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This is self righteous, moralising nonsense. You are free to say whatever you want on the internet. Set up a blog or website and go nuts.

I'm not so sure you're understanding where I'm coming from. I used to find online a place where I could freely express an opinion without fear of onerous consequences. Back in the old USENET days, there were trolls and heavy-handed moderation and all manner of unpleasantness, but there was also a widespread cultural respect for free speech.

Would you say that undoing net neutrality, then Comcast dropping all packets associated with anything expressing an anti-Comcast opinion is good and savory behavior? Would complaining about that be self righteous, moralizing nonsense?

The idea that people shouldn't engage in physical violence and intimidation could by the same logic be called self righteous, moralizing nonsense. ("FFS, just go and work out, take karate, or buy a gun or something!") Well, of course not. There is tremendous value in an open society where people can depend on the rule of law, driveable roads, electricity, plumbing, etc... Being civilized is literally valued at trillions of dollars in productivity. Likewise, there was tremendous value in open forums where people were free to express themselves and generally agreed to disagree. That's not what we have today. Basically, people bully other people by numbers and social pressure, or through moderation mechanisms. Your idea of "freedom" seems to be like a medieval form of "freedom" where any robber baron can set up a castle and start issuing his own laws and coinage. A truly open society is open globally, and people are free to roam and transact in a relatively relaxed fashion. Now, the morality of today's online world seems to be leaking into the real world, with that kind of deleting "moderation" applied to people's membership in civic organizations. Sorry, but that's petty and non-enlightened. It's like you don't believe the truth will set you free, and it's only pressure, numbers, and mechanisms that will win the day.
Had two companies pay for me to use it, but prefer the open source atom / vim combo.
I've moved a few businesses off of Stripe and never had any problem. They do it with PGP keys and go directly to the new provider so I never touch any info. Worked great.
I've had some brief (thankfully) periods of anxiety. Thought I'd add my experience to the pool here for completeness.

Most of your description feels familiar but there were some interesting nuances.

There were certainly situations, especially involving other people, that would trigger rather strong anxiety attacks. Sudden tunnelvision and extremely strong urge to get out of the situation. At the time I had no clue whatsoever why I would suddenly have this reactions. Years later reflecting on it I have realised it was probably only because the people, or situations, simply worked as reminders of things that I was subconsciously scared of. I imagine PTSD sufferers experience something similar when specific sounds, or smells, can be a trigger.

But there were also other attacks that were much, much worse. These times I was completely overwhelmed. My sense of self and reality would be gone, I was convinced that that the only thing keeping reality together at all was my mind, and if I didn't hold on and fight back I would reach a point were it all would simply dissolve, or lose cohesion somehow. I could do nothing at all but lie in my bed and try to hold on. Any sensory experience at all was unbearable, sound, sight, touch, I just desperately needed everything cut of to avoid overload.

I remember how my (now) wife would try to comfort me, gently stroking my hair as I was lying there curled up on the bed and even that simple sensation was too much for me to handle. How utterly helpless she must have felt.

In any case, this lasted for a few weeks as I recall it, and basically stopped entirely once was I was ready to seek help and learned that there is such as thing as panic attack. I guess just knowing it was a thing was enough to break a negative feedback loop.

Years later reflecting on it I'm thinking that the main contributor to these episodes was simply growing pains. I was twenty something at the time, probably going through both physiological, as well as psychological changes and things were just unstable during the transition. I think the periods also correlates with jumps in belief systems.

While I've always been "open minded" and kind of accepted both atheistic as well as christian beliefs as plausible, I was busy making room for both buddhistic and some decidedly occult narratives. I guess foundational refactoring like that would cause some temporary distress.

In summary, I guess I just wanted to say few things.

For those lacking the experience of true panic attack: It can be pretty bad, way beyond a state where "do the thing you are so scared of doing" even makes sense to talk about.

For those suffering from it now: Perhaps it helps to know that it's not just you, and one day it might be just an enriching experience you went through

And for those trying to treat it: Perhaps CBT is not the right tool to approach it in all cases, if the underlying issue really is subconscious conflicts there may be other ways to help with resolving/integrating them.
Wow, Page builder (formerly Geobuilder) -- crazy times. I don't remember the Suse incident! But your mention of server side java reminds me that we also experimented with server side javascript via Netscape Enterprise Server. Compared to the C CGIs that comprised most of Geo's backend at that point it seemed a panacea. Too many bugs and not ready for prime time later we stuck w/ Apache (but moved more to handlers).
This was my thought, but due to "Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked"

They mean "global gasoline demand has peaked". They have literally said the opposite.

Is this the new way to write headlines?

It's like people saying "I could care less". The proper euphemism is "I couldn't care less" because otherwise, you actually do care.
Shopify is no longer a startup, they're a public traded company on the NYSE: https://www.google.com/finance?cid=990038606551779
> this is what I did, it may not be the right thing for everybody

That's great, I'm glad it's working for you. Conceptually, they all seem like good ideas but your expression was very prescriptive.
I suspect you have been downvoted because some people may perceive your answer as a glib trivialization of a debilitating condition ('just pop a few probiotics and everything will be ok').

However, I have upvoted you because I agree that probiotics can play a part in coping with anxiety for some people.

I have experienced anxiety attacks for the last several years (including several full on panic attacks). For several years before the onset of the anxiety episodes I have also had IBS like symptoms (which continue to this day). I have noticed a clear link between the two (anxiety accompanied by nausea and frequent trips to the toilet). I could go into the disgusting detail but I won't.

To cut a long story short, I have found that consumption of high dose probiotics containing B longum has corresponded with a decline in sympton severity & frequency [1]. I am not suggesting that this is a cure (or that it will help all anxiety sufferers). Other things that help are reductions in caffeine & alcohol intake, increased exercise (the more extreme the better) and acceptance of the physiological symptoms of anxiety - it is easy to think that heart palpatations etc caused by anxiety are a result of genuine physiolgical issues (which in turn causes more anxiety).

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Lalonde/publicat...
Stripe in the UK is 1.4% + 20p which is less than half price. So I was surprised and intrigued to read these comments. Is this an intro offer I wonder?
I'm searching for a convincing argument. This isn't it. Are you saying that the UK IPA is going to let computers magically see me on the toilet and pass those images on to the police, or that the government somehow needs to see me on the toilet and so will get a court order for it? This hyperbole obscures any point you're trying to make IMO.

The closest analogy I think that's reasonable on say your "have sex in full view of others" that's pertinent is that the government could overhear me talking to someone about sex and would record that I had talked to someone about sex. Now for an abuser that might be an issue, but for me it's not.

Take a step back. What's your best argument to convince me gov access [by warrant] to a list of domains I've visited - where I haven't used a VPN, or other obscuring method - means I'm giving up my civil liberties in a way that will have a damaging impact on me?

I can see it can for a small portion of society, a lot of [non-petty] criminals. I can see it might for political dissidents in a country lacking rule of law; UK isn't perfect in that regard but it's close to having a fully independent judiciary and a fully working rule of law.

[FWIW I wouldn't vote for such a law, but I'm yet to be convinced by the arguments I've seen, primarily because they are so outlandishly hyperbolic.]
This was an introduction to Python. I went through every example while reading this book and rarely found a point where translating to python 3 was any trouble.
The tremor was something I was aware of since I was a kid, showed up in bad handwriting and general "clumsiness" with fine motor movements. Nobody ever thought much of it other than that I was "clumsy".

It wasn't until I was 27 that I started to wonder whether there was something actually wrong that might be a root cause for it. At this point the tremor was bad enough that at times I had trouble holding a fork to eat. The intensity of the symptoms could vary a great deal from day to day. Granted, I was in grad school at this time and my stress levels were pretty high. I did notice that alcohol made it better, but treatment with alcohol is contraindicated...

Got a referral to neurology dept and after they watched me do some drawing, arrived at the conclusion of the problem quite quickly.

For more off-label info, might have a look at Wikipedia page on beta blockers, it's pretty thorough. Turns out quite a few musicians use it for stage fright & dexterity.
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>About half of college graduates take jobs that don't really require a college education. Trade schools do even worse.

Do you have a source for this statistic? Because there are some important questions about such a study that might clarify the true meaning of such a number.

1.) How many of the graduates employed in "jobs that don't really require a college education" move on to a job that does, how long does it take them to do so? What does that look like vs. a person without a college education?

2.) What is defined as a "job that doesn't really require a college education"? Does it mean the employer did not require a college education to apply? Does it mean that the surveyor has decided the job(s) in question don't require a college education, even though the employers filter out applicants who lack one?

3.) What is the definition of a college education? As of 2014, only ~32% of people over the age of 25 have a bachelor's degree [0]. Are you comparing anyone who ever went to college with everyone who didn't?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_... (Source is US gov't)
I paid for it. I'm curious how it breaks down between Mac users, who are used to paying for apps, and Linux users, who aren't.
Don't forget, "losing the standard library" doesn't mean losing everything; it means losing libstd, but not libcore. A lot of those headers you're showing off would be in libcore, not in libstd, in Rust terms.

> C and its current compilers are light years ahead of rustc in terms of optimisation,

Given that we use LLVM, which is the part of clang that does most of the optimizing, we should be equivalent here, roughly.

(That said, I agree that there's more we can do to make this easy.)
whoami.akamai.net and resolver.dnscrypt.org give me the same result. Can you expand on the "actually works" part of your comment?
Yep, if you ever want a good nights sleep, go somewhere you haven't been before and spend a few hours walking around. Gets the mind working overtime, in a good subconscious way.
I don't see the point of Distributism. Capitalism in reality doesn't work like that and no methods are laid out on how to achieve that kind of different capitalism. I personally don't even think it's possible.

It's just another form of utopian idealism.
really, is $70 for a productivity tool you use for most of the day, every day, "pretty steep"? many developers make that in a hour. i paid for it.
BTW, NIMH has turned away from the DSM due to "lack of validity ".

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2...

If it's that inexact, I wouldn't call it science.

There's presently no standard objective laboratory test for Anxiety, Depression, or similar.
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. Amazon is a big store but Shopify is "basically" the platform for every other ecommerce store, so is every other online store combined. It makes sense that it'd be close to the volume of Amazon.
I didn't know they asked for money
I have personally and got licenses for whole dev teams bought by employers in the past too. Aware of alternatives, not as appealing as ST
>So "our" first step is trying to convince people that the right to privacy is important, even if they don't personally care about their own privacy. //

What do you think is the most convincing argument to this end that I can read in a tea break?
If you're not familiar with Lawrence Kohlberg and his stages of moral development you should take a look. They may help you frame how/why it's important to get beyond "please others/pass exams" as motivation in learning.
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People in Western nations might want to remember that Iran was an ally of the U.S. and I think other Western states before the 1979 revolution.

I'm not sure why the Western countries would prefer Saudi Arabia over Iran at this point, except that Saudi Arabia is more willing to work with the West. Both promote extremist ideologies.

Iran is supporting Assad's mass killing of people in Syria, but I think that in the long run they are no different than the Saudis (and many in the West) in this respect; the Saudis would do the same if one of their major allies was at risk.
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> Additionally, this CEO (now of Alphabet)

You seem to be mixing up Eric Schmidt and Larry Page. People have seen them in the same room together.
I've had employers pay for it.
I paid for it, and I'm happy to have done so even though I mostly use other editors. It fits an important niche, it loads very quickly and handles very large files without trouble.

However, I'm in rooms with dozens of developers (as an instructor) regularly, and I always ask how many of them use sublime text. Many. Then I asked how many of them paid for sublime text. Very very rarely one hand is raised.
We've chatted - just an update that I'm implementing diarization this weekend :)
Sublime license follows you around, so new employers don't need to purchase new ones.
I have, twice, for what the anecdata is worth. Still switched to vim :O
I don't use the visual studio IDE for my work (just msbuild from the command line) but if I did it would be more than 5 solutions that I use daily. In rare cases I need to enlist in even more projects. I'm not the original OP but I can certainly emphasize with his problem.

That said my work gets done on a Xeon workstation not a laptop, so in that respect we are different.
Farmer who has an Ox / horse / mule and feeds the critter with grass / grain grown on his land does not need to buy a tractor.

In fact you can plant seeds with a stick and skip the critters.
It's literally just a website and no one is forcing anyone to use it. It's only as interesting as a person's friends are. The more censorship they implement the less interesting things will be said due to overt or self censorship. If it becomes less interesting people will spend less time there.
Of course, but not 100x less. Amazon's number is definitely substantially higher, don't get me wrong, but 300x is just not right.
Paid for it gladly! Would pay again for Sublime 3. $70 is not much at all compared to what I've been paid for the work I do using it!
He's Tobi Lutke, founder/CEO/Coder.
Come over here and say that.
Yes; I'm not too familiar with Windows but I know there's no syscall-by-syscall lockdown. However, they were able to disable all Win32k syscalls starting in Windows 8, which is a significant attack surface reduction compared to the past:

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox...:
The latter half of that is true, isn't it? And yet.

This is why you can't treat that type of statement as purely factual: so long as you're sharing a world with it, it's of a quine-like type which is always performative to speak, in a way, because how much people believe it on various levels (and thereby decide (or unconsciously "decide") things like "why should I bother to connect to these people when they won't even sign up for a free Facebook account to make it easier for me, since everyone knows that's just what you do") influences how true it is in a much stronger way than is the case for most objective statements.

In light of that, I wonder whether my having said the above is good or bad? Hard to tell.
It's not just Facebook. All current hyper-centralized platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) slowly screw up the Web in many subtle ways. The biggest one is that they are designed around consumption and production of content at the detriment of everything else. (Everything else being analysis, discussions, asking questions, learning and even making new social contacts.)
You can now get a plug-in Prius. So, depending on how their mpg is calculated, cleaner electricity may have an effect. The batteries are still small, but the same argument that applies to short range EVs applies, most journeys are relatively short commutes, not long distance, and so plug in hybrids can spend a lot of time on electricity alone if they are topped up every time the reach home (and/or work).
I got my company to buy it for the whole team. :)
It's what I consider the difference between a software developer and a computer-systems engineer to be.

I'm likely the outlier, because my early mentors (college + first couple years of career) were mostly aerospace engineers or chemical processing equipment engineers, where safety is critical. Code can kill in both those fields. (They themselves had adapted a lot of systems and failure mode analysis from mech engineers in the same field.)

I don't think that the mitigations I pointed out require much technical work though -- most of them can be as simple as a single setting, extra program installed during build (and maybe a couple config settings), or a single cloud monitoring rule (eg, detecting launches). They do, however, require adhering to policy, discipline on the part of staff, and analyzing the full scope of your tech (and how it interacts). I guess my point is that these things often aren't done because of ignorance or haste rather than engineering cost (or legitimate need to be done faster).

It's just we have poor standards for what "engineering" is in tech, so we don't cross our 't's and dot our 'i's the way a mechanical engineer is expected to.

But that's no reason not to try and raise the bar.
Exactly. Why don't we just all calm the hell down and wait until something actually happens before we start panicing. To be honest, I think the propaganda machine is just pissed that the establishment candidate lost and are doing their best to trach the public why this is bad.
Sun hardware was everywhere in the late 90's / early 2000's. I remember working at a couple of startups that had E3500s (mini-fridge size machines?) and a few E450s. We had Ultra 5's and 10's on the developer desktops.

I have an Ultra 10 rotting away in my basement. It cost a pretty penny at the time, but I haven't booted it up in almost 15 years.
This is one of the papers referenced by Alan Kay in the talk posted to HN one day ago:

Joe Armstrong Interviews Alan Kay [video] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY)

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033299
Iceland is suing a supermarket that's using its name
Samsung R&D has not always been strictly inhouse if judgement against are anything to go by.
> Just over 200kb iirc - yupferris

So just to be clear, is your position that the demo could have been better if it were written in C? That flies in the face of all the evidence (that, you know, that it won against all its competitors, and that 200kB isn't even large by C standards), but if so, you should be up front about that.

> C and its current compilers are light years ahead of rustc in terms of optimisation,

"Light years"? Come on! The backends are the same! This is totally contrary to my experience.

Bringing up extra architectures supported by GCC/Clang is irrelevant to the discussion. Especially since rustc uses the same backend as Clang.

And header files are not libraries! You get essentially all of these with libcore. Citing things like stdbool is especially irrelevant, because bool is builtin in Rust. Assert is a macro in Rust that expands to nothing in the binary. Most of math.h is covered by LLVM intrinsics, which you get with libcore.

Using a nightly Rust is as easy as using GCC. Really. Just use rustup and switch to the nightly channel. In fact, compared to, say, setting up a GCC cross toolchain for embedded development, it's a breeze. Xargo makes cross platform package management incredibly easy; in fact there's nothing like it in C land.

Using a different malloc is as easy as "extern crate alloc_system". I do it when testing Servo when I want to make use of the platform native malloc instrumentation. It's far easier than in C, in fact.

Not using the standard library is hardly "insane". A lot of projects do it. It's a first-class thing.

All of these problems are total non-issues. There are zero good reasons why, in 2016, a command line Web fetching tool should be written in C.
I payed it with a smile. The tech is awesome and the price point for a lifetime license is beyond reasonable. I hope they get the capital to keep working on it.

Doesn't mean I don't still use vim, buts that's a different use case to me.
I am interested in Roslyn's support for Javascript. Is the JS support open source? If so which repo should I be looking at?
Here's the thing. I read the whole pizzagate vs reddit thing and decided it was interesting in the "let me please think about it in a few years time" kind of way. There's rights and wrong and subtleties but fuck it. I've got more important things to worry about.

If I was a Go dev now I'd be furious because this bizarre incestuous little drama suddenly is affecting my actual working day (assuming the golang subreddit is a viable community).

I recently became active on the Django subreddit because it seemed more approachable than the main IRC or Google Group. If that suddenly got vanished because of subreddit drama I'd be fairly annoyed.

Can we just have a separate room for the children to play in?
The dismantling of the existing infrastructure might be a bigger challenge than you are letting on. I think that Tesla has the advantage of being a centralized, adaptive force for change, while gasoline and automotive suppliers are disparate and do not act as one cohesive force. There is a huge money advantage for the existing players, but perhaps their immobility will nullify that cash advantage.
You seem to have a strong user experience when it comes to payment. I am currently working in this space and it would be great to share some insights. Happy to discuss if you want, email is my in profile.