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Great community spirit there, fella.
Larger projects tend to have more dependencies too, so why not rail against large projects?
It seems the problem is finding 5,000 people to pay you even $1.
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There are many assumptions and a story built on assumptions in the quote you mentioned.

Like, only elements we know about exist, and no matter what conditions might be carbon is an absolute must for life.
I don't think you're trying to be hard. I think you're trying to rep San Francisco as hard, to sell a narrative of the city as a place so beset by crime and class conflict† that responsible residents all follow a code. Knowing that code, any responsible white dude should know that letting his dog off the leash could end in someone losing their life.

What I have a problem with are stories with "good guys" and "bad guys". Very few stories are really like that, despite what Solnit so obviously wants you to believe. There's just tragedy layered on top of tragedy. There are injustices to be found, but they're probably not the ones you want --- the injustice isn't "white dude didn't follow the sacred white dude code", but rather "we give all the police firearms and put them in situations where they'd need to be superhuman to forestall tragedy", or "our care for the mentally ill is fucking appalling".

I don't care why Eric Snow is in San Francisco. He's a racist gun enthusiast. I'm never going to be his friend. But I also don't feel like I have any right to tell him where to live, and I don't feel like you do either.

And he sure as shit didn't kill anyone that day.

I'm "Thomas", by the way. :)

† We can both name cities that are really like that.
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If you're on Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
Here [1], under "WARNING (Windows & OS X)", there're several links to bug reports on VBox and Mongo trackers.

[1] https://hub.docker.com/_/mongo
You can label anything a freedom.
Kids these days. You could replace ALL of this dynamic content with a static page that says:

Use the language that's right for the job.

You don't even need Javascript!
I'm kinda puzzled there is nothing in-between a C dialect and Java for desktop applications.
I can only speak for my own experience, but I was one of the "nerdiest" students in a school of ~2500 and never once felt physically threatened or faced physical bullying of any sort. And having gone to a top tier exclusively engineering school with a student body of people like me afterwards, I never once heard of someone having to deal with it either. I got picked on and bullied plenty, but never anything even resembling a physical threat.
You could always compute a geohash and use that as a shard key... I'm not familiar enough with Citus' specific approach here, but using a limited geohash would give you close to what you're looking for.
I cannot wait to get home to play with this!

If I were a 12 year old girl I would be "squee-ing" right now. Ok, I'm lying - I'm a 40 year old man actively Squee-ing over this.

:)

It really plays nicely into my "weekend-project" plans to write a fully containerized architecture based in dotnet-core.
But you can install brew in a subdir. For some projects i do exactly that. Project/.brew. I have a project/bin/activate which puts ./.brew/bin in your path. And there you go: postgres9.5 for this project and postgres 9.2 for that project. Still no isolation though. And having pg installed in a docker image is not a good example... But you getthe point :)
The previous incident seems irrelevant to the behavior of the actors in the situation in question.

I personally have problems with eyewitness testimony in general. Uncorroborated testimony of the defendants...
This is exactly correct. We're really enjoying working with the Hypervisor.framework, VMnet.framework, and all the various hooks Apple has exposed for apps like Docker for Mac. There are some bugs in the short-term, but Apple has been steadily addressing our Radar bugs and we have workarounds in place in the Application for the most annoying ones.
It's like 30ms which is completely unacceptable.

As for your workarounds, for real time software, these workarounds are too nondeterministic. Real time is one of the primary features, so you need very predictable performance, and that implies having direct control over things like memory.
For example, the view that people should be prevented from earning a living if they have the wrong political opinions.
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Location density of the deliveries has got to have a massive impact on their effectiveness. I'm highly skeptical of their ability gather groceries and deliver to 5 separate locations within 1 hour. Even in a dense area where it's 5 minutes between each location (plus parking, plus entry / exit and delivery) that's 25 minutes minimum.

The longer the time, the lower the $/Hr. The further away the locations are, the higher the transportation costs are for the driver, further cutting into their actual take home pay (not including, miles, depreciation, insurance, etc...).

Instead of making deliveries after the order (and trying to bundle orders and deliveries), I would think a dispatch model where one set of workers go out in the morning and make the orders and deliver to a central location. Then have a second shift make deliveries, but that would make it difficult to maintain the independent contract status of their workers.
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If you choose what to filter, or even to filter nothing at all, this is freedom in that regard.
Reminds me of conversations I've had with people who don't understand how tax brackets and insurance premiums work. They get angry and scared based on their own flawed perspective. Everything the author cited looks like standard practice, just slightly obfuscated by legal language.
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And who monitors your company monitors? :)
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That would be fun if a company named Left Pad asked to get this domain like Kik did at the beginning of all this.
I haven't tried the Android emulator recently, but I am interested in deploying Facebook's Infer tool on our codebase (and they've got a Docker container too for it of course). So I've filed an internal bug for us to look into HAXM and figure out if it plays well with Docker for Mac/Windows. Thanks for the pointer!
The mobile freemium model is exactly why I am so averse to spending money on mobile games. If I could spend $5 for a game and know that it is both worthwhile and fully available, I would do so. Instead, I've become cynical enough that I rarely bother unless the game is well-reviewed by sources I trust.

There are examples of games that got the freemium model right and are fairly successful as a result, and the pattern is always the same: start with a game with a fun core gameplay loop, do not gate gameplay content or progression behind paywalls, let players spend money on cosmetic/status symbols, or to more quickly progress in areas that could also be progressed more slowly without spending.

Warframe and Path of Exile do this and are seeing a good amount of success as a result.
I'm always surprised at how common this is. You check out some repository, and it ends up having to fetch more stuff from all over creation. Whether it's just git submodules or some more sophisticated dependency manager, it seems like an obviously bad idea.

It's OK if they're pulling from other repositories you own, but requiring external repositories as part of the checkout process seems like an obvious point of failure. There's all sorts of possibilities for malicious activities, and just plain downtime will affect you too. Storage is cheap, so it seems like there ought to be no reason not to pull in external dependencies and save them locally. Dependency managers should support and encourage this rather than defaulting to just referencing some random stuff off in space.
> "... the report looked at over 40 free-to-play games through February 2016, analyzing the uses of more than 20 million players."

If they're looking at 40 games with 20 million players during one month, they're looking at a specific class of mobile games, not mobile games at large.

Also,

> "A new report is highlighting that risk, showing that almost half of all the revenue generated in mobile gaming comes from just 0.19 percent of users. That means the other 99.81 percent of users aren’t worth anything money-wise to the creators."

Uh, aren't they worth 'half'?

edit: anecdotally, I've probably spent about $100 in the past year on random puzzle games that probably don't end up on the top of lists. Not sure how weird/errant I am though.
Billy can also take a CS class or two.

Those DOS hex dumps meant nothing to me until I had a couple of microcontrollers and CPU architecture classes under my belt.

Like you, I'm also nostalgic about those error dumps and tinkering. But I also don't remember a single time when my reaction was more than "Oh neat, I understand my CPU did an error. reboot"
This is the sort of thing someone like Blendle could choose to do. After all, just because content is payed by the piece doesn't mean content creators must be.
Personally I feel that both Play and App stores are partially to blame for this.

The stores really reward clickbait games and make it nearly impossible to discover good/serious games.
For me - neither.

But if I'd be tied in into Amazon's cloud infrastructure, I would have to use many of their features going against my rules above.
Funny that "Read a book" and "Learn something" are the lead suggestions from a person binge watching friends. (Even the third, "buy less shit", from a person with apparently a TV and netflix subscription).
Of course I would never create a dependency on a small module like left-pad. I would simply copy the function wholesale into the body of my code!
Same here on all counts. Without actual numbers, I have a hard time believing the previous assertion as anything more than anecdotal (as is my statement).
Would kickstart lemonade.
Here's another one, which works with the awesome hckrnews.com: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...
Actually makes more sense this way
Note that MongoDB's drivers are MIT-licensed
because they are made "part of" the client
software. (A)GPL virality would come into play
for drivers incorporated into clients.

OK. Makes sense. I might have misunderstood in which case I feel I almost owe GNU some kind of apology. If I become convinced I can at least try to add that fact to later discussions about AGPL.

That said it seems more than one company thinks it is viral over the net (Odoo, OPA comes to mind) and I would really be interested if someone who really understands licenses would explain.
Doesn't what you just cited mean that Lexapro is anticholinergic?
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Is there an existing collection of free filters for popular movies anywhere? What would it take to get this working with streaming services (like VidAngel does -- I think they pull from Google Play, but not sure)?
I'm one of the co-founders of Educative. We are working in it.
> There are already some quite advanced compilers that treat JavaScript itself as just a web assembly language, you don't technically have to wait for WebAssembly.

Yeah, there's even a Common Lisp which compiles to JavaScript …

> The idea of +0 vs 0 vs -0 could just have easily happened in a Scheme, same too for the reliance on stringy types.

I don't necessarily know about these specific examples: the Scheme standards have been quite clear about their numeric tower and equality standards.

I think your general point about the hackiness which was the web in the 90s, and the unwillingness to break stuff by fixing things holds, though. And of course it wasn't just the web: I recall that the Makefile syntax was realised to be a mistake weeks into its lifetime, but they didn't want to fix it for fear of inconveniencing a dozen users (details fuzzy).

> Then of course there's also the great risk that, just like Scheme not-in-the-browser, Scheme-in-the-browser might never have widely caught on.

I dunno — would a prototypal language have ever caught on were it not for the fact that JavaScript is deployed everywhere? I can imagine a world where everyone just used it, because it was what there was to use.

And honestly, as much as I dislike Scheme, it would have fit in _really_ well with JavaScript's original use case and feel. And if the world had had a chance to get used to a sane, homomorphic programming language then maybe it might have graduated to a mature, industrial-grade, sane, homomorphic language.

But alas it never happened.
What app do you use for the REM Cycles? And does it automatically make your watch vibrate to wake you up?
Will they? Who wants their artistry chopped up by an automatic filter? This is a lot like the movie rating system. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanzakarin/movie-ratings-mpaa-are...

Many people disagree but I don't like giving groups like the MPAA the unfettered ability to label what's good and bad.
PTS hardware was great, the OS was great, but phone/app/web part of the ecosystem just never really delivered and so I sold mine a few weeks ago.
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Yep, physical violence is so frowned upon, that both people are typically suspended/disciplined, and at least at my high school were typically sent to "in school suspension" which was basically a tiny room separate from the school where you had to sit. You can imagine how well it tended to work when you took two people that got into a fight had to sit in a tiny room with each other.

Also, no, it didn't matter who started the fight. If you were involved then you were equal and disciplined the same. It's ridiculously backwards
I am waiting for "integer addition as a service" (vide http://jacek.migdal.pl/2015/10/25/integer-addition.html).
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Maybe in the 80s, but as a 22 year old physical violence has never happened to me or any of my nerdy friends. Verbal abuse? Sure, but everyone gets that.

Physical violence was mostly between the bullies/"bad kids".
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I don't get to choose what is considered violent or sexual. That part is forced upon me.
The author brings up an excellent point, but I disagree with the solution. We should of course reuse existing, well-tested code if it available, even for simple things like left-padding. The real issue here is that there is a module for left-pad alone. If it were something like StringUtils module with a bunch of commonly used string functionality, it would have been great.

What is it about the node community that triggered this misunderstanding of package management and code reuse?
When the Bay Area housing bubble collapses in the future, renting will get cheaper, and your mortgage will stay the same.
(Wrote about this on reddit but I think it is pending approval, reposting here)

Hi - I work on the security team at Uber. I am this guy: techcrunch.com/2016/03/22/uber-launches-bug-bounty-program-that-pays-hackers-to-find-security-issues/

Yesterday we changed the language on our bug bounty page and I wanted to apologize for the confusion this caused. Since we launched our public bug bounty program on Tuesday, we have been reacting to the types of issues sent in and learning how to better define what we are looking for. This change was part of that, and not an effort to prevent anyone from earning bounties. The reason we clarified is so security researchers, whose time is valuable, wouldn't spend time on lower-risk issues like microsites that are unlikely to get a reward.

To Sean’s points about microsites, a microsite is usually a blog type site that rarely contains Uber user data and lives outside the Uber network. As such, even in cases where microsites are vulnerable, they pose a mild security risk to Uber which is why we clarified in our policy page to say that we do not reward them “except in extraordinary circumstances”. Sean also mentions that they are lower in severity: https://twitter.com/seanmeals/status/712975867236974592. Although the intent around microsites didn’t change, the language did. I apologize for this and we could have done better.

To the specific issue raised in your post, we have made it public: https://hackerone.com/reports/124975. As you mention, the payload does not fire so this is not a security concern.

A successful bug bounty rests on researchers trusting us to run it well, which we take very seriously. All the members of team running this program are part of the security community and many of us (mjb(1), jordan(2), rob(3)) actively submit to other bug bounty programs or perform security research as a hobby. We have awarded nearly a hundred issues via our pilot bug bounty program so far and we are excited to payout more in the future.

Our aim is to build a program by researchers, for researchers. I want to personally thank you for taking the time to submit your issue -- and any future issues. You can always see the scope and rules of our bug bounty program at https://hackerone.com/uber and you can feel free to mention my name in any reports to HackerOne to get my attention about an issue.

1. https://www.blackhat.com/us-15/briefings.html#bypass-surgery...
2. http://blog.saynotolinux.com/
3.https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/hall-of-fame/archiv...
I agree wholeheartedly; you basically summarized my thoughts on the matter.

And it isn't just mobile games, not is it just games. There's a race to the bottom in the entire content creation industry.
I agree with you. But the fact is that those clickbait games exist for one reason and one reason alone -- to make money. Unfortunately, this aligns well with the interests of the app stores; their interest is to make money, and not to make it easier for consumers to find good content.
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Makes it way easier to directly skip to the raunchy scenes! ;-)
Good point. I wondered if I should edit that specific part, but kept it anyway.

But a sign of getting investors is also that they see that there's still potential of making a lot of money, in spite of being open source.

That's true here too. Citus mentioned they spoke to their board (and presumably their investors too) about this change.
My sister remarked at how inane the news was and I suggested she try looking somewhere else for her news. Oddly it was more of a revelation for her than I expected. The prototypical "news" show is "crime in your area", "weather in your area", followed by "your area's sports teams performance". Which is more about "what has happened" than "what is going on".
Because we are living proof that alien life is possible. If alien life exists, we are alien life to them.
I'd also like to see a "hide" button on each story so I can filter out stories that just aren't interesting to me.

I get that "Left-pad as a service" is interesting to many people here(182 comments at the moment), but I've never really done any web development at all in my life and I am never really going to be interested in any javascript or node.js link.

Similarly I'm guessing most people won't care about my favorite topics quantitative finance or algorithmic trading.

It might cut down on the weekly posts where someone complains that HN is going to shit because a story made the front page and they just can't believe someone would find it interesting.
Note that not simply not attending isn't a boycott; a boycott implies some sort of protest: not attending and inducing others not to attend. And that would probably not be appropriate at the conference.
"great content"

That's HIGHLY subjective. Lots of things work, doesn't necessarily make them good. How is it great content for free when it's locked behind gem and extreme time gates?

The freemium space is such a mess that you'll download something interesting and it's telling you within minutes that unlocking this tile will take 22hours. Only 17 gems to unlock now! Candy Crush supposedly set levels to be almost impossible without bought boosts, after just a few. Never installed candy crush so can't comment directly. Let's not forget the total piss take that was Dungeon Keeper on mobile.

Yes we've all read the blog posts on how to monetise, and the first purchase is the hardest so get it the day they install etc etc. Taking the piss defines the freemium space.

Older freemium games had a much more ethical balance. Things like Temple Run managed to let you play a decent game for free. Then pay for more. Must have worked well enough as they decided to make a TR2.

I won't even install freemium games any more.

"Pissing them off just kills the golden goose"

Meanwhile pissing off everyone who knows them with the Candy Crush "I want to get a level unlock", "Woo I reached level 2" Facebook spam is fair game presumably?

I've bought several games when I can buy them outright. I wish there were more ports of classics like Bard's Tale, which I bought, to Android - Pirates, RealMyst etc are all ipad/iphone only.

I want a game I can buy, not a bloody subscription. We didn't buy subscriptions or gems for the kids either, no matter how much they whinged.
What are some alternatives for paying their employees to develop these products that are 100% free? There are some excellent commercial organizations that drive some of the tech that many or even most of us have came to rely on. This goes all the way down to Linux and BSD itself.
Incoherent? Please explain?
Currently everybody can decide to watch a movie or not (or censor if you're deciding for someone else). This just give greater control to watch _parts_ of a movie to view or not.
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No. It does not matter that it is about. No one is going to read the fine print. You need to get the perfect slogan that appeals to the dumbest person on street. My Gramps does not give a f888 about security or encryption. He cares a lot about civil liberties.

Ask a random person on street "do you care about encryption?" v/s "Do you care about civil liberties?" and see the response.

People who want abortion rights call themselves "pro-choice" where in reality it is about denying choice to a baby.

People who want abortion ban call themselves "pro-life" where in reality they are denying woman right on her own body.

The terminology makes all the difference and growth hackers in bay area understand it far too well. When apps ask for you phone number they say "This will help to keep your account secure" but in reality the number is being used to identify you as individual.
I'd very much like to see what algorithm these systems are using to enable transactions in a distributed environment. Are they just using straight two-phase commit, and letting the whole transaction fail if a single server goes down? Or are are they getting fancy and doing some kind of replication with consensus?
"Black dog" is how Winston Churchill referred to his depression.

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Microsoft scrambles to limit PR damage over abusive AI bot Tay
I think what makes Outlook Tasks list work for you is the fact that it's there in-your-face all the time, already embedded into the mail app you use.
This little step of saving you the need to open a different app in a different window makes the real difference for most people.

Actually, this was the main reason I've used Sortd & Yanado (highly recommended) a while.