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I only took a quick look at this, but the first thing I looked at was their discussion of POST vs. PUT. I worry about their answer. My understanding is that the fundamental consideration is idempotency, and what you would like that to do for you. I would have started the discussion there, and then added as a footnote the idea of convenience of working with resources. They seem to have done the opposite.
Having to trudge through slightly more annoying security is vastly different than 400,000 Americans (give or take) that died in combat during WW2.

I by no means am saying things are perfect, but if you can't see progress in this chart than you're holding your hands over your eyes:

http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013...

It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs man. We're doing a hell of a lot better on the bottom level of the pyramid. It's gonna take some time to work it's way up to the top.
This is true only if the effects are symmetrical. If we're barely feeling the effects and our opponents are in agony, that's not a step forward, as we have no motivation to end the conflict and the total suffering may actually increase.
Short answer - yes.

I'm not entirely convinced that there is anything to miss out on, but if there was, I'm certain that I'm missing it.

I attribute this to geography - I live 2,842 miles from the Valley and don't go to a feeder school for the Valley - the cultural gap is too great.
It would be rare to see any civil war count as anything other than infighting.

The American Civil War was considered an insurrection by the victor (Lincoln), thus that's what it'll go down as in the history books.
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So it's an illegal war. Still a war.
After 2 years of pair programming, here is what I've found:
Debates like these are why international law now tends to speak of 'armed conflict' instead of 'war'.

Certainly the casualty count on both sides makes Vietnam count as a 'war'. And yet, Congress actually declaring a state of war would have given Presidents Kennedy or Johnson vast and sweeping powers, which was something that Congress would be loath to do when the President was already able to kill Commies sufficiently well by simply letting him engage in 'armed conflict' without the state of 'war'.
It doesn't strike me as odd at all. We are vastly richer now than we were in the 1970s. When I was 12 years old $10 was a huge amount of money for me. Now it's lunch. You've gotta look at things relatively, not on an absolute scale.
I was reading Hackers (http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Anniversar...) earlier this month, and that sounds pretty much like the "bachelor-mode" described therein.

It's tough... You can devote your time to a logical, rational system that provides consistent rewards to your efforts - or you can pursue sex and unpredictable human factors.
I work in cocktail bars and run cocktail events. When I don't have access to a clinebell, I make my own using a similar setup, but it only costs about $5.

Buy a largish tupperware container, say 2-5 gallons, and wrap the sides and top--not the bottom--in insulating foam. Fill with purified water and place in a conventional freezer for at least 12 hours for smaller containers, 24+ for larger ones.

The idea is that the bottom will chill faster while the air bubbles rise to concentrate the cloudiness at the top. You'll wind up with a nice block that's mostly clear, save for an inch or so at the top.

Tips:

* Remove all food products and put baking soda in the freezer. You don't want your ice to taste like fish sticks.

* When you cut the ice, leave it out at room temperature for ~10 minutes before cutting. Score lines in the block use a mallet and knife edge to separate pieces.
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And your point is what? Is it something constructive or are you pig piling on his (now obvious) mistake(s)?
The effects are symmetrical:

http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013...
This answer doesn't include any mention of OpenVZ, which means you're not asking a Linux expert. The answer sounds like the type confused competitors invariably give, which boils down to "we did it first, they just made it flashy and cool" and is never the real reason.

> When you think about why would someone pick one Linux distro over the other, it’s because of — literally — the aesthetics of how the directories are laid out and what they’re called; the default shell and how much stuff was in there; and the packaging system. That was it.

This is straight from a Slashdot flamewar in 1998.
Furthermore, there's no doubt that the U.S. can be at war without an official declaration by Congress: those instances when another country formally declares war on the U.S. first.

For example, the U.S. was officially at war with Japan from 7-8 December 1941, for a few hours with Germany and Italy on 11 December following their declaration of war against the U.S., and from 13 December 1941 to 6 June 1942 against Bulgaria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_declaration_of_w...

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_declaration_of_wa...
What's more interesting than the "definitions of 'at war'" are the definitions of "young men and women [who have] died," "children [who] lost a parent or sibling" and "life-altering injuries".

Apparently ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent thinks only U.S. men, women and children are worth counting.
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I see the country's involvement in war as an inevitability born from the continued evolution of the military industrial complex. Like any organization, a primary goal of the military is for it to self sustain. To reduce its size to a level suitable for peace time you'd need to fight back against so many incentives to keep things the way they are. It's a Herculean task.

This pressure to scale it back was supposed to come from Congress but it's no secret that the public's faith is in Congress's ability to do their job is at an all time low.

So now you always have to have a conflict. Slowly the bar for what merits involvement gets lower. Other comments here have echoed my fear that the bar may get so low that the focus to find a suitable enemy turns inward.
There's a huge difference in the risk you are taking when you take on debt that can be cleared with bankruptcy and debt that can not.

This is why I always say that the first thing your business should pay for is an accountant. Same thing. Business mistakes? bankruptcy is the worst case. Sure, it's not that weird for even smallish businesses to sign leases that are worth truly intimidating amounts of money. My own company's co-lo contract would cover a very high-end Ferrari. Leases are debt. But they can be discharged through bankruptcy. Tax mistakes? Tax mistakes are for life (or, as you say, until you pay them off, along with penalties and interest.)

I mean, I'm not saying that I'd never take such a loan, just that it is money at what I consider completely brutal terms, and for me, at least, it would be a last resort.

As an aside, I think that only taking loans that can be cleared by bankruptcy is something of a sanity check. Nobody, right now, would loan me the money to buy a Ferrari, because I can't afford a Ferrari (well, not a new one, anyhow.) and this fact is obvious if you look at my finances, as a bank would before loaning someone that kind of money for a car. I mean, I probably could usually make the payments, but one financial misstep on my part, or some slight flutter in my income stream and I'd be in bankruptcy territory.

Now, on the other hand, if that loan couldn't be cleared by bankruptcy? I think it would be a reasonable risk for most banks to loan me the cash for the Ferrari. I mean I'd be eating ramen, but I could make payments as long as nothing went wrong, and even if I screw it up and they've gotta repo the thing, It's pretty likely that my lifetime earnings, which they'll get to garnish in this hypothetical world where car loans operate like student loans, are going to be enough to more than cover the loan plus interest and penalties.

The point being that operating without bankruptcy really moves the bar on how much effort the bank puts into figuring out if you can afford something.
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I had a very similar issue when I was 20 years old. I was an instructor for a martial arts school in my home town. They decided, all of a sudden, that having the most students they ever had meant they were in "hard times" and without notice just stopped paying the instructors. There were a lot of stories about "loyalty" leading up to this. And then, when I quit because I literally could not afford the gas money to show up anymore if I was spending my time there instead of at another job, they sent me a cease-and-desist letter to preemptively warn me against trying to open my own school with their "proprietary information", aka the routine of basic calisthenics, striking and kicking techniques, and other common martial arts training regimes that every other school was doing. Never mind that all I wanted to do was finish my CS degree and had no desire to open a school. Never mind that you can't send a cease-and-desist unless a person has actually done something. They read somewhere they should do this and they did it.

To defend against this sort of stuff, you have to be extremely well-versed in your field. You have to know exactly which parts are public knowledge and which parts aren't (and therefore, are proprietary knowledge). You have to know all the dark, secret corners of your field. You have to not only be an expert, you have to be THE expert, the one and only, the master of all knowledge.

Because the court won't be. And they don't care. It's your word against your former employer's about what you learned there versus what you knew before versus what is common industry knowledge. I've also worked at a ton of CRUD-y consulting firms that had similar language in their NDAs. I'm sorry, nobody building an OLTP system for keeping track of sales figures on ASP.NET and SQL Server is blazing new trails. Not that there isn't anything new to do in that field, just that cross section of the programmers who are capable of doing it and the managers who are willing to go out on a limb, don't exist in that market segment.

Just another reason to stay freelance. Just another reason to refuse to sign NDAs, at least unedited by my own lawyer.
Well, it is Memorial Day, an American holiday to remember Americans who have died in wars.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree.
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I spent almost six years working for the Department of Defense. From my perspective, the entire organization is engaged in a giant game with two objectives. One, funnel as much money as possible to defense contractors. Two, keep the game going for as long as possible, by any means possible.
I didn't even understand what the.. problem? ... was. The author writes of some mysterious task she didn't understand and then quits. That's pretty much all the detail here.

I mean, yeah, that happens.
Citation? The comment is the citation. OP is giving you personal experience.
Thanks for the link. Found this great comment:

My expectation, however, is that either P!=NP or if it isn't, we will probably find out because some day, some guy wanted his program to run a little faster and he just happens to solve A NP-complete problem in polynomial time, therefore collapsing NP into P (remember, solving one of them solves all of them). Who knows, maybe the source code for some random Indie game someone programmed in his basement already contains the solution and nobody has noticed, a bit like back in the day with quakes "fast-inverse square root", which was so great it's now integral part of graphics computing. And we only noticed because the water looked so great.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/372634/the_n_v...
Good information, so essentially the Gulf War never ended, and war powers have been active since 1990.

> Mexican Border Period (May 9, 1916 – April 5, 1917 for Veterans who served in Mexico, on its borders, or adjacent waters)

> World War I (April 6, 1917 – November 11, 1918)

> World War II (December 7, 1941 – December 31, 1946)

> Korean conflict (June 27, 1950 – January 31, 1955)

> Vietnam era (February 28, 1961 – May 7, 1975 for Veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam during that period; otherwise August 5, 1964 – May 7, 1975)

> Gulf War (August 2, 1990 – through a future date to be set by law or Presidential Proclamation)

That makes the Gulf War the longest war combined with the terror wars from the article (2001-present). We are only 15 years into this century and already have seen as much war as last century which included the world wars. I guess perpetual war has already started.
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Ask HN: Is HN running on a bare metal server?
Reading [1] suggests one bare metal server with FreeBSD as OS with a Raid system + a backup server. Found also this [2] suggesting 1 process on Arc language.

I actually kind of like the one massive server setup vs a distributed cloud infrastructure to squeeze out maximum performance.

[1] https://twitter.com/hnstatus

[2] https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/503258107879751681
Yeah, I ran a team like this. I was able to attract the best of the best and built a solid team, but the incentive was to hire some people that weren't as good so they could give you somewhere to throw the 10%'s. It's awful because a lot of those people still work hard and are reasonably good at their job, no one wins. I was fortunate that a partner team had a lot of low-performers and I got a little break when we combined curves.

That said, I'm skeptical that the stack rank system is gone, based on what I hear from those that are still there (I've been out for many years now). It sounds like a lot of the same curve-fitting is just renamed.
There are still people out there who think the world is flat or that we faked the moon landing. I'll happily agree to disagree with them as well.
A company’s valuation multiple can be highly sensitive to the choice of denominator. You are making an apples-to-grapefruits comparison by trying to equate “seller discretionary revenue” with US GAAP net income per share.

The SDR calculation [1] excludes compensation and looks like a generous net revenue measure. Earnings per share -- from which P/E multiples on public companies are typically calculated -- includes compensation, interest expense, various non-cash adjustments, and adjustment for dilution.[2] Generally you would expect the SDR number to be higher than net income and correspondingly attract a lower multiple in estimating firm value.

As others have commented, there are additional reasons why valuation metrics for large-cap listed companies don’t make for useful comparison with SaaS startups. See also Heidi Roizen’s cautionary tale [3] about the perils of multiple envy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9589223

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnings_per_share see also ../Net_income

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516910
I either here really good stories about working at MSFT, or really bad ones. And the really bad ones almost always seem to raise the performance evaluation system there.
Adjusting to GDP per capita gives a US equivalent of $20K/year. For the UK it adjusts to £10K/year, pretty much exactly the amount a single adult would get on job seeker's allowance plus housing benefit. (For pensioners and single parents with one child it goes up to about £15K/year.)
I don't want to diminish the difficulty and danger the soldiers at the front today face, or the danger that the civilians in those areas face, but I'm not sure that the war on terror belongs to the same category of conflict as world war two.
Intelligently applied to keep germs contained? The intelligence left the building with that statement. Water is 10X more hygienic than toilet paper. Next time you want to wash your hands try wiping them with dry toilet paper.
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TL;DR PHP does not have concurrency so the author has taken the viewpoint of PHP becoming obsolete.

Concurrency is nice and while PHP out-of-the-box does not support it, I do not think it is a deal breaker (at least not for me). As long as CMS's like Wordpress are around and PHP remains easy to deploy and is installed on nearly all web servers, we are not going to see PHP becoming obsolete any-time soon.
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Did he actually serve? It says more about the friends you've kept than the quality of your average service member. The military is huge: there are criminals in it. We have our own justice system for that reason.

However I can assure you that is not the case man. I am in the Army and I have never been in a place with as many sane people as this...

Extreme beliefs are not even close to being the norm. Most people are just concerned about taking care of their families and are quite moderate politically.
Are these supposed to be funny?

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nitish/nips2014demo/results/92679...

"a man wielding an electric razor is gleefully shaving away another man ' s hair ."

Hilarious!

I think they've stumbled on computer-generated comedy. Some funny stuff in there.
What I'm going to say seems like extremely unpopular opinion, but why exactly is it sad? Because somebody died? Yeah, sure, this part could be sad, except people die all the time.

Because "Young Brave American Soldier" was killed by "the enemies"? Oh hell no. He didn't die on someone's behalf: he was the one who invaded somebody's home country and was killed by people protecting that place from people like him. I'm more grieving for people he killed, than for himself.

Maybe it's sad because he died because of USA government, who is so fond of making war? For me, it doesn't seem to work either: as far as I know USA has a volunteer military, nobody forced him into it. He has consciously chosen killing others (and, possibly, being killed himself) as his professional activity. For me, the fact he voluntarily made such choice is more sad than the fact he suffered from it.

So why exactly is it sad?
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I already acknowledged your point. You could do the same for mine.
Honestly, the "Why didn't you have an emergency fund?" are probably from people who feel the need to justify their lifestyle. I get it. It feels shitty to see this person owning a house and a sports car while younger than me and making less money than me. So I need to assert that I'm making the right decisions. "Why don't you have an emergency fund?" "Aren't you saving for retirement?"

I'm not saying its useful to say those things. But I totally get why one would want to.
> I mean, I'm not saying that I'd never take such a loan, just that it is money at what I consider completely brutal terms, and for me, at least, it would be a last resort.

Please look at my comment in the context of OP's story of living at Starbucks and being beaten and mugged at gunpoint in the park where he was sleeping. I would say that's last resort territory. Hmm...that or take a loan that you have to start paying back in 4 years? I'm guessing that these negative responses about bankruptcy discharge are mostly from people that have never been in such desperate circumstances.

Also, even in less desperate circumstances, (such as my sister's, where she simply got tired of working in her field) going to school and (hopefully) dramatically raising ones earning potential isn't exactly a worthless pursuit.
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The OP started out with a good manager and a good team.

Then the OP was moved to a bad manager on a bad team.

Stack ranking and "promotion velocity". Therefore, time to leave Microsoft.

It's almost impossible to survive in any job when your direct boss decides he doesn't want you around.
> Administration officials said later that they had to start the lengthy procedure of winding down the counter-terrorism program in anticipation of Congress failing to act.

I find this sentence construction grating. They didn't fail to act. They acted to stop the program (well... so far).
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There's some merit to the idea != all charismatic people are psychopaths.
There's kids going hungry out there, and people are paying $6000 for a machine that makes prettier ice.

This is the kind of thing that makes me want to put on a black bandanna and start flipping cars, until I remember that I'm typing this on a $2000 gaming rig, and slouch back into my chair in shame.
Reminds me a lot of the Tox project, a peer-to-peer encrypted skype/IRC/IM replacement: https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore Tox optionally supports Tor: https://wiki.tox.im/Tox_over_Tor_%28ToT%29
Thank you so much for putting this out there, this makes a lot of sense and it's great to hear it put this way.
An excerpt from the article 'The Moral Bucket List':

"In the realm of the intellect, a person of character has achieved a settled philosophy about fundamental things. In the realm of emotion, she is embedded in a web of unconditional loves. In the realm of action, she is committed to tasks that can’t be completed in a single lifetime."
There is also a disturbing ratchet effect. It is almost always easier to argue for more (weapons/surveillance/police/prisons) in the name of safety. Far more difficult to argue against them. So we only seem to be moving in one direction.

The seemingly-now-inevitable decriminalization of marijuana and lessening on the Drug War in the US notwithstanding (which is a welcome development, but I'm not sure it is because of a general discontent with the militarized state of daily life)
When it comes to military conflict we're certainly only moving in one direction: smaller.
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No, Congress explicitly authorized all the conflicts the article is talking about.
Almost feels like a headline from The Onion. "Oh yeah, we're totally gonna shut it down just because it's illegal."
Battery and out-of-network areas. Last time we did a road trip (around Arizona) we had to think very carefully about when we would plot the next part of the route on Google Maps because there were long stretches where we had no internet connection. Next time I'm going to take along some print outs as backups.
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I think Manning's leaks are a better example of a data breach that would have adversely affected troops in combat now. However any data on what damage they did is certainly not public, if it's even measurable.

As for being picky about how people think about what the military does, "serving" or "working", you've got to think about it again. It's definitely a service. It should be apparent from overwhelming consensus on the matter. However, if you want to make the argument that "oh hey, you volunteered for it" -- sure, keep in mind that if there weren't volunteers, we'd have conscription, and the US would be a significantly less free country than it is today. Freedom is choice. Volunteer soldiers means you choose, which means we have freedom.

I am sorry to hear that your cousin was chewed up and spit out. In this way the military is exactly like a corporation. Not everyone gets what they deserve, but I would like to think most people are compensated fairly.

Should probably disclose, I am in the Army.
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