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Ad hominem? Really? How do you know he hasn’t made any hard choices?

As I stated, it’s relatively easy to sit on the sidelines and have the benefits of hindsight, to call someone out on their choices.

What’s unfair is the absurd cost of college and why it’s primary ethos has been to make money.
If the dislikers were his customers -- if SL were a conference about [whatever] but primarily attended by GG sympathizers -- probably yes. (Note -- I'm not talking about A. Miller at all any more, just any conf organizer)
I was at the Colosseum a few months ago. I couldn't believe they built this right in the middle of the ruins. In my opinion, it greatly detracts from the surroundings, and would have been better displayed elsewhere.
No, it's not for those moral reasons.

- At best, it's for the state to make money in the long term by reducing the brain-drain of great students moving to other states.

- At worst, it's for the university to make more money short-term via price discrimination, by operating under the assumption that people who travel further often tend to have more money to spend than those who stay in state.
Was that last panel supposed to be about you?

Anyway nothing I've written here is really angry, or passionate, or inflammatory (just snarky). But since I don't get your usage of the word proof in this context, what do you mean specifically?
>> Ten years ago this would be --xml. Who knows what it would be ten years from now. Text streams are timeless

> Text streams are just an ad hoc structured format. Even an out of date format is better than one you have to invent or decode on a per case basis.

I won't argue which one sucks more, XML or JSON. They are both inferior to what you call "ad-hoc structured" text files.

XML and JSON are both hierarchical data models. It has been known for fourty years that these are inferior to the relational model because they make presumptions about the access paths of the consuming algorithms.

Put differently, hierarchical data models provide just a view of the information that is actually there. (Implicitly -- consistency and normalization are not enforced). Relational databases on the other hand are concerned with the information and provide much better mechanisms for enforcing consistency and normalization.

By coincidence, the "unstructured" text files in Unix are just miniature relational database tables. Think passwd, shadow, hosts, fstab, ... . Consistency is not technically enforced (that would be a huge overkill at this level of abstraction), but there are even checker programs like pwck.
And SGML (which XML is an application of)
Warsaw Metro here: https://github.com/quamilek/WarsawMetroGit
> For the simplest next step web servers can just do simple challenge response over SSL to ensure I hold my "certificates" private key.

What happens when you lose your private key?

What happens when you change machine?
I'm from Canada, and it's probably because of all the US calendars we tend to get, but I'm used to Sunday being the first day on the calendar while mentally, I consider Monday the first day of the week. So I plan things where "next week" means "after Sunday" but I'm used to seeing weekend days bordering the weekdays on a month-long calendar. I tend to think Sunday = 0 also. It's kind of like metric vs. imperial. Canadians never did fully switch over, e.g. for weight, height or indoor thermostats (for some folks).
It irritates me when they flag the question as duplicate and not provide a link to the possible original and it's incredibly hard to find a similar question. It wud be just easier to link the original instead of all the traffic coming from google finding a dead end.
ls's plethora of flags doesn't stop "echo *" from working.
First job?

"Years later, I found myself confronted with a choice..."

It wasn't his first job, it was a career you want him to give up.

"Forty years after I took out my first student loan, and 30 years after getting my last, the Department of Education is still pursuing the unpaid balance. My mother, who co-signed some of the loans, is dead. The banks that made them have all gone under. I doubt that anyone can even find the promissory notes. The accrued interest, combined with the collection agencies’ opulent fees, is now several times the principal."

Unless I'm reading this wrong, educational debt is still debilitating 40 years later. After a repayment plan of over a mortgage's worth of lifetime.

But if he had a better attitude...
Problems at the high school level are, not coincidentally, linked to what we're discussing at the college level (that is, they are the result of unusual structures imposed by moneyed interests). I think the best way to prevent financial train wrecks from misaligned incentives is to realign incentives. A post above about the Australian student loan system is a good example of what this could look like.
Any browser/OS based password manager (such Safari/iOS/OSX/iCloud keychain) makes passwords visible to the user when required.
Of course they are. And they're all going to be replaced by insipid whiteboards.
A free pass, no. But I don't think that's what was meant. It's that, for someone suffering an accute "attack" of paranoid delusion et al, you can't really bring them back to earth just by telling them they're wrong. You can tell them they're wrong after the fact... but they already know that. So it's kind of pointless, in a consequentialist sense, to correct them.
Bottom line is we need the LAN equivalent for mobile devices and this looks like a step in the right direction. Still to doesn't address the issues of curation and security very well but that might be up to developers. If the game you're playing is Wifi Aware then you can have secure and relevant social interactions curated by your game developer.

If widely adopted, Wifi Aware could redefine social networking and finally enable the now infamous "elastic social networks". A dynamic collection of these elastic networks could be thought of as a "civic network" or a new paradigm in social networking that allow us to share and connect with people nearby to discover placer, crowd-shop, get better POVs on stadiums, take 3D photos and videos, share files in conferences and classrooms, become citizen reporters and profoundly change interactions in every naturally occurring group of people. Quoting one of my essays (The Case For A Global Civic Network, http://www.jordhy.com/the-case-for-a-civic-network):

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What Facebook is to a club, this next property needs to be to the “open society”. An open collaboration place that is less intimate than your social network of choice, but still manages to embed intelligence, security and structure into our daily interactions. If you think of society and civility as the protocols that make us productive offline, then the idea of a civic network emerges as the tools that will make us productive as a “hive” or significant group of people. Indeed, this is a big idea, but one that could change our world for the better and have a disruptive impact for generations to come.
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While I'm skeptical, I think that Wifi Aware is a huge step into such a vision and, if widely adopted, could create new possibilities for developers and users.
Couldn't agree more. I got to the end of the article thinking "why did you stay after the first series of episodes?". I never realized how bad it was there and I am sad for all those impacted by it - especially the little ones.
It's like asking if we can brainstorm on a better way to find a spouse. Do you really want to find a spouse quickly? Or would you be more comfortable marrying your high-school sweetheart?

The YC folks will say founder breakups are the most common reason for start up failures. So what I'd want to see is a highly granular failure analysis of founder break ups. It's psychology, right? So something like the actual stories of 100 randomly selected startup failures would inform us as to the most common causes. Could be working styles, asymmetric effort, personality disorders, personal/family issues, health,... Once you have a histogram, find a way to test for those failure modes before getting hitched to a co-founder.
> it hands veto power to whoever determines what racism is and when something is 'too racist'

This sounds like the function of the free marketplace of ideas. One is allowed to espouse any ideology that you wish. However, other people are allowed to respond with their own speech. They can call the idea racist if they want. They can take away speaking platforms if they want.

Whether a statement is "racist" is a determination made by the current social taboos and mores of a society. I think there are a lot of terrible ideologies out there, and I like that we don't have to give them equal platforms. The free marketplace of ideas means we don't have to "teach the controversy" and give both sides "equal opportunity for debate".

Which is great. There are plenty of people who's methods and ideas I so disagree with that I don't think it's worth my time to listen to them (neo-nazis, members of the Westboro Baptist Church).
Institutional Endorsement versus Heckler's Veto makes for some interesting situations. I often wonder what would happen if an organizer going with the Heckler's Veto published all the "please remove this person" communication.
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The communists locked their dissenters up in psychiatric hospitals. It would be better for us if we didn't simply labeled people for their ideas.
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This incident reminds me of growing up as the son of an oil company's PR man in the Bay Area.

We lived in one of the small towns in the North Bay. My father handled public and government relations for the oil refinery in that small town. A contingent of the opposition was especially vocal in their distaste for the plant.

An orthodontist refused to take me on as a patient due to my father's job. Snide remarks from teachers were normal (but the school district relied on the refinery's charitable contributions—which my father controlled—so they had to play nice). Parents telling their kids they couldn't hang out at our house.

There is a certain type of extremist who is unable to separate public and private lives and believes attacks on both are equally valid in advancing their agendas.

We were glad to leave the state.
Right. Top tier educations are for rich kids only.
No, it is not. That is flatly untrue nonsense. It is always SL's decision, that they are making with feedback

It saddens me that you're making this obviously fallacious argument, because your reasoning is so transparent. You're a Zionist, who has sworn allegience to a genocidal government. As a supporter of genocide, you are concerned that someday you'll face consequences for your decision to materially support mass murder.

So, you're trying to criminalize, and shame the idea that anything is ever wrong... because some part of you knows that what you're doing is one of the worst things in all of human history.

That's also why you make up phrases like 'Progressive Except Palestine', to attack those who oppose the genocide that you so love.
Uh, that's not what I meant, though I guess my comment wasn't clear enough.

I'm not saying they should change the criteria to food security/malnutrition/etc. I'm saying that,

1) suppose the criteria was food-related; people wouldn't likely game the system by voluntarily not getting food because, well, eating is pretty high on people's list of desires.

(there are food-related metrics like "reported food consumption" and "malnutrition" that are used to assess the performance of GiveDirectly and charity/aid/welfare programs in general. They are well-defined, even if subject to manipulation. In any case, I understand that the roof criteria is more practical at the enrolment phase)

2) analogously, people aren't likely gaming the system by keeping non-metal roofs, as having good shelter is also very high on most people's list. In fact, one of the most common ways recipients spend the grant money is getting an iron roof.

Also, it's not like having a non-metal roof automatically entitles you to a grant, as this is isn't a nation-wide government program.

GiveDirectly is considering changing requirements not because they think they're including too many (relatively) high-income families with non-metal roofs, but because they might be excluding some people who live in metal-roof houses but are still poor.
I don’t know that we can use words like “succumb.” It’s always that way when you have a strong opinion about a particular matter.

For example, we can praise Obama for listening to scientists on certain matters, than complain he is caving under lobbying pressure on others.

In the end, I prefer to say that it is Alex’s decision. He didn’t crumble, succumb, get browbeaten, or anything else. He decided, and that means you can hang the responsibility around his neck.

People who can’t decide shouldn’t run things, it’s that simple.
Then no one will issue loans to those students, who have a very high likelihood of never paying it back. You're right back to cheap schools and only issuing loans for degrees that will pay a very high salary. The whole point is to make it possible for people who can't get loans otherwise to get them, the inverse is that they have to pay them back. It's a fair trade, you want to borrow 100k for something that isn't tangible. You have no income, and a very high likelihood of defaulting, and the thing that was purchased can't be resold by the lender. That's a pretty awful deal for any lender. So if you make it possible to default then you won't see those loans being made anymore. Why issue the loan?

If you don't want a loan you have to pay back, then don't get a student loan get a personal loan which you can default on. Sure it won't be as much, but that's all you can get when you have a low likelihood of paying it back. Or enlist in the military and earn the money to pay for school. Or get a job and pay your way through school. Or go to a cheaper school, and get a more practical degree.

There are other options.
A realist view looks at the various players and makes an informed judgment of what their power is. Alex Miller indisputably has final say on who attends the conference. That doesn't make him a dictator. If he doesn't follow people like Steve Klabnik and Alex Payne on stuff like this, the personal and business consequences to him will be immense. As his statement says, he hasn't read Yarvin's political writings. Nevertheless it took him only a few hours to decide that it would not be possible to have Yarvin present. Is that not strong evidence that Miller felt his options were limited?
What outcomes do actions like this encourage? Well, it encourages controversial writers to stay in the shadows, hide their real identities, lest the vigilante mobs find them. This outcome also encourages people in general to say less, creates an atmosphere of self-censorship, and so harms our free society.

Whatever happened to "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."?

If we can not learn to tolerate others and respect their opinions, even those we find distasteful or deplorable, we will reap the consquences, and stagnate as a culture.
One of my friends works in software during the day and runs a Gaming store(mostly MtG) in the evening. She is successful enough at it that she just moved into a new location double the size.
I wondering if they're really still located in Hunter's Point, San Francisco.
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I'm not sure if you meant to imply that Yarvin wanted to talk about neoreaction, but he distinctly did not. His talk was about Urbit: https://github.com/urbit/urbit
The short introduction on that tutorial is much better than that actual docker site and 10-15 min interactive tutorial on what docker actually is and what it can be used for. A note to other developers, it's a good idea to not use some language without first defining the word... Especially if it's an overloaded term.
> The scariest to me is on professional standards and ethics

OK. What standards and ethics would you recommend we adhere to?

First, do no harm? One, define harm. If I'm depriving a corporation of money by automating something for consumers, is that harm? How about if I write a clone of netcat, am I liable for its use in nefarious scanning of ports?

Thou shalt not write bugs? That would be awesome, were it possible. I can't think of many developers who wouldn't want to get to this point, assuming of course it didn't result in a 1 month project plan to write a sorting algorithm.

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...
That sucks. "Horizontal Censorship" is definitely on the rise: http://pando.com/2015/02/04/the-geometry-of-censorship-and-s...
It is not uncommon for institutions that receive public funding to replace things that are not broken in order to avoid budget surpluses that could decrease their funding the following year.
This guy sounds like he would be happy to see anti-Zionism as a litmus test for conference speakers.

Is that the kind of tech industry you want? Should speakers at technical conferences have all their political opinions pre-vetted for approval by a panel of progressives?
I am curious, could someone link to the most objectionable content by Curtis Yarvin? I don't think prohibiting someone from speaking at a private tech conference due to offensive views is necessarily a bad thing (e.g. prohibiting a KKK member from speaking), however without seeing his objectionable content I don't know if it's appropriate in this circumstance.

Alex Miller said he made his decision without reading any of Curtis's content, and I don't think that's a good idea. Otherwise any group loud enough could get anyone blocked from speaking, regardless of whether they did anything wrong.
I would stop focusing on finding a co-founder and focus instead on starting a business. A CTO isn't the solution to wanting something developed and not having money to pay someone. Find something you can do by yourself. If you're capable you will find and hire a CTO later.
While at it, its important not to forget the amount of founder disputes which kills the company as often as any other factor.
Going solo can be hard but its not impossible. If your vision is clear as a business guy, you can hire freelancers to get a prototype, and market it yourself to get the early validation. Worrying about co-founders before that would be a waste of time in my opinion.
What kind of extremist attacks a child because of their father's political views?
It's unclear whether this is true or not. Prior to literacy bring widespread, it may have been looked at similarly: "I'm good at tailoring, you can't expect me to learn to read and write like a monk". But as it turns out, most people are actually capable of literacy. It's doesn't mean they become hemingways, but it allows them to do all sorts of jobs they wouldn't otherwise be able to do if we believed that literacy was a matter of personal taste or what you're "good at".

Perhaps the same is true of CS: we don't need everyone to be Hemingway here: plenty of jobs just need programming. I'm not sure what the alternative would be. Even if CS turns out to be above the capabilities of most people, that certainly shouldn't mean that it's a reasonable choice to spend an equivalent amount of money getting a degree that well known ahead of time to not get you a return.
*take advantage"

Yes, because my primary motivation for moving to Nebraska (from California) was to "take advantage". You got me.

I attended three colleges in California. I'm not sure what the point of your last sentence was/is.
> Sure, I’m responsible for my debt because it’s in my name. Did I know that as a naive 18 year old trusting my not-financially-savvy parents that this was a wise decision that wouldn’t wreck my ability to produce wealth for the next decade?

> Nope.

But could you have researched the decision? Yep, assuming you had access to the Internet or a library.
That's great. So some assholes are following me around and downvoting me for having an opinion. If you disagree with what I'm saying, how about having the gumption to argue your fucking point?
Much as I dislike entering into this sort of (highly off-topic) conversation, it needs pointing out that "Progressive Except Palestine" was coined by people who agree with you. Just search for it and see what comes up.
Seeing Terry's work always makes me wonder whether delusional mania was the drive behind the creation of other "big works" in religious history that are hard to comprehend in sheer scope/detail, like the Sistene Chapel.

It also reminds me of the story of Bolero's dementia, a bit: http://www.radiolab.org/story/217340-unraveling-bolero/
The kind that lives in Benicia, CA.

And recruiters wonder why I refuse to consider offers back in California.
I really don't care what a format is called so long as it fulfills the basic requirements: 1) can be written and parsed with the std libs of the language in question, and 2) supports comments if it is to be used by both humans and machines, such as in config files.
Chomsky's oeuvre on politics, in general. There isn't one single book that states a thesis, it's about a perspective. So perhaps start with The Chomsky Reader. An easier-to-digest intro is the documentary Manufacturing Consent. The twist is that a lot of the things you think of as "bugs" in the political and economic systems of the Western democracies are "features" from the perspective of powerful elites. But the meta-lesson is that big questions can be answered. If you get past the mythology in your culture, and read primary sources, you can really figure this stuff out. Chomsky can go off the deep end at times (and his fanclub does so a lot), but his documentation is meticulous. Well worth reading.

For very different perspectives on programming, check out Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming (read it a decade ago and I use techniques from there every day.)

The Gift by Lewis Hyde. Although directed at artists, it is highly relevant to creative programmers and the phenomenon of open source. He is able to articulate things which are very hard to talk about, like the intersection of economics and artistry, and how the gifting ethos is necessary for any culture to thrive. If you think ESR had the last word on how open source works, you need to read this.

Another book of interest by Hyde is Trickster Makes This World, wherein you learn the hacker archetype - the giver of technology; the player of tricks - has been around since prehistory. It's not a coincidence that those two aspects are always seen together.
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Well no shit. I've warned parts of the U.S. government that they're "open to cyberattacks". It's obvious even from the outside and has been obvious for years.

The surprise isn't that China (or somebody) hacked OPM. The surprise is that we noticed this one.
Huh, the "Images and layers" section is 404'ing.

Edit: ah, here it is - https://github.com/odewahn/docker-jumpstart/blob/master/publ...

Edit: filed a PR
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