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The original "worse is better" essay is on to something, but its conclusions are mistaken. Implementation simplicity only accelerates growth when the product must be reimplemented. Unix was a standard that had to be reimplemented for every architecture, so its simplicity compelled more people to do that.

Mesos is not a standard. It's a singular product. It doesn't have to be reimplemented. Implementation simplicity doesn't accelerate growth. In fact, the increased complexity it foists onto clients hinders growth.
There is a public DNS server at 141.1.1.1 (which I used for connection testing before there was 8.8.8.8 etc.), but I actually do not know by whom it is operated. Whois says Vodafone.
My preferred analogy is with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania : enough fraud can collapse a country.
In practice they work just fine, it's just very annoying to initially set them up and you have to do some patching to get the latest version of tensorflow working with it. I use one every day and I haven't run into any problems while running models with both pytorch and tensorflow.
>there isn’t a one-time-fits-all solution for education.

Recorded online lectures beg to differ!
I was hoping someone posted this, if not I was going to. I installed it on one of my home servers YEARS ago, and forgot about it until a couple years later I typoed "sl" and it chooched across my screen. I howled with laughter at it, and at setting myself up years in advance.
this is the one I always buy at farmers markets in Austin https://lostpinesyaupontea.com/
Picking up things without the boxes allowed them to use bike messengers and/or foot messengers rather than vans, which is a lot more efficient in urban areas (no traffic issues, parking problems, etc.) They'd just put whatever you gave them into a bag and then into their messenger bag. Then they'd hand off to a truck located at a central location that served multiple messengers.

I used them a few times, it was pretty cool and if you didn't have the box for something could save a bunch of time. Unfortunately I think most consumers don't ship things often enough (aside from returns where you already have a box and a label) to be worthwhile serving this way. Small businesses were better but many of them already get discounted rates from UPS if they ship a lot.
The Rust version of "zip" seems a bit odd as it's implemented like a method rather than a function. Little things like make me not enjoy a language as much.
I was taught that Javascript is safe because it has no input/output on its own, which is essentially true, but it's dangerous to work from that assumption since in the real world a program needs to have input/output to be useful.
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That's not what the memo was, it was not a case where "bosses tell their employees what they should do".

It was a case of starting a debate by voicing an extreme opinion.
Using virtual file system layer, where you can model faults is pretty standard.
Thanks - I will mention this site to her.
Fitt's law and infinite width – GUIs at the edge of the screen (2006)
How I despise quantitative commentary via downvotes instead of qualitative conversation.

Edit: It's been a wild ride so far watching the votes go from the initial 1 down to -2, back up to 0, back down to -3, back up to 0, back down to -1 and so on.. Looks like this comment got zinged now too with a downvote. Thanks for the entertainment all. And yes, I'm aware it's in the HN rules to not make comments like this - consider it as peaceful protest for change.
Leadership quality feels like it has declined as I’ve gotten older. When I began my career Stephen Covey was all the rage. Traditional leadership training was a necessity for middle managers moving up the ranks.

Then something changed. Having a softer touch became more important than results. This weird sort of litigation-phobic (pardon my inarticulate explanation) approach to all things took hold. Managers stopped giving clear feedback. They stopped assigning work, merely suggesting it. It’s completely bizarre. Especially when you’ve been in the military and seen real decentralized and self organizing leadership work.

These days as a consultant I go in and basically fill a leadership vacuum at each of my clients. I tell them this too. They shrug and keep shuffling and saying things that mean nothing. So weird. I don’t understand the corporate world.
Incompatible in what way? API? File format?
Yes. Mindfulness is not about just being present during pleasurable moments. A lot of the value, to me, is being present when my mind or expectations conflict with the world around us. That leads to an examination of ourselves, insight, and ultimately growth. This is very different than the withdrawl into feel good moments, which is what is often sold to us.
Newer versions are forwards and backwards compatible with older versions. The compression format stabilized starting with version 0.8.1.
Only if the software you have supports it. For example, Tensorflow on OS X doesn't use GPUs since version 1.2
Not to be flippant but that last option almost sounds like... a democratic government that regulates the market :)
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> If you stop using Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket today, you won't be able to collaborate to projects on these sites because you no longer have a way to do the things Github lets you do.

FTFY

Git works without a website just fine. Linus manages one of the largest Git repos purely via e-mail.

And you can do the same. Sure, Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket is more convenient, but you can just put up a Git repo with a static website that says "send patches to <mailinglist>" like it's 2003.
Five years ago I would've said "who cares?" and I feel the same way now. Twitter, like Facebook and Digg and Google+ and MySpace and Geocities and ICQ and AIM and IRC and BBSes, is a temporary, voluntary and optional waste of time.
I'm assuming he is referring to actually building up Facebook in China. I don't think they have any major presence there. But its a massive market so I'm assuming its on their target list.
A list of more leaked memos:
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> The full article is well worth a read: https://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html

Agreed. It’s notable (among many other things) for its comment in 3.1, ‘Scheme is a smaller Lisp, but it also suffers from the MIT approach. It is too tight and not appropriate for large-scale software.’ I’m always a bit saddened when I see a production system written in Scheme instead of Lisp.

His thoughts in 3.6 are very interesting, too. From his thoughts on method definitions, it sounds like maybe he wanted a language-specified dynamic editing environment. Either way, it’s sad that the Lisp world never came out with a proper successor to Common Lisp. It’s by far the best general-purpose language out there today, but it is not the best possible.
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Reminds me of Orthodox Judaism (other religions may be similar, but it's what I grew up with). Intense debate was highly valued and encouraged, but as soon as you questioned the fundamental truths that the belief system was founded on, you went too far. e.g. questioning that the bible was written by God, or whether God even exists.
What dongle is €89!?
the importance of the ability to calculate and communicate are debatable only by people in total denial about how pervasive both are in our society. should those people really have any say in the curriculum of our children's future?
The other day a barista offered me a tea made from the berries/cherries that coffee beans grow inside. It was delicious, but so caffeinated that I felt like I was on drugs all afternoon.
> If you live in an apartment building, the leasing offices which sign for packages

Somewhat OT, but are these common in US (or wherever you are)? If so, out of interest, what other duties to they have?

In Finland, I've never seen such offices even in the larger apartment buildings with hundreds of dwellings.

Parcel lockers (both public and recently in apartment buildings) are a thing here as well, but they are mostly replacing pickup-from-post-office. Home delivery has always been a premium option when ordering online, not the norm. The network here is owned by Posti so any company or individual can send packages to them, or use them to send packages at cheaper rates than going to the post office.
Email is an open platform, mailchimp is not. This is a distinction your argument fails to accept.
Every experience I had with Shyp was flawless. Very sad to see them go.
There is even a library(in a very early stage) that tries to semi-automatically translate Python programs to equivalent Nim idioms: https://github.com/metacraft-labs/py2nim
Putting aside the whole "why voting disenfranchisement is even a thing in the first place" argument, this situation should have been just

— Sorry maam, it seems like you can't cast a ballot this time due to being on probation. Have a nice day.
I’d presume file format
I would really appreciate it if tech companies stopped acting like everybody's nanny and allowed people to take responsibility for their own actions.
I'm not a web developer but the times I tried to do some web development I found all the things cool kids talked about overly complicated and fell back to simple things like simple scripts on the server side and simple javascript on the client side or even semi dynamic/static webpages.

I always found interesting how the Tcl community solve things, using simple and powerful Tcl metaprogramming features (see beautiful examples on wiki.tcl.tk).

I've done a couple of small business solutions in Tcl/Tk as desktop applications. Now I feel more encouraged to try to develop new ones for the web :-)
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The drivers were great for a GTX 650Ti in 10.8 and 10.9. They worked fine for games like Borderlands 2 and Arkham Asylum.

The drivers are terrible for a GTX 1060 in 10.12. After running for a while, even basic desktop operations bog down to the point of being unusable. I haven't tried 10.13 yet.
When I play devil's advocate I clearly state what I'm doing up front. This smells like an attempt at rewriting history.
Interesting that some people have no lags. I have also used that script, but stutters are still present.
You haven’t mastered the internet, until you’ve also mastered traffic
I think it has more to do with the average amount of time spent at an organization.

I consult for the Canadian government from time to time and I see plenty of great managers there. The main difference? Most people there for more than 2 or 3 years are there for life. They get to see the results of prolonged good leadership and they get to learn from leaders that they trust.

With tech you have random 27 year olds as C-levels at eight or nine digit valued companies (that was me some years back) and there's no way that you have the skill or experience or even respect for the position to do it well.
it is the knowing and experience of no self / anatta. You've been told this and nothing compares to experiencing it as a certainty and truth. That the you you thought you were is not real and never was. Suddenly there is an existential crisis. If I am not real then what is the point? Serious anxiety and horror from this but it passes as a new reality asserts itself. The ego still exists but you're no longer trapped all in there and can see it separate from that which is aware.
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School could be 8AM to 5PM to coincide with parents work schedule, but don't start any serious classes until 10AM.
I was shooting for a simple answer, but perhaps some more clarification would be useful.

I describe C as "simple" in the sense that it's A) not a large language, by specification and B) somewhat by virtue of the former, there's generally a small range of possible implementations of any given problem (which helps C programs have "clarity"). Go is very C-like in that it also has both of these attributes, quite deliberately. C could be considered complex, however, by virtue of the amount of behavior that is unspecified/at the compiler's discretion. In that sense its safety often is difficult to reason about, but C programs themselves are generally easy to reason about. Go luckily doesn't have many opportunities for programs to be "complex" in that way.

C is "powerful" in the sense that it offers programmers deep control over memory. Given that, (effectively) anything that can be implemented in any other language can be implemented in C, with varying levels of difficulty. It isn't "powerful" from the language perspective itself — in terms of expressiveness or the features that it affords programmers — in the same way that C++ or Rust are "powerful".

A lot of the adjectives we use to describe languages aren't particularly well-defined, so some disagreement about them is almost a given. But hopefully that clarifies.
Right. Why play an acoustic instrument when we can accurately synthesize its sound, or use a tube amplifier when we could use a digital modelling amplifier that perfectly simulates it? Because nostalgia is one of the enjoyable aspects of music. That being said, one should realize that paying for nostalgia isn't necessarily paying for objectively better performance.
> while forcing PR people to work overtime

As opposed to doing what else? Emptying bins?

They are employed to spin news for the benefit of the corporation. They have risk assessments and plans-of-action for the most likely eventualties. Their job is to do exactly what they've been doing in response to this leak.
I recommend WSL + WSLtty. It's the same as using Linux in PuTTT.
SaaS businesses operate on volume - they don't make margin by offering custom engineering to anyone who asks for it.
Would you elaborate what you mean by "but so was Hillary"? I'm aware of three incidents that could seen as related:

- Allegedly Sidney Blumenthal urged a reporter to investigate where Obama was born, suggesting it was Kenya. This was denied by Blumenthal and appears to be a misread or exaggeration of an email Blumenthal wrote. (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election...)

- Mark Penn wrote a strategy memo about Obama's "lack of American roots" in reference to him having lived abroad, which the campaign never acted on. (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/09/the-fro...)

- A volunteer coordinator in Iowa forward an email promoting birtherism and was fired for doing so. (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/sep/25/...)

I have a hard time reconciling "very active in birtherism" (or promoting birtherism at all by the campaign, much less Clinton herself) with these incidents. If you've got other references, please share. (Though this is really far off the reservation with respect to the submission.)
My dad was an aircraft engineer. When I was in 5th grade I won a paper plane contest for making a plane that flew out and came back to me (like he did in that video). That was just about the peak of my scientific achievements ‍️
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Not all developers care about VR, and Apple OS never were much relevant on CAD or gaming development anyway, other than those targeting iOS devices.

For those devices, even current hardware is good enough. It is no point being able to produce VR with a level of detail that an iPhone is not able to cope with.
yeah unless they spent it, or hid it, etc... just as easy to get that cash back as it would be to get the criminals private key.
Zstandard also maintain ABI stability for a portion of the API, and require a macro definition to access the unstable parts.
And how do we know this information is accurate?
“We recognize that connecting people isn’t enough by itself. We also need to work to bring people closer together,”

These two sentences in conjunction imply that facebook has a strategic goal to specifically manipulate rather than facilitate human relationships...

What sort of narcissistic pride is necessary for one to believe that one has the right or imperative to manipulate societal interactions as a whole for profit?
Apple doesn't want to release a mid-priced ($2000?) desktop for content creators, as that would cannibalize the market of the $8000 Mac Pro and iMac Pro.

Now they seem to be realizing they're losing that segment of the market to PC side of things, and that people in that segment are often thought leaders. If content creators have PCs, content usually ends up working the best on a PC.
I do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies, and this point is underrated. Cities are great for many things: http://cityobservatory.org/the-triumph-of-the-city-and-the-t... related to agglomeration, innovation, and specialization—including social services.

The TCO of owning a car and driving is also wildly underrated by most people: https://newsroom.aaa.com/auto/your-driving-costs. In cities where a person can avoid car ownership, thousands of dollars can be saved. Too few people really get the TCO of cars.
Right, that's what I meant to say.
True, info for FIFOs can be derived from lsof output, update follows.
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> That being said, Fennoscandia is an aberration. They are monocultures with virtually no 3rd world immigration.

Untrue for Sweden[1] and Norway[2], which have respectively 14.3% and 16.8% of their populations foreign-born. Not all of those foreign-born are from developing nations but developing nations figure heavily in the top-30 list for Sweden.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Sweden#Demograp...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Norway
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Basically saying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue with more words :)
To me, python feels more like writing poetry than writing code.
If you want to get something done, you need to think about who gets to make the decisions and how to influence them.

Depending what it is, speaking up externally might not get you more pull with internal decision-makers? Particularly if they feel betrayed.

Or, maybe a big external stink could cause action? Depends what it is.

It's quite possible that neither would work, and then you've burned your bridges for nothing.
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> Personally, I like Rust’s extensive iterator functions even better than Python’s

Funny, when the rust example that gave rise to the comment looks more or less like Ruby[ * ] but with other syntax for blocks. The writer should get around more and try more other languages.

[ * ] Or any of a zillion other object oriented languages that have decent support for functional looking code.
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Not everything on Amazon Music can be streamed, and some stuff they just simply don't have in their online library at all. The locker was nice because I had uploaded over a thousand songs that I had from my CD library that Amazon doesn't offer via Amazon Music.

Pushing the button means you will have a copy of those songs until sometime in 2019.

When I log in to view my subscription, I get this notice:

"Your music storage subscription which enables you to import up 250,000 songs will expire on April 8, 2018

After this date you will not be able to renew your subscription or upload more songs. In order to continue to play and download your uploaded songs after your subscription expires, select "Keep my songs." Otherwise, these songs will removed from your library. Amazon music digital purchases will remain securely stored for playback and download."
deeplearn.js has been rebranded as tensorflow.js

There are already some cools demos built with tensorflow.js(https://deeplearnjs.org/demos/performance_rnn or https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com)

There's also a high-level library built on top of tensorflow.js that makes it even easier to use some common ML methods: https://github.com/ml5js/ml5-library (disclosure: I'm part of the team developing it)
> DMT is an endogenous neurotransmitter produced by the pineal gland

Has this actually been proven? I’ve heard it repeated often but never seen any evidence to back it up.
> New communities will form. New services will thrive.

The new communities are subject to the same law.

The problem is that the economics of complying with this are entirely impractical. The only choices are to go bankrupt trying to comply, shut down the service preemptively, or not comply. The big services know that so they're shutting down.

The question is how aggressive prosecutors will be about enforcement.

If they're lax then communities will proliferate but they'll all be subject to destruction at any time because they're breaking the law. So everyone is living in the dystopian Soviet hell where there is no rule of law, there are only the whims of government bureaucrats, and all the chilling effects and self-censorship that comes with it. And entire communities will periodically be wiped out essentially at random.

Whereas if enforcement is vigorous then the communities will exist because they'll get better at evading law enforcement by improving security, hosting in other countries, etc. You end up driving evolution to a level of lawlessness that nobody wants -- open murder markets etc.

There is no scenario where this can end well, other than repeal.
It happened while i was meditating for 1-2 hours a day sitting up and then lying down on my couch and practicing for another hour or two. At some point, I looked at my feet at the end of the couch and I didn't recognize them as 'mine'. I felt in to my body and no longer identified with the sensations. Not particularly unpleasant on its own, but it was coupled with a sensation of doom that was similar to coming up on a hallucinogen and hearing news that someone you knew died. The fear and sensation of pressure and stress lasted for about 2-3 weeks, all day, every day. It was an inescapable sense of doom. I did not feel any sense of compassion or joy that I had heard arise in conjunction with my other symptoms. Eventually, the feeling passed. Now I make sure to explicitly cultivate a sense of self-compassion and my 'lows' have been a lot less fearful. I do have a history of depression and have been diagnosed with ptsd so if you're relatively healthy and generally feel okay about life I wouldn't be too worried about such an experience in everyday practice. I also remembering that maybe the event was something meaningful and 'dove in'. I kept meditating in isolation. In hindsight I could have pulled back a little bit. While I have had one or two episodes similar to that since, I understand they're momentary and instead of meditating, I distract myself with tv or something similar.
I got a job in another country.
In related news, poor performance at work tied to work hours that don't match our biological clocks.
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The whole patent issue was the BSD + Patents license Facebook used (they addressed the concerns over React by relicensing to MIT and dropping the PATENTS file).

The PATENTS file appears to be present in zstd 1.3.0 but not 1.3.1, so it looks like similar actions have been carried over here?

I'm left with questions though, because the development branch has both a LICENSE file (BSD) and a COPYING file (GPL).