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Believe me, I know this. Entirely too well, in fact.

At my last job, the senior DevOps dude foot-gunned the entire company, by running a read-write disk benchmark (using fio(1)) against the block device (instead of a partition, which, while still stupid, would at least not have been actively destructive) on both my master and all of my slave PostgreSQL hosts. At the same time. And, of course, without telling anyone what he was doing, so the first inkling I had that there was a problem was about 20 minutes later, when I started getting a steadily increasing number of errors suggesting disk corruption.

How does one make such a tool drool-proof enough to prevent that kind of idiocy? Please, help me figure that out. And then give me a time machine, because that was a 16-hour day I'd really rather not have experienced.

And, no, the right move is generally not to fire the jackass who makes that kind of mistake. In my case, above, the company spent about three quarters of a million dollars (just in revenue, never mind how much time was burned in meetings about the incident, my efforts to fix the problem, as well as his and the rest of his team's efforts, and so on) teaching him never to do that again. You don't buy lessons that expensively and then let someone else benefit from them.

(That said, he did get fired several months later for telling the entire engineering lead team to fuck off, in so many words, for their having made a perfectly reasonable request, which was entirely within his responsibilities, and his skills, to satisfy.)
Rather than Europe, I imagine the biggest countervailing force going forward will be a billion-strong market of Chinese consumers who don't consider IP rights to exist, and don't really care whether the products they're purchasing are originals or bootlegs.
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Would be nice with a sample project on GitHub for this talk! Love the approach!
The 50g is infix? When did HP switch away from RPN? Oh, it's just an option now. I've had my 48g since college in the late 90s, and now use a 48g emulator on my phone.
>Apple's Two Factor Authentication (which is different than Two-Factor Verification

Two factor auth:
* Six-digit code sent to your device/via text

Two factor verification:
* Four-digit code sent to your device/via text

Or what exactly is the difference? Surprised Apple would launch something like this.
None of that is actually true. In capitalism, market capitalism, selling someone something produces what's called "consumer surplus". The buyer receives more in utility than they spent. It's one of the few un-controversial principles of economics.

There is no one story for the present apparent concentration fo wealth. We've had capitalism before such that there wasn't a lot of concentration of wealth - and the tax system wasn't always the reason.

I think the reason is economic rents, and rents are specifically not capitalist.
Isn't kestrel the name of the new asp.net server?
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The headline is a huge overstatement relative to what the press release says, which itself is scaremongering relative to what the bill itself says.
Not at all. This intermodal project and many of the other federally funded ISTEA projects [1] work well at the state level because they supplement the existing interstate highway network.

On the other hand, the high speed rail corridors in the act (which was a new network altogether) failed horribly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_Surface_Transportat...
On an adjusted basis, sure. I was speaking in absolute terms. What's happening is that people are leaving the second quintile. About 1/3 move down, 2/3 move up.

The sort of thing people in the second quintile used to do has evaporated.
Well autism is such a broad spectrum I would be reluctant to say there was an impossibility of emotional interaction - that's a common enough stereotype but I'd regard it as a pretty severe case. There's lots of people who are pretty functional but have difficulty reading/responding to emotional cues that most folk take for granted.
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>Power to the people.

The majority of Americans live in cities. Why shouldn't they have the balance of power?
I think he uses a Chromebook Pixel.
Those facts actually explain some of the things. If you had more experience with choosing the partner, this perhaps wouldn't happen (which would also mean you'd be more in control of your life as you said it).
Disillusionment with ASP.NET Core
I'll preface this by saying I want to discuss the future viability of ASP.NET Core, to understand what others think of it, and to see what alternatives are available.

I'm worried by the direction ASP.NET Core is headed. There has been an explosion in complexity of ASP.NET Core's internals, especially the tooling systems. Microsoft has approached this new version as an opportunity to solve technical issues in the old versions but they've done so from the inside-out, in a way that exposes the developers to a lot more complexity.

Here is a comment taken from a chat between the ASP.NET Core developers where they answered a question about a property in the project.json file:

Person 1: "What does the 'imports' do in the frameworks section of project.json"?

Person 2: "So that's what I was referring to before. That's the ability to say 'Hey this project is compiling for net core app 1.0 which is the new TFM ah in the dot net CLI which represents an app that RUNS using the dot net core CLI. Basically you can type dotnet myapp and it will run uhm that TFM though no one has compiled for that TFM yet because you know it's brand new so if you go to nuget and download JSON.NET there's no TFM that matches dot net core app and the only TFM that dot net core app inherits from is the net standard TFM because we're trying to replat everything on net standard so in order to get nuget packages to correctly install into your project when they don't have assemblies or assets for that TFM you can tell the project system 'Please also import assets from these other TFMs' and then you're free to put in what ever TFM you want and we ill just blindly treat it as compatible. It may fail horribly when you try to compile or run uhm but obviously this is one of those back doors where you can say 'Hey, I know that this DLL inside TFM foo inside this package will work the way I'm using it so please just resolve it correctly and let me run'.

Person 1: "cool."

(continued in comments)
Now I understood none of that, but it sounds like a hack to work around something they tried to fix, or is an ugly way of gluing "old" libraries into "new" libraries which should be handled by the compiler. This is just one example of many complexities I worry are going to bog down any developers who take on ASP.NET Core. Remember we only have to face one compiler error caused by this issue before having to do a deep dive and learn all the inner details to fix it.

I am also concerned about the quality of the tooling. DNX can't handle long paths so I have to develop out of C: drive. This reminds me of Node's almost incompatibility with Windows and makes me worry that the tools haven't been thoroughly tested. DNX is going to be replaced yet again in the near future with a newer, probably less tested set of tools.

On top of that the tooling doesn't work well in enterprise because they have poor proxy support. I'm also worried about "everything is a collection of hundreds of tiny packages", the NPM dramas have shown us that micropackages lead to insanity. ASP.NET was a place to hide away from those kinds of things. Now it feels like it's "C#, as developed by the node community". I think they've tried to make things simple but haven't seen the forest for the trees. The fact that they're bundling dead tools like Bower into the project templates is also worrying. They should have had the forethought not to include any JS libraries that have a high churn rate.

One final thing bothering me is the number of choices of the target framework. Why have there been so many meaningless names like "dnx451", "netstandard", "netcore10"? I sit down to make a web app, and I have no clue what I actually need to target. In the old days we'd pick a .NET framework version and choose either the compact or complete framework. When did this become rocket science?
Get your day in court imply's it's a privilege. Needing to defend such a basic form of free speech vs. a high ranking politician is a sign of a broken system.

Nobody gets a free pass for failing to support a basic human right. People should be demanding she steps down right fucking now.
it isn't 10 years behind. the whole idea of startups is kinda at odds with japanese culture, this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Why is that? We just didn't record it?
I'm surprised that several people think deleting or even suspending the account is too harsh.

I'm not familiar enough with the nuances of StackOverflow - maybe it would delete other helpful questions and comments he's left in the past if they deleted it, but an indefinite suspension seems very necessary.

How is making a fake post solely for the purpose of advertising your company not against the rules? Even if it's not the letter of the law, how can they afford to tolerate that behavior? The quality of StackOverflow would be severely compromised if this becomes a trend. The internet is full of enough content disguised as original content, SO needs to show that they won't let that happen on their turf.
> Why not train all the combat forces up to the point where they can operate from ships?

Because it's another skill to learn, practice and maintain, and there's limited time and resources. If you take every soldier and give him a two weeks a year training in operating from a ship, then that's two weeks less training in something else, and it's time and space on the ship. Do you also want to train them all in air assault? Does he need to know about submarine insertion techniques? Arctic warfare? Jungle warfare? Mountain warfare? We should probably teach him some middle eastern languages as well, and advanced life support.

It'd take years and a huge amount of money and natural resources to give someone a full spectrum of abilities, and they'd have to be a talented person in the first place to keep up with it all. It's not feasible for the majority of conventional forces.
What industries happened without the government?
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Transgenics enable some solutions to what you're talking about, though. You can breed in disease resistance to your gourmet line of choice over a decade or two at considerable expense, or pop in an R gene for pennies, relatively speaking.

There's absolutely nothing about transgene technology that implies monoculture; if anything, it dramatically lowers the barriers for breeding and developing new and interesting crops. Traditional breeding, driven by huge and colossally expensive GWAS studies, only benefits the biggest, most economically productive crops.

The issue we have right now is that stigma prevents all but the most 'serious' transgenics to come to market. Fortunately, what we have so far are good transgenics, albeit ones that propagate monoculture. The future could look really good, quite disappointing, or even scary, depending on how we approach transgenics, both for regulation and as a culture.
As a former full time wife and mom, let me respectfully suggest that if your wife gave birth to two kids while you were going to school and the sole provider, she probably was doing more than just sleeping all day. A lot more.

I am sorry for your personal problems and your marital problems. But I am not convinced that your remarks about your wife are an accurate assessment. My husband used to say similar things about me. When we were married, he had the career of his dreams and was going to college with plans to get his PhD and become a college professor. We got divorced. He seems to have given up on getting a PhD etc. It has been a lot of years. His life seems to be okay. It isn't terrible. But his ability to pursue his dreams seems like it died when his "do nothing" wife with an abusive childhood left the picture. He now cooks for his cute new wife, something he never did for me, and she is in school, but his big dreams seem to have been abandoned.

I am not trying to be mean here. I sincerely hope you get your problems resolved. But I think you are underestimating the work involved in raising kids, running a household and supporting a man's career. I often slept during the day because, unlike him, the kids were waking me up at night.

Best.
Considering a growing majority of the population lives in urban areas, it makes perfect sense they should have the power. It is antidemocratic for sparsely populated rural areas to have as much power as they do.
I'd for sure buy the air over the Macbook. Hell my gf just did.

You couldn't convince her to drop hours of battery, an inch of screen space, a few ports, a few hundred bucks, better performance, in return for a marginal portability value that approaches 0 in her daily bag, default storage she doesn't use (she's approaching 30gb of use!), default ram she doesn't use, and pixel density she can't see. (she's likely an exception here, I definitely notice the density myself like most would, although I wouldn't pay a few hundred extra for it, but she can't even notice it.) There's just nothing the Macbook offers her that's worth it. I expect this to change within 1-2 years though.
Who needs facts when you can just write liberal propaganda? It's $CURRENT_YEAR after all.
I'm following this game https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1183462809/paradise-los...

Called paradise lost, and the trick the graphic team are using to fit 8bit pixelated graphics to the modern taste are incredible, like having to tweak animations so no parts ever move half a pixel, which influences walking speed and dozen pther things. Their blog is quite informative.
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Brain drain from Eastern Europe to the US are still few and far between because every year the H1B program for IT workforces are still predominately occupied by Chinese and Indian workers.[1]

Also, keep in mind that in some of the fast growing developing countries and regions, reverse brain drain is happening [2]. With booming economic development in those places and the rising of Donald Trump alike politicians, reverse brain drains is only going to become more common.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re... Section 3.2 Table 4A

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_brain_drain
>You're asking why Joe Schmoe's cows from a local field taste better than those of a factory feedlot standing shoulder-to-shoulder in their own muck?

I'm not really asking. Where do you live, might I ask?

I'm looking out my window at Joe Schmoe's local field with the cows standing shoulder to shoulder in their own muck. Do you think all "non-local" meat is from a factory feedlot? That's a strawman.

Do you have any evidence, or just like the idea of Joe Schmoe's meat tasting better?
I completely disagree.

The culture of black Americans is unique. It's different than the culture of Asians, Hispanics, Whites, ect, and initiatives will effect each culture differently. That much seems certain to me.

To say that there is a one size fits all solution to gang violence is to ignore important cultural differences.

To just look at family structure: 75% of black families are not married and 60% of mothers with multiple children have them to different fathers.

As for how we tackle gangs, I'd need to study to problem longer. But its a hunch of mine that the above family statistics play a role in their formation.
I know. Open source folks, when you put a 'Home' button in the corner, make it go to the project home page, not the blog home page. If there's one thing I can't stand it's a blog post about an update for something that I don't know what it is, and my patience to click around trying to find out whether it is something I would be interested in or not is very limited.

I'm glad I did in this case because an open-source equivalent of Mathematica is a pretty sweet tool, but the site navigation sucks enough that it's likely limiting your audience a bit.
As with everything in life - with practice. There are no shortcuts without actually meeting people. He only advises a lot of simple strong points to actually think about which ones we want to attract and how to prepare ourselves to lessen the possibilities for rejection (not stopping it, since it's completely normal to be rejected, since you can't be compatible with everyone). It's all well laid out in the Models book.

Now I don't mean to spin all this around about the book, so I'd suggest reading through his blog posts, perhaps starting with the "best articles" to get an impression of what he's about. I'm positive that someone open minded enough will get something compelling out of it.
Pick a place that has low property taxes and has legal limits on yearly increases. Like CA or NYC on 1 to 3 family homes.
I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of articles that end with some form of "let's make the Internet safer by giving up our privacy and right to anonymity" while the government is trying to pass the anti-encryption bill. Unfortunately, this police officer spent a ridiculous amount of time tracking down someone with no real op-sec skills simply because he wasn't trained to track someone on the web.

Note that I agree we need to treat swatting as a serious and potentially dangerous crime ... But what do we do when all the perps are juveniles?
The technology works; the Oculus Rift is reasonably good, and the dev kit has been available since 2014. Where's the killer app?

Watching full-sphere non-interactive movies? Why? FPS games, fine, but that's not Google's business. Social interaction with or without remote-presence robots? Young people barely make voice calls; mostly they send texts, perhaps with pictures attached. Virtual worlds? Second Life supports the Oculus dev kit, but not the production product. There are some good VR roller coaster simulators, but that gets old pretty fast. Just not seeing a mass market here.

Google being into this seems like the fear of Facebook that led Google into "social" and stuck us with Google Plus.
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It doesn't work all the time. This is because the new government really spends a lot of time tracing looted funds. As I mentioned earlier, it could dominate the first year of a four year term.

So, they travel to Switzerland, US, Dubai... And get list of properties, accounts, even companies owned by past government officials.

To prevent seizure, the incumbents go a step further and some how grab powers that even the current government can't touch. (I really can't explain it but that's how it now works.)

So, the only thing the new government can do is complain, and leak lists of properties, accounts owned by people in the outgoing regime.

Furthermore, through a gradual desensitization process, people no longer care if stolen money is repatriated because we all know that the money is only moving from one set of thieves to the other.
Clearly one way of looking at that is "abandoned after having extracted millions of Africans (as slaves) and significant amounts of raw materials". While plenty of guilt for the current state of affairs lies at the feet of Africans running corrupt governments and industries, most would agree that the West set the stage. That said, it's hard to know if the people who are suffering under the current conditions would or wouldn't be willing to consider outsourcing the running of things (or perhaps that's what China is offering, in fact).
Did any of that crap code from Windows 95 go in the kernel, or was it just in user space?
I'll use closed-source JetBrains IDE over anything else any day. I'm not some "open software is better" fanboy.
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How do you go about doing this? Last time I started I was told to pull down 100 GB of code. That's ~ the monthly limit of my connection so that wasn't happening
Did San Francisco's housing market finally peak?
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11501248?
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I don't know about that - The legal criticisms of it are pretty severe, and it's bad enough that the president has promised to veto it if it comes to his desk.

EDIT: Engadget's review is much more damning. It would pretty much remove any enforcement power the FCC has re: net neutrality. It's a pretty big deal. http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/13/president-veto-hr-2666-bi...
Yeah, but e-mail. The overwhelming masses of people still use it for transmitting the most important docs in plaintext.
Ah good old tekkit. Now there is test pack please ignore which shows promise but to be honest the modding scene slowed down after the bukkit/forge mess and due to the fatigue of never receiving the promised stable api.

The moment ic2 stopped development I lost interest.

Buildcraft spawned factorio however, so my logistic nerd needs are satisfyed :)
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> But what do we do when all the perps are juveniles?

We put them through a restorative justice programme.
The Big Sort comes to software: http://www.thebigsort.com/home.php

I expect much more of this to come.
If it's a source of fraud we never ran into it.
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At the moment, dealing with my inheritance from my mother, I am somewhat jealous of the author. There's a part of me that wishes I could just say "Take what you want" and walk away.
Well let's see how the Playstation VR goggles compare to Rift and Vive. I own a PS4 and preordered it, mostly because that's the setup that doesn't cost me anything extra in hardware.

Worst case it's going to be a strange looking extra monitor so the floor is pretty high imo. My network connection isn't good enough to stream 4k so for movies that's overkill and VR goggles basically give me an extra movie monitor.
Couldn't help but...

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> A dispute between Obama and Putin over a peninsula where your company has maybe 1.5 users suddenly results in you being locked out of a market with millions of potential users.

Doesn't this cut both ways? If US based companies are locked out of the Russian market, don't Russian based companies run the risk of being locked out of the larger and more influential US market? If forced to choose, I know which of the two I'd pick.
Parents, watch your kids on this if you haven't already taught them about Internet safety. Many players creatively get around the kid-friendly chat filters and behave in ways you may not want your younger ones to mimic.

Source: my 8 year old daughter who tattled on strangers and said "didn't their parents teach them to keep stuff private?"

That kid. <3
I believe this is a new system. It's called two-factor authentication as opposed to two-step verification. To quote the FAQ:

> Is this different than Apple’s current two-step verification feature?

> Yes. Two-factor authentication is a new service built directly into iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan. It uses different methods to trust devices and deliver verification codes, and offers a more streamlined user experience. The current two-step verification feature will continue to work separately for users who are already enrolled.

Since I was already using two-step verification, I had to turn it off for the new, two-factor authentication, option to appear. I turned it on and it looks like it's working now.

I have to agree that this was very confusing.

EDIT: looks like I can authenticate from OS X now, nice. Before I had to always unlock my phone.