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> Would give corporations a free ride at the expense of consumers. It'd stimulate consumers to start fake corporations just to avoid tax.

This depends a lot on the other details of the tax system. Giving corporations a "free ride" can be unfair if it benefits one group of people at the expense of others, but it can also make a lot of sense when you think about all the different ways corporations can be organized.

Just for a simple example, imagine two different pencils. Pencil A is made by a big company that owns graphite mines, logging equipment, factories, ships, warehouses, and retail stores. Pencil B is made by lots of small companies, one of which is a graphite mine, which sells raw materials to a pencil factory, which sells finished pencils to a distributor, etc etc.

We really don't want a system that taxes pencil B more than pencil A. Because corporations aren't "real"; they can get bought and sold and merged and split. So of course if pencil A is taxed less, then overnight the market would organize itself into nothing but giant pencil companies just to pay less in taxes. We need some way to decide what "share" of taxes each small company gets, so that all else being equal they add up to the same tax the big company was paying. We could do that with profits vs losses, or with value-added taxes, but we have to do it some way or another. How should we do it?
Just a set of common features.

Memory safe system programming languages[0] with a GC by default, value types which can be allocated on global data/stack/registers, generic programming, ability to have more control over resource management than just finalizers, allocate memory outside GC control when performance requires it.

[0] .NET Native is not yet there, but is incrementally getting a few of the System C# features
A very soldier-worthy attitude to be admired.
They are not paying for anything. No one entered an agreement or signed a contract. They are trying to exploit the content in a certain way, and the receiver of the content is free to take counter-measures.
yeah, but what is your actual point? do you even have one or do you just want to grumble about how bad the kids are these days?

what is your position? what do you think the purpose the university is? do you think the behavioral problems you're discussing are causal or correlative?

I'm really just asking you to present a coherent statement of your opinion, whatever it is, because besides your general sense of hostility and derision I can't tell what you really think.
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I'm at a company that automatically sells enough RSUs at vest date to cover withholding (the remainder is deposited alongside the regular salary). So that decision is made for me. No matter which option I'd take, I'd use the one that allows me to move as much money into retirement accounts, 401(k) etc. as quickly as possible.
Many inexpensive USB C docks will have firewire. And I've used fw interfaces in the past for audio, I honestly prefer newer options but hey if it works just don't update anything and you'll be find until it dies.
Why not just use wikileaks.org? Is there something here that the regular wikileaks.org won't cover for some reason?
I'm a doctor and I dispute this. I'm not advocating for long work hours or saying that it's healthy/OK. But the "worst students" in my assessment are people that I wouldn't trust to care for my loved ones at all and I would definitely take my weary-eyed trusted colleagues over the former any day. It's a very long discussion, but there are some really bad doctors out there who get by because most mistakes don't cause obvious harm.

Also, the body that oversees residency programs is going to relax duty-hours restrictions since they've studied it now and there's no difference in outcomes or resident satisfaction when they eliminate the 80-hour restriction.
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Maybe an auto-clicker could use ABP's acceptable ads filter to focus on reducing the effectiveness of "unacceptable" ads. (But the ad networks are just going to figure out how to detect the clicks and mark them fraudulent anyway.)
Ok? At some point, supply and demand have to meet. We've got too much supply of McMansions in suburbs, too little supply of two-bedroom apartments in cities.

If your investment was to buy an existing asset and sit on it collecting rent or capital-gains without putting in improvements or finding a customer, you made a bad investment.
Your view on tribalism as described here is fine, but the tone of the article is not "tribalism is an unfortunate reality", it's "tribalism is normal and healthy".

> Peace occurs when tribes exist in a stable equilibrium. Peace exists when boundaries are clear, ownership of turf is clear, and when overstepping the boundaries will result in swift and sure retribution, thus making conflict unprofitable.

This worldview has caused so much pain and suffering that I can't really believe you would write it with a straight face. You're basically describing the Cold War as the most stable and peaceful state of geopolitics. You're advocating for all people to define themselves primarily by race, never associate with other races, and violently defend their race when there's an infraction.

> Thus the entire liberal cure for racism, at least in Boston, was actually the cause of the most virulent racism. By forcing these groups together, and putting people in conflict over girls, basketball courts, spots on varsity, etc, the busing created friction and animosity.

Another huge problem with your article, demonstrated here, is that you never once acknowledge a time before 1977. You write as if everything was great, and then those meddling liberals tried to integrate schools and thereby invented racism.

> My point is simply that large-scale, forced integration made race relation problems much worse. It created problems where little existed.

Really, no big problems before desegregation? I know you know this isn't true, why write it? I don't think desegregation is a magic cure any more than you do, and I don't think anyone claims that, although I've never seen Eyes on the Prize. But while segregated schools might have been a nice local minimum of racism, violence, and suffering, they were not anywhere close to the global minimum. Forced integration, while obviously not perfect, was necessary to start solving some big problems, even if it caused some new problems of its own.

> I am just pointing out that the "solution" to race problems made race problems worse, and for very obvious reasons.

No, that's one of your points, but the thesis is much broader. You claim that these beliefs are wrong: "racial segregation was bad, and that efforts to integrate schools were worthy moral crusades."
I think you meant to say, "I cannot overstate".
True but if the pension fund has more than a fractionally small percentage of their fund in startups then they don't deserve to be pension fund managers. When an Australian pension fund joined one of Blekko's funding rounds the amount their manager was spreading around the valley seemed like a lot of dollars but was less than .1% of the funds under management. So losing all of it had very little material impact on the fund, but a really big unicorn might push the return on the fund up by 20 or 30 basis points.
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Though somehow a lot of these really big corporations seem to have massive amounts of cash sitting around and are not spending it, at the same time as many governments are imposing austerity on their populations.
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Those were provided as examples of "famous" Non-Nintendo characters. "Iconic" is a higher bar to reach. So, I might argue that those characters are famous, but not iconic.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that 95% of all ad clicks are fake.

I think I only clicked on an ad once in the past 10 years; it was because my mouse was about to fall off the edge of the table and, in my moment of panic, I accidentally pressed the left button.

Thankfully, my other hand saved the day with a swift 'Ctrl + W' movement.
Wow, I haven't heard someone mention BeOs in over a decade. That was a pretty OS, but I'd take that black NeXT case any day. Those NeXT boxes were so cool.
I use Uber. I like cheap rides. Probably not going to invest, but maybe we shouldn't speak too loudly about this.
Full disclosure, I am a Codeship employee that helps onboard new customers for our Docker support.

That said, our (Codeship) Docker support is the most "Docker native" on the market, in my opinion. We build your containers, by default, using a Compose-based syntax and all commands are natively executed by your containers. There's no interacting with a Docker host or running explicit Docker commands at all.

We don't offer self-hosting but we do have a local CLI that lets you run and debug your process locally with parity to your remote builds.
I'll second _tulpa's request. It would be nice to see your configuration for this.
This is no laughing matter. He might have been the last one :)
You have a lot of decent options. You could do a lot worse than ELK. If you're on AWS, you can get hosted Elasticsearch. It comes out of the box with Logstash you can hook up to DynamoDB, and it also does Kibana out of the box. There are a number of other vendors; but there are decent reasons for keeping your logs as close as possible.

CloudWatch works fine too. CloudWatch comes integrated with AWS services out of the box. It can be more annoying to get your logs into it than ELK (the latter seems overall more popular). Its alerting and the AWS CLI integration pretty slick, though.

You should also go turn on CloudTrail right now. It lets you automatically log side-effectful API calls. It is not a replacement for a centralized logging pipeline, but it's great high-signal data to put into one.

I appreciate that your complaint (totally valid!) was "this is a rabbit hole", and I just gave you two options, and that might not help your perception that it's a rabbit hole. If you find yourself paralyzed by choice, either choice is much better than deferring the choice! Just pick one. Heck, if you can't pick, let me help: pick AWS hosted Elasticsearch.

A lot of people (also in the security space) like Splunk. I find it annoying to deploy (I've heard rsyslog-in-front-of-forwarders as a canonical deployment method for just ingesting syslog more than once because reasons) and overpriced. YMMV.

Disclaimer: shameless plug! You're not the only one with your hair on fire. One of the first things we're doing for Latacora customers is setting up a centralized logging pipeline.
Quietism
Samsies. I love my 2012 i7 MBP. I did the same upgrades as you, super easy and it runs everything I need! To the other commenter - upgrading the hard drive to a SSD is easy, you just need a mini screwdriver and the new hard drive. Protip - I put a small piece of foam in when I replaced my HDD because the solid states are so much smaller than the spinning drives.
Does anyone see it within 2 years?

Even if the tech were ready in 100% of situations (it isn't), just working out the legal / regulatory stuff could take that long.
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The beliefs are batshit crazy, but in my personal experience, Mormons are consistently the nicest most welcoming people you'd ever meet. It makes me sad that the church leadership doesn't reflect that. :(
Thanks. Maybe I can get to it over the Holidays.
Your conclusion may be correct, but you're confusing "generational" GC with "copying" GC. There can be generational GCs that use freelists (eg. Boehm) and copying GCs that are not generational (I think the first copying GC for Smalltalk was like that).
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> There's a whole system of failures, from the cost of education to the student loan systems to medical insurance and billing, that has led directly to overworked doctors.

There is a "shortage" of doctors and crazy hours in countries with free education, no student loan system and insurance is ensured by the country for all citizens.

So, no, these issues are not the whole story (which doesn't mean they are not issues).
As someone who graduated college in 2011, I am one of 'the kids these days'.

I really don't know why people aren't taking advantage of University as a venue to read, exchange new ideas, and learn. All I know is that we have been increasing subsidies to borrowing, and the outcomes have not been good, so we should probably stop.
Now that would be an interesting alternate timeline!

/ MacBook Pro with Blinkenlights bar /
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After the price spike and after getting 2 encrypted notes with bank accounts unreadable due to corruption I migrated myself away from it.
Some industrial scale trolling, perhaps.

On the other hand, trolls and coordinated political campaigns tend to be a lot more willing to spend money to pursue their causes than people that just want to add a relevant anecdote or express their approval, so it might skew the balance of comments more towards trolling and brigading.
Hi, I wrote this!

To continue a discussion:

- How does your engineering team track new "debt" after releasing code? (if at all, and why not)
- Do you pay anyone for centralized logging, or wish you didn't? Are you making it useful?
- Do you feel like your company is good at managing access when hiring / firing people?

Otherwise thanks for any feedback, I enjoy writing these!
Whenever I start to think like this, I remind myself that it's about as useless as thinking "if only I bet it all on 00" at the roulette table.

Crystal balls that see the future are certainly in short supply. But if I had one there's a lot better ways to make money than using it to buy 10 shares of Apple 20 years ago.
Hmm. You sure? Leaks are a funny thing. Someone could "leak" your last year of emails and forge a few incriminating messages about your coke and hookers habit. The damage would be done before you get a chance to prove the forgery.
Ugh. I am totally off my game today. Here's the ports on the Surface Pro (https://cdn2.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/reviews/3648915/new_macb...)

It may not even be a fair comparison since the Surface has to accommodate the screen going in either direction and the design plays a big part in the visual appeal for the Macbooks, but it just doesn't look as polished to me. Again, I think the only way to really see and feel the difference is to go to a Microsoft Store and check it out for yourself. If you're lucky enough to have an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store near each other, it'll be even more obvious, in my opinion.
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It sends a stronger message.
A single WikiLeaks is a single point of failure.
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Human drivers can feel relatively safe around other cars because of mutually assured destruction. You are both afraid of dying if you make a significant mistake.

Self-driving cars will never have this fear holding them back from making mistakes. They don't care if they die. How can you feel safe around that? You could argue there is actually an incentive to let them crash once in awhile, because the valuable real world data will be phoned home and used to improve the product for the small price of a human life.

Once corruption sets in down the road, cars with autopilot capabilities will simplify kidnapping and assassination. Simply activate the backdoor remote piloting feature and crash your target's car (or the Uber car they're a passenger in) into a tree at 70 mph, or lock the doors and drive to a pickup location to complete the kidnapping.

Driving in a traditional car wouldn't protect the target, because a group with ubiquitous optional remote control over self-driving cars could also force surrounding cars to enter kamikaze mode and ram the target off the road.

Governments will demand some kind of backdoor like this at some point. It's not a question of if, but when. At that point, we'll have to trust that they'll never abuse it (lol) and that no third parties will ever be able to hack it remotely.

Even if you think the government is your friend, the first worm using a remote code execution exploit that hops from car to car via Bluetooth and activates its payload on a specific date will be able to kill tens of millions of people.
They are paying the content providers who are paying you in content.

They are free to take "counter measures". But that doesn't stop the fact that they are paying for both your time and the content.
I'm willing to bet that most people who "want someone else to pay for services" mean "corporations" and "super-rich people", both of which get away with not paying nearly as much as we're told they should.
Can you please mention from which author since I imagine there are more than one?
It's common for Go programs to have millions of stacks. A million simultaneous goroutines in a Go program is pretty common. Not so much for other languages.

Not to mention that in Go you create and destroy stacks much more often (probably orders of magnitude compared to typical Java program).
Hey all. Inspired by another Show HN a couple weeks ago, and also as a way to showcase what I can do while I looking for dev / data engineering / data science jobs, I built this app looks for new comments and threads on reddit that have links to amazon products and when I find one, display it on the site. Site itself is a Rails app, and the scraper is written in Python.

Rails app repo: https://github.com/jackschultz/productmentions
Scraper repo: https://github.com/jackschultz/product-mentions-scraper

I don’t have too much data now, it’s only been running for something like 2 weeks, and I haven’t gone back in time yet either, but still fun to look and see what’s being talked about on random subreddits, and I really do see some bizarre product links. Next steps could be looking for other links, like youtube video mentions, or even more general NER trying to get products that aren’t linked, or scraping other sites for Amazon mentions, like here on HN. Let me know what you think.
I think micro-payments just don't sit well with people psychologically.

Even if you know the totals are going to be tiny, being on a meter just adds mental overhead to every click. And moreover most of the time people don't know if something is worth paying for until they've seen it, and they probably resent paying for some things.
Are you really arguing that desegregation created these problems? Seems a bit backwards to me. I think it's incredibly obvious that race relation issues existed long before the desegregation of schools.

Did you read my post? https://devinhelton.com/busing-in-boston I'm talking mostly about Boston, though I've found the same things when researching other northern cities. I'm not sure about the American south, I haven't studied it enough to either confirm or question the conventional wisdom.

In Boston, there was surely some racial animosity and shit talking before forced busing became a big issue. But it didn't seem to be that bad -- for example there is that quote in my post of the black school teacher who said she never had problems at Southie High before the busing. The busing made relations much worse, and the images we have of people being cartoonishly racist only came after forced busing.

none that I know of were as swift or effective as mass desegregation.

In the northern cities, mass desegregation failed in every single way. It did not improve race relations, it did not make black people better off, it did not result in more integration. Read my post.
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NTP doesn't cryptographically verify the time. All you do is have your router redirect these NTP requests to your own server, which is set to serve the wrong time.

Ironically, part of an HTTPS handshake involves sharing the server time in a cryptographically-verifiable manner. I am not sure why they don't use that! https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate
So what you are saying is that partisan hacks are aware they are full of crap, and will openly profess the those very things that they know are bullshit UNLESS there is a direct financial incentive for them to give the factual answer? That is depressing.
Or proper insurance.
"coders"

way to alienate and disparage
the cryptocat challenges which I think were you guys were and still are awesome!
Indeed. There's a Mormon guy in my (fairly large) team and he is by far the nicest person around. Really wish I had more co-workers like him.
> A significant portion of those profits were shifted overseas to avoid taxation within the US.

In Apple's case this is not true at all. The money they are holding in Ireland comes from profits generated overseas, not from profits made in the US. (This is all well documented from the Senate investigation into Apple's finances a few years back.)
Oh yeah, I've used SSRIs and suffered the withdrawal. I know they're not making things up or whatever.

But I also think that taking such a universal anti-psychiatric drug stance is probably too hardline of a position. I think they are the lesser of two (or more) evils for a lot of patients.
I had worked that much out for myself. What with it being explicitly stated in the quote that the network stack wasn't working correctly and had to be fixed. :P

The bit I was interested in was what was Linux doing wrong and how was the fault detected? Did it take anything else down with it? Was the fix something straightforward (ie it was a silly oversight that caused the problem) or something complicated?

It can be interesting to read stories about tech going wrong. Sometimes because the results can be amusing in retrospect (less so at the time of the problem) and sometimes because it's just nice to read that problems and mistakes can happen to other people too.
> 3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.

Seems very clear to me: destroy advertising/advertisers. Where do I sign up?
That is a good point. I didnt think about bad actors.
I'm reading this right now (well, thirty seconds ago, before I started typing) on a touch-screen Chromebook. My right hand was resting on the table in a vertical orientation with the edge of my hand on the table, my finger loosely resting on the back of the screen, and my thumb on the touchscreen scrolling up and down. Very smooth, very natural.

Conversely, scrolling up and down this text box using the trackpad is tiny, cramped, constrained motions of my finger on the touchpad.
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Yeah, this is the something awful forums model. It's not perfect but better than most places.
They've released 4 rather minor documents so far. It's a fine start.

However, they don't seem to even link to the documents from their website! You have to go to Facebook / Twitter and scroll until you find links...and the documents those links go to aren't self-hosted, making it easier for them to be removed by LDS complaints... Maybe not such a good start.

I wish them well in their goal of more transparency for the LDS church.
should all information be made public?