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"You're being a jackass" != "You're a jackass"

I'm criticizing the behaviour, not the person. If you can't call out poor behaviour, you can't expect civil communication.
It's hardly productive to call crazy one of the very few senators who has consistently and without compromise opposed the kind of things the fightback in question was referring to. It's no wonder America's in the state it is, when someone is called crazy for opposing war, but the presidents who readily kill children and innocents by proxy (drones) are seen as perfectly sane.
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So is there actually any product, or were the 24 hours spent making this cool video?
Back that shit up. Welfare in many ways is a wage subsidy for large employers like Walmart and McDonalds. Some other forms of welfare only buy things like baby food and diapers to make sure infants are cared for. Lots of people on welfare work full time and lots of other people are on welfare because they have a disability that prevents them from working.

What should folks with severe cerebal palsy do? Should they just die already to make you happy?

Every hard look into the idea that there are mostly "welfare queens" milking the system has come back to show it's bullshit. Plenty of the most needy people (in really poor states like Georgia) can't get any kind of assistance because of attitudes like the one you posted.

Georgia has fewer than 4000 (out of 10 million) residents receiving welfare and is 33rd in median income. Keep in mind that the state's income figures are being propped up by Atlanta, which only has half of the states' residents. In Savannah, many restaurants are closed on weekends or only open at all on weekends; that's how little economic activity there is in the state.
I have one from an event they did here. What's telling is that I'm in Houston - far outside the SF/SV magic bubble.
you were not arrested. you were detained. it's called the patriot act. they can detain you for 72 hours without charge and release you without any repercussions.

as fucked up as it is, their actions were legal.

as for stripping you naked, you might have a good shot at a successful lawsuit there.
We have some racks with public facing ILOM interfaces which sit outside the firewall, which turns out have ntpd running. We only noticed when our international bandwidth crawled to a halt due to them being used in an NTP attack.

It's a hassle, as they're old machines and out of support contract (so we can't upgrade the firmware), and so far as I can tell there's no way to turn off public access to ntpd over the admin interfaces. We're stuck with having to go to the hosting company and change the cabling to route them through the firewall.

Just because you didn't set up ntpd doesn't mean you don't have it running (somewhere).
The connection between programming languages and English is highly exaggerated. Programming language syntax is generally nothing like natural language syntax, and programming language vocabulary (keywords, data structures, standard library names) is usually completely divorced from similar-sounding or similar-spelled words in English.
Bear in mind, what they refer to with the innocent sounding phrase "phone call meta data" actually contains a lot more than simple log of call stats. It's:

• continuous, and historical, location data for a mobile phone (the phone polls the tower every 10 seconds I think)

• if a phone disappears from the network, they know if it was powered down (it sends the tower a message not to look for it) or if the battery was removed (it doesn't) ... And, due to the previous, they know the last location of the device

Sadly, even without this big-brother license plate location history database, they already know where you are and what your travel patterns are ... Just by the nature of you having a cell phone, not that you consciously asked to be tracked like this (or even knew about it when you decided to have a mobile phone).

Frankly both options horrify me.
I think I get it.

The city was worried about a real possibility of shooting. So they searched his house and found nothing. They realized he wasn't a real threat. Just a jerk.

But they also wanted to send a message, loud and clear, to society: if you make jokes like this, you will suffer the consequences.

So they left him in jail. They set an illegally high bond. They manipulated this gullible boy into giving them a reason to move him to a worse jail, where they knew he would be raped. When it happened, they feigned surprise.

Sure, there were good intentions. They wanted to discourage the kind of joking that puts people into a state of panic.

But they went about it extremely unethically, immorally, and most likely illegally. I've gone to jail, I've been through the US court system, they're very manipulative and this is how they work. It's not right.
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A jury of your peers...
At my last startup we were running everything off of AWS but i would not do it again except for some short running toy projects. We ended up paying a few hundred $ per month for a web and db server that were just barely usable in terms of speed.

Compare that to a box i can get for EUR 50 over at Hetzner that alone is multiple times faster than the 2 small AWS vms . Need another one ? Will be provisioned in about an hour...don't need an instance anymore ? Cancel it by the end of the month, no long term contracts.
Yes there is a one-time fee for setting up a new box, but thats about it.
And you don't believe how far you can get with a proper beefy 2, maybe 3 machine setup..For EUR 150 you get power equivalent to spending >1000 on AWS easily.

Today AWS to me only makes sense for short term computing projects or something very time limited (eg <4weeks) or if money simply doesn't matter. Everything else is just marketing bla, i still need todo the same setup work on AWS.
FWIW, I found your post "Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful" very helpful in understanding problems with client side crypto in the browser. I will recommend it to anyone who thinks it is safe: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
I think it's fairly obvious but trying to re-balance any system that already has load issues is probably not a recipe for success.

This cropped up in the "Don't use Mongo" FUD from a few years back.

Eliot from MongoDb responded:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202959

In an ideal world, you'd monitor and plan your capacity proactively - I don't think there's really any magic button for - "My system is at capacity - horizontally scale it now, with no downtime!".
Nitpick: it's generalisation that is prevented by the value restriction. Unification works just fine:

let test r =
r := `A;
r := `B;
r := `C

r gets unified with all of `A, `B and `C: no problem.
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I just realized that there is another point that Peter totally skips over in this analysis... the value of community good-will, and the effect that has on the economics. For example, I'd bet money that a far larger percentage of Red Hat's customer base fundamentally like Red Hat, than the corresponding percentage of customers who like Oracle or Microsoft. Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect that RH have lower customer acquisition costs and don't have to spend as much on advertising, since their product itself (in open-source form) is advertising for the company.
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Don't forget, merchants also pay a premium in their fees for every transaction.
Beautiful beautiful movie! Sorry didn't read the article though. I'm going to watch the movie again today. Work can wait!
I'm kind of curious about that number and how it was obtained. Do you have a link? I couldn't find anything good.
I think this is interesting, but are you promoting this or just announcing what you've accomplished? I would like to know a bit more about it.
One thing that could happen tomorrow: Google and other tech companies could put a lot of muscle behind getting city and regional government to solve some of the planning issues. Especially the planning issues in the cities where they actually have their offices.

Part of the reason people are commuting from SF is that vacancy rates in the valley are even worse than here. If Google wants to hire more people, the first step should be making housing available near Google. That may also require going beyond mere bulk construction to make the place more appealing to their workers. The same goes for the other companies that are flush with cash and hiring rapidly.

From my perspective, the buses are an ugly hack to temporarily ameliorate a deeper problem. A hack that shifted the impact of the problem to SF.
Cassandra certainly makes it a lot easier. We've doubled our cluster with no downtime. Even adding a non-double amount of nodes can be performed without any downtime (though slightly more impact).
yeah, I'm from New Mexico too. Grew up in Farmington, lived in Las Cruces a year, Albuquerque has always sort of been home base. Still, I lived in SLC for a decade too and I've been in SF for 4 years now, and I've spent a lot of time in West Oakland. I also have a good chunk of family in Louisiana. Guess what? Cops are retarded everywhere. In NYC they stop and frisk you for being a minority on a Friday night, and in the Bay Area they just kill you on BART. Of course, these things happen occasionally but pretending like New Mexico (especially from that list) is some sort of place where minorities aren't welcome and overflowing of racism (notice Oklahoma wasn't even on the list? Trail of tears anyone?) is probably the silliest thing I've ever heard.

Granted, the Deep South still has a ways to go.
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>>What in the world is wrong with not taking public transportation?

When you buy a car, you own the car. You don't own the roads. Roads are shared property.

You are welcome to use the car the way you like, but you may not do the same with roads.
>It looks like you're saying that calling something stupid bullshit is being an asshole.

No, being an asshole while calling something bullshit is being an asshole. A ^ B |- A. You can say something's bullshit without ridiculing people. Zed's problem isn't that he says unpopular things, it's that he seems to try to be as rude as possible in saying them.

Saying something's bullshit isn't necessarily rude. Saying something's bullshit and anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot|hypocrite|moron|asshole is.
I would suggest getting in touch (ie. emailing, Tweeting) with 20 or so startups that you're interested in and asking to meet the founder(s) over coffee. Ask them everything you can about their company/product and their specific role in everything. Let them ask you about what you're up to and subtly mention your search for an internship.

HN is a great place to start, though. Good luck!
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Wait till you go to a "Bring Your Own Device" employer.... ugh.
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If you go into something hating it, you're destined to not enjoy it. At any rate, I wouldn't have recommended you buy that phone last year. Stock Android, IMO, is always best. Anyhow. My considerations on your points:

> The "Play Store" is filled with low-brow, tacky crap (above and beyond that of Apple's "App Store").

Low barrier to entry means you get a bit of everything. There are quality apps in there, too.

- Never experienced this. This seems to be a motorola complaint, not an Android complaint.

- No idea what this is about. My phone application has a list of contacts built into it.

- My Nexus 5 (nor my Nexus 4, nor my Nexus S) has had bloatware. Again, a motorola complaint...

- Never experienced these issues. Particularly media--there has always been three volumes for me: Alarms, ringtones/notifications and media (games, music, video).

- The softbuttons on the front of the device work just as well as a physical, tactile button. Just because a button is physical does NOT mean that it gets any special treatment by the OS. In android, if you hit the "Home" softbutton, you go home immediately. The softbuttons work on a plane off of that crashing apps run on ;-)
Truth, I must be an ostrich...I had not heard of this campaign nor was it on my radar or in my inbox. SOPA was something I heard about, was on my radar, and was in my inbox. I fail at knowing what the NYT thinks I should know (but I was all about Stop SOPA (but please use soap)).
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Pointless, politicians have no control over the police. A guy was elected here as a police reformer, his job was to not resign the current police contract and build a new force that was actually accountable to people who live here instead of federal thugs for hire who had been out of control and corrupt for decades.

Instead he was promptly raided by the same corrupt cops he wanted to disband a week into his term. Slammed with elections funding act violations and dozens of other charges. Didn't matter they were bogus charges, he spent his 4 years in office fighting the allegations and in and out of court, and even though fully vindicated when all charges were dropped and proved to be baseless, it was too late because the political image damage was already done, his party benched him and he soon resigned saying what a sham democracy has become, and how police reform is a pipe dream. The guy who replaced him resigned the contract for another 20 years.
> The OP's story is completely unrelated to "hacker" culture

> [OP's actions] were driven by the underlying belief that he was smarter than the people he was dealing with.

Not unrelated in the slightest, imo.
This is really cool. It's great to see more programs for kids to learn to code and/or create interesting things.

Filming and asking the students what they think before and after the program might be a good way to get some great feedback and be useful for future promotion.
I agree that the buses aren't the biggest problem, but they're the most visible symptom of it.

For what it's worth, a recent study said that about half the people on those buses wouldn't be living in the city at all if they had to drive. Traffic jams aren't our biggest problem; it's housing. So I think some ire against the buses is perfectly reasonable; they're importing substantial housing price inflation.

I also think the buses are pretty visible reminders of class differences. It's sort of like somebody taking a company limo to work: the fanciness of the vehicle and being driven are bound to generate some envy. Also, my understanding is that since there's wifi available, time on the buses can count as work time. And there's the direct delivery to nice neighborhoods; other people who work down the peninsula have to schlep over to Caltrain on their own. Those are all pretty sweet deals for people who already have pretty sweet deals.
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So, they are teaching people to code, so they can make ecards? It is probably much easier to use something already written to create an ecard... And that is my whole point with this "learn to code." People think that everyone in the future will need to know how to code. No, in the future it will be important to know how to use the computer, but not everyone needs to know how to code. Just like not everyone needs to know how to do everything else in the world. You can teach people how use computers, without teaching them to program. And teaching them to program won't necessarily teach them how to use computers.
Good spot, sir! Turns out I miscounted. I've updated the article to include a correction.
We'll maybe some day but it is still too easy to corrupt the data or index. Recently I had a problem where the data itself was fine and searches worked correctly but it was 100x slower than it should be. It just started happening for no apparent reason and I just do basic searches on typical data. I still don't know what happened but creating a new index fixed the problem.
What professional or semi-professional group doesn't close ranks? From politicians to doctors to plumbers, I can't think of any group where outing a bad apple is the norm.
Sounds nice in theory, but how often do you actually need to do that? More often than not, you are still overpaying on AWS vs a simple leased server. Look at what you get for a mere 50 bucks/month http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40

Add 10 to that and you have dual SSDs, no long term contracts and provisioning of new machines within the same day, mostly <2 hours.
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Yep – turns out Lunar Industries Ltd. was the name of the production company they set up when they made the film, and that is indeed their registered company number.
I can't speak for erichocean but I've played around with both UDP and NaCL (http://nacl.cr.yp.to/). NaCl is very easy to use, and quite fast. It's not easy to install, but once it's there, it's nice to use.

And because of my playing around with NaCL, I've come to the conclusion that encryption isn't the hard problem---key management is the hard problem.
And you rarely see libertarians here in Canada. For all its warts, our government mostly works: healthcare is pretty good, education is pretty good, regulations are generally not onerous, taxes are pretty low, crime is pretty low, etc. It's a solid B- government, and that seems to apply regardless of who's in power. So while you get disagreements on what government should or should not do, you don't really get disagreements about whether or not government is good: it's mostly ok.

I agree, the American government (on all levels) seems to be particularly dysfunctional, so it makes sense that many Americans would look at it and conclude that government writ large is bad. Combined with the American propensity for introspection and self-criticism, the very real observation that American government is bad leads to the (imho erroneous) conclusion that all government is bad, ignoring the fact that most western governments, while flawed, are nowhere near as flawed as yours is.
The point is that people on the radical fringe of economic thought are prone to splitterism.
The current big news is that certain exchanges (ie. Mtgox) are beginning to suspend withdrawals of currency for various reasons. There are talks of Mtgox declaring bankruptcy (but don't take this as fact), so that scares people. Also, certain government(s) are beginning to ban cryptocurrencies to some effect. Like currently popular currency exchanges, negative viral news affects the prices dramatically.
> Plan 9 has acme and sam. There's also a vim port, but give Rob Pike's editors a chance. The relation between Unix and Plan 9 is the same as the relation between vim and sam.

From what I can read on wikipedia, both acme and sam are mouse-centered. This is a major philosophical change compared to vim, while my understanding is that Plan 9 is a pure expression of the ideas underlying Unix ("Unix without the hacks").

> There's terminal (not shell) history, check out the " and "" scripts. Again, things are different in Plan 9. There's no point in doing the same stuff again. The Plan 9 mechanism is an emergent property of its design (it doesn't require special code in shells), and it's scriptable (again, see " and "").

I'm afraid " and "" have both defeated my google-fu. Would you mind enlightening me about them?

> This makes no sense, Plan 9 have private namespaces which can do many things, including everything symlinks do.

I see. From what I read, that's certainly a much more powerful and cleaner abstraction than symlinks.

> The browser is probably the biggest gripe for more people. You can run a semi-recent Opera in linuxemu. I believe it wouldn't be too hard to update linuxemu so you could run a recent firefox or chromium, however nobody did the work so far. Personally, when I use Plan 9, I use it to do things I can't do in Unix, so I don't spend any effort that would enable me to do things I do in Unix. For browsing I use a mac.

This sounds reasonable. Anyway, given the limited hardware support, I suppose a VM is the way to go.
Yeah. I'm sure if corporate executives were to come down to a streetcorner and frankly explain their activities and views, people would be happy to protest them instead of the buses. But they stay ensconced in their corporate office parks, which the hoi polloi can't even reach via public transit. And where even if they did, corporate security would keep the executives from any uncomfortable frankness.
It's worth emphasising that a great deal of work in unnecessary for improving net happiness and consumes resources in the process and so undermines long term prosperity.
I lost count of the +1s. That issue must have around +180. :)
Yeah, I'm well familiar with languagelog.

I noted that I thought the app's logic probably wasn't "up to scratch" as is --- I'm inclined to be a bit charitable, given the direction of the criticism the app's getting.
Is that recursive irony?
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I don't know if this has been occurring for others but for some reason every time I try to post an link I receive "please try again". Does any one know why this is happening.
That sucks and is rather unfortunate. However, while according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, you are not legally required to carry ID, they say "Lastly, an officer cannot write you a summons if you do not provide i.d; instead he must arrest you. That means that if you are stopped for a violation such as loitering and do not provide i.d., you will be arrested"[0]

So, there were three outcomes once you ran the light and they had you: 1)they let you go without a summons because you don't have id (in which case getting out of summons would be easy). or 2) they detain you until you are id'd most likely either by a) escorting you to your apartment to get ID or b) arresting you. ( Note, option 3 doesn't exist: taking what ever name you give them for a summons, clearly shouldn't be an option as if you give someone else's name, they are in trouble.)

[0]http://www.nyclu.org/oped/column-showing-id-nypd-our-times
Tokumx would solve all of these issues. 2TB goes a long way in tokumx with lzma compression.
I think that it's both!
You have a right not to be blown up. You have a right not to be threatened.

You do not have a right to remain free of uncomfortable feelings that come when people tell you what they think of your views and actions. Protest is a vital part of democracy.
On a related note, the field of compilers seems to have ignored data optimization almost completely at the expense of code optimization.

Applying a few basic tricks lets a human typically save 50-75% off an object's storage requirements and a compiler could combine this with profile feedback data about access patterns & making it more cache friendly.

This would be a good fit for JIT where the compiler could do deopt when the assumptions are violated, and this would let you make more aggressive optimizations.
I've been to his room and it actually does that!
Fortunately anyone with Javascript disabled needs no convincing.