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A reasonable question. In this case by "serious" I mean a proposal with a significant body of support behind it. If the bar is "own $2K of stock for a year" to get a proposal made then it is very easy for, as I said, "some person" to get a proposal on there that has no meaningful support and no meaningful chance of passing. It doesn't mean it was done by someone who holds exactly $2K of stock for one year of course, but at the scale of twitter even $500million of stock would put them very distinctly in the minority.

"Meaningful support" and "meaningful chance of passing", of course, has nothing to do with morality, goodness, or any other such thing. I'm in a fact mode here, not a normative mode; that comes after facts.
I don't have the impression that you're deliberately abusing this site, but you're still violating the rules on a semi-regular basis. We don't want to ban you, so would you please stop?

This comment is unsubstantive and breaks the site injunction against name-calling: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
How does your container perform?
IANAL, but in the US, he'd be Trespassing if someone from the company asked him to leave and he didn't (which seems to be the case here). In some jurisdictions, DA/SAs will bump it up to Breaking and Entering so long as that statute allows to charge based on "remaining" in a conveyance rather than "entering" one.

It definitely should not have been requested of them, but it's possible laws were broken.
You're just looking at one set of trade-offs and mistaking it for the best.

Since people do not unanimously use large batteries-included frameworks, you must realize that some people prefer some batteries a la carte.

Rails and Phoenix may win the large framework space, but they certainly don't win the web space.
I manage to do quite a bit during lunches with a $200 computer at places that don't have internet access. Sometimes I use my cell phone to look something up, but I can also just wait until later or check a downloaded pdf.

You don't need to have constant internet access to be able to be productive on a computer. In fact, I'd argue that often not having internet can make you more productive, by not giving you any distractions.

Well, if you know your entire domain well, at least. At work I'm constantly fighting frameworks or APIs or reaching edge cases or error messages I've never seen before that I've had to look up, so I'd be a lot less productive without internet.

But I can program for quite some time in Python, vanilla C#, and to a lesser extent Swift without looking anything up. And back in the day I knew Actionscript so well I never needed the internet to be productive (I miss those days).

Really, you need to be able to not have to context switch a whole lot. All-in-one platforms let you stay in one context; most modern web platforms force you to context switch all the damn time.
I've been using react semantic ui for the last week and am thinking of switching to ant. Or going a la carte for everything.

Ant is good at making the css importable module by module using webpack. Semantic ui could adopt this approach too.

Have you had mobile problems with Ant? Seems a touch buggy there
And it would be deprecated tomorrow [1]

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/22882
the parts after "<?php"

Seriously though, I would think long and hard and be unlikely to take a job requiring more than a trivial amount of php. For me its tough to structure well, the stdlib is inconsistent so it means constantly having to look at the documentation, etc.
I do not reinstall "the OS".

One charm of this ThinkPad is it works superbly with some Arch Linux on it.
> In my view, every real number is well-defined...

How so? The set of definable numbers in any formal langauage might not be clear concept. But you are making a stronger statement.

For any given language, like for instance ZFC, we can say that definable numbers are a countable subset. Hence measure zero.
Sure! Just think of Ponzu as a JSON web service and fetch/put data from your controllers or models.
What about templating, middlewares, security, authentication, authorization? Do I need to glue this from custom libraries to the web server myself every time I start a new project?
If the work is in any way usable to the interviewing company, definitely. We went that route for one of our work samples where abstracting out a context-mirroring scenario was going to be very difficult. We then paid the candidates for the time spent doing the 4-hour take-home work sample.

One anti-pattern here involves turning all of your work samples into week-long consulting engagements. Those are a great way to evaluate candidates, but it means you can only hire folks who are already doing consulting (or are otherwise unemployed). For some companies, that works.
if you look at the clear one it's shown with a set of flash cards for tracing letters, so maybe not toddlers but young.
I'd buy it
Anyone who has worked in a consulting company knows that reports like these are a complete joke - assembled by a team of overworked kids fresh out of college for largely tech illiterate managers under narrow deadlines.

This is simply to win over new consulting clients and has very little bearing on reality
Yeah but there's no chance to make it big driving for Uber/Lyft. You're just letting other skills you might have wilt while you wait for your job to be automated out of existence.
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What's your point? There's not actually any real problem with eating mechanically separated meat, it just makes for good TV to say that it isn't real food.

For style points, make a show of how bad it is the week before doing an episode on pâté.
Those who need Cobol use them(Core banking applications).

Rust is better than C++, but it's not extremely better than C++.
HTTP/1 connections are limited to one request on the connection at a time and head-of-line blocking. HTTP/2 connections will also be pooled but are able to sustain many more concurrent requests because of multiplexing, while also setting certain requests as higher priority. It's a major improvement for high volume services.

The performance and features are why Google's gRPC uses it as the foundation for microservice communications at scale and low-latency.
It's healthier to have children at younger age.
Georgia has had a similar program since 1993. It's not necessarily 100% for everybody, but it is for some since it's merit-based. Otherwise, covers something like 80% to 90%, or so, of the tuition. It's been a while since I've read anything on it so I don't know the current state of the program.
this is square waves vs sine waves, but triangle waves are where it's at.

the brain may use square waves because it is part of a strangely evolved biology which has required things like fear and adrenaline, and uses long, salty, high impedance connections.

the brain's architecture may not be the best for all jobs
It's odd. There are people who complain on Hacker News about interviewers who ask about algorithmic complexity: "when are we ever going to need this?"

This is about wasting an interview demonstrating a semi-obscure technique that's fascinating but mostly useless, and it gets widely praised.

Seems like it's just that fantasizing about turning the tables on an interviewer is fun, never mind whether it makes sense or not.
We are sitting here debating the "technical" definition of a simple thing such as boarding a plane :(
In modern society (business especially), anything and everything seems to be centered around legality rather than common sense and being nice to fellow humans
This makes sense. It feels analogous to economics (and economic models) - something fake we make up to be able to create functions and theories and so on
>> The error handling is too weird.

>What would you rather see?
Exceptions
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I like that you can import just the css you need for a component. Semantic ui should do this too.

Some mobile glitches with Ant, but I'm considering trying it. I only need a few components
I do a lot of high resolution photography and videography work. I've got about ~15 years of raw images and video files that I could probably go through and delete, but I'd rather keep them around so I can pretend that maybe some day, someone will be interested in looking at them.

I look at it as a modern version of the boxes full of pictures and slides my parents and grandparents kept in their basement for decades and never looked at.
Please don't even use the word "illegal". Nothing in the post breaks the agreement. It's just an agreement
Prions are not alive and therefore do not need to compete for resources to further their existence.
Rust is a paradigm shift; "...to write correctly" most people don't start off the bat with correct IMO. The learning curve is steep with rust.
If Rust doesn't differ from Go, from Swift, from Ruby, from JavaScript in these regards then perhaps, as was pointed earlier, Rust didn't know when to stop. It seems to violate the Law of Parsimony. I like Rust's borrow checker and that's pretty much it.

Sometimes I think CRust would be a good idea, the minimal ideas that I like from Rust just layered on top of C as a linter.
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>> Hurray New York! They really seem to have stepped up in response to Drumpf.

Seems like you're making an argument that it's a good thing Trump was elected.
Try Koreader: https://github.com/koreader/koreader
> Frank Wake of Anchorage said allowing calls would be “cruel and unusual torture for those of us trapped.”

> 96% favoring the ban, 2% favoring the ban with exceptions for emergencies and 2% saying airlines should set their own policies.

People don't like other people.
If you're talking about out of work coal miners or factory workers, then they're going to need to be retrained and reeducated. Those jobs aren't coming back to save them. Yet the people they elect are overwhelmingly against public funding for education or any kind of public assistance for that matter.
Yeah, I'm a trained mathematician as well.

A constructivist would state the result in a variety of ways. But none of them would involve a potentially self-referential construction based on the absolute truth of an infinite number of statements. Which really does rule out Cantor's argument.
Looking at the graphs, all of the variations come in at 2-4 seconds, in most cases 10-25% average difference. So it's all slow, but not unbearable; it seems like a bit of a wash.
> Food animals should always come from a farm, obviously.

I am a vegetarian, and I disagree with this. I feel that it is more ethical to kill and eat an animal that has at least been given a chance to live a free and natural life, vs. confining it to a prison from birth.

Of course, it would be impossible to maintain humanity's current level of meat consumption without animal farms. I would prefer that people dramatically reduce their meat consumption, and eat only hunted/caught animals.
Really? Interesting. I would have expected it to be something like epsilon.
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And Go does? What does "win" mean in this case? Productivity....market share??? 'cause, um no.
No. There's absolutely no need for it. Just because a handful of companies can't properly classify their employees doesn't mean they need to be catered to.
Hawaii too- there are a handful of deer and a ton of cows on the Big Island.
UAC is merely a prompt that desensitizes users to more prompts. Whenever UAC shows up, for most people, the default reflex is just make the annoying prompt go away. Yes it to death.

Users simply should not log in as Administrators for day-to-day use. Anything requiring Administrator permissions should force a full log out, and change of identity. UAC doesn't educate users. Users should either be locked out of dangerous operations, or not locked out.

Administrators should take action only when there's the awareness that their decisions could result in the need to perform a full re-install of the system, without internet access.

This is the "nuke from orbit" gambit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Uber also was a pioneer in this trend of making everyone "independent contractors" who are clearly employees.
I fail to see why Uber's poor business model should be praised. If they can't take care of their employees, that's their problem, no one else's.
So where can I buy my "Summon a linked list from the void" T-shirt?
Regarding 1, there are systems @ Facebook and inside Google that can do this reasonably well and I know the technology intimately. I would consider this a nearly solved problem, I give it 1 to 2 years at most to be more generally available.
So how does this person feed their family, then?
> Ansible is capable of doing what Chef can do.

So is gawk, except nobody tries to shoehorn it to do so or claim that it's
designed for this. Ansible's very architecture and operation model are causing
troubles where should be none, like applying configuration changes to hosts
that happened to be temporarily down.

> [...] much like Chef and Puppet, Ansible is made up of somebody's deployment script as well.

I don't know the history of Chef, but I assure you that Puppet was never
somebody's deployment script that happened to be published and gain traction.
It was designed ground up as a configuration management tool, after its author
deemed cfengine 2.x too troublesome, which again was a configuration
management since its early 2.0 days (and probably since 1.0 version).

Configuration management requires completely different operation mode than
deployment; one is asynchronous and unattended, the other is a synchronous
list of steps to take and often needs to stop on the first trouble to appear.
Exactly. The start of the push will already consume downstream bandwidth until it's canceled by the remote side. I guess in the worst case it consume about up to the maximum window size of the stream (typically 64kB). The "classic" approach compared to that is the client initiating another GET request for each asset after it has received the index page. This requires more upstream traffic. However the webserver could directly respond with a 304 for cached assets, which means less downstream traffic.
> Why should anyone listen to the arguments of hypocrites?

Because even though they might be hypocrites the may offer good arguments. And while I understand the point of the JD employee myself (I also work writing software for vehicles) and I think he speaks honestly, I think that goods should be easy to fix and all the means fo this should be at the disposal of whoever needs it. Reconciling safety and the need for open software (because this is what is basically boils down to), right to repair and right to modify is a real issue. One that should not be invalidated necessarily by personal traits of a subset of supporters of either side.
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That's the maximum amount that they're required to offer by law. They're welcome to voluntarily exceed that cap.
Paradoxically, if you want to defend freedom of speech, you can't allow ideologies that are anti-free speech to spread "e.g. the new resurgence in authoritarianism and fascism"
Why does it matter if the person is a doctor or a janitor? He had a valid ticket, was assigned a seat and was already on the plane. They could've simply offered more money and there would've been takers, instead of all this nastiness
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We have the holographic principle from physics which says that the amount of information in a finite volume of space is discrete.

If true, then we can think of the continuity just as a convenient interface. All experimental questions can be answered by a simulation with a discrete state space.
I don't know how common this is in the US, but in Switzerland we have a form of incorporation that's quite common and would match ownership by users, which is quite different from public ownership: A cooperative ("Genossenschaft"). The biggest retailers, some of thr bigger banks snd insurances as well as lots of shared land ownership works this way. According to Planet Money at least in banking in the Midwest it used to be common in the US. I think this could be attractive for services that can be considered internet infrastructure, like Wikipedia, Twitter and (in an ideal world) even Google. Users gain a lot of value from a platform stopping the growth play and going for stability through pleasing their existing user base and expanding in an 'organic' way to users that want more of the same.

I could also see this becoming a common thing for blockchain based services since Ethereum contracts would make this a very easy thing to do.
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It's been going on for a year, and will likely be done this month. So yes, there's maybe an end. Maybe. But it was extremely enjoyable, not something I'm looking forward to ending, like a crunch at an employer.
I want one.

I have a Kindle DX, which is pretty good. I sure wish, though, that the screensaver was the last page read. That way I could open up a quick reference pdf, prop it up next to my screen, and not have it continually switch off.
>Chaitin's constant -- <snip> -- which is so ornery a number that we cannot (even in THEORY) figure out a single digit of it (other than its being between 0 and 1).

You might be interested in:

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cristian/Calude361_370.pdf

"A Chaitin Omega number is the halting probability of a universal Chaitin (self-delimiting Turing) machine. Every Omega number is both computably enumerable (the limit of a computable, increasing, converging sequence of rationals) and random(its binary expansion is an algorithmic random sequence). In particular, every Omega number is strongly noncomputable. The aim of this paper is to describe a procedure, that combines Java programming and mathematical proofs, to compute the exact values of the first 64 bits of a Chaitin Omega: 0000001000000100000110001000011010001111110010111011101000010000"
Websites don't spread nasty ideas. People spread nasty ideas.

When nasty websites are outlawed only outlaws will have nasty websites.

And you can take my HTTP server when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
You're being so rude and inflammatory, for no reason. What's so frustrating is how you're convinced that everyone else is an idiot.

> it's incredibly disingenuous to act like it's a major issue

I gave you a trove of real world examples of serious security issues in widely used software developed by competent teams. Quite a few of these would have not existed in a language with the kind of guarantees that Rust provides. How is this disingenuous?

Take a look at the OpenBSD bug - any user can kernel panic the whole host, a massive security issue. Are the OpenBSD maintainers, in your opinion, "idiotic"? Or that Xen bug - privilege escalation. Are the Xen developers, in your opinion "imbeciles"? What about all the OpenSSL / OpenSSH ones? Perhaps they're "bad at C"?

The truth is that as code gets more complex, writing safe code becomes harder. The above is evidence that even smart and experienced people regularly cause colossal bugs that have real life implications.
Whatever the answer is, you probably will not find it here. From an historical perspective, the success a language seems to have very little correlation with the vague notions of quality that we language geeks think are important. And it seems that the HN echo chamber forgets that.
That's helpful advice - thank you!
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> Consider that great big set. It's still countable.

You didn't prove that statement, and actually Cantor's diagonal arguments [1] proves you wrong:

Consider the set of
«all real numbers which you can actually specify IN ANY FASHION AT ALL». If you can count it, you can order them in a certain fashion: n0, n1, n2, n3 …
It's easy to specify a number X which is not part of this set (which is in contradiction with the definition of this set, and demonstrates ad absurdum that this set is not countable). To build such X, consider the n-th decimal of the n-th number: if it's zero, the n-th decimal of X is 1, otherwise the n-th decimal is 0. Then by construction, X is different from any number of this set, which mean X is not a part of the set.
□

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
I don't know. I won't for sure, but will this news just die off after a week? I hope politicians step up and media pound on #unitedairline for weeks ripping up their past ugly treatments.
Let me understand: this substance in the salt came from the sea, where it came from drains that contained flushed facial scrubs. So this stuff that is made to rub on your face by the hundreds of thousands or millions is present in salt by ones and twos per pound? Did I read that right?

This is significant how?
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What's your power consumption like on this set up?
Yes, exactly, I also have sudo no password on my linux boxes. If you're on my account you can keylog me or dump my keepass DB from memory. You may as well go ahead and have root too.

UAC is particularly bad in that it also produces problems with older applications and causes other applications to pop up UAC dialogs frequently. It's a huge annoyance with little security impact.

At worst it may make malware harder to remove if I do get infected - but in my experience, 99% of the malware you find kicking around on the internet isn't rootkit loaded 0 days - it's script kiddies crapping out iStealer to dump browser passwords or darkcomet to run DDoS botnets.
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I'm a little late with my reply, but I wanted the solution to be here as well.

Poor 5ghz propagation solved:

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https://lumahome.com/
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https://www.open-mesh.com/