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Which of the following sites do you you prefer:

1. https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-brooklyn...

2. https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn

The first is nothing but HTML and text, the second is a fully functioning web front end to a DVCS with issue tracking and documentation, plus metrics and graphs, all only possible due to the 'worsening' of the web with Javascript, CSS, Flash and so on.

I know I prefer GitHub, and the same is true for most modern web applications where there is a choice. And apologies for the shameless Apache Brooklyn plug ;)
I can testify to the mental health search difficulty. A close family member is searching for a therapist for emotional help dealing with an occasionally debilitating physical health issue. The first group we found through online searches ended up being a front for a multi-level-marketing group schilling essential oils. The second group, recommended by the overseeing physician at one of the most prestigious hospitals in the United States, was actually a "new age" center, whose main advise was to try homeopathic remedies. The third group, recommended glowingly on its web page, and organized by the hospital itself for sufferers of my family member's very condition, seemed to have vanished without a trace. No one had heard of it. Turns out it went defunct years ago, but no one bothered to update or remove its associated page.

That's where we stand. Infuriating. This is not quality befitting a first world nation.
i think you've levelled some very hyperbolic accusations re his OLPC protests.

can you provide me with the source materials for these protests? i'm not really accepting them at face value, due to your previous hyperbole.

in many cases you can protest against behaviour whilst allowing that behaviour to continue. peaceful protest versus using violence for example.

thanks for the apology re the previous hyperbole.

here's links to the steve jobs statements that you find so extreme, in case anyone is particularly interested in them(rather than reading the shortened version you have presented)

https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_2...

https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#27_October_2...

i'm sure most people have said similar about those who have passed who do not have their enduring admiration.
There are plenty of languages which evaluate fragments of your program as part of the checking step. Simple ones are not even that difficult to write.

http://www.andres-loeh.de/LambdaPi/LambdaPi.pdf
Actually that is being changed:

http://lwn.net/Articles/633422/

See part about EPOLLEXCLUSIVE
Or maybe not, I think they have automated crash reporting (I even used their library, breakpad) but my Chrome has been very consistent in crashing on Windows wakeup for over a year now.
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That you didn't notice the lack of CSS is precisely why you need to see this from the point of view of a non-technical person. If my mother-in-law saw this page, she would probably call me screaming that her computer had broke or she had been hacked.
>Few of us can empathize with species we regard as inferior.

The large numbers of people who support animal rights would beg to differ. Plus, there's the whole category of domesticated animals many, many people arrange their lives around.

Perhaps the greatest superintelligence risk to humanity is not something that resembles a human but rather a supercute Cockapoo.
I take issue with the lack of positive train controls but moreso with the facts reported in the final paragraph. I was under the impression that locomotives had dead-man switches. The last paragraph implies that either the locomotive did not have a deadman switch or that maintaining it becomes so automatic for the operator that he mindlessly kept it up during his state of shock.

In light of all the difficulty reported in installing the positive train controls which rely on trackside signalling equipment, I don't see why a GPS based train control system is not feasable, or at least one that gives instructions or sounds alarms in the cab. I'm only a layperson when it comes to locomotives, but my 2007 model Garmin GPS nav does tell me what speed limits are on nearly every road and warns me of upcoming turns.
All milk sold (legally) in the US is processed, because it must undergo pasteurization, a heating process that kills pathogens. Outside of a small group of raw milk activists, this is generally accepted as a positive.

I have been drinking raw milk (just cooled) for over two years now. It's sold here (in Poland but also in Eastern Europe in general) from free-standing machines[1].

It's ~4% fat, slightly more expensive but much tastier. Doesn't keep as well as one sold in a box but you can still drink it with curd on top.

I haven't heard of any epidemics.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/7MhxOuZ.jpg
Didn't know that. I just remember reading on a lot of scattered reports that Chrome performed better than Firefox. I wouldn't know because I never did move from Firefox.
> "Well then, we can assume that all those economists have also presented evidence to support their cases, but even with evidence, they haven't reached an agreement. Therefore, it's pointless to demand evidence from me either."

The main difference being that evidence changes between 2009 and 2015. Maybe there is new evidence since then to really support your claim that I'm not aware of? Evidence is constantly changing. Raw reasoning and logic is not constantly changing. If the only basis we're working from is rational thought, then you should be able to reach the same conclusions that Aristotle did.

Hence, the request for evidence.

> 'You want to know what amount of government spending is the most "efficient", but you should first define what you mean with efficiency in that context.'

I'm using efficiency specifically in the economic context (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_efficiency, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productive_efficiency).

I'm sorry for assuming an economic context for my terms — elsewhere in the thread you asserted that "Opposition to UBI comes from people with a clue about economics" so I made the assumption that you were familiar with economic terms. Additionally, I'll be the first to admin that my economics background is merely some early econ classes in college and a general interest afterward. I'd be very interested to hear from any economics if I've badly mucked up any of these concepts.

> "In conclusion, if you want maximal efficiency in the way money is spent, you can't support the idea of any government spending."

I don't think there are many serious economists that you back you up on this assertion. This claims that I would be happier if there were no roads, no water supply, no education systems, no protection from criminals (which technically don't exist because there's no criminal behavior), and no protection from other countries. I absolutely would like some of my money taken and spent on those thing.

I'm happy to debate if the amount of government spending is currently too high or too low; I'm happy to discuss where the best place for it to be is. However, if you would seriously contend that the correct number is zero I think we may be too far apart on a base ideological level to continue this conversation in a productive way. At the very least arguing economics won't get us to any common ground — I think we'd have to switch over to philosophy before we'd find common ground.
His response regarding the science purity comic makes me wonder if perhaps it is time to create "computer engineering" courses.
It's likely there is someone just as smart and focused as me that is willing to put in the long hours. The problem is finding that person, and once you find that person and you work them to the bone for a couple of weeks, they will not be as smart or as focused no matter where they started out at. They will continue to deteriorate till their output is of lower quality than average, even if they were brilliant at first. This is the point most manager, founders, owners, and executives that support working their employees overtime intentionally miss. There is no way a human being can keep up quality work being sleep deprived and working around the clock. Even a little sleep deprivation and a bit of extra overtime will take its toll after a few weeks.

That will happen even if you pay employees overtime, which most companies and proponents of overtime are vehemently against because the real reason they demand it is because they want to exploit free labor along the lines of temporary slavery. No wonder there is so much shitty code out there, especially at startups and other companies that love to overwork their employees without paying them. Then they call it "technical debt," as if there was anything technical about depriving employees of sleep, health, and their life outside the company. And finally, to top it all off, they want us, the employees, to enjoy being worked overtime and having our health ruined and our time stolen. The delusions of management and executives in this area is incredible.

But I don't think it's fair to call employees willing to subject themselves to this suckers, only the ones who do so knowingly and willingly. Many people simply don't have other choices or have other obligations (family, mortgage) that make changing jobs difficult. Others, especially young people, just don't realize what they're doing to themselves until they burn out or are too caught up in the social "coolness" of it.
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OK, fair enough, but it still seems like the rust compiler has enough information to determine whether something is a pure function. It knows whether global or enclosed variables are present and it knows if any of the methods it calls have an &mut ref, which I think is needed even for IO reading
> I am in a state where every moment is sad

Please, keep trying.

As for trial and error, we're far from knowing everything. Among a list of things known to have worked for various people, it is still somewhat trial and error finding out which of those things will work for any individual.

We're big bags of meat, bone and mystery, and solving that mystery is a challenge, for ourselves and for our practitioners.
Processing power is only one part of the equation, though. These Cortex processors are significantly more constrained in RAM and storage than computers of 1995. Run Python on a 100MHz Pentium with 192 KiB of RAM, I'll be impressed.
Not to mention the social stigma that still(!) haunts depression (and virtually all psychological injuries). Few physical injuries have any sort of stigma - and the ones that do are usually associated with depression. Certainly it would be better if that stopped entirely (and, as with homosexuality in general, and gay marriage, it seems to be happening).

That said, I actually have sympathy for the stigmatizers. From their perspective a perfectly healthy person with no overt negative stimuli is profoundly unhappy for no reason. That's got to be frustrating because it's completely and totally opaque, untouchable, alien, and unaddressable. The condition stymies the compassionate person, making a mockery of their good intentions. That is frustrating, even angering, and is probably the cause of the ambient hostility that lingers around depression. Depressives behavior appears stubbornly self-destructive, which essentially and irreducibly thwarts the will of those that care for them.
You're right. I should have looked into that first. My bad.
Oh wow. That's even worse than the therapist I tried to see after getting out of undergrad and finding myself depressed with adulthood. I said that I was depressed with the thought that life after graduation consisted exclusively of work and materialism. He said I was being immature and should grow up.

Psychotherapists and psychiatrists often seem to be utter shit at serving patients as normatively neutral medical professionals, ie: not treating their own lifestyle preferences or ideological frameworks as the One True Way to Live.
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Well, that escalated quickly :) If there are any questions, ama, more than happy to answer (if I can).
I wasn't trying to argue the pros and cons of milk and dairy consumption, I was trying to ridicule the argument that fast growth of new born mamals is due to milk consumption and your how the doctor arrived to that conclusion.

New borns are "programmed" to grow fast. They do need energy to allow this growth, but consumption of milk is not the reason. There are a lot of baby humans who are dairy intolerant, they are fed with non-dairy replacements, and surprise, they grow at the same rate as other babies.
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You're talking about something like marginal utility. The first $10 used towards satisfying a certain want are more effective than the next $10.

For example, if you're really hankering for an apple and you eat one, that apple will be more satisfying than the second one, because the first apple satisfied your strongest craving.

The same can be applied to resources etc.

But more importantly, why would anyone else have the right to decide how your property is allocated or used, even if you do happen to be rich?

Besides, even if you redistribute people's property based on the idea that the end justifies the means, what if the poor people you're helping through harming others don't use the money wisely? What if someone gets $10 and uses it to maintain his alcoholism? -Did your grand vision of increased Societal Utility come true?

Even disregarding morality, which would be.. rather psychopathic, how can you know if people will use the money wisely? What about Rational Actors® and Efficiency®? :)
What is the advantage to creating a new foundation to manage Node.js vs joining the Apache Foundation? Or is the Apahe Foundation not an option for some reason?
If the data is structured, columnar databases still rule.

But if you are stuck in SV's echo chamber it's all MapReduce/Hadoop/Spark/etc.
It doesn't matter much if a person is sad for no reason, no one wants to be around someone who is sad.
What I find more interesting is that you felt the need to point it out and "correct" it, yet failed to actually do so. In fact, the original did something, albeit in improper form, from by PEP8 that you omitted entirely.
Wouldn't it be warm?
I had a brother that committed suicide 7 years ago and his story was similar to yours.

A history of extreme emotional swings and hospitalization for attempting suicide.

I was the best man at his wedding. Once he got married and had three sons I thought that was the end of that part of his life.

In my mind, no one with three little boys could ever kill themselves.

I was wrong. As soon as his marriage started to fall apart, he did it.

If anyone reading this knows someone that suffers from depression, never underestimate the power of depression.
People should be really thankful that RMS is out there making all of these issues visible. People might not even know that these issues could effect them in the future if it weren't for a vanguard standing up and taking notice now.
The article states that he had tried telling the manufacturers for years about these vulnerabilities. That means every time one of these planes flies all passengers are at risk. If he has to pull a stunt like this to raise awareness in order for the vulnerabilities to be fixed, who is putting more people at risk? This is an ethics question and it's a hard one. There are no direct analogies. This is pretty much par for the course with security researchers and big corporations. It usually takes some big negative publicity and a public scare for a manufacturer to do a recall, which makes sense because recalls are expensive.
nice idea. I stopped at the first question though. The answer that would correctly describe my average situation at a party involves a combination of 3 of the mentioned answers and probably 3 others that were not mentioned, so I doubt a test with 8 questions with each 8 answers can match me properly to someone that is very much like me.
A lot of the value of vmware is in the sales channels. Why use VMware rather than QEMU/KVM? it used to be that VMware came with support. But now that KVM is owned by RedHat, which in my experience, gives way better than average support? yeah.

but, yeah. Docker doesn't solve the "take this ancient rack of failing servers and consolidate them down to one server... without updating the software" use case that VMware is so often used for.
Weight lifting doesn't necessarily increase life expectancy, but it does increase your quality of life, especially in later years. Basically, when you're old, weight lifting allows you to keep moving around and carrying stuff. While I agree having big biceps is mostly useless, core training (squats!) is extremely helpful for pretty much everyone.
If you are using SQL... why didn't you try a columnar engine?
1. You assume that people's vote would remain the same. I rather think people would be better able to vote for what they believe in, and would be more likely to vote in general.

Following your assumption, though:

2. The Tories would have to choose coalition with UKIP (and vice versa).

3. Even if they managed to do that, they would not strictly have a majority at 49.5%. Tories currently have 50.9% of MPs alone.

So a much less stable government that would threaten to split off and destroy the Tory left. It's not even likely that Cameron or Johnson could agree to those terms.

But, if they were able to agree, I'd far rather have that government than the one we have now.

I am concerned by this attitude in general. Although I don't agree a lick with UKIP, they should have fair representation.

What you are suggesting is literally authoritarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism I'd personally rather have a democratic UKIP government than that.
from this: http://ethanwiner.com/music.html

I also played lead guitar in a band with John Scofield

this jumped out (Sco was the rhythm guitar??). Anyway, i also started learning cello as an adult, til my dad dropped it and cracked the peghead (it was his cello).
Do you mean percentage? Or did you counter a $100K offer with $1 million and then asked for more?
I would recommend you to first read "Tour of C++" or another book that explains better the new features on C++11. Meyers explain very well some of edge cases of move semantics but if you don't understand the concept first then you might not have a good experience reading the book.

>"says that 'don't use malloc and free, unless you want to debug 1980s' problems."

The problem with malloc and free is that they left to the developer to keep track of the references and memory corruptions bug are not pleasant to debug. RAII idiom actually helps a lot in that context, and that is what Strouptrup was referring to.
https://i.imgur.com/3K0Zvhb.png
That seems a bit like putting the cart before the horse, doesn't it? Solving a side effect of a cure before the cure itself is solved? I imagine it's a lot less difficult to figure out what to do with overpopulation - especially if those people are healthy, vigorous adults, which is kind of the point of this fable - than it is to figure out how to negate aging.
Kyoko generally seemed to have child like levels of self awareness (can't not dance). Stabbing the man she doesn't like makes sense, but locking somebody up requires greater reflection (the ability to predict their actions, knowing Caleb would likely report the escape). It wasn't clear to me how much the two worked together versus merely working in parallel.
As a programmer, I didn't move a lot and i ate all the wrong food, so o fcourse I've gained massive weight during the years I was 385lbs or 175 kgs at my peak. When i decided it was time to regain control over my life a month ago -4th of April- i weighed 370 lbs, today after 42 days i weigh 346 lbs, all i did was cut on sugar and walk a bit, no fancy diets or what so ever, although first week i've tried Atkins but i failed at keeping up with the strict rules of it, now my diet is low in carbs but mostly low in sugar.
Complex wasn't random! It was added to compete with Fortran. I'm not joking. Its the same reason that c11 added generics.
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That, and the bit about prayer, sounds like the therapist was focusing on his own needs rather than the needs of the client.
>I've seen many thoughtful, well presented, well reasoned posts get down voted almost certainly solely because they argued for a minority opinion on some issue.

Exactly. Advocating downvotes for disagreement simply has the effect of encouraging groupthink. It can also be dismissive of thoughtful people's efforts to contribute something insightful to the discussion.

In fact, there are some topics on HN that are practically undiscussable because the dogma is too entrenched.

But, what's the value of a discussion-oriented site if the incentive is on encouraging people to say "I agree"?
Right, its more thinking about an important topic. He's providing an awareness and opening a space for discussion.
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This is awesome. When I had a small college blog running, I build in all in raw HTML with a small bit of CSS.

It loaded quickly, and it was a pleasure to edit. I liked it much better than writing tons of JS based on big web frameworks that often had bugs or non-obvious functionality.

Even with the small college blog, though, the CSS was a bit much. The fact that sites like this exist: http://howtocenterincss.com/ seems like a testament to the idea that CSS is a bit broken.
All decisions are political (ie. Power interests), but not all orginzations are configured to be primarily driven by power. This is especially true for young organizations, or those that have gone through a cycle of renewal.

Google decided early on to drive towards an operational architecture that allows individuals to act at scale on their infrastructure. A developer deploys into production, it launches thousands of new containers and disposes thousands of old containers. A batch job is run, same thing. Deploying services is uniform across the board. Thus, optimizing utilization through improved container scheduling is something that the core site reliability engineering team could do independently of individual services.

Google's early adoption of data center sized computing by Hozle & team was unique, along with Amazon's CEO-diktat move to decentralized service-oriented architecture, or Netflix's rewrite and move to cloud. Which is why you have articles like this, written by a VC, that want to repackage this thinking and sell it back to old school IT.
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