Estragon

The author didn't walk it back when challenged.

So they can spend less time onboarding new engineers.

Read the Orthogonal trilogy. I think it may be Egan's best work.

Although it's more like Schild's Ladder than Permutation City, I suppose. (Physics ideas rather than computation.)

Watch the talk. It's pretty entertaining.

The point is that to get around Docker's security issues, you have to run it in a VM to get secure multitenancy.

So has anyone run git-blame yet? Who did this?

Oh, come on. The issue is very clear. Your interpretation is correct.

I imagine you'll be able to torrent it fairly soon.

  Maybe something more noble than a social coding site?

I doubt it. Github has a reputation problem. I wouldn't put anything sensitive on there, given the attitude github leadership showed about privacy ethics in the Julie Horvath incident.

  no idea what all(@ar1) < any(@ar2) would be

Subset?

The narcissism and attention whoring in this article are reminiscent of an Onion editorial.

  This pilot study will enroll up to 6 individuals with
  treatment-resistant depression (at least 2 failed
  attempts at an anti-depressant treatment) who are judged
  by a physician to be appropriate for the study and who
  remain under outpatient supervision for the duration of
  the study.

This requires $80K???

Yes, I think the biggest issue with perl was the devil-may-care culture around it. That was far from the only issue, though. It had (has?) some gratuitous features which are bound to cause hard to find bugs, like implicit conversion of numeric strings to numbers in certain contexts. That particular feature was the reason I chose to learn python in the mid 90s, rather than perl.

I didn't know Sanders has talked about instituting a wealth tax. Can you point me at some discussion about it?

Why do people like those things so much, anyway?

"The trouble with fool-proof methods is, you're still a fool."

You don't take anything hammered out by reason alone as sound information. You test reasonable-looking propositions against experience, and until they've stood up against that test by providing accurate predictions with substantial information-content, you take them as provisional.

If they do this, I might start to see some value in twitter. The 140-character limit has a strong anti-intellectual effect on the discourse there.

Maybe most voters don't, but the volunteer supporters who'll bring the vote out for you on election day do, very much.

snapchat's unique appeal seems to be snakeoil, though. There has to be someone out there making a snapchat archive tool for nasty people.

  > If you can come up with a viable set of general principles
  > that would make HN significantly better, I'd like to know
  > what they are. I personally have found it to be a hard
  > problem.

How much transparency is there into the decision-making process? It would be great to see the measurements you're making to come to the conclusion that "Some users would like to see two heated discussions about income inequality on the front page, but I can assure you that many others would not."

My point is that it's not just a question of societal awareness. The links in my GP post show Secretary Clinton and Governor O'Malley making exactly this mistake. They are not idiots and their ambitions depend on courting black voters, so they are acutely aware of the issues affecting black people.

The phrase is probably the best you can do in a slogan, but it is cryptic.

Know any juniors without college degrees in relevant fields?

  > Which investment vehicles are those?

Madoff's ponzi scheme comes to mind. Everybody involved knew he had to be stealing to make those kinds of returns, they just didn't realize he was stealing from them. They thought it was some kind of front-running scheme.

  > You need to go one step further and outline where and how
  > the federal government should put this new tax revenue to
  > work.

Bernie Sanders's fine proposals probably make a good baseline.

  >  It's not healthy for society and I don't see it ending
  >  up anywhere good.

It's a symptom. The disease is the dysfunctional system.

  > the overwhelming majority (to the point where the 
  > counterparty is anecdotal and, frankly, possibly 
  > mythical) use it to establish a fundamentally 
  > conservative defense of the status quo

While "All lives matter" is an inappropriate response, it is a natural one which well-meaning people come up with all the time. Honestly, when heard out of context "Black lives matter" is more than a little cryptic, and the first time I heard it my initial thought was "Are they claiming their lives matter more than most??"

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/417112... http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/bernie-sanders-netroo...

"All lives matter," as a response to "Black lives matter," carries roughly the same implications as "Everybody hurts!" would, as a response to "I'm hurting real bad right now!"

What is the upgrade path like on mint these days? I ran into real problems with it when I tried it a few years ago.

He lies. Check out his dispute with Chomsky.

> For all we know based on the article, the people who wouldn't take him seriously were also black.

Five to one says Serrin Turner is white.