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> Conscription is slavery

I abhor hyperbole. Slavery is the legal ownership of one person over another person and their progeny. Since they are property, slaves have absolutely no rights or any access to the legal system. You commanding officer cannot rape or kill you with impunity. He/She cannot force you to do fight with another conscript to the death. Conscripts also get paid, while slaves do not and are well fed and clothed. There is no such requirement for slaves. Your commanding officer also is not going to beat you if he/she finds you reading a book.

I'd advise you to actually do research on what slaves endured and stop disrespecting their ordeal by comparing it to military conscription. These thoughtless comparisons make light of how brutal and devastating chattal slavery was.
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Which is why you should do stereo or SfM, make a 3d reconstruction, and then do HOG or some 3D feature to recognise the coke can.

Trying to do it from images with a NN that doesn't comprehend 3D space is just silly.
FWIW, I remember ASRock being mistaken about AMD features in the past: iirc there was a while when they were wrongly asserting that Bulldozer didn't support I/O virtualisation. (Eventually they implemented it on their own AM3 motherboards.)
Why the limited number of licenses?
That's an entirely different statement than your original one. Saying "the costs of cloud service are zooming up" disingenuously makes it sound like the price of cloud services are going up.
It's cheaper to investigate their potential liability than to risk it though.
Okay, help me out here. Here's my math: I move about 10 TB of bandwidth a month, I currently am in a DC that offers me 30TB on gigabit for $90/mo for my 1U box that hosts my small business and a few development systems - my server cost me a total of $1500 with 72GB of RAM and 4x3TB drives in RAID10, so I have 6TB of disk that's about at 50% capacity.

To go to Amazon EC2 let's see... 64 GB of RAM for $0.862 should do the job there, but just for that I'm at $620/mo. Then let's add bandwidth, 10TB out at $0.01/GB = $100/mo. Now for disk I have to use EBS which runs (let's say st1 will do the job) 0.045/GB/mo*3TB = $135/mo. And that's before any IO.

So to move from bare metal to amazon I go from $1.5k upfront + $90/mo to a total of $855/mo on Amazon.

I can buy a new server every few months for the same cost of hosting that at Amazon - unless I'm severely missing something. Maybe it's worth if it you're a very small installation or one with very unpredictable traffic? But I just don't see it.
Intentional communities are not 'like' startups, they are startups, all the way down to the legal structure in many cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

Most notable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

Peter Thiel Further clarifies this: https://www.wired.com/2014/09/run-startup-like-cult-heres/

I think this insight/mode of analysis is most valuable to founders.
If you're looking to work for or with freelance talent I can't recommend Toptal enough.

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I am suprised you would be using personal email and GitHub accounts. The laptop thing is not that unusual, but it is because the company provides you a company email, GitHub, etc. Basically, I keep my work and personal devices completely separate. I only do work on work devices. I expect no real privacy.

As for the other portion of your question, maybe you could negotiate that out? Or make it more limited? Something like if I am using X language or working on something tied to Y field (that you use/work on at work) I will follow procedure. That leaves you to build (insert unused language here) (insert unrelated app) on your own time.
Do you have an assumption that GUIs are safer than command lines? Or have fewer programming bugs in them? I don't think either is true.
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You can already pay for Uber rides with commuter benefit cards. https://newsroom.uber.com/poolcommutes/
It's nice to see them trying to do something about this. But I'd hold off on judging the merits of this approach until some reliable data comes in with regard to its efficacy.
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Also from Atlanta.

Here's a quote from 1971

Wilson gave to the media at the time, which said, “People fear that rapid transit would give Negroes greater mobility and consider the $0.15 fare as a gift to ‘a certain segment of the population.’”
Interesting, I assumed java and javascripts behaviour were common. I dont recall seeing this notation before either [0,1) maybe i will now %)
Paradise Now by Chris Jennings (Peter Jenning's son, FYI) is recent and I enjoyed it: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/books/review/paradise-now...
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System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB ECC RAM and 32TB storage
Genuine question: why should this be any more difficult than searching for any other type of character? I've long found it hard to understand why Google is so bad at searching for non-alphanumeric characters.
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Isn't the gif on the front page from atom?
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The picture in the article shows a Volt. If it's in your garage then it's plugged in.
I know Netflix runs their own edge nodes, which is precisely why OP sounds incompetent and uninformed. Netflix has spent lots of time and effort into analyzing and building the architecture which is optimized for them.

> Or do you think facebook,google,aol,tripadvisor and pretty much anyone beside HotNewStartup are incompetent?

Far from it, and that's precisely my point. At Facebook scale, it certainly makes sense to run your own data centers. At HotNewStartup, it obviously doesn't. Competence is finding the solution which works best for your scale and organization, not following some generic rule.
> Odersky often says that the mutability should be as 'contained' as possible

He's 100% correct (at minimum).

> the alternative in pure FP is to convert stuff to tail recursion

It's a challenge but not THAT difficult, once you get the hang of it. :) I've found conversions fun, actually. Especially when you (of course) have to learn how to trigger TCO. The irony here of course is that at the machine language level, the recursion is converted back to imperative via TCO. But IMHO the resulting recursively functional TCO code is, eh, "more beautiful"
If you decide to suggest this, be sure to buy Chromebox _for meetings_. The regular Chromebox cannot be upgraded or converted into a Chromebox for Meetings. This caught me out the first time.

https://chromebusinessdevices.withgoogle.com/products/catego...
History shows that car manufacturers have not given near enough thought to the security of access to a vehicle.

Here's how GM could beat Tesla, along with why it won't happen. GM could just take a look at what Tesla is doing, and do all of the same things, then do certain key things better. From a sheer resources and capability standpoint, GM could beat the pants off of Tesla. I think Tesla is counting on: 1) GM and other big automakers being too set in their ways and 2) GM and other big automakers getting some key things very, very wrong. Security is probably a key example.

It's an oft-cited insurgency move to use the big power's culture against itself.
Fair enough. I guess what I meant was specifically using training or punishment to combat "momentary lapse" issues.

If someone doesn't test their backups, you train them to test backups. If someone lies about testing the backups, maybe you fire them. But if someone trips and shatters the only backup disk, you don't yell at them - you create backups that an instant of clumsiness can't ruin.

I did overstate, training is perfectly reasonable, but I often see it cited exactly when it shouldn't be, as a solution to errors like typos or forgetfulness.
It actually looks nicely formatted and sized on my phone. Are you on desktop?
> "How do you propose doing that?" most people will ask - a very good question with a very simple answer - I don't know, but I'm sure that it's not something that few like minded people could figure out.

Non-profit non-government education programs. I'm designing one currently.
I added a quote from a Cobb County (Atlanta Suburb) in 1971 from a GA House Representative.

http://www.mdjonline.com/news/marta-s-expansion-remains-cont...
Bought some shares this morning. With 30-40% profit margin and huge growth, imho this will go higher.
An extremely arbitrary milestone… it would be a bit more notable if bitcoin's market cap was higher than the total value of all gold in circulation. We're a long way off that [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/ChrisLundkvist/status/835087450829701122
My 2015 pickup has a stereo/setup that can get Satellite radio, GPS signals for the mapping program (not activated on mine), regular radio, and a 4G LTE hotspot.

But what really, really annoys me, is I have to push buttons on the screen to update/fix the time.. How the hell does it not have NTP, or get a radio signal, etc?
Bring in myspace.
The Guardian view of Snap IPO: a shareholding monarchy
> I don't think we can use the Singaporean army as an example of a proven effective fighting machine.

Perhaps not, and I would prefer for it to remain that way. It's mainly to serve as a deterrence for would-be aggressors, and also as a form of indoctrination.

> my Singaporean friend showed me picture after picture on Facebook of his friends serving their terms...there were many, many well polished tanks.

I don't know if there was any hidden meaning intended, but most photos on social media are intended to portray the military in a positive light. Cellphones with cameras are still prohibited in some places, and we have the military justice system for everything else.
Exactly the opposite is correct. ICC generated code whose runtime dispatch looked at "Are we running on Intel? Select fast path. Not running Intel? Select generic i386 path."

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49
The carbon credit _is_ the (market-based) mechanism by which someone else has to not emit, or sequester, the CO2. [0]

Of course, it relies on there actually being a cap on carbon in the first place...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credit#How_buying_carbo...
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as well as dying to not lose honor.

While recognising the differences in our attitudes towards life, this evoked from me a very big WTF.

Not just because your life is all you have while honor is basically someone's opinion, but also because it's not even as much as one whole step away from being prepared to kill people for your own honor.
Buy her book on microservice architecture:

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Yeah. I guess it's more a social issue: if a tech can get abused to support the state's goals--we are quickly finding--that it will get abused.

Quick example: Alexa has already gotten its first subpoena for a presumed private voice conversation in someone's home.
This is great. I feel Google has slowly become too user friendly. My mobile results are always way less technical than my desktop results. If I'm in the car (passenger) and want to look up a problem I'm having while programming, I get mostly related queries that are a simplified version of what I'm looking for.

I really believe that the technical crowd drives what becomes popular (app recommendations for family and friends). I feel a lot of the "Google hacking" queries have become less obvious and the search bubble stuff was getting bothersome. This is definitely a step in the right direction. Hopefully I'll be a little less frustrated with results in the future.
TC is great but it's not available on Mac (my original motivation for starting the project [1]) or Linux. Also, it's showing its age.

[1]: https://fman.io/blog/introducing-fman/
I agree. In my refusal to serve in the Norwegian military, this was one of my arguments. Coupled with pointing out that I could not guarantee that I would agree with the political views of any future regime, and so I considered it immoral to be put in a position where I might be threatened into using violence in favour of a cause I might fundamentally be opposed to. I also made it clear that should that happen, I'd consider it my moral obligation to shoot at my own officers. They didn't like that.
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This article had me until it got to David Bowie. Sorry, but Bowie is no Rumi.
Your favorite crypto protocol/hash function/secure RNG is likely already broken -- it's just that no one has found an exploit yet.
Both are command-line only and some people just want a GUI.
>Shares opened at $24 and traded as high as $25.42 apiece Thursday, giving the company a market valuation of about $29 billion

there is no way for me to look at that and not be dumbfounded. some companies are unprofitable but still have a clear mechanism through which they could make money. tesla sells cars, for example. twitter and snap on the other hand have no way to make enough money to justify the hype. they can sell peoples data -- and that is a form of revenue that may face massive backlash and cooling very soon. this market cap is insane and we are in a huge bubble.
Udacity buys CloudLabs; first acquisition to enable collaborative programming
It seems to me as if many communities just get by because their members continuously invest in them, by providing money that is not really earned through the life in the community.
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Not necessarily - our infra's hosted on us-west-2 and we had no downtime.

So while it is perhaps necessary to be multi-regional in Amazon, you wouldn't necessarily have to go multi-provider.
"... why?"

Quote: "Duhm, heavily influenced by Marxism and psychoanalysis, came to see material emancipation and interpersonal transformation as part of the same project."

Hmm ... Marxism and psychoanalysis? I honor this person's idealism and commitment to principles, but these two topics aren't remotely scientific -- they aren't meaningfully tested against reality before being applied. And apart from not being reality-tested in advance, they both have terrible public track records in cases where people went ahead and tried to apply them.

It's only the second paragraph of the article, and the reason has already been revealed. This issue can be summarized as, "Before jumping into a lake, first make sure it's not frozen."
> Oh, and officers by their very definition cannot be conscripts.

There are different definitions of "officer". In Finland conscripts are trained to rank and file, NCO (Corporal/Sergeant), and junior officer (2nd Lieutenant) roles. Both reserve NCOs and officers may be later promoted if they accumulate a certain amount of refresher training days and are otherwise seen fit for the promotion.

This system, where the majority of junior officers are conscripted, has been the basis for the Finnish Defense Forces for the whole Finnish independence, and it has been battle-tested during both hot and cold war.
He would make good friends with the Gitlab guy very easily I'd imagine.
Don't forget your email, friend! HN candidates love to directly contact the folks who post.

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I don't think the term user friendly is the right term. More like they have been targeting a different user over the years (also the content on the web has exploded).

Although most of the time Google will give me technical results if I can coax it.
I want to see "who's in". As a commercial project [1], fman needs to first and foremost appeal to its paying users. Limiting the license sale in both time and quantity lets me select for these people.

[1]: https://fman.io/blog/fmans-business-strategy/
I would love to hear their recollection of the day. Would make me feel better about my mistakes.
Uber's opponents also have a history of atrocious behavior. I could cite numerous assaults against Uber drivers by taxi drivers, unfair lobbying of politicians, slander and hit pieces by so-called journalists etc.

Whether we are in a court of law or not, the burden of proof must remain on the accuser. So far, Susan Fowler has provided no proof. There is no tape, no email, no corroboration by other witnesses. Are we just supposed to take her word for it and sharpen our pitchforks?
Man, I'd really hate to be that guy.
Ask HN: Online book of accomplished software engineers writing short programs?
Hi, I'm looking for a blog / online book that is a number of well known accomplished software engineers writing pretty short programs of real world applications, i.e. a browser, a net parser, an interpreter. Thanks
Jim Sterling was sued for making fun of a game, and it was a bad idea
Historically speaking, there were no women's restrooms in workplaces and this was used to exclude women from public life. Women were not permitted to share the male restroom space with the idea women should be staying at home. Massachussets legislated women's restrooms into existence in the late 1880s and other states followed suit thereby permitted increase women's labor participation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_segregation

and...

http://www.livescience.com/54692-why-bathrooms-are-gender-se...
"Delegating to a trusted entity" isn't different from "blindly investing"/"buy at any price". jmharvey's point stands.
The s1 listed 50m shares as coming from existing share holders but they did not break it out. Usually that is employees with vested shares and occasionally other investors. Was more common in the dot com IPO's but Zynga did that too as I recall
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I answered this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777696
People have been predicting bubble and collapse since 2012...stopped clock theory
You're not including the time costs of operating that server.

Also, most businesses don't have demand that steady. Nor is it advisable in a cloud architecture to rely on a single large server.
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I have a Hansonian theory that we actually want powerful and visible people to engage in PR for us in spite of knowing it's BS. The reason is that this suggests to us that they care what we think, at least enough to signal tribal loyalty to us, to tell us that they need us.

One of the greatest fears of the modern world is that the higher quality people might one day exit. We demonize companies for outsourcing, rich people for living in gated communities and sending children to private schools, tech bros for using Uber/google bus/etc rather than riding the broken SF public transit.

A person like Kalanick (or Thiel, to name a similarly disliked figure) who refuses to engage in this kind of PR is scary; it's a reminder that they don't need us.
It could easily keep up with Lua if Mike Pall agreed with the changes made to Lua, but he didn't.

The Lua ecosystem is very different than almost any other; It's primary use case, probably 95% of projects using it or more, is being embedded into another project for scripting/configuration/control. As such, it is common for projects to pick a version of Lua and stick with it, rather than upgrade to the latest-and-greatest-with-slight-to-major-incompatibilities. Pall liked 5.2, and thought 5.3 didn't offer enough to break compatibility.
It's a (single) generational thing.

I spent time growing up in a couple of different 'intentional communities', both of which are dying a kind of slow death for similar reasons (as are many others that I am aware of).

These communities were founded by groups with particular sets of shared ideals. Shortly after being founded they started to welcome new members - offering a share in the assets of the community in return for labour and commitment. This generally worked well.

The problem is that as these people approach retirement they begin to realise that the community and its assets are all they have in the way of a retirement fund (sometimes also a modest private fund as well but their share of the land they live on is usually their most significant asset). This realisation is usually enough to stop or slow the practice of giving new members a share in the community's assets. This in turn makes joining the community less attractive.

On top of these financial concerns, there is the lack of shared ideology from one generation to another. The children that grew up in these communities prefer to go off and live their own life instead of carrying on with their parents dreams.

I am only aware of a couple of communes here in NZ that appear to be making this generational transition successfully (most communes here are approaching 50 years old, having been started in the 70s by people in their 20s).
Indeed it is one possible model of a surprisingly stable society.
One other intermediate is to cart them off to space. And then next once population is low enough so that only the best remain in the genetic pool, we might see something special. Plato's republic? That was never possible because you could not have every one be a philosopher scientist as the support base was never there to begin with.

Utopia of a kind, probably with people who are no longer quite exactly homo sapiens but a new species even. (super advanced AI could be it)

There are many ways to have a temporary dystopia but how many to have a permanent one?

Huxley foresaw specialising humans to the kind of work they are supposed to do, but he never foresaw the tools we now have.

Now then, we need not agree with Mond's goal.
Can Amazon take responsibility and offer say 10% discount to all the customers who are spending >$X ?
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Concept of "reserve officer" in a context of conscript force is not limited to Singapore.