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> Heaven forbid you make a configuration change that triggers a blue-green deployment

The main usability problem is that they don't tell you when that will be the case. It used to be the case when scaling up instances which was completely surprising. It's not the case anymore for scale up, so it's improving.

We bitch and moan about Google labeling everything "beta"(or even "alpha"), but the beta moniker would be appropriate here.
A hash tree for email actually seems like a semi-decent idea for verifying integrity of a synced mailbox.
Anyone wanting control of a powerful modern computer is part of the target market. We just haven't been able to drive the price down further at this time -- doing hardware design around fully open source firmware is hard and a lot of the typical shortcuts to lower costs (including the always-concerning "post-sale monetization" concepts) simply aren't something we find acceptable on any level.

Basically, it doesn't do anyone any good for us to lower cost by giving up the full owner control experience that is centric to our product lines. :)
Relevant: https://i.redd.it/ifb8agngc7dy.jpg
“people specifically opted in to...”

Do you say the same of yourself when you sign up for a random online service and blindly check the “Accept TOS” checkbox?

Contracts and licenses are sometimes tricky to unequivocally enforce when one party entered into the contract or granted a license by mistake, unknowingly, etc.
How would microbial life on mars be a confirmation of atheists beliefs?

The nature of general religious beliefs is that they're essentially non-falsifiable.

And particularly in this case, life on mars wouldn't be shocking due to the fact that there is life on earth and there is a small amount of mass transfer. If there isn't some amount of microbial life on mars it would only because of the dumb luck that there hasn't happened to be anything on earth that could get transferred, survive the transfer, and survive on mars.
Lack of acknowledgement? They reduced the penalties, both for the casters and the player...
It’s built in, and it’s always worked fine. What do you recommend instead?

I’m not opposed to switching but everything looks pretty lousy, in terms of workflow and integration, and if I have to live with “pretty lousy”, then “zero cost” and “mainstream first-party offering” seem to be the way to go.
Ask HN: What's the best book about how racism has impacted urban planning?
Particularly interested in SF.

IE basically wondering if there's a book that'd be a longer version of https://newrepublic.com/article/154028/racist-origins-san-franciscos-housing-crisis
https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/DaSY-sXB3xqiXQZImbypEvHPdec...
Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and sticking to them when posting here? They ask commenters to avoid snark and the flamewar style.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can't calculate it. You can make strong comparative statements about it. And it is a much more specifically relevant concept than program length.
From studying this some : matrilineal property rights and ties before conversion era. (to give a vast oversimplification)
A walled garden’s raison d’être is to ensure that the garden’s owner makes as much money as possible.
The Fifth Amendment prohibits taking property for government use without just compensation. Property is a bundle of rights—taking away rights from the bundle (like building a high rise) should result in compensation. Landmark designations, however, don’t typically compensate property owners for the lost value of their property.
The fact that the PKK is a terrorist organization is not at all a given. It is propaganda pushed by the Turkish government. The US government follows and so NATO too but without real ground for it (other than disliking communists a lot, I mean). The UN does not consider the PKK as a terrorist organization, and the EU Court ruled that it should be removed for the terrorist organizations list.
I'm glad it's not just me!
Libra is not a bank, it’s a currency that’s pegged to other currencies. The asset backing is only because the initial value has to come from somewhere. It can’t default. It could decrease in value, but there’s no debt or counter party risk.
At my place of work, we pretty much always make the default (0) value “Unspecified”.

The rationale is, it’s often quite useful to know that the originator hasn’t specified a value, and to help new originators avoid unintended side-effects.

This style guide has the same effect, but it’s implicit; takes a few more mental cycles to parse in exchange for less code. Personally, I think it’s probably worth the trade off to type it out once and save time thinking later.
You can have a say over someone’s property by purchasing it. Taking away valuable uses of someone’s property (where the use doesn’t harm anyone else’s property) without compensation is stealing.
Doesn't excuse user data loss
So use a hash function like in the olden days.
Are Loot Boxes an Illegal Gambling Mechanic?
Yeah ... most of my 2-company-ago's software stack was written in Perl. Worked very well.

The specific example cited

while(<>){ $h{$_}++ && ... }

is quite understandable to anyone who has used Perl for more than a few weeks. Its a common pattern. Complaining about this, which is, for the uninitiated, looping over reading each line from STDIN until EOF, incrementing a hash variable indexed by each line, etc.

This is a very common pattern in perl. Draw your own conclusion as to whether complaining about idiomatic language from a "skilled practitioner" is something one should take without a grain or two of salt.

And of course, being Perl, there are many ... many ... ways to accomplish the same task. Leveraging CPAN modules. I'd leave discovering some of the as an exercise for the reader.
Then they would have worked their whole lives for something larger and more meaningful than their own individual abilities, and in the process, shown two forms of strength instead of one.
Summary of changes made:

* Blitzchung will receive all his prize money.

* Bliztchung's suspension from pro play halved to 6 months

* Casters will now be allowed to cast Blizzard events after 6 months

Key statements:

* In hindsight, our process wasn’t adequate, and we reacted too quickly

* The specific views expressed by blitzchung were NOT a factor in the decision we made. I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision.

* We have these rules to keep the focus on the game and on the tournament to the benefit of a global audience, and that was the only consideration in the actions we took.

* If this had been the opposing viewpoint delivered in the same divisive and deliberate way, we would have felt and acted the same.

Source: Reddit comment
why not pay a tenth the cost of legal awards to bury them?
Disagree- folks outside of the sci-fi bubble won't appreciate microbes on other planets. 0 to 1 happens when we find multicellular organisms with cognitive capabilities IMO
Command + f "sorry": 0 results

Command + f "mistake": 0 results

Command + f "apologize": 0 results

They still aren't listening to a PR expert, and this is only going to throw gasoline on the fire. This blog post [1] counseling Burning Man back in their dumpster fire of pain when they switched to a lottery system is very instructional, Blizzard should be following it to the letter if they intend to get out of this hole.

[1] https://alyssaroyse.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/burning-the-man...
Fortunately California law is not universal law, so the populations that want to further explore the possibilities of the tech can continue to do so, and perhaps cause California to reverse the decision in the future.
Why would a position on athiesm have any negative bearing on whether the universe is teaming with life? Atheism would likely posit that finding life all over the place hints that it's a common natural process.
The preference doesn’t actually do what it says, as mentioned in the original post. Starting with macOS 10.12, it doesn’t always download all the attachments, and even ones that did download (because you viewed the message) may get purged later.
Proving that it makes sense for anecdotes to exist doesn't suddenly turn them into data.

Polymaths are physicists does not even mean that physicists are polymaths.
No, ground based lasers can deactivate. Nation states have these.

The only thing we can do is strengthen non-authoritarian governments. Unfortunately, western business leaders made the mistake of strengthening authoritarian countries for a profit. We have a dark two to three hundred years ahead of us.
New Pterosaur Was Fossilized with a Ridiculous Grin
This is so hypocritical and absurd that I assumed you had to be exaggerating but you weren't at all: https://kotaku.com/college-hearthstone-players-who-held-up-f...
I read your whole post and all I can come up with is that if we found life of any sort on another planet it would completely change my internal narrative and I guarantee I'm not the only one. This would in a subtle or unsubtle way gradually influence literally most of the decisions we make on earth.
Dunno about version 3 or later, but in the classic system ‘lawful’ means adhering to strict principles and ‘evil’ means selfish with disregard to others. So I'm pretty sure Blizzard is either chaotic or neutral, what with it trying to appease both sides at once. And probably neutral on the good-evil axis, since it passably honestly trades its games for the money.
Because all those bots look good on the recurring visitor stats and the provocation is good for engagement
It's different from the newer languages, it's different from the older languages, it's it's own thing. I find it really beautiful for that reason.

Who knew you could do that in a programming language? Not sure I would have ever thought to try.

I even love the above sample while loop, you can tell the person who posted it is good because they can't create too heinous an example. The <> and $_ provide what I think of as visual anchors that describe a path for the data to follow. Obviously some style minded author could do it better, but it's not bad. The real line noise is from the one-liners for systems tasks I think.
I did not intend to state the implications are the end of religion; simply that many faithful will alter their faith, in no small manner.
The point of the grandparent poster is that turning down plans is a taking which could be remedied by compensation, the point of the parent poster was that this fix creates an extortion vector.
I'm out this is getting too political. Sorry I just don't want to piss off the mods by bringing a specific politician into the convo.
Perhaps, or perhaps it's different enough that it most likely developed independently.
Tolerance is acceptance or appreciation of difference or disagreement with the intent to make peace or extend understanding.

That word is often abused by ignorant, stupid, or self-serving narcissistic people to mean something more like conformity or agreement. In this context tolerance becomes an empty meaningless word used as a weapon to attack people with, which is the opposite of its intention. This best description of this internalizing self-serving behavior is hypocrisy. Whether its because such people are dishonest or are simply stupid I despise these people. I would respect these silly people much more if they simply used just words correctly in acceptance of a self-serving nature.
just like spam email, and yet hardly any get past Gmail's filters.
There's also https://www.instaclustr.com

We don't use them but had a pretty in depth conversation with them about Kafka and they seemed sharp.
> Calling it Raku is a chance to get what the Perl 6 team actually did out into the world without the stench of death following it.

"Raku" = "cancer" in Polish. Not a lot of Polish enthusiasm forthcoming, I'd imagine.
On Flickr (where the photos came from), the default license is "All Rights Reserved". To apply a Creative Commons license, you need to go into a menu and select the license you want from a list. So that's why I said they "specifically opted in".
Looks good... but if you want to sell me (based on my first comment)..The word(feature) "issue tracking" should not be the first thing I see. I again "see" just another "issue tracking product" ( with a slick interface). Sell me a workflow-process not software.
I have been laid off a few times. Almost universally, it was in preparation of an acquisition (purchase of the company or the company's imminent purchase of another) wherein the standards and goals of the development teams were universally put into question. 35 engineers and another company it was 10 (me inclusive in each). It didn't affect me much as I have no loyalty to a specific company (even if I have vested equity) and have never lived in an area where work was scarce. I keep my skills fresh and develop new skills (side development is a must) and assume my job/project is not forever. I speak to this from time to time everywhere I go.
When quoting an external source here, please provide the link.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/dgnqp...
Not necessarily. It just suggests the bottleneck for life lies at whatever point is after mars. Nothing would suggest that complex life gets progressively more difficult to evolve.
Hey Vinh, thank you for the kind words and I'm glad that you got a positive experience with our challenge and the process!
Actually, saving LIVES is more important the your 10x the legal cost . . .
I did not write about the cause(s) of traffic jams nor about controlling traffic lights to solve anything. My post was about "trams", not cars.
Italian motorists used frozen wild boar to fake road crash
Ellen Pao (former Reddit CEO):

"Tech companies: We tolerate harassment and hate so we can enable political dissent, public squares, free speech

Also tech companies: Censor the Hong Kong protestors and kill all their communication channels"

https://twitter.com/ekp/status/1182710608887611394?s=21
That's a piss poor excuse. Never assume; at a minimum ask! I have many podcasts saved that as the OP points out, are no longer publicly available. A few are now locked behind a paywall but many others aren't available - period.
Sweeping extent of global trade in wild animals revealed
People's Cryptocurrency: Bhutan Launches National Digital Currency
Author is holding it wrong.
> I do not want to work for a company that does NOT test my technical skills; if they don't verify my skills that means they don't verify others and I'd prefer to work skilled engineers (with exceptions for entry-level or junior engineers).

This statement is assuming that short coding challenges measure something relevant to job performance. If everyone agreed that is true, this debate would not exist. We'd all agree it is filtering for the correct skills, we'd all hire the right people.

But the fact that it is such a perpetual debate is because a substantial percentage of developers disagree. I have certainly never seen any coding challenge (whether whiteboard or not) that has any relevance to the job. So as an interviewer I don't subject people to it.
Just look at what Wechat is currently doing and you can get an idea of what Facebook will be doing in the future.
Easily solved by a notification on first use after updating which asks if you want the new default.
Microsoft should go down the SyaInternals route and aqui-hire Hiren’s distro. I mean, why not?
let’s hope so! Looks like a great project
“Dune” Endures (2013)
The best feature is (for me anyway) it's fast and works consistently across all my devices. I've yet to have a reason to move to anything else.

If I was someone continually running into issues as some seem to continually have happen I might not feel that way, but I've been on the Catalina and iOS 13 betas and thankfully even with the betas didn't have issues.

EDIT: I did have earlier versions of the iOS betas duplicate draft messages. Which lead to confusion and double sending since at first glance it looked like like I hadn't sent a message in drafts; once I figured out what was going on I would just check my sent to make sure I sent it before deleting the dupe in drafts. At least it wasn't a data loss bug.
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The point is that the investors could dump their tokens onto clueless FOMOers on public exchanges. That doesn't work with traditional equity investment (see WeWork IPO).
> because they're arguing about something very basic that pretty much everybody already knows

One would think...

Unfortunately, many people believe that all intolerance stems from bad treatment of some kind, and that the intolerant can be swayed, eventually, given enough tolerance.
By the way, does anyone know what the estimates are for the size of the in-game economy in WoW: items, characters, currency/jewelry, etc? I've heard some claims that would sober me right up, but dunno if those were too fictional.
Option 1: Fix the leak, i.e. the download strategy.

Option 2: BURN IT ALL.

Guess which one I don't want my apps to ever do.
You are violating the prime directive.

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2017/08/22/0/
Sure:

Is the concept of objective meaning valid in any possible universe?

Is it possible for the universe to be a fully observed deterministic system?

Is there a universal objective function motivating what we consider reality?

Is it possible to determine with certainty the origins of what we can conceptualize as reality?

Is it possible to forecast with mathematical certainty events in future time steps.

Basically just off the top of my head my questions boil down to: Can laplaces demon actually exist, is there a resolution to the munchausen trilemma and is godels incompleteness theorem disprovable.
>> Or we might get a repeat of when the Spanish brought disease to the Inca and Maya.

Unlikely. There's been no animal hosts on Mars, in which such a micro-organism might have evolved to threaten humans on Earth.

Not to say we shouldn't be careful for other reasons though. The bigger risk is the sudden extinction of entirely different branches of life, by more highly-evolved Earth-originating species.
I highly doubt that. If the genetics, the silicon revolution, access to space imagery, quality education, the internet and science in general did not alter faith in a drastic way I don't think 'life on Mars' is going to do anything either unless it comes in the form of little green creatures.
Lots of conspiracy theories here.

Planetary Protection is already a thing, even though we haven't found anything yet.
80s computers still wouldn't be worth much of anything if 99% of them didn't get recycled.

I don't think there is anything beautiful, interesting or unique about a couple of million outdated generic x86 2U servers, nor will there really ever be.
How is it a fake problem? Uber is copying slices it doesn't need to copy, suffering significant performance penalty, because it is too error prone in Go. Rust completely prevents this error.
Yeah it’s bizarre. Still comparatively early days vs cars, though, which have similar levels of pipeline complexity.
Great! I'll finally be able to update my SSD firmware as Linux is my main and only OS.
Perl was built on a shaky foundation from the start. It was inevitable that it would collapse under its own weight.
> They still aren't listening to a PR expert, and this is only going to throw gasoline on the fire.

Of course, if they had listened to a PR expert and written a first-rate apology letter, then we'd be calling them out as insincere and saying it was just PR fluff, a la the StackExchange letter recently.
Quintillion is owned by a NYC private equity firm. When has private equity ever cared about PR?

But I'm surprised the woman hasn't sued Quintillion to get the equity. I don't see how the company could argue the CEO wasn't acting on behalf of the company when the CEO took the money and said it was for 225 shares. It's not like this was some dodgy third party stock broker, it was the CEO.
Finishing things isn’t cool or sexy, don’tchaknow! Gotta get that MVP out the door and move onto the next project. It’s fine, you can iterate on it after re:Invent!
People like myself don’t want to manage 50 services from 50 vendors. We want to manage it all in 1 place.
How constitutional are air rights such as in NY or transfer of development rights such as proposed for Calcutta in this article

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jul/02/calcutta-arch...
The position of Apple today reminds me a lot of Microsoft after they peaked (~2000?). Cocky to the point of arrogance because of market position, past innovations and brand loyalty (e.g., it is cool to own Apple). But loyalty and market sentiment can only endure so much amidst plummeting product quality, nonsensical pricing (e.g. dongles) and lack of any meaningful innovation (thinner doesn't count). Apple doesn't listen because they think they know better (and that used to be true).

- Peaked in terms of brand perception rather than market cap or market share.
TimeLine Charts Using Armcharts4
What statement? GP was "deleted".
MSE industry
This part really sours the whole statement. Blizzard fans WANT to forgive them, and instead of coming clean Blizz spit in their faces.

Also, changing the suspension period of the casters is a joke, they will clearly never work with Blizz again regardless of the 'official' length of the suspension.
In which case, why haven't we seen it already on Earth? Life will have been transferred back and forth between Earth and Mars for billions of years.
That’s a rather poor example as you can say all this stuff: https://github.com/twitter

Also, Twitter does not have 4,000 total employees let alone software engineers. It’s core software was initially built by a tiny team, with the company only growing to 130 people in total after two years.
Yes, async/await. https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#awaitabl...
> Reports usually involve instances where individuals or organizations have actively configured their installations to allow unauthorized and authenticated users to access their data over the internet.

Why is it a problem to let authenticated users to access data through the internet?
>> In hindsight, our process wasn’t adequate, and we reacted too quickly.

I'm not even sure here what "reacted too quickly" means. If the player did clearly violate an unobjectionable Blizzard policy, one would hope that the sanction would be swift -- it shouldn't take a week to (for example) ban a player for blatant cheating.
Let's assume this is true...

What do you conclude from this (I'm asking honestly)? That Popper is wrong and unlimited tolerance is the answer?
To be honest, they're pretty universal. Not sure if this comment is appropriate. Please ask me to delete it if it is.
My (admittedly limited) understanding is that registered securities can only be traded on specific exchanges with a special license. Most cryptocurrency exchanges don’t have this licensing, so becoming a properly registered security fundamentally locks you out of this exchange infrastructure.
I know that Musk knows he’s lying. I feel so sorry for his fans.
I'd be flatly amazed if impact ejecta never carried any microorganisms from earth to Mars.
It's not even hard to avoid giving Blizzard money these days.

I suppose one must immerse oneself in the scientific system of Mao Zedong thought to see the truth—that Diablo is best played on a smartphone.
> Inexplicably, over the 43 years since Viking, none of NASA’s subsequent Mars landers has carried a life detection instrument to follow up on these exciting results

I'm very surprised by that.

Especially since, as the article says, "NASA maintains the search for alien life among its highest priorities".

I thought that would obviously translate to sending life-detection instruments to B̶a̶r̶s̶o̶o̶m̶ Mars.
I think they are. Saying any of those words and they would have upset their Chinese fans, and then they would have two holes.

I think Blizzard’s post is more than fair. Both the player and announcers knowingly broke the rules. I’ll continue to play their games.