The writing quality was a lacking overall. I actually found that uplifting, I’m not a great writer but if VICE is willing to publish this story, I shouldn’t be as self conscious about my own work!
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295246
http://www.mdmaptsd.org/
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295247
“Data centers are filled with servers, which are like bulked-up desktop computers, minus screens and keyboards, that contain chips to process data.”
“Online companies typically run their facilities at maximum capacity around the clock, whatever the demand.”
“Even running electricity at full throttle has not been enough to satisfy the industry.”
Wow, this is bad.
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295249
Or, even better: “I led engineering and my valiant efforts grew Company X from $1b to $10b in two years.”
I hear this sort of stuff all the time (used to be mainly from sales people, but engineers are catching on).
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10294888
I just think the service hasn’t evolved much since they started streaming nor have they really branched out.
Their success is due to their ability to secure rights to TV shows and movies – so thanks legal team
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10294889
Theoretically, I’d like to like this, but paying to have 2 college students (i.e. people who have likely not even had a professional job before) review my résumé doesn’t sound like a wise investment. I know you stated elsewhere in the comments that you have “other people,” but I’d want to make sure that if I’m paying for this service, at the very least the reviewer was someone who’d hired for a job similar to what I was after.
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10294891
This. Google is in a very ugly place with Oracle right now. Being able to jump ship might save them, but I’m not sure if Kotlin avoids all the legal troubles here.
I do believe that Google will continue to lose as the history of the East Texas juries for IP is almost always gifting the patent/copyright holder. I wish our system had some kind of venue randomizer. Its clear that this district is a moneymaker for IP holders.
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292968
Looks like its starting to recover in some places.
NOTE: China is down not because Facebook, but because of GFW..
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292970
Why would giving more money to colleges cause them to reduce elaborate benefits? Wouldn’t they just spend the money on more elaborate benefits (and salaries for admins)?
Would raising tuitions also cause the quantity of elaborate benefits to go down?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292972
www.google.com
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292967
1 point, 0 comments
“if a __system__ is ‘old'” is the key phrase here.
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10290617
1 point, 0 comments
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html?eref=rss_us
“open standard” does, in various contexts, mean you can use it without paying a royalty, including in the W3C, the EU, and various other national governments and standards bodies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10290619
By blackhole on 2015-09-28T12:10:14Z
1 – There Will Never Be One True Programming Language
1 point, 0 comments
http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/2015/09/there-will-never-be-one-true.html
By gandro on 2015-09-28T12:10:44Z
gandro comments on “Running Rust on the Rumprun Unikernel”
Rumprun doesn’t require (or support) virtual memory, so granted enough memory (a few megabytes), it can work on embedded systems.
Rumprun currently runs on x86 and x86-64, support for RISC-V and ARM is in the making. The architecture specific code is quite small, you just need to make sure that NetBSD (and Rust) support your architecture as well.
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10289995
By skrebbel on 2015-09-28T12:10:47Z
skrebbel comments on “Facebook Ads Are All-Knowing, Unblockable, and in Everyone’s Phone”
What a spammy title. The ads are only “in your phone” if you use a Facebook app.
Breaking news! Ad-powered app shows ads in its app!
Does anyone know whether Facebook also tracks you into and out of WhatsApp, by the way?
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10289996
By mobinni on 2015-09-28T10:52:21Z
mobinni comments on “Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript Encyclopedia”
I think Douglas never got around to writing those sections, or maybe he thought they were self-explanatory. Who knows?
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10289756
By ourmandave on 2015-09-28T10:53:15Z
1 – Selfie craze is stopping sea turtles from being able to make nests in Costa Rica
1 point, 0 comments
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11891328/Selfie-craze-is-stopping-sea-turtles-from-being-able-to-make-nests-in-Costa-Rica.html
By gpmcadam on 2015-09-28T10:54:04Z
gpmcadam comments on “Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr”
Took me far too long to realise the screenshot of the comparison test was not interactive.
link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10289759
By uxcn
VLAs in reality are just as dangerous as allocating from the heap. I would agree not everything should be allocated on the stack, but you can overflow the heap just as you can overflow the stack.
Unless people are completely irresponsible, they query the stack limit and subtract the current stack bound before using the heap for large objects. Freeing memory is even simpler than using the heap, and faster as well. I think the only real concern is people being responsible about using them.
: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10281944
By aianus
My point is that either:
a) ‘forced decryption’ legislation is toothless. That is, suspicion, but not proof that encrypted material exists and is within your power to decrypt is not enough to throw you in jail for contempt or some other charge.
b) It becomes extremely easy for bad actors like racist cops or asshole teenagers to frame anyone and everyone they want and put them in prison forever.
: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280763
By herval
What would be your perceived benefit of that (specifically for employees)?
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By cyberjunkie
what is my what?
Sorry, Konkani speaker with nearly no grasp of Kannada and Tulu.
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By Ankaios
And the inhabitants think that's a good thing.
There have been moments when I could commiserate. Less shoveling.
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By gexos
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By lladnar
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By karmajunkie
It’s not a matter of risk. It’s a matter of whether a candidate is at all able to work on something like this over a weekend. A weekend assignment presumes a certain lifestyle and implicitly discriminates against candidates who don’t have that life. Primarily this affects single parents and individuals who are caretakers, but I’m probably leaving out a host of other reasons.
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By gregholmberg
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By darkmighty
It says “freely programmable trajectory in six dimensions”, and there are indeed six cables, so yes it’s supported. But any rotation of that object is going to be limited of course.
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By walshemj
Yes but a highly skilled professional who bills at $1000 a day (or in some cases per hour) is not the same sort of freelancer as zero hours shop assistant.
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By acconsta
If I write:
void example(int a[10]);
Why can’t the compiler tell a is an int array of size 10 instead of a pointer?
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By Petiver
1 point, 0 comments
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By kirbyk
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By kp25
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Oracle
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By LLWM
There certainly aren’t many good ones. And even if you don’t care about the quality of comedy, any layman can compare the comedy industry to another industry that does have such protections, like, say, film or software, and see a huge gap.
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By kgwgk
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By bold
I was looking for prices as well, or any other indicator for that matter that the tool will be available for a reasonable time at least.
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By bsaul
That would be an idea for an alternate ad network. Simply let website owners select ads, every week, to be displayed. Or in order to scale better, create pre-agreements for some brands.
Ad networks work by letting you select categories, but not much more. Obviously that’s because they want to keep control and maximize short-term revenues.
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By itdxer
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By davidgerard
I’d like you to define “succeed” and, indeed, “it”, so that you’re making a testable claim here. Do you mean the present Bitcoin blockchain, or something else?
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By cbsmith
Except that problem has been largely addressed now.
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By 13thLetter
Any election outcome where politicians who fail to oppose this, whether Democratic or Republican, are out of office and replaced with those of a different party, is the path to making this better.
If you keep throwing the bums out — and don’t tell me that’s impossible, no matter how many ads they buy they can’t directly control what vote gets cast — eventually you’ll have bums in office who have a better sense of self-preservation. There’s a very smart epigram along the lines of, the way to get good policy is not to elect good politicians, because such beasts hardly exist or get corrupted fast: it’s to give bad politicians an incentive to act good. Let’s give our bad politicians a nice strong incentive to oppose the surveillance state, hey?
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By Retra
Sounds to me like you’re talking about some kind of post-modern society.
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By DigitalSea
Correction, this is chapter 11 bankruptcy. This isn’t the same as standard bankruptcy. This is the same kind of bankruptcy that 50 Cent is going through. It doesn’t mean you have no money, it allows you to reasses your finances and protects you.
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By foxylad
You know you can switch off image optimisation, right?
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By jpolitz
Thanks for the response! Related to (1), the issue was more that when a _student_ visits an assignment page, they get the same big permission list as an instructor; it makes sense that instructors might need a plethora of permissions. Is that necessary for students?
Issue for (3) reported here: https://github.com/education/classroom/issues/250
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By minimaxir
It’s worth noting that FarmLogs is (YC S12).
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By jacquesm
But MOT does not require going to a dealer, just to a garage. For sure dealers do this too but it’s not a requirement MOT be done by the dealer of the brand.
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By JSeymourATL
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By Domenic_S
You absolutely can strengthen your body against a hangover; it’s called alcohol tolerance and it works quite similarly to exercise! It’s why a casual drinker will get drunk/hungover from a couple wine coolers and Grandpa Willie can down a 5th of Jack nightly and barely feel it.
How something feels is not a reliable indicator of how good it is for you. Exercise often feels terrible, but is good for you. Pizza and chocolate often feels great, but is terrible for you.
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By dalke
Really? How so? I have lots of dreams but there is only one reality. I have to choose which of my dreams to follow.
If we posit a dream world, with a different set of constraints, then why shouldn’t you expect the answers to be different?
If you ask for one dream job, and I have 9 dream jobs, including software developer, dance instructor, and grad student, how do I provide the example you’re looking for? If I choose wrong, how does that affect my job chances?
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By xorcist
It depends on what you mean by “distributed”. There are many servers behind Cloudflare’s DNS servers, but they are all controlled by one organization.
Best practice is to have your DNS servers in different AS. This is not only to have many servers all over the world, which Cloudflare solves for you, but to have them accessible over different routes, not controlled by the same people. That way a configuration error somewhere (or a bad BGP route, which happens) can not put your DNS out of service.
DNS service is cheap and plentiful, and you might even have it included in your ISP deal. You might as well use it.
Also note that if you secure your records with DNSSEC, none of your DNS secondaries can tamper with your data. This is by design. You do not need to place trust in the organizations running them, so that part can be left out of your SLA.
It is also best practice to have all your public DNS servers mirror your primary master, which is not public. This is to make sure all your public servers are kept running even when you have operations issues with your primary.
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By XLDRT
1 point, 0 comments
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By InsideTheBox
Nice!
At work we use self-hosted GitLab for everything.
Now I need a private repo (personal project) to deploy on my VPS, any opinions about GitLab vs Bitbucket for this use case? Speed, stability? I’m probably going to use Fabric this time.
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By yarapavan
1 point, 0 comments
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By simoncion
Does the OpenHAB Hue plugin also pretend to be a Hue bridge, or does it only talk to Hue bridges? If you’ve used it, and know that it can pretend to be a bridge, you might want to reply to The Author’s request for more info.
> …the idea behind OpenHAB is the way forward…
Tragically, the folks who make the hardware disagree.
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By Guthur
> But python especially feels like the revenge of Scheme and Lisp in the sense of being the same sort of dynamic interpreted language and environment where code is data
He implied it by saying that code is data in Python. Being able to inspect code is not the equivalent.
It is also incorrect to refer to Scheme and Lisp as just dynamic interpreted languages; while they are dynamic and tend to have an interpreter they have also had compilers for quite some time if not from near the very beginning (1957 according to this http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/ibm/Blair-…).
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By bekyarov
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By pimeys
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By friendzis
[I am not an expert, but] first there are controllable emission control devices (e.g. EGR) and secondly burning conditions (thermodynamic cycle) highly influence power and emissions (emission mixture), i.e. how much power and emissions you get from burning 1 g of fuel.
An intuitive analogy: when you are camping (or just use firewood in a grill) and are just starting a fire there is a lot of smoke, although the fire is relatively small. When you get it hot and burning nicely there is barely any smoke left, although you burn much more fuel per time.
For an internal combustion engine the factors determining power/emissions are mainly fuel/air mix, ignition angle (gasoline), fuel injection pattern (for direct injection engines – all “modern” diesels, VW [T]FSI gasoline) and or air/mix injection angle (variable camshaft timing).
Fun fact: modern diesel cars have a DPF designed to limit emissions (fumes mainly). Engines have special DPF cleaning mode designed to kick in in highway modes by slightly increasing exhaust gas temperature. Driving only in urban cycles causes a DPF to get clogged, engine enters deep cleaning mode from time to time (power loss, dark fumes out of “chimney”) which has a negative net effect on particle emissions, which are arguably most detrimental to respiratory tract.
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By wingerlang
Good tip. As someone with quite a small main HDD I’ll do this ASAP.
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By detaro
Previous discussion about different URL (perspective of one of the students): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250371
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By 70seconds
Great observation! Not they did a seed round of $3 million in 2012. I’m pretty sure I saw them around in 2011 too. How come the founders choose to report wrong age here in public domain then? It’s clearly a mistake.
Question: Do startups often report reduced age to project false sense of quick growth/death?
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By Chris911
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By cag_ii
Stopping the engine also means you’d loose power steering, and more importantly power brakes.
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By cbhl
The numbers you need are in the article: $10M loss over 8 years (2007-present), ~45 cases/year.
In order to break even, they need to increase the cost of a course of treatment by about ~$28k/patient.
The new price doubles the price to about ~$50k/patient, which is still short of this number (but bleeding $3k*45 patients = $135k/year is much more manageable than bleeding $1M dollars a year).
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By tjoff
How is that relevant to a video like this?
It’s not something you can leverage directly by tapping into a private API or something. It’s just information about how it works, which indirectly can benefit you as a programmer but the technique itself is transparent and could be removed tomorrow without any (other) consequences (unless I missed something, didn’t watch the whole thing).
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By cm2012
1 point, 0 comments
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By TUN
1 point, 0 comments
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By masklinn
> The library can’t be updated automatically
Why not?
> because suddenly all your stored passwords wouldn’t work.
Passlib handles that with a concept of “deprecated algorithms”[0]: a cryptcontext has a list of algorithms it can accept as inputs to validate against, and a subset of these can be marked as deprecated. The passwords hashed with deprecated algorithms will validate but they’ll be flagged as needing an upgrade. The `verify_and_upgrade` method will return both the validity of the password and a new hash if it should be upgraded, so the normal pattern is:
valid, new_hash = pass_ctx.verify_and_update(password, old_hash)
if valid:
if new_hash:
# store new hash for user
# password was valid
else:
# password wasn't valid
[0] http://pythonhosted.org/passlib/lib/passlib.context-tutorial…
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By jbob2000
This is a very American point of view. German and Japanese cars are very modular; you can take certain parts from a 3 series and use them in a 7 series, and vice-versa. The transmission in the Toyota 86 is straight out of a Lexus IS.
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By Gravityloss
Maybe you could trick the car to run in low emissions mode by having a scarecrow in an expensive suit and a pillow under the shirt. You would have to place these every hundred meters in a neighborhood.
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By cmiles74
The surprise voiced in this article is suprising. Now that the NY Times has told me about it, this idea of buying the one company that makes a particular generic drug and then raising the price ridiculously high makes a lot of sense. I wonder if they thought they’d lower the price as sales dropped and were themselves surprised when this didn’t happen.
I gotta agree with jug5: “Breaking News: America doesn’t understand making profit in business.”
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By pdkl95
Escalating the conflict is rarely a good idea. It’s not like this hasn’t been tried before; labor simply had to find more creative ways of taking Direct Action; the “strike” is only one of their options.
The “blue flu” is a traditional way get around that type of threat. A particularly effective tactic is “work to rule”, which is a de facto strike specifically designed to get around threats from management; it’s harder to justify firing someone for following all safety/regulatory requirements.
If an industry is being particularly problematic, this is where it pays to be on good diplomatic terms with other unions, because the “nuclear option” for a network of unions is the General Strike. If management has any sanity at all, they will choose to negotiate well before such tactics become necessary.
Strength in numbers is usually a winning strategy, and the most effective counter is to convince people that they shouldn’t fight back.
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By pmbanugo
down too in nigeria
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By sdiw
1 point, 0 comments
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By EduNuts
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By petercooper
If I were the author, I wouldn’t write about what transpired. There is nothing to gain by taking it publicly and now there is an easy to locate record of your mistake for future event organisers and employers. Should just let it rest.
I disagree. I don’t think he should take it any further but publishing a record (especially one as well written as this) is wise. Gaslighting is common in communities like this, and by having his story out in the open, it makes it harder for any false versions of the story to stick (assuming his account is accurate, of course).
Further, social standards may (nay, will) change and what he did may be seen in a different light a few years down the road, and having his written account will be useful so that his actions can instead be judged via the ethics of the future.
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By Frqy3
Why should research showing that ‘alternative medicine’ is ineffective be published in a medical journal?
It provided a method and showed the negative results. Next time you are in discussion with someone who claims that time travelers are possible, you can now refer to this research.
Even if the first two journals rejected it, it sounds like the “third physics journal geared more toward the philosophy of physics” should have been a good fit.
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By dean
1 point, 0 comments
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By simonblack
An interesting read is “Bare-faced Messiah” – an unauthorised biography of L. Ron Hubbard.
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By jayleno
1) Say no to multitasking
2) Morning ritual
3) Don’t work all the time
4) Eliminate distractions
Key points taken from https://techblog.livingsocial.com/blog/2014/04/02/working-fr…
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By gozo
It’s not really comparable though. Most traditional degrees lead to long progressive careers. Practical software engineering can do, but generally doesn’t. Other IT fields even less so. Especially since it’s a degree heavy field to begin with.
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By Sanddancer
Minor note: csh isn’t cornshell, it’s C Shell, because its syntax is somewhat c-like. Korn Shell is ksh, named after its creator, David Korn. A variant of ksh is what openbsd uses as their default user shell.
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By adrianhon
Huh, I definitely put a link in the submit form – not sure why it didn’t show up. Just edited the post!
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By ikeboy
The composition is public, and needs to be disclosed when patented. In order to get FDA approval for a generic drug, you need to show that it performs as well as the actual drug (not really, but that’s a different issue [0]). In order to do that, you need to have samples of the actual drug.
[0] http://fortune.com/2013/01/10/are-generics-really-the-same-a…
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By Myrmornis
> I think it’s sad that we’ve reached a point where you’re expected to have a four year degree, and $80k of debt in order to get a job as a receptionist or a barista.
(a) They can become a receptionist or barista once they’ve definitively proved to themselves that they can’t get a degree and do something more fulfilling, intellectually stimulating and ultimately likely to lead them to lives with more freedom and time to devote to their own projects.
(b) The 80k debt is a problem with the USA, not nearly so much with developed countries elsewhere. I expect you’d agree with this but it shouldn’t be a reason not to go to university; the USA just needs to get away from making people pay so much for their education and healthcare. (The article was about the UK). I work in the USA and I’ve just got back from traveling in Indonesia for a couple of weeks. It was really sad to see that all the people we met traveling were from Europe and none from the USA: I think a large part of this is that young Americans go into debt for college and think that they can’t afford to travel, and thus don’t become as familiar with other cultures.
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By DinkyG
DynamoDb was only down in only one region, for the first time in years. It’s hardly a reason to migrate off, especially with DynamoDb still being available in every single other region throughout. It’s simpler to fail over to another AWS region than to an entirely different cloud provider with a different API.
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By mino
Indeed. I’m volunteering at that exhibit and it is really well presented.
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By OliverJones
“easy contract?” I doubt it. Ten million users on the go-live date? Interchange of health-care data from system to system? Getting Oracle’s identity / authentication management system integrated as a door-one requirement? Hostile congresscritters doing everything in their power to torpedo the project? The only difference between this and a typical giant cluster#uck is the vast and visible scale.
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By theoneone
Interesting, I ‘ll take a look. Thanks
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By smollett
2 points, 0 comments
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By cm2187
1 point, 0 comments
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By venomsnake
While this is true, I have a feeling that wind averaged over a big land mass like US, Canada and Alaska will be a very close to constant. What we need is a better buffer system – here is where the supercaps, once developed could play a huge role. Or hydrogen/ fuel cells.
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By mikecarlton
1 point, 0 comments
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By jonesb6
It’s also my understanding that a large amount of biotech work is “grunt work” that requires a large amount of time and energy but not a large amount of skill.
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By brc
Would anyone buy any vehicle ever again, given the possibility of a 20k liability for something out of their control?
This position has not been thought through.
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By hellbanner
It’s the most popular open-source repo site, AFAIK.
If it’s not open source, it does me no good.
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By bsder
> One interesting thing, John and I had an argument about the implementation, because there is one part about it that really sucks.
And which part would that be? I’m mostly asking out of curiosity, so don’t put yourself out if the answer is too long and involved.
As someone who has implemented a couple FPUs, I can assure you that there are quite a few pieces of IEEE 754 that suck to implement.
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By QSIITurbo
The article does not ctrl-f to cysts, but I would be more interested to hear how you’d go about removing or treating a cyst in a developing brain 20-25 years ago. Any suggestions?
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By crisedward
1 point, 0 comments
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By Sanddancer
It doesn’t sound like there are example maps, as this is just a paper studying what has happened, and one possible future mitigation. From what it sounds like, if we use Los Padres National Forest as an example, [1] they’ll let areas near Alamo Mountain burn, but Pinon Pines Estates and Lake of the Woods would get forces concentrated there, with preventative forestry work to thin trees, etc to make things more manageable.
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Los+Padres+National+Forest…
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Interestingly enough I think I tried the same thing when I saw a link from the same site. It is indeed a great workaround to the changing URL’s dilemma.
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By zachshefska
1 point, 0 comments
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I’ve tried switching from Google to reasonable alternatives, and I usually have to go back to Google to search twice because the results are not what I was expecting, nowhere near. I’m not sure if this is only my own experience, no offence to other engines (and their engineers), but if you can’t find what I’m looking for I’m going somewhere else to find it.
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By iMerNibor
If the old web server is going to be up anyways, why not just reverse proxy responses to the new one using nginx for example?
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By kolomi
1 point, 0 comments
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By chasb
1 point, 0 comments
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By greggman
I’ve been to plenty of sushi restaurants in Japan where it’s labelled 鮭 and pronounced “shake”. No idea if that means it was local salmon
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By cosmiclattes
I’ve been working on visualizing editor behaviour on wikipedia for the past few months. The presentation below is a sneak peak on some of the graphs alongwith the explanation on reading them. They have some interesting findings.
The presentation – http://slides.com/cosmiclattes/edit-activity-graphs-analysis…
The project page – https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_An…
The Source Code – https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikigraphs
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By zebra
1 point, 0 comments
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By bigiain
Heh – I’ve got a key there two years older than that: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=bigiain&op=index
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By loose11
1 point, 0 comments
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By mkhpalm
I almost don’t understand why people are still paying the prices they pay to put ads out on the internet. There are some exceptions but name the last “ad” you clicked on? It probably resembles the last spam you followed.
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I’ll probably get downvoted for this
An interesting dynamic here on HN. You are being downvoted. In contrast, in yesterday’s slashdot, the quickest way to get modded +5 insightful was to start off by saying “I know I’ll get downvoted for this …”.
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By Relaxx
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By JoeAltmaier
I interpreted that differently: one of them has bought into the game of pretending to like beer; the other is breaking the 4th wall and makes the first one uncomfortable.
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By foxwoods
1 point, 0 comments
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By scott_karana
> However, 1) if leadership is a male field then men should face higher standards, not lower ones
I suspect that anthropologists and sociologists would say that the OPPOSITE is true: that people inside peer-groups are often subject to less criticism than those out of the groups.
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By arihant
1 point, 0 comments
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By fraserharris
Interesting corollary: a (future autonomous car) company planning on competing with Uber in the future would be best positioned if they buy Lyft now and operate it at a loss to grow their network.
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By kvee
1 point, 0 comments
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By ychw
1 point, 0 comments
See more about this article by clicking the link here: http://twimgs.com/informationweek/byte/archive/Apple-II-Description/The-Apple-II-by-Stephen-Wozniak.pdf
The original link gives the context to this paper that was released on Sept 16: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04776
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