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I've always found it fascinating how people are still willing to risk life imprisonment for a third strike after getting caught twice already. It really boggles my mind. I'll never quite understand this mentality. Whether the punishment is life, 25 years, or something else - I just don't understand how the risk/reward ratio plays out in their mind.

I get that one argument is that many have "nothing to lose". And yeah, maybe they are very poor, unemployed, without a proper education or skills so their situation doesn't look great. But to then say "well, doesn't matter if I end up in prison for the rest of my life is truly mind-boggling.
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That seems optimistic. Especially since bureaucracy and corruption have coexisted in various scenarios.
Apologies, i'm unable to find the article i read before, but googling "nicotine salts" should get you on the right path.
And that public debt interest doesn't even include unfunded defined benefit pension and OPEB (other post employment benefits, e.g. retiree healthcare). I would expect more toll roads, higher taxes, less services, and means testing for social security and medicare.
See comments for Rust new website thread on reddit and elsewhere. Most Rust community seems mightily pissed off for all negative comments about their newly designed website. Besides Rust enthusiasts have reputation of trolling random people on internet who have unflattering things to say about Rust.

Or try opening new thread on Swift forum on issues where decisions have been take. They will quickly put you in place and close the thread.

I have yet to see a successful language where whiners are embraced with great enthusiasm.
Can anyone recommend any services that provide copy critiques like Stripe did to the websites in this post? I don't have the time to read and digest the book suggestions and I don't want to open a business with Stripe Atlas.
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If we weren't maintaining safe global shipping and other elements of global stability on the sly and with a self-serving twist, maybe the vacuum would have caused the global community to come together to achieve the same ends, in a more transparent and less lopsided and brutal (one can only hope) way.
It's been common knowledge since the end of the last recession that a recession is just around the corner. It's always common knowledge that a recession is just around the corner.

It's a non falsifiable position because if a recession doesn't happen for another 5 years, they'll just say that 5 years was what they mean by just around the corner.
What on Earth does that even mean?
It’s currently £20 to buy an arbitrary superhero movie on Amazon Prime in 4K. I mean, it’s up to you if you want to believe selling Dr Who or selling all movies ever are the same thing...
I use a paper towel to touch them, just like with the door handles
IMNAL, but I'm thinking of existing cases of software theft/etc. where seemingly arbitrary values are accepted by the courts.

Maybe you do have to argue the point in court, but 6 months of R&D is easily worth way more than $1000.
The 3-strikes law had an ostensible worthy purpose, which was to prevent incidents in which judges made ill-informed lenient sentencing decisions, which could happen through pure incompetency or ignorance. But like all simplifying algorithms, the downside was a sentencing system that was indifferent and uncompromising to absurdities, such as sentencing someone to life in prison no matter how relatively minor the first- and second- strikes were.

Even the name and implementation of the law -- "3 strikes" -- feels absurd. IIRC from the Congressional debate, the choice of 3 strikes is rooted in the familiarity of the term from America's pastime, not based out of an analysis of penalties and recidivism outcomes.
Great project! I can imagine this may greatly improve web certain classes of scraping. @gavino I'm curious what tooling and architecture you used to put this together?
Certain addictions are pretty much life sentences. Heroin addicts will always want another hit regardless of how good they are at suppressing the addiction. A lot of people OD because they've been clean for so long that their tolerance isn't what it used to be. Maybe rehab should be the first step and not the third. Catch someone as early as possible into their addiction and they might have a fighting chance. Catch them when they've already been through the prison system a couple times and there's little hope. No one wants to hire a recidivist junkie.
Go modules still allow for changes to local copies. You are not required to use a proxy to use modules. Also, you can always fork a public project and use a replace statement in a module to redirect an import path to your customized module. Check out this related tool: https://github.com/rogpeppe/gohack
Harsh, but agreed. I have a relative who is older and retired. Got bored sitting around the house, so got a job with the TSA. He'd never held a job anything remotely to do with security, research, or investigation...
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What's the difference between this and say:

FROM ubuntu:16.04

Won't that pull the latest official Ubuntu image with that tag?
Nah, I don't really plan on turning it into a company. I'd gladly accept any PR to swap out cheerio, I haven't touched that part in close to a year :D
Same here. Will wait until Aug 2019 when I have to think about it.
When you clear the cache or visit the site for the first time and zoom in, you can see the tiles load. These lines are at the stiching borders, and coming from the stiching algorithm.

Lens/sensor limit moire looks very different when compared to this.
Troy and Abed scraping websites!! :D
They have some unique requirements to host within their own VPC. I just use mlab.
How will that work with modules though? As in, how do you vendor a single library (that you want to make a fix to) while still building with module support? Right now, "module mode" is mutually exclusive with "vendor mode" and I don't think there are any plans to change that.
disclosure: I spent four and a half years in a state correctional facility as an inmate.

Reducing 3 strikes from minimum life to 25 is fine, but it does nothing to address the fact that expanding judicial discretion just gets you screwed in an election year. Theres nothing to keep people from getting multiple consecutive terms until its just the same as life.

The bill also doesnt address perpetual parole. When I was released after having served time, I was sentenced immediately to additional "parole" for a year and a half. This cuts into your ability to go to work in some cases (construction hours start early.) my job as an automotive mechanic started at 4 AM and school ended at 10. parole says i need to check in and be home by 6 pm, so i have to apply for extensions and variances every week. miss one and I go back to a jail term I technically already served.

$300 million dollars is nice for training, but training generally sucks in private prison and you have no recourse. For example, in a state run correctional facility you can learn shop math (trigonometry) and a trade. At the private prison I spent a year at (before it went bankrupt and transferred us all to state anyhow) my "education" consisted of painting the floor and laundry detail. you learn nothing, and surprise, are paid nothing because its education not work (work details like this in prison are supposed to be paid.)

as for the tampons and sanitary napkins, fine, its not like those were actually much of an issue from what i gather. Did you know inmates have to purchase things like soap and shit tickets? (toilet paper) There are freebies from commissary like those stab-proof pens for visitation, but use too many or upset a guard and youll get a strike for 'commissary abuse' and be restricted from buying things for a month or two. Ever wiped with a piece of receipt paper? not fun.
It should be noted that this passed because of lobbying by Jared Kushner, and there's speculation that his experience of his father's federal prison time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner#Criminal_convi...) motivated some of it.

Another good bill that benefits an even more marginalized population (with no executive branch patrons) is being actively killed because of a single representative: https://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/ND-Indian-Affairs-commis...
The community has gotten better. Early discussions were frequently marred hype, and it was often impossible to cut through the noise. However, talks given by the authors usually impressed me by being fairly even-handed, and open about the trade-offs that were taken.
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VCs have been saying that for years. It won't always be this way, and we will almost certainly will have a recession in the "near future", but whether that's 10 weeks or 10 years away is the real question.
As a German I have to say that Spiegel and spiegel.de aren't good journalism outlets and haven't been since many years ago. If I want well made journalism with actual investigative activities I'll resort to sueddeutsche.de, correctiv.org or nzz.ch.

Remember the Schulz-train "phenomenon" suddenly emerging last year? I stumbled upon it the first on spon and I am convinced they basically just invented it. And I am saying that as somebody voting for SPD.
Are your former/latter backwards?
Fellow hard of hearing individual. I am 1 step below needing to use sign language. I also have some social anxiety.

For me? I try to arrive early before the event starts. This ensures there are fewer people around. For larger events and or talks, I bring my own assistive devices to assist with hearing at a distance and a noisy environment.
It seems like any MailChimp mailing list emails containing the word "crypto" set off automated systems which result in account bans.

This is an extremely poor anti-spam "hueristic" (if it even deserves to be called that) and I would never do business with a company that handles anti-spam like this.
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You're confused that people who (by definition) make poor life choices are unable to evaluate consequences and make better life choices?
Because there is no company behind PG, no one is loosing money if FANG get your app for free and build something around it. You should ask Redis, Grafana, Nginx ect ... if they're happy about super large company doing that kind of thing.
When AWS is failing over RDS PG there is def nonetrivial downtime
I remember seeing GDOM a while back when I first started this project, but forgot to write it down as a source of inspiration. I'm gonna add all of these as alternatives, because they're all great :D
And you made a brand new HN account 12 minutes after the parent. Thank you for your personal and totally inconspicuous vouch. :P
Please provide a more appropriate word to describe those phrases. They’re definitely unprofessional- but unprofessional doesn’t quite fit here. Also- nothing about disagreeing with here. There’s language that is appropriate in some contexts and that isn’t quite appropriate elsewhere. In essence, your comment is seemingly argumentative for the sake of it.
While saying "it's around the corner" isn't terribly useful, hosts of indicators such as incoming increases in interest rates and stagnating wages support the expectation, and these warning signs have increased over the last two years.
Put the opt-out price on a sliding scale that's adjusted quarterly per actual loss in revenue from users who drop out of the pool.
The voice isn't quite human yet but we've come a long way since Microsoft Sam. Wordpress has an Amazon Polly plugin so bloggers can add a read aloud feature to their blog posts. So far, I've heard it trying to read the page's HTML in addition to article content.
You’re assuming that the justice system only convicts the guilty and doesn’t target poor and minorities.

What if they had a 3 strikes clause for white collar crime?

Also once you’ve been convicted, it’s harder to find a job with a criminal record.
I used to do this manually, but after a while I decided to create a simple website [1] containing bookmarklets that provide the same functionality.

[1] https://www.videospeedup.com/
I called it a swipe because it was a personal ("your") pejorative ("bubble")

Matter of perspective, no, Dan? Would it have been less of a pejorative to borrow a phrase from the latest incantation of our discussions of race and culture in the US to say "check your privilege?"

Granted this isn't the place for a protracted discussion on dialogue here, I just find the strong reaction to what is a very important clarion call to evaluate ones own biases and experiences against a spectrum of biases and experiences shared by every other human being, however curt or brief, taking it the point of calling it a "pejorative" an interesting reaction-IMO.
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it was almost certainly after he was famous and i have no idea how successful his blog is. but he seems to think it's been great for him according to last interview i heard him on Tim Ferriss

as another example Casey Neistad said that his vlog took off after he decided to produce content daily.
Lots of people have made the same complaint/observation, though, and I don’t think they’re all just “rounding it off to one bit” as you describe.

I think they’re onto something, though as the GP notes, hopefully the situation is improving.

I’d flip your response around and suggest that in several cases, the correct fix is obvious and the core Go team’s insistence on extreme caution and “nuance” is misguided. GOPATH is a great example -- it’s just so obviously wrongheaded that I really don’t understand why it stuck around so long.

Another one that comes to mind, although this is quite old now, is the way early versions of Go would insist that the very last statement of a function was a “return”; you couldn’t do an “if foo { return x } else { return y }”, for example. It took a lot of pushing to persuade the core team to add some basic escape analysis, against insistence that it was some kind of nuanced feature with unpredictable side-effects, rather than a trivial thing that every other real compiler has to do.
>which is ironic since not too long ago it seemed like one of the marquee features they had that Linux didn't

That can still be somewhat true due to the licensing mess. ZoL will never be in the tree for linux. The best you can hope for is the Canonical solution which at least ensures a supported version for the distro kernel.
Couldn't agree more. Any business who respects the customer would know that this type of stuff is totally unacceptable, and the list is a huge money maker for anyone. I got really pissed with MailChimp and their support for exactly these reasons and decided to move to SendX. That's it, haven't looked back ever since and I don't think I ever will unless something major goes wrong.
After the demotion of Pluto, I rather liked this mnemonic:

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us... Nothing!
you remind me of this incident as a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailme...
I said that We The People want to see something more meaningful. This would include political policy covering relatively standard democratic ideals: (to keep it extremely simple) health and education.
I am aware our public dollars go towards defending the private-enriching capitalistic system you just described. It is ironic you listed all of those things as "benefits" to me - they are exactly what I am saying I do not want. Public expenditures for private gains? I did not vote for that. I want public dollars going to defending something for the majority, not the few.
Would be interesting if there could be a bureaucratic process for controversial issues, but also a "fast track" for easy wins.
Is it possible to select quality of the video?

Can we ask it to resume at specific point without wasting bandwidth in redownloading?
I'm sorry but you're grossly mistaken, the very nature of 802.11n based radios is that an individual (typically 20 or 40 MHz wide) air channel is a half duplex medium. I'm talking about each individual radio in the unit. The multiple clients connected to each AP-functioning radio are sharing a half duplex medium. I'm well aware of the existence of 802.11 (abgn/ac) based radios that have multiple independent air interfaces in them.

You may wish to familiarize yourself with CSMA and listen-before-transmit issues, hidden node problems, etc in any half duplex air medium. I do this for a living.

It's completely disingenuous to say that because some single board computer with multiple minipci slots has multiple 2.4 and 5.8 GHz radios mounted to it, linked to different things over their 802.11n air medium, that it's a "full duplex" radio. A full duplex radio by industry definition is something like a FDD-LTE implementation for PtMP, or a point-to-point FDD radio such as in the licensed 6, 11, 18, 23, 71-86 GHz bands, in which a pair of radios listen and transmit in a high/low pair of totally separate channels, dedicated to traffic each direction.

I'm not telling people how to build their network. I'm sure this equipment is functional and providing service somewhere. I'm trying to prevent people in the year 2018 from chasing down dead ends of 8-year-old technology that will not be the most effective use of their time, effort and money.
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books, blog, video, community like HN.
Create back-up copies of any list, data, etc. that matters to you. I backed up my Mailchimp list a couple months ago with exactly this scenario in mind. It's a minor chore to do so. But it sure beats having years of data vanish.
I think they just realized that this will surface sooner or later anyway and it will be very, very humiliating and embarrassing when this happens on a rivaling outlet like sueddeutsche.de.

This guy was able to do his thing for way too long - this says a lot about how "careful" journalism is produced there.
Looks like it runs on Kubernetes?
COBOL (at the time) cost money, C and other languages did not. COBOL was directed at mainframes (expensive, hulking behemoths), mini- and micro-computers could do much of the work (for small-to-medium offices) without needing the dedicated support staff and cost.

Banks and other big institutions continued using it (and many still use it) due to inertia. Even as they migrated from mainframes, but often by virtualizing them rather than outright replacing them.

Offices without that inertia introduced information systems when someone bought an inexpensive (relatively) machine and wrote a C or BASIC or other program on it to handle expense reports and other things that the corporate users used mainframes (with COBOL) for.

Mainframes required deliberate intent to purchase and use. They cost too much and required a full, proper, division. Local microcomputers within the corporate division required no cross-division coordination, and became "simple" line items in their annual or quarterly budgets.

Eventually companies start centralizing IT again, but by that time their software is all written in Java, C, C++, Perl, and other things so they build up server farms aimed at running that, not at running COBOL.

Why no greenfield COBOL projects? Because we don't have enough developers to do that, and deployment would be a pain. The infrastructure for deploying COBOL isn't present. Make an AWS for COBOL, and maybe people will use it? Probably not though. Also, no one knows it and the language has no compelling features to draw in new users.

It makes reports really well, but so does Perl and Python. It doesn't handle numerical work as well as Fortran (for those caring about performance) or numpy (for those not). And it has a strong cultural bias against it at this point.
"Start a Newsletter."

why?
The article says the work began in July 2017. Was it available at that time?
Is this not usually how it works? Other than Makefiles, every language with significant whitespace I can think of just treats “more than the previous line” as an indent.
FedEx just posted a terrible quarter and oil just dropped below $50/barrel. To your point, lots of macro indicators [1] flashing red right now that a slowdown is in progressive. I’d bet money (already have technically with SPX puts) that when you look back 6 months from now (the only way to properly asceetain when a recession has started), you’ll see it’s started.

These IPOs are too late.

[1] https://reddit.com/r/investing/comments/a66a1g/_/ebsgrmv/?co...
> Not meaning this in a combative fashion, but why is only what you think right in this case?

The law of noncontradiction: to believe X is necessarily to believe they the belief in not-X is incorrect. One may believe it is right to tolerate or accommodate the incorrect belief, but that's not the same as viewing it as correct.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_noncontradiction
I'm not certain that Go is a great fit for this particular area. Others have mentioned generics, but I'd also worry that the lack of operator overloading is a weakness. There is a lot of Fortran out there, so operator overloading is not required, but I'd worry about the ergonomics of Go, especially given the strength of the other options.
Ipfs doesn't take much setup, but it's global sharing - so you'll have to bring your own access control (eg: encrypt the files, and use à key distribution/sharing scheme of some sort).
That is random conjecture from someone who also did that for completely different reasons on something else. Admittedly so too is the OP's post, with the added (although unsubstantiated) comment about YouTube refusing to change.

As an aside- his points on why Chrome is a monoculture misses the point. Chrome is a monoculture for the same reason almost every other thing becomes at monoculture. It was, at one point, deserving of it as a product. Whether it was naturally the only one or the best. But now, they might not be the best out there. And when they go on to create barriers to competitors and lock-in, thereby making them artificially dominant, that is an anti trust case in the making, if the U.S. Justice Department had any teeth in that area.
Aphorisms aside, yield curve inversion is rare. Public companies with P/S ratios of 30 are (were?) rare. Odds favor lower returns from invested capital. The tech sector is running heavily on invested capital.
Given what I'm seeing with this and on the ground with startups we are definitely in a bubble.
It's incredible how infectious the democracy meme is. It makes most sense when determining how violence will be used within a society (i.e. the fundamental function of government). It makes a lot less sense for running projects and organizations that people are free to come and go from. But the idea's intellectual stranglehold is just too strong to resist.

The merits of singular vision, unity of design, counter-majoritarian good judgment, predictability, and decisiveness should really get more credit in these contexts. As should the downsides of bureaucracy and democratic decision making: infighting, politics (the sacrifice of sincerity for popularity), gridlock, disunity of design, etc.
Also https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-smart-routing/
I would actually love to know if it's as bad as coca cola.