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Can Github (and Github Enterprise) do this automatically? Basically, like most problems, the issue is that it interferes with a very common interface rather then being a real problem.

If I could have PRs by default fold vendor/ folders for me, then yeah - problem solved more or less.
+1 on just using the CLI but could also use STS to generate a token with a locked down policy client side and the risk of proxying would be much smaller
At the same time he is doing neither of these things. It's hard to make the case that something that you find subjectively visually unappealing is the same as a pollutant or allergen.

Though, even under those circumstance, how would you feel if you were a beekeeper who had carefully curated and bred your hives for years, you moved, and all of a sudden your bees, whom you see as lovely helpful animals going out and literally making flowers bloom every day, are ordered destroyed because your neighbor has an allergy? Ownership isn't a free pass to do whatever you want, but it's equally false to imply that nobody has any ability to assert their own interests, or as is the case here, novel ideas over the status quo.

I think ownership really does make a big difference here because if he were just dumping a container into a park because he can afford a shipping container and moving it to a park, that'd be very clearly dickish. If he built a wooden gazebo after buying the lot with lots of hostile armrests so that the homeless couldn't shelter there, nobody would care at all and the neighbors would probably love it. It seems like he's done a slightly more flamboyant and slightly more humane version of the gazebo. Putting glass in the windows was a bad move from the start, but they're probably better as shutters or open-air anyway. In a year, it probably wouldn't be bright red at all, because local graffiti artists would have covered it larger pieces and it would look exactly as the community of humans using the parkspace dictated. (Assuming he doesn't just paint over the graffiti, which would truly be a dick move.)
Yeah, it sounds annoying for the neighbors. How is this newsworthy outside of a local LA neighborhood newsletter?
Alphabet/Google retired its "Don't be evil" motto last year.

http://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/
If these
https://github.com/serilog/serilog-settings-configuration/bl...
https://github.com/serilog/serilog-settings-appsettings/blob...
are more or less what can be done, than yes, comparing to NLog configuration possibilities Serilog is very weak. I do not position myself as NLog expert, but I had time to learn it and use in complex scenarios, so just opened NLog.config of one of my project and here is what I use. The following is not NLog vs Serilog comparison, it is very brief "what I use in NLog" vs "what I did not find in serilog by just viewing files in browser".

So, I want everything to be configured from config file and changed after program is compiled.

* Asynchronous wrapper for any log target with some parameters to tune if necessary.
* Colorful output to console (separately to stdout and stderr). I can specify colors based on event properties using condition attribute. Using conditions applies to other log targets and other scenarios.
* For file target I can specify various log archiving option, based on date, counter, rolling counter, etc. Paths can include references to special folders, process IDs, thread IDs, event event properties, etc., not only environment variables.
* Did not find any concept of rules NLog has. I want to be able to freely map event parameters (name, level) to targets.

Again, I have no experience with Serilog, so I expect myself to be wrong and least partially.
You can just:

var queryAll = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
Right, or it just shifts the problem. Instead of replacing our $100k employee with a $60k H-1B, now we can afford to replace our $140k employee with a $!00k H-1B
I've never seen a good argument against running it as an auction where the highest salaries offered win.
The Talk Show circuit. Write a book about your life as a robot, throw in a couple of amusing anecdotes about being too heavy to swim, or trying to get through metal detectors at customs, then a heart rending story about not giving up on your dreams - robot or human.

Option the rights to Hollywood and big money is yours. Spend it on replacing the diodes down your left hand side.
This would be simpler than etcd in that it's not a distributed key/value store but a local-only thing. It's also not a key/value store but more of a graph database and allows you to validate the configuration with predefined schema's (in its own terms), something etcd doesn't do for you.
Economists work with data about people's behaviors. Their results don't remain constant, and vary depending on social or cultural trends. So they do social sciences (which is not actually science). It used to be called "social studies" in your grade school.
I'd have to lean meta on this one. The superhuman would come up with a way previously unimaginable to pull it off on account of being superhuam and all. Thats kind of the point.

The "fastest way" is to be superhuman isn't it?
Finance Theory, the study of stock markets and related matters and which is recognized as an academically rigorous subfield of economics, does not offer the conclusion that being smarter is enough to win in the stock market.

I suppose you could say you could subscribe to and read all the news tickers more quickly? but you'd still have the problem of knowing what to do with the info, like you'd still have to realize how a 1 degree warmer temperature someplace would affect the banana crop, along with you'd have to know everything single thing everybody else in the world knows about their local industry, which the description didn't really say you could do.

To put it another way, IBM didn't conclude that they should plug their Jeopardy winning supercomputer into the market and let it trade stocks. To put it another nother way, the "perfect market hypothesis" says the best you are going to do is what the market is already doing, which is a good thing, it stops you from falling behind, but it doesn't put you ahead.

Now, you might say "what about Warren Buffett", but that's probably more along the lines of the robot's buy and sell people skills, like maybe go into real estate and be a super good salesman coaxing people to buy where there is a lot of sloppy money on the table. There is not a lot of money lying around the stockmarket; while we hear of winners, they are always balanced by losers, and nobody yet knows if the two can be separated in advance.
Also a lot of people don't seem to realize the obvious problem with spending huge amounts of electricity on "busy work" to generate hashes (i.e. "mining" is a very poor term for what's going on).

It's a class of fiscal blindness in the same category as the people who are positive gold is a great investment that will always retain it's value (it won't, the existence of a spot gold price proves this trivially).
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The humble 2x4 piece of lumber will likely be the last major industrial component to change over in the US.

Which actually measures 1-1/2" by 3-1/2", but let's not go there...
Americans use the metric system. We just prefer having two systems over one. US customary units are easier to estimate and remember and are used for things such as carpentry, navigating, or cooking where precise measurements are unhelpful. For precise measurements in science, business, and engineering, we use the metric system.

Why do people have such a hard time understanding this?
I've had similar impressions. One gets the feeling that it's glorious to be a rich old dude in Japan, but that does leave lots of other people with the short end...
How would this help keep tech salaries down?
I've never heard of this. How would it work? I assume that the $100K would be W2 income (a requirement for corporate sponsorship) and all of the related income taxes for both the employer and employee are paid up. How would the IT company get paid back without having to report this as something like sales income/revenue? Unless the "boss" is getting a personal cash kick-back under the table, I don't understand how this could even happen. If the "boss" is not the sole shareholder this is both extortion against the employee and embezzlement against the company - and probably tax evasion. If the sole shareholder, then still extortion and (probably) tax evasion.
In the Western world we call them psychoanalysts.
Sounds very American to me. What's the problem?

You make it sound as if Tech is some way insulated from the practices required for a business to exhibit constant growth.

Want idealistic tech? Get the cuff out of big Corp OR... practice perception management. Do "you" (aka be yourself without compromise). If you have ethics / ideals to uphold, do so in a way that creates value for the project.

Show how your values / ethics provide value to the project. Be dope. Produce results with your values / ethics in front of you. Production can't be disputed.
Right. There's no reason to force everyone to use a single measurement system. There are advantages to using US customary units in most situations.
RISC-V FPGA-based dev kits
I've always been curious if we'd interpret pain differently if we knew with certainty that any injuries it could represent would not be fatal, nor permanent.
Augmented Reality has been very slow to take off. Is Pokemon Go a turning point?
Yeah but did it make any difference? Fine for abusing H1B is so low that its laughable.
Hi - author of the post here. Just a quick note - don't believe a word of this. I wrote it in 2013 and am now 3 years into the dev of the next game.

It's lies, all lies :) actually it's probably solid advice - the hard bit turns out to be following it.

The missing piece of advice turned out to be - "stay disciplined" ...
It's far simpler for an American because soda in the US is widely available in three sizes:

* 12 fl oz (355 mL) aluminum can

* 20 fl oz (591 mL) plastic bottle

* 2L plastic bottle

Depending on the brand and store availability I've also seen 12 fl oz glass bottles, 1L bottles, and sometimes smaller sized cans as pretty standard sizes. Other types of drinks (such as energy drinks) can vary in what containers they use.

In general, though, if you're buying soda for a family or for more than one drink/meal, you're going to be buying a 2L bottle (and refer to it as such).
I like the idea of building stuff out of wood. Then we can have nice buildings and store carbon.
Well at least I'm not the only one.
I assume his "private security" is nothing more than his drunk friends.

Let's not pretend he is honestly ignorant about the situation. He is just being an asshole.
Just a quick note, the reason many developers give quick estimates is that they know management won't give them the time to perform a proper estimate or they won't accept anything they don't want to hear, or after all is said and done will just override whatever you say and tell you how long it takes. This is wrong on all accounts but I would say this happens at 80-90% of companies. So after a while developers learn there's no point in even trying to give a proper estimate, or at least not spend a lot of time trying to be too accurate. That and many times there would be change requests, changes in features and functionality, but even less common was to see a revision of the estimate. I never saw a single revision, the original estimate was used, regardless how much chbage had happened since. I'm all for changing the features as you learn more but I've never seen an estimate be adjusted. If it's a year it stays a year.

What's even more interesting is that most of the discussions around anything tend to be bike shedding discussions, discussing the color of the paint, rather than actual hard stuff.

There are exceptions but that's much more the norm. You estimate based on what you know right now and it will never be adjusted if things get added. And you will only be given the minimal amount of time to make an estimate. And of course you hope they listen and agree, many many times your estimate gets overridden.
I wonder which picks up mass faster, corn or some of the more virile species of weed tree.
Abstract of the actual paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268315
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=soylent&sort=byPopularity&pref...
That's a big if. I was thinking about services like Cloudflare that terminate SSL close to the user, then tunnel the traffic to your servers. It cuts down on handshake latency and allows for secure distribution of cacheable content easily, but in return you are essentially handing your plaintext over to Cloudflare.
indeed, this is a path that is less frequently travelled. some people are wired in a way that they like fixing things from the inside. it takes a ton of emotional and psychological strength/aptitude though, so not everyone enjoys this approach.

a good book that addresses some of this is Driving Technical Change. some people you will never change, and those you can ignore. if there are enough people that you can influence you have a chance to make a difference. as long as you're strong enough to not let the negativity bring you down, this all can be a rewarding path...
You're being downvoted, probably for the forcefulness of your opinion. But sometimes there just isn't a "nice" way of stating things like this. FWIW I agree with you.

This guy isn't yet anywhere near the level of douchebag that, say, Martin Shkreli is. But he's well on his way.
The issue isn't so much the container as his disingenuous, selfish and childish behaviour.

And I guess we should care because it's not great to see the "typical Silicon Valley disruptive CEO" narrative personified.
Project Syndicate, while filled with opinion pieces, are opinion pieces by people who don't necessarily get paid. They have other agendas. That said, it's a forum for their essays as opposed to a left / right paper. People like Roubini and Stephen Roach, essayist economists, get published there. The comments there are in the same genre of intelligent and interesting as Hacker News.
In the EU the e-money regulation applies to any kind of electronic cash transaction.

If you become an Electronic Money Institution, in most cases you'll still have to follow KYC and AML laws. Bitcoin companies in the EU all do after certain thresholds.
Quantum drag
>Finance Theory, the study of stock markets and related matters and which is recognized as an academically rigorous subfield of economics, does not offer the conclusion that being smarter is enough to win in the stock market.

Renaissance would refute that point
> He didn't live there for decades unlike his neighbors.
How is the length of time one owns some land relevant?
> We are excited to begin a new chapter with PayPal. Our agreement provides a framework for our companies to work together collaboratively

It seems strange to me to say something like "work together collaboratively". How else would you work together, antagonistically?
I was in HK in 2013 for Chinese New Year. Lots of foreigners working there, especially Indians and Australians, but the local population struggled with English. I was in Singapore in 2010. Everyone there spoke fluent English.
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I multiply by 1.5. Like "metric pounds" (500g) it's close enough.
Seattle to install hundreds of charging stations for electric cars
This exact argument seemed compelling when the internet was rolling out. Private networks were fine and even more useful—who would send financial information over a public network? It turns out that technologies that unlock permissionless innovation are incredibly important. Regulators want blockchains to succeed because they aren't faceless boogeymen who stand in the way of progress for fun.

Blockchains allow me to build economic protocols that require scarcity without inserting myself as a middleman to enforce that scarcity. This is where the most potential lies. There are lots of problems that exist because the transaction costs to solve them are too high: finding someone to solve them, agreeing on a price, and setting the terms for when something goes wrong can be cost-prohibitive. Each time a new economic protocol is built, mankind is permanently given the power to trade frictionlessly in that arena. This is a new thing. Join us in figuring out how to use this new thing.
That's what I was thinking too. Mike Judge probably just has to read the local news to figure out the story arcs.
I have some questions about two things in the exploit code that puzzled me:

my $php_code = 'eval(\'
header("X-Accel-Buffering: no");
header("Content-Encoding: none");
header("Connection: close");
error_reporting(0);
echo file_get_contents("/etc/passwd");
ob_end_flush();
ob_flush();
flush();
\');';

1. they seem to be using php to code the exploit (solely based on the $ before the variable name) but i've never seen the 'my' keyword before, what exactly is this language?

2. if i understand the exploit correctly they got remote code execution by finding the pointer to 'zend_eval_string' and then feeding the above code into it. doesn't that mean the use of 'eval' in the code that is being executed is unnecessary?
Amusingly, this article misspells the name of the author of the referenced article several times as "Conner" instead of "Connor", implying that the writers were in a rush to get it out the door.
This isn't an American problem. This would be a problem in most countries.

Just because you own the land doesn't mean that (a) you can construct any dwelling you want and (b) you can do anything you want on it if it affects your neighbours.
A Hollywood Startup Sees New Life in Dead Movie Scripts
Those figures are not for tech roles but company-wide. Apple does not provide figures for % of engineers who are black.

If you want to prove that companies discriminate, look up percent of engineering PhDs (like CS) who are black that graduate per year. If that number is above what companies hire - you will have a reasonable claim.

Otherwise it's nothing.
That actually raises an interesting question, what are dimensional lumber measurements like in metric?

Or do countries that use the SI system generally not use wood for framing?
Companies who do this ask their employees to pay back in inr in India. Companies settle this with some creative accounting. Regulations for financial reporting are a joke in India. Google it for details.
> He's renting it until he dies or sells the land to someone else.

So he owns it. It's his land and the next person that comes around can do what they want with it. If that's remove or maintain the container that's up to them.

It's not up to the government to decide what buildings should be allowed based on their looks. If they want to claim it's a fire hazard, then yes. But they'll be hard pressed to do that. If they want to claim it's a public safety hazard they can do that. But they'll be hard pressed to do that: it's private property.

Seems like they are pulling the common government card of pulling a law out that hasn't been used in a while to make someone comply with some unreasonable demands.
I believe Vulcan is derived from amd and what us already availabke for ps4? Could be wrong though.
Most councils/cities won't allow you to just dump a shipping container on a bit of land. It's unsafe.

If you can properly secure it, demonstrate its structural integrity, fire safety etc then it's usually fine.
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Wait, if he bought the land then I don't really see a problem. I know that "it's an eye sore" but that is subjective.

Can I say "your orchard is an eye sore, you have to flatten it"?

If he bought the land then I don't see a reason to press criminal charges. I could see them saying "you need to maintain the property," but I don't understand "you need to remove it."

I think it's crazy that people can come on to your private property and say "remove this" and make you comply. If anything, why the hell aren't the cops arresting people who are destroying his private property? In my eyes they are coming after a victim.
All measurements in TeX must have a unit, even if the value is zero. Only counters take unitless numbers.
>But the larger company has done some really sketchy things where they mislead users in the name of growth. They also have policies that help entrench it beyond what is fair.

This could be the story of literally any large tech company today. Airbnb got its start by spamming people offering vacation homes for rent on Craigslist [1]. According to The Facebook Effect [2], Facebook was almost entirely dependent on its contact importer/spammer for its growth in its early days. On days when Hotmail blocked them for spamming, new user sign ups dropped by 80%; it was only after they cut a deal with Microsoft that included an agreement to not spam-box their emails that they continued to grow.

When you look behind the curtain of successful modern startups, virtually all of them were built on mountains of spam and bad/unethical/illegal behavior, which they then publicly decry and block on their own platforms after they become influential enough to do so. If you have issues with this, Silicon Valley probably isn't the place for you. There are plenty of tech jobs in other areas - but look away from startups, because most are employing/willing to employ extremely aggressive techniques to win.

[1] http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Facebook_Effect
> Rhinehart bought the parcel of land beneath the shipping container at auction in December for $21,300, property records show.

Wow that's some auction luck. Is anyone else amazed someone was able to buy stellar La real estate for so cheap?
>i've never seen the 'my' keyword before, what exactly is this language?

It's Perl: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/my.html
I think that what they're trying to get at is that having libraries that (for example) wrap failures in retry modes isn't necessarily failing safely. It can very well obscure problems in your implementation or other parts of the systems you're talking to. Having it fail safely can just as well be "abort execution" and visibly log it so as to raise the problems with those that might be able to solve the root cause.

There's certainly something to be said for retry strategies in places that involve a lot of network chatter but please don't also forget to add some kind of back off to it so you don't end up retry-overloading a system that's trying to recover.
You don't own a house do you ?

None of what you said is true in most countries including the US. The government has and will continue to regulate what you do on your own property so much as it affects other members of the community.

And yes putting an unsecured shipping container on top of what looks like a hill is a stupid and criminally negligent thing to do.
Looks like perl, seeing the `my`.