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This is brilliant. I wish I had time to write more. A few points.

The time tested old school way to avoid this problem is to limit openness and impose internal structure. The long lasting subcultures of old, namely the ancient mystery schools and the fraternal orders that flourished from the Renaissance until roughly the post-WWII era, were initiatory orders with oaths, degrees, and governing bodies. Sometimes they were secret as well, or at least secretive. Most historians seem to say that this was to avoid political persecution, and that's undoubtedly true, but it was also perhaps a way to avoid the dumbing down and dissipation described here.

I'd adjust the author's dates. It's not 1975 until 2000. It's more accurately roughly 1950 until 2000. The subculture was the engine of cultural creation in the postwar era. It gave us rock, psychedelia, hippies, punks, disco, hip hop, hacker culture, goths, and ravers, and all the immense cultural, musical, technical, and artistic expressions that went with.

My personal sense is that rave was the last postwar subculture. I was there and watched it go through precisely what this author describes. There does not seem to have been another.

I don't think it's just a loss of faith. I personally blame the Internet a bit, especially social media. It's no longer possible for a subculture to stay underground long enough to build up any energy. The entire life cycle now occurs before the first song is over.

Who knows... Maybe we need another occult revival. I'll wear a funny hat and take a blood oath of secrecy if I get to hear really interesting new music that doesn't suck. Sign me up.

Finally, this quote stuck with me.

"A slogan of Rao’s may point the way: Be slightly evil. Or: geeks need to learn and use some of the sociopaths’ tricks. Then geeks can capture more of the value they create (and get better at ejecting true sociopaths)."

That's part of what I like about HN. To the extent that it focuses on helping hackers learn how to "operate" in the business world, it seems like it's helping teach some number of creators how to be just a little bit evil.
Its also interesting that the corners of the windows are rounded - it's to avoid points of concentration for metal fatigue. We learned that lesson the hard way. When the De Haviland Comet was designed with square ones this was still poorly understood and there were several severe failures. The quest to find the cause of these failures at the time could be seen as the birth of modern air crash investigations.

Design evolution at work.
I'd recommend to follow up at least on the post-installation tips, to reduce swappiness and writes on the SSD drive. That way you can keep your SSD working longer.
I have no idea how Minecraft hasn't been sued over this yet

By not acting like it could possibly be a problem. Not being created by a US citizen/company probably helps.
Nice to see this on the front page. I wrote a Masters thesis about
distributed issue tracking using darcs' patch theory[0]. You can read
it here[1].

Although the initial goal of the project was to build a working issue
tracker that can integrate with darcsden[2], it later evolved mostly
into a playground for playing with dependent types in Agda. So, sadly
I don't have anything I can show HN yet. I do have a tiny little
private prototype which I haven't gotten around to finishing yet
because of other commitments. Maybe this is just the push I need to
get it working.

[0] http://hub.darcs.net/vikraman/thesis

[1] http://vikraman.org/thesis.pdf

[2] http://hub.darcs.net/simon/darcsden
On a little less serious note, I hope Haskell and C++ merge into something beautiful. Peak performance (par aliasing) and peak expressivity/safety.
Why is that? Provided you have sufficient RAM ?
What I miss in the article or discussion is consistency of refs. The moment your remote is a distributed one, it may have two different values for HEAD in single point of time in different parts of network.
If two clients push in this time, HEADs diverge even further.

So as in distributed databases, you either:

* need to acquire exclusive lock on the repository metadata, or

* accept, that your push will be eventually discarded because you did not have up to date metadata
When you look at error messages of C++ inside of metaprogramming code you understand that the error reporting in case of argument mismatch is still not solved .... :)
I enrolled in the MDMA studies of veterans with PTSD. I have very high hopes for this substance as a medicine for a broad swath of afflictions.
You might be interested in my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9633394
Correction: for a small minority of those potentially interested, see my previous comment. For everyone else: welcome to the world of the hacking underdogs :)
"the UK probably wouldn't even have to join Schengen to make this a less painful process."

Joining Schengen and getting UK immigration boffins to board the trains and operate efficiently have exactly the same problem: they would require competent leadership from 10 Downing Street.
this is so delightful :)
Ironically, Al Franken probably does share your opinion. :)
This is a really interesting read (linked from that presentation)

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch12.htm...

* one tcp connection per request

* Server push functionality / server initiated streams

* current implementations means http/2 works over tls _only_ - neither Firefox nor chrome currently support non encrypted connections. This does keep things simpler with things like proxies in the middle I presume also.

* tls implementations must now support sni also so basically http/2 is now a forcing function for supporting sni which is awesome.
I wonder, though, if it was alcohol that prompted him to jump in the water in the first place.

He wouldn't be the first drunk who decided to do something stupid. I recall a British tourist who died in Venice after thinking it was a good idea to take a swim in the lagoon a few years back.
This is how FPS games conserve memory, right? Just saying...
That'll only happen if Europe moves as one and doesn't fragments itself back into competing states. Sadly, this risk seems real.
A slightly different approach to row/column access in Google Sheets:

https://github.com/hliyan/magpie/blob/master/lib/gasp.gs

/**
* Returns a sheet if only one parameter is specified else a range
*
* USAGES
* $('sheet1')
* $('sheet1', 'A1')
* $('sheet1', 1, 2)
* $('sheet1', 1, 2, 10, 10);
* $.sheet = $('sheet');
* $(1, 2)
* $(1, 2, 10, 10)
*/

I wrote this as a hobby project some time ago.
That's totally meaningless without a control that shows how it did on a set of images without nipples and how it did on a mixed set of images both with and without (after all, these could simply be selected to show 'good' cases).

Detecting nipples when you know they are present is relatively easy.
COPPA is definitely the real deal (and the equivalent is currently being rolled out in the EU). However the reference to COPPA by @glassbottommeg actually isn't correct. COPPA is about data collection on kids without parental permission (e.g ad tracking etc.), not about content restrictions.

Otherwise it would be called COPPPA (Children's Online Privacy, Protection and Penis Act).
Seems interesting, but it is strictly for bicyclists. I really hope there is some community that is basically CS but without the crap.
We are getting far more socially liberal in general. I've noticed a shift even in the last decade. Those of us in America who would identify as socially liberal know where the puritanical values are, and those places are becoming less and less able to generate a national uproar over family values as time goes on and liberal youth get older.

Compare American television from even the late 90s to now. It's absolutely night and day. We have a long way to go on chilling out about sex (it's a weird line to draw given our fetish for violence), but the trend is definitely in that direction. The problem with America is that we are really eight or nine different nations stitched together, and it shows not only in our divisions on family values in different parts of the country but also our growing inability to agree.
I don't agree.

Once you've experienced the creation of a company, you realize that when a company gives 25€ to an employee, 68€ was was given to the tax and 7€ to people who help dealing with the tax complexity (accountants, lawyers, inspections). Total 100€, the price the customer pays. And I think those 68€ are too much. So:

Tax Heavens: In Argentina you're not allowed to transfer your money abroad, unless approved by the government. I call that a dictatorship. We must not do the same. Tax heavens exist for a reason. We must rather fight tax complexity. Complexity is a weight on every CEO, it's a hidden tax on every worker.

No to Tobin tax.

Science: Stop exploring the outer space. Let the money for each company/person to hire more employees. When you're old but not disabled yet, don't you want to hire an Au Pair to take care of your laundry? Our people needs money to pay for their local jobs, not for space rockets.

Politics: Dismembering NATO and UN is not any kind of solution. We need our own successful startups (I mean the size of Google and Apple) - Why wouldn't we have those in EU? Then we can equally deal at a worldwide level, menace of spying on the world's emails and businesses, or better, we can equally negociate with US a worldwide non-spying treaty.

Welfare: The Scandanavian model has become a gimick. My flatmate in Australia was born in Thailand on the countryside and at 22 he was making $1000 a week as a waiter in a hotel. That's what I call: One person, one chance.
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I think you're trying to include too much context in this. I think the question is purely about how you see the bribery through sex. He's how I read this:

The sheriff's sin is that he can be bribed. He's corrupt.

Marion's sin is that she's willing to bribe to save those she loves.

Robin's sin is that he's jealous and possessive of those around him and doesn't appreciate the sacrifices they made for him.

I can't really see any fault in John. The only way I think you can see any fault in him is if you see Robin's jealousy and possessiveness as justified.
I live in a rented apartment so I can't legally host on Airbnb - but I'd love to simultaneously room-swap with people in other cities when I travel... (Eg swap my place in London with someone in Berlin for a week or two)
are there any studies that show exposure to genitalia
during childhood leads to psychological damage of any kind

No, none at all. If that were so, many generations before us, and most European generations, would be quite damaged. The epidemiological evidence speaks for itself.

and that this social taboo is, to some degree, absurd

Completely absurd, period. It's confusing genitalia with sexual activity, completely disregarding context.
Edit: forgot to say I'm also willing to pay for it.
What? The US power is greater than ever. Yeah China isn't as poor as it was, but the US still has the greatest ever army navy and air force and a very large soft power projection - large enough to dominate almost every country on the planet.
Good summary!

I only want to add that it would be nice if most of this would be a global effort.

All these borders create fake differences. We're all the same: human. However mellow that might sound.
...considering this is true, than why you hear of so many people using Neo4j and so little about OrientDB? I mean, I am really curious... is it just the "started effect" where people just stick with the first thing that seem to mostly work? (the same thing that makes MySQL more pupular than Potgres for example)

I tried some time ago a 1.x version of Orient in comparison with a Neo4j of the same era, and Neo4j proved to be very simple to just jump right in and start querying around... whereas OrientDB had so many interesting concepts but it took so much time to digest them and decide what should I use... and in the end it wasn't relevant for me as I just dropped the hole graph db thing and went for "dumbest" solution of Mongo + MySQL ...so I don't have any authority to talk about this really :)
Language barrier may be the single most important obstacle for further integration. English fluency is growing too slowly due to political reasons, so universal translators may be the one technology EU needs to become and act as a single entity.
I don't understand why the US is so puritan

If it helps at all, remember that the US was founded in large part by the Puritans.
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jrms? Don't you mean jmrs? Or do we disagree on what constitutes an insult?
At least his laxative habit was legal and above board.

More seriously, Armstrong getting Joe Glaser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Glaser to fix his arrest problem for him is a sad reminder of how he and many other US musicians of the time (probably the whole jazz scene?) were deeply in bed with organised crime.
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Mr. Robot still using init...
This pretty much all seems to be a lot of fiddly work that tries to reduce writes to your SSD.

People Who Know in the industry know that any non-bottom-of-the-barrel SSD bought in the last -like- five years or so will endure many tens of TBs of writes.

If we look at Tech Report's SSD Torture Test [0], we know with some confidence that consumer-level SSDs will endure hundreds of TBs of writes before failing.

To provide some perspective for those numbers: My Linux laptop has encrypted swap, btrfs root partiton, and encrypted btrfs /home all on the SSD, and sees frequent compiles-from-source (I run Gentoo Linux.). Other than mounting my filesystems with the "discard" option, I've performed no SSD-specific configuration step or fiddled with any VM tunables.

Under this workload and configuration, I have written 20.4TB and read 66.8TB over 3.9 years. SMART indicates that zero blocks have been reallocated and that the drive is in perfect health.

In short, if you've a consumer or developer's workload, don't worry about SSD media longevity. Regardless of who you are, strongly consider benchmarking any configuration tweaks that folks claim will improve performance.

[0] http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim... (But make sure to also check out the intro article: http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endur... )
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> his is also why people around my age (mid 50s) probably have an easier time remembering the resistor color code. The mnemonic I learned 40 years ago is shockingly racist, violent, and sexist--and so impossible to forget. The mnemonics taught to kids nowadays are boring and easy to forget.

Ha ha ha

I just memorized the sequence as a 'word'. Like the beginning of each word, so would be like BlaBroReOraYelGreBluViGraBla
(but not in English, so it's shorter, since I take only the first letter of some of the colors, so maybe BlBROYGBlVGBk)

I didn't use a phrase because I made this mnemonic myself.

Another electronics mnemonic I came up with, which is the Cathode and which is the Anode of a diode. So if you see it's something like this: --->|--- the left side is the Anode (since it looks like an A) and the right is the Cathode so it looks like a K (mirrored in this case)
Am I blind or is the question not really answered?

So the hole is there so that air gets through and the pressure difference is at the outermost pane, OK. What's wrong with it being on the middle pane? What would happen if there was no hole?
I'm not sure how I feel about comparing a Twitter conversation to Warhol.
Hey. I'm sorry you've had your world turned upside down in this way. I'll add my prayers to those already mentioned.
There seems to be a lot of good advice here about temporal matters. As someone who is going through a similar journey, my advice is, please consider eternal things. If you're interested in a Christian perspective, check out http://digitaltrousers.wordpress.com
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Right. Of course there might be a big difference between taking plenty of MDMA for recreational purposes and taking it under a controlled dosage and environment. Or maybe MDMA really isn't a viable treatment. Or maybe it just works for some people. It is impossible to know more without proper scientific research.

Anyone who studies the history of science should be worried by the amount of power that politicians currently have over what scientists can and cannot study. There was a time after the renaissance when universities in Europe where granted almost total independence from the state. My university had its own police force and jail, at one point. This was a time when civilization advanced rapidly, and many of the ideas that we take for granted now were explored.

Now universities are very much part of the system. I am afraid that we are entering the high-tech dark ages.
typically their qualifications are low, though
Some people don't trust closed-source encryption.
Given that my legitimate, above board enterprises never went anywhere because 98% of the population was on adult islands getting frisky, I don't know about crying shame.

That game was a depressing look at people. I don't mean this to sound like I am not a fan of sex, but Christ, there are other pleasures in life and that game seemed like a single track mind.
A chat application is pretty much the canonical "Hello, world!" of socket programming. No wonder it is becoming the "Hello, world!" of web sockets too.

Normally, the progression is time-server, echo-server (with timestamps, sometimes), "selective echo server" (don't reply to sender, allow multiple recipients/subscribers) -- aka "chat".

What fun is message passing if you've got no one to pass messages to, or receive messages from? And when you're doing that, you have chat! :-)
Why doesn't it have a web interface?

I wanted to ask who the best new Black Comedians are, but I can't because I don't have a US phone.
My favorite is when they showed a gender reassignment surgery on TV and, at the precise point the editors determined she had transitioned from a man to a woman, they blurred out her nipples.
Actually, the original version of this book is no longer for sale. The link for the updated free version is here: https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read

Or, if you want to buy it in other formats, here: https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix
Bears a strong resemblance to this io9 article from the 11th: http://io9.com/why-is-there-a-hole-in-airplane-windows-17036... .
In fact, one could package the three panes in a normal (or humidity-free) air without the hole. Assuming the cabin pressure is close to ground air pressure, the pressure difference will still be on the outermost pane as in the OP, and if the outermost pane fails, it will come automatically on the middle pane as in the OP. In other words, this reason cited by the OP does not explain at all why a hole is there. Am I missing something here? :-)

The other reason cited by OP, fog and frost, would still be valid if it is not desirable to package the panes in a humidity-free environment.
Remind me what slack offers over xmpp+web client, and/or irc+web client (apart from the lock-in, and marketing, I mean)?
This type of C++ code also makes me sad. I actually can't follow along. I can't glance at the code and parse what it is doing because the template keyword has many flavours, as does class, as does typename, as does using, as does ..., and so on. < and > seem to be the template equivalent of ( and ). I can't tell the intent of a piece of template code quickly.

I agree with your Lisp sentiment. It appears that the C++ folks have spent the last 15 (20?) years re-implementing Lisp macros badly. Every time they work out the kinks in the syntax, remove corner cases, and make it more expressive: it becomes more Lisp-like.

When you compare with the approach Ruby took (granted, Ruby is a dynamic language) you get the feeling that the C++ folks went wrong somewhere. Far be it from me who has never implemented a compiler to criticise them but that's the honest feeling I get. Ruby made everything an object with an associated class. Or what amounts to the same thing, it made every type of thing get-at-able as an object with an associated class. And here is the kicker, including Object and Class itself. Why could the C++ folks not have made type an object with an associated class with compile and runtime methods?

class Foo {
...
}

is just sugar for

type Foo = new class();
Foo.class_eval {
...
}
What about SSHD drives - does Ubuntu have special drivers for them? Can I get my code files to be on the SSD part of the SSHD drive or will they just be allocated to the slow HDD part?
Some SSD have problems executing fsync moderately fast - like the Crucial V4. Here's the remedy:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Solution-Crucial-V4...
I think they're too ethical and just charge whatever their auction system calculates.

Google wants advertisers to be sustainable, not bankrupt them as soon as possible.
The author of the book (of which this is a part) seems to have put a fair amount work into it: http://meaningness.com/#contents

If the rest of the content is even half as good as this, it's well worth the read.
This is potentially a pretty stupid question - but are the differences in pressure roughly the same between a full, pressurised soda can and a cruising-altitude pressurised airline cabin?
It was also the case before 9/11. Then 9/11 happened. Military power isn't everything.

Metaphor:

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/887/945/2dd...
This point in the article is really strange though. Isn't Roblox, for example, operating massive building online universe for kids and somehow solves this problem without godzillion of moderators?

If Lego can't do it themselves - just, you know, acquire Roblox.
I guess it's good that the hole is inaccessible to passengers? Also there's good progression of failure this way.
Can we have these insights applied to the problem of keeping quality high in an online discussion group? I made rules but the sociopaths and MOPs keep finding ways around them.
Google being famously bad at customer support is I'm pretty sure a real life Conway's law. Google likes to put support as close to engineering as possible which biases towards "scalable" support over just throwing bodies at the problem.

It turns out support is one of those areas where just throwing bodies at the problem is often the right answer which leads to the kind of support nightmares that people encounter.
Ask HN: Open-source forums for 2015
I'm looking for an open source forum to integrate with my community site that is built using Wordpress.

The forum must work well on mobile and either be usable/visually appealing out of the box or be customisable. Ideally it would be a wp plugin but willing to look at other options.

Any suggestions for 2015?
> Programming in the large often means those systems are long-living and the teams programming and maintaining them are huge, heterogeneous (in skill), and changing (esp. if it's a system running for decades). The verbosity comes from making many things pretty explicit and clear.

I would say that this is the rule, rather than the exception, in software, and the fact that languages designed for "explorative hacking or intellectual workouts" eventually make it into production is simply a matter of inexperienced, though bright, developers prioritizing initial development cost over maintenance cost (which makes sense in startups, but those are a tiny minority of the industry). The average production codebase lifespan is about a decade, probably more.

I also agree that verbosity (up to a reasonable point) assists in maintaining codebases over time.
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This reminds me of a medical technique that was going into trials I read about on HN last year, I can't find the conversation link but this article in the nytimes is speaking to the same topic: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/health/a-chilling-medical-...
That's just gold!