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Isn't it a bit early for April Fools?

In all seriousness, our team had a discussion about respecting "Do Not Disturb" mode, and it works very well since it a) notifies everyone that you're ignoring them because you're, to quote the article, "getting some fucking work done". And b) aggregates your notifications for you when you come back up for air, allowing you to easily catch back up on what you missed.
Perhaps you missed the "Further Reading" section at the top, because it's right there.
tl;dr They can look for the wrong things, very quickly.

This is the classic http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/11/better-light/
Thanks for this. Brings back wonderful memories of the biomechanics courses I took way back in college.

I recall with glee the shock of recognition that all creatures live in moving fluids -- and our experiences are delineated merely by relative sizes and viscosities.

Maybe it's nerdy to say so, but it was definitely one of the top ten epiphanies of my life, and definitely helped me feel more connected to the natural world.
Not quite. I block javascript with NoScript. I block many third-party requests with RequestPolicy. I block webfonts with uBlock. I have disabled anti-aliasing/font smoothing (almost completely) in Windows.

Some websites make me glad Palemoon still has the View -> Page Style -> No Style option. I do admit a day may come when I do disable CSS once and for all.
> your obtuse fixation

Uh huh.

You're the one trying to go down a rathole. The point is soldiers have it better than the civilians because they have more choice, more is always better even if it isn't great.

> conscripts are obliged to murder the people conscripting them in order to avoid

You see, this is you moving the goalposts. This is merely one of the choices, the extreme one.

And it's not as much an obligation as a right. Slavers are morally abhorrent and conscripts are slaves. Slaves always have a right to escape and no number of slaver deaths is ever a bad thing.

The obligation comes in when they're actually given the illegal orders as nothing forgives the crimes they commit. Ultimately all responsibility for their actions is theirs.

> hypothetical future scenario in which they might be ordered to kill civilians

In the Vietnam example that wasn't hypothetical - it was evening news. And the war was started on false information from our own government so it wasn't legitimate even if the targets were military.

> Sorry, but taking out the word "easily"

You aren't sorry, the whole "easily" was your invention in the first place.

> doesn't make the argument that prospective conscripts have more agency

Actually, it does. In the American wars where we've drafted people the draftees have always had considerable rights (travel, etc) before actually being inducted. And certainly more than the Vietnamese - even taking wealth into account.

> can buy a civilian firearm (unlike civilians [in the victim country]?!)

Had Americans taken up arms to stop the war it would have stopped without going to Vietnam, or would have come home quickly. If Vietnamese had taken up arms ... we'd have burned their entire village to the ground anyways.

Our conscripts have more agency.

> any less silly.

Or any less right.

> And no, soldiers generally ordered to follow a particular course of action on pain of death

At worst they're holding a gun. They can take their officer out - the one ordering the illegal actions, rather than performing the illegal actions.

And they usually have a lot of advance warning before being inducted, let alone shot at. Time to flee, or shoot themselves in the foot, or just protest and go to jail, or - yes - to fight back at home rather than abroad. But if you force the discussion to the ridiculous point where they're already on the battlefield, being ordered to fire into a village, before they consider any of this, then yes they're morally required to go to ridiculously painful lengths to avoid killing.

If someone kidnaps you and orders you to kill someone else, or he'll kill you, you're still morally and legally culpable if you pull the trigger.

Why do you think soldiers shouldn't be held to the same standard?
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How can you have alcohol without eventual fatalities? Same way that a bar's liability insurance covers negligence regarding e.g. drunk patrons they serve.
it was implied in point 3, but yes, and (implied in point 5)... know how to do this for physical servers too. i.e. the machines that are actually doing the computing that everyone thinks is happening 'in the cloud'.

i.e., how do you assembly-line build an entire rack or cage without manually installing any software? it's not easy. in fact it's very hard, probably even the most advanced groups require some manual intervention or at least some manual troubleshooting every once in a while.
> They didn't just offer a different pricing model, they colluded to get the whole market to raise ebook prices in all venues.

Really? I'm pleading ignorance here but, for example, how could Apple's actions be considered collusion with Amazon (by itself a huge part of the market).
Tobacco, sugar, and alcohol are legal in part because of their long history of use within the US and the practical difficulties of prohibiting them.

Illegal drugs also have a long history of use, in all walks of society. Many of them, like cocaine and opiates and to a lesser extent cannabis, had widespread use before their prohibition. Further, if the laws had been written with respect for history, they should have accounted for the disaster that was the prohibition of alcohol.

It's the consent that a mugger elicits when he convinces his victims to hand over their money to avoid being stabbed.

No that's a different dynamic. The victim didn't want to be in that confrontation. More, nobody could rationally consent to that since it's dangerous and a net loss. The dynamics of a drug sale are more like the scenarios I listed. But more importantly, if a person is an adult and consensually buys an addictive drug with full knowledge of the addictive properties, then they are consenting to not just that purchase but also all future purchases that they may be physically compelled to make. As for people who were not made aware of the risks or were introduced to the drug as children (a class that could be decimated by legalization), there's a stronger argument that they might not be able to give consent, but they're going to be making the purchase regardless.
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OT but Servers for Hackers was a great resource for me when learning Ansible - kudos.
Armed police for truancy - sounds great. Glad your government always knows whats best, otherwise that's a frightening prospect.
If you really want to know, there's enough articles available on Google from the past several years to make it crystal clear. My above is the condensed version. None of the things you bring up are correct.
Ask HN: Question on applying to Google/Facebook
Hi HN,
I am applying to Google and Facebook. I work in the bay area for one the well known tech company.

Problem is that, I have never received interest from google or Facebook in he the past.

I applied to Facebook last weekend and I even didn't receive any confirmation email as well. Is this common ? How do I get my resume in front of hiring manager at least ?

I don't mean to be rude or imply anything , but it seems that unless you went to top Ivy League school there is no way these Google/Facebook is willing to consider you.

I have an engineering degree from India and a few certifications from reputed universities in US, but I don't have masters degree due to cost reason. I code everyday and have taught myself quite a lot as opposed to attending grad school. I am trying for analytics position as opposed to SWE position.

Kindly suggest if there is anything I should put on my resume or change it such a way that at least I get interview opportunity.
_ugh_ Juniper Networks is on that list.

Maybe we need start avoiding their products. :(
Can you share any links which cover the more general and powerful approach in detail?
I don't really know why I would choose to use sql server if I wasn't already locked in to MS as a vendor. Is the idea that it gives people the ability to move away from MS if they already have vendor lock in? Or is it to hopefully compete against eg Oracle.
It's definitely common for IT staffing costs to increase rather than decrease with a cloud transition, at least so far. Part of the problem is that you often are trading off sysadmins (relatively cheap) for engineers (relatively expensive), as you reengineer your system to run on top of ephemeral, distributed cloud servers, with new failure cases and new technology stacks. This is often justified on the basis that a large chunk is one-time engineering cost that will pay for itself in the long run. But that's a speculative bet, especially considering how much technology churn is happening so far (e.g. a bunch of companies that invested heavily in early 2010s cloud stacks are now re-investing in Docker). It's possible things will stabilize enough for such companies to eventually lay off many of their distributed-systems engineers and devops staff, and go more into cloud-autopilot mode with low IT headcount and lower staffing cost than pre-cloud-transition. But I don't think many companies are there yet, and I wouldn't bet a lot of money on it myself.
Apple used MFN to ensure that nobody sold the same books for less, fixing prices at a higher level.
The future of the cloud is consumer /mobile/desktop devices. The big data centers will be outdated within five or so years.
I'm not great at following this advice myself, but most of what I've read seems to indicate that the best way to actually find product market fit is to talk to potential customers and ask them non-leading questions about what their problems really are, rather than just trying to figure it out in your head.
Apply to Y Combinator?
17 days left to YC application deadline, being non-technical founder, what is the process like being accepted? Any info keys would help me apply to YC.
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Amazon uses MFN to be able to match the lowest price available. Apple uses MFN to fix prices so that nobody sells the same titles for less than they do.
If the law is stupid then congress should cancel (delete?) it. Don't allow big guys avoid them but the little guy with no lawyers on retainer has to follow then.
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I've seen US-grown wasabi at some specialty stores in San Francisco.

It looks like there's actually a farm in Half Moon Bay producing it: http://www.foodgal.com/2014/04/californias-only-grower-of-re...
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MS SQL does support XML types / allow you to use XPath in your queries.
To my knowledge it doesn't do JSON; but its easy to convert between the two.

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2012/04/27/sql-server-introduct...
I am not an iOS developer with much experience. I have taken one class and built two very simple apps. So I can't weigh in on how good of an idea this is from an iOS developer standpoint.

But I can say from a beginner to iOS standpoint that this looks amazing and I will put it to use in an app I am building immediately, as soon as I can figure out how.

To the author of this library, thank you.
Yup. It looks like some warez/reverse kiddy has found a way to get a few backlinks from HN.
Are you arguing that sexual dysfunction is not a worthy condition to treat? I would argue it has severe psychological ramifications and a negative impact on people's lives. As much as dying from cancer? No. But not something you can ignore.

We've made tremendous strides over the past two decades in treating severe diseases. Look at drugs like Imbruvica, Harvoni, Kadcyla. Women with stage 4 breast cancer can now expect to live 3 to 5 years with their disease vs. dying within a year. Tremendous progress. Just because "lesser" drugs are being developed doesn't change that.

And you'll have to explain Rexulti and Abilify to me. Abilify isn't an antidepressant, it's an antipsychotic. My other comment is that treating psychological conditions is incredibly hard. The placebo effect is a huge issue with clinical trials whether or not for-profit companies run them.

And as for "me-too" drugs that you mentioned, they have value to. Jenkins from the FDA actually stated we need more of them, not less.[1] Yes, a new drug might only be a small tweak of an existing drug, but all humans aren't the same. A patient may not be able to take an older version, but the me-too works for them. That has added value.

And as for "conning" doctors or patients in buying drugs they don't need, I don't have a lot of sympathy. Doctors are the final decision makers on what drugs are prescribed. If they don't do their homework and just prescribe something because they like the sales rep, that's on them.

[1]http://www.pharmexec.com/fda-more-me-betters-and-focused-bre...

“Choice is a good thing,” Jenkins commented, as later drugs in a class often enhance safety or efficacy for certain individuals. The move away from “me-too” drugs, he said, is “not necessarily good for public health.”
The immersive experience they created was next level. Hope we learn from this and the next generation of design is only better.
My point is that the little guy gets destroyed in the same situation whereas the big guy gets way with it.
Originally linked in this thread [1] by floatrock

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11238640
The dude that made it? The copyright expired a while ago then...
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Fair point. I consider myself both. I'm currently a programmer, but at one point, I was working on a neuroscience PhD, so I've been on both sides of this. The messiness of the data was part of the reason I personally left academia, but I saw people doing good work and trying to sift truth from mud, so these sorts of comments irk me.
Personally I'd say the consequences of Banqiao are at least as long-lived as the previously-expected remaining lifespans of its 175,000 victims.
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How did it "ensure"? The publishers were absolutely able to sell at Amazon and Apple for 9.99 if they wanted, but they didn't.

The publishers even before Apple arrived tried various steps to change their deals with Amazon and let it sell for more, they just haven't had any negotiation power.

From the court document:

"Well aware of the Publishers’ experimentation with windowing, Apple also told Publishers that it opposed windowing; it believed that withholding e-books alienated customers and led to piracy."

It was one attempt of the publishers before.
One difference here which might give you an idea of where to place your bets is that the conservative opposition to global warming is based largely on studies financed by the energy industry. The willpower research is being called into question by researchers who don't have a link to any industry with a vested interest in the outcome.

Is this an airtight argument? No. There is still the possibility that global warming research has analogous methodological issues. But the conflict of interest definitely raises the burden of proof.

An additional difference is that climatology research is much better founded than willpower research is. Psychology is notoriously tricky to test since you can't break apart a brain and watch all the parts interacting. Compared to psychology, the systems that climatologists study are downright simple, and we have good models of how the systems behave.
As I understand it:

So let's say there's 6 major publishers because I'm too lazy to look up the correct number. If apple had approached one of them individually and offered them the same deal and they had agreed everything would have been fine. But individually it looks pretty bad. The result would be that on Amazon (where 90% of the sales come from) the one publishers books would be available for $12.99 and 5 other publishers books would be available for $9.99 and they wouldn't compete. So individually the publishers would have turned them down. The illegal part comes in where Apple tells the publisher "Don't worry, we have talked to all the other publishers and they've agreed to the same deal so you won't have to worry about competing." Just like it would be illegal for all the CEOs to get together and agree on one price. It's not suddenly legal just because a third party is facilitating the price fixing.
> Amazon sold many of the most popular e-books at a loss

Does Amazon also sell books at a loss?

I understand that the price of something isn't determined by the costs of the inputs, but ebooks are often more expensive than having Amazon retrieve a paperback from their warehouse, put it in a box, then pay UPS to bring it to my front door.

Is it possible that an ebook at $9.99 is sold for a loss while the paperback for $8.99 is profitable?
Because unless an unknown method of privilege elevation was used, it doesn't make sense. Do you throw a pinch of table salt over your shoulder as well? It also has a very strong Microsoft smell to it, where instead of doing root cause analysis on why Windows is misbehaving - you just reboot and cross your fingers.
Such things exist. See OSHA's "Voluntary Protection Program". [1]

[1] https://www.osha.gov/dcsp/compliance_assistance/index_progra...
Verizon's net income for fiscal 2015 was $17.8 billion -

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=VZ&annual

The best numbers I can locate indicate Verizon Wireless is generating well over $20 billion per year in operating income.

Out of their nearly $18b in net income the last four quarters, wireless would pretty much have to be 75%-90% of that. The numbers before the Vodafone / VZ Wireless sale, indicated the wireless division was a huge share of their income.
SQLServer is super Win32 specific, even to the extent of using undocumented Windows APIs (I think the canonical example is NtReadFileScatter and NtWriteFileScatter, which are more flexible than the documented ReadFileScatter and WriteFileScatter wrappers; I wouldn't be surprised if it uses many more undocumented calls).

SQLOS isn't an abstraction layer over the operating system necessarily. It's more of an abstraction over the _machine_ that allows scaling between 8GB and 512+GB of RAM, 4 to 64+ cores, etc.

That said, since SQLOS does handle all memory management and file I/O for SQLServer, it probably did make porting slightly easier.
Humor is fine on Hacker News if done properly and in a way that is conductive to the conversation. (For a recent example, see the first line of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240625 )

There's a big difference between good satire and bad satire, and it's very hard to do satire well without training.
>Unless I've read patently false accounts of the behavior, discussions, and conduct of Steve Jobs on behalf of Apple circa the iBooks store preparation and roll-out, this is one of the most laughably false statements that a lawyer has put to paper in 2016.

You've probably indeed heard patently false accounts.

What practice exactly do you think constituted price-fixing, based on the accounts you've read?
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And Microsoft SQL Server is a descendant on Sybase since SQL Server 6, after Microsoft purchased the source code.
Apple was a participant in the conspiracy. The publishers all settled a long time ago though.
Show HN: Rust chat client (with GUI) and server on Mac and FreeBSD using WebSockets
I'm learning Rust and put this together from sample code over a few days. Rust is incredibly fun (I normally work with Go and Swift). My goal is to see if I can put the client on a development board running xBSD and use a touchscreen for input.

Client
https://github.com/zkirill/thor

Server
https://github.com/zkirill/odin

You need Rust 1.7.0 and Cargo 0.9.0 to compile. The package for FreeBSD doesn't currently go that high so you need to use a port (instructions at https://gist.github.com/zkirill/4fb42b4ba4b7cc58c4f0)

Packages of interest:

* IO (epoll, kqueue) used by the server to handle many WebSocket connections on the same thread. See bottom of the MIO README for performance comparisons to other implementations: https://github.com/carllerche/mio

* WebSocket server dependent MIO: https://github.com/housleyjk/ws-rs

* WebSocket client: https://github.com/cyderize/rust-websocket

* GUI (connects to X or Wayland): https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod
> I think where people are less able to self segregate ....

Texan here (of the politically-moderate-to-liberal variety). Honest question: How would you keep people from self-segregating --- especially when parents want to live in the best school-district neighborhoods they can afford.

(Texas, by the way, has a "Robin Hood" plan for funding schools, where wealthier districts must give part of their property-tax money to support poorer districts. This, incidentally, was due to a decision of the STATE supreme court, not the U.S. Supreme Court, back in the days before the Republican Party came to dominate state politics. [0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_plan
None of those are alternatives that make sense with fibromyalgia. I could see them for lower back pain.

The thing with fibro is that pain causes reactions that make fibro worse, such as sleep deprivation.

Opiates can break this cycle through a short term course.
How was it a participant if it just opened its store under a different model from Amazon in order to attract the publishers? Even the model wasn't invented by Apple:

"Hachette and later HarperCollins surprised Apple with their suggestion that, instead of a wholesale model, Apple adopt an agency model for the distribution of e-books."

It sounds like http://www.indiana.edu/~p1013447/dictionary/nomfall.htm (They "conspired" because we call them "participants.") It doesn't actually prove anything.
If you ask me the best response was the officer who told his commander he "didn't trust his command and control".

In my mind this indicates someone who is aware of the issue, and is already taking action to work around the problem - which in the military mind was not that some computers were hacked, it was that C3 mechanisms couldn't be counted on.

Fortunately the military trains officers to deal with decision-making in ambigious situations and creating workarounds when taking battle damage. I'll be willing to bet the next sentence in that message was a suggestion for how he would proceed.
I find it strange that something akin to markdown-style syntax sugar is more user-friendly than a visual designer. Do the tools for developing a UI for iOS this way not include a WYSIWYG editor to set things such as contraints?
Please expand on this.
Not having the time/money to travel to meet customers in person and gauge their interest in ideas or products seems to be a lot bigger limiting factor in successful startup formation than not knowing how to code or other technical skillsets (such as design).

There's been a lot of criticism of the tech startup industry for focusing on problems only young people in SF/NYC have, or that only engineers have, but actually going deep in an area we're not already familiar with seems logistically and financially impractical for most people.
"Batched calls are accounted for as multiple operations." - https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/pricing
Out of curiosity, is the downvote because of my tendency to dismiss conservative critiques? Or because I wonder if that tendency might be wrong?