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He doesn't know how to talk to security. The primary purpose of security questioning is to establish that you are a safe, non-violent, legal traveler. Of course, security agents can't ask you this directly, so they ask this through proxy questions. Varnull did not understand this, and when asked the proxy questions, he gave vague answers and did not address the primary purpose. When the questions became personal, Varnull became defensive and talked back (the exact opposite of what he should do).

All that really matters here is the discussion with the explosives agent. This was the guy who had the power to 1) waive him on or 2) send him through tertiary screening. The interaction for the whole day was decided in this conversation. I honestly believe Varnull gave very bad answers here. Answering "I don't know" is a very bad answer. Even if he didn't answer the proxy questions, if he established that he was a safe and secure traveler, the security agent would have waived him on and he would have avoided the whole ordeal.

One of the answers he gave was so bad it made me cringe.

>“Well, I haven’t touched any explosives, but if I don’t even know what chemical we’re talking about, I don’t know how to figure out why the tests are picking it up.”

After he said this, I'm completely unsurprised he got held up in tertiary screening.
I really like the introduction of "cost". Have you considered having a multi-variable time decay distribution function for all learning so that the agents need to reinforce every lesson?

Our brains forget over time because energy is limited and new connections take energy from older memories. So you could introduce a global set energy variable that is the ultimate denominator.

Lastly, have you considered connecting your agents in a one to one public channel where a person interacts with an agent that asks the person about "meaning of objects" and collects opinions from people to create it's own opinion?
>until Band on the Run was released at end of 1973

Yes, and then it couldn't be argued anymore, it was a confirmed fact.
Complaining about change in tech world?
There the only competent software company that's been successful in the past, (Android)
I kinda had doubts clicking on the link, but the results are pretty accurate for me.

I live in a suburb outside of Toronto, Canada that has a lot of east Asian food options. I assumed that the search would be US-centric.

Nice work.
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I agree... IAM policies are too complicated.

For services I write I've been using simple permission strings. Call them scopes on the form:
'service:action:resource/sub-resource...'

Each client is then associated a set of scopes, if a scope ends with '' it matches all suffixes. And then you just ask if a client has a set of scopes.

By only allowing at the end, and otherwise just having permission as a set of strings you can most interesting operations:
- intersection
- union
- empty-set
- sub-set
between any two sets of scopes.

Hence, you can do do automated reasoning about permissions assigned. For example you check automatically verify an assumption that no role grants a scope A to a user who also has scope B.

Lack of support for doing combining IAM policies makes it hard to verify your policies with high-level assertions.
personaly I think is one of or maybe the best article on YC experience.
I feel like they are misinterpreting the numbers by calling it "$5000-a-bike" to boot. Looking at Appendix A, it seems like that number comes from the "New Equipment Price Schedule" table. I interpret that table as the cost of adding N bicycles worth of capacity to the system though, (and thus ~2N docks as well), not the cost of bikes.

"$5000-a-bike" seems like sensationalism. Actual cost of bikes (say a replacement bike berthed at existing installation) is not broken out.
Yes that's mostly what they did. E.g. they adjusted the goal to favor fast communication, and then to impose a cost on exponential vocabularies. Both of these sound very reasonable.
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So the claim is not based on actual medical studies, then, but anecdotes from 1775?
Interesting, where is this illegal, and what aspect of it makes illegal? In the US it's extremely common in the form of student or senior citizen discounts. Nearly all airline tickets seem to be sold at very different prices for exactly the same good.

As for most business to business transactions that involve a sales team, consistent pricing for identical products and volumes would be the exception to the norm for most industries.
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The problem is that they still have a pretty small product design department, and they're committed to not shipping "crap" products.

What I really don't understand is why they didn't foresee this, and just updated their cheese grater Macs. After all, it's way easier to simply update a motherboard to fit a faster CPU than it is to rearchitect the Garbage Can design every time there's a new CPU and GPU architecture out there.

The only thing I can think of is that they've either just downprioritized a lot to focus on $new_secret_product, or that they've developed a new Mac Pro that for some reason didn't pan out, so they needed to start over again.
Amusing who argues against the idea that elites set up monopolies to accrue money and power.
Seems to be another one of those region-restricted features that those of us in smaller countries will never benefit from.
Are you a kid?
There's no use in drawing conclusions from a broken experiment, whether it's from a team of scientists or an at-home test. Having no experience with gluten insensitivity myself, I am simply suggesting a way to bring some rigor to this conversation.
> aimed at promoting qualities such as intellectual humility.

Did the paper conclude that changing a person to be more intellectually humble causes the benefits described? If not, any promotion or changing of behavior seems premature.
Interesting take, but isn't this also the motivation for companies to automate as much of their workforce as possible? Nobody really wants to take orders at McDonald's for $9/hour and Ronald McOwner doesn't want to pay his workers $15+ when the minimum wage gets raised so he installs automated kiosks to take customer orders. Theoretically, those workers who lost their jobs to the machines are "freed" to pursue more productive ventures, but what we've actually been seeing is the 1% capturing that capital even more (as the poster above noted).

I think we're getting to a point where society is going to have to accept that vast swaths of the population are simply not necessary or otherwise employable, in the modern labor force, and hopefully, treating "labor" as an expendable market resource becomes an archaic concept, similar to how we view human slavery.

The problem is, the 1% will not change on their own, that has never been the case. The incentives are just not there for them to want to.
Just to provide a counterpoint, I recently did a new desktop build and installed Windows 10. It's not bad, and very different from the Windows 10 beta that I gave up on in frustration two years ago. With the Ubuntu subsystem I can do useful work right away. After turning off some of the annoyances (via the Services and Group Policy control panels), it really does a decent job of just working. You can download and install with a USB stick (no more stupid DVDs). It still demands a license key, but runs indefinitely without registration with a little watermark.

If you haven't built a desktop in the past few years, the performance boost from PCIe NVMe SSDs is great, and Intel i5-7600K (now retails for $200) can run at 4.5 GHz reliably and stay cool. I'm impressed.
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This could really get weird
Author here. We do actually offer all of these options.

We offer a public IP address for A records pointing to a our main load balancer. This will send all traffic to a single origin instead of serving your HTML pages out of our global CDN.

We also offer DNS hosting for pro plans and up. When you move your DNS to Netlify, the caveat about naked domains doesn't apply (as mentioned in the first paragraph), since we hook the domain record straight into our global traffic director.

For enterprise customers we also offer an anycasted IP address that lets you use our CDN with a normal A record, but we still recommend either using our DNS hosting or a www domain since the DNS based traffic direction is faster at responding to localized issues and offers more precise traffic distribution.
Thanks. Not sure why you're being downvoted. Recognising those shortcomings is important, and I understand that you might not have all the answers to all customers.

I think your support could have been more responsive though, and communication improved. You guys could probably detect that we weren't happy and about to leave. Reaching out at that point could have made a difference perhaps...

We did genuinely want to work with imgix, but those hurdles left us looking elsewhere. These things happen all the time. Competition is a good thing overall. I'd like to hope that our feedback helps in some way. Even if it's hard to hear.
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> discourse which moves toward that truth

Can you demonstrate that the discourse does move towards truth?

> all the pravda out there - everyone's relative truths -

"relative truth", eh? Is vaccine denial is relative truth? How about "Sandy hook was staged?" how about "Obama is a foreign muslim, and he founded ISIS" ?

I know that these beliefs come from a place of ignorance, anger and fear, but weaponising ignorance and fear is not a "discourse which moves toward that truth" and these memes are not a "relative truth", they are a near totality of the opposite. And yet they affect the fate of nations.

I certainly don't have answers, but I know that you first have to ask the right questions, and that this manifesto no longer does.
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The main problem is, in my opinion, that CNAME is broken for the root domain but something that can hardly be fixed on such an ancient protocol without some pain.

What Cloudflare and DNSimple are doing is the right thing. I hope that CNAME flattening or ALIAS records become some kind of standard.
I love Linux, but the WMs are not its strong point IMHO. There are many of them and each tries to invent some new desktop paradigm instead of polishing existing experience. It's OK to be boring - just do your job and don't get it my way. I'm currently using Xfce and hope they don't take the KDE4 route for a long time... (not that the experience is bugless or even great, but it's better than alternatives).
Desperately hopeful young founders, willing to work crazy hard and live in pitiful squalor to make their ideas happen.

Is there a similar story on the VC side? Young venture fund operators who have secured an itty bitty bit of LP money, working crazy hard to find worthy investments, couch-surfing and living on KD to stretch the money as far as it will go. That would be a story worth reading.
Except that Macs don't "just work" any more. At best they "just work" until the day that Apple decides to deprecate a feature or an application that you have come to rely on (for me it's iPhoto) and then it stops working. It doesn't crash, it just says, "Sorry, this application cannot run on this version of MacOS." But from the user's point of view the effect is the same.

[UPDATE] Case in point: one of the banking apps on my iPod just stopped working, insisting that I upgrade to the latest version. So I did, but the new version doesn't work either. It just hangs when I try to log in. Granted, this is an iPod, not a Mac, but the iOS philosophy of having Apple control the device is slowly creeping in to the Mac. Every day and every upgrade is a crap shoot in terms of whether or not what worked yesterday will still work today.
feel free to get in touch if you need any tips. Although it's mostly a black-box that "just works" for us.

I was actually surprised there were no hosted thumbor services out there (I found one in Beta I think at the time I was looking, but we weren't sure how stable it is). Maybe because it's so easy to self-host that nobody bothers offering a hosted solution.
Escape from reality is not limited to culture, race, economic background, or a society's technological advancement; it has always been a part of the human condition. In modern times, a unique form of escape presents itself with great force in affluent societies, even though the "escape artist" him/her-self need not live in an affluent environment. The escape artist requires these basics: (1) shelter, however primitive, (2) a food source, and (3) either a television (TV), video games (VG), or internet connection (IC).

TV/VG/IC is the escape mechanism, and the escape artist, whether he/she stays in the 4 walls of his/her room or occasionally ventures out, lives in the confines of his/her escape world.

Perhaps we can consider aspects of "Hikikomori" as a uniquely Japanese manifestation of this condition, mingling itself in fascinating fashion with Japanese cultural nuances.

Thought experiments:
Would Boo Radley have been a hikikomori if he lived in Kyoto rather than Maycomb, Alabama?

What are the differences and similarities between: (1) a hikikomori living in Kyoto, (2) a person living in inner city Detroit, MI, living from welfare check to welfare check and watching TV 16 hours a day, and (3) a college dropout living with his parents in suburbia and watching TV 16 hours a day?

In what ways is a hikikomori who programs different than the TV/VG/IC escape artist?

Would Boo Radley have saved Jem and Scout Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" if he had been playing video games 16 hours a day?

Find two studies whose authors claim watching television: develops a sense of wonder, encourages critical thought, benefits interpersonal relationship skills, solidifies familial bonds, promotes physical well-being, reduces the objectivization of persons, cures depression, increases patience and self-control, reduces sense of entitlement, grows positive self-worth, and decreases worry, sense of isolation, and self-pity. Next, find studies coming to the opposite conclusion.
In the end it is always a people problem. If you leave them unchecked, the most ruthless ones will prevail and things will go south from there.
US has issued a formal apology to Britain over GCHQ wiretapping claims
Since the post mentions performance as one of the main problems, it seems kinda strange to defend the Mac Pro.

The trashcan Mac Pro has very outdated Xeon E5620 CPUs and it doesn't seem like there's a lot of upgrades in the pipeline. I can even see Apple stopping the sale of these in favor of iMacs.

I think any 'regular' sever with e.g. an Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 be about twice as fast for basically the same price.

I'd assume that image manipulation is mainly a CPU bound issue.

> Racking servers, even if they're cylindrical, is actually much easier than building an entire real-time image rendering pipeline from scratch.

Scaling a service based on Mac Pros is probably much harder than starting to port pieces of a real-time image rendering pipeline to hardware that is a lot faster and more readily available.
To be honest, for the price of the Mac Pros, you can probably run a lot of CPU hours in AWS / ... and skip the whole rack-n-stack.

That being said, I'm not the one running an image rendering business, so I'm just armchair quarterbacking :)
Maybe it's too expensive ($88 a year versus 30 for Vélib in Paris), or maybe it's also a matter of urbanization : european city have a bigger population density than US ones, which makes it easier to commute with a bike because the distances are smaller. (In Paris for instance you can almost go from any point to any place in the city with the 45min extended plan (40€ a year)). I don't live in Paris anymore but I still go there several times a month and even now owning a Vélib pass is a no brainer.
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2 npm modules I've relied on in the past for this: https://github.com/substack/picture-tube and https://github.com/switer/imaging
I disagree with the idea that a startup is just a vastly unlikely to cash lottery ticket. The vast majority of the time it's actually a great idea. I've helped start nearly dozen companies, and less than half had any measure of success, and only two reached a profitable exit.

The value of doing a startup isn't just the value of the lottery ticket. It's the value of the journey and what you can learn from it.

I worked at Apple for 2 years between startups. I was a valued engineer but was never given a lead position on a project, or any managerial responsibilities. Which was fine, I was young, in my twenties.

But at startups in my twenties, at various points I
- was lead engineer on the company's key product.

- was product manager on a company's most important product.

- ran tech support for all of the company's products.

- ran product development for a two person startup all the way up to a 140 person company (45 in development).

I formulated, or helped form, marketing plans, product strategies, architectures, and business plans. I helped pitch VCs, and we raised over $20M total in those businesses. I even presented to John Warnock at one point.

Every single thing I did at startups helped make me a better engineer, manager and opened up career opportunities I might have had to wait a lot longer for.

It's not just the lottery ticket.
That would be great to see and would solve a real issue for many users of services like ours (or Heroku, GitHub pages, etc, etc, etc).

There are gotchas however, since you now depend on two levels of DNS based traffic direction and we have sometimes run into issues where DNS providers offering ALIAS records simply cached one DNS respond and sent all DNS lookups to the same CDN pop regardless of their location :/
When I lived in DC, I found it was largely tourists using it. No one I knew personally used it, outside of maybe trying it out once.

It is really cool for the national mall, but riding it around the city is a little sketch unless you are very familiar with the bike routes.
For me, it's less a question of ideology and more of a question of where the money comes from. If the money is there, and will be there again in the future, then it doesn't really matter where it comes from, and I'm not suggesting that people should be denied access to water.

However, if (in what I suspect is an extreme hypothetical) this $100 million dollars only guarantees water access for a few years, and they'll be asking for handouts when this money is spent, then the question of whether or not its sustainable should probably be asked.

My only objection to the OP's assertion is that you can just build infrastructure out of tax dollars and call that sustainable. You can't, and it's been shown time and time again that it isn't tenable without some very special circumstances or conditions. There are circumstances applicable to Keynesian economics, but just paying one group of people to shovel holes in the day, and another group of people to fill them back up in the night time just doesn't work unless somebody, somewhere is producing something of value enough that it can subsidize this behavior.

Perhaps I'm reading it wrong, or perhaps he's not stating his case clearly, but that seems to be basically what he's suggesting.
I always felt the same way. Even a huge cost premium matters very little to me since it's a machine I use professionally.

However I'm starting to give it serious consideration as Apple is signaling pretty hard that they don't give a shit about desktops any more, and MacOS is not seeing much development other than some sloppy seconds and half baked ports of iOS ideas.

I'm pretty heavily depend on MacOS for my daily workflow these days, but the writing is on the wall that I've got to start thinking about Linux or even Windows over the next 5-10 years.

In that light, the benefit of the hackintosh is not only being able to get current hardware at a fair price, but also being able to hedge my bets and dual boot to Linux to get my feet wet.
Really like the fact that deepstreamhub doesn't have a strong vendor lock-in like Firebase. I feel like it would ease many developers minds if they offered some sort of open source version, if only for the sake of being able to change your stack.

The option to export your users data in a RethinkDB compatible manner would probably do the job too.
Racking Mac Pro (trashcan) in a Datacenter
Whoa, was wondering where the traffic was coming from. I wrote this!
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Wouldn't a simpler (for the end customer, not for you) solution be to use Anycast on a (or block of) IP addresses and then let folks always use A records as intended? Solves the ANAME non-local caching issue and also handles people using DNS servers not nearby to them.
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There are plenty of elegant PC cases available. The author went to great pains to put a ridiculous number of LEDs into the build.

Even with the LEDs, there is a ~$5k budget difference between the hackintosh and the trash can. That much will buy you a pretty wide range of aesthetic choices. For instance, you could probably have someone cnc something out of aluminum, or commission a hardwood case that matches the period of your office furniture.

Personally, I think the build would have been more memorable if it incorporated some strobes, a fog machine and plasma bulb. (Bonus points for replacing the plasma bulb with a tesla coil without sacrificing stablity / safety, and without exceeding the trashcan price)
Amazing metaphor. I'm going to use that :)
I just found this, but it looks like he documents projects to his patreon crowd: https://www.patreon.com/sufficientlyadvanced
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It's interesting that a lot of added constraints mirror "real-world" scenarios. We don't have an intrinsic global co-ordinate system, and brevity/laziness is generally rewarded (which results in Zipf's Law in natural language).
Psychology is rubbish, that's already established, so there is no need to read this particular study before forming an opinion, or criticizing the study bases on it's merits. /s

On the other hand, published psychological studies are probably better than opinion articles, essays etc. So maybe there is some value in it that.

I myself find these four studies in the paper interesting in the context of ambiguity tolerance and critical thinking. Studies in personality and social psychology like these are usually best understood as some sort of cluster analysis.

Most interesting points form the discussion chapter that draws from many other studies:

1. Many of the effect sizes for intellectual humility were relatively small

2. High IH might come together with epistemic curiosity, cognitive ability and ambiguity tolerance.

3. Most personality characteristics display substantial within-person variability across situations. So the studies probably reflected domain specific intellectual humility (IH).

4. Intellectual humility did not correlate with religiosity or political orientation.

5. Indicators for stubbornness, rigidity, narcissism, or defensiveness are not central aspects of low intellectual humility.
Yes!

Though it's not his domain and is a one-off like Railroad Tycoon, I love the article on Sim City: http://www.filfre.net/2016/06/simcity-part-1-will-wrights-ci...

The history of the TRS-80, whose place in PC history I did not appreciate before reading: http://www.filfre.net/2011/06/the-trash-80-part-1/

There are many more interesting articles he lists on his own best-of list: http://www.filfre.net/hall-of-fame/