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I think it depends on what value is expected from obtaining the physics knowledge...that is solving engineering problems is different from astronomy is different from becoming a more well rounded individual. The best approach to each entails different levels of formality as does the best approach to each for each individual.

What about physics interests you?
It's the option approach to equity valuation, which sees equity as a call option on a firm's assets. The strike is the firm's liabilities.
All true. But until word comes down from legal about what to say, you can't blame the PR flacks for saying nothing.
Fredkin's Paradox
FItts' Law partly explains why I prefer keyboard oriented interfaces.
> I'm sure the people setting up Fukushima thought they had a high-tech fail-safe plant that wasn't like the old designs

No, they thought they could site the backup diesel generators and switchgear behind a seawall that turned out not to be high enough when a tsunami came through. None of the issues at Fukushima had anything to do with the design of the reactor itself; in fact, the reactor was obviously significantly over-engineered given how well it withstood an extended loss of backup cooling.
That's the first time I ever heard anybody argue that Docker isn't monolothic. It does everything inside it's single daemon executable. Compare against Rocket, which doesn't use a daemon, and uses separate executables for different tasks and stages.
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$99 for a kitchen timer seems a bit steep.
For a Brit who's never been to the USA, please can you explain the unique (compared to UK supermarkets) factor(s) Trader Joe's has?

From elsewhere in the thread, I hear that they pretty much only sell their own brand - but that alone would make them similar to Marks and Spencer.
> If you have already MitM'ed someone, you can also modify the signature to match the payload.

Not without the signing key.
There could be races between PUT/DELETE.
There is no grantee how the retry was made.
The customer service rep might be spreading misinformation, true, but without attention or legal actions, odds are high we'd never know. Better put some pressure on them to actually give a true answer than assume they violate the license and quietly let them continue.
I think that with today's better tracking (gps etc) the procedure is to wait for rescue inside the bear and wolf-proof capsule. So the situation of being 'lost' in the wilderness is far less a worry.
Yes. Incorrectly implementing the HTTP spec is widespread though, I imagine especially with PUT.

People are writing custom HTTP application servers and making PUT do anything and everything. Idempotence doesn't usually enter the picture.
Wait, just got the subscription email.. Waiting :) I could use this.
> "remove anything made by kraft"

Oh, man. Story of my life: visit the US, go to a supermarket, grab a pack of cheese, bring it to the hotel, put some in my mouth, spit it out, notice the label: "cheese-like product made by kraft". Fly back to Europe, live happily for a few months, forget everything, visit the US again, repeat.
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Theft where someone is deprived of something unique (Grandpa's pocket watch) is fundamentally different than 'theft' where the original thing (a fact) is unharmed. When people 'steal' beer recipes or jokes, they erode exclusivity. They don't deprive someone of particular molecules.

That means, with some exceptions, to the extent that someone is harmed in information 'theft', it's that their business model was affected (I can't make as much money on Mickey Mouse cartoons!). It seems like a contradiction to me to call it 'capitalism' when government protects particular business models.

That's why I said I prefer to think of IP laws as 'corporatism'.

Sorry if I under-explained things.
That Aldi is not the same as the other Aldi. There are two independent Aldis (Nord and Süd) since the 60s, and typically only one of them is present in each country. The USA is an exception so one of them is called Trader Joe's.
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That is because Waahington DC is not an expression of a democratic mindset. It is borrowed, entirely Masonic and presciently crypto-fascist.
Conversely, I often think how lucky I am to have entered the industry at this point.

I learnt HTML by initially downloading websites using ctrl-s, and then editing them in notepad. I learnt HTML/CSS, and then JavaScript, and then other languages.

I had the advantage that I had a GUI text editor. While I'm now quite comfortable using VIM and command-line editors, I sometimes think if I had tried to become a developer before the advent of GUI editors the learning curve would have been too steep.

Perhaps under the hood things are more complex, but the interfaces have improved.
Will you please unblock my IP address / unshadowban me.

It happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487628

I wasn't involved with this nor care about it particularly.
You can never change the license of a work, you can only distribute your own changes under a difference license.
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it looks like it is his extension, he's committing to this repo if you look at the log. looks like it just moved to the Microsoft org (if it wasn't there already).
If you need to link your code against some GPL code, then your code is GPL. But in most cases, a program that runs in a Linux environment doesn't need to link against any GPL libraries.
This is the same thing since he works for Microsoft.
Another fun 'learn flexbox' games is Flexbox Froggy

http://flexboxfroggy.com
Making beer is pretty easy. I always tell people: if you can boil water, tell time and be clean, you can make beer. The clean part is the most important. Malt is a perfect medium to grow all kinds of critters and until the yeast have established themselves, there is risk of infection (no health risks, but funky flavors).

Recipes are equipment and process dependent, and don't scale in a perfectly linear fashion but those are refinement.

Grab a copy of Papazian's The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing and "relax, don't worry and have a homebrew"
A very important part of the obligations under the GPL is to make the recipient aware that they have a right to the source code and that they are allowed to modify it and redistribute it, whether you have modified it or not.
> 'immersive media' I am referring to the 360-degree omnidirectional dispersion pattern

Then that is splitting hairs over a definition of immersion, and quite unrelated to how the word was used in my original comment. Had I instead said "fully engrossed," my point would still hold, and you would not have one.

I understand you were being "super pedantic," but if you're going to do that, then you should be super precise in the pedantry, otherwise you're arguing a strawman.
It seems as if this is his Go extension, based on the VS Marketplace link and commit history. Microsoft probably just took over ownership to make it "official"
we're used to a lot, a few more is ok.

Burn rate, churn, runway, incubator, cottage, organic, stale, etc
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This is beyond the scope of my knowledge so maybe it's a stupid question, but why doesn't space debris deorbit on its own like anything else not in geostationary orbit?
Isn't that because you're voting? As in, the delay might be intentionally built in, to give votes a chance to come in.
And your point is? A suggestion to switch to BSD and jails for an average user of Docker is laughable.
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What's stopping people from accidentally ordering things with this thing? Could I go into somebody's house that has one of these devices setup and say "Alexa, order some breast clamps" ?
I used to set my alarm for 7am. Now I have a cat who feels 6:50am is more appropriate and is incredibly accurate in his ability to tell me it is that time.
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uBlock Origin + enabling "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek" 3rd-party filter allows me to see all wired.com content.

I found out about this in a comment here on HN, so I'm passing on the knowledge.
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So instead of a free epub, I should spend $199 on this other book. Do you have any financial ties to the link to disclose?
Thank you very much. This has given me a lot of food for thought. I hadn't ever considered TOR for NAT traversal for a start.
Looking through the user's Github account, they have a history of contacting customer support representatives of companies and threatening to post the transcripts to Hacker News if their specific legal concerns are not addressed:

https://gist.github.com/duncan-bayne/74d6e38c506000982237
I find it funny that README refer syntax highlighting as "colorization".
TJs is a blessing for a vegetarian though, as they have a variety of options places like Target and GEagle doesn't offer.

Even more so when you're in Ohio...
The GPL is essentially pay-it-forward; any rights you receive must be passed along to anyone who gets a copy of the work (or of a derivative).

That means it's perfectly fine to take a GPL work and modify it without giving the source to anyone, as long as you also don't give binaries to anyone. And if you're distributing binaries privately with just a few people/companies, you also don't need to publish the source publicly, only to those few who got the binaries.

EDIT: Of course, you can't prevent those few from redistributing it publicly themselves.
No, not at all.

Think about the technology adoption curve, as seen in Crossing the Chasm. It's not the job, or even the goal, of a person creating a new technology to convince everybody. At any moment, a small portion of people are open to changing their minds on a given thing. Mostly, they do what they grew up with, or what the people around them are doing.

The same is generally true socially. Consider this graph:

http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...

Now subtract the death rate from that graph. If you do, you'll see that a relatively small number of people changed their minds at any given point. Much of the change comes because old bigots died off, taking their retrograde opinions to the grave with them.

So basically, an activist who wants to change minds, like a technology marketer, shouldn't focus their efforts on convincing everybody. Persuasive efforts are best spent on the people who are most ready to change. Which in my experience is generally the person listening carefully, not the guy who runs up to shout, "No, you're doing it all wrong. Do it my way."
This was in 2003 or 2004
How is this any more invasive than what FB/Google knows about us?
this should already be possible for a 3rd party to build with Alexa Voice Service. would be really neat to see.

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...
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I don't own one of these devices, yet I'm curious, can you "modify the device's name"? I mean, what if someone in the household has the name Alexa. No, not you Alexa, the other Alexa. Alexa do your homework. Alexa take out the garbage.
'Discredited' is a strong term, but the problem is that many people, even senior Nazis, made similar arguments. Read, for example, Eichmann in Jerusalem to see an account from a senior member of the SS making a similar explanation when justifying why he managed transportation of Jews to concentration camps. The world's reaction has been to universally reject such arguments, which may be unfair in any particular case but is necessary for a proper accounting of war crimes.
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That matches a lot of my experience. I created a bunch of those lines floating on the screen which never failed to impress classmates who didn't frequent the computer lab and were stuck doing "write a program to calculate compound interest".

My neatest trick at that point was to make a 'fake' pre-loader where the progress bar showed a fake percentage with a cool graphic. My next 'impress project' was build a menu in QBasic
where you could use the arrow keys on the keyboard to graphically move the highlighter on a menu. Almost everyone else at that time was doing menu selection pressing the number of the menu item. At that point I thought of it myself since there wasn't any internet in our lab so I still feel really good about it :) It also got me a spot on our school programming team primarily because no one else did the menu as quickly as I could then.

I'd like to think that I'm an interaction designer today partly because of the feedback and enjoyment I got out of doing projects like that.
I use two AirPort Extremes (one is actually a Time Capsule). I've never had an issues with it and my wi-fi performance is very good, Since I have a multiple Macs in my household, the automatic backups when connected to the network is very nice.
Is this something you could fairly easily transfer to other sports? Seems like adding something like basketball or American football could help increase revenue and attract a new market.

Might be easier said that done but wanted to mention in case it was something you hadn't thought of.
Great hack! Little stories like these are my favorite part of the programming community. More or less pointless (no way to make a startup out of this) but deeply funny.
Can you explain your position to me? I can understand somebody who dislikes systemd and dislikes docker. I can understand somebody who likes both systemd and docker. But disliking systemd but liking docker? That I don't understand. Any effective criticism of systemd that I've heard generally can also be applied to docker.

Like yours: "I wonder if systemd is actually a part of big plan of moving everyone to microservices and containers and maybe even unikernels" works even better if you replace systemd with docker.
No comparison. Italian Fascist architecture was graceful [1][2][3].

[1]:https://static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pic...

[2]: http://41.media.tumblr.com/9b6cfa0be5785abbfb2c8e107cbb1565/...

[3]: http://s4.thingpic.com/images/ho/S4VCpGhFJtXuBJVU5aY7ZKhR.jp...
Will this be for enterprise use only or any developer will have access to it?
Wood actually has great properties re fire and heat. It doesn't conduct heat very well. In a fire, the outer surfaces turn to ash, allowing the structure to survive for a time at temperatures that would melt steal instantly.
If everyone needed to have the same level of understanding of all of the technology they used, we would never get technological progress.
supervisord specifically documents that it's not an init and shouldn't be used as an init, that's the second paragraph of its home page: http://supervisord.org/index.html?highlight=init
Please, remember that we literally live on solar energy. That's what we eat. And that's also the most promising alternative from the global warming causing fossil fuels.

So, please, don't take the solar energy away.
Any reason Echoes couldn't communicate with each other? I envision my friend and I own an Echo. I could say "Alexa, call Joe". We could talk to each other through the Echo over the internet.
I like VS Code a lot. It is cross platform and not too heavy. It has a lot of the modern features and look/feel. Don't have to load 50 million plugins to get something reasonable working. I've pretty much stopped using vim/emacs/notepad++ and numerous other editors though occasionally I use vim because I'm on a ssh connection. To me it seems the right balance between complexity and simplicity.
I see thanks. Now wonder how they pick up where it left off :-))
Thanks I'll take a look. I'm interested to find out if I can make my current queries faster.
> First of all a shadow can be cast using very very light-weight material

Not in space. Unless the material is an absolutely perfect reflector across the entire EM spectrum, which simply isn't possible, any structure would melt pretty much instantly. You'd have to make radiators that are as big or bigger than the shade structure in order to radiate that heat away and you'd have to make the entire structure much bigger than the shade part because otherwise you'd just be radiating the absorbed heat back at the Earth.
Actually a lot of them are to be missed, they are famous for going with every crazy idea and many beers are completely panned.
Thanks for the explanation. As an ESL English speaker, this has a tendency to get me confused.
Indeed! Good thinking. Rebuild dam and city. Funded by US loans of course.
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pretty sure it's this: http://www.magnetimarelli.com/excellence/technological-excel...

can't find the source for it though.
55 gallon drum of personal lubricant, please and thank you. Wait, make that 2 drums.
> You can also modify the checksum to match the payload.

FTFY. :)

I don't know yet if these files are signed or even checksum'd. If I get to the bottom of this discussion without finding that someone has downloaded the .bin and checked, I'll hang my head and get back to the day job.
If you are talking in practice - can someone sue BMW and force them to release the modified versions - I think you're right, but one can still get an injunction preventing them from distributing any more copies of the work. Which means no more cars with that firmware; not a happy prospect for BMW!
Michael Herf should build a version of flux that actually changes the color of the night sky, at night.
If you scroll down, just the book is $39.
What successful company has Taber solo founded? The about section on that marketing page doesn't really inspire me to fork over $199.
Yup, I can remember several companies settling and being forced to comply for violations of busybox GPL'd code in the US off the top of my head - Verizon, Extreme Networks and Xterasys. There are likely quite a few other examples of GPL being successfully enforced.
its to add more 0's later.
Well yeah I guess so :P but I can still wish it were otherwise!
Is this an argument against my point? I'm not unwilling to pay for a tool -- I've even paid for Sublime which is free unless you choose to pay. Is there a reason I should feel compelled to pay for a tool, given a comparable free alternative?
I use Evernote. There are better tools for organization and prioritization, but I find that I get distracted by those things. So, I take it down in Evernote (or a Field Notes book if I'm AFK) so that my thought doesn't get interrupted by shiny things, then I copy it to Asana if it's work-related or just leave it in Evernote if it's a personal thought.
Yep, type in Trader Joe's and get a map to the nearest direction. Excellent outcome for a retail establishment.
Without going into too many details, something like this is used in the book Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstorm_(novel)
This essentially became the laser of death the other day and lead to cascading failure which eventually brought down our system. That's why I'm posting this.

Very few people know about this and it's really scary. I'm happy people are voting this up to increase some awareness of this.

Potential workarounds: You might think disabling `proxy_next_upstream timeout` will do, but that will also disable connection timeout retry which is not what you want!

Increasing `proxy_connect_timeout` is not an option, because then you risk filling up too many connections in the nginx instance if the upstream server swallows SYN packets or whatnot.

The real workaround: Use haproxy. Serioously.
Looks like it's an old naming convention of theirs:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173075(v=vs.80).a...

At least as far back as Visual Studio 2005.
"Black Lives Matter" is not an argument, its a rallying cry. They serve substantially different purposes. (Activists in the BLM movement make many arguments, but "Black Lives Matter" isn't one of them -- insofar as it has a structural relationship to the arguments, its a statement of a key uniting element of the moral foundation on which the arguments are based.)
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Poster of embrace the community.

They don't have to embrace the change they have other options. What bothers me is they chose to shoot down everything and anything that has systemd in it out in the public. Just leave the fight and just embrace your choice and allow others to have their choice and don't pee on their parade.
I agree the real issue is the push to grow. there is an optimum size for everything and the irrational drive to make everything as big as possible has caused us to loose a lot of great things.
Any reason why Echoes couldn't communicate with other Echoes? My friend and I own Echoes. I could say "Alexa, call Joe" Joe and I could talk to each other through the Echoes over the internet.
Huh, didn't know. Thanks for pointing that out!
Apparently adding a solid white layer as the upper-most layer will sometimes reduce overall file size.
How else can one get in touch with a megacorp?
Well we can look at it in one of two ways. You can look at a situation, and ask for all of the options, and their costs and benefits. So that when someone asks "why didn't you do this" or "what if we did such-and-such", you can say that we looked into it and the costs were too high, see report #JF0032-7. Or you can always look for the most evil intent in everything, which may say more about you than the world.
They don't want them to stay closed should they be covered by a tree branch or clump of Siberian mud. The explosive opening breaks metal bolt holding the plate on, bolts strong enough to prevent any accidental opening during landing/crashing. And, no explosives means no moving parts to get stuck.
From an American who's been to Trader Joe's a lot and a Marks and Spencer grocery exactly once, I think they are pretty comparable except that the food items are more aligned with their respective nation's typical dietary preferences.
Really? Both you and another commenter said as much, but I've never seen this problem, or known anyone who experienced that across probably a dozen people I've worked with over the span of three (?) years. I'm actually not even sure what options you could use that would cause that. Do you have examples?
In hindsight it all sounds amazing and ignoring the spy-possibilties, it gets old fast. I don't use Siri, and I can do alot of this with it. But since I got the first Siri enabled device, I've used it mostly just for joking around and my daughter asks her hockey scores. That's the extent of it.
Simply put: Because my mom was excited about the store before I was... It's simply not cool to shop there.