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I agree. History certainly didn't repeat itself when it came to the scientific and technological explosion of the past ~150+ years.

But if we are considering history, we may also wish to recall that education was strictly for the clerical and aristocratic classes before the industrial revolution. And we may also wish to remember that in US none other than the robber baron John D. Rockefeller took initiative to shape the educational paradigm for the "peasants".

Will the peasants need to be educated anymore?
But superheros are touched by the gods: they are blessed or cursed with magical powers, and then we read about their adventures. That's what makes them super. Their stories are human stories filtered through literally superhuman powers, in almost exactly the way that the myths of the old gods were. Some superheroes are the old gods!

It's also interesting to look at the stories about ordinary humans (although calling Bruce Wayne, a ludicrously wealthy and powerful financier even before he became super, 'ordinary' is a bit of a stretch): not so much today, I'll concede, but back in the 70s and 80s, US soap operas were things like Dynasty or Dallas, and were firmly set in the US nobility, i.e. the financial ruling class.

Meanwhile, back in the UK, a country where we still have a reigning monarch who is the head of the official state church, soap operas were things like Coronation Street and The Archers, about working class people doing frankly boring things...
It was the only interesting thing in the discussion, I cannot tell a lie ;) HN has great content in general so clearly the rules work - so no more complaining from me
I want to see a full roundtrip:

1. define input fields in html template of choice

2. validate form/struct/whatever and prepare errror messages per field

3. redisplay html with field-level errors to let user correct its input

step 3. is the interesting and missing in most examples of newer webframeworks
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>Broadwell halved the logic area of Haswell (see slide in article), but benchmarks showed improvements of only a few percent.

in the presence of competition the Broadwell chip would have double the number of cores of the Haswell chip it was replacing, and thus the modern multithreaded benchmarks would have shown double the performance. Current situation clearly showcases what happens when there is no competition (the experience very familiar to anybody who saw/rode/drove a USSR/Russian made car or aware of the Russian presidential elections history of the last 17 years :)
Why don't you see Moore's law progressing beyond 3nm and maybe even stopping at 7nm or 10nm?

At that size, defects of just a couple silicon atoms (approximately 0.2nm diameter) starts to become an issue. Photo lithography requires higher frequencies of "light" for smaller features, which also becomes more of a pain to deal with.

And that doesn't even get into the quantum effects at that scale, which is whole 'nother barrel of headaches.

I'm still surprised at the (seemingly to me) lack of research in molecular nanotechnology. We're rapidly approaching the point where we do need to precisely control the placement of each individual atom for these products.

You'd think the boards of directors and major investors would be pushing these companies harder to develop the next generation technologies. Though Wall Street itself barely cares about the next three months.
An invasion force attacking Japan will have seaborne and mobile anti-air capabilities which will need to be neutralized before using aircraft to attack the force. Ideally for Japan their islands aren't even touched.
Visual Studio (admittedly on a WinForms codebase, but recent .net and VS) sometimes does something similar if you open a design file without changing anything or while changing something completely unrelated - except it also sometimes changes something like the base font or zoom as part of its random unexplainable changes and if you're not careful to remove everything you didn't want to change you'll ruin your layout.
He was the top military leader and first president but he didn't 'instigate' the war of American independence.
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"Against the ramped-up threats, the F-35A only lost one aircraft for every 15 aggressors killed"

Wait does that mean like one aircraft for 15 aggressor PEOPLE and sites on the ground? They mention SAMs and things that sound like ground forces. That sounds like an awful ratio. You lose 120 million dollars for every 15 aggressors killed? A hostile state can cheaply churn out aggressors 15 at a time all day long.
Left for Dead is Turtle Rock and published by Valve
Agreed, there's still plenty of people hitting pain with Image/Video processing, 3D development (design or programming), 4K video/gaming/modelling are definitely still out there...

Upgraded to an i7-4790K almost 2 years ago, and while not willing to drop another $1500 to upgrade to the latest CPU/MB, I have been keeping an eye open.
Ask HN: How did yesterday's AWS n/w outage affect you?
There was a n/w issue between 500-745 y'day. I'm curious to know how were orgs affected.
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It speaks for the British veterinarians, yes, that's what that group does.
As long as we've wandered this far into the bushes, I may as well get this out of my system: I really hate this kind of statement. Of course writers are allowed to feel whatever they like about politics. That's irrelevant to the question is whether it's appropriate to bring up politics in an entirely subject.
An admin interface (among other improvements) to Platypus (https://github.com/GGServers/platypus). It's a (admittedly simple) server monitoring application written in Python.
If there's that much political showmanship in the military, how effective is the US military against a real threat? I'm aware that no system is perfect and obviously the US military is highly tied to politics, but I didn't realize they would neuter themselves even from learning exercises.
A good one does but for that to happen you probably need a good high school education etc.

A mediocre degree probably doesn't but then we're talking about mediocrity which by definition doesn't matter.

If you are Bill Gates then it doesn't matter. If you just think you are Bill Gates well then it does matter because you'll find out in short order that you're really not Bill Gates no matter how hard you try to think you are.

In summary, there are worse things in life than a good college education. Hell, you could even learn something.
Interesting notion.i can certainly see that applying to me.

I'm a digital marketer and I love love love going deep on analytics, attribution, etc. as a part of that. However I wasn't even aware of half that stuff when I was first starting out.

Professional experience led to greater and deeper exposure of new areas of the discipline that were way more interesting to me than the fundamentals that first got me interested. I now engage in discussions on those topics with other professionals in my spare time because it interests me beyond my job.
"Of course the average salary of the top 3 companies is going to be significantly higher"

The funny thing is comparing salaries isn't even fair, because total compensation at these top companies is much larger than just salary.
Palau looks - from pictures and travel brochures - to be incredible. Why did you leave?
I'm guessing that's implied since people would not longer 'have' to work. Why compete in the sock market when I can survive and not compete?
Might seem expensive but I can easily see some larger companies using this to publicize their diversity numbers if they are good
I think that position is simplistic at best. Sure, it would explain an relative increase in human-intensive services compared to machine-empowered ones. What if fails to explain, though, is:

1. A sustained, inflation-adjusted increase in human-intensive services over time. Specially when combined with stagnation in the compensation of this (supposedly) expensive, and specialized Labor over the same period of time.

2. A perceived trend of decrease in quality of the service, in a futile attempt to keep #1 under control.

If I where to venture an explanation of that would take automation and technology into account, I'd try to approach the problem from a systems theory point of view and suggest that maybe we are observing an overzealous attempt at partial automation.

This industries, as you correctly pointed out, cannot be fully automated/outsourced. This however does not prevent upper management from trying to achieve at least a part of the goodness that is benefiting other, more malleable, industries. They will of course try to automate some non-critical part of their workflows, which will upset the balance between the different subsystems of the whole and place more burdens in the critial parts. This, paradoxically, will force them to hire more personnel to keep the operation afloat, which then seeds the way for future interventions when technology advances makes posible the automation of some of those extra positions.

Even in a very bread-n-butter manufacturing environment, that type of death-cycle is extremely damaging. Take a look at Eliyahu M. Goldrat's novel "The Goal" to see a fictional example unravel.
Such questions have been asked for a long time, because this problem was visible ever since the dawn of the industrial revolution. It's what inspired Marx after all. And no, I'll never advocate for communism because I think Marx was wrong and because in practice it ends with crimes against human kind.

But we are here because of greed. And along with all other problems that we face, like global warming, overpopulation, pollution, etc, I think it's going to get a lot worse before getting better.

Some form of socialism is inevitable though, that much is certain. Having guaranteed food, shelter and medical care is a must.
The internet is shifting back into anonymity and hiveminds
That isn't true. Making an order with an intent to cancel is a crime. Hedge funds routinely cancel orders, but they do not necessarily make them with the intent to cancel them from the beginning.
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." -- Napoleon

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." -- Hitler

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." -- Stalin
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Good Old Games is heading in that direction, though they aren't developing their own platform.
I am pretty sure I have lost paid clients because I deleted their too good to be true emails. Similarly cold emailing someone from your own address is more than likely get your company email blacklisted.

I seriously hate the way it is but it's a war out there and I don't think any scam detection program would last 5 minutes without the scammer finding a way around it or it making too many false positives to trust.
I agree. To make a decent game an enormous mount of effort has to go into it. If you are a solo dev that has spent the last year pouring your heart into a game, I don't think $1000 to release it to a massive audience would stop it being published. If you employ a few people to create a higher quality game, compared to their wages, $1000 is nothing.

If you are a manga artist trying to release the 100th iteration of a 'game' based on suggestive images, it may slow you down.

Not suggesting that $1000 is the perfect price point, just that $100 is far too low.
How is (or was?) Bill Gates an asshole?
Someone just posted a link to "Handy one-line scripts for awk":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619124

Is that it?
Maybe this idea of worth is hardwired inside us. As animals that existed in small groups throughout the world there was much work to be done in the daily activities of hunting, cooking, fixing and building shelters, raising children and possibly fighting with other tribes. With those constraints where there are no idle hands, the elderly and disabled become liabilities that are often discarded. Lazy people probably would not be tolerated in this environment.

So it seems likely that the distaste for someone not working as hard as everyone else is deeply ingrained in our culture and possibly even our genes.
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>If you want to know what's happening, better read a "not instant", more analysis/depth outlet.

I read WaPo and the NYT for that, Twitter is for breaking news and info from reporters real-time when they are questioning folks.
this kills the usenet
Air is a better insulator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13613687
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I am not a lawyer. But I'd be willing to guess that the difference is that you're a US citizen, attempting to get work wherever you can find it. While you're in that state, you abide by the laws of that state (you pay taxes to that state for income earned there, for example), while also following the laws of your home state (you also file tax there).

And while I imagine accenture's argument will be similar to yours, though much more nuanced, the argument against Accenture will be that those individuals were chosen and use specifically with the intent to bypass local wage laws.

In short, trying to find loopholes in the law, while knowingly violating the purpose of a law, does not result in innocence. Whatever Hollywood says.

I imagine the argument would be along the lines of:

Accenture - Yes, we frequently bus Mexican developers throughout the American southwest. This is because accenture uses many Mexican development shops, and occasionally our clients are interested in having our developers work on site to promote synergy, for small periods of time.

Legal Team - You bussed over a team of 50 devs to Client X, every day, for 2 years. They live in hotels, start on Monday, and end on Friday. This is not a case of the occasional developer meeting with a client as part of a business trip. This is an organized conspiracy to replace the American workforce.

Accenture - While we do run weekly bus services over the border, you will find that in your example, the same individuals do not go every week. Instead, a different 50 were located at Client A on a monthly basis. If there are 200 people working on the project, each 50 will meet for a month. That's four months of busing across the border, while the majority of the time, the team is actually operating from Mexico. We do this to promote synergy across the entire team, not just a select few individuals.

Legal Team - Your honor, we have testimony that when those individuals are in Mexico, their time is split between 20 other projects. When they are in the US, their time is dedicated solely to the client. In short, their claim that they have not somehow intentionally replaced jobs, because they continuously hire and fire different people for the position is patently absurd..

...

But it doesn't matter, because none of those developers are going to bring the suit, at least avanade doesn't hire US developers anymore, and the last few administrations simply haven't been prosecuting US businesses for labor infractions at a historic rate, so I somehow doubt this case would ever occur.
You can't trust hardware wallets either - people have been handing out free hardware wallets at conferences that steal the user's coins.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/caution-scammers-can-steal-yo...
Yeah, I never got that. For a while I would just sell the trading cards as soon as they were awarded. I think I got some cheap DLC for free from that money... it probably wasn't even worth my time to do that.
> The cost of a server isn't just the hourly/monthly fee for running it. It's also the cost of waking up at 3am to turn it back on. If you're managing your own bare metal then you have to deal with that one yourself and I can assure you it's never cheaper than the cloud unless you value your time at $0.

You have to deal with outages when using cloud providers too. So you design for availability in either case, and pay someone to wake up at 3am when there's an actual emergency.

We're the ones taking the calls if our customers systems goes down at 3am, and it eats into my profits if it happens because they pay us monthly fees that are structured so they're far more profitable for us if nothing goes wrong.

Guess what's most profitable for me? Bare metal setups. Despite the fact that we end up charging my customers less to manage them, because it's harder to justify high fees when the overall costs are so much lower.

> Sure you can save some money by running a server yourself but if your business it as the point where that's the deciding factor in being solvent than you might as well close shop.

I had a client last year where we cut the hosting costs including the hourly rates for operational tasks by 90% by moving them off AWS.

While they were on AWS their hosting fees made up ~30% of their burn rate. It's an extreme example, but there are a lot of companies out there for whom hosting makes up a sufficient portion of their cost that it is a matter of survival for them to cut them.
Why is this being marked down? I am not making up numbers. I am quoting a third party website.
The idea that giving someone just enough money to live will kill their motivation is insane. If that were true why do people still work 40+ hour weeks when they could be earning enough to live on just 15? Most UBI schemes are initially targeting around 1k per month which is nowhere near enough satisfy the vast majority of people.
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Is there a setting or CLI command that could change this default behavior, or does PHP code need to be edited?
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Newman Mail - A mail-merge service for Gmail with message A/B testing

http://sendNewmanMail.com

I have been doing a lot of customer development lately and I needed a tool that made it easy to reach out to large-ish groups of people whilst testing the efficacy of different messages.

I chose to build my own product because I could not find another tool that was simple enough to use (all the others were full-blown CRMs), I did not want to pay for the subscription to those other tools and (most importantly) I wanted to use this project to learn a couple new things (Javascript ES6, using Google APIs, building task queues).

It's pretty rough and I built it just for myself (I don't allow signups because I took a couple security shortcuts in the design) but it works and has increased my productivity dramatically.

10/10 would code again
That's a valid point-- I wonder if that would be OK if there were in fact data to support the idea that a publication wasn't prone to be a factual reference?
? Of course it is. If every man and woman spent 18 years without producing anything at all to take care of their children, we would probably go extinct. Having 1 person take care of 10 at a time increases productivity by 19 people!

Of craouse we would all like to have the option to take as much time as we want to take care of our own, its akin to wanting to amass enough wealth to never have to work again.
Surely it hasn't hurt your career, PHP is still the most common language of the web. It's never a bad thing to have PHP experience on your resume imo.
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If you wanted to go this route, there are probably better control aircraft than the F-35, or a fighter for that matter. The primary benefit of the fighters is their ability to get in and out of situations quickly, and the F-35 stealthily, keeping close proximity (mitigating some electronic countermeasure threats) for command and control.

An AWACS, C-130 refueler, or a long-range bomber is probably a more credible C&C platform for the mission, setting aside the preference for proximity. Longer times airborne, more space for controls and controllers, meaning more missions can be managed simultaneously, more power (mitigating the electronic countermeasure threat by power in transmitters rather than proximity), and the potential capability of carrying many of these flying missiles within range of their target mission, reducing the range needs of the missiles themselves.

The refueler has the added bonus of literally being able to refuel them while loitering over a target area.

The downside, of course, are all the present downsides of drone weaponry (largely moral/ethical concerns). Cheaper to build, deploy, and use means a potential (I'd say probable) increase in their utilization (moral hazards here), without regard to potential casualties (rationalized locally as, "not our citizens/troops dying").

Ultimately, though, this is probably the endgame for weapon systems. It is financially the better option, it does reduce the risk to that side's citizens and soldiers (at least in the short term, long term political and economic fallout may be different), and practically anyone can already make a miniature airborne missile fleet now, though with poor range and precision at present.
If the F-35 is designed for BVR shouldn't it be behind the fighters, not in front? Similarly to how an aircraft carrier is always grouped up with destroyers.
You can say that about large parts of the Internet, so it's kind of moot, and not unlike throwing out the baby with the bathwater etc.
>The F-35 still sucks at air-air combat

It was never going to be good at air-to-air. It's a strike fighter by name, which means it's intended to be basically an A-10 that can also do some air-to-air in a pinch.

There's a reason they operate the F-22 in the air superiority role.
>> make it viable again to split the dies of the IGP and the CPU allowing Intel have SKUs with different IGP configuration

Also, it allows Intel to increase the rate of innovation - for example by specifying how each silicon die(memory, interconnect, rf?, acceleration, etc) connects to the EMIB, and letting internal and maybe external groups work independently and maybe compete on better modules.

Shame this would be wasted on someone as close as Intel though.
Snapchat has a novel engagement mechanism. Short multimedia interactive ads in a captured setting. The format has potential. The Snapstream keeps people hooked. It's basically a next gen Facebook but more private.
Disclaimer: I write and audit Solidity for a living.

The max-callstack issue isn't a problem anymore due to a change in the EVM.

TheDAO was hit with a reentrant call. It's pretty easy to avoid that class of bugs by either (1) putting any external calls (including ether transfers) after all state changes, or (2) using address.send instead of address.call.value. Also, TheDAO was a very convoluted contract; better coding practices help a lot. Any contract that's at all hard to understand is a huge red flag for me.

Solidity may not be a perfect language but it's rapidly improving, statically typed, and has a set of best practices which are fairly well known at this point. The current alternatives aren't nearly as well tested or reviewed, and don't have clear advantages anyway.

There are various experimental projects for more advanced functional-style languages but they're not ready yet. There's also someone at the Foundation working full-time on formal proof systems.
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Yes, I've liked the design from the very start, and they've got a nice group of people working on it. It's supposed to go into a 1.0 release this year.

I'll probably try it out on a service where I'm writing simultaneously to two different databases, one local and one distributed. And then log any issues where I see an inconsistency. I won't be relying on it for a while for anything critical.
> Canada(?)

We're buying Super Hornets as an "interim measure" for reasons passing understanding.
Or drones for that matter, even stealth drones.