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> yet overlook the fact that corruption is often how business works in these countries

That seems interesting. I'd be interested to know whether that's true and for which specific countries. How much of it is powerful MNCs utilizing their power to put the right politician/legislator in place, similar to how lobbying works in the US.

I'm also surprised you use the strong words "overlook" and "fact". I wonder if you're perhaps confusing hollywood portrayal of Asia/Africa/developing countries for reality. I see that mistake made often by people who have not spent significant time overseas or have chosen to live purely in an expat bubble.

> You might not be aware that in a country like China it is common for foreign companies to be penalized for "corruption" that is widely known to be standard fare in local industry.

I'm quite familiar with China. What you're saying maybe partially true but just like the USA, it's lobbying, not direct corruption. Calling it "standard fare" "corruption" would be equivalent to calling American business/lobbying industry as the same. In much the same way that you wouldn't call Boeing/McDonald Douglas/steel industry/coal industry lobbying as corruption. If I'm mistaken, could you please give a specific instance with the facts you're referring to.
thank you! btw it's a bit hard to manage since PICO-8 is 16-colors fixed-palette engine :D
> Adblock Plus has been charging advertisers to get on a whitelist

For anyone interested, more details here: https://adblockplus.org/about#monetization

TLDR: it's for "unintrusive" ads only and you only pay if being on the whitelist gives you >10M extra ad impressions/month

The whole acceptable ads thing has an opt-out checkbox in the extension.
You get a printout of the object - effectively calling its toString() method. Note that this is not a reversible nor standard process.

That's one of the main downsides of object-pipeline systems; in UNIX you can stop and serialise a pipeline to a file, then unserialise later. But you can't do this with object pipelines in Powershell because the objects have to be "live".
Don't they all have their own phones?

I don't really like the one device to rule them all philosophy, a single device would be too compromised for the different use cases I have for computers, but I don't think this is a valid objection in this vision of the future.
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Hello, I do not own GPU hardware and am trying to understand if public amis on AWS are worth the fuss at professional level or at least good enough for the likes of course.fast.ai moocs. Newest here https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B06VSPXKDX for Ubuntu. Any experience? Thanks!
I do not think you should use really big corporations as example.
First of all, they attract enough talent to use any methods of selection they see fit. They do not care about false negatives, since they operate on virtually unlimited pool of resources.

Secondly, the logic against whiteboard interviews is sound. I have never had to implement complex algorithm at work. Never. Which means that last time I actually wrote some was at college, about 7 years ago. Obviously, to perform well, I need to study to remind myself how to use red-black trees for example. Or how to implement priority queue (hopefully not using Fibonacci Heap, ugh). Any effort that goes into it is basically wasted, since chances I will have to actually do this at job are close to zero. So I'm basically reminding myself how to do something I will never do past interview. Not very effective.

Third and last, good software engineering is, as I believe, not strongly correlated with algorithms knowledge. People great at hacking quite often get in trouble when they have to develop readable, predictable system. This is different set of skills.
In my opinion, Whonix on Qubes is much more user-friendly. Just install Qubes and use preconfigured anon-Whonix VM.
I'd bet money that that holds true even today. Write off a one-time move to a large city, and I'd be certain of it.
> This file is literate Haskell, which means there's more documentation than code (I guess)

That's the intent, but to the compiler, the meaning of literate Haskell is that comments are the default, and only lines starting with > contain code
A clarification: the argument I'm saying we could make is a factual-level argument of "the reason humans believe that 'human life is precious' is because those humans who don't have long since killed themselves. Its structure is similar to Descarte's 'cogito ergo sum', something like:

"In order for someone to have a belief, they must exist. In order for them to continue to exist, they must not have taken any action in the past that would lead to their death. People who believe that human life is not precious are significantly more likely to take actions that will lead to their death. Therefore, people who believe that human life is not precious remove themselves from existence at a higher rate than those who believe human life is precious, and so the vast majority of people will believe human life is precious."

You can quibble with the premises and I won't defend them, but you would agree that this argument takes the form of a syllogism and hence is a logical (if possibly false) argument. My overall point is not about whether human life is or isn't precious, it's about the distinction between object-level and meta-level. On the meta level you can make a logical argument, from falsifiable premises, about why people might believe the statement "Human life is precious". But on the object level, that statement is a value judgment, and so that statement can't be approached with logic in any coherent way. You can argue about the truth or falsity of whether & why people hold certain values, but you can't argue with the values themselves. (Logically, at least; you can always argue using various fallacies like argumentum ad auctoritatem or argumentum ad baculum. Indeed, applying the results of your analysis of why people hold beliefs to whether the beliefs are right is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.)
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I personally really liked Unity, and I was following Unity8 development for a long time so I'm genuinely disappointed to see it go - partly because I really thought it could shape up to something really cool and partly because as you say, the convergence dream is basically dead, as is any realistic future of Ubuntu on touch devices.

I know Gnome has for ages built features with some theoretical touch device in mind, but only Canonical/Ubuntu has ever shipped remotely viable touch based hardware.
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It's my birthday today and after a peaceful morning routine I hadn't yet decided what I would do today except that I would do whatever I felt like doing. I felt like writing a text editor in C.
Check out fig 1 (page 4).
For better portability, terminfo should be used instead of using hard-coded terminal sequences. Otherwise, this is a really great intro. I liked the beginning with how to put your configure your terminal.
That something is "built in" doesn't mean it won't be defined somewhere, such as in the standard library.
Who are you? Are you just using this post as an opportunity to plug your company?
How many of those filter systems would be useful for things that aren't ls?

Also, these days the cost of doing an extra fs lookup + stat call for each file in each filter is pretty small, but if you want to run that pipeline in a directory of >100k files it might be noticeable.
That... is actually quite a cool name.
This is also the fallacy that I find most frustrating- "I am a salesman who travels 500 miles a day and the Model S doesn't have that capability so the Tesla company will never amount to anything and are doomed to failure."
> different in the US: individualism

It's funny, but in the US it's common for college freshmen to have two choices of lodging: either in a fraternity (Animal House, the movie ;-) or in a dorm room, two people per room (hence the 'Roommate from Hell' stories that grace the internet).

Not big on leaving individuals alone.
leading to an era when millions of people would be living and working in space.

That was one thing in The Expanse (great TV show about basically this (and also a series of books that I haven't read yet)), that I found a bit odd. We're currently doing everything we can to replace truck drivers and miners on earth with robots. So why would truck driving and mining in space be done entirely by humans?
That is a 6% acceptance rate, I had no idea so many people apply!
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Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?
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Seriously. No shit it helps.
Those collections have to be implemented by someone. You seem to be assuming that these collections spring fully formed into the world and are black boxes without an implementation.
> But what does it actually mean in terms of programming?

Without trying to be too trite, what does this question mean in terms of English?

> How maintainable is "small code"?

Once you get the hang of it it's as maintainable as any other code base

> How readable is it? (Well, you answered that question already.)

There is a learning curve, but the code is actually reasonably readable. It takes time to get used to many operations occurring in one line but there are benefits (eg you can see everything that the CTRL-Z function for undo does at a glance).

> How hackable is it?

Again, I'm not sure what you're asking here.

The editor is very bare bones so isn't a great example of production code. In a real system generally people are a bit more verbose.
Better check the date :)
> How about wrapping each PS1 (?) in the "mq" command and automatically look for stuff?

see an example here: https://github.com/trqx/microquest/tree/master/contrib/bash-...

it is not pretty, and slows down the prompt but it shows it's doable with a wrapper.
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> Because your country is your home.
Who says? Have you been hiding the rulebook to the game of Life: Spaceship Earth this whole time?

It's threads like these that remind me HN is not a different collection of voices. It's the same mix of A-holes with a higher average net worths and grander visions of themselves.

Root commenter: "Apathetic"? Suggesting a government is apathetic for its distinct efforts to not be apathetic towards others in need is rich... and a special kind of horrible.
Hi people, project developer here

I built this to solve a specific problem. Ordinary people cannot cold email someone that is "out of their league". My vision is to have someone like Angelina Jolie responding to emails for a $200 donation to Unicef for example. How to actually make it happen is another subject but the implementation is here :) Bitcoin currently solves complexity, I hope to expand it to fiat soon.

P.S I get questions about 21.co, my site was up on September 2016...
I deleted my Twitter account on January 1st of this year and I don't miss it at all.
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PowerShell itself ships with a large XML file that governs how certain types are displayed by default if none of the Format-* cmdlets are used, e.g. FileInfo objects are usually rendered in a table with just the most commonly used properties displayed, which makes the interactive use of Get-ChildItem (Aliases: dir, ls, gci) very similar to ls -l. Explicit piping to Format-Wide, or Format-List will override those defaults (they only apply if no formatting is specified).

Sure, everything can be made into strings at some point, but I've very rarely felt the need to do so in PowerShell (and regularly see on Stack Overflow that it only leads into problems down the (pipe)line if people try).
I have missed the connection between Appelbaum and Uber. Does he work for them now?
Is a PWA really the non-bloated way these days, compared to a lean native app? What went wrong?
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Constraint Programming with finite domains can probably do this.

For example http://mozart.github.io/
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Sorry. Your request came after the edit window closed and I was most probably sleeping.
Where exactly? I couldn't find it.
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I see his point but the timesheet discussion somehow ends up being a discussion about employer-employee, about classes. I am a freelancer, I've been freelancing for 8 years already, I've also been salaried...and to be honest, time tracking and billing with timesheets does help me feel freer. When I don't work, because I am having a break, or going to the doctor, or whatever reason, I don't feel dishonest. I just stop the timer and I don't feel guilty for not working. It's my time. Also, I see normal that companies want to see whether they're going over budget or not. He should know that, like it or not, he's indeed considered a resource, and it's always been like this long before time punching, and time cards...it's been like that since the days of property, labor, and clock.
Reading the headline my first impression was that the rocketry hobby now serves as a pretext to pull out of Amazon without making investors nervous. Does not really add up though, as Amazon isn't really bubbly enough and Bezos can't possibly want that much cash for other reasons than for shooting stuff into the sky.
The same link mobile.twitter.com works on desktop browsers too!
I am sure people said the same thing about sending ships across the Atlantic to America 500 years ago. What's the point? Why leave Europe? There's nothing over there.
Hilarious - I'd never seen that before! Another interesting tidbit[0]:

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)

[0]: Ibid.
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(Just observations as a user that spends way to much time on HN and /new in particular)

> I can only suspect that it has been hidden because it deals directly with a well known SV startup that copied the idea after my site was online.

I think you vastly overestimate the amount of attention that's paid to new posts – it seems like you are suggesting someone saw your post, decided that it YC doesn't like it and shadowbanned you immediately? From what I've seen, that's not the case, moderation often has long delays.

With a new account, spam filtering of some kind seems way more likely. Which is difficult: there isn't much signal for new accounts, on the other hand, if you look at /new with showdead on (so you can see hidden posts), a lot of spam comes from new accounts, and nearly no spam comes from accounts that didn't start as spammers.

I don't know how the filter works, but possibly creating a new account when you already had one triggered the filter additionally? (assuming you did it in a way that the system could detect this)

I'm not a fan of all moderation decisions here (e.g. I don't like the policy of rate-limiting users vastly differently, and would like more transparency for the ranking), but I also think many people see conspiracy where I can't see any, and it's not the most obvious explaination.
And now you understand the reason for their satellite internet plan.
There's a glaring UX issue with Blue Ocean which I'm surprised hasn't been addressed yet: whilst a build is running, the console output forces the page to always scroll to the bottom and it's extremely difficult to stop it from doing this; I end up hitting Home a bunch of times and trying to collapse the console output. It usually takes at least 5 tries to align my mouse cursor with the collapse button before I manage to hit it. Please fix this ASAP.

There are other minor issues I've come across, but since this one is extremely annoying I thought I'd mention it here.
Isn't ReactNative for native mobile apps though? This is a web app
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The last section should be:

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You are right, I shouldn't have reacted that way. I just dislike people pushing their fringe politics here, when the audience mostly can't tell them apart. Note that I don't have anything against the Polish people, merely their current government.
I'd never thought to use lenses for this. Thanks for the advice, that actually really helps!
Why would you need to care about portability? Do people use terminals that are incompatible with xterm?
What did the mods say when you emailed them to ask about this?
That's the happy scenario. Sometimes, the image is smaller.
No, assuming filenames dont have whitespace is an idea that has fucked over people for a long time.

Sure, it's annoying in a shell when whitespace is used as a separator but that seems more of an issue with shells than with filenames.

Filenames should describe the file. In language, descriptions quite often require whitespace.
It works fine on desktop. Just go to http://mobile.twitter.com
Finally Google is able to push its PWA concept to a potentially successful and widely-used product. Looks like a good replacement for the native app.

Sadly the Google stack (ionic, angular) is not so mature at this stage and twitter opted for the facebook stack.
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Web assembly is a very promising idea and has a chance to provide better means for building security into web apps than SJCL/etc by enforcing same origin policy, sandboxing execution, being able to limit side-channel attacks, etc. Similarly promising is Web Crypto API: better primitives, consistent across browsers. My question is: will it even help, given that end-user interaction is still in DOM, attackers can still inject the code that overrides calls to better implementations of ciphers? Or I'm missing something in the threat model of both?
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When the iPad came out someone on Reddit said that they need to plug in a scanner to their laptop and you can't plug in scanners to iPads, so therefore the iPad was 'dead on arrival'. I'm sure there are still people out there who think that's still true because they don't have one.
> Who says?

Who says it's not? Don't the people living in a country have a right to decide what to do with it?
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Yes, some the most racist taxi drivers I have encountered were minorities with prejudices against other minorities. Everyone is afraid to call a minority a bigot so this behavior tends to be unchecked compared to when a white guy does it.
I guess it is when it can be instantly updated for all users. And it does work incredibly well. They've done a nice job!
that's all well and good, but regardless of who is to blame, the headline will likely read that the fault is with the manufacturer because it's more likely to generate readers
And they have removed the scrollbars for no good reason at all.
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You do realise I'm Indian too? And that my point was that a lack of young people in the space agency, of all things, is a very bad thing? ISRO is doing good work, yes, and undercutting the ESA/NASA on price, but they're not doing unheard-of things. And others are. Jugaad can paper over a bug in course correction software or what-have-you, perhaps, but it can't create the propensity to make (metaphorical) moonshots that young people, who are not usually very risk-averse, are more likely to want. Right now, as the sibling commenter puts it, they're just hitting low-hanging fruit, and it's cheap because they have economies of scale and the comparative advantage of being able to get away with paying people less (which is not at all something bad, but it means they can do a lot more).

Anecdata: I have a friend who's wanted to work in this area for as long as I've known him (which is at least 7 or 8 years now), and he's far happier to try and find work outside India -- knowing how hard it is to find aerospace engineering work in, say, the US, with all the "weapons technology" trouble that makes gaining citizenship a requirement -- or, failing that, work at some Indian startup rather than ISRO. To be very honest, that's sad, and it's definitely not an exception. I don't see why that has to be the case: I've accepted with some resignation that math and theoretical physics/CS never will be, but space can definitely be -- for lack of a better word -- sexy. Our Lord and Savior[0] Elon Musk isn't the only one who can (or should) do it.

[0]: /s
Apple gives a guarantee. Not an "Your system might run for x months."
But an "Your system WILL run for x months."
Even if the error is not caused by apple, they take in 99% of the profits that comes with selling and repairing the devices. They can take some responsibility for third party fails, in cases where they can't proof that other people actually failed. That's a very limited scope.
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