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> Do you work in law or management?

No but I know some lawyers. If you specialize in one domain you can make a lot of money. The more experience you get the better. In contrast, programmers with lots of experience often have a hard time getting a new job. They are considered old farts who are overwhelmed by the 'new' over-hyped technology.
2nd @grosales:

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. Absolutely fantastic read.
> What's the difference between Docker and normal virtualization technology (OpenVZ/KVM)? Are there any good examples of when and where to use Docker over something like OpenVZ?

Docker is exactly like OpenVZ. It became popular because they really emphasize their OpenVZ Application Templates feature, and made it much more user friendly.

So users of Docker, instead of following this guide: https://openvz.org/Application_Templates

They write a Dockerfile, which in a simple case might be:

FROM nginx
COPY index.html /usr/share/nginx/html

So no fuzzing with finding a VE somewhere, downloading it customizing it, and then installing stuff manually, stopping the container and tarring it, Docker does that all for you when you run `docker build`.

Then you can push your nice website container to the public registry, ssh to your machine and pull it from the registry. Of course you can have your own private registry (we do) so you can have proprietary docker containers that run your apps/sites.

From my perspective, the answer to your question would be: Always prefer Docker over OpenVZ, they are the same technology but Docker is easier to use.

But I've never really invested in OpenVZ so maybe there's some feature that Docker doesn't have.
I just wanted to throw that in there for variety and because the existing controls don't actually stop the problem (I don't deny that they may help). Any place that still has guns in some form can still have those kinds of incidents. The guy at Sandy Hooke used someone else's legally obtained gun. Or in other words, the previous attempts to legislate away the problem didn't work in that case. There are other less controversial examples, but they don't come to mind as quickly.
While ignoring a believable (whatever that means) death treat is probably hard, why put racism, misandry and misogeny in the same stuff - you are totally free to talk to the harassers back - find what makes them sensitive and make them hurt. You have the same tools as them. Make a psychological profile, find what makes them tick and talk back in a way to inflict maximum hurt feelz.
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My only problem with HN as a source is that the advice is heavily biased towards someone who lives in a "hot" tech area and who is focused on web or mobile development.

Of course, that is because neither of those is true for me.
> It's funny to see they're going to release one now that nobody cares about it.

But that's because up until now we couldn't care about it anyway if Chrome didn't support it. Sidebars can easily make a comeback if the functionality proves to be useful, and I can picture many extension developers experimenting with it if it's made available.
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If you were a nation wanting to enter the nuclear bomb-them-at-a-distance club, having the technical information about the tiles could really shorten your ICBM development time, and you'd have some measure of assurance they'd actually work (Columbia & Challenger not-withstanding)
The OP just means don't put everything into one container.
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You can find some great resources (although more unstructured) on Youtube. I recommend the following:
- Computerphile (https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile)
- The Secret Life of Machines (1990's series)(some episodes touch on computing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOULWR4h4Io)
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A gun ban would not work in America, which is why he brought it up. The American public is already armed, really likes being armed, for the most part is not registered as being armed, actually truly believes that being disarmed is a prelude to genocide, and openly admit that they would use their arms against anyone who tried to take them.

Remember what happened when the Federal government tried to get some farmer to pay for the grazing land he was using? People several states away showed up with rifles, and they had no skin in the matter. If you tried to take their rifles, they (and many others) would try their best to kill you.

If America were full of Europeans, perhaps it would work. It isn't, so any notion of gun banning in the US is nothing more than wishful thinking at best.
The other solution to idle law enforcement is to reduce the positions in law enforcement.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency to grow, people ceding power to the state need to be more vigilant in demanding the reduction of outmoded and lax capacity instead of funding their own micromanaged oppression
Cool idea, but to data mine human communication, software must come to understand their language, rather than trying to get people to change their language #ddv2 DISAGREE https://github.com/neyer/dewDrop
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One can certainly argue that "IQ" is just whatever IQ tests measure. Despite this there are a lot of correlations involving IQ that mean that IQ tests are at least partially capturing something that's interesting. And IQ tests are fairly standard which means that it's not so easy for researchers to manipulate them.
Can you give us one example of a problem people knew they had, but didn't know could be solved?
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Agreed.

Application runtime dependencies are a common source of communication breakdowns between development and infrastructure teams. Making the application container a maintained build file on the project improves this communication.

docker provides:

* a standard format for building container images (the Dockerfile)

* a series of optimizations for working with images and containers (immutable architecture etc).

* a community of pre-built images

* a marketplace of hosting providers

All at the cost of linux only, which is ok for many shops.
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The wink-emoticon is due to the fact that I carefully mirrored the structure of rayiner's comment in my own.

I get your point though, and I don't think you're entirely wrong. I just don't think Ford was really any different from Kalanick. They're both capitalist looking to make themselves rich and powerful. They just lived in different times with different technological and social forces at work. Ford marshaled whatever rhetoric he could to combat those who were against him. Kalanick is doing the same.

Whatever problems with inequality the world faces aren't, in my opinion, due to a relatively small number of people in Silicon Valley but due to global forces trends that have been at work for decades.
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Hardware gets a flat image. It can't differentiate between foreground text and background. It has to be done by the compositing layer.
From the API proposal doc:

Additionally, we’ve seen numerous extensions create sidebars by injecting HTML content into the current page. It is likely that the majority of sidebar extensions would use a native sidebar if available. Here’s a sample of some of our favorite sidebar extensions...

Some of these tools charge over $5,000/yr/seat and have hundreds of large corporations like Facebook, eBay, Salesforce, Pinterest, Twitter, and Netflix using their software, which demonstrates the immense value that can be provided by a sidebar.
True. Depending on what you really want to do, though, too much aimless wandering can lock you out. I think I have reached that point in my career. :/
> If you've got a tedious job that you need doing, at the moment there are four options:

Three of your options involve persuading someone else doing it, the fourth is having it not done.

Why is there not an option of doing it yourself?
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It looks like "graphics" is their term/brand for articles that make essential use of "rich"/interactive content.

If I had to take a wild guess, the author/editor of the article might've wanted some fancy stuff (like the header videos and scroll behavior, for instance) and it was easiest to do that on this platform.
Since these arguments are inherently over nits, a couple of points:

- He didn't have to open his mouth, since he had already opened his wallet. Money is a language of its own nature.

- Importantly, he wasn't fired because of what he did. He stepped down of his own accord.

- To say that there is wrong doing in Brendan Eich's case is to go full blown hypocrite: one cannot expect freedom from public backlash due to political donations. Especially when those political donations are ones that are restrictive and critical of the dignity and freedom of others. Yes, that he was forced to resign sucks...but admittedly, I can only muster a "too bad." Public people should expect public scrutiny.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...
No doubt there are scientific flaws in Fine's work, but even as this article states:

"…popular books are written to appeal to a broader audience, and in that respect both Jordan-Young and Fine have succeeded. Prompting laypeople to adopt a more critical view of overly simplistic views of complex data sets is a goal any scientist can support, and for that we applaud their efforts."

The "overly-simplistic views" referenced by the reviewers are exactly the ones approvingly quoted in this article by Psychology Today, and to which Fine is, appropriately, being offered as a counterpoint.
Civilians haven't been allowed to buy new assault rifles in the US since 1986. As a result of the severely restricted supply, they're very expensive and rather rare. But even before the registry was closed to civilians, registered machineguns were only used in a handful of crimes since they were regulated in 1934.

In the US, there is a pattern of politicians pushing for their pet gun control measures after some mass shooting, regardless of whether or not it would have stopped the incident that justifies the legislative push. The most recent example is the reaction to the Charleston church shooting, where some politicians pushed for an "assault weapons" ban (which is political term about cosmetics—these are not machineguns) and background checks for private party sales, despite the shooter not using a weapon that would have been covered by the proposed ban, purchased from a licensed gun dealer after passing a standard background check. While universal background checks are arguably a good thing regardless of what motivated the push, the "assault weapons" ban is pure political nonsense. Such guns are almost never used in crime and previous bans were shown to not have any effect on crime. When a gun is used in a crime, it is almost always a handgun.
Not really. It's very biased towards startups and high-energy startups. I don't know that you'd find many people giving the opinion that a career at Raytheon/IBM/BigCo can be very rewarding, and in fact might make more sense than startups. There's something to be said about relative stability and focusing on spending time with family & friends, saving into a 401k for a nice retirement and generally not worrying about the startup life which, despite the perks (free lunch, "unlimited" vacation time, etc), can be a lot more hectic.

As to the OP, I'd say try to find opinions of people you respect, even if they aren't in your field at all. Who are people you look up to? Friends, family, bosses, coworkers are all good sources. Generally I've found people older than me to be most useful, just because they've made similar choices and might have interesting insights into things. Ultimately, as others have said, it's really going to be up to you to decide what's right for you, but at least gather some information, and talk to people.
That only works when the cost of verifying facts is small, which is almost never the case. That's why humans developed concepts of trust and reputation - heuristics for making evaluations that would be prohibitively expensive otherwise.
Go research where Lenin came from. Go research who did eugenics, and where they got their ideas from. Go research the origin of a lot of the Nazi figures and where their ideas came from. (Not just Hitler.)

Express all the humorous strawmen you like. How do you think these things happen? In the 20th century, the only bad social engineering event I can think of that could even remotely be considered the outgrowth of a broad movement of the masses is sort of Nazi-ism. Everything else was led by somebody with an idea from academia. "The masses" don't originate many ideas, and in the era of the all-powerful State (which the 20th century is firmly in), "the masses" don't run around committing genocide, or doing any of the things they may have done in previous social systems, because all that power is now reserved to the State.

And the State and academia have always been attached at the hip, as they are today. How else would it be? Do you think it's some sort of bizarre coincidence that the dominant ideology of academia today and the dominant ideology of the State are exactly the same? Of course they are... they're causally connected. (Where do the "technocrats" in technocracy come from? Certainly not the farm!)

As for this being "conspiracy" theory... no, it's just an understanding of how the world actually works. It may happen to explain this opinion of mine, but that's only because as a ground fact of the current world it explains lots of things. Academics wield power through the State. It's clear as daylight... it would be some sort of bizarre theory that they don't. What would that even look like?
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There's a slightly stronger argument to be made in this space. Signs of technical competence "screens off" the effect of gender. That is, once you've had that five-minute conversation with someone, learning their gender doesn't give you any additional information about their engineering competence.
> Do we also have nightmares about a hacker stealing a government's back door key and giving us a heart attack in our sleep?

While hackers interfering with embedded devices in people is worrying I'd be more frightened about bugs in the devices from sloppy minimum cost systems.

While not awesome current stuff is ok(ish) largely because it's a relatively small market so the people in it are better than the average dev.

I've been programming a long time, I'm a reasonably talented developer and I wouldn't touch that stuff at all.
Even in the worst case -- Vanguard doesn't lose anywhere near this premium -- we're talking 20-30 bps, or .25%. It's one of those scenarios where one has to choose what is less bad. Sure, an active manager could play with the index a bit more to help avoid this, but you'd be paying a lot more than .25% for his effort.

It might, however, be a good enough reason to side-step this issue and use Total Stock Market (VTSMX) instead of one based on an index that frequently drops/adds stocks.
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Correct (I over simplified). Neither really applies here because the interpolation is based on barycentric coordinates, which is the Phong part that was probably being referred to.
That said, predators of all types usually spend time selecting their prey.
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Disclaimer: I am not a programmer.

I found mentors in positions that I aspired to be in and would take them out for coffee or lunch once a year to check in and get input on particular problems.

I've also used Clarity.fm from time to time for specific questions.

Now at a bigger corporate I'm looking into executive coaching.
Also, events like concerts, festivals, conventions, demonstrations. Especially when the mobile network is overloaded.

Regarding range: Messages are forwarded by nodes, so with enough nodes, much more than 100 meters can be covered. And the upcoming LTE Direct [1] will have a range of ~500 meters.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/documents/lte-direct-trial-white-pa...
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I wonder if they (or other drug smugglers) used exploits that the NSA was aware of but chose to leave open?
I just skimmed the article, but it seems like this is only a concern for Firefox running on Linux due to the enhanced precision.
This would be great for messaging clients which are painful to use in tabs.
This reminds me of a funny rule, I heard some years ago (in the context of the Semantic Web): If you allow people to supply their data, they either won't do it or they'll do it wrong. #ddv2 DISARGEE https://github.com/neyer/dewDrop
The problem is that you people like to extrapolate from one small scenario where the law will work without considering the greater practicality or long-term effectiveness of the law. The scenarios ignore basic facts about humans and technology. The simple fact is humans are resourceful and criminals have proven to be very dedicated.

Consider two things,

a) Regarding:

> in particular, it would take a lot to convince me that private ownership of assault rifles is anything but bad news.

The technological different between an 'assault rifle' and a semi-automatic hunting rifle is very small. As Cody Wilson has demonstrated, with a few 3d-printed parts you can turn a simple rifle - which is already restricted by law from being an assault rifle - into a fully blown assault rifle with a relatively small amount of technical knowledge.

The same was true for decades with anyone with metal machining skills.

So how much of a difference will it make if the tech available is merely restricted and not banned? If you can easily modified the technology?

b) The proposed encryption laws must insist that they won't interfere with American corporations from creating, selling, and exporting encryption to valid purchasers. The development of better-and-better encryption will not stop. It will still be one of Americas greatest exported technologies. An industry the US dominates (software).

So now taking that into consideration, will it be feasible to stop criminals from getting access to encryption?

Similar to encryption, America is the largest exporter of weapons in the world - unlike the UK or Scandinavian countries.

The simple fact is that there will be a huge market of both weapons and people (with specialized-skills) which will leak their guns/knowledge onto the black market. Combine that with the internet and decentralized tech and you have a very challenging regulation environment.

At best, it will be become yet another 'arms race' between criminals/police that is ultimately a net-negative investment for society (see: drugs).
Wild guess: Boston is a densely populated city with geographic restrictions (due to the bodies of water around it). The ratio of roads needing to be cleared vs available snow dump areas might be a lot higher than in most places in Canada. Also this was a very extreme snow year for them, so it wouldn't make sense to set aside this much land for snow dumps every year.
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I just went down one by one and ruled them out, I'm surprised that people have harder ways to do it. My reasoning for ruling out each one:

a) b contradicts it.

b) cde encompass all the choices, so you can't have none of those.

c) a contradicts b.

d) abc have already been rejected.

e) works.

f) e already works.
Multiply that with nice leverage from options.
You might find this an interesting read: http://www.thepolemicist.net/2013/01/the-rifle-on-wall-left-...

In addition, I don't know of any European nations that have outright banned guns, so that point isn't entirely correct.

> Not sure why you brought guns into this argument other than it being a pet issue.

No, it's an entirely valid one and fits the discussion.
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Has anyone actually confirmed that the display has physical strain/pressure sensors, or is Apple just using the diameter of the capacitive touch point as a faux-pressure calculation?
I remember watching him, but my favorite memory was when my project lead #defined a table size as 'MAX_HEADROOM'.
>> The problem is that technology has allowed two things: a) Secure communications channels the government can't read b) The state to monitor mass communication in a way even the Stasi couldn't using humans

I think the US mail is more secure, and it's been delivered by the government since way before computers existed. Sure they now scan the meta-data, but the content goes undisturbed except for specific interventions.
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The article makes it sound a lot like they were innocent up until that point, but I'd put good money on them already having some skin in the game.

You can put it down to being non-confrontational but what kind of non-confrontational nerd happily goes straight back into a room where they were previously assaulted?

EDIT: Also it's worth keeping in mind that this is just their version of the story, it might be 100% lies.
This actually adds a lot of nuance to the argument -- one of the reasons you can't just legislate anything is that you must take into account not only technical limitations and requirements but also the characteristics of the local population. Different cultures will respond differently to different laws.
The source for the $4.3B is given later in the article:

"Over a course of a year, front-running -- of stocks going into and coming out of indexes -- costs investors in S&P 500 tracker funds at least 0.2 percentage points, according to research published last year by Winton Capital Management Ltd., a quantitative hedge fund that analyzed data from 1990 to 2011. That’s equal to $4.3 billion in lost income in 2014."

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