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I'm not sure who is making those sort of arguments. Aside from many imperative languages that implement functional language features (pretty much all of them these days), there already exist hybrid languages.

For example, Scala is an imperative/functional programming language hybrid. Yes, you can use Scala as mostly imperative I suppose, but I've found you end up doing some things in a functional manner in many cases because it's far easier.
The claim is that top ranking officials believe they are waging a traditionalist "Holy War" against Islam.

I don't know if your obsession with Catholic or military trinkets is simple misinterpretation or deliberate obfuscation. Hersh never made the claim which you put "in quotes". And it's disingenuous to claim he did.

If top generals believe they are fighting a Crusade, that's newsworthy.

If you want to address that narrative, I'd be interested to hear what you have to say. But as it stands, the strawman you're arguing against has no basis in Hersh's words or viewpoint.
The ISI is probably not all monolithic, many probably knew over the years, some wanted him protected and someone probably sold him out. A raid gives everyone plausible deniability.

I would bet the raid force wasn't on a helicopter, that was just for evac.
...and that's why CloudWatch allows you to set billing alerts.

You could even route a billing alerts (via SNS) back to a Lambda function, use it to set a flag, and run in a reduced capacity mode if this is a concern.

I always tell my audiences (I work for Amazon) that it should be possible to build a system where you know the actual cost of every web page you generate and every request you serve, and to make sure that each one has the ability to earn its keep (by ultimately driving revenue).
Explain the situation to your investors, offer to return the money, build another company while staying in touch with your investors.

Yes, it kind of sucks. $10k is not enough money to waste goodwill on or potentially voiding your reputation.

Good luck.
>>Freedom means the freedom from the tyranny of others, not from yourself.

That's your own completely arbitrary definition of freedom.
They're completely separate projects- Servo is run by different people and is intended more as a research project.

They do overlap in that Firefox is starting to include little bits of Rust for things the the URL parser or image decoders.
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The nightly builds have to pass a suite of automated tests before they are published. They're not 100% stable but they're not crashy very often.
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"and more on figuring out how to make it easier for brand new businesses to bootstrap themselves into existence."

Many don't want a traditional business...they just want that VC money to fund them, even if there is no proven business model.
I am testing this , seems okay so far. ps. I also like ,Reader View
Competitive capitalism will take care of that.
A browser being built from the ground up around one process per tab has an easier time implementing said feature than one with years of history? Who would've thought‽
> Military operations are routinely "framed" in a light that makes for the most positive PR spin.

That definitely makes more sense to me than trying to keep torture in the toolbox. Looks much better as an all-American raid than a canned hunt where the Pakistanis already had him.

Even with the Feinstein thing, it seems more like any cover up was more about public perception than anything else.
What if my soulmate is a roomful of monkeys on typewriters? It seems a fallacy to attribute coincident answers with any sort of real compatibility.
I've been through a few 'crunch modes' before and while there was a general feeling of "wow, we accomplished that" afterwards. Looking back, however, I now realize how profound of a hangover it produced in me and some of my teammates, and the hard truth is that it permanently takes a toll (e.g. sluggishness, lost trust, reduced motivation) that you may never get back wherever you are, at least in my experience. The fallout, it seems, truly underscores the 'nuclear option' moniker.
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This is the exact opposite of my experience with current nightly. The browser feels very snappy and I have yet to see memory usage climb above ~350 MB with a multitude of JavaScript heavy tabs open. (Although I don't know if e10s is directly responsible for the latter.)
You can also dump in sand or kitty litter. You just need to make sure that when they run the compactor in the truck it doesn't explode paint everywhere.
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If you stick to clicking only the hostnames, it's no different than RequestPolicy. Otherwise there is uBlock's dynamic filtering which does essentially the same thing as RequestPolicy:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-de...
Looks fun. A couple of minor comments:

* The copystring() function looks like you re-implemented strdup() from string.h.

* The call to malloc() followed by a call to memset() to zero it can be replaced with a call to calloc(). This is faster on some platforms, and makes for cleaner code.
From the article:

> Yet most of this criticism, over the thousands of words written about Hersh’s piece in the last week, has amounted to “That doesn’t make sense to me,” or “That’s not what government officials told me before,” or “How are we to believe his anonymous sources?”

Your post pretty much echoes the hit pieces this article is complaining about, and adds nothing new to the discussion.
"He stated that he then overwrote code on the airplane's Thrust Management Computer while aboard a flight ... [and] successfully commanded the system he had access to the issue the 'CLB' or climb command," the warrant application states."

I read this exact line from an earlier article stating that this was in a simulation only and that he had accessed the in-flight entertainment network as a proof of concept, but did not actually do anything while on the flight.

This is just garbage reporting.
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Reader view is also available in the Beta channel if you don't want to go as far as running nightlies just to get it. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#beta
The way to defeat crunch mode is data. If your velocity is 10 and you have 120 points left you probably aren't launching in 2 months. Engineers seem to shy away from metrics to describe their work because it's hard to quantify but it tends to work against them because they get trapped into unrealistic and non-data driven deadlines. Either the date has data backing it up or it's an arbitrary number.
Please please test battery life impact while implementing the Multi-process stuff.

I had to move away from Chrome just on the battery life issue. I suspect (but cannot conclusively prove) that the multi-process crap that Chrome has just drains your battery much faster. And yes I am perfectly aware of the supposed fix in Chrome for the battery killing bug.
> What I'm interested in is taking that sensory input and making it less immediate by giving it a memory -- letting it build up a picture of an environment rather than needing to point a device at something in order to know something about it.

Have you tested this approach with blind users? I think building a picture of an environment is a good task to offload to the brain and a good skill to have/develop for blind people.

> One big issue is figuring out how to sonify depth information so it's useful. One simple approach is to do a sort of sweep across each frame from left to right, letting each row of an image correspond to a certain pitch. I don't think this is a good approach, as it seems very vision-oriented and is likely to sound just like noise.

I think this is a quite good approach, but agree it has a high learning curve. However, that high learning curve might reward the end-user with a system that is more flexible. By preprocessing the input and generating audio based on the detected patterns you limit the applicability of such a system. That being said, a generic system that gives "unfiltered" output and has additional cues you can set for example for fast approaching objects might be useful.
I always understood that to be the main power of the idea of UBI. Economically liberated individuals will be able to choose how to be valuable to society instead of 'choosing' to work their asses off in a dull repetitive job that they need to survive. There are so many things that need to be done in the world that aren't because they are not profitable. Maybe we can get stuck into them for a start once we aren't worried about feeding the family and keeping the lights on anymore.
The alcohol ban might have worked prior to automobiles. Maybe the gambling ban only worked prior to the internet, at least until there was federal and not state level action on going after online gambling.
No question it's a critique. IMO a devastating one. But I don't see why we should edit the front page differently? The standard for titles is that they be accurate and neutral. (Edit: it's the "neutral" bit that matters here.) HN moderation is about readers being smart enough to figure things out for themselves.
Switching tabs is just awful. If one page is busy loading something, I want to switch to another tab and see what's there, but instead I get to stare at the word "Connecting..." for several seconds. I just feel like I'm waiting for the browser to catch up all the time.
I find myself agreeing. Psychological addictions are a real problem, but not one that I am comfortable involuntarily treating, so long as they do not directly harm other people.

On the other hand, I am in favor of regulation sufficient to make the worst-case-scenario equal to the worst-case-scenario of unemployment. The real social problem is only externalized beyond individual and dependents when the stereotypical problem gambler starts seeking lines of credit to further their addiction; This is to be avoided at considerable cost, because not only are their incentives compromised in a manner associated with addiction, but also in a manner associated with fear of whatever private sticks their patrons have to get them to repay the debt, and they have no legal means to do so.
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Doesn't this terminology come from power utilities where a kilowatt hour is kW.h. as in kilowatt × hour. Not kilowatt / hour. So why is a GB second, a GB / second and not GB × second?
You clearly don't understand addiction. That's fine, but don't try to act like you know it.
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go back in on Monday, and from now on your start time is 8am.
when you get there at 8.06 you're 54 mins early.

relax, walk around and say hi to folks, grab coffee and settle in.

they're sending you a harsh msg, but you're not fired. respect it, yourself and them and get your shit together.

keep going in at 8am until you move on to another company ...then reevaluate in that context.

edit: ps I've had similar problems over the years and it's a struggle. keep trying to get better at respecting other's time.
Servo isn't aiming at replacing Gecko in Firefox, but it is aiming to be production-ready code. The plan is to make it embeddable like webkit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9541138
> I am not sure about the memory consumption, but since Chrome seems to have solved this topic, also Firefox should be able to, and maybe it's also time for me to switch back?

The reason I never promoted Chrome/ium to my "main" browser, instead using it sporadically whenever I decided I wanted to look at a page that use Flash is basically because Chrome is extremely RAM and CPU hungry in use cases where the number of user tabs are high (not sure what the tipping point is, but I regularly have more than 100 tabs present in my browser -- granted, not necessarily loaded).

Restoring a session with that many tabs basically disables the computer if using Chrome, necessitating a coffee break while pages load. Electrolysis in Firefox retains the lower RAM and CPU usage of the single process model, and also happens to feel much snappier day to day - I would absolutely recommend that you give the latest nightlies a shot -- or Firefox Aurora, which prompts users to turn it on: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule
It is a GB x second -- I've just seen it written more commonly as GB/s. I think we need a better abbrv for it... gBs?
I would say that it's because search engine ranking is good enough. At the very least we are in the domain of diminishing returns.

In terms of innovations, there was a weird and misguided attempt to integrate "social search" into your results, which thankfully seems to have disappeared.

There is also Google's Knowledge Graph, which is a promising idea but doesn't work well yet. Search for "calories in a cup of corn" and Google's answer is wildly off. Or try "activation fee" and find out that it's $40 (huh?). It remains to be seen whether this feature can be rendered trustworthy and relevant.
> maybe try reddit or something

Please keep criticism civil and substantive on HN, even when responding to a straw man.

Edit: Actually, for an intensely political thread, the discussion here is doing relatively well.
Having gone back and forth between employment and entrepreneurship, I agree with the point that the author is making. Taking on a "regular job" doesn't mean you've failed, and previously running a business certainly wouldn't be a knock against someone I was considering hiring.
> Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person. These things are supposedly irrelevant.

I realize this is the setup for No True Scotsman, but are there any "serious" economists who actually believe the things this article criticizes? I hear these criticisms a lot, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who appeal to these simplifications to support a particular political belief, but from what I have read of modern economics (including some heterodox schools), economists don't operate under these assumptions. The criticisms get more bizarre throughout the article:

> Economists create this problem with their insistence on studying mythical creatures often known as Homo economicus. ... An Econ would not expect a gift on the day of the year in which she happened to get married, or be born.

That example doesn't even make sense in the context of the Homo economicus criticisms. A perfectly rational person who is aware of the custom of giving gifts for important anniversaries absolutely would expect a gift on those days. They'd probably give gifts as well. There's nothing irrational about that.
Or IE7 circa 2006. IE7 separated its UI and browser content in different processes. IE8+ group several tabs into one process when passing a threshold. This is much better for battery life compare to Chrome process-per-tab.
I enjoy playing summoners war, but recognize it as basically a slot machine. There are people on there who clearly have spent a LOT of money. I've chatted with a few of them (the largest that someone admitted to was $5,000), and most of them claimed to be well-off enough that it wasn't an issue. One claimed to be the son of a successful investment banker. One was from China and said he doesn't even know how much money they have, but they always have plenty. Nobody I talked with has been all like, "yeah, i am hurting myself and racking up debt, but I just can't stop"

Of course, if you assume even half of those people are lying, that's where the addiction is. You'll tell yourself stories and tell others stories, so they don't see you as a weak person.
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> Or you could call it something like "Free Money Forever", because that's what its proponents seem to think they'd be getting

No I don't. Frankly, I suspect I understand tax and spending a fair bit better than you do, probably because we've spent the past 2 years talking about it in Scotland due to the independence referendum (and the following talks on full fiscal autonomy).

> How many people have any clue as to where tax revenues come from?

Just about every grown adult on the planet? Who do you think pays taxes?

> How many understand that other people have to earn that money first?

Well, that's just plain wrong. You're conflating money and wealth. They're different things. Money is just created to reflect wealth: it's literally just invented by your government (or, in the case of Bitcoin, just by proven work). And wealth doesn't have to be earned; it just has to be created.

> How many understand that if the people who earn money are burdened with much higher taxes to pay for someone else's BI, a lot of them them will just stop working because fuck that?

Sure, I'm going to stop contracting at $3000 a week because, hey!, I could just live on $30 a week instead.

> Please just think about it for a while.

Yes, please do. There are actually intelligent objections to BI.

Here are some proper concerns: What about illegal immigrants in the country? What about the federal government having all your details if you want to claim BI? Would it be better to be state run than federal (or in the EU, by countries, or would it be better run as an EU project?). Would it create problems with inflation? Would it cause problems with the banking system?
FYI, you can help submit a performance profile to Mozilla so they can work to resolve this: http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2015/05/04/electrolysis-and-the-bi...
an exaggeration? that's what I thought at first but read the comments...
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The idea of "nudging" is growing in popularity in the popular culture. The idea is that the right government policy can nudge the individual to perform the obviously rational self-interested choice. The policies are innocuous enough that many reasonable people do not oppose them directly. Who thinks getting their fellow denizens to invest more of their savings or eat a little more healthfully is a bad idea?

But when you think about it more, you can see some troubling trends of petty bureaucrats trying to control your life through nudging. The most offensive example that comes to mind is politicians in the UK trying to convince ISPs to (by default) block adult content because, you know, think of the children [0]. Of course you could call your ISP and remove the block so what's the concern, right?

Be ready to give up ever more and more autonomy through slight manipulation all backed up by intellectuals tearing down Homo economicus straw-men.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...
It's not that it's bad for the human race. Betting has been going on since "I bet I can throw this rock further than you". It's probably older than prostitution. Much like alcohol, there's this "yeah we can ban it, but people will still do it, so we might as well collect money and regulate them, and try to treat the addicted"

It's the same argument when it comes to legalizing cannabis -- people are just going to smoke it, no matter your personal opinion on whether or not it's a good idea. The state is better off regulating for safety, legitimizing the business, and collecting taxes to offset the perceived social harm.
The question is whether or not the cost per request is higher than if you were running something similar on EC2.
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I use uthash:

https://github.com/troydhanson/uthash

You can compare performance with it and other C hash table implementations.
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Cool! Hashtables make for a fun project, to be sure.

Also worth checking out is uthash[1], which has been around for ever. It's a single header file include, full featured, and pretty bulletproof.

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I would suggest a new term: Employ-unable.

Many if not most firms are unable to identify intelligent, motivated people, outside of the typical CV pedigree of Ivy Leagues and corporate brands.

As a result, they have created a cargo cult recruiting process that promises, in a few easy steps, to tell them the essence of the applicant's very being, and to accurately predict their future performance within the organization.

A child knows that this is impossible, but the need for control and risk minimization means firms force themselves to believe in it.

That is why the entire job seeking and interview process has degenerated into a tragedy and a farce.

In Europe and North America, there are tens if not hundreds of millions of people unemployed because businesses are not able to employ them; they lack the competence to recruit well.
Interesting, but I'd light to highlight a quote near the end of the article:

> The fact that we haven't seen many systems like our own doesn't mean they're not common. It just means they're not that easy to see.

> In particular, planets smaller than Earth are still just beyond the reach of current telescopes. Not even TESS will be able to detect Earth-sized planets on Earth-like orbits around sun-like stars.
Well, you don't need Duckduckgo for that. You can set your browser to search SO directly if you type "!so <query>". The point of an internet search engine is to search the entire internet and give you the best results.
This is the one thing I need to make them useful! This would make Lambda's so much easier to invoke, without needing to build custom code to put together an SQS message or similar.
My family has several addicts in it. Some recovered, some not. Whenever you ask them "why?," it's usually "because it makes me feel normal." This is the re-wiring. Your body just becomes used to the dopamine party, and you feel kinda crummy when the dopamine is gone. The only way to get back to feeling normal is to do the addictive behavior. Left untreated for a long enough time, this can be a big factor in clinical depression.
My apologies. You're absolutely right and I've edited the post to be more civil.

As a matter of honesty, my post originally said:

> If you want to keep making up strawmen to argue against Hersh, maybe try reddit or something.

I do apologize to mpyne, and want to thank him and everyone involved for maintaining one of the best discussion forums on the internet.
I think I'd rather have multiprocess Firefox, even if I have to be a bit more judicious with my tab usage. I don't really know if having 40 tabs open is useful for me, or if it just makes me scatterbrained.
For the first time in years, the other day, I left Firefox open overnight. I use a proxy at work for Firefox due to strict filtering on our primary connection. I was monitoring the amtrack debacle in Philadelphia. I came in the next day to an entirely unresponsive Firefox. I had purposely gone to the home page before leaving to avoid bashing the processing with the live stream. Still, after ~12 hours of being on the cnn.com home page - with NO other usage - Firefox had become unusable. Chrome - with its ~20 normal and ~13 incognito tabs were as stable as they were 3 days ago.

I want (and do to an extent) to love Firefox. It was what at one time what expressed to me that there was an alternative to ie. But, I now, in the real world (at least the world I inhabit) can not find it to be better than chrome in any instance. From dev tools to performance. I had no intention of trying to test the differences; I happened to be using ffx for the proxy reason and was saddened to see it had crashed the following day.

Here's to hoping this speaks to progress in this regard.

(Speaking from OS X)