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> Haha I can think of a few leaders of other nations who might enjoy this power.

In Britain we essentially go by the philosophy that parliament represents the people, and parliament is the highest authority in the country. If the government doesn't like a decision made by a court, the idea is that the law can be changed.
Ask HN: Good at programming but suck at Computer Science and coding interviews?
I recently started a group / meetup at the hacker house I live in SF called "Do you even code?" that is for people like you.

I started a facebook group for it recently

https://www.facebook.com/groups/871332856219191/

Here is the mission statement.

"This group is dedicated to all people who can program... but suck at data structures and algorithms coding interviews.

Those interviews where you have to get the answer right in under 10 minutes with nothing but a whiteboard, a toothpick, and 2 overworked engineers staring over your shoulder who just want to fill their rec who are wondering why the recruiter sent this idio...candidate in to them.

Soon there is that moment when one looks at you like "Do you even code?"

Then the nice recruiter walks in and tells you "well that's the last interview for the day!"

And you get escorted off the premises. And a week later you get that form letter like "We're sorry but we've decided not to 'move forward' "

This is a place you can learn and share knowledge about how to cross the chasm between "not moving forward" to "were excited to extend you an offer."

"

Anyone in the SF bay area is invited, we meet at 8pm on Thursdays. If interest grows enough I will be making it an official meetup group.

The goal of the events to help expose yourself to enough problems and solutions so that you can recognize problems and find solutions quickly.

https://www.facebook.com/events/741079035947419/
His point, one that I strongly agree with, is that the threat of being hellbanned for comments that get downvoted is enough to stifle discussion on HN. Honestly, how often do you see passionate debate in HN comments?
Look, if you can't answer the question, and the best you can come up with is "that money is just lots $1 dollars...", you probably deserve what you're gonna get once interest rates go up and you're spending $1 trillion in interest.
First time I've seen it. I think it has a lot of relevance, we all need to think more about the things we purchase. That chocolate bar you just ate was probably produced using slave labor, those new cool shoes, made with sweat shop labor by young girls. To just brush off articles like this is insensitive.
Easiest disproof: open a Python console and type in

3987**12 + 4365**12 - 4472**12

Arbitrary-precision integers FTW!
I'm also pretty sure Sweden's "maximum" security prison is still better than most US prisons.
This is great news, I'm glad to see the women get the help they need and this is how what laws related to these crimes should be; stop blaming the victims in the first place and preventing people from becoming victims next. Criminalize the people causing the crimes, not the other way around.

Now, I do have a slight concern here. They legalized the selling of sex, so does anybody have a feeling the johns have found a loophole and the government might not be aware of it?
I had seen this effect about two years ago on the website of Roman Komarov and was impressed by it at the time: http://kizu.ru/en/fun/
> in order for a company to want to buy you, an internal champion will have to internalize one of these reasons

Truth. Identify who that person is and focus your energy on making sure they have everything they need to stay motivated to sell their company on buying yours.
It's cool. I'm just curious about your take since, by necessity, you get to see far more comments than I do and get to see patterns that I may miss completely.

For the record, I don't think he deserved a hellbanning, but then again, this was a while ago. And the wild west hadn't probably settled yet.
I personally think that AWS auto-scale groups are poorly named, as they can do more than just the sort of brute force "scaling" that you are rightfully disdainful of.

You can, for example, create an auto scale group to ensure a minimum of n healthy instances of an application, so if one falls over, it will be replaced with a pristine one.

To me, auto-healing is a lot more interesting than auto-scaling.
> I'm pretty sure that during the time radio and TV were figuring out their business models, license fees were negligible.

Didn't know that - that's interesting. Still, the spectrum itself was regulated, right?

That sounds even worse, IMO. The fees may have been low, but even in the 50s, the right to broadcast on a particular frequency was worth heaps of money. So, if they weren't auctioning to the highest bidder, the frequency would go to whoever knew the right people in government (and paid them or gave them gifts, I would imagine).
A few years ago, the Wolfire team (AKA, the Humble Bundle originators), put together a great set of articles on linear algebra as it applies to game development. I think it's one of the most plainly-written and practical guides out there. I still mentally picture the diagrams when I've been out of the loop for a bit.

http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-deve...
Yeah after a couple of days wait, a couple of hours after me the same points. Murphy's law of timing...
It also shows Hitler saying otherwise. Hearsay vs first hand, what a tough call. Why are your responses so consistently dishonest?
A recent article by CoinDesk [0] quotes the total number of listings on each of the biggest dark markets (before the seizures) and the number of listings for drugs; drugs made up a large majority of listings on all markets except Evolution, about half of whose listings are for drugs.

(The numbers come from a report [1] by the Digital Citizens Alliance; the report says the count is from January 2014, but says nothing further about methodology.)

The markets that sell weapons have significantly lower proportions of drug listings, so presumably many of the non-drug listings on those markets are for weapons; much of the rest is likely exploits, credit card numbers, forgeries, etc.

0. http://www.coindesk.com/dark-markets-grow-bigger-bolder-year...

1. https://media.gractions.com/314A5A5A9ABBBBC5E3BD824CF47C46EF... [PDF]
Prison being shitty covers retribution and deterrence. Prevention is provided merely by having strong walls and razor wire.

If somebody is locked in a cell, then they will be physically unable to rob the local liquor store. How well or poorly they are treated is irrelevant in that regard.
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I think these are valuable points; thanks. But I disagree for a few reasons:

1) Eminent domain seems valid if it's exercised by the victims' legitimate government, which they elect and over which they have a say, and under which they have rights and the ability to legally protect themselves. My impression[1] is that none of that applies to the Chagossians. The UK appears[1] to have taken advantage of their helplessness. For example, imagine if the UK took your land (assuming you are not in the UK) and you had no appeal.

> none of us have any right to claim any piece of real estate as our own. The law, of course, grants certain people certain rights with respect to land. But morally, it's all arbitrary.

2) That is one point of view but it's a radical one. Our society places great moral store in property rights; many leading philosophers think it is the foundation of all other rights and of democracy. Certainly few react well to someone else taking away their home; people fight wars over that.

3) One aspect of human rights is that it's up to Chagossians to decide what they want and what is good for them. It's not up to you or anyone else to dictate that something is or is not in their interests.

4) I suspect it is much harder for what I'm guessing[1] are members of a small, isolated community that has only existed on an island to move than for the wordly high-tech entrepreneurs reading this thread. Where should they move? Sri Lanka? Delhi? Kenya? An apartment in the Mission? Another island where the locals already control it and the newcomers may not be welcome? Where the fish and everything else are different?

[1] I say "my impression' and 'it appears' because I don't know the facts well enough to be sure.
Martin has something nice to say about everyone's project. I seriously doubt he likes that a new language was created in 2009 that allows null references. But we'll never hear about it if he doesn't. Still, that doesn't make him a Go programmer.
Trademarks are useful. They let you know that you're buying from the person you intend to buy from.

Imagine a world without trademarks. The US would be flooded with iPhone knockoffs, and all of them would be identical to iPhones. They'd have god-knows-what inside them, but they'd bear the Apple logo.

Or, imagine you want to pay your American Express bill. Unfortunately, someone has bought AmericanExpress.card, and you get confused. You end up inputting your AmEx login info into a phishing site and give a hacker your personal data.

In a world without trademarks, Apple and American Express wouldn't have the legal authority to pursue people that are imitating them.
Who are the usual suspects? I'm not aware of the current situation in sports training.
It's the distinction between "this isn't the content I'd prefer to see at HN" and "this comment is abusive or inappropriate for the venue". Karma doesn't mean much, and getting the occasional off-topic or vacuous comment downvoted is just a soft form of negative reinforcement.
You can install from any folder, not only your home folder. Most package installations under Linux do require sudo privileges, so WireEdit is in no way unique. You password is SAFE. Really. The README is trying to be pretty upfront about what it is, and how it works. See also my replies to other questions here.
"I believe there are some good reasons too"

What do you think those are?

I think that one issue is that it's harder to manage them, especially because they tend to be high-skill niche businesses. The thing about social media is that any fucking idiot has, at least, the technical knowledge to run one. This makes them attractive to bikeshedding investors and also ripe places to put underachieving friends who are owed favors.
Does this mean that the majority of the performance improvements over Puma actually come from the fact that they are using the considerably less battle-tested HTTP parser of PicoHTTPParser over the Mongrel one?

Of course, this may be mitigated by the fact that any reasonable production environment will have a web server layer over the app server/s anyway for load balancing, fail-over and exploit detection/prevention anyway.
This sort of thing leads to finicky rulings everywhere, though. For example, if I build an airport, I probably will have to compulsorily purchase a bunch of land from people and demolish their homes. I must purchase the land at the market price (at least according to UK law) so that they are left in the same financial position after the purchase.

Now say that 50 years later, its realised that there's a whole load of diamonds under the airport (not known to anyone). Clearly, we would not compensate the original owners.

The only difference here is that the people who owned the land were not compensated for it. Those people are now mostly dead or nearly dead.
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Thanks!

Ha! Yeah, my co-founder and I debated that one... (he thought I should reverse it). I can see it both ways, but your comment certainly puts another vote in the reverse-it column. Thanks again :)
Thank you for an excellent argument. I actually agree with you overall, and indeed I don't think Japan is an egalitarian society at all. However, I don't think the financial egalitarianism necessarily implies the status quo mentality, although it is a sad coincidence here for now. I think it is possible to create a financially egalitarian society while advocating changes. No idea how, but that's beyond my point. Either way, I think people getting paid equally for vastly different jobs is saner. It is more of a manifestation that there's something that cannot be transferred to monetary value.
Turing and his compatriots weren't using statistical models of which they had no understanding to order raids in peace time.

Turing, yeah, he probably understood stats being a codebreaker and all. Not sure what you think codebreaking is. But I guess the idea that Turing would know his stats isn't common sense, common sense is usually prejudice writ large anyway. Suggesting otherwise as a justification for raiding someone based on a stat analysis of an academic paper hinging on 7 words used is just so silly I can scarcely credit it. Factual underpinning is ridiculous then build fallacies of logic built on that. Well done.

Do you volunteer at being an apologist? What would be so bad that you wouldn't be able to make excuses for it. Seriously?
> It's a software company. Since there's virtually zero cost of goods, you expect a high margin.

Not always the case, especially if you have a large professional server component to your software (& sometimes SaaS). See, for example, Workday > http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/0001193125123...

Gross margin is not the sole metric. However, high gross margin is not a given even at software companies.
I totally agree I made this point badly.
> the displaced people are adequately compensated for their loss

How can you measure (in order to attempt to "adequately compensate" displaced people) the inability to live in one's ancestral homeland? Imagine if we were all shipped to a somewhat earth-like moon somewhere, under "eminent domain".
Yeah, but that was until they announced SteamOS would be delayed to 2015.
You should pay attention to the UN more then, even if they do usually abstain from voting.
If media covered America the way we cover foreign cultures
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That's nice in theory, but it's also yet another example of Apple innovating and getting it right, and people implementing a quick copy without going through nearly as much necessary design thinking as Apple did. The end result is that only Apple's implementation is better than the default one. Of course I'm not blaming you personally for that, I mean, even Microsoft has fallen prey to this phenomenon (and on a vastly larger scale). But it would nice if people were more observant.
yep. I never meant to imply that rust macros were expanded at runtime. I was trying to use rust as an example of a c-style langauge with a nice macro system.
The whole post is off-white on white in my Android phone, unless I click an icon which opens a text box over the main text. If I close the box then the main text gets low-contrast again.
LA (or Sahara or whatever) at least has oxygen, decent atmospheric pressure, and non-freezing temperatures.

Mars is very, very different. You can't go out at any moment and take a breath if your CO2 scrubbers break down.
> Even if you do have to manually install drivers, it's about a million times easier than on linux

For nvidia cards you do not need to install anything on your own on most distributions, and it comes with the latest drivers, so I can't see how it can be "million times easier than on Linux". AMD is another story, granted, but that does not mean it's the rule.
our GC pause is pretty large =D
See no evil, hear no evil?
They actually aren't using PicoHTTPParser.
1.2 and still no international shipping provider.. USPS/UPS all have API's and deliver pretty much everywhere. Just implement it and charge for it. Those who don't want to pay will use a reshipper.
> basic linear algebra backwards and forwards

On that note, here's a short tutorials about linear algebra on fast forward: http://minireference.com/static/tutorials/linear_algebra_in_...

It's aimed at students who are in a rush so it doesn't cover too many applications (the cool parts of LA), but the essential ideas are there.
> I have a web robot which is a Java app.

I am reminded of Linus's announcement of Linux:

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, as they say.
It would be very handy to be able to modify the payload of requests/responses as well without resorting to MITM proxy applications.
This seems like something user agents should apply to all 'underline' text-decoration by default in order to improve readability. Is there any reason not to?
A rule of thumb is that $1 in sales/marketing expense should get you at least $1 in additional gross profit over the next 12 months. Depending on how much of that $47M was new revenue, it sounds like they're in decent shape on that score.
Is 'Scorpion Walter O'Brien' a Real Computer Security Genius?
> Remember SteamOS was born before Win8 was announced and Valve was scared where MS was going. Steam on Windows seems pretty safe, the pressure is off.

It may be off, but Microsoft may become more of a games distributor in the future through their own app store, so it may eat up some of Valve's revenue because MS app store is included by default while Steam is not.
Sorry that I'm not going to spend the time to look them up, but there are extreme nationalistic military officers who take this position. What I'm saying is not controversial in foreign policy literature, though perhaps the position is more often strongly implied than literally stated. Also, realize that the Chinese government seems to have less control over the statements of its military officers; I can't imagine U.S. officers making statements like these.

Try searching for 'kill a chicken to scare the monkeys'. A popular meme (at least popular enough that I've encountered it many times) is that China suffered a "century of humiliation" at the West's hands, that China is ascending and the U.S. is in decline, and now China will take what it wants as the great power of the world, including control of their region and territory from their neighbors (some of whom have security guarantees from the U.S.).

As far as actions, for example the Chinese military actively have harassed U.S. and allied nations' ships and planes, including causing a few serious collisions.
I agree, although obviously it needs to be smart about how widely it disables. There was an addon available but it got removed from addons.mozilla.org I assume because it violated security. The developer still hosts the addon though.
Again you fail to reason correctly. It's not that if you can't devise an experiment for X that X does not exist. It is more that you speak of X, X does things for you in this material world, etc. yet you have never seen X but you trust other human mammals who told you there is X, and you never even asked for ordinary evidence for X, let alone the extraordinary evidence it would require to prove the claims.
No in fact with questions of religion, psychiatry, diets, etc it usually comes to 'large bodies of populations' or even 'majorities of populations', you're going to find 'some' of everything.
It's a painful exercise (entirely due to Apple, not Go), but we implemented an Apple Push Notification Service provider in Go that relies on several of its concurrency primitives.

I think implementing a simple HTTP proxy might also be a really good exercise, though I haven't done it.
If everyone's guilty, it means nobody is. If everyone has something they did, didn't do, or didn't stop which implicates them in being a horrible human being, all it becomes is an endless cycle of "well, you did that" "oh, and you didn't do that" which completely distracts from any honest effort to fix the underlying problems.
Ask HN: Anyone here divorced or separated and have kids?
I'm building a product aimed at people who are divorced or separated and who have kids.

Wondering if anyone here matches that profile, or are you all the cliched developer i.e. 20-something single young male without children?
Even for PHP you do, it's just delivered as an apache module. (Passenger can be run as an apache module too, fwiw).

Although to be fair, the PHP model doesn't require a _persistent_ process between requests (I think?). But most other platforms do.
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If the FCC rules against Net Neutrality, there is only one thing to be done: All the network administrators in the country must band together and bring the Internet to a screeching halt. Neither the politicians, the lobbyists, nor the corporate suits have any idea how to keep these systems running. But all the system admins that do, they know full well what is at stake here. So I have no doubts about this. As long as all of the admins can organize in action, Net Neutrality will soon become the law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Both of them are open now. In 2009, it was possible to write a guide to writing software in Go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091113154825/http://golang.org...

That looks a lot like today's Go. All of the major design decisions were made, distinctive Go concepts (slices, maps, interfaces, goroutines, switching on concrete type, etc.) are all present. Most of the code examples would compile today with only a few tweaks (if any).

Suffice it to say that Rust was not in that state in 2010. It was barely in that state by 2014. Go was released as a beta; Rust was released as a pre-alpha. That isn't a judgment of either language or community.
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The US government's total debt is around 18 trillion. The federal deficit is around 500 billion and falling.
And you're wrong. Food quality is a small piece of the big puzzle of how prisoners are treated, which obviously affects how they will reintegrate in society, which is something that recidivism rates measure.

Prisons should not be about punishing people. Punishment would lead to just more drain on society. I would have hoped we'd have outgrown this childish yearn for revenge in the 21st century.
How'd you get an Uber driver that's never heard of Valencia St?
Can a net neutrality advocate please help me understand why the internet is different to physical roads and bridges?

UPS and FedEx are free to charge a different price when delivering a package from Amazon.com compared to Walmart.com.

So why should an internet service provide be prevented from charging a different price for delivering data from Amazon.com compared to Walmart.com?

Is it simply a case of there not being enough competition between internet service providers? If so, should net neutrality still be required in areas where there IS competition? For example, where I live in Australia I can get a 4G mobile data plan from any of 3 different providers (Telstra, Optus and Vodafone). Competition between them seems very effective, so is there really a need to require net neutrality in this case?
To your point (3), perhaps it is reasonable to bring a lifetime's supply of vitamin supplements for four people. But with an artificial lamp you would have to worry about bulbs burning out (how many would you need?), and the lamps would consume a significant part of what would have to be a limited power supply in the colony.

To your point (4), that there may exist an even more difficult problem does not mean that building a Mars vehicle is "not especially technically challenging." The author explicitly cites the three recent malfunctions with rocket launches, and the older Apollo, Soyuz, and Shuttle programs all had their difficulties too. Building a Mars vehicle is surely challenging.
Love this. The first sentence is still very telling:

In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext.