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> “Jerk” is a pretty mild word to express dissatisfaction.

I certainly wouldn’t defend it. It’s not toxic because “jerk” is a bad or particularly strong word by itself, it’s toxic because calling someone a jerk is a personal attack, and it’s a judgement call that is purely mean spirited and doesn’t address any concerns. It doesn’t explain the frustration, it’s escalating things in a negative way, and it’s an insult. That is not a socially acceptable way to express dissatisfaction.
Great read. Looking back I’m so glad I chose to go with the in-state public school in my home town for a CS degree. I am looking at graduating in a year with zero debt and some good career prospects.

Makes me shutter now to think I was considering out of state $40-50k per year universities. I was 17 years old and in my undeveloped head I was really thinking it would be worth it..
By "agree with the content", the author clearly doesn't means "believe that the content is factually incorrect", rather that they disagree with the viewpoint expressed in the story.
I cant believe people are still taking and using technologies from 2017 /s

To be fair this thread is also a testament to the sad state of affair in the container industry. How can you even chose a technology confidently? It seems even more madness than the JS world.

Sometimes I feel like a dinosaur with my Vagrant boxes and my dedicated server. With threads like this I feel great.
If Amy steals from Bob, is it partisan to say Amy is at fault? Should we lie and pretend that both are equally at fault? How do we talk about the situation without being "partisan"?
I have to admit, it was a fascinating video. The precision of the helicopter pilot is amazing. Just one wrong move though and both are dead. Surely there's a less risky way of doing this?

How did the lineworker and helicopter not get electrocuted? Is it because they attached themselves to the transmission line, similar to how a squirrel doesn't get electrocuted? Or were the lines taken down or something (I find that hard to believe but maybe). At those levels, if they were at the same voltage as the lines, isn't there still a risk of arcing to another line?
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You had me with your take on "good intentions". You lost me with bringing Trump into the discussion.
The fact that these people believe that their current system of government is better - i.e., that the result of a democratic election would be to avoid democracy - should cause us to worry if the same effect is at play when people who have lived their whole life under a democratic regime say that their current system of government is better, too.
If this impacts the total time to make each car, wouldn't that impact your production volume? It seems weird that something that should make you slower is what allows you to hit your target? Unless they're saying the target doesn't take this into account -- which would just seem stupid.
Yeah but you don't start by announcing the cheap card. You announce the expensive one and then lower the price.
This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing, how do you handle increases or changes in activity during a sprint?
Democracy is good because it basically allows for a peaceful revolution if a populace is dissatisfied with its government. Democracy is bad because the government risks enduring endless bickering and nothing getting done.

Etc, etc. I don't know what the right answer is anymore.
I'm going to guess that a lot of truly trustworthy right leaning people are going to get worse scores than they should because they don't believe in the left wing dominate media's narratives.
>If they gave the people what they wanted then everybody (and nobody?) would be elites, right?

You can have an elite (in wealth/earnings) and still have a voting system that reflects the majority's wishes.

In fact, unless you can balance those two you don't have a democracy -- at best you have a bastard system where elites buy influence (and not outright, that would still be up to the people "selling" their vote: they buy it though political favors, gerrymandering, mass media influence, etc).

>And since Brexit was brought up, can you think of any huge promise that was made in order to get the vote but won't be kept?

Many. EU's history is full of people voting against EU policies, even directly and overwhelmingly in referendums, (France, Ireland, Italy, etc) and then getting ignored by their representatives.

Even with Brexit the whole concern from day one after the shock that despite the whole "you're ignorant/you're doomed/this is the end/the sky will fall/TINA to the EU" campaign people still voted for it, the first concern openly expressed was how to annul it or make it so that it's followed in letter but in practice everything remains the same.
Came for the video, stayed for the comments.
On our CI server, I setup an apt-cache container, and have a 'base' image derived from bitnami/minideb that sets the container's apt proxy to apt-cache. There's also Squid for HTTP caching, Archiva for Java artifacts, and Devpi for Python ones. So, sure, changes will require re-downloads, but they're pretty fast since everything's local. For getting multi-stage builds to work nicely, I just use a Makefile, defining separate targets for 'builder' images and 'runtime ones', and COPY artifacts from the former into the latter to form the final application images.
The money from the Wellcome Trust will undoubtedly still be funding cancer research, it just won't have a bully at the head.
that basically proves my original point that he is not well-intentioned.
Why does MIT Tech Review insist on an incognito-hostile and tor-hostile mechanism to try to limit free views (to 3/month)?
A problem with fantasy worlds is the escapism is mild, and I develop something like tolerance to it. The tolerance effect makes finishing very long fantasy books / trilogies slow, since it causes me to put them down in the middle if the story slows down at any point.
Once I've put it down for a few days, the mild escapism isn't enough to pull me back and I start losing touch with the characters and plot. I experience something like that with video games as well.
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If you want to understand how Russia works, there are plenty of international sources.

"How Russia won the World Cup" by the The Guardian[1] is a one of them.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/14/how-russia-won-...
I don't know about "just fine". I think its benefits outweigh its problems. I need to stay in touch with my team, and I need those integrations.

But even simple stuff like "send when internet connection is back" isn't there, like what WhatsApp has.

It also doesn't load very fast for something that you'd think is mostly text. Change teams and you see the spinner a lot. Also when you've come back to WiFi it seems to take ages to get your updates.

A lot of these things seem to be "fixed" by killing the app and restarting, which is something of a smell.

Also seems to use a lot of memory. Not a huge problem on my machine, but I like elegance.
I’m not sure I can envisage any situation where I wouldn’t be chipping away at point totals like a particularly needy Product Manager
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I don't think she means to express surprise about this, just pointing out what problem the credibility score addresses.
When you are a digital addict, it is no surprise that you cannot sustain focus and attention. "Deep reading" is going to seem like a chore when your brain is craving the dopamine hits it's used to. I've had a lot of success using apps to limit my computer usage, like Cold Turkey (no affiliation). I can block specific sites, apps, or freeze my whole computer on a schedule. Would recommend it, let me know if anyone knows of a libre alternative though.
This is silly. We don't have to have Twitter, Google, CloudFlare or Facebook in our lives. We can live perfectly happy lives without them and they can be replaced by other companies as quickly as they were created by Twitter, Google, CloudFlare or Facebook. Electricity and phones are two physical services that we really need and can be ran by any company. Cable television is regulated because cable companies need right of way on telephone poles and under the streets, which is owned, more or less, by the city, county, state or federal government.
> The goal is to incite and inflame partisan distrust and anger in order to foment political paralysis

This is arguably the similar goal of hyperbolic reporting about the effects of Russian influence and the frequency of these stories in the news cycle
If a top scientist bullies many other scientists working under them and drives them away from their field, leading to fewer great minds working on important problems (like cancer research), science loses far more in the long term than if one scientist loses a grant (that presumably is now going to another scientist working on cancer research).
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This is one of the best reviews I've ever read. Not only does it capture the essence of the game well, I'm not sure I would have enjoyed Shenzhen I/O as much as I do if I hadn't read the review first.

If I could only use one paragraph to describe Shenzhen I/O, I would use this quote:

It distills programming down to the fun parts, removing the inertia, self-inflicted complexity, overhead, uncertainty and drag of real programming. It’s just about coming up with clever tiny algorithms and micro-optimizing the heck out of them.
A rational need for democracy for you would be so that I don't govern you according to my wishes.

A rational need for democracy for me would be that you don't govern me according to your wishes.

A rational need for democracy for the uyghurs would be that Xi Jumping doesn't govern them according to his wishes.

I've always understood this to be what is meant by democracy is the worst form of governance, apart from all the others.
>You are advocating for the marginalization of minorities if popular opinion is that minorities should be marginalized.

That's part of democracy. Whether they should be marginalized or not is up to the culture, not to the political system.
The pressure to fork Docker went away over the last year with the development of podman[1] and buildah[2].

There's some interest in the idea of wrapping podman/buildah into something that can be consumed by Windows and Mac users in a similar fashion to how Docker is right now. But it'll take some time to pull that off.

[1]: https://github.com/containers/libpod

[2]: https://github.com/projectatomic/buildah
A top scientist working with cancer research, losing a grant because of bullying.

Someone must have some really twisted priorities to consider cancer research so meaningless.

Sure, the bully should get corrected, but through normal corrective measure such as calling her in for a meeting. This is just absurd.
Yes, most definitely. They still have to be careful about that. I expect it's an easy thing to avoid unless you're working on an inside conductor.
Those with an intellectual and/or engineering bent (myself included) often make the mistake of assuming people can be purely rational. If people were purely rational, you might be able to make a case for this type of benevolent authoritarianism. But every human is always flawed, power corrupts, etc. Despite all its problems, some form of democracy is the only (known) way to truly hold those in charge accountable when they inevitably become corrupt.
There isn't a less risky way of doing this. This is actually safer because there is no contact with ground, removing the voltage potential (which is also why they make contact with the line, to keep the voltage potential as close to zero as possible).
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This is absurdly myopic. The only way it's 100% along party lines is if you ignore EVERYTHING else that happens in politics except the issue of Russian influence in the 2016.

I could go on and on citing examples of both parties doing absurd things, but you've already indicated you're done with this thread so I won't cut into your Rush Limbaugh listening time and won't mention anything about birth certificates.
I broad-strokes agree with most of what you wrote (and we appear to agree on the main topic), but I did want to make one small correction:

> Your linked wikipedia section quotes Stallman and Lessig, as well as economists who would prefer the more descriptive term "intellectual monopoly", all objecting to to property's false implication of scarcity.

Stallman does actually believe that the term "intellectual property" to group copyright/patent/trademark/... laws is intentionally deceptive and causes confusion[1]. Personally I don't quite agree with all of his arguments, but he does have a far more radical view than the others mentioned in the article.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html
Are you saying that the ends justify the means? I think that's a dangerous frame of mind. Do you think these scientists will be putting their best work forward in a hostile work environment? Do you think they will have enough mental capital to focus on doing good science when they are spending part of that mental load on worrying about being bullied?
Long articles are fine but -- remember five-paragraph essays from grade/primary school? Good, because many online journalists seem to have forgotten them.

The thing about the five-paragraph essay is its structure scales well to longer articles. You state your main idea up front, then spend a bit of time elaborating on that main idea, then you wrap up. Online articles are like -- they pick a source, say, a college professor or someone with a new book out. Then they spend half the article or more talking about their source's early childhood, failed marriage and/or relationship with their dog, anything that might have a loose tenuous relationship with the main idea. THEN they hit you with the main idea, then they pad out their essay with quotes from the source, whom by now you have "gotten to know". It's infuriating, but I guess the idea is to tease a main idea with the headline, then keep you slogging through barely relevant detail long enough to show you quite a few ads before wrapping up with stuff that relates what was teased to you, even if the body doesn't justify the headline. Clickbait, in other words.
The other end retrying until it gets what it wants will dramatically change its usage pattern in ways that may be easy to detect unless they have an enormous store of IPs to connect from.

There are enough suggestions in here to provide a bunch of useful options, and while the site itself may not be making money, the experience dealing with this may be very useful on a resume or for building a client base with similar issues.

Possible approach: look for abnormal usage patterns to ID opponent systems. Randomize format and possibly other steps to assist that. Build that randomization in marginally effective ways that are easy to improve later. Build a way to feed bad/poison/"test" data to specific source IPs. At a time chosen to maximize impact, start feeding poison data to the suspect IPs using the marginally effective randomization, while feeding regular data to most visitors but with much improved randomization. Basically make your opponent's site visibly unreliable.

If you feel particularly vicious and know something about the opponent's infrastructure, make the poison vicious e.g. feed SQL injections. Be aware that this may have costs - you'd likely be fine on a legal basis ("I'm not responsible for their crappy sanitizing of inputs they shouldn't have had anyway") but you might still incur costs (lawyer if sued).

Edit: also, anyone going to serious measures to continue scraping after you act against it may also be inclined to ddos your site if you actually fully block them.
I saw a crew like this at work once. No idea what they were working on, but they were doing it to lines that crossed over the highway I was driving on. I was moving at highway speed, so my mind didn't really have a chance to boggle until I was already past. Those helicopter pilots must have a very steady hand.
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A POV video of a timed lineman training exercise: a lineman climbing an overhead power line H-structure, hoisting up a ladder, using the hoist to pull himself and the ladder out on the arm towards the insulator, then hoisting up the line to swap out the insulator.
This is an oft-repeated platitude that isn't actually true. Do they have some troubling aspects in common, yes, but their differences are so vast that to regard them as the same as absurd.

https://bothsidesarenotthesame.com/
Anti-poaching is pretty hard to enforce generally though I've heard of ex-employees systematically trying to recruit ex-coworkers being told to knock it off. (I'm guessing it would be hard to do anything besides scare them off a bit though.)

But I'm thinking more of non-solicitation in the vein of calling your entire client list and trying to get them to move. That's much more broadly enforceable.
The points system reminds me a lot of the Weight Watchers system where foods have roughly assigned point totals.
There are still people there with power/influence. Hacking the election won't do you much good, but manipulating those people certainly might.
I want to run for office in the Washington state legislature on this issue. But I expect that would draw negative attention from Amazon, Microsoft et Al. You'd have to be in a race where you have an excellent shot before drawing recruited opposition.
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Hopefully the institution will support Mrs Rahnan's graduate students, postdocs and technicians. Not only did they suffer while working with an abusive advisor, they are suffering again because a lot of funding went away.
Come on, the Song of Ice & Fire books are particularly long, but you're still comparing an entire series with a single book. Dune is a series too, and I'll argue that the quality drops off much more sharply after the first one than ASoI&F does.

For what it's worth, in SF & Fantasy short fiction is still hanging in there:

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com
http://dailysciencefiction.com
http://www.analogsf.com
> Truth is that, right now, in 2018, we can get rid of the hacks, libraries, polyfills and everything else needed to support old browsers

Oh how I wish that was true
also id add--regarding picking partners--one thing to be aware of is how your partner treats others--as nice as he/she treats you initially (whilst trying to recruit you) keep an eye on how he/she treats others he is not trying to recruit, because at the end of the day, that will ultimately determine how he/she will treat you. I overlooked these red flags to my detriment--and as soon as our company got required my CEO (who did next to nothing) sold our company's IP (which I as the CTO and only software engineer wrote alone) and cut me out --leaving me with nothing except the distinction of having sold a startup--while he pocketed all the profits, earned that distinction and went to business school (with all the other twats who train to do the same thing). For all the technical founders out there, do not join a business founder without vetting him/her in a variety of situations and trust his/her heart with your destiny.
As an actual person employed as a designer and developer, I find articles listing arbitrary design rules very strange indeed. This is like someone enforcing you to use a coding style before you've even learnt the basics of programming.

All these rules will do is ensure you create a website that looks mostly like one designed by the person who has written the article. If you want to create a landing page for genericstarup.io, then maybe that's fine, but it's kind of like building a website by exclusively copy pasting tutorial snippets that you don't understand.

I also disagree quite strongly with the rules laid out in this particular article, but that's another issue...
What about a feature to read just the headlines of articles, since that seems to be what most people do.
I'll add that the "free tier" makes it a great place to host hobby apps that get little traffic without paying a monthly fee. They are very stable; I've only had to upgrade every five years or so.
yeah, this is the rather basic flaw in what lots of people, including on HN, are proposing:

They seem to demand a sort of proof from first principle for journalism, where every reader can (and must!) verify an article without any heuristics such as a medium's track record ("Argument from Authority!", they will complain, "FALLACY!").

Yet such a system is simply impossible. In practice, because nobody would ever have the time & energy to verify any meaningful fraction of the information they consume. But even in theory, there just aren't any methods to distribute "proof": you could be an eyewitness, which doesn't scale. You could inspect original documents, which also doesn't scale, and where almost nobody has the expertise to actually verify them. Oh, and then there are distributed ledgers, which could help around the margins but nobody knows how (Bitcoin, incidentally, is the outgrow of exactly the same mechanism, only for the financial system: the breakdown of trust in institutions such as the law or the FED, and the attempt to replace it with technology).

One of many incarnations of this dynamic the widespread criticism of the use of anonymous sources. And while the practice does have its problems, it's almost universally misunderstood by those criticising it today.

When journalists use anonymous sources, they substitute their own reputation, and that of their publication, for the source's. Which is why, when you go back and read articles from a year or so ago, you'll find that each and every single anonymously reported fact has actually been proven correct, or remains unknown. The system works (worked), because everyone in it is playing the long game.

But that would require trust. And people today aren't just distrustful. They completely deny the utility of the concept. They try to evaluate all information with complete disregard for the source (and fail). They assume equivalence between anonymous internet commentators and institutions such as universities, newspapers, or established politicians, without even noticing how this conflicts with their criticism of anonymity as described above.

This mindset is related to a perversion of the scientific method, one that denies the usefulness of all emotion, of the social sciences, and of all human relationships. It's perverse because even its proponents entirely fail to live by it: if you're more willing to let your spouse borrow you car than just any stranger, you're using the very same mechanisms (familiarity, the game theory of long-term relationships, reputation) that you otherwise reject.

So that's a long-winded way to say: these fact-checkers are supposedly different than whoever posted the material in question. You, and everyone else, can observe them over time, and they will have a reputation to defend. They will presumably also be recruited from the set of people and institutions that are established as trustworthy, at least among the minority that still believes in such a thing might actually exist.
Whereas "manipulated" = some emails nobody cared about and fewer read were leaked at a time that everybody had made up their mind already? Or maybe some FB groups they pointed at?

What was the "manipulation" exactly?