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You don't think they often give out speaker roles as kickbacks? Speaking fees are often just bribes. Malcolm Gladwell isn't a doctor, but here's how it works in some cases (pushing amphetamines and tobacco): http://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/
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I've got a pair of OG Nanostations going on 250 days uptime here, not the fastest, but in a rural area with no budget they still work decently.
I usually hang out on Espernet in channels that are dedicated to software topics or discussions that I want to be part of.

Their #Coders channel is a nice place to ask for advice when programming too.
I honestly think that it would only take one or two high class universities to boycott the large publishing corps to bring the whole house of cards down. If MIT and Stanford (for instance) made it a policy to publicly recommend and prefer arxiv etc then it would set a trend that would be emulated by the rest of the universities.

It takes some high profile researchers in each field to start the ball rolling. They are the people whose work others will track down wherever it's published.
This is sad. Can't help but think about a speech in the recent Westworld finale:

> Since I was a child, I've always loved a good story.

> I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves,

> to fix what was broken in us and to help us become the

> people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.

> I always thought I could play some small part in that

> grand tradition.

It's funny how people from the same background, class and culture are capable of both creating a beautiful, if slightly pessimistic, story and a ruthless exploitation machine. In both cases they do it for money, both are profitable, and yet the effect is very different.
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Sadly those Apple AP's are now discontinued.
Great interface, well done!

Ubuntu 16.04: it works in Opera, doesn't work in FF (I'm probably blocking something vital with one of the various privacy add ons).

Android 6 tablet: it doesn't work in either the stock browser (updated yesterday) and Firefox.
With cat being the notable exception :-)
:)

The Truth About the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell (Random House, 2004)

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200410073511522
My parents bought their first house for £2,000. My mother didn't work, it was almost unheard of back then, but we lived in a decent area, owned a car and enjoyed holidays.

My dad had a regular job, nothing special, if he wanted more money he could work more hours or weekends. My friends parents were in similar circumstances, life seemed pretty good even though iPhones and facebook didn't exist yet.

So yeah, I think I'm worse off.
Yeah, the yearly licensing is brutal, but it does encourage you to forklift it after a few years & upgrade.
Moving from MongoDB to Couchbase server
The text-oriented nature of Unix may be a mistake, but the Rule of Silence is not concerned with it. It is about not overwhelming the user with information they are not interested in. GUIs can follow or violate the Rule of Silence just as well.
I switch from wordpress to Pelican. I did not have a particular issue with wordpress apart from the mentioned security hassles but I also found it to be a bit bloated for what I wanted. Now I have a much cleaner implementation in Pelican and I am liking it... alot! check it out @ https://techtum.eu
GPL code is copyrighted. GPL is not my favorite OS license, but all FOSS licenses are also copyrighted by at least 1 person or organization. The only exception would be something in the public domain (which is technically not a license).

You can enforce copyright on GPL code just as well as with proprietary code. You just need to take the steps to do so.
I'm with you when it comes to structured data, but plz no more data bases. these config files do not need to be centralized. I am thinking more in the direction of a parser that could check the validity of a configuration...
> I just think that in many cases, support of social groups, exercise etc. are more effective treatments than going to a therapist/psychiatrist or taking medication.

I'd be interested to know why you think so.

If I remember correctly, exercise is not proven to be "about as effective or more as an antidepressant", but has been proven to provide some positive effect (i.e. relieve negative symptoms) in those suffering from mild to moderate depression (relative to controls). This might have changed since last I checked though - please correct me if I'm wrong!

Mindfulness has been shown to be helpful in some circumstances, but then in a strictly defined sense - not just any old meditation.

We definitely have to wait for many studies to draw any conclusions, that much is clear.
Common wisdom might as well be common ignorance if we aren't rigorous.

Mind you, I'm not trying to justify past or current practices or societal ills;
I'm just saying that we can't throw epistemology to the wind because of our experiences, wants or beliefs.
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Interesting, but not really all that useful for people who don't have loads of money. The rest of us have to make do with consumer grade crap, or do the extra work of finding good hardware and installing useful firmware into it. I'm running an Asus RT-N66U with Advanced Tomato and it works beautifully. Of course, I don't live in a mansion.
> Rich people could reduce their "welfare group" contribution to 0.1% of their taxes, and bump up say infrastructure to 99.9%

If it happened, we would quickly see "infrastructure" legally redefined in the loosest possible way (e.g. hospitals would become infrastructure, homeless shelters would become infrastructure, tax-processing offices would become "infrastructure'... and these things need people to work so their salaries would also be classed as "infrastructure", etc etc).

You can't effectively implement technical solutions to political problems. Elites will do what elites want to do, unless they are politically pressured every day not to do it. Technicalities won't stop them.
Because this is not what our system of government is meant to express.

We are not a democracy: we are a democratic republic. Many people forget this. The intended way for us to make our voices heard is to democratically select somebody to represent our wants and needs accurately.

However, with the current state of lobbying, career politicians, and how much the world has changed since this system was put into place, whether this is still a valid idea is up in the air...
Interesting, as hardware-wise that is the closest to a non-apple air that I can find.

Does anyone have any links to someone running Linux on a razor blade stealth as their daily driver?
Perhaps that's on purpose. If they partnered with an automaker known for great engineering, they might butt heads with their counterparts.
Thanks DigitalSea!

I did a search and gave a try to Pocket. It's a nice app but not quite what I was looking for.
I wanted something blazing fast and extremely simple to use.

For example, to retrieve a page in Pocket, you have to open the app (at least 1 click, probably 2 for most people), click the search icon, type your request. This was way too much for me. With Oh, hi Mark!, you press alt+O and type your request. You can even navigate to one of the result without removing your hands from the keyboard with navigation and enter keys. I think it's actually the fastest way to get to the result.

Another thing about Pocket, it only searches in the title apparently. Oh, hi Mark! indexes quite smartly what he can find on the page, giving different weights to the different strings extracted. This gives the search function way better results I believe.

All in all, Oh, hi Mark! is far from being as mature as Pocket, but I have a feeling it has its place in the hearts of the users preferring a simplicity/ease-of-use solution compared to a more feature-complete one :-)
Doing agile wrong doesn't invalidate agile, it invalidates your process.

All estimation is guessing.

If your team's velocity is "super-nonsense" and bogus then the team isn't estimating well. Reasonably-accurate velocity allows reasonably-accurate prediction of deliverables.

If nobody is participating in the meeting then it is useless. I haven't found retrospectives to be overly-helpful at my current job because they don't drive change. If they don't drive change, then there's no point.

If your estimates are essentially random, then they are useless, because nothing meaningful (in the business sense) can be derived from random data.

If your sprints never finish then you're not doing sprints.
And I bought my fitbit when it came out and it still looks brand new. I wear it everyday. What sucks is not the hardware, it's their software.

Thousands of people have had syncing issues for a long time, seems like they've fixed most of it now but I guess there is reason to believe it could happen again.
Have the APs limit the RSSI and let the client roam.
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then it should be named `sendKill` imho...
In 1993, someone made exactly your argument a in Redmond board room, and so many people agreed that what you describe could be adequately called "The Windows Philosophy".

All settings in a database and not text files (the registry); a command-line that pipes data, not text (PowerShell). Tailored UIs to change settings, not magic invocations and obsure text file syntaxes.

I guess most developers on HN are also aware of the downsides of this philosophy. If not, try configuring IIS.
There was an article in the Observer about this the other day.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/dec/11/pills-that-ki...
It's handled by the ecosystem the manufacturers created though, and the manufacturers play a very prominent role in maintaining that ecosystem.
Contrary to popular belief, GPL is not free software. You can't add restrictions to something and call it "free as in freedom". A truly "free as in freedom" license is one you can't violate (BSD).
I've seen comments here on HN before from game developers who claimed that had player who they characterized (unclear how correctly) as "Saudi Oil rich-kids" who'd spend tens of thousands on in-game costumes to out-peacock their friends.

This is a whole other level though.
You are right. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
There's nice manual about data model correspondence between MongoDB and Couchbase
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Citation needed for what? its common knowledge that the major clouds VMs with lower performance and higher cost in exchange for flexibility.
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Maybe it's the radio station itself doing that? I remember reading about software for online streaming that targeted ads based on the client's IP.
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Well, philosophically, does anybody builds nowdays using the win XP source code to make profit?
How about the Linux kernel?

I'd argue one of these has an approach that actively benefits humanity and the other one is a footnote in history.
Thank you; that is most interesting. I haven't had much hands-on experience with ND equipment, only significant exposure I've had to Norwegian-ish computer efforts were working on a Tiki 100 for a couple of years - a mid-eighties Z80 box running a CP/M clone OS, cleverly enough called KP/M (Later renamed to Tiko.) Quite a different beast from the ND minis!

It would make sense that ND had deliveries to DESY - when I was in university (2000-ish), the CS department still had lots of posters on display showing ND equipment installed at CERN; apparently, someone knew someone who knew someone who needed a real-time setup for particle accelerators - and a couple of racks of NORDs running SINTRAN fit the bill nicely.

By the way, the most exotic ND product I've heard of was a 28-bit mini made to circumvent COCOM rules - I can only guess that it specifically forbade export of 32-bit machines to COCOM countries. So, what does an enterprising supplier do? Neuter a 32-bit machine into 28-bit and sell them like hotcakes... :) (I'll have to look that one up one day; I only heard of it over beers (multiple!) at a faculty Christmas party fifteen years ago.)
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When they migrated to this style of permission it seemed like a bit of a missed opportunity to give the user the option of choosing "no, only when the app is open"
Is a free society one the laws of which you can’t break? No, that’s called anarchy.

A free society can have laws, and a free license can have conditions.
Even if it is stolen? This thing is massively dangerous. It ensures your credit card details are stored all over the place for them to be leaked or stolen, with no way for the consumer to clean this up.
> To play devil's advocate, part of the reason things like The Rule of Silence are talked about is because of the messy unix philosophy of treating everything like plain text.

The amount of tooling that surrounds text is vast and has evolved over decades. You cannot replace that with a single database and call it better.

I can place the majority of my config files in git and version them. I can easily perform a full text search on any log regardless of its syntax. I can effortlessly relocate and distribute logs to different filesystems.

> I want my software configuration stored in a database not in a bunch of fragile files with made up syntax that are always one typo or syntax error away from being potentially silently ignored.

So you would like your configuration stored as a bunch of made up data structures? Databases do not make you immune from typos and syntax errors, ask anyone who has ever written a delete without a where clause.

And what happens when the giant, all-knowing database your system depends on has a bug or vulnerability? When something on my linux box breaks I can drop to a recovery mode or lower runlevel and fix it with a kernel and a shell as dependencies.

I think you would be a lot happier with a configuration management system (puppet, ansible et al) and some log infrastructure without having to completely redo the unix philosophy and the years of experience and fine-tuning that comes with it.
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Unfortunately, getting anything done about the oligopolies - or monopolies - doesn't seem to do anything.

It seems what is basically needed is some investment in infrastructure and some legislation to help remove the barriers to entry. But the US moves slowly to do such things unless there is money to be had. I remember some folks in the late 90's or early 2000's that were just getting home phone service, after all - out west in the mountains. Additionally, the lobbyist for these companies have more money than God. (debatable, but you get the picture). Normal folks making 25,000 a year can't compete with that - their yearly salaries are a drop in the Lobby's bucket.

"America is supopsed to be about free markets and open choice"
And technically, it still is, they say, so long as you can afford to do provide all of the infrastructure and get through all the red tape.
It's just a very capital-intensive business with long turnaround times on new hardware designs. It would take not only a lot of investment, but also a large delay on Google's part to get their own car out the door.
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Do you work at Amazon, or do you have experience in this area? Care to elaborate?
I have not studied any nano degrees but I think if your university is half decent the masters at 1500 Euro, if you can stuff it with AI courses, is a lot more valuable than a $2400 nanodegree, face to face interaction and discussion with teachers and students means a lot IMO. I think the nano degree is targeted at people whose alternative is studying a $20000 masters degree, not 1500 euro.
People can and have violated the BSD license, so if you believe that free licenses are only those with no restrictions then the BSD license is not free either. The GPL conforms to all the popular consensus definitions of software freedom (the FSF's free software definition, the OSI's open source definition, and Debian's DFSG); if your concept of "free software" is different from all of those maybe you would communicate more effectively by using a different term.
My girlfriend works as data analyst for a mobile gaming company and she found a user that spends between 4000 to 6000 USD every month on items. Who are these people?
Slightly off-topic, but:

> While Google may be taking its pedal off the gas for self-driving vehicles

Is it considered OK to include obvious puns like that in a seemingly serious publication?
I've never heard that saying before. What does "let's do that coffee" mean?
> I don't understand what makes GPL so special and why it should be protected more than (C)..

Some people care less about whether the law has been violated and more about whether the source code has been made available.
You're forgetting the need to position themselves as the "good" drug of choice for getting altered. Good marketing.
Exactly, they are going down as my plan A. I've got very little confidence in the likes of ITER because, while they are doing amazing work, they are getting fusion-never funding.
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It would have been preferable with a better pun, but adding a touch of levity to otherwise dry topics in serious publications is always welcome.
> It's a continent famous for its castles!

Because there are so few in the US, not because we all live in one...

Also, few people live in those castles.
You know what would be cool ? Deepmind working with Tesla , with their best engineers on this team.
Given the naming conventions of early Unix, you should be happy they didn’t name it “kl”.
To some degree, every game has addictive mechanics. This type of mobile game clearly crosses an ethical line... but where's the line?
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With respect, why? Also, why Imzy over somewhere else?
I think steam does the same thing (the probability to get), something with crates and locks.
I think the OS X thing is just offered to be nice, but their controller is effortless to install on Debian, even remotely.

I put our controller on a $5 DigitalOcean droplet with Debian 8. Took 10 minutes to set up back in January, has been working faultlessly ever since (even through automated updates).
https://www.amazon.com/June-2004-Laurence-W-Britt/dp/1884962...

Laurence-W-Britt seems to be an author.
I can't find him so I can't say for certain he's not a doctor but I don't think he is.

Also your link is from rense (a white supremacist/conspiracy site), it doesn't seem to have been the origin(originally from a humanist magazine) and may have been republished without consent but it does undercut your point.
How do you solve management problems when scaling?

I understand your reasoning when it comes to well defined business requirements with well defined technical problems. But once the initial set of requirements are done, how do you proceed? I suspect you need at least some amount of overachievers to fill mid-level management roles.
I think it's smart business. This is very akin to Valve partnering with HTC for VR headset manufacturing. Let someone who knows hardware do hardware and you can focus on R&D and ideation.
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So, do tell, how many of your fellow programmers do you know worked on building that employee tracking/logging system?
> In either case, strong reverence for the military is one of the criteria for a fascist state.

Just to provide a contrarian viewpoint -- strong disdain for the military is one of the criteria for a weak state rife with degeneracy and malignancy.

The military serves an important function in society and personally I think it deserves far more recognition than profit-seeking hounds with low moral standards (ie: the scum referenced in the article).
rerere is dangerous and not the solution. What I want is language-aware merge that can do things like "both these changes are just adding imports, adding in either order is fine" or "this change has added a parameter and this change has reformatted this line, I can add the parameter to the reformatted line".
So, horribly unreadable xml config files?
I don't disagree with you, but how do we decide which structured data format to use as a replacement for plaintext? I have the sneaking feeling that a large part of why we still use plaintext is because it's established already as the standard, for worse or for better, and replacing it with a standard everyone could agree on proved impossible.
I can see your argument for consistent structure--I definitely don't love vimscript or nginx's custom configuration language. But that doesn't require we jump out of text--JSON and XML are viable, provided they remain geared toward hand editing.

It may be that given proper tooling for database-driven configuration it could be visible and accessible, but the fact is, I haven't seen timing that pulled that off.
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I really am thankful that you do write long commit messages. As a student starting out in OSS, I have had to track down why the particular piece of code is written like it and I go hunting down git blame and that really helps me. I also follow the practice when I can and hope that it helps future contributors or maintainers.
> Meraki is completely cloud based.

So, you're happy with someone owning your devices and network, and you being said "renter" on your network? This is DRM of the worst kind: the logic is locked away behind their servers.

Nope nope, a flaming rake of fucks nope.
This is not a game for kids, it is for gambling addicts. And now those addicts no longer need to physically go to the casino to feed that addiction.

These companies are predators.
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I am not sure I follow the conversation. What would a deeply nested result hierarchy be, exactly?

Are we talking about something like:

CREATE TABLE person (id INT, name TEXT, birthdate DATE);

CREATE TABLE car (id INT, brand TEXT, model TEXT, licence TEXT);

CREATE TABLE p_c (pid INT, cid INT, FOREIGN KEY pid REFERENCES person (id), FOREIGN KEY cid REFERENCES car (id));

And for a given person, we want to return their details plus the cars they own?

gopher://example.com/person/{id}

# Get person ID

1, Joe, 1970-01-01

gopher://example.com/car/{id}

# Get car ID

1, Ford, T, 1313

gopher://example.com/person/{id}/cars

# Get all cars owned by person ID

1, Joe, 1970-01-01, 1 Ford, T, 1313

,,, 2 Ford, S, 1717

gopher://example.com/person/{id}/cars/{id}

# Get specific car

gopher://example.com/car/{id}/owners

# Get owner(s) of car ID

gopher://example.com/car/{id}/owners/{id}

# Get specific owner

gopher://example.com/car/{id}/owners/{id}/birthdate

# Get specific owner's birthdate

gopher://example.com/car/{id}/owners/birthdate

# Get birthdate of all owners (assuming no domain overlap between IDs and field names, other solutions possible otherwise)

If this is the sort of thing we're talking about, I've got that t-shirt and assumed everyone had too, so I guess I'm missing the point here. By how much?
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> This is what made Unix last.

An unfortunate turn of phrase. It's ambiguous. Do you mean last as in "endure"? Or do you mean last as in "last place"?
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