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> I think it's self-evident that there is no theoretical basis for software development in the way that would satisfy your criteria. Software dev is generally a scattershot haphazard endeavor that involves trying dozens of angles until one of them works.

But the actual practice of doing mathematics (i.e. coming up with novel proofs) works exactly like this as well. The differences are in how much confidence we have in the results, and how much we're able to reuse them.

> It's also self-evident that in most situations, correctness and reliability aren't a concern. The counterexamples account for maybe 1% of the field. 99% of the time, if your program breaks, you can pay someone to go fix it and no serious harm was done. Even Github outages, which affect almost all of us, hardly matter.

I agree that we collectively don't currently care as much about correctness as we pretend we do. I believe software correctness is becoming more important (e.g. the rise of ransomware) and is going to become much much more important, but that's due to what I accept is a non-mainstream view of the future.
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There are lots of possibilities.
For example: Only allow web connections through localhost and start an x session through ssh. This would require you to install a webbrowser though, so that's another security risk. Perhaps you could set up a VM with a dedi IP and only allow connections from there. (secure it well)

Another possibility would be to first pass a reverse proxy that will request a client-side certificate. That'd make it pretty secure.

A password protected directory is just asking for a brute force through a botnet. Your failtoban won't even block anything because the attacker would only let 1 host attempt a password once per 30 min or per hour. But if he has thousands of bots to his disposal, he can still bruteforce a couple times a second.

That's OK you say. I have a strong password. Don't forget: Each connection and failed login attempts is logged. Your logfile will quickly grow. If you did not set a seperate VAR partition on your disk, your root disk will quickly get full and server will crash. Additionally, it will fill up your bandwith and be as effective as a ddos attack.

Don't use passwords. Use certificates. easier for you, impossible to hack.

There are other methods of course, but these would be my preferred methods. Setting phpmyadmin publically is asking to get your data stolen. Do not assume there are not exploits in the latest phpmyadmin. But don't forget to update it within the first 10 minutes when a security patch comes along, otherwise your data may well already be compromised.
Aren't we there yet?

Here in Norway I took a summer trip from Oslo to the children's park Hunderfossen north of Hamar. We drove through about 7+ motorway toll stations, all automated, all collecting license plate info used to bill us (and what else?). There are also cameras on poles beside the road to 'monitor traffic'.

Norway wants a cashless society, govt. clearly stating it's because they want to put an end to businesses who do cash work and don't declare it, thus avoiding tax (but this is because tax is high, and a lot of people can't afford to get a carpenter in if they have to pay an extra 25% on work and materials). A cashless economy is a traceable economy/individual.

There's more, for example cars going fully digital and traceable. You can guess the effects of an 'always on', zero analog society. I personally have not carried cash for about 18 months. I remember going on a trip at the advent of the mobile phone era, and the joy of 'being lost' until I decided not to be. No more.

It's enough to make one paranoid.
The problem with prostitution in NL is that it's not tightly regulated, it's still a bit of a private organization of sorts. There's problems with things like loverboys (pimps seducing / coercing young girls into prostitution) and human trafficking. Eastern-European women getting lured to NL with the promise of jobs and such.

Regulation is failing, so it's being banned instead. Which will only push things further underground.
how come buildings are made from rectangular bricks then? Would hexagons be easier/more efficient to work with?
But do they work as many hours as you do?

(the answer is probably "they don't need to")
Huh..?
Probably not; that would make the employees work for the government and fall under their payment rules, e.g. fixed hourly pay, instead of what they earn right now + tips + etc.
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I'm one of those. I live with roommates who do nothing but party all night (it's school vacation right now here, and I've started working full time last year). It's excruciating. They don't know what I'm going through, act like it's not that hard waking up every morning at 7AM and coming home to a balcony full of people I've never met, having to have small-talk with them (or feel like I need to when I just want to go to my room). They act like they have it the worst because they need to go to school still and I mean, you're working! Ain't that the best?

I stay in the office until ~9PM. I go to the nearest coffeeshop to allow me to say "I've been working late, I'm tired, I'm gonna sleep. See you tomorrow". Well, that and I'm addicted to weed because it allows me to just not THINK about how sad I actually am. I'm not married, but I "have no home" basically.

That got way too personal. Contemplating on just not hitting reply. Still gonna do it. I mean, it's great for my professional life. It's not so great for my (mental) health.
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Hoping to fly my Drone and be able to catch it.
Hey its not our fault our line of work provides a highly valuable service of which few people enter.
Ya the idea itself would be so neat. In fact, a super meta way to do it is to have the campaign to build the platform be the first campaign on the MVP version of the platform itself! What better way to demonstrate your software patronage platform by using it to build said software patronage platform. I truly think a dedicated patreon for coders could really change the entire VC hypergrowth stress cycle that is Silicon Valley and instead usher in a new era.
Indeed. Here in Devon, Uk, at one time when I was commuting by bus, the regulars on the bus were so friendly we got to the stage where we were decking the bus out in tinsel and sharing cakes and bubbly when it was someones birthday.
Is there anything on that continent that's not trying to kill you?
> you will not earn anything in the future if the project succeeds

Neither will you with ICOs. They normally don't give any ownership or the like.
Sorry, should have left out "leftist circlejerk" remark.
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They're not dead yet :-)
and a new book on Tcl just came out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14730316
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Says more about how little tech workers are paid in Australia, than anything else. Work for Google in US and earn more than a hooker!
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Holy crap I'm glad I scrolled to the Summary.

But the author missed the golden opportunity to take a shortcut to the "us". Nothing will unit men and women like an alien hostile mining race!

PUT ASIDE ALL PETTY GENDER DIFFERENCES
JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE MINER ALIENS
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is this censorship? the posted article is clearly ideological
ITT: over-enthusiastic brothel customers who are fully intimate with the industry...

And one dude who cited SMH as a source of truth...
Company regulations require all communication to be encrypted, but they don't specify the protocol to use, so TLS 1.1 is fine but no TLS is banned.

I'm not making this up.
> One is that Go’s conventions around not ignoring returned errors and cleanup functions exist for good reason and should not be casually ignored.

Murhpy's law. People are generally unreliable to ensure and maintain this kind of consistency. If every call to "A" requires a call to "B", try to offer an abstraction (sorry, bad choice of words)... a pragmatic way to deal with the whole "AB" thing as a single step, especially if you can do it in the same lexical scope (RAII, try-with, etc.).
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北京——中国军方警告印度不要低估它持有一片山地的决心。那片山地是这两个亚洲强国僵持的核心。

中国国防部上周四的评论是迄今为止北京在这场争端中最为直率的表态，它表明这场外交争端依然可能加剧或升级，即便不大可能出现武装冲突。

查看大图印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪和中国国家主席习近平在西安，摄于2015年。两国边界充满长期领土争端。
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印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪和中国国家主席习近平在西安，摄于2015年。两国边界充满长期领土争端。
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该警告使得北京多日来的官方评论和社论达到高潮，它们维护北京对中国、印度和小国不丹交界的一块34平方英里（约合88平方公里）的争议土地的主张。印度没有主张这块土地的主权，而是表示它代表不丹行事。

这片有争议的地区狭小偏远，但是具有重要的地缘政治意义。

任国强上校称，“任何国家都不应低估中国军队履行保卫和平之责的信心和能力，都不应低估中国军队维护国家主权、安全、发展利益的决心和意志。”

似乎是为了强调这项警告，一份中国报纸周五报道称，前不久，中国人民解放军在靠近争议地区的西藏一侧举行了实弹射击演习。共产党控制的民粹主义报纸《环球时报》在其网站上表示，本次演习在海拔4600米的高原进行，包括在装甲部队和导弹发射器进行模拟远程打击。

《环球时报》在另一篇社论中指出，印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪(Narendra Modi)没有认识到，中国军队会在冲突中粉碎印度的边防军队。

“一旦战事开启，解放军必将以雷霆万钧之势给印度一个惨痛的教训，”该报周五表示。“莫迪政府应当了解解放军的强大投送能力和压倒性的火力。”

由于近些天北京的言论在不断升级，印度试图减缓继续僵持的风险，称它的外交官正在幕后与中国进行积极接触，但是没有提供细节。本周，中国在一项声明中表示，印度已经在撤军，将冲突地区的军队数量从400人减少至不足50人。

印度官员私下里否认了那项声明的说法，表示冲突地区的印度军队数量是中国的三倍，但他们没有公开做出任何表示。
> Work for Google in US and earn more than a hooker!

What a marketing claim
There's a reason that Patty and Selma work for the Department of Motor Vehicles. They "suck the life out of everything".

If they worked in a brothel it would be even less fun than visiting the DMV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_and_Selma

Yes it's a cartoon and a stereotype. But the reason it's funny is that it's so close to peoples' everyday experience with government employees.
> but that's no worse than regular loans

If the blockchain isn't enforcing payback, then it's just a normal transfer of money from one party to another. There's no smart contract needed.
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Tcl has also fully supported this use case since about 1998.
The internet doesn't just consist of Firefox and Chrome. There's mail servers, mail clients, FTP clients, etc.

And Firefox and Chrome can be behind middleboxes and/or personal firewalls that only talk TLS 1.1 on the public-facing side.

And finally, there's a lot of android devices running Android < 5 which all don't support TLS 1.2 and never will.
But a loan documented on the blockchain is just as assignable as one documented on paper, and a lender has no more incentive to agree to a clause prohibiting off-chain assignment than a clause prohibiting assignment without the borrower's knowledge or consent.
As a fellow swede I don't have the same experience. I instead see many cases of biological differences between sexes (that exists) being over emphasized in order to rationalize maintaining status quo.
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Each brothel would probably be open the most inconvenient hours. Like 10am-4pm Tuesdays-Fridays.

And paid sex outside a brothel would likely still be illegal.
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Have there been any private but cooperatively-owned ISPs, like a credit union? That seems like another possible solution.
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I have deviced a test that can, with 100% accuracy, detect a dark skinned individualist. I call it "ocular inspection" and it uses eye tools.
Timing is everything.

LinkedIn crashed at the end of 2015, but recovered in early 2016, dropping from around $250/share to $92 and rising up again to $190. If you took $10,000 and invested it and rode that wave... it is now $195. Would've been a 112% ROI with about $11k made.

I did take a risk on investing in another company with $10k recently and made $1000 in a day or two. There are websites out there that help you... its definitely risk taking with chances of losing a lot of money if you aren't quick enough, and while it's not technically insider trading... it's more similar to penny stocks, where timing is everything, and if you have at least a minimum of $10k to invest, and you ride the small waves.. you can make thousands of dollars doing that.

Money makes money and with time money can be made. I have a 401k that I can't touch because I no longer work at the job. I have spoken with financial advisers about touching it or not touching, and while some suggested I move it, the fact remains: My money got invested into some really good companies at early stages that are just not available with any other plans, either with my current company, or Roth IRAs, so leaving the money in there is just best. The last time I put money in there was at 4k. A decade later, it is nearing $12k. Might not sound like a lot to some people, but that is the power of money making money on itself. I haven't touched it because I can't put anything into it. Being as I'm still about 30-35 years away from retirement, I'm sure it will be just fine if I leave it.

Kind of like a Futurama deal... where Fry gets frozen for 1,000 years...

>>The account had contained 93 cents in 1999, but after accruing interest at 2.25% per year for 1,000 years, the balance is now $4.3 billion. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fishful_of_Dollars )
Productivity is the thing that is worth optimizing.

Seriously, stop worrying about performance. Don't consider it when picking libraries. You'll write better programs as a result. I know how implausible it is, but it happens to be reality.
My guess is it would be more of a logistic curve (S-shaped) rather than logarithmic. $1 does not make you much happier than 1¢, but $50k/year is a big step up from $30k/year.

At the low end, at some point you can afford to have a roof over your head, and an extra $20 might mean that you're eating much better for a whole week, or you can buy new shoes, or whatever. But if you're homeless, $20 won't feed you for very long or get you out of the rain for very long.

At the mid range, a salary bump from $30k to $50k might make a world of difference if you're trying to raise a family. It might mean that you're not worrying about how you're going to pay for groceries, or it might mean that your kids are always wearing reasonable, well-fitting clothing.
When prostitution is legal a prostitute can go to the police without fear of prosecution

In theory, Sweden's approach of only criminalizing the clients (and pimps, I assume) should provide that too; a bit like the decriminalization of drug consumption. On the other hand, since every "john" is at risk if the prostitute does go to the police, it's much more likely that they'll avoid doing so. Even where drug use is decriminalized, users don't tend to go to the police if their dealer rips them off or physically assaults them.
This isn't the case. I see segfaults in multiple tests with Ryzen and none of them are conftest related. The CPU is broken.

I don't have Threadripper or Epyc to test.
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...and then spend 90% of it on rent ;). Costs of life matter.
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Everyone has their own definition of cool, hipsters, punks, comic book nerds, star trek nerds, soccer hooligans....

If anything being "normal" allows you to appreciate more forms of cool, even if it's just by gawking.
I am keen to second here. With a PhD in probability & loads of experience in data analytics, my experience has told me that we are too ignorant and sometime too ambitious to try to predict a the outcome of a stochastic process (e.g. financial time series) without knowing that the amount of information required to make a sound prediction is far beyond those we have. Unless there's a very clear dominating signal among thousands of information sources, very often we are trading on noise.

Although I don't necessarily agree with all the points in this article, it just reminds me what Poincaré said:

`You ask me to predict for you the phenomena about to happen. If, unluckily, I knew the laws of these phenomena I could make the prediction only by inextricable calculations and would have to renounce attempting to answer you; but as I have the good fortune not to know them, I will answer you at once. And what is most surprising, my answer will be right.'
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How is Lua so popular in gaming if it can't do this? (I don't know much about Lua except it has a pretty solid niche in some industries, and gaming is one of them.)
A follow up to my earlier post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14944815, not sure if this is the correct etiquette
Different from what I said?
Yep, the same in NZ. The other thing is that legalisation means that both the prostitute and the customer are protected by law. There was a case recently where a customer took a prostitute to the small claims court for not providing the services agreed to and of course prostitutes can call the police without fear of repercussions if a client is getting too rowdy.

They pay tax and get the government work related accident insurance and retirement saving schemes, they get health checks and are regulated to prevent unsafe behavior, they also are presumably subject to inspections to ensure that no drugs, human trafficking, or underage prostitution occurs.
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I don't know if CSS is Turing complete already, but I'm pretty sure it would have to be if it allowed you to implement something like that...
The reasonable reason often cited is that it attracts drug tourists and prostitution tourists which all attract their own problems.

They wanted to restrict access to coffeeshop (not sure about brothel) to only Netherlands citizens but this raises constitutional problems.

They initially thought they would be at the forefront of a wave of legalization across Europe, but as it failed to materialize, their uniqueness brought their own issues.

I do have hopes for France though. Macron has the same political sense as Hollande, who just made a show of gay marriage legalization to prevent talking about other issues. I think they are keeping weed legalization as the next smokescreen.

On prostitution, the French liberals are a bit more divided. A lot of people actually associate human trafficking and prostitution and feel that criminalizing clients could be a way to make it go away. I tend to think that legalization would actually make the fight against sex-slavery much easier but I understand why people are more cautious about this issue.

Also the far-left shared some fake stories (but not totally implausible scenario) under which legalization of prostitution could mean that unemployed women could be forced by unemployment office to accept prostitution jobs or lose their unemployment benefits. They used the outcry to justify that prostitution is not a job like every other one.

It is a complicated issue, muddied by emotional bias and over-simplified solutions.
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Yes, but why aren't other companies do this?
I have no idea what to make of the claim that no further degradation is expected. It's not like batteries are a new not understood technology, batteries don't behave like that.

Is that an ad?

It is expected for the capacity to drop off significantly with age. The main weapon tesla has used against this is good cooling and sensible charging patterns, but that is just stalling the inevitable.
I'm not going to argue against the facts, but I will argue that the results for victims are different. If a victim of sex trafficking is caught on the street when prostitution is illegal they're now a criminal and will probably be dealt with as such by police looking for easy numbers.

When they haven't committed a crime they should be able to get aid from the authorities and their pimps and traffickers arrested.

Unfortunately this isn't a perfect world and resources aren't always available for whatever reason. I don't like it, but I also don't like creating criminals out of victims.
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In the first reply in the thread, Barry Merriman asks a good question:

> Doesn't Python essentially provide what RMS wants? Why doesn't GNU just adopt Python as its defacto language?

Does anyone have an answer to this? (I scanned the first dozen or so messages, but did not find one.)
Heh, DOORS is pretty crappy. But once you get used to its flavour of crappiness, you can get shit done.

I think it's one of those tools which demand a lot of expertise in setting them up, or you will paint yourself in a corner, with explosive paint.
Why do you consider asking for advice as a bad thing or being inferior? Every PhD knows that if you don't know something, you ask somebody that does. Collaborating is a huge part of academia. If you think you are better than a PhD just because they ask you stuff, you are definitely wrong.

You seem to have a completely wrong understanding about why people do a PhD. They (okay, most) don't do it to attach a title to their name but because they are passionate about a specific field and want to expand their and other's knowledge about it.
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Well, but the story doesn't seem to be over yet (02.07.2017):

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Your link doesn't say that Germany is a top human trafficking spot in Europe, or that it only became so after legalization. Do you have a better one?
Comparing to other national militaries isn't meaningful. How does their effectiveness compare to private companies that do the same kind of thing, e.g. Blackwater or whatever they're called now?
Tons of rich people drive a Prius, because they get the government to give them a fat rebate for buying an EV, and Priuses are cheap to run + hold their resale value well. Teslas are also pretty popular now for similar reasons. There should be a limit on the tax break for hybrids, since you still get it on a Porsche 918 Spyder, and I very much doubt that that car will help reduce greenhouse gasses as much as I doubt that whoever is buying it needs a tax break. Stop subsidizing the rich.

Plenty also just have a cheap car because they don't see spending a ton on a car is worth it. Drive around some super fancy neighborhoods and you'll see plenty of minivans, normal pickup trucks, Hyundais, Hondas, etc. Part of it is also camouflage.
Dumb question maybe, but if you bought bitcoin at the right time and now have $ 1 million worth of them, is it actually possible to convert such a large amount to dollars right now, and where would you do that? What if it were 10 million, 100 million, a billion?
Friends involved in prostitutes' rights groups in NL told me that the attempt to close the window brothels is not only motivated by humanitarian reasons but also because it's prime property. The same thing happened in Antwerp (BE) about 15 years ago.

EDIT: Not to take over the properties themselves, but to up-value the surrounding areas.