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capitalism requires trading for mutual benefit, which promotes creation of products for sale and competition on prices. How is that a wealth sink? For an individual to make a billion dollars they have to create a company that sells multiple billions of dollars of products to mutual benefit of customers...
Respectfully....

> While Trump has lied or exaggerated, the extent to which the left media has also lied and exaggerated has been astronomical

I don't disagree that the media is biased but Trump is the President and still blatantly lying. That is not normal in a healthy government.

> Reform through dismantlement was a key plank of Trump's campaign so I don't know why you think that him implementing sweeping changes is either a surprise or a bad thing in the eyes of his supporters.

And you wonder why accusations of privilege are used? Reform may be needed but not everyone had the luxury of being buffered from the change process as they dismantle environmental regulations, welfare programs, and the institutions of government. This isn't some political game it's people's lives.

> The election between Clinton and Trump in part boiled down to a choice between "business as usual, corruption and all" or "tear it down and rebuild it in the image of business". Trump's election is an intentional attack on bureaucracy, politics, and government expansionism by the working and middle classes

Is there any objective evidence that the Trump administration isn't corrupt, doesn't have massive conflicts of interest, and isn't "business as usual" for special interests? I'm just as biased as you are but come on!! Do the tax returns and refusal to actually divest not bother you if you care about corruption etc?

(Typing on mobile so apologize for typos and errors!)
Both kvass and kefir can save your morning after yesterday's zastolie (and the entire day if otherwise you would start it with more alcoholic drinks).
This should have been implemented as a Facebook Messenger Bot.
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Official Java REPL is not big. I know I will never use it and I don't know anyone who will. Those who get excited by live scripting/REPL probably won't be using Java. In any case, there is even a Java REPL solution available already if you really miss it. (java-repl)

"Native" HTTP 2.0 support is nice and something that's expected to arrive eventually but also not big. A lot of people currently use alternative HTTP libraries anyways. As a Spring developer I usually use Resttemplate to do HTTP/REST calls and you can feed that with a RequestFactory that produces HTTP2 enabled requests, like OkHttp and Jetty. I don't know about Apache HttpClient.

As for the process management API: That's actually quite nice, but the last time I touched processes was when I was writing horrible winforms applications years ago.

Yes, certainly, not every release needs to be a revolution, but if you ask "What does it add that I will enjoy to use on a daily basis?" and the answer is "Nothing really, but take a look at ..." it's a bit disappointing. Some Java 10 features look like they could be big. If Java 9 is the Windows Vista of Java, Java 10 hopefully will be the Windows 7. (;
Is anyone saying he cannot?

Although there was a lot of press recently about people like Thiel buying these remote places in case of some sort of global disaster. NZ is a nice place to have a pint or two and wait for the trouble to all blow over. So it may seem like pushing for Trump could increase the risk of global disaster, which Thiel has hedged against but many of us are not as fortunate to have a well stocked, remote bolt hole.
Stop saying that bad word!
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New Zealand is the future, and Peter Thiel will make sure of that by giving us Trump. It all makes sense, now.
He doesn't 'like New Zealand'. Hell, I like NZ!

He winds up at the dawn of the internet in an early monopoly (Paypal), leverages insider user-monitoring to sell dashboards to the Feds (Palantir), and after enabling the security monitoring services he claims to be opposed to, helps a raving despot take their command, decides he wants to cash out his $bn once shit gits real.

the man is a wealthy coward and hypocrite, who has helped deeply hurt a nation of mostly decent people.

he's scum.
There are multiple options, and which one you choose is heavily dependent on your goals. And your goals will change over time.

I have done remote work, done consulting, worked less-than-full time as normal employee... depends what you want:

1. Freelance/consulting. This requires an additional set of skills, marketing and sales.

2. Create your own product. Even more emphasis on marketing, and another whole set of skills.

3. Early retirement. Reduce expenses as much as possible, invest proceeds.

4. A good job. Depending on your goals this may be less-than-full-time, or work from home, or remote work.

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A basic skill set you need to achieve any of these:

* Ability to work independently. If you need to be told exactly what to do at work none of the above are feasible except maybe early retirement. Beyond that, in demand valuable skills.

* Savings in the bank. If you are living paycheck to paycheck you have no negotiating ability.

* Negotiation skills, so you can negotiate what you need.

I'm working on a book on the subject, which isn't ready yet, but here's an excerpt: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/09/16/sane-workweek/
Relatedly, have you ever watched 'Silicon Valley?'
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The lesson here has been learned over and over again, painfully.

For every backup system you have, test restores, from scratch, periodically. The more critical the data is to your business, the more frequently and more automated you want those backup checks.

Of course you also want procedures to try to prevent tired admins from deleting production databases. To the greatest degree possible, implement systems to prevent manual tampering with production data; often there's an alternative. But databases can get broken or corrupt without admin interference, so preventing manual database removal or corruption is not an ultimate solution.
> We are specifically talking about smoking practices that do not harm others being banned in Australia.

Smoking in a private residence is not banned in Australia.

> Yet people are continuously bringing up passive smoking, something that does harm so totally off topic, but this is their argument.

Most of Australia's bans are to make secondhand smoking something that can be entirely avoided by non-smokers. Taxation is a separate issue, and there are valid arguments against taxation of products like tobacco and alcohol.

The only thing mentioned in the article which is not related to this goal is discussions about age discrimination for tobacco sales. Personally I think such a law would not be a good idea, simply because it would increase the demand for black market tobacco.

The right way of combating the public health epidemic of smoking is through social stigmatisation. And luckily it's worked (I'm in the younger generation, and smoking carries far more of a stigma than it did in previous generations).

And believe it or not, but plain packaging does actually work. At least, it did for me (the images on packets scared the crap out of me as a child).

> bully a minority with immunity, also an Australian trait.

As someone who came from a country where non-smokers are the minority, I definitely prefer living in a country where you can actually go to the CBD and also being able to breathe. Maybe the "bullying" is earned, when a person is negatively affecting public spaces.

Not to mention that you keep talking about fundamental human rights but you've yet to explain what right is being infringed. The right to consume any substance is actually not a human right -- though maybe you would like it to be? In which case, lets fix all of the human rights violations in impoverished nations where starvation is common before we start discussing tobacco.
Also, it's measuring the number of static responses to a single client. I guess there probably is an use case for this, but a more typical situation is many clients making one or a few requests, and also doing the TLS handshake.
In certain circles, New Zealand citizenship is seen as a rich survivalist's hedge against the collapse of American society [1]. Especially given that he's gotten this citizenship and is not intending to live there (and doesn't even travel there often enough to go through his naturalization ceremony in-country), that is the most likely motivation. And given that this is just after Thiel so enthusiastically helped Trump get elected, it's easy to see this as voter's remorse, even though Thiel started this process long before Trump was running (in fact, even before Obama was running in 2008).

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-f...
Disappointing the hackernews comments are turning into the exact same thing I've been avoiding at arstechnica, engadget, and gizmodo. A lot of rage, very little substance.
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At work we have an ascii-art, most-of-80x40-filling version of our logo rendered in an environment-associated color on login + matching prompt. The ascii-art logo might not have helped in this case (if it was a long sequence of console interactions), but It does catch "db1" vs "db2" typos, for instance, and also elicits a certain reverence upon connection.
Can this be retrofitted into flask (just the performance improvements) ?

I would pay for that.. a lot (as much as I can afford). And I'm pretty sure so would a lot of others.
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My argument doesn't have anything to do with multiple inheritance. C is the only one I know of that supports multiple inheritance and it's largely considered a historical mistake (see deadly diamond of death). Javascript uses something called the prototype chain to determine InstanceOf(). It's literally a linked list, and a ton of disadvantages come with the object system being a re-purposed linked list. It's possible (and easy) to break the type of an object by corrupting the prototype chain. It's the reason you have to do hacky stuff like Array.Prototype.ForEach to make sure your code actually works in larger JS applications. It's also slow and a big reason why javascript runs around 10x slower than most JIT'ed languages. The crazy object system prevents a ton of optimizations from working.

Encapsulation isn't the "classic version" of OO. It's literally the main reason OO was created. Javascript fails to encapsulate because it doesn't support true private data members. There's patterns to achieve some sort of data safety (see http://speakingjs.com/es5/ch17.html#private_data_for_objects) but they all have disadvantages because it isn't built into the language, it's another hack.

Composition can be easily achieved using interfaces in most languages, another thing javascript doesn't support.

Excusing these faults to being dynamic language is like saying the model T is a nice car because "it was good for its time". Many languages before JS (including perl even) supported a more sound and convenient type system.

JS was badly designed in many ways and we are still paying the price for it today. ES6 and transpiling have made it finally worthwhile to try to develop anything significant using it which has led to the recent explosion of javascript development. I pray that EMCA continue to remedy what can be fixed in future and that Typescript catches on since it mows over much of the insanity.
Only if you control the endpoints or have a compromised CA. The whole point of TLS is that you can't inspect traffic even if you own all the cables and routers between the two endpoints.
I'd always presumed that's who it was based on.
I have no respect for people that run away from their problems.
Why do you care about security fixes when updating the OS but you don't care about security fixes of apps? If an app is 2 years old it is probably using libraries with security issues. I would blame the developer for not updating the app, not apple. (I am saying this as an app developer).
NZ embracing what nations like USA forget what made them wealthy. I completely support this wealth/skill migration as the only cure for impeding full blown socialism.
Not sure what the point is in getting angry about what billionaires do. It's hardly like they will change their decision-making based on what HN/Reddit et al. think about them. Focus on improving yourself.
I get the point. It's clearly implied in the piece and in the fact that it's on the HN front page.

My point is "it doesn't matter and I don't know why I should care". I'm more interested in rational (not fallacy-centered) responses to his thoughts.
True, but that's not directly relevant to the observable problems with pipelining. Any client implementing the http/1.1 pipelining semantics will run into the same issues because of the limitations built into the design.
With the way things are going with Trump he might be right. Ironic that he's helping Trump.
Since it happened in 2011 I assume he has had his eye on a contingency plan of that nature for a while now.
haha, which one - capitalism, billion or wealth?
> That seems like optimizing for a benchmark.

Perish the thought, we've never seen that before in claims about which languages are fastest
It's not impossible, just somewhat at odds with the "America first" rhetoric of the Trump camp. If you think the U.S. isn't the future and you're comparison-shopping for other citizenships, that sounds more like you're part of the "globalist elite", than like you're an America-firster committed to the country.
Is having a place to live in NZ part of some 'prepper' survival plan?

From The New Yorker's profile of sama:

“My problem is that when my friends get drunk they talk about the ways the
world will end. After a Dutch lab modified the H5N1 bird-flu virus, five
years ago, making it super contagious, the chance of a lethal synthetic
virus being released in the next twenty years became, well, nonzero.”

...

If the pandemic does come, Altman’s backup plan is to fly with his friend
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist, to Thiel’s house in New
Zealand.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-man...
Cool, I missed those.
They gave him citizenship after he invested $7m and gave $1m to charity there. That's not really corrupt - in most countries you can move there through investing. Corrupt is when you give an envelope of cash to an official. NZ actually ranks joint #1 least corrupt country in the world with Denmark. USA is #18. http://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percepti...
> smokers can avoid feeling repressed simply by quitting smoking

What gives you the right to oppress people for the behavioural choices? What gives you the right to tell someone that his health is more important than his happiness?

I don't believe that you have that right.
Why not? I have fond memories of it. I have the memories of sleeping in my car for weeks on end when I was building the software. I have memories of the two friends I built it with. I have fond memories of the bucket-based OpenGL render engine I wrote for it, the dynamic water system, the physically-driven character rig, the 3D models I made, memories of the art I painted.

I also remember the blog posts I wrote about some of the complexities and fun problems we solved. I remember the reviews written about the product.

I cherish it. I just don't care if I have the source code or a working binary (though I still have the latter until this 32 bit support is dropped!). I have the memories and experience and the desire to create more.

Your quote says it all:

> I cherish the memories of the time we spent together.

I cherish the time I spent creating my software and putting it out into the world. Now I'm creating something else, and I'm happy with the memories.
All of those are things the majority of professional Java developers will never ever hear about, let alone actively use.
And you allow them to eat and drink processed foodstuff with high amounts of sugar?
Multiple citizenships are a hedge against local instability. Having one is putting all your eggs in one basket. If all you have is US citizenship and an lets say hypothetically an orange totalitarian takes over, you're kinda stuck. You've got no legal right to live anywhere else. Another citizenship(s) affords that to you.

New Zealand is a good bet because they're (1) remote, (2) English speaking, (3) very well developed and (4) has an extremely well functioning government with among the lowest perception of corruption (5) and widely-accepted travel documents.

Particularly as a notable or wealthy individual, another citizenship can make a lot of sense.
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Another way to look at this is if you are from a country exporting large amounts of terrorists then nobody wants to play with you due to the whole guilt by association thing. Some modern examples are americans paying reparations for slaves, no american alive today had anything to do with that. I also remember walking through Nagasaki as an american, you talk about hate and I had nothing to do with the bomb.

So guilt by association is definitely real and is definitely used by various other groups and countries to enrich their lives.

As far as the green card goes, I know quite a few people over dramatizing the effects of Trumps legislation primarily due to their hatred for them. My wife is Mexican and has a green card. Just this past weekend she left the US for a short trip to MX, and is already back. Her parents, daily, drive to Mexico for their job and drive back to the US where they live. If your wife is finding it difficult to re-enter the country, then from my perspective at least, there may be other reasons.
According to the article, he was granted citizenship there in 2011, long before Trump was serious about becoming president. There's enough fucked up shit going on right now; it delegitimizes all that stuff by saying he's using New Zealand to escape Trump.
I was referring to the first, but now that you mention it all three!
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> As long as there are people willing to preserve it, then we will preserve it.

As long as there are people willing to preserve it, there are still laws (e.g. DCMA) that prohibit people from doing it.
4.5 years of official smartphone updates is actually considered excellent by modern standards. That's several new generations' worth.

It feels surreal to read this line of complaints about this when Apple is in such a high regard when it comes to precisely smartphone support.
Trump may soon sign executive order re-vamping H-1B visa program
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Python always made it possible to use C, that's a design feature. It's ridiculous to characterize this as untrustworthy.
You gotta shout otherwise you would sign the social contract.

But seriously I think HN should reconsider no politics week.
And the witch-hunt continues.
So Thiel supported Trump and isn't a jingoist, at least not a traditional one. I guess that's interesting but not front page material for a thoughtful community.

It's clearly a response to his thoughts on the recent immigration order. But it's a long-form logical fallacy.
I sometimes find it therapeutic, cathartic even, to bitch and moan about things that annoy me. Especially amongst people who share my views, or challenge them. Granted, that's more the province of something like reddit, but I guess what we're seeing here is spill-over from more relevant on-topic discussion.
Yeah i think pricing is key and it looks like the different cloud storage providers all optimize for different types of storage (hot / cold). backblaze seems to be cheaper when storage is high and data transfer is relatively low (calculated via http://coststorage.com)
> History teaches us what happens without any labour protection, so that's not an option.

What, you become the richest, most powerful country in the world? (I think America has the weakest labour laws in the developed world).
Democracy Now is certainly not an unbiased news source.
Depends on where you were born. Mexican-Americans are less likely to be affected, because very few were born in these 7 countries (which are not close to Mexico). However, I'm Greek-American, and many of us are affected, because we or family members were born in one of these countries. Many Greek-Americans are in the U.S. precisely because we fled from the Middle East, as the Greek communities that used to exist in cities across the former Ottoman Empire, ranging from Alexandria to Damascus to Istanbul, were coming under attack and becoming untenable to maintain. If your Greek passport says place of birth "Damascus" on it, suddenly you now have problems, even if you have a green card, while previously this was never an issue. As a result, many Greek-Americans are not happy with this move, even those who are usually politically conservative.
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Ironically your comment supports your observations.
I don't think it's even a little confusing that residents of this country would have some concern about a billionaire that appears to be actively working to destroy the pillars of our civil society while simultaneously making plans to relocate to an island halfway around the world once the collapse takes place. It is, literally, as easy to understand as the plot of a comic book or James Bond movie.
Apparently, yes (from a more recent New Yorker article):

> New Zealand’s reputation for attracting doomsayers is so well known in the hedge-fund manager’s circle that he prefers to differentiate himself from earlier arrivals. He said, “This is no longer about a handful of freaks worried about the world ending.” He laughed, and added, “Unless I’m one of those freaks.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-f...
Generally you stop at permanent residency (US EB-5, for instance) and can't really buy citizenship. Notable exception of course being Malta as a path to EU citizenship (pretty cheap, actually, some 650,000EUR [1]

[1] http://csbgroup.com/relocation/citizenship/malta-individual-...
I just upgraded to the 7 plus from a Samsung S6 on Monday. I agree, the camera is very, very good. I love the live photos and the portrait mode is beautiful.

I was actually underwhelmed when the phone was announced, and the lack of a headphone jack seemed inconvenient (and those ear pods refuse to stay in my ears). But, the wired headphone adapter works, and fortunately I don't charge and listen at the same time much.

So much like the new Macbook, I wonder how much these notable backwards steps really matter. With Apple products my thinking is, is it worth the switch? Most likely. Is it worth a yearly upgrade? Nope.
It seems to be a pretty good idea. Thank you.
I certainly hadn't. Great site.
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^[ and ^{ do the same thing in Terminal.app (macOS Sierra) and vim 8.0. However, I get the bell sound (which generally denotes invalid input in macOS) for ^; and it prints nothing.
Could be made a standard to signal non ascii chars by programs. A (red squared g)oogle might grab attention. Maybe a full underline ..
It's a real thing. Freakonomics talked about it in one of their recent podcasts. Basically, clinical trials often exclude or under sample women for a number of reasons including the confounding factors of menstrual cycles, pregnancy complications, etc. This has received increasing attention lately and is getting better, but a ton of the current scientific wisdom is based on underrepresentative samples.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-2-drug-tri...