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The topic at hand is recyclability. You may have not throw things away but it is widely accepted and frankly utterly obvious - IKEA furniture has a short lifespan and it ends up being thrown away more according to the GP of this thread.

You’re circling around the argument.
We have in the past, and we are again, which is just a little ridiculous, and I think everyone can see that.

Back in the day, IBM trialled it with some version of their mainframe and a particular database program, or tried to.

From what I recall, IBM said it would save us in the long run, and claimed they were able to because we hadn't bought the mainframes, they were under a contract. It didn't fly. (Business hint - don't try and fudge numbers when dealing with an insurance company.)

Today? AWS Lambda, and other "function" cloud services, charging for execution time, which isn't quite the same, but I have to feel we aren't far away from someone building their product around Lambda... And then directly passing costs to customers with the same pricing model.
Haven't thought of that. I will investigate, thanks for the tip!
I immediately thought of the htop bug and then she references that in the article. How is this not fixed yet? Like, this is a security bug, right? You can DoS from a simple usermode app with this bug.

Nothing official from Apple on this yet?
> Ivy is a static website generator. It transforms a directory of text files into a self-contained website.

Perhaps a stupid question but isn't that what HTML was designed for? It doesn't even require a generator.
I think the point the author is trying to make is that there may be a connection between the "moral physics" (as she puts it) in modern folktales and the genocidal nature of war in the modern world. It seems like the intent of these stories is to nurture a sense of innate moral superiority in the audience, often for explicitly political purposes, as she mentions with the Robin Hood story. The protagonists in these stories never go to war except against people who are true villains and have no morals at all, so it's as if war draws a line between good and evil so clearly that it justifies wiping your enemies off of the face of the earth completely.

If the point of telling a story is to create a shared experience like a football game, where the audience roots for a certain side to win, then yes, it's better for the "good guys" to win. But why is that the point of stories? If we look at ancient folktales, it becomes harder and harder to root for the good guys, if there even are any. If there is a moral battle, it's between two individuals, not an army of good and an army of evil, like in Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.

It's a pretty broad, sweeping claim to make, but I think she brought enough historical examples to make a strong case. We can't go back in time and ask the ancients themselves.
You can use outputs in CloudFormation to adopt resources from existing CF stacks. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
> Companies are not going to introduce quotas as it reduces their efficiency and thus costs them money

Don't they already do this? Maybe not with direct quotas, but certainly they fast-track women when hiring.
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"The crackdown resulted in Sina Weibo changing their live broadcasting policies to make it impossible for foreigners to broadcast."

It's hard to believe nonsense like this still exists in the world.
When the war ended he was 19 years old. He was 17 when he was first labeled a "nazi" by the security services. 17 years old is pretty young.

At 17 I was, politically speaking, a dumbass. Like most children that age. Not that I even had any identifiable political view that was in any way expressed, but I didn't know shit about politics.

Today it is even worse since every kid is supposed to have opinions on everything, grows up having a semi-public persona while still being afflicted by the stupidity and naivety of a mind that has been barely usable for a handful of years.

I think "youthful stupidity" covers it plenty much.
I don't know much about copyright law, but basically if you state the clauses in the unlicensed license and create the impression that you waive your rights to the software, you shouldn't be allowed to sue without real cause. That is to protect the software owner against ill-willed third parties. For example, if someone has made very minor changes to your software and distributes it commercially. You could sue that person, if you wanted, granted that you live in a law system where the copyright laws don't permit the usage of an unlicensed clause.

Waiving all your present and future claims on a software without any compensation beforehand could very well not be permitted in many legal systems. Law systems such as Germany and many other countries do not recognize software as an intellectual property. Software is recognized as a right which has personal and economic prospects. It is asserted that you can make legal acts on the economic prospects, but your ability to make legal acts for the personal part of your right on the software you've written can be limited. Because it is believed that there are some rights you have, that you cannot freely dispose of. For example you cannot make a legal act to become the slave of someone else, or you cannot trade your life for money. Because of the same reasons you cannot trade all rights for something you've created (~your software).

On the other hand, as tscs37 has stated, the unlicensed "license" statement means that you promise to not pursue your legal rights against anyone who uses your software. But as there are no parties, no signatures, no compensation, this is not a license agreement. This could only be regarded as a promise. You could break it at any moment, change your idea etc. But if you do that without any cause, you could get sued for damages, because of the trust you've implied to the other party.

Again, I don't know much about copyright law. I'm just a law student. But IMHO, you can safely rely on using software that promises to guarantee the unlicensed clause. If the author of the software changes their minds, you might have to switch to using a different software but you can in principle get compensation for all provable costs that this change has caused you or may cause you in the future.
If they didn't participate in writing the song, 0%.
This perfectly captures the problem with Spotify’s business. Netflix has the same issue on the video side and is working around it by producing original content.

However, music is different than video. With music, Spotify needs a full catalog for a great streaming service. With video, Netflix just needs sufficient compelling content to keep the subscriber from churning.
As long as we are talking about anecdotical evidence: my MBP with High Sierra has been running fine for the last few months. I haven't encountered any issues in my day-to-day work as iOS app developer and neither in my home use. I think it's a pretty decent release, though it didn't add any new features that I feel I really need.
It's only undefined behavior if you use regular variables and regular increments. If you use the standard atomic functions/classes with std::memory_order:relaxed, it's legal, and provides what you want.
Could not agree less. Not compared to the alternatives.
Providing a tl;dr: Google provides a jupyter / ipython research environment with some amount of integration to their existing services. This environment they call "Colaboratory". They have now started providing free access to GPU resources from within this environment. Details for using with tensorflow here: https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=/v2/extern...
> pursue the best and brightest

Well, for Harvard (and most other top universities apart from Caltech) the "best" and the "brightest" are not necessarily synonyms.

First, from the viewpoint of prestige, it is better to accept those into the program who don't cut the mustard but have a good chance of becoming presidents/prime ministers/kings/business tycoons. And who has a good chance? Kids of senators, dictators, billionaire movers and shakers, way more so than the politically active 4.0 student from next door.

Second, from the viewpoint of long term relevance, spitting out one student who will endow the university subsequently with a few millions is worth way more than spitting out twenty eminently smart professors who go on to teach in obscurity - Harvard is the best example, even if their marketing goes badly, their $30bn endowment will buy sufficiently many Nobel-prize-winning faculty and scholarships for bright students to stay relevant for centuries.
the repo supporting this example: https://github.com/goldsborough/microservice-rs.git
Existing is not a secret. Voting records are.

I agree that voting records should be kept secret, but information like the location of a house at the end of my line on the Strava heatmap is not analogous to voting records.
The main advantage of a static site generator is it allows you to just write the contents of each page and the generator will insert that into a page template. It means that, for example, a site-wide navbar only needs to be written once rather than added to every page manually.
This isn't a special cased array specialization for 16-bit integers (16-bit integers are so rare that special casing those is not worth it). Note that a standard array is not used in [9], rather an `Int16Array` is being used. Due to JavaScript specification requirements (arrays of different integer sizes can share storage), the ONLY sane implementation of Int16Array is well... an array of 16-bit integers.
Great question. I think their own documentation of it is spot on and gives a honest picture of their core values. You can read it for yourself here: http://ikea.in/culture-value

I guess it’s worth saying that I don’t work for Ikea anymore so my words are my own and not affiliated with Ikea in any way.
Yes, of course it does (as do the rest of the ivys and most elite schools):

http://www.unz.com/runz/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/

Somewhat humorously, if you buy unz's numbers, non-jewish whites are actually the most underrepresented group in nearly all elite universities.
I don't like the name. It's sounds too much like it's the Engineering of Chaotic Systems, but there is no reference to Chaos Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

Are they using the formal definition of chaos, or just a colloquialism?
how can they make it free? Would this not be anti-competitive to smaller companies charging money for it?
Suppose for instance you wanted a static blog. Blog engines like wordpress (or django or flask for python setups) generate parts of the site on the fly as users visit. For instance, you might generate the most recent 10 posts in some list somewhere. This requires some (often not much, but some) additional time from the server as these are generated on the fly.

A static website generator like this allows you to make a blog (for example) and update content like most-recent-10-post lists (also for example) only when you actually add a new post. Thus no additional time is required on the fly.

I might add that there is an extension for flask (which I normally think of as dynamic) called Frozen-Flask which also allows a flask-built site to become a static site. This probably exists for django as well, but I'm less familiar with django than flask.
Yeap! Julia Evans is generally awesome.
A: It almost certainly doesn’t make money.

Since you have to buy the ticket at the theater, they are probably trying to sell analytics re: influencing selection. Good luck with that.
FinCEN is part of the Department of the Treasury, not the Secret Service (which has been a part of the Department of Homeland Security since 2003).
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As I said as you accumulate wealth in Europe it's very likely that you gave a very large share of it back to the government just in the process of accumulating it. That is one thing but for sure there is also a matter of cultural POV because here is counter intuitive that is single persons that should try to fix things like poverty but more things like universal health care, decent schools for free and so forth.
A bare "-" argument has a specific meaning in other unix programs, like "read from stdin". Giving it a different meaning like "no meaning so ignored" is inconsistent and misleading. If "-Y" has no meaning but is not ignored because it generates an error message, then if "-" has no meaning it should also generate the identical error message.
I think it might be that HOV-only lanes need to exist. 270 Has HOV lanes but it's just the left lane (out of minimum 3, sometimes 6).
Same here. My only reboots have been for system & security updates. No kernel panics. Stable as a rock.
In Belgium it is widely known that families where promised more food stamps if they would sign up their sons. This was done by priests, at the local sunday church mass.

This is also one of the reasons there were so many 'collaborators' in belgium - a very Catholic country at the time - , while in fact the main goal was to get rid of the French dominance.

But if you're interested in the topic, Google what the Vatican did those days.
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On a less concrete note, my bank switched from Diebold to NCR and the difference is very apparent to the ATM user. The design is overall clean and bright, and it's much faster. The Diebold has long UI pauses for no apparent reason where the NCR seems not.
That's what AWS lambda functions are doing, in essence.
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In HTML you cannot reuse code or split the code into multiple files without using copy and paste, iframes, or Javascript.

Software like this allows you to create templates and generate multiple pages with different content.

This can be achieved with server-side scripting languages. However, it is slower than static HTML. So if the content doesn’t change often, generating static HTML might be the eay to go.
People who, like me, were taught concurrency at a time when Java had a proper memory model but C and C++ did not (i.e. prior to 2011) should go read the docs for C11 memory orders (used also by Rust and C++).

Writing lockless Rust/C/C++ leads to a bad time (especially on non-x86 architectures) if one believes what's true about concurrency in Java to be generally true on computers.
I totally hope this plot line is going in the next "Has Fallen" movie....
The generation is now 99% automated, and I will try to send the apps as fast as I can.

There's also a paid version, with no ads and other goodies.

And lots of premium features coming soon. Stay tuned!
Thank goodness that Linux is consistent and has no bugs :-)

Ubuntu still doesn't let me change my IP address to a static one via the UI and video drivers still crash or result in hours of googling and reading contradicting articles on how to change xorg.conf

Software has bugs. Operating systems are hard. It doesn't matter where you will go, you will most likely deal with similar issues. Whether it be Linux, Windows or macOS.
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It looks nice, but I guess I still[1] don’t understand the proliferation of simple static site generators. It’s pretty easy (and fun!) to build your own that works exactly as you want it to. And I don’t think a static site generator is suitable for non-technical users. Is there an in-between type of user technical enough to use a static site generator but not able to write their own? Or maybe the proliferation is only because they are both easy and fun to create?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877298

Edit: I didn’t intend for this to sound negative for the creator. Even if it’s just for fun and the chance someone else might find it useful, that’s enough of a reason to build it for me.
how can you use the heatmap to predict timing?
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Cool, thanks for the link.

Also, only someone with poor reading comprehension - whether through rushing or lack of focus - would have thought you still worked for Ikea, I appreciate you saying it for those people though. :)
My 2017 MBP hard locked once shortly after upgrading to High Sierra but it hasn't done it since.
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It's called SaaS. Not exactly per execution but close. Monthly license fees and per core license fees are close too.
I agree. The article is not clear and I think it uses the term “chaos” where the word “error” might be better suited.
If people don’t use it then MoviePass won’t get any data for analytics.
At current prices, the VM + GPU is $0.57/hr, which doesn’t break Google’s bank and is absurdly cheap for usability testing for a new product.
Thanks for the insights. I did "contract" work here in the U.S. for a couple of years because I thought it would allow me to approach software in the same way.

Sadly, I found out that contracting was based on a butts in seats model and was the most evolved attempt at comiditizing software developers.

I've often evisoned doing something similar to you one day where the model approached that of a general building contractor. A model where I work with clients to determine their business needs and if those needs could be met with software. Then we would negotiate compensation for a deliverable. My bid would take time into account but I wouldn't be getting paid for time but for product.
I know what you mean here, but I have to disagree. I see constant over-engineering in teams, and one of the main reasons for this is copying patterns like this way too early in the life of the business.

I see this as a version of Monte Carlo testing - I'm not totally sold on doing it in production, but certainly if you have a load that's difficult to replicate in scale, then this is the type of thing you should be doing.

But I don't think anyone should be doing this from the start. This is something that you evolve into. Sure, it's easier to bring it in if you planned it from the start - but as an engineer, you cannot proceed on that basis. You know and understand stuff has to change as you grow, and the art of it is making (more often than not) good calls on architecture to allow that.
Looks pretty nice for simple static sites. However on the homepage it says

> You can build any kind of website using Ivy but it's particularly suited to building project documentation

But unfortunately I'm not seeing anything about generating source code documentation from docstrings (like Sphinx). For me, that would make it much more useful.
Actually the real reason people throw it away is because it's inexpensive. Is it worth selling my $20 Ikea table? In the grand scheme, probably not. It's not worth as much because it's not as expensive to begin with. Some of it is certainly crap but a lot of the tables and shelves and whatnot are quite nice, but it doesn't mean you're going to get a lot of money for it second hand.
Yes, but binutils is part of the GNU project and is almost universally referred to as "GNU binutils" - including on its own homepage.

So it makes it a bit weird to see it referred to as "FSF binutils" in this release email.
Where in the US have you been watching movies? I’ve never experienced this. The worst I’ve seen (and it bugs the heck out of me still) is people clapping when something big happens, but that is still quite rare.

I’ve seen films in upstate NY, SF, SD, LA area, and beautiful New Hampshire.
You should read the rest of her writing, her work is always a treat to read.
What a great entrepreneur and product guy.

Kamprad should be very proud of what he built.

Not many business owners today start from the aspect of frugality like he did. IKEA is a place that targets everyone but is priced at middle class or lower levels unlike most products today. That goes back to his roots.

Mr Kamprad was renowned for his devotion to frugality, reportedly driving an old Volvo and travelling by economy class.

In a 2016 interview with Swedish television channel TV4, Mr Kamprad said that it was "in the nature of Småland to be thrifty".

"If you look at me now, I don't think I'm wearing anything that wasn't bought at a flea market," he said.

Far away from Sweden, on a Saturday night me and my wife were in line buying some sheets at IKEA for beds we just setup from IKEA, and it was bustling with massive lines. His products have massive reach.

IKEA is quite good at everything they do and are extremely efficient, except checkout on a Saturday but we grabbed some meatballs while waiting in line.

Fun fact: IKEA stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd which is derived from founder's initials and hometown. [1]

The driving idea behind IKEA was, and is, that anyone should be able to afford stylish, modernist furniture. Kamprad felt he was not just cutting costs and making money, but serving the people as well. [1]

[1] https://sweden.se/business/ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea/
Hey all - I was the organizer of the Rare Digital Art Festival, cool to see this on Hacker News! I'm happy to answer any questions about the event, rare digital art, etc.
If you believe what MoviePass is saying, they’re not losing money hand over fist. They claim most people stop going to the movies after the first couple of months. If someone doesn’t see 12 movies in a year, they aren’t losing money. They say the average is closer to 4.
Too bad they're not creating their own coin, starbucks would be a pretty catchy name.
I have witnessed similar things happen. I worked at a company with a very hostile work environment where lots of people were unhappy for various reasons. I was subscribed to the company's Glassdoor page and I would get an email notification when a new review was posted. About half a dozen very negative reviews were posted but Glassdoor removed all of them, if I look at the company's page I see a 4+ star rating with just a couple reviews from the owners and people who were told to leave a review when they joined.
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Many activities in China require you to present your Chinese ID number and/or your ID card. It isn't meant to exclude foreigners specifically, it is usually just an oversight where much of Chinese officialdom can't fathom that there are even foreigners resident in China.
Does this work for Tails? Having a nightmare trying to get Tails working on Sierra.
Some awkward yuppie guy gets friend-zoned by his Chinese kinda-internet-celebrity crush and exaggerates what he did to keep the platonic relationship going.
> Sell 1 USDT for 1.04 USD, keep the $0.04 as actual profit?

Sell 1 USDT for 1 USD, keep the $1.00 as profit?

I think the issue is that it's really hard to assume it's not an outright scam with a straight face anymore.
We started our current project running chaos monkey from almost day one, and a few weeks ago, someone fucked up a tag enforcement script on our dev aws account and started shutting down every single instance, while all of our asgs kept restarting them. So basically every single service from consul to kafka to our microservices was down to a few or sometimes even no instances.

Because we had already been dealing with chaos monkey, everything recovered by itself within a few minutes of the script stopping, and we barely had any alerts from any services going down.

Also, when aws was pushing our meltdown patches, we just ignored all the notifications because we didn’t care about instances being shut down, because they go down randomly all the time.

It’s a pain in the ass at first to deal with, but it definitely forces you to fix a lot of potential problems unless you want to spend all your time manually fixing stuff every day.

Even just aside from chaos monkey, we build new base amis and push out rolling updates daily. That’ll also quickly suss out problems with not having version numbers locked, etc.