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Inequality is something I see as necessary for two reasons, but something which should only be allowed to a given extent.

First, inequality is needed so that there is a reward for working harder, doing more. The one who coasts through their education doing only the minimal needed before getting a job doing the same should be rewarded less than the one who gives it their best. BUT, inequality should never be so great that the kid who coasts can come from such a privileged position that they are forever in a better position than someone who works hard. For a lot of American's, working hard doesn't really get rewards, so you could say we have exceeded the optimal amount of inequality and thus need more equality. But if we envision a fully equal system where everyone is equally rewarded, there is far less incentive to do more than the bare minimum. Even supporters of basic income think that those who go above and beyond should be rewarded with extra income above the level of basic income. I've never heard of anyone supporting a basic income plan where all income beyond the basic income level is taxed at a 100% rate. Even a 50% or 75% tax rate indicates those who do more should have more, with the difference being how much more.

For this, we need to make sure the inequality is high enough that effort is rewarded, but keep it low enough that birth does not convey special privileges.

Second, equality will never exist in all areas of life. Even if we had total financial equality, some people are more sociable, better looking, etc. As such, what people have access to in our society is still unequal. In a financially equal society, the one with vastly superior social skills, or who is attractive (look up the Halo Effect), has access to more resources and thus inequality still exists. Allowing some level of financial inequality allows people a way to do better when they lack the above skills.

Consider some modern day developer who is slightly autistic but highly functioning enough to hold a good job. Their ability to earn more can, to some extent, help offset the lowered levels of social skills in the extent it allows them to achieve their life goals.

The only way to have full equality beyond just financial equality would be to implement a tax on anything that can be considered a good or service in the most abstract of methods, and I think we would find that even the most ardent communist are all out libertarians in regards to these social goods and services.
> Why can't a successful startup not be in Dallas, Amarillo, Miami or Des Moines?

I agree in general, and I think it's likely that the future of growth is in sprawling inland metro areas like Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City-Overland Park, and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Well, in the case of Dallas, this is largely going to depend on whether or not the Texas state legislature can ever get their heads out of their asses. If SB6 passes, expect Texas's economy to crater.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if your exact list of cities is feasible. Amarillo is too small to really become a hub for anything in the near future (it would take a dedicated effort, like how Bugsy Siegel transformed Las Vegas). And Miami is limited in its ability to sprawl because it's on a coast. Des Moines is a distinct possibility, though.

The suburbs have room to sprawl out forever. The city centers can become high-rent places for the rich, and everyone else can live in the suburbs and exurbs. Furthermore, the inner ring suburbs can become "edge cities" where businesses prefer to locate themselves (this is already how Dallas is laid out) so people from both the exurbs and the city center can have short commutes.
Wildcards and variables in “risky” commands are a way of favoring convenience over safety and auditability, favoring writing (done rarely) over reading (more frequent). They are also unlikely to stand the test of time because the meaning can change, casting a different net than you originally intended.

If a command is risky, you should at least GENERATE the variable-expanded list of inputs (e.g. in a separate file) so that the list can be audited. For instance, basic automatic sanity checks can be performed on the expansion like “length > 1”, and you can see every affected item. It also acts as a log of impacted things in case it does run.

Robust code is not always convenient.
no it doesn't as other poster mentioned, it's in eclipse installation itself (would be stupid idea even on first sight)
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A look-ahead isn't part of regular expression (in the CS sense) syntax, but since regular expressions are closed under AND, OR and NOT, you can emulate it with AND.

For example (?=a)b is the same as (a.*)&b if we take & to mean AND.

(But note that look-aheads don't influence the scope of captures in modern regex implementations, and regular expressions don't even have the notion of captures; this makes the emulation not practical).

Since I believe you can emulate the absence operator using look-aheads (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939764), it should be expressible by regular language too.
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You could always do what the founders of TI did: start your own university and grow your own talent.

The University of Texas at Dallas, established explicitly for this reason, is probably the reason why Dallas is a tech hub.
Negative lookahead/behind is regular in the mathematical sense. Anything that can be achieved by a finite combination of FSMs is, including OR, AND and NOT on their accepting states.

What isn't regular is stipulation that a group matches the same string as another group. E.g. "Same word twice" is not expressible by formal regular languages.
Or things that feel threatened by Apple
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Interesting article - I was always curious about how those people feel. Though sadly, "life's work" in the headline is pure clickbait - two years of preparations is not life, and the explosion left enough of that "work" on the ground that they could reconstruct the experiment in two weeks.
>Google offers contracts and standard business relationships for some commercial uses of their API. Workflow could have reached out to the appropriate Google product person/lawyer, instead of sending a generic email as Marco speculates, if they were keen to use Google Translate instead of switching to Microsoft Translate.

Sounds like you're speculating about details based on a second hand retelling of a podcast host's individual experience. A host who presumably doesn't have an "appropriate person/lawyer."
Dear deity that music made me nostalgic.
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> Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever

Yes it can, College Tuition is a great example. Instead of finding the cause and treating it, we just increase the amount of aid people have access to.
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It's a bit of a problem, but 'you break it, you own it' is a good rule.

See also: Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and a very large number of other places where proxy wars between western states and meddling in local affairs in order to gain the upper hand in veiled conflicts over resources have made the world a much worse place for a very large number of people.
Shades of grey though; not entirely black and white. In the UK->Norway direction, it's surprising to have to pay to visit a doctor or specialist, not to mention paying painful retail price for medicines, even for children. (Yes, I know there's an annual cap etc., but still seems a bit weird compared to free-at-the-point-of-use and a flat prescription charge in the UK.) No NHS dentistry either. (Yes, I know NHS dentist availability is not what it once was in the UK! And there are subsidies for necessary children's treatment in Norway depending on severity.)
Isn't the main benefit of supersonic flight going to be seen over the oceans where noise concerns are less important? It's 12 hours from LAX to AKL (New Zealand). If they could get that down to six for a reasonable price there is a market.

I suspect there would be even more demand for flights to Asian business hubs.
Well the frothiness of the tech bubbles are purely a factor of a lack of liquidity of meaningful services to create.

VC capital focused on tech is a tiny sliver of available capital given the sources VCs get their funding from, and an entire order of magnitude of greater flows could come through.

So if you were using that as an excuse not to buy that costly condo on the island or peninsula, its not a great excuse.
Not really. It simply means that mechanisms need to be built that enable settings changes in a OS supplied fashion. Solaris has come a long way in this with SMF's configuration utilities svccfg and svcprop. From a configuration management perspective this approach is dramatically better than scripts that try to edit text files.
> The worst thing about Emacs is it's default settings

You are right, but the default vim is not that great either...
I wouldn't expect rent to have fallen in 2008. Thousands of people were losing the homes they owned and becoming renters, sky-rocketing the demand for rental property.
Fun fact, "Barbarian" is a Greek word as a label for non-Greeks. To the Greeks, foreign languages just sounded like they were mumbling "bar-bar-bar", hence Barbarians = Non-Greeks.
SV is very suburban, yes, but SF is densely-populated. "Big city" in this case doesn't necessarily imply that the city proper is 10M+ in population.

And the lengths to which this insanity will go is that (e.g.) Google workers will live in SF and commute into SV. Talk about turning the "live in the suburbs, work in the city" paradigm on its head!
It seems this has a high potential for bugs though if people aren't aware of that detail with the `coffee and tv` example. Depending on how well versed you are with regexes it isn't immediately obvious.
NIR could give information about the scanned surface, though in this case it's apparently a low quality/low signal NIR sensor. For this app it was originally pitched as a magic device that could identify anything, but in the shipped product you not only have to tell it the category of item you're scanning, in many cases it gives very little information (e.g. doesn't identify an orange as an orange), and that information seems highly suspect and of questionable accuracy regardless.

Everything about this campaign has been dubious. One of the first videos of an "unboxing" was a close friend of the creator who, after deleting his video, went around posting comments about how it was just "good fun" and "innovation takes years", etc. Every demo of the product is a staged example of very low hanging fruit, pardon the pun. The actual utility of this device seems deeply suspect.
"Any lost methane is significantly worse than the equivalent amount of CO2."

...except that methane doesn't persist anything like as long as CO2, so while it's mean and pointy upfront, it's out of the environment faster. This is pretty basic climate science that routinely gets misrepresented by the denier industry, which is why I'm bothering to pick this nit.
Wouldn't it be odd if, after all this research, they actually discovered a way for humans to develop Telepathy?

Do you think, if they did, they'd announce it - or would they cover it up as a 'total hocus-pocus fail' and leave it at that?

Because this seems like one of those things where its possible we're being deceived by this story. I don't know how I know, I just 'feel' like we shouldn't really take it for granted that this kooky agency wouldn't try to hide its success in this regard, just as well as it has hidden its multiple failures in other areas ..
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See, here's the thing about coastal types: they are obsessed with getting the "top" talent, as if every project or startup requires it.

What if most startups only need "good" developers to develop their mostly CRUD apps and don't need "the best" developers?
I've got no idea. Conceivably they could come out with a new approach and transition Workflow to it by having it support both mechanisms. That might be easier to do and be less disruptive to users if the app is in-house. But even if they do introduce a new mechanism, existing apps would still have to adopt it which would take years.

So absolutely Apple could introduce a new mechanism, but their buying and encouraging adoption of Workflow is a strong indication to me that they have no intention of deprecating the URL mechanism any time soon.
This book does a good job of explaining why: https://www.amazon.com/New-Geography-Jobs-Enrico-Moretti/dp/...

Pretty much it is a networking effect issue. The same reason why you are posting this on hackernews instead of reddit. Physical proximity matters a lot, even when work is digital.
It's mostly true but the issues as far as I know are:

- RAID 1 with more than 2 disks is not what you think it is: the data will be mirrored but only once, no matter how many disks you have (meaning if you have a mirror with 3 disks, you only have 2 copies of your data). Because in BTRFS lingo, RAID 1 means '2 copies of the data' https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#What_are_the_dif... which is not what people expect from RAID 1 with more than 2 disks

- RAID 1 always needs 2 disks to be working, if not you can't mount the thing... Well you can, but only once... https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas#raid1_volume...

- RAID 10 inherits these special RAID 1 cases as a result

Most of that stuff is described here:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status

So as they say on the status page: "mostly ok"
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I can't speak for Trump's motivations, but I've noticed something similar in the corporate world. If a capable executive is particularly critical of an aspect of the business, he may (inadvertently) find himself put in charge of it. It's a method for breaking status quo. And just because this new leader starts as an outsider doesn't mean he stays an outsider after becoming intimate with all the invisible challenges facing that business unit.
It is testament to Trump's art that you have forgotten the term "fake news" was more specific when it first appeared.
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I haven't completely ingested this post yet, but this seems to be incorrect:

> I'm pretty sure you can emulate the absent operator with look-ahead expressions. Untested: (?=((?!exp).)*$)

From TFA: "Note that this is not the same as a negative look-behind or look-ahead — we’ll see how shortly."
My initial impression is that this seems similar to the negation operator in parsing expression grammars. PEGs are "greedy", so the semantics of "non-consuming" matches/negations are a bit more straightforward than this feature appears.
For reference, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency there is mention that photosynthesis has a nominal efficiency of about 30%, but in practice the absorbed energy stays in the 3-6% range, with sugar cane being exceptionally efficient at 8%.
Ask HN: Reproducable deployment Workflow for Linode?
Hi fellow Entrepreneurs & Enthusiasts,

we're building a machine-learning powered analytics platform running on Linode. Have you found a good workflow to manage your services on your Linode VPNs? Willing to share with the community? ️

Requirements on our vanilla Linode instance:

- Deploy/Share “Security-Profiles” to VPNs
- Fast Backups/Snapshots & Rollbacks (ZFS/Btrfs or something else?)
- Every Step is Reproducible
- Replayable (SSH-)Sessions for Training
- Simple, but Scalable Architecture
- Just “Build -> Test -> Ship -> Run”
- Eventually have Monitoring & Failover

There is Vagrant-Linode[1] and I intend to keep services isolated using Docker. Does using vagrant+docker even make sense? How else can I put the requirements above into a workflow? What do you recommend instead?

Let's assume we have a vanilla Linode instance.

• How'd you make any changes on the server (reproduably)?

• Is Debian the only OS offering reproducable builds?

• Should we use Kubernetes, Mesos whatnot?

• What about Stackscripts, or would you skip that and take Ansible for configuration management instead?

- [1] https://github.com/displague/vagrant-linode/
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It's true that not everybody needs it, that's a separate argument probably. Companies that feel they don't are often outsourcing though, no? There's definitely the argument of "talent pays for itself (in multiples)" to think about.
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My understanding is it's largely demands of VC. They want to be able to check in on their investments, and having to hop on a plane to do that isn't convenient. That has always struck me as odd, since the invested money would go further in a cheaper market, but that's the explanation I've heard many times.
My options are:

* Give it my best shot (but is it worth it? I could as well spend so much time on it and still get declined).

* Bail on it (am not desperate for the job).

The task is up to me to settle on sth, what's being looked for is extraction of meaningful insight from things like images, audio etc, and an illustration of the extracted info.
maktouch: Runner can't connect to GitLab because version 9.0 of Runner requires GitLab 9.0. We've noticed this in the release blog post: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/22/gitlab-9-0-released/#git... :)

The reason is that in 9.0 we've prepared a new API for Runner requests (as part of new v4 version of API) and Runner 9.0 is using only this version.

Version v1 of the CI API is still supported by Runner 1.10.X and 1.11.X. On GitLab's side it will be supported until August 2017 and until then we will also support Runner 1.11.X.
> Bill Gates is good at a lot of other things including programming. And I'm not talking about skill. Its also work, persistence and variety of other things that add up.

According to the metrics our society uses to reward him, he's quite litterally the 85.000.000.000x dev.

And here's us thinking 10x devs don't exist...
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Thanks for posting this!

I find Lua much more pleasant than Lisp. It is also performs significantly better. This could result in a very nice editor if enough people embrace it.

Github page for the lazy: https://github.com/howl-editor/howl
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> So a transformation called 'lowering' is used to convert those convolutions into matrix-matrix multiplications (GEMMs) which GPUs can execute efficiently.

This confuses me a bit, I'd love to know the details of this "lowering"? How is convolution not already a very straight-forward linear algebra operation?
Actually, I think there is a strong culture in Canada and the United States that in each case is a testament to their political and economic success.

In the case of the U.S. that culture would be the WASPy social ethic of the original elites, which was carried forward until recently. That's more Puritan in New England, less so in Virginia, and non-existent in the Deep South. I'd call it the protestant work ethic, but I think there's something much more distinct in the U.S. Whatever Canada has going on is also distinct, though definitely seems close to the U.S. Mid-Western Lutheran culture.

The irony is that these days I'd argue it's immigrants that come closest to exemplifying the traditional, dominate U.S. ethic. Previous immigrant groups, like the Irish and Italians, didn't bring that culture but merely adopted it--in some cases poorly. (Maybe because they were less educated than the current influx, or because the British Empire left such a tremendous technocratic legacy throughout Asia, especially compared to Southern and Eastern Europe.) The past 50+ years a poor, white, Southern ethic seems to have come to dominate popular U.S. culture. That culture emphasizes the pursuit of wealth and the trappings of wealth rather than valuing work for it's own sake, despite the rhetoric. It also emphasizes blue collar "authenticity" over respecting the dictates of the elite, which on balance is a net negative. This is why that culture looks down on education, and why it's lost on so many people that so-called "book learning" is actually a kind of labor--a labor that alot of people dislike just as much as mopping floors, but something you endure nonetheless because it's what the WASPy work ethic demands, especially in the current economic environment. A college education is for many people the same kind of sublimation of personal aspirations that going straight to the factory was for people a few generations ago.

It's a shame we don't accept more Syrian refugees. By and large they're the middle class of Syria--educated, family-oriented, and instinctively averse to radicalism and fundamentalism. They've spent decades learning to avoid dependencies on political solutions and to grow business organically rather than through rent seeking. Syria's loss could be our gain. Such a wasted opportunity. It's especially egregious given how grim and horrendous the situation is there.
Our elites broke it, I don't understand why plain civilians like you have to own it. Why do you feel responsible for those wars? Why do you feel like you have to pay the toll for it? Honest questions.
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> and to hear them tell it, living in a suburb and driving a car is about the worst thing imaginable

Motor vehicle accidents are the largest cause of death for people in the US under the age of 24 so it is, arguably, the worst thing imaginable ;)

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/leadingcauses.html
Exactly this. The screenshot in the article shows two women holding a black flag with writing in a language I assume is Arabic. They don't bother to translate what the flag says.

Is all Arabic content extremist now?
I've heard this oft repeated over the decades. I wonder if there is a legitimate historical source for it.
Hey, I would love to hear more about your experience, would you be free for a quick chat ?
Don't you get to vote where you live?
I think there are some popping up. Austin comes to mind. Takes time for cities to grow, though.

Hipsters, microbreweries, and fancy lattes will continue to spread I am sure!
Mentioning illegal drugs sounds always like a shady money grab is coming up. However, that's where this could truly safe lives.
I disagree with the article's premise that urban growth is driven by creativity.

For example, this doesn't explain Tokyo. Japan's capital of creativity is Osaka; Tokyo doesn't even come close.
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What they say they're getting ("the top talent") and what they actually get are two separate things.
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Does it support outputting in LaTeX?