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Better known as Cardinal Richelieu:

Armand Jean du Plessis,
Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac

The quotation is also disputed:

Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites
de la main du plus honnête homme,
j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.

If you give me six lines written
by the hand of the most honest of men,
I will find something in them which
will hang him.

Édouard Fournier, in L'Espirit dans l'Historie (1867), 3rd edition, Ch. 51, p. 260, disputes the traditional attribution, and suggests various agents of Richelieu might have been the actual author.

Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu
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Exceptional Logging of Exceptions in Python
It was not a metaphor. You said you would never fight unless someone took a swing at you. If you walked down the street and spotted a person beating another helpless person to death, would you stand by and do nothing because you had not been attacked?

Also, drop the condescending tone in your response about 'helping people see another way'. I gave you a simple hypothetical and you dumped a page of text without answering it because you didn't understand a simple question. You're not helping at all.
Show HN: Fun with SQL inside Excel
I've built a plugin for Excel that lets you use SQL inside Excel.

Here are two demo/tutorial videos I've made:

Damo 1 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld-mbyAGsow

Damo 2 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjlEd2-bJQ

The website is here:
http://thingiequery.com/

I've already posted about it a week ago, but kinda clumsily so this is a repost (it says in the guide that an occasional repost is fine, so here's one).

This is the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9359128
And here is a Reddit thread on the plugin: http://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2wv52m/ive_built_an_excel_plugin_for_using_sql_in_excel/

If you spend time in Excel and are familiar with SQL, have a look-see, I'm sure you'll love it:)
Hi, Thx! Yeah we are working for spartan support. I hope we'll support it in few weeks. Can you please send us a more feedback? We need all opinions to make Last.Backend better and better.

Have a nice day!
All it takes is one civilisation in a galaxy to do this and it takes everything. It is fine to hypothesise that most civilisations won't want to spread, but since it only takes one this is unlikely that all won't if civilisations are common.
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Here's an awesome one I found http://koti.kapsi.fi/rimina/living_in_a_box_720p.html Sad buildings
I thought the FCC /does/ regulate the loudness of TV commercials, for a few years now.

https://www.fcc.gov/guides/program-background-noise-and-loud...
I see your point. Moral philosophy and real life aren't separable in a clear-cut way, though. This conversation isn't about judging whether individual actions by people in extreme situations involving violence are right or wrong. It's about the ideas, emotions, and structures that surround those situations.

Let's take another example. Consider the moral injunction "don't steal," and the ethical/philosophical idea "stealing is wrong." These are quite basic, definitely not outlandish. Yet there are many situations where stealing is necessary for one's survival[1] and therefore proper.

Someone discussing the ethics of theft could well be accused of lofty idealism because of the existence of emergency situations wherein theft are necessary. But I think such examples don't completely invalidate the moral prohibition against stealing; they only show that nuance is required.

This conversation started as a discussion of male conditioning, the culture of male violence, and how that relates to bullying at an early age. That's a larger scale than individual incidences of bullying.

The "utopian" idea of nonviolence, for example as expressed in my Dhammapada quote, isn't primarily saying that kids should be scolded for hitting back. I'd say it's more relevant to how parents, perhaps especially fathers, should talk about such violence. The hypothetical parent who cheers on the bullied kid when he/she hits back may be propagating values that are not beneficial.

[1]: Even such a strict property ethicist as Ayn Rand wrote about this in an essay called "The Ethics of Emergencies."
(If you know what the difference is between an amplifier and an attenuator, you should probably skip this comment.)

The point that the article tries to establish (and, IMHO, fails) is that there are two things going on:

S: The signal that comes in.

V: The perceived volume that reaches your ear after the signal is decoded, amplified, and transduced by speakers.

S influences V, but so does the volume control on your TV or receiver, the efficiency of your speakers, and how far away you are. The fact that S and V are different is what allows your TV station to claim with a straight face that the perception of sound is not under their control. But they're also lying, because...

TV stations take content from many sources (local commercials, network commercials, local programming, network programming) and while they probably pass the network stuff straight through, they still have to adjust the level of everything else so that it is not too distractingly different from what the network feed. Local advertisers will complain vociferously if Billy Bob Auto's 35 seconds of dancing cheerleaders clustered up around old Billy Bob himself is a smidge quieter than Jesse Ventura's minigun chopping down trees in the edited-for-TV rerun of Predator that just went to commercial break.

So they run all the sources through compressors, expanders and limiters to get a more or less equalized top output volume. The sources have all been produced with this expectation, so we have the exact same loudness war that has been mentioned on HN recently, only on TV instead of on CD and FM and MP3.

In the end, you get problems at every commercial break where the program has lots of dynamics and ends on a quiet bit. The "normal" Billy Bob Auto ad wouldn't sound so loud if it had happened right after the car chase.
Hi! Yeah, this is known problem and we tried to fix it. Last.Backend has an internal service discovery and internal DNS system. With Last.Backend you can forgot about this :)

This system provide linking between different servers. If you have some feedback - please provide us! We need it! ) Thx a lot for comment :)
Your example of aliasing in C is a good one, because this is a case where modern C allows the programmer to give the compiler the necessary information to do a better job. The "restrict" keyword indicates that an object accessed through a given pointer argument cannot alias any other object accessed by the function.
For safety always have a contract that also states who the copyright owner is.

In New Zealand's copyright act there's a terrible bit of law called a "commissioning clause" that says if person A commissions person B to produce some work and there's some assumption about A paying B, then A owns all the rights to it even if they neither paid for it nor explicitly agreed to pay. There was a case of a company producing a free sample of engineering work and then trying to reuse that elsewhere. The court decided the recipient of the work was the copyright owner and the company that produced it could not reuse it. Where was the payment? They hoped the recipient would layer become a paying client for future work. Most other developed countries have removed similar clauses but NZ's government recently voted to retain theirs.

IAAL
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Rather good observation in the comments:

"""

Patrick Kelly April 16, 2015 at 9:03 am

“Identity theft” is a lie. There is no such thing as “identity theft”, it’s all fraud. The term “identity theft” was created to put the burden back on the consumer, away from financial institutions. The actual problem is that the cost of actually verifying identity is higher than financial institutions want to bear.

"""
We have some very good tools for writing DSLs (Forth and Lisp come to mind). And since in both of those you in principle have access to an assembler (Lisps are less good about that nowadays, sadly) they seem like a decent option.
I don't know about that, and it depends how it's implemented.

HN broadcasts the fact that it hellbans users. There's even a toggle in your profile to see the posts of the damned. HN also seems to gratuitously hellban people - if someone isn't hellbanned for being an obvious troll, sometimes they seem to be hellbanned over lightweight snark or nothing at all. HN even has its own notoriously hellbanned "HN celebrity": the creator of Temple OS. It's no secret.

Yet every day I notice hellbanned posts where the user has been hellbanned for some time now and they do not notice.

On my forum, I only hellban users so uncontroversially egregious (bots, spammers, and people who only post to pilfer value from the community) that nobody notices or would care if they did.

To "expose" the system, a user would pretty much have to create a topic like this: "Hey everyone, you don't know me because I've been trying to PM new users with links to my competing forum for half a year, but I just found out that nobody has been receiving my PMs because I've been hellbanned. Help me protest this system!"
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Great post so far
> ... Wright’s group instead turned to the Templeton Foundation, ...

Unfortunately, I have to stop reading at this point.

(In case anyone doesn't know, this foundation is motivated by religiously-conservative ideology, although I'm not sure if they overtly admit it. More often than not, studies funded by them result in conclusions like 'this universe could not have been created by accident', 'we humans are special', problems with evolution, etc, etc).
good post about SEO
nice post.......
Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Have It Both Ways on Net Neutrality
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You are well intentioned but politically naive. The false claims of harassment and more generally victimhood are integral part of the corruption (and detrimental to dealing with real harassment).
This is a great idea. Do you guys rent in a holiday location neutral to you all or rotate the location around your home areas?
That wouldn't be adequate at this point because the signature for print is different as well.
Which is good, as it will discourage people from submitting there, which means more potential papers for those of us who got on this train a while ago.
Ask HN: Can I see your rig?
Get your geek hat on and show off your rigs; computers, servers, devices preferably use imgur. Also, at least short summary of what's in the picture(s) models preferred :-)
Could be a good idea to add [UK] in the title as the conservatives in UK are quite different from the GOP or the conservatives here in Canada.
That's why archive.org exists.
I remember as a kid around 1995 or 1996 seeing a Unix login prompt on the stores computers, and one guy who worked at a store had put some of the modem dial-in numbers on a local BBS. We'd dial in and try to guess the passwords but never got anywhere. Later I learned Pizza Hut ran RedHat.
You must have been a client, too. Brings back old memories.

Also, have a look at the Groklaw archives if you haven't: http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2006121221...
I'm pretty sure all this kind of pseudo science comes from /r/MensRights. Victimhood for everybody!
Really? I would be surprised if anyone I know is even aware of the fact that Windows ever had a single click mode let alone how to turn it on. And the mac users I know certainly don't navigate with the keyboard.
Well, to be fair, there aren't good C++ operators to use for dot and cross product. (Funny, looking at my own C++ vector op file, I see in addition to the usual +, -, *, / I've added function definitions Dot, Normalize, Cross, and Length. I don't think of Normalize and Length as operators, but it might make sense if they were...)
1. Someone will do it without requiring IP. Unless you have special expertise to offer, your negotiating position isn't strong enough.

2. per-seat licensing is common in Enterprise software. Though usually that's for product sales, not for work you did for them. It's not unusual to negotiate to retain IP; then you can sell it to the next client, with only minor modifications. You could negotiate for royalties and charge less upfront, but it's unusual, and they'd insist you fix the rates so the client isn't priced out of the software they commissioned.

Royalties (including tiers like "up to 10,000") are a pain to track and audit. Photography is easier to track than embedded software because it is intrinsically visible. (of course, webapps make royalty tracking trivial - for the whole app, not for embedded components.... unless "rented microservices" become popular.)

Photography is more artistic; code is more engineering, giving photographers a stronger negotiating position.

Maybe photographers have something closer to a union?
I think that is most of it. Also, upper case was kind of like a virus back then. When you went to write your first page, looked around at what everyone else was doing, it was all caps so you did all caps.
My cynical and most likely incorrect theory is that a lot of people use commercials as an excuse to get up from the couch and go to the kitchen, bathroom, etc. and the advertisers still want them to be able to hear the commercial. :P
Thats a poor argument. Literally no one gets DoS'ed by a few guys F5'ing in coordination. If your server is so poorly set up as to allow any small number of IP's to impact it in any way then you are doing it wrong.

When I was getting into nodejs a few years back I wrote DoS script to kill a site that was scraping content from one of my sites and posing it as their own. I made it just for shits n giggles in about 5 minutes and I was surprised when it actually worked, their website just went down.

DoS is and always will be easy.
TL;DR - Because I believe the lies. And possibly because I hate poor people and think they deserve to suffer so "wage payers" can have another mansion.

The whole article needs a giant [CITATION NEEDED] stuck on it, as most of the assertions are only supportable by citing conservative think-tanks.
“Immoral Copyright”? Random House Refuses to Pay for Quoting Joseph Goebbels
>Conservatism, is not however purely libertarian. Conservatism adopts a minimum income for those who can’t help themselves

Since when is UBI/NIT seen as a non-libertarian conservative idea? Friedman was all over that shit.
There is many stylish themes here > https://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=hacker+new...

I've done this one; https://userstyles.org/styles/103436/hacker-news-ycombinator
Reading such articles I always wonder: what if, by some weird chance of fate, we're among the firsts or even the first to be "out there"?
Highly improbable and whatnot - sure. But we'll never know and neither will we ever be able to give up our search either.
"Published 7 years ago by Bruce Simmons , Updated February 15th, 2014"

Well, today it should be practical to have something that does that, and it doesn't need to bee too expensive. But you need a way to tap into the audio channels (so for example, between TV and a cable box)

But it's doable
Thanks, this makes sense, however the visuals did not really show the common 4 chord song pattern.

Anyways, I mostly produce electronic music and this blues progression just gave me a good idea :)
That's... not exactly relevant. :)

Rust's iterators definitely resolve a lot of problems one might have with bounds checking, but there's still times when one is essentially required to do explicit indexing (e.g. iterating down a column of a multidimensional array) but in such a way that the bounds checks should be removable.

My point was that, modulo bugs, rustc (more specifically, LLVM) will eliminate such bounds checks. With or without iterators.
Wow. Scientific american published something linked to religious conservatism? Are you sure?
That's one fast load time.
According to the standard documents until html4.1 the tags were in uppercase. People followed the standards documents, although there was no explicitly required requirement.
Xhtml which came later (2000) explicitly required them to be in lowercase, and now html5 now states that the case is insensitive.
Basically, it's a cover letter.
Also a Dyson sphere is a stretch

It's based on our limited view of thinking that that's the best way of harnessing all energy needed

Do you really think someone with a very advanced technology needs to surround an existing star to get all the energy they need?

They'll probably need less energy than we do, and have more smart ways of getting it (probably with Fusion, but on a small scale)
Why not use Findbugs[1] by default, it is now well integrated in major IDEs?

[1] http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/static-...
[3] https://github.com/LMAX-Exchange/freud
[4] http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/
Walmart was very in-favour of the PPACA, at least in favour of it applying to other companies. In practice, they have teams of lawyers and accountants making sure they pay as little as possible. It's the SMBs, on the other hand, who now pay twice: once to meet their obligation to their own employees, and again to pay for government assistance for all the Walmart employees we expected would be receiving company benefits.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/12/09/walmart-bai...
This looks really compelling. The home page is nicely designed -- but I have some constructive feedback on the copy, which is understandable but clearly not written by a native English speaker.

"Development and deployment never been so simple"

The grammar error here is a little jarring to native English speakers, and it's particularly noticeable because it's in the tagline. Fixing that would make a better first impression.

"Development and deployment have never been so simple" would work better, IMHO. Or perhaps you'd prefer
"Development and deployment made simple", in keeping with the terse / minimalist theme.

While I'm at it, a few other minor corrections, in roughly decreasing importance the further down the page we go:

"GitHub and BitBucket integrations allows you automate DevOps."
should be
"GitHub and BitBucket integrations allow you to automate DevOps."

"Servers and Clouds linking"
should probably be
"Link Servers and Clouds"
for verb consistency with previous headings;
"Create... Build... Link... Manage... " is consistent, whereas
"Create... Build... ..Linking... Manage..." is not.

"You can link your server to Last.Backend with special command. Just copy it and execute in a terminal."
could be
"You can link your server to Last.Backend with a special command. Just copy it and execute it in a terminal."

Finally,
"Just look at scheme and you can see what's going on. Color element indication provide all information about all warning and problems. Logs output gives you ability to know much more."
could be improved as
"Just look at the scheme to see what's going on. Colored elements convey information about warnings and problems at a glance. Log output provides the ability to know much more."
(or similar)

HTH! :)
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I thought they were talking about Type 2 and 3 civilizations. We don't even count as a Type 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
> but in practice, "troll" is a term that is often used against people whose viewpoint is minority, but who are legitimately arguing it.

Of course, but the "troll" wants to have that conversation, and the rest of the community does not. That doesn't mean the conversation or opinions are unworthy or wrong, just that they are unwelcome in this context.

Good or bad doesn't matter, the "troll" is a disruptive influence that turns a comfortable place into an uncomfortable one.

Most people don't come to the Internet to have their beliefs challenged, no matter how wrong those beliefs might be.
Yes, but how many of those banks openly and transparently discuss their technology stack and processes?
IIRC, Groklaw was created specifically to archive/translate/simplify the SCO litigation, right?
I think that has more to do with syntax and the overdependence on rote memorization that it requires, and less to do with the actual concepts themselves. Lots of things are silly in Haskell-land, but that's mostly because it's made to be elegant or math-like, if I've understood it correctly.

That said, multiparadigmatic programming is awesome, we just have to find some way to give as much information to the compiler in imperative instructions as we do in functional. This means that imperative programming has to be tightened up quite a bit, but I don't think it would be very drastic, really.
> He said that Tim Geithner, the US secretary of the Treasury, had been asked to look into ways to hinder companies that would profit from subversive organisations.

Media freedom is being eroded small steps at the time by those in power. Big changes never happen overnight in order to keep the uninformed public under the illusion that things are all good. A lot will have to get worse before the public wakes up. It'll be too late then.
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SaaS business without salespeople. Not every startup is like Slack
(I'm not a ZP employee, but I have worked in environments of significant scale a fair amount. The below is just my opinion...)

#1: The usual approach is something like remove app servers from the load balancers' rotation, upgrade them, run some sort of tests to ensure the upgrade is ok, add them back into the LB rotation. Some environments might use user traffic as the test step (e.g. send 5% of your users at the newly upgraded machines, watch monitoring to see how response times and error counts behave).

#2: The answer here really depends on what scale you're operating at. DB replication (e.g. read slaves if your traffic is more read-heavy that write heavy) and sufficiently high-spec machines combined with intelligent use of caching can take you a fairly long way. I hesitate to give hard numbers, but off the cuff probably 99% of sites will never need more than this. There's not really a recipe to follow for that, the data needs and design/ops parameters of an organization tend to be fairly specific to that org; more or less it's good schema design, thinking hard about how fresh data has to be at the edge, caching what you can with careful management of expiry times, and having an ops team comfortable with managing replication. Beyond that scale you start getting into globe-spanning multiple-datacenter voodoo rocket science. :) Ask amazon, google or facebook (some of their work has been mentioned publicly, things like cassandra from fb and various papers published by google/amazon).
Serious people avoid this shit-show by simply not watching commercial television, except through DVDs or subscription downloads.
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That's one way of looking at it. Another is violence is part of establishing a pecking order. Not fighting back generally establishes you as someone on a lower rank in the pecking order and invites more of the same over the long term. In cases where someone thinks physically you may be above them but you keep backing down this creates a tension. Where fighting back can clear things up and long term you may start a friendship with some of those bullies.

Also, even if you lose making fights more costly / painful is a significant disincentive.

PS: There are also pure sociopaths out there and not everyone can put up a good fight etc. But, in plenty of situations violence is not really vicious and can calm things down.
lookup prepared statements.
Weird blogging the Vape, maybe a good thing?
Paid 100$ for a used Chromebook ARM, running crouton. Cheap, silent, x86-free.