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The default ubuntu torrc has everything commented out so is effectively blank anyway.

Using ">" instead of ">>" means you don't end up with multiple copies of the same hidden service.

That said, I agree: it should append, but it should first check whether it has already added a hidden service to the file.
This is exactly right. My wife worked in the wedding industry for a long time and so she was aware of this when we finally decided to tie the knot. For each vendor we spoke with we only told them we were having an engagement party. We got the prices and then later revealed that this was for a wedding. We advise all of our friends that are getting married to do the same. You can save a decent chunk of change.
Even most liberal women become Burkean conservatives when it comes to planning their wedding. I mean, why are flowers required? Why does there need to be some sort of feast? Why is music and dancing required? Why have a public event at all, when you can go to a courthouse, have a judge administer some basic acknowledgement with a couple witnesses, and call it a day?
Hmm, I don't feel like your conclusion follows from your premises.

> I don't know if I believe the price goes up that much because of the fear of [an overly zealous wedding party member]

> But for a wedding cake, people want 5 9's. They want enterprise Cake, that's always available and exactly as they expected.

I see those two things as related, I guess. Nobody knows the difference between 2 9's and 5 9's until the service goes down or something goes unexpectedly.

> If I was working with a vendor, a plain-old regular cake with 2 9's availability would be fine for me.

Unfortunately for the vendor, since you're not ever going to be a repeat customer they have no idea which type of customer you are and have to assume you want 5 9's even if you're saying otherwise - or that you want 5 9's for the 2 9's price. The opposite of a lemon market, I suppose (a peach market?).

Look at it from their perspective: The worst case scenario is they give you the 2 9's price but you expect the 5 9's and complain loudly when you don't get that.
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Brian Michael Bendis already did - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheUnitedSt...
It's a lot harder to change citizenship than it is for a Facebook caliber engineer to change jobs.

jwz says it best:

> If you work for Facebook, quit. It is morally indefensible for you to use your skills to make that company more powerful. By working there, you are making the world an objectively worse place. I'm sure you can find a job working for a company that you don't have to apologize for all the time.
I agree this is quite a problem, and not fair. But, what alternative do the police have? Refuse to arrest people for driving while high, because they have no test for it?

I don't mean this rhetorically: it seems that we have to err in one direction or the other until we come up with a better test. What do you think?
Categorizations can be useful definitely, but we need to bear in mind they’re not definitive or absolute. The underlying reality is primary, not the categorization, but it’s easy to get it the wrong way round.
If you think American consumers are getting screwed, just look at us in Canada.
Seems to me the argument of employer loyalty I think is more than (but still involves the matter of) whether or not an employer will go to bat for you, and speaks more to the leverage an employer has in a situation where they're faced with retaining an employee or firing an employee.

As in: most often than not, in more situations than not, they have most if not all of the leverage.
You're right, it will be peace for our time if they bend slightly less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time
Unless you have specifics, I’m not sure this comment stands up to reality. Modern networks are pretty reliable in my experience. The state of the art in consensus reduces learning to one round trip. Calvin further eliminates all but one global RT in distributed transaction commits.

Additionally, FaunaDB gives you the tools to work within a global environment with _safe tradeoffs_. For example, reads at SI/Serializable can be fast and uncoordinated. You choose per-query.
Unfortunately from recent experience I can tell you that there is still a good amount that you can preplan with death, if not funeral, like getting a deal on the headstone or plot of land, signing a DNR and power of attorney ahead of time, or having a hospice care plan, as morbid as those are.
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If you aren't thinking about reproducibility things like putting timestamps in the binary seem reasonable. Which is what lots of tools did. Hence the problem.
This feature is great. See a grayscale scale image of the envelopes and packages being delivered to your house everyday.
This is a pretty sexist way to look at it...
Exactly, for simplicity since nothing is in there by default, it gets overwritten. To keep the script nice and short I decided not to add that detection. I would happily merge the change if someone decides they care enough to add it.
Sounds like USPS is joining the panopticon-purveying surveillance capitalism game. "It's only metadata..."
Are you sure it's the amygdala? IFAIK, and please correct me, we make choices through our amygdala when we are teenagers - hence the impulses - while we use our prefrontal cortex for choices when we become adults.
A key miss with the print vs. digital design is that digital's interactive, and you don't usually see the whole thing at once. Plus, you know, screen sizes. "Unique" may be attention-grabbing, it may look nice, and it may help you peacock "we are with-it and well-funded enough to spend money keeping up with design trends" but it's gonna harm UX more often than not.

It was nice when every site settled on the header-sidebar-footer two- to three-column layout. You knew where stuff would be. "Bootstrap" design is nice (though often less-nice than old-school column layouts, at least on desktop, because more spread out and less predictable) for similar reasons.

This stuff for "experience" sites is one thing. For anything else it's, as mentioned above, peacock-signaling over usability. Often the flourish-filled stuff is outright broken on some not-uncommon browser and platform combos—I saw a Tesla marketing site the other day that's broken on Safari on MacOS—though that's more common when they screw with interactions than layouts, but often the two go hand-in-hand.

I have no doubt this will be A Thing. In the overwhelming majority of cases it's used, it will harm UX. It looks expensive to do right across platforms and screen sizes, and will probably be done wrong (i.e. be broken) more often than not. So the cycle continues.
It can even be a feature for platforms like Feedly. When I think about the time that i spent to check daily news. I would be willing to pay a small monthly fee to get that kind of summaries.
My requirements for a website are: I get the information I need then I leave ASAP.

This is held up if the site requires cookies, or blocked outright if it requires scripts eg. to present text (q.v. the washington post).
That is about all.

This sums it up:

> We are strongly against the fact that designers are limited in the freedom of creativity

I'm all for limiting their creativity in areas outside the purely artistic. I want usable websites (= useful info concisely and safely presented, with respect for others' disabilities), but creative types often don't seem to care (edit: or know; they're often clueless about usability).

(to be fair, this website is certainly not bad)
I'm pretty sure Bill Gate's mom was friends with a IBM board member which is how he got that meeting to provide them with an OS in the first place
Experimenting with hand detection on iOS using Core ML and ARKit
There are quite a few M's compared to regular BMWs. How many Polestars does Volvo sell compared to their regular models?
Is it so cheap because it hasn't reached market saturation yet? Maybe not a lot of people actually use lots of data and as soon as too many people do the prices will go up.
Iunno, the employees must have gone through some serious mental gymnastics when they were building Gaddafi a “world class” prison in Libya.

With or without bribes, SNC hasn’t been a successful engineering company in a while: most of their net worth is in one highway they got a share of 20-25 years ago in a shitty deal by the Ontario government at the time.

But bankruptcy (protection) is the way to go.

Ie: zero out the shareholders (if necessary), and sell off the worthwhile chunks to someone else.
I remember awful avant garde websites being in style in the mid 2000s too but they were unusable and confusing. That's all that 'Web 3.0' is in this article. Ordered grids will rule forever.
Where is the information asymmetry? Let's boil down weddings to needing to book a venue and have catering. The same could be said for planning a family reunion. You'd contact numerous venues and catering services and get the best prices, and then your event is planned.

In the case of a couple planning their wedding, what exactly do these service providers know that the couple does not? How much food ordinarily costs, when catered? How much a particular venue space usually rents for, for an evening?
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> Certificate Authorities are organisations that validate a web site's "domain name"

Sounds more like you're describing a domain registrar or NIC. And why is "domain name" in quotes?
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Typically I'd put that into a comment right above that line. I'd also really be inclined to install a replacement service instead so you'd get automatic restarts if you aren't very confident that you have another way into the box.
"Why must these things be so expensive?"

It's absurd and repulsive.

It's like we took only a single generation to forget how it was done for 3000 years across most cultures.

Yes, the elite always had big weddings, but most people didn't.

My grandparents and their peers: you go to the Church with family and friends, and then there's a reception at the cottage (considerably more people come by to say hi) where the ladies have sandwiches made. Uncles and aunts play music, people dance a little bit and then go home.

It's another negative aspect of cultural secularization that people don't even realize is happening because they have no context.

One day, after weddings have been corporatized, it's possible future generations think that getting married a 'The Starbucks (of weddings)' is normal as well!

Some of them will invent words like 'holistic' and 'organic' to buck the trend, when they don't even realize is what they mean to say is: "old timey, tradition wedding". Which just doesn't sound very cool or progressive ...
I'm not entirely sure that is correct, because the behaviour of hiya and t-mobile's offering is different. Hiya will hang up on a spam call, but t-mobile's app seems to make it so they don't even connect to me.
The location was not part of the price per plate we were charged for "catering". Perhaps that is not always the case. What is though is that all restaurants pay for cooks and wait staff and that sit down restaurant prices do include the cost of the "location".

For me, the question is does the caliber of the cook staff, the wait staff, the food at the typical catered event come anywhere near the caliber of what is offered at the very best sit down restaurants?

This post has lots of other noting that telling your service provider that the event is a wedding instantly doubles or triples the price.

Just my opinion, but it seems that there is plenty of room for "disruption" here. I think the same is true for "realtors" and "funerals" and "tour guides".

On the flip side, the forces working to keep these industries protected are basically fear and tradition. Both powerful motivators.
The second part of item 2 is that you then set up the incentives in such a way that some of your minions will choose to break the law (and hide it from you) without being explicitly instructed to do so.
Yeah - I like to say that I did my time in the sneaker world. It’s extraordinarily profitable but it’s also extraordinarily toxic. I’ll probably end up writing something long-form about it.

Biggest thing that you wouldn’t know looking in from the outside is that bots can only get you so far. Bots for well-known sites are basically at their theoretical limits. Bad server-side software basically makes it random whether you’ll actually get in at that point.

Information is what really determines whether sneakers are going to be profitable or a complete waste of time. I ran with groups of people who had relationships with employees of all the big sneaker manufacturers (primarily Nike and Adidas). I’d know months in advance what was going to release and, perhaps more importantly, what was going to re-release (causing the price of existing pairs to crash).

People belonged to strong (and private) groups. Never too big, ~15 people was the max for the really good ones. Usually you’d have a slack channel with a ton of integrations, anywhere from simple in-stock notifications to full bot integrations that would allow you to buy sneakers with a saved credit card by tapping a button on the notification (so much for PCI compliance).

Those groups are difficult to access. You have to build up a reputation before you have a chance, most of the good ones will literally interview you. You’d pretty much be blacklisted if you leaked information. Overall it’s a lot like cracking culture if it suddenly became 100% legal.
> the bride lacks value

0_0 Wow, brides don't even get awarded a pronoun by you?!

In a more humanistic universe, the traditions around marriage means the wedding celebration is generally considered the most important party you ever arrange, so costs are expected to be greater.

Anecdotally, american culture also seems to use wedding spending as a straight up status indicator, comparable to having an expensive care. A notion that is undoubtedly supported by the industry that has much to gain by getting prices as inflated as possible.
This looks like the poster child of a solution looking for a problem. It's all based on Adobe's development of Multiple Master fonts in the 1990s, and if it hasn't taken off in that amount of time I doubt it ever will.
It does mean the specialty is a relatively small market that isn't really worth talking about, though.
"teenagers"
You don't really 'introduce non-determinism'.

That's like saying, "why did you introduce entropy?" It's there. It happens, and it's difficult to get rid of in any complex system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

Debian was one of the first large distributions to use a build farm for many different architectures. Maintaining deterministic builds (even as far as just file timestamps) in a distributed environment is very challenging.
Yea, I agree. I actually was thinking before I posted this "Someone will ask about that line, I should just add the link to the comments" haha. (Just added it.)

If you read the discussion in the link, this actually does do that. It just replaces the 'empty' service with the actual tor service. So you do get automatic restarts.
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Interesting, how about RAIC(ake)? Order several of the 2x9s cakes and use the best one(s) on the day.
Yes, try it. Unless something has changed drastically curl still checks that certificates are valid.
Requires a login to try. Should have non-login trial, or youtube video.
Think about this more: what malware are you going to get by running that command that you wouldn't get by downloading the file and running it locally?

You'll eventually realize that the answer is that this advice has no value. What could potentially have value is reviewing the code before running it, which can be done either way.
I recently saw the term “curlbashware”, and I like it.
For 2-4 USD, you can have breakfast, lunch and dinner, depending on location and your preferences.

For about 30 USD, I can buy vegetables (excluding groceries) for the family of 2 for a month. Milk is about .75 USD per liter.

300-400 USD per month is the rent for 3 BHK apartment in good location. (I pay 220 USD for 2 BHK).

For cable tv subscription, I pay around 5 USD.
Yeah, not sure you can class promiscuous shagging to bringing a child into the world.
Ask HN: Best Practices for Data Dictionaries?
We're tackling the goal of "improving our shared understanding of data sources and purposes", one element of which is a data dictionary.

This could mean a lot of different things ~ comments on all source database columns? Annotations of data warehouse tables? A centralized document with high-level definitions of concepts like "user" or "pilot"?

Questions we are facing include:

- Who is responsible for what activities?

- How do we keep it up to date?

- Built into source systems, or separate?

- What format?

Any hard-won advice or speculative suggestions?
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Realistically, that's what will happen. Your password manager will add WebAuthn support, you'll get a "Do you want to log in to this site? y/n" popup instead of a login box, and you'll click "yes" and be logged in.

Eventually, instead of your password manager having a billion passwords, one per site, it'll just consist of one cryptographic key.
If you're running a shoe company, the hype helps build brand support as well. Have a wide audience means that people are interested and engaged in the brand, because hey you could get a lotto ticket pair and make yourself a bunch of money. Sneaker culture is so strongly tied to hip hop culture, which has a really strong DIY-attitude to it, so making it hyper-elitist from the outset would short circuit the whole thing.

You're totally right, that part of the value of these shoes to the company is the commotion they create in the market as everyone scrambles and pays attention. Then if someone can't get the limiteds, they'll settle for the dope looking regular release (which is still sold at insane margins for the company).
I'll happily come to C#'s defense. I enjoyed working in C#. I miss working in C#. But I don't see much of this purported bashing and I don't see that it needs defending, really.
Things have gotten so bad that people doing voice-overs for characters are getting threats.

The absurdity of this is numbing on so many levels.
Did Knuth touch on the ability to morph between different designs of a font, or was it simply the ability to do fonts as sets of curves so that they could be resized?

Edit: never mind, I looked up the original paper and find a good description in just the first paragraph. He definitely had variations of the letters in mind.
Nobody sat down and said "yes, I'll make this nondeterministic". If you look at the wiki page's sampling of different issues -- https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Howto#Identified_... -- you'll see it's a mix of various things:

* output is deterministic but dependent on some aspect of the build environment (locale, hostname, etc)

* output is accidentally non-deterministic (eg "we put all the .html files into a tarball with a shell glob pattern, which gets you an order dependent on your filesystem implementation and the phase of the moon")

* a wide array of "output contains a timestamp" issues

"Let's put the timestamp into our version string/a generated file so the user knows when it was built" is a really common thing, and it seemed like purely a nice convenience feature until the concept of 100% binary-reproducible builds became a current concern.
Wow, hah, I had no idea my thoughts were so historic and grounded in fascism. Semi-serious, semi-humorous to realize.

And you know, the reason for me writing was sparked merely by yet another story about the mundane problem of America's inability to build new infrastructure, or even maintain existing infrastructure.

Maybe I shouldn't have added the last sentence, some took that too seriously.
Why is that an iOS app that looks and acts different is bad yet a web app that looks and acts different is good?

I'm a fan of the bootstrap hegemony. Bootstrap apps are predictable and usable.
A very recent example of this is the passing of Luke Perry, who was the voice of Sub-Zero in the cartoon series of Mortal Kombat.

MK Co-creator Ed Boon expressed him sympathies on Twitter and a number of fans replied to him, asking why he wasn't including specific characters in the next installment in the series.
Health care is something people use frequently, has broken processes, and high prices, and will seemingly never be fixed.
Flight simulator forums are also generally pleasant to use.
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It is very frustrating however to loose an advantage because the game is buggy
On the other hand, a single power adapter would be more efficient than multiple ones.
I'm surprised at myself for defending the DMV, but at least in my state, I haven't been to the registry in many years (though I did need to go to AAA for a license renewal). But everything else has been online or by mail. Replacing a lost license last year took 10 minutes online.

As for customs, there are various electronic entry lanes for immigration and I haven't actually had a bag looked at by customs for years.
Also: I think dowries are unrelated, in fact the opposite.

Dowries existed in a time where women were not valued, because taking them on might be seen as an expense. So men got some 'free stuff' in addition.

Also, to be fair, men got the inheritance, so a dowry could be viewed as a kind of inheritance for the bride as well.

As far as 'cost and perception' - my feeling is that this is mostly not being driven by the groom's need to sacrifice, rather by bride's need to have 'perfect weddings'.

Personal experiences are not entirely scientific, but I've been to probably a couple of dozen weddings and in 100% of the cases, the grooms were not hugely interested in the organization, and were a little wary of all the spending. The brides were keen and eager to plan, to make the experience whatever they were. Marriage magazines etc. cater almost exclusively to women, for example.
>According to The Knot’s annual survey, the average wedding in 2017 cost $33,391, a slight dip from $35,329 in 2016, but still more than half of the median annual household income in the United States.

Uhhhh... I absolutely hate when the media uncritically (or at least without context/a disclaimer) parrots The Kont's "Real Weddings Survey" as meaningful, because, IMO, this number is somewhere between very misleading and complete bullshit.

Some issues:

-Selection bias - only includes people who sign up for wedding websites, (or in the case of Brides magazine’s “American Wedding Study,” subscribe to wedding magazines) which, by definition, excludes people who have reasonably priced weddings. People whose weddings are a BBQ in the backyard aren't signing up for wedding websites and subscribing to wedding magazines.

-Reporting on average without including median, which is much, much less. One million dollar wedding can skew the average very high, and like I said before, the low side isn't even included in the data set to offset the Chelsea Clintons.

-Conflict of interest - the wedding industry itself is the only one reporting these figures and the wedding industry has a vested interest in reporting astronomical numbers because it gets you primed to spend spend spend.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/03/average-wedding-cos...