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These traits you describe, you say they are a side effect of good reasoning skills. I agree that people who think more methodically are more susceptible to these traits, however, I think they are actually characteristic of a certain immaturity in one's reasoning abilities.

To ask : "Why would anyone not do what's best if they know it is?", and to have no clue of an answer, would imply a lack of reasoning ability, rather than a surplus of it. Likewise for the other questions you suggest.

I think this way of thinking is very natural to a young mind who finds the world overly complicated and is attracted to the logical nature of subjects like maths. It is a sort of escape, to mentally write off everything that is not clean and simple as "illogical".

Clinging to that world view for long time would require serious cognitive dissonance though. It is a crutch that those with a 'problem solving' mindset hopefully use for a while before seeing things with a more subtlety.

I don't claim to know what reasoning maturity looks like, but I believe embracing your humanity and own fallibility, and understanding the motivations of others (especially those you dislike / disagree with) are not trivial elements of it.

I do feel like we are on a similar page though, since you are describing the traits of others, not your own, and you say you are happy to have developed your people skills. Still, I worry that explaining these traits away as the result of above average intellect is some sort of enabling. It's the narrative they need to stay in place so they don't have to change. IQ becomes a justification for being detached and uncaring.
I should have added that I'm asking to compare the special parts (e.g. reduce, waterfall, etc) of Bluebird vs the async library.
So far the terrorists are certainly winning as the individuals at the wrong end of the received terrorist threat-made-actual will testify. Given that negotiation with ISIS is not on the table (nothing to negotiate unless you call submission a negotiating point) what would be the recommendation for the West to remedy the situation?

Currently many Europeans are getting used to armed guards at churches and synagogues, crowded places and other strategic points; I wonder what would cause this situation to be different in say, ten years time?
> > - Nearly unrestricted freedom of speech

There's very little you can say in the US that has a legal penalty associated with it. Short of inciting violence or advocating for a government official's assassination, I can say whatever stupid thing(s) I want and the only repercussions will be that people think I'm an idiot.

Contrast to say, Germany, where saying something objectively wrong but still harmless like the Holocaust didn't happen will land you in prison.

> > - For the time being, no constant surveillance state

Compared to the UK with cameras everywhere and your every move recorded? If being tracked is a legitimate concern of yours it's possible to live largely off the grid in the US.

> > - Comparatively low taxes for the services provided

I'll concede some places have lower taxes but as a software developer I can't earn nearly what I can earn in the US (even in the middle of nowhere rural US where I am now) anywhere else. Any move, even with a lower marginal/effective tax rate, will leave me with less money in my pocket.
>Use Tails or Whonix which prevents leaking data outside of the Tor network. Qubes OS makes Whonix easy/transparent (though I haven't had the pleasure of trying out Qubes yet).

Use Whonix, not Tails. Tails doesn't do a particularly good job preventing leaks outside of Tor network.
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Caching is a massive topic that covered a multitude of different points along your chain from page creation through to the browser. I'm going to give a very brief overview of a few different solutions:

* Cache frequent database requests with an in-memory database, key/value store. There's two big players in this field, memcached and Redis. Personally I prefer the latter.

* Cache static content. This would be a CDN and can run either as a separate domain or between the browser and your servers.

* Cache partial page assets (eg half pages on dynamic sites). There's a multitude of ways you can do this including using a key/value store. This reduces the amount of content that needs to be dynamically generated even if some of the page still has to be.

* Cache the entire page. This can be done via solutions like varnish or via a CDN. CDNs that support this level of caching can be configured either via their management portal or by setting caching headers in your your HTTP response. Usually it will different caching headers to the ones your browser will take notice of, but this is often configurable.

* Browser caching. This is one that I've found developers et al often overlook. It's also the level of caching that can cause the most headaches. But it's the cheapest to implement and cheapest to run so it's definitely worth getting browser caching right first.

[edit]

I forgot to add:

* Full page caching with a Javascript API model. This is something a lot of popular dynamic sites do. Basically the entire HTML page served is a template and the Javascript library draws the dynamic content on top of it. This way all of your assets can be cached and a lot of needless dynamic text rendering is distributed amongst the clients instead of handled on the server. The downside to this is it's more complicated to build with more places to break (users running weird browsers, disabling JS, attackers, etc). But the gains can also be significant.
Cycle Computing does this. ATLAS, an LHC experiment, recently demonstrated this. I even built a product at Google that made this possible. We used Native Client (users compiled their binaries using the NaCl toolchain) as one part of the security container.
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I think the article goes into the problems with that pretty extensively.
In the open source areana, it certainly seems like the game is over. But as others mentioned, both FB and GOOG are big Mercurial users and contributors.

Our shop uses Mercurial becuase of its Python basis and the amount of time and effort it takes to master Git makes me draw strong and uncomfortable parallels to emacs.
that doesn't make 'Visa holders are legal immigrants too' statement true.
You can even move to your own datacenter at some point (relatively) easily.

Dropbox built out their own environment (and did it migrating 500PB out of S3)

Like most discussions in this thread, this statement is way too general. Dropbox moved their storage from S3. What about EC2 or other AWS services they were using? Did they abandon all of those too?
Well it was a hindrance and probably the chief reason people wanted to upgrade later to 16-bits. In reality a 6502 or Z80 at 1-3mhz with supporting circuity was probably fast enough for most people's needs, but the memory sizes and lack of 80 column displays gave those machines limited usefulness for the things people needed computers for at the time: word processing, home spreadsheets, etc.
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Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with minors in Math and Physics here...

While I can probably count on one hand the times I've used what I learned in the "real" world, I can say I really value my education.

I believe the real value of a math based curriculum or even something like philosophy with an emphasis in logic is that it teaches one how to think in a reasoned, dispassionate and rational way.
You are aware that getting a new, clean passport without any trace of his visit to Iran would have cost him less than the efforts of going through, say, getting an ESTA in place?

If customs is triggered by what countries one has visited in the past, know that only someone who has means no harm has these in his or her passport. All others will remove this evidence prior to flying...
The signal-to-noise on my feed has been on a downward spiral since before the election, it's honestly just gotten progressively worse, with no sign of improvement on the horizon.
I think about it as a simple Message and Event's calendar that my friends have access to me once per week when I look at it.

Also occasionally use it as a login systems for sites I don't want to sign up to.

What else does it do? I unfollowed everyone/thing from my wall ... which seems to improve it somewhat!
The fact that he spends time physically present and apparently listening to the left wing technocrats.

Nobody is expecting a radical shift in his policies, but even minor shifts on key issues are arguably worth the small time investment.

The man is self-interested, and self-interested people can generally be bargained with if you can find the places where their interests align with yours. In this case money and public opinion are good targets.
The goal isn't to run down the users' battery. The goal is to do whatever timer callback processing a tab is doing that got throttled in the first place.
Hi Dave

Do you deploy Varnish on your own server(s)?
Sorry, I'm not saying everywhere in society _is_ a meritocracy, simply that it should try to function like one. Meritocracy should be a respectable goal, not one to be shunned. The labor market would be a better place if it were a meritocracy - can we agree on that?

And isn't the only way to live in that goal of meritocracy to actually try to?
I think they're building their shipping service so they can provide end-to-end drop-shipping & fulfilment. It's their natural evolution. Pick up goods from factories in China, QA them, ship them to their warehouses and then power other stores or for FBA. End-to-end integration.
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It sounds like you're saying that you think he's capitulating the conceit that arabs are terrorists? I don't really read his words that way, but I guess I can see it. And if so, then yes: definitely distasteful.
I only ever use Tor for security research and with the nature of my particular work, I don't have a reason to download files but...

If I did and I cared about anonymity I would never download a file unless all internet on my machine or VM was piped through Tor (such as using Whonix or some dedicated security appliance). If I was using the Tor browser I wouldn't even even turn on Javascript without those protections for that matter.

On the other side of the spectrum, running Tor on Windows is insane. Almost every flaw I have seen in Tor mostly or only effects Windows users.
"Conway brought up the Obama's tightening of the Iraqi immigration during his term. Does that somehow justify Trump's immigration ban?

-- No it doesn't What Trump did is not just stop immigration, but completely stop even people with valid visas, and green cards (Permanent Residents) from even entering. This is unheard off.
Some of them were "detained", put with handcuffed for over 20 hrs.

In the midst of it there were a 5 yo, grandmas, and folks that worked for the US government, and served this country.

Completely different than just slowing down/stopping refugees coming in. The executive order was cruel and poorly implemented, (and parts of it most likely illegal).
I've mostly learned through consulting and analytics experience and with the help of Ralph Kimball's book "The Data Warehouse Toolkit". You'll also want to look up Bill Inmon as he proposes a different methodology to data warehouses.

Happy to answer questions if you have any.
I am surprised by how hard it is to find reliable information about Window issues. Most pages I find look like thinly veiled pitches to get me to buy some stupid utility or online service. Its easy to find authoritative information on Mac OS or Linux issues, but I can't trust most of what I read about solving any Windows issue.

I would like to swap out my system dive and replace it with an SSD. Every discussion on the web I come across wants me to download some third party backup/restore or cloning software. Isn't there anything in Windows or that comes from Microsoft for me to do it?
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Reading release notes of TFS, they seem to be putting much more effort into improving integration with Git compared with TFVC. This may be just to catch up to acheive parity with TFVC in TFS, but it was enough for me to abandon TFVC for Git in all new projects.
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From the aftenposten[1] article he was in the US last year, after the law was passed, with same passport and the same stamp and was not stopped or questioned about it.

[1]http://www.aftenposten.no/verden/Bondevik-hadde-iransk-stemp...
I'd love to hear what has gone downhill for you. I was initially really worried about it, but haven't seen anything terrible personally.
But, but... the Medici rule the entire planet from their throne in outer space, Assassin's Creed told me so! (I didn't play much of the series, this is probably not legit). How dare your facts get in the way of my supernaturally attracted perception?
This is probably not the answer you're looking for, but you could look into ways that make callbacks enjoyable. The syntactic sugar provided by CoffeeScript goes a long way to make readable (and, dare I say, elegant) what would be a tangled mess in straight up JavaScript:

# Get profiles LIST as JSON
.post "/list", (req, res) ->
db.maria.query getProfilesQuery, { userId: req.session.passport.user }, false
.on "result", (result) ->
rows = []
res.status(200)
result
.on "row", (row) -> rows.push row
.on "error", (error) -> logger.warn error
.on "end", ->
res.json rows
res.end()

5 callbacks here but they don't impede readability.
Yes?

Big companies, even successful companies aren't incapable of making, and continuing to make stupid decisions.

I'm sure each company has a reason for using a single massive repo. I doubt I would agree with their reason, but I'm sure they have one.
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There's a big difference between the concept of meritocracy on paper and the actual behavior of organizations calling themselves meritocratic. In many cases, the operational definition of "merit" ends up incorporating irrelevant biases of the most senior and influential members, sometimes cloaked by formalities such as HR performance metrics.

So, much like with debates over communism, I think we end up with a major disconnect between people who focus on love for the ideal and people who focus on hate for the implementations they've seen.
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Whonix can be configured to be not persistent, and Tails can be configured to be persistent. Out of the box configuration is the biggest difference. However, Whonix is set up to be run as a set of virtual machines. One of the reasons I like Whonix better is that this dual virtual machine setup means that, should you get kicked off of Tor in the virtual machine that acts as a gateway, the other virtual machine does not have any fallback connection, effectively preventing accidental access of the internet while unprotected.

The added risk to Whonix is that if your host system is sufficiently compromised, there's no real guarantee of anonymity. A lot of people end up running Tails in a VM, though, and someone has to be pretty serious about wanting to see what you're doing for that to be a real issue.
Since he's not a government official—the story is quite explicit that he's working for a private organization—he's fraudulently travelling on a diplomatic passport. He should have been arrested at the border, interrogated, barred permanently from the USA, and deported.
Counter anecdote - I've had a few root canals and fillings in the last few years. The first one was with a doctor who refused to re-apply the local. I was all but climbing out of the chair from the pain.

Went to another dentist a few years later to let the experience dull in my mind - this one would re-apply the local, which made the experience tolerable, but hardly pain free. And that doesn't cover for the feeling/sound of the drill. And the smell. Gods below, the smell of burning tooth, root, and plastic... That's me you're burning up there!

Seriously thinking about GA next time.
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I think that people like Musk likely have a strong belief in their ability to persuade and influence.

I think that the idea that Trump is completely uninfluencable is a bit hyperbolic. He's not an irrationality machine. He cares about things, just maybe not the things you or I care about, and so those things become avenues for influence and negotiation.
Once upon a time, social justice types supported meritocracy. That was in the era when having classical musicians audition behind a screen increased the % of women.

Unfortunately, the technology world has not had the same experience. When technology becomes more meritocratic (e.g., audition via github/coding tests/open source contributions rather than interviews), we get more Asians, fewer non-Asian minorities and fewer women.

Because meritocracy in technology fails to achieve the goal of "gotta catch them all", it must be opposed.
Browser caching. This is one that I've found developers et al often overlook. It's also the level of caching that can cause the most headaches. But it's the cheapest to implement and cheapest to run so it's definitely worth getting browser caching right first.

Yes this one's tricky. Especially when you update page layout and assets often.
I love this article, because we have to remind people that Americans have been afraid of Italians and Germans and Swedes and Jews and the Japanese and Muslims and the Chinese and DEFINITELY the Irish at one time or another.

Established groups feared new groups. But in the end, these people generally brought new innovations and economic growth and interesting new foods.

They mashed new cultures with old - not without pain - and eventually gave us General Tso's Chicken.

In other words, it's gonna be alright.

^^ this is what I tell people who support Muslim bans. I'm not sure if it helps them, but it helps me.
>It is the time needed to store it.

For now. Battery tech is increasing at a fast pace.
If there was an article like this about those companies, I would absolutely expect this exact "what do all those employees do??" comment. This just seems to be a meme on HN in general at the moment.
Hit piece is descriptive. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hit_piece. Do you have a more neutral one For: "A published article or post aiming to sway the public opinion by presenting the false or biased information in a way that appears objective and truthful."

Also, I am not sure the guy is biased, just that the piece is. He got a strong response form HN for that article which drives readership. Which is why Hit Pices are such a common style they promote readership.
I think that's all true, but too often "inclusiveness" is used as a stick to beat political opponents with. I'm all for attracting more developers for FreeBSD. However I'm against e.g. giving an appointed and unaccountable committee the authority to kick out anyone at their sole discretion, which was what some of the "code of conduct" proposals boiled down to.
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I don't tried Win10 on a personal computer... but they made font rendering even worse than it was on Win7? (Win7 MS "assumed" everyone would have LCD screens, and changed not only the rendering code, but the default font themselves to one that doesn't work with CRT or LCDs that don't follow common patterns in pixel shapes... and my favourite screens are CRTs, because I am yet to find a LCD that I can afford that is superior to the CRTs I own).
It's talked about in the article, but thanks for linking it.
Did we read the same article? What do you mean?
You're overestimating the amount of work it takes to run compute on anyone other than Google or AWS.
Others in this thread have also suggested tax fraud. Hearsay in either direction are not facts.
Apparently the best selling car in Japan at the moment is an EV which you can't plug in, but only charges via a gasoline powered generator.

http://www.carscoops.com/2016/11/nissan-note-gets-new-electr...

Interesting half-way-house for city drivers.
>Some of them were "detained", put with handcuffed for over 20 hrs.

I have travel coming up in two months, this makes me nervous.

Do you have a source for this by any chance?
I still use Messenger, but my Facebook account is deactivated. I finally gave up after clicking "Hide all from..." for the 10,000th time. It seemed like an increasingly losing battle. The more I unfollowed, the more it showed me things I didn't want to see, and more ads! My entire interaction had devolved into scrolling slowing and clicking "Hide all..."

So tell me how you got your feed to stop being full of bad things? :)
Do you have such an example of an organization that claimed to be meritocratic but defied that in practice? There are plenty of such examples for communism of course, but I'm blanking on ones of meritocracy.

Seems like it should at least be an amicable goal.
‪#fakenews formula, sensation+celebrity+cause=fakenews‬ Use twitter to label all #fakenews (a code hashtag that isn't visible to viewers by changing the twitter foundation. The articles are then required to be vetted following rules from a panel that provides clear check lists to be considered fake news. Anytime news Is to be broadcast it must include standardized format, citations, rules for ad revenue and a list of all contributors to prevent a conflict of interest. Articles are not allowed to be written about companies who contribute to an outlet. There also needs to be a limit on how many ads can be displayed as well as how many a company can buy across platforms. Do not allow them to perform any "news broadcasting" unless followed and if it is violated, fine the culprit. The party identifying the "#codeword" would get paid the fines minus an administrative fee paid to the ethics committee as a commission. It's a system that ensures checks and balances in the journalism world. This would have a political component basically requiring places like twitter to follow these rules and guidelines. Otherwise they will not do it because this solution takes away a major source of their income and then they will actually have to compete for your subscriptions instead of just pumping out continuously overwhelming sensationalism
Would it be possible/make sense to use Docker for this?

Using something like Whalebrew? https://github.com/bfirsh/whalebrew
I recently left a job that has a proxy. I would estimate the my time spent there working on proxy related issues to be more than 2 months over the 5 years I was there. Is it too unreasonable to evaluate the cost of these proxies beyond the maintenance cost?
I think this is only available in the pro edition, not home.
Wow, now I wish my dentist allowed that!

How did you watch Netflix? Cardboard set?
I fucking love FreeBSD. Seriously, I use it any chance I can. I have a Debian VM that I use to do development on because of the tool chain I have to use. But for my production personal websites that I run I choose FreeBSD.

Nothing in this article makes me want to change my mind. On the contrary seeing this article on a 'Linux' website generally lowers my opinion of both the 'Linux Community' and LWN. If LWN had fewer articles like this, and more articles actually communicating useful information to me, I might actually read it more.

I used to use Debian almost exclusively, but ever since this systemd BS I've gone FreeBSD as much as possible. This isn't about personalities, it's about me not caring about the problems that systemd is trying to solve.
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You're ahead of the game if you don't care about any of that. Question is though, why bother using it at that point?