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It seems likely that the mods talk to each other and critique one another's decisions. It's quite reasonable to say "we" to mean "the moderators of HN as a collective group" if banning your account was a group decision. The fact you're getting a comment from an individual doesn't mean it was necessarily just that person's decision to ban you. It's pretty uncharitable to assume moderators don't take their 'job' quite seriously.
> To be clear, I’m not alleging that the Gang of Five is colluding with each other to fix prices, or to actively suppress innovation; or to do anything illegal. I am certainly not suggesting they be sued for antitrust violations, like the once-sole dominant platform company, Microsoft, was in the late 1990’s.

I found this an odd comment, because we don't have to "allege collusion". It's been documented and settled in court. It was wage fixing, not price fixing, but it's still clear evidence that the "Gang" is willing to work together against the market.
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Everybody's product brings value. But only some products bring value to the customers. ;)
Aside: It interests me that you sign yourself as English and call yourself a unionist. I'm British by nationality through official designation and consider all of the UK to be my home country.

Also the English-Welsh alliance. The counties that we call Wales have been annexed to the lands of the English Crown, as were Yorkshire or Cornwall (say), for a millennium or so. It saddens me that this has to be thought of as an alliance - by a unionist - when in fact they're simply arbitrary groups of counties in a single kingdom.

Segregationists, nationalist, protectionists, or whatever, appear to be winning the battle in pitching each of us against the others rather than us [humankind] uniting as people towards mutual good.

That said I agree with your sentiment, why would those Brits in Scotland sit on the sinking ship when offered a place back on dry-land with their fellow Europeans.
Appreciate it. Everyone says "build baby build!"; Facebook, Google, etc have deep enough pockets they'll simply fill that new housing stock with tech workers and you'll be back to where you started (outrageously expensive housing).

You must destroy demand. It is the only way out.
So the first self-driving car should be a 20hp Volkswagen with a computer under the hood.

... I'd buy it!
No way they could get that by regulators. There would be too many anti-trust concerns.
Not all clickbait headlines are written like that.

For instance: "Russia hacked US power grid" doesn't have any of those, and yet it was a completely clickbait/sensationalist/borderline fake news headline from WashPost. How is AI going to deal with those?

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-...
How is this different from how fake news perpetuates? My foe has done bad things A, B and C, therefore it's OK to not just assume they are doing D as well, but OK to present D as fact.

For the record, what I am reacting to is not the possibility of a belief that Uber might do such a thing[1], but the defence of a naked lie.

1: I think such a belief is an extremely shallow reading of Uber as wanting to do evil in and of itself, rather than willing to bend a lot of rules very very far to serve their customers (and sometimes cross the line in creative data-driven marketing), and have created a toxic corporate culture in the process -- it's easy to see how 'break all the rules as long as you're winning' can do that. I also don't think they will survive long, companies with less toxic cultures (but no less friendly to the taxi-interest-captured regulatory bodies or unions) will prevail because they can attract the better talent. Firing a driver with good performance because he doesn't listen to the company podcast is not even remotely consistent with that willingness. But that's not the discussion we're having.
Please note that the BBC is a UK-wide broadcaster, and takes comments from everyone — anecdotally, a lot of the anti-Sturgeon comments on twitter, reddit, etcetera[1] come from English nationalists. Scotland-bashing has never really gone out of fashion in England and there's been a marked upswing in its acceptability since the Brexit referendum[2].

[1] I avoid the BBC comments like the plague, for the same reason I avoid the Daily Mail.

[2] I was born and grew up in England; I've lived in Scotland for the past 22 years.
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I'm currently working on an iOS app to address this issue exactly. There's still plenty of improvements I want to make but this is the app so far:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/agenda-to-do-lists-tasks/id1...

Basically I wanted an app that let me quickly add and organize items into different time periods.
I like type (C) whose motto is "move fast and fix things" https://githubengineering.com/move-fast/
Hi downvoters,

Wow! I didn't know that asking for more information was frowned upon on HN! Here's me pointedly not asking for links to the HN commenting guidelines.

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Well, if someone at Facebook screws up and inadvertently reveals certain names or locations or the existence of particular groups within some countries people get arrested, tortured, and die. Last I checked NASA screw ups only kill a couple of people at a time. So you are right, they are not even close to comparable. See how easy it is to make false equivalences? I am familiar with the referenced article and if anyone in the software industry outside of few specialized areas tried to push a process like that they would need to start the endeavor by polishing their resume because they would soon be looking for a new job.
From Br. Eng. "shut your piehole" (slang), meaning "shut up".
That attitude is also why we have nice things like Linux and AWS.
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>For Republicans, who worry about state overreach and the government’s ability to oppress its citizens

Note: I'm a Republican because I'm not a Democrat and there are no other viable parties.

One thing I can tell you about the Republican party is that they only worry about state overreach when they're not in power. When they are in power anything goes. It's sad really.
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"-Not-invented-here syndrome"

The counter to this is dependency hell. I oft times see developers pulling in large, new and compiled dependencies into Python projects for a single pieced of functionality just to avoid being accused of "not-invented-here".
Ask HN: How much mentoring did you get starting out as a junior developer?
I've recently surpassed the one year mark at my first company and I was reflecting on how much mentoring and help I've gotten from the senior developers at this company. I have a feeling that the amount of mentoring and help I've gotten is less than what should be expected, but since this is my first and only software development job it's hard to know without hearing from others.

So my question is how was it for you starting out as a junior developer with regards to mentoring?

How much time would you say your senior co-workers spent helping you in the beginning and how did it change over time?
Nice work, going to give this a try soon. It'll be a big improvement over my mixture of aliases and bash history searches
How would HN know who an OP's friends are? Do they track social accounts?
> Only ~1% of workers in the US make minimum wage

does this statistic limit to literal minimum wage? so if someone is hired at +5 cents, do they not count?
The benefits of collective bargaining stem from the individual's freedom to withhold their labor. Or are you arguing it's somehow unjust for people to refuse to work with non-union coworkers?
That is a good read for many reason. Recommended to anyone interested in programming, operating systems and software architecture.
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Hal Ableson..."some guy". C'mon now. True, he's a person with an opinion but let's give him a bit more respect than some random javascript douche.
That passage must have influenced Henry David Thoreau's - Walden.

Thank-you for sharing it.
There's a subreddit for pages that get deleted from their front page. There's often good discussion around those pages and it's usually for a good reason they were removed. But sometimes there does appear to be real bias. It'd be nice if I could see what sort of stuff is getting removed and be able to discuss why.
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True. This is what I meant by confusing, without properly defining the variables at play, in this context, k is the index of the element of the ordered list, and not the kth smallest element.

Semantics, I agree, but confusing nonetheless.

Or in other words, how do we define k?
I would ask whether Facebook's patent rights in Redux would create a problem. I don't think we know yet exactly what Facebook has patented, but if you're using Redux patterns without using Redux itself you don't have the benefit of the Redux patent grant.

Sure would be nice to know what exactly is patented about React/Redux. Have those patent applications been published yet?
Is it worth ~50 billion per year for doctors to be well rounded? I am gong to say No.
Talk about burying the lede.

No good pictures of the invention, it's only shown around 6 minutes in to the 8 minute video.
>but rather that they have the potential to become those things if they want to, by practicing enough.

We live at a strange time where capitalism lets us try our hands at almost anything. Want to be x, then go to school for it and try to get a job at it or start a company with those skills. Or get a job and practice x in your spare time. There's no local communist officials who say 'put this person to work here doing this.' If there's a finance path to doing x work, then you're good. In other words, we more or less choose our destinies, within reason.

But we are have a lot of cargo-cult science and pop-social sentiment of being able to excel at all things via a strnge protestant work ethic argument of 'just trying harder.' We skirt around determinism of the brain, personality types, what we call natural talent, focus endurance, whether we're primarily fast or slow thinkers, etc. Schools also don't do a good job assessing what a student would excel in and I imagine some parents don't want to hear their kid won't be a math genius or creative superstar, so they're dis-incentivized to perform this kind of testing.

So we live in this weird middle ground and feed each other little myths that are actually untrue, but emotionally pleasing. We remind each other Bill Gates dropped out of college, thus the college drop out could be the next Bill Gates, but we forget that he did only because running MS made a lot more sense than staying in school. We play up Steve Jobs as this wonderful grown-up hippie-type personality shepherding us into the future, but he was cruel and hated man who left behind a string of failures as much as success. Or that if we only could get those 10,000 hours then we'd be great too.

No one wants to admit they are mediocre talent or have no talent in some field they desire to be successful at. It took me a long time to realize how mediocre I am in general and only have the possibility of excelling at certain things. I think this is a classic case of ego vs reality. Our egos want to believe we're these universal machines that can excel at anything if needed. Reality suggests otherwise.
If you continue to give a misinformed, divided public chances at irreversible, macro decisions, then they will eventually vote in favour.

This is why these kinds of decisions are not plebiscites!
Enterprise disks do have ECC cache as opposed to consumer drives. Was it a consumer drive?
It's not the same as with exploitable bugs, because exploitable bugs are fundamentally preventable. Not necessarily in aggregate; but individually, all bugs can essentially be patched given enough time or effort. There's no benefit to keeping them secret if their threats can be neutralized.

As I outlined in another comment in this thread, algorithms that do not offer or adopt significant authorization constraints (as quantified by time/monetary costs) cannot be "fixed." This is fundamentally why reverse engineering e.g. HMAC signing algorithms, search results ranking, spam filtering or front page listing algorithms is possible. The generous usability requirements do not allow for authorization that would mitigate reversing the algorithm, even when it's not embedded in an untrustworthy client.

Suppression is essentially all you can do to prevent reverse engineering, and suppressing the knowledge of how to reverse engineer an algorithm is in effect the same as suppressing the algorithm itself.
Noone used vista, it was XP, 7, 10 for 90% of users.
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And does not allow access to the list being created from within the list comprehension. Which makes a whole slew of things hard to impossible using comprehensions.
Protip: every post hits the front page. Some posts just stay there longer.
I think you got the headline backwards- engineered systems use system algorithms to biological networks. Since after all, those biological systems have been doing these sorts of things, without being engineered.

That we rediscover biological mechanisms present in our own designs, we should not be surprised.
If this is the case, then why does bit-rot still occur?
solution that doesn't require a dns server (or can be a dns server local cache)

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

I add this to my modem/wifi ap. and then just let every device use it to resolve. if the device allows to set a hostfile, I also add a local copy for when iam not in my network.
This is a company who wrote software to detect and hide from law enforcement, and you think it's not feasible they'd try and come up with a score for how friendly a driver is to unionization? C'mon.

The headline is incorrect - they're not being forced - but it's hardly "fake news" conspiracy theory to speculate that some drivers may feel pressured over this.
Given that the European Central Bank doesn't act as a lender of last resort for individual banks (and really doesn't like being for the Eurozone, cf Greece) it isn't going to step in to cover Scotland. So you're either looking at another Government or perhaps one of the massive re-insurers, can you imagine what the insurance premiums would be on that arrangement?

The much more likely alternative is that the Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank move their HQ to London. Standard Life (and therefore Aberdeen Asset Management) probably as well. Not all their staff will move, but their profits will and some highly paid staff will go. That will in turn have an impact on the nascent FinTech sector.
My gut feel is posts like that are very new and have gotten a few upvotes in a short time.
Just because something is untestable by humans doesn't mean it's untestable by definition.
I think the view the pound losing 20% of its value, large-scale cuts to social spending and the economic effects of Brexit yet to be felt create a sense of worry about England's financial future. Also the increase in racist attacks, xenophobia etc.
It's probably worth noting that the Scotsman has historically backed the Union and their audience are very pro-union, and generally pro conservative.

As I understand it, the poll which they based that article on didn't even ask the same question for each of the leaders, so the final results can't be seriously compared.
It's not over the top, it's a lie. A creepy feature in the customer app has no bearing on that.
Why is the Vatican at the SXSW tech conference?
Part of the hippocratic oath is "first do no harm". We could usefully extend that to politicians. The UK government has, in 7 or 2 years depending on how you count, set the UK on a path to destruction -- and it was all very predictable.
I believe the Tories size as opposition party was from an election before Brexit (and Trump obviously, this is also a referendum on him and his administration whether or not its explicit). Just how popular are Ruth Davidson and her party now?
The word was 'forced'. You defended it. C'mon yourself.

Speculating what people might be doing, especially when it sounds plausible, then presenting it as fact, is exactly fake news.
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It's a terrible bargaining chip. Want to encourage separatist movements across the EU (think Catalonia) then this would be a great way to do it.
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Direct link:

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Also, I think OpenDNS blocks ads too. Haven't tried it in a few years though.

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> The people voted, not Cameron.

Cameron only offered the Brexit referendum because he was afraid of the more far-right Tories going UKIP.
If it happens it will have nothing to do with CRISPR.
Having read Outliers, I understood the "10,000 hour rule" as a rule of thumb for what it takes to go from zero to meaningfully better than most people on pretty much any given subject (aka: an expert).

Subsequent to reading the book, I do notice that the rule is also widely used as a convenient way to deliberately misinterpret the book & rule and write snarky articles. Somehow people think it's clever & fair to take a single phrase out of a multi-hundred-page context and ridicule it for not inherently being encyclopedic in depth and peer-reviewed.

Undiscussed is that the "outliers" the book investigates are people who started with "10,000 hours", having achieved that level of practice when most competitors (themselves forming a tiny segment of the general population) are just beginning their 10KH. Also, they tend to do so when the rest of the field is just beginning to form. Bill Gates had his 10,000 hours in before starting college - and did so just as the "personal computer" was starting to emerge. The Beatles had their 10,000 hours in before leaving high school - and were ready when mass-distribution music + rock & roll were emerging as the norm. To wit: it takes 10,000 hours practice (that's working on the hard stuff, not the familiar/easy) to become an expert; it takes having done that before that expert's peers to become an outlier.
I bet you never developed anything realistic with JS! The close neighbor of "call" called "apply" is a widely used tool.
That seems to be focused on throughput. I'm focused on how much data I can store into the system and if it's redundant so long as N nodes don't die (and if they do I'd like it to attempt to reorganize the network so they system keeps working with N node failure).
Is it Schadenfreude to realise that as much as I loathe this that once we hit the tipping point and all the property investors give up on London I'll be able to afford to live there.
What you're talking about is 'intercessionary prayer', which is one type of prayer recognised by Christian theologians. There are also 'affirmation prayers', 'prayers of confession', amongst others.
Fixing the cAPS lOCK problem seems far less egregious than throwing out all case information.
seems like prisoners dilemma. if all businesses pay workers better the business does better and society benefits. if a lot of businesses don't invest in workers society isn't as well off. but all businesses need to act or the cheaters prospers.
When a double-parity error is detected, the operating system should halt. Maybe that didn't happen properly.
Tripple parity errors may go undetected, but how likely is that.

I wonder what 'really' happened.
We developed Vorail for bind people. it turns out they really like it. I've finished a prototype on Android to examine the idea of "Sound Virtual Reality". Apart fro the fancy name, it plays multiple streams of audio on different direction (left, front, and right), and allows users to swipe on screens to "move" around.
If they are relevant and personalized, these can be very effective. I've had people respond sincerely on a 7th or 8th attempt.
More recently the Spaniards have stated they won't block Scotland from joining the EU.
> Most people don't and won't make it.

Exactly. And that's normal.

Most people can't shoot a hoop from mid court and make it. Why? A multitude of reasons.

I don't understand your point. What do you want? Equality? Everyone should be able to shoot a hoop from mid court and nail it?

Everywhere that idea has been tried ended-up in misery and even greater inequality, with the ruling class truly oppressing the population.

I also find this statement perplexing:

> reach an average standard of living and retirement similar to what America once promised

America promised no such thing. Opportunity. That's what the US offers. What anyone does and can accomplish with it is up to them. You have the opportunity to succeed or fail.

People seem intent on blaming anywhere from 0.1% to 10% of the population for the ailments of everyone else. And, in the process of doing so ignore all other factors. This is the only reason for which the middle class is eroding, no other reason at all. Not education, not policy, not regulation of our industries, not trade deals, not currency manipulation, not technology, not productivity, not anything else, just those rich bastards sucking-up all the oxygen. That's just wrong at the outset.

Let's just agree to disagree. It's Monday. Time to work.
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The social spending cuts came well before Brexit. The worry about the future is always there regardless (do you think Greece, Portugal or Italy are not worried about their future). The increase in racist attacks is sad, but idiots will always use any excuse. The xenophobia, other than linked to the idiots, is hard to quantify because so many people conflate wanting to leave the EU with hating europeans.
"An argument isn't just contradiction."
As others have pointed out, the [flagged] annotation means heavily flagged. A story can be downweighted off the front page by user flags long before [flagged] shows up. Indeed that's what happened to the submission the OP is complaining about. Moderators never saw it.
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>Disclaimer: I'm a child of English parents who was born in Wales but grew up in Scotland. I have Scottish and English children, in-laws and cousins. I have a family home in Scotland but I currently live in England. My children live in England and Scotland. Some of us live in Italy. //

This may be an indication of the problem. To my view your opener should be "I'm a child of British parents, born in Britain and grew up in Britain. I have British children. I, and my children, live in Britain. Some of us live elsewhere in the EU."

Somewhere we've hung on to the the idea that we're a [loose] amalgam of separate nations to which we really owe our loyalty [if any is owed]. Whilst that doesn't seem to be the case in other parts of the world [corrections?]. Which other sub-divisions of single countries compete internationally in sports for example?