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I love this breakdown; it really demonstrates how the "ruining" of Burning Man is no different than the sort of aversion to change that occurs with basically anything that people are enthusiastic about.

* Bands? "They used be all about the music, then they went mainstream"

* Video games? "Now they just cater to beginners; they don't care about real gamers anymore"

* Movies? "They're so focused on the special effects, they don't even bother with the story"

...and the list goes on. Name just about anything that people enjoy, and you'll find a vocal contingent complaining about how recent changes have "ruined" it.
I love this quote. For accuracy purposes, it is from Ronnie Coleman, former Mr. Olympia and goes more like
"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights...I do it though"
How many people using RethinkDB are changing its code? AGPL does not mean you have to share the code to your app making use of RethinkDB.

AGPL protects against people making hosted forks of RethinkDB and not sharing the changes they've made back to the community.
Swap [Burning Man] with any modern or long lasting festival. Here in Germany it would be "Rock am Ring" or "Southside". Very well written. We all will sooner or later act like our grandparents and say "in the past everything was better". If we are honest, it wasn't.
A transistor that measures just 1nm
The most powerful line is the last one:

"The 10 Principles are at their most powerful when given to strangers."

So quit resenting new folks joining; that's kind of the point of the whole thing.
I agree my comment was a silly attempt to illustrate that a free market will set a price that may be considered 'unfair' in some cases. However the EpiPen market seems to be far from free.
The biggest problem I think is that they constantly add features that don't improve the core functionality. For example, Moments really don't help with hashtag filtering, conversation searching, and the like. All they need to do is make it easier to filter conversations, basically. It's not that hard to see why that would get more people on board since they could make sense of their time line. But it seems Dorsey and company would rather just pile on stuff that's not related to that. I don't get their motivation for this. Can someone can explain it?
The Apache Foundation doesn't "make" projects successful or failures, it provides a home. The foundation doesn't employ developers or really allocate resources for a specific project. It is a "home" with a legal structure, IP structure, some infrastructure, a recurring conference for community events, etc.

I think most people misunderstand the ASF. It is not meant to be the home for every software project. It is meant to be the home for projects that care about community and long term stewardship. By long term, I mean, more like 100 years than the next 10 months.

It has successful projects, and failures. Maybe it should be more vocal about the successes, but Apache isn't. The foundation isn't flashy. It isn't "hip". It shouldn't be. It's supposed to outlast the corporations we think about today as giants.

(I'm an ASF member)
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I agree that Obama's was pretty shitty, but from my internal view as a Colombian I would really suggest that you find out about his work for peace. He's still a politician and hardly everyone's cup of tea, but he has really make a huge effort against many walls to find peace in Colombia. He has gone from defense minister all the way to finding an agreement we can implement. The patience to go between those such opposite positions is admirable.
What's wrong with the frame rate of the GIF animation? It looks silky smooth to me in Firefox.
Was Bendan Eich really a bad CEO, or is he just extremely unpopular for his donation to a political cause?
Those seem to be legitimate complaints that seem to be "take something specialized that caters to a small crowd, then water it down so it appeals to everyone."

That said, sometimes such complaints are clearly a bit whiny, but then again, sometimes they are warranted critiques.
1) Outside of family and homes, the cost of living is just crazy. Especially with a family. Also the area is more family friendly than SF (since I was there last). Commute is short and easy. Plus trees (different than SF).
2) Yes
3) No
4) As always comments are my own and may not reflect the opinions of my employer. (They have been quite kind in offering time and space to assist in job transition.)
5) These differ around the team, but shouldn't be an issue.

Will look into Stripe!
I agree, using dedicated hardware is certainly nice and has some advantages over VMs. It's not only a big thing in the future but also at present, companies like OVH or Hetzner seem to do well despite the rising of the "Cloud".

You exactly know what you get performance wise, e.g. no bad influence from some random neighboring VM. Security is also a concern with virtualization, isolation between VMs turned out to be not that perfect as desired. You can also roll your own virtualization exactly tailored to your needs. "Cloud" VMs also tend to be rather expensive if you need them continuously, you pay for the flexibility they provide.
I think they might be. On the other hand, SCO isn't the company they used to be, so who knows if it would even be an issue.
Agree with this, simple concepts taught in-depth with lots applications and practice is very useful. Knowing 10 ML algorithms superficially will never be as good as knowing 1 with all of it's caveats.
In a nutshell: people trained with American accents made calls to American taxpayers suggesting that they owed backtaxes and would be sued if they didn't pay up.
Seems like they are following the ever so popular "lean startup" approach.

They're announcing a small, separate product to validate if there is demand. Then they'll get early users and burn money while they figure out how to make it into a profitable business.
I wrote a Lua based programming game more than 10 years ago. You can look at it here: http://infon.dividuum.de/. Source code is also available on github: https://github.com/dividuum/infon.

It was used during multiple local hacker conferences to keep the guests entertained. For that you would run the server somewhere, then run multiple viewers all over the place (and a big central screen) so everyone could follow the current game. Players would then connect to the server through telnet and upload their Lua code. Code could be updated while the game was running so people kept tweaking their code all the time. It was really fun seeing more than 20 player competing.

The game should still work today and is basically feature complete.
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This has been pretty extensively studied. There's always the possibility the science is wrong, but the consensus is there will be very small or no ecological impact[1]. It's certainly nothing like removing all the kelp from the oceans. Meanwhile roughly a million people die every year from mosquito-borne diseases and three quarters of a billion people get sick[2].

[1] http://debugproject.com/faqs/

[2] http://www.ebmedicine.net/topics.php?paction=showTopic&topic...
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I saw other news stories about it. They would pretend to be an IRS call center and tell the callee they owed back taxes.

The real IRS will send you mail if you owe back taxes, and instruct you to call them.
I am impressed, this was a really good article that I thought was just another rant going in.

The universal rule of groups: its always the next guy who ruins the coolness of a group

As to Burning Man itself, it always felt like one of those events that I was not cool enough to go to. Camping in the desert would be interesting, and probably a lot less stressful than some of the camping I did during high school.
I don't think Burning Man could yet be called "appeals to everyone". Got a ways to go? There's still a core of weirdness that proves its still got something going on.
Factually incorrect... Before Mega when has was a Ponzi scheme operator and self-professed super-hacker he posted pictures all the time of his trips around the world in super-yacht, private jets and expensive cars. Including the US.
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I'm not sure how the legal details play out, but it seems like they licensed their client drivers as Apache, so the intent seems to be that the AGPL is intended to make sure they get patches, even if you're selling hosted RethinkDB, not just using RethinkDB in your commercial SaaS software. Or at least that's what I gather from the FAQ https://rethinkdb.com/faq/

I don't know if this is a sound legal interpretation of the AGPL though. My obvious concern would be that the AGPL extends to the rest of our production code.
A grad teaching assistant did the same thing in my ASM course years ago. It was fun having him explain all the parts dealing with taking input from the keyboard (we were using MASM at the time) since I didn't understand interrupts at the time (honestly still don't fully grasp them).
I would like this article a lot better if they included some of the legitimate criticism about what Burning Man has become.

The number one "ruined" point I hear about from early attendees is when it went from a volunteer effort to something with a year-round staff. Seeing a small band in a pub is different than a giant, commercialized stadium show. Neither is wrong, but nobody is served by pretending that they're the same. As most developers know, things change when you go from "I do this for the love" to "this is my job".

I don't think Burning Man was "ruined" by that transition, but I don't like how this article mocks the whole notion that something might have been lost along the way. Of course, it was written by somebody whose job is Burning Man, and as Upton Sinclair says, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
For pattern matching, that's true. And my response is, stay tuned. C++ has a lot more to offer in this area in the future. std::variant is opening a big door for all kinds of new features in the language, and for those who cannot wait, there are pattern matching libraries out there to peak at.
The appeal of both places is that they have a wealth of outdoor activities really close by (especially rock climbing).
This is subjective, but I think the rock climbing is better in Chattanooga. Also, people are friendlier and more down to earth in Chatty, its that southern hospitality after all. The Boulderites have a reputation for being snobs and yuppies. Also the cost of living is way cheaper in Chattanooga.
I know a someone that goes to burning man a lot (they call themselves "burners"). I asked how it was this year and was told one of the best years ever. Last year wasn't so go according to this person. Its probably who you are and what you're looking for. For her, its all about the art installations.

The logistics and planning of getting everything out to the dessert from the east coast was more significant than I had imagined.

I borrowed her popup tent that was covered in burning man dust, its weird gray and alkali. Its remarkable that burning man actually happens.
No, but if you have principles it might change the strategy chosen.
> It sounds more like a bug or fault rather than DRM.

Even if it isn't the DRM, it still is. Because the player could be open and someone could fix the bug if it weren't for the DRM.
You can implement EME in open source (the part that W3C standardized), and then throw a closed source CDM module on top of it. You don't even have to provide the CDM, third parties can provide multiple ones.

This is in fact how it works in Firefox. There's no part of Firefox that is closed source, including EME support or even the CDM sandbox. The CDM is loaded at runtime from an external server.

Focusing on the W3C and/or it's relation with open source is completely and utterly missing the point, but it's explained enough throughout this thread that I see no point in repeating it once again here.
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Backpages, unlike Craigslist, doesn't really have any other business then adulkt ads.
You say this like the people aren't in the right to complain, or that their complaining is unjustified.

If I went to a jazz festival and all I heard was electronic music, I might be understandably upset, even if I liked electronic music. The expectation was that there would be jazz. It wouldn't matter to me if you could trace the lineage of electronic music back to jazz, they are still different in very important ways.
> "in the past everything was better". If we are honest, it wasn't.

According to Socrates it was [0]

[0] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love-...
HN comments really don't do justice to the answer to this question, please consider http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0009/000913/091355mb.pdf

TL;DR no prostitute can "choose" a john that isn't going to sexually exploit her (and thus violate her human rights) because that's the nature of purchasing sex.

A direct quote TL;DR

Does the 'right to prostitute' exist?' Clearly prostitution cannot exist as a right because it usurps and negates already established human rights of the prostitute woman to human dignity, bodily integrity, physical and mental well-being...Human rights are universal and inalienable. They cannot be reduced to the instrumentality of individual choice alone because individual choice can and does include the right to harm or propagate harm on others or inflict harm on oneself.
That's a great question!

I would probably restate it though. What is research vs. a product. I just read about 1nm transistors, but we're probably looking at 10 years before Intel, et al, have built all the infrastructure to reliably deliver a CPU based on it.

In the case of a language, I would say it's similar, do you have the support infrastructure in place? Rust is amazing in this regard: Cargo, crates.io, docs.rs, rustup, etc. on top of that you have at least one large company and many others pushing the language in a large and distributed product.

I would classify Rust as a production ready coding platform.
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> And yet "open mail in new tab" in Gmail has been dead for at least a couple of years now.

Use the basic HTML version. It's worse in a few ways but better in most others. Including speed.
Lawsuit is not just about not supporting web standards. It's also about preventing others from doing so. Even if gf 45 supports 48 more features it cannot do so in iOS
The article's main point is simply that change is not necessarily bad.

You assert that transitioning from a volunteer effort to something with a year-round staff is a "legitimate criticism", but to others that is just part of the natural evolution of the event.
And make it a little clearer that they aren't his ideas, so noobs don't get the wrong impression.
> On the other hand, there are those who believe that sex work can never truly be consensual, because even if consent is given, a sex worker may have felt pressured to seek this life because all other choices available to them to make a living and attain food and shelter were sub-par or nonexistent. This argument supposes that given a different, idealized circumstances free of such pressures, few people would choose sex work.

Oh no, those poor people, the best option they have is sex work!

I know, let's make their best option illegal! That will certainly improve their lives!

/s
This is pretty exciting, I tried it out in the docker tech preview and it was pretty quick, especially once the JIT kicked in. I'm going to try to build it locally and se how it works outside of the prepared environment.
This t-shirt always made me laugh...

http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/legacy/wp-content/uploa...
The people who vote against claim they are not in favor of the war but in favor of another agreement. There's very few people in everyday life that want "the same". However, through many lies popular believe is that we can close the conflict making things even, like there's a better amazing deal we are missing altogether and need to stop and rethink it all. There's no full justice we can achieve as a country as there will never be anyone who can repair all the WWII deaths, destruction and suffering. That didn't mean that Europe couldn't recover and that Jews, as the most clearly affected group by size, where not able to cope and forgive in many cases. That's the point that voter against don't see and think they can easily get through another agreement.
People who are formally excommunicated aren't banished from society; in fact, they're not even allowed to skip Mass.

The first type of excommunication you're talking about is the automatic kind. If you commit grave (not venial) sins and haven't been to confession yet, you cannot receive Communion without committing a sacrilege. No formal decree from the bishop is necessary for this. In fact, no one even needs to know you committed a sin, for you to be in this state.

A formal excommunication is a public announcement intended to shame a sinner into amending his life and re-entering a state of grace by repentance and confession. I believe in some cases it requires a public act by the sinner, to let the community know that the public charge of excommunication has been answered. So, to contradict your position, a public excommunication is not a shunning but rather is meant to bring the sinner back into the community.

It might be a useful practice for the Church to do more of...
I don't have any data to back this up but I would argue that as the total number of video games has increased, the number of good games (as good and better than the games when you were 20 years younger) has also increased.

We didn't take N good games that 10% of people like and turn them in to N bad games that 90% of people like.

Instead, we have something more like 10xN good games that 10% of people like and 100xN bad games that 90% of people like.

With movies, as opposed to games, I think this is less pronounced given the age of medium but still present.
I used to go to sleep away camp, I went there for 7 years. In the 6th year, they got a new head of camp, the boats were made heavier (compared to their motors), kids were observed more strictly, and the spirit of the camp never felt the same. I think you make a fair point that people are adverse to change, but I think there is an equally fair point that changing the spirit of a place or thing does truely make it worse, atleast to those who had enjoyed certain aspects that were lost. I am sure the new kids are perfectly happy with the camp, I am sure they are having a great time, but that place will never be the same to me and my friends, and the loss is disapointing. Ultimately, I don't own the camp, I only own the memories of my experience there, and I think is alright to be disappointed that others can't have the experience that I had.
Have you seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Hours_of_Walking_in_NYC_as_... ? That statement, slur or no, was certainly one of the main points of contention of that video.
that's a poor strategy these days, because 1) most companies do diversity in one way or other and 2) stocks can remain irrational/affected by gazillion of other things much longer than you can remain solvent
Yeah, I tried it as well and it shows some promise. Its good to see IBM throwing some resources at making Ruby faster.
So, an employee was doubling as a full time care giver for his children while remote working? That sounds like exactly the kind of practice that gives remote work policies a bad name in the first place.

If I found out one of my employees was taking care of his kids while working at home, you better believe it would result in a conversation and a possible revocation of his use of the remote work policy.
People have studied this. While you have to take these theoretical "what if" studies with a grain of salt, some believe that eradicating mosquitos would not affect ecology in a major way:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
FTFY, guy and dude are pretty much asexual references for a person you don't know who you had a personal interaction with, at least in California.

"Who did you have lunch with? Oh, some dude."

Try not to language police here. You're not bringing anything to the discussion.
Purchasing sex is inherently abusive.
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Most end users of databases don't change the code so they're not on the hook for releasing changes to the source. And if they did, it gets slightly muddy since the presence of even a load balancer may mean that users aren't connecting to the database itself and hence aren't entitled to access changes to the source.
That doesn't make them wrong though. It may truly be mostly different people every 10 years.
I think you underestimate the switching losses. The transistor gate is effectively a capacitor. To turn in on the voltage must be raised above some threshold, and it's this gate charge = CV with an energy of 0.5CV^2 that is important. Then when the switch is turned off, that gate charge is dumped to ground and the energy is lost. All of these losses are related in digital logic, as the gate charge comes from the conduction current through some other transistor. So you are correct, and the parent is also correct. Fin-FETs are interesting because they put gate material on 3 sides of the channel which allows them to switch on and off more completely, but that also increases the gate capacitance which means more current and power to switch it.
Their stock price was heavily based on their high cross-selling metrics.
You don't benefit from mines, hard work conditions, no access to anything and the risk of getting bombed by planes or being in cross fire. I understand the logic for your question but once you check the facts of those parts of the country it's obvious that only the guerillas and huge land owners could be benefiting and they don't had enough control in this situation to affect the result of the vote.
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Who can then be held responsible when a big company commits criminal acts? Maybe they should arrest all people who opened those fraudulent accounts. All of them. Maybe that will be a deterrent.

But in general a CEO should have a duty to ask questions why a certain division seems to be doing well. Maybe it has to do with earnings targets that are simply unachievable? I see that in my own company. The top guys are setting shorter and shorter deadlines and in my view the quality of engineering suffers. Top management doesn't technically know when people are cutting corners but they could easily have listened to people that the demands are too high.
So what is the newer untainted version?
It may become difficult for OVH (based in France) to survive with Amazon and Azure deploying servers in France, don't you think ?