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He decided not to undergo actual clinical treatment for his cancer until it was too late, instead relying on new-age stuff to heal himself for the longest time.

I wouldn't go so far as to call this behavior "full blown sociopath" but it definitely shortened his life. I don't know what the stats are for refusing cancer treatment, but I think they're fairly low.
We do this. We have 50+ ASGs for the same reason. Often it's min=3, max=3 for HA, but if a machine fails it's automatically replaced.

Every service in our infrastructure runs the same way. Some have scaling policies, some don't.

DBs like Cassandra are also in ASGs since if one of them terminates and new one can come up and bootstrap without operator intervention.
Why are the fallbacks (~/.config and ~/.cache) utter garbage?
I'm surprised you didn't mention the mortgage interest tax deduction as a contributor to sprawl. I.e. federally subsidized home ownership. Talk about reasons to ditch your downtown rental and borrow against a grassy slice of suburban land.

http://freakonomics.com/2012/06/29/homeownership-and-suburba...
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There is the PPI (payment protection insurance) scandal in the UK. Billions has been paid out in compensation and it has been front page news.
I fall in the affected demographic, and can verify that AirBNB has been a complete frustration to use.

First time using the site I went through 5 different attempted bookings where each host refused because they "forgot to update the calendar".

I then took to providing credentials in the intro message...LinkedIn URL to show my role as senior engineer at a large tech company, signing my full name so they can google it.

Still no booking.

I'm hoping this article will increase scrutiny of these hosts' adherence to fair housing law.
Ah, Carrier Command... I'm going to have to play that again. Powered on my Amiga 500 on my desk yesterday after almost two years, and to my amazement the battery kept the correct time.

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Rust mangles symbols with version information, so it's no trouble to have two versions of the same library in the same binary if necessary.
Maybe there's room for a qbas.js which introduces some helpers like this?
You can learn more about what it’s like working here through Hardy’s on-boarding blog post:

http://tech.noredink.com/post/143787279069/on-boarding-as-a-...
Although i agree, that's an extremely odd statement. Also, does it make sense for scientists to ask the public to fix the situation for them? Literally save them from themselves?
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the problem with this is you're rewriting client ssl, which isn't a very good idea considering how battle tested and hardened it is. how do you know you've dealt with all the edge cases that tls spec writers have been wringing their hands over for like forever. why do a one off impl of client auth inside the oauth protocol? why not use extremely well baked pre-existing infrastructure like webcrypto? it's not like you're magically going to be compatible with everything just because you follow the overly vague guidelines of oauth2. all you get kudos for is reading the spec - but how does that help your users?

security is a very hard problem, especially asymetric crypto security. rolling your own is generally not advised.

If there is a way to define and use client tls according to the current spec, that would be best. if not, I agree that it's probably a good idea to create a new spec

I agree though that the curlness of the spec is orthogonal to the discussion.
They already have the Church of Emacs, and Richard Stallman is deemed Saint IGNUcius.
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There used to be an alternative iPhone management tool created by some of the same developers who were jailbreaking iOS. Certain features only worked with jailbroken phones - but you could still manage your music library even on unmodified devices.

It's been a few years and I'm not sure if its still in development. I believe it was called iFunbox? On mobile now and don't have the opportunity to search for more info - I will edit this later.
In the first suggestion they suggest breaking up a component into its own folder. That quickly becomes a completely mess imo. Better to prefix the filename with the component (hero.service.js) and leave everything in the same directory.
It should stop creepily scanning whatever it uses to make inferences about who i know.
> multithreading is all about parallelism

This just isn't true. Why do you think people wrote multi-threaded applications back when almost all machines had just one processor and just one core? Threads give you concurrency as well, even if you don't want or need parallelism.
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> my mother's Windows 10 laptop has reverted at least one of the changes I have made.

So, having moved house recently, I had no internet for my win10 gaming PC, not even the cable plugged in. Most days it'd be turned on for a bit of a play. After about a week of this, Win10 then told me it had updates to install, and took me through the install process!
Right, and if the binary toolchains would be built with musl (not targeting musl) statically, we could have a rustc+cargo that works on both glibc and musl, avoiding two versions.
A .h file can be compiled as C, C++, or Objective-C. Isn't that how single-file libraries usually work?
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High quality, mostly-custom software is expensive.

That's why I thinking bringing everyone as close together produces the best results. Yes, the designer wants X, but is Y acceptable if it's doable in a tenth of the time?

Start focusing on "What's best for the team / product?" rather than only on {whatever hat the asker is wearing}.
it'd be bad style to use it for saved queries but for experimentation it's great
Where/how are you going to earn £10k a month on a cruise ship?
Well many municipalities go after the johns, with fines, jail time, and publicly shaming them. Just step up the pressure but it just goes underground.

While there are severe issues with underage involuntary prostitution I think that legalizing prostitution with a proper legal framework and such to insure the safety of said workers would actually reduce the occurrences of underage prostitution. It is one industry that would need to regulation, basically medical certification that they have no communicable diseases, know how to protect themselves from the same, and are not being forced into the industry by a pimp. If anything I can see having pimps sidelined by professional management groups.

The simple fact is, it does not harm any adult who voluntarily engage is such activity and therefor has no reason to be illegal.
You missed out - there is nothing quite like getting your first picture on the screen with the Copper, or doing your first scroller with the Blitter, or hearing your first Future Composer tune play correctly inside of a working level 3 interrupt request...
I'm confused

It’s simple – here’s how it works:
Say a community is built in Year 1.
The community’s streets need to be rebuilt every 30 years.
In Year 30 a new, identical community is built. Now twice the amount of taxes are coming, and so for time being the property owners only need to pay half the amount.
And 30 years later, in Year 60, two new communities are built; as long as the number of properties and property taxes are doubling every 30 years, they can continue to pay half the amount.

Year 1, one community (community A), over the next 30 years is going to pay for 1 community's worth of roads (call it a 30 year loan given on day 1, let's say 1M dollars). So, the cost for community A is 1M dollars for 30 community-years of roads.

Year 30, we add a new community B to the mix. This community needs its own roads, so it needs a loan for 1M dollars it will pay off over the next 30 years. However, community A's roads have worn out. Community A just finished paying off their first loan, so they'll need a new one.

At year 60, we have paid 3M dollars, and gotten 90 "community-years" of roads out of it. This is no different than the equivalent end of the first year with one community, one loan, and 30 "community-years" of roads.

What am i missing from this example?
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What does being free to be a man have to do with prostitution? Are there no male prostitutes where you live?
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The problem is not so much to remove the demand for prostitution but to remove the human trafficking, exploitation and extortion that is rampant in this business.

edit: the country I live in tolerate prostitution and neither prostitutes, neither customers are committing crimes. But there is still a lot of criminal activities related to prostitution.
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Meh. Operating system CSPRNGs can be slow, whereas userspace CSPRNGs seeded from the OS CSPRNG can be fast, fast, fast. Explain how the OpenSSL RNG is broken, and why it's a bad idea to rely on it.
I have been an FSF supporter for decades, but the JavaScript issue is one thing I don't totally agree with.

That said, there should be nothing "fancy" on government web sites, and they should be compatible,with all operating systems and common web browsers.
I've been using FreeBASIC for about 10 years and help maintain a 100+kLOC codebase written in it (a game engine).

FreeBASIC has multiple dialects; there's the qb dialect that supports most of QB except some audio and real-mode DOS-related commands, and the modern fb dialect, which is all of C plus half of C++ with BASIC syntax. And it does improve on C and C++ in several ways, like much better string support and a "preprocessor" that looks like the C preprocessor but is far more powerful (it's not a preprocessor, so it knows about types and variables, etc).

Of course it's not better than QBasic in every way: it's not interpreted with that awesome edit-and-continue ability that QBasic had. And the compiler can be quite buggy.

There are also a number of other QB successor languages, like QB64, which has a focus on the QBasic IDE and supporting all of the audio-visual stuff QB had fully. But (after comparing the codebases) will say FB is written far more like a professional product.
Am thinking of wearing your baseball hat backward or upside down when your team is behind. I know this does not actually help them win but it feels good to be part of the group doing it.

So we comply with the ritualistic behavior in a sort of group angst, when we win we feel it worked and when we loose we feel some sort of existential support system.
PornHub runs on a PHP stack. Do you think that maybe they get a little more than 12 requests a second?
In places where drug use or prostitution are illegal there are usually interest groups earning quite bit via the penal system or just plain stealing people's stuff because they were involved in drugs or prostitution.

So logically speaking it should be officially accepted as a profession and managed by the health department in order for the sex workers to not suffer as much. Then you can also apply the same controls to sex trafficking as you do to the non-sex shadow work force.

Portugal's health system allowed them to legalize drug use and create a healthier society and decrease related crime. Let's face it, if someone wants to smoke crack or pay a sex worker, they will do it regardless. Might as well control and earn money the usual way like liquor taxes.
I guess my biggest concern with this is tied up in this potential dystopian future where prostitution is basically the only unskilled job humans can do better than machines. How do we prevent people from being forced into this out of economic desperation?
I am against Prostitution, but I do not think it should be a crime. As a society we should legalize all behaviors that do not harm others. I know that's a slippery slope, but rehab is better all around then jail.
should crack down on non-professional posts
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With the recent popularity of Electron, I wonder why less attention has been given to Qt Quick. The JSON-like syntax of QML as well as JavaScript should be very familiar to web developers and you get software that looks much more "native" than what is achievable in the DOM (well, without reasonable effort).
I have complaints about Apple Music, but it's never deleted any of my files, and frankly I don't see any setting that would say, in effect, "please delete songs from my original library when you feel like it in order to save space." Yes, I have unique files that iTunes failed to match and just uploaded. No, those files weren't deleted, either. I've encountered some fascinating problems with their matching algorithms but "I am destroying your music library because that's what my evil masters in Cupertino have instructed me to do because something something DRM! Ha ha ha!" just ain't one of them.

That's not the style of casual speech that Apple support reps are trained to use with real customers.

That seemed kind of off to me, too. The whole "Oh, yeah, it just deletes your stuff, stop bitching" attitude is...not my experience with Apple. But it sure does fit the the "let me confirm your worst fears about how terrible Apple is" narrative better.

And, yes, I'm sure I'll be accused of being an Apple apologist, but really it's just a certain level of weariness at this point. I hate iTunes, too. I have problems with iCloud. I think Apple Music may be built around an irreparably flawed paradigm (trying to maintain one unified library between music you've added to iTunes on your own, bought from the iTunes Store and added with Apple Music, rather than just maintaining "Local Library" and "Cloud Library" as separate entities). But I'm just not seeing the Grand Evil that's being ascribed throughout a lot of the comments here. In practice, my Apple products still actually work pretty well. I'm not interested in proselytizing to others, but I'm also not interested in constantly being told, in so many words, that Apple products only appeal to the stupid or the incompetent.
By enabling social harmony, high quality of life, formation of families, jobs etc. Won't eliminate demand but maybe significantly reduce it.
Pragmatic acceptance of the world as it is does not imply that you agree with it being that way. A lot of people sat at the back of the bus before Rosa Parks.

I have a very strong aversion to evoting systems and will campaign against their introduction.
What about java software running in the browser with unsecure certificates and full access to the system harddrive? because that's what we have in Portugal to fill taxes.
"Encryption simply reduce"s data security to key storage – so part of using encryption properly is making sure that encryption keys are themselves protected and kept safe."
I'm not deeply familiar with the exact philosophy of the FSF, but I would guess:

(1) software freedom is mostly about protecting the rights of you as a user of software, and if the government uses proprietary software on their own end to make decisions based on secret rules or whatever then that's basically their business; but on the other hand

(2) there are strong arguments for making the decision making technology of government into free software since government is
for and by the people who should have the right to understand the technology that governs them.

So, in a way they do just want to be able to keep their own computers free from proprietary/secret binary blobs; on the other hand, advocating for government transparency goes hand in hand with advocating for software freedom (thus FSF and EFF are allies).
He means men naturally will choose to pay for sex when there are no other options, so its inevitable! /s

Prostitution should be legal, but this argument is horrible
1. I was just curious if, by implementing the CLR, they have effectively implemented a VM for CIL in their OS, not if they reproduced Inferno.

3. My question was how close it came. In other words, what else would your OS need in order to be compatible with something like a cross-platform app created in Xamarin.
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How is prostitution any different than selling our bodies to work in a factory, or construction, or retail, or ....

Our bodies wear down and tire doing non-sexual labor. What makes sexual labor so horrid? As long as we do safe procedures (condoms, dental dams, etc.), there shouldn't be any problems with labor of a sexual nature.

It's always better if you like your job. A lot of us do programming, or designing systems, or administration. We enjoy it. There's also people who like sex. I know a few, and they have made more in the sex industry.

The only real problems are disease and abuse. Disease is obvious, but "owners" like pimps and such are big problems. We don't accept this in standard employment.

And yes, sex for money for both genders is pretty awesome. It bypasses the whole mating ritual, and makes very clear expectations up front. And once done, the transaction is completed. Regular relationships can, and will get messy. I can certainly understand why some would not want to venture down that avenue in their point of life.
You really think we won't be able to build a better sex bot?
Maybe if we handle it like we handle cigarette smoking? Not illegal, but regulated, heavily taxed, only for adults, only in designated areas, and with a government campaign that points out all of the (mental) health hazards that come with it?
You don't. It'll be a job like any other.

"How do we prevent people from being forced into electrical engineering to get out of their economic desperation?"
They paid money to commit a crime. I don't see why we should allow those exhibiting moral turpitude inside our country. They could have found a legal, if not more arduous channel to enter legally. Instead, they are criminals.

If I am a fucker, you are a traitor to the country. Or, you're a foreign agent who needs to stow his opinions on our domestic policies.
To the user the dev and the vendor is indistinguishable. Also, Nuremberg defenses aren't usually the most solid, but I see what you mean.
This is very true. I have an armchair level interest in psychiatry and psychology. I spoke to someone who deals with real criminals all day.

They said that in their 30 year career counselling criminals and assessing them, they only met one true sociopath. The kid came from a family with $100M+ and was about 20.

They said that this person could convince you of anything to the extent that everyone who had exposure to them had to do so in small chunks so as to not empathize.

This person could cut to the heart of someone's identity very quickly and learn how to manipulate and engineer your response.

Apparently it is one of those things where you are like "Maybe I am on this spectrum..." but if you were, you would either know for sure, or be pathologically immune to the critism. And if you met someone who truly was on it, they would be capable of things beyond most normal people's imaginations.
I think you (or the people you are describing) are bringing a lot of unjustified assumptions to the table regarding why people make use of prostitution.
Or, correctly teller.io to www.teller.io. Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11004396
It's really hard to make babies at the construction site, even on accident.
To save you a click, the "most British thing" is drinking tea. British tea consumption has been going down over time.
Yes, and this .h file will be used from .c/.cpp because looks like it's way to bulky to add additional .m/.mm file just for OSX/iOS case when creating cross platform applications. Check tigr - it's possible to run exactly the same C/C++ code on Windows and OSX without any changes at all.
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These people had degrees from real schools, they just enrolled in the fake school afterward so they could renew their visas.

And yes, companies do background checks. I received a copy of mine, as everyone is legally entitled to do, and it included information such as what school I graduated from.
> I find it pretty disappointing that Red Hat hasn't done more in this area

Me too. Especially now that the 2 things that kept Linux from being a player in the corporate space were 1) Office, and 2) Exchange. Now you can get Google Apps or iCloud or any of a number of hosted applications for these things. Unfortunately, the last time I tried Fedora, a couple months ago, I got a couple of cryptic selinux-related errors, and quickly decided "ain't nobody got time for that," but if a company would get serious about an image (as they do for Windows, anyway), the path is wide open for a Linux desktop in the enterprise, at vast cost savings.
I do not think Java is the only outlier here. In general library authors should never force a logger to write to anything. It should be a do-nothing logger. It should provide a configuration so logs are going through the application utilizing the library. If I am wrong interpreting your comment, let me know.

[1]: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/writing/logging/#logg...
> How do we prevent people from being forced into this out of economic desperation?

Answer: Prevent economic desperation.

In this dystopian future if prostitution is illegal and the law is heavily enforced then desperate people will find other ways to make ends meet which will surely be more harmful to society.
He unnecessarily genderified it.

s/man/human/
By making it as difficult and dangerous as possible for everyone involved. For example, Sweden - which is generally used as the model example of this approach by those who support it - criminalized people who paid for sex and landlords who knowingly continued to rent to women who had sex for money, amongst others. One of the consequences of this is that sex workers in Sweden who've been raped by a client and reported it to the police have been evicted as a result; the police have gone to their landlords and told them that unless they evict those women, they could go to prison. I believe this was a big reason Amnesty took the position they did. The response of the "end prostitution" campaigners was basically to lie, claiming that Amnesty were making the issue in question up because Sweden hadn't criminalized the sex workers. (Which was half-true but irrelevant because Sweden had criminalized their landlords instead.)
Well preemption and blocking should go hand in hand. The distinction of whether or not that's multi-threading is more of a semantic argument. I'd consider them the Amino acids that the multi-threading protein is made of.

The entirely async model means that if something accidentally endless loops, it kills everything. The only reason why we get the "This script is taking a long time" is because some preemption is provided as some magic beyond the scope of the JavaScript itself.
>I don't want the web to be a desktop app replacement

That ship has sailed a long time ago.

>I'm fine with rich single page web apps, but I don't understand the reason why web apps need complete feature parity with desktop apps.

Because ...?
Here in New Zealand we made it legal a number of years ago, and now it mostly seems like a non issue these days, and from reports it's made the industry safer. None of the horror scenarios that people predicted would happen if we legalized it came about. I think there is the odd problem with asian women brought in illegally to the country and exploited, but I think because the industry itself is legal it actually makes it easier for the police to find out about it and for whistle blowers from the industry to come forward.
France decided to make clients criminals, not prostitutes, thus it is legal to sell sexual services yet illegal to consume them ?!?