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Stonic developers, I'll donate $100 to your project, or to your charity of choice, if you can launch Stonic with one improvement to make it easy for newcomers.

Change this command: `ansible-playbook -i localhost, -c local hello.yml`

To this command: `stonic hello.yml` (or equivalent)

In other words, default to using local commands, and default to being able to run a playbook or task without needing to know up-front which is which. I want to be able to run a local task easily without needing any playbook, host file, etc.

Here's the specific area I'm working on with newcomers: https://github.com/sixarm/sixarm_ansible_examples

Thank you for your work and your consideration!
It's not just that they want to make a non-free work, it's that they want my help, offering nothing in return.
I am old enough to have actually been involved with FidoNet when all of this was going down, and at the time Katz pretty much had the community believing that he was a little guy being unfairly squashed by the huge corporate behemoth of System Enhancement Associates for making a better version of their software. Pretty much every single bit of that turned out, indeed, to be a lie. Katz did steal SEA's work and claimed otherwise, and SEA was smaller than PKWare.

I get where you're coming from, but Katz basically stole Henderson's work, lied about it, and destroyed Henderson's business and, for many years, his reputation. I don't think I can really blame him for not having been terribly diplomatic about the man's death.
You underestimate the JS populace
heh, that's an old paper: http://www.flownet.com/ron/eg-rg-faq.html
> How’s that for depending on global mutable state?

This is quite possibly the greatest pun I've ever encountered
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Actually, runner's high is caused by endocannabinoids, not endorphins. This NYT article[1] has a decent writeup and a link to the actual journal article. So, not sure how well your startup idea will work, THC infusions maybe?

[1] http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2015/10/07/homing-in-on...
Sounds like you're saying they shouldn't be forgiven. And the right to be forgotten applies to Google search, not criminal records.
The problem is they knew they were smarter than everyone else.

When you've pulled a number that tells you you're smarter than everyone else, it becomes really easy to use your IQ as a binky and disengage from reality. This will stunt your development in so many ways. It's the genetic lottery equivalent of squandering it all on coke and whores.

If we wanted to fix this, I think the first lesson in gifted classes should be: "You're a Special Snowflake, but life is still going to suck." Basically, teach them that the rest of the world only cares about you in terms of what you bring to the table, that no man is an island, and that bringing things to the table is usually a dirty job no matter how smart you are.
alias stonic='ansible-playbook -i localhost, -c local'

Should I email you to discuss collecting the $100?
There are games that are simpler and better for kids than trying to get them to slog through Monopoly or whatever.

My First Carcassonne and Sushi Go! are two we like and they're playable for adults too. (A lot of kids games are terrible, ones based on licenses like Disney or Paw Patrol for example.)

Also check out Peaceable Kingdom they make cooperative games for kids (Hoot Owl Hoot, Race to The Treasure, etc.) I haven't played them personally but based on reviews some families really enjoy them a lot.
How often do you read discussion of politically or culturally sensitive issues in defaults?
This is a perfectly straightforward implementation of a somewhat sophisticated concept.

But one wouldn't encounter this code in an application; this is library code. It's so useful and common that it's part of the ES5 standard (yes, ES5, not ES6). It might be the bind method from Prototype.js, but it's also the .bind method that all ES5 JS functions have.

Anyway, the question is not whether or not you should/coudl write this. The question is whether or not it's a good goal to be able to read this.

IMO, anyone who cannot read this function, albeit slowly and carefully, isn't an intermediate JS programmer, much less an advanced one.

Which of the concepts in this chunk of code is foreign to you? Prototypes? this? Using Array.p.s.c() to turn array-like args into an actual Array? shift? returning a function that, when called, invokes another function on the concatenation of one set of args with another set of args? This is all easy-mode stuff, unless you're brand new to JS, or you haven't bothered learning it.
I would make 3 changes.

Separate the declaration to 3 lines because the 2nd and the 3rd declarations depend on each other. Keeping them on the same line makes the reader think this is a simply declarative code but in fact it's the opposite.

Avoid using the slice shift combo but use slice with a start of 1 plus direct index access to the arguments[0] to get the first argument. this way i'm not mutating the args array and that makes the code easier to follow.

Rename the object variable to '_this'. Giving the reader a hint as to what it is used for.

And of course if this is actually to be used in production I assume it will be wrapped inside a check to see if the bind function is already defined.
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Sorry, how does it lend credence to the genetic theory? Ones genes don't change do they? But the need for escapism can.
The whole premise of this article is based on 'There are 921 issues and 365 PRs there. ' which tries to infer this some how means that ansible is failing its community.

These numbers are pretty typical of a large open source project with a huge user base / adoption. Kubernetes currently has 4,763 issues with 601 outstanding PRs and Rails has 550 issues with 667 PRs...so i guess someone better point out they are failing too.
Thanks, I'll consider clojure in the future. How would you say its standard lib and third party libraries hold up against python?

With my point about the need to plan ahead I specifically meant python by the way, and I think all runtimes that can't make use of concurrent multithreading have this in common. As soon as you can do multithreading with shared memory you become a lot more flexible in parallelising later on, and you can adjust your code style accordingly to accommodate this without much overhead. That's why the GIL IMO is so unfortunate, it's a real shame that Python 3 wasn't able to get rid of this when it started with a clean slate.
Don't really see why it needs to be called out as such. It's pretty explicitly radical leftist. Is Hacker News exclusively capitalist now? TBF I tend to avoid this site, so maybe it is.

If you think materialist analysis isn't useful, well, maybe it's not useful to you. But geez, the author didn't even get into, e.g., Marxist analysis or anything so controversial :P
Heroin deaths surpass gun homicides for the first time, CDC data shows
I agree sunlight in general is important and I try to seek it out a lot. Being in an office with a good amount of sunlight is important for me. It's just when I heard that what is really needed for "good" vitamin D production made me realize that it would be too much of a relative sacrifice. It made me accept just using vitamin D pills.

Being outside a lot in your coat (because its cold) during the day will give you a lot of the benefits of sunshine, but it won't give you good vitamin D production despite all of the other benefits unfortunately.
Look at the numbers. The project is worth a minimum of 3x the annual gross (NOT EBITDA or net). If it is increasing in sales volume, margins are 40% or better, and it's truly scalable, it's worth closer to 10x to 20x. If the buyer sees it as a strategic purchase, not a tactical purchase, it can be worth as much as 100x.

Consider your unvarnished answers (no rose colored glasses, please) before responding with an acceptance, a counter offer, or a gracious decline.
Rule of Thumb: Don't pass around those kind of projects, planning, ideas, etc on Google+, GMail, Facebook, Bing, hotmail, Yahoo, #Slack etc... unless you intentionally want/expect someone else to run with the idea, because if it is any good they will run with it.

Use E2E encryption to coordinate, communicate, etc but don't expect those services, software, and the hardware they run on to protect you or your company and ideas in any real meaningful manner.
Back in the 90's, I considered going all smarthome. In the end, I didn't and am glad.

But I did run RG6/cat5 to every room in a star configuration. I had little use for it at the time, but have grown into it, and that turned out to be a worthwhile investment.

Wifi has gotten much better over the years, but wired connections still work better. For example, my Grace Digital media player is incredibly flaky with wifi, but works like a champ when wired (read the Amazon reviews on it). I bought it knowing it needed to be wired, and it was no problem for my setup.

The lights are all conventional, and just work. The dimmer switches regularly fail, but they're cheap to replace with units from any hardware store.
The two paragraphs after the one quoting the numbers explain why those numbers are bad, even if they look not out of the ordinary. (and they mirror the impression I got when I looked into fixing stuff in Ansible)

We'll see if these guys can do better, or if someone will write about their "historical mess" in a few years...
I ran into this at a consulting job recently...

MySQL claims to support utf8, but in reality, it doesn't. You need utf8mb4 to support certain common Kanji characters.

This company had spent untold thousands (possibly millions) trying to convert gigantic databases (and I don't use the term gigantic loosely...) from utf8 to utf8mb4 because some of their Japan-based clients were using Kanji.

Sounds easy right? Wrong. utf8mb4 comes with some technical "gotchas" (google it) that had delayed the attempt to change to it by almost a year.

Anyway, I found this pretty amusing, and got a huge paycheck to explain to them just how screwed they were.
You can restore drives from a dead synology like other people said, and I also have a amazon cloud drive backup. The NAS is for fast onsite backup. I use arq to backup to both destinations.

You always want 3 copies: one on your computer, one onsite and one offsite. If there is a fire or everything electronic is stolen from your house, you still have the offsite.
Isn't AdSense pay per click and not pay per impression? So it is ok to load impressions but not ok to click them?
Tests Are About Design
It would be a great irony if someone was already using this to infect machines that don't have a firewall. If the user has a firewall, the vulnerable port is probably hidden from the world anyway.
Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator’s magnetic field
That's also true.

Sometimes I suspect the main programmers for Apache2/BSD/MIT licensed works actually hope their works get used by the big guys so they can get employment there.

That's why I've never heard any BSD guys getting upset at MS for ripping off their work, while getting upset at Linux for doing the same.
Yes as soon as you run that on all Ansible users' machines. :)
It also excludes some major cities on the Mississippi, which are not isolated despite being neither coastal nor near a border.
Hmm... I have a few women friends who would use (have used) exactly that first phrase about themselves. And to be fair, they've mostly been right. Plus she wrote extraverted with an A, so I'm willing to take her word for it.
In case you really want to try something --

If you want to learn QM, you should pick up Griffith's "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" and work through it. It's a readable undergraduate level treatment that hits all the important stuff.
A lot of people on the internet have constructed identities and ideologies around temperaments and modes of interactions. Maliciousness and meanness and tolerance for it is virtuous to many 4chan types because it demonstrates strength and resilience, traits they value highly. I heard an interview with a /r/The_Donald moderator who said that the specific idea that words matter less than actions was a key attraction of Trump's message and an unifying idea for his movement. The moderator also said there was no need to or value in attempting to unify the country after the election and that it didn't matter.
Why Time’s Trump Cover Is a Subversive Work of Political Art
1998 (though it is remarkable how difficult it is to find that date), so very nearly 20 years. But it's a survey; the work described in that paper goes back as far as 1990 or so. (I'm the author, in case you didn't know.)
One of the features of Imzy is that you can "tip" other users. If someone creates something that you like, posts a good link, or makes a great comment, you can tip them.

You can read more about that here: https://medium.com/imzyhq/why-imzy-doesnt-have-ads-and-what-...
This will be relevant in 2025 as well.
Click on development view, and then you have a tree; for example: Location, Code, Error Handling, Error Conditions, Return Values, Status Codes, Unchecked Return Value (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/252.html).
How to Troubleshoot Slow Internet Connection Problem
Results on a 15" Touchbar MBP [0]

Curious about why there's a big jump from 4MB to 8MB — I know my L3 cache size is 8M [1]

[0] http://imgur.com/a/8QNKO
[1] http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
Why would women use this app?
But that's the part of Redditch that makes it awesome... It's unfiltered.
As a frequent channer I find Reddit a hugbox of insulating opinions and gaming the karma system (To the point where commentary can be as trite as shitty dad-tier jokes). The benefit of 4chan and company is that once the identity is stripped away (and a filter for callous remarks created) a user is actually free to speak their mind.

Sometimes this develops into meaningful posts, othertimes it ends up as a mess of shitposting. But the freedom is there and it is wonderful.
I agree that freedom and practicality are related, but disagree that it undermines the argument. If they were completely unrelated, source code availability would not be an issue; however the legal and practical freedom to do something is often not zero effort or little work.

I'm wondering what you have in mind by user-modifiable systems. For example, KDE and Firefox are free and allow for quite a bit of user-customization without any programming knowledge. At some level you would naturally have to write code.

I recently came across this interview and thought it was well done. Stallman responded to a similar question: https://youtu.be/NB8mCcLRxlg?t=59m55s
Kenya’s M-Pesa has helped the poor, and the economy, while turning a profit
The site attracted Lena "kill all white men" Dunham. Ooohkay...
If said friend wasn't genetically predisposed to alcoholism, it would explain why they would be able to quit drinking to excess with relative ease.
I agree. This is exactly the move I've made when I was CTO of a company needing a move to the JVM from .NET. Given the options of Java, Scala - I moved to picking Kotlin. In many ways, Kotlin for me is Scala without the different ways to hang yourself. I wish it was given more credit that it gets right now outside of the Android circles.
I fail to recognise how confounding individual virtue and purity with wider social liberation is a mistake? I met RMS at Riga Politech when his group campaigned against EU Software Patents, and his logic in the presentation was flawless. I signed petition because of that. When we talked very shortly after the presentation, I concluded for myself that Stallman is indeed very careful with words and the meaning.
Actually IMO majority of hacker news commenters are left leaning, and I try avoiding political news here because their rethoric is tiring (to me).
> I think speech is a channel of emotional communication, and tone carries a lot of information.

"Aziz, light!"
On Android, mobile Chrome 54 on a weak LTE connection - your site flipped through six high-quality but background-and-functionally-useless stock photos while the rest of the site was trying to load. So all I'm seeing is a gigantic logo and a gigantic button to download from Apple's App Store, which isn't relevant to me as an Android user. The page is still loading, so I don't see any description of your product or why I should use it. This isn't a good way to drive engagement with first-time visitors.

Closed the tab before it finished loading.
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Last I've heard, Twitter was "stuck" with their own version of Scala (was it off 2.10?). Typesafe becoming Lightbend (i.e. not Scala focused anymore) for doing business, Odersky moving all of his focus to Dotty, and core Scala contributors leaving. That's my intuition of asking.
It's cheaper for them to buy "startups" while they're smaller and in a fledgling state. Once in a while you hear of the startup founders making off with millions, but that's like a 3% lottery.

In reality, doing the math, startups are major bargains since the teams are working for near zero and their work and health, etc... may not even come into play when a VC or another company purchases. Had the companies or VCs used their own professional teams, they would have had to have paid more to account for working conditions, health-care, salaries, equipment, insurances, etc...

edit: In a tldr; sense, the VCs and major companies can reap the benefits of the "startup" while having to pay nothing to little in the initial cost. This is why ZUckerberg and the rest of the SV hustlers tout "youth" over "experience" because the youth are far more likely to fall into their traps and scheming.
Did slaves in the 17th century have the right to free themselves from slavery? No. That right was limited by law. They had the ability to do so, in some cases, but certainly not the right (as is legally recognized).
Yes, this is basically a distributed version of the issues discussed in psychology regarding researcher degrees of freedom with a single data set. If you throw enough models at the data, one of them is bound to stick, whether it is predictive or not.
I remember taking a programming course many years ago at a community college. I finished an assignment, which wasn't too hard, and decided to go on to an advanced, unassigned topic. The instructor came into the lab, and so I asked her to clarify something. She was visibly irritated with me and told me to stick to the assignment, then stormed out. I felt like a horrible person and kept asking myself "what is wrong with you?". Months or years later I realized I need to stop feeling guilty. I had not harmed anyone, and I think she did know the answer to the question I had asked.
You didn't miss anything; That is all the site is. Description from the app store:

"GameDate brings like-minded individuals together by creating a first date experience like no other. Our patented technology creates a location based dating application that allows users to search events within a certain mile radius of their location, invite potential dates, interact with the dates to narrow their choice down to one person and through our partnership with ticket exchange network "SeatGeek" purchase tickets to the event. GameDate provides the perfect platform to make sure that everyone's next event is shared with someone special."
Fortify Source: A Deeper Dive into Function Hardening on Linux and OS X
Yes, this is because OSS authors do not have union, which could have lawyers, which could do the job.
Microsoft Surface Pro 5 release date pushed back in May 2017
I don't think anyone wants to "stop asking" but mathematical models of such complex systems are extremely difficult. We haven't even been able to come up with a decent mathematical model of the brain (and no, neural networks is not it), and the brain is likely a much simpler system than human society.

But even if we had a good explanatory mathematical model, it could not be used to predict anything because of a technical reason, although one that seems to be -- as far as we know -- limited by theoretical constraints: our mathematical techniques simply do not allow us to predict the behaviors of systems with so many variables and so many interactions. Even numerical simulations (the kind used in weather forecasting) would diverge very quickly. In fact, measurement alone would likely take more time than the validity duration of the prediction.

The problem is not unique to the social sciences. Even if biologists could understand the evolutionary mechanism in its entirety, it seems like prediction is beyond our means. All we can do is work back from results to causes, and figure out which evolutionary pressures were more powerful. Computer science is limited by similar constraints: we can explain how a bug came to be, but working forward in time and preventing all bugs requires a computational effort that is probably out of our reach. So the social sciences -- except for very special cases in psychology, where the number of variables is kept artificially low -- is content, like biology and computer science, to provide historical explanations only.
> I was challenging your characterisation of the RTBF as "an individual's ability to censor true information simply because that information happens to be about them".

I stand by that characterization.

> The original CJEU ruling was pretty clear that, in the court's opinion, there were some circumstances under which restricting the promotion of personal information by search engines, even if that information was true, could be justified.

Yes, I get that. And I recognize that this is a defensible position. I even sympathize with the motivation behind it. But I disagree with it because 1) it's too easily abused and 2) it doesn't work.

> seek help for mental health problems if and when they need to, without fear of suffering criticism or abuse for doing so.

Completely agree, but the answer to that is to not let that information get out in the first place. Once that particular cat is out of the bag getting rid of the Google listing won't help much, especially if you're a public figure.

Actually, the real answer here is to remove the societal stigma associated with seeking help for mental health issues in the first place. And one way to promote that process is to reveal that respected figures have sought help for mental health problems, just like the cause of gay rights was advanced by revealing that well known and respected people were gay. I'm not suggesting forced outing, just that the ideal situation is for all of this to come out of the closet.

> the chocolate bar you stole from a store aged 18

What about the person you raped when you were 32?
You can call that 'fundamental advantages' as well. Its a question of position.
>I recently read or heard somewhere, that it is psychologically proven, that if you tell someone what to do, they won't like it (or they'd do the opposite).

Have you found stop signs working that way? There was a crash at a stop sign near my house tonight. Perhaps the people were just psychologically driven to ignore the stop sign because of science.

I don't really understand what you're talking about with "unconditional choice." Yes, you have a choice to run a stop sign. That choice has the consequence of potentially killing you or other people. Yes, you will get your drivers license taken away if you are constantly driving around yelling "screw the man!" and running every stopsign you see because of some strange notion of "unconditional choice" to run stopsigns.

No you can't start a racist hate mob on our platform. That should go without saying, but for some reason that is considered "novel" to some folks on the internet.

Regarding the tipping system, we're not forcing anyone to use it. Only a small amount of our users use it, and that is totally fine.
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