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I find Discourse absolutely horrendous. Discourse mailing-list mode is a tack-on at best, and the formatting you get in mail notifications basically require you to be online to visit the link. And the gamification is also a huge put-off.

Web forums made us forgot how far we came with NNTP years ago. Even the shittiest NNTP could do subthread splitting, hiding and scoring. Handling hundreds of messages per day was easy. The convenience of doing-it-all under one powerful client was massive.

You can still do that with mailing lists, as long as it's not as badly managed as forums-with-a-wanna-be-mailing-list-mode addon as Discourse is.
That might be true, but gravity knife bans extend far outside of NYC. Many U.S. states and cities have similar laws.
I was expecting the demo page to be a majorly-laggy CPU hog, as is the case with most JS-heavy demo pages. I was pleasantly surprised to find that everything runs smoothly (at least on Firefox; haven't tried Chrome yet).
Her speech is really kinda chilling too: https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/913871652768878592

Cities should not have to beg for aid. The government should have prepared and started relief efforts in full force as soon as the storm cleared. Instead he's politicizing the disaster and playing with people's lives just to shake up another outrage firestorm that distracts from the real issue.
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You don't like the idea that unions try to bully their employers into having better salaries and work conditions? Would you prefer the word "pressure" to "bully"?
I'm honestly not sure what that has anything to do with making millions of dollars, and forking VLC to the next iteration like how MySQL to MariaDB was played out. Where does the user base come into the discussion? You're on a forum, whose users primary motivation is starting companies. We're here to make money. If someone offers you tens of millions of dollars for a video player, you take it, and go enjoy life.
I have many thousand in revenue service, as does Netflix (https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/hardware/). It's the only NIC we buy for 2+ years at $LLNW. T6 requires a little bit of care on Linux, the LTS kernels don't have all the bells and whistles but should pass packets due to common mailbox API. I think kernel 4.13 is fairly complete. It's plug and play on supported FreeBSD versions (10.4, 11.1, -STABLE, HEAD). We run fbsd HEAD for main product line and some Ubuntu 16.04 for other product lines where I packaged up the out of tree driver for kernel 4.4.
It also has a "comeback" because people are still very much enamored of something which is virtually indistinguishable from, "The Hand of God." Along with DeBB, it's still hanging on by the, "can't falsify this yet!" thread, but as with DeBB it adds nothing at all to the predictive power of existing theories.
Damn, this is a great post. It really demystified a lot for me.

Question for those in the know (or the author, if you're lurking about):

> At this point, the idea of a chain should be apparent—each new block contains within itself, the hash of the previous Block. This is crucial because it’s what gives blockchains immutability: If an attacker corrupted an earlier Block in the chain then all subsequent blocks will contain incorrect hashes.

Grokking the idea of a chain is certainly apparent. However, it's a bit less clear in what specific way referencing blockchain immutability with this statement should be taken. If an attacker corrupted an earlier block in the chain, is that being mentioned as something that occurs after all subsequent blocks have already been created, thus proving the corrupted block is, indeed, corrupted by way of identifying it via verifying hashes and seeing a corrupted one?

If a bad actor corrupted block N, then all blocks after block N would themselves be corrupt (and presumably invalid and a waste of mining effort), correct? At this point, it seems to me that protecting the integrity of the chain requires dismissing the corrupted block & all its children, right? Doesn't that kind of indicate mutability of the chain? Or is immutability maintained by allowing corrupted blocks to remain in the chain, but some other process stepping in to essentially invalidate blocks?

I think there's something I'm missing here. No doubt it's obvious, and I'm just looking past it.

edit: I'm also just starting the consensus section, so perhaps that will resolve my confusion.

edit2: After finishing consensus, I think I get it.
By that fairly holistic definition, I wouldn't particularly call the UK or US democracies. At the very least, not healthy and thriving ones.
Aren't they doing that in Puerto Rico too?
It’s e-gold all over again. Was going to be the dream libertarian non-fiat currency of the future but ended up being used mostly by scams. At least e-gold was (theoretically) redeemable for real gold delivered, whereas crypto currencies are ‘backed’ by a whole lot of sunk costs in the form of big electrical bills.
>If one cannot protect oneself against criminal elements, one is vulnerable to be harmed, intimidated, & suppressed.

That really isn't the first order way one protects themselves from criminal elements. Even if you are Jason Bourne, living in a mad max wasteland you will not live long. Whereas millions of people with zero self defense skills can go through their whole lives never having to defend themselves at all in civilized societies.

It isn't even clear if keeping powerful weapons around in a civilized place is a net win on safety. Yes there is some chance you may successfully defend yourself from criminals, but that is very low, maybe lower than the chance of having an accident or some other negative results of owning the weapon.
No, because this thing, darwin-xnu AKA the OSX/iOS microkernel, was already opensourced through https://opensource.apple.com/ for both iOS and OSX (to be precise, the source tarballs can be found here: https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/xnu/)

What is new however is that Apple is now seemingly actively using GitHub to publish their opensource contributions.
> ... SEC won't care if investors are OK, yes.

I'd say that's them saying they believe they are impervious so long as they are nice.

He's not my opponent, I feel sorry for him, not that he's my enemy. I feel that's a very accurate representation of what he said.

And no, really, not my opponent. I don't have a nickel invested in any cryptocurrency or ICO. I don't mind if you do, but it's going to suck if you lose your money - or, worse, end up going to jail.
Hmm okay, I appreciate the reply, I don't necessarily agree it's the best course, but then again, I'm not a call major, so it's mostly gut feeling(always a bad place to start from haha).
I have tried programming with contacts in (usually when my glasses were damaged beyond repair or lost). I can barely work for 6 hours before the contacts dry out, even when using contact lens drops. Does anyone know of tips for finding contacts that are good for computer use?
Perhaps a policy of telling fatist arseholes that they are fatist arseholes.
So it sounds like a monoid is a:

Function of arity-2 (possibly expressed as an infix operator)

Which is closed over the set of values that are its arguments/parameters

For a domain (set of input values) which contains a value that converts the function into an identity function when used.

E.g. -

Addition over real numbers (or integers...), becomes an identity function when one arg is 0

Multiplication over real numbers (or integers...), becomes an identity function when one arg is 1

Something along that line?

I guess that makes it useful for a fold/reduce type function where the final result is the same type as the input stream, and the initial value can be identified as a known default.
The Jones Act thing is a non-issue. Crowley Marine had 10,000 containers of relief supplies in the Port of San Juan by yesterday. Sealift isn't the bottleneck.
The containers aren't leaving the port fast. The bottleneck is trucks, Diesel, drivers (only 20% have reported in, and with cell phone service down, can't be called), and roads.

Especially roads. It's not just roads being blocked by debris. Many are washed out. Bridges, too. Unlike Houston and Florida, Puerto Rico is mountainous. Just getting access to the interior of the island is tough.

This may result in San Juan returning to close to normal while people are still dying in the hinterlands.
I would hope the opposite is true, and that medical expertise is particularly welcomed and appreciated on HN (you aren't the only doctor here). Thank you for taking the time to comment!
That is usually a terrible idea.
One of the biggest issues is the holdup of supplies at the port where there was damage to the facilities. Getting logistics in place when there is a limited supply of gas/electricity/communication makes everything more difficult, along with the government bureaucracy.

For anyone who is interested in helping increase the ability of first responders and folks on the ground to better respond to events like this, consider building tech and startups that aid in volunteer management and distribution, communication systems when power and cell towers are down, logistics networks to get supplies to places in need. Much of this stuff is not innovative tech, someone just has to care to retrofit solutions that exist already to the needs of these scenarios. Heck, the Red Cross volunteer signup page is just a wufoo form. So much can be automated and modernized.

Made a simple site with some resources on where to donate money/goods: prmaria.com

Disclaimer: Living in San Juan and hearing reports from the ground
Can you explain to me where you think people of limited means who live on an island are supposed to go?
What sources would you recommend reading through?
Awesome work! More tutorials like this are needed.
Andrew Godwin who wrote South, then the built-in Django migrations library did a very successful kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...
It seems like that argument cuts both ways; what about developers who refuse to use the email-based process?
that is Amazon S3 in a nutshell.
That's the Tibet model. I've thought that it might be a good one, especially if made more democratic and if the burden of theocracy was removed. However, it shouldn't be taken to the extreme of the Janeist model where the monk/leaders deprive themselves of all personal comfort. I've tried doing that myself, and I now know that my thinking is far more rational when I'm well fed and warm.
She used the TV cameras to grandstand Trump in preparation for her run for governor. Who you think is lacking empathy really depends on which side you're already on. The US is doing its best to help a place that's had 85 years to prepare for a hurricane and she has the audacity to blame the US for not helping enough, while millions of pounds of food sit rotting on docks and FEMA works 24/7! Shame on her.

EDIT: Honest question, now that the argument seems to be over whether the USA is putting forth its maximal effort (which I believe it is). Puerto Rico doesn't pay federal income tax, which largely funds the response that States receive. Puerto Rico is not even a territory, it is a commonwealth, and supposed to be much more independent and self-reliant than States. They even have their own President. Are they entitled to equal aid that States receive? If not, it appears what we are doing for Puerto Rico is more charity as opposed to obligation. So that makes the mayor's statements more inflammatory and inappropriate than they would otherwise be.
this is one of the most out of touch responses I've ever seen anywhere. it's an island 1000 miles from the mainland populated by predominantly poor people. what do you except them to do? swim?
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Video games is where I “learned” it. Outfit a gun in, say, Call of Duty or Rainbow Six. Highlight whatever the particular game calls a “flash suppressor”. I’ll bet it says something like “hides your location from other players when fired”, or something like that.

Which of course is not what a flash suppressor does at all.
It's not confusing to me :) I'm just saying that at the time I wrote my comment there where four different comments with four different ways of explaining monoids with four different sets of terminology :)
Trump is just a reflection of American society. People hate him for what he is, but he got to where he is today because of what he is, which tells you that he's been enabled by society for the last 5 decades.

He won because he understood how greedy and lazy and weak his opponents were and he didn't have the tact to avoid attacking them, sometimes incredibly personally. But look at how ugly people get in response to him, all while thinking they are the "good guys".

It should disturb the hell out of people. It's hard to understand how we're not going to go over some kind of edge without serious change. We are a society of delusional narcissists which reward delusional narcissists.
I have read quite a bit about innocent people who were convicted and later released. In pretty much every story the prosecution kept fighting to the end even against overwhelming evidence. Only one prosecutor apologized to the exonerated person.

I don't know what the culture is in prosecutors' offices but it seems they have lost touch with common sense and the real purpose of their work.
Or maybe they're stuck on an island that's difficult to evacuate?
Singapore is surrounded by far more corrupt countries yet has one of the least corrupt governments in the world according to Transparency International. A head of a ministry there can earn more than 3 million dollars. They also have one of the most efficient, as a percentage of GDP vs health outcomes, healthcare systems in the world. Think of all the subsidies that go to corporations from the government. If they just paid 1/10th of those subsidies to politicians that regulate them, they'd cut out the middleman and save taxpayers a lot of money due to greater competition and more efficiency among the businesses and industries they oversee. Political rivals would have a huge incentive to point out corruption so they could get their job. If they were expecting to benefit from the corruption, they would instead attack on unrelated issues in order to preserve the corruption cash cow.
Is it true that there has been a less-than-full relief effort? I'm looking for facts not speeches or tweets.
My point is that people have to figure out what helps themselves. All of the terrible advice amounts to knowing there are people who have learned to manage themselves and therefore most people can learn to manage themselves.
I subscribed to the print version of Newsweek for something like 20 years, and at least in the 80s and 90s it was a pretty decent source of information even if it was somewhat format limited (think of it as the 168 hour news cycle rather than the 24 hours news cycle).

But I can't justify that kind of subscription anymore, because I don't read a single source when reading online, I read from a huge variety of sources.

I've reached the point where I would be willing to pay for good online stuff, but I am not going to do it by paying for a bunch of subscriptions on a whole bunch of different sites. But there really isn't any other alternative it seems like. It seems to me like there ought to be some sort of business opportunity here.
He's clearly talking about your characterization of unions as "bullying".
Would be curious to get your opinion on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IyFEYEcHJyA&ab_channel=Althea

We've added a price metric, route verification and low overhead payments to babel. You guys probably don't need it because you have a business structure in place, but it could allow for more anarchic, decentralized mesh "ISPs"
I think some similar things have happened with popular plugins for Firefox, Chrome, Atom and VScode. And also for some apps for Android and iPhone.

This reminds me of the adage: "When the product is free, you are the product".
Yes, they throttled Netflix and Youtube, two sites that account for ~30% and ~13% of total traffic volume, respectively. This is consistent with what I said.
She plead for help. And there's definitely more the feds / military could do. Puerto Rico is part of the US.
Apple's made some pretty big genuine contributions to open-source: WebKit, LLVM[1]/clang, Swift, OpenCL.[2]

[1] Yes, technically "not Apple" in the sense that Node.js isn't Joyent.

[2] Admittedly partial credit at best since they've orphaned it in favor of their proprietary Metal API. I'd guess however that Metal will get open-sourced pretty soon.
I didn't specifically reference Puerto Rico. Obviously if you are on an island surrounded by water you cannot leave. I was referencing people that have the means and capability to leave, but don't because of sheer stubbornness.
It looks ok, but "art" is a bit of an overstatement. It looks like something you could find in a toys store.
For some people it is easier to understand a concept, especialy an abstract one, if they are given a few examples. For those people:

A monoid is a set and an binary operation on the elements of that set with the following properties:

1.The operation acts on two elements of the set to produce another elemenent of that set(closure).

Examples:

You have a set od natural numbers {0,1,2,3..} with standard addition. Whichever two natural numbers you choose to add you will get a natural number back.

A set of MxN matrices and matrix addition. If A and B are two MxN matrices A+B is a MxN matrix.

2.The order in which the operations are performed does not matter(associativity).
So for all elements of our set a,b and c and the operation +:

a+(b+c)=(a+b)+c

must be valid.

Examples:

Let L be a set of strings and + concatenation.
"Just"+(" an "+ "example")=("Just"+" an ")+"example"

Vector addition over vectors of same dimension.

3.There is an element(unique!) in the set which when applied to any element of the set returns that element(identity, neutral element).

e+a=a+e=a

e is identity

Examples:

0 is identity for standard addition: 0+1=1, 4+0=4

1 is identity for standard multplication: 1*7=7

""(empty string) is identity for string concatenation
It really depends on what network you view. I encourage you to look at news sites across the political spectrum and see how they're covering the story. If you want the TL;DR of these see here: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_display=gallery....
There’s no API to do that yet from a WebExtension, but they’re working on it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447 . In the meantime it’s possible to edit your userChrome.css manually to select the tab bar and hide it.
> Compare with Google

isn't google's situation a monorepo composed of many distinct projects? there doesn't seem much utility in the comparison.

> Email isn't about "throughput"; it's "acceptance".

this seems to be the similar, in the other direction. using (or not) an alm in an organization isn't about "throughput", it's about "accepting" a company's policy assertions.
I'm sure the paranoid prepped is there. But the nature of being a paranoid prepped is that he or she is holed up and not coming out to talk/share.

Now probably wouldn't be a good time to go wandering across other people's land
Of course this will be politicized but there is not much we can do except let time run its course. Supplies have been sent to PR, many weeks ago. But distribution is not easy. There is not any gasoline to run vehicles. And the little bit of diesel that is around is used to run chillers to keep perishable supplies. But that fuel is about to run out too. Which means they'll have another problem, they'll have tons of stuff that will need to be disposed of and no where to put it. Its a mess, but this is what happens.

You can't air drop supplies on mountain terrain. It won't land where you want it, and people will likely die trying to get to it. Many state the help should have been sent before the hurricane...yea that will work good as your supplies and volunteers are washed out into the ocean. About the best you can do right now is pack a sail boat full of hotdogs and start sailing.
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> you'd think the whole research directorate was dipping into the Ultra program's LSD supply.

You say this as if it isn't an extremely decent possibility, heh.
The government started relief efforts immediately and in full force, despite two other hurricanes stretching FEMA to the limit. Believe it or not the power of the federal government is not infinite.
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It was brilliant for her to tell Trump to step it up on national TV - that was the only way he would focus his complete attention on Puerto Rico instead of spending all his time on Twitter stroking his broken ego over his fallout with the NFL.
> Is the Red Cross the best place to donate?

No. I can't answer the rest of your questions, but the American Red Cross has horribly mismanaged disaster responses in recent years.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-red-cross-secret-disa...

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-find...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/0...
If they are, they're not going to go around bragging about it.
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> while flash hiders just make it difficult for authorities to spot the location of a shooter.

Flash hiders vent gas to the sides/down instead of straight out so that the shooter isn't blinded as much while firing at night. It does virtually nothing to hide a flash from the person you're shooting at. I get that the articles you've googled say that it hides the flash, but that doesn't make sense logically. It should make the flash a similar size except down/to the sides instead of a cone centered on the muzzle. The gases/gunpowder have to go somewhere.

Flash hiders make shooting at night less terrible.

> Muzzle breaks actually increase the noise level of a firearm, making more detectable than a stock barrel.

Muzzle breaks increase perceived noise for the shooter because the gas is vented towards the shooter and towards the sides. It is not a sound amplifier. It likely slightly decreases the noise in the direction of the muzzle because some of the pressure waves will go sideways/backwards instead of forward.

Muzzle breaks make shooting more pleasant with high powered rifles.
When I see this kind of damages, and what happened to St-Martin and St-Barthelemy, I thank God that my island has not been under the eye of Maria.

I have seen storms before, but that was a different beast!

I am hopeful that more people now understand the importance of housing and building standards.
I'd advise strongly against using contacts. Not only for work but like ever. Eye drying seems a simple problem until the unfortunate event of corneal erosion. The risk is higher since you are putting some plastic on top of your eye. If it is dry, it is as bad as any plastic.

With time, you'll damage the surface of your eye to no repair. Read the Internet for some real experiences.
Thanks for the article link.

I love that "late binding" is listed as a flaw. Some would call that a feature. Those of us in the "some" must be wired a bit differently that the "early binding" crowd, I guess :-)
The Navy could evacuate the entire island with one aircraft carrier and a few trips to Miami. Our leaders just do not have the will to do so.
> There seems to be a correlation between how the news covers disasters and how we react to it.

If this weren't the case, there would be an opening for media that isn't completely out of touch...