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> I'd certainly rather be an average person in this day and age than an average person in the stone age and I think most people would as well if they understood what it entailed.

As would I, but you simply have no basis to expand this claim into "most people would rather be Joe the Plumber than Augustus" which is what the article author is attempting to do with a hodge-podge of anecdotal rhetoric.
The problem is that in the medium term the costs for policing, fire services, schools, etc all rise because you have to pay more to attract people to live and work in the expensive city. The only way to do that is through taxation[1]. In the long term that higher taxation drives away the companies, so you're left with an expensive city that can't afford to raise enough revenue to run. Then the city goes bankrupt.

The preferred solution is to not let things get out of hand in the first place.

[1] There are other options like stopping having these things provided publicly but few people would advocate that.
That depends... food is generally abundant, and though less cheap than a few years ago, still far less than before WWI in terms of percentage of income. Technology and the opportunity to learn almost anything has never been better.

Beyond that, it comes down to upbringing and lifestyle, of which I kind of feel the millenials have been coddled much more as a general statement that prior generations. This may well mean higher rates of depression, which can greatly affect the perception of quality of life.

Both of my grandmothers grew up on farms, and have a very different view of the world than the generations that came after mine (I'm GenX). It's a matter of perspective as much as anything.

My only advice to those in their late teens, is if you go to college, make it for something practical and ideally that you enjoy... minimize you debt, and prefer the cheaper route as opposed to what you think might be a better option, with few exceptions after 5 years of graduating, it probably won't matter, but you'll be much happier without a debt you can't declare bankruptcy on that's a multiple of your expected annual salary for your chosen career path.

Few people can get by and be successful without college... making it into the top 5-8% of wage earners is the top 1% for people who don't have an education beyond high school.

In generations past, many people moved for other chances, and opportunities... I don't see this as all that different really.
The term "Waterfall" was not applied.

but it absolutely was very common to use the process that it implies.

many man-years of gathering requirements, building lists of features, interrogating stakeholders.

people knew they would never get a second chance to get what they wanted, so they would throw every feature in that they could think of.

Then the developers would build it. more man years building. mostly they tested as they went along, but....different features and areas of the app were often build in isolation, so the most you could say was that you had tested what you had built.

the stakeholders were consulted with screenshots, and sometimes the app, but the Big Fear was new features and additional requirements (which would cause massive contractual headaches) so any contact was VERY carefully controlled.

Also it was assumed every project was massively valuable IP, so detailed designs and features were held very close to the chest..again, any contact was VERY carefully controlled.

Eventually, after months or years of effort the various parts of the app would be "merged". omg the cluster fuck that would occur, the compromises, and arguments, the agonizing...

..then more testing..

Once that was completed the brilliant new creation would be seriously unveiled to the users to cheers and relief.

Finally, the contractual battles would begin as the paying company realised they had asked for entirely the wrong thing, and the development company tried desperately to cover their ass and make a profit.

The single biggest problem that Agile fixes isn't the testing, its the disconnect between what the client wanted and what the developers actually deliver.
'search for data to test the hypothesis'?

That's not how science works. The data is given and you test your idea against that. You are not allowed to 'search for data' to prove the hypothesis because that leads to bias errors.
My interpretation on utility of upvotes
tl;dr - think of upvotes as "watch later" button (YouTube), or "add to reading list" checkbox (Quora). do not use it as a "like/react" button (Facebook), or "Upvote" (Quora).

The way I use HN is this - I browse the Front Page and the "new" section as often as I can. I go through a couple of pages (as permitted by time) for both sections and upvote those that are relevant to whatever I may be learning at the time. Anything I upvote (threads and comments) are saved, providing me with easy access to all of the information within vicinity.

This is the most useful thing about HN, this ability to collect knowledge in an organized manner with possibly most minimal effort. And I am afraid that most of us do not realize this.

If it was so (that we use upvotes similar to how we use bookmarks) - then I personally would expect to see a broader distribution of votes among topics that would parallel the necessarily broader range of interests in any large collection of human beings.

Instead, we observe a centralized tendency where predictable topics garner hundreds of votes, while most languish with 1 or 2. This is a result of muscle memory from using Facebook's like button.

I'll try to make time and add some visual evidence of this in a few months using HN's API.
Alternatively, what if you already had the models and wanted to improve?
Amusing... I was wondering why they needed to get FAA permission to park the rocket, but the application says it'll be 160 feet tall. So they're standing it up, as opposed to the NASA methodology of positioning their monuments horizontally.
> I would say religion is compatible with anything:

The is only the case for the particular religion called Deism, which believes the creator god created the universe (including natural laws and all) but apart from that is totally hands-off. Most religions are not like that, but believes God or gods influence the world.

Deism is practically indistinguishable from atheism. It was popular among 18-century thinkers because it was believed religion was necessary for the good of society. Deism allows you to justify religions institutions and rituals without really believing in anything supernatural.
Dying off... Part of why we're going to see a large uptake in the number of celebrity deaths in the next decade or two.
Good information, thanks!
> USB-to-parallel module

Those have awful latency so bitbanging is less efficient.

> FTDI now has a track record of punishing their legit customers for the existence of knockoff chips.

At least they only bricked the knockoffs.

Prolific simply disabled support for their older, widely counterfeited PL2303HXA chips in Windows 8+. The same driver binary loaded under W7 still supports them.
Big Bang theory was proposed by a Catholic priest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
Wouldn't that be a whole new level of "premature optimization"? Serve https by default and also http for those still needs it for the reasons you outline.
I also noticed it seems blocked from access outside the US...

so what would happen if a traveling american wants to access it?

edit: FYI I'm trying from Kenya.
edit2: Using my phone I'm able to switch between wifi, and mobile and on mobile it is unblocked. hmmm

Also for those who don't see the Access Denied page but are curious, here is what it reads in full.

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Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://serve-403-www.senate.gov/" on this server.
Reference #xx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx

---------------------

It seems it has little to do with geography. It's an IP thing.
Because you grow crops on the roof, weave cotton in the basement, and build for furniture on another for? Roads are used for more than moving people around, they also move good around,which almost everyone partakes.
> This is kind of weird. Most people I know would distinguish between "the world" (not created in the big bang) and "the universe" (also not created in the big bang -- it's an expansion event -- but at least related to the big bang).

Dont't get you there. What is the world, and what is the universe in your definition?

> That isn't by design; it's what remains after religion lost a bunch of conflicts ("where did the water from Noah's Flood go?").

I would say that religion is always, by design, outside the realm of reason. That "design" was badly done when humankind knew less things, so that the religion "designers" made mistakes thinking that they could get away with stuff which was later on taken over by other human disciplines, so that lots of subjects can now be reasonably debated.

But the aim of all religion is to be outside rational discussion. As human knowledge progresses, religion is forced to become more and more metaphorical: since the actual facts that it can claim are dwindling, it must relegate itself to the emotional, and accept the facts we know about the universe as god way of expressing himself.
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A public DNS with unique canonical names would be nice, but we don't have one of those. The DNS we actually have is inconsistent for several reasons: replication lag, ownership disputes, legal and political disputes (governments disagree what content is ok), VPNs with custom entries, firewalls, host files, etc, etc.

URIs are incredibly important and deserve a more solid foundation to build upon. To make them truly unique, we should use some form of GUIDs. Pet names are a usability layer on top of GUIDs for us humans , but we should communicate the GUID instead of or alongside the pet name.
\tangent Noah's Flood: the Black Sea - theory is the Mediterranean catastrophically filled it
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/theory.html (not sure if the best source, just got from google; seems ok)
How is it that some people can spend e.g. 100hours a week in an MMO getting all kinds of things "done."
Something like gzip that "all" browsers and servers support? Which i would belive more than makes up for any https overhead.
"I would say religion is compatible with anything: since it is not based on reason,"

That view is not compatible at least with the actual history of 1st century Christians. For them, Christianity was about the historical person of Christ. See Paul, a former persecutor of Christians, writing to Christians in Corinth, circa AD 55:

"And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead." - 1 Corinthians 15:14-15

Christianity is about the person of Christ, it's a historical claim, and therefore open to investigation by reason, according to the historical method. For an ancient historian's understanding of the historical method as applied to Jesus, see Paul Barnett's "Jesus and the Logic of History" (http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-History-Studies-Biblical-Theolog...)
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Interestingly, some of the subdomains like https://www.budget.senate.gov/ use the same certificate and do allow you to load their pages with mixed sources. If this was the idea, it was done fairly shoddy.. more than a few sites in the 'Alternative Name' field will still load.
"The Big Bang" is just as hand-wavy as "God." It's still belief in a set of laws that govern the universe with no explanation for the origin of these rules other than no where. Call it what you want: God, the Trinity, Allah, Jupiter, Zeus, the "Big Bang."

They're all the same concept.

Man seems to crave an answer to the question posed by what Aristotle called the "prime mover," the force that set all other events in motion. Unfortunately,the universe isn't very good at explaining what happened before it existed.
Believing in Big Bang sounds just so wrong.

[edit] I just hope someone will not create a "Big Bang Church".
Nope, I'm in Italy and can access it from here.
> The onus is on the scientists. Elsevier does its job. If you were given a golden ring as a gift every day, I bet you would end up opening a jewelry shop as well.

The idea that Elsevier is somehow not responsible for their actions because they're just doing their job is abhorrent, and I entirely reject it. If what you do is actively harmful to society, the onus is on you to fix it. Yes, the onus is also on scientists, too, to not enable Elsevier's bad behavior, but they're not the ones choosing Elsevier's access policies; they only have indirect control.
LLVM has had the same thing for a very long time, under the name SimplifyDemandedBits
Man we were proud when we soldered our own Covox DACs for the LPT; Our MODs sure sounded awesome on those :)

And I didn't know DOSBox has an emulation for those, nice!
There's probably a grain of truth in Noah's Flood. There's similar flood myths in several religions, that place the flood in around the same period (for a very wide definition of around). I suspect there was a major flood event, a flood so big people interpret it as divine punishment. The flood may have went as far as the eye can see, at every place people may have ever been to, and would translate to "It was flooded everywhere", which over time got translated to "the whole world". [1]

For a fun exercise, we could replace statements involving God and they would suddenly make more sense.

"God created the universe." => "The universe created the universe".

"God created human beings" => "The universe created human beings"

"God shapes everyone's lives." => "The universe shapes everyone's lives".

"Jesus is the son of God." => "Jesus is the son of the universe".

"God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent, divinely simple, eternal and necessary"[2], "The universe is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent, divinely simple, eternal and necessary".

"So God created mankind in his own image" => "So the universe created mankind in its own image".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historici...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God
Oh, indeed. I must've got mixed up: it doesn't guarantee that builds will the same from machine to machine (unless you run go get at the exact same instant).
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Wow, are they really trying to declare a dichotomy between "talented" and "young"?
The trade-off is worth it. By a large margin.
>You don't seem interested in reasonable compromises...

That's something of a no true Scotsman argument, where any compromise offered by the other side can be rejected as unreasonable.

Besides, why should we be expected to compromise on our civil rights? What other civil right could acceptably be demolished over time?
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Not blocked in the Netherlands, but it opens the https version , which displays the following error:
The submitted https request was not able to be completed at this time.
Please retry your request using http. This may require disabling some browser based plug-ins.

Clicking the provided link causes a redirect loop(i.e. the http version redirects back to https)
You mean that super costly 1KB in front of a request that pulls extra megabyte of data on a typical website? I really hope you missed a /s
I can see the http version in Japan.
It's getting tired for you to read about it. Imagine how tiring it is for people living it.
It isn't. It is a theory. There are many theories of what the universe is and how it started. So far, like all theories, it is not absolute fact. But for those that believe in God, and are devout, God is absolute.
Yeah this. Growing up I took Islamic studies courses at school (mandatory), the teacher explained it like that, God created the universes via the Big Bang. Even cited verses from the Quran that confirmed it. I was young and fascinated by the idea of the Big Bang.

I am not religious now but I would love to see people study the Quran with the same scrutunity they did to the Bible in order to refute it because many issues people have with the Bible aren't even mentioned in the Quran and it seems hasty to discard the existence of God solely on the inconsistencues of one book.
This is almost as bad as when people were arguing against long signatures on Usenet.

https is the least of your worries in terms of overhead.
Linux got threads in 1996 when kernel 2.0 introduced the "clone" syscall, allowing multiple processes to share address space. LinuxThreads was built on top of this to implement the pthreads api.
check on https://stackshare.io

I tried for Yahoo, Japan but there is nothing, then tried for Yahoo only and found good amount fo info http://stackshare.io/yahoo/yahoo

Play around and see if you find others ..
>My interpretation of the Second Amendment is the only logical conclusion one can reach following a review of commentaries on it, and on the general view toward and position of firearms in the United States at the time of the drafting of the Constitution.

Are you basing this on your own research, or are you relying on other people who wish to see guns banned in the US?
You are suffering from survivorship bias. 18 months after an IPO, most companies are below the IPO price. Companies like Facebook and Google are the exception, they do not make the rule.

https://www.iposcoop.com/last-100-ipos/ shows that of the last 100 IPOs across all sectors, 63% are below their IPO price.

Pandora, Twitter, Square, First Data, Lending Club, GoPro, Etsy, etc are all doing shitty. Technically Square is trading above its IPO price only because it got humiliated with having to price their IPO at $9.
Normally a 160 foot tall object wouldn't need FAA permission, but SpaceX is located right next to Hawthorne Municipal Airport.
Do you think that all religious people imagine God as a man with a long white beard who lives in the sky? Many are just fine with the idea of a non-anthropomorphic God.

It's funny what strange things some atheists believe about all theists. (The reverse is also true, of course, but frankly I'd expect better of the atheists.)
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Employees are generally the worst judges of whether or not a company's stock price will go up. They have far too vested an interest to make an unbiased assessment, and most people anyway don't know what the markets are looking for in terms of making the stock price go higher.
Snack reviews are a real thing online??
Excuse the ignorance, but what's the problem if it's purely an informational read only site? There's no logins, prompts, messaging that can be exploited. What's the problem of it being unencrypted?

Don't get me wrong I'm all for https when there's user information to be protected back and forth, I just don't see the applicability for it here.
I would say religion is compatible with anything: since it is not based on reason, it can not conflict with any other human discipline. Which is (if you ask me), by design.

Or as some of us like to think of it: religion is a bunch of poppycock.

Compatible or incompatible, what's that?
The difference is how we arrived at the realisation. Big Bang is by scientific method, looking to be improved or proven wrong. And God is through stories that somebody just made up.
UK here. No problems viewing the https and http pages.
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ANTLR3 emits a backend in C. http://www.antlr3.org/api/C/index.html . However, ANTLR4 does not. I have no experience with this backend.

Another example is LEMON, developed and used for SQLite, at http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/ . It is only a parser. You can have a hand-written tokenizer, use lex, or an alternative like re2c or ragel. I have seen LEMON praised a few times on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295087 ). I have no experience with it.
With respect, "quality of life" is extremely vague.

On the one hand:

- Better hospitals/vaccines/doctors/dentists/optometrists

- Fewer wars / more freedom* / better sense of equality*

- Cheaper/More effective modes to access knowledge or communicate over distance

- Cleaner/Cheaper water, heat, electricity

- Robots do increasingly more "mundane" work. Vacuum, drive*, wash dishes, wash clothes

- Cheaper, higher quality, entertainment. TV, Movies, Video-Games, Twitch, Youtube

On the other hand:

- I live in a tiny apartment / Less privacy overall (surveillance included)

- I work a lot / had to move cities in order to get an appropriate job (three times now)

- Other people can't even get jobs / don't get paid enough to live in small apartments

- The environment is in a crappier state

- The media is more negative, fear-mongering even. Forcing comedians to tell the news such that the tone balances to neutral

Which is objectively better?
Well it does the job, and if it aint broken why fix it?
I can't see either version in Tokyo. Both give me access denied.
> I am not religious now but I would love to see people study the Quran with the same scrutunity they did to the Bible in order to refute it [...]

They do: http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/

(Well, alright, if you want to be pedantic these people claim to not actually having done so specifically to refute it, but let's just say that there are a lot of contradictions...)
If that's all the case, people moving away from expensive areas is a good thing, since it will drive down the cost of housing.
And that's kind of my point. It's not just financial situations, it's sometimes structural/societal situations that force them into that lifestyle. And if we supported people in shitty situations, we give them an "out" they wouldn't otherwise have, they wouldn't turn to something that they don't really want to do, that we as a society don't want them to do.
I don't know how often, but he's definitely being doing some.
Nice straw man.

Firefox is the best product on the market.

Google makes money from tracking people on the web. They will not introduce or develop new technology to their web browser which hits that revenue stream hard.

By using Chrome or Chromium you are giving them market share and therefore power to shape the future of the web. The future of the web under Googles custodian is more advertising, more tracking and less privacy.

It's pretty obvious.
So serve the same content over both http and https and let the user choose.

That said, if making the site very low bandwidth were the goal I would start by removing the pointless images.
People don't really have a problem with God created it as much as they do with all the things that go along with that statement and the social system and the distributions of power that go along with a God. That's ultimately the problem. When you say big bang you are giving social power to scientists, who are subject matter experts which will say little more than that about their domain. When you say God then you give priests power to preside over many aspects of life, and we know their heads are often filled with very bad ideas.
Servo does this by default. (People who tried Servo but don’t otherwise develop in Rust didn’t like having random files in their home directory.)
If we consider the simulation hypothesis, maybe the Big Bang is just the moment when the great cosmic AWS instance was spun up.