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It's important to put numbers in perspective. Every US citizen spends $98k over their expected lifetime on the military, for example. An average Swedish citizen spends $46k on state funded university and higher education over their expected lifetime (which is only slightly higher).

That said, it should be obvious that the Sweden model doesn't suit conditions in the US (one is a small country in Northern Europe, one is almost a continent), but one should be able to discuss these things without the straw man of how state spending is impossible in the US. After all, military spending is possible, and that is probably the most socialistic system of them all, in the sense that it is state planned and politically mandated.
If I invested my life savings into a company that hasn't turned a profit in five years, that wouldn't make the company or the exchange a scam, it would simply make me an idiot.

Nobody is promising Bitcoin investors a profit because nobody (officially) speaks for Bitcoin to begin with. Anyone investing into BTC and subsequently losing or gaining money is doing it of their own will, not because they were scammed into it.
Another great one is 'dd' which stands for 'Copy and Convert'. Oddly enough, cc was already taken.
Guns were very available to civilians in the US before we started giving the police military hardware, before we escalated paramilitary tactics from a few dozen teams around the country to every single department, before the no-knock warrant and the guns-drawn entry and the highest incarceration rate in the world.

This stuff doesn't have to be the standard. This is a fad borne of the fact that most people who are SWATed find boots on their necks and cuffs on their wrists before they're capable of explaining themselves. If they're lucky.
You can't set a dollar figure but you absolutely can set resource count caps.

The dollar figure is less useful. If you set $1000 should it kick in when you hit it 12 hours before the end of the month? What if you hit $990 by the 2nd day of month? These are wildly different, and the dollar figure doesn't know.

Service Limits, on the other hand, let you be sure the max you use every day won't overrun your EOM budget.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_lim...
My understanding of this situation from following on Twitter is that they claimed to be at her location, armed, with a hostage, asking for ransom.

I'm doing my best to spare the diatribe about how the Oakland Police Department is essentially the worst police department in the US.

Let's just take a step back. In what world does someone who wants a ransom for a hostage call the police? This isn't something that happens, except in action movies. The entire narrative, including the police reaction, is straight out of a sophomore film student's twisted imagination.

The police, esp in the US, but in general, aren't designed to protect and serve, they're designed to eliminate threats to power. Right now Oakland has a new mayor who wants to make sure voters see that she is tough on crime.

This situation is an unfortunate collision of two worlds that know very little about each other. :/
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> you're still iterating over the list twice

There is nothing about higher-order operations that would require developers to implement xs.map(...).map(...).map(...) or xs.Select(...).Select(...).Select(...) or whatever as multiple traversals over the data structure.

> The problem with the fancy syntax is that it makes it too easy to write suboptimal code that you'd never write if you were writing plain old for loops, like the above.

Maybe Google should just invest in hiring better people? I know it's getting increasingly harder to find people who still haven't evolved from the 1960ies mindset, but still ...
I don't think he was talking about a prescriptivist's "correct" way to eat the food. I believe it was intended to be a review of the interesting dining experience at this place.

Less "this is how it should be eaten" and more "I tried eating at this place where the chef insists I follow his rules and I kinda liked it".
I've started using "bro", and really like it.
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I don't agree but beware - non-educated unscientific rant ahead, personal view only

You can only measure nature with nature ..or universe with the same universe, - or - universe can only measure it self with/by itself; now measurement is an interaction - you have to interact(either directly or indirectly) with what you are trying to measure to get some information. Since you are using "parts" of the universe(like photon/electron beams, stones, chopsticks) to measure other parts of the same universe, of course there are limits on your precision and artifacts within those measurements. Lets do a gedankenexperiment; imagine that you just entered a porcelain shop but your vision is based on arbitrary-sized plastic projectile gun and a (smart)detector wall that detects all projectiles that bumped of a scanned surface within a certain angle. Now there is only a range of momentums(velocity/weight combinations) that would let you scan that environment within an acceptable resolution - the point is that you can't have an arbitrary resolution(either there is air-resistance or unavoidable damage to the environment or or).. I'll jump ahead a few steps and go right to the underlying question, and that is whether the universe is deterministic or not - which in context of the above is actually pretty straight-forward(again, personal view) - since as "inhabitants" of the universe we want to measure we are bound to use parts of the universe to do our measurements, newtons predicable clockwork universe indeed has its limitations(and I really don't see why this is such an issue when c is accepted without friction, if you have no problems dealing with c why on earth do you have such problems with this which directly follows). Regardless of whether we live in a deterministic universe or not we can't have arbitrary resolution so from practical point of view - for us - its the same as if the universe "at-its-core" was not deterministic(there is no way to get that probability line under control when time increases). Now as a pure philosophical question, whether our universe is really deterministic or not depends on the model we use(in "bubble-like-multiverses" there is no interaction between universe-bubbles possible hence deterministic, in eternal inflation models it gets spread from deterministic to non-deterministic but for all models with interacting universes - only your imagination is the limit, seriously, very potent drug) All in all, one thing is sure - we are the universe experiencing it self sooo enjoy
> In what world does someone who wants a ransom for a hostage call the police?

Any witness can call and describe the situation, as well as victims that are in hiding.

If you were a 911 operator and got a call that was ordering a Pizza you would have hang up right?
I lived and worked in Japan for 6 years, and according to my observations, you speak the truth.

This chef has his own particular style of running his sushi-ya, which I personally wouldn't enjoy participating in, as someone who doesn't like to be ordered around by anyone - especially someone I'm paying my money to in order to receive food (I eat to live, not live to eat) - and I'd have probably exited the establishment soon after being barked at :)

Not that I'm a particular fan of raw fish anyway - something that caused no end of comedy and drama during my 6 years in Japan, but that's a tale for some other date and place ;)
But, why the hack they don't allow this option? Those people who wants to do that - let them go ahead... What's the problem with that?
I don't understand the scenario that would be required for a no-knock entry to be the only acceptable option.

The classic example is if the police think that evidence could be destroyed very quickly, e.g., electronic records.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/03/idaho-police-...

Here's an example of a women with a knife making threats to kill people and ignoring police instruction where those police are clearly armed and prepared to kill.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/03/idaho-police-...

She was pregnant; the knife was a three inch blade; the police had less-lethal options available but chose not to use them; police did not just have their pistols - one of them had an AR15 rifle.

There were things the police could have done that would have avoided the death of the woman (and the risk of death or injury to bystanders). (I'm not talking about shoot to wound - I know enough to know that's misguided). The police could have used their tasers. They should have been given better training in de-escalation.
I can confirm that most indications we've been able to gather point at SWAT threats coming in over Skype and google voice. Location is harder to pinpoint. Many do appear to come from overseas.
You never know... unfortunately
Extroverts self-reflect, form genuine connections and can relate on a deep level. You're thinking, perhaps, of narcissists? But I think even they self-reflect.
GNU is a recursive acronym

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
Sometimes the only way to introduce competition is via regulation when the market is a natural monopoly or the capital costs to compete are so huge (phone system, water system, gas system, electricity system etc).

One way to do this is to force the current monopoly to provide it's services at cost to competitors who can then sell value add on top (this is what we did in the UK with British Telecom (though the different here is that BT was nationally owned)) not sure if you could do that in the US since comcast is a private corp.
Depends on your code. C isn't moving at the pace C++ is so given that most (all?) of the OpenBSD base is C and sh, LTS will work with base, no problem. It's important too that developers are rather happy with what C99 brings to the table so it's a solid reference point for any LTS compiler that would/could happen. It's ports, I think, where the problem is. A lot of that code is C++ so you need compiler and std lib implementation to be able to handle it. But there are two problem.

First one: the quality of ports varies from project to project. There's code out there that depends on certain gcc-specific extension, compiler quirks, bugs, you name it. C++ is insanely complex and features just keep piling on. I bet the moment C++17 is available some projects start using certain features because they can. In this case C++ is a moving target and it's hard to imagine LTE C++ compiler for open source projects.

Second one: AFAIK only gcc's standard library has support for all of the wacky constructs C++ requires. You're probably out of luck if you try to compile C++ code with thread local storage intermingled with exceptions and you want to depends on non-GPL musl or bionic (which would be important for projects like OpenBSD). And there's code depending on that in ports, you can bet on it.

Until these problems are solved[1], OpenBSD won't migrate. LLVM could become the LTS compiler for projects that would benefit from using it, but it doesn't look like a complete operating system is a project that would fit.

[1] plus some others, like backends available for more than x86/64, arm, mips, PPC, Sparc and z (or whatever the list is today); OpenBSD supports quite a few esoteric platforms
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Have fun searching jobs all over the world. Tried to make it lightning-fast and nicer than indeed itself. Powered by indeed + google maps. Any comments are highly valuable and appreciated.
Agreed. The role of a good PM to to enable the project members to do their jobs, by shielding them, and getting them the resources they need.
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> Safety trumps all and there simply isn't a compelling need (that I can think of) that requires the need to tinker with the auto software.

So you won't have any problem in <x> years if all PCs are coming with default configuration 'cause "safety trumps all' and "you don't need to tinker with the auto software". You don't need to change your shell. You don't even _need_ a shell anymore. The _company_ will provide you with everything you need. And of course, no choice for what OS you're going to install.

I imagine an answer would be "but my PC isn't going to run over a child". No, but an insecure OS can cause you to lose all your credit balance and many more (which I imagine you can guess being an hn member). All that just because "you don't need to tinker with the auto software".

I'm sorry, but people with views like yours keep the world behind.
Why are we still using passwords in 2015?
Seems interesting but I wonder how does it checks the various part of the application for its availability.

Documentation is still draft.

Does anyone have some more detail about the required steps to integrate the checks?
Pure CSS3 calculator
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Am I the only one thinking that the "flat" design of buttons has room for improvement?

Almost every available framework now uses flat buttons, but they are not as clear as the old style button (although they are obviously more stylish).

Titon seems to have improved a bit (by adding some bordering to help the user undestand that the button is a button an not just some kind of alert), but I guess there's still work to be done.
That's not how unsafe works. Marking a function as unsafe is more or less solely a decision of the developer (though foreign functions are implicitly unsafe), and an unsafe block does not taint the enclosing function or it wouldn't be possible to build safe interface from unsafe building blocks, making the whole thing serve a completely different purpose.
What is the deal with the site behind this advertisement/article? Assembly seems to have some pretty restrictive and controlling terms, paired with a feel good video. IMO they are trying to bottle up a genie.

https://assembly.com/terms
For anyone reading this article or wanting to dig deeper into the subject of extroversion and introversion checkout "Quiet" by Susan Cain.

It talks exactly about introversion and how it has its values.

BTW: The introvertion/extroversion thing is really a mix of elements.
Rarely you are a 100% extrovert or introvert, but a complex mix of both.
What subjects are your friends studying?

I did my PhD in physics in the USA, and for all of my fellow physics grad students, we not only had free tuition but we were given jobs (they didn't pay much but it was enough to live on). Ie, students were either given Research Assistant roles from their Adviser's funding, or Teaching Assistant roles by the department. The lucky ttudents with fellowships didn't need to teach at all and could focus full time from day one on research. (Of course this gives those fellowship students more ability to write papers early in their career, boosting their ability to win more fellowships later on, creating academias's own 1%/99% inequality, but that's a separate issue).

This was physics, and my understanding is that this is the case for most of the sciences.
Your complaint is about people who don't know what XML is and how to use it and broken tools, not XML. XML does not cause any of the examples you show.
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Shouldn't there be an exception to that rule? "Unless the original discussion is about downvoting, or about an aspect of HackerNews that would lead to a comment about downvoting being on-topic". Of course, there still needs to be something of substance in the comment.
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Great datapoint! Source?
The malware campaign that went unnoticed
"confused about what you're objecting to"

Clicking a link, the first thing I read is the whole article is sponsored. What is a standard sponsored article?

Was the article written and the advert tacked onto the start? Did the advertiser commission the article? Did a PR agency plant it on their behalf? I dislike advertising, a personal preference.

My question was, "how long has medium had sponsored posts?"
This article mischaracterises introversion by confusing it with shyness. Yes, there is probably a significant correlation between the two but they are separate issues. You can be an introvert without being shy. Furthermore, shyness can be overcome (as I have) but an individual's level of introversion is for the most part unchangeable.

It's not hard to find examples of excellent public speakers who are also introverts. Mohandas Gandhi and Barack Obama are two examples which spring to mind.
Previous 303 threads about this on HN:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=introverts&sort=byPopularity&p...
I think you are misunderstanding. This is a compiler, not a transpiler. It compiles JavaScript into an executable binary.
Which would be exactly what's not happening if "a guy has a gun".

Either someone is in danger, in which case no-knock isn't needed, or they're not, in which case why the hell is a SWAT raid being carried out on the basis of an anonymous tip?
What? Searching instead for [introverts advice ahead] returns only one result.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=introverts%20advice%20ahead&so...
I'm skeptical. Less than 20% of milk produced in the US uses rBGH, and most health organizations, including in Canada and Europe, agree that milk from rBGH/rBST cows is safe for humans. The reason it's banned in the EU and Canada is because it's a health risk for cows, not people. And the reason you're not likely to get US fresh milk in those countries has more to do with transportation costs than production standards.

If I had to guess, I'd say the most likely reasons for flavor differences are 1) different pasteurization techniques 2) fat content 3) consumption temperature (you can't taste sugars as well when they're cold).
I've always wondered how Debra feels about that today. (Especially given that so many things abbreviate Debian as "deb" or "Deb-".)
It's not about communities, it's about people who think that they can mask naked misogyny and abusive, abhorrent behavior behind a community and behind some flimsy excuses.

This is always how it's been. Always. The Jews weren't persecuted in Germany without justification. And there were always pretexts for every lynching of a black or asian person in the US. But those justifications and those pretexts always skipped more than a few steps of logic. In every case the "out group" is made to live up to impossible, unrealistic standards of perfection of which failure to live up to serves as justification for them being ostracized and segregated, nevermind that those standards aren't ever applied with the same intensity for members of the "in group".

You can't just blithely use this "oh, everyone is at fault in this whole mess, tut tut" excuse to remove the blame from the people who deserve it.

The fact is that women have long faced double standards that were impossible to live up to. Moreover, they have long faced a heightened level of abuse, especially online. This whole thing is nothing new, it's just an escalation, an intensification, for what's been going on, often without much publicity, previously. I have numerous female friends who've been avid gamers for, in some cases, decades, and they all have stories that I have not experienced. Stories of creeps, stories of unwarranted excessive abuse and intense threats of violence. I've only had one semi-serious threat made against me online in my 20 years of using the internet, but women have routinely faced such threats for years and years.

This is not at all a recent thing. Kathy Sierra spent years maintaining a low public profile due to online threats against her. She's just one of many similar examples. There is a pervasive sub-culture of misogynist assholes who have been actively fighting the influence of women in "tech", and there is an even larger group of idiots who don't realize that's what's happening and pretend like it's just a small problem or some sort of schoolyard tussle where everyone is at fault to some degree.
"I'm starting to think maybe the problem is that you're charmingly naive (and I mean that well): you're a genuinely positive person with thick skin and an earnest desire to communicate."

That's one of the highest compliments I've ever received! Even naïve sounds heroic to me in the way you put it. Thank you very much!

"Maybe today that reacted badly with a gruff and grumbling persona"

Maybe, but it wasn't completely uncalled for. For what it's worth, I understood the risk of asking for clarity with a leading question, it's not the first time it has backfired. Sometimes I forget people need to vent freely, as I often want to cut to the core of the matter. It's possibly a sign of impatience, I'll try to give people more time in the future.

To be clear, whilst I certainly do desire peaceful resolution of conflict, I'm also interested in the truth. Whilst all truth is subjective, it should bear to stand up to a certain amount of scrutiny. You're quite right that mreiland made a level-headed comment about writing people off and subsequently got written off, my only real feedback was that such a response was predictable. The reasons given for writing off were slightly different (writing off idiocy vs. writing off intolerance) but at the core it's the same issue, in that to give is to receive in return. I don't know mreiland's history, and maybe he/she has more reason than most to write some people off quickly, all I can say is that it's a vicious cycle. I hoped some exploration of it could help change that cycle, but it didn't work out this time, no problem, time for me to let it go.

Thank you for your thoughtful response throwawaymaroon, it was very much appreciated.
Your first post appears to say that gamergate wasn't responsible for the swatting, just a couple of trolls using the GG name as cover; and that she was also engaging in similar levels of abuse and harassment.

Maybe I misread it and that's not what you meant?
If they found it funny when they're prosecuted, the prosecution wouldn't be very effective.
What happened to the no negativity rule?

Also, you don't have to. You can eat it however you like. But he'll pretend the restaurant is full when you call in for a reservation next time.
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Lots of people do lots of stupid things with money. The current $3B market cap of Bitcoin is a tiny fraction of the $64B that Madoff Investment Securities made off with (and cryptocurrency market cap is an extremely generous measure to use to compare to that value). And that's hardly a reason to claim that making Bernie Madoff trustworthy is difficult but not impossible.
I've been on projects with both: For business like apps, Xamarin (Forms in my case) is miles ahead. Although Xamarin.Forms isn't really stable (We experienced quite a lot of regressions with each new version) neither is Corona.

Corona is nice if you have a lot of custom graphics, but if you are going for pretty standard user interaction, you will spend a lot of time recreating what exists on other platforms.

For both Xamarin.Forms and Corona you will run into the limitations, but with Forms it is much easier to adjust those with native code.

I think the main issue with Corona is that they are more focussed on the game case (for which it works)

Finally, I really started to appreciate C# after doing Lua, PHP and JavaScript for years. Especially on a complex app, the static typing really helps making changes to code you did not write yourself.
Do developers really care whether a tool is written in JS rather than Ruby, or vice-versa? If you're running *nix it's pretty likely you have Ruby installed out of the box anyway.

There's nothing inherently tying you to Ruby anyhow, anyone could write a SASS parser in JavaScript. It's just that nobody has because there is no need for it.