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> Basically, what you mean to say is that Larry Garfield is an asshole

I wouldn't disagree with this statement.

> Could you share some details...

Sure.

Larry was a very productive and highly valued contributor in the community in which I knew him also. He was also simultaneously an ambitious jerk who sought high status for himself, engaged in a lot of manipulative, bullying behavior to keep that status once he attained it, and sought to change the customs of our community to permanently enshrine himself in a highly privileged position. This created a rather complex dynamic where members of our community either thought that he was a "model community member" or an "asshole" depending on what they happened to notice him doing.

Eventually there came a time where his positive contributions outweighed the negative ones, and decisions were made to relieve him of certain responsibilities. Not a secret star chamber thing like with the Drupal project; it was really more of a "well, you haven't really done anything for the past 5 years because all your time is spent on Drupal, so you should really step aside now for someone else to do this work that we really need done."

When that news was delivered to him, he engaged in this sort of behavior that he's doing now; sharing publicly details of the decision in a misleading way, in order to gain immediate public sympathy and hide the fact that he was asked to leave his high-status position (not our whole community) because he wasn't meeting the obligations that he committed himself to. He got away with this for a little while because the people who dismissed him decided to let him have a face-saving exit because of his valuable past contributions, but eventually everyone heard the story through the gossip chain years later.

So, that's why I think he did do something bad which we don't know about; he's exhibiting the same pattern of deliberately misleading behavior when he did something not-even-bad. Either he's trying to flip Dries et al through public pressure, or he's trying to save his career by painting himself as a victim (he probably still is a victim, even if he's an asshole who did something bad; blackmail is always wrong). He's made a bet that Dries et al are not going to spill the beans, so he's taking control of the narrative for his own advantage.

I will say one nice thing about Larry though: I have never heard any woman ever complain that he acted inappropriately towards them in any way related to their gender while he was in our community.
Well, that's the catch. I'm very unlikely to give you any hints on what markets I trade and the advantages I'm using. I'm also very unlikely to take any person that does that very seriously (I really don't).

Also remember that this market (or any market with big money) is brutal and will eat you alive. I don't expect the average person and his capital to last for a long time.
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> Global warming or a nuclear weapon "accident" are too probable to wipe out what the humanity achieved up to now

> We still have to clean up our own backyard first

> We won't discover [a second Earth] by experimenting with the survival of a few persons on Mars

> Human life is not self-sustainable [on Mars] and it won't be even if we create some "colony"

These are assumptions. If colonizing Mars and mastering terrestrial civilization were mutually exclusive, I'd agree with you. But there is a lot of spending between those poles. If the Apollo programs offer us any lessons, it's that space travel and better living on Earth are more complementary than competitive.
Nope, it's standard, Terry Davis is the author and he's a very religious schizophrenic. He's a very smart guy, but he got banned many times on HN and Reddit for going off about "India niggers" and spamming blocks of random words.
Asserts scare me, because I know someone out there is using them in place of validation without realizing they may be stripped out any time.
If you're starting a new company you should be thinking about building a product and finding customers, not patent trolls.
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Let's just admit it: we have no clue about what's going to happen weather-wise.

A warmer planet will have a massive impact on seas, winds, and life, at all levels. Each effect may cause more effects or cancel other effects out. I don't think it's we'll ever be able to make an all-encompassing model that can assess that there will be more dramatic weather locally.

At this stage, all we can say is that the planet is globally getting warmer, and that it's likely to continue.
Some good suggestions in the thread, but I hope you are an avid reader of the genre you wish to work in? Good writers have to be keen, discerning readers.
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> Can we agree that the state of the scientific field is as good as a decisions taken based on the achievements in this field?

Certainly not, or else climate science would still be in thorough disagreement about whether or not there's climate change and/or how anthropogenic it is.

Even if you have massive amounts of evidence pointing to something, if it goes against entrenched interests, nothing is going to be done.

Also, you need to differentiate Krugman the political commentator and Krugman the economist. He's much more of the former these days, posts labeled "wonkish" are generally from the latter. The fault is on him, though, for discrediting himself that way.
Fair enough, but take anything in computers and replace it with "Machines" and it illustrates the point. ram could be called "Machine memory" or a network could be called a "Machine communication matrix" or in the reverse "Terminator 3: rise of the computers"
I did not know that either. I can't imagine the rationale for testing in a populated area. Even if the perceived risk was low, the additional cost of testing in a desolate area can't have been that substantial.
There are other problems that show indications of having solutions, and which could realistically be applied to most or all humans. The dream of being an immortal Martian might be an appealing one, but it is no less a distraction or a religion at this point than people paying for salvation in Scientology or looking to the pope for an indulgence.

I understand that this is something that's almost impossible to accept though.
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The problem is really Non-Practicing Entities (NPE) who are doing the trolling. I think you have to change the laws to eliminate the ability for an NPE to buy up patents for the sole purpose of suing. It would help greatly if Judges were a bit more decerning about the cases they accept too.
I agree that it reads a lot better and if you have to scroll horizontally it reads a whole lot worse, as a C# dev I have to constantly scroll back and forth to read a particular code block. I'm pretty sure C# code would fail terribly at fitting within 80 chars w/ its long names and generic type declarations and everything being indented withing a namespace it'd practically be useless to try to edit C# code from a shell interface.
I'm taking more about motivation and perseverance..imho, it's easier to keep producing writing/music/etc if you know there will be a market for it. I would be more inclined to find something new to say if I had 10,000 people waiting to consume it than if I only had 10 or so. But it doesn't mean the quality will be as good as earlier work.
I worked for an insurance broker in the small business sector for a while generating new lead sources. Costco was one of the organizations I was talking to. They were very emphatic that they did not want to provide insurance through brokers, because they felt a broker was unable to guarantee the level of service they wanted.

I was very impressed by that. Our CEO, not so much. I'm sure he still thinks Costco hates money.
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I agree. Population density, building near shorelines, and a short collective memory probably clouds our analysis.

I also think that tinkering with models and drawing conclusions about the real world is extra sensitive to confirmation bias...
HN: can we invent a smoking bubble barrier to stop passive smoking please? for cigarettes, weed, e-cigarettes and so on... I'm for legalization but I hate the smell and effects I'm subjected to by smokers...
Yes.

Why we do web?

Because lazy sysadmins blocked all but http.

But we still need to communicate.

Let's do udp like streams on top of tcp.

And may be we need to open firewalls still to make A&B communicate without going through a Central stuff C to have no SPOF.

Let's invent STUN a way to trick firewalls into opening an incoming transmission behing a FW.

Our security seems broken.

Indeed.

What do we do?

We put more broken stuff on the web like JWT/OAUTH.

And the STUN bite into your security?

Either ignore it or use a «DPI» proxy.

But it breaks the purpose of secured communications and still does not solves the problem, and breaks TLS.

Wait we have IPSEC in IPv6, no matter that cryptographically it is considered weak, it is by default in windows, PS4, and we have open source server... that are buggy as hell with root rights.

Maybe PGP, SSH, roll your won crypto?

Good idea, no users know how to use them correctly, devops included...

And what about the multiplication of passwords and credentials?

Let's use broken application with root rights and bugs to serve as a wallet that has a good UI, or an good enough application no one can use because of the restrictions?

Money is based on trust. The real harm that can happen to IT is to lose the trust of the customers, hence its value.
Totally agree.

It's the same for any other mental load that could be offloaded to machine. Coding style? Don't demand people sticking to rules - use some formatter/prettyfier/linter. Well known and frequent bugs? At least try to use static analysis or write tests and run those with some sanitizer. Codebase too big/convoluted/... - use some tools (parsers, indexers, search) to get better insight. Just try use proper tools and machines.
To me this sounds like a double edged sword. Though, i do like costco personally and shop there frequently.
The House of Represantitves did pass reform; it was blocked by Harry Reid in the Senate. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/9

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/how-the-patent-t...
The entire Obama Whitehouse site is still available for viewing at https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/

The Obama administration sites were moved to the National Archives and Trump started over with new sites. That's exactly the same thing that happened when Bush II and Clinton left office (Clinton was the first to have a web site, so we don't have any precedent before that). Nothing has been "deleted".

Oddly, no one seemed to screech when Obama "deleted" all the material from the Bush II administration. Why not?
>Or are the R and Python Computational libraries close to the performance of C/C++ that it's a viable compromise?

That's a big part of it. Python's data analysis tooling is generally written on top of Numpy, which is insanely optimised code that an average C/C++ developer couldn't compete with in terms of perf. Numpy will completely smoke naive C code to do common data manipulation tasks. So it's a double win, really. You get very good perf out of the box, and you get a high level dynamic typed language which lets you focus on high level logic and iterate quickly.

The other part is the ecosystem. For a variety of reasons, Python has become the premier language for Big Data™, and over the past 5 years has accreted a huge collection of libraries for analytics, visualization, ML, distributed compute, etc. A single developer can now click these libraries together to achieve stuff that could only be done with huge teams before. You can build a distributed training cluster for a deep learning algorithm and deploy it to Amazon in maybe 2k lines of code. C++? I don't even know where to begin.
Yes, the same Europe. I don't know about the French, but the unions in Germany and Scandinavia are quite a bit more pro-business than their American counterparts.

Hong Kong and Singapore build infrastructure for quite cheap. And there they don't need to shout about `free markets': the government mostly allows them already.

I'm totally with you on the crony-capitalism bashing.
Consumers and pay-TV industry are far apart on a la carte channel pricing
What? I was around when alcohol distribution was privatized in Alberta. It was a huge boon. Much nicer stores, better hours, more convenience. Prices didn't really move at all.

Privitization was also huge for motor registration (DMV in the US). There used to be two gov't run registration centers in my town. Open fron 8 to 4 weekdays only. It sucked. Gov't privitized it and suddenly there were dozens open in the city, hours were extended to the evening and weekends and no more lines!!
... yet ;)

These things have a way of being impossible until they are not. It used to be impossible to communicate with someone a great distance away, then we invented the telegraph. It used to be impossible to see someone at a great distance, then our seemingly-unrelated breakthroughs in network technology brought us easy consumer video chat.
I second, too. Also:

> More generally, though, it shows why there's a difference between 1x and 10x programmers.

While I agree that some of the examples are impropriate, I think OP has generalized the issue too far. I don't believe knowing how to use assert properly has much contribution to productivity in programming.
I don't think that between firm inequality is the main driver of inequality within the US. (Internationally, inequality has decreased over the last 40 years). My personal belief is that the main causes are technology and globalization.

I think the article looks at it in a unique perspective that is missed. Between firm inequality is a result of technology, especially technology with natural monopoly characteristics (search, social network).

I don't think the article's recommendation of breaking up monopolies will reduce inequality at all. If you break Google or Facebook up, you'll get two companies with nearly isomorphic hiring and pay practices.
s/causes/correlates with/

they have no idea how the mechanism work, no model actually predicted it until it was discovered and added as a factor to the models themselves etc. etc.
Talk about being late to the game... iZettle has been around since 2011[a]!

[a] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IZettle
Now that you've made this comparison, I can never unsee it. They're extremely similar! This makes me wonder whose going to be Musk's Tesla. I.e., what's the first amazing idea he's going to throw away (out of mainly hubris) that actually solves his problems.
As a perpetually novice golfer, I'm flattered that you think I can keep track of golf balls long enough for the durability to matter.

Plus I have yet to find a ball that will survive an encounter with a cart path, unless you fancy hitting range balls.
One of the recent discoveries is mentioned:

He praised their work with enzymes that help regulate aging; with teasing out genes that control life span in various dog breeds; and with a technique by which an old mouse is surgically connected to a young mouse, shares its blood, and within weeks becomes younger.

When I originally read about that work I pictured some people with money and no moral compass kidnapping children and getting a similarly minded surgeon to perform the procedure on themselves. A recent spike in child trafficking could be a direct result of this. It makes for the most frightening villain I can think of. So lets hope they figure out how to get these benefits without grafting the young onto the old sooner rather than later.
‘Show, don’t tell’
“Unskilled group” is responsible for multiple, crappy ransomware attacks
>that reputation is undermining the credibility of the US legal system as a whole.

Once someone studies the impact of wealth on outcome of court cases, such as the difference between hiring a good lawyer and getting a public defender, is there anyone who still thinks of the US legal system as credible? I think of it as a pay to win system with a monopoly on violence that is a threat to anyone caught up in it. I've seen poor people completely destroyed for far lesser crimes that what rich people are allowed to walk with. Once you count in stacking charges to force plea deals, and the rate at which plea deals happen, how can anyone defend seeing any credibility left in the system?
If your vision is so unstable you need a new RX every year your LASIK isn't going to last very long. Hence you probably are a very poor candidate for LASIK and it makes no sense from a strictly financial sense.

Unless you wear contacts, which can get pretty expensive, but probably not as expensive as LASIK that lasts 10 years.

I'm not sure why you'd get an eye exam every year unless you were having problems or needed a new prescription.
I don't have an answer for your problem. As it seems fairly identical to someone who reeks of tobacco. I'm not positive there is much you can do about that in a packed theater.

As someone who does use the drug, I would be surprised if smoking will still be as common when full legalization exists. Concentrated and edible forms of the drug are very popular in legal states. These are both my preferred method of consumption. Neither of which would cause the scenario you were subject to.

Also, that person that reeked does not sound like a courteous person. I make every attempt possible to ensure no one even knows I'm using marijuana in the parking lot prior to the movies.
Depends where I guess, certainly in Asia fast-running meters are not uncommon. To say a taxi meter is secure is like doing javascript client-side validation and no server-side whilst disabling right click. And approved by who? Vetted cryptographers?
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I agree with this. However, we can also say with regard to weather that change is bad. After all what little macro level predictability we have is key to agriculture, infrastructure etc..
Ownership is a legal concept.

The only solutions to this problem are legal solutions. It is a legal problem to begin with.
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Oops, I thought he said "cheap, clean freely available drugs".
The fact that a relatively low income individual has access to a large number of goods and services which were once considered exclusive to the wealthy is a clear indication that technological progress has continued at a steady pace.

While 'slowed down' or 'sped up' are difficult to quantify, the fact that 3 billion human beings have gained access to smartphone technology over the last decade seems to support the idea that technological progress has in fact sped up.

Increasing air transportation speed is a very narrow application of technology and hardly constitutes a meaningful gauge of technical innovation.
Um, no. At this point it's some PhD candidate claiming to start a series of blog posts. Do you know how many blog posts there are claiming to have a second part?

Either do something or don't. Don't waste other peoples time publishing your grandiose plans. If you want accountability, tell people you actually know, not the internet.

Not so much his fault really, but I'm a bit disappointed that this got upvoted so much.
I recruited a lot of C++ devs as a hiring manager in London between 1997 and 2010. I never hired a candidate without at least two years real day to day experience in a real commercial environment, shipping real code. The C++ learning curve is much steeper than C#, Java, Python simply because of pointers, memory management, and the greater complexity of compiling and linking. Back in the mid 90s C++ was a mainstream language. But the rise of C#, Java & Python means that C++ has rightly been abandoned for generic enterprise development, and is now only used where performance and low level integration requirements make it necessary: HFT, gaming, embedded, OS dev. Technical standards are high in those areas. There is another area where C++ is still used that may give you an "in": legacy systems. There are still a lot of old mid 90s Windows C++ MFC systems out there, and their owners often find that work hard to resource as it's so unglamorous. So I suggest trawling jobserve.com and indeed.co.uk for "C++ MFC C#", then sell yourself as a C#er keen to learn C++. Good luck!
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Ad revenue is probably the worst way to try and fund a startup. The economics of ads are horrible unless you can get many millions of visitors reliably, which only works for a small sliver of startups. The rest pin their hopes on ad revenue without doing the math, look at the revenue numbers with horror, wreck their product with more and more ads, then quietly fold.

Now, if you mean that the actual costs to keeping up a website can be covered by ads, then yeah, I guess. But founders have to pay rent and eat, so you're now doing this nights and weekends, and the economics of ad revenue are still the same, except now you can't focus on it much so it takes even longer.

And calling a startup profitable without accounting for the cost of founder time is really misleading.

Other than passion-fuels content creators, which are their own category, my observation is that there are very few ad-revenue-driven startups out there that have raised under six figures and reached any kind of success.

Conclusion: raise a very small round or bootstrap, do the work yourself, and charge actual money for your product. Forget ads. Once truly profitable, raise money if terms make sense.
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I used to know people whose response to that declaration would be "Challenge Accepted!"
Do you insult a red car when you call it "a red car"? do you insult a bad programmer when you call him "a bad programmer". It seems that you can't handle reality.

Knowing where you are will help you progress. Believing that you are good while being bad has the only effect that you will not do anything to improve so you will stay bad. Is that what you want?
I wonder why they own square.com but continue to default to squareup.com.
You can just replace them with self-checkout. You still need some cashiers (as you would with RFID) and don't have the cost of extra tags.
Supermicro rack-wrangles a fix for a few data centre PITAs
I use the moon challenge as a time, before cable, when the media was the glue that kept the country together.

One single view repeated over time.

Then, imo, cable and now the internet has changed glue to acid that breaks us apart.

I have not changed but how we get information and news has.

Can we have another moon moment? Probably not but to me the better introspective question is am I adapting to how information is sought, ignored and processed by me???