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> If you have the time to post on HN, you clearly have the time to change your email provider if it aligns with your personal beliefs.

Meh, changing email addresses is a major pain in the ass. So much so that I've hosted my own mail server for decades, including configuring sendmail, to avoid it.

Changing bank addresses (aka accounts) is comparatively easier and there is real money directly on the line, and yet banks still clearly make loads off of account stickiness.

Posting on HN is procrastination.
Here is my 2 cent on why this is the case:

On a general purpose hardware/network adding features as you mentioned, tends to be seriously difficult and tremendously workload dependent. At some point you need help from hardware designers which itself limits the use cases of your system.

FPGA supported databases, In-network SQL processing, Server-less caches (an SSD directly connected to network without OS), Storage systems with mind blowing low energy consumption, ... are just bunch of absolutely amazing research that are being done today. however the limited public availability is badgering.

With mass public usability in-mind, a general purpose K/V system is the highest summit you can really achieve.
No-risk IT experiments with virtual workspaces (VBox or LXC)
> Most people in prison are too stupid for college. A much better solution is to limit college education to a fixed single digit percentage of the population

Missed the /s, I'm assuming.
How I think about Rust lifetimes
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> The vast majority of us, just by sheer ignorance of the contents of the enormous Federal Register, unknowingly commit at least a few federal felonies per year.

Federal felonies (and federal crimes more generally) are defined by the US Code, and almost entirely Title 18 of that Code, not the Federal Register.

The Federal Register is the regular publication of regulatory process documents, most of which is notices and procedural background information; the operational material from the Federal Register is codified in, for the most part, the Code of Federal Regulations (which is much smaller than the Federal Register; while not a perfect analogy, you could think of the Federal Register as the Git repository for the Code of Federal Regulations, with commit messages that usually far exceed the size of code changes.)

The CFR itself is occasionally relevant to defining the parameters of crimes (not all of which are felonies), in that in certain cases Congress has made violation of certain regulatory orders criminal. But it's only a very small share of the CFR (itself much smaller than the Federal Register) that is relevant to that.
Since when is RAND right-leaning? The author must have confused it with Ayn Rand.
I worked at Tesco ten years ago, and whenever someone bought a TV in store, we were promoted on the checkout to enter their house number and postcode. I was told it was for TV Licensing.
I've not seen Pearson sniffing around the healthcare market.
After 18 years of Common Lisp, and nine years of developing a Lisp implementation ...

... I'm 24 years into using Vim and counting!
> I also enjoyed his trollish sense of humor.

I think that makes the title that much easier to understand. I'm an old-fuddy-duddy (for example, I say things like 'fuddy-duddy'), but to me there are two forms of trolling.

One where you're doing it to get their reaction and entertainment when they get it. I find this usually fun - the person doing it has fun, any audience has fun, and the person has that anguish-relief-joy cycle. When you do this to someone, you aren't gaining joy from the first emption your stoking, you get joy when it's found out and that emotion changes. The trolling itself is building anticipation. An example: My wife bought me a PalmPilot (back when those were a thing) but secretly took it out of the package to charge it, then gifted the surprisingly-not-much-lighter box to me. After my moment of feeling like I'd have to wait longer for my new toy (to try and return it) she revealed it fully-charged, and we had a laugh.

The second way is subtly different. The trolls are still poking at a person's emotions. They can SAY the target should get it and enjoy it ("relax, it's just a joke"), but really the goal is to entertain the troll and any audience. The targets of this trolling don't get a laugh. They get anxiety/hate/fear/dread/panic/anger or whatever, and the troll gains satisfaction from that, not from when that ends. Example: Posting political/moral thoughts that you don't have, but that are deliberately chosen to invoke outrage within the forum you are posting to, then moving on to the next once that's gotten enough reaction.

I'm obviously biased, but while I can appreciate the first kind, the second kind just seems to be increasing the misery in the world for a laugh. Laughs aren't so hard to get in other ways. Misery is miserable, by definition.

So if someone is described as a "troll" I tend to be leery rather than eager. When I encounter someone, it's very easy to find EITHER kind of trolling annoying. Perhaps because your brain is trying to fit people into a context/schema and trolling disrupts that. Brains don't tend to react well to that sort of thing. Known friends and family don't cause that reaction.

I don't know anything about Shkreli other than what I've read, but if you say "most hated man in America" and "trollish sense of humor", my instinct is to nod knowingly.
Hahahah, Funny Cat Status Codes :)
It's to keep people vigilant. You would rather people keep their heads in the sand, focused on their Circus & Bread?
I just set this up this week its so easy and works really well. It took less than 10 minutes.
There's a rebuttal for everything if you look.

According to the ACLU 7% of state prisoners and 18% of federal prisoners are in for-profit prisons[1]. Federal prisoners make up less than 20% of the total prisoners. So a minority of a minority are prisoners of the federal "prison-industrial complex".

I of course also hear the rebuttal that public prisons are supplied by private companies. Which is of course true. The government does not grow food or produce security cameras. Perhaps we'll accuse Georgia Pacific of being a beneficiary of the "collegiate-industrial complex" as well as the "prison-industrial complex" because they supply paper products.

I believe our prisons are broken. I believe our prisons are cruel and immoral. But I do not believe there is a vast conspiracy of private interests locking people away for the sake of profit. Nor do I believe that those interests influence our politicians in any meaningful way.

Ask yourself, is it likely that our politicians are completely beholden to an industry that makes up a fraction of a fraction of a percent of our economy? Or is it much more likely that our representatives believe private prisons could, should, or do work?

1. https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privatization...
I wrote earlier about publishing live HyperCard stacks with WebStar -- I wonder if that would run in the Mac emulator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7865263

>The coolest thing somebody did with WebStar was to integrate it with HyperCard so you could actually publish live INTERACTIVE HyperCard stacks on the web, that you could see as images you could click on to follow links, and followed by html form elements corresponding to the text fields, radio buttons, checkboxes, drop down menus, scrolling lists, etc in the HyperCard stack that you could use in the browser to interactive with live HyperCard pages!

>That was the earliest easiest way that non-programmers and even kids could both not just create graphical web pages, but publish live interactive apps on the web!

http://aaa-proteins.uni-graz.at/HyperCGI.html

http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/cgi-and-applescript/1...
This is a muscle that you have to practice developing - it'll hurt at first.

Small things you can start off with:

- Use less emoji's when interacting via SMS or Slack with your colleagues. Indicate a little less sentiment.

- Learn to say no, nicely.

- Stop being obligated into situations you don't want to be part of (meetings, situations, etc)

Some people will say that you're "imagining" these thoughts - that they aren't reality. If you have a high EQ, you may not be, and this may be what is actually going on. Consider this a gift - that you feel like you might be able to "read" people. Also be aware that you could be wrong on this.

Regardless - you can't live your life based on other peoples emotions. Act accordingly - if it helps, act as if you couldn't read that person.

Happy to chat about this further.
You do when you also commit fraud with a 7 year sentence.
Well, you seem to be saying that because the investment tripled, then no crime has taken place.

That's not really how it works.
I bought the ones that are round cut so yeah they are the jewelry quality ones you probably saw. I might end up turning a few into a set of earnings or a necklace or something. It was tempting to get a rod of raw ruby and smash it or something, but it is also just cool to show off a pile of rubies cut and ready to put into jewelry that I am just using as tokens in a mining board game. :D
Toddler locks mom out of her iPhone for 47 years
Thank you for sharing! I probably have the same thing split over a few hard drives, it was a bit hypocritical of me to criticize, I apologize.
What you described is a perfect example of a hacky-fix vs well-engineered-solution. Treating the symptom instead of treating the problem. Our entire society is built on layers upon layers of hacky fixes. It's depressing, but look on the bright side. If you want to make a difference in the world, what a time to be alive!
We don't currently have a free market, and most customers definitely do not know the provenance, relative supply or transport/marketing cost of almost anything they buy. They trust food, for example, because the government secures it and regulates it.

>What's important is the principle of subjective value--that the buyer and the seller value what they are getting more than what they are giving up--and that can happen without the various criteria of transparency you outline.

No, that's important to a market period. A free market is a specific thing.

You need the other things to move away from the necessity of government regulation (transparency, for example.) If you don't know what's in that apple and nobody is going to make sure it's safe, you can't buy or sell it efficiently.
I think Vim for me is solely in the 'fun' category. I mean, actual text editing is a pretty small portion of the time I spend on programming - thinking, reading, and debugging are much more significant for me.

That said, I think that a well-set up version of vim is probably the most fun anybody can have while editing text. I actually enjoy doing finnicky and tricky textual tasks. You feel like a wizard literally every day. That's worth something for me.

I actually picked it up because I wanted a new natural-language text editor, and I figured vim would probably still exist in 20 years, and I don't like learning new things. It's been an unmitigated blessing in this role - and it's also pretty nice for programming, if a little bit more annoying to set up.
Oh interesting! I'll take a look at it.
I'm interested in why that is relevant to the story?

Also can you please explain to me why Steve Yegge is so important? You obviously felt this point was important enough to mention.
He claimed the fund was worth millions when it was really worth zero.
They are a USA company so maybe a National Security Letter or a FISA court order.

The USA now has secret court systems and all USA companies are bound by them.
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yes people use Azure to host all sort of services, OSes, programming languages etc. Companies run Microsoft stuff on Google cloud and AWS too, surprising eh?
How does 1,2, and 4 matter ? Did he defraud investors ? Yes. Was it illegal, yes ? How does it matter if he was a total douche. He would still be out and doing his thing if he didn't commit a crime.
Prokaryotes actually do have histones! Or at least histone-like proteins. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0003683811060020
> I don't think the outcome should matter.

According to the article, "prosecutors had pushed for at least 15 years, saying Shkreli had not shown remorse for his actions"

How come the jury is allow to consider his alleged lack of remorse but is not allowed to consider the outcome? Both are current events
Southern would work better than south. Proper place names which have cardinal pints in their names typically will use South and not Southern. So we have South Africa, South Australia, South Dakota. But southern California, southern South Dakota, etc.
What? Public health-oriented drug enforcement? Who would do such a thing? \s
I have heard that child porn is actually more difficult to take down than drugs because the crime network topology is much more decentralized, with lots of the abusers acting as both producers and consumers. Drug trafficking on the other hand is much more asymmetrical and hierarchical so taking out an important drug dealer has a much more disruptive effect on the network (at least on the short term).
No here's what actually happened.

1. Shkreli lied to investors. Regardless of whether the investors eventually made money, Shkreli put them needlessly at risk, and broke the law.

2. He could have gone away for 15 years, or walked away with a slap on the wrist. The judge sentenced him for 7 years in prison, given the fact that this guy showed no remorse, and thought it made him likely to reoffend, perhaps with more serious consequences.
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I don't know about a year, but usually understanding how things work take time. Understanding why they work this way and not another also takes time. If somebody doesn't take time to learn the background of decisions taken, they are liable to repeat the same mistakes and stumble at the same bumps as have been already passed before and encoded in organization's common lore.

There is something called Chesterton fence principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence - before proposing to change something, give it an earnest try to figure out why it was like this before, and what changed. Sometimes there's no good reason, or the reason once existing is long gone, and a fresh eye is useful to shake out those cases. In other cases, there are complex and unobvious reasons that cost a significant effort to figure out, and may be not apparent to the fresh eye. So it's better to keep an open and humble mind and at least at first, approach new system with the attitude "please help me learn why it's like this" instead of "this looks wrong, let's throw it away and re-do it from scratch". I'm not sure about a year, but at least a month or two would probably be appropriate. And my experience showed dealing with bugs can actually be very instructive about how things work and why they work this way and not the other.
Add to that desperate young people looking to get ahead. They commit a crime in order to receive free education while incarcerated.
For art, exchange "natural" for "authentic."
From the article: Conventional wisdom suggests that cracks begin deep in the roadbed and gradually migrate upward, eventually breaking out on the asphalt surface. Not so, claims Halim. The cracks have already been created by the rollers, regardless of the temperature and asphalt mixture used.

I would guess that the mechanism of action is that water gets through the cracks and erodes the underlayment.
> Two: Google is a massive corporation with few or no competitors.

Sorry, you're saying Amazon isn't competition in ecommerce?
it surely does sound like people are looking for excuses for the guy. it was fraud, and he has only himself to blame.
$6 products from China can be really good quality. I mean, after all, Amazon no doubt gets these buttons made for less than $1 in China themselves.
I'm sure there are some much more egregious and systematic violators of what we consider fair drug pricing and much worse, but they actually have the money and power that Shkreli thought he had to stay out of the limelight. Well.. he was also dumb enough to actually try to get famous on this.
The justice system is theoretically supposed to be somewhat isolated from this by limitations on democracy. But we've sort of morphed our way out of half of those limitations and we're almost getting the bad stuff without getting the good. The system is very prone to mass public opinion, but there's hardly anything any one individual can do to actively participate in the system. There used to be a strict upper limit of 40,000 citizens to one elected representative. Now the average is something like 20x that iirc, which is such a large number of people that it isn't really practical for most people to self organize and get their representatives attention on an issue. At the same time, people can get hyped up about what they read in internet tabloids or are told through the media, and politicians will be forced to respond to that.
Because the sentence was WAY harsher than normal because of 1,2 and 4.

It was a white collar crime. NO monetary damages. And 8 years?? Clearly they sentenced him for 8 years for political reasons
Thanks to the last line in your comment, I forwarded it to mine!
For a practical example, you can try speed test on this page: https://www.lambdaphp.host/ (hosted with AWS Lambda). It does use external CDN for CSS framework (cdn.rawgit.com) so you will have to factor loading time for that as well[1].

Yes, PHP opcache and optimizations don't work since it gets cold started every time.

[1] Pingdom speed test results: https://i.imgur.com/9zg9l3g.png
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how many people get 7 years for less. time the finance jerks get treated like ordinary people.
If he shows no remorse, and he faced no consequences, why wouldn't he pull another scam? That makes him more of a danger.
It's pretty simple. First, that sentence combined personal language with aggressive language. That crosses into personal attack almost by definition. Second, it adds no information.

The fix is simple too: edit it out. Signal/noise ratio goes up and the comment gets better.
>he actually seemed like a nice person. I also enjoyed his trollish sense of humor.

I see where you're coming from and don't want to get pedantic, but isn't as trollish sense of humor by definition at least a little mean-spirited?
Remember this when you end up on the wrong side of the law, and the book is thrown at you when it shouldn't be. Easy to cast the first stone.

Aaron Swartz was eligible for 50 years in prison and a million dollar fine based on his computer crimes. That's fair too, right?

Y'all need some empathy and compassion. People are human, and make mistakes. The punishment should fit the crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Arrest_and_prosec...
I'd love to hear more about what technology was used to make this. I actually have a web port of my DX7 emulator, but I don't promote it much. I've also been experimenting more recently with a Rust code base for synthesis and am considering picking that up again.
Watching children's TV shows in that language helped me :) They're usually educational (though you don't always notice it as a child). Just a suggestion on top of what other commenters have said; it's a nice way to supplement what you know or at least get started.
The old internet adage is that anonymity and lack of face-to-face interaction is what's caused this rude sense of humor to flourish.
> I just don't get it. Who cares what the source of a diamond is?

Women's cultural conditioning and arguably human nature. It being a completely unnecessary but very costly sacrifice to the man is the feature, not a bug. It doesn't need to have intrinsic value, all that matters is that it is an accurate signal of excess wealth.

There are those (like you and your wife) who see past this, which is great, and I hope this trend continues.

I don't know why the equality crowd isn't vehemently against a high and essential cost from one gender to another, nearly unilaterally. (Well, cynically they like it because it affects mostly men, and indeed works as an accurate signal of affluence.) But it would be great, for causes like income equality and the wage gap, if this could be turned symbolic, instead of an actual costly sacrifice which is entirely a burden on men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes discusses the purpose of incarceration in The Common Law [1], and I've found it to be insightful when thinking about what the purpose of prison is.

> It has been thought that the purpose of punishment is to reform the criminal; that it is to deter the criminal and others from committing similar crimes; and that it is retribution. Few would now maintain that the first of these purposes was the only one. If it were, every prisoner should be released as soon as it appears clear that he will never repeat his offence, and if he is incurable he should not be punished at all. Of course it would be hard to reconcile the punishment of death with this doctrine.

> The main struggle lies between the other two. On the one side is the notion that there is a mystic bond between wrong and punishment; on the other, that the infliction of pain is only a means to an end. Hegel, one of the great expounders of the former view, puts it, in his quasi mathematical form, that, wrong being the negation of right, punishment is the negation of that negation, or retribution. Thus the punishment must be equal, in the sense of proportionate to the crime, because its only function is to destroy it. Others, without this logical apparatus, are content to rely upon a felt necessity that suffering should follow wrong-doing.

It goes on from here in great depth. Recidivism as a metric of the effectiveness of prison is not misguided, per se, but is not sufficient. The deterrent effect of imprisonment is hard to measure; the punishment aspect is impossible to measure.

I agree, on a purely subjective basis, that we have tilted way too far in the direction of retribution and deterrence, to the point where we have maxed effectiveness as a deterrent, and have more than satisfied the "blood lust" of the victims of the crime (that is, reducing vigilantism and private retribution to a non-factor).

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2449/2449-h/2449-h.htm#link2H...
Big fan of the app clozemaster. Duolingo was great to begin with, but now seems so slow and has ads after every lesson. Clozemaster has a lot more variety in terms of vocab.

And it offers lots of different languages:

https://www.clozemaster.com/languages
That is correct. You're right though, we should have this. We will add a pricing table and get it up on the page next week.
it was white collar crime, so you know, its like totally not a big deal. right?

speaks to me of a culture problem here.
But then he tripled their money...
Well it's also my first foray into Android development since Google Glass years ago, so not much good source to share. Maybe someday if I get it in a state where it works and isn't too embarrassing, I may open source it.

Regardless it's encouraging to hear that other people find this interesting, most of the feedback has been along the lines of "that's so creepy/illegal"
The simple answer is that no two individuals are subject to identical stimuli. The hard work is understanding what the relevant differences in stimuli are.
> Not having enough parking only makes it more painful to own a car; it's //punitive// in limiting social interactions to areas that have not yet...

Okay, but mandating tons of parking everywhere makes every other mode worse. It's not "should we make driving better or worse" in a vacuum, it's "how much resources do we allocate to each mode". Right now the usual answer to that is "put nearly everything into cars", and most Americans think that's the natural state of things, as if the universe has decreed that other forms of transport are unworthy.