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> The right to turn down a job is essential for a well functioning labor market, and for a civilized society.

I agree 100%, and I must say having immigrated from Australia, it's probably the worst thing about America.

It feels like Employers have all the power in America, and therefore all the Employees are basically slaves, and are treated as such.

I think it's important for a functioning society to value it's workforce over the profits of businesses.
Do you mean $45 or ~$50 (45 euros)?

Also, which cellular provider here in the states is offering 30 GB / month at that low of a price (do they have special rural pricing or something)?
Excellent comment. People need to be called out for this behavior.
Oh mea culpa, yes that's a typo. I was referring to W.K Treiber and his stack implementation. I think the fact that he referred to it as an "algorithm" is the source of my confusion.

Is it safe to say then that distinctions such as "lock free" and "wait free" always refer to data structures and not algorithms then?

I was curious, could you elaborate on why you think that PRNGs satisfy the property of a lock free algorithm?

Thank you for your detailed response by the way.
Video. Particularly if you do any HD editing, let alone 4K, you can burn through 100s of gigabytes very quickly.
I used to begrudgingly practice martial arts. Computer programming is not like martial arts, at all. What you want to do sounds like the software craftsmanship approach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_craftsmanship

Maybe look up more regarding that? I'm pretty skeptic about it...

IMO, the 'core programming concepts' (as in, skills that transcend language) most important to me, are those related to producing readable, maintainable code. Keeping your functions short, pure, and with one responsibility. Naming everything clearly. Making sure you are obeying DRY and KISS. Perhaps you would enjoy reading Code Complete:

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Cons...
It's interesting that he says that a Computer Science degree isn't necessary. 15 years ago, he led the vanguard of companies promoting the idea that they only hire the top 1% of programmers - namely the smartest with a degree from a top school.
Not just for geometric drawing a la Mondrian.

Also for creating grids under the base composition, for perspective and other uses.

From old masters, to photo-realistic painters, pop-art painters, etc. Also useful for matte painting.
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If the argument is that detecting cancer at year four isn't worse than detecting that cancer at year zero, then could we specify a year at which it would be worse to detect cancer? It's a deadly disease, so presumably if you wait too long the patient will have died already?

If I've misunderstood this complex and sophisticated argument and we're all ready to admit that detecting cancer later is worse, then the original point that USA is better than UK in this one tiny respect stands.
Personally, I've found that external drives only tend to corrupt if you use them as rw boot drives or if you don't unmount and sync them properly (safe remove / eject) on every use.

So yeah, the RasPi idea of having using those to boot might corrupt quickly, but if you use them for a camera or just transferring files between computers, you should be safe.
Which means that in 10 years, that's true for enterprise software, too.
Yes, what you describe is market-segment-specific cost-push (as opposed to demand-pull) inflation
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It is using its size to control its market. We need regulation and protection for freelancers and a new breed of purposeful platforms that would serve as Upwork alternatives.
Presumably because they ran out of space on the host that was doing the building. It's very easy to never see the gobs of containers and images no longer in use with docker.
Most levels are easier to solve if you don't hang about: the longer you wait, the more uncertainty bites and the position becomes indefinite.

Remember there's no friction so if you accelerate over half the screen you need to decelerate over the other half if you're going to stop before the other side.

Level 2 can be solved by accelerating/decelerating to follow three straight lines (east-south-west) to the goal. Alternatively if you're feeling cocky you can accelerate east then throw in some south as you approach the corner: you'll bounce off the walls and break the wavefunction a bit but about 50% of the time the goal will trigger.

If you haven't discovered already you can also skip levels from the menu ;)
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Just found it — think this is it.

https://youtu.be/Z9Og9xtAY3w?t=19m27s
You might be interested to know Rails 5 has merged in Rails API[0], which strips out most of the front end stuff

[0] https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api
In a lot of countries - Germany, Britain, France to be sure - the pub is such a third place, especially for men. Their special culture seems to be in decline as well, but not as dramatically as churches.
#1 is a legit reason for insurance. I'm having a hard time with #2 though. You elected to have a condition that others might have to eventually pay for. Now this was an extension of your dad's condition, so really his insurance company (pool) should pay for your condition's expenses, but with the help of Obamacare, all insurance companies are going to share in these expenses and raise their rates, and they can raise the rates more than their actual costs, because with all the new regulations, how many plans can you really choose from? So we now see healthcare providers laughing all the way to the bank, and a new form of guaranteed income for the insurance workforce. #1 and #2 shouldn't be in the same system. That's what needs to be repealed.
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> # There is a reason NASA only approves thinkpads in space - ask yourself why your laptop is not being used by astronauts ?

Makes sense—Superfish can't breathe in space.
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I think you missed one of the big advantage/disadvantages, non-replaceable components let the manufacturer add their own premiums on higher memory/storage variants.
Not really..

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/arty-f...
Yeah, but other countries might offer other social opportunities too, where the average american city, and especially the suburbs don't.
For me one of the great things about Docker is that there doesn't necessarily have to be a great difference between dev and production. Both in dev and prod we simply use docker-compose up. Of course with slightly different docker-compose.yml files and Dockerfiles, no HaProxy in dev, no mailcatcher in prod (It's all so wonderfully plugable). Admittedly, I cannot speak for high scale projects with thousands of containers across a cluster of nodes. I guess there you need to have some more elaborate deployment scheme.
Islam is very explicit about this; the name actually means “submission”. In fairness to religion, all social groupings require their members to be bound by some form of commonality. Ideally, the shared beliefs/interests/ideology be as inclusive as possible but there is always some out-group.
"I think it's important for a functioning society to value it's workforce over the profits of businesses" I agree. Corporate greed. That's exactly the issue being addressed in this article: https://medium.com/@LevelWorkingField/do-you-like-new-pricin...
Noted, thank you (though most people's default Firefox settings seem happy with it). Considering other options in due course.
Yeah, I don't think that many people are going to be able to run this. Java applets are deprecated at this point, unfortunately. I'd love to be able to compile and run it locally, though.
I doubt that. Less streaming per customer means they can support more customers with a given amount of infrastructure (I'm thinking about towers and spectrum in particular), so their infrastructure costs effectively go down on a per-customer basis.
its a good link. thanks for it.
I always felt like something was wrong with the original xkcd one.
Thanks for the link to PG, so interesting. The original post is a blank page for me too (Opera and AdBlock on Android).
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I never understood why rails has javascript helpers at all. It just does not bring any value in the long run, just complicates stuff. Rails should be js libraries agnostic and not provide any js related helpers out of the box in my opinion.
Same happened for me.
He reads 3 or 4 books a week. No time for hacker news!
The opinion being raised here is that the overall system the Swiss are using provides better results than those others are using. It's not necessarily that others don't put forth effort (despite the language), but that the Swiss yield the kind of results that others don't.

Most people aren't judged by effort. They're judged by results.

Another way of putting it: the proof of the engineering is in the working.
I live in the south and even here a ton of the churches are ok with LGBTQ and don't harp on guilt or how we all need to be saved. Unitarians, Episcopalean, Presbyterian (USA), Quakers, etc. It's still hard to sit through a service where you don't believe anything.
It is not so much that they can afford to scrap them as it is that they cannot afford to keep them (though I assume they knew this was coming when they built them.)
Ah I missed the part about DIY - that sucks though.

You seem to be familiar with PCIe 2 though, so now I'm wondering - is there a chip that could convert the 1x PCIe 3 lane into a 2x or 4x PCIe 2 set of lanes? Also, worst case, if you really wanted to use this chip, couldn't you just use the chip with PCIe 2 (albeit slower, but I think revisions of PCIe are supposed to be cross compatible)?
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There is not necessarily a need for 100% community effort.

What is needed a simple, decent service, with reasonable rates ( from 1% to 3% from a transaction ) and keeps up with the requests. Such a service could be run by a max 5 person company and I believe everyone could profit.

I worked with Upwork and I liked the concept, but the implementation was a bit to complicated. With this changes, I really hope new such services will come up and fill this decency "void". The strategy of Upwork eludes me, since their strenght lies in the participants and alienating them is the last thing you want to do.
> Pseudocode has a definition, you can't just make one up

I'm using exactly the same definition: pseudocode is a made-up language which may or may not vaguely resemble some existing language features.

> Stacks aren't just for web.

Yet, only hipstors use this word in such a context.

I explained the methodology in detail. It is agnostic of a target language or even problem domain.

I'm using it even when I'm writing a pure C++ code, not just when I'm building DSLs directly.
There are some physics people here, but... wouldn't it be a much better idea to ask a physics forum?
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Well the pub has several problems - social stigma for one, and not being free (and in fact being quite expensive 20/30 euros per evening is not much)

And as you say pub attendance is down by a lot too.
Maybe churches wouldn't be in decline if churches were actually just social clubs that didn't require their members to all think the same way and believe that the people who don't think that way are doomed to eternal fire?

I grew up with a very tight church community. I simultaneously miss it and have claustrophobic nausea every time I think about it.
Well construction of the Cologne Cathedral started in 1248 and was halted in 1473, only to begin where it left off in 1842 and was eventually completed in 1880 - so don't give up hope ;)
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This still saves a ton of setup time.
Unitarian, you just have to be searching.
And the incompatible ajax interfaces. And the inconsistent element selection. And the...

I'm also not sure I'd call document ready the most fundamental as a lot of people (including me) used to use onclick='' and onload='' directly on elements back then when we all loaded script tags in the head.
OK, ask the people who get their annoying ads popping up on screen.
If it's any consolation, this seems to be rolling out to everybody regardless. I'm pretty sure I'd never opt in to beta testing iTerm2, yet here I sit, having just gone through an automatic upgrade. Weird.

(See also https://twitter.com/shitwhocares/status/737938380470816768 for somebody else who seems to be in the same boat)
I looked into the local Unitarian Universalists, and they are very New Age types. I like their social justice angle but wouldn't be able to sit through their sermons/discussions without making faces.
I think you're right if Rails was built for "production" applications. However, the way most people tend to use Rails is a prototyping framework. The nature of Ruby and the vast ecosystem of components (gems) makes building something very quick. It is definitely my go-to solution If I want to experiment with an idea.

The problem is if the prototype is successful, it becomes the production system and all the things that helped initial development start to hurt maintenance. That though is a different topic.

My point is having Rails give a good set of starting vectors for all things web development is a big part of why it is so quick to get started, it's what makes it great for prototyping.
> Under other measures money created under fractional reserve doesn't count

M1,M2,MZM,M3,and M4 are all affected by fractional reserve banking.

> Under some measures the same "quantity" of money at higher velocity counts as higher money supply (which arguably better reflects the effect on the real economy)

No, velocity is orthogonal to the money supply under all measures. Whether you use a constant velocity model or a variable velocity model, the velocity is a distinct factor altogether, the same way mass and acceleration are different concepts, even though they can be linked by an equation involving the sum of all forces.
In general, there are a number of Victorian and Edwardian era authors who remain quite readable and come across as rather modern, or at least some of their writings do. Kipling--who actually won a nobel prize in literature--is one of them. For some reason, I find the British authors of that general period hold up better than the American authors in general.
And still by definition require you to believe in their idol(s).
We don't need to turn into Guangzhou. We could cut housing prices in half by increasing the supply by 30%, and we could do that by replacing 6% of the city's single family houses with six-story apartment buildings. The other 94% could be left alone, and we wouldn't have to build anything else.

Details: https://reddit.com/comments/4lwg49/h/d3qnrsb
At its core, Christians are defined by fraternity, equality, goodness, etc.

Maybe some atheists also have these, but there's not a guarantee all act this way.

IMO, before founding an "atheist church", I'd at least establish "secular values" and find a community around it.

EDIT: I was called a "delusional idiot" for claiming Christians are defined by fraternity, equality, goodness.

I'm referring to the SYSTEM OF VALUES. Something must be aspired for and desired in social interactions. I'm well aware of "hypocritical Christians", it has nothing to do with them.

If you cannot understand that, I'm not a "delusional idiot"; you are just ignorant.
Britain is not London.
PostgreSQL VACUUM FULL doesn't mean “VACUUM, but better”
Monetization is equivalent to a global tax on net dollar denominated assets; doing it to a major ongoing program is a good way to trash your currency.

It's not necessarily bad to use direct benefit payments as a monetary policy tool when there are monetary policy reasons (e.g., your proposed QE alternative), but unless you're willing to see BI go away completely when the traditional concerns governing monetary policy call for tight money, then you shouldn't call for it to be monetized unless your goal is to destroy the dollar rather than provide a stable public benefit program.
As someone who's lived in the southeast US my entire life, this is spot on. The Bible Belt gets a lot of flack, most of it deserved, but it is hard to overstate the importance of the church community here. I suspect this, not the religious part, is why churches have continued to thrive here.

The problem for me (as well as many others I know), is that the tradeoff isn't worth it. There is an entire generation of people who are receptive to religion and the church community, but who are completely at odds with the traditional interpretations of religion that preach intolerance and other backward moral positions. The so-called 'contemporary' churches that have been sprouting like weeds have addressed this somewhat, but scant few are actually progressive thinkers, rather than just traditional churches that play religious rock music. I would love to be a part of a church community, but not if it means I'm constantly inundated with a message that runs counter to everything I believe in.
Same thing with Grails, though they've improved support for Angular lately. I prefer vanilla js anyway, its what I used 15 years ago, and it is what I will continue to use the next 15 years and hopefully a lot longer.
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It is a different language to be sure but why would you say it is better? Isn't there such a many ways to look at the strengths/weaknesses of a language that simply valuing one language over another does not make much sense? (In this context, I assume that both are good enough to be possible for this project).
Really good point. Usually metrics are compared "per capita" in macroeconomics.
It's kind of sad that this law can now be applied to hacker news. :/
I wasn't aware of it but Cookiecutter looks interesting!
RancherOS is separate entity from Rancher. It's their attempt at smallest possible OS for running docker. You may use rancher and never use rancher os.

Said that i personally use RancherOS on t2.micro instances without any problems.
The problem isn't jQuery, the problem is that 90% of the use cases for jQuery can now be solved with native APIs (or polyfills if compatibility with older browsers is a requirement).

The main feature is basically element.querySelectorAll (or document.querySelectorAll for the global version). The XHR wrapper can easily be replaced with the fetch API. Class list manipulation is easy with element.classList. The event listener API has also been consistently standardized across all browsers for quite a while.

There are a handful of things you might still want a utility library for (non-CSS animation among other things) but there are smaller, more specialised libraries for those. The utility belt approach of jQuery is no longer necessary.

The same is true for libraries like lodash/underscore, btw. If you target modern JavaScript environments or use polyfills and a transpiler like Babel most use cases of lodash are a solved problem -- not to mention that 90% of all code using lodash in the wild could be written using the native array methods that have been available since ES5 (and IE9).
The github thread itself is a nice example of a vibrant open source community. They're thinking about whether the project can be a good entry point for others into OSS, considering adopting outside libraries rather than re-writing it themselves, and generally operating in a pretty positive manner.
There seems to be someone "helpful" like that in every church. Unless your kid is truly disruptive (running around, damaging things), the best thing to do is ignore the "helper" and try to keep your kid focused on something that'll quiet them down, or keep them seated/near you. But kids talk, you can't stop that, and oftentimes don't want to.
They seem to be alienating certain groups of freelancers deliberately.
Some of them are, but replacing image formats with PS is just a Bad Idea. And non-csp concurrency is necessary, like it or not.
The depressing thing about this is that us UK lefties have screaming about this years and years. I know a man who works in politics that is convinced that the Tory party is not privatising the NHS because they Tory party put elections above all else.
Your conflating money with the thing it pays for. They are not equivalent.

I make all sorts of cool art for free. No money, comes from nowhere, sometimes I pay for materials or prints. The printers aren't the creative ones (if they dare I'll take my work somewhere else next time). Then I give them away (because birthday presents are hard).

And sometimes I make music but you can't give that to people, which very neatly describes the whole problem in a microcosm: You can give someone a performance but that's ephemeral, a one time thing (and only if I were good enough that'd be passable birthday present and even if I were a rockstar, after a while you gotta ask yourself wtf you're doing and why). You can give someone a recording but that's worthless because it's just information which has near zero value--and IMHO it's completely ridiculous to expect people to pretend otherwise (unless that's the art but then it's not music and let's not get into the art of pranksterism right now).

The other option is they stop making music--haha! Seriously, who is going to make them stop?? Some wise people once said it takes a nation of millions to hold them back (maybe they meant something else, but they also meant this). Another wise person once said that we are nothing but the sum of our parts and that which we give away for free.

So there's music that is not going to be made if you don't INSERT COIN. Then there's music that builds from divine pressure (wise person said "can't touch this") and forces its way out no matter what. Cry me a river if we lose the former, thanks to technology, it'll just create space and breathing room for the latter.
Patents are double edged sword. They can be harmful for you and can be beneficial too. Patents are like, if you have one, you love patents, but if someone has one and he tries to enforce that on you, you start hating patent and the whole system eventually. I have been seeing this happening for quite some times.
> I have to expose the bare truth:
> I’ve never seen this approach working.

And I've never seen this approach NOT working. "Working" meaning a system that you can reliably change.
Maybe some Christians have those, but -- and I say this as a Christian -- it's far from true that all members of Christian faith traditions have those.

So you haven't really pointed to a real difference.
What kernels can compete with Linux in servers and embedded? How many how many network protocols are entirely proprietary? And what about Android, Blender?
The alternative already exists, why isn't it being used?
Already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11812488

[EDIT] Though, now I notice, with a misleading title...
Its a replay of something called "Enclosure" in Britain in the 1700s (actually for several hundreds of years) where the commons got fenced and contracted out. It meant laborers could no longer live for a while off the land - a brace of rabbits, a partridge for the pot. So labor had to work for an employer to live, at whatever pay the employer chose. Which essentially enslaved them. Or so the argument went.
There was a recent study into the male suicide rate in Northern Ireland. It has boomed since the end of the Troubles. Historically, war has given men a sense of belonging. But it's not a great trade-off.
The church can in theory be a good place to build social cohesion, but in the UK it is mired in cultural politics, so many people choose to avoid it.
Gilmore Girls ended this way.