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Devil's advocate: where does this line start and stop?
Stores aren't held responsible for bad products

I don't know about the US, but in the UK and Europe they are. The contract is with the retailer, so you can sue them. There is an expectation that things we get are safe. They are frequently crap, but rarely damage your other things or injure you. If something breaks after minimal use it would not be of "merchantable quality" and you'd be entitled to a full refund from the retailer. Likewise claims and statements to the public and in advertising must be true. (IANAL)

Now, Download make a big deal of being a trusted source, and will not accept "Software that installs viruses, Trojan horses, malicious adware, spyware, or other malicious software at any point during or after installation". There's a very lengthy list of what they don't allow and how they are curating their offerings. They have, for quite some time, been failing in this. For pity's sake they even have dark patterns and show ads with prominent download buttons, which aren't.

As they want to be a trusted source, and have lengthy text telling us they won't accept malware and that they curate everything, I think they should fall foul of the browser's safe browsing filters.

http://www.donotlink.com/framed?614744 Their malware policies.

If, on the other hand they said plainly "we make only limited checks, downloader beware", fair enough. Just like a forum disclaiming views of posters.

TL;DR Yes, they should be held responsible for what they serve, or stop claiming to be so trustworthy and "We test all submitted software products according to comprehensive criteria.".
The problem there is the >90% of people in Vancouver who aren't in high paying tech fields. It's pretty difficult to say "just triple their wages and they'll afford houses no problem."

The real issue is property owners know someone will eventually come along and pay whatever they're asking. If wages were to dramatically increase, they'd never stop and think, "Yeah, I think I'll cap rent at $3000/month because I'm a nice guy." They'll gladly take $4000 if they can and never settle for less once they hit that point. Instead of considering lowering rents, they'll ask why you just don't get paid more.
I am there, I use Molecular Dynamic simulations to study proteins, and I have to agree with you.

Chemistry is an umbrella term---It is the summation of all the little tidbits of information we have accumulated about molecular systems. As such, the field has become unwieldy. The future lies in using computers to handle this vast amount of knowledge.

How will this work? I don't know. But I can tell you it will not be simulations, which is what everyone in academia gravitates toward. Simulations involve lots of sampling, making the approach computational intractable. So I am naively optimistic about using machine learning. For example, I can imagine using recurrent neural networks to handle carbon chains and newly invented attention models for things like protein folding.

P.S. Now I just need to find a way to fund this research :-(
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another one bites the dust... Les paroles s'envolent mais les ecrits restent... I wonder in which category cloud-backed digital media is... We have self supporting writings that are 3000 years old, will we have the same for things said that go against the grain for this era?
So many times.

If we take the (cough) hackers and painters analogy to weird places, software is painting.

Where when if you have everybody being creative, the vision can get watered down and not as good as it could be.

Companies are the same thing, when different people have conflicting goals, and want to express their creativity, it breeds conflict.

Some conflicts and checks and balances are good, but I believe the most creativity happens when groups are small, vision is unified, and everybody's more or less on the same page.

Working with sharp people is great, but often there are multiple equivalent choices. Arguing over A and B, or compromising to do a little of both, is often way worse than going all in on A or B and then moving on to the next task.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (still 14 months to go) with the latest Hardware Enablement Stack (12.04.5) runs on the 3.13 kernel. I hope that Canonical will backport the fix to 3.13 and not only to 3.14 as hinted by the article.
HN is a forum comprised primarily of extremely tech-oriented and innovative people. Are you somehow surprised that some of these would be a standard deviation or two above the norm? And heaven forbid they comment on an article with which they can relate directly, and possibly provide some insight.

But yeah... hurr, durr, braggarts, etc.
You need a car to do what? Most commonly, to transport your body from point A to point B. You can also consider other alternatives and pick one that (you think) works the best.

I doubt that there is such a thing as "need to be in relationship", very often it is a cover for some other, deeper need, like "need to not feel alone", "need for social recognition", "need to feel secure" and so on. And unless that deeper need is realized and verbally communicated, there's a high chance that it won't be satisfied in the best possible way, if at all. Some of those needs even cannot be satisfied by another person (e.g. no one can cure your internal insecurities but yourself). It is your job, as a person, to work on realizing your actual needs. And once you do, you can ask another person to help you fulfill them.

Another important difference between cars and people is that people are sentient beings with their own will and their own needs. And when people see that someone is treating them as a tool to fulfill their needs, before even getting to know them better, they are likely to avoid engaging in such activity.
My parents are okay with mass surveillance. I've tried running them through how it actually works, but it turned out that they really don't seem to care about this kind of privacy. They are very much about the idea that "if it even saves just one person" it's worth it.

On the subject of encryption bans and backdoors, I explained that this would make it easier for them to be the target of hacks and fraud. This concerned them, but ultimately they are under the impression that the people handling it know more than me and I can't be correct.

I don't think they are particularly out-of-the-ordinary, so I don't think the solution is a simple act of informing people. I think people who do care about this stuff largely need to accept the possibility that this isn't important to the majority of the population, and that it never will be (no matter how informed the public is). Instead, we need to continue build the tools and the infrastructure to secure ourselves regardless of policy and legislation.
Go to a doctor and let them describe you something for depression. Worked for me.

Be open about your problems and don't be ashamed.
Most people feel the way you do.
I never lie to people about my mental issues - not even at work. Guess what? 95% of the people I worked with (all other programmers) were on some kind of meds, too - for depression, social anxiety, ADHD etc.. Feels so much better just being open about it and crack a joke here and there. "Let's just all put down work, go to the beach and cry!" "I'm in. I'll bring beer." "Oh, I wish I could!" [I remember that conversation happening on Slack once]

I don't know! Sitting home alone, pitying yourself and being upset about society never really changes anything. ;)
Sounds similar to bug #3 in this article:
https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zooke...
What kind of things do you have to hack on? I'm interested!
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I'd like to echo this and add additional comments. The original post states that it should be career ending, but the truth is that while many government officials and Tech companies say they are interested in privacy, the ideas being presented about backdoors are basically incredibly desirable to the majority of government agencies and major tech businesses.

Even your average citizen understands encryption on the basic level and what the backdoor means. No, they don't understand the technical underpinnings of how it works, but they know it means privacy that cannot be bypassed, and many are willing to give up that privacy if it means getting what they want elsewhere. You can lob the scares of "are you sure you have nothing to hide?" to any proponent of encryption as much as you like, but in all honesty they've made the assessment already and have decided that it's worth the gamble. Proponents of encryption aren't the victims of some massive disinformation campaign, they're just making a really bad decision despite the available evidence, and it's turning out to be an overwhelmingly popular decision.
or squash
"score something"? Really?
> My biggest issue, which I guess is a non-issue for most others?, is I hate when reviewing a PR that every single line comment generates a message/email.

> is there anything for github that does the same? Maybe one of their offline tools?

Nope. Even the API doesn't allow this, you can only create one "review comment" at a time and no matter how fast you create them (or if you carefully create all of them over a persistent connection) each and every one of them will generate one notification and one outbound mail.

That went pretty well the first time I tried to get a linter to annotate a PR. The annotation worked, but I discovered some people's mailboxes can not handle getting 50 mails from the same source in a fraction of a second (and oddly enough people are not fond of getting 50 one-line emails from the same place).

(I asked github support about it, they confirmed the only workaround is to not use inline comments)
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Agreed, but seeing things through the frame of addiction can be a trap. Issue is really ego-syntonic versus ego-dystonic. Own your feelings and what you decide to do. Guess I'm agreeing.
Nah i think the bigger problem is the MBAs walking around, trying to apply widget factory metrics to academia, healthcare, and other hard to measure environments.

This in turn has lead to the whole "publish or perish" environment, as the MBAs use published articles as a replacement for widgets made and citations as sales.
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Had an issue with formatting with tables in Wordpress :). Couldn't be bothered to look at it for more than a minute or so. I'll try to fix this now.
I know that's what it means. I don't think they exist in the real world. See e.g. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/dice... - I don't remember if I've read that specific thing, but I've read things that said the same.

(With skill, it's possible to bias a coin toss, but that's different.)
Parts of Microsoft actually do respond and provide nice roadmaps. I am hoping Github will do something similiar.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/01/11/team-foun...
Great news for refugees in Germany, they'll finally be able to go back home.
Ah; I now understand your position better, and see that it is not too different from my own. I feel like what you wrote here would work perfectly as another paragraph in the Empathy section.

I'll be keeping tabs on Seneca Systems regardless; best of luck to you, Mr Founder!
You're comparing US roads with Russian roads?

Really?
Why would you? Tax is a very effective mechanism to control economy. And don't have to think on extremes even! Very wealthy people are buying condos there just because it's the best (passive) investment for their cash. If you increase tax for vacant property it will incentivize selling over time,or at least renting.. more offer with less cost.

In a macro economical sense Canada already profited from getting foreign $ invested in buying those properties anyway, time to make Vancouver livable.
Someone, not the GP, did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905338
I wish it were that simple. I'm reading a book on trauma, and it vividly describes the link between fear and sex. We don't really understand how to talk about it publicly, discussions about this tend to devolve into ugly rape fantasy arguments. But it's going to be very difficult to just remove this sort of thing from movies and TV shows. It's too ingrained into our psyches.
Eh. I used to do that until my 30's or so. Now I just want those damn kids off my lawn. ;)
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There are a lot of languages which are "dead" but are useful to look at when you're designing a new one. Clay is certainly one of those if you're looking at building a low-level language.
Also, regarding both the car and job versions. I've always heard it and said it as, "The best time to look for a job is when you have one." Same for cars. Hardly good advice for dating if your aim is long-term.
Did they who filed the letter ask? If they asked and didn't get a reply to the effect of "we're working on it", then I can see your point. If they didn't ask, well then that's on them. I not finding any stories about them asking about what's going on and not receiving a reply, so I'll assume the latter, since I'm sure the former would have been posted about.
It seems like many major cities of the world are experiencing this problem, and no city has been able to come up with a good solution. It always leads to displacement and newspaper articles about displacement, but no real solutions.

Here are a couple of solutions:

1. Build really tall. Hasn't worked out all that great in Hong Kong, though.

2. Rent control. This is often unfair and inflates price of non-rent controlled apartments.

3. Tax the living crap out of property speculation. Not sure if this has been tried anywhere, and I'm sure it would be unpopular among many middle class home owners as well. I'm still rooting for Georgism.

4. Accept that it's a lost cause and move on to the next underdog city that will stay un-gentrified for the next 10 years.
>self-proclaimed gifted HNers

And if they had actually brought any evidence other than their own self claim, imagine how they would've been treated. No way to win except to shut up and pretend to be normal... one of the most depressing lessons I have learned is that all the social ills of grade school do not disappear when you graduate; they merge into the fabric of daily life.
It requires the maintainer to do this. Often if the maintainer isn't maintaining the codebase then they won't be updating the readme either.
Sales pressure is sometimes the primary reason when our estimates are under.
I have no idea whether they're commonly accepted rules. Like most other cargo cult daters I like to think there are rules, and that they mean something, but when all is said and done I'm pretty sure you're right. It's a complex interplay of roles and traits shaped in part by evolution to weed out unfit candidates. On that we built our cargo cult: I have no idea what I'm doing, but when interacting with a potential love interest I'll mimic the actions that have apparently served others so well, and even when they make absolutely no sense they'll probably still work. I suspect a lot of other interactions in the digital world can be partially explained by cargo cults based on evolved behaviour.

Conclusion: I might not be the only person who has no idea what he's doing when it comes to dating, so a lot of us are faking it and hoping for the best.
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They were in the HN thread at least, not sure about elsewhere.
Ed: Ahh ok I was going wtf? Thanks.
This XKCD comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/610/
Not at all. Vanguard, thanks to Jack Bogle, is virtually the sole outlier in the entire financial industry, which largely views its customers as an annuity to be tapped. They have many, many competitors which would be overjoyed if Vanguard were essentially forced by the courts to charge the "market" rate, thus eliminating their competitive advantage.
I visited Montreal a few years ago. I really really enjoyed it.

The city was a great mix. Big enough to wow a hick like me, but also felt accommodating, friendly, and cosy.

Great leisurely bicycling next to the river and canals.

All the french makes it feel like I'd traveled much further. I also tried making an effort to speak it, and unlike when visiting France, people actually had the good taste (or angelic patience) to indulge me.

It was somewhat expensive, but not obnoxiously so.

I know tourist experience a place differently than residents, but I can totally get it why it's a desirable place.

I did this with my wife for an anniversary. We're most certainly coming back when hitting a nice round number again.
> The engine is horrible, and the interior is what you'd expect, but they are built like a brick shithouse

So why buy a brick shithouse with horrible engine, if you've actually wanted a car?
I breezed through university. I might have worked a little harder to get a 4.0, but I knew even then that barely anyone outside of academia cares about GPA, and that I didn't want to be an academic. So I did the math, and I even made some strategic decisions to not complete some graded assignments in my last year. I'm not particularly challenged at work now, either.

I'm not a very good employee. I have on several occasions had one of my bosses tell me not to do more than the minimum effort. Don't improvise. The company doesn't get paid more for excellence. Just do as you're told. He who pays the piper calls the tune, and that guy wants "Rock and Roll Part 2" by Gary Glitter (aka the Hey Song) for the 50th time in a row rather than whatever crap it is that you would prefer to play.

I feel like I could accomplish very difficult tasks, but I also feel that the effort would not only go unrewarded, but that other people would actively resent me for doing them.

If society loved genius, it would pay more for it. I'm not even a genius. I'm either slightly smarter than the median, or just egotistical enough to think that I am. But now I'm just a mediocre, run-of-the-mill software professional on paper, because that's what companies around here are willing to pay for, and so I eased off my throttle far enough to pretend to be that for them. Being on HN helps a lot when I'm just filling a seat.

Naturally, this hasn't exactly produced a healthy relationship between me and the rest of society.

I think that maybe schools don't want to produce geniuses, because they are very disruptive, and hard to please, and it's harder to keep them in line with a load of BS. There may actually be a tiny kernel of truth in the conspiracy theory that public schooling intentionally dumbs down the smartest students or endlessly occupies them with useless busy work, even as it trains up the others to be more useful as workers.
Ask HN: An accountability group to finally ship the thing you're working on
You start working on a side project, invest your time, you're really excited about it and everything you're going to do with it, but then it slowly fades out, because there is another cool new project that you've started, there is another article that you could read, there is another show that you need to watch and so on. So you "pause" this project, someday I'm going to finish it.

It's the same case with my current project, so I was thinking about starting a small accountability group where everyone has the same goal, to launch something.

I was thinking about creating a skype group, everyone sets a date and reports regularly on his track.

What does hn think about it?
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There's a more fundamental problem at stake. Law enforcement has gotten used to requesting our data from third-party providers instead of us directly. So now they act as if that's normal.

But it completely bypasses the 4th amendment either directly or in spirit. In most cases they don't even need to serve a warrant to the companies, and even if they do, I think that warrant should always be served to the individual.

It shouldn't be served to companies just because "it's easier" and because it happens that in the 21st century the data about our lives is stored on a third-party company's servers. If we just wanted to make things as easy as possible for law enforcement we'd have to do away with many more of our rights.
Really, 4-5 submissions within 24 hours? Cool down a bit and stop spamming please. You have submitted your link very often already anyways, submitting the same thing over and over again isn't going to get you more attention.
> My experience is that people who like a particular language try to rationalize and convince others that there is no downside.

There are always trade-offs. GC is a win because manual memory management is terrible and error prone, but a lose because you have to learn how to tune it to behave the way you need. But no matter the language some things stay the same: learn to anticipate what code your compiler is going to generate, check what the optimizer is doing, check the disassembly, use the profiler. Good GCs and compilers play all the same games with cache locality and such, and some are better than others. I think you are underestimating the advances in compiler design. Maybe you think C/C++ are fine languages, and that's OK, but personally they are the absolute last resort for when I reach limitations of my language's compiler and runtime.
> and it didn't exist with Docker (because it uses layers)

There's a big spectrum of 'solving the deduplication problem' and Docker is towards the 'when all you have is a sledgehammer' end.

Saying "you can manually arrange Dockerfiles so that they cooperate and share layers" is not solving things in an architectual sense! You essentially have to be using a single custom tool (Dockerfiles) to create your images and then you need to apply thinking power to consider how best to arrange your images (e.g. having a 'base' package.json to install a bunch of things common to many apps, then additional an additional package.json per-app).

It's getting better with 1.10 (layer content is no longer linked to parent layers, so ADDing the same file in different places should reuse the same layer) but it's still pretty imperfect. I created https://github.com/aidanhs/dayer to demonstrate the ability to extract common files from a set of images and use it as a base layer, which is another improvement. Even better would be a pool of data split with a rolling checksum, like the one bup creates - short of domain-specific improvements (e.g. LTO when compiling C), I think this is probably the best architectural thing you can do.
The chauvinism in this comment is insane. Women aren't points on a scoreboard and dating dynamics aren't meant to be a power struggle.
Lobsters, at least the American kind, used to be considered trash food. Even prisoners rioted to avoid being served it.

But then the fish stocks got depleted, and various restaurants started putting them on the menu...
Sure. But by and large, the men are not the ones that suffer from the repercussions of this. No doubt that it hurts absolutely everyone involved, though.
'the status of my text message changed to “read.”'

I am assuming this is an iPhone "feature"? Creepy. Can it be disabled?
I've just spent a few days using Ionic to mockup up a front end app. It would take a few days more to create a back end and that would be a complete app. This rapid development cycle is incredible. I've got the app running in ios and android.
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I think it's in the 3.13 queue already: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/commit/?h=linu...