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>I don't use Windows, but my understanding is it's fairly common including in server environments.

If you don't use Windows then its rather odd to opine about something you have no experience in. I guess we have a different view on the words "my understanding".

> I can't imagine taking money from people and storing their data on a Windows server without it having some kind of malware protection.

Okay, perhaps you can't imagine it, but again I don't quite see your point considering you don't even use Windows. I've been using Windows without an antivirus for over a decade without a problem. Maybe its recommended for non-technical users, but then again, as a server admin you hopefully know what you're doing.

>Well part of it is that SQL Server makes it tougher for a "boring stack for my personal projects" because it's pretty expensive if you want that.

SQL Server is free for developers. Also, IIRC SQL Express (also free) can be used for commercial apps.
Just imagine how scary it would be if this guy had any real power
That is not a good example of VC access since a) Andreessen quit Twitter a month ago and b) Andreessen is so infamous for blocking people on Twitter for having dissenting opinions that it was a meme. (http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/23/technology/marc-andreessen-b...)
I don't care about known inputs. I care about correct output (including lack of crashes) on new inputs.

Behavior on known inputs is only good for refactoring, not debugging.
Looks like as of 2:20PM EST 10/25 there are 2,194 job postings. At $50/post, that's a pretty successful launch! Congrats!
I was just hearing some party leader in a meeting and thinking like this article. Echo chamber, ideological divide.

Also, this backward effect of the lack of friction is also why I believe Email is still there. A tiny and sweet spot for communication. It requires time, will to read, understand and respond. If you want to release reflex negative emotions, you'll still have to work a little bit for it.
If I may weigh in, the "cocoon" that is so scorned by many, is a feature.

It allows people to actually get things done. It allows them to spend less thought on the topics that are not concerned them in their day lives and spend more on their... day lives!

Basically, if you want people to go out of their cocoons, make their life easier. Otherwise, the fight is futile.
hvn't received any emails yet :(
Monetizing R Packages
Well, we've never really used prime factors of 7 and 11 in Western music.

Even introducing the factors of 5 creates centuries of complications (temperament) that caused us to finally give up and throw out all the integer factors, replacing them with the twelfth root of 2.

(Anyone who wants to reply saying that factors of 7 explain "blue notes", please be specific about how this works. I think this is a fictitious idea in music theory that propagates itself because it would be really cool if it were true, but the usual explanations produce false predictions.)
Actually, the author cites a number of issues with modern-day Canada as well as Trudeau's lip service to these issues:

"These days, Canada is the second-largest arms exporter to the Middle East. Our Alberta oil sands produce more carbon emissions each year than the entire state of California. Our intelligence agency is allowed to act on information obtained through torture. And a lot of French Canadians are into blackface comedy."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bad-water-third-world...

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/27/liberals-to-d...
It is equivalent to what you said. If you are criticizing the way that we use drones, that's fine and you have no argument from me. Criticizing the use of them at all because of their lower cost is silly.
Great. Great great great. A thousand times great. We've been slowly converting our iOS projects over to Swift over the past year and the results have been tremendous (a ~40% drop in LOC from ObjC, among many other benefits). Really the only language-level feature that feels missing for server development is first-class support for asynchronous/concurrent operations, but that's coming.

Swift is truly a 'best of most worlds' language. Typed, but without the boilerplate seen in a lot of typed languages. Syntax that makes sense and is consistent. Immutability strongly encouraged, but not required. OO if you want it. First class functions. Etc, etc, etc. It's truly a dream to work in, can't wait for server-side to get a little more mature.
Why US election maps should show both the popular and the electoral votes
To me you're proving his point. Containers are new hip thing right now, but it's huge amount of work to productionalize them. There are so many solutions and all of them have drawbacks. Seeing how things are going, most likely it won't be docker in the end, so the amount of effort you spent on it won't give you any edge.

From my observation it seems like docker ultimately is ending being used as another package mechanism.
>The mechanics of capitalism are fundamentally exploitative

No it's not. The mechanics are capitalism are fundamentally about mutual benefit. I give you money because having your product is worth more to me than having the money. You give me the product because having the money is worth more to you than having the product. Mutually beneficial exchange is the cornerstone of capitalism. At the end of the transaction, we are both better off.

That's not to say that there's not problems around monopoly and violence, but the latter is the failure of the state, not of the market. And monopoly is not exclusive to capitalism. Under alternative systems, everything is controlled by a monopoly (the state).
Went down a rabbit hole and ended up with Guy Goma's famous BBC interview on the verdict of Apple Corp vs Apple Computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Goma

https://vimeo.com/108900641
It's probably easier to live ethically in a horticultural band that is relatively isolated from rival human groups. The noble savage myth can be a reality given an optimal environment.
Don't bother counting those stars
A lot of people see it as a rare opportunity to ditch the current establishment.

A lot of people know the repercussions of mentioning anything that sounds like affinity toward Trump.

A lot of people know the inefficiencies in the Republican nomination process and the inefficiencies in the Democratic nomination process that promote the dichotomy being presented.

The point is, not everyone is distracted by that.
I've never thought of drivers on my previous laptop and current desktop. And my brother's laptop too (these are all low to mid range though).
Transparency is the only known way to enforce equal access to government services. Bureaucracy is used to thwart that, via complication that can only be unraveled by (often very highly paid) specialists.

I'm not even sure how you can state that paperwork enforces equal access to justice. It certainly isn't working in the United States, unless you know of magical paperwork that will stop cops from choking black people to death.
The article is a bit inaccurate; SNARKs weren't developed just by Eli; there's an entire group of researchers at the SCIPR lab who worked on this stuff:

http://www.scipr-lab.org/
Why have there been so many washingtonpost articles lately? Pretty annoying to those who don't want to deal with paywalls to get their news.
That post is very popular, but there is a follow up posting on OpenID Connect and that it can makes sense. I have to dig that out though, couldn't find the link in my bookmarks.
The blockchain is slowly going to become a dominant pillar of our transactions. Whether it be information, money, etc., blockchain will probably be a part of it. If we want it to be secure anyway...
Its interesting to note that there is an inversion here.

You'd think that for one's own enjoyment, the new and shiny would be the natural choice, while dependable and stable long-term would be reserved for people who need dependability and reliability long term (a.k.a. Clients).
One of the first React workshops I was a part of was put on by Henrik Joreteg. In the first five minutes he said something along the lines of:

"React has its place, and I mean Backbone still works and is a fucking amazing library."

Then went on a mini rant about how people abandon libraries because they're new and shiny and its not because they're bad or deficient in any way - which is why he used his Backbone example. It's still awesome, it still works incredibly well and is still very much supported by a large, well informed community.

Then of course, he went back to telling us how awesome ReactJS was and why we should want to try it and use it for our projects.
I don't spend $20/day on food in Boston or Paris. Does it really cost that in India? Are my nationalist blinders on? Somehow I imagined that it would be much cheaper there.
A good programmer is measured by the programs that he does. Sometimes you can win the day by programming in visual basic, if works and its efficient then why not?.
> Supersonic aircraft projects have come and gone over the years. They usually dwindle away into oblivion.

The international aviation market is probably the largest it has ever been and I believe the expectation is that it will continue to grow. That could be a factor in determining how successful the next iteration of supersonic aircraft will be. I travel from the US to New Zealand often. I don't care about getting to LAX in 1.5 hours instead of 3 but I would love to be able to go from LAX to AKL in 5 hours. The airlines would love to be able to provide quicker service to Europe or Asia from the US.
Approximately half of the population can’t find themselves and their planned vote on the US election maps on FiveThirtyEight, the New York Times or the Washington Post.

In this blog post I argue that we should show not just the electoral votes, but the popular votes as well. And I show how we can do that.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Agree? Disagree?
Measuring company growth by number of people employed is a clear indicator of why the dotcom bust was a bust.
The jobs that aren't highlighted in green were aggregated from StackOverflow. I mention that on the front page. So far, I've made $1775 total selling job listings. In the beginning, I was giving them away free.
Banks launder drug money. It is a fact. HSBC, BofA, JPM ... all of them are involved.

Fines clearly dont work. We have drug epidemic currently in the united states. What other solutions do you suggest that will stop the drug money flows? I say bend over the banks - but no one of course will do that ;)
All the same FUD spoken during the early days of SpaceX. It was correct in most cases; Bigelow, Blue Origin, Xcor are floundering, SpaceX is the exception. I just hope we have more entrants in this industry to increase the odds of success.
​The Dyn report: What we know so far about the world's biggest DDoS attack
It makes Google's lack of official Linux support even more galling. Here's a tiny company which has had good Linux tools (command line and GUI) from very early on.

It's not an enormous technical challenge. Google, institutionally, just doesn't care. It's not about Linux, but everything outside of their top priorities gets completely neglected.
> An explanation of the concept of designing a "user experience" which also shows why I find it loathesome. This is why I want stallman.org to remain simple: not a "user experience" but rather a place where I present certain information, views and action opportunities to you.

A lot of what user experience has become is trying to induce users to do what you want them to rather than "how do I make it easy for the user to do what they want." That, along with a tendency towards what I perceive as "over-design," makes this viewpoint refreshing.
All of these problems are solved in international business class and mostly solved in domestic business. It's a question of how much you actually value these services vs the cost.
We just wrote a very detailed step-by-step article on getting started with WebRTC data channels using TDD:
https://medium.com/@coldbrewtesting/getting-started-with-web...
Sceen2gif is the best tool I've used for gifts screencasts, hands down. Wish there was a Linux version.

http://screentogif.codeplex.com
As I wrote elsewhere, the first season felt pretty accurate to me. Perhaps arguably too accurate because they effectively painted themselves into the corner of making yet another IBM PC clone. (I initially thought they were going to go down the route of being a fictionalized Apple rather than a, somewhat, Compaq.)

But, yeah, what I've seen of more recent seasons feels more like aspects of Silicon Valley of 2015 startup culture meets 1980s tech.
Maybe we could just send the raw markdown anyway - it might not be pretty on all clients, but it should be _legible_ on all clients.

Or maybe we could send markdown if the user agent included text/markdown in the request's Accept header, and pipe it through a markdown->HTML filter otherwise.

I would love to see some kind of native markdown support on the web.
"ZCash looks like a promising tool to prevent civil forfeiture and legalized theft."

How does it prevent civil forfeiture specifically? Can you elaborate?
Looks like you can if you click into the property after you buy it and repay the full loan.
Everyone believes they work their asses off, but like every other expression of human ability, the actual amount of ass-working is normally distributed.

You may be conflating the resulting tiredness of menial physical labor with actual productivity, which is certainly understandable from an emotional perspective, but not really logical.
Do you need proprietary software or Apple devices to get the most out of life? I never got the impression the Stallman was missing out on something.
A closer look into Tech developer salaries
I'm not defending the Soviet Union. I'm not even defending communism, nor proposing a concrete alternative to capitalism. But the fact that other systems have led to worse abuses absolutely does not absolve capitalism of its crimes -- even the least-bad criminal is still a criminal.

(And it's not clear that capitalism is, in fact, the best of the bunch: it's bizarre that Silicon Valley, a culture that is so dedicated to pushing the boundaries of the possible that curing death is a completely pedestrian ambition, believes that /this/ economic system is the real global maximum.)
Next Job for Obama? Silicon Valley Is Hiring
Who is in charge?
I have to agree. It's the wild west. You just have to be prepared for things to break, and if you're lucky, they break early and reliably enough that you don't have Heisenbugs. I'd say it's a bit of dynamic language culture, overall. Although, perhaps Javascript sees a particular flavor of it, with its first-class, always-variadic functions.

It's all good for prototyping, but man, once you're up in production, dynamism is a recipe for pain. Granted, statically typed languages crash too, but the big difference is that you can often eliminate the same problem throughout your program by getting the type right, as opposed to trying to TDD bugs one at a time as they emerge.

I think you nailed it when you said, "there's no compiler to enforce it". Actually, maybe a compiler isn't the key word, but automated checks is the idea. A type-checking compiler is just one solution, albeit a pretty powerful one. Type inference makes it much less onerous these days. But even staunch dynamic language devs have come around to embrace the use of linters. So while it's often seemed that static and dynamic language users would always be at odds, perhaps a convergence is slowly happening.
I don't hate the idea of a VM. :) Most of the work I do runs on the CLR or JVM. I just think that in some ways it would be helpful to be easily be able to write a library in Go, for example, and use it in Rust or Swift. Or FreePascal, or anything else.

I suppose it wouldn't be insanely difficult to use the C interop facilities in each language plus a bit of C as glue code to share things between them. But it would be interesting to be able to say "here's my library, and here's the interface it exports. Import it and have fun!". Though I'm sure there are lots of fun details and edge cases I'm completely failing to consider.

I'm looking forward to the .NET Core to C++ compilation! There are plenty of interesting things happening in the .NET world right now.
Long term development <> long term stability. See Angular 1 -> Angular 2.
If the cop saw the pill during a 5 minute traffic stop it's hard to believe the driver didn't see it the entire time he was in the car.

And there were two things going against this guy. First, cops have a lot of incentive to make drug busts and not much incentive to be lenient.

And second, "It's not mine, it's grandma's" would be the first thing I'd expect from somebody who was abusing or selling pills.
No one is universally despised. I can prove it, because I despise no one.
Sure, but the point is you could, in theory, redesign both plane's cargo holds, and airport systems, so that the moment you get out of the plane (or within 2 min tops of docking) your bag is there in a square of the floor labeled with your name and sorted alphabetically. Of course, doing so might not be cost effective, but I bet it remains cheaper than supersonic flight.
also noteworthy that the blog post is 4 years old and OAuth2 is basically everywhere :)
Being successful does not imply not being despised. In fact, it often seems the two are positively correlated. Success is often shorthand for wealth and power, and there's a lot more to life than that.
I can't take AMP seriously as long as it forces web sites to include resources from Google.

That basically turns all AMP web pages into something that Google can track. Google can track enough of the web already, thankyouverymuch.

If your "standard" proposal starts with telling me I have to include content from a specific URL, you already lost me as a potential proponent.

I also happen to disagree with "all CSS needs to be inline".

Unless I missed something, CPP appears to not require me to include some 3rd party content, so I'm on board already :-)
This is why we can't fix the system, we always assume it must be right!
Flew it once myself, must have 1986 or 1987. Some of the same memories:

- Not just tiny, but claustrophobic: seemed like it had about 30 or 35 rows, so if you were in the back it was like looking down a long too-narrow tunnel.

- The force, and the speed, of takeoff and landing. Ridiculously fast compared to today.

Plus:

- The view out of the too-small window: it was late morning, but the sky was a dark blue and you could see a couple stars. Also, I thought I could see a slight curve of the earth. As close to space as I'll ever come, I suppose!

- Steve Martin and at least four other people I vaguely recognized were on my flight.

- They offered (I think for free) transfers to LaGuardia or the World Trade Center by helicopter. I really regret not doing that!

- And I remember being underwhelmed by the "Mach 2" speed: other than the flight being only a little over three hours, it didn't "feel" fast in the air at all.

I forget how it much cost, but I remember using frequent flier miles to upgrade to Concorde from a paid first class ticket.
> Unfortunately the new buzz words of today are the boring stacks of tomorrow

Not at all. Contrarily to many other previous innovations (e.g. virtualization) the current wave of hipster tools like Docker and the Hashicorp stuff are often looked with suspicion by engineers in large tech companies.

One of the reasons is that this stuff is heavily hyped up. Around hipster crowds adoption is more driven by "awesomeness factor" that a technical, rational discourse.
I don't disagree that this is an interesting and troubling trend to keep an eye on. The lowered cost of war absolutely has all the effects you describe, and that is, in a global sense, absolutely a scary thing, with disconcerting implications.

However, it is philosophically untenable to take the position that we should be forced to risk a life in order to take one. That is an anachronism that only feels justified out of a misplaced sense of moral fairness. What we should be doing is focussing on better procedures to prevent civilian casualties. Drones actually represent a great opportunity to employ very stringent procedures to prevent such things. Much more so than a fighter jet or troops on the ground. You can easily do things like have multiple people sign off before a missile is launched, employ machine learning to enhance images and attempt to classify and predict common sources of operator error, etc..
That's a lovely notion, but even the most cursory clear-eyed look around you should pretty conclusively demonstrate that it's not true.
In this case, I think it's fine. Chinese has a named number for 10000 (wàn/万), so they used that. Since English doesn't, they used 'thousands'. In either case, the idea is that the code would run on a large number of servers.

For instance, Hindi has special names for 100000 (lakh), 10M (crore/karod) etc. so a similar translation to Hindi would use those even if it meant introducing a factor of 10 in the literal interpretation.
Introducing C# Script Runner for .NET Core and .NET CLI
A perfectly screwed up law designed to increase arrests without any effort on the part of law enforcement to prove it was legit...
anyone else laugh at the 2003 version of powerpoint for those sweet pie graphs... are we really that worried?
I suspect there are numerous parents who would happily pay more for shorter long haul flights (especially considering that a 12 hour flight is often 20+ when you add in connecting flights and layovers).
I am used to speed up things, but last weekend I suddenly realised I can also slow down engrenages (a French show recommended in another HN thread, by the way) and suddenly I can understand so. much. French. It's like magic!
BFS has a very limited FUSE client.

There is another distributed file system that support full POSIX semantics with well tuned FUSE client, called MooseFS [1].

My ex-employer used that in production for about 8 years, the biggest cluster has more than 2PB.

Disclosure: I'm a MooseFS fan and contributor :)

[1] http://moosefs.org/
> SQL Server is free for developers. Also, IIRC SQL Express (also free) can be used for commercial apps.

My response you quoted was in response to your statement about high availability, which is not included in SQL Server Express.
Not really; the only difference is that instead of waiting at the gate / in the aisle for people to put their bags in the bin, you're sitting in your fancy seat drinking a rum and coke. You still wait for your bag, even though it's 'priority' -- both times I've come into DCA in the last few months, it's taken like 25 minutes after I got to the carousel for it to start spinning (and my bags are one of the first ones out, but eh).

You definitely fly in comfort as a business passenger, but I wouldn't say you fly much more efficiently.
I assume you disagree with the statements "it's just business" and "duty to maximize shareholder value" then.
Mutually beneficial exchanges can still be exploitative. You give me money, I don't shoot you, we're both better off. Whether or not capitalism is "fundamentally" exploitative depends a lot on definitions, but the issue of violence isn't limited to state actors, and the market can definitely coerce people.
Does the software store unit information and calculates with units (like say 1 m / 1 s = 1 m/s) or does it directly operate on the numerical value (so just 1/1 = 1)?

I think the first way should be fast enough with today's processors (but IIRC the processors on the Rovers are slower).