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German political discourse and American political discourse happen on a very different level. The amount of name calling happening in the US is unheard of in Germany.

Not even the indemnity afforded to members of parliament speaking parliament covers libellous insults - it's the only exception.
Yes, I agree. It's also a fascinating window into what an achievement Windows NT was, and I say that as someone who does not use Windows anywhere.

By mid 1993 Dave Cutler and his team released a multi-threaded, pre-emptive multi tasking pure 32 bit version of Windows that supported the Windows API and worked across three different hardware architectures (two of which were pure RISC processors). Apple, often lauded for being ahead of the curve, wouldn't release anything remotely matching those capabilities for eight years when OS X came out. When Apple developers were just starting to port over to Cocoa and Carbon, Windows had reached deep maturity and stability with NT and its successors (still labelled as NT versions intenrally) and basically all Windows software ran on it natively and had been doing so for years.

Windows isn't exactly my cup of tea but Microsoft was way, way ahead of the curve with NT. It was a superb achievement and I strongly recommend reading Show Stopper to get a sense of what the team sacrificed, went through, and achieved.
it will never. databases are hard and people are idiots. nevermind something as hard as SQL optimization and index design -- there are LOTS of people out there who think creating a new logical database for every new customer is a good idea, resulting in 2000+ databases on a system when there should be 4. people who think HA is a waste of money because nothing has ever failed on them. cheapskates who will under-spec deployments and then yell at you when it doesn't fit their data. people are stupid. do not underestimate the stupidity of your average tech industry "professional". this is why i think there should be a traditional engineering certification process for this stuff.

also, i simply don't buy the assertion that any ops or dev can be automated in any meaningful way. the only thing it's doing is making it easier for morons to shoot themselves in the foot by ignoring the experts and then run to the same experts like a little child when everything catches on fire. see: recent story of a guy who deleted 1500 systems at once. oops.

are we all doing more, or less work than 5 years ago? has all this cloud and deployment tech made any less work for anyone, or destroyed any jobs? lol no. i repeat emphatically LOL NO. such a claim is just absurd in my view. anyone who claims such a nonsensical statement has never done actual ops work where you get called if shit goes south.

the smartest thing amazon ever did was simply give people a button to push to give them more money when they're faced with their own overwhelming stupidity. ain't nobody to blame but yo'self then.
It's not a Lenovo. I thought it would be a nice alternative to Linux on a Macbook Air, but mine failed without warning less than three weeks out of its 1-year warranty and has been under repair for more than a month. I'll spare the hair-lullingly frustrating details, but if anyone else is in this situation, join the hundreds of other people who've filed a complaint about bad repairs at the Better Business Bureau to get a call from someone who can at least pretend to care (if not fix anything).
That's always the risk with a business plan like this. Uber seems to have a similar business model, but the difference is that Uber is an easily scalable business that has become a household name. Investors are happy to keep throwing money at Uber until they have taken over the world, and then they can worry about profit. Not every business is going to be an Uber, so it's a big risk basing your business plan on requiring constant injections of cash until you become a billion dollar business.
There's the equivalent paragraph for regular people and Erdogan also demande prosecution under that provision. The primary difference is a slightly lower maximum sentence. That paragraph does not require government authorization. In practice, this decision does make little difference. It's a political statement.
If you'd like to start simple, you could skip the voice interface and go for a text-based interface like Messenger.

Voice can be a layer that you put on top later, with the extra complexity that the recognition may not be perfect. I guess it really depends which is the most interesting aspect for you.
Any Laptop with HDMI 2.0 output that can drive 4K external display yet?

That's what I like to upgrade to next.
There's also another workaround to the ones mentioned by other posters: You could install your compilers, do your build, and clean up all your build tools within just one shell script invoked by a RUN line in Dockerfile. It's not pretty but it works.
Introducing Spash
AngularJS Authentication Screencast Series – Part 1
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"The idea isn’t new. As Frum notes, Friederich Hayek endorsed it. In 1962, the libertarian economist Milton Friedman advocated a minimum guaranteed income via a “negative income tax.”"

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-aren...

(meant to post this on parent comment, but it works just as well here as an illustration.)
Top 1% of Income Earners pay 45% of California's Taxes
Do you have any proof that it's slower or is it just an assumption?
Mass graves could be filled with ancient Greek tyrant’s followers
This makes me wonder at what point incompetent system administration becomes legal negligence.
Yeah, I feel your pain.

I like these games a lot, but I almost feel like the act of typing out the solutions is the funner part. Getting stuck on an especially hard problem for too long just gets frustrating.
Stage of life makes all the difference here. Higher-tax, higher-services economies are a really good deal for people at the beginning or end of their earnings curves (college/early 20s or 60s/70s.) As the author points out, you get a lot of government-funded services that make life better. Your tax burden is noticeable but not hellish.

For peak earners in their 30s/40s, especially those without children, HT-HS economies are frustrating. I can't fault people like our Vox poster who live in the U.S. during their peak earnings years ... and then head to a European country for their retirement years. As long as the border guards don't stop you, and you aren't consumed with guilt, give it a shot!
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I would argue that there is literally never a reason to use MongoDB over other solutions. It looks tempting at first, but in reality it has all the downsides of any other database and a whole lot more junk heaped on top.

YMMV of course; that might just be my biased view after weeks of trying to improve performance.
I've never had a problem with calendar invites in other timezones on Google, and I suspect a number of those come in UTC. Is it possible that the UTC invites you are getting don't actually have the timezone attached? In the absence of a stated timezone I'd have thought assuming the user's current timezone was the safest course of action
Tell HN: Uber in Argentina is having so much fun. Details about recent events.
Things are going crazy lately with Uber landing in Argentina. It's pretty interesting to see Uber's strategy whenever it starts in a new country. They just don't give a f#k and go all in with it.

Anyway, this is what's going on lately. (I'll try to keep this updated)

27.3.2016: Uber officially starts recruiting drivers. Uber launch seems imminent: http://www.infobae.com/2016/03/27/1799470-uber-da-su-primer-paso-el-pais-y-convoca-conductores-buenos-aires

12.4.2016 (10PM): Uber officially launched: http://www.infobae.com/2016/04/12/1803830-confirmado-uber-se-podra-usar-las-1600-buenos-aires

12.4.2016 (6PM): Buenos Aires police seized Uber driver's car. Fined him with ARS$77.000 (aprox US$5.133): http://www.infobae.com/2016/04/14/1804342-la-ciudad-secuestro-el-primer-auto-uber-y-multo-al-conductor-77-mil-pesos

13.4.2016: Buenos Aires justice says that Uber is "illegal". Uber can't operate in Buenos Aires[1]: http://www.infobae.com/2016/04/13/1804173-la-justicia-portena-ordeno-suspender-la-actividad-uber

15.4.2016 (Today): Huge strike by taxi drivers. Chaos in Buenos Aires:
http://tn.com.ar/sociedad/arranco-el-piquete-anti-uber-una-hora-antes-de-lo-previsto_666026
* http://www.infobae.com/2016/04/15/1804652-los-taxistas-cortan-el-transito-uber-y-las-redes-sociales-volvieron-estallar
* Twitter https://twitter.com/search?q=uber%20near%3A%22Argentina%22%20within%3A15mi&src=typd

[1] It's just Buenos Aires justice, idk what's going on with the federal justice.
> I personally think heads of state that turn authoritarian should be offended much more often and harder

That might be the actual outcome. Erdogan might quite well loose the case which would establish that he's fair game.
Indeed. And not merely for the dysfunction and pay, but also the fact that you're willingly building the machinery of your own oppression and servitude.
It's not in any way about design, it's about having one more option in an already long long combo box.
The dodgy ones don't have access to the URLs. The example was Skype links: if Microsoft scrapes those, they'll follow the rules and not make them available in searches.

If you give your link to a dodgy search engine, you've lost.
Are you saying Verizon has a moral responsibility to provide jobs to Mexico, the Philippines and the DR?
And if Obama himself made actions to allow such a lawsuit to move forward, it would be seen countrywide as an egregious move against free speech.

For Merkel to personally get involved and say that the guy should be prosecuted is a hit against freedom of speech in germany, regardless of the outcome.
LibGDX is made mostly by Mario Zechner, who also happens to work on/for RoboVM.
FSharp Power Tools is about all the IDE tooling I care about. I think coming from the OO world developers just expect a whole bunch of add-on tooling. Once you are comfortable with the functional-first way of doing things you find almost all of this unnecessary, except perhaps for some rather basic refactoring support, which FSPT provides.
Developer. I don't care about space because most of my stuff are cloud-based.
Only after you own enough homes to create a publicly traded REIT :)
In Cambridge, a faction of candidates for city council promises that they will make housing affordable by opposing the construction of new housing.

Apparently you can just tell people that supply and demand work the opposite way in the housing market, and people will believe you.
> And if I call a sexual pose that includes extreme bending over and complete submission "The Merkel" will I be prosecuted under German law too? That is a risk I am willing to take.

Nah. Certain types of political satire in Germany are pretty much a contact sport. You'll see much cruder and more direct imagery on carnival floats, for example [1, 2, 3].

Warning: several images may be NSFW and/or cannot be unseen.

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/the-political-side-of-carnival/a-165896...

[2] http://www.ibtimes.com/rose-monday-german-carnival-mocks-pol...

[3] http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-epa04107803-a-political-the...
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The concept itself was hard for me when I first learned it, I can remember. Now, it seems trivial to me too, sure.
I too found many of the facts stated difficult to relate. Every listing results in a bidding war-> prices are finally coming down?
It's like this because we're mandatory customers, and there's no accountability and no competition.
Their slogan certainly seems to indicate that.
Odd? I don't think so... I've worked with lots of incredibly talented programmers and I think every single one of them has different preferences.

My favorite place to work right now is on OSX. It's Unix so you get all the command line goodies plus it has a very good GUI and great tools in the graphical environment as well (I'm thinking of XCode). Plus, I think Objective-C is pretty neat.
"European values" does not include having the executive stand in the way of putting a case in front of the judiciary.

It's a bad law, but having the executive exercise its option to not consent would have been worse.
Muse's UAV Blimps Keep Crashing at Concerts
Even without all of the financial aspects everyone else has mentioned, if you own the home you can do whatever (well, with approval from the local homeowner committee if applicable). Don't like a wall separating the kitchen and living room? Tear it down. Want to rip up your yard and install new grass and a garden? Go ahead.

My current landlord allows pretty much no modifications to anything, just recently cut down the only 2 (40+ year old) trees around the house (for insurance purposes apparently), and won't allow anything to be planted in the yard except for flowers in a garden. I want an actual vegetable garden, and I would've never cut down those two trees. All of this is on top of the financial aspects of actually owning the house and paying rent to contribute to an asset (which at least in my area is about 40% cheaper, sans maintenance and taxes) and when it's paid off, I don't have any more rent...
Astrophysics to Data Science
Erdoğan owns her due her foolish politics.

That she did not act like you described very well proves this.

This is the turning point http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/16/angela-merkel-c...

A big backslash followed this and after that she probably thought that fuck it.
Thanks. I asked specifically about rate limiting as the article didn't specifically mention it.
So basically you think it is best (of likely options) that the majority of humans should not have basic needs met so that the remainder can reflect on how free and unenslaved they are. That is quite cynical.
The good floats with the bad and vice versa.

Politics are regional. Living in Los Angeles with a highly diverse population with both legal/illegal immigration and free speech as its the raison d'etre would be unacceptable to Germany and maybe that is a good thing?

This is a locale that produced entertainment acts like NWA, Snoop Dog The Doors & Sarah Silverman. (Also some really great looking mixed race actors as well) I don't think Germany could do that due to its Homogeny. A region has a choice: Homogeny which produces affluence and social cohesion or diversity that produces great food, music, art, and technology.
It's super weird of you to try to position me alongside drug prohibitionists and deporters of immigrants. I take offense. Thankfully, this thread was long enough already.
You could've explained it in the title? Spash is a command line tool for Big Data platforms that simulates a real Unix environment, providing most of the commands of a typical bash shell on top of YARN, HDFS and Apache Spark.
How is a URL with that's not linked anywhere different from a password?
But why?
I mean, F# is a great language, but there are so much options for non-Windows systems with better tooling and ecosystem and larger communities etc.

F# is my primary language because it is the best on MS stack.
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> If we naively squish the curve, as if by pressing down with a finger, we end up with a bimodal distribution, where the task is now easy for one group of users and impossible for another.

How do you convince people not to be naive though?
There are untold retired people who have been forced to move due to rising property taxes. Many of the benefits of owning evaporate when you take into account everything.
Wasn't this dismissed as incorrect? The extra email address was the one listed in WHOIS and used to be a valid option in the web UI, and is a reasonable choice for issuing domain-validated certs?
What do you think they spent $13,000 on?
I completely agree with you, in general they have come a long way (bounties, culture, recognition...). They're just not there yet (by there in mean Facebook-grade responsiveness).

I was only voicing my personal experience, which has been very poor (maybe the team, or the seriousness of the bugs), but in general I have heard some good things, especially for truly critical issues.
New effort to study astronomical ‘wow’ signal after almost 40 years
Right. One clear path to dramatically reducing fraud would be to eliminate the prevalence of refunds, thus eliminating the INCENTIVE for fraud. Instead of calculating exemptions and deductions on already-earned income, establish an accurate deduction schedule up-front such that your expected refund is $0.

Or, better yet, eliminate payroll deductions entirely and ensure everyone has a liability come April. Pretty hard to defraud a liability.
I'm curious if their is a legal loop hole where you can just say a person stopped by and rented your living room for an hour ..or something... and you just happen to decide to make them a meal while they were there.
> all of their services cost money

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Every AWS service I can think of has "free tier" for lower use and then charges for higher use, like AppEngine. For example, AWS's email service (SES) is free up to 60,000 emails per month.
You're absolutely right that working in a higher level language has a value and it would be crazy to do it another (low-level) way if you can do it using Java or another higher level language

Of course the number of people that could do it in Asm is smaller than those who could do it in Java (I guess in the same way only few people can drive a Formula 1 car)
A family friend works at Verizon, in an office job (I think it's some sort of finance, but I'm not sure). She is not in the union, and currently not striking, so she says VZ has her out in the field doing work on towers until the strike is over. I couldn't believe it, but apparently they have at least some untrained workers going out in the field up on the poles.
With very illiquid assets, like San Francisco real estate, it's often not so much how high or low prices are but whether the market even exists.
+Desk

Bought an adjustable standing desk - liking it, sometimes its down sometimes its up, when I am tired of sitting/standing I change - a permanent standing disk with a stool chair would be my next choice.

+Chair

Couldnt afford an aeron so its a nice memory foam seat, mesh back with a few adjustments (height, tilt, back hight/tilt, etc.) Quite comfortable.

+Monitor

I got two older 4:3 19" displays (I do DTP stuff, taller displays are nicer for that). Double head display I think is a great productivity thing (code on one test/data on other), also have secondary display set with a KMV switch with the keyboard and mouse so I can pull up reference materials on primary and then work on secondary on other screen with reference in display.

+Keyboard

Was using a Dell Quiettouch keyboard (nice), used a PS/2 Adapter, but the adapter intermittently freakes out so I’m back to a generic Kbd. Need to try another adapter,

+Music (Y/N? if so, what? links?)

Varies depending on what I'm working on, sometimes it's even playing old movies or TV shows (ones I know too well so I'm not really distracted) mainly its about what sets the mood I need, music doesn't always do it.

+Hours (standard 9a-5p? or 10p-5a vampire hours?)

Varies. Usually not late often.
There is a lot of content from "cloud" apps that has "private link" sharing functionality, where "only someone with this link can view the <object>".

No, it really isn't security. But yes, it really does happen, and probably a lot more than you'd think.
That place became Paris on the Platte and was around forever. That's a rich neighborhood now and they ended up closing it for a trendy donut place :(
>> if the Snapchat backend looks anything like the ux works

>What does this even mean.

I find their app to be very poorly designed, I wouldn't be surprised if their back end is also poorly designed.

>You have to have some measure of competency to be able to operate at Snapchat scale. You really do.

Meh, they are big but they aren't that big. There are about 3000 bigger sites out there and not that many are built on GAE so that's a strange way to measure the competency of GAE or snap chat for that matter.

You can run at scale and do it poorly, Enterprises do it all the time. Size and scale aren't really a good indication of quality.

If you want to make a case for appengine, do that, but don't tell me that 'these guys vetted it, and they are kinda big, so it must be good' There's a lot more big sites that don't use app engine. Size doesn't equal competency.
On the same subject there's also http://box-256.com/
NASA takes to Facebook to shut down climate change deniers in most brutal way
I used them and it was excellent - exactly what I'd want as a tech-comfortable person. It's not the best for people who want a person to meet with in person or talk to frequently on the phone. Also note that Real Estate agents on the other end of the transition can be a bit annoyed by you using RedFin.
What is insecure about more entropy + blocking scanners? By that rational any internet connected service with a password is insecure.
For Quake 2, the most commonly used clients are R1Q2 and Q2PRO. I recommend starting with R1Q2 because it keeps the same look and feel of the original game but offers major behind-the-scenes improvements. You can get texture packs to make the game look more modern, but I don't like to use them.

A list of all active multiplayer servers can be found at http://q2servers.com/. You can usually find people playing action, ctf, deathmatch, and jump mods.

(Source: I still actively play Q2)
Estonia does this [1], and it works brilliantly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card
I'm not the previous author, but I bought my home (in SF) with Redfin about 2.5 years ago, and our experience was very good. It felt to us like all the good parts of having a real estate agent and none of the bad parts.

We wanted to just browse a webpage for homes ourselves, though (and then have someone help us evaluate and make an offer on them). If you want someone to go out and find houses and offer them to you, it's not the service for you.
I don't think people consider URL shortening as a security measure, more of a convenience measure. Also, you should bare in mind that many users of such services are not exactly technically savvy (especially compared to the HN crowd, which often gets forgotten here).

Given that, if a company is providing URL shortening for their product (such as One Drive), that should be their responsibility to protect the users.
If you want a deeper, more serious view of the potato diet and its possible mechanism of action, check our Richard Nilokey's blog. A good starting point would be [1].

[1] https://freetheanimal.com/2016/02/the-potato-diet-practicali...
A Good API Shouldn’t Need an SDK?
I don't understand the use of URL shorteners for 99% of what people use them for.

Unless you're sending your link over a relatively short fixed-length limited medium like Twitter or SMS, there is no fucking point.

I've seen people post links to download apps, which go from their own site > some random bit.ly/etc URL > dropbox. I'm already seriously doubting if I want to run your app if you can't manage something better than dropbox file sharing, but to then rely on a bit.ly URL that could go fucking anywhere, when you're just putting the link on a webpage is beyond belief.
This is just amazing. And what is more suprising is that Doom 1 and 2 are still thriving after >20 years. If you download zandronum you will learn that there are still people playing it online. of course those are some mods, but still very much resembling the original atmosphere and graphics of doom 1 and 2.

Edit: of course this probably would be different if the doom source code wasn't released at some point of time...
Hey, thanks for the pointers! Is there anything, in particular, that you find confusing? We have had that comment before but we're having a hard time pinpointing what confuses people!