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The reason people use facebook, (though many hate it) is two fold: 1) because people use facebook 2) because facebook exploit unconscious brain mechanisms to keep people engaged.

The reason alternatives do gain traction is 1) because people use facebook 2) because they don't use such antipatterns.

Sharun has a valid point, instant gratification is among the mechanisms facebook exploit to keep people inside their walled prison and removing this would have a significant impact. Though I'd rather see a strong privacy law forbidding surveillance capitalism and/or removal of advertising. We may see something like if the EU suspends the privacy shield and implements their privacy measure that would force facebook to stop collecting data of all Europeans.
Maybe I'm biased because I'm a no-name physician at a community hospital, but the "best doctors" in my eyes are the ones with the best outcomes, lowest utilization, highest efficiency and highest patient satisfaction. These measures don't correlate well with the physician's credentials. I learned this in residency, which I did just down the street from a "top" university hospital. We out-performed that place on every level except our doctors went to "lesser" medical schools. They simply spent more money (on wild things like ECMO, which makes everyone feel they're making more of a difference even though the outcomes are the same without it).

Our profession is moving toward identifying these doctors and promoting their behavior to the entire field.

There's a study that showed lower heart attack mortality when all the "top" cardiologists were out of the hospital attending a cardiology meeting. Too many confounders to make any real conclusions from that, but it lines up with my point.

Of course, if your child has a serious life-threatening and/or rare disease, then you want her to be treated at a vanguard institution like the one you took yours to. No dispute from me on that one.

But in the system as a whole, we make the most difference reducing complications of cardiovascular disease, sepsis, pneumonia, COPD, and kidney disease (which are orders of magnitude more common). And we're starting to find out how to identify doctors that do it better, with fewer complications, and with much higher efficiency than others. I think those are the best doctors and it's what I'm striving to be.
I read in John Medina's book Brain Rules for Baby that one of the most important things you can teach children is to associate difficulty with progress, to understand that learning how to do something most likely requires failing a bunch of times before you figure it out and that failing is okay, that it doesn't mean you're incapable but rather that you're actually making progress.

My daughter is three years old and for the past year or so, whenever she becomes frustrated that she can't do something—whistle, pronounce a word, build a lego set, draw a letter—I calm her down and remind her that not being able to do it is part of learning how to do it. I often use the example of how she didn't always know how to walk or talk, that she failed lots of times but she tried and tried and tried and eventually she got it, that after falling down so many times now she's running around the room and talking non-stop.

I've been blown away by how that reframing of difficulty has made her seemingly unstoppable. Sure, she still gets frustrated and overwhelmed, but when she starts whistling—full on whistling at three years old—and she tells me, "Daddy! I tried and tried and tried and eventually I got it!", I can't help but think that there's something to this. When she doesn't know I'm watching, I've observed that she seems a lot more determined to do things even when she's repeatedly failing—she doesn't give up as quickly as she did (often quickly followed by a tantrum) before I started explaining to her that learning requires challenge.
I have a Lumix GH3.

I think at some point it becomes artistic so there are lots of things to consider when taking a photo.

You can't just let the software do the work because how would you describe what kind of photo you want? Mine is extremely user-friendly though and there is a button that makes it Point and Shoot.

Besides, if you want simplicity, you can just buy a Point&Shoot camera and it will have a nice sensor. Something like Nikon Coolpix.

With a DSLR, you are effectively buying a manual transmission instead of automatic.
Historically (not today) C++ programmers were far less likely to ever write a test to make sure

if (line == "" || line[0] == '#') continue;

does what they think it does than the Perl programmer was to write a test to make sure

next if (/^(#|$)/);

does what they think it does. The C++ programmer was far more likely to eye-ball it. This is a simple, historic fact. TDD came to Perl before it came to C++.

I am making a simple statement about actual practices, not some kind of larger point. TDD came to Perl earlier. simple fact.
This might be news if it used the die space for the graphics cores for 2-4 more CPU cores (and allowed them to be used on regular motherboards as well)
I think it's more that sourceforge has bit of a history, and many projects moved away from them.

I wouldn't go as far as calling it a ghost town, but... how do you feel about google code links?
I just tried the example, and two things I noticed:

1. The scroll region does not follow the cursor.

2. I tried copy+pasting the demo-content a couple of times, and I noticed that the editor gets really slow at relatively small document sizes. Especially "paste" is slow.
Being a software developer is a unique profession, since many software developers never received much formal training. For instance, many mathematicians, physicists, (non computer science) engineers write software for a living. Compare that with structural engineers, lawyers or medical doctors: it is very different.

Because of that, I firmly believe many people can work as a software developer and contribute meaningfully to a company's bottom line.

State your ambition and let the results of your work do the rest.
For the foreseeable future, I suspect there will be a professional market for DSLR's because that's where the glass is. So long as that market exists, there is an incentive to produce consumer level DSLR's because selling upgrades to consumers is a major source of revenue. I mean, weather sealing a camera is about $1.00 worth of gaskets. A 100% FOV viewfinder is another $1.00. And a second dial is a third dollar. Selling cameras without those feature means people miss shots because it might rain and screw up shots because they forgot to set the aperture/shutter/sensitivity and wind up with great photos except for the random 'compositional noise' creeping in from the frame edges.
And of course it works. Well.

Some of the Middle East countries want to be spied on.
Imagine if a Saudi prince started embezzling. Who inside SA would even attempt to investigate.

With US spying on SWIFT, the Americans can leak a few juicy details to a few people of power in Saudi Arabia and the prince gets told to stop it.

No embarrassment for anyone, no convictions.
I guess I just don't see what's supposed to be empowering about it. "Deluded child moments away from being tragically gored to death".
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Chili peppers too.
I prefer to think that kids are society's solution.
Since Android apps are all Java based, I'm wondering: what Java virtual machine is this using?
Every child must be raised by the book - unfortunately every child has their own book...
The big difference is that it is lower cost than the 4x25 cwdm msa because it is specced for 500m reach through normal g.652.d singlemode and a reasonable number of clean, properly terminated sc and lc/UPC patch panels. Not specced to work at 2000 metres.
>2.

I have thought fairly hard about compatibility. What you could do would be to serve a standard website over http, but allow anyone to act as a cdn. The only centralized piece would be dns to route people to their closest peer. Most clients would think the peer was a normal http server, under control of the website owner. In reality it would be any random person on the internet who had decided to rehost the content. Therein lies the problem: how do clients ensure the integrity of resources if they don't even know to look for it. One of your cdns could be serving fraudulent content, and none of the clients would question it.

In order to distribute http, you would therefore be forced to get at least some custom code into browsers. At that point, why not shove a whole ipfs implementation in?
Why does Gandalf say “Fly, you fools”?
But it's not the best spam filter
The rise of computational photography is going to considerably change the camera landscape. This is already getting mainstream with the "depth effect" in the iPhone 7+ and I believe that Google phones are doing something like that as well.

Eventually the only thing we'll care about in a sensor/lens system (with possibly more than one of each) is the amount of information they can capture, and how fast. All the other parameters (sensor size, optical design) that currently influence the final photographic features will be simulated in postproduction, similarly to how today we can accurately simulate digitally the classical chemical films (Velvia, Tri-X, ...), enabling a great deal of artistic freedom.

EDIT: I recommend watching this excellent presentation from the CTO of Light, a camera based on a sensor array, it goes into a lot of technical detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmC9xWHhM4
If there was a small minority of posters here who advocated fascism with various degrees of subtlety, how would you feel?

They're certainly not the majority, but it's evident and tolerated here.
Ah, I submitted this, late last night (in my timezone), because I was happy to have stumbled across it on my quest for a highly-flexible rich text editor in React. Maybe I should have contacted you first. I linked to the docs because they're so clear and well made, and thought that might have been overlooked if I'd linked to slatejs.org. Hacker News search told me that the GitHub repo had been submitted twice in the past, with no results. Waking up I see that I even misspelled customizable... Sorry about that ^_^
I installed it locally.

-As soon as I clicked download I needed to create a Nylas account

-I installed the client only to have extremely limited functionality because I am a "basic user"

- no calendar functions for a basic user

- the syncing dialogue box, does not offer any additional information other than syncing, traditional email clients will at least offer you a 24/268 of emails synced in the GUI.

-Using the app on Linux Ubuntu the package was not smooth at all, kinda of jumpy.

There is no standard UX such as a menu bar, right clicking an object for additional options. How is my team going to adapt to such a tool, if the two most standardized UX options such as a menu bar and, a right click, for additional options is not present?

It seems all this client offers is a glossy UX to traditional clients. From what I understand its actual value proposition is from the Nylas API and their cloud services, but this client is trash for any power user, and might be useful in an entreprise or team setting with the full package installed, but honestly. I don't understand why I wouldn't just use a traditional email client that my team knows and future team members as well.

Also the API as far as I can tell, does not offer anything unique other than centralizing different vendors under one cloud/api. I question why a company would be using two vendors for such critical services as email. If I am missing something let me know as I am not understanding the value behind this product.
I guess as a democratic state they can decide to restrict imports. But then don't ask anybody to give two shits that that there's a shortage.
Internet points are not peer approval, but meaningless and valueless currency. If you believe 100 likes means 100 people actually liked and approved you are mistaken, I'd be surprise if 5-10 people out of 100 actually care when clicking the like button.
"The courts say 'maximizing shareholder value'."

there is no legal requirement to maximize shareholder value. That's just a myth.
same thing happened last week to one of my coworkers who is in his late 40's . If one is making significantly more money and drawing more benefits than your lowest paid peer then they should be prepared to be let go any moment.
Makes sense. It'll be more of an issue for the older or less healthy or just genetically unlucky.
I agree 100%. I didn't mean this as a knock against doctors at local hospitals either. The pediatrician who diagnosed my daughter is a perfectly solid practitioner in a small town in New Hampshire. Not every doctor is going to make a breakthrough on the order of Marshall & Warren, Banting & Best, or other Nobel Laureates. That's ok. The middle of the road physician will save millions of man years worth of lives over the course of a career, any parent should be proud if that's "all" their child accomplishes.
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At this point little endian has pretty much won. Even IBM with their POWER architecture now uses little endian for their machines targeting Linux.

Its far more efficient to assume little Endian and let the weird machines do their own translations when loading the data.
The US emits some strange message of equality, privacy, rights, freedom, justice, a shining beacon of hope...mixed in with secret police forces that operate with impunity. I think that is an incompatibility that will eventually need to be worked out.
Certainly anti-transparency, but I'd say it's probably just easier for them. With a mobile (cell) phone call they can go hands free and talk in real-time in full duplex. That sounds better than waiting for the other party to finish and then pressing a button to talk to them... and using radio lingo.
I suspect that Canon and Nikon are not certain that is where the market is heading. This may be because the camera market is more like an oil tanker than a Jetski. APS [1], Disc [2], and the 126 of my first camera [3] suggest that camera designs come and go.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Photo_System

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_film

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/126_film
> don't use it ad an excuse to fuck with everyone else in the planet

What about Europol?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europol-says-data-sharing-on-po...
>All globally-competitive countries are doing this to all other countries. I'd be very shocked if Iran's intelligence agencies didn't have (either in the past, or presently) some level of access to our financial systems.

I'd be terrible shocked if this is not just Hollywood-level paranoia, the kind most people around the world merely laugh at. This idea that countries are at some kind of equal footing with regard to those things, "doing the same" with the 10.000ft gorilla that spends more than 3 times for its military what the next player (China) does -- more than the next 7 players combined.

There are maybe 4-5 countries that even remotely do anything like that on a global scale. Most countries merely track their neighbours's and traditional (regional) enemies.

I'd say just the US, the UK and France (ex big colonial powers that have fucked half the world over), Israel (because it has people everywhere, who, due to the terrible persecutions Jews faced in WWII can be very loyal to the cause of the "homeland" even if its not their actual country of citizenship), and China (because of sheer size and economic/global rise) have any such capacity, intent and power. USSR back in the day too, modern Russia, not so much. France a little, as an ex-colonial power. Germany has its secret service too, but not much to write home about either.

And even of those few, even fewer have the history, military and diplomatic means to pressure and reach of using those things to mess with other countries the world over.
I don't think Japan is appealing for international sympathy for its potato chip shortage, man.
Well in this case it's Bloomberg and not the Japanese people. I guess a people who can keep composure in face of a nuclear meltdown and tsunami won't exactly lose their minds over a few weeks of potato chip shortage.
Fantastic discussion. Glad you posted it. I'd hate to have not seen these arguments.
Don't leave us hanging.
This is a great idea. Human being goes crazy if they are not working, we now have 2-3 solid decades after retirement left due to all the advances in healthcare.
Isn't the group of CalTech alumns slightly worse but on around the same order of magnitude?
Out of curiosity, what brings a physician at a community hospital to a largely programmer forum? I'm genuinely curious, I love the fact that HN has such a diverse set of very intelligent people.
Given current IP law, I think the more relevant question is how public Universities should handle their patents (e.g. for public use, for a nominal license fee, or profit) and not if they should patent.

A non-existant or poorly executed patent allows for anyone to follow up, as MIT/Harvard in this case, and effectively patent minor extensions to the idea and still lock it up. Even if a public university wants their inventions to be free to the public, they need to properly patent it if it is going to stay available for public use. Eg. BSD style licenses for patents.
Does anyone still use CoffeeScript? I guess legacy projects, but new projects can use es6 + Babel or Typescript and get most (if not all?) of CoffeeScript's functionality.
First of all, where do you see any Google Translate above? Both are professional translations of the original. And the first snippet isn't Russian - it's Old East Slavic (from which both Russian and Ukrainian eventually came).

And of course I'm not claiming that the word "ukraina" was used to refer to what today is the country Ukraine back in 1200s - that would be ridiculous, for exactly the reasons you cite above. No, my point rather is that the word "ukraina" - "оукраина" - is attested in documents from that period to refer to areas that they (the Kievan Rus state) considered borderlands, and has fairly obvious and transparent etymology of "u+kraina", both parts of which are also attested in written sources.. It is solely about the etymological origin of the word - that, yes, it does in fact mean "borderlands" historically - not about the origin of the name "Ukraine" for the country. That came much later.

As for the latter, it shows up first somewhere circa 1600s, and it first appears in Polish sources (as self-designation of people inhabiting the territory). At that point, the entire Western and Central Ukraine was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - and for them, it was definitely "borderlands" in all senses. Geographically it was the easternmost territory of the state. Culturally it was significantly different from Polish heartland - language, religion etc - and further east and south there were culturally alien Turkic (Tatar) tribes. Militarily, it was a buffer zone between the Commonwealth and the Tatars, and to some extent with Russia, with constant low-key hostilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Comm...

It's exactly the kind of area that would be called e.g. "the Mark" in German-speaking parts of Europe. Indeed, when the revived Polish state later occupied large parts of Western Ukraine after WW1, they referred to it as "kresy wschodnie" in Polish, literally meaning "eastern borderlands" - old habits die hard.
I remember seeing a "food security" campaign where demonstraters wanted the country to achieve 100% food sufficiency as a national security prerogative.

Wasn't sure if it was a strange form of nationalism, or a veiled lobbying effort by an interest group (the abundance of very small scale farmers across the countryside)
> their previous actually-kinda-nice attempts to give a proper home to professionally-written journalistic content, such that it's not jarringly intermingled with memes, baby photos, and humblebrags.

This was nice while it lasted, but it was facing a lot of flak for it. Several news outlets were talking about how facebook was censoring news and only allowing
'democrat/liberal' news and blocking news from more conservative news outlets (which tend to be terrible, but oh well)

So they had to shut it down, and set up algorithmic news aggregator, which lead to the fake news problem.
This is totally unrelated to facebook, this is a beaten path that many photographers have walked. Get better through practice and experienced. And you could have done the same by reading a book or two and practicing a lot. I have a friend that got a better photographer by spending time alone in the mountains, another by putting up her pictures for sale on dedicated website.

Had you been part of reddit, flickr, imgur or any other community medium you could have done the same.
I solve the quality issues of my facebook feed by "unfollowing" all of my friends. There is a section in facebook settings where you can do this all at once.

The resulting feed has no post and displays "no more posts to show".

It is still possible to use messenger and to browse profiles. But this empty feed has been a massive time saver!
We've never discussed it and I don't really have to ask. Yes I'm just making the assumption but it's with a high degree of confidence.
>If so much value is being left on the table ignoring older workers, gather them all up into a company and beat the market.

That's actually exactly my plan should my startup receive funding. I'd say of the first 30 people I'd hire, most are probably above the age of 30. Most have families. All are at the top of their fields. In the Bay Area, those factors probably translate to an average salary of at least $250k, which is roughly double what a typical startup pays in its early days.
100G, probably not unless you are extremely wealthy and you have a burning desire to be destitute. 40G is definitely doable for a homelab. Used 40Gbe adapters are roughly $200 and DAC cables are < $100. QSPF+ Switches are much harder to find used and/or cheap though. This means that p2p solutions or ring networks are generally preferred unless you are wealthy. If you want fiber, which you don't need for a homelab, you pay the prices listed above.
If you regulate against selling potato chips at the market rate, a likely outcome is a shortage of potato chips.

Grandparent didn't suggest a problem with protectionist regulations - simply that the regulation is the probable cause of the shortage. There is a link.
Falls flat on this very website.
There are government subsidies being given to every farmer, iirc no matter how small or inefficient your operation.

Given that the country is heavily in debt, it's pretty fiscally irresponsible to continue with such a handout.
>"...the vapid, insipid, overadvertised crap that passes for knowledge today."

"How to write a simple operating system with node.js, Angular, Bootstrap, Electron, and MongoDB"
> Whoops! Almost accidentally destroyed the business model of a free press! Good thing we encouraged all those bullshit clickbait meme Facebook pages to grow on our platform. They'll do the hard, non-profitable accountability journalism.

Well, Buzzfeed (which grew to its size mainly due to FB) for example doesn't just produce clickbait crxp, but also high quality journalism these days.