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> The idea that "the Left" engages in "Orwellian double-think" with regards to class, is also pretty puzzling.

Heard any jokes or insults about Southerners lately? "Trump voters"? Etc.

Which isn't to say that anyone who identifies with leftism is doomed to infinite self-deception with regard to social class, but, most people would benefit from some reflection on how they feel about which groups of people and why.
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Tangentially related, but Black Mirror has a great episode which covers a similar premise to your 'contact lens size HoloLens' one.

Basically everything you see is recorded, and you can revisit any moment you've experienced any time you want. Which has many negative effects in the show, but which would actually avoid the author's problem altogether, as you no longer have to 'spend time' to take pictures.

If recording of all of your experiences (good and bad) are implicit, then will it improve our ability to live in the moment? Will it dilute the significance of the moments we want to 'choose' to remember if everything else is bundled in there too?

One of the suggestions of the episode seems to be that allowing ourselves to return to the past to such a degree can make it hard to escape from it and move on with out lives.
> The tradeoff for CPU stealing is that now you have multiple services running on the same machine so if the machine goes down you lose them all. On AWS it is very unlikely that two of your VMs end up on the same physical machine.

Yes. But its also very likely that when AWS has issues, the entire region is going to be having problems, like last Saturday (IAM, EC2, Autoscaling, etc broken badly for 6 hours).

> But we don't need pesky things like 24hr uptime and dedicated bandwidth for dev servers.

You're not getting this SLA unless you're managing everything yourself and are globally redundant. AWS doesn't provide bandwidth guarantees, nor will you get 100% uptime.
Very interesting thought, that colleges' purpose is to acculturate one into a certain culture. That would explain why collegiate athletics are so important: because people of a particular college's culture place importance on chasing after balls on grassy fields, it's important for colleges to acculturate their students to watching people chase after balls on grassy fields. I'm not saying that sarcastically — as much as I personally have never understood the point collegiate athletics, it makes a lot of sense in this context.

I take issue with her desire to leave race out of the discussion. That's precisely the problem with race in America: race is a decent first-order approximation of class, with all the bad that entails. If we could address that head-on, if people didn't automatically assume that others of the same race are 'like them' and others of a different race are 'unlike them,' and not have those things be true, then racism would be a thing of the past — or, at least, no worse than the silliness one sees about redheads/gingers. The colour of one's skin has no more effect on one's worth as a human being than the colour of one's hair: the day that it's seen as no more important is the day racism is dead. But as long as race and class are conflated, that day won't come.

> The ban on smoking in restaurants – which, let me be clear, I am wildly in favor of, being someone who can't patronize a business with cigarette smoking in it

Can't? Given that tobacco smoke contains no allergens, methinks the mot juste would be 'won't.'

> I empathize when social classes not mine find themselves on the short end of the stick, such as in the above account of smoking regulations, but that doesn't mean I'd do anything to change that outcome. Like, "Wow, it must suck to have your class' norms so disrespected by a change in the law like that. Welp, I'm off to buy a burger in this now refreshingly smoke-free burger joint, and discuss with my class-peers how else we can change public policy to make it more support my class' norms – even, if necessary, at your class' norms' expense."

What was wrong with the previous policy, which meant that some places catered to the author's class and some places catered to other classes?
> One wonders if what Foss was telling him, however train-wreck compelling, was only about half true.

No doubt that's why Talese included all of those inconsistencies in his story.
"A cabbie asked me if I supported Donald Trump and told he we was surprised I didn't. He told me all Americans supported Trump. So I asked him if he was an IRA thug/terrorist, to which he naturally said no."

It's hardly reasonable to compare being a member of a terrorist organization to supporting the leading candidate of one of two major parties.

Consider just the sheer effort of participating in terrorism is far greater than voting.
probably could have picked a better color than blue to show on the map
| It would actually be a decent language if it reported type errors instead.

The Web would also probably stop working and be much more of a pain to code if JS acted that way: http://i.imgur.com/76Wtthy.jpg
If they're in the rapidly gentrifying area(s) on the East, which have traditionally been rife with poverty and petty crime (they were 10 years ago when I was there and before real estate is what it is now), then I'd answer "A lot more, a lot more stabbier."
> Nonsense. "View my complete profile" takes you to the G+ page, and directly underneath his name it says he works for canonical. So what if his personal blog doesn't disclaimer everything in it - the information was one click away.

View my complete profile links to https://plus.google.com/106527694663794732344 which shows his name and the number of followers he has.

A further click on "About" in the header, shows that he is an employee of Canonical.

> You're just looking for excuses, really.

Actually I was looking for confirmation or denial of his previously unstated employment by Canonical, the company whose OS runs on the device he reviewed without making mention of his conflict of interest.

> This new HN where everyone is complaining of 'clickbait' titles and demanding disclaimers everywhere for things like personal blog posts... it's starting to get pretty tiresome.

This is nothing to do with HN. He posted a review of a product that his employer is directly related to, and made no mention of who he works for. Most people I know would consider it fishy to not make any mention at all of your involvement with a product you're reviewing.
Isnt this just advertising? I dont really understand how this is any different from other forms of celebrity endorsements such as basketball players pitching nike's. These guys faces are even on the flyers to the parties.
> In my view, its a bit weird.

I think it's a matter of opportunity cost. By giving away an art-finder like this for free, using the pictures of the sculptures, you take away the incentive for commercial provider to do the same thing.

Commercial providers would have to pay money for the pictures and thus, a free app is costing the copyright owner (or the manager of the copyrights) money indirectly.

And even failing that: By publishing this on the internet, even if you are offering it for free and without ads, you still create value for third-parties with this content (carriers, platform owners, whoever is injecting ads into your content, etc), so as monetary value is created with this content, the management agency wants to be paid and if they can't be, then they want the content off the net, so other content might appear where they are getting paid.

At least that's what I believe to be the reasoning.
Historians have had 'too much' data for many decades now. Your photo of the Mona Lisa is probably not going to fill a significant gap in our future understanding of the times.
A club is a great way to launder dirty cash without crossing borders. Just say that 500 people came last Friday and all paid a $50 cover. That's $25,000 USD laundered and there's no easy way to prove after the fact that it didn't actually happen. If these imaginary people averaged three drinks each, that's another easy $15,000 laundered. Few other business models are able to charge so much for intangible value and maintain such high margins while being believable.

This, ofcourse, does nothing to explain why they'd need to pay famous people for appearances. I assume they do that because they expect to make money from it from real customers.
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Related:
http://www.thelocal.se/20160404/wikimedia-breaks-copyright-l...
Do Americans really expect that a teller should have to stand all day because each individual client is only momentarily standing during the course of their transaction? It seems the most inane argument (or have I just fallen victim to Poe's Law?)
Weird that the headline and most of the story are completely at odds with the court decision they describe. Literally all the court seems to have said is that you have to make a decision about providing seats at cash desks on the basis of the task of working at the cash desk, and not based on the complete set of tasks the worker might have to do across the day. The employers are still free to argue that cashier will do better cashiering while standing up.
Well done for not being average, I guess?
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It's remarkable to me how folks who would never, ever be seen to say anything rude about other races (or who would only do so very obliquely) will quite loudly smirk about how much they hate Southerners, how stupid they think Southerners are &c.

It's all just class. One can be just as intelligent with a Southern accent as one can be stupid with another.
I'll add my own Bayesian analysis to the fray. Assuming a binomial, in Julia:

using Distributions

b_old = Beta(66+1, 6392-66+1)
b_yel = Beta(83+1, 6362-83+1)

N = 1000000
# Sample from both distributions, count the fraction of samples that are better
sum(rand(b_old, N) .> rand(b_yel, N)) / N

This yields 7.7% chance that the old one is better than "yellow". It's fascinating to see how we can get such different answers to a simple question.
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This rainbow is interesting precisely because it shows that "perceptual uniformity" is not as useful as you might think. This is why people are still futzing with UX around volume controls and light dimmers. It's not just the math. Given "perception" there's no "uniformity" -- by definition.
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Because it is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" and/or "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Will add my personal experience regarding RDS .

If you are using RDS with provisioned IOPS , you can reduce your bill dramatically by downgrading to General purpose SSD, I know certain applications might really need the dedicated IOPS, but its better if you monitor your read / write rates and decide accordingly.
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I've written a Sublime Text package to convert RGB colors (hex, RGB, & RGBa) to HSL or HSLa. You can convert selected colors or all colors in a file.

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Hex%20to%20HSL%20Color%20...
I was referring to the padding attack. Did they patch this?

And are there any property of MTProto that makes it infeasible to replace AES IGE in a later revision of the protocol?
It's kind of weird to trust Ubuntu store software more than Android stuff considering it's probably not sandboxed nearly as well
Thanks for your observation. I have edited my answer to remove that and instead list two from the article you recommended.
“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

Things that are too small to see with the naked eye, such as molecules and atoms, we magnify. Things that are too large, such as cloud formations, river deltas, constellations, we reduce. At length we bring it within the scope of our senses and we stabilize it with fixer.

When it has been fixed we call it knowledge. Throughout our childhood and teenage years, we strive to attain the correct distance to objects and phenomena. We read, we learn, we experience, we make adjustments. Then one day we reach the point where all the necessary distances have been set, all the necessary systems have been put in place.

That is when time begins to pick up speed. It no longer meets any obstacles, everything is set, time races through our lives, the days pass by in a flash and before we know that is happening we are forty, fifty, sixty...

Meaning requires content, content requires time, time requires resistance. Knowledge is distance, knowledge is stasis and the enemy of meaning. My picture of my father on that evening in 1976 is, in other words, twofold: on the one hand I see him as I saw him at that time, through the eyes of an eight-year-old: unpredictable and frightening; on the other hand, I see him as a peer through whose life time is blowing and unremittingly sweeping large chunks of meaning along with it.”

― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1
Could be any number of things. An expensive health condition, personal obligations (alimony, child support, etc.) putting kids through school, an expensive mortgage, student loans, on and on. I've been working for close to 20 years and I'm pretty terrified when I look at how little I've actually been able to save.
Oh, the 2k was just an arbitrary number for illustrative purposes. I try to tailor the budget to each project's needs. It could be 50 dollars, it could be 5,000. It really depends on the projects. The same with the time commitment.

But to answer your question, for each project I usually spend:

* a few bucks on a domain name (plus extra for private registration)

* 5 bucks per month for a Google "email and apps" mailbox

* $200 - $400 for hosting (spread out over a few months)

* $50 - $100 for stock image licensing (via fotolia.com)

* > $100 on adsense campaigns

* > $100 on facebook ad campaigns

* About a hundred bucks for music royalties (if I have an explainer video with background music). I usually license music through tunefruit.com

* 50 - 100 bucks for font licensing if needed (rarely needed)

* 50 - 100 bucks to buy a bootstrap theme that I like (sometimes needed)

* If it's a company in a degenerate/high-risk space (porn, gambling, etc), I'll also spend a few hundred bucks to wrap it up as an LLC unto itself. I don't use a service for that, I just walk into the Secretary of State's office and file the form myself, and usually pay extra for expedited processing.

The ratio of hits-to-misses is like 1 to 10 or worse. Most projects die halfway through the build-cycle because I realize they're unviable and kill them before I spend any more money. But of the ones that make it launch, only about 10% ever make any money. But yeah, the wins more than cover the costs of the losses.

I don't like to list the projects I'm currently involved with, sorry. But here's a few examples of some failed ones from awhile back (they've all been disabled, you can't actually use them anymore...they're just live as part of my portfolio now)

* itchwork.com

* fonetree.com

* vareay.com

* streamlet.com

Hope that helps.
while your points are true, its kind of the whole point of the article is 'economic' (and of course race) are first-order approximations of 'social' class but they are NOT the same thing, only approximately overlapping. Pretty much the whole point of the article.
As for performance numbers, you'll get better performance from a $400/m dual E5-2620 v3 w/64GB of RAM than a $1200/m c4.8xlarge.

The E5-2620 will also include a lot of bandwidth (which alone could save you thousands of dollars a month), and significantly better I/O (>512GB SSD + 1 larger spinning, or maybe RAID with BBU).

The gap is probably worse right now as v5 chips are hitting the market.

Even at 100 servers, the price/performance difference doesn't cover the cost of 1 devops person. You're right. But I don't think AWS saves even a little devops time, unless you deeply lock-in.

I hope when you're considering the price, you are also factoring in time developers are spending on performance and architecture for AWS versus simply scaling up. Even if, as you say, AWS saves you 2 out of 4 devops roles, if it's costing 50 developers 10% of their time, you're way behind.
I use https://www.netlify.com over S3, they're static website hosting but they let you remap urls to proxy w/e backend. A big chunk of bandwidth is included and it mitigates AWS per-request billing too.
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But don't you love the feeling of superiority as you scorn your fellow fireworks viewers? Surely this only enhances your experience? I hear you can even get magic internet points if you moan about it online too.

I don't see the point of recording fireworks either, but the wonderful thing about fireworks is that they are big, bright and loud, meaning it's pretty much impossible to ruin someone else's viewing of them.
Leaving aside that he works for Canonical, it is unfair to judge phone solely on "Author didn't seem very excited about it".

Different people have different ways of expressing themselves. You can't expect everyone to write like Kathy Sierra's piece on iPhone (http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/0...)
Why is this an issue for courts to decide? It should be between employees and employers, period.
Until Atom can open multiple large files without slowdown, or very large files without just crashing, I don't see it as being a threat to Sublime.

They are definitely doing some great stuff with Atom for a free product; Sublime will maintain it's value as a paid product until there is full parity of features.
Not only unreasonable, but also fairly unwise to be asking a Belfast cab driver if he's a member of the IRA.
Are you sure the teller is really on the other side of that wall?

At my CU there is a teller there 24/7, it's just that after hours it is via video terminal integrated with the ATM piped to some remote office.
Thanks for the encouragement! And London is decent, they really love their craft beer out there. I have a lot of friends and family out that way but I think Hamilton is where I'll end up.
Sandlot Solutions has ceased operations. They were down to a skeleton crew as of last week, looking for last-minute funding to maintain core operations, but I was told that the board had already voted to close down if nothing came through as of Friday.
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> it's an opportunity that Google can move on but the rest of the world can't. That's another argument for breaking up monopolies.

Wouldn't this mean that it would be an opportunity that /nobody/ could move on?
Unfortunately, it seems like he dropped the ball in some major ways. So Apple started to take off a few years after you left? Then taking your fucking amazing technical and leadership skills to Apple! The post-startup is blowing it in terms of product development and the competition is eating their lunch? Then join the fucking competition.

Programmers/engineers can change some important things. For example, our employers. If you're a strong engineer in a shitty situation, then find something better. It might even help you retire (like joining Apple in the late 90s).
"John Oliver"-left (which is to say, center), may be cracking low-quality Trump-voter jokes.

"Jacobin Magazine"-left, which has a better claim to the mainstream title imo, is all about publicizing interesting and charitable analyses of the phenomenon.

edit: Down-voted into a post-freeze (again). Reply:

Yeah, it's a hairy topic. However, the author states that they had trouble finding left-leaning "books and other discussions [...] that really address that social classes are cultures", which honestly seems like they weren't trying very hard.
This is a question that interests me. I'm actually not sure that SF has more resistance to building than other cities once you consider that "SF" vs the general bay area is an artifact of an unusual way of managing municipal borders.

Keep in mind, what I'm saying here is a thesis, not a conclusion.

SF is city that ranges from very high density to middle density, with a few expensive and relatively suburban neighborhoods west of twin peaks and/or near the coast (St Francis Wood, Forest Hill, Seacliff, etc)… It has also had a relatively stable population density for over 50 years, and in some of these neighborhoods considerably longer than that.

SF is also a relatively small geographical area that is a different municipality from the nearby cities. In many (most?) cities in the US, sections of SF and Oakland/Berkeley would be the urban core of a larger city, but those suburbs and even exurbs wouldn't be considered different cities in the same region, they would be part of the same municipality. As a result, construction in the hinterlands that doesn't count as growth within "San Francisco" does count in growth in a place like Seattle, where the "city" of Seattle encompasses a much larger geographical area.

So, hear me out - while SF can be excessively preservation minded, think about how people would react if you tried to bulldoze not just the French Quarter in New Orleans, but the garden district, Bayou St John, or even some of the shotgun houses in less famous districts. What would happen if you tried to tear down historic houses in Philadelphia or Boston, or replace entire city blocks of 100+ year old houses or apartments with modern high rises?

My thesis (again, not a conclusion, I'd need to see the data) is that if you identify regions similar to SF - medium density neighborhoods that have existed in this form for 60-100 years, it is very difficult to tear things down and build greater density in many places outside SF. I wouldn't be surprised if it's especially difficult in SF, but I suspect this would be a difference in degree, that SF would have an unusually strong preservation instinct, but that you'd find strong, similar preservation instincts in many other comparable regions - but that these similarities are not evident because we aren't comparing similar geographical regions, again because of the oddity of municipal boundaries in SF (which are a large contributor to the NIMBYism problem, to be sure).
It's hard for lifts to understand as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avp9aUkM5g0
Even if this is complex for the average homeowner theres an opportunity to start your own business setting this up for no tech savy homeowners in your locale.
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> mkdir -p "0/2/7/8/c"

That's at most 16 entries per directory which seems unnecessarily low. Taking 2 chars/level gives 96 entries per directory which seems better, that's what Git uses (3 is 4096 which may be a tad high). Yields a flatter but not too broad hierarchy.
I'm looking into solution for fuzz testing and I'm wondering if folks are using peachfuzzer or just using PREFAST, and FXCop. What are the pros and cons of peachfuzzer?
Espacially since Mali has no see access, at least in it's current borders.
They just cater to the audience, I suppose. The call features are a rather minor feature for many people nowadays -- I checked my call log, and it was 11 incoming+outgoing calls within the last 30 days.
just to clear up a misunderstanding between you and vacri you're responding to: Google seems to be in the process of yet another redesign of G+.

If you haven't yet enabled the new experience then the employer is stated quite prominently directly on that link. This is what vacri was referring to.

If you enable the new experience, then yes, you are right, you have to click one more time.

Yes. I'm splitting hairs here - this should probably have been on the blog-post front and center, but still. You two are not seeing the same content.