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So something I've never understood, or had explained to me well, perhaps, is ... the value of gold is not proportional to it's actual utility, so its value also seems equally arbitrary.

So what is the issue people have with "fiat" currency? Is it simply because it is created and managed by the government?
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IIRC part of this is because SF decided to switch from a needle exchange program to a needle distribution program. And nearly all of these locations are in TL, SOMA, Mission, and a few in Castro.

I imagine that our lawmakers would do something faster if these centers were moved to Pac Heights.
And do the people you apply this label to agree that they're "violating general democratic principles"? Seems unlikely, and also seems unlikely to generate a good discussion.
Can't macros already do everything templates can? I mean, it would be nicer to have templates, but I don't see why that would be a bottleneck for anything. Someone could probably write a templating macro and you could use that to the same effect.
I don't mean to be rude, but did you only read the headers and skip the actual explanations underneath?
I probably should have considered that perspective. To be clear, I often feel behind on my current state vs HN comments. Was mentioning that, for certain topics, I felt like a big contributor. I don't expect to always be on top, but (very) occasionally feeling like a thought leader here was encouraging.

Great observation, and appreciate it.
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It's what OpenStack has been - "opensource cloud platform".
But yes, I agree, overstatement for OpenWhisk.
>The U.S. is supposed to be land of opportunity, where the belief is that anyone can thrive given liberty and opportunity, and that talent does not depend on the wealth of your parent

To offer an alternative interpretation, I’ve always seen the “American Dream” as opportunity to improve your position in life, rather than creating an entirely-level playing field for all. The latter experiment has been attempted many times in the 20th century in many nations, and the results have not been encouraging, to say the least.

Besides wealth-of-money, many kids benefit from parents with wealth of character, intelligence, wisdom, and even love; the importance of these cannot be understated.

I agree, of course, that wealth has never been more important in determining one’s ability to receive a good education, and that is a major problem. One solution could be to increase funding for public schools... but I am rapidly losing faith in the results they deliver. The most disadvantaged people are priced-out of the market for private schools, and the same can be said for many in the middle-class.

There is also a fundamental problem at play: those not suited for academia, but have much value to offer society, are always going to slip through the cracks under the “must-be-college-educated” paradigm. I want plenty of low-skilled jobs with a reasonable wage available for those who just want an income, while they tinker away at their genius invention in the evening, for example.
Similar but if you try the two side-by-side, you likely like Zappa much more... unless you work for AWS :)
What do you get when you cross an airplane with a submarine?
> The noise that enables remaining stuck is like an anaesthetic.

Thanks for this comment. I almost always listen to music while working, or to online noise generators. Your statement hits the nail on the head – it's an addiction to distract yourself into a pleasant dullness, and I've been blissfully ignoring it as such.
Could you explain a bit more about your negative thought problems and how therapy helped? I'm in a similar situation and am looking at options to help myself. Thanks.
Even if you don't save passwords in Chrome, malware can still keylog you, or steal your password from whatever other password database you use.
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>Transportation is done.

???

A rocket just landed itself after boosting its payload to orbit. Again. (this time 2 by 2)
What "bloody opposition"? Proof please. The fact that we got involved on the side of the Royalist does not prove we oppressed anyone. The largest damage ever done to the population of the USSR was always by their own government, FULL STOP.
This article[0] claims that the shelter system has 1200 beds, and that official figures put the homeless population count at ~7000, while unofficial figures put it more around 10 000-12 000 and the parent article quotes 21 000.

[0] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Questions-about-San-Fran...
The city of San Francisco spends $40,000 per person per year on the city’s homeless population. That was $241 million in 2016 [0]. The issue of homelessness is complicated but is made worse by terrible mismanagement by the city.

[0] - https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor...
Yeah, not sure if you're being sarcastic, but if not: the law doesn't work like that. You can't annul a criminal statute simply by including a clause in your EULA.
That's entirely your opinion. Tennis and Soccer are perhaps the greatest sports in my opinion. Soccer( football) involves tactics and is played like chess, whereas Tennis is about reading your opponent and is incredibly mental
But at least the good ones try, and try quite hard, to avoid collateral damage. Some Social Justice advocates are actually for the dismantling of the presumption of innocence and due process. Some Social Justice advocates effectively argue that their goals are so important, they shouldn't even try to avoid collateral damage. That in itself is a datapoint, as to whether they really stand for justice.
As Graham's article explains, the goal is for your press hit to not look like an ad. I can't be 100% sure who's behind it, but, for example, it fits the classic submarine model if it's Overstock. Note that Graham specifically cites quoting "experts", and down in like third or fourth, you'll see the actual client get dropped.

> With trend stories, PR firms usually line up one or more "experts" to talk about the industry generally. In this case we get three: the NPD Group, the creative director of GQ, and a research director at Smith Barney. [5] When you get to the end of the experts, look for the client. And bingo, there it is: The Men's Wearhouse.

Google and Facebook could easily be considered "experts" in this field, and Overstock is definitely a place that doesn't come to mind when you think "AI researchers". This little submarine might be trying to plant the idea in peoples' heads that OLabs is a place to consider when they're looking to do AI research. You might not have thought of it before, but you might think of it now.

The article wasn't outwardly an ad for them, but it's maybe the only new information it inserted into your brain. The perfect submarine.
Direct link https://boostlog.io/ (does producthunt add any value here?)
Ask HN: Do minority shareholders scare away new investors?
I own 8% of a company - through equity earned via an early cash investment plus part-time work over the course of 14 or so months.

Now my old co-founders would like me to sell back a large percentage of my shares back to the company. Their rationale is that investors are refusing to invest in the company because of my ownership stake.

Is this normal or are the investors that they're talking to up to no good?
To be fair with other solid "on-top-of-K8S" frameworks:
- Fission by Platform 5 https://platform9.com/fission
- Kubeless http://kubeless.io/
- Nuclio by https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio

Not to mention few newer ones (there are over 30 serverless frameworks for any taste and size).
I don't think it's any different from watching a sporting event and screaming and shouting when the team scores a goal. Even if you're all alone, you want to show appreciation.
> For the tens of millions who it intentionally starved to death, worked to death in the gulag, or just summarily murdered

Tens of millions? Intentionally starved? Citations needed, to say the least.
The Origins of the Drone Program
Ear prints as Criminal Evidence
The Ground Space of Babel
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The implicit, undocumented, de facto aim of moving homeless on to somewhere else is to have them die quietly out of the public eye.

A better way to solve the “homeless problem” is to give people homes, counselling, and access to work. This is because homelessness is usually a result of losing a job and thus a house and thus one’s self esteem (and in some cases, one’s mind).
I would be careful with this, my last employer refused to pay for unspent vacation days, and if you put in your notice or thought the individual was likely to quit they wouldnt approve your PTO requests. I don't know if this is legal (South Florida), but all the information i find online for this state say that the employer is not required to pay out your time (varies by state).
Please feel free to include in your comedy CV that you managed to sneak this one past a computer science professor until the third read-through. Kudos. :)
Usually under the headers of perfectionism and anxiety. All or nothing thinking, negative thoughts, etc. Lots of people apparently hate the term 'perfectionism' but it fits quite well as the term is used in the field.

Just a quick search but this link probably gives as decent insight into it as any:

http://www.timeiam.org/perfectionism---the-all-or-nothing-mi...
Sent base64'd to a non-secure endpoint with open RDP... ouch.

https://www.fidusinfosec.com/fslabs-flight-simulation-labs-d...
4 Steps That Helped Me Overcome My Severe Procrastination
Admitting to the crime is a form of damage control. Someone with a clue figured out what was going on, spoke to the lawyers, and determined that the penalties, if any, would be harsher if they wait for a trial before admitting guilt.

That's all it was. They are in a lot of trouble, potentially, and it will be interesting to see how this plays out. I am hoping that charges will be pressed, because this is not the first time developers have "booby trapped" pirated software, but it could be the last if justice is served.
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This is a very interesting project as all our today's processors, even the Raspberryian ones, are multicores.

I assume the author does not want to rewrite OpenVPN from the scratch. Because "Multithreading", "networking" and "cryptography" immediately raises the head bells when it comes to C. People write this in Rust nowadays, isn't it? ;-)
Shelters are notoriously nasty places, and a bed alone is not what these people need. Many, if not most are seriously mentally ill, and need a level of care that isn’t available to people without serious money. Since the 1980’s mental health has been shafted in the US, with predictable results for homelessness and mass violence. Remember that the Us is a country in which a sitting congresswomen and bystanders can be gunned down by a paranoid schizophrenic who was known to authorities, and nothing changes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Lee_Loughner
Can you control those who you label as "Social Justice"?

Honest and factually-based criticism is a good basis for society's self-correction.

Can you control what "they" do?

They can't control what they do. That's quite obvious. You can criticize people on a rational, factual basis, then see how they react. How they react will in turn tell volumes about their actual underlying motives, and how intellectually honest they are.

Take responsibility for making constructive change yourself, regardless of what others may be doing.

Sometimes, "making constructive change" is telling truth to power. It's the side which can execute the witch-hunts which has the power. It's the side which can intimidate others to keep their heads down and their mouths shut which is the side that has power. In fact, the historical record indicates that the above conditions are precisely when telling truth to power is for the good. So long as it's done on a rational and factual basis, it stands a good chance of being for the good.

Here's another heuristic: You can evaluate side X, when someone "tells truth to power" to side X. How does side X react? If X are the good guys, they listen. If X are not good, then they seek to suppress and attack. Everyone who has been paying attention can now ask themselves: In the contexts where they have power, How does today's Social Justice act? (Answer: Often, they act very poorly, then deny they ever have power in any context.)
a fairly well defined threat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
Because you can't print gold.

The fundamental question is: Should we represent the value of real finite things (carrots, oil, land, etc) using an abstraction which is also finite or one that is infinite?

Exponential growth curves can't continue forever. This is the fundamental reason why all fiat currencies eventually fail.
That's what hardware-backed crypto protects against. Passwords on their own is a bad security practice.

A tiny dedicated computer like Tomu[0] that fits into your computer, that provides authentication (and similar cryptographic functionality), with inpedentent input (touch) to receive manual ACKs and output (led) to provide feedback, with no other functionality, is a cheap, reasonably safe, and convenient solution. Maybe unlock it on boot (and after timeout) with a password/PIN for good measure.

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/tomu
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SF spends about a quarter of a billion dollars a year on homelessness.[1] There are not adequate beds available in shelters for the homeless.[2]

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/10/san-francisc...
I really don't know how much of affect on privacy that this will have in practice. If iMessage is end to end encrypted and is FaceTime, will the Chinese government be able to see anything that they can't already see?

What's actually stored on iCloud by iOS that's sensitive besides those two things that people couldn't store in other places? App backups?

I'm assuming that the Chinese government already has access to everything that goes over any cellular network in China.
To be clear, I was talking about tagged unions; TypeScript supports both tagged and untagged unions[1]. My understanding is that "tagged unions" and "sum types" are the same thing, and Wikipedia[2] seems to agree.

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union
-> Is it illegal? Is it coverable by a EULA?

Aren't most DRM invasive by their very nature?

I'm not actually suggesting it's a good idea, but we need more facts than just blanket "oh yeah, it's illegal." How? What statutes? What countries? etc
I think broadly, many movements on the left and right owe some of their language, some of their terminology - to critical theory. For example, media scepticism and the idea of education-as-propaganda were further developed by critical theorists.

So do I think cultural appropriation as a term owes anything to critical theory? Yes.

Do I think a broad swathe of terms used across the political spectrum owe anything to critical theory? Yes.

Do I think a critique of critical theory necessarily undermines any of these other terms? No.
US infant mortality rates in 2013 were the highest in the developed world

This is a common stat thrown around, but there is a non-obvious caveat. How this is counted differs between countries (even different in different EU countries). Wikipedia has a pretty good summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality
Individually, both of these posts are fine; but together are problematic.

So either this is a troll, or it's an example of someone so "ideologically possessed" they think they're justified to lie in pursuit of their goals.
What level of urbanization is your neighborhood?
Cool quote, added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup :)
You could be right, but I see a problem in that you could just as easily be wrong. Worse, if I apply your standards to many other articles, I’m capable of obtaining the same ambiguous results.
>Some of the most explicitly social justice-oriented societies ever to exist were the communist regimes of the 20th century.

This is exactly my sentiment. SJWs are the new bolsheviks.
You can't really look at history in a compartmentalized manner like this, or rather, I guess I'm arguing that your "maybe" is closer to "probably not". If we're going to explore hypotheticals, it is very likely that without the harsh policies of forced industrialization in the USSR at the hands of Stalin that Russia would not have been in a position to resist Nazi Germany. Which would spell a worse fate for Eastern Europe at the hands of the Nazis (extermination, enslavement of the Slavic races, etc), not to mention a much bigger problem for the rest of the world in terms of dealing with Hitler.
During silence, the brain consolidates, much as muscles strengthen after exertion, not during.

This consolidation consists in making information fit together "better", by seeking patterns and other redundancies - resulting in both compression and insight. A role also assigned to sleep.

It's more basic than intellectual consolidation, but things like the concept of a chair. (Not the philosphical concept of a chair, but some particular person's actual concept).

But it also explains why we have spontaneous insight when disengaged, e.g. in the shower.
China is trying new ways of skimming housing-market froth
I can relate. I've probably tried the vast majority of the motivation 'hacks' recommended by the other posters in this thread with varying amounts of success and failure.

The #1 thing I think that anyone in this situation, or any self-improvement challenging situation, should do is to understand themselves fully - what makes you tick, what do you like, dislike, etc.? Beware: this is not a 5-minute task; we could be talking years here. Once you feel like you have a handle on it, or along the way, try out different approaches. (As much as I love the word 'hack', I really shouldn't call them that because you could very well be using it indefinitely.)

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For me personally, one thing that I've never truly tried is a commitment contract. I've long known about services like Beeminder and StickK, but I never actually fully tried one (where you commit with real money). That changed recently when I discovered a framework for classifying people called The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin.

Folks like us mostly fall into the category of "Obligers", people who meet outer expectations, but struggle to meet expectations they impose on themselves. And one way to beat that is to create parameters (like a commitment contract) that force you into action.

I recently (~6 weeks ago) created a goal on Beeminder and after falling off the wagon tout-de-suite and having to pay up ($5 initially), I haven't derailed since (my current penalty is $10). I know, not an earth-shattering amount of money, for some reason it's keeping me honest.

It's probably too early to tell if this is going to work long-term, but even this feels longer than I've stuck with other methods. I encourage you to check out Rubin's blog posts, interviews [1, 2] and/or podcasts. There's even a book and a quiz, but I learned enough from a single interview to get started.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/gretchen-rubin-the-four-tende...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2017/09/12/gretchen...
Hard work is not a virtue and only a necessary evil. I think the human has never been evolved to work as we do today.
We experience stress very often at work, but stress mechanism has been evolved to literally save your life when you need to fight or flight. Your mind naturally holds you back.
No it doesn't. Want to secure the role so the other actress doesn't get it?
What I said, doesn't apply to Weinstein types
Adding a JIRA Kanban board has hugely improved my team's daily standups. Workflow goes: Backlog ⮕ Prioritized Backlog ⮕ Doing ⮕ Ready For QA ⮕ Doing QA ⮕ Ready For Release ⮕ Done, and there's a quick filter for each team member that will show only their tasks, as well as a major release filter.

In standup we have the board on a large screen and filter through by person. The difference is night and day. Standups have gone from vague "uh yeah I'm working on some 1.2 features" to snappy, concise updates that help focus the person on their daily tasks. You can see the switch flip in people's eyes as soon as their tasks are up on the board.

Project Management has essentially been reduced to prioritizing new tasks into the pipeline. It's wonderful.
Have you considered Kotlin? It does address specific pain points of Java, such as extension methods.

That said, I personally don't think Kotlin went nearly far enough, and some of their design decisions are questionable but if need to be in the Java ecosystem it's a nice choice.
You could carry a defibrillator with you.
This reminds me a lot of how we've discovered that dinosaurs had feathers.

I wonder how long this imagery will take to come into public consciousness, both painted sculptures and feathered dinosaurs. Popular culture doesn't seem to be catching on, the new Jurassic Park movies still have scaly dinosaurs and I expect that any new Ancient Greek or Roman movies will have white statues. I think it makes people uncomfortable to discover that they've been visualising something wrong their whole life.
I personally feel that taxation shouldn't even be that debatable in the legislature.

How it should be is just covering the cost of a moving-average window for the previous x amount of years of spending mapping according to a integration across income.

It's nonsensically inefficient to debate on taxation without consideration of spending, and vice versa.
Anyone reading this Nautilus article should also read the counter-point article from 2016

http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/noise-is-a-drug-and-new-york...

Lewis Black, a comedian, couches his praise of noise in a cynical one-liner, noting dryly, “The reason I live in New York City is because it’s the loudest city on the planet Earth. It’s so loud I never have to listen to any of the shit that’s going on in my own head.”
30 years ago were people similarly advocating for violence or conducting violent protests, which people at the time didn't see shared or upvoted, thereby creating the perception today that there's some huge rising problem when in fact the only thing that has changed is the availability and visibility of material?
I thought it was funny and unique. Don't worry about people who can't get with your style
There are not adequate beds available in shelters for the homeless. There are not even adequate shelters for the homeless. The shelters are not always even safe places to be if you're homeless. Nor are the shelters that exist adequate substitutes for mental hospitals that a portion of the homeless population should be housed within but can't be because they don't exist.

If you're homeless, there are worse places to be than San Francisco and not many that are better, certainly none that I could think of. Maybe Salt Lake City? That said, there aren't any good places to be homeless in America, only comparatively better.
Look up Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CRISPR cancer therapies are in clinical trials in China, with American and Europeans trials starting in the next year.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609722/crispr-in-2018-com...

https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-therapeutics-plans-its-fi...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-unhampered-by-rules-races...
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