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SO much passive voice. Somebody needs to run that article through Hemingway.[0]

[0] http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
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Regarding toxoplasmosis, my recommendation was simply in line with what my city waste department has said. They previously said to use flushable kitty litter to avoid bagged waste. Now they say bag it, because of toxo. Good to hear this is even less an issue than I thought.

Not sure I understand how my cat's poo, in water, promptly flushed, is more airborne than litter-deposited poo. If anything, I've had lots of people remark at how crazy it is that our apartment doesn't have any litter box smell at all.

Regarding health, as I wrote elsewhere, I'm fairly certain I'm much more aware of our cat's urine and feces than a litter box user.

I cannot comment on the naturalness of toilet training our cat. Yes, cat's have an instinct to dig, which ours apparently satisfies by batting at the back of the toilet seat. Maybe she's secretly suffering, however she sure seems to make happy, excited sounds for her kitty treat that she gets each time she uses the toilet...
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Yeah, the failure of Reconstruction was sad but not really surprising in the greater context of the United States. Huge swaths of the history of the United States pretty much come down to defending slavery, de facto slavery, and maintaining a society which favors whites above others. One of the reasons for the Louisiana Purchase was the fear that France would free slaves in its territories, leading to unrest in the United States; one of the causes of the Texas Revolution was maintaining the rights of the American settlers to own slaves. Avoiding an "imbalance" of slave/non-slave states occupied the country for several decades before the Civil War, and prior to the 'War of State's Rights' numerous laws were passed abridging the rights of Northern States to shelter escaped slaves. After the Civil War, laws were passed in former slave states compelling blacks to enter into contracts with whites which were de facto slavery. Even today, prison labor and racially biased sentencing maintains de facto slavery. It wasn't until 84 years after the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments that Congress passed laws enforcing them. Even Progressive New Deal programs were racially biased; the original New Deal contained exemptions to Social Security (eg, for agricultural workers) to prevent large numbers of African Americans in the South from qualifying; this was a compromise between Roosevelt and Southern politicians, because he needed their support to fight World War II (Northerners were much more war-adverse and non-Interventionist, and more willing to sit out the war in Europe).

Trying to understand the United States and its history without knowing about the economics and social institutions of slavery is like trying to understand chemistry without knowing about atoms.
I used to have one of these, and I completely agree with the article. The DRM is shitty, the solution is expensive, and my house would periodically smell like baking cat feces. Eventually unit started to do the turd bakery routine more and more often (a worse failure mode is hardly even imaginable). So I replaced it with a Litter Robot[1].

With the exception of having to buy regular cat litter, which isn't a big deal, it's better in every way. It runs in a couple of minutes instead of like 40 minutes. It's quieter. The litter doesn't get tracked around nearly as much as the plastic pebbles. It also has never turned my house into a shit oven.

[1] http://www.litter-robot.com/
>but not up to a client lol //

Why don't DNS clients fail back to use the most recent good IP address as a default?

Indeed how can I set up my Kubuntu desktop to have this behaviour. Most domains probably point to the same IP for years at a time I'd imagine. If that's true it seems very strange that just because example.com's DNS server was offline this one day out of the last 600 that my browser can't "guess" that "123.45.67.89 example.com" is going to work.

You'd need to add some security around that to avoid abuse I'm sure but doesn't it seem reasonable? Shouldn't DNS failures only prevent you from getting to a server if the IP has changed??
I'd suggest putting up nginx as a reverse proxy to Apache. I had a situation sort of like this; under heavy load, Apache would have issues with semaphores that was hard to deal with. (Someone had handled the OOM-killing with a watchdog to respawn it.) For a large number of concurrent connections, nginx was much better, though that may have been due to the old MPM we were using - each connection tied up dozens of megs of memory in Apache, but maybe the request size-worth in nginx.
Sure, at first. But then your daughter has the SUV and your husband has the sedan and you want to get groceries and your sons want to go to two different friends houses, so you end up using sepf-driving cars all the time anyway, and you realize it's actually quite nice not to have to worry about maintenance and cleaning and charging. And you realize you could save $300 a month. And oh, you can just order a 4-wheel-drive vehicle pre-loaded with kayaks for your camping trip? And... and... and.

We haven't imagine half of what cars-as-a-service will entail. Some people will always hold onto their vehicles, but in the end I don't think a hunk of plastic and metal will be able to compete with a fleet of special-purpose vehicles supported by a staff of thousands.
A reasonable point. I've been doing a bit of editing for style recently, and will make another pass before sending off the manuscript. At the moment the style is very uneven from chapter to chapter, partly because the authors come from different backgrounds. If you include chapter authors, we live in 6 countries and have 9 native languages between us, and different views on how a textbook should read. To generalize really broadly, the text from Americans and Scandinavians seems to use shorter sentences and a more conversational tone than that from others. (Of course, country/language isn't the only reason people vary on style and level of formality.)

But yes, I'm aiming to bring it in a more conversational direction. It still needs editing too, but Ch. 8 is closer to the style I'm personally aiming for.
Not to mention that neither the Pentagon nor the CIA are in DC.
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Non-slip, anti-microbial toilet bowl rim perch for cats. When she makes her next million, she can send me a thank you card or something.
Anyone with an idea how well Google Cloud DNS handles DDoS? I would image it just sucks it up, because they already saw any DDoS volume (would it be any or every, I'm not a native speaker?) before.
Post from Dyn Research up now. They make the point that the failure happened gradually, after hours of instability - so it's consistent with a DDOS or a hardware failure in the routers, but not with someone "pulling the plug" or a cable being cut.
factually true comments should never be punished down to -1. HN's voting system is broken and too easily abused by people being jerks, helping to reinforce groupthink
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That's like running Andrew Wyeth[1] through a Bob Ross app. [0] Writing is art, it doesn't always need to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator or bereft of its voice.

[0] I loved Bob Ross.

[1] I originally had "Picasso" but the styles were too disparate for the point. Still, props to @krapp for the ERB link.
The opposite - a degree becomes less and less relevant as you gain experience, both in technical skills and management.
A mix of both. I should do a longer write-up on this whole thing.
factually true, on-topic, helpful comments like mine should never be punished down to -4. HN's voting system is broken and too easily abused by people being jerks, helping to reinforce groupthink

shame on anyone that contributed to that. you're part of why HN has such a hateful, obnoxious sub-culture that drives more mature people away
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You're assuming SSL is implemented without any security bugs. We saw what happened with Heartbleed and when SSL implementations are not properly reviewed and updated by a full funded team.
I want to point out that Tiobe ranks C++ as the #4 most popular language - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

I'll just say I'm not a fan of C++ and would rather write my own language similar to the source-to-source compiler idea of HaXe ( http://haxe.org/ ).
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Napoleon was indeed a very good general, rightfully considered as one of the greatest of all time. This very well written and insightful article takes his legend down a peg or two, which is certainly justified. The invasion of Russia was one of history's greatest follies, The Little Corporal was cavalier with the lives of his men and his strategic brilliance was inconsistent at best. But his strengths often made up for his short comings and he was better than almost all of the comparable generals of his day.

His victory at Austerlitz stands as one of the great military achievements and best executed battles in history. Literally a textbook example of movement, timing and coordination. The common perception is that after Napoleon returned from Elba he lost much of his strategic and tactical flair, throwing his men into meat grinders. This is mostly true, but most of the opposing generals also had very high casualty rates. Napoleonic warfare was dominated by the Fog of War, they had no satellites or drones to help them plan and maneuver. Napoleon had a sixth sense for visualizing a battle that unfortunately came and went. On his good days he was better than many who have ever lived. On most days, he was simply average. That's as much as most of us could ask for, and it was enough to dominate a continent at the time.

History is filled with intelligent and technically capable generals, but only a few who had a style that set them apart. Hannibal and Robert E. Lee come easily to mind, along with others. Napoleon's genius of movement and logistics were groundbreaking, and the lessons apply to more than warfare. He was the original "Move fast and break things". He taught military history that being faster and better organized was enough to build a seemingly unstoppable snow ball effect of victories. His downfall instructs that even the best preparation cannot defeat a dangerous and unpredictable shifting landscape.
I'm not really interested enough to hunt it down but presumably UNLV's employment figures for those who've taken post-graduate degrees are a matter of record too?

I'm surprised to some extent that the 113th best college for English offers a postgrad program in English.
(sigh.)

I can't resist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGN5xaQkFk0
"Successful" people have always deluded themselves into believing they deserve their wealth and power, ffs, many of the kings and emperors of times past literally believed they were gods!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_gubernatorial_electio... says:

> Following the primary election in September, a poll on October 20 showed Humphrey leading 35% to Coleman (34%) and Ventura (21%)

That's pretty far behind. But I'm not going to research this because you're the one trying to make the point, and you need to defend your position that it's a useful one, not switch topics to alternative voting systems.

If people followed your suggested voting tactic then Humphrey or Coleman would have been governor. They didn't, and ended up with Ventura. Not only was he a plurality winner, but from what I can tell he was a Condorcet winner too.

The voters got who they wanted. Not what the polls said was the lesser of two evils as you would have had them choose.
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Every time I read about Fastmail, I want to make the jump from Google Apps. However, I don't do it because of Google Drive/Docs/Spreadsheet. Any recommendation for their replacement?!
I made my first money online in the SEO/IM scene at Wickedfire/Digitalpoint/Sitepoint/etc. Those guys are really good at what they do.

It's funny to hear you call the WaFo products "guru" here on HN (I would agree they are), because HN itself is subject to the same kind of guru-bullshit. There are multiple people on HN who make money selling info products purely to the HN crowd. I would classify them as "guru" as well. I enjoy watching it play out, because as HN builds as a community, it seems a lot of trends are evolving in the same way the IM community did. Someone makes money, makes a blogpost, gains a following, writes an ebook, makes more money. I would call that "guru", but people on HN pay for it. I will say, however, that the content the "gurus" on HN produce is far better than 99% of the shit coming out of WaFo.

Relatedly, it's amazing how quickly people on HN will dismiss the SEO and affiliate marketing industry. It's a massive market. The "marketplace" forums on WF, WaFo, and BHW process five figures of transactions per day. That's mostly SEO services, some spammy, some not. Outside of that, there are multiple affiliates on those forums doing six figure daily revenues. The AM industry as a whole is ~6billion annually.

Despite all the money in SEO/AM, commenters on HN are quick to degrade the industry as spammy/blackhat/assholes/whatever, and yet most of those people are making more on their own than anyone here. It's quite funny, honestly.
I suggest you read about Yi Sun-Sin also, considered the greatest naval commander of all time (Not a general). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin
"C++ is a big language. The size of its definition is very similar to those of C# and Java."

I can't speak with authority to C#, but C++ is a massively larger core language than Java with far more complicated semantics.
One of my favorite books is Michael Collins's "Carrying the Fire": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_the_Fire:_An_Astronau...
i agree, I'm just saying that its possible.
In the comment thread to another post of his on this issue, someone asked him why he didn't just use nginx, and he replied something along the lines of "because then I would need to learn nginx".
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Is this it?

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-monthly-plans "$30 per month — Unlimited web and text with 100 minutes talk... First 5GB at up to 4G speeds... This plan is only available for devices purchased from Wal-Mart or devices activated on T-Mobile.com".

That sounds good, except that I recently tried to activate a new, unlocked iPhone on t-mobile.com — and it didn't go well at all. The web site simply couldn't do it. Neither could the phone reps. It took a trip to a B&M store before I could get the phone activated, even though it came from Apple with a t-mobile SIM card already installed. So this $30 plan may not be a practical option if you want a specific phone.

That said I am pretty happy with t-mobile so far, using a post-paid plan. Connectivity has been better than I expected. International roaming was an amazing value on my last trip, but that might not be available on the $30 plan either.
Found something - May be related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_pruritus
From my understanding, she was on her way to work from the uni. I think it was more accurately about 20mph.
If it is society, how should it be handled? Should schools educate girls to take more risk while boys are instructed on the negative aspect of risk taking?

Or to phrase the question in a different way. If risk behavior is a socially learned behavior, and risk behavior is the cause of gender imbalance in SV entrepreneurs, what would the ethical action be to create equal opportunity for people of both genders?
LOL as if North Korea is even expected to follow our Constitution.
Here's the cache for the post:
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The author here. I'm not necessarily an opponent of generics, the post was just a "how to deal with the current situation", so keep that context in mind. :)

> someone needs to be able to do it to write the libraries he needs to use

I'm not sure what this has to do with what I wrote. As evidenced by the `container/list` package, a generic implementation can be distributed, and we can build our type-safe wrappers around that (if type-safety is really that important in your application--I haven't had much difficulty using the generic container as-is).

I do agree that the boilerplate is inconvenient (pretty much by definition). But it's fortunately also trivial by definition. People seem to think that these wrappers raise the total complexity of the program just because they contribute to the total lines of code (loc) count. Many people also think that if you don't use these type-safe wrappers that your program will be doomed to runtime errors.

I think both of these are big exaggerations, and that's why I wanted to write that post. Even in spite of Go's generics situation (I'm not entirely convinced about the degree to which it's a liability), I still find it to be the most enabling tool in my bucket.
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> Jonathon Riley served in Bosnia and Iraq, where he was the general officer commanding British forces.

A British officer who doesn't think highly of Napoleon? This is my surprised face.

> This is implicit in Karl von Clausewitz’s celebrated but often misquoted (and still more often misunderstood) remark that ‘war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means.’

Can this guy read German? Because that seems like an over-translation of the simple „Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln“ (title of section 24, chapter 1, book I of Vom Kriege).

I would also note that Napoleon failed in the end, but that he did quite well in the meanwhile. He continued the Revolutionary Wars, and so was doomed to face the forces of reaction, who would never ally with him with any kind of sincerity. It's possible that his military successes blinded him to the possibility of stability through diplomacy, but could he really have allied with the Habsburgs?

He also had to contend with an ascendant Britain, willing to exploit her insular position to its full advantage through her renewed Navy and her economic strength. But just a few years before the French Revolution, Britain had come close to losing it all; with no allies on the continent to distract France, she might have lost not just her colonies, but her dominant naval position, which was so essential in Napoleon's defeat.
I think the failure to be clear on the limitations up-front is central. If everyone knows what they're getting into, then you can just let the market figure things out. The problem is that people have expectations for consumables, namely that the difference between a name brand consumable and a generic version is at most quality, and these companies are taking advantage of that expectation.

You don't even have to sell two flavors. Let Keurig do their silly DRM stuff. Just make sure it's absolutely clear on the packaging that you have no choice in who you buy the consumables from. If people prefer to pay more to avoid DRM, a competitor will surely arise if Keurig doesn't go for that market themselves.

Ultimately, these companies need to be reminded that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. The model where you sell up-front cheaply and then make it up on consumables doesn't require DRM. All it needs is brand loyalty, preferably backed by a reputation for quality. For a real-world example, car dealerships make most of their money on service, not sales, even though everyone is free to take their car to any unaffiliated mechanic they like.
> So I should support a third party that will get no representation in the government and have no impact?

In a word, yes. If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you've still voted for evil. The government derives its legitimacy through votes. Even if you "throw your vote away" you can at least say that the ruling party did not derive a single quantum of legitimacy through you.
I got that there was an OS underneath but i don't see how that matters. As you could do the same in unix if you had a shell/api that hooked in at the right place.
Another good example of this approach is indie 2D platformer Spelunky. Here's an illustration of the method:

http://tinysubversions.com/spelunkyGen/
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The $30 plan is an odd duck. They clearly don't want it to be too visible. I guess it's an attempt at market segmentation. People who aren't willing to go out of their way to track it down will go for a more expensive plan instead. But I think it's available to anything that'll take a SIM card if you can jump through all the hoops and twist the right arms.
That's the same oath all the military torturers took, right? And the same one that Cheney swore (or affirmed)? Who says he would order the torture again?

If you'll torture for that oath then you'll commit voter fraud for that oath, and commit murder and other felonies for that oath. You'll do anything so long as you can justify it with your consequentialist ethics.

Glad to know where you stand.

Or rather don't stand, since your ethics allow you to break that oath to prevent greater violence. And you get to decide which is greater. Which is why the death of thousands in 2001 justify the torture of innocent people now. Our employed and elected torturers got to decide which of those was the greater violence, without making that information public, as it was clear to them that that was the right choice with the information they had.
Looks interesting, going to watch rest later. I wonder if the graph of trade with England is really the 'basis' for all scientific graphs of data. Didn't Descartes develop the idea of graphing Y in relation to X?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system