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I think in general we can classify websites into 3 categories: static sites with no dynamic content, static sites with dynamic content (through, for example, REST API calls), and non-static sites (where the delivered HTML/front-end code is server-generated).

When there is no dynamic content, using a static site tends to make the most sense. For example, a WordPress site with no moving parts (i.e. no comments) can be easily converted into a purely static site, though adding a cache in front achieves basically the same result.

Things get more complicated when a site or app needs dynamic content. Using API calls, the server doesn't need to generate the HTML every time, but performance-wise, you would also need to factor in the additional round-trips performed to fetch the data.
I literally just got off the phone with Hacker One on Friday and they recommend the exact OPPOSITE of what you did. Start with low or no bounty to get the easy stuff off the plate and figure out what class of reports you want -- then ramp up the bounty over time.

Which is what we'll be doing!
I can't tell if you are bringing this up because you are criticizing the Americans for refusing to join and be bound by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea or if you are accusing the Chinese of violating their treaty commitments.

If it's the former, I don't think the US will be joining it any time soon. US military grand strategy depends on its ability to deploy marines with its navy anywhere swiftly in the world. That's why the Panama Canal was built: to allow the US Navy to swiftly move between Oceans to reallocate force posture. This is why the United States rejected the UNCLOS court juristiction over its boobytrapping the coastal regions around Nicaragua - the US refuses to be bound by this international law (the other major one, I would suggest, is the International Criminal Court/Rome Statues).

If you mean the second, the Chinese have argued that this is a territory dispute, in which case UNCLOS itself (article 299, IIRC) agrees it has no authority.

Certainly UNCLOS is a major aspect to understanding the South China Sea situation, and should be linked.
> I would LOVE to have it in software.

Sounds good at first thought. Reliable quality and ethics for software engineers, right?

On the other hand, you're inviting a special interest group to restrict the supply of software engineers and dictate university curricula. These professional programs/societies tend to be very conservative (engineers, doctors, lawyers) and have their members' interests possibly before society as a whole. Overall it probably still makes sense for the traditional professions.

But as a CS prof watching my engineering academic neighbors struggle with scheduling, staffing and difficulty updating things, I really don't want the external constraints on our academic program.

Overall, the community has not yet agreed that professional software engineering is a thing, though there have been several attempts to kick start it.
In addition to not having an unstable society with high crime:

1. Poor people on welfare wouldn't be dis-incentivized to work more.

2. It reduces the cost of those programs like welfare that cost a lot in bureaucracy for no gain.

3. Lower income people have money velocity that stimulates the rest of the economy.

> Democrats seem to have no problem with illegal immigration which reduces the ability for those poor and unemployed to gets jobs

Illegal immigration doesn't do that... automation is a big factor in that. If your job is being taken away by an uneducated illegal immigrant then you are not competing for highly paid jobs.

> If I want to donate to charity, I will.

Charity has been shown to be less efficient than just giving money directly to poor people.
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Love the open forge (probably coal-fired) in the background. In other news: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/17/beijing-smog-p...
Do you hold any insurance policies, like on a home or a car? It's roughly the same thing. You pay into a system, and you may never have to use it, but you'll be glad it's there if you ever do need it.
Assuming that recipients are also taxed on their world income there is little difference between someone not working and living somewhere else or or not doing it without the country. It might be something unfair but i cant fathom it being significant at scale.

The problem is the people coming in: how do you stop high levels of immigration from people that would not be as productive as finnish people and hence would quickly become a drain on the state. The greatest single enemy of open immigration is welfare.
This is not UBI (universal basic income), this is re-branded welfare.
Windows now feels free to take over your computer to advertise its other products to you, when it pleases - it has become a virus, too. Not the worst virus, but a virus.
Yes, he is one of those authors. Every block of every thread ends with a cliff-hanger, and you need to read two more blocks before you get resolution. But then, you've encountered three more cliff-hangers ;) So after the first read, I bookmark heavily, and read each thread independently. And sometimes I just reread my favorite threads. Such as Bobby's thread in this book. Also his ancestor in Baroque Cycle, "King of the Vagabonds".
History buffs will realise that situations like this can be done purposefully. For example the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident in August 2, '64. [0] A wary China inspects the device, hands it back and defuses the situation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
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Imagine you have a news web site with decades of news articles. You add a new article, which changes the "Top articles" section on a side bar. With a static generator, you would need to rebuild every single article, which may take minutes or even longer, using both CPU and disk I/O.

With a dynamic generator, you might maintain a cache of the latest articles somewhere, and stitch it into another cached copy of the newspaper section chrome, and then insert the content. It might be more CPU in total, but the changes are live faster, and the total disk I/O would be much lower.

Also, you'd need more disk space with a static generator.

For most simple sites and blogs, there's no real resource use regenerating the entire site, so you get all the benefits of the static generator, and almost none of the drawbacks.
Yes, I think those are all valid points/weaknesses. While I don't personal struggle with understanding the internals of git or om.next the learning curve is no joke. The community is aware of this, but it's still alpha software they're working on it.
I actually think of om.next more like a library than a web framework. As a library it has many degrees of freedom in how it can be composed and i imagine the author prioritized flexibility/generality over concreteness, and a lot of work is still left up to the user in filling in the blanks of a full fledge web app, untangled (https://untangled-web.github.io/untangled/) is one project tries to fill in all the missing gaps and expose a framework API, much better documentation, more concrete than om.next.
>"Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It's not caused by a lack of trust."

Trust in the value of currency is how money retains value. Modern money has no intrinsic value, it's not backed by anything, it's gains its value from consensus that it holds value.
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Do you think that the Chinese people you talk to are wrong then, and that the Chinese should wholeheartedly adopt Western values, or that people in each society should find solutions that make sense in terms of their own historical development and cultural norms?

I'd like to remind you that the track record of simply imposing a formal Western model of governance (with a written Constitution, laws, elections, the whole shebang) on societies that are used to other ways of doing things hasn't tended worked out very well -- e.g. Iraq or Afghanistan.
I think your comment is downvoted mostly for wasting precious comment space: You didn't say anything. People don't come to HN only to have to wade through layers of nothing, this isn't reddit or some major newspaper comment section. If you have to say something, then actually say it and be done with it.
Basic Income and Negative Income Tax are an in fact equivalent, in that you can achieve identical income functions with either just by choosing the right tax bands.

However, their framing leads to different expectations. For example consider a flat income tax of 25% on income less $20k (going negative below that so unemployed people get $5k credit). Raising the negative rate to 50% sounds kind of progressive, since you're giving more to poorer people, but frame it as Basic Income, and yes you're increasing the baseline from $5k to $10k, but you're also implementing a 50% regressive tax band up to $20k earned income.

Another point is that they'll tend to be implemented differently due to framing. Basic Income is likely to be part of the welfare system, and since it's unconditional, you can just register once and receive it in perpetuity. Negative Income Tax is likely part of the tax system, so to get it you potentially need to submit a tax return saying "Earnings: $0" every year, which makes it more embarrassing.
"Everyone flocking to use GitHub"

Infrastructure costs dollars. Everyone uses it puts more pressure on the uptime. Is GitHub as big (as much money to splash around) as google?
I'm not trying to fix the country, I'm just suggesting a way to avoid hyperinflation. Everything that is already broken would stay broken, but without the additional burden of hyperinflation. Can the plan do that?
Something similar is happening with "Russia got Trump elected" (simply by exposing some truths about Clinton) propaganda that you see in the media today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/opinion/now-america-you-kn...
Slavery is the rule of one group, usually ethnic over another. China's digital legalism here has very little to do with it, as it genuinely applies to everybody equally. This is a thousands of years old doctrine that goes through Chinese history. It's not the individual that is the frame of reference,but the collective and the belief is that good behaviour should be rewarded by a strong state and bad behaviour punished. This is in many ways more impartial than moving morality into the cultural or social sphere, where it is subject to identity and economical interests and so on.

You can criticise it of course, it is coercive but it is definitely not slavery, it's the stark opposite. Slavery was moving fundamentally ethical concerns into the private, people were turned into property. The Chinese system moves fundamentally ethical questions into the public legal system. Bureaucracy has one big advantage, it subjugates everybody, powerful or weak alike to the same rules. No bureaucratic system can be maintained if it exercises gross violations of this principle because that's the thing it has going for it. The CPC is acutely aware of this. There is of course practical corruption but never to the degree that it undermines the system.
Oooooh! I haven't heard of this guy, but sounds like something I'd find very interesting. Thanks for the link!
Not entirely related to the original point, but I believe in the case of scenario 0 vs 1 market benefits by having more rational actors. That is, if you're not dirt poor, you're able to make better decisions and that makes markets work in a more optimal way.
I was looking for something similar and indeed there isn't much choice in that department. I eventually switched to the high-core lots-of-performance/per-buck E5-2670 especially considering its low price. But if you want high single thread performance, take a look at E5-1650 or, if you have unlimited budget, E5-1680 v2 (12% faster).
I appreciated the snark and thought it well deserved for an undeserving top level comment, sometimes something more than a down-vote is called for.
Still cheaper than one good security engineer. :)
Agreed with others that it's worth considering a small private program. You can do time boxed bounties with a capped cost, that way you're getting results without committing to a huge budget. Check out Bugcrowd's "on demand" bounty: https://bugcrowd.com/solutions
> Where is that 5% coming from?

As you said: "The government is printing money to pay expenses". I'm talking about a limit on how much money they print.

> Inflation is a tax on people who hold your currency.

It is. And it goes from bad to disaster when it goes from inflation to hyperinflation.
Perceptions can be distorted, Facts not so much.
Most flat taxes do not land in the "you make more, you pay more" scheme. Instead, they are in the "you spend more, you pay more." Which, doesn't sound bad, necessarily.

However, there are two problems that I see. I suspect there are more.

First is that what you spend is only related to what you make. Specifically, it is relatively easy to find ways to not spend money if you have extra. What this means is that, at an absolute level of what you make, a flat tax actually gives a very easy way for high income people to have a lower tax rate. Turning it into "the more you make, the more you can proportionally keep." Which is sorta antithetical to the idea of the flat tax.

The second problem is essentially the cold start problem. Society is expensive to keep going. There is not much of a way around that. So, the rate will have to be relatively high to get the necessary funds. And this will hit those with low incomes harder than the ones with high.

I don't think either of these are necessarily road blocks to the idea. But, I do think it will necessarily get complicated.
This is why R7RS has syntax-case.

HOWEVER... various bugs can be easily introduced if your macros are not hygienic. For many use cases, syntax-rules will suffice, but when you use syntax-case you must explicitly break hygiene.

It is a parallel situation to languages like Rust where unsafe operations are sometimes required, and therefore provided by the language but you must explicitly flag them "unsafe".
I'm not American, but do Dems really have no issue with illegal immigration? That seems like a slightly skewed perspective.

To answer your real point. You can never have full employment. There are always going to be people that can't have a job, whether that's due to health, lack of job availability, or a number of other issues. What do you do with these people? They have to eat or die.

The current system design is to provide a a safety net. The alternative is that people resort to crime to survive. Do you think that'd be a better country to live in? Do you have an alternative system?
> they began detecting "hacking tools" and keygens/cracks/patches

I think the context here is that a lot of this software contains malware (even the ones that also do what they say on the tin), and its a lot harder to separate since the deliberate intent is "modify the workings of other programs". It becomes nearly impossible to algorithmically decide if it is modifying other programs"in the way the user wanted rather than any undesired way.
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The article presents many opinions as though they are facts.

One of the crucial aspects to understanding the South China Sea situation is the dispute of the sovereignty of the waters. The New York Times doesn't provide context on the sovereignty disputes, or provide the Chinese argument. Instead misleads its readership by quoting "international waters in the South China Sea."

This is an editorial error of enormous magnitude affecting the quality of the publication. An non politicized publication would write "disputed waters in the South China Sea."

Indeed, you can read back only a couple of years where US media reporting did exactly this. The recent propaganda push inside US media has been to use the term "international waters" in association with the geography to affect public opinion.
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Compare China's "aggression" in those regions to U.S. currently bombing 8 (yes, eight) countries.
Don't worry, in face of the challenges that are ahead, we will be forced by circumstances to set aside our cultural differences to cooperate and find solutions.

Climate change, resources depletion, crops failing, famine, sea rising, environmental degradation, etc. These challenges are not for one nation only, but for the whole world.

It takes a crisis to wake you up from your illusions. It will be the same for humanity.
Where do they get off claiming Ariane 5 has a perfect record? It's explosion is one of the classic stories of software failure.
This is a great article for a role reversal. Imagine a Chinese military "research" ship off California gathering data on "water salinity". There would be calls for nukes.
The NYT has extensively covered the South China Sea sovereignty dispute. You can write the Public Editor if you think this is an actual error, but you'll probably get a chuckle.
Yup. This is an amazing little script. I use it to run my side projects, and the upgrade path to heroku, deis, or openshift is effortless.

Using this with my own docker image repo makes this even easier.
"Not expandable" Dave said.

http://timonoko.github.io/jemma/smuisti.html
Pizzas are also a pretty popular food I think
Alternative would be emailing them "Are you able to share any progress on the BI project? I'd bet more on HN would be keen to hear too." Project then writes a blog and someone submits to HN.

However, I can appreciate that the slight public pressure of an Ask YC making the front page might encourage quicker movement or at least a response that didn't otherwise warrant a blog post.
Actually, no. Back during the Cold War, Russia sent "trawlers" close to the US all of the time. No nukes were fired.
This is just getting at the basic insight that probabilities are most usefully thought of as being subjective. The coin will land on either side depending on the torque applied and air resistance and whatnot. 50% is only a measure of our subjective uncertainty. This isn't about quantum mechanics.
""As a young surgeon, Dad was the first American to devise and perform a total organ replacement. Later, he came up with a device that saved thousands of soldiers' lives during the Vietnam War. The Heimlich Chest Drain Valve is still used worldwide for patients undergoing chest surgery."

Clearly Heimlich should be known for more than the HM.
Why do you assume the CIA only has digital forensic evidence?

They are an organization whose sole purpose is to gather information secretly from foreign operators. They've certainly had sources inside Russia in the past.
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That's a good idea. I'll write them an email.
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the author mentions speedometer. It tests everything a browser needs to load and use a web app - styling, DOM parsing, JS...
Funny how 'subsidies' is a bad word and 'VC funding' isn't.

The idea, in this case, is exactly the same: Invest enough to achieve the economy of scale, and get the actually-better solution to the point where it's cheaper than the happens-to-be-currently-dominant solution.

(obvs, subsidies can also be used for other purposes, like protectionism or ensuring that a vital-for-national-security industry isn't outsourced. But I believe that for solar it's about investment, more than these other uses.)
It's debatable whether curdled == bad though (e.g. ricotta)
Yep. But even if we could build a particle accelerator capable of reaching GUT energy level, it wouldn't spawn new universes, would it?
Umm, Captain, a couple of these solder points look very fresh.
> do Dems really have no issue with illegal immigration

>How many people have been deported under Obama?

>President Barack Obama has often been referred to by immigration groups as the "Deporter in Chief."

>Between 2009 and 2015 his administration has removed more than 2.5 million people through immigration orders, which doesn’t include the number of people who "self-deported" or were turned away and/or returned to their home country at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

>How does he compare to other presidents?

>According to governmental data, the Obama administration has deported more people than any other president's administration in history.

>In fact, they have deported more than the sum of all the presidents of the 20th century.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-num...
I don't know many who went into management. One's a VP at a major company, the rest left tech.
9P? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)
They also backed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and disobeyed orders to not publish info on the pantagon papers.

They used to be a legitimate news organization and I agree with parent post.
This makes the point. (We are still around after all, so yes, "no nukes were fired")
I agree with the comment as far as it goes... but it's only cheaper and faster, if you need a relatively small number of these parts. If you can standardize the forged part (before mill/lathe), then it's almost certainly cheaper, faster (per part), and more repeatable/efficient to build an automated forge to do it.

That's even ignoring legality or safety.
If it works well, I suspect they'll widen trials.
Why not let "shortage" have a vernacular meaning too? One that it already had before the field of economics adopted it for a more specific purpose?
The complexity of a theory is in how long the theory itself is, not how big the objects it generates are. The peano axioms are extremely simple, despite generating an Infinity of numbers.
The 'deadweight' administrative cost is itself an economic benefit - it's money paid to some administrator, who will thus have extra money and will be able to return it to the market in turn. It just means that the $500 of benefits isn't actually $500, and doesn't just go the end recipient: it's actually $550 (or whatever) and goes to the end recipient as well as the administrators and other intermediaries who deliver the money to the end user. That extra money doesn't evaporate into the void.
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I like this comparison, actually. But realize that it is expected that most VC fundings fail. Subsidies is a bad word because it is often an attempt at rigging the game. With the assumption that we fully know what the answer should be.

So, if we can move subsidies to be more like experiments where it is expected that a significant percentage fails, I'm all for it.
I give every new manager working for me: "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently"

Everything in the book is based by longitudinal surveys done over several decades everywhere from Burger King to the Army to tech companies.
Benefits of open sourcing: better code review, contributions, increased community engagement (possibly more employment/customer connections), improved security. I'm about 90% convinced that open sourcing a business I'm launching soon would have a positive impact on its success. It's just about getting past the initial fear of doing it.
I know it is a weird takeaway from that episode, but I found the ubiquitous social media tweaking while at work to be incredibly unprofessional and I wondered how that society could get anything accomplished... ever. And the whitewashed physical world with almost no other real technical improvements emphasized that point for me.