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I suspect that most people haven't gotten a decent "birds and the bees" talk, so there is much confusion. If my blog post about "the difference between boys and girls" [0] were required reading we'd all be better off... I tell women about that experience, and they usually laugh because they get it.

[0] http://www.taxiwars.org/2016/02/the-difference-between-boys-...

I was drawn to comment here because of these two paragraphs:

> You can think of crimes as a sort of pyramid: At the top, there are a relatively small number of actions that we can all clearly agree merit the severest sanction, if proven. And then, as you slide down the walls of the pyramid, a growing number of cases that are less and less bad. At the base of the pyramid is a gray area where reasonable people can disagree about whether the evidence is strong, or the behavior alleged merits any sanction.

> What happens if we try to apply the sanctions that are clearly merited for the guys at the top to the guys in the middle? What happens if we try to move the line down until it encompasses more and more of the guys at the bottom?

This is a good analogy, except the drug war turns this hypothetical pyramid into something more like an hourglass. Drug war sanctions are applied to people who haven't hurt anyone but themselves.

A week ago I learned my "Who Are Your Lifelines" [1] passenger was back in jail. I determined that his next hearing was today, so I went. The arrest warrant was 2.5 years old. He was actually doing fine, until he crossed paths with a law enforcement officer ~3 weeks ago. He has a job & some degree of stability. Hopefully this progress will persist in spite of spending the next 30 days in jail...

[1] http://www.TaxiWars.org/who-are-your-lifelines/

edit: another sentence & [0] added to opening.
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Do you consider clarity, maintainability, and readability a "philosophical thing" or a "technical" one?
Was wondering how long until they pull off something like this. I've seen startups (and some established hosting companies) offering cloud and bare metal GPU with GeForce cards - which are far cheaper than the official datacentre cards Nvidia sell.

On the positive side, hopefully this will mean a consumer GeForce Tesla soon, now that they think it won't cannibalise their datacentre GPU sales.

I really wish ROCm worked seamlessly and they had some competition.
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I don't know. Coinbase is sure looking like another hit. I think crypto is a bubble, but you can't deny that they picked another big winner as recently as 2012. And they had Instacart in that same S12 class as well.
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It's using massively GPLv2 code from everywhere (plus XAPI and Xen are Linux foundation projects!).

GPL compliance requires you to provide build scripts.
Just because it is currently like that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. You can still read physical books even after hundreds of years.
Does not, in fact, reveal why they're removing usernames. "It's time to keep up with the times" isn't a reason. You are admonished that your real name is very good; shame on you, your parents spent effort on it! Which isn't a reason either. Don't hide behind "another" (i.e. the last and only) layer of mystique! Not a reason either.

They are all peripheral arguments and appeals to emotion, which might help sell it to you but none of them explain it. That means the real reason is something that will fuck you over in some way.
Each time anything Microsoft Surface I link #nailer's comment from 7 months ago [0]:

>One import thing with all Surface laptops that most people don't know:

>> Support is limited to the country you purchased the device in.

>Eg:

>- If you buy an Apple laptop, and need a repair, they'll fix it if it's in warranty, regardless of where you are.

>- If you buy a Microsoft laptop, and need a warranty repair done in a different country, Microsoft won't help you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14400873
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This is insane. I used okc years ago and met my partner on it but also had some rather unpleasant experiences with people who I would very much rather not know my (very uncommon and easy to google) name.

A lot of people on okc are also in non-conventional relationships that they would I imagine like to be able to choose to show or not show to the rest of the world. Hide usernames fine, but forcibly make everyone use real names? That’s idiotic.
Below 2kg 15" laptop with a 1060 6GB? Hot damn impressive.
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Much easier to fix other people's code if they never got the chance to write it in the first place.
There are no laws against individuals who use VPNs to browse restricted sites, but there are laws(license impossible to get as individuals) to take down those sellers.

VPNs are becoming obsolete, Proxies like ShadowsocksR are still usable.
I had the same impression, very common at least in Brazil, of civil servants. You always read about incompetence and corruption, so, it's natural to assume all civil servants are either corrupt, or incompetent, or both.

It was not until I started giving courses (Zope, Plone) to the IT staff of government agencies that I realized how dedicated, competent, principled, and, many times, idealistic (making much less money than they'd do in the general market takes a lot of determination) they are.

Of course, there are bad apples. It's just so good apples are far less interesting than the really rotten ones.
No. If there are no name servers, there isn’t a zone, and if there isn’t a zone, there is no SOA record.
“Good” startups are definitely much harder to recruit for than big4 — there’s a lot of variance in startup engineering quality.
Cryptokitties is an important step. It's helping to normalise the discussion around crypto, showcasing a different example of value exchange based on it, and making people comfortable with that style of transaction.

It's like Snapchat's dog-face filter is the normalising step for AR, you need the small, novel things to move the needle.
It has only 16GB of RAM like the MacBook Pro!!!
Use a proper whois command which has all this configured. Note: may be difficult to achieve on macOS.
One wouldn't need a 100x if one hadn't over-funded all the bad bets.
"You could probably save on reusing the video footage of another parking lot, instead of using actors."

Live or recorded video footage from somewhere else can be spotted as fake (car license plates, distant shop signs, different weather conditions, etc) and recorded footage will also eventually wrap around revealing it's recorded. It all depends on what they need to accomplish.
You, and I, consider it a minor technical point, but they do not. In some cases it is important enough for them to have not married despite over a decade of being together. Again, that should be food for thought.

The implication does not exist unless you want to put it there. I even added a second, longer sentence to emphasize that being against a particular law is not the same as being against gay rights. The fact that you insist the implication is there despite all that is precisely my point.
If only it had come with a 32GB of RAM option then this would be my dream laptop.
Convergence, or at least consistency and order, of Runge-Kutta methods is shown via Taylor series, so I don't see the problem or why the GP is only "Almost" correct.
I mean this is crashing now, but at some point it will go back up. Blockchain technology will continue to make people in high places very mad. It's here to stay. Is there a lot of money in it right now for the stage it's in? Absolutely.

Blockchains are objectively a better system. If the government pulls a Napster on Bitcoin (and Blockchains), I hope they get whatever is coming to them. Napster -- it had its problems with fairness and ownership, and a reasonable case could be made as to why it hurt creative producers. But Bitcoin/Blockchains? Literally no case can be made as to why we have banks when we have Bitcoin. It helps everyone except the people in charge of the inferior systems.

For example, what happened with Slavery? There was a lot of old money in Slavery and at some point we had to be like "sorry guys, your system sucks". Of course, that ended with war. But at the end of the day, we are in a better system. I can proudly say "slavery is disgusting" without fear of being hurt by the government.

Today we live in a time of financial slavery. A time where certain people get to control our money and thus our means. When will we be able to say that "banks are disgusting"? I am waiting for that day.
I've noticed this too, SCMP and a bunch of other Chinese cloud-hosted websites don't load when I have my VPN turned on. The Great Firewall works both ways these days. I would stay far away from Chinese cloud services unless they're to be used by Chinese users only.
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The fact you think this makes Microsoft's TLS library (SChannel) "horribly broken" doesn't magically mean I get a $10k bounty award. Microsoft considers that if you put a cert which lacks CA:TRUE into your local trust store you must know what you're doing and want to trust it as a CA anyway. They're entitled to whatever opinion they want, and don't have to pay third parties just because somebody on HN disagrees.

Now, if you want you can argue that Blizzard weren't to know this would happen. And that, depending on what else they've done this might be safe anyway, but I wasn't commenting on either of those, only pointing out that SChannel doesn't care about basic constraints on trusted roots.
When you have dominance, and most of your users want to use Chrome, as developers you will tend to use Chrome to compare to other browsers. “I wish Firefox has this feature” kind of statement.

This is natural. Whether it is urban architecture to medical practice, someone’s idea dominated the rest, and we use the dominant one as reference and as a tool for comparison.

This is called competition.
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I find myself thinking of a line regarding early computer games development.

About how whenever game devs got a new toy to play with (faster CPU, better audio, etc etc) for years the games released would be heavy on bling and lite on content.

I suspect something similar happens in other parts of the computing world, and the web has long since hit its tech equivalent of "eternal september". Meaning that these days there are so many new "toys" coming into the web world that people can't help include them into whatever they are making, even if it makes little to no sense to do so in the long run.
Look at, for example, "nmu360.se". It is registered, but has no name servers configured.
CNN's bias is firmly anti-Trump and it doesn't fluctuates in any way, shape or form. You can go to their home page and at any point, there will be some anti-Trump headlines.
It's easier for me: the ThinkPad 25 was the only laptop I could purchase since 2012 so I did. Dream or no dream, there's no choice. And while I don't have an 1050 even (pity!) I do have 32GB and TB3. And, of course, I have my keyboard.
Hey listen, I'm living selling an Open Source product. So I know a bit how it works and what business means.

There is a gap between not posting a doc and having no way to build it because it uses internal Citrix URL to the dependencies. I'll will try to figure it out by myself, but I suppose you have no idea regarding the huge task it is.

This is not a normal situation: you can't brag you are open source but avoid people to build it themselves (that's what happening actually). You need to be clear about that. I have no problem if they remove the sources, at least the message is clear. But telling it's Open Source without providing something you can actually build IS the problem.
Regulation has to be part of the blockchain itself. Trusting a third party (regulatory nodes) is exactly the system cryptocurrencies were invented to avoid....
In that case, IOTA.
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If you buy an Apple laptop, and need a repair, they'll fix it if it's in warranty, regardless of where you are.

In my own experience this isn’t the case, unless you mean AppleCare.

Anecdote: bought mbp in Shanghai Apple store and was informed that it was only covered in China unless I bought applecare, so I bought AppleCare.

Similar experience picking up some gear in Hong Kong one time ...

Not that my mbp ever gave me an ounce of trouble tho!
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I am wondering why MS is kidding their customers with this. I was let done so many times by MS that I lost count.
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Implying that the operating system does not mean anything to users, that is obviously false.
I must have been lucky then.
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Sounds like a perfectly accurate statement to me, in both directions.
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You're 100% right. Even Shadowsocks is not enough recently. GFW can sort of detect it with heuristics and just throttle your whole connection -- like you said mostly spamming you with RSTs.

This is also quite different from (some?) Islamic states where sites are generally whitelisted. With GFW everything is allowed until it's blacklisted.
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I'm trying to avoid a barcode reader "gun", or hanging a barcode reader from a cantilever. Ideally, I just want a flat platform, or something that can hold the box.

I'm pretty sure it should be possible to make a waveguide from properly shaped plexiglas and mirrors, so that you can hide a sensor below or in the side, and have it focused on the plexiglas surface. However, I can't figure out the geometry.

I guess if I actually built the project, the RFID tags would be the best option.
China might be an exception: I bought an iPhone in SF 1 year ago and had it repaired in a German Apple Store after calling the French customer support 1 month ago.
Google's concerns are mostly for the long haul. Get it right, get it maintainable.

Homebrew is awesome, but it doesn't meet the first of those criteria. Maybe the second, but who knows.

Should probably have got the job though.
> That is an oversimplification

True enough, but your point is merely a digression. Nothing you say seems to refute the argument that characterizing the modern Democratic party as the one most motivated by racial resentment is... yeah.

Come on. Republican bang the drum for the culturally scared white vote, and they've done it consistently for over half a century regardless of the fidelity with which one explains civil rights legislation.
He seems like the kind of guy that would be set up to fail at such a giant corporation anyways. Especially if his peers would sneer at his lack of grasp abou comp sci. Getting shit done is not exactly what multi billion dollar enterprises are about. And making users happy is practically antithesis to googles MO. So I think they made the right call.
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Out of curiosity, where do you host your SSR?

AFAIK AWS, DigitalOcean, GCP are regularly blocked. GigsGigs in HK is throttled.
Not that it is likely to matter, but legally this is not much of a defence - you are not the first person who hasn't tried to get around a law by doing something similar. The courts don't look kindly on these sort of actions.
1. Today we have 4 browser implementors. Only one of them doesn't also own an operating system (FF). We lost opera year or two ago. I would argue that a significant factor in this shrinking landscape is the fact that Apple has locked away ~10% of the market forever (and this 10% is not a random sampling - it includes many high value customers). Sure implementing a browser is technically challenging - my argument is that Apple's policy has altered the environment in such a way that there is no longer any reward for overcoming that challenge unless you have an operating system or some other large interest that requires you to make a browser. This will have effects on the web as a platform for years to come.

You are wrong. I get you’re making a political argument because you have something against Apple, but what you’re suggesting is just wrong on the merits.

Apple’s global iPhone marketshare is around 15%; it’s 35-40% in the US.

When the W3C was going to shove XHTML 2 down our throats, where you had to have perfectly conforming XML markup to have a valid webpage, Apple helped form with Mozilla and Opera, the WHATWG that lead to HTML5 and web standards that made sense.

It was Apple that said no to shipping Flash on the iPhone, which was the beginning of the end for proprietary media plugins.

You seemed to forget about the ecosystem of open source developers that have lead the charge on implementing new open standards; Igalia was obviously able to work with Apple (and Google) to implement CSS Grid: https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/2017/03/16/css-grid-layout-is...

Much of the variable font spec is based on Apple’s TrueType GX technology from the 1990s: https://atadistance.net/2016/09/20/truetype-gx-model-lives-o...

Sure, they were behind on several important technologies, but they’ve made a ton of progress this past year or so. I created a Service Worker in the latest Safari Tech Preview that shipped two days ago: https://webkit.org/blog/8042/release-notes-for-safari-techno...

You also might want to check the feature list; you might be surprised: https://webkit.org/status/

Apple is a convenient target for a lot of things; I get that, but I can’t see how anything you’ve said holds up when we take an objective look at things.
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Maybe this is one of those things where they’ll do it for you but don’t make a contractual commitment to it ...

Maybe a way to boost AppleCare sales too :-J
There are a few protocols involved in webrtc. Read MDN’s documentation and go from there. I’d imagine the best place to understand specific details from there would be the browser source code. Check Mozilla’s PRs for webrtc.
Most people would expect software to crash, hang, be slow or somehow leak their personal information. That's normal behaviour for the products of the software industry.

For a long time there have been efforts to ensure at least a degree of quality and robustness through processes, practices and verification tools.
One such tool is a type system which allows encoding requirements and expectations that will be automatically verified with the help of a checker. This is exactly what Instagram is attempting in an effort to increase quality and ease maintenance.

It seems many are wondering why they haven't done this from the beginning. A typical (and probably correct) answer is development speed and flexibility: early stage companies need to be nimble and compromise on quality if they want to survive.
Fair enough, I understand that. We can applaud Instagram's success on the markets, but that doesn't have to mean that they're a role model of technical excellence for building a million line Python code base.

This tool is the proof that Python has significant problems at scale, which is something the Python community has denied for a long time.
They're still doing it in this thread, but the lesson looks pretty clear to me: if you plan on building large scale, don't use Python. Or PHP while we're at it (see Facebook). Definitely not JavaScript (see FirefoxOS).

The founders of a start-up can continue to do whatever they want in the name of success. Instagram at their beginnings was basically a different company from today's Instagram, no one would have used them as a technical role-model. Now they're at best a role model for large Python code bases, but many here seem to be drawing the wrong conclusion, namely that it's a good idea to do large-scale Python in the first place.
Right, but we've had that since the start of the web. I get that Serverless is not a very good name, but there's a reason why it was coined now - it was meant to describe a particular kind of service that appeared recently. If we're going to apply it backwards to any web hosting service where the host was not explicitly managed, the term becomes much less useful.
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Probably, yes. But the gymnastics required to make it Turing complete are unlikely to be in the regime that describes real fluids.
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Implying that Windows 10 is worse, that is obviously false.
> I imagine it’s harder to be open when things are not going as expected.

For a number of reasons, I believe this.

* You don't get the rush of external validation

* You are heads down trying to make things better at the company and blog posts don't help (enough)

* It's hard enough to share bad newest with employees and investors, who wants to share it with the world

* You may fear scaring off customers ("I was going to mattermark but then they seemed like they were going out of business so I used competing project")
The Runge-Kutta methods are not a Taylor series though. So "almost" is apt.
> * Run on hardware an order of magnitude more powerful than was available to the original WoW server devs, meaning that much simpler solutions with far less sharding / IPC / configuration can still scale sufficiently well

well the hardware was never a problem, but the user base.

you can basically run a 100 people reverse engineed wow server on basically a server with 2gb-4gb memory and a non virtualized cpu (a older gen one, dual core probably enough) and you would more run into networking limits than in actually performance issues.

the problem with wow classic/burning crusade/wrath of the lich king, was mostly the overwhelming people, servers took way more than 100 people, and the biggest problem was logging them in, if there was a prime day, all sharded servers could login too many people which overloaded login servers quite regulary.
Yes, 500k of stock (at present value). So $1M.

Tough outcome.
I normally never criticize founders when startups go down because I have been there too and understand how hard it is for the founders first hand.

But please enlighten me. What kind of conversations could have possibly happened before this letter that could justify saying something like "You invested money (or time) and we've just lost all of it. You will be getting $0. But I need you to sign this so that other people CAN get some money. Oh by the way, it's a great news!"

Most common stock holders are probably former employees (whereas preferred stock holders are VCs). At this point I'm sure they didn't expect much out of this anyway, but they were once people who truly believed in the vision. If I were one of those people I wouldn't be happy to hear this fake facade about how this is a "great news". Phrases like this you should only use it for PR you send to Techcrunch, saying you had an incredible journey. But not to former employees who made a lot of sacrifices. To those people you be honest.