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Wait till your kids are teens and they have nothing to do but drugs and video games because there is nothing else within 200 miles.

The parent poster is right: most of the USA is cultural wasteland. It's also largely an entrepreneurial wasteland. New value creation is concentrated in the same hot spots as new culture creation.

This is always true everywhere to some extent but it's gotten much worse over my life time. I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and I remember being a teen and an early twenty something there. You knew you weren't New York but there was a sense that things were possible. I worked on some pretty cutting edge software stuff around web and Internet there in the late 90s. Today it's an opium addiction ward and everyone who wants to do anything leaves. Meanwhile the "alpha cities" are experiencing uncontrollable real estate hyperinflation since everyone who wants to do anything must move there. This real estate hyperinflation problem is a symptom of something much larger.

The majority of the USA (by land area) is in a permanent malaise and has been since ~2000-2001. I quite frankly find it terrifying. It's a precursor to fascism, totalitarian socialism, or dissolution.
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When I read statements like this what I actually see is the following:

"When we met with Facebook, we were impressed with the huge pile of cash that they offered us. Most of all, it was very green and crisp, and smelled like cash it supposed to smell, so we were compelled by the ways this cash could help us realize our vision of getting rich."
"working just fine".

No, not even close to the same level.
I agree with this article. In practice, when writing number-crunching code in Python versus Java, I found that Python is usually 10 to 30× slower than Java, sometimes even 100× slower. See: https://www.nayuki.io/page/project-euler-solutions#benchmark...
If while you were building it, you advertised to your users as some kind of user-centered "passion" project (complete with PR BS targeting them to lure them), only to screw them after they have depended on your service by selling it to some large company that will fuck it/close it, then,

yes.
Yes, some maybe forget, others were too young, but Firefox JavaScript implementation was actually unbelievably, awfully slow for any longer calculations before Google financed and published V8 (2008), e.g. in this benchmark from 2007:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2007-09/000896.h...

The attitude before the public V8 outside of Google was "it's good enough as it is and it would be too hard to do anything about it." That JS was even slower than Ruby, which was some 30 times slower than C, at that time. Now the jitted JavaScript can run at least at about the speed of the non-optimized C, when doing calculations.

Python is not so slow as that particular JS was then, but I see no technical reason that the speeds comparable to the current JS jits couldn't be reached.
I have BANKS and INSURANCE companies require CASE SENSITIVE, alphanumeric only passwords. It's pure insanity.
Heh I still debug JS mostly with alert() calls.
It does open another risk of nation state style attacks that compromise the virtual print driver in a manner that it does not redact information, or encodes 'hidden' information into the format of the document. That seems easier to do with a digital print driver than with the messy digital to analog conversions that occur in a scanner/printer.
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The city and Waterfront Toronto have not abdicated anything, as reported by the CBC:

"They have no permission to build anything," said Coun. Paula Fletcher, who has been heavily-involved in plans to redevelop the nearby Port Lands.

Fletcher says she's looking forward to seeing the ideas Sidewalk comes up with following a year's work and a series of public consultations, but warns they'll be held to a high standard.
"It has to be good enough for Toronto. And it has to meet certain standards as far as jobs and land use are concerned," she said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-toronto-...
Well, it's like saying "inventing the new best sorting or searching algorithm doesn't take that much that's special".

You can only make this claim if you've done it.
"Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Software-Kanat-Alexande...
I completely agree!

You also raise an interesting point in that Docker helps you get started playing with a new piece of software quickly, without having to setup apt keys, figure out how to start the server etc

You can even use it to get familiar with different flavors of linux eg. OpenSuse, Centos if you're only familiar with Ubuntu
That's orthogonal.

You can have an exit-strategy, or become a billionaire, or a reality tv star, and achieve it by acting bad.
Ask HN: What’s your training model for new tech with limited resources?
Ask HN: what’s your training model for bringing teams up to speed when you want to migrate from legacy to contemporary and your resources are limited?

Assuming a role where you’re to migrate from legacy (think in-building, on-prem to either cloud-first/hybrid, and you need to think about the workflows that will change and require new mental tooling, yet that’s not factored into the mental model of costing such things; what is your suggestion/approach?

I’m trying to develop a best practice for dealing with such problems and I would love all input.

Thanks
Google, like any corporation, has no best interests at heart but their own. I don't know how the idea that a multibillion-dollar international corporation "has people's best interests at heart" has survived to 2017.
No good either.
Exactly. Memorization is the process of committing something to memory. Things like spaced repetition, flashcards, using mnemonics, etc. Memoization is the technique of caching expensive function calls and returning those cached values upon subsequent invocations.

Seeing the word memorize implies a process that an actor is undergoing and says nothing about the data being memorized. Seeing the word memoize implies the existence of an expensive function and implies a process of repeated calls to the function. It also implies the function is pure, i.e. you can't memoize calls to fread().
I am sure there is an auto lock logic in there. Like the driver cannot open the next lock if the last one is still open. Or like my lock automatically locks after 30 seconds no matter what. So even if they forget it will be fine.
Pedantic note: in this case baud and bits per second may be the same rate, but they technically denote different things. Baud denotes the symbol rate. If you’re able to transmit more than one bit per symbol, then the baud and bps are different amounts. For example, 1200 bps modems transmitted 2 bits per symbol and thus were 600 baud. That said, the term “baud” was almost always misused as a synonym for bps.

Speaking of modems, the coolest one ever made was the Novation Apple-CAT II:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II
What about the correct horse battery staple[1] approach?

1: https://xkcd.com/936/
That's doubtful. In 2015 they called me back to clarify my college GPA after an onsite interview. The next week they gave me a rejection.
I wasn't meaning that the open entryways were a solution for homelessness, only that a society which was accepting of a design element incorporated into their homes which was intentionally for utilization by and to the benefit of a stranger could reasonably be described as 'uber-altruistic'.
I'm more concerned about the damage to the users who get the short end of the stick after being lured by a service and its promises, than about the buyer.
BitWarden is... I swapped from lastpass and have been loving it...
One can make an appeal to aesthetics, but that’s no differentiator.

Or one could appeal to adherence to existing standards. Fortran is the oldest (portable) programming language and was 1-based.

Or one could appeal to consistency with the problem domain. Again, math [EDIT: indices are] 1-based.

Zero-based is consistent with C, but that’s about the best argument I can make for zero-based.
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As to the article: I've already read it. I'd clicked through to the link (from my Reddit blog) to confirm it addressed what I'd remembered. And I'm sharing it here which may drive slightly more clicks to washpo's site. But, because I got smacked by the nagwall (and again, having already read the article), no.

NY Times has a similarly annoying practice of disabling copy/paste from articles (trivial to get around on various browsers, but not Chrome/Android), so I frequently point to Outline for that as well.

I sympathise with the problems of publishers. But I've also done a lot of research and thinking on this, and they're fundamentally fighting a losing war.

Either go fully behind a paywall (and suffer the consequences of that), go nonprofit (see ProPublica, ICIJ, NPR/PBS), find a patronage option, or ... well, I don't know.

But the system we've got (and which a great many HN folk are directly participating in, as I have myself) SIMPLY. IS. NOT. WORKING.

(It's one of a bunch of things that aren't working presently, though it ties in to many of the others in particularly distressing ways.)
It does require signing in to Google, however.
Out of curiosity, why do you think so? I've used fingerprint sensor from both front and back, and I find back more natural (my fingers usually rest on the back of the phone).
I just looked up where my water supply is sourced from, and it's 30 miles. I don't live in a desert, or anything close to it.

I presume you feel the same about power? Again, I looked up my closest major power source, and it's a nuclear plant about 30 miles away the other direction.
Small nitpick: Touch ID was introduced in the 5s.
Your feelings don't matter. The political viability of a solution matters. Nobody got (re-)elected saying "let's tax granny."

Moreover, granny might be a paper millionaire based on the current valuation of a principal asset but otherwise be eating cat food.

Why doesn't she just cash out? I think the below linked blog post has some insight into how each asset of a person isn't an isolated atom but represents a structure of complements.

For example, maybe Granny can't drive and walks down to the community center every day to help immigrant kindergarteners learn to code. If she moved maybe she loses exercise and a reason to live and her lives and those of others are negatively impacted in ways money from selling a house can't fix. Or maybe, since Halloween is coming up, she is a sadistic cat killer and if she sells her house and moves the whole neighborhood is overrun with feral felines reducing everyone's property value due to fears of cat scratch fever.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/10/sel...
>Additionally, the article that purports current-day Germany as the heaviest anti-semetic place in Europe, with a few anecdotes, mentions Berlin's thriving Jewish population - one of the few places in the world with such an increase.

Isn't that orthogonal? There was a huge Jewish community in Germany leading to 1933 as well -- up to 1940 or so.
Well, I don't have access to the root account to see if these accounts are under the same billing account (but best of my knowledge it is), and the support we purchased is Business.

When I had question related to one of account I was told that I will need to open a support ticket on that account, but I couldn't open because they had basic support.

We contacted our TAM and he just shrugged. If this is true that would be great.

Edit: I checked and looks like our account are consolidated until single master one, although we did not purchase support for the master account since nothing is running on it. If there is a way to not have to purchase separate support I would like to know since it could save some money.
I feel for you, but that's a civic responsibility, not a corporate one.

Civil governments are created with goal (yes I know it's imperfect) of providing access to resources equally. Corporations are formed with the goal of evading individual responsibility for financial benefit. They have no incentive to treat expensive individuals such as the less educated, the disabled, the poor, etc. They only support them in the most minimalist ways legally required and actually spend money to change laws to support the disadvantaged even less.

If you want that area to be better, round up your fellow residents and get an initiative passed in the city.
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The primary risk is in thieves entering your home without leaving any traces.

Breaking through a door or windows requires a certain amount of risk and commitment. If a malicious hacker gets remote access to a smart lock the risk is effectively zero.
At least it's honest: "Here's my solution to passwords. Any expert will say not to use it, but I do anyway."

Okay.
We're way off topic, but we're not disagreeing here. If there was no misrepresentation involved then there's nothing unethical. I've edited my reply to specify. As to who gets hurt (assuming information asymmetry): the users who depend on the service, the buyer that loses their investment, and the employees that put a significant portion of their lives into trying to breathe life into an operation where the founder was only interested in creating the short-term appearance of value in order to flip it.
The problem though is that most children need their parents home before the parent wants to depart theirs.
That's largely because Rekall is a fork of Volatility, not because Python was better suited to the task for both projects. Python is used heavily in security/forensics work so it was just a natural choice for the developers.

I'm not sure what your argument is otherwise. If there was a tool written in C or Rust to benchmark against then we could better argue which is better for the task. I don't think anyone said Python was "failing."
> So surely you're just as angry about the Democrats deregulating the telecoms in 1996 and allowing companies to own entire vertical chains.

Looks like that was a bi-partisan effort, but with more Democrats opposing it than Republicans. Senators who voted for the act: 51 Republicans, 30 Democrats. Senators opposed: 2 Republicans, 16 Democrats (one Republican senator didn't vote).[1]

House members who voted for the act: 236 Republicans, 178 Democrats. House members opposed: 0 Republicans, 15 Democrats (four Democratic house members didn't vote).[2]

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1995/s268
[2] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1996/h25
The million dollar question is how to insert a little more competition?

Do we have our government fund alternative companies? Do we force Google to break up into smaller companies? Do we make laws and regulations limiting what companies can and cannot do?

I genuinely don't know the right answer (if there even is one), but I know that most of the answers i've heard on this have very large tradeoffs and downsides.
I would say that the sort of girl who is drawn enough to something to pursue it, even though it wasn't labeled "for them" (and it being the early 20th century, gender lines were a lot more sharply drawn), is the more intelligent sort.
If there is a way, UTF-8 probably does it, incorrectly.
You need a mental picture/narrative to remember passphrases.
I'm losing faith in our system of government. Citibank did this to me on a credit card I had with them:

1. I stopped using the card for several months.

2. I then used it once on a small purchase.

3. They stopped sending me an e-mail reminders for my bill. (An "error" in their system disabled e-mails for my account specifically)

4. I racked up about $100 in late fees and interest charges.

5. I called them up and they said they'd waive the fees and interest charges.

6. They did not waive the fees and interest charges.

7. At this point, I had to give up and pay it because it was about to go to collections and damage my credit rating.

What recourse is there for this kind of thing if the GOP doesn't allow us class-action lawsuits?
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aren't "bitmapped" and "raster" pretty much synonymous?
I've also seen a similar scheme on this lib. Each release just keeps adding a nine. They're at version 0.999999999 now:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html5lib
Diceware encourages reuse of a single password on multiple sites. It's also much more time consuming than just clicking the "randomly generate password" button and having it spit out a 30 char password. That, and a randomly generated password of, say, 16 chars is much much more secure than a diceware generated password of 4 or 5 words, IIRC. And I'd still need a password manager, because reusing passwords on different sites / accounts is a big no-no.
""Primitive attempts to realise [sic] the dream ... when Wells writes “We then began to humanise [sic]""

Somebody doesn't like British spelling.
Grandiosity is in part how big ideas exist. The important part is balanced with being humble and not greedy - being aware of ego and its potential influence. If Google or its founders are able to pave way for some significant improvement and value for a city/society without extracting too much value or adding unreasonable cost to a society, then it could be good. We of course can't blindly assume this will be the case.
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I recently read the book "Kubernetes: Up & Running" and it was a great resource. Written by Kelsey Hightower it's short and to the point has a bunch of great examples.

As a starter I would get Minikube going on your laptop: https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/minikube/

Then write a small REST app in your favorite language, nothing fancy just something you can easily deploy. Get it running in Docker, and the minikube. Google the problems you have along the way. You will learn a lot by doing this. Now deploy another little app into your minikube cluster and have them start communicating over the clusters network.

This will give you a good start and then you'll know enough to start seeking out more.
I have a Schlage on my house, and just changed the batteries (4 AA) after a year. They read as '60%' in SmartThings, but they were getting sluggish. You could hear that it did not have enough torque to do its job as well.
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If you're going to use an algorithm (which seems like a bad idea), wouldn't it be safer to keep a large secret key and then hmac or hash(key + service name) as your password?
I have spent my first 2.5 years out of college working on legacy Perl code and I cannot agree. Perl is a very nice language if you follow a coding style, and really, any language gets ugly pretty quickly if you don't. There's this adage that "some developers can write C code in any language", and it's probably similarly true that some developers can write Perl one-liners in any language. (In that legacy Perl codebase that I maintained, one of the devleopers was clearly writing Fortran code in Perl. He was doing everything with nested loops over multi-dimensional integer arrays.)
This is a game that is of interest mostly as a historical artifact, anyway, rather than a a game that people should be playing for its own sake.
>My startup is working on killing the password.

Good luck with legacy systems. Bad passwords will be around forever because of ancient software.

Oh, and

https://xkcd.com/927/
Kubernetes: Up & Running would be a good book to start with.
This is different from cities how?

Corruption and self-interest amongst elected city officials, especially in large cities such as Toronto, is endemic.
>small town over an hour from a major interstate.

This is probably why your company can't retain starting grads. Sure, the CoL may be lower, but the vast majority of young grads want something with more hustle and bustle.

Source: I was a young grad who lived & worked in a small town about an hour from the nearest interstate, but moved to a metro area after a year in that area.
You're right, there are downsides to porn as it is, but there is no reason it could not be a perfect industry.

It is because of our barbaric taboos against women who appear in porn that revenge porn has power. It is because of our barbaric taboos that the porn industry is so shady. We should fight those taboos, and fight for the dignity of porn actresses.

These flaws in the industry are all the more reason to pay the actresses directly through Patreon. Why should we get our pornography through shady websites on which there is no accountability as to the origin of the images?
That's one of the biggest pain points.

You look at code and you have no idea what is what. You have to be on your toes ALL THE TIME!

Even when you are editing a method on a class you cannot safely assume that all the properties will exist because someone can come along and create an instance of the class in a non-standard way such that a property you expect to always exist will not exist in that one situation.
When talking about Password Managers (and security in general), I think it's important to keep your threat model in mind.

Is LastPass going to protect you against sophisticated State, or even potentially Corporate attackers? Maybe not. Will it protect you against random hacks and insecure sites better than just reusing the same password that you can remember? Yes.

I generally agree though that this is an area where open source software is preferable. I'm also really intrigued by the work Keybase is doing and hope that it might spur some interesting solutions for web auth as well.
Elect a Democratic congress, like the first Obama administration, who incidentally did not allow class-action lawsuits either? At least this time a bill made it to a Senate vote.
> that the passwords would be recoverable by you

Just click "Forgot password"?
You don't need to take care of every eventuality, just the ones that are most likely to occur where the house was being built. For example, if you were building a house in Japan making provisions to mitigate against earthquake damage would be wise, but making the same provisions in the UK would be a waste of time/money.
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- Family courts

While I would have thought that these would weigh in favor of women, in my experience I have actually seen the opposite. There are many family judges and lawyers that are incredibly sexist and will screw over women in favor of men. And in fact, that is mostly what I have seen in my county.

> ...try and create equality of outcome for women, thereby simultaneously eliminating equality of opportunity for men.

I understand the emotional argument here but I don't think it's valid. Opportunity isn't zero-sum.
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only now do you start to lose faith? only now?

not after failing to enact meaningful comeuppance for the financial crisis, not after endless spying on the public, not after any of the last billions of abuses, but now?
Try to make a (short) story/idea connecting those random words. Stories, something with sense and meaning, are easier to remember. correct horse battery staple is the usual example about this.
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