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While it might be a fun thought experiment to find situations where a non-vegan dish includes less animal cruelty than a technically vegan dish, for 99.99% the people reading this and in 99.99% of the real world situations they ever be in, choosing the vegan dish will mean choosing significantly less animal cruelty.

A common pro-vegan argument is actually less land use for growing feed crops for raising livestock.
> and why so many of them poke at religious topics

Religion based swearing is more conscious, certainly on the part of the offended, or are at least environmentally primed. Something built up through the conditioning of society.

Out "built in" expletives tend to hark back to a time when our language was far simpler, covering the essentials of survival so more keyed to out physical needs: they are based on reproduction, bodily functions, and fighting.
The trick to "not saying yes outright" is simply knowing that someone is paying you for your expertise. Saying yes when you shouldn't, just means you're not doing what you're paid for.
> I'm offering advice. You're free to ignore it.

You're presenting a political view. That's not just "advice".

> Do you actually have any direct experience in living at or below the poverty line in the US? Recent experience is important, as the situation has been changing. Or are you observations made from a position of privilege? If the latter, you might want better data.

I grew up in a post-communist Eastern European country, and have a lot of experience with that (my parents were on the poor side). I'm currently a middle-class programmer, so I wouldn't say I'm privileged (although you might disagree).

I believe I have plenty of data and experience with poverty. I'm also very skeptical of redistribution, after seeing what communism actually did to my own country.
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Ironic. It's deliberately contrarian and unexpected in the context in which it's presented.
The Amazon Basics items I've seen could be described as "the minimum acceptable". It's better than the typical Chinese junk, but anyone upmarket shouldn't have to worry.
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I also felt the same for Sublime, but I think they need to innovate much faster if they want to complete in this space.

With Visual Studio Code, I think, MS is trying to reinvent their VS family of products. Since the current Visual Studio is strongly tied to Windows and MS has accepted the multiple operating systems future (I think, in MS roadmap, revenue from Cloud Operations is one of the major factor), it's important for them to have a developer platform which works great on all the operating systems. HTML5 and JavaScript provide this opportunity to create that development tools platform for the future.

It also leaves the possibility open to port it inside browser/cloud with a lot of code reuse. If Internet Speeds improve a lot and computing in cloud becomes a lot more cheap, I think in next 10 years, for typical web projects, developers might just prefer remote development environments, which they use for coding from an App/Browser.

It's good to see that MS didn't wait to first port .Net on major Operating Systems as part of their .Net Core initiative and then write their cross platform development environment on top of that. Instead they have taken the bet on HTML5/Electron.
Well, in principle you are right, but it sometimes goes like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Well in fairness that is a pretty stupid marketing plan. Seems like they are trying too hard to come up with pseudo-deep punchlines.
As long as it is implemented as a reference standard and not enforced, I think it is a good idea. The official tools are built into the standard PC build that new starters get, and inexperienced new starts would be expected to use it as company documentation will be optimised for the "company standard" tools. Experienced workers should be free to use what-ever they like as long as their output is 100% compatible with the company standard (so doesn't pose any collaboration difficulties).
One twist on this that I like when "priority" is a foreign concept is "So you want me to drop so-and-so's work for yours. I'm happy to do that on one condition - anyone else can come over and ask me to drop your work for theirs."
We've been using Python (2.7) and Postgres, where I work, and I must say I really miss the async feature. It's really convenient to be able to parallelize and saturate I/O very quickly. Right now, we're using a combination of threads and processes without proper messaging, which leads to deadlocks and other nasty things.
That's one thing I've been quite pleased with, when using Scala.
A common way to mitigate side-channel attacks is to add random noise to the side channel. In this case the original side channel is timing of network requests. Thus we can randomize time of network packets arrival, simulating unstable network link and trading speed for security. This can be done in the browser, at OS level client-side or at the server side. It's strange this method isn't mentioned in the paper.

Also I wonder if inherently varying latency of mobile and inhabited Wi-Fi networks can by itself prevent this type of attacks.

Edit: grammar.
Thought experiment: Would developer salaries in general be as high as they are today if we hadn't happened to choose an area with such high cost of living area as our nexus, with the consequential requirement to pay so much to attract talent?

That is, would a guy like me (or you) be able to pull in multi-six-figures a year to telecommute to the Bay Area from out in the sticks if there weren't so many poor souls physically there keeping rates up for the rest of us?

What would things look like if the tech hub were in Ft. Worth TX instead (or Scott's Bluff, Nebraska), with hundreds of miles of flat empty cheap land in all directions to keep housing prices down near zero.
Hollywood = $30B. California's economy = $2.2T. California agriculture = $40B, bigger than any other state's, and bigger than Hollywood.
There's nothing wrong with lead in solder. It's not going anywhere. The vapor pressure of lead at soldering temperatures is essentially zero, and in solid form it's about as bioavailable as neon.

As far as disposal is concerned, one car battery has more lead in it than every electronic device you'll ever own, but for some reason nobody cares about those.

(Yes, most car batteries get recycled... and that would have been straightforward and sensible to mandate for the rest of the world's lead-bearing electronics, compared to the nightmare that is/was RoHS.)
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I tried it for python but the pip panel almost immediately soured me on it. Whenever I tried typing something in it, it would lock up the whole program for minutes at a time - absolutely atrocious.
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I have a comments section for my web site. But I didn't setup a signup or email validation for posting comments.

Now the issue is, when people ask questions I would like to answer as the site admin, but what if someone else also posts a comment using my username?

The strategy I'm thinking:

If someone tries to post with the site admin username, the code rejects it saying that the username is reserved. Site admin would add a comment using a username which is actually a password. The code checks the username, and if matches this password, then it uses a standard site admin name for the comment.

But it may be difficlut to check for slight variations of the admin username. Is there any library which can test if some word or phrase is too close to a given word?
And their act of believing automatically makes it true and justified?

That is called narcissism.

From my anecdotal experience it is too often people who are themselves near or at 1% trying to justify how the "rich" are taking something away from them.
I'd argue JS drove the internet to its present state.
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If any of the other users are part owners (shareholders) of any copyrighted material being downloaded illegally, then those downloading it are accessing the network against the ToS.
Surely by "rights of other users" they mean to include the right to not "have my property stolen."
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"Applied" education is the best path for the poor.
Don't teach the 3-Rs.
Teach them how to fix their problems:
1) fight the cycle of poverty
2) weaken gangs
3) reduce crime and drug usage
4) renovate local housing, schools, and infrastructure
5) create and run local businesses
6) employee all teenagers after school and during the summers,
etc.

Once they have pass those classes, they can learn the other stuff.

And this is how we should pay for it.
Sell treasury bonds like we would to raise funds to improve our national infrastructure.
In other words, invest in poor people in such a way that you can repay the investment from their future taxes.
Specifically, pay poor people to work their ass off to fight poverty.
(No person should be paid to do nothing; that is a horrible idea.)
Allow the wealthy who want to reduce their taxes to keep $x in taxes for every $y they invest in hiring poor people to fight the causes of poverty.
In fact, we should create poverty fighting companies who complete and measure their success by the quality of life improvements they cause.
The higher performing companies lower the taxes of their investors.

(This isn't even expensive. Paying a teenager to avoid a life of crime costs $1000s/year and putting them in jail costs $10,000s/year. Furthermore, providing teenagers with IUDs costs $100s and saves $1000s.)
And yet, that is precisely the argumentation one usually gets when proposing the "running out of other people's money" dilemma.

A case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o
Is an algorithm any less racist than a human?
Hmm... If we speak about Holy Bible too, the first one is Noah, I suppose
You're looking for Levenshtein distance [1] or a similar string distance algorithm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
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This is not how you judge whether a company has a monopoly or not.
Not exactly the same but you can find comparative prices for 100€ in EU here: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
And you would also get to tax charity just as heavily. Because charity is all about giving gifts.

I have no interest in living in your dream world of justice. As it would have been a totalitarian nightmare where everybody would be worse off.
> National borders are (mostly) sharp, so either you're being invaded or you aren't.

See Russia-Ukraine war. "Uprising" starts using weapons made in Russia. They say it's not them. Do you nuke them over it?

How about later, when they carved out the part they like, and admit it was them all along, but promise "we won't go further". Do you nuke them?

How about when they formally annex that part?

It's called salami tactics, and it unfortunately works. That's why you need conventional army to defend. Well, at least if you live in a region with 19th century-style empire wannabe.
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Yes, of course, these roles could be viewed as low-status in a patriarchy. And they might have been held by women even in a patriarchy regardless of whether they were considered low-class.

But we should consider the logic and likelihoods here.

Take the monastic/priest role or class. Does it seem more likely this role or class would be considered low-class and hold little power in most ancient civilizations, or that it would hold considerable power? Well, we can reason about this. Consider, based on what we know today, did religion seem to intermingle with government quite frequently in early civilizations? It seems so. Then the monastic/religious class likely held considerable power. Then by definition, in a patriarchy, it is more likely men held these roles more often than women. It sucks, but it stands to reason that it's likely that in most early civilizations, men more frequently held these power roles than women.

Now, consider scholars. Ask: was the ability to write widespread in most early civs? If not, would knowing how to write be a form of power? In a patriarchy, which sex more often holds roles of power? We have an educated guess for scholars, scribes, etc now too.

Follow similar logic for government officials. Would participating in government, and especially being responsible for written records in government likely confer power? It would seem so.

Follow similar logic for finance roles. Were accounts and records important? Likely yes, else why were they meticulously kept in early civilization examples? If they were important, does being an official financial record keeper likely confer some form of power? In a patriarchy, which sex likely has those power roles?

We obviously can't say for sure. But we can reason and apply what knowledge we do have.
> Why can't we scan and use OCR those clay tablets?

Possibly for the same reason you can't scan 88-year-old images of Mickey Mouse without being sued by Disney.

The academics who control things like that are protective with their finds (even if they didn't find it, but got control). The Dead Sea Scrolls weren't published for decades because the scholars who got to them first wouldn't let anyone else see them[1]; they got published only after the government intervened.

One scholar even sued[2] another over copyright infringement for publishing the words he painstakingly copied off the scrolls; the guy he sued had merely copied his copy of the 2000-year-old words.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls#Publication

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls#Ownership
And you stop telling people who have funded the governments what to and not to do.

Sound fair?
It's not racism or discrimination if it's based on proven statistics. It's just math and 'fact'.
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This already started to happen a while ago (couple months?) in Munich. Amazon packages are delivered by a specific Amazon delivery person instead of DHL as before. Now I don’t need to sign anything any more when at home and when I’m not at home, it will be left in front of my apartment door; whereas DHL either handed it over to a neighbour or a ‘closeby’ post office.

Not sure what I would do if a shipping went missing while in front of my apartment door, but from past interactions with Amazon, I’d assume they send a new one without asking questions.
They still do. I email Tim Cook on issues and got a few replies. Sometimes I dont get a reply but a solution made to the problem months down the road.

I believe Apple has already been listening, not as bone head as many imagine. Its just they prioritize what is important and needs fixing first.
I'd like to try this out but how do I install it on OSX? The instructions link me to the fontbook Apple page but I can't find the .ttf file anywhere. Admittedly this is my first time installing a new font on OSX.
You can say "no" without saying "no". Try this, "We can do that, but I've got a lot on my plate this week. Shall we log the task for next week or shuffle some tasks around different sprints to make room for it?"

There you go, 9 times out of 10 they will shelve the idea.
Well, 'fuck' is a linguistic universal joint - it's probably the most flexible word in the language.
I don't know if I'm clear, here are some analogies:

Chemical plant contaminated nearby housing development, some homeowners sell at a discounted rate to investors who hope to profit after a successful cleanup.

Pension funds buy Argentine bonds in the 90's. When it becomes clear Argentina is unwilling to pay it's debts, some sell to a vulture fund who has a better chance of collecting.

In both cases, some of the current owners of distressed assets are not sympathetic. That doesn't change the fact that a major loss of housing/bond interest/rent is occurring.
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Not entirely true. Looks like they also get a lot more control over the fleet now. This will allow them to ship with greater flexibility and for cheaper rates.
Search for "purchasing power parity". I believe Wolfram Alpha has it, as well as OECD.
Say you, a SF resident, look at a book today on Amazon.com. Based on your past actions, Amazon knows very well how likely you are to purchase right away, or tomorrow, etc. [...] They'll ship the book to the warehouse in case you come back tomorrow to look at that book.

It's unlikely that it would be worth doing this if one person looks at a book; the return-and-buy-later rates wouldn't be high enough. But if ten people look at a book, it makes sense to move one or two copies to a closer warehouse -- and that's where Amazon's scale really wins. With O(N) customers and good historical data they can predict future purchases to within O(sqrt(N)) thanks to the central limit theorem.
This is very true indeed. Company mode is the completion framework that rules them all. I have abandoned the older ac-alternatives in favour of this. And it's easy to write new backend source plugins too.
Shouldn't one of the states act like a baseline? I couldn't find anywhere, where $100 was worth $100. That seems kinda odd to me.
I just posted this on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chessboardify/?fref=nf

There is a lot of math involved in this game and you can quite quickly note some less obvious rules like this one. Maybe there are some very nontrivial, but interesting things out there. I'm not good enough in combinatorics to tell... :D
I'm not telling anyone what they have to do. I am telling you what they have done and why you can't claim 100% of your salary is based on your own working.
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In many places, financial institutions like banks do not serve the poor. Like, in the US if you are a poor minority living in an area heavy in poor minorities, it is quite likely that banks will essentially refuse to serve you. Redlining was an example of this kind of thing. There are other, related things - low balance fees, minimum transaction sizes, the need for proof of income or a guarantor who can provide such. This is why cheque cashing places still exist in 2016 in the US - for many people, they literally will be refused service if they try to open an account so they can deposit their paycheque. Blaming this on 'poor financial literacy' is backwards - all the financial literacy in the world won't help you when banks systematically discriminate against you.
(2009) as far as I can tell.

Publication details: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...
This is what gets me with some 'anti-swearers' though - the concern is on the taboo word, not the taboo intent. "A steaming hairy flaming pile of whale's leavings" is not swearing, but is saying exactly the same thing. Same intent, but not with the taboo word, though.
Letting people know that their request will interfere with projects for others, and they need to clear it with those people, not you, is always a good idea. People tend to view their projects as more important and will always put their needs before other, especially if they are pressured by their own deadlines. You don't want to be the person that pick which project gets done first. You'll always pick the wrong one.

One weird situation I often encounter is people wanting something on a deadline, but there isn't actually enough time or circumstances have changed. It's highly unproductive when people just keep repeating that a deadline must be meet, regardless of circumstances. What I have resorted to in these cases are not saying no, but asking what they'd have me do. That often removes the expectation of magic or whatever management believes is going to intervene if you just keeps pushing.
That $200k boot ROM bounty might be the single instance I know of where a stated bounty value might be lower than the actual market for the vulnerability. If you were slick, you might make more from that bug than Apple would pay with the bounty. That is a bug class with a current, existing, liquid market.

The rest of them seem more than reasonable.

None of them are adequate compensation for the full-time work of someone who can find those kinds of bugs. Nor are they meant to be. If you can, for instance, find a bug that allows you to violate the integrity of the SEP, you have a market value as a consultant significantly higher than that $100k bug bounty --- which will become apparent pretty quickly after Apple publicly thanks you for submitting the bug, as they've promised to do.
"that's a very modern idea of a job"

I don't agree. A vizier [1] is very related to an accountant.
For example: Joseph (book of Genesis) became a vizier and had to account for the supplies in storehouses.
Maybe he didn't do the accounting himself, but I'm sure they had a way to write down what was in stock and what not. They also traded with surrounding countries that were out of stock, so I'm sure this was bigger than the work of a small businessman.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizier_(Ancient_Egypt)
The purpose of something like a head tax seems to be to lower the taxes of the wealthy. I can't conceive of any other reasoning.
Very interesting. "A CDN, but for the real world" is a great way of summarizing it, too.
Ideally charities should benefit people besides your progeny.

I really don't understand why you're so vehemently protective of inherited wealth. Do you think it's abhorrent that Bill Gates is voluntarily donating most of his wealth to charity instead of leaving it to his children?

Why do you think an inheritance tax is "totalitarian?" At least, why is it any worse than income taxes?
I'm actually finding myself torn in that VSCode is a Microsoft product that I'm actually liking. For Unity development it offers a much snappier + cleaner experience than the built in MonoDevelop editor, and as a general text editor it seems more responsive than Atom.
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Damn, sorry. I liked that joke :)
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Among the many reasons this is very unlikely to happen, the bounty values we see now account for the increased difficulty of finding these kinds of vulnerabilities in iOS since its earliest releases. This is an OS that was designed as a platform for secure applications --- that's part of the premise of apps on the Apple phone --- and it's gotten much harder to find and exploit vulnerabilities on the platform since that release.
Ask HN: How do you manage your backups?
Hello sysadmins,

Just wondering how you manage your backups? ( like application backup of mysql, TeamCity, tomcat ... )

Is there a product to create a backup? ( or do you have your own scripts?
> It's unlikely that it would be worth doing this if one person looks at a book

Yeah... But then again, if a truck is leaving soon from warehouse A to warehouse B, why not put that book on the truck, if no one near A has looked at it recently?
I just bought two 9-foot HDMI cables for $8.99

Amazon Basics is awesome.
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I'm still messing with it, so that link probably won't work anymore. :) But this one will (until I get the bug and mess with it even more, haha): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8948326/podcast/2016-08-...