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> As ironically stated here, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."

Thanks. Perfectly succinct summary of what I hate so much about today's business world.

Dear all advertisers: how about you stop trying to figure out how to make people want your product/service more, and focus on making it discoverable and clearly understood when the time comes where they finally realize they do want such a product/service and go seeking it out from someone? And if they never do end up wanting it, MAYBE THAT'S FINE and maybe it's time you stop selling it?
The article is from 2013.
I created a personal list, but half of the install is manually made: https://framagit.org/briced/conffiles/raw/master/INSTALL.md
I would love it if these projects were accompanied by a little blog post stating who the person is, why they decided to do it etc. for projects where it is obviously a labor of love.

Especially because of the effort it would take to get this working on a "dead" language. Like who are you? How did you decide to work on this for the pure joy of it? Why not Cobol? Why a web framework?
Given the timing (just before the EU referendum) and the audience (mostly maths enthusiasts), it's a great title.
Setting aside whether "the EU intentionally cripples the UK's competitiveness", what would you expect the author (or anyone) to work toward if not their moral values?
Except that that was the whole point of smart contracts to begin with.

The purpose was to only rely on the code, and to never have to worry about subjective things like judges and the interpretation of the law.

If the code of a smart contract isn't "the law of the land" and you have to rely on messy things like the courts, then smart contracts are useless and you may as well just create a regular contract.
Yes. UK has well developed employment law compared to a lot of countries that's still heavily on the side of the employee in most cases. And yet there's still issues.

There's always a way to fuck with you, no matter the laws. The solution is make the economy competitive for labour, by encouraging growth and skills. They will treat you well then, regardless the laws.

If you can leave freely and companies are dependent on your skills they won't screw you around.

The problem is that laws that proclaim to be on side of the employees makes the labour market less competitive for employees. Look at france, they have have absurdly strong labour laws and their employment rate is awful because of this.
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This has a lot to do with it.

The EU has mismanaged the Greek "Crisis" by not actually having a true crisis but rather having a crisis every six months.

In a world where threats are coming from Russia, Syria, etc. it would be in in the interest of Europe to have Greece be stable and they really should have made everybody feel some pain, write off part of the debt, and take the punch bowl away.
By the same token, old shit isn't good by dint of its age.
This is why I don't visit my local Microcenter unless I have something specific I need to buy. Even then I typically put it off for a bit to see if I really wanted that item or if it was more of an impulse/luxury purchase I lose interest in.

When I got my current job (and matching salary bump) I built a new PC. It had been 4 or 5 years since I built the last one and that one was assembled on something of a budget. With the raise, I decided to go (for me) more high-end because I wanted to celebrate my raise in a way that wouldn't really break the bank if I later decided it was maybe a bit foolish.

So instead of my usual ~$800 budget for something that could handle all of the "boring" daily stuff like web browsing, email, and file storage as well as give a nice boost to rendering times when playing around with video, graphics, and animation projects, I spent around $1500. Incidentally, it would also be great for games so that covered all the bases for my computer uses.

It's been less than 4 years since I built that PC and I occasionally consider an upgrade but I like to force myself to no less than 5 years between "elective" upgrades. The PC is running smoothly. I don't have any real bottlenecks outside the stuff you can't avoid without spending several thousands of dollars (oh, boo-hoo, I have to play games at 2560x1440 even though the TV/monitor is 4K native).

The incremental updates of processor generations and RAM speeds are certainly nice but since I also suffer from this Diderot Effect, I like to do new PC builds with all new parts to take advantage of all the improvements of the past 5+ years.

I think on some level, I just like to occasionally take stock of the current state of the art and put together a parts list, do the assembly, and feel the satisfaction of a nice, clean setup that is running faster than the last thing. So instead I just offer to build for friends when they are in need of an upgrade. I still get to enjoy the hobbyist aspect and even though I don't typically charge for the effort, they always leave me with a case of good beer or a bottle of some nice Scotch.
The new locks have nine water re-utilization basins to minimize lost water. Not because it's potable, but because if the lakes run dry, commerce stops.
> Don't get me wrong, I am not really complaining as I have a steady core of users who seems to use the app regularly, but I am mystified at the very low rate of converting visitor and initial account creators into regular users.

Have you asked them?

No, I'm dead serious. Have you dropped any of them a note or scheduled a call to see why they don't stick around? If you can gain information that increases your ratio from 1 in 20 to 2 in 20, you double your funnel (and potentially revenue) immediately.
My values are to allow people to follow their own moral values independently of each other. Push the decisions as far down as possible. Not to use a higher authority to force them to comply with my values.
Charitable contribution deductions are limited to 20-50% of income (depending on type of charity you are donating to).

You can "carryover" deductions from charitable contributions that you are not able to use up in the current year for up to 5-15 years.

https://www.taxslayer.com/support/530/charitable-contributio...
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If you can migrate, you don't have to be anything in particular. Otherwise, the place of birth is perhaps the strongest "macroscopic" predictor of your income.
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Reminds me of https://github.com/urbit/arvo/blob/master/arvo/dill.hoon
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http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/an-object-has-no...
Just because you can?
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A number of the factors that make startups more likely also contribute to high cost of living. Areas with top-flight schools and significant amounts of money available for high-risk investment are rarely places you can rent 2000 square feet for $200/mo.
The question is, what is good for the others?

Germany has the biggest population and the most wealth.

The smallest countries seem to do well, too.
Salt

See saltstack.
I'm happy with my red switches thanks
Thank you for inspiring me :)
So, they reinvented Content ID?
What you suggest with regards to the 20 previous IP is called seed caching, and yes, that is what many, probably most P2P network do. While it works most of the time on large networks, but it is obviously not the solution, because it cannot be guaranteed that any of the previously active 20,50, 100 nodes is still listening in a later time. Also, such caching and scanning does not solve the fundamental problem of knowing the seed IPs at the very first connection, prior when you populated the cache the first time. The question is, how we solve this problem without having a hard coded list of IPs that usually P2P software ship in the source code.

Other techniques and several research papers suggest that scanning of a wide range of IP by guessing what could be a connected node is an option as well. In theory it certainly works, if you scan the whole internet then soon or later you will find a connected node and in theory it does solves the problem of centralized bootstrapping, but all these papers also agree that such scanning could be terribly inefficient.

What I mentioned, mDNS and UDP multicasting work fine on local networks, and we are experimenting with IPv6 anycast on global network to solve this problem.
Are they are just running Nominatim? Is Nominatim reliable? Looking at Nominatim project on github it does not look like well maintained software (e.g. there is even pull request from 2012, issues with basic use cases)...
I have a repository[0] that holds all my configuration and installs some language-specific tools. Otherwise I just manually install any packages I need. I may consider automating this at some point but I don't use that many tools so it hasn't been particularly onerous.

[0] https://github.com/michaelmior/dotfiles
> Companies treat workers well because they have to compete to get them. Not because the government forces their hand.

There is nothing keeping them from colluding to keep wages down then. Apart from the government, that is...
This is the "roles and profiles pattern" in puppet, it generally makes sense.

Also, +1 for using CM to set your workstation back up, I really need to get around to writing some Puppet manifests to do that for mine
Where are you getting this "misdemeanor" thing from?

Burglary is a felony, and it's defined in most places simply by entering a building or vehicle without permission and with illicit intent (that intent need not be "to steal stuff").
Why not use the oil it pumps out to power itself rather the radioactive stuff?
Talk and ytalk nostalgia
In even further irony, in this particular case, they're one and the same.
Initially, WAL mode was off by default because older versions of SQLite do not support it, and it is a property of the database file. Thus, a database created in WAL mode would be unreadable by older SQLites. But WAL has been available for 6 years now, so it might be reasonable to make it the default. We will take your suggestion under consideration. Thanks.
Marketing and communications, specifically impressions and publicising.

Bootstraped budget doesn't go very far toward AdWords or Conference attendance.
If OVH backs down and uses the bog standard Ubuntu release, the customer gets a much better and much more secure server to play with.

I'm pretty sure I've come across your name before and seem to associate you with a security focus. Wouldn't it be better to have the fully maintained Ubuntu rather than OVH's un-maintained custom build?
> Companies treat workers well because they have to compete to get them.

Do they, though ? Companies treat some workers that are scarce well. For most, however, companies treat them as well as the law forces them to.
small, isolated, selfish interests have long been the drivers of global progress.
Indeed, you will likely iterate more quickly.
>Many people think that a country is better off if its workers are decently paid, do not work excessively long hours, and work in a safe environment. (If you are sufficiently right wing, then you may disagree, but that just means that you will need other examples to illustrate the abstract principle.)

Would it be possible to resist stabs at the "other side" of politics, if you are trying to explain something? People in the other side will be distracted by this, and think less of the author, or (like me) think it's a misguided or untrue example.
It's a stupid analogy. Mars overpopulation would obviously take many, many centuries. It would be a slow thing that you could obviously see coming. There is no reason to believe AI will take centuries to build, or that we will necessarily see it coming.

A better example might be like H.G. Well's 1913 prediction of nuclear weapons destroying the world. It was something that science was just realizing was possible, and would be invented within his lifetime.
Poor Switzerland. It's small, has relatively low population, and not in a union with any other country. Moreover, everyone has guns. And yet, it's one of the most (if not the most) prosperous countries in Europe.
This article doesn't bring up any real criticisms. It gives one example (the DAO) of how blockchains can be bad. That's it.
I like to use makefiles for managing docker containers / images. For my needs it's a more practical and flexible solution than other docker orchestration / management tools I've tried. A few things I've learned that might be useful:

* (cd /path/to/something && make goal)

* You can use .DEFAULT_GOAL := goal_name to set the default target run by 'make' with no target name specified.

* Adding .SILENT will suppress make entering/leaving directory messages. Probably wise to be careful with one until you're 100% sure you're not ending up in an unintended directory doing nasty things.

* You can use $(COLOR) = `tput setaf x' and $(RESET) = `tput sgr0` to add colors to your make output. For example @echo "$(RED)ERROR!$(RESET)"

* Use if ! -f conditionals to start goals that rely on external scripts/programs. Otherwise make will run until it hits the error which will leave you with a partially completed goal.

goal:

@if [ ! -f ./scripts/blah.sh ]; then echo "ERROR: ./scripts/blah.sh not found"; exit 1; fi

@echo "without the if ! -f this command would run"

@echo "and so would this one"

@./scripts/blah.sh $(IMPORTANT_STUFFS)

@echo "but not this one"
Yes, but jquery is much smaller than an empty scala.js app. jquery is about 25kb gzipped and minified (the other comment used the raw size) whereas scala js is 45kb for an empty application.
Please show me the makefile for your Javascript project that will run perfectly on Linux, Windows and Mac with little to no setup.

I doubt it exists. Until then, I'll stick with my Node.js build tools, thank you very much.

Honestly, if anyone has an example of a makefile that can bundle my scripts, insert bundle links into my HTML which is compiled from jade and nunjucks templates, minify the JS, CSS and HTML and optimize my images...I'd love to see that.
Forgive my ignorance, but what's the point of a "super computer" in a world where we can have an application access thousands of machines around the world at once with a button click to compute something? I could see maybe cost savings, but considering how much it costs to build the machine and that I doubt it's used to 100% capacity at all times. Is it a security thing, or just a pride thing? What's the advantage over just farming it out to a cluster in the cloud?
> A decade ago, the author A. J. Jacobs spent a few weeks trying to be totally authentic. He announced to an editor that he would try to sleep with her [...] You can imagine how his experiment worked out.

I've spent a few years trying to be totally authentic, and it's actually worked really well - the difference being that I don't just say every thought that comes into my head as soon as I think it. Like if I had a hot editor I wouldn't jump straight to "I want to sleep with you", but rather think "She's hot... but there are a bunch of external real-world factors that mean sleeping together would be a bad idea and a negative in the long run, so on balance, I prefer the world where it doesn't happen", and then I can honestly say "I am not planning on sleeping with you".
The problem is with the expression, the codification of the policy, as implemented in code; not the policy itself. It's the flawed implementation of the policy that the attacker took advantage of. The attacker's justification is self-serving and ridiculous. Given any non-trivial software, especially in a new domain, there are likely to be bugs that can be exploited to undermine the system. And that's exactly what happened here.
A title you can't understand until you've read the piece is an uninformative title.
Oh god I used "you're" instead of "your" and can't edit it.
Seeing this gave me a subtle but definite frisson of nostalgia for Fortran (first language, learned in late 60's).
We're squeezing by in Taiwan just about, if anything changes networking wise though we're going to have to diversify to more providers.

If you're struggling to respond within 50ms anyway then you're going to have a bad time with the added latency. Thankfully our 95th percentile is around 20ms.

We are however having to go into AWS for Aus/NZ which is a pain.
I upvoted this on accident, a one letter title requires extreme clicking precision. I think HN should force a min title length.
And the E in the CE marking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking

The Euro sign has one more dash €. Maybe the author intentionally left some ambiguity in the title.
Thanks! I dont know how I missed that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid

I actually agree with your list; I think the inverted pyramid is really about prose construction in an age where print space was at a premium. We can be a lot more free with formatting or redundant information (if it is clearly marked as such) on the web.

I mostly wanted to point out that the concept is not new, but as far as I can tell, it has been pretty much forgotten in most modern web journalism.
For some reason I've been seeing more and more Fortran lately. Maybe it's the trendy thing to do.
Subsidiarity. He addressed it.
It's certainly possible, but it requires sufficient empathy and intellectual openness to study and understand the arguments of the "other side", which seems lacking on all sides of late.
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I look at in terms of dollars/euros/yen/etc allocated.
Virtually all of this money is allocated by pension funds, mutual funds, sovereign wealth funds, and similar behemoths. They may be using ML to improve their execution -- more likely they've outsourced execution to third parties who use ML -- but they are _not_ using ML to make the capital allocation decisions. Nor are they profiting significantly from short term arbitrage opportunities. Capital allocators worth mentioning generally are handling trillions of dollars. The largest arbitrageurs are incapable of handling more than $10-20 billion. This is rounding error in the world of capital allocation.

EDIT: The 50%+ figures you're quoting measure daily trading volumes, which is not the same thing as capital allocation. Most of those traders don't hold positions overnight; they don't do capital allocation. (Imagine how a startup founder would feel if his investors took away their invested cash after 5pm every night.)
My professor encouraged us to learn Make but ultimately provided the file for us in every project.
What makes a technical interview crappy? An insensitive asshole who makes it his/her mission to make the candidate feel inadequate by asking trivia questions.

A mature interviewer holds the hand of the interviewee and makes them feel respected and appreciated. A good interviewer moves on from the topics if a candidate is struggling and wont embarrass them.
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ditto. In addition to dot files, my repo has a `system_setup.sh` which installs everything that can be installed on the command line and sets up symlinks and and and. Every time i add a new tool to my arsenal (brew install x usually) i also add it to that file. This repo means i can be up and running on any new system in under 30 mins. Most of that time is for some manual downloads, and git checkouts I have to do too.
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If we're talking about triggering an exponentially self-improving lineage of intelligences/computers, then they will either hit a wall fairly quickly (in the grand scheme) or face increasing practical constraints that flatten the curve.

The limit may be at an unfathomably high level compared to where we stand, but it will come fast. That's unless, say, it turns out the universe can adapt its physics to meet certain types of ever-increasing demands.
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Machine guns have been heavily regulated since the National Firearms Act of 1934, and civilian ownership of full-auto weapons manufactured after 1986 has been effectively banned.
We are always interested in adding more platforms. I don't remember if there are any open issues with a MUSL host; I vaguely remember something about compiler plugins?
Just because people don't seem to care, doesn't mean they aren't listening. Even being "that guy" who makes a point about important issues without obvious agreers can have a positive affect on people. Think of it like advertising: you might not buy that shiny car now, but when you go to make a decision, all those car ads you consciously or subconsciously watched make you aware of their existence. When the time comes and people have to make decisions, many might bias towards your point of view. Don't nag, but quietly continue making the point. Stay positive
Oh, so you're not an expert at all by your own admission, but you won't listen to anybody else who is also not an expert.

I'm so sorry to inform you of this but, you actually lost the debate here.
I am not sure, but I don't think so right now. I don't know how FreeBSD and MUSL interact.
Not sure what "stab" you are referring to here? Seems like a fair remark to me.
I like Instagram and snap chat.
And Spain

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-06-10/s...
Switzerland is a very interesting country, but it only exists by virtue of the mountains surrounding it and historically, if those mountains had not been there Switzerland as we know it today would not exist.

What works in Switzerland my not necessarily work elsewhere.

On another note, the Swiss neutrality has caused them to end up on the wrong side of history in more than one occasion.
> not in a union with any other country

They contribute EU funds, they are in the Schengen borderless zone, they implement EU directives and regulations (without being able to veto them like members can), and they are part of the European free trade zone.

Sure, de jure they are not in the union. De facto that is just a nice fiction to satisfy the ultranationalists from the Swiss People's Party.
...and powerful templating, low memory usage, portability.
Some digging uncovered mapmeld's appreciation for the Fortran community on Github https://medium.com/@mapmeld/fortran-culture-on-github-a257dd...
>brew list

Protip: "brew list" will list all installed packages, including dependencies, which you might not want. What you probably want is "brew leaves", where it lists all installed packages that are not dependencies of another installed package.

This makes a difference in cases where a dependency is no longer needed in the latest version.

On a related note, why does the majority of package managers make the common and simple task of "list all manually installed packages" so incredibly hard?

For a fun brain twister, try to list all the manually installed packages on your system by just reading the man pages and no internet. Ubuntu is nightmare mode for this challenge.
6289356 also lists a "priority date" on the google page of 1993. If that is an actual "priority date" rather than a google metadata "add on" then this patent expired (absent any term extensions) on June 3, 2013.
Skynet is comming fear mongering.

Code is a tool, similar way as mathematics or law. It is pointless to argue that "mathematics" or "law' rules the world. But it is critical that most population have some understanding, and can use this tool. And we have very long way to go.