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I agree with most of your points.

My personal sense is that rave was the last postwar subculture

I'm unconvinced. I think that there have been numerous post-rave subcultures, but the time difference between "cool" and "mainstream" is shrinking.

Cosplay, trail-running and "start-ups" are three subcultures that jump out at me as things that have gone through this (I'm not overly familiar with cosplay, but it seems to me that it has gone from nothing to something people make money from).

Maybe you are thinking of just music though. Dubstep had it's 6 months of cool before making mainstream, maybe?
Yeah that thing looks insanely expensive. Also what happens when it inevitably goes wrong (e.g. someone leaves pannier bag on their bike and it gets snagged)?

It's seriously cool though. Someone must have had fun designing it!
Put in a more general way: decentralised systems sometimes avoid hidden costs that more centralised systems can suffer from. Minecraft is decentralised and Lego Universe is not.

(the reverse is of course also true)
The rates are different in every EU country. Which one are you referring to? The average EU tax take is about 36% of GDP vs 27% in the US but we get health care included in that. The tax plus healthcare cost is probably similar between the US and the EU.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu... - not sure that includes all VAT etc)
I think it's important to point out that whether something like this matters depends entirely on your security model. For example, an attacker learning that I have a gmail account isn't very useful information, so I don't consider it confidential. This is a property of most of my credentials.

The way pass is built on top of gpg encrypted files in git is at the core of its robustness and simplicity. Creating an encrypted, version controlled store from scratch would be a not insignificant engineering effort, though something similar could be accomplished, for example, by putting the password store inside encfs.

If the mere existence of a credential is considered confidential information, a simple measure to bypass this flaw is to give it a meaningless randomly generated name such as "faithful_iceberg".
Both are part of the JVM, which means that part of the JVM is currently self-tuning.
the writing has to be somewhat vague in order to get people talking about it, and the author succeeded as evidenced by it being here .
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Self-tuning systems are inherently complex and opaque. Execution tends to be non-deterministic and irreproducible, and so the burden of testing is far greater.

It takes some discipline to write elegant, loosely coupled code that is self-tuning. I work on scientific software, where reproducibility and reusability is (…or at least should be) paramount, and where black boxes are evil. It's hard not to build black boxes when you're writing self-tuning software.
NRX Silicon Valley techno-libertarian sub-culture

Neoreactionaries are anti-libertarian by definition.

selfie culture

Not a subculture any more than the hula hoop was a subculture.

how STEM seems to have become the new 'cool' or celebrity status, especially with the show The Big Bang Theory being so popular

Not really STEM in particular, but rather various media (novels, comic books, films, TV shows, etc.) related to science fiction, fantasy and stereotypically "geeky" things.
I have been called to serve on a few juries, but have so far been excluded by either the defence or prosecution.

I still find it hard to believe that you could get together 12 people no matter how stupid that would convict on the basis of jailhouse testimony alone. What were they thinking - someone in prison out of the goodness of their heart and with no expectation of reward just decided to go to the authorities and tell all despite being in an environment where being a snitch gets you killed?
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>Outside of music, the main legacy of the hippie movement is that everyone wears jeans.

Well - that and the environmental movement, including sustainable utilities. And some parts of feminism. And recycling. And organic food. And possibly Apple and even Google, if you don't think about it too hard.

>The legacy of punk is industrial interior design

I'm having a hard time getting from spitting in the mosh pit to Herman Miller cubicle dividers. Open plan offices have been around since at least Victorian times. The exposed piping aesthetic is more the fault of Richard Rogers and Norman Foster than Johnny Rotten.

>The more interesting question is "why did it stop"?

It didn't. What do you think HN and the current startup frenzy are?

Are VCs geeks, fans, MOPS or sociopaths?
Completely forgot email, calendar etc.

D'oh.
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I'm not arguing against legalizing drugs, I'm saying GP's argument is no good.

If you actually want to convince people on the fence (GP's comment is clearly meant only for the audience of those already convinced), it's more important to actually use convincing arguments. "Sticks hurt people" convinces no one.
I'm sure the end of the video shows the doors closing on the front wheel of the bike!
A wild __vectorcall appeared!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/12/introducin...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn375768.aspx
I like the idea of using my SSD as a HDD cache. What do others think?
Actually Germany still has rising population through (mostly inner-EU) migration.
> It feels very bureaucratic, but despite that I still very much believe it's worth having legal safeguards like COPPA; we're still in an era where society is changing drastically in response to the internet

Surely that's an argument for not having COPPA? Social standards are changing but laws, once enacted, almost never do - they tend to freeze an arbitrary set of moral judgements in place and prevent people exploring any alternatives. As you note, would Minecraft exist in Notch had lived in the USA and a friend had helpfully informed him about COPPA early on? Perhaps the risk of letting people build anything with no age verification would have seemed too risky, yet the cost and overhead of age verification + subsequent retarded user based growth would have seemed to make the project not worthwhile.

I've yet to see any real evidence based studies that show COPPA solves any real problem. It appears to be a classic case of "something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done".
SPDY is an experimental protocol that does much of what HTTP/2 does ( you can think of it as the beta version of HTTP/2). It will be phased out starting next year over favor of the real protocol but people use it now with nginx.
it would be nice to see how the public facing frontend is organized. sadly it looks like http://bugs.bugseverywhere.org/ is down.

is there another place to check it out to get an installation with some actual data?
Great article. I was listening to a Katherine Austin Fitts interview on solari.com last night and she and her guest were making the same points: it is not possible for the USA to contain developing markets. There is too much energetic development in emerging countries, all of them wanting to get out from under the USA dollar and military hegemony.

She equates central planning activities by my government, the federal reserve, etc. to Soviet Union style central planning. Neither works long term. Free markets are more efficient than central planning.
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Moving every few days would be bad. (I usually stay in the same spot for 4-6 months). The desk has wheels: It's just a matter of unplugging two cables and rolling desk+chair to a new spot. Since I've got a couple of computers on the floor, this takes two trips and maybe 15 minutes, most of which is waiting for the slow freight elevator. Picture of my wife stays in place the whole time.

In the 80s and 90s I used to keep a whole bookshelf in my office. Took days to move (get boxes, fill them, have moving people move them, unbox, etc.).

I've pruned this down to one or two books. Everything else is online, and it's fine. I could see that requiring a bunch of physical references would be a problem.
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There is a tendency in recent times for the internet to satisfy basic needs directly, where once they had to be addressed indirectly. So people watch a stream of someone playing a game instead of actually playing the game themselves.

I wonder if the basic need for a counter-culture (whatever that is) can be satisfied directly without needing to wrap it up in music or fashion. You just need to read Reddit to have your dose of behaviour that is counter to societal norms. In fact it is a purer expression of an underlying need because it dispenses with most of the inconvenience of an actual "movement".
If a JavaScript dev likes the idea of AST refactoring, I recommend a look into grasp[]. It's like grep but works with the AST representation of a file instead of the Text.

[] http://www.graspjs.com
It isn't bad manners to ask Rusky or pcwalton to show measurements in support of their claims.

It isn't bad manners to trust that when steveklabnik answers "No, as optimizing performance hasn't been a focus, shipping good language semantics has been." that's what he means.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554676
This explanation makes a lot of sense--I agree that not having the hole removed redundancy--but I'm not sure some of your details are exactly right.

> If the two panes would be sealed absolutely tightly the pressure between them would stay at normal level in any case.

I think higher pressure inside the plane would push out on the inner pane, pushing it closer to the outer window, so the pressure between would go up compared to the outside.

That is to say, cabin pressure would be highest, pressure between the panes would be in the middle, and pressure outside the plane the lowest. But ALL THREE pressures would be lower than air pressure on the ground.

> Without the hole and with perfect seal if the pressurization fails for some reason you'd have maximum pressure gradient on both panes. The redundancy of the second pane would be lost.

The air in between the panes would provide some "padding" so the outer pane would receive less pressure than the inner pane, but there's not much air between the panes so the padding, and difference in pressure, would likely be small, so yes, redundancy would be lost.
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After the redesign, links to groups were deleted (meaning they restructured the URL hierarchy and how one part of the site connects to the other). That's almost fine, as long as they implement a nice search functionality and allow access to hundreds of backpages of user-created posts for each city group, etc...only they didn't. They totally deleted all that crowdsourced data (the posts) and threw the search functionality in the trash (search is a horrible user experience now).

In summary, by crowdsourced data, I mean when someone asks where the best park is (for ex), they might get several viable answers from locals. After a few months, this post gets buried but with search it can easily be found again.
> A generation ago, it was common for a couple having 3 to 4 kids. But now, even here most couples (in urban areas atleast) plan for atmost 1 kid.

So the birth rate is decreasing.
Oh, I thought SAL only existed as a mnemonic, I was rather surprised to find out SAL actually has x86 instruction encoding different from SHL!
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Agree. My small sample (3 cases) indicates hung jury is the expected outcome. Seems like long odds to get a conviction. The key - a skilled lawyer can win at the jury selection stage almost regardless of the merits of the case.
Conclusion: "Measurement is highly specific … Measurement is not prophesy." (benchmarks game homepage.)
> ... kills Dropbox/Box/etc at consumer level ...

It takes more than just being better when you are late to market.

> Self driving cars are fast approaching. Will anyone beat Google at this?

Uber? They are the fresh blood and moving fast in everything.

> Maps will have offline navigation soon. Why use Bing or Apple maps?

I use Nokia Here Maps. They have offline navigation today. On my device. Which is not Android.

> Android is everywhere.

Not on iPhones. Not on content-producing devices.

> Google Now and their new Google Now features look great.

2015s version of Clippy. Predictive analysis is not ready. Beware of the hype curve.

> Is there any space that they are not in / won't enter?

Their business is still revolving around ads. They are lagging in enterprise. They cannot beat Amazon at shopping. They cannot beat Apple/Microsoft at premium device design quality. They are not perfect.

PS: It's great that Google exists, but don't put it on pedestal.
Knowing the clusterfk of the binary Office document formats

The Office "binary format" is simply the objects as they exist in-memory serialized to the disk. Doing it this way was a design decision made when machines were a lot more resource constrained, and fair enough, perhaps it could be revisited, but it was made for sensible reasons by people smarter than you.
isn't this why germany allows more immigration ?
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> The efforts to increase condom usage in sub-Saharan Africa show that this might not be very easy at all, and this assumes that the people who have children in those areas don't actually want to have children which probably isn't accurate.

It assumes that some of the people who have children in those areas don't actually want to have children, which probably is accurate.

Moreover, the efforts to increase condom usage are targeted at reducing AIDS and other STIs. If you want to reduce birth rates you promote birth control pills. Particularly in an area where the legal system puts most of the economic burden of raising children on the mother.

> Economic coercion is still force, and still ethically shaky.

I fail to see how offering to pay someone $5,000 to have a vasectomy is less economically coercive than requiring them to pay $10,000+/year in child support for the next two decades if they get a woman pregnant.
Urine is safe to drink. Contrary to popular belief, urine contains antibodies which heal any health issues.

Don't take my word - just google it.
All I really gathered from the presentation was that spriting and concatenation negate the caching advantages HTTP/2 could provide and are unnecessary. It doesn't make HTTP/2 worse than HTTP/1.1.

But changing an existing production site so it no longer uses techniques like spriting and concatenation will damage performance if anything degrades the communications to HTTP/1.1.

One point of standardizing HTTP/2 was to let the more conservative among us start to use it now.

I'm not sure anyone who is switching to HTTP/2 today could reasonably be called "conservative". There are few production-level servers available yet, and some of the big potential performance wins due to the multiplexing, prioritisation and server push aspects -- the things that in theory could render those spriting and concatenation techniques obsolete -- are barely even mentioned right now outside of the standards documentation and related announcements. I just spent a few minutes searching to see how you'd actually configure a web server to implement customised server push for maximum performance, and I literally didn't find a single explanation, nor for that matter a single server even advertising the capability.
I see a split icon when playing on a mobile device, but I agree that control is really really hard. I even have a hard time on a touch pad--just seems more natural with a mouse.
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It's at the same position as when the video started.
No - that has probably more to do with guilt after WWII than the low birth rate. A low birth rate (within limits) is obviously a good thing - the world is over populated as it is.
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It, it used QTWebkit directly. Wkhtmltopdf uses a forked version of Webkit with several PDF-specific enhancements (better support for paging, fixes a couple bugs, etc).
$ grep ^[a-z]..*atio$ /usr/share/dict/american-english

Tom Lehrer had the line:

"What with president Johnson practicing
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There are a handful of Javascript frameworks taking this approach. The community has adopted the term "isomorphic javascript" to collectively describe them (i.e. "same code on the client and server").

See http://isomorphic.net for examples. However, note that they appear to be quite inclusive in their definition. For example, I'd definitely consider Meteor to be one of these frameworks, but React? Not so much.
Commercial, but DocRaptor does with some additional Javascript parsing on top of PrinceMXL
To quote you - "You can probably figure out from this rant what do I think about you and your religion. Drink this stuff alone."

I have only one thing to say. Comrade - you are ignorant and come across as a racist. Not that i give a shit.
>Currently it takes 1.2 earths' worth of resources to support the earth's population

So the earth we are living on is in fact 1.2 earths, which is in fact 1.44 earths, which is in fact 1.728 earths, which is in fact 2.0736 earths, which is in fact at least two earths?
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That actually depends – many of the larger groups in piracy do not want to harm their reputation, and actually provide email support for their cracks, with guarantuee to be malware free.

Sadly, especially in gaming, their support tends to work better than the official support, with some groups even providing fixes and patches for bugs existing in the official game.

I own all the games that I play, but often, years after the activation servers have been shut down, the only solution is to use pirated versions.
Are we really turning old Chappelle Show routines into startups now?
Do you know any further reads about binary data with WebSockets or (Browser side) JavaScript in general?
The core problem is that the New York subway system isn't one subway system, it's three:

Interboro Rapid Transit (IRT), which built a lot of elevated lines from the Bronx into Manhattan (all the Manhattan lines have been torn down, including the second and third avenue el, which were never replaced with the promised Second Avenue Subway)... they ran shorter, narrower train cars and their remaining lines turned into the 1234567 and Times Square Shuttle (internally, the 0)

Brooklyn-Manhattan transit (BMT), which ran a bunch of trains into Brooklyn...

and the Independent Subway System (IND), which was run by the city with BMT car standards and was responsible for the Manhattan portions of the ABCDEF trains, the G, and the Rockaway Shuttle (internally the H) and bought a few more rail lines in Brooklyn as well (the tail ends of the A and the F).

If you look up the maps, the places where the subway really looks awkwardly constructed, the stations are sprawling, the tracks are at funny angles... it's because they were competitors. Why does the 2/3 cross the L out in Brooklyn without a transfer when the stations are right on top of each other? They were run by competitors. Why do the F/A/C/G shun the other lines as they plow through downtown Brooklyn? Why do you need to walk from the 6 to the F at 63rd Street? Why can't you transfer between the Hewes Street and Broadway (G) stations if they're right on top of each other? Why can't anyone figure out how to navigate Court Street? Why, for years, was there a transfer between the BDFM and downtown 6 at Bleeker St, but not the uptown 6? (That silly little bubble in the subway map.)

To this day there is exactly one spot where an IRT train shares a platform with a BMT train (Queensboro Plaza). And there are essentially two places where trains transfer between the old IND and BMT tracks (at the Manhattan Bridge, and Queens Plaza -- the third, under Central Park between the Q and the F, occasionally figures in maintenance-related detours).

The good news is that New York is lousy with subway stations, and if there's a disruption on one line, there's a very good chance you can still get where you're going on another. The bad news is that's fundamentally confusing.
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This looks like something that could be done with Prolog, - can anyone enlighten me as to the difference between Neo4j and Prolog?
From the op-ed in question:

"It’s not that I didn’t make my share of mistakes, or act stupidly and inchoately, but it was embarrassing, not traumatizing." [1]

I think this is an important point. These kids can't tell being embarrassed from being traumatized. Presumably this woman embarrassed herself by getting too drunk to perform in bed, so she felt traumatized, and the idiotic professor was the obvious scapegoat.

And when the infantilized man- and womanchildren are dragged out of their "safe spaces" to face real criticism for their embarrasing ideas, it's a traumatic experience, so who else to blame, but those who criticise them? In that mindset it's easy to imagine the op-ed as a retaliation.

1. https://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia/190351/
Especially as those are also more fat-resistant. And read better in sunlight. <3 matte screens.
I totally believe in Conway's Law; I see it everywhere.

Christian Bird's chapter in Making Software (https://books.google.com/books?id=DxuGi5h2-HEC&pg=PA187&lpg=...) turns Conway's Law on its head with Conway's Corollary. Instead of fighting organizational bias, embrace it.

"... all things being equal, a software effort that pays attention to and actively aligns social structure with technical structure will fare better than one that does not."
Yes. "Lack of information" is, I feel, the main problem.

Lazy human's can't be bothered specifying what they really want and dealing with another level of abstraction when twiddling familiar knobs will do.
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I'd love to know the reliability rate of the system. If just one bike jams up or falls over during the loading/unloading, everyone's bikes become completely inaccessible.

Maybe it works flawlessly, but it looks so fragile to me.
You get used to it really quickly, in my experience. Swimming in cold sea/lakes on holiday (in Greece of all places) the fifth/tenth or so time was way more bearable than the first.
Cool eh? I think the Japanese have a culture for this stuff. It reminds me off about 30 years ago I visited a Toyota engine making plant in Nagoya and it was unremarkable apart from there being almost no people on the line. Just engine parts trundling from one machine to another on automated conveyers. I don't think there was much computer control - it was pretty much mechanical mechanisms.
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Germany and Japan are densely populated. Except for the economic dislocations of population decline, nothing bad will happen to German or Japanese culture or society if their populations have peaked and are declining.

China is also nearing zero population growth. That's when things will really start to change.

On top of that, the consequences of missing population stability projections on the high side are much worse than missing them on the low side.