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Now if we can just get acidity in the oceans back to preindustrial levels we'll be set.
> You're missing the point.

No, I think the GP is fairly and explicitly disagreeing with what you describe as the point, which is very different than missing it.

Clearly you think what is desirable and worthwhile is...

> the adventure [...] the adversities on the trip, the people you meet, the broken cars

Clearly, GP disagrees that this is desirable and worthwhile, when writing:

> I do want to visit Africa, but all of this driving and getting stuck doesn't really appeal to me.

Not everyone has insufficient adversity in their daily life such that they need to take on additional and avoidable adversity for recreation.
Also, the loophole found by the Federal government involving withholding funds from states if their will isn't met. They can't tell the states to, say, set a maximum speed limit [0] or force annual standardized testing [1]. But they can withhold highway and education funds if the states don't. I feel like this has pretty dramatically increased the intended power of the federal government over the states, but no one ever talks about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
Ask HN: Is there anything I can do to prevent burnout?
So quite recently at the company I work for I've been noticing that I have been at the point where the coding I need to do is just like a brick wall. I know what I need to do, yet when typing out even a few lines to accomplish stuff I find myself just staring at the screen most of my time. Worse yet, I find that during the management side of my job, I'm becoming more short-sighted and terse in my decisions and I hate that because that's not fair to others. I've definitely already started to lose the drive here, but the company is fairly decent and I don't want to reach full burnout here yet (or maybe I already have). How have those that experienced similar feelings dealt with this? Responses greatly appreciated :)
Did he not "cook" the solution? Or did the bacteria somehow survive the process?
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I see, so it's just the required ideological plug, got it.
Interesting. What about the US local he is displacing by taking the job here?
Firebase engineer here:

BaaS (and "serverless" in general) mean that since you don't control your database/storage/servers/etc. you no longer have the ability to implement your own custom Authentication and Authorization.

Firebase solves this by using Firebase Authentication (https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/) to determine who a user is and Firebase Rules (currently implemented in the Realtime Database [https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/security], which this article mentions, and Firebase Storage [https://firebase.google.com/docs/storage/security]) to determine what a user can do. Yes, they're different languages, and we're working on upgrading the Realtime Database to use the new language syntax (we know it's a pain point, and we plan to address it).

I strongly recommend watching our I/O talk on "The Key to Firebase Security" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAsvwy1-oxE) which walks through the basics as well as shows the power of our rules system. While you probably can't specify all of your business logic in our Rules languages, you can enforce a vast majority of cases (including building things like per user rate limiting: http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/VBmA5/ and secure client side only trades: http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/j562wj1r/).

FWIW, this system is not a concept unique to Firebase. Parse has user ACLs (PFACL, PFRole on iOS for instance: https://parseplatform.github.io/docs/ios/guide/#roles), and Horizon has it's own Rules templating system ( http://horizon.io/docs/permissions/).
there is no attempt to disguise anything - Oracle is your typical stock evil corp, full package. they are pretty damn consistent about it too. they have couple of decent products that they evolve as little as necessary to maintain position, but everything else about them is a big no-no.
Haiti has social, economic, and political issues with growing coffee. The core issue is most coffee trees are not on farms, even if it's useful for them to clam to be farms.

PS: Haiti has over 800 people per square mile, that's on par with Massachusetts which does not do a lot of farming (0.1% GDP).
Come on, you're acting like he celebrated his birthday at the Russian consulate in Hong Kong and then stayed there for a couple of days until the Russians secretly transported him to the airport for his flight to Russia.

Oh, wait, that is what happened.
Why using files is such an issue, if I can ask?
This is a golden comment. To all the folks that cry fowl to others using "smart pills", one must really take the good with the bad when it comes with Adderall.

I recently did some research on Adderall, methylphenidate, modafinil, and selegiline as I'm diagnosed add-inattentive, ran out of insurance and thus medical care and scripts. I was looking for nonprescription alternatives. This is a fascinating alternative. Also, from what I learned, Adderall is a horrible substance. It's way stronger than even cocaine. I'll never touch it again, especially considering the alternatives available.
Australian here. What you say is true, but avoid long grass (snakes) when out walking and check under the toilet seat (spiders) before sitting and you'll be fine. More importantly, make sure you look up constantly when around gum trees to avoid sudden and violent drop-bear attacks. The exact number of deaths and injuries caused by drop-bears is keep secret by the Australian government to avoid putting off tourists, but could well be more than zero.
I don't follow. Could you elaborate?
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True in Europe (CE) but it works differently in the US (FCC).

The FCC limits time spent transmitting in a single channel ("time on air"), but there's no duty cycle limit if you follow the channel hopping rules.
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It isn't about whom they rent their offices from. It's about what they have in their portfolios.
Good that it was possible for CIO throw away Oracle dependency just like that. Normally Oracle replacement with alternatives in big companies would be in order of decade not months or years. In those kind of places Oracle people would treat these threats as routine business discussion.
the article is interesting but its style doesn't mesh with title...i.e. Music Theory for Nerd, but then explains what a sin wave is, and apologizes in advance for the 'scariness' of log scales. Nerds know and are not afraid of sin waves and log scales...its as if the author doesn't know his audience.
Perhaps the App Store has been upgraded in the last 10 hours, but I too simply typed "essentials" into the search bar and it worked fine (on both iOS and Mac, as well as iTunes). Didn't even need to put it in quotes.

Perhaps actually doing the text search is the barrier you mean? Were you looking for an item labeled "Essentials" in the Quick Links section? I agree that would be preferable, but it's not like doing a search is the Riddle of the Sphinx.
Forget data, I wouldn't want to do business with them period. Outside of some stories about investment banks I've never heard of any other company so openly out to screw their customers.
What is the Enterprise release schedule, is that available somewhere to view?
The trouble is, this assumes people will vote CP down.

I do not feel that confident in mass moral behaviour. Observe Reddit.
Ask HN: Online communities for founders or operators
Hacker News, Growth Hackers, Designer News, Stack Overflow for programmers, etc.

What are some active online communities for entrepreneurs. It will be great to share success and failure learnings, e.g X doesn't work with Y constraints or BetaList > all other beta communities combined.

If none, anyone interested in building with me.
"The question is, isn't this a new license? Should this be considered the Apache 2.1 or Apache 2.c for compatible?
"

No.
It's literally not.
It's the apache license, it's just saying "you can do these things even though you normally can't".

It's essentially "a set of additional permissions and guarantees".

This is the same way adding an explicit separate rights grant does not make a new license, it is just an explicit separate set of rights.

I could release software under the GPL, and put alongside it a file that says "Though all of this software is licensed under the GPL, you are allowed to do whatever you want with it, including violate the GPL".

That is not a new license, it's a covenant not to enforce :)
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The GP is (humorously) claiming to make almost exclusively non serious arguments on the internet, so it would obviously be inconsistent for him/her to use the correct term.

(I thought it was funny, but both I and the GP should probably be voted down to keep whimsical humour like this off HN. The GP will probably argue I should be upvoted for suggesting a downvote of whimsical humor.)
I think its time we all revisit "Born On The Fourth of July". Stone's bore of a movie in search of a plot. What it lacks in direction and basic story-telling it makes up for in emotion and political bias. I lost braincells watching this foolishness and it is enough to convince me to ignore all other politically sensitive Stone movies. Stone should go back to doing movies like "Conan the Barbarian", which is a classic.
> To be clear, these intellecutals do have interesting things to say on the subject, but a handful of quotes does little to advance the debate

Obviously, but I could not translate a whole body of work on the spot, therefore I had to take shortcuts so as to give a few pointers for the interested audience. The whole process was a saga in and of itself, and Badinder's eloquent discourse on 17 sept 1981 goes more in depth, interestingly counterpointed by Maurice Barrès's one in 1908 in a paperback[0]. Again, the tip of the iceberg, but hey, we got to start somewhere before digging deeper.

[0] ISBN 978-2757815021, seems available on amazon.com for a couple of bucks, apparently also in English
He's actually pointing out that, technical considerations aside, there is a set of market conditions currently prevailing that looks unsustainable on its face, and at some point, like when pressure builds up along a fault line and then gives way, there will be a big shift.

Fair enough. But why wouldn't the change be something like: Intel buys ailing server businesses cheap, keeps them going with even less margin than before, just to keep x86 flowing into the market? That would end the "unsustainable" situation but wouldn't really shake up the market much.
Shawn from Beep here. Are you referring to LoRaWAN networks specifically? I'm always down to talk wireless schemes. Hit me up (email in my profile).

We go beyond LoRaWAN with our own protocol for some use cases.

For those following along: LoRa is a wireless encoding technique (PHY layer), LoRaWAN is a protocol for how a large group of devices should structure their packets (MAC layer).
NLP and logging failed queries doesn't excuse the current lack of any customization and interop. This is the same thing as with IoT all over again - everyone wants to take over the entire market for themselves, and thus everyone forgoes the only feature that can make it actually useful - free interoperability.
True, and we are getting cleaner production methods. The early production was incredibly inefficient and produced way more pollution than now. I can say _that_ with some certainty, but I can't say that they produced x% of the current production back then and were N times more polluting. Plus, it isn't clear how the atmosphere absorbs/reacts to the pollutants. (is there a lag? why the spike in 1970s? did the levels really fall off so quickly? I thought once steel left the US production it got much "dirtier" to produce?) Lots of questions, I'm mostly asking to show me a bit of the range that is clearly outside the definition of "preindustrial"
Saying "iTunes will never work well" is like saying the sky is blue. Why would anyone need a kitchen sink to copy an audio file to their device? Oh, wait, unless there is manufacturer locks, and controls put in place to steer consumers' capital flow. Oh yeah, that's why. From that perspective I would say iTunes is a smashing success. And this negative social virus has spread like gang-busters spawning countless imitators.
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> It is good to design systems with the assumption that most users will use them as intended

This is terrible advice. But note that two of your examples have ratings systems as a first-line anti-abuse measure, and dropbox like all the other hosting services do notify-and-takedown for copyright infringement. They also disable dropbox sharing if it's too widely used.
This article written by a blind developer was posted here some years ago. You might find some good tips there about tools.

[Article]: http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/01/a-vision-of-coding-with...

[Discussion]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965048
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Non-facebook livestream, might be a more appropriate link: https://gopro.com/livestream
you don't think "political instability and so on" are related to chasing charity?
On 3) have you looked at the profitability of AWS? It's ridiculously profitable. I just checked their latest 10K, and I see for 2015 their total AWS numbers were $1.9B operating income on $7.9B revenue with 70% year over year revenue growth.
The others on the list, which do not have oil, are inflated, because they have foreigners working there, who increase the GDP but do not count to the population. Essentially a part of Switzerland's and a big part of Luxembourg's GDP per capita belongs to Germany.
How come proven collateral damage such as innocent deaths caused by US military interventionism is widely considered reasonable and acceptable. So, tenuous upside/blatant downside = no outrage.

But the unproven collateral damage of Snowden's leaks, which had the giant upside of revealing democracy-chilling surveillance techniques, leads to mass reaction from the government. So, undeniable upside/debatable downside = Enemy of the State, threats to nations that offer him asylum.

How does this arithmetic work out for anyone?
While I hesitate to get too pedantic about definitions, the way I tend to look at this is a little different.

Theist/atheist refer to belief or lack of belief in a deity or deities.

Gnostic/agnostic refer to one's conviction of knowledge that there is or isn't a deity or deities.

In my personal case, I don't claim to know for sure that there are no gods but I don't believe that there are so I'd call myself an agnostic atheist.

Others I've met say "I believe that there is a god and I know this to be true" so I'd call them gnostic theists.

Still others say with conviction that they know there just aren't any gods so they'd be gnostic atheists.

Again, I don't claim that this is the only way these terms can be used or are used in practice but it works for me.
LLVM explicitly chose not to create a new license (this was one of the goals of doing this).

The issues we faced were simply those of license compatibility and attribution for runtime libraries, and we chose what we saw as the simplest set of additional permissions to make those work.

(For example, if we didn't care about the usage of LLVM in GPL software, we could have avoided all of the exception related wording here. Instead, we tried to come up with something that would let them still be able to use LLVM without worrying about various compatibility boogeymen)
Yeah I don't understand doing it for scenery. I saw this on /r/overlanding and it's not appealing. The scenic density seems low and all the problems as well as the uncomfortable truck make it seem really stressful... Doing it for 19 months? I'd be bored after two weeks.

If I really wanted to understand Africa I'd pick a city and go work and live in it... Not drive through it in an army truck.
Ask HN: When is it considered too early to start applying for S.E jobs?
I'll be graduating with my B.S. in Computer Science this Spring. I've been applying to job postings every other day but unfortunately I only receive rejection emails. Am I applying too soon as my availability isn't until early June of next year? Or is it possible its a problem with my CV?
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Thanks for the link! Any other recommendation for the European market?
That is so awful on so many levels. "Hey, we kept you locked up against your will, but you did eat our prison food, so we're going to take that out of the money we should be paying you for imprisoning the innocent".
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When you are talking about a road trip around an entire continent, broad generalisations can be very useful. If two friends want to drive a truck to 20 countries, they will likely be much safer doing it in Europe than Africa - even with careful planning.
This reminds me of Colombia albeit the situation is better due to the peace agreement they reached with the rebel group/they are a hilly country but they are also plagued by massive corruption yet one of their biggest exporter is coffee. Interesting to compare the 2 places
> guilty of killing by omission

You're really going to have to justify and unpack this one. Especially as I'm not sure what details you're referring to.
There are a lot of people who will hear CO2 and immediately decide they don't believe you. There's been some bad science behind global warming that deniers will latch onto, and I suspect "CO2" will just get associated with that in many people's minds. The science behind (and the effects of) ocean acidification are far more sound, IMHO. Probably wouldn't be bad to get a second chance in many people's minds at presenting the data.

Of course, I'm sure the same people may latch on to this as "the problem is all fixed".
> What illegal activities did the NSA perform here?

See the first link in my comment.

> In case you didn't notice, the Snowden leaks revealed filters that removed US citizens' communications, showing that they were complying with US laws that prevent the US military (of which the NSA is part of) from spying on US citizens.

So what? As one of the 7.1 billion people who are not US citizens, I object to the notion that only the rights of Americans warrant protection. As surprising as this may sound, those of us born in other countries have the same rights too, and deserve the same protections. I regard suggestions to the contrary as insulting.

(for the record, I'm Australian, and I consider my own government's participation in these programs to be reprehensible)
Not that I'm defending Oracle, but what did they do with Solaris to make you think they aren't trustworthy with user data? It sounds like you're conflating two criticisms and equating "generally shitty company" with "untrustworthy company". Oracle DBs are pretty ubiquitous and I don't think I've heard privacy complaints leveled at them. Hell, even Amazon uses Oracle DBs pretty extensively internally.
Wow. I wouldn't unilaterally condemn all of Oliver Stone's movies. Salvador was amazing, as was JFK.
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Old news on old phones. Headline should be updated.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You've given none, only speculation. He claims to be in Russia out of necessity, which is likely; can you show otherwise?
I don't disagree that XMPP has problems, like anything, but having multiple federated protocols defeats part of the purpose of federation. Also, as far as I can tell, Matrix just carried over most of the same problems because they don't have 20 years of fixing edge cases and making sure things are scalable and easy. I'm not sure why plugins would be a pain; I'm sure making recommendations could be done better, but otherwise they're no more difficult to implement than the same things in the Matrix core spec. A fresh break is most cretainly not what's needed; we just need people to volunteer their time and effort and help make things better, not make up new protocols to compete with the old ones and make the messaging ecosystem more fragmented than it already is.
If it could get into all the industries, Oracle would literally be Mr. Robot's ECorp.
You brought up those points, but there is no supporting evidence for them. There is plenty of accounts from people who went through this process with the exact opposite opinion you are stating.

No where in my post was there indication or any reason to make the claim that I don't understand what you're saying. I get what you're saying, it's just unsupported and presumptuous -- which is exactly what I said in my first post.

Even if we knew that in every single case that your life was completely ruined after the fact for various reasons (which is factually not the case), it's still morally reprehensible that you consider the outcomes marginally different to the point where whether or not we allowed you to live is insignificant.

I don't consider this argument weak at all. There is no reason for it to be weak; in fact the only way it can be weak is if you make certain assumptions (that we know aren't true) along with some other not-so-popular philosophical value judgements. Hence, not only is the position rather disgusting at a certain level, but making a claim that the argument in discussion is weak is actually rather weakly supported in and of itself.

Again, it is you who does not really understand the position you are taking. I'm not sure how much more you want me to spell it out.
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Thanks. I got most of it :-)
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> And the compensation is a paltry amount

Then that's what should be fixed, isn't it? The amount should be substantial enough to a) be a significant deterrent for future screwups and b) support the former prisoner indefinitely.
It was the first modern smartphone because it completely redefined what a smartphone should be.
Here's the thing: If that's the sort of business we're dealing with, which will sell out anything for an opportunistic buck, and you're now paying them monthly for data/compute, do you think they won't take advantage of that?
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That's an argument for improving our justice system, not eliminating a punishment altogether.

20 years in jail for an innocent person is no less horrible.
I honestly think that life imprisonment is an atrocity. Long-term imprisonment in general is a racket, too: what difference is there really between an eleven- and a twelve-year sentence? Why does every inmate automatically start off with ⅔ of his sentence, and then get extra days added for bad behaviour?

I think above a few months, imprisonment probably isn't the answer. We should explore alternatives: corporal punishment (wouldn't you rather a single lash than a year in prison?), fines, slavery (why not make someone who commits manslaughter work for the victim's family for a decade, rather than sit in prison for a decade?) and, yes, execution (which is, I contend, more humane than long-term imprisonment).

I don't really know what the answer is, but I'm pretty certain it doesn't involve years of prison.
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Same here. I am right in the middle of moving to metalsmith, it's much saner