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Well, "interesting..." Is it more interesting than the fact that the candidate can't follow secrecy rules? Is it more interesting than the fact that those rules are so unreasonable that it's been decades-long implied policy to ignore them? Is it more more interesting than the much more blatant partiality in the only opposition party when it comes to picking candidates (not that I blame them)?

So, the DNC was caught politicking. It's perhaps not very nice, but is it surprising? Is it illegal? Is it particularly egregious? Frankly, if the worst they did was prefer clinton over sanders, they've got surprisingly little dirty laundry (or, more plausibly: they don't email about particularly questionable ideas).

None of this sounds like a conspiracy; it sounds like business as usual, and rather boring at that - at least to most people. If you're in a position to affect the composition of the DNC, perhaps it's little more relevant. And if you support(ed) Sanders, you might feel justifiably angry (although planting audience members to ask questions that are bound to come up in the election proper anyhow doesn't really strike me as high up the scale of nastiness). And of course, perhaps there's something else in those mails that is newsworthy.
But where's the evidence? The prognostications of a Guardian journalist is not evidence. Your last line is written as if it's a fact, but that's not even close to being a fact. Peter Thiel routinely gets backlash over his opinions, the man revels in it. Why would he suddenly start obfuscating his views now?

Over time I have become weary of people trying to explain voters preferences by asking "why are you voting this way", listening to the answer and then saying, "no, you're wrong. you're actually voting for that because X, Y, Z". How rude is that? People say what they want, they have no incentive to lie, and then they aren't believed?

We saw this a lot with the Brexit vote. Leave voters were asked by pollsters "why will you vote leave" and were told either "because I am tired of competing with low-wage immigrants for jobs" or "because I think the EU is flawed and cannot reform". Then a whole bunch of pundits started saying that no, it's actually not like that at all, it's actually a backlash against the elite, or racism, or whatever alternative explanation they preferred. But there was no evidence of this.
The parts of Smolin's career that are easily integrated into a pop science article are entirely comprised of that, but his actual work in physics that doesn't fit into a soundbite does not. He didn't get his position at the Perimeter Institute by talking about how theories make him feel.

Just like pop physics tends to distort people's perception of the field as a whole (e.g. giving the impression that 90% of theoretical physics is string theory) it also makes researchers' body of work look very different than it is.
Using elasticsearch to query all users daily step count. Then avg them by day of week, age range, and gender.
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My point was a little different. There is actually lots of reason and logic on both sides. But both in general and at specific times, people need to pick the underlying axioms (do only matter and energy exist?) they are going to assume. You probably agree, but I want it to be crystal clear that we don't have to throw out logic or reason (or accuse others of doing so) to discuss philosophy, theology, and their intersection with current events.

If you mean there's no proof for whether physicalism is true or false, then I completely agree.
That confusion definitely worked on me. This clarifies a lot, thanks!
As an attorney and someone in tech, I used to strongly admire Thiel. He left biglaw and took a gamble, and it paid off. But between his support for Trump and the Gawker nonsense, I no longer have any respect for the man. Anyone on record supporting trump is on the wrong side of history.
Because he can't win and people don't like throwing away their votes on ideology. First-past-the-post voting systems all but guarantee that when you vote for a third-party candidate, you're only really helping the first-party candidate most unlike the one you voted for (which is how we got Bush over Gore in 2000).
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Hmm, it's a Dover book. That alone makes me think it's probably a good one as they have a habit of reprinting some excellent books that would otherwise be out of print. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
It seems in the article there is a discussion that uses two different definitions for Moore's Law - number of transistors per "space" (and by proxy, size of each transistor) and overall computing power per "space."

When Mr. Moore put his law out there 50+ years ago, perhaps the concept of number/size of transistors was effectively a proxy for computing power, or perhaps even more true, no one saw a difference, or cared to see a difference between the two. Since Mr. Moore is still around, I would love to have his feedback about this- I guess, like Woody Allen's character pulling in Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall.

Enough of the aside, though: since 1965, much has been learned on the hardware and software sides, industries have grown and shrunk, and we are now able to have debates that - at least somewhat - bifurcate the issue of size/density of hardware from the issue of the somewhat more intangible computing power.
My experience has been that finding (or creating) good intellectually interesting content is far more important than when it is posted.
At the very least, the political issues and programming language fads have changed in the last few centuries.
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148596
> They've been talking about refactoring the hidden service portion of the code for a long time now but I'm worried that all of the hits the project has taken lately will make that too little, too late.

That's exactly what I am afraid of. I don't feel confident in their team and if they suddenly come up with a better security theme, from here on and I will simply suspect it'd be an attempt of the FBI to draw more Tor users into their honeypot servers.

Simply put, I actually already lost trust in them.
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Actually the oldest problem is humans exploiting to ruin the natural resources around them. Sometimes we try to fix that.
The comment was about societal gain. Large companies often gather substantial intelligence on suppliers, so clearly there's a benefit.

Investors don't obviously have access to better numbers. Investors in privately held companies generally receive a very carefully groomed set of data. We hope the people compiling that information don't go out of their way to hide anything (although that happens). And we hope that the raw data is accurate (although this too is often distorted). But they probably don't go out of their way to dig up negative stuff. Smart investors definitely don't take a company's offered financials as their only source of information.

And WeWork intends to go public, possibly soon. Those people definitely don't have access to better numbers right now. And they might not get any. IPOs are carefully stage managed.
> This sort of attack on the Tor network by large groups of malicious nodes is inevitable in a borderless community where there is no procedure for vetting or ID verifying new node operators. Tor assumes ideological loyalty from its node operators, that's a fundamental security assumption, but at the same time, a part of the Tor ideology is that there's no vetting procedure for nodes, nor are there any real rules for running them beyond a few trivial ones, and anyway without the former there's no way to enforce the latter. Tor is built on a giant contradiction, essentially.

Yep, exactly. How exactly do you build a strong anonymizing service all the while assuming benevolent nodes? Doesn't make any sense to me.

Too much naivete in the programming profession, I feel. It makes for pretty hilarious fails periodically.

EDIT: For the downvoters: I apologize if the language is too blunt. But those of us who aren't actively developing Tor have the benefit of being slightly more objective towards it -- that's how I feel. I might be harsh by expressing it, in which case I am sorry; I don't aim to be ungrateful, only skeptical of its current technical design philosophy.
Good to see people using Rust in production :)
It's actually a lot of fun to write a script like the one they used. I highly recommend it if you have a dependency that is large and not split up into modules. I dabbled with converting Three.js into modules through a script a couple years ago, took only an afternoon to get it working initially.

I'll have to take a look to see how the official version compares to my hack of an attempt. If
Inyone else is curious: https://github.com/zfedoran/modulite-three.js/blob/master/au...
Multi-lateral trade agreements running to thousands of pages that nobody reads, sweeping comprehensive legislation written by lobbyists also not read by the representatives voting on it (not even by the sponsoring representatives) with multiple attached amendments (often having no relationship to the underlying bill), legislation carefully crafted to give benefit to a tiny constituency (sometimes even a single individual), and the establishment's lackeys in the press call this "liberal democracy". This is more like government of the elitists, by the elitists, for the elitists. If it were to perish from the earth, what would replace it? This is panicking the establishment. (Not endorsing any particular alternative.)
Hi Loic, thanks, glad to be here.

> Constant stream of increasingly polished UI updates has been a huge driver for adoption internally.

Yay, glad to hear that. We'll keep them coming, we're hiring UX designers and a UX lead at the moment.

> GitLab is being increasingly used not just for code but also for project management, collaboration and possibly even tier-1 support tasks, and emphasis on features such as email sinks, deadlines and (hopefully soon) label-backed boards is just fantastic. As soon as boards merge we might very well be dropping Trello.

Wow, that is awesome to hear! The issue board is landing in 8.11 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17907 and the latest mockup looks pretty sweet https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17907#note_13...

To do support and email sink would be nice (in addition to reply-by-email that we currently already have). The issue for this is in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/149 and if you like it I would appreciate a comment with your use case there.

> Since it's being increasingly used by non-tech folks, the second bigger barrier to adoption UX-wise over here is localization. Months (years already? time flies!) ago the rationale was that tech teams know english so GitLab was fine with no localization, but things seem to come to a change.

Translating GitLab is inevitable but we need a good trigger to start. Preferably a large organization that expresses this wish. The conversation is happening in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4012

> "Codeless" projects is definitely something of interest for non-tech folks too (i.e no git repo/MR/CI but issues and wiki), is that out of scope for GitLab?

Great idea and a wish of me for years, I've made an issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20182

> Any plans for non-linux (specifically Mac OS X) shared runners on gitlab.com? This is definitively a factor in migrating some FOSS projects from GitHub+Travis to gitlab.com (shameless hint: https://github.com/arch-osx)

If we do this we will likely charge for non-linux runners to make it sustainable. Of course you can already bring your own OSX runner by renting it somewhere and installing GitLab Runner on it.
Simple equation that is just as good as any:

p : number of people

c : number of changes into specifications (= learning during implementation)

f : number of frameworks, libraries, tools.

x : number of new people, frameworks, libraries, tools

e : initial time estimate in weeks

correct estimate: E = e + e(0.1p + 0.2c + 0.3f + 1.1^x)
What is "linear thinking"?
Eric Schmidt got spooked we were onto his trilateral commission connections!!!111

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Yeah. It's only when there is a password box on them or requests things like location, notifcations support etc.
Apologies for the late reply. I appreciate the in-depth explanation of what's going on with that code, as I've been under too much pressure to delve into it. Thanks for putting in the effort.

I must confess that I sort of lumped several criticisms together there, conflating API nomenclature, with product nomenclature, with abstraction, as one tends to do when speaking semi-casually.
Thanks for the ping on those. I had them bookmarked but completely forgot about them. I'll check them out in more details.
Thank you. We have been using glusterfs since we found those tutorials sometime back. I wish the default "getting started with docker" tutorial included this :-/
Mmm, I thought these are stored in the database, they should not reset I think. If so please create an issue.
Enjoyed reading the content creator's perspective on this.
If you want this behaviour I recommend using labels instead of milestones. Currently an issue can be assigned to only one milestone and this is the first time I hear this request.
It's one of those buzzwordy terms currently in vogue in the tech industry. It's a hipper way of saying "not creative/disruptive". The b-school equivalent would be "thinking inside the box". For example, here's sama (president of YC)[0]:

> Very rare and extremely powerful combination: the ability to think both clearly and very non-linearly. Most people lucky to have one.

An example of nonlinear thinking by sama[1]:

> the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract.

As you might expect, Peter Thiel prefers to be a contrarian and use his own term for it: Zero to One[2].

0. https://www.twitter.com/sama/status/699330028404772864

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048944

2. https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/080...
Been playing for about a year and a half... It seems to me that team balance has always been affected in multiple almost independent ways. Obviously if a new player knows a current player, that will bias their team selection significantly. The part that concerns me is the completely new player, who just found out about the game and decided to give it a try, is asked to choose sides permanently with no indications which side might be better or worse in any way. My choice of Resistance was mostly because I like blue better... glad I chose how I did but I had no idea when I started.
Have you looked at using a caching proxy or maven repo in front of GitLab? For our TeamCity builds we have ProGet sitting in front of the public NuGet and Maven repos, it caches the downloads so any machine on our local network can reuse them instead of downloading artifacts every time.
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I prefer Ode to Joy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JwU5mcIwDw
So are drugs.
I'll see you in the future, then. ;)
Denmark also has a less regulated financial system than the US. The idea of the US, when compared to Europe as representing extreme laissez-faire capitalism, is not an accurate reflection of reality. They're all variants of state-regulated semi-free markets.
If you run it on a 2GB machine I recommend using the Omnibus package since it automatically kills and restarts processes that run out of memory (unicorn and sidekiq). You mention that Omnibus is great if you have time on your hands. I don't understand this remark, the of the Omnibus package is to allow you to install GitLab in 2 minutes. With the Omnibus packages you can use apt or yum to auto update.
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We keep track of it at Shodan: https://blog.shodan.io/tracking-http2-0-adoption/

The latest number for HTTP/2 support is 700,000 which is up from 115,000 in December.
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I mean, it's still obnoxious, everyone bitches about _that person_ on their Facebook. Or don't they?
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No it's not. People just ask Google or Siri. They still don't know that 1km equals 0.62 miles.
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The same reason that websites/search-engines that rank what people are looking for do not ask for explicit feedback. When people give give explicit feedback they don't always give honest or accurate motivation for their preferences. Implicit feedback (observing behavior) works much better.
As have particular religious movements, but most people don't know about that because they are considered off topic in the news, at work, and in polite company.
Strange, your screenshot shows 0.5GB free. I recommend configuring swap to prevent the system falling over. It shouldn't actively swap much with 2GB unless making a backup or something like that.
I wonder what justifies turning normal code into a string to eval():

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/9310/files#diff-2ac7...

becomes

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/9310/files#diff-ff6e...

On the surface it seems bad.
I end up using the mouse + terminal(copy/paste hotkeys) quite often for git add after a git status. It's usually faster to highlight+copy/paste than it is to auto-complete on a nested file.

I've often thought that there should be a better/faster interactive way to reference existing output in the next command.
Fear of open source lock in
Tools for humans.... Sure.

http://www.businessinsider.com/business-insider-2015-silicon...
I think you are all proving my point for me; as a reminder, my point was that trying to create a social network oriented around debating of facts would rapidly run into problems due to people who present things which are actually beliefs as if they were facts.

The existence of God is not a fact, not even remotely close to being one. If it was then basically everyone would believe in God because any unbeliever would be seen as crazy as someone who doesn't believe in gravity. But lots of people don't believe in God. The existence of God is an article of faith, and that is simply not something you can blow off as "words like 'fact' are overloaded".

Really, this whole sub-thread is strong evidence for why edraferi's proposal would be very difficult. Such a website or tool could not even handle a debating-101 discussion on religion because people would have no way to agree on what the facts were.
Thanks, glad to hear that we shipped what you needed.
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It is interesting that it would be trivial for them to localize the units, it seems like they specifically didn't.

As a datapoint of one I was fine with thinking in kilometers because those are generally the units I use when running (you don't typically enter 3.11 mile races).

My sense of metric vs. imperial is that metric will seep into public conscious slowly over time, and hopefully some time in the future, we'll realize it's better for everyone to use the same units, and have a referendum.
Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013, Kalman Reti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
Even if you get better at estimating tasks, it's extremely hard to account for bugs that aren't discovered until later.

I usually have a pretty accurate estimate for small tasks but never go back and add the time spent on fixing recessions caused by that task. Or the time spent on extra smoke testing due to missing automation.
The previous accusation was that Google was hacked and unaware that PRISM was collecting data, which is what I was referring to. Please read the thread before commenting.
It's available in Edge if you have Windows Insider (the Edge equivalent of Chrome Canary). There are some bugs there though.

Note that the browser's module support is stricter than Node's, you have to point your imports to the specific file you want to import and include `.js` on the end, for example this won't work:

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/dev/src/materials/Ma...

in script[type=module]. So there will still need to be a refactor of THREE.js even after browser support starts coming in.
> The best you can do is estimate based on historical metrics which ... is not worth very much.

I've had significant success in using historical metrics to accurately estimate software projects.

It takes diligence and professional experience to learn to do this, but it is possible in my experience.

Unfortunately I find this philistine sentiment quite frequently in the software world: "I've had difficulty doing X. I am smart. I am senior. I am a professional. Therefore X must be impossible." Isn't it possible you haven't been stubborn/hard-working enough in your own personal growth?
That why you use procedures that find bugs early. This has been solve (in various ways) since the 70s yet people are still writing about how it's "not possible".
What a sweeping generalization. Can you provide any justification that the valley has "lost the ability to push the needle?"
> leave the old white men in the valley

Should I apologize for being old and white?
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i tried the site. I uploaded a logo and changed the colors from the default but the generated site was kinda a mess. The logo and colors did not work well. It would be cool if you could select a color theme and it would automatically pick 3 colors that work well together vs. making me select RGB values.
Except thar I recently read that some are thinking that PTSD is the result of concussion from being near explosions. PTSD may well be mechanically induced.
please cite some examples
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I realize that for a lot of "tweaking" UIs it's fine. It's just that if you have treeviews with thousands of items it may be less fine, that's all.
Live Streaming has just gotten a lot more social