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>> From the number of comments commited so far, I realise that Americans don't want to touch the subject because it hurts.

Give folks a chance to read through. It's almost 5k words! I for on am going to take my time reading it.
Remember the FDA is part of the Department of Agriculture and that the Ag department's responsibility is to simultaneously protect the food supply (i.e. make sure it happens, take the farmers' side etc), manage food safety and support public health. Any surprise these objectives are at odds, and which side has more profit attached?

This is like the Department of the Interior whose mission is to protect the environment and to encourage mining. In their case it means oil company employees had did drugs with and had sex with their government regulators (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11royalty.html?...)

I am beyond considering this corrupt and simply shake my head that it's fundamentally mis-architected.
> Actually this how many successful people do it. It is better to break the rules and profit from it and if caught, pay a small fine and keep your ill gotten gains.

Heck, this isn't just a game plan for startups, it's standard operating procedure for big banks. The only real way to deter bad behavior is to send people to prison.
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> Of course, the media wants as many consumers as possible, too, so calling most of their potential readers/viewers stupid is probably a bad strategy, even though it's the truth.

And this is where state sponsored media excels.

So many people concerned about imaginary covered up human rights abuses to see how all the other news gets reported in a much more informative way.
This is true in emacs lisp too, although the syntax for it is a bit wonky:

;; increment as a macro, anonymously
(= ((macro lambda (x) `(+ 1 ,x)) 10) 11)
I missed that but then:

"Other former curators interviewed by Gizmodo denied consciously suppressing conservative news, and we were unable to determine if left-wing news topics or sources were similarly suppressed."

The fact that the allegation comes from a self-identified conservative and complains about extremist outlets like 'Breitbart' being suppressed, suggests that all they cared about was their own agenda being propagated.

They didn't make a list detailing the treatment of extreme left sites e.g. Daily Kos for comparison. It could be that all non-mainstream political sites received the same treatment.
Maybe use with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8004479 ?
Because Breitbart is one of the least trustworthy sensationalist sources of nonsense on the Internet, right up there with Infowars.

The fact is the truth isn't somewhere in the middle. We shouldn't be encouraging disingenuous assholes by giving them a platform to spread deliberate lies and mis-information, no matter whether that source is "conservative" or "liberal".
Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
Or rather passing along all responsibilities to the private sector, and when something bad happens, throwing up their hands and saying "sorry, doing the right thing just isn't economically feasible, we all have to make cuts, that's just the free market".
Practically nobody is right 100% of the time, which is why you shouldn't put people in charge of censoring information.
I understand what you are saying. How does someone who is good at seeing problems communicate those problems and not come off as whiny and complaining?
So, Rails has warts. What system that is used to build real world software doesn't? I've built systems in a number of languages and frameworks and they all had warts and issues.

How much research has the author done to find other solutions? The plea at the end seemed very lazywebish to me. Or maybe ghost of Christmas Future-esque?
I think this "stupid" and choice discussion that comes up quite often for this subject is somewhat of a distraction. There's plenty of people who eat relativly healthy not because they are "smart" about it, but because that's how they grew up. They are just "dumb" in the right direction. I doubt people were more knowledgeable about food when everyone smoked and there was lead in everything.
The big news here is at CoreOS Fest Berlin they announced that Calico and Flannel were combining projects to create Canal. The Canal project will be managed by a company called Tigera https://www.tigera.io/

Sorry, still probably early on the github page for Canal (Tigera). I'll see if I can find the slides online from the presentation today.
While 23andme's terms dictate that you should use your own identity, in practice you could circumvent that by asking your friend to provide the info and credit card payment. Preferably same sex.
The point of the government taking it is that when there's only one seller people get greedy. That's why both sides have recourse of the courts.

Considering the lives at stake, intentionally paying 20% more than the estimated value would be a better deal than the current system.
Presumably you're writing this for the crowd, most of which hasn't read every comment you've written on HN. I think you'll be unsurprised to learn that I have read them all.

So I've noticed that this isn't so much a consequence of some philosophical alignment of yours, which demands that any position or belief be defensible on the spot by the kind of first-order logic that an SAT solver could evaluate.

Rather: you seem to relish into coming as close as possible to the line of openly supporting racial and gender discrimination, and then retreating behind a smokescreen of "wrongthink" and "status hierarchy" when challenged.

You're better at this than Moldbug, but you seem to be playing the same game. And, like I said: my sense of it is that you've picked up this game pretty recently. Why?
Just making a generic statement like that without qualifying it serves only to excuse that one source. Are the government of China's comments on Tibet equal in weight to Amnesty International? No. Is the Heritage Fund pushing an agenda equal in trustworthiness to an academic international ranking? Probably not.

However, academic studies from two accredited institutions that don't have a particular ax to grind are probably equally credible.
Wine doesn't and probably never will work on OpenBSD.

- http://lwn.net/Articles/360312/

- https://www.winehq.org/docs/winedev-guide/x2803
Extremely well.

Stakeholders are supposed to present problems to engineers, and engineers are supposed to propose solutions to stakeholders.

The underlying meta-rule is that problems should be solved by the person with the most expertise.
You know, people say the same kinds of things about Sony, but it's obvious to everybody that Sony Pictures has screwed up Sony Electronics, and badly.
You are totally ignoring the malware problem that's been going on for quite some time. All those botnets with hundreds of thousands of computers started as flaws in the OS or applications. Something like OpenBSD will definitely reduce the amount of those. High-assurance security platforms that address root causes with rigorous analysis reduce it to almost nothing. Usually new attack classes discovered to breach those.

So, yes, configurations and sharing will still be a problem compromising many users. But, no, the malware problem would be greatly reduced. That everything else is built on top of that integrity guarantee makes it the most important. Then, users can choose what they share, how they configure, and so on from there. Also, systems can be designed without need to share secrets to operate. Systems can also be largely self-configuring. We've seen both in market and FOSS. So, it's common issue but not inherent.
The future lies in "biologics", which unlike small-molecule compounds, cannot be (that) easily copied/manufactured. Initial and continuous capital costs prevent easy "piracy" and that is where the majority of large-pharam/biotech R&D is headed.
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Though some consider this a feature, YMMV.
With 2 dives and 4 regulators on the team, it takes 3 failures to reduce the whole team down to 1 regulator -- and even then there's ways to survive and get out of the cave.

So more like 100^3 to start with, and then the failure rate in practice is lower than that (I've done 200 cave dives and I've had 1 failure -- and I know many other cave divers with similar levels of experience that have had none).
A person doesn't necessarily have to be dumb to fall for these traps. Consider if you had been at the grocery store, particularly exhausted from the day, and just wanted to grab some ingredients. Maybe today you don't notice the added sugar. Today your brain was just spent. Does that make you a dumb consumer all of a sudden?

Most of us average Joe's and Jane's have a lot to juggle in our heads at any given moment. Can I please be excused for not scrounging several stores for sugar free beans, palm oil free chocolate, free range chicken, ethically sourced coffee, etc.? I'm not dumb, it just happens to be that the beans with the sugar are right here in front of me, I have other things to do, and I value my time considerably more than I value this one ethical preference, at the moment.

Default and convenient choices are what consumers respond to. Producers responded to basic biological facts like needing sugar and salt and fat, and so now we're in a place where I can get a Big Mac more cheaply and easily than I can get a cold veggie sandwich. I'm not dumb, I'm busy.
> Every OpenBSD commit is throughly reviewed, [...]

You should observe that this didn't happen here.

Sam Leffler found that bug, fixed it, and sent OpenBSD the patch while bringing the "fast IPSec"stack to FreeBSD.

OpenBSD silently patched it.

The whole thing only came to light years later, when the accusations were made.
> Where does the money go? Who knows.

Here you go:

https://www.lacounty.gov/residents

This is such outrages as Parks and Rec, libraries, the Sheriff's Office, County Jail, providing basic services to 1m unincorporated LA residents, etc.
It was completed in September of 2014.
It is certainly not impossible to place blame on indivudals. After the savings and loan crisis, hundreds of execs were rightly blamed, indicted, convicted, and went to prison. This time around, the criminals have bought off the watchdogs - nobody went to prison. Instead they get off with a fine and no admission of wrongdoing, and they live to do it again another day.
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One of my best managers ever was non-technical. His line was, "you're smart enough to fix this, so do it, do it right, and don't let it happen again." He did a great job getting the resources to back it up, too, while shielding his team from company politics. Right up until the point where he lost at company politics, anyway.
This sounds like Core War [1] meets blockchain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
There is strong evidence to suggest that without the hegemony of the United States, there will be more war in the world.

There will certainly be more war in the Middle East (Iran vs Saudi Arabia, Israel vs Arab World), more war in Eastern Europe (Putin expanding into Crimea), more war in the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan is unstable), and so on. Is that the sort of world you want?
Not a diver myself, but I cannot imagine you could do any diving, and particularly this kind of diving, in an adrenaline rush. The fascination must be much, much deeper.

For cave divers, I am convinced that the other divers would quickly dispose of a team member who looks like he (or she) is not acting super calm.
Your explanation seems flawed.

Why do people play games with microtransactions?

Why are casino games mind-numbingly bland?

Companies do things that generate profit. Profit is generated by manipulating consumer behavior. Consumers aren't necessarily stupid for being exploited.

In fact, that's the whole point: their instinctive behavior is being exploited.
I find interesting how some countries (or rather, the industries in those countries) seem to specialize in certain stacks. Back when I lived in Brazil, Delphi used to be huge there, even though it had already kind of died everywhere else. Argentina seemed to be doing mostly Java. I guess it has to do with the kind of consulting companies that hire the bulk of the software engineers in the country.

It'd be great to get something like the TIOBE index, but split by country, although I guess I'd try to bias it a bit heavier towards commercially developed LOCs.
The article seems to be lamenting three things:

1) Batteries-included web frameworks (like Rails and Django)

2) Interpreted languages without strict typing (like Ruby and Python)

3) Programmers relying on large numbers of dependencies (e.g. ruby gems), and the resulting difficulty in reasoning about the software

The last paragraph then goes on to suggest that different languages are required. This seems wrong. If you want to write web software you can reason about, you can still use web frameworks (maybe Flask or Sinatra) and you can still use third party packages (gems or things from pypi).

If you import a library (left pad or whatever) and call it from your code, then you can still reason about what's going on. The problem comes when you rely on adding packages that just talk directly to your framework (like Django middleware). Once you do that a few times, you really don't know what's going on between a web request hitting your server, and your own code running.
Why not both? If you're big and don't care about your consumer beyond their role as a source of money, maybe a stupid consumer is desirable? I think it just happens to be that almost anyone in a position of entrenched power, in government or industry, thinks they benefit from a stupid populace.
CSRF is "cross site request forgery". It is an attack. What you are talking about when you start mentioning tokens, is presumably the various methods of mitigation that a number of websites use to defend against that particular attack.

A MITM can initiate a CSRF attack, because they can add arbitrary code to the page. Whether or not the target site has protection, and whether or not the attack is successfull, does not change the fact that a MITM can launch one. Sites still need to protect against CSRF because there are other methods of launching them, but nontheless, if all sites were HTTPS and HTTP didn't exist, then that would defend you against a MITM on an untrusted network launching one.

I didn't mean XSS when I said malware injection. I didn't mention XSS and I didn't intend to.
I'm really having a hard time with the cognitive dissonance in our society that says that optimizing to the Bliss Point is okay, but putting additives in cigarettes to make them more addictive is bad.

They are motivated by the exact same desire and goal. If we're gonna rake Phillip Morris for it we should be doing the same to Kraft, Nabisco and Nestle.
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How precisely do you determine which rules are breakable for a product/service that is "better than the alternative"? I'd love to stay in a hotel and not pay hotel taxes, as would Marriott, so I use AirBnb instead. I'd also like to present fake receipts for reimbursement to my employer so I can make more money. Both are "alternative products" that are better for me, but someone else suffers.

EDIT: Grammar.
"Hmmm, the headache is gone, but I seem to have a few more limbs than when I started..."
I'm confused by this comment, because to my eyes the Drudge Report frontpage looks like it was consciously modeled on tabloids. Obviously for historical reasons they have some importance--but so do some tabloids.

To clarify, I think this an issue of respectability, not reliability.
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In which country, in which jurisdiction, according to which lawyer?
I installed gitsome on CentOS 7.2.1511 running Python 3.5.1. The auto-complete feature on gitsome will only suggest files, folders, and executables on the path. It will not offer any auto-complete suggestions for git commands, options, branches, etc.
I agree with some of the issues that the author points in Rails; but, at the same time, he is unable to name what is "today's software" using his words. Until then, I will stay with Rails. Until then.

Moreover, the author seems to be imagining Rails as a huge monolithic piece of software. That does not need to be true.
For people coming from C/C++/ObjC, some things in Swift can take some time to get used to, e.g.
if case .Success(let person) = personResult {
...
}
My first thought when I saw this was, "only mother could love this syntax", but later you come to appreciate and enjoy the syntax.

Link: https://www.natashatherobot.com/swift-guard-better-than-if/
This is routine on all media sites and social networks, nothing to see here.

Also way cheaper than funding a super pac am I right
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For anyone wanting more information on this, it is commonly referred to as "Five Eyes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

Also of note is the "Future Enlargement" section of that article, where it expands on other partnerships: "Six Eyes", "Nine Eyes", "Fourteen Eyes".
I tend to agree, at least partially.

There are, to me, good reasons for using OpenBSD that have little to do with security. (I don't use OpenBSD as my primary OS, but that is a different story.)

What is most important to me is that the system is relatively simple as far as configuration/administration goes, and that it has very good documentation. It seems rather spartan at first, but on the other hand that means there is no hidden magic, which I have come to appreciate.

Also, the general approach OpenBSD takes towards security does not only improve security, it tends to result in software that is more reliable in general. One does not need to be paranoid to appreciate all that.
Part of the idea is that if it takes more than 3 or 4 "why"s to get to some really fundamental business goal (i.e. "Because I want to make more money"), then it might not be a problem worth solving in the first place
Java currently shows as the top programming language but I believe the parser may be picking up some Javascript for that category. I am working on a fix for that now.
Hey guys, you should look at diamond.io, we're building something that is a tool to help you solve this problem and the problem of organizing information in general. Check us out!
Thanks for pointing this out -- I never realized it!

I have an original Firepower machine in my basement. This bit of trivia is enough to get me to make it functional again.
Not knowing where you live / have lived... I think people in big cities forget how hard it is to find a taxi elsewhere.

I can remember a specific example several years ago in Nashville (which is quickly becoming a big city) where after waiting for 15+ minutes downtown I had to start calling companies telling them to send a car to my corner.

Before Uber came to Chattanooga (a decent-sized city) calling a taxi wasn't even a viable option unless it was for a scheduled 4AM airport pickup.
What is Google-only about Java code?
And parents. We learn many of our bad food habits when we're under the care of an adult.

That's the great thing about marketing a habit forming product. The parents end up doing your advertising for you!
You have to realize though that this software doesn't take away your heiracichal system, it just gives you another way to look at it. Recently I've been cleaning up my music library and I'm seeing some of the shortcomings of the current system. What do you do with a compilation album? Have a folder for each artist or put them all together, (Which would separate them from others works by the same artist)? iTunes or whatever media player you use will probably list them in both locations depending on how you sort or whatever. I find this to be a useful feature, why wouldn't you like to have the option to do that sort of thing from the command line?
>He went to the website which looked incredibly outdated to the expectations of new programmers, and just felt uncomfortable giving it a try. He opted for an editor with a more modern website.

Sounds like a personal problem to me, I love most of the GNU projects' pages. Simple, readable, low-bandwidth, to the point.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160101125451/https://www.gnu.o... for ex
LC rate was about 14% (average according to their terms) - they've since sent me mailers offering 8% or lower, not including the origination fee which was in the $400-500 range. This was on the 36-month loan that was paid off in 25 months so I'd have to do the math to tell you how much interest I actually paid.

Credit cards were 28.99% and 24.99%, so even with the origination fee quite a bit of savings.
I tried living inland for a few years. Denver was an awesome place, but I just missed the ocean too much. Given the general push towards the coast, I think it seems to be the trend.
If the alternative is having China or Russia be the world's superpower, I'll take the US, every single time.
"You can't rewind time and go back and taking away all assets gained in such a manner, while doable, would pretty much put the company out of business even if they're willing to comply."

Why not? If enough stuff like this happens, then companies are going to realize that breaking the law does actually have consequences.
Liberals do not maintain a cottage industry of complaining about the conservative conspiracy to suppress their viewpoints, whereas conservatives seemingly spend 100% of their time doing so. For example there are plenty of dead tree books like [1], extensive networks of people investigating Obama's place of birth, including the current American conservative leader and icon Donald Trump.

Meanwhile there is a real, concrete conspiracy by conservatives to actively suppress the truth, especially in the area of climate science. It would be hard to not notice that the conservative PM of Canada actually banned scientists from speaking to the public, or that Republicans in the USA are constantly trying to defund NOAA and NASA, or that the Republican-controlled 104th Congress of the US forbid the NIH from studying gun violence, among many other examples.

https://books.google.com/books?id=9iLHTFOQLGwC&pg=PA314&lpg=...
Two of these are things where you have cheaper alternatives, and also the option to not do them at all. The third is something where you must buy this specific thing, or you die. That third thing costs substantially more than most U.S. households make in a year.
Have media companies ever considered something like the cable TV model? I'm thinking something like ten different sites form a network, and readers pay once (on a subscription basis) for access to the whole network instead of paying each site separately.

I definitely am not interested in subscribing separately to (e.g.) Wired, the NY Times, the Economist, WSJ, the New Yorker, etc. But I think I'd be totally down for a single rate that gave me ad-free access to some or all of those.
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Your entire 2nd paragraph is bullshit. There is absolutely nothing in that paragraph that indicates they had to break the law.
I feel the laws preventing OEMS selling directly are antiquated. Dealerships are a scam. It's a game of "how much can i squeeze out of the other party" - which generally is bad for consumers. Since most aren't trained to take advantage. OEM's don't need to sell directly, but allowing a "store" model where prices are fixed, non negotiable would likely be best for everyone in the long run. Well, except for the dealers. But at least there would be predictability. Dealers shouldn't be a protected party - the consumer should be.
Being "yesterday's software" is a necessary step. It's the final part of the Gartner hype cycle: maturity.

https://speakerdeck.com/tehviking/surviving-the-framework-hy...
Really well-articulated points, thanks. It'd be great to see some less-partisan unifying around this central tenet and others.