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Lawmakers (smart ones, anyway) don't break laws; they make what they want to do legal, and then just do it. Give a person a hammer, and everything's a nail; give a person a lawmaking ability and suddenly everything's illegal. Even when inaction is the wisest course, it looks too much like indecisiveness to be politically feasible.

One of the problems is that we can't figure out a better system of using humans to govern humans. Do you think we'll ever develop the fabled Sci-Fi computer overlord to govern us? Will it end in the traditional "disaster of ignorance", where the members of society return to a child-like state, and are unable to maintain the great machine we've built?
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Right - and "the government" isn't a single entity. Members can defect (ala: Snowden and others).
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"Infatuated with the image of the self as a designer" is what I meant. Self-infatuation with a design component.
Which eventually became a Coke commercial with Matt Frewer who went on to play a doctor in "Dr. Doctor, Dr. Doctor" an uproariously funny TV series on CBS.
Collusion, then things like "parallel reconstruction" and inter-agency agreements to keep things dark.

Power always corrupts. The big lie is "No, our motives are to keep you safe, and [list of the usual bad things] can't possibly happen this time."
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Ok, with the lack of comments that makes sense. Thanks.
No True Scotsman fallacy. Pessimistic bitterness. Is insane enough to read Kafka fucking four times. Appeal to some ominous nameless oppressive judgmental force in order to discourage (perhaps this was informed by all that Kafka reading). Is obsessed with nihilism. Spreads negativity unnecessarily, which does not help anything. Senseless comparison to optimistic soldiers entering a warfront... Getting rejected by art directors until you're successful is not the same as killing "enemies" in cold blood, I'm sorry.

All of that and more in a mere 3 short paragraphs.

How did you NOT see why it was downvoted?
Sounds like it was written by someone with an interest in encouraging people to buy expensive managed funds.
TL;DR people get jealous.
Yes that is exactly my problem! Glad to see it is properly fixed and not "fixed by accident". I will live with h/w acceleration off for a few weeks I guess.
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Another vote here for that sub. Helped me realise just how bad my junior developer job was, and gave me the knowledge and confidence to leave and find a pretty great new job.
Too bad this wasn't in the US so that it could be tested under the 4th amendment, which actually have some teeth. Unfortunately this happened in the UK, so I guess he is SOL.
I ask my mentor who is more senior than me.
Let's be realistic here. The government isn't going to give you a heart attack in your sleep.

The government is going to give millions of people heart attacks, all at the same time, at 5 pm Eastern time on a weekday.

I cite the recent bonehead maneuver, wherein someone--likely backed by a foreign government--managed to access the data for every last person cleared to handle U.S. government secrets, which necessarily includes any embarrassing datum which could be used by foreign governments to apply leverage.

This is Murphy's Law in action. If a catastrophe is possible, it will eventually happen. Combine with Acton's Law. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. The result suggests that, for the sake of sane risk management, government should be structured such that no person working in it (or hijacking its infrastructure) can single-handedly do more than one nuclear bomb's worth of damage.

This means the fundamental principles that have to be engineered in are robustness, trustworthiness, and voluntary cooperation. Built-in backdoors are completely antithetical to all three.
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> These animated favicons are a huge problem for laptops. I just reduced

> Firefox's CPU usage from 21.6% to 2.8% by closing a single background tab

> with an animated favicon.

why does it use so much CPU ? Something is not optimised here, it should be a lot less.
On Lisp is:

1. Oft cited.
2. Minimally citing.
3. Primarily comprised of original material.
4. Written by an academic.

I don't think that there is only one way of being a primary source. This is pretty common: for example, all the works of Aristotle are believed to be his student's notes, not his original words.

Don't get me wrong, it is worth reading McCarthy's original paper and the Lisp 1.5 manual as well as On Lisp. The bandpass filter should be set to a broad spectrum. Computing is so young that we don't know what will constitute it's canon in 100 years: Today, C. S. Pierce's pragmaticism is philosophical, William James' is considered scientific psychology via historic interpretation. Computing hasn't yet gone through a thorough rewriting as described by Kuhn in Structure of Scientific Revolution. But the interwebs are perhaps the paradigm shift that could cause one.
Yeah, this was part of WebAPI back in 2012, and that has a lot more hardware APIs:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI
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Do you work in law or management?

Are you certain experience is always valued in law and management?

What about consulting companies in the law and management spaces? Do they value experience or just billable hours from warm bodies?

Is experience more valuable simply because it is easily
measured whereas skill is hard to measure?

Is there a correlation between experience and skill?

Is it good to seek out places where experience is valued so that you can acquire X years of experience and simply just coast?

Have you ever worked with a programmer who had 15 years of experience but was awful at their job? What about the inverse?
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you're replying to the author, and maintainer, of spiped.
I think clear-headed thinking along with a moral foundation of compassion for everyone is going to work out better in the long-run than attempting to skirt around possible truths deemed 'dangerous'.
"Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age" is a great book:

http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Information-Lemelson-Studies...
What kind of ROI do they get doing this? Better than 5%?
So can you explain what gender is, then?

I've always viewed gender & sex as being an issue of parts or lack of parts a human is born with, and gender is their sexual personality or preferences.

Do you believe there are specific (limited in quantity) genders?
Docker is a way to create immutable infrastructure, which is a key component to a) have software working the same in test and prod. (hint DevOps.) and b) creating servers which can scale both vertically and horizontally.

I think thats the best way I can summarise what Docker _is_.
This means that you have to roll out a (potentially huge) new blob each time you want to make even small config changes.

You get most of the benefits of immutable builds anyhow by having scripts which can reliably set up servers from scratch on the fly.
It's not just "academics". It's anyone who can take an idea and successfully run with it, without stopping to notice all the signs that are yelling at them "Stop! This isn't working as you expected!" Academia merely happens to have a large concentration of such people, for structural reasons. (The "ivory tower" is a real effect, and it is both a good thing because it permits concentration and focus, and a bad thing, because it begets people too stuck in their theories and smart enough to "explain away" anything, until it is much too late.)

This is not something "the masses" do, because "the masses" do not have the ability to successfully run with an idea and gather enough power to impose it.

It's not just the holocaust, either. There's a huge history of 20th-century "social engineering" that rather a lot of people would rather forget, because it pretty uniformly went badly. See also "eugenics" for another reason that academics are afraid to think too hard about how people may be different or how genes may determine things about people... and not entirely without reason. "The masses" did not impose eugenics. In fact a lot of eugenics had to be hidden from the masses.

With power comes the power to screw up. Academics have a lot of power. It would be strange if they'd never screwed up.
As others have written, you can either download your config from an external host, or pass in environment variables to your container and generate a configuration based on them.

Lots of people write their own scripts to do this; I wrote Tiller (http://github.com/markround/tiller) to standardise this usage pattern. While I have written a plugin to support storing values in a Zookeeper cluster, I tend to prefer to keep things in YAML files inside the container - at least, for small environments that don't change often. It just reduces a dependency on an external service, but I can see how useful it would be in larger, dynamic environments.
In the full-OS VM (KVM, VMWare, etc) this is known as disk snapshotting. Another way to look at it is putting an RDBM in full-recovery mode, so the database itself remains the same and replaying logs is required to get the data's true state.

You shut down a VM and instruct the hypervisor system to take a "snapshot" which locks the original VHD file and creates a new one. When writes happen, they're performed on the new VHD, and reads have to use both the main and the snapshot VHD. And you can create a chain of snapshots, each pointing to the previous snapshot, for versioning. Or you can have several VM snapshots use the same master VHD, like for CI or data deduplication.

To roll back, it's usually as simple as shutting down the VM and removing the snapshot file.
Really, any user that doesn't "get" these answers shouldn't be anywhere near this.
Neat missed that part, thanks :)
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This is advice that is widely ignored, but incredibly important. Doing what you want in life is vastly more rewarding than doing something just because you're expected to.
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Sure some people get rich, but for buy and hold investors it's mostly a non-issue. The expense ratio of an S&P 500 index is still very small. A total market fund won't have the same front running issues and the expense ratios on those can actually be higher than the S&P 500 index funds.

IOW the overhead here is in the noise IMO.
Obs, seems I commented the same before seeing your comment.
Chrome runs the rendering engine and JavaScript stuff in a sandboxed process that has almost no privileges. Escaping from that is possible if there's a vulnerability in the sandbox, but now you need to combine at least two vulnerabilities which makes it substantially harder.
See: https://newsroom.uber.com/2014/12/the-ride-ahead/.

Kalanick declared: "In 2015 alone, Uber will generate over 1mm jobs in cities around the world and with that millions of people may decide that they no longer need to own a car because using Uber will be cheaper than owning one. Parking could become less strained in our biggest cities, and city congestion may actually start to ease due to uberPOOL’s expansion and success."

Now, how much of that was genuine belief and how much was him trying to win public favor with regulators is anyone's guess. Nonetheless, he had a public message that offered people a path forward, a better path, even as his technology closed other paths.

;-)
You mean the 1st Amendment.
Probably not too much - FTA:

While the BBC instigated the project, other organisations - including the chip designer ARM, Barclays Bank, Samsung, Microsoft and Lancaster University - are also providing expertise and funds to bring the scheme to fruition.

From a Wired article[0]:

We wanted this to be cheap enough to give away," Baker adds. "It's our partners that are funding this, but the funding level is because this is a very low-cost venture. We've gone for that sweet spot of 'what's the minimum we can put on there that gave the maximum benefit for the kids?'"

[0]http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-03/12/bbc-micro-bit...
It's a tool to make over engineering every project even easier! All joking aside it is a good tool for some teams to make sure the same exact code is running in production that was tested. I don't think it is for everyone and can make things much more complicated than they need to be. I also don't think everything needs to be in a docker.
I love LICEcap, so simple, and Cockos are awesome. LICEcap is Windows/OSX only though. There's no Linux build, and I have no idea if you could compile it on Linux.

This seems like it'll run on any environment that supports node.
Murach's Mainframe COBOL is a decent book. GNU COBOL works for learning but database stuff is a bit of a hassle. Microfocus has a visual COBOL personal license that's free. Setting it up to work with db2 is fairly pain free.
The Manhattan project also came to my mind as a counter example and I was disappointed it wasn't addressed in the book.

It could be the exception that proves the rule. Internally you might be able to say it was heavily research driven. And the global resources and brain power attached to the project were unprecedented (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project). Plus there was the motivation of a truly existential level threat. Even given all that it still could have failed.

For some reason I didn't think of Apollo in the same way. Maybe I'm missing the boat on that one.
Sorry, I forgot the "..." to indicate I was quoting the tweet. So I don't know!
If I can speculate, I would say that, per the history of https://twitter.com/lolamachine/ , it seems it is not the first time the photo is mis-appropriated, so 'twitter' could be a short hand (because 140) for people of twitter, both posters and retwitters.
> School shooting - new gun laws.

I agree with the sentiment of your post, but as a non-American this one jumps out at me. I don't think it fits the rest of your argument, adding more control and checks for something as dangerous as gun ownership is a good thing.. in particular, it would take a lot to convince me that private ownership of assault rifles is anything but bad news.

I have read some arguments about private protection against excessive government excesses, but I don't really buy it.
We're definitely taking this seriously. Sports is a big market and you're right it's totally underserved. We've looked at some of the more specialized solutions you mentioned and there needs to be something much better.

One of the things we're working on to better support sport teams is helping with roommate assignments. We've done some of this manually so far and know how painful it can be, so now we're building it into Roomblocker.

We'll be doing outreach to tournaments, leagues, and teams - if you have any contacts would be great to connect. Either way, thanks for your help!
If one doesn't immediately understand what this means, they should stay away. The intended audience is clearly people who have some grounding in networking.
The article cites American Airlines jumping 11% in the 4 days before it was added to the S&P 500.
I think it's fine when the parent and children are really tied together. I wouldn't use that from the main component to a really nested children for instance.

Let's say you have a "SearchComponent" with a "SearchButtonComponent" and "SearchInputComponent", I'm okay with using the strategy I suggested because using "SearchInputComponent" without its parent somewhere else in the code would be too risky so the encapsulation is still kept between parent/children.
"Ford is dedicated to making money. Making cars is just a way of doing that, so they are not a car company."
Finally! Our customers have been begging us to provide this for years. We build "Employee Engagement" (aka gamification) tools that extend various CRMs. Not all of them support a way to extend the UI but a sidebar would be perfect.
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You're correct, someone screwed up in Wikipedia (the Retina display page) and I didn't bother to check the math.
Most likely, those jobs will disappear with automation and improvement to infrastructure.
Can't the fund "managers" just add is some slop in their buying so they don't cause such a large spike? The spike in demand is what makes this strategy possible, so spreading the demand over period of days or even a week should reduce the spike and the profitability of the strategy. I know they want their fund to match the index, but if this ever became a problem I think they could squash it pretty simply.
It seems likely that someone could make some decent money shorting stocks before they leave the index funds as well.
If you ever give a presentation/talk on this, you have to end it with "that's all folks!"
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sidenote: what kind of organization does bloomberg.com have going on? this is under '/graphics/'?
One thing that stands out in my mind is the ability for someone to make himself invisible or unidentifiable to you by hacking your eyes. If someone can take control of your sensory inputs, they can put you into the "dark dream" to test, model, and eventually control your behavior.

When your eyes are hackable, you cannot take the VR headset off. Even closing your eyelids won't help.

Would you want anyone besides yourself having authorized access to your sensory bus? Would it make you feel any better if the person doing it had a valid court order?
I find the best career advice comes from those who are where I'm trying to get to. Ideally, not too far ahead in their own career, that way the advice they'll impart will be fresh and relative to the current industry environment.

Re: recruiters, doesn't hurt to ask questions with recruiters for placement agencies; they get paid when you get placed so it's in their interest to get you hired.
moot definitely has community management experience that can't possibly be replicated, is there a synopsis of this 8 hour video anywhere?
Pretty sure you're a mouth-breathing moron.
So, the writer of this article failed to give any proof other than citing the case of one specific stock (American Airlines). Even then, it failed to give any useful comparison (sure, the stock gained 11% in 4 days, but how did the rest of the market do?)

It would take a bit of effort to grab the data for all stocks entering the S&P for the last (say) 5 years, and then compare how these stocks did between the announcement and the joining of the index, but this data is vital to making the case that there is some market inefficiency here. Since the author doesn't bother to do this work, how can they justify their conclusions?

They can't even manage to get the 'easy route' right (letting someone else do the work). They cite 'one estimate' of a $4.3 billion cost but don't bother to tell use who made that estimate, giving the readers no chance to check its validity.

Lazy, lazy journalism IMO. At least quote your source, Bloomberg!
A good manager is one who:

- makes sure we know what it is that needs to be done
- makes sure we have what we need to do it
- runs interference so we're not bothered by outsiders
- gets the hell out of the way
- is not a methodology maniac
The article really needs some hard numbers, not some "whitepaper estimates".

It's 500 stocks.
How many randomly selected stocks do you need to almost equal the performance?

Buying a new entrant on the day it debuts is not required to come very close to matching the index performance.

The article points out that Vanguard “mitigates a good portion” of the risk by gradually building positions over time in stocks.

Problem solved.
This is where the layers come in useful, pulling a small change should only require pulling a small new layer.
> The US deserves to be accused of having empirical intent, even if just based on their interest in other country's oil.

The word you're looking for is "imperial." "Empirical" means something else entirely.
The description on HN the other day of Docker as a souped-up static linking system is the most interesting one.
Build an application.
Strange, I've never heard anyone make that claim before nor can I find it in any write ups of the case.

That she slept with a married man is public record but "used it for leverage" doesn't seem to have been part of the testimony. I'm afraid you may have been duped by a person with an agenda to make Pao look bad.
1. no hacking at all

2. article from 2011

How does this qualify as "hacker news"?
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I want law enforcement to be a difficult, time consuming job.

Idle law enforcement is a terrible thing. When law enforcement has spare time, they will find ways to occupy it. Sometimes it will be by overzealous enforcement of low level laws and other times their idleness will be used an a pretext for politicians to pass even more micro-managing laws.

It's this kind of thing that led to women being arrested for wearing bathing suits that exposed their calves. It's this kind of thing that resulted in young men being arrested for the bad fashion decision of sagging jeans.

When they complain that something will make their job more difficult, I say good. I want law enforcement to be difficult and time consuming so that it loses its luster for the people who want to join up for all of the wrong reasons.
You might be entertained by this minimalistic Forth compiler/vm written in PostScript: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Four.Ps
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"You can't just point at things and tax them"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/myleene-klass-berat...
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Members can also corrupt, or even just operate too long without the moderating effects of effective oversight.
At the moment, I'm taking a very conservative approach to adding what I would call "file manager" features. I'm not trying to create a Finder replacement and with the restrictions that the app sandbox imposes, it's very difficult (if not impossible) to even perform some operations that users might expect if they started to see Fileloupe as a file manager. That's not to say that I'm against them ("Move to Trash" might appear in v1.1) but I am being overly cautious.

With specific regards to Finder labeling and tagging, it's more likely that I'd add support for Fileloupe to be able to show labels and tags long before I added the ability to add or edit those tags.
A gun ban is a reasonable and effective way of reducing the number of school shootings, as any European on here will confirm. Not sure why you brought guns into this argument other than it being a pet issue.
GitS illustrates the danger of humans integrating with computers too closely ex. Cyberbrain hacking, stand alone complex, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_She...

It's fictional but there's a lot of truth in no matter how important or shielded a target is, it is always vulnerable to attack.
Would you mind providing a name/ISBN/url for this amazing book?
First, not everything produces bitwise identical results from build to build (Websphere ear files, for example). Second, it's time consuming to rebuild from scratch every time. This is especially important if you're in a cloud environment and scaling horizontally for load. You want a way to bring resources online quickly.
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In case you've never seen it, and to save some the YouTube search, here's the crazy Max Headroom hack video with subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
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If you enjoyed Bringing Down the House, I'd say you'd pretty close to equally enjoy The Ugly Americans.