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Honestly, I don't understand the role of unions in modern society. At least not in major metropolitan areas.

The original goal of a union was to protect people who had no other realistic employment oppotunities. If you lived in rural Pennsylvania digging in a coal mine, I totally get unionization. More power to you (/me beats his chest in solidarity).

But you're talking about the modern age for a group that has arguably more career mobility than any other career in the history of the world. If I don't like the conditions at a job, I'll pick up and leave. There are hundreds of jobs I can select from; the tech world is literally my oyster. If enough people leave, conditions will change, but frankly I won't care because I won't be there. Protection against mass layoffs? That sounds like you want to drag the company down. I'd rather see 50% of the people continue on with a job indefinitely than see 95% with a job for a few months until the company shuts its doors.

These factors makes unions uninteresting for me. But there are other factors that make me openly hostile to unions.

I think that collective bargaining in pay brings the average salary up, but I'm not an average engineer. I like to think I'm in at least the top 25% (I'd like to say I'm in the 5%, but I don't know if I am), and so my assumption is that unions will bring my salary down. Frankly I don't care about bringing low-end engineers' salaries up at the cost of mine. I assume that the company isn't totally irrational, and it is capable of deciding for itself how important employees are and compensate them accordingly.

Also, my experience with unions in the past had to do with my spouse working in education. The union there was not acting in teachers' best interest. They routinely brought in retirement savings pitches that advocated terrible choices for the teachers, any proposed change was immediately mired in committees where it would languish and die, and when you did have an issue the union was outright hostile (spouse was laid off over summer break for the crime of being pregnant, union abruptly stopped discussing the issue with us after a cutoff date until we'd paid the next year's dues, when we paid union said "thank you, we're not going to pursue this, the school's decision stands").
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I drink about 1L/day I use to get kidney stones all the time. Told to stop drinking tea and dark sodas. After researching it for 10 minutes my Urologist didn't know what he was talking about.

Contents of Oxalate:

black tea 15 grams for 1 liter equals 15 * 5.11 = 76.65 milligrams of soluble oxalates

Spinach has 645 milligrams of soluble oxalates per serving size!

Cola sodas has 0 as in ZERO soluble oxalates per serving size.

My doctor told me that was all new to him. I stopped going to him as a doctor. I ate spinach everyday. I stopped eat spinach I stopped having kidney stones.
Apropos of anything else, simple model trains are not cheap. You can easily spend hundreds of dollars on a single train. And hundreds of dollars on track. Which you either have to have somewhere to set up, or be stuck with dismantling steadily on the floor.

A bunch of work to build something that runs around in the carpet on your floor in a slightly elaborate loop? Not so fun.

And so then you might dedicate some space, or a room, or garage to building a scene.

Now you've got more and more time, attention to detail, and oh yes, much more money for building models, decorating, etc.

What might have been worthwhile in older days is now an older person's hobby because it's _really easy_ to spend thousands, if not tens of.
Since the #1 cause of latency I experience is waiting for ads to be fetched from a publisher's ad network, I'm pretty sure AMP would not work at all if it worked this way.
I'm not following this line. Copyrights are never about facts, and always about their presentation.

If the facts are discovered or invented shouldn't have any importance.
Let's run with the absolute sense. Getting 10x more front page posts will be a challenge requiring dozens of attempts and you need 100s on the front page just for awful numbers to become bad numbers!

Doing 100 front page posts this decade seems wildly optimistic, that'd be you on the front page every 10 days and it is highly unlikely HN even wants to talk about any person that often.
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Seems they have - at least for now - given up the commercial project.

I would have loved it if they were successful and made a small fortune so as to encourage more innovative in this niche.

That said, seems they are once again proving what they are made of and making everything available as open source.
Corruption is by association, not direction. So Trump's involvement with Goldman at all is indication of a quid-pro-quo that stinks of corruption.

Trump may be right about H1Bs, but he's knee deep in corruptive patterns. The details will come out when those "old buddies" start doing their "former" businesses huge favors.
This article mentions offhand that the storage drivers are unreliable, even for data volumes.

Is that actually the case? Is there a serious risk that a database will be corrupted by a container crash, as the article claims? A regular crash of the computer should not be able to corrupt a database, is a container more dangerous in this regard?
And casinos have no fix!!! cough sure whatever
Capital vs. labor divisions amongst libertarianism! The Marxists would have a field day, if only they could appreciate the irony of the situation.
"any device to assist"... where the human brain is not a device? ;)
If they do it without informing me as a customer, it's more than just annoying, it's also unethical.
s/One Day/One Way/
or maybe intellectual consistency inevitably leads to maximising value for oneself
Can I ask why I'm being singled out here?

Edit: And why can't I post anymore?
I guess the pattern is pretty inevitable if you're building on a centralised distributed log. You write events to a log which consumers read and create custom databases , which are the more convenient means to your ends.

Fine but the semantic of your events will be exceptionally important as will versioning if you'd like a consistent way of making your views re-buildable. This is easy to mess up.

Kafka + YARN + Hadoop + DBs + code. To me this is neither elegant nor simple but perhaps necessary complexity if you're into something in realtime and on scale.
This is such a random thing to find its way to the front page of HN
robots.txt and dmca seems appropriate
Do you have some examples to point out?
AMP only starts loading ads after the content loaded anyway.

Ads can be served from the publisher's server, but this is rarely done.
Indian companies start subsidiaries in US so that they can send invitation to workers in India so they get H-1b visa. The companies requesting H-1b visas have to be American, Indian companies or companies working for contract to US companies should not be allowed to request H1-b visas. THe US IT workers also have to change; they have to accept some work will be outsourced and their job is now more like participating and controlling outsourcing for their employer.
Isn't it possible to stream a copy of the database out of the container and over the network to another database instance?
Then you let Docker write to a virtual network drive, streaming the journal out of the container.
> As Hoke notes, Aristocrat, Novomatic, and any other manufacturers whose PRNGs have been cracked “would have to pull all the machines out of service and put something else in, and they’re not going to do that.”

This just goes to show that despite the money the casinos are losing to this Russian group, they are still making so much money off the people they are cheating that it's not worth fixing the problem.

Why our governments protect the jerks who steal money from the less intelligent members of our society is beyond me. That there are laws that support casinos is no justification. Casinos are themselves a scam and should not be protected against scammers at the expense of tax payers.
I like the TechCrunch title better ("Google fixes a big problem with AMP"). "Google fixes problem with AMP" makes it sound like there's only one problem with AMP.
"For the 21st-century kids stuck in the back seat of that car, trains are noisy, antiquated, and irredeemably boring..."

Well, in America. In large parts of Europe, and some of Asia, they're OMG-WOW noisy if you're standing close when they go past at 300km/h [1], although quieter than a car when inside, and somewhere between faster and way faster than a car. Children on a train are either used to it as a primary means of transport, or are making a special journey.

> as if the hobby only had a past but not a future.

That's exactly my feeling. Lots of my dad's friends were into model railways, and I saw too many of them. Still, the only time I've seen models of modern railways has been in larger European stations, where they're presented as a toy for children to play with [2].

[1] Or even just 200km/h: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT34kTytUmw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQb35F726Eg
I know tons of people my age who wanted to go into computer science. They failed out, lacked the dedication it took to make up for missing skills, etc.

The wages are making people try, but the field is difficult.
They are still TCP/IP and/or UDP/IP packets running over the "internet protocol". At what point do you draw the fences between "private network" and the rest of the internet?
A Free Uber-Like App Finds Rides for People in Rural Areas
That all seems pretty legitimate to me.
So AI that can develop algorithms on its own? Basically AI that can write code?
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> Murder is usually the one crime stat that can't be fudged

Homicides generally, maybe, are harder to fudge (especially homicides + suicides as a single group) but breaking down into specific crimes (and non-crimes; not all homicide is criminal) certainly can be fudged.
I don't disagree, my point wasn't that nobody gets it right, it was that in order to get it right you have to think about the things which you take for granted being different. And that is not a natural act :-). Some of the best science fiction that anticipated the Internet has been stuff that assumed telepathy and looked at issues associated with that. We hit some of those problems with voice activation and bluetooth headsets :-).
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That's on us, our bad - we intended to put the download up right around when we were finishing the site design but encountered a few last-minute bugs. This fell to the wayside, I'll fix it ASAP!
I say don't ruin the trails with business. There is something to be said for the absence of someone trying to sell you something. Enjoy some nature in the city, there isn't much of it.
> Allison notes that those operatives try to keep their winnings on each machine to less than $1,000, to avoid arousing suspicion.

This is likely to be because they're trying to avoid the automatic W-2G that's generated for slot winnings over $1200. Basically if you're playing anonymously on a slot machine, any payout of $1200 or over on a single spin will generate a human interaction. Unless you're playing at fairly high stakes (say, over $100/spin), this is normally rare enough that hitting several $1200+ results in a short time span would be very suspicious. Keeping every win under $1200 allows a person to play as anonymously as you reasonably can in a casino.
I also liked the article's critique of Western philosophy as being too analytical and divorced from real life. Apparently that wasn't always the case in the ancient world and philosophy had more practical application, which probably explains the revival of Stoicism lately as well.

A good starter book on the Stoics that also reinterprets the ancient lessons for the modern age:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040JHNQG/
> Only 8 / 50

The rate of growth is something else to consider. From two states (Colorado and Washington) last year to at least three more this year (MA, ME and CA). And I didn't even notice that DC, NV and OR crept in as well.

Yes, some social stigma exists, but it's on its way out. But I agree with you as far as: It may never reach full U.S.-Wide legalization. And employers may never get over it.

Note though, that medical as > 50% adoption by state in the U.S.

Source: http://norml.org/laws
I think the basic idea is that the economy has operated on credit since the 1970s, with both a budget and a trade deficit. The idea is that debt increases over time, and obviously they want to get as much as possible of the extra debt. That is why higher profit margins are good for the US economy.
It is more complex than that though. Imperfect practice is just fine so long as you recognize in practice what you are doing wrong and try to correct it. I often practice a musical piece wrong, I try again and again, each time trying to correct something, but somehow one correction breaks something else. The next day I come back and I'm much better because even though none of my practices was perfect. Repeat a few times [hundreds in some cases] and I can play perfectly.
I'm one of the original developers and the primary author of the IMDb boards system, started way back in 2001. I wrote up my thoughts here - https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/internet/imdb-boards-no-more
I would love to read an elaboration on this. There's so much I don't understand about AI.
Aaccurate 3-d scanning of 3d environments - houses, mines you name it. I think the tech is there in your pocket and with good software plus very accurate measurement of location, orientation + panorama/spehrical photo shoots, you could have very high quality recreations of real world areas - which in turn could be explored, modified and enjoyed in VR/AR/MR.
For example simulating house refurbishment or furniture purchases, remotely inspecting places to buy/rent/go on holiday.

The tech is mostly there, but I'm too lazy to put it altogether as I know that someone with access to more capital will also attack it, sooner or later, not just startup but IKEA, Airbnb, etc...
Heh, I should have expected fictional books to show up. I wouldn't mind a copy of HHGTTG as well. I'd also like a copy of the Cryptonomicon, from the eponymous book by Neal Stephenson.

Wikipedia has a long list of fictional books (with several drawn from HHGTTG): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_books
If you want to check by yourself here is the popular french job board for web related stuff:
https://remixjobs.com
search JS or javascript: hundreds of results.
and then search Perl: 1 result.
60 lm/W is very low these days. Commercially available screw-base A21 bulbs like Cree's "100W replacement daylight" (17,000 lumens at 15W) are up over 110 lm/W. You can get that for $14 at Home Depot.

http://creebulb.com/100-watt-replacement-daylight

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cree-100W-Equivalent-Daylight-500...
Imagine if all wifi were open. Those TVs and other IoT appliances would happily upload whatever the hell they wanted without asking you anything.

I used to bemoan that more people don't maintain completely open wifi connections in the spirit of sharing (assuming you have unlimited Internet). But there's the upside to everyone putting a password: You can choke off all those household devices that demand Internet access!
> the copyright holder would be entitled to just compensation.

I would suggest that for a lot of organizations whose code has become written into laws, the organizations actually benefit from their incorporation even if they were to be required to release the copyright. They may lose some 'access-control' revenue from release of the copyright, but overall their closeness to the rules gives them ample opportunity to make money from associated services (e.g. training, consulting, membership and influence on revisions to name a few).
The amount of electricity can easily be gathered at zero marginal cost via small scale photovoltaic setup.
The news in the article is that CNCF spent good money to wipe out a copyleft license. They think history has shown a more permissive license without copyleft or a patent grab (just a patent notice) - namely ASLv2 - is a far superior choice and paid to get that in place. Their very recent explanation is well worth reading:
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/01/cncf-recommends-aslv2

I'll explain what I mean by patent notice since those are my words, quick version: If you don't declare that you have patent rights affecting a portion of code you have contributed, you've given those patent rights.
It depends on the quality of the LED and what it's designed for. Some deliver better spectrum response for plants and for different parts of their life-cycle. Vegetative and flowering stages may require slightly different optimal amounts of energy at particular wavelengths but it's not strictly necessary. A good LED lamp designed for growing should be more than adequate, then tend to have fill-ins for the wavelengths needed.
>But yeah, you can't really expect corporate ethics or laws to protect you.

Sure, in a general sense you can't expect human morality or police to protect you all the time either. Do you just assume everyone you meet is a violent pathological criminal? That would be a very paranoid point of view to maintain.

The point of the law and in particular this ruling is to be enough of a deterrent to dissuade most actors from doing something bad, thus giving you some level of protection.

Cynics look at these types of cases and conclude like you have, that laws and ethics won't protect you. But if we never saw these types of cases come up it would be more likely that no one is enforcing the law, not that everyone is obeying it.
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I wrote PKafka (https://github.com/mempko/PKafka) a year ago, a Perl 6 wrapper around the rdkafka library. I just started using it in a production system a week ago.

I feel that Perl 6 is an amazing language. The regex and grammars are fantastic for doing any sort of parsing. The built in support for reactive programming and gradual typing with the given/when syntax is fantastic. The type constraint and multi dispatch mechanism is also great.

However, only until the latest release 2017-01, did I feel the MoarVM is stable enough for production use.
There's an interesting workaround for the Net Neutrality problem that Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, et al can implement.

They could create a industry standard for testing mobile internet speed against CDNs of all major video providers, and then use their respective video services to ingrain it into customers minds that they have to use this when shopping for a mobile internet provider.

This might just create enough pressure on the cell providers for one of them to break the ranks and start treating all such traffic with respect.
It'd probably be related to the higher blue light levels of "white" LEDs. I'm sure the amount of screen time most people get these days has a greater effect than LEDs in a bucket.
Eh, the truth is somewhere in the middle. I say this as someone who actually went through the process.

Sure you can switch employers while on an H1B. I did. But that's an extra moving part added to the process. It's extra effort added to both sides, employer and employee. They need to really want to hire you to go through all that. If it's a tiny startup, the amount of work might just be too much (and you wouldn't want to work for a tiny startup anyway, as an H1B worker).

Also, if you somehow lose your job as an H1B holder, you only have a limited time interval to get a new job. There's a lot of pressure to just accept any job that comes along, regardless of all other considerations.

Also, typecasting is very real. The whole H1B / greencard process really, really puts the pressure on you to stay in the same job description for a long time. It's not set in stone, and there are exceptions, but as a rule you're basically forced into a straightjacket.

Basically, if you're caught in this process, there's the freedom & opportunity Big Carrot dangling ahead at the end of many years of wait. Meanwhile, your hands are tied and your actions are to a large extent dictated by a faceless, remote bureaucracy that has the full power to decide your fate. It's extremely frustrating.
Google and Facebook partner for anti-fake news drive during French election
Wow, that big a change? Then maybe they should have changed the name after all. Purl?
This is something that a lot of Americans don't understand. I've met a lot of graduates from Berkeley and Stanford, and they're smart guys certainly, but I can't really say that their coding skills are absolutely outstanding; there's certainly dozens of universities around the world that have similar or superior levels of talent for the kind of skills these companies are looking for.
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You might be drinking too much. See http://www.livescience.com/50347-iced-tea-kidney-failure.htm.... That person was drinking about 2.5 times your intake but it might wise to throttle back a bit. You might not reach kidney failure but might reach levels that impair function or which leave you vulnerable to toxic oxalate buildup if you eat other oxalate rich foods.
It seems like the missing step, right between 3 and 4, is "and then a miracle occurs."

That's why I made my original comment. Maybe you're not a charlatan, in which case I'd have to conclude you're thinking irrationally and have been deceived by some form of magical thinking.

You have not proposed any mechanism by which these steps can form a consistent treatment for problems that individuals have struggled with for years. You've merely declared that it will, and a whole lot of faith is required.

Other posts in this thread mostly propose a mechanism, even if we readers don't have the prerequisites to fully understand it. For example, consider the proposal that machine learning could be applied to the mundane tasks a radiologist performs. It may or may not pan out, but it has a basis.
I've been running a couple of petabytes in production with Docker and Cassandra for a couple years (around 2k nodes). I've rarely seen FS corruption, however I must qualify that this is on bare metal. They could be running into issues with the interaction with EBS? This is more of a screed than an argument backed by specific details and facts.
Scaling everything else (stateless non-persistent services) is nearly trivial, with or without Docker. It's scaling databases where things get interesting, but here we are back to dark ages of DBAs and manual deployment :(
This is the system in question:

https://www.mda.mil/system/gmd.html

The interceptors are expensive, so there aren't very many. That's why it can defend against a country like North Korea but not China.
sure it can.

Now, implement it on a system from 2008 whose source and tooling has been scattered to the winds.