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The vouch button appears for me.

Interesting. I might understand this now. To discourage retaliation (I think) both downvoting and flagging are not allowed for direct responses to one's own stories and comments. Since "vouch" was added late, it reuses the same logic, even though the "retaliatory vouching" is not really a danger.

I didn't flag it, but it contains some deliberately provocative phrasing from someone who's previously had user flags (and a ban) for their posting style.

In the context of discussing perceived bias in moderation, I didn't find that particular comment to deliberately provocative. While context is important for interpretation, I think flagging (like vouching) should be done comment-by-comment rather than based on previous actions under a different account. Killing comments based on historic behavior makes "recovery from mistakes" more difficult, whether the mistake is on the part of the moderator or the poster.

It's also not clear to me exactly why the FD3SA account (should we consider this the same user for purposes of flagging?) was banned. He ('james-watson') believes it was because the content of the posts and not the style. I doubted this, and suspect he was banned due to his expressed intention "to return hostility in kind". While bans on this basis may be good policy, if this is true 'james-watson' would have a reasonable argument that this is punishment is indeed for thoughtcrime. As one of the targets, you are of course entitled to have your own interpretation.

For one thing that post doesn't appear to have been killed, and if it had been killed it probably would have been user flags, not mods, that did the killing.

I agree, and made the same point here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315815. While this might be a good reason to downvote or rebut, I don't think that flagging is an appropriate response to factual inaccuracy.
Some routers will send ICMP Destination Unreachable back in that situation.
I guess it depends on folks. Usually i plan my bathroom visits outside of the rush hours and i dont wait to have to pee to go. This allows for more flexobility but again maybe not everyone can do that.
WSL will end up on Xenial at least.
Here come the grifters! The U.S really needs a counterpart to the U.K's Ofsted agency to do summary executions of substandard education providers.
Keys Firearms Armor, IIRC.
Sometimes reported as Keys & Full Ammo, but this neglects all firearms granted to the user.
1) It's cheaper. 2) It's actually more humane if you think about it.
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There are many people who find cars a better choice: models who don't like getting their feet dirty so won't do the first two. Real estate agents who often have to pick clients up at airports or take them to NJ or Long Island. People who live in NJ and work in NYC to save money and can time their car commute to avoid bridge traffic, so cars are quicker than hours on buses or transferring to the PATH, etc.. I dated the first two and was the last for many years.
Right - these rights don't let me stop you from wearing a particular shirt, but I think they reasonably let me control what I am able to see or hear(given a mechanism available to do that). For example I think a reasonable interpretation is that I ought to be entitled to wear headphones that filter out words I might find offensive.
Nah, the experiences are extremely different. Old-school GUI's with files locked up in mainframes vs Netbeans with tons of middleware, ANT, etc. Java has all these frameworks, model-driven development with UML, and so on. COBOL is probably strict waterfall with Java shops taking on forms of agile. Huge differences even if I see some superficial similarities.

What they have in common, as with C, is they were pulled or pushed in for ecosystem benefits + marketing then spread and sustained on that bases mostly. So much stuff written in them with so many talent or tools that they're self-perpetuating. I'm claiming most C adoption & entrenchment is the same phenomenon outside embedded or ultra-high-performance applications where use is quite practical. You constrained the COBOL example but I recalled popularity effect applied to Java, too.
We've seen our parents put half their house's furniture on a credit card and lose their 20+yr jobs 3 years before retirement from a downsize. Tech jobs went through a huge crash once already, and with tech now so firmly entrenched into the economy a general economical recession precipitates a tech collapse (where's the ad money coming from if nobody has a job). If you were born in '85, you've come of age during the first tech collapse, and then 9/11, and then the 2007 great recession. Its burned into me to expect the economy to take a big hit every 6-8 years.

So, maybe, even if you're making 100k a year, you probably are thinking that buying that 2/1 lowest on the market starter home for $500k is a recipe for disaster. But if you'd gotten in 15 years ago, you'd see 300% returns like your parents have on that house.
England? Canada? Switzerland? Brazil? S. Africa?

We can look at historical examples like mercantile law. Most countries, including the U.S., recognize mercantile law, a body of law that has been handed down from millennia ago and, like so-called international law, distinct from domestic bodies of law, even though many countries have explicitly or implicitly incorporated aspects of mercantile law.

If you look at the history of judicial decisions where courts ruled in favor of non-citizen claimants, or where they adopted rules less favorable to citizens, then the U.S. doesn't stand out as much as you think. It's certainly at the top, but other, smaller countries have legal and political cultures that have respected mercantile law at the expense of their homegrown legal principles, and against the immediate best interests of their citizens and industry, at least as well as the U.S. has.

The real question is how good is a country's political and legal system at respecting abstract legal boundaries, especially in the face of strong, competing interests. Being large and powerful can often be a detriment because domestic competing interests are more powerful, and threats of repercussions less worrisome. Some smaller countries often have a better track record at keeping perspective; they have to be more honest about what reasonable solutions look like if they want to maximize their own, long-term wealth.

Based on mercantile law we can exclude many countries with solid arguments supported by decades and even centuries of concrete evidence. But arguing that the U.S. is the best (or least worst)? Again, that would be hard.
I didn't claim racism does not exist. I'm aware of the things you mentioned.

I am saying it mostly does not matter. I'm also aware this is not a popular view, but put that down to conditioning by the media. Their specialty is to draw attention to some things and not others depending on their bias after all. If the media people don't know, then you won't know, they only see the visible things and the death of investigative journalism and lack of serious big-picture reporting not in service to a paymaster has given them tunnel vision.

Suppose you 'solved' racism.

You would still have all the problems you have today. None of the education, poverty issues are going away just because of a lack of discrimination. Economics is tied up with class in a way it is not with race. The good news is that solving economic problems can solve for social issues like class conflict. Many migrants to America were from the bottom classes of Europe and they did very well for themselves when out from under the thumb of the old system.

Europeans have been dealing with class issues for centuries and we know what they look like. You don't have our history, yet, but you're going to. Social mobility in Europe is higher in Europe than in the US now, although perceptions have that in reverse.

If you believe otherwise then you believe that the US is following a different trajectory than nations before it, and I see no evidence for that belief.
Sort something out with Stripe Atlas!
Centralized trash?
> (Yes I know the subtleties that distinguish ray[tracing|marching|casting].)

Even worse than not knowing them, you think you do and have no idea.
ICANN still operates on US soil. If you're concerned about ICANN itself exercising censorship, fair enough, but I don't see how other governments could pose a threat to freedom of speech in ways they couldn't before this happened.
Echoing what the other comment said, blurring and setting as Divide has never occurred to me. I just tried it and it does a very good job at leveling. Nice one.
Is there any way to see the result without WebGL?
As a comic artist working with scanned images, the "divide by blur" trick is going to save me significant effort in the future.

THIS is exactly the sort of insight I wish I would get when I click one of those "one weird trick" links!
Is this really a problem? No alternate TLDs have ever caught on. .com continues to be the only TLD that most people care about. Even a .net domain makes you a second-class citizen on the web.
The LISP machines were incredibly different with one able to use macros for API's or bottom layers.

Or drop down to microcode, were things like eval and the garbage collector tended to live, along with graphics primitives and the usual things at that level. The first widely produced Lisp Machine could be outfitted with a very large bank of this vertical microcode if you were willing to pay for the static RAM to populate it. There was also a Lisp to microcode compiler of some level of utility.
It's somewhat strange to me that they have this whole article, but is't mostly just excuses for types of problems that just come from USA's perspective and actions on infrastructure... You don't see the same excuses in other places. They either fix the problem, or admit that it's not organised well enough, yet this article does neither. (as far as I understood from the text)
Lo and Behold
Yes it has not been fixed, but it's a supply-side problem and not a demand-side problem. More houses should be built to meet demand, but this is not happening in many cities.
The Connoisseur of Pain
Yet that does not prevent them from harassing the linux world with patent attacks. And claim they love linux nonetheless. Thats like shizo behavior.
How Pressuring Yourself Can Squeeze Your Trades
So then you don't believe individuals have the right to organize to petition their representatives? Because any organization is going to mean pooling resources into a legal structure...like a corporation.
Nope, Obama and his DoJ have made criminal justice reform part of their platform.
i think there are studies on the much broader range of phenomena associated with meditation in general. its hard to find good examples of such things quickly with google though because there are a large number of poor quality studies too...

i don't think its particularly crazy to suggest that people practising mental discipline can alter their minds or perceptions.

its very easy to convince oneself that the left arm is paralysed for instance... or to hallucinate by fixating on an object or point in space.

also, its very well evidenced that psychology has an effect on health...

on the other hand there is no evidence of, nor any need for explanations involving, "mystical energies" of any kind, as far as i can see.
The p values don't necessarily imply what you think they do. The p value you end up with is a function of the modeling assumptions you make. For example, if your errors are correlated (which I'm sure they are in these swim meets since many data points can correspond to the same swimmer and many are from the same race), then you need to account for that. It's not uncommon to have a p value like that, then you account for something you forgot and it goes away.
Unfortunately, the FTC requirements don't extend to other countries, so unless you're using a geo-filter for the publishers you follow, that might not be something to rely on. Further, many other sites fly under the radar and frankly don't care about the FTC. You might ignore these, but many won't.
>This is not Microsoft's OpenSSH implementation, which you can find on GitHub.

Nope, but it is the same SSH implementation that was in one of the Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi images!
There are the Azure REST APIs that you can curl. Or the Azure-CLI on Linux and Windows.

That said, I've noticed that powershell seems to get priority with Azure support before the azure-Cli client, so there are a few gaps here and there. I've been told that the Azure REST APIs are all in step with Powershell support, but sometimes go in documented unfortunately.
That would be fun. The thread has been more interesting than I thought it would be. Probably thanks to Tomte changing the title haha. We'll all have to have that coffee sometime.
> First off, anyone who is seriously citing the Benchmarks Game as to making a definitive declaration of whether a language is slow or fast is intellectually dishonest.

But Rust is actually significantly slower than C++, that's for sure. You're welcome to test it by yourself.
OP sounds confused. Anyone should know that once you file your safe to discuss, so what kind of lawyer would make that mistake?
Naively I would expect regression toward the mean to weaken the placebo effect - using a placebo seems a better idea in light cases and even in a controlled study you would probably not be allowed to only use placebos in severe cases so that it seems more likely that the situation worsens which would reduce the observed strength of the placebo effect in the other direction.
> This is different from social mores, which are boundaries we respect because transgression has consequences we care about. There are real ends; it's NOT just a game.

This just means the games can nest. In the innermost game, you treat social mores as rules to follow and try to excel within them.

But there is a surrounding meta-game where you weigh the pros and cons of transgressing the mores and consequences that leads to. In that game, the mores are no longer rules and transgressing is now a move.

Around that, yet another game where the moves are putting effort into changing social rules. And so on.
anecdotal evidence is evidence, its just not of a good quality.

a lot of things rely on it for their justification. the best example i think i can give in the context of wanky hipster startups would be "agile methodologies"... despite the completely different area of concern they are also attributed properties which are inherently difficult to measure and perform experimentation with. i've seen very little evidence except for anecdotal evidence to back the claims surrounding them (although certainly, they are based on quite reasonable conclusions to reach with no evidence at all - by using logic and "common sense" to derive from better known quantities)
Not actually American or British, not sure why you assume I must be western first world and accuse me of hypocrisy based on that.

In any case, that fact that booing has happened in previous events I can accept, but that seems a false equivalence. I'm pointing out that to my knowledge, this is the first time it has happened with such vigour and insistence at a world wide sporting event. What is the point of the Olympics if not to overcome partisanship in the name of good sportsmanship? A lot of the Brazilian fans' behaviour seems to come from the worst of futbol hooliganism, which no-one could seriously defend, and their booing of Argentinians in particular shows an unwillingness to rise above regional rivalries even for the Olympics.
Interesting. I didn't hear that angle before. So, you don't think cost of like $7 million for probably less performance wasn't going to end it? Far as rivals part, that same thing happened once HP had both NonStop and OpenVMS. One had to go. Whereas Unisys did it on purpose when it acquired CTOS, a distributed mainframe. They weren't taking any chances on that one haha.
Choose the right platform for your goals. While id was banging out bare-metal code on a relatively unchanging PC platform, my old partner and I spent our time battling API deprecation, a change of processor, endianness issues, performance issues, just on and on and on, a whole litany of insults on the Macintosh platform.

We were attempting to "just have a successful shareware game business on the Macintosh" but after 20 years of this self-flagellation I bailed. We each now work at rather successful studio/agency development firms and I've probably contributed to more meaningful projects in the last year and a half than in all the years previously.

When you choose the wrong platform, you will not only be running against the wind, but when the wind dies down you will be so tired that you miss the new opportunities. We should have been positioned to capitalize on the iOS store back in the mid-2000s with our substantial codebase, but due to burnout I witnessed others openly rake in $100,000 paydays on projects similar to our own that they only spent a couple of months making. That could have been us, but I can't blame the competition or Apple because in hindsight it was my own sheer inability to stop beating a dead horse that put me in the universe that didn't work out. Really you should always be working in a sustainable way that's not too easy and not too hard so that you can see the forest for the trees, and after a while those small successes often accumulate into something unbelievable.
Who Will Get Your iTunes When You Die?
It's well known that quantum tunneling plays crucial roles in protein chemistry. And has been for at least ~30 years.
I'm battling this problem at the movement in a server I wrote (although I'm using a C++ framework above the socket interface which adds to the complexity). The problem only occurs on linux so wasn't detected for a while, and only with one client (running an embedded RTOS). My server ends up stuck in CLOSE_WAIT and therefore wastes a responder thread, and eventually this reaches the limit and the server stops responding completely. It's a really difficult one to debug as it takes about 3 minutes to cause the problem to occur. It's easy enough to see what is going on at the TCP level, but it gets more complex to try and resolve this, as the various software layers add further abstractions above this. It's one thing to see the TCP messages, but another to try and understand this at a higher code level. The CLOSE_WAIT state does appear to timeout but not for a very long time, too long in this case.
Not sure about Pakistan but such honor killings exist in India too. I never heard anyone blame colonialism for these behavior. Infact social reformers were working on eradicating these behavior years before the British even arrived in India (For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Mohan_Roy).

That said:
We just elected our first ever PM that was born in post-colonial India and you are implying that colonialism didn't have much effect on our mentality when infact most of our 'backward' mentality is due to colonial principles. See "Doctrine of Lapse", "Divide and Rule", "Zamindars" (British policy of awarding land to "higher caste" who were sympathetic to British)

The GDP contribution of India to the world was 25% (It's ~15% for USA now) and during colonial times it was less than 1%. We are back to around 3% now

Colonial mindset and Colonization is very recent and has much more effect than you think. Most of the British museum have all the goods stolen during colonization. Like John Oliver said "The entire British Museum is basically an active crime scene"

To top it off the British government has not paid a single dollar as reparations (http://www.britishreparations.org/facts.php). Not that we need it but put the money where your mouth is if you are really apologetic about your past actions.
Of course it says, but I can also state I am a Queen of England. Should've been stated on rust-lang.org that it's legit! :)
I'm pretty sure that in most cases calls are only recorded and not actively listened to unless there's an investigation.

Enabling recording shouldn't take more than flipping a switch on a sip server and storage costs will be less than $1000 per decade.
But they are not even trying. They declare it loud and clear: that's our marketing, but we're happy to help OSS
Sure, if you need hard real-time control, a much simpler processor with a much simpler OS (or none at all) is going to do it better. Absolutely. Arduinos and Cortex-M's win here.

However, I find that a VERY small amount of programmable logic on a cape often takes care of the hard-real time problem while the BeagleBone gives me a Linux backend to work against. Even if I find that the Linux side of things has too many hiccups to be reliable, the time saved in development because I can lean into a very powerful process with quick iterations before transferring to a leaner, more restricted processor is valuable.

And, often, people find out that their hard real-time isn't as hard as they thought. Sure, if I have a safety system, I'm going to be religious about maximum latency. However, if I have a machine controller, overkilling processing power is often way cheaper (and faster to develop) even if I get the occasionally glitch that causes a fault which needs human intervention.
There is no mechanism of homeopathy other than the placebo effect, homeopathy is pseudo-scientific bullshit, simple as that, it's fiction. If you think it works, it only demonstrates that you have no understanding of the placebo effect and are easily taken in by bullshit.

> Clinic results are differente from test with placebo
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No they aren't.
As one data point, Python feed parser has no timeout. I've seen it sit for days when the remote end disappeared.
I love this! As I take the very same approach. Side projects for me are often just an excuse to try something new, learn a new discipline (language, framework, etc...).

Moreover, you can often change what "finishing" the project means to yourself. Maybe it means just gaining enough knowledge to do something else (maybe something related to your day to day work). At the end of the day I get value out of my side projects. The only one who suffers is Github for having to host code indefinitely that I usually won't go back to :p.
Unlikely. All the numbers I can find suggest Rift and Vive within 50% of each other - either way, depending who you ask.

Is anyone really interested in social VR? Converge crashed and burned, and competitors like vTime are more or less just Second Life without the building.

FB thinks having immediate access to the social graph will change that. I'm not convinced - because it's hard to make Avatars that don't look comically uncool, and to be compelling, the interaction needs to offer a lot more than Facetime/Skype++ in some fake locations.
It's not an atypical arrangement (though, usually it's more likely that the power company owns the conduits rather than the telephone company). Those arrangements arose because the city doesn't want to get into the business of building and maintaining conduits. ECS provides non-discriminatory access to conduits at public rates: http://www.empirecitysubway.com/ratesbill.html. They charge Verizon the same rates as anyone else.
Sigh. I don't even know how to start with this one. I'm a "useful idiot" because I'm interested in making PowerShell work as a proper Debian package, or because I might look into what's required to get it into FreeBSD?

Seriously?

MS is not a monolith, it's made up of lots of different people with different ideologies and different goals.
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> Its burned into me to expect the economy to take a big hit every 6-8 years.

Good, because that's how it usually is. The 80s and 90s were remarkable for their economic growth and lack of recessions. The business cycle is about 6-8 years.

Our parents had to get mortgages when interest rates were 17%.

Our grandparents grew up during the great depression, and worked when marginal tax rates were north of 50%.

Every generation has something to contend with.