Zikes

Mods should honour these requests, because not doing so leads to bad things.

You don't get to imply I'm about to break the site rules and then ignore that.

Hey dang, still waiting on my ban.

Or a response detailing how HN will be revamping the flagging system to prevent its abuse for censorship. But I'm not holding my breath for that one.

I don't care.

I may be tilted, but I don't intend to intentionally break the site rules just to force a ban. It'd just undermine the point I'm trying to make about wanting to have a fair and reasonable discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14693109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692712

These are entirely reasonable statements, and they're flagged. Not just downvoted, flagged. Censored. Removed from the discussion.

That's my only problem right now. I understand user comment flagging is useful in lieu of moderation, but I'm personally seeing myself silenced persistently in this discussion and it's extremely discouraging.

In at least one instance, I've even been told that directly challenging a sexist call to action is "off-topic" and "insensitive".

This is all happening on an article that is a direct result of sexism being repressed in the industry. Should I just wait a few years for the sexism to fester, then make a blog post of my own once the damage has already been done? Because that seems to be the only acceptable way to express myself here.

Maybe the flagging/downvoting system should be revisited, then. It seems like dissenting opinions are simply downvoted rather than challenged out in the open, as they should be. This means that discussions turn into a single-sided affair, as the other side simply flag kills their dissenters until only one opinion is visible.

I don't mind downvotes much, but it's hard to feel like I'm contributing to a worthwhile discussion if my responses are hidden and my ability to reply is removed.

Generalized sexist statements and behavior that convey insulting or degrading attitudes about women (e.g. Insulting remarks, obscene jokes or humor about sex or women in general)

This should be generalized to include both sexes. I often see insulting or degrading comments about men by people in the tech world, especially with terms like "mansplaining".

You paid $140 on Amazon for a Raspberry Pi with Nintendo's plastic case and logo.

I look forward to these selling out before I've had a chance to buy them at MSRP, then finding them resold by the dozen on eBay for hundreds of dollars.

I also wondered if it was recyclable, and according to the business's web site it is: https://tb-m.com/en/about/paper/

That's good to hear, I have some Swedish friends that are looking to move to Calgary in the next few years and were worried about tech job availability.

I don't understand how Python's popularity in relation to Go has anything to do with whether or not Python has good concurrency support.

As I understand it, Python's Global Interpreter Lock means that no matter how many threads and processors there are, only one thread is going to be executed at one time.

Certainly it can be hugely popular in spite of that shortcoming, just like Go can be popular in spite of the lack of generics.

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/richNotifications

One new technique that's notably missing, and egregiously abusable, is browser notifications. Several times a day now I'll go to a web site that immediately pops up a browser-native non-modal notification asking for permission to use the browser's built-in notifications system.

If I were somehow offended by your statement that wouldn't automatically put me in the right and you in the wrong. You can't control how I feel about what you say, but I also can't use my feelings to claim an unassailable moral high ground.

but clearly, the imbalance of power between men and women is so large, that there is still no question about which side has more power.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2006 only 3.6% of alimony recipients were men. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimony#History

Mothers are granted custody in ~80% of cases and are the recipients of 94% of child support dollars paid: https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/latest-u-s-custody-...

Men make up 93% of the current prison population: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...

Men are assumed to be sexist by default: https://amberskyeforbes.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/1240542_...

Men have no reproductive rights. If a woman decides to cede responsibility for her child, she can abort it or give it up for adoption. If a man decides to cede responsibility for a child, he is labeled a "deadbeat" and on the hook for child support payments anyways.

Only men are required to register for the United States Selective Service.

According to a 2012 CDC study, more men than women suffer from domestic violence and psychological aggression: http://www.saveservices.org/2012/02/cdc-study-more-men-than-...

But when the very first domestic violence shelter for men opened in the US it was panned as a misuse of nonprofit money: http://www.xojane.com/issues/domestic-violence-shelters-for-...

More than double the available scholarships for women than for men: https://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarsh... https://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarsh...

So yeah, there's a pretty clear imbalance of power.

The recipient determines how they feel about your posting, not you.

Doesn't mean they're always right.

I wonder how long until someone "jailbreaks" Teslas.

From https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/re...

A ReplicaSet ensures that a specified number of pod “replicas” are running at any given time. However, a Deployment is a higher-level concept that manages ReplicaSets and provides declarative updates to pods along with a lot of other useful features. Therefore, we recommend using Deployments instead of directly using ReplicaSets, unless you require custom update orchestration or don’t require updates at all.

There's an update at the bottom of the article for this:

UPDATE: It turns out the BBC Globe ident wasn’t rotoscoped or animated, instead it was recorded live using the Noddy camera system and the color was created by adjusting the contrast. Thanks, Gene!

I'm a nomad & hoarder on Google Play Music, and I find it's fairly well-suited to my habits. I have a large library of songs I like, and when I'm in the mood to discover something new I'll

a) Pick an artist and listen to "<Artist> Radio", which will quickly compile a playlist of music by and similar to that artist.

b) Sample some "Stations", which are usually themed around a genre, mood, or activity.

As I'm listening to the above, I'll Thumbs Up songs I like, which adds them to my library for more frequent listening later, and helps me to "bookmark" a new artist to browse the rest of their songs later if I want.

It's so widespread that there are multiple libraries that tout this as a feature!

Which libraries?

http://picturesofpeoplescanningmicrosofttags.tumblr.com/

Perhaps a nice card from https://lob.com/ with a QR code to the RSVP form?

Kubernetes is designed specifically to abstract the clustered nature of multiple machines into something that's singly addressable. The upcoming addition of federation is intended to add another abstraction on top of that, allowing the addressing of multiple clusters as a single cluster.

The primitives currently included in Kubernetes are mostly geared towards scheduling containerized services onto multiple machines in order to achieve a desired state, but it's only that containerization that has the stateless/ephemeral connotation. Kubernetes is perfectly capable of handling stateful storage and it's as simple as mounting a storage volume: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volum...

Yes, it is. However when I went looking for a "HA Postgres" solution I found it to be a viable alternative for my use case.

There's also CockroachDB, which is wire-compatible with Postgres. Of course, there are also some performance trade-offs to consider, and it is currently missing many SQL and data type features available in Postgres and others.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an officially supported optional module, at the very least. It's how they've handled experimental features in the past.

I'm surprised by the lack of first-class ACME/Let's Encrypt support. I figured once Caddy paved the way in that regard that nginx wouldn't be far behind.

dep is being adopted as the officially "blessed" tool of choice.