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because charged emotional responses are always the best responses
e.g Comcast. Doesn't everybody just love having to pick between the diverse internet options of 1) all of Comcast's abusive shenanigans or 2) 2002-era dsl speeds?
Except in this case the payouts won't exactly stop or truly punish the offenders, and the payouts also might not go to help the victims..
I'm not hating anyone. I'm warning about the destructive work of 5 major p5p committers, who ran down the project.
They are the haters and trolls, who are doing the name calling. and doing the destruction to the code base.

I'm the one who is fixing the mess.
Don't forget messenger Which seems to be completely different from Facebook.
Can't speak for the parent, obviously, but mine is constant, although at times peaking a bit too much for comfort. Impervious to anything I've thrown at it over the years. You sort of get used to the damn thing, but you never loose awareness of it. Those more or less sinusoidal 8 kHz have been droning in my right ear for about a decade now.
This is difficult to explain succinctly, but biochemical processes can set up periodic events with a fair amount of accuracy. For instance, your heart beats roughly once a second when in a resting state.

Some of these processes use physical latency to time the events: if the fireflies were roughly of the same maturity, they would be of similar size and thus have clocks of similar duration.
Good, but the more dollars you pump into it the better the odds get for you. I would say (and at a large dollar scale, hundreds of thousands or millions) the RNG state is slowly leaked. If the other side puts in as much money as you, they see the same state ;)
Needle exchange programs definitely work. It's no use to be "tough on drugs" and just get slapped with an AIDS or hepatitis epidemic in addition to the drug epidemic.

Needle exchanges are very common in Europe, it's not some idea projected from the west coast.
I saw a talk at FOSDEM where a developer who worked at Booking said something along the lines of

- Big company bought lots of different hotel sites

- Big company decided to consolidate them into one system

- Booking (the Perl shop) won out

So I don't think it's necessarily just that "it started in Perl", if so then it could easily have been consolidated based on one of the other platforms that were not Perl based
Intierior conflict about breaking privacy
Dear Hacker News Community,
I have a problem I could need some suggestions for. So a very good friend of mine who suffers strong depression is now missing since four days.
The police is allready taken in and we all have our best hopes.
Deep inside I know that he's alive and that he'll be fine one.
But thats just my personal feelings and know nevertheless anything should be considered.
This morning everyone in his circle of aquantices was asked for the password of his pc. I knew that I was the only one he ever gave it to.
I feel like and can't just tell to his family/ the police since I know that he wouldn't have wanted it.
On the other hand I have the feeling that I should realy do anything to help finiding him.
I dont know what to do and realy just wished I had the time to check through his computer myself but he lives a few hundred miles away and remote access is not an option.
So what should I do?
Should I give away his last piece of privacy in the hopes of finding a clue to his whereabouts or should I hold on?
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> You may be significantly underestimating your ability to get phenomenal gains from algorithmic improvements.

Implementation differences in the exact same, say, simple linear algorithm, can still add up to a tenfold difference. Compiler optimisations can take it further, though some are not generally applicable. E.g. I have made good experiences with PGO (careful analysis and/or knowing your workload is needed), but it's obviously not an option for the typical open source software distribution model.

Obviously, combining a better algorithm with a better implementation that is optimized will be fastest.
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I was mind blown when I read how much algorithmic skills were applied to drawing software back in the days.
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Most of the cheap plans are prepaid or resellers, which often enough don't give LTE or limit the speed. Or they're using the O2 network which you can't really use for anything that demands bandwidth or performance or if you need good countrywide coverage.

Also, all non-first-class customers (i.e. everyone except direct contract customers of the three telcos) get lower priority on the network, both for calls and data.
>there is - If there is only one source it requires more scrutiny. Multiple independent sources might at least be checked for consistency.

And that is so regardless of whether the sources are anonymous.

>I don't, as I already stated, I don't know much about WG - you brought it up.

If the WP was following your guidelines for the use of sources, it would not have published the Watergate stories.

>Depends on what you are trying to prove

That Trump shared classified info.
The compiler is free to change the layout (even from AOS to SOA) as long as it can prove that the program can't tell the difference. Of course this is hard to prove in practice even with whole program optimization.
CPAN has never failed me. I love it.
Just because someone did it doesn't mean it's not hard.
>Yeah... Uber is doing fine.

Okay, let's see them raise prices 6% in an environment with increasingly hostile regulators, increasing competition and a shallow moat and see what happens.

"Just raise prices" demonstrates a lack of fundamental economic analysis; what happens to demand? Outside of of a few city centers, people use Uber because it's cheap, not because it's cool. People will move to alternatives.

Uber is literally giving away rides, then boasting about usage. You think they can easily increase prices?
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This.

Webassembly is an overcomplication. But, as always, I suppose we have to live with it.
According to an article linked here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14271914 Catherine Hettinger filed the original patent
Perl's regex matching is faster than Go's, last I checked. At my work, we have a few large perl (and python) legacy codebases that are processing billions of messages a day. We are replacing them with far more performant Go. It is great to work with a senior Perl guy who can slam out solutions way faster than I can in any other language. However, for us, concurrency (and readability) is important. I like perl's AnyEvent better than python's Twisted, and python's Gevent better than both of those (in general). But these are nowhere near as awesome as Go's native concurrency primatives.
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They broke the entire python packaging ecosystem with a one line change, then went to bed, and 10 hours later, no one has fixed it.

I get that python is a volunteer community, but that's just poor form.

Imagine if npm just broke for 10 hours. They'd have people screaming at them.

...but you know, with pip and setuptools, they take the 'hey, if we break it every few months, no one will really care when we break it again' approach.

This happened with the pip upgrade a while ago as well.

It shows up the entire python ecosystem as unreliable.
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"The report comes after the cyber-attack last month that disrupted the NHS, which uses the same Windows software as the Trident submarines." :S
The « Reflections on Trusting Trust » paper by Ken Thompson addresses this exact issue: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa08/papers/p761-th...
they can 'simply' (probably not that simple, of course), introduce higher fares for new users. never used uber myself, and if i did, I'd have little to compare the cost to. That 6% they need could easily be 7, 8, 9 or 10%, and I wouldn't know.
>There were some of us who thought water itself was conscious

I really want to try LSD now..
Perhaps Ripple have something to do with it - http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ripple/
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I like .xyz because it's easy to get the name that you want. Dot io domains are pretty cool too but they're expensive.
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A typical soviet factory was a completely different beast. Yes, "real socialism hasn't been tried" is a tired trope, but it's true. Soviet factories ran on promotions by corruption. How loyal are you to the party doctrine? Upper-vice-chief-inspector-of-the-inspecting-of-buttons loyal or just button-maker loyal? You shouldn't prop an utterly corrupt system built by perverting an impossible fantasy as proof that we can't do better.
It would be possible to leverage a simple machine code verifier similar to NaCl's in a WebAssembly backend. Nobody does it right now, but there's been some work on taking WebAssembly as input to their Subzero PNaCl->NaCl compiler.
I said C/++ was more control, Java was a middleground between the two. Nim is easier, but its memory usage and performance are harder to be sure about, because it hasn't been around as long.
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It would be even more impressive if the fireflies' internal clock was ticking at slightly different speeds. As it is now, once they're synchronized, turning the sync mechanism off has no effect and they stay synced forever.
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That they never really wanted it?
Is Scheme still used by Texas Instruments?
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I partially disagree, many do get meaningful raises without asking, but yeah if that doesn't happen then I agree with all you said.
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Uber already has a partnership with SPG (Starwood Hotels). Catch an Uber, get hotel points; catch an Uber while staying at a SPG hotel, get even more points.

https://www.spgpromos.com/uber/
The background noise is so soothing. http://ncase.me/fireflies/sounds/forest.mp3
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They do not have a sustainable business. They're clearly pumping up revenue with subsidies (which is why they lose so much money). I do use Uber occasionally but when I do there's so many offers and deals that I never pay anything close to a break-even price. If you sell dollar bills for 85 cents it's easy to have lots of revenue.
This looks like a really good product. Most SEO products I've used are one off checks.
Agreed. I would be no more assured that I had free will if you convinced me that there's a truly random factor in my decision making.

It seems kind of paradoxical. Either the universe is completely deterministic, in which case my decisions are already set in stone; or there's a truly random element, in which case my decisions might be probabilistic. Neither of these feels like free will.

I'm inclined to think of free will as a concept that is only meaningful in the context of higher-order abstractions. It's a facet of our internal monologue and interactions with other people. Asking whether humans fundamentally have free will seems like asking whether computers fundamentally have cursors.
Puppy Linux kicks ass at reviving old computers.
Everyone reading only the perceived best will have a strange affect on society over time.

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” -- Haruki Murakami
The vast majority of the global death toll attributed to terrorism in the article is in anarchic countries plagued by (civil) war -- Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria.
I see this too, and i think it is a shame/mistake, i'd recommend to keep such people on board, and expand their workload/responsibilities when sysadmin work is on the low. (though when needed they should be able to dedicated their full time on sysadmin related work).

I then see it happen they no longer have any knowledge about systems and their processes, just outsourcing. And often, things then go downhill quite fast in service which leads to less happy customers which leads to lower company/employee moral etc.

People not knowing what computing power certain processes need or what its worth in money (over/under specced nodes), or backup processes not properly monitored or setup.
SHA-256 truncated to 224 bits is vulnerable to length extension attacks if the attacker can brute force the remaining 32 bits of the state. Some use cases will make this possible or practical, some will not. It depends on the details of the problem being solved.
I immediately bought this from thr app store - solves a very crucial use case for me.

Another app i am looking for and unsure if it exists: fiddler for ios. i want to see all external http requests that are going out from ny phone from all apps/browser/etc
Libraries could be much better if they stop focusing on the NYT best sellers list. They are starting to come around on indie books (and local community engagement), but it takes time. And, given how a libraries content budget works, a successful library book can suck out all of the budget. This is especially true if it is a book from a big 5 publisher with a high price tag.
Court ruling on printer cartridges changes what it means to buy almost anything
Almost everything starts to make noises at higher currents (e.g. CPU voltage regulator). You have of course coils making noise, you have ceramic capacitors making noise to due piezoelectricity, even good old fashioned electrolyte caps can make noises and transistors buzz due to thermal expansion of the die under switching stress. Not in computers, but even batteries, cables and bus bars make noises under pulse current loads, as do film capacitors (used in high power snubbers).

In the case of capacitors it also goes the other way; tapping a capacitor induces voltage spikes which can disturb analogue signals.
>They're decoupling the price that the rider pays from what the driver gets.

And this is somewhat transparent, right? Everyone loves getting middle manned, I'm sure neither drivers nor passengers will mind.

Getting a lift is a commodity. It needs to be cheaper form the buyer's perspective and it needs to pay better from the driver's perspective. Not sure how that works while also earning bing money for the middle man. Uber smells like a self-driving play, and that's falling apart.
Why would you want to live your life like so many other people are forced to live. If you are at the very top that means privilege. Those are the only people left with privilege, everyone else works for a living and works harder than everyone else for a better living.
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I'm completely ignorant of all of this but if the CEOs behaviour is part of his reason for changing loyalties as a customer then it seems highly relevant to me. Even if the CEO is a perfect saint, stating their reasoning is valid IMO.
If people stop using a company because of the behaviour of a CEO, be the real or merely perceived, that must impact profit and is likely to increasingly do so, no?
In the most European countries co-codamol is OTC without a prescription.

I think it's quite common to get co-codamol or dihydrocodeine from a GP in the UK. However, this is really weak in comparison to the high-dose oxy or hydrocodone that US doctors seem to prescribe.
Local companies using Perl have all migrated to Python or are 90% on the way. I know a few Perl guys who are employed just to keep legacy systems working while the customers are migrated over to the new Python systems.
They did exist, they just weren't very popular.

I remember back in January, there was this video [1] that kept showing in everybody's recommended videos, similar to the "1000 DEGREE EXPERIMENTAL KNIVES" video from MrGear [2]. It became popular very quickly and so the trend started.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-tqMKqDAQ

[2] https://youtu.be/hjSheQ7LgJ4
Belated reply, sorry. Been chewing.

Methinks I've prioritized writing of tests, of any kind, based on perceived (or acknowledged) risks.

Hmmm, not really like event logs. More of a data processing view of the world. Input, processing, output. When/if possible, decouple the data (protocol and payloads) from the transport.

First example, my team inherited some PostScript processing software. So to start we greedily found all the test reference files we could, captured the output, called those the test suite. Capturing input and output requires lots of manual inspection upfront.

Second sorta example, whenever I inherit an HTTP based something (WSDL, SOAP, REST), I capture validated requests and generated responses.
> I also don't really see how independent is a useful thing in a book shop anyway.

What if you never see great book on the shelf because it's an indie book and not published by one of the big 5? That's really where an independent bookshop comes into play. In this way Amazon operates closer to an independent because it pushes indie books as well.
You mean synchronous communication using request-reply/rpc like?
But cannabis can also be highly addictive IMO and can definitely cause anxiety/panic attacks in some people (especially with too high a dose in an inexperienced user).
Go... or maybe Elixir ;)
Until recently, blaming PHP was the popular approach. :)
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As pointer out by @wlesieutre [1], the fidget spinner does not do not correspond to the claims of Catherine Hettinger's patent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14271914
CO-Codamol has a comparably low codeine content which would likely make it less addictive (only guessing, not a doctor). It's a prescription drug in the UK.

Will probably depend on the doctor but the GPs I have seen in the UK have preferred Ibuprofen if it can treat the pain.
Ask HN: Devops-is the future just handing a dockerfile to container services?
Devops: Wont the future just be handing a dockerfile over to a container service?

What is the point of Puppet/Chef anymore? A dockerfile specifies everything you need. Do people really want to continue to script company specific infrastructure code? In the future, with a docker file, can't a container service just figure out the loadbalancers, networking, etc? Isn't this more secure? Will this end the devops madness?
For anyone who wants to get their feet wet just a little (pun not intended). https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/simulation. Also recommend checking out the entire series.
Reini, more importantly, do you like memes?
What are you looking to do with said new language?
One of the things I hate about meld, it is a great diff tool most of the time, the 0.1 sec . The moment I diff a larger project I cannot even scroll its directory tree without lag and that is after waiting for it to load. The "it is just 0.1 sec" doesn't scale at all.
It is different for incentives but not for the actual outcome. Obviously you'd have to compare the same compensation levels, i.e. 100k in cash vs 100k in stocks (at payout).

For start ups it can turn out cheaper as the compensation will be lower in stocks if the company doesn't perform well. From a shareholder perspective it's compensation and shouldn't be treated differently. Excluding it from costs is dangerous as it gives the impression that it's optional costs when in reality, you need to pay the stock compensation to retain talent.
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Nobody lost. We all "won", because, for the time being, Chrome is important for Google: They need to keep the open web as a platform competitive with Apple's iOS ecosystem, as well as Facebook's walled garden, because Google rules advertising in the first, but not in the latter two.

Thus, Google's interests align with the users', and also Mozilla's. It's perfectly possible for this to change when, for example, it becomes lucrative for Google to move people from the open web to android apps. At that point, we should all hope to have Mozilla and others like it still around.

It shouldn't be surprising that Google can outcompete any other organisation when it sees something as relevant to the absolute core of its business.
And that is a sad thing :( I really hope Firefox comes back with a new push towards better web, and keeps pushing it!
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Possibly, given that - besides all that recent neural-networks-on-GPU craze - people run e.g. CFD simulations on GPUs. I recall SpaceX in particular doing simulations for their rockets on NVIDIA hardware.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/03/17/mars-rocket/
Unicode regexes is a pretty small edge case. Is it because Perl is awesome, or because Unicode sucks?
> I'll bite: in what way is Scala obtuse?

(obtuse might be the wrong word; I'm not a native speaker)

In the small: http://www.wartremover.org/doc/warts.html (individually nothing prohibitive, but the sheer amount of caveats is frightening)

In the large: things like binary compatibility breaking between releases (note that this is on a different level from standard library incompatibilities, which are expected); not sure if this is an issue any more, I have last used it around 2009/2010.
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There's no way Amazon isn't going to make that particular situation better, not worse. The vast majority of the bookstores of yore stocked a few hundred, perhaps a few thousand, titles, and those were necessarily the ones "everyone" was reading.

Today everyone (not just those near a well-stocked bookstore with a good librarian) can browse and order from literally millions of titles.

The (relatively few) people who used to have a well stocked bookstore with a good librarian nearby are probably a bit worse off under Amazon. Everyone else is a lot better off.
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Ok, you are now answering the first question. What about my second?

Are you actually engaging with the users who reply to your question?
Well, big controversy is that it uses word "quantum" (to sound it sexy and attractive; any imply, even if implicitly, that mind has anything to do with QM) rather than "linear algebra".

And linear algebra is a very powerful framework for describing phenomena (including things related to cognition like word2vec, vide http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html). Also: it is the language of Deep Learning.
Interesting question. I honestly thought that the process was actually to reset the clocks not move them forwards, that's how I've simulated it in the past.
Why would a firefly that sync survive more than one which doesn't?
That's actually what I did on my previous PC, (with cygwin and mingw), but cross-compiling was kind of a pain in the ass, so I'm really looking forward to the native linux tools for handling that :)
Does this support keys and custom ports for SOCKS over SSH?
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As far as the title goes sticking to plain English words instead of acronyms would be nicer. I have to think for a moment to guess what GA stands for and GCE is completely meaningless to me without following the link and seeing that it is Google cloud crap.
> Many of the international airports I've traveled to have excellent transport links to the city centre, primarily by rail. They're quick, cost effective and low risk.

While I agree with your point, rarely are the rail links less risky to find/buy tickets/navigate than simply walking out the door at arrivals and catching a cab door to door.