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Have you ever seen Sergeant York? No? The film, which is based on historical accounts from World War I, describes Sgt. York's technique for taking down an entire flock of geese, as applied to German machine-gunners.

You never take out the leader first. If the leader goes down, the rest of the flock scatters. You shoot the one furthest back. Then second from the back. And so on, from back to front, until they are all down.

It isn't fun to undermine every last little support before attacking the central pillar, but if you want to accomplish your goal, that's the most certain way to do it. So when those first Disney Bros. 'toons go public domain, you don't go after Mickey right away. First, you take back Pete. Then, you take back Minnie. Take back Clarabelle and Horace. Then, just when it looks like you might take Mickey, too, you plop Oswald down in his place.

In fact, it might be funny to just edit Mickey out of Steamboat Willie entirely, and replace him with a digital Oswald. Every time another Mickey Mouse short goes public domain, stick Oswald in there. Erase Mickey from history, from back to front. If the trademark isn't there, there's no possible trademark claim.
That UL fuel that's "available now" [3] is available now in Sweden only and doesn't work for the 10% of engines that require 100 octane fuel, those 10% of engines likely consuming >50% of the avgas sold.

If it was a matter of spending some reasonable (say mid 5 figure per airplane) sum of money to burn a readily available UL fuel, I'd do it. I literally can't do that.

There is no current path to certification for me to run that 91/96UL here in the US. It's a technical problem (maintaining adequate detonation margins on a high/hot takeoffs), a regulatory problem (getting the airframe and engine certified for the fuel), and a market problem (getting that fuel sold at airports here in the US). You have to solve the first to get to the second. I believe there are several viable compounds/blends now in testing and we're on to the second phase: getting one or more of them certified by the FAA. Only once that's done is it viable to talk about banning or curbing TEL use. If there's one clear winning fuel, the adoption by the industry will be swift (no pun intended, as SWIFT is one of the contenders, though I don't believe a leading contender).

I don't read any of those three AOPA links as AOPA trying to "delay unleaded fuel" in any way, shape, or form. One is an objection to an increase of tax on avgas (certainly one of the things I/we pay AOPA to lobby against), and the other two are presentations describing the technical reasons avgas contains lead now and the status of initiatives underway to create an alternative, unleaded fuel.
Would you say that Uber is less or more information asymmetric than the taxi companies?
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Credentials have to be managed separately from Docker anyway.

> There's the issue of deploying changes fast without leaving files in an inconsistent state (you don't want half of some file to run). How about installing the required dependencies?

rpm / dpkg also install dependencies, are quite fast and well tested. They have the advantage of working in a standard environment which most sysadmins know but the disadvantage that you need to configure your apps to follow something like LSB (e.g. install to standard extension locations rather than overwriting system files, etc.).

The one issue everything has is handling replacement of a running service and that's not something which Docker itself solves – either way you need some higher level orchestration system, request routers, etc. Some of those systems assume Docker but that's not really the value for this issue.
I would not buy a $1.50 song on such a site. Here's why:

$1.50 is not worth the scale of mental investment required. I'm not going to give my credit card info to a site that I'm only going to use once. I'm not going to give my info to a site I don't trust. I will buy my music from the places I am already invested in.

And it is an investment: it takes time, attention, trust, and memory to use a website. The cost of that song is not $1.50 to me. (If it were, I would have no trouble paying it. I think that's a perfect price for a song.) The cost is an arbitrarily long commitment to managing the risk involved with using the site.

Which is only worthwhile when I know I will come back regularly. When I can say "I plan on buying a new song every other day, and that I'm ok with spending hundreds on music from this one site." Or when I can justify a larger purchase that is exclusive to the site.
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This situation will become 10x worse when WebAssembly is available and everybody can bypass the usual browser features by uploading their own DRMed/obscured version of freetype. I seriously cannot think of a feature more pathological to the open web.

I normally rely on Hanlon's razor and assume this is the work of a bunch of short-sighted nerds that are only looking at the fun-and-shiny features. In light of stuff like BULLRUN and the methods described in PHK's amazing "Operation Orchestra"[1], I am forced to wonder who is pushing this crap - because someone is obviously trying to create a digital imprimatur[2].

[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/nsa_operation...

[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
This. I've worked on a project with USDS people on it, and their only objective was making shit work better. There was not the slightest hint of politics in anything they did.
Per this WSJ article http://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-micron-claim-memory-chip-b... there will be production of samples later this year, with general sales starting next year.
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My 2 year old can actually get these off. We had to switch to a normal life vest that has a strap that goes underneath, by his crotch.

If the kid is determined enough, they can indeed come off.
Every time I see a comment like this, I get the feeling that the poster doesn't understand how "the cloud" works.

Everybody knows that renting a dedicated server (or purchasing your own servers) is generally a more cost effective approach. Cloud computing is used to accomplish different goals when used appropriately.

Sure you could install MySQL on a box at Hetzner, but what happens when it goes down? Do you feel like maintaining the box for security and updates? What about log rotation? What if you need to migrate to a different geographical region, or need to increase capacity?

Smaller sites might be okay with managing those on their own, but as you grow, being able to offload that work to Amazon (who tend to know what they are doing more than the average joe) is a benefit when you have other business-logic issues to deal with.

So yes, naively getting a box at Hetzner or any other dedicated provider would be less of an upfront monetary cost, but in the long run, the advantages aren't as clear cut.
You'll need loads of (labeled) training data. And I'm afraid there is no good way to create such a labeled dataset. Unless we'd put some people who can't swim in a pool.
A simple, intuitive algorithm for connecting many sites using the minimum wire exists.

Same problem, likely same solution: Minimum Spanning Trees.
That was helpful for me too. I also found Flexy Boxes to be useful: http://the-echoplex.net/flexyboxes/
I am a little disappointed that the conference never asked for feedback afterwards.

While I enjoyed the vast majority of talks, I felt that some didn't hit their mark. A select few speakers were poorly prepared for a conference that they had months to prepare for. One speaker made a comment along the lines of "I would give a demo, but I ran out of time to prepare." Another speaker (verbatim): "I've been working on this talk since yesterday. ... If it looks like I don't know what the next slide is, it's because I don't." There were also 4 talks about the history of go. Three of those talks were given by people that all work closely together. I would have expected to see a higher level of polish in both speaker selection, and preparation by the speakers.

That said, talks I suggest watching:

Simplicity And Go -- This talk is a great counterpoint to everyone that says everything you need is in the stdlib.

Delve Into Go -- A great technical talk about the challenges that golang has with debuggers.

Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem -- Technical talk about the GC changes coming to 1.5.

The many faces of struct tags -- Food for thought on how you can better make use of struct tags. Russ Cox loved the expanded uses.
"I’m the person responsible for the security and privacy of all these new internet users in India. I make sure the scammers and the phishers don’t abuse these internet virgins."
Well, there's my daily dose of "my life is boring by comparison".
For research apps docker would be a godsend. Resea ch software is of the "install exactly this version of x,y,z,r,g and h" and then apply these patches....

Docker is really good for dev environments. I've had a relatively painless time dockerizing snapshots of old internal web apps so I can hack on them without installing things into my main desktop environment. It lets me have lots of server things side by side.
It's an official press release from Intel and Micron and the release says that they've begun production, not that they just got it working in a lab.

Performance questions are more valid.
Thanks for the advice.

tl;dr: I don't think you can make that decision

You're right, it's definitely not my call; but I feel that I owe it to my team (and future team) to make the case to the CEO to do something more than just "oh, find him a desk in the basement".

Imagine how I talk to prospective hires: "yes, he's the engineering co-founder -- but we just let him do QA work while the rest of us call the shots". In the valley there's some expectation that the co-founders are, well, in charge, and keeping someone around like that in a limited capacity seems.. unusual.
Or maybe they simply have a lot of problems out in the open right now. Coincidence is usually a better reason than conspiracy.
I bet we would be surprised that women are more vicious towards other women in this regard -- a bit of the "I did it (or didn't do it), and I'm fine -- what's your excuse?" kind of thinking.
you should quit, and start your own company.
Why are you even running scripts from a third party on your own site?

If the ad is a static image, use an <img> tag. If it's text, show the text. If it's a video, use <video>. If they want to run custom code, tell them to get lost.

Yeah, it's ultimately the ad networks' fault, but what did you expect?
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> The tools that it turns out were a bad idea will die. And those that are good will thrive.

We saw that happen with WebSQL vs IndexedDB. A well-designed API (with a syntax every decent webdev knows) vs a bullshit spec (ohai callback hell FOR DOING A SIMPLE FUCKING SORT AND GROUP), and the bullshit won.
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Nobody outside of Oracle supports encrypted ZFS, and that's probably not going to change any time soon (I'd love to be wrong, though).
The whole idea of avoiding "god objects" is exactly in preventing classes from doing a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principl...
Cost cannot be important. Else those who are costlier to go after are weighted as less important to pursue unless drastic measures are taken to balance out the cost. Someone rich enough to hire a team of lawyers who slow down the process in every legal way possible should not be let off just because they have the money to spend to do such.

And as to the 'framework of rights', this isn't merely a framework by which one operates a legal system but the very foundation of one. If we drop the notion of rights (and the less mentioned but just as important duties) we end up with no system at all.

If we do not have rights (nor duties) then what point is there to a system to is there to ensure my rights are respected (by both the system and by others) and that I perform the duties required of me? We have to start over to ask why we even need a legal system to begin with. It quickly ends up being 'because the guys with guns say so' and any distinction between government and organized crime quickly dissolves.

Consider a simple case of theft. I take your money. Why is this wrong? Because you have a right to do with your money? But we have tossed out rights.

Now if instead you don't mean to toss out all rights, but to eliminate a few that you consider unproductive to our legal system functioning, it is thus quite a fair question to ask which rights are you in favor of tossing. Such as the right to a fair trial. If you want the prosecutor to be able to cheaply lock up guilty people, you can toss the right to a fair trial and then define guilty based off of being declared such. Ergo everyone convicted is guilty and convictions are quite cheap. Even cheaper if we toss the right to counsel. No innocent people locked up and you can put someone in prison in under an hour. Just go up to the jury and say 'we have proof did X, Y, Z', offer up some fabricated evidence, and then offer the jury a forged signed statement from the defendant saying they did it. No cross examination, no actual defense, no need for honesty because the rights to all that has been tossed. And no innocent people are locked up because they are by definition not innocent.

Without the framework of rights, there are cons to balance.
As far as I know, the youngest persons to have been drafted into the US Armed Forces are now eligible for Social Security. That is to say, nobody turning 19 in 1974 or even 1973 was drafted. It is hard to imagine the circumstances in which the US would return to a draft; the draft was unfairly arbitrary in the 1960s, even with so many troops in Vietnam and in western Europe. With the size of the military DoD now has in mind it would be impossible to make it fair.

But yes there are agendas out there.
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> Boy Scout lifesaving training
> simply

To be clear, that's what Boy Scout lifesaving training taught you, not what HN taught me.

It's dangerous to attempt a rescue technique based on a vague memory of a forum comment.

Get trained, like Joe did.
Just reading the word "gophersphere" makes my nostalgic muscles go tickling. And I was never deeply into gopher in the first place :)
Should parsimony really still be the gold standard in modelling?
Sigma is quite advanced; it's essentially an online DSL where authors can push anti-spam rules (written in Haskell) into live production by reloading code at runtime. Queries are done against Sigma in real time by other services, and in turn, Sigma has to query a lot of other data sources continuously in order to determine whether a rule may fire.

For example, a particular rule about the nature of some of your friends on Facebook may need to query 10 different data sources (different DBs, caches, monitor infrastructure). One of the really nice things about Sigma is that it's built on Haxl, a library for efficient concurrent data access. It can also optimize the typical 'N+1 Query problem' away.

What this means is you can write a program like:

ids := getAllUserIds -- fetch from source 1 time
foreach id as ids {
x <- getUserFriends id -- N queries, 1 for each id
...
}

Which is simple and naive, yet Haxl can optimize this automatically into a program that will A) batch all of the data accesses together (so instead of running N queries for each ID, each query gets batched into one request for a range of users), B) automatically access each data source concurrently with no programmer intervention, so when queries can execute in parallel they do so, and C) cache the results, so that you aren't re-querying already fetched data.

There's a very good paper by Simon, the author of this blog post, discussing the design of Haxl and its use: http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/haxl-icfp14.pd...
Quite the neat system!

Note: I do not work at Facebook, but I do chat with Simon a bit - this is basically the very high level 20,000 foot view from what I've read from Simon writing on the subject.
Over 60% of debit transactions are covered by Durbin.[1] For those Stripe is taking 0.05%, an extraordinarily low fee payment method, and marking it all the way up to 2.9%.

If the rationale for this is simplicity then why break out Bitcoin or ACH? Why not just fold them into the blended rate too? Of course it would defeat the whole point of them.. Just as this defeats the whole point of Durbin fee regulation.

Durbin has positioned debit to fill the role that Bitcoin has failed to: a low fee consumer payment method unburdened by reward programs. It's about as cheap as Bitcoin, but it has near universal adoption already, basic consumer protections and well oiled rails.

I seriously doubt merchants would find breaking out debit from credit too complicated especially if the rate was significantly lower. I'd understand doing a blended debit rate that combines regulated and exempt debit cards, which I'm guessing would come in well below 2%. Merchants would go bonkers for that! But blending debit and credit in the post-Durbin landscape makes about as much sense as blending Bitcoin and credit.

One price for credit, one price for debit, one price for Bitcoin.. That sounds pretty simple.

So... Is it really simplicity driving this, or is it the fear of the credit fee crossing 3% if you broke out debit? To be honest I hope it's not that you're secretly hiding a big profit center in regulated debit markup because that would not be so transparent.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-i...
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>It is a problem of the vile and toxicity of the tech community in general (just see all the fights over programming languages, about being right vs. understanding each other).

I don't want that to change, I like it. Is that really something only dudes can like? It's an entire part of the IT field really, it's not gonna change. Like, ever.
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I can't disagree more with his critique of navigation transitions. Transitions are the best way people can create a great user flow without needing to structure their web app around the single-page, stateful, AJAX (or WebSockets) paradigm. If you think transitions are a bad idea, I hope you think single-page apps are a good idea. And if you think that the web just wasn't meant for that level of native-app-like functionality, I think you're not going to win that argument against the real demand for those kinds of offerings on the web.
It doesn't seem like there is much you can do about it though. If you don't have enough resources to retain the good employees that you need, that's a valid issue to raise with the CEO. He can either get you those resources, or else there could be staffing problems. I don't think anyone joining as an early engineer expects to get more equity than a co-founder though. And you yourself said that people like him. So morale-wise, it's probably fine as long as he finds somewhere else in the company to contribute more.
> Let's not get started on the fact that HTML is a terrible language for UIs

This is why I'm hoping that future web front-end frameworks will output UI elements to a <canvas> instead of the DOM.

If a DOM-like scene graph is needed, it should be managed entirely by the framework and simply be an intermediate layer between the application code and the <canvas>.
There are some long-running “batch-jobs” for large computations where it’s acceptable to apply a response retroactively, but most uses of Sigma are synchronous—a client needs to know immediately (more or less) how some bit of content is classified and what action to take in response to it.
Yeah, there aren't many brokers in SF, it's much more of a NYC/Boston phenomenon.
I totally get what you're saying, it can definitely pull down morale across the engineering team. But it doesn't look like the CEO is interested in fixing the situation?

It can also create tricky situations if, for example, you're a two co-founder team. The CEO might be on good terms with the CTO about the vision of the company, and he needs his continued support/voting power coming with equity stake to push through that vision.

If they each own 30% then he'll be dead in the water without his co founders support if things ever get tough.
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They can actually be private. What if you set up a proxy or a VPN with the express purpose of masking your real IP address, and then WebRTC barfs it out on demand anyway?
When I scroll down the page on my iPad, it appears to instantly reload and snaps back to the top of the page again! What on earth is the page doing?
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I was about 14 and one of my younger cousins asked if I could lift him up onto my shoulders the way his father did. I told him no. Despite the fact that he was younger than me, he was a big kid. He was nearly as big as I was.

When I was swimming across the deep end, he decided to jump onto my shoulders as I surfaced. As I said, he was nearly as big as I was and since I was in the deep end, I couldn't use my feet to gain the leverage I needed to throw him off. After about ten seconds of struggling to get him off of me, I felt that the only recourse I had was to bite him and send the message non-verbally. I grabbed his calf and ankle and pulled them toward my mouth. As soon as my teeth touched his skin, he got the message and got off of me. I ended up not having to bite him but at that point I really wanted to.

All of this transpired in about 15 seconds and the lifeguard never noticed (To be honest, this was a long time ago and I don't even remember if there was a lifeguard on duty at the time) but I never took my safety for granted ever again. Just because I can swim well enough to get myself out of trouble doesn't mean that someone else acting like an idiot can't endanger me.
1. They should be rotating their position every 15 minutes, and taking hourly breaks.

2. They are are at the pool, not watching a grainy video via YouTube