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If you're drinking expensive alcohol just to get drunk, you're drinking wrong.

Hell, if you're drinking alcohol just to get drunk, you have a problem. (And that problem is called alcoholism.)

I spend hundreds of dollars a month on bottles of spirits and liqueurs to make cocktails at home, not because I'm trying to get drunk but because a good cocktail is like a good meal: It contains flavours and textures which are interesting and exciting, that I can share with the people around me.

Wine and beer are similar, in that a good wine or beer paired with a good meal can make both taste better, and be another element in the experience I'm sharing with the people I'm with.

I think that very quickly there's an upper limit to the price-to-palate ratio on a bottle of wine, but there's also studies done that show that people straight up enjoy drinking wine that they've spent more money on. If that's how you enjoy yourself, and that's how you want to spend your money, more power to you.

If you don't enjoy the experience of drinking, or you don't enjoy the taste, or you have any other objection to it, that's fine, but you should recognise that responsible drinking (expensive taste or not) is not a moral failure.
Explained: Apple iCloud kept 'deleted' browser histories for over a year
Vim-sensible is the first, and sometimes only, vim plugin I use. It is small, takes care of most of the stuff I had in my personal .vimrc file and works across all of the systems I am on. I used to just load up vim with tons of plugins until I realized I used about 5% total of everything I was loading in.

These days it's vim-sensible,vim-go, syntastic and the base16 themes.
Thankfully this is limited to a single (and seemingly small) company's hardware, rather than the entire SSL/TLS stack. Glad it wasn't someone like Cisco too ...
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Yes - we just got pull requests into sshuttle as well as some patches to FreeBSD to make ipfw and UDP tunneling work the right way ... I am testing it now (Feb 2017) and will post to -hackers when it is done ...
There's still rooted node / kubelet access control to worry about, which does not look to be a problem with Docker. (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/40476)
Google has a canary problem: one clocked off and crocked its cloud
> What's that...? No, I've never experienced that situation myself, why do you ask?

Another way to look at it is to say this provided you with a job and an entire company with a revenue basis, probably for years.

I mean on the other side of the fence there are plenty of stories of software developers being allowed to "properly design", no technical debt, then after 1 year of zero result they come with a product, which doesn't even start (the tests run and succeed, though). Then the third or so feature request that comes in ... needs a rewrite.
Canadian man who disappeared in 2012 is found 6,500 miles away
Wow, that's news to me! How I've waited for Apple to do this. Karabiner-Elements does some shady stuff with the kernel and in my experience makes the machine a lot less reliable.
> This function only catches unwinding panics, not those that abort the process.

How do you expect a stack overflow to unwind? I have difficulty imagining the implementation
I got my bachelors in CS at a state university on a full-ride scholarship I qualified for in high school, but was out of a job for a year, living on what I've saved up and loans from my parents.

Eventually, I got a job as a developer in a mid-size city, making decent money relative to cost-of-living and not having to have roommates because I was spending only ~33% on rent. Though I'm not swimming in money, I have become financially independent as much as any wage or salaried worker is able.

Though in my outlook I never really subscribed to the notion that all problems are fixable by pulling oneself up by their bootstraps, I'm realizing that this held true in my case. And as I get older I am finding it harder and harder to sympathize with my peers who've learned less marketable skills and are now living many three or four to an apartment in economic insecurity, or have moved to urban centers or boomtowns chasing their dream yet aren't much better off. Those who continuously receive assistance from their parents do not mirror my own experience, as any money my parents lent me was sorely missed and paid back at first opportunity, while those who are doing this on their own are making little measurable progress to attain a better quality of life, notwithstanding their best intentions.

It's unfortunate that one's socioeconomic wealth still so strongly predicts their own wealth, It's unfortunate that certain systems perpetuate structural problems, and some people never get the chance to climb out of poverty, but some others are afforded a way up and choose not to pursue it.
Just playing devil's advocate here, I think the whole venture capital/startup ecosystem is really broken. But: imagine for a second that you have a really good business model. It will be profitable beyond a certain scale. You don't have the capital on hand to grow it to that scale yourself while eating the losses. What's a guy to do? Meanwhile, some other guy has a lot of money and is always thinking about how he could be making even more money. He can bankroll you until you hit the sustainability threshold and become profitable, in return for a share of profits, or stock, or something similar. A return on investment, essentially. If you don't have a system like this, only existing big players can sink the capital into ventures like this, where they require a large scale before returning profits. And large companies are pretty risk averse in general, so that's not a great solution either.

The issues is that the VC wants to see growth, since growth means you're edging closer to profitability. They'll continue to give you more and more cash if you need it, as long as you look promising. This creates the incentive for you, as the startup, to make it look like you're growing, in return for more VC cash. Regardless of actual growth numbers. Growth "hacking" is a result of the incentive structure. But the system exists because there are business models that cannot be self-sustaining from day 0 that, nonetheless, could possibly be a very good investment for a VC to make if it grows large enough.
IMHO taobao.com and google translate > alisites
Yeah I can see how that is problematic.

What I do is -- look at what very big players are doing (Salesforce, Facebook, etc) and follow that.

Also, look at what all random minor players are doing, and absolutely ignore that.
This fully from my own cultural perspective. It's not a moral judgment or a universal judgment. But if I am honest with myself, I feel it's shameful.
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If I lived in your fantasy world I'd just make myself the king of Saudi Arabia. Seems simpler.
I find it unimaginable that more people are coding than are farming full-time (which is at least hundreds of millions). Given that agriculture is also older by >2 orders of magnitude, I think it's pretty safe to say it has more person-years behind it.
College is for the elite because it is an arms race. We use college for class signaling.

If a degree is free, then employers will demand a master's degree. (already starting) If we make that free, employers will demand a doctorate. If we make that free, employers will demand post-doctoral work.

Meanwhile, the actual education obtained for any given level declines. This is a race to the bottom because the customers demand it. Colleges are now teaching things that were once required for entering high school, particularly writing.

For an individual, it is usually beneficial to participate in the arms race. College expenses rise to take much of the benefit, but there is some benefit left for the student. For society, anything that encourages the arms race is harmful. An increasingly large portion of a person's life is spent being unproductive.
Not really. I doubt it's better than the existing CPU coolers we use, CPU coolers just aren't practical for cooling buildings.
I've recently moved house and I'm nearer a train station (although I can't actually move my stuff since no car), but it would be very difficult to not have one at all.

Visiting my parents would be basically impossible, as well as going to friend's houses. Also I'm not sure which university I might be going to, but it might require one, and trying to run my own business will require one for posting items and such. And I can't really date if I can't pick people up. I don't feel like Melbourne is really a city where you can get away with having no car easily, unless you can contain your whole life to the inner suburbs and city.

Petrol's not too bad in mine since it's a Prius.
Poverty and high neighborhood murder rates increase depression in older adults
You raise some good points, like the kubelet killing off pods in hopes of getting a new pod with juicier secrets associated with it, but nevertheless the ticket mentioned by the sibling comment (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/40476) sounds like a property that Docker's secret handling already has. It would be great to see Kubernetes work this way, too.

Coincidentally, I'm working on a project that uses Kubernetes and it has a very locked down pod placement policy, so the attack you described would be significantly scoped down. But I don't think the same is true of most Kubernetes deployments.
Show HN: Transactional memory in Lispy Forth
I am reminded by something I read by a person who studies complex systems. He said that every complex system that works well started with a simple system that worked well, and then gradually added new features over time.
I don't think it's bad at all. I very rarely have to write 'jk', and using that combination saves me from having to either reach the escape key or having to use c-[. If the price I have to pay is waiting 0.5s (which is what I have the timeout configured to) once in a while, then I consider this a great tradeoff.
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Nice dissertation on 2+2=4. I've known relativity for 30years. The point i was making (as i'm sure you genuinely DO actually know, despite pretending once again to need to correct me), is that even physics professors in the middle of physics lectures will say "space" or "time", depending on context. Learn the fact that English and all languages have syntactical nuances. Oh,and thanks for the warning that you are a Troll, but I don't mind. I'm biting the hook. Nothing thrills me more than debating physics. Thus the 30yrs.
"Detroit could be nearly free."

Who would have more money in the bank at the end of the year? A software developer in SF spending $40k on rent, or a software developer in Detroit spending $0 on rent?
If Brigham Young could foresee how cars would abuse the design, he would have laid out Salt Lake City like Paris or maybe like Kyoto.

Alas, President Young had long since exhausted his outrageously lavish budget of divine providence just getting to Utah.
Continuous deployment requires the highest level of professionalism and engineering process discipline.
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> The fact that people overwhelmingly inherit their beliefs should be a serious problem to any religious person, and I have no good rationalization for it.

and

> As to why I chose the message of Jesus for my own faith... it probably helps that my family is nominally Christian.

You say that you shopped around, but I'm curious what that actually means -- how many of the 4000+ religions you explored, how deep the exploration and experiences were in comparison to the first 10-20 years of your life of being exposed exclusively to your parents' branch of Christianity.

I don't understand the '[Christianity is the only] religion that puts no burden on me to earn my way' bit either -- can you explain that differently please?

Now, please don't compare me to Tom Cruise. ; )

I think I've misunderstood something about my position of not needing a higher power to explain the universe, or to delegate (abrogate?) ultimate responsibility of my actions to. I think I now understand -- this is not something you think is possible for anyone (or perhaps just 'reasonable for a thoughtful person') to think -- would that be a fair statement? There's been a few comments you've made around this subject, that I've carelessly overlooked, so I apologise for not being clearer on this earlier.

When you ask about alternatives to invoke instead of a 'higher intelligent creative force', I'm at a loss. I have no alternatives (beyond nature, or what's observed, etc) but more importantly I don't feel a need for them. I've always assumed all atheists think this way. But I've never considered that theists might assume that atheists are plagued by some kind of sensation - doubt, fear, a feeling of absence or missing something profoundly important - because of this.

With regards the 'complexity implies intent' argument -- how do you reconcile that with the observation that plenty of other people see the same levels of complexity but come to a different conclusion?

Tangential to the question of the gap sensation ... you mentioned:

> But there are plenty of believers who have no access to a bible, and a God of mercy and love takes them too.

Are you talking about people who have never been exposed to Christianity? I recall a droll (though likely apocryphal) quote where someone disappointedly asks "So if you'd never told me about Jesus, I'd definitely go to heaven? Why did you tell me then?"

For people who aren't exposed to the Bible (I'm including the ~100,000 years of humans as we'd recognise them) do you feel that they would have felt a higher power was self-evident from complexity, and/or needed an explanation beyond their own (physical) observations & experiences, and/or had a similar conviction to their local gods as you do to yours? Had you been born into a time & culture that worshipped, say, Zeus, what belief system do you think you would have had as an adult?

I expect neither of us is likely to fundamentally change, and that I've turned this into a 'I'm a Christian - AMA!' (sorry! :)
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Ask HN: A Domain Stolen by Registrar. What Would You Do?
I had a billing issue and was able to renew a domain 27 days after it expired. After I renewed it, I couldn't find it in my list of my domains anymore. I then contacted their support, and they confirmed the issue but said that they would get back to me in 24-48 hours. It looked that I renewed it when they are transferring it to an internal account, and they auction against the ICANN rules. As they don't send any notification that the domain is removed from your account, they seem to rely on people with multiple domains not noticing or people with a few domains not to know their rights. By the time you notice and 30 days after expiry pass, there's nothing you can do - well, at least this is what they tell you! Most people would give up - and that's what they expect. Something like this happened to me, but I don't want to be a sheeple. What would you recommend to me? Their response says that they refunded my renewal and that because the domain was not renewed 30 days after expiry, it went on an action! So, although I obviously did as they're refunding me, they still claim that nonsense! Why are we allowing this to happen to us? Do you lose your number after you fail to pay your phone bill? Why are we allowing this for something way more important? Okay, I know, some of us profit from this, but eventually it can hurt anyone of us, and especially and weak and uninformed person!
You can have both. Postgres has foreign data wrappers, with Redis as a first class citizen. So, you can push your data to Postgres, and have it trigger to publish the updates. Databases have a pretty big toolset to make your life easier when you need to manipulate your data.
> After I felt comfortable I'd start to consult on the side on weekends for up to $53k of annual tax-free solo 401k sheltered income.

May someone please explain this? I wasn't aware of a different 401k contribution limit for freelancing.

> Life doesn't present a ton of these "sell picks and shovels to gold miners" opportunities but this is definitely one of them.

Feel like this is more akin to a goldminer working 24/7. Selling "picks and shovels" is what landlords / AWS / food delivery / ride-shares are doing.
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The thing is, python guidelines (PEPs) stated that shebangs should specify python2 or python3 explicitly during the transition period. Using "#!/usr/bin/env python" for a project that was python2-only was not following guidelines, so the breakage was really the dev's fault.

Also, the python2 symlink should have already been there. Bad packaging on some distros resulted in bad practices packaging by some devs. Don't blame that on Arch.
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You make a lot of good points about expectations driving prices more than any traditional "value" here.

Steam has games ranging from pennies to hundreds of dollars if you buy them fully loaded. Clearly there's varied demand.

Maybe the indie developers have an image problem where their titles aren't deemed worthy of a >$10 price-point regardless of the effort involved in producing them.

That being said, I know people who've succeeded despite their crazy low prices ($0.99 on sale, $3.99 regular) because they make up for it in volume. Steam isn't their only source of income, either, they have a foothold in the PS4, Vita, iOS and XBox space. As an indie you need to port to as many languages, platforms, and regions as you can afford to cast as big a net as possible.

Remember, one of the best-selling games of all time is Minecraft which was, for the longest time, put out at the remarkably cheap (in terms of $/hr. of fun) price of $9 during beta.

> For reasons I don't comprehend, there is almost no open source standard within indie communities...

Ogre3D and a few sound-libraries notwithstanding, you're right. It's terrible. While there are tools like Blender (and Blender Game Engine) there's relatively slim pickings compared to things like the wealth of resources a typical web developer enjoys.

It's not about people giving away their hard work, it's about people sharing and through that making it easier for everyone to produce games. The Pixar initiative to share their OpenSubdiv project is a great example of how that could play out: Now you don't have to waste your life writing a sad, non-performant version of subdivision surfaces. You can do more productive things.
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For me the morning route give me the power and focus for all the day, so it's very important.

I wake up at 5:30 and I meditate for 5-10 minutes. After that I eat, I check the Slack to see if I have any important request from the team during the day (we are in three different timezones, Spain, Japan, SF). I prioritize and add to the calendar my day tasks (if I have to do a task, it means that is important and it has to be schedule in a proper time to put focus on it).

After that I do sport from 7 to 8. Sometimes I go to the gym for some cardio exercise and another times just for a 30-45min run.

I arrive to the office at 08:15.
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Guccifer2.0: Game Over?
Good questions. One answer - Speed in analytics when working with large data sets matters. A lot. Think about this - several vendors seem to be claiming support for interactive analytics. i.e. i can ask an adhoc question on large volume of data and get some sort of insight in "interactive" times.
Really? maybe with a thousand cores?
In a competitive industry, say like in investment banking, if one can discern a pattern before the competition it simply provides an edge. Ask the question to folks involved in detecting fraud, or online portals trying to place an appropriate ad, or manufacturing plant trying to anticipate/predict faults.
It isn't so much about trying to prove we are better than Spark (well other than grabbing some attention :-) ) but rather the potential to live in a world where batch processing is a thing of the past - like working with mainframes. The hope is that we can gain insight instantly.
fwiw, we love Spark and expect some of these optimizations simply become part of Apache Spark.
Check for yourself: https://guccifer2.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/1.doc

Open in editor:

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'operator' metadata tag (\'d4\'e5\'eb\'e8\'ea\'f1 \'dd\'e4\'ec\'f3\'ed\'e4\'ee\'e2\'e8\'f7) decodes to ФеликсЭдмундович (FeliksEdmundovich).

In RTF Word, 'operator' is assumed to be 'last saved by' ('revtim' half an hour later). source: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6iM2xNZ6dAIC&pg=PA120&l...
Not sure whats wrong with that
That would be interesting to hear more about.

AFAIK all sound drivers in Windows accepted standard PCM data.
I don't think he means the models of the human mind at the implementation level.
Rather he's referring to the mental conception of a specific problem or task, or even a natural language description of the problem, and how that is translated to a computer program that models that problem.
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I believe it depends on the person. Learning styles differ based on how our brains work. Some people tend to enjoy and consume video\audio learning better than books. While others can consume the written word much better than videos\audios
Just like python. That's why they bumped the major when release backwards-incompatible changes, which is the right thing to do.
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Vault is really wonderful to work with, and its integration with consul makes it phenomenally powerful.
The salary in Sydney seems to be anemic relative to a CoL that approaches SF.

For fucks sake.
Replying to save, this is very useful on first pass.
That is great, but people like to see how your solution compares to other solutions!

Hence, benchmarks.

So, if you do TPC-C or TPC-D or whatever, and compare well to others, you are doing great!

But if you avoid benchmarks, people think that you are not doing well. So they will not buy.

Just my 5c.
You really shouldn't install global packages circumventing the package manager (this applies to python and everything else really). You're just asking for eventual breakage, or leaking obsolete files.
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This particular dog made himself an inside one and never quite realized he was too big to be a lapdog. We never had to ask him to do something, when the car was going out the gate for instance, he would wander up the stairs where he knew he was supposed to be without prompting. Later after I moved away he would play passive aggressive when I visited, ignoring me but betrayed by his waging tail banging on the ground.

I can't say we would have done the same for most other dogs we've had, but this one was special and we got another 8 years out of him.
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