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HTML5 media is quite a can of worms, I remember reading the return types of HTMLMediaElement.canPlayType() [1] which is ['probably', 'maybe', ''] for the first time thinking it's a joke.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...
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Exactly. RethinkDB had basically the same traits as MongoDB, with real-time features as a bonus. It was never really competing with other RDBMS (that support transactions, etc.), it was competing directly with MongoDB.
> You could, but a relational database isn't distributed upon 5,000+ worldwide nodes in an immutable data ledger.

The DNS would like a word.
Central Banks were made flesh in the form of the Bank of England. The US ( rather belligerently ) avoided this model for a variety of reasons, but mainly because it was England, back when that was a marque of corruption ( the last President who was also more or less in the Revolution was roughly Jackson ). Jackson also used this strategically to stab at his enemies, who were of considerable number.

The Panic of 1907 was no joke; the Fed is Our Robotic JP Morgan, who forced the network of haircuts and liquidity support needed to end that.

It's not clear to me that the accusations of moral hazard hold that much water. Calomiris and Haber wrote the excellent "Fragile by Design", which examines the difference between the Canadian and US financial systems.

I'm far from an expert, but this seems the most fruitful examination so far - everybody was operating on towers of just-so stories. "Break the banks up" and "jail them" most likely would have accomplished very little. It's less corruption than it is Dunning-Kruger, less Mr. Burns than it is Homer Simpson.

Socializing the losses has little actual cost - no matter how fictional you think this is, it's even moreso - and the big profits in the end were made by Micheal Burry and the others who shorted those markets. If money is a convenient fiction, then the Fed balance sheet is five degrees of separation from that fiction.

Japan? Demographic collapse. Deutsche bank? Uh, Euro problems. What has gone well with the Eurozone?

IMO? The US used to be planted thick with $10, $20, $40M per year topline companies. They went the way of the dodo bird because who wants that? Just making a living? Nah, we wanna make a killing. Make a better product? No, use finance to edge the competition out, even ( perhaps especially ) if it cripples the company doing it.

That's culture rot. People did this sort of thing in, say 1950. Just not everybody.

I do want to work. This is widely disbelieved; it's probably cost me jobs, incredibly. After all, we're supposed to use real work as prep for the rent-seeking Olympics, right? If you're still doing Real Work(tm) at 30, you're a looser ( sic ). Oh, and we're going to dumb Real Work down for you because we don't trust you.

But even more profound is the observation that actual production, distribution, sales and support are on rails. Stuff costs ( in cases, way ) less than it used to. There are no bears to eat us, so we make up methods and practices to stroke our narcissism.

My daughter the evolutionary biologist has a slightly dissonant phrase for this - "not enough lions."
probably not too late, seeing as an investor suggesting a re-org caused stock to go up on the same day this issue was announced.
You can pay for the email, I do.
I believe you don't get comments if you're not logged in, only answers.

( this should get you more, but still not the entire comment, I think; https://www.quora.com/Does-LinkedIn-access-your-email-or-con... )
> The only non-globalised manufacturing chain is defence, which is instead prohibitively expensive.

It actually is globalised. Things may be assembled in the US, but many components are imported from France, UK, Germany, Taiwan, etc.

> Manufacturing is popular because it's perceived as a source of blue-collar jobs

Totally agree. I would add that in the case of Germany, the manufacturing of industrial machines is very different in nature and volume from that of consumer products, etc.
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Firefox has container feature now to isolate cookies from other tabs in same browser window natively.

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/06/15/firefox-container-tab/

Time has come to isolate LinkdIn and we have the resources too.

I admit that it's creepy and intolerable but I have accepted this behavior and started taking measures of my own.

Edit:

Another solution is to make use of this Addon called umatrix.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
HackerNews has started to feel a bit like Twitter lately.
Because their products look cool. Stupid fingers.
RHEL / CentOS user here... I feel the same
And I'm wondering if you've ever been to south Jersey

When I was younger my friends and I would drive way more aggressively whenever we saw out of state plates. We thought it would be funny if they went home with horror stories.
The Gnome developers were asking for years for someone to step in and maintain ConsoleKit. Nobody did and there wasn't any hope somebody would.

So they took plan B and used logind, which is part of systemd. People are still free to develop shims that would work with other init systems - but so far nobody is willing to do that.
This is really a judgement call. If you are expecting volumes of tenants in the thousands, a schema per tenant is slightly crazy. I would personally only think of a schema or database per tenant if I had either customisation issues (If most of the sale is in professional services) or worse if we have data regulation issues (an Indian tenant, an EU tenant and a US tenenat would be challenging to manage the complex data transfer laws around, and it might be easier to have geographically located servers)

But unless you have few small expensive clients then I cannot see much value in multi-tenanting via schema or database. It's hard enough keeping that in mind when using Dev/UAT/prod schemas !
It's also possible to hate a movie and not harass the people who acted in it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12641948 (1 day ago, 351 comments)
But a Utopia is really adherence to some perfect Platonic form, not the sort of greasy compromise necessary to accommodate the crooked timber of humanity.

Design in general is bad, if the design overrides all other measurement and input.

Wasn't More's book a reductio anyway?
After that comment I'd bet good money you've never started a company or worked full time at an early stage startup.

Recommend you take one of your ideas and sketch out a back of the napkin first year plan. I bet it doesn't include using 250k of investor's seed money for a database.
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OSS mailing lists shouldn't be considered the same thing because I can send mail to them, and anyone else can as well. They are discussion forums carried out via email.

Mailing lists in the Mailchimp sense are just unwanted advertising in what I view as a communication medium - the equivalent of IRS scammer robocalls.
Sometimes, brilliance is like a piece of corn in a pile of crap.
Moley Robotics is making kitchens of the future equipped with robotic chef arms
I'm not sure there is such a disconnect as you suggest. While value has increased, I might posit that the value is due to the fact that the US focuses on the value-added side of the equation. So if the US produces cars, it doesn't produce the Daihatsus or the Fiats of the world. They focus on $40K cars. It took me moving to Japan to realise that you can buy a perfectly good car for under $10K.

If the bottom falls out, the US may find that there are no customers for their comparative luxury goods and no US citizen willing to work for little enough to be competitive with anything else.

I am, of course, an random guy on the internet and my observations are worth slightly less than that, so who knows ;-)
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I'm on mobile and logged in. But I just checked in incognito mobile and it still shows up.

However, desktop mode incognito fails. You could change your useragent in dev tools, I guess.
Saying a well-liked company should fail does not go well around here, especially when they make wild, conspiracy-like accusations with absolutely no supporting evidence.
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"Error, the requested file could not be retrieved."
maybe a blockchain of trust with your wallet having more value the more people rank up your content? then you only allow people with a certain wallet value to "interact" with your content ie comment/like/get access to a secondary "paywalled" subsite. initial values are assigned and handed out by core developers/"influencers" ie the rich

maybe a second threshold value that can only interact with each other(they won't be visible to people who set their threshold to above the value that they own) ie the poor can interact with the poor

only the rich can talk to the rich and the poor can only talk to the poor but the poor are allowed to look at the rich and verify that they themselves are indeed poor. the poor can collaborate with each other or incentivise the rich to "pay" them.

trust flows just like centralised social networks because it's easier to do than play whackamole with low value easily created bots/spammers.any bots who abuse these systems and rise to positions of visibility are considered high value bot networks(since they somehow managed to get enough "value" to exist in the system either by using random meme based content generation or other abusive but entertaining tactics for eg r/subredditsimulator ). these bots could then be easily de-valued by users with very high values( the super rich-the core developers/influencers) if they irritate their audiences too much.
Almost thought you were talking about Diaspora for a minute.
I don't know if the devs adressed that issue (it's a tough one)

If these are linear constraints, maybe they can use the "Cassowary" incremental solver.

[1] http://overconstrained.io/
Actually, systemd on servers is great. It brings reliability and transparency that was missing with SysV init.
The difference is that Yahoo actually made real money and had valuable assets other than its core offerings (Alibaba).

Twitter is just an overgrown, overfunded startup without an obvious path to revenue strong enough to support its operations and growth.
But there are fewer shares because yahoo "returned" north of $10B to investors through share buybacks. Not exactly sure how that should be accounted for, but I think relevant to the calculation.
I think the best description of Sanders is "the last New Dealer".

This being said, Progressivism has a checkered past. The bleeding edge is a fickle hellcat, full of bad normative assumptions. A devout New England Abolitionist would have thought nothing of beating the Irish in his employ severely. Stuff like that.
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I've seen many people work their way up within IT from help desk to sysadmin to ops to management to CIO. Some successfully transition into development. Manufacturing doesn't have the monopoly on on-the-job skill-driven mobility.
I agree, if you agree with me can you upvote my comment? Thanks.
Ask HN: Did you learn to hate Windows?
I've used Windows since version 3.1 (~1992) and really loved it. OK, maybe not the batch files, I think I always hated them. Except for a brief excursion to OS/2 and some grumbling about "activation" in XP, I've stayed with it until Windows 8. Windows 7 was probably the last version I really liked.

Windows 8 was bad but you could kind of ignore the dark side.

In Windows 10 this changed:

- Windows reboots without asking! Since when is this considered acceptable? Did you remember to save everything, always? Start a job, step away for a minute and yes, it's probably rebooting.

- You have no control over updates, even for 'power users'. They are downloaded and updated without asking. Remember to check for updates before you do a presentation.

- To add insult to injury, after seemingly every update some (most?) of my settings are removed. I really like to customize Explorer ... not anymore.

- Edge ... couldn't they just accept when I say no?

- Spying or 'Telemetry' as they call it. Not OK.

- Also whenever you find a way to make it behave (like controlling updates), the next update will probably remove that functionality.

This no longer feels like "My Computer". And I hate it.
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Have you tried freecad? I think it uses openscad as backend but has a slightly better (and faster) UI.
Just to note - I'm referring to schools as in K-12 kind of schools, in my country we don't call higher education 'school'.

This is talking about providing internet for educational purposes to minors. I don't really think there is any argument to say that they should not be subject to automated filtering of the content that they can use on those computers.

Even at work it's probably fair enough. An employer is well within their rights to filter the internet they provide - if you want to do private personal stuff, bring your own laptop and use an LTE dongle or tether it to your phone's internet...
Cool stuff! Looks like you're using it to track your programming... have you seen https://wakatime.com? It took more than ~10.5 hrs to build it but it's fully automatic!
>But a Utopia is really adherence to some perfect Platonic form,

There's no such thing as a Platonic form.
Yahoo challenged it in FISA court, not open court.

"Yahoo took its case to the foreign intelligence surveillance court, also known as the Fisa court, which oversees requests for surveillance orders in national security investigations. The secretive Fisa court provides the legal authorities that underpin the US government’s controversial surveillance programmes. Yahoo lost its case, and an appeal."
Better than kibana's but how those filter menus scale with a lot of possible values? I saw autofilter fail in excel with really large sheets.

Step 2 would be a saner output representation, something more readable and compact than JSON.
I never used it in production (lack of need, not a lack of interest), but I always enjoyed playing with RethinkDB. Really fantastic work - both under the hood and the presentation on top. Be proud of the work everyone did. Stripe is a great home to end up at!
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Some virus scanners have gone full retard and flag all executables they haven't seen before.
For whom is manufacturing lucrative? The capital owners. Isn't that why we had all those labour disputes and replacement of labour with capital? As others have been pointing out this is mentioned in the article: "Because of automation, there are far fewer jobs in factories. But the value of stuff made in America reached a record high in the first quarter of 2016".

Is China better, or just cheaper, due to starting from a low wage baseline in a blank slate with few environmental or worker protections?

Is it just an advantage from not having yet depleted its natural resources? The UK steel industry was built near iron and coal mines, almost all of which are now closed.
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actually my background is engineering physics, those links of course are great sources. But I think my question aren't being clear to you. I asked what is your strategy to avoid media bias and fallacy. In addition to this strategy, do you have any recommended books.
>What if someone were to have reduced the oxygen to your embryo so that you were an idiot and were happy but had no idea what I was talking about? That's ok to you?

You mean kinda like how they put lead in the water in Flint, Michigan?
And systemd actually does. It's like complaining that cat or tail are bloated, because coreutils contains so much functionality.

Systemd is not a single binary either. It is many binaries, every one of them does its clearly specified job and together they live in single repository - just like coreutils.
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> Let's say I write a paper presenting a model, plus some numerical results of large simulations. The code is based on gluing together various pieces of open source code. All these codes are typical scientist codes that are held together with duct tape. My paper is short, but I spent a lot of effort munging things together, and I'm fairly certain nobody can reproduce my results without my source code (preferably the whole environment) unless they spend a lot of time on trial and error like I did.

Then leave out the results since they are just an anecdote. If you want to include experimental results then it has to be done in a scientific fashion.
Surprisingly, the "American Experience" bio of George HW Bush does a workman's job of explaining this. But it was really the demise of Nelson Rockefeller that ended the Liberal and Moderate Republican as a thing. After all, he was divorced.

Topologically, the Left pulled farther and faster, and there was also a reaction to that.

Industry became fragmented, and that's much harder to organize into unions. It was different when there were a small number of large monolithic firms.
Thanks for sharing this point of view, man.
My favorite is this one about Drones and IA. One of the best:

https://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_...
Way to see the future and miss the mark. If this isn't the modern subway/Mongolian BBQ I don't know what is. I bring up my tray of ingredients put it on a conveyor which moves it to the arms tap my credit card grab my dish go sit down. 50-75% of the costs gone. lower the price by 25% or more.
Interesting... good to know.
This was the point of my reply. There's no technological fix when clinicians can't even safely open a read-only file.
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I've hated windows since Vista. But I was raised on Macs, so part of it was probably just unfamiliarity.
I started with 3.1 and it was vastly worse than the lighter WMs I used on UNIX. I became an almost full time windows user at work and it got parity with 98/XP. Still a sh...y system requiring full reinstalls every two years or so, to make it fast again. I quit in 2009, avoiding Vista. Ubuntu 8.04 was much faster than xp on the same hardware and required less clicks to do the same operations. All the sw I used could run on Ubuntu, never looked back. Videogames on a Playstatio :-)
Has anyone else really hated this experience?

Message sending (and the auto-destruct feature) have been absurdly buggy. Some messages don't send, some don't get received, some don't destroy themselves... You can't send stickers, you can't send gifs (though, the removal of the gif plugin might make sense for privacy reasons)... It's just not great.

I look forward to this maturing, but at the moment I'm not impressed.
Given the extra caveat that I have to explicitly opt-in, I'd go so far as to say Facebook doesn't really want people using this.
You may not like JavaScript, and that's fine (I can certainly understand why), but like it or not it is an "important" language because it's all over the web, where "important" has some debatable meaning of weightiness. Right now hundreds of millions of people around the world are running JavaScript code, whether they know it or not (and most probably don't).
RethinkDB fits into the category of products i love but do not use because i do not want to manage the underlying servers. I've moved to Firebase and other 'services' on the Google, AWS clouds.

Given that this is the way many of us are operating (i.e. 'moving to the cloud'), i wonder what the state of open source software is going to be in the coming years ...
> But once in a while something in the long chain of dependencies fails and after days of debugging you start thinking you should just have downloaded the *.jar files and copied them to libs/ manually.

Can't you just check the difference between the last working and the first broken one? If necessary just unpack the last working jar/zip/war side-by-side the first broken and diff them.

> I think people (in general and not only limited to software development) should strive to minimize dependencies.

Here we totally agree. When I started at my current place we had a mix of spring, javaee, hibernate and whatnot. The size is currently down by almost 70% although a lot of that was also unused resources.

My goal is just using javaee + a couple of utilities.
Coming from a failed startup myself, there is probably a bit of debt associated with the company at this point. In our final throws of life, we raised additional capital (angel/VC/etc) via convertible note to sustain the business a bit further. This in addition to back rent, unpaid bills, etc, leaves quite a pile of financial liability that any acquiring company would likely assume. Easier to let the company die and hire the staff as a separate operation.
Almost every day we have people who ran startups that didn't work out who end up here posting legitimate and honest thoughts about what went wrong and how they can move forward.

Contrast that with this, where instead of owning literally any responsibility for the farce that their product was, she continues to go on this same distortion tactic: Never say anything that's actually a lie, just say a whole lot of things that aren't the truth.

The only thing she seems to have learned is a lot of regulation that her company ran into, and how to work around it.
> "An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes"

> "By Staff Writer"

I think this encapsulates this phony in two lines perfectly.
FWIW, electron-builder even offers to generate Debian, RPM, Arch and plain tar packages simultaneously. So there's really no reason not to offer all.
Why not go a little further and call it a structured asset-backed Ponzi scheme? It sounds more daunting, novelty and official.
Right?! If one site can access content in another site's tab we've got bigger issues here...
Indeed a great book. The best Math departments that I know also use this book to teach linear algebra.
Even technical people can fall prey to social engineering, which LinkedIn has very heavily engaged in to get as much access to your network as possible.
I'm a junior/trainee developer and I was advised that comments should explain why something is happening, not what is happening. The what should be self explanatory by reading the code, but knowing why something is being done is useful when you, or someone else, has to look at it again in the future.
Twitter chose this long list of liberal-leaning associations to "police" the community. I don't think it's a conspiracy-like accusation to say their moderation leans to the left. https://blog.twitter.com/2016/announcing-the-twitter-trust-s...
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It takes the sensor data as an input and outputs a representation. It "makes a map", so the name is a decent pun.