olives.
Yes, I suppose that's one way to look at it. But, to quote from that: "Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, CoreOS uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many CoreOS machines."

So, you're now managing "containers" instead of "packages". What's the difference in terms of making them reproduce-able and reliable? Very little (though there are big differences in how you deploy them and how they behave when deployed). You still need tools to manage the complexity of reliably building these containers (a "higher level of abstraction" that contains many more moving parts than a single package, generally speaking). They've built configuration management (etcd), and they use existing tools or custom tools for the "packaging" part of the equation (Docker or rkt). Even though they're calling it a "container", you're still building and deploying software...now only with less mature tools than the old ones we've been using for 20 years.

Someone has to build those containers, and someone has to use tools to do so reliably and predictably.

I'm saying that NixOS seems to provide better tools (for both configuration management and for packaging) than the current popular solutions. It surprises me that more people haven't embraced it for doing this stuff. I'm just saying I think NixOS would be an ideal candidate for the same spaces where people are using CoreOS and Docker or CoreOS and rkt.
I really like redmine.org, though the UI is terrible. Can be themed!
Has anyone noticed this in practice? All the news reports are explaining this as a past-tense thing; as in, gun-related posts are already banned. I have noticed zero effect so far. The gun groups I'm in are still chugging along as normal.
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What was the big jump for Google/alphabet I July?
It's definitely not the amount of money that would be required to buy all the stock. The market cap is usually much smaller than that quantity.
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Unfortunately, this is almost certainly a space where "absent any other variables" is too simplifying an assumption. Some confounding factors to consider:

* Is mobile growth rate so high that it outstrips the reduced expected CTR for desktop users?

* Is mobile use not displacing desktop use, meaning desktop CTR is not falling as fast as anticipated?

* Is mobile use growing in places where there was previously no desktop use? Those users previously had a functional CTR of 0; onboarding them should increase the total clicks even if it reduces the mean CTR.
Are you Russian, this is a common sentiment there :)
I totally agree, this is just the first glimpse we get into the finances of the moonshots.
How similar is similar? Mars and Venus are "similar to Earth" in nearly every way that we could detect if they were exoplanets, but neither is capable of sustaining Earthlike life.

I think it's far from a solved question how likely life is, given we have exactly one example of it arising.
You were whining about this a couple of months ago already. Slack is simply much more user friendly and doesn't look as dated as 99% of IRC clients.
And yet we do see conspiracies that lasted decades before someone was outed. Or cases where the information was public knowledge but just never put together well enough for the big picture to be seen (Catholic priest abuse scandal).

I think part of the problem is that people vastly underestimate the ability of 'good' people to do nothing in the face of evil.
I absolutely agree that comparing Google and apple is silly. But calling Google an "artificial intelligence" company is just feeding another buzzword into the fire.
Lot of interesting use cases for this. Very cool.
looks like a good oppertunity to plug one of my favorite podcasts, The History of English Podcast http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/, if you're curious about history of the language and its indo-european cousins its fascinating.
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I've looked at the data and there is zero evidence that the author gamed HN.

You need to stop slinging accusations at people. Gaming HN is bad. We greatly appreciate your and other users' concern about that, and believe me we share it. But undermining civility on HN is also bad, and that's the bad thing that actually is happening here. Please don't do it anymore, regardless of how weak you think an article is.
Right, it gets them into more iTunes Ping situations.
> Maybe it's because Greek was essentially a dead language that was reintroduced

How is that? Haven't they continued to speak it in Greece all these years? Granted, modern Greek is different than the classic version of the language, but that's to be expected over thousands of years...
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Mobile traffic is also exploding, there is a lot more inventory to sell against.
You can't. Bridging necessarily means least common denominator for features. But any matrix client should support the features listed in the spec.
Jekyll 3 is pretty great. If you need any help getting your site hosted, I'm working on a hosting setup that is way easier than S3 or any other option out there.

http://www.statichosting.co

We are in private beta and are looking for people to try it out and give us feedback. We think it's great and are looking for early adopters who want an awesome static hosting experience.
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> This is the amount that would be required to buy all the stock and thereby gain 100% ownership.

This is not true. Stock price is marginal price of a share -- the point at which all sellers are askin more than all buyers are accepting, not the price that every share would sell for.
If there is no way to contact you without using free software, I would probably just make a fork of your project. If you can't just sit in an IRC channel on freenode or just post an email I can use, then I don't understand why you are a maintainer of a free software project. Sure, use Slack if you wish, but don't force me to use it if I want to contact you.
Lavish parties send the wrong message to employees. If I were CEO I'd say:

"No more parties. We're going to use the to retrain employees (instead of firing them) and avoid layoffs."

Mayer is turing out to be a terrible CEO.

This article describes the various multi-million dollar parties.

http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-blows...
I think it's more of an appeal - visiting and colonizing Mars is more alluring than mining. I think there's benefit to having a base there though, even at the bottom of a gravity well (1/3 that of Earth so not the same kind of fight).

Some pros to having a base on Mars could be families of miners can live "close by" miners (or those that operate and/or maintain the telepresence or self driving mining equipment, and possibly a place to do any sort of processing.

Also, there could be mining possibilities on Mars as well, and without all the environmental issues we'd have to consider on Earth.

The "all of the eggs in one basket" aspect is certainly one I can get behind, but I think there's monetary gain is probably a more powerful motivator to those that have the most influence.
Generally there is a small number of people that have some level of control over the organization of which the conspiracy is about. In the case of the Catholic abuse scandal, there were a small number of people who were largely in charge of the catholic church. There was also other factors, including some luck, involved in it all. Eventually that luck ran out and we did learn about it, but only after extensive damage was done.

Very few conspiracy theories require some group to be in total control of everything.
Is there a list of new features in Jekyll 3 vs. 2? I looked at Jekyll's docs and can't seem to find anything. It has a nice guide of how to move from 2 to 3, but is there any succinct list of what new stuff you can do in 3, if anything?

edit: Actually, this looks promising: https://jekyllrb.com/news/2015/10/26/jekyll-3-0-released/
I think Amazon's revenue could grow another 10X though.
All the arguments basically boil down to "it would change the character of the neighborhood/city".
This article just makes me think of supporting more startups like Augmedix and the future of Augmented Reality will truly be a revolution in healthcare.
Jonathanks said:

> Most parents that enforce their own ideals and values on their children are narcissistic.

Which I took to mean that they don't agree with enforcing rules (which come from values) on children. I think if you have children, you know that this just won't work. Without rules and boundaries, kids will literally kill themselves.
Why? It's obvious that is where they are going.
You're right, the hunters analogy breaks down if we imagine that the hunters are each on their own isolated continent. They couldn't attack each other even if they knew the other existed. That's how the universe works as we understand it now.

And if we're wrong--if it is possible for a civilization to be capable of mounting an interstellar attack--they might not see themselves as a "fellow hunter." They might think nothing of harming us incidentally, like a kid burning ants with a magnifying glass.
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the UK's railways have a cheap and simple solution: two transmitters at different frequencies inside the track, the distance between them controls the maximum speed.
if the train detects the second too quickly after it detects first it applies the brakes.

they look like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Tp...

the wikipedia page has more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Protection_%26_Warning_S...

there's a more expensive system called ATP that is a lot more complicated (and had a limited rollout), and ECTS is coming...
"IRC is a little more difficult than Slack, but then again I don't know that most open source projects have much reason to interact with people who are not technical enough to connect an IRC client (at least in the scope of the project)."

And that attitude is why most people won't take open source seriously.
For many years, in the computer science lab at the college where I sort of work, there was a "serious joke" written on the wall which said, with much better wording and some math to back it up, that the difference between a mathematician and an engineer is that the former was more concerned that a probabilistic primality test could inherently fail while the latter was more concerned that even a guaranteed algorithm was actually more likely to return the wrong answer because the computer was hit by a cosmic ray while it was determining if the number were prime.
Keeps getting worse...
No, it's not the same order. 1/2^80 is the same order as the likelihood of as picking 1000 grains out of 1010, and I'm sure you'll agree that Sahara has more grains that 1010.

However, if you picked a single grain from Sahara desert, you'll be only 2 or 3 orders of magnitude off, so one could say that 2^-80 is only slightly easier than finding a particular grain in a Sahara desert.
Maybe they should spin off every area they operate in, into a separate company? Like Sports, Finance, Mail, etc.?
A primality certificate could be included that allows the prime to be verified quickly during the build. This certificate for the 2048-bit prime took 90 seconds to generate, and can be verified in 3 seconds.

http://web.mit.edu/andersk/Public/socat-prime.pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_certificate
No, and no.
In case SSL support is essential to you please know that we'll looking to bring it to _GitLab_ Pages in a few months https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/134
Sure, if you would have to take out loans to go to a top school, go to your state school. But many students don't have to take out loans (finaid?), and for them the elite schools are a better choice if they can get in.
My position is: even the intelligent life doesn't have to reach what some assume can be reached (Dyson spheres and stuff). We can't be sure we'll reach it until we reach it. Don't forget, there's enough nuclear weapons to roll us back to the prehistoric levels of existence. Don't forget the climate, etc. Before we land on any planet around any other star or have some other kind of proof, don't assume others do trivially.

And, even if the advancement is probable enough, be aware that the other civilizations don't have to have good intentions. Better avoiding signalling around.
> [...] 2down\9up [...] 150down\10up

the backslashes from hell

reminds me of, although not completely related

https://xkcd.com/727/

SCNR

PS: or, maybe he is a hardcore TeXnician, who knows.
Do they even measure clicks anymore? Isn't view throughs the new metric?
IIRC that was when reported earnings from mobile were higher than Wall Street expected. WS was expecting doom and gloom from mobile for a long time.
I don't know if this is the case, but I definitely understand how it could happen.

Chrome's Incognito mode has the exact behavior of not supporting things like session restore and closed tab reopening. It's kind of annoying for those of us who occasionally use Incognito windows like a convenient transient separate profile (specifically "give me a different cookie jar because some site's login is broken"), but I think the loss of functionality is worth it given what the mode is actually /for/.

It makes me wonder though if it'd be worthwhile having a mode that gives you a separate cookie jar but keeps the browser settings otherwise identical (bookmarks, suggest, etc). I suspect the distinction is too subtle for most people however.