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My favorite band is Wilco, and they have effectively eliminated scalping of their tickets. Here's how:

When you buy a ticket you can only buy 2 at a time and you must provide your name. To attend the show, you show your ID at the venue and they find you the the ticket(s) that match your name. At this point you and your guest must enter immediately and there are no "ins and outs".

So to scalp a ticket, you'd have to bring the person you sold it to into the show with you. That's a lot of effort!

Are there downsides to this? Sure. The first is that I'd gladly pay more to see Wilco but I can't but my way into the show. The second is if I buy tickets and something comes up I can't easily transfer them to another fan. Is all of this probably worth it to make sure that they can have an intimate connection with their fans and nobody else profits off their shows? Yeah, I think so.
While I'm not familiar with Spanner's inner workings, I would guess that they recommend 3 instances for quorum establishment in case a region becomes unreachable. If that's the case, using fewer than 3 instances could cause major problems.
That is something of a myth. AWS was created and evolves completely separately from retail, which didn't really use it in anger until 2010ish. Retail is effectively a large customer to AWS. They're very good at watching what customers are doing in general.
Again, you completely missed the point. Bill Gates is one man with a certain amount of resources. He chose to go after a huge problem with known solutions: hundreds of millions of poverty-induced, completely preventable, childhood deaths. Climate change may be another worthy cause, but no one has any business criticizing him for not choosing that particular one over saving a massive number of children because they might cause some additional demand for palm oil.

Find a billionaire that is doing nothing for the world and criticize them for not doing something about climate change. Bill Gates is busy doing great things for humanity.
Seeing as I've had a fair share of packages being "lost" by USPS I can shed some light on this matter. You typically get the round about from USPS. You can visit the post office where it's suppose to be, the workers and customers waiting in line will get annoyed at you. USPS will end up telling you that they'll take down your info and give you a call. When you receive the call, it's a courtesy call to give you a case number and tell you that they will look into it. Do they ever? Who actually knows...

The problem typically lies with the drivers and the sorting phase (getting onto a truck). Sometimes the workers will cut corners and forget to scan the package. It's faster to throw it on the truck than individually scan every box. As you can imagine some barcodes are messed up so they have to type it in manually. I've had packages show up for with an initial scan at the point of delivery location. I will say it's gotten a lot better these days, but it varies depending on facility.

So back to the problem... if they don't scan it from the sorting to the truck phase. The driver could just "lose" it on the truck or during the route. Sometimes it's accidentally and falls in a crevice somewhere. I've had a package show up a year letter. Other times it's blatant tampering.

I was shipping out an used iPhone, stupidly use the same Apple shipping box my new one came in, and it was MIA on the tracking for two days. The tracker just stated "enroute", then the package magically started moving again. A one day shipment took four days to complete. When my customer received the item, the phone was gone, but everything else was intact. I mean there was no doubt that the driver had stolen the phone. Resolution? None. USPS called me and said they would look into it. Never really learned what happened, but I'm guessing the driver is still out there somewhere plucking away at packages.

I've lost my fair share of packages with USPS. If I've learned anything, it's to ship with UPS if you really want to make sure it arrives at the destination. If you look at the shipping rates, USPS is the cheapest, followed by FedEx, then UPS.
The Economic Basis of the Internet Is Mass Surveillance
This comment crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed on HN regardless of how wrong someone is. Please don't post like this.
It should be straightforward if someone steps up to write the C bindings.
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It seems you've already decided that these are worth reading, but in case you want some motivation, I had CS:APP as my textbook last term and I thought it was quite nice. I also worked through TECS several years ago and it was also a great resource. CS:APP is quite dry but by the end of the course I was able to write a real memory manager in C, which was super fun! If you're ever looking for an internet book reading buddy, I also need motivation. I worked through TECS with a friend over a few weeks and found it very useful to have someone else seeing and working through the same problems.

Good luck!
The person who wrote this "marketing buzz" is Eric Brewer, who was the originator of the CAP theorem in the first place. I think he knows what it was about :)
I also support a stronger social net funded by taxes instead of distortionary forces like "strong employment laws".

Basic income does the same thing for the distortionary minimum wage.
The grievances are real, no doubt. Are they voting for the best person to solve those issues based on an understanding of possible policies? Or because they just got advertised "Vote Trump, ban immigrants, build $20 billion walls, and then you'll have a job!"

Keep in mind people voted in part based on a campaign promise to repeal "Obamacare" even when they depended on the ACA for their lives, without realizing they were one and the same. Anecdote does not data make, but there also have been a few prominent examples of families that were broken up when the U.S. citizen portion voted Trump and their relatives were then affected by the travel ban.

There are real economic grievances, no one is saying there aren't. Those grievances were there the election before this one, and the one before that (2008, remember? right now the economy and employment are objectively at their best since at least that time). But there is also an ideological, cultural component, which is ripe for being modulated by propaganda. See e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/its-put... .
Dumb question: Since strings are supported, couldn't you just store some JSON as a string? Or are you talking about supporting queries that involve parsing the JSON on the "server"?
> what I'd like to do is point it at a directory and load all templates under that dir

Doesn't https://golang.org/pkg/html/template/#ParseGlob do exactly that?
> Seriously, food is amazing. Why would you deny yourself so much of it

You don't have to; I conditioned myself to enjoy all the excellent foods, but to just take less of it. The quality is not in the quantity while I thought all my life it was. There is no 'better' feeling eating an entire cake versus taking 2 bites of the same cake. It took me 40 years to figure that out but he.

The main trick was eating very very slow. Do not load the next spoon until your mouth is completely empty. I noticed i'm absolutely full eating a fraction of what I hammered down usually in a fraction of that time.

> I'd be a bigger advocate of intermittent fasting.

Yes, but stuffing myself in between, depending on your age, doesn't actually work very well. I felt like shit doing that, did not lose too much weight and my brain thought I needed that stuffing. Now I feel fit and healthy doing fasting & eating slowly. Let's see how long I keep it up. I need less sleep too.
Could a £400bn plan to refreeze the Arctic before the ice melts really work?
Well, don't speak about abstract 'shackles', show me the improved process! I am especially interested in version control and collaboration. IMHO, existing file-based tools have had quite a few advances on this front:

* Tests are now common and considered a good thing. A new contributor can write code without worrying about breaking rarely-used functionality.

* Many languages have package managers. Using latest third-party library is now simple

* We have great deployment mechanisms -- one-command deployments are common, containers and version pinning help reproducibility.

* Some languages come with support for interactive REPL -- you can evaluate arbitrary commands inside running processes.

* Many languages support static checking -- a lot of errors could be caught even if the code is never exercised

* Many languages need no compilation at all -- just edit the file and run it

What can smalltalk offer? Obviously it has great REPL. Anything else? What is the cool new 'software development process' feature that you are referring to?

For example, I have found exactly one sentence about version control and sharing in the article you have linked: "We may even see Pharo 7, which promises a Git-integration tool called Iceberg for source code version control." . Is this what you wanted to show me? Because my takeaway is that the only way to work on Smalltalk software as a team is to use file-based tools (git). I see no improvements in software development process here.

The other commenter mentioned Monticello and Smalltalk Hub. Ok, this looks like a decent version control system. It is interesting how without files, you have to add a prefix to a name of every class and tag each function which you want checked in. Still, I could not find which features it has that git does not.
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If anyone has a copy of the main paper Cambridge Analytica were using please link here.

I know that's vague, but to narrow it down on a previous article there was a picture of an individual reviewing said paper. Someone noted it and linked to the original paper.

I made a copy, but deleted it while cleaning things up.
So if the Washington D.C. police, or anyone who can afford it, are tracking protesters, or merely tracking, near the White House, they may inadvertently intercept calls from all those insecure, non-presidentially locked phones carried by top White House aides, and by the President?
This is quite false. Catholics split the democrat/republican vote ~50/50. They voted for Gore, Bush, Obama, and Trump with small margins. [1]

They care about this question, but not very much. Evangelicals, on the other hand overwhelmingly vote republican.

Catholics, in general, are the most liberal religious denomination in the US.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-fait...
well we've gone from 200ppm to 400ppm. I might be a couple of zeroes off because it's a percentage, but the point is that this is trace gas, not pure CO2 which is what my sodastream uses
...which is why that's basically what I suggested.

"Red team" and "blue team" are referencing offensive and defensive teams using standard security lingo. In this case, red team is trying to manipulate and control the public. As another commentator pointed out, it's a little unclear what blue team even should be doing.

I avoided just saying "help people avoid manipulation", because the implementation of a defensive strategy might be self-directed manipulation overriding the other manipulation you're exposed to, as it's not necessarily possible to avoid manipulation entirely. (Or even a deairable goal, as you might want to adjust your existing habits.)

My main point was that we need to start developing defensive tactics and strategies, because the offense dominated present situation will end in catastrophe.
I highly doubt this is truly the reason
Interesting; I feel fitter and need less sleep. What exactly did you do? Maybe it differs from person to person like many things, but i'm curious.
Given past history, it is highly unlikely that Raymond Chen is lying. Neutrality is not the same as rationality.
These laptops look and feel really nice. I just haven't been able to justify the price point for a gaming laptop that won't be up to playing new games in a year or two. Afterwards it's still a nice laptop but so is my $300 Thinkpad yoga 11e.

I prefer to have a beast desktop that is upgradable and a quality but low cost laptop I don't mind throwing around a little bit.
This is India. Starving, thirsty, injured (hit by cars and trucks) cows and dogs roam the streets, hobbling along, limping along. There are people starving on the street-side. The poorest children are openly prostituted on the streets.

How are they going to enforce a rule regarding plastic bags?

The rich will continue to do whatever they want.

The middle-classes will continue to do whatever they can get away with.

The poor will continue to be shit on and abused.

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About 20 years ago they banned smoking in public in Delhi (I was there when they did it).

All that this ordinance did was to give the police yet another angle to harass people. More corruption. More bribes.
I agree 100% that the working class people in America have been screwed over. But just because they've been wronged doesn't mean that their solutions are right.

Dumb ideas deserve to be attacked. Ideas that are an affront to practically every positive development that dragged us out from under the rule of the oligarchs of the 19th century and the fear-mongering ideologues of the 20th, deserve to be attacked.

If that hurts the feelings of those who are promoting them, that's unfortunate, but it's the price of admission if you're trying to exert influence in the public sphere.
Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts with Russian Intelligence
They stop working maybe because the stingray is only collecting identifiers instead if conducting a true MITM attack and forwarding any calls por SMS's. In any case, I suspect they could only do a MITM to outgoing traffic, so any incoming traffic/data would not be delivered, like the phone is out of service/no network.
So yet another culprit for the DNP defeat in the last election?

I'm definitely not a Trump supporter (I'm not even American), but if I remember correctly the DNP also had a gargantuan apparatus of traditional media and social networking tools working 24/7 to help Hillary win the election.

I've seen "Fake news" in both sides of every election I followed (Brazil and US since ever and UK in the last 4 years). The big difference now is that, aside from the fact Trump is a scary individual, this time the "big media" side lost. Not that it is any advantage in the case at hand.
Show HN: Personalize Romeo and Juliet or Pride and Prejudice
Related, on NYC's grid:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/10/nyregion/how-...
I can vouch for Spanner: it's a badass piece of Google's infrastructure.
Yeah, parent probably meant queryable JSON types, a la Postgres[1].

1: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-json.htm...
A bit OT, but interesting -

Smugglers work on the dark side of Rwanda’s plastic bag ban

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/2/25/rwanda-plast...
The equivalent is probably a 2D DXA scan with body composition report. Supposedly it can measure the amount of bone, muscle, and fat in your body to within 1% of actual values. Those scans are widely available for <$50.

BMI is still a pretty good proxy measurement. There's a very high correlation between BMI and body fat content. People like to complain that BMI is useless because a few weightlifters show up as "obese" but those are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
I always find it funny when people say they're tired of being called racists.

They'll bitch till they're blue in the face about how it's unfair that just because they want people like them to succeed they're called racists.

I wonder what they think racism is if not that?
"Over the weekend, relations were pummelled further when the US announced that it would cut $800m (£500m) worth of military aid as punishment for Pakistan's perceived lack of co-operation in the anti-terror fight."
It might not be THE reason, but I guess there would be less than the [1]20 cases of polio that there are now in Pakistan if that $800m hadn't been cut.

[1] http://www.endpolio.com.pk/polio-cases-district-wise-2016
I understand the principle ;)

My point is that nature is not bubbling pure CO2 through the ocean to make it fizzy or acidic. Using fizzy water to demonstrate the acidity of the ocean is just bad science.
I believe that Roku handles billing for various streaming services: https://support.roku.com/article/208756478-how-do-i-manage-o... .

Apple will also do the billing for streaming services that you sign up for via its apps.
Not dumb, I was being inexact. I was talking about Spanner understanding the semantics of JSON, similar to Postgre's JSONB or MYSQL's JSON.
He'd have to be a fool to change the thing that made him one of the richest men alive. So I assume he's still quite ruthless.
> can demand from you to work 12 hours per day for 5 or 6 days a week

How is that "part time"?
The NY Times divisive, hate-mongering, propaganda machine and their posting shills here at HN remain hard at work. I thank you for your continued efforts /s.

ps: wish I had flagging rights.
It might be groundbreaking if no one else had the idea to use even plain old SVD to look at the problem. (And it would still look like a new method to some particular scientific subfield if the Silicon Valley ads and marketing people never published about the methods they are using in the journals these people read...)

And learning SVD if you start at zero background in required maths, especially if nobody is exactly telling you what to learn and how to learn it and how to use it (yes I'm stereotyping the word 'psychologist' heavily here) could plausibly take "years". I'm doing maths and while I had first encounter with eigendecompositions during the 1st year linear algebra (which remarkably many students find hard), I think it wasn't until the 3rd year when we covered SVDs in their full theoretically detailed glory in the class.

Lots of "groundbreaking" stuff involves 'simply' applying techniques developed elsewhere to new problem domains. There's still some low-hanging fruit left for applied maths and statistics.

However, I don't know enough about this particular area to really say if the statement of "groundbreaking" are really warranted, but that could be one plausible defense of the claim.

edit. Edited to apply to your edit.
That's Hans Rosling explaining why population growth is not as big a problem as some people think it will be.

It is still a problem, make no mistake.

edit: the problem comes from factors such as fresh water supplies, energy production, food production and transport. Once you start using more power to produce fresh water, you end up in a precarious highly industrialised future where the entire population becomes much more vulnerable to sabotage or incompetence. Even worse, most power production schemes of the scale required will also consume fresh water themselves.

We need to find a way to maintain an acceptable quality of life with minimal energy expenditure, so that the entire population can live at that standard without destroying the planet in doing so.
The ban has been active in Bangalore since March, 2016 [1] and in Mangalore for much longer [2]

I was surprised to learn Delhi did not have such a ban so far

[1] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Total-plas...

[2] http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/mangalore-bans...
>It seems that we’ll soon enter into a cycle where small players dominate.. And now is the time to prepare yourself for that.

Disagree with this wholeheartedly. The big players are dominating more and more with the resources and most importantly data being sucked up by all of them.

They have the cash, reach, talent and now - different from previous times - the flexibility to pivot and change reasonably quickly. Not as quickly as a tiny company granted, but quick enough that when they see a sea change they can adapt to it, either through acquisition or by leveraging their data to enter and dominate a market they weren't previously in.
not likely related at all, but interesting story!
Given the inconsistent, even capricious prescriptions coming from nutritional science and medicine, here's three reasons I don't worry too much about nutritional "science."

First, n anecdote:

1.) One year I decided to run a marathon, and joined a running group including some elite runners.

One was a former state champion. In that particular year he'd run an Iron Man, a marathon, and the Goofy Challenge. That is a big deal.

He was carved out of stone. At running clubs, women would surround him. They'd paw at him, giggle as they pointed and touched this man body of steel.

After witnessing this for months, once at a pub I saw him order, IIRC: 2 hotdogs, a hamburger meal (with its own sides), and sweet potato fries, which he washed down with several beers.

I was shocked. I asked if he always ate that way. He said he just eats what he feels like eating, with one exception: added sugar.

So that's what I do. I eat what I feel like, with (3) exceptions. Small portions, no added sugar, and limits on artificial flavours. I've seen great results in energy, mind and physique. It appears my body is actually really well tuned to tell me what it needs without me having to do anything at all--as long as I follow those three rules.

2.) We need to be careful what we call actual science. If you can't rigidly follow the scientific method and test your theory to see if it matches with nature, it's not science.

3.) Nutrition is ridiculously important to our well being. It's more important than sex, shelter, and ego. Our bodies have been evolving for millions of years to learn how to tell us what they require. It's arrogant to declare yourself to know better here without having hard scientific evidence of it. That's what we're seeing now in the "scientific" literature. Butter is no longer a heart risk. Eggs are now healthy. All of the sudden sugar is the devil. Etc.
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It may shock you, but rules and welfare were invented by humans, for specific goals. If the goals are not fulfilled any more, it may be time to change the rules.

That phenomenon is called "welfare cliff", and it should be addressed if politicians wants to make part time jobs easier for both employers and employees.
I find it hard to believe that in the age of ubiquitous and relatively secure smartphones that we can't write a ticket auction app. So I have assume that there are powerful stakeholders whose interests would not be served.
In my experience with Go, sticking with the stdlib as much as possible is always the best option.

I'd add whatever functionality you need to html/template in your own code rather than import a dependency.
I recommend you read the book Dale's How to Make Friends and Roosh V's "Bang".

Dating game in USA is different from that of India as women essentially judge on 100 paramters if say and Indian/Chinese woman might judge you on 10 parameters. Also USA does not have the kind of inequality other nations have it is perfectly possible that the hot girl you meet is merely a waitress at Danny's.

Silicon Valley is useless as there are very few women here and among most women out there dating they are over-aged. I suggest you make trips to places where there is higher density of liberal arts colleges.

Remember dating is like salesmanship. If you are ugly you might have to approach 70 women to score 1 compared to a blue eyed white guy. But remember that with each failed attempt you will hone your various others skills and you will eventually beat the blue eyed guy like whipped cream! :)

Good luck.