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Here is what changed:

Certbot, previously the Let's Encrypt Client,
is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt, and
(optionally)autoenable HTTPS on your server.
It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses
the ACME protocol.
This leaves too many open questions as it currently stands. There's far too much hand waving about how an actual implementation of this may look (e.g. support for different currencies, verifying, consolidation, etc).

There's no specific reason this cannot work, but we won't know until it is much more fleshed out.
Something related, tho not something I've previously heard or read about, is whether Uber is rationally deciding that its current 'low' prices/fares are optimal, from the perspective of maximizing profits.

In a lot of comments on this thread people claim to prefer to pay a higher price than tip. If driver's are upset at poor pay, I'd expect Uber to care – all else being equal.

And if Uber could increase its profits by raising prices, I'd expect it do so. I wouldn't expect all price increases to fully benefit drivers alone. So, given that Uber seems to be applying significant pressure to keep prices and fares low, why are they doing so if not to maximize their long-term profits?
Variations of those arguments exist to this day unresolved in the form of Platonic Realism vs Nominalism. Resolving that argument in some ways is really important to our understanding of physics and certain parts of biology, especially evolution.
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The leftist thing seems to be an attempt to ad academic legitimacy, borrowing the tradition of philosophy, while also making use of / abusing the tradition of ambiguity. The political advantage of this is never having to commit to saying anything concrete - a boon for practitioners of 'Motte and Bailey' rhetoric - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric... .

That said, I find this is more the case with lit crit, than philosophy. Perhaps in Academic Feminism?
Oops! Fixed it. Thanks for pointing out.
Google didn't help me. What's BB(#)?
>And when you publish your own HTML to a server that you control; that's fucking powerful. Autonomy and independence are central to the web. We can't forget that.

>The world still needs some fucking webmasters. We might not all be making websites professionally anymore. But we should keep making websites. The passion, the freedom, the joy: we need to pass this on.

I appreciate the enthusiasm for wanting to empower people but the technology (e.g. simpler format of HTML, or open standards instead of walled gardens, etc) is not really the issue even though it looks that way. I've commented on this illusion before[1].

The underlying issue is the asymmetry between active participants and passive spectators. Most people don't care to make an HTML web page. On the other hand... Uploading a photo of a cat or plate of food to facebook or twitter? Or type a short response comment to a niece saying "love your new dress!"? Yes, a good percentage of people will conquer the threshold of complexity to do that... but it's still not the majority of users.

Even though I don't like it, I've come to terms with the fact that the human race is "wired" to make easy posts on Facebook rather than maintain an HTML web page on a server they control. Most people don't want to be "webmasters".

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10010540
It's a bizarre to see how many people are upset when gun laws even hint at some regulation, but being spied on and loss of privacy is not even close to being an issue for them. Isn't encroachment on personal lives a threat many times worse?
> In this light I think just producing my own content for Youtube is the smarter strategy. I have to acquire new skills, but who doesn't when they run a business?

This is the route it's going. Larger brands will hire professionals and celebrity hosts, but smaller guys can get in on the game as well (i.e. the "Will it Blend" videos).

Sure, you'll probably have to do some ad spend to get some eyeballs to your videos, but it won't cost anywhere near what TV advertising does.
The system is also capable of detecting firearm projectiles, but is specifically tuned not to react. Regardless of what calls may come, there won't be a change because the designers and the customers have already considered that possibility and specifically excluded it as not being worth the risk. This is not a case of being too cheap or short-sighted to do something.
Thanks for your thoughtful dig into these commands.

Perhaps my biggest point of confusion with git comes from that nebulous intermediate structure which sits between the real working directory and the real repository, which sort of acts like a repository and sort of acts like a working directory. It has many names and no clear purpose, and it doesn't fit into my mental model of the work to be done when working with a VCS.

Your explanation of merges makes more sense from that context. I don't think of add/mv/rm as operations on the nebulous repository, because I don't have any idea why one operates on the nebulous repository; what I'm trying to do is tell git to track a file, or stop tracking a file, or notice that I've moved a file from one place to another. The fact that these operations also kind of half-commit changes to this semi-repository is just... confusing, because I don't know why one would care.

If the pseudo-semi-repository thingy actually made sense, perhaps it would seem more natural that add/mv/rm do things to it during merges. I suspect the behavior of checkout, reset, and commit might also make more sense; as is, they seem to be needlessly complex, because I am never manipulating the semi-repository on purpose: I'm either trying to move my changes from the working directory into the local repository, or I'm trying to update my working directory to match the local repository, but in no case am I ever trying to half-update the intermediate state I can't actually see.

Given this somewhat confused explanation and the fact that you've done a great job of explaining what git is doing so far, can you point me at something not written by the git authors that explains what the hell is going on here and why? I would like to understand the tools I'm using instead of just blindly typing arcane rituals cribbed from the internet, but as I said before trying to read the git documentation just leaves me more confused than before I started.
Yeah, but I think that's going to be the case for the foreseeable future for all vendors. They can all make compelling pitches and demo videos, but as far as I know there's no evidence of any of these systems actually working on the battlefield.
From the article: "… in a report that the agency released last week, California saw a 96% decrease in coal-fueled electric power consumption …"
The technology is legit, there's nothing preventing a company from building a truck like this. There's a few things that bug me:

1) Why natural gas to run the turbine and not, say, diesel? It seems natural to run the truck on diesel, if nothing else so the driver can hang out with his friends and show it off at the local truck stop.

2) There's only renders, no photos. They haven't actually built one yet? At least that high-efficiency truck Wal-Mart was/is testing, they actually built the thing before they started crowing about it.,
This does smell a bit like a "throw together a lot of high-tech buzzwords" design exercise more than a real product.

First, series hybrids are generally a bad idea for road-going vehicles, where a mechanical link is a) pretty straightforward and b) a lot more efficient at cruise, which is where fuel economy really matters for most applications.

Secondly, gas turbines are primarily an advantage where power-to-weight ratio is important (much more of a concern in, say, a helicopter than a heavy truck). They are generally less efficient than diesels, especially at the size needed to power a truck, and even more so when running at less than full power. (Incidentally, diesels are pretty trivial to convert to run on CNG).

This approach (minus the energy storage) has been tried for locomotives and found to be lacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine_locomotive.
Holy shit my city is #1 on HackerNews.
Hypothesis (OpenAnnotation) comments (and highlights!) work for any URL.

https://hypothes.is/

https://hypothes.is/embed.js

http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/
Sheesh, the worksheet[1] to compute your tax burden if you make more than $106k is annoying. I was just looking for an algorithm of some sort. From the under $106k table, it looks to be about 5%. That plus NY state taxes seems to put it on par with CA as a whole. That said, San Francisco appears to have an additional 1.5% flat income tax rate, which can raise the tax rate for high earners (well over $200k) in SF to close to 15% for combined state and local taxes.

1: https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it201i_nys_tax_c...
Agree, it's really nice! The only other Con I've found so far:

It's frustrating to have the "Google" wordmark always shown on top of the keyboard's search results, since it uses up another 10% of the screen real estate for no value at all. Just a pure branding play that doesn't help the user solve their actual goal.
What a heinous loss we all have suffered.
I recommend updating the title to make it clear that only the Let's Encrypt client software has changed its name (and moved to EFF). The Let's Encrypt CA has not changed anything.

More information about this move can be found here:

https://letsencrypt.org/2016/03/09/le-client-new-home.html
And the chart shows that despite falling since 2008, 2015 levels were nearly 50% down from 2014. So the decrease is accelerating.
I'm very confused as to why this is voted down.

There is truth to this statement. Nothing wrong with saying that binary systems of logical proofs, based on things like "Self" is important to the history of philosophy in the west
If the data they're collecting isn't being used in an active investigation then its probably subject to FOIA requests. So, perhaps the effort to keep it under wraps is to avoid a flood of FOIA requests for the data.
Keep doing it, Erlang team !!!
World War Zero brought down mystery civilisation of 'sea people'
awesome. by your twitter photo, you were either pretty young in the 90s, that's an old photo, or your friends are running a longevity startup.
Haven't looked into details. But I think it is configurable. Killing is an option or just sending a message to the error logger. There was also something about it sending a special gc trace event when it hits max.
The fact that they claim to own their own wells and liquification is pretty fishy. What kind of startup is going to have expertise in both gas extraction and electric vehicle engineering? And why on earth would they even want to when there's pretty good infrastructure for that already?
Aggregation and curation should remain separate. Perhaps the most useful thing would be for arxiv (or some other entity) to collect links from known curatorion sources to aid in the evaluation of papers.
It makes me feel like it's a Chinese knockoff of Tesla.
I am not sure. I've never interviewed for a contract to hire job. However among those I've worked with who were in such arrangements, the bar to hiring was lower.
It is very odd but the psychological take on that is very much down to the individual. If everything was Newtonian determinism it would be rather dull. Behaviour that is so mysterious we can't really understand it is quite interesting.
I agree, they are doing irreparable harm to the dozens of instagram ornithologists in love with Paridae by blocking #tit

save the ornithologists! Unblock #tits!
Sure, and those of us that are decent and have fte with real benefits aren't going to take a 6 month contract in hopes that:

A. I'm a great fit for your after hours drinking club.
B. The headcount still (or ever existed) for my fte position in 6 months.
Ahh the good old day's of shoving images into tables to create a layout.
> I disagree ...

With due respect, do you have experience inside the world of theoretical astrophysics research or something similar? Do you know how it actually works or are you speaking ... theoretically (ahem)?
Sudo decorator: an evil hack: Python
> NoSQL data doesn’t need to be prepped ahead of time.

Unless you're using CouchDB and you need to change some views, and then you have to re-index the whole thing, which can take forever.
Sure, lawyers can argue anything.

But Musk isn't a Tesla family member or anything, right? Morally speaking, what gives Musk the right to use Tesla's name as an homage, but somehow this other guy doesn't have the same right? If Musk can call his company Tesla, somebody else using the name Nikola should be fair game.

It's probably not the wisest naming choice in the long run, but hey, people are already talking about it, so in a sense it's something that will get them some attention.
If you think turbines aren't possible, you might need to have a word with... uh literally everything producing power with turbines since the 1910s. It's extremely well-proven, reliable technology. (It's just very bad at powering wheels directly, because it only runs efficiently at a single speed-- for a generator, however, that's perfect.)
I think that great parallel infrastructure would be worthy of a Postgres 10.0.
Munchery gets its engineering team involved with “I Learn, You Learn”
You don't tell them they aren't being listened to, you just don't bother listening to them. And maybe you do random sampling.

But what problem are you identifying that doesn't already exist via mob attorneys?
Or, they could come up with a unique name. lol I don't understand why the trendy thing is naming things poorly.

We just had this popup here the other day with the "Hydrogen" project which the guy used without research and it turned out that it was already used by someone else. Could've named these After himself or anything.

What happened to trying to come up with clever unique names?
You should seriously look into running a VM with pcie passthrough if you've got a desktop.

There's a lot of talk about complexity and dead end edge cases, however, having now done it, I can honestly say it was significantly easier than I was expecting and absolutely stable and fast thus far. I can't speak to edge cases (conversely, I can vouch for the Asus z170-* motherboard line), but my impression was that there is less and less of them as motherboard BIOSs advance.

It seems to be an area where things are developing fast. You'll find a lot of out-of-date resources telling you things like, for example, most nvida cards will not work or require effort to get working. The reality now is that it just requires a single argument in qemu to bypass the nvidia issue.

In my opinion, it's a significantly better solution than dual booting and basically indistinguishable from normal Windows performance-wise for gaming.

Link you might want to check out:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
That's a very good result.

This is what a bad result looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJwkGy6EOj8 [NSFW]

When the ammo and fuel of the tank burns up, that's called cook-off. You can't repair that, and unfortunately the crew will not survive.
Why was this flagged to death?

Is my post being censored?
Who actually uses Scala.js, though? It still seems firmly in the hobbyist camp.

> One of main strengths of Scala is that people get things done.

This is also true of rust, go, c++, and arguably haskell. I don't see anything about scala that inherently makes it easier to "get things done". If anything, I've spent a good 10% of my scala development time (over hundreds if not thousands of hours) debugging library, compiler, and documentation bugs and inconsistencies. This is not good for a language where you get things done.
>Neat. I checked UT Austin and found Dan Bonevac was teaching one session of intro. (Bonevac is the once and future chair of the department and a very good teacher.)

I have to know if he is a friend of the philosophy ring bearer out to destroy philosophy sauron too.

(sorry, that line was funny)

I kinda want to take that course. And now I want the book. Where do I get the book for cheap?
Not correct. Apple designs their own SoCs. Samsung and TSMC manufacture them. Really, the only thing in common is that they're both using ARM as the instruction set.
http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-8.0-rc1/erts-8.0/doc/htm...

Configurable, but can kill the process in question and/or log when it occurs. Their suggestion is to log it first and tune it from there since heap size isn't easily predictable.

EDIT: Scroll down a little bit to get this particular flag documentation.
Philadelphia would be nice too!
See paper at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_olmC0u8E3gWTBmN3pydGxHdEE...
{S}He probably had to pay rent and or eat, or go to the doctor, or pay for internet to send out job applications. We don't stop being expensive because we are not working.
The LA Times' title for this article is wrong. California does not generate electricity from coal, however, California uses a lot of electricity generated from coal. As the article notes near the end, California uses electricity from coal generated out of state.

According to SNL, "at times, as much as 50% of Southern California's electricity still comes from coal-fired plants, Steve Homer, director of project management for the Southern California Public Power Authority, or SCPPA, told SNL Energy." https://www.snl.com/InteractiveX/Article.aspx?cdid=A-3411331...

This really is a reminder that the writers of articles frequently do not write the headlines. That's a big reason why titles of articles are frequently misleading.
Artist creates effigy of Kim Jong-un
A fun read and trip down memory lane, of the times sitting with an HTML book open on my lap and trying to write code that would display what I wanted. Being one of those artsy-fartsy types meant that I could experiment with design. Seamless frames! Links to other pages that actually work and reference each other! Hitting the 'Preview' screen from the editor to test things...over and over...

...and of course, the ever lovely habit of "View Source" which leads to interesting things. Like finding the large "Never Forget" at the top of the linked page. Fun times.

But for sure, there was a certain aura and power around being able to not only navigate the web (OMG .WAV SOUNDS FROM MOVIES!) but put up a sign that other people could see. Then get good enough to get paid for work doing such things. A good reminder type essay methinks.
Haha, we do this in Miami Beach too. Some streets will tow you, but the others, just a chance of a $17 ticket if you pay within 30 days.

Parking is so expensive and hard to find (like half of the area is parking for "resident sticker only") that most people I know simply park in the residential areas and see what happens.
As a customer accustomed to being catered to by Uber, you might indeed expect Uber to care.

In actuality both Uber and Lyft have been _relentlessly_ driving employee wages ("contractor rates") down to the lowest possible sustainable level. That's their business model of course: colonize a regulated industry and make hay as long as possible using technology to dodge established regulation while externalizing as many costs as possible.

Works out great! Except for the employees. My mother drove until last week for both Uber and Lyft in the Bay Area.

Over the last 18-20 months her take home earnings were reduced to about _one third_ what they were when she began.

So she gave it up.

Personally I cannot _wait_ for regulation to catch up with these companies. Of course, they might completely eliminate their driver base via self-driving fleet vehicles before it does...

...though I suspect their business model if they're still around at that point (or that of whoever 'disrupts' them) will be leasing self-driving cars from private individuals. Why maintain a fleet when it's clear asking subcontractors to do so for you is so profitable?
"Desalination plants need to run 24 hours a day, requiring expensive battery packs to supplement solar power when the sun’s not shining."

Why? Electricity is hard to store cheaply. However, we've known how to store water for millennia. Is there something about reverse osmosis that makes it impossible to stop? Why not just turn off the pumps and let the pipes drain?
It's not bizarre if you skip the tricky bits like how does it work, why don't the equations work for gravity, are there many worlds and so on.
I was just thinking an electric UTV like that might be perfect for the National Parks system. I bet they have a million uses for such a vehicle, now instead being filled by noisy, offensive, gas-burning UTVs.
Everyone on HN was, no doubt. I figured it was a Tesla offshoot formed to target new segments.
Except Apple would already have reputation/brand value as well. Perhaps even more than, say Ford, since they are known as a technology company, and the cars of the future are electric and self-driving.
I don't get why they need this data to begin with. They don't need to know what we're thinking, they put those ideas in our heads to begin with. They don't need to know what we're doing, we are following their normative social practices and committing willingly to 30+ year stints of wage slavery in support of their dominant world position.

I wish people would take more exception to the control of their lives than they do to its observation. Knowing where you're going does not encroach on your liberties as much as convincing you to go where they want you 5 days a week, exhausting your motivation, and telling you how to react to it all.
Facebook relies on editors' judgment for trending news feed, documents show
If you increased the price of the food to include the average tip and distributed that increased price among your workers you've just provided that same incentive (a wage decidedly above "fair") to your servers and the experience remains constant for your customers. Now if the servers decide that means they can slack because the "tips" are guaranteed, they can find another place to work for those kinds of wages. Especially with feedback systems being easier to implement through recent mobile technology, the problems are not intractable.
doesn't seems like a very good disguise

how often do you see a google streetview car?

shouldn't about 1 or 2 passes a year get them the info they need?

if you saw a google streetview car in the same neighborhood, 5 or 6 times in the same week wouldn't it seem highly unusual?

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seems like someone got overly cleaver to me

that the apparent sanctity of Google Streetview Cars was violated, and that people seem upset, seems utterly laughable to me