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The justice system is screwed up, no doubt, but is this really a problem with the justice system?

We as people just need to stop judging people based on assertion and innuendo. If someone is merely accused of something, and there's no evidence to back the charges, we need to judge (or refrain from judging) appropriately.

Similarly, if someone is not accused or convicted of a crime, despite having obviously committed (such as the police officers who murdered Kelley Thomas), we need to feel free to come to our own conclusions.
>but your self-managed hardware is definitely going to be less reliable than Amazon's infrastructure.

I don't buy this. I've seen many multi-datacenter self-managed deployments provide better uptime than Amazon web services. You are forgetting that when you own the hardware, you can actually orchestrate maintenance windows with live migrations, etc and then take down an entire datacenter with no impact. Guess when Amazon does maintenance? That's right, you don't know and one screw up can mean instances in "degraded status" (a.k.a. you might as well terminate it and launch a new one) or all of S3 is down during critical business hours.

Of course your own hardware in a single data-center is going to be exposed to high probability of failures, but that's the equivalent of using a single instance in EC2 (which I have lost two of in the last 7 years of managing 15 or so of them for a small company).

I will admit that it takes strong ops skills to maintain high uptime on your own hardware, but that's just due to a lack of good open source tooling in this area. I would rather see a movement to improve tooling rather than continue to boost the stranglehold the public cloud is putting on everyone.
The "performance" you get by using templates is offset by binary size and/or compilation time. You can't get something for nothing.
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I killed a spider, which dropped a coin, then a bat moved onto the same spot, I dispatched it, but only got the one coin for my efforts :(
Good. It makes no sense to base an ETF on an unregulated crypto-currency. It was pretty much just a scam to juice the Bitcoin price...
Binge watch "The Good Wife", there's a multi-season NSA arc.

// Don't make life decisions based on the portrayal.
For the vast majority of recreational climbers my comment holds. If you're in a no-fall situation where your life is at risk, it's because you're off route and run out, an entirely avoidable situation.
Nothing makes people more interested in freedom of speech than the fear their own ideas will be suppressed. Precious few people are willing to defend both Milo and Anita's right to speak freely. Don't you think that's strange?

It's almost as if hardly anyone cares about free speech beyond using it as a shield against meaningful opposition.

> At the end of the day nobody gets anything done, but at least you can show your friends on Facebook how virtuous you are.

For such a useless and thus non-threatening group, they sure get a lot of blowback. Let's be real—I couldn't have possibly cared less what Alex Jones had to say until people started parroting his unsubstantiated conspiracy theories en masse.

And there's something way deeper going on with fierce opposition to social justice movements than a burning desire to prevent people from continuing to be wrong on the Internet.
Initial question that set me off upon reading the article is this: Was Trello actually aiming to get $1B off of it? I know more money makes sense for them and their investors, but the amount it already sold for is astounding to say the least.
That's wrong though, there is a tax on large investment incomes and fees on insurers (including on group coverage), and also Medicaid expansion.

There were also plans for risk corridor payments, but they weren't funded.

And the ACA did bend the cost curve down. That of course doesn't fix the cost problem, but it was quite likely an improvement over doing nothing.
I mean, I think it's similar to going to the gym: no matter how much I care about what you have to say, you're never going to get above 75% attention if you interrupt me mid-workout. The blood is pumping, Im hopped up on hormones, etc. It's not even that I don't want to focus, it's that my body is geared for something else and cant switch instantly.

Similarly, if I've been deeply focused, my brain has switched out normal, every day concerns for work material, my brain state is settled in to focus mode, etc. I spend hours a day (and have for years) teaching myself to focus on a large, abstract set of information in a particular state to attack problems. (It's actually a lot like visualization meditation -- to be able to hold a complex model of what you're working on in your head while you work.)

Im not able to instantly turn it off, it takes time to switch out of that mode of thinking and to bring back the "normal" information. It has nothing to do with priorities -- context switching, particularly a mode switch, takes time.
Are you just looking on HN? There's lots of really cool uses of Rust kicking around. I guess it depends what you mean by production. I mean obviously there's Rust itself, Servo, Cargo, /r/rust usually has some interesting posts.

There's also projects like ripgrep, alacritty, redoxOS, just off the top of my head. Dropbox and npm also come to mind.

You can also check out https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html for a big list of companies that use Rust.
But what is "something"? Is saying "yes, you can modify google.com" permission to modify news.ycombinator.com too? If so, then you're giving every extension permission to mess with every website, which defeats the point of a permission scheme. If no, HTTPS Everywhere is prompting on each new website, which is unbearable.
They bought Parse, and then shut it down with no mention of something else.

It's hard to imagine that they're currently planning on getting into the Cloud space.
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I confused you by making two points in one comment. The first was that you had a whiff of withdrawal, but only a whiff. Its disingenuous to compare yourself to the daughter in this article. The second was that physical addiction is very different from psychological addiction. Psychological addiction, for opiate addicts, is reinforced by physical withdrawal, not the other way around.
Ask HN: Will you start a new Saas if there are established players in that niche?
Have you succeeded doing something like this? How did you achieve that?
Nice controls and looks interesting. Will have to bookmark it. Almost makes me want to re-download Dwarf Fortress. Anyone know if the adventure mode has improved much lately?
I hopped on the OS X train when Apple first released the x86 MacBook. OS X 10.4 was a major improvement over 10.3, Windows and Linux. Leopard and Snow Leopard brought even more improvements and features. Things started stagnating after Lion.

Today's OS X development is pretty lame by those standards.
That never made sense. What happened during holiday season? Everyone on AWS was put on hold?
I think St. Petersburg has/had somewhat better housing. Even 'khrushevkas' aren't entirely uniform.
Conservatives think that health care should be purchased by individuals like an automobile or a refrigerator. You should be free to get it or not, including insurance. And if you don't have the money to buy it, then it's your fault because you didn't work hard enough.
I work here (FB) and I completely agree. I can never keep the names straight.
In development effort. They have webscale datacenters, a hardware supply chain, OS provisioning, networking, object storage, etc. but AFAIK they don't have multitenant IaaS or PaaS, OSS/BSS, etc.
> Rather than asking people, if you can, try just changing the prices and see how customer acquisition changes.

You likely can lose chunk of customers because of big price fluctuations..
If not scaring them away, you might just be leaving money on the table for no good reason. Enterprise customers aren't as price sensitive as consumers or smb.
One slight correction: for Field, the commutative group structure of multiplication should be on S\{0}, not on all of S.
Hey, that definitely shouldn't be the case! If it is file an issue!
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Given that the OP is about examples of using code (i.e. programs and datA) to break the law, I don't think Uber is in the same category as Volkswagen and Zenefits in terms of being "above the law".

Uber used a data service to avoid undercover cops -- AFAIK, no law requires citizens or businesses to provide service to undercover law officials. Uber was breaking the law by trying to operate in cities where it wasn't allowed, but using Greyball (i.e. code) to do it wasn't illegal.
IANAL, but if I'm reading this right sec. 3(a)1(A)(iii) (not sure of what the right way to cite that is) says that collection of genetic information is OK if you say it's workplace health promotion plan (and remember, you're allowed to charge employees way more for insurance if they don't participate in these "voluntary" health promotion programs).
From what I understand, Apple engineers a lot of subtle power saving techniques into their hardware, e.g. powering down USB controllers when not in use. There was an article a few months back on hn that I'm trying to find.
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It doesn’t defeat it. I expect a browser extension—whose job it is to rewrite URLs—to be able to rewrite URLs. But I don’t expect HTTPS Everywhere to want access to my camera, or to my filesystem, or to the microphone. So I allow the first one, and get very worried if I’m ever even asked about any of the others.

Another browser extension might want to automatically save images I come across to a directory. That one would prompt for access to my Documents folder. It wouldn’t request URL rewrite privileges, or camera, etc.

EDIT: So to answer your question, what is “something”? In this case, that would be: “HTTPS Everywhere wants to be able to edit the web addresses you visit”. Or something like that.
This is going to be very anecdotal, and may be unrelated, but here's another data point.

I recently went through the shutdown of a startup and also had to find a new job. This was my first time seriously job hunting in 10 years as I got my last few jobs in a variety of ways that were easy. So I did what seemed to make the most sense -- launch up LinkedIn Jobs and started applying.

Out of 20+ jobs I applied to on it, I heard back from basically none. 1 company responded, but was a very quick "not a fit" without even a phone screen.

I got a total of 3 interviews, where 2 were friend referrals and 1 was through a new job matchmaking startup. (Won't name it here in case it's mistaken as advertising) Fortunately for me I landed 1 of them.

So my issue could be that no one really checks these LinkedIn job applications, which isn't related to your issue.

I'd also like to point out that the shift in technologies in just the past 3-4 years have been huge, among startups especially. Your skillset may not be up to date with what companies look for now if you had been with the same company for 5+ years.
> Ruby is a much simpler and more aesthetically pleasant language

That is open to disagreement. I will say the same, but of python.

HOWEVER, among the languages that put "aesthetically pleasant" as part of the charm, I think is safe to say that python/ruby are from the top 5.

Any of both will be a good choice using that criteria (and even considering the troubles with BOTH), so in my mind is hard to go "wrong" with any of them. Both have other features that could weight in the choice, but at level of language are more brothers in spirit than enemies.

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I don't see ruby "killing" python, (I'm more a fan of python, ok?); just for the look of it the niches of both are more defined now.

SADLY, js is what is killing all the other languages in the web space. I wish a better language was the cause, but not, must be the far worse, more terrible, but the NON-choice.
> Now, granted, we aren't currently running any hugely important TLDs at the moment,

That's exactly the point. Google doesn't put anything mission critical on GCP, which is a huge red flag for anybody putting mission critical applications in a cloud.
What does investment income have to do with distributing the risk of covering sick people? (hint: nothing!)

I'm referring to employers and by extension their employers, not insurers, as not paying their fair share. If you work for a large corporation that self insures (think pretty much any F500 company), you and your employees are entirely off the grid when it comes to health insurance. As such, they don't contribute to covering the statistically sicker people on the individual market.

The ACA sky rocketted unsocial premiums AND deductibles AND max out of pockets. The insurance most people have through it barely qualifies as catastrophic coverage as they'd have to spend 5-10K before it even kicks in. That's on top of the 10-15K of premium dollars. It's. it health care, it's a scamola that was designed by, and for, insurance companies to rape the unsuspecting public.

Sadly Obama was both stupid enough to fall for it and not ballsy enough to push further for a single payer plan. The end state now is the worst possible of all situations. People are forced to buy a product that has no cost controls associate with it. Oh and the product doesn't actually do anything.
Now if FF could just avoid pegging the CPU on what should be reasonably performant web apps, we'd be getting somewhere. It's even worse with multiprocess.
No, it's considered voluntary. Except that if you don't comply with the voluntary wellness program you will end up with a steep financial penalty.

In other words, it's mandatory.

I also like how they pre-emptively state that this is all in accordance with GINA when it really isn't.

The whole 'wellness' thing has fuck all to do with the wellness of the employees, it's all about case building and shifting responsibility onto employees.
Technically, California Law Says Daylight Time Starts Last Sunday in April
As a user who frequently wants to change the rendering, I don't think I would have ever thought to look under share. I associate the 'share' section with tracking code and buttons for social networks.
So don't do that.

As programmers, we can indeed write infinite loops. Why is it "a bad idea" if the loop happens at compile time rather than runtime? Why should we reduce the expressiveness of our language to avoid this possibility?
It's about neither. It's about money. Insurers would love to be able to increase premiums based on pre-existing conditions and all the pre-emptive language of this bill notwithstanding this is opening the door a crack. And once the door is open it won't stop opening further. After all, if you don't want to cooperate with the 'voluntary' wellness program it's your own fault that your premiums will go up. After all, non-cooperation is a sure sign there is something you know that you don't want them to know (or so the argument will go...).

Wellness, what a nice example of newspeak.
The link shows current law in the red strikethrough type. (This particular bill, AB807, seeks to eliminate Daylight Time altogether, statewide).

I couldn't find a plain, direct reference using the broken search tools on the California Legislature official site.

Because the Daylight Saving Time Act was originally passed as an Initiative Statute (by voter petition), the Legislature can't change it without it going back before the voters in a statewide election and gaining at least a simple majority of Yes votes.
Now how about trying all those activities on that dose!
To clarify, the same AppContainer mechanism that UWP apps run in is available for use by Win32 apps (e.g., desktop IE11 used it for "Enhanced Protected Mode"). It's not suitable as a way for users to force existing apps designed for medium trust to run under AppContainer, which I'm guessing is what you meant?
The first "relevant quote" is.. irrelevant to genetic data collection.

If you expand the second quote, it reads:

"the collection of information about the manifested disease or disorder of a family member shall not be considered an unlawful acquisition of genetic information"

As the article stated, genetic testing isn't forced upon employees. If you don't do it, you might have to pay an increase of up to 50% for health insurance or.. if your employer doesn't sponsor healthcare, they can deduct your paycheck.
Greg,

Thanks for sharing this! As I get older and try to record as much family history I can, I really enjoy you and others sharing what you can about family/company history for the future. Stories like this from first hand accounts are getting harder to find and eventually we may lose these great stories and historical accounts for generations to come.

Thanks again!
Relevant: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/09/17/223345977/aut...

> The patient had an infection with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch — a bagel, pasta or even a soda — the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy reported the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Training seven or more people to "carry the baton of culture" once core leadership is gone. Making sure they keep their kinetic cultural fire going, so-to-speak.

That and getting more artists into the mix. Also, having a good corporate slogan can help. I think if your company contributes knowingly to the greater good, and you make that a core foundation of your company culture, it can last far beyond one person's contributions.
IANAL and not even US resident, but "provide incentives, rewards, rebates, surcharges, penalties, or other inducements related to wellness programs" [emph mine] sounds pretty clear to me - they can make your healthcare plan unaffordable if you don't participate in the "program". They mention established limits to rewards but not to penalties, so unless some other law is protecting you, this bill looks like what headline says it is.
Do you have a wife? I think this is the norm.
I am surprised to see how many people on HN do not understand the value proposition of Bitcoin.
Magnegas trades OTC which is completely different.
The truth of your statement depends on what philosophy of mathematics you accept. Which itself is not something that can ever be settled by pure reason.

Here is a definition of the reals to consider. A real number is a computer program which implements a function f from positive integers N to the rationals such that |f(n) - f(m)| < 1/n + 1/m. This is a reasonable definition of real numbers, and all real numbers that you're likely to hear of are real numbers under this definition.

But now consider. There are a finite number of symbols that we build programs out of. Therefore for every N, there are a finite number of possible computer programs of length N. Only some of which represent real numbers under this definition. Therefore there is a countable sequence which contains all real numbers in it!

What is the key philosophical difference between this system of mathematics and the usual one? Quite simply this. Classical mathematics asserts the existence of things that cannot be written down or calculated by humans. This system of mathematics denies the existence of things which we cannot write down.

Now about a hundred years ago there was a major debate between these two philosophical camps. In the end the classical school won simply because most mathematicians don't care about philosophy, and classical mathematics is easier to work with. But the purportedly inescapable logical conclusions that you're taught about are not actually as inescapable as you've been lead to believe.
People in the computer hardware/software repair industry should be infuriated by this as it erodes trust in their profession generally -- not just Best Buy.

I know I'll be recommending that friends and family just backup, destroy, and/or reinstall, and avoid repair shops unless absolutely necessary.

And of course -- Don't buy from Best Buy.
Think of most people, who are too busy broadcasting their personal information everywhere, given the chance. People like you, me, and most of HN are a statistical anomaly.
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Yes. Evidence of early releases of this sort of information shows up in market data regularly.
Your estimates are a bit off. Each plane didn't fly for 13 years, on average they flew 5 or 6 years. And the pacific routes were only once a week until the first crash, and Pan Am didn't replace it, just flew the route 3 times a month.

Edit: The pacific route was nearly a week long, so obviously if you count each leg separately percentages were better, but passengers had to fly every leg to reach their destination, unless they wanted to be marooned on a remote island.

And your failure rates are backwards looking. Flying boats before 1938 certainly had even worse safety records than post 1938, so the first passengers on Pan Am flights had worse safety expectations. Counting legs separately would be like saying the Shuttle actually made 270 trips, 135 up and 135 down.

The Falcon 9 and Heavy are likely far safer than the Shuttle, which was a clearly unsafe design, from the rube goldberg melding of solid and liquid rockets to a crew cabin with no abort systems, and unproven reentry shielding on a shape that accentuated the dangers of its use.

Falcons are a refinement of proven launch technologies, combined with a much safer crew compartment with excellent abort features and using proven reentry shielding/shape. Odds are it's far safer than the shuttle.

Only 10% of Magelleons crew survived the circumnavigation of the world, yet explorers lined up to follow. If SpaceX offered rides to Mars with a 20% chance of death, there would be a waiting list of hundreds of thousands of people.

In reality it shouldn't be too hard to reduce launch safety risk by a factor of 10 from historical launches. The Dragon capsule can almost add that improvement by itself.
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I've used Python for about about eight years, and Ruby for right at six months. It took me about a week to feel competent in Ruby, and about a month before I was really comfortable with all of the metaprogramming functionality. Add another month to that before I really grokked ActiveRecord.

I much prefer Python. I thought for a long time that this was because I learned most of the fundamentals of computer science and professional development in the language, but I'm at the point now where I'm sure that's not the case. The Zen of Python really shows the differences between the two of them - "explicit is better than implicit", versus Ruby's "convention over configuration". I don't mind writing some boilerplate in Python, because the boilerplate is itself fairly terse and fully informs you of your system's architecture in the process.

I hate that functions aren't first-class objects in Ruby. Hate it. The subtle distinctions and behavioral differences between blocks, Procs, and lambdas are infuriating.

There are many things I would change about Ruby, but there's nothing wrong with it. It's just not a good fit for my way of thinking.

All that said, the question was "Has Python killed Ruby?" No, it hasn't. Ruby is still popular, and I think it very much fits the manner of thinking of many developers. For them, thinking in Ruby is natural and wrangling Python into submission would feel like writing Ruby does to me.
When I used Gmail on Firefox for Windows or Linux I found its memory usage to generally be 80–200MB, generally on the lower side of that.

Now I use FastMail (and am employed there too); its memory usage is 8–25MB (which is less than the vast majority of sites, simple static content websites included!). And it’s much faster too.