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"Running a budget surplus doesn't mean that money is destroyed."

What it means, then?
> I just don't get the yellow car bit at all.

Note that it was actually a "white car" bit. Casey, Marco and John originally did a podcast called Neutral which was about cars, and the very first line of the first episode was Marco quizzing Casey on why he only seemed to buy white cars. White cars have become synonymous with Casey ever since, and Marco took the opportunity to bring it up again with Chris.

Link: http://neutral.fm/episodes/1-big-fat-and-bloated

(Technically, the question was "what is it that makes somebody buy a white car?")
You're not being honest with yourself if you don't realize how lucky it was to start a career in IT in 2001 when degrees didn't matter as much.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382746
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My main problems with the console are:

1) Lack of in depth analytics on storage and the database. You give us some vague bandwidth and space metrics which aren't that useful.

2) No way to search, filter, or query the database. The database manager is really only a JSON editor which isn't that useful. I'm guessing this is a consequence of the database API being very limited.

3) Editing rules using a JSON or even Bolt becomes unmaintainable once you reach a certain complexity. Specially if you want to create role based permissions. There should be a UI to manage rules. Even better, there should be a role based permissions system built in.
There is also an accompanying 360 video here:

https://www.facebook.com/BBCFuture/videos/vb.279678448760878...
Why are you leaving 18F if you don't mind my asking?
There are a lot of studies that "sitting down is bad for you", so it stands to reason that standing up instead would be better that sitting down for 8 hours a day at a desk. I definitely feel healthier from it, but I don't have any solid evidence to back it up myself.
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I had no idea they hadn't already shut down.
Right click on the "web" link and click "Open Link In Incognito Window".
> Why is "demand" in scare-quotes? I never said that, and it's a loaded term.

Because I was referring to coldtea's demands.

> What a cop out. A lack of being paid (money at least) doesn't imply no obligations, nor freedom from criticism.

Excellent, then you should be fine with me criticizing the attitude that's been displayed here.

> The issue here is suggesting you shouldn't freely criticise flaws in FOSS software. This is harmful, and goes directly to affecting information people have available to them in choosing whether or not to use a piece of software ion the first place.

Why is this the conclusion you draw from my posts? I said it before, the Python 3 transition sucked. It's something we kind of all agree on. There is plenty of criticism to be made.

However, I really want to recontextualize this: Django is an open source project, maintained by a non-profit. Python is an open source project, maintained by a non-profit. The projects in question, with "tens of millions of lines of Python 2 code" (only a tiny amount of which would need to be ported, but I disgress...), are most often for-profit projects. Yeah, it's a bit rich.

This is the same as the IE6 situation: Want support for it? Pay extra for it! You should not expect free support for technology for which the EOL was announced years in advance just because you're using a lot of it. And you will have no issue finding paid support. Heck tell you what, if you do, shoot me an email, I do contract work sometimes.

You know why FOSS is great? It's great because the PSF/DSF do not get to revoke your license to use the software they're no longer supporting. You get to use it forever. This is your freedom and it's a good one. Make use of it!
My friend works on WSJ for Dow Jones. Recently, he stumbled upon a query param that you can add to any article link to remove the paywall. It's ridiculous how many things have come up with WSJ to get around what I assume is one of their main sources of revenue besides ads.
This is an important realization and will become even more so as we transition toward NVM.

I hit this realization partially about 7 years ago developing a custom loopback disk driver, capable of handling different image formats. I'd have all these great ideas about caching metadata, but actual measurements would reveal worse performance than seen with just always going straight to the block interface.
> but since Signal's server code isn't federated

The Signal server code has supported federation since the first commit in the git history. Whisper Systems' instance of the server doesn't federate with any other server anymore but there is nothing stopping the LibreSignal crowd from standing up their own network of federation-enabled servers.
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By not depending on privacy, they benefit from much better user experience. I think that's a great trade-off.
Because the article doesn't mention it all, and because it's interesting to ponder what fictional dystopian futures are sufficiently of interest to virus authors and the like that they use names from those works:

"In a dystopian future, the Japanese government is cracking down on any perceived immoral activity from using risqué language to distributing lewd materials in the country, to the point where all citizens are forced to wear high-tech devices called Peace Makers (PM) at all times that analyse every spoken word and hand motions for any action that could break the law. A new high school student named Tanukichi Okuma enters the country's leading elite "public morals school" to reunite with his crush and student council President, Anna Nishikinomiya.

... After being accidentally kissed by Tanukichi, she develops an obsessive love for him but due to lack of knowledge on "immoral" subjects she ends up expressing her love in extreme tendencies. These include pursuing him relentlessly and attempting to rape him, endangering Kosuri and Ayame when she sees them with Tanukichi, and becoming far more harsh and strict on her surveillance, believing that by doing "justice" and "good things" she will be loved by him."

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimoneta

And that's Anna-senpai, the fictional character.
Wow. What an unpleasant way to respond to criticism. Being a programmer does not require the ability to hobble your thinking. I can easily imagine programming in a language without generics - but I'd still be programming with generics, I'd just be expanding them in my head (or, if I was writing enough code, in my own implementation of generics) rather than using a built-in implementation.
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That's not what "existential dread" means.
I'd say if you hate it, you should propose the changes and how to refactor. There's only so much people can do and they certainly will benefit from first-time contributors who may have fresh ideas. Otherwise this is just plain complain and nothing else.
Games are quite passive in the grand scheme of things and do little to actually challenge cognition. Compared to other basic toys / learning devices, video games don't have compelling research because I don't think it'll work out. There's no 3 dimensional space to work through (Legos), no emotional play (dolls, action figures), visual imagination time (crayons, Play Doh)...on and on and on with better examples that don't need batteries and are more stimulating than being a button mashing monkey.
And wsj linked here today https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/student-...
Reddit is most definitely not an "anti Redis" shop! If we were to rewrite it today, we might start with Redis. We've just put so much work into making memcached reliable and easy to understand for developers that the possible benefits of switching to Redis for many of these use cases don't outweigh the operational knowledge we have from years of running memcached at this scale.

That said - we use Redis in at least 2 (soon to be 3) capacities across the site for different services (outside of the monolith) and it works really well.
Atleast for Software Engineers/ CS Majors...what was your out of school loan? (I'm curious - I'm a 2016 SE grad from Canada, and it cost me ~70k total - which includes tuition, dorms etc.).

I didn't go to UW or UofT, but I'm sure their total cost is ± 30k at most.

So I'm just curious how students manage to have loans of around 35k/yr.
The claim is secure transport only. They have never made a claim that adversaries won't be able to detect that you are sending encrypted messages.
Scale in terms of the number of employees.

I think most people at the org should be Alan Kay called "second order work"—libraries foremost, but also programming tools, etc. Just about any end business goal should be a trivial composition of existing abstractions—if it isn't that's a problem to be addressed.

Work reuse always reflects the dependency graph of libraries and tools etc. In this type organization, I'd expect much bigger (depth and width) dependency graphs than the current independent teams model.

The end result is organizations should become more "agile" as they grow because they have more high-quality abstractions to lean on.

But current practices always put end-goal over process, and thus have no chance of cultivating this efficiency.
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Yeah, and also get rid of links to software that costs money, because that's free advertising, too!
They are very aware it seems based on my observations over the last few years and while I don't agree with everything they do I defend their right to spend a tiny fraction of their time on a logo.

- after all it seems logo, ui and pixel polish etc matters a whole lot more to a lot of people than it does to me so it might be well worth updating.

Me? As long as extensions work and they don't copy too much more (bad imo) ideas like hidden menus and hamburger from Chrome and Mac they are still easily my favourite.

Oh, and they have created a new systems programming language that has managed to exite me and a lot of others here on the northeastern side of the Internet.
> We should work toward enabling people to live fully transparent lives.

Undesirable for most, harmful for many, and lethal for some.

I live in a fairly tolerant society as far as Earth standards go, but some things I will only share with a select few. Should my medical records be open to anyone? My banking statements? My sexual preferences and fantasies? That's absurd. It would ostracise a lot of people even in a nominally free society. In some less enlightened jurisdictions some of these will get you executed or lynched (ask any gay person in a Muslim country, or anyone critical of their government in a repressive regime).

Yet I might want to chat about some topics with like minded individuals (again, assume for the sake of argument that all of it is legal in my jurisdiction) under a pseudonym or anonymity; the internet is a wonderful place where this is possible — partly because I'm not doing everything through one megacorp's 'app'. I'd like to keep it that way.

> […] as there's not even a minimal set of guidelines that help unify the web experience.

Good. Our culture thrives by diversity. Innovation stagnates without it.

We standardise where necessary for mutual benefit and cooperation (e.g., HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Unicode; or accessibility standards), and often we will imitate or copy what works (e.g., the 'hamburger menu', or sensible typography) but that doesn't mean every site or service or application should look the same and connect to the same set of identity providers.

You present a very radical viewpoint, and I applaud you for your fervour, but I suspect you are either very young, not a developer, or you haven't experienced the downside of the monopolistic behaviour of the world's Apples, Googles, and Microsofts yet.
I genuinely prefer

n = if expr trueVal else falseVal

(which is what e.g. Scala does) over meaningless-unless-memorized '?' and ':'
Then, it's not Swift that is not production ready, but XCode that is crap :)
Half the founders in Silicon Valley, including many of the most revered ones, are college dropouts.
Quote, to maybe nib the ritual hatred in the bud before mozilla becomes the new Apple:

"A logo that not only DOESN’T suck but one that has a strong idea, a fresh execution, a promising flexibility, and, that all of it together, sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly, manages to communicate what Mozilla is about."

Now if only someone would write an article explaining why considerations such as branding are useful even for non-profits...

edit: the last sentence was apparently interpreted as an actual question, when it was meant as a plea for someone to do an eloquent write-up of the non-profits-also-need-marketing case that I could link to.
I consider myself a pretty hardcore free software enthusiast, and I'm okay with using the Google-branded browser to play Netflix. My feeling is that if you're playing copyrighted content, you're in the restricted intellectual property space anyway. Netflix "owns" the rights to play these videos, so they get to say what platforms they play on. It would be better if they played on a fully open source platform (hopefully they will soon), but it would also be better if copyright law wasn't completely insane.

Frankly I'm just glad I can play Netflix on non-Android Linux at all, because that wasn't the case originally. For what it's worth, Netflix runs smoothly on Google Chrome on my Arch laptop. Amazon prime also plays, though the interface is clunkier. I use chromium as my default browser but I aliased nf='google-chrome-stable https://www.netflix.com'
Incognito doesn't work for me. Like I said in the OP, all of the workarounds I've heard of have not been working for some months now. Neither does Google search or anything else. I don't even use a mainstream browser with an incognito mode anyway, I'd have to open up a seperate browser just to read WSJ articles even if it did work. This is ridiculous.
All big-data related projects were donated to Apache by companies and not developed by ASF and they're still active https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category
Drawing and painting help you look at things differently; it improves motor skills (probably most important for young and old, but has some value for everyone), etc.
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Apparently the place to get answers is the Swift evolution mailing list - they mentioned it several times.
If you are working for a small company, be a founder, not as an employee. Many folks mistake small companies as startups. Startup is a place where exponential growth happens. From what I see, this is a just a small company which had regular growth. Run if you don't see exponential growth.
This is a big advantage to Go, you're totally correct, but it does come at a cost with the GC and a runtime. For some this is acceptable, for others it is not. But this is not the reason that I personally decided to bet on Rust and not Go, though they were part of it.

The three main reasons that Go doesn't fit with the work I want to do on the network is all around compile time guarantees:

1) Strong type checking on Null
2) Required handling of Errors
3) Generics

These all help me write stable software that I have higher confidence in than what I've written in Go.

In terms of the debate on Futures, etc. you are right that it's simpler to write pure stack based functions, but the overhead of tokio and futures in Rust is not as high as that of a goroutine, but it does take more thought. It's a trade off on productivity vs. stability. In your opinion it's ugly and hurts productivity, but to me it is pure elegance with zero overhead cost at runtime (and if you preallocate an arena/slab it can even have known memory costs). After working with tokio over the last half year or so, I find that I'm as productive as I am when writing single threaded blocking IO code (granted there was an initial ramp up time before I became as comfortable as I am now).
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Has anyone done a study to see if this kind of aided solving actually helps students learn? I'm worried that "Eh, I'll just write this solution down today, I'm sure I'll learn it tomorrow" is what's happens.

Awesome software though.
There are lots of studies that standing all day is bad for you, which is why special flooring and shoes are a thing.

http://www.newark.com/anti-fatigue-mats
I agree, but I don't think banning links to the WSJ is necessarily the right solution. They're presumably interesting articles that warrant discussion here if people are upvoting them, even if those users are in the minority. When a better (e.g. more accessible) link is found the HN admin frequently replace the original URL.
> but changing name to something unspeakable and ungooglable doesn't feel right.

they're not changing the name. they're still "mozilla". they will still have "mozilla.org" and you'll still be able to google it. it's just a new logo. people are so over-reacting to this
What have they abandoned?
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Why we write in whatever language we need to get the job done
Are there any realtime OSs written for the Pi?
> You will not actually lose fat by lifting weights

Of course you can lose fat by lifting weights. Calories in < calories out = weight loss (hopefully fat). Any type of physical activity increases calories out.
PyPI stats are massively inflated by automated deployments, and anyway even them show a clear rising trend for 3. Also, 3.4+ (from 2014) is a very different beast from 3.0, and it's probably not a coincidence that porting significantly accelerated after its release (about 3 years ago).
* Was it because you were addicted?

* What games did you play?

* What was missing, what did you end up doing instead?

* Was the gaming you did social or not, challenging or not?

That you made the right choice for yourself is great, but without any context, no one else can understand why it was good for you. It is likely not a universal truth.
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I'm an advocate for simplifying and flattening the tax code, but with what we've got would it make sense for some sort tax insensitives? Like funds to repay student loans could be tax free like 401k contributions or maybe employers could get a tax break for helping to repay the loans. Gosh, assuming this stuff doesn't already exist.
I wonder what the impact of pay to win type games?

Had an interesting discussion with my bro who is into gaming he says most of his peers are playing "pay to win" the games are only superficially based on skill and the only way to progress, compete and win is buying upgrades.

I stopped playing games seriously a while back so a bit out of the loop.

The games are rewarding $$$ over putting in the effort/time to learn.
I'm curious about a few things:

What are the effects of these types of games?

Could it discourage effort, make people believe they can buy their way to skills without effort?

What are the impacts of constant gamification? The app stores are filled with toddler games heavily gamified. Are we creating a generation of people that will be purely extrinsically motivated?
Do you pay to use google.com ?
only people who don't know how to use the internet will do that
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What's the difference between mcrouter vs something like haproxy?
Topic Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13370654
Could base it off of a raspberry pi with a touch LCD. It would make a good teaching project for a highschool class.
Very accurate and poignant.
>"the military is one of the best job options"

That seems like a problem in and of itself, and certainly a more pressing one.
Learning the term before the concept is putting the cart before the horse. But once you find yourself dealing with the fact that e.g. one can use a Source[Float] as a Source[Number] and not vice versa, whereas one can use a Sink[Number] as a Sink[Float] but not vice versa; one can use a Function[Number, Float] as a Function[Float, Float] or a Function[Number, Number] and either of those as a Function[Float, Number], but not in reverse, then it's useful to have words for these relationships so that we can talk about them.
To be fair, I do insist on calling Deloitte "Deloitte Dot".
Except that actor has the most advanced space program in history. Its like saying Michael Phelps is part of a conspiracy to keep other swimmers from winning. Uh no. The world isn't one on even playing field. Some people are better than others and thus get better results.
That looks nothing like a rose.
Eh - no problem with free advertising. A good chunk of what is posted on hacker news has some kind of profit motive or self-promotion attached it it.

My frustration with hard-core paywall sites is that most of the community is blocked (or has to jump through hoops) to read the content.
I'm having trouble believing anything he's said so far ...
I mean code reused from upstream libraries. An internal abstract should either be moved out, or probably isn't that interesting anyways.

If your abstraction has a real-world vs purely mathematical / programmatic purpose, it probably sucks.

Functor > UserLoginFactoryBean.
> Calories in < calories out = weight loss

Not necessarily, but the alternative is fat loss with greater muscle gain (b/c muscle has lower stored energy content per pound.)
400 units is very small. Today's image classification neural nets have hundreds of thousands of units (units is my preferred non-biological synonym for "neuron")
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I'm sure you can find some examples then
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Just some balanced diet and some physical workout like jogging/rope jumping every otherday is enough to keep you fit unless you are in really very very bad shape.
no need to hate on the blue walls. people who park their bikes in bikesheds with walls made of transparent materials shouldn't throw stones.
As an American who has used Japanese toilets I can testify that they are solving a very real problem.
That's also my only nitpick on the article's list. Interpretation of messages from coworkers happens in an emotional context, and if you don't refresh that context every now and then (weekly?), strange things happen. Like, people start arguing because minor nitpicks expressed without any malice are interpreted as "you suck, shame on you for making that mistake" - or vice versa.
I didn't move the goalposts? I reworded what I previously expressed. If you want to see support, you can pay people to provide that support. Free support ends in 2020.

If you're not paying for it and you are making money off it, I don't see this attitude as being okay. You can ask. You can also be told no!

Python 2 advocates like to bring up the PyPI download numbers as some kind of "reality". But here is the reality: The PSF, governing body for the Python project, has decided years ago that Python 3 will EOL in 2020. It has given ample heads up for everybody to migrate.

Years. That's the reality. This decision didn't come out of nowhere. Don't expect a yes.

Edit: I am wasting my time replying to you.
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Well put, moduspol
>Alcohol for example - there was never any taboo about drinking in Iceland.

Over 60% of Icelandic voters voted for complete alcohol prohibition in 1915, and in 1933 much of the ban was lifted; however it wasn't until 1989 that all of the restrictions were removed. I don't know how you can say it was never taboo or an issue of justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Iceland#Prohibition