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> Acting like this is some landmine that allows Facebook to just put anyone they dislike out of business is ridiculous.

That's true; however,

> React isn't known to be patent-encumbered.

That's a useless assertion. Many patents only become known once the lawsuits start. Facebook has amassed a patent portfolio, and patents are a legal instrument that can only be used offensively.
True story (radically abbreviated and redacted):

One group, group A writes crap code. Another group, group B is meticulous and careful, constantly refactoring, using good testing and code review practices, taking care to design their software with forethought before ever committing code.

Group A's code is in a constant state of breakage.
Group B's code always just works.

On the other hand, Group A is extremely vocal. Their manager makes sure to give updates at every meeting. Hosts (mandatory) all-nighter pizza parties to fix the crap they broke during the previous cycle. Large parts of the company are privy to the drama. "They're working so hard, really pulling their weight! So dedicated to the company!" Back slaps and high fives when things kind of, sort of, stop breaking. This is a constant, regular cycle. All the non-engineers think this is the hardest working group in the company. In a way they are. In that same way they are the stupidest group in the company.

Meanwhile Group B steadily builds good software quietly. No late nighters, engineers go home at reasonable hours, sometimes early. Same with managers.

Restructuring event. Cuts must be made. Who gets pink slips? The quiet ones. And their managers. Not the retards putting out unmaintainable crap day in and day out.
Did you read it? This is a lawyers carefully worded article to avoid being sued...

> "I accept the consensus view of the experts and, in consultation with editors, have arranged for the coverage to be amended and for a note to be added drawing attention to the review and linking to this column.

> I do not agree with critics that the story should be entirely retracted."

Huh? Accepting a consensus view is a really shifty way to avoid acknowledging being blatantly wrong.
How many others had the thought "but he's blind..."
So essentially the only hope for interop is for some language to gain enough traction early on that other languages implementers all want to be compatible with it so that it becomes the de-facto cross language interface like C did on most native platforms.
I'm starting to believe we need some kind of Geneva convention among intelligence services.

It's one thing for them all to be spying on dissidents and terrorists or however they want to bother their internal populations, because they'll be limited in how much damage they want to do to their own economies.

Once you have intelligence services engaged in all out warfare with each other, there's really no limit to how much damage they can do. Up to and including deaths.

We need to get to some kind of gentlemans agreement between the CIA and the FSB really quickly before the world economy collapses.
Is chat combined with local jobs the next level for locality?
I would love to get feedback for my new app Peerit which connects the job seekers and job owners at local level via chat.

If you are searching an entry level job in town, you don't wanna waste time by visiting each store, restaurant or theatre. What if you can get in touch directly with the job owners around you?!

For more information you can lookup http://peerit.net
It's good to see someone making use of SSE/EventSource. so many devs just jump on the web sockets bandwagon when all they need is one way data flow with maybe occasional data sent from the client, which imo works better using sse and xhr when required.

A key thing to me is that sse can be polyfilled for older browsers. Websockets cannot.
Don't forget to link to Naval Ravikant's twitter encomium to blockchain:

https://twitter.com/naval/status/877467629308395521

And the inevitable, highly necessary takedown:

https://twitter.com/ZackKorman/status/878674839019679746
For react, you are probably right.

I'm really concerned about zstd working its way into some future de-facto standard file format, though - I think the name "zstd" is marketing genius (of the evil kind).
> Seriously how would it look if Amazon turned down a company because they were competing? It would be an admission of defeat and weakness for AZ. That's not how an "apex predator" thinks.

It looked shitty when it happened with Amazon and Apple
It's flamebait and it is partisan but reality is actually worse so possibly it is substantive?
Oh. I see this might've just been a typo. Agree with the 1Tbps+ figure for external bandwidth (and maybe 300%+ on that internally and between regions).
I'm excited about the increasing frequency in which articles on this topic are showing up on HN. I believe that many of the problems in academic publishing can be remedied by giving the scholarly community affordable tools to manage and publish journals. After all, they are already writing and peer-reviewing the material themselves. Full disclosure: I'm a founder of a company called Scholastica (https://www.scholasticahq.com), a peer-review and publishing platform used by hundreds of journals across a variety of disciplines ranging from law to mathematics. Sir Timothy Gowers, the Fields Medal winner and Cambridge Mathematics prof, launched a high-quality ArXiv overlay journal on the platform about a year ago (http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/) which I think lends credence to the idea that the scholarly community can write, review, and publish work without relying on the current corporate publisher status quo.
Building books with Markdown using pandoc
It's an interesting argument, but is it based on empirical evidence, or merely supposition?

(More recently, you can observe a seeming correlation between the decline in hours worked and the increase in labor productivity in the US in the 20th century--and I think in the rest of the developed world--but I don't know if this is causal or not.)
Oh, I know it, and I'm sure I would've felt similar in his position. I just responded to the previous comment so that other people wouldn't have to go back to the article to see if they'd misread something, the way that I did.
Just FYI for this thread,

The Alzheimer's association [1] deals with forms of dementia and brain diseases outside of just Alzheimer's. If you or anyone you know has concerns feel free to call their help line. A good chunk of their services revolve around helping the less fortunate with medicare applications and finding appropriate care for those who can't afford it.

[1]: https://www.alz.org/
$70M EOS ICO: GitHub Commit “Remove Cruft, Rename BitShares – Eos”
You can't contrast rights and freedoms when the right in question is a right to free speech. If one has a right to a freedom, and a third party enforces consequences for exercising that freedom, then one's rights are being infringed.
Do you support Meteor.js as a back-end as long as it's hosted on Heroku?
I wonder how nesting of tables would be like? I guess if you had function calls inside, it would look nicer than drawing a table inside a table.
Sure. CA fulfills that requirement. Of course, you throw away any semblance of partition tolerance.

Of course, a single machine guarantees there can be no partitioning, and really easy to obtain consensus. It might not be terribly fault-tolerant, however.
Free Speech that is restricted is no longer Free, so how can it not be binary? Either you're free to say things - including politically repugnant things - or you are not free to do so.
Hey, there are plenty of solutions which combine the best of both worlds; for example https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/integrated-container...
What do you think it is needed to decentralize Facebook?

I think it is a waste of mental effort just to think about something like Facebook running on Ethereum when that is fine running on centralized servers and there's so much more interesting uses of Ethereum (like probably a lot of projects that are popping around, no one trying to be Facebook).
Double-plus-so. The Internet continues to be damage tolerant. The problem is that we have collectively expended the last 20 years building single points of failure, and hooking them up all through the Internet.
https://eos.io/purchaseagreement/EOS%20Token%20Purchase%20Ag...

2.2. No U.S. Buyers. The EOS Tokens are not being offered to U.S. persons. U.S. persons are strictly prohibited and restricted from using the EOS Distribution Contract, using the EOS Token Contact and/or purchasing EOS Tokens and Company is not soliciting purchases by U.S. persons in any way. If a U.S. person uses the EOS Distribution Contract, uses the EOS Token Contract and/or purchases EOS Tokens, such person has done so and entered into this Agreement on an unlawful, unauthorized and fraudulent basis and this Agreement is null and void. Company is not bound by this Agreement if this Agreement has been entered into by a U.S. person as Buyer or Buyer has entered into this Agreement or has purchased EOS Tokens on behalf of a U.S. person, and Company may take all necessary and appropriate actions, in its sole discretion, to invalidate this Agreement, including referral of information to the appropriate authorities. Any U.S. person who uses the EOS Distribution Contract, uses the EOS Token Contract and/or purchases EOS Tokens or enters this Agreement on an unlawful, unauthorized or fraudulent basis shall be solely liable for, and shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless block.one and block.one’s respective past, present and future employees, officers, directors, contractors, consultants, equity holders, suppliers, vendors, service providers, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, predecessors, successors and assigns (collectively, the “block.one Parties”) from any damages, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses of any kind, whether direct or indirect, consequential, compensatory, incidental, actual, exemplary, punitive or special and including, without limitation, any loss of business, revenues, profits, data, use, goodwill or other intangible losses (collectively, the “Damages”) incurred by a block.one Party that arises from or is a result of such U.S. person’s unlawful, unauthorized or fraudulent use of the EOS Distribution Contract, unauthorized use of the EOS Token Contract and/or the receipt or purchase of EOS Tokens.
The thing is, by making pdfs harder to get through legit channels they are going to increase traffic through illegitimate channels. It's not about how many files are available, it's about how many people are looking for them.
You're a little late - the Mirai botnet (Larget botnet at the time it became widely known) is exactly that.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-m...
You cross the line into thought crimes when you ascribe intent and presume to know the state of mind and thought process behind a given piece of speech.
Uncertain and volatile days ahead for Bitcoin with BIP148 activation nearing
It seems more difficult to read programming books on a Kindle than as PDFs. I don't know if it's the lack of scrolling on Kindle or something else. I don't think that I would buy another programming book on Kindle.
I wonder if the website in question is listed on other search engines (I can't see why not).

Assuming this is the case, is it fair to force one company to expend the effort altering their search results when others don't have to? Did Google do anything wrong that Microsoft (Bing) or Yahoo didn't?
I think they're actually talking about blowing out the dentry cache, but sure IO contention is anoyher shared resource in containers. Depending on what you're doing you might run into issues in various networking limits (somaxconns comes to mind, as does what's left of the route cache), blowing out the page cache, or something eating up your memory bandwidth (maybe via some unlucky NUMA).

All for containers but they don't solve the hard problems folks often ascribe to them, really just shows in most cases you don't need to solve the hard problems. Most of the time what containers are buying you is an easy deployment method that leverages some nice features in the OS to make believe you're on separate machines.
> The real question isn't "can FB be hosted on AWS?", it's "why isn't FB competing with AWS?"

A naive guess would be that providing services for users you don't control is harder than for users you do control.
The only kind of speech that needs to be protected is that which is unpopular or repulsive. Popular, nice, warm fuzzy speech needs no protection...
> I think thst there is also a fundamental imbalance between people's general expectation of what's fair for a company to do, and what's fair for a person to do. After all, if a company had discovered a way to make, say, an expensive medication for almost nothing, would the company be expected to disclose their secret? Would a company be expected to announce to the world: "we can make this for almost nothing now, so were dropping the price to almost nothing!".

I came here to say this. Corporations strive to maximize profits, are most often not transparent about how much it costs them to make what they sell, and often attempt to justify the high costs of their products with half-truths and/or outright lies. Why should employees be held (or hold themselves) to a higher standard?

If a customer (the company) purchases a service (employment in a certain role) from some entity (the employee) who provides that service, and said entity figures out a way to greatly increase their profits while the customer continues to pay the same price for the same service and is happy with the deal, what's the problem? That seems like a win-win to me.
I suspect it's because, as you basically indicate, it's a fairly narrow use case. Want to cook but don't want to think about recipes and picking up the ingredients. I suspect most people want either 1. A prepared meal or 2. Flexibility in selecting and preparing a meal.

The services are fine and in a somewhat different situation I'd probably use them more. But I understand why a lot of folks don't really get their purpose.
A closed proprietary layer on top of it.
https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/306

Has both the discussion and the current proposed path for io separation.
The difference between a $100 bill and 0.04 BTC is that the IRS accepts the $100 bill as payment for taxes. Taxation is what creates the fundamental demand for national currency.
This demo/primer on the blockchain itself is fantastic, if you're looking to understand the underlying technology: https://anders.com/blockchain/
I'm measuring quality of life in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs here. For most of recorded history, the poor often lacked the absolute basics like water, food, clothing and/or shelter, and they continue to do so in many parts of the world. But in the developed world, these problems are largely solved, and issues of social belonging -- Maslow's third layer and above -- come to the fore.

The New Republic has a pithy way of putting this: money doesn't buy happiness, but poverty increases sadness. In other words, you may not be happy just because you have 3 square meals a day and a roof over your head, but you would be a lot less happy if you didn't.

https://newrepublic.com/article/120859/money-doesnt-buy-happ...
I have no idea how to practice that... Any resources you might recommend?
https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/integrated-container... and I’ve developed a small docker backend for Xen previously (which is vaguely similar to vic).
I would also add, I think it's relevant the employer never actually asked him to look into automating the process - And it's not even clear they would have wanted him to do it or to continue using it if they found out he is doing it.

He quite literally just did the work of an automation contractor at the rate of a data-entry person (Or even possibly for free if he did it after hours) without every being asked to do so, so in some ways I have a hard time 'feeling bad' for him in this respect. Before ever writing the program/scripts/etc. he could have told his manager he thought he could automate the process and propose being paid differently (And/or moving into another position or taking on other work once it is done). If they are/were actually interested in automating, they would have likely taken him up on the offer and paid him more or given him a different position, considering it still would have cost less to have him do it then to fire him and hire someone else. And if they didn't want it, then he doesn't do the work in the first place.
Obviously in context it means O'Reilly authors but... I might consider contributing some course material. Based on the comments here, though, perhaps not. It's not much of an opportunity if it doesn't benefit the other party enough for them to pay.
Generative Adversarial Networks- History and Overview
Imprecise iron supplementation can spur increase in Salmonella
While I generally agree with you, it is interesting to note that the notwithstanding clause was specifically used to target free speech. And not just a little bit of speech, but any English on signage in Quebec (which, if I recall, must be written more prominently in French than in English).
Who insures coinbase's cryptocurrency?
Not just still a read, I'd say it is one of the most important reads for somebody just getting into blockchain/crypto world.
Netflix is bringing Dolby Atmos to its original content starting with Okja
In my point of view, no it's not.

Your employer's organisation's sole purpose is to make a profit for its shareholders. Unless you are either one of the shareholders or will be paid more for increased production you have no incentive to produce more.

Bar your personal relationships of course, if your boss is a great person and you feel like doing them a favour then that's an incentive.

If you believe you could be paid more for increased production, via a raise or promotion, discuss this with your boss in the form of:

"I have an idea, which I need to spend X hours working on and I'm fairly certain I can get it to work and it would provide Y% more productivity. If I do raise my productivity by Y% what would this mean to me?"

If they state something attractive as the outcome, get it in writing. I interpret this as basically the company paying you for your IP, specially if your automation can be replicated to other employees.

Now if your sole job is automating stuff / increasing productivity at the organisation... then that's a whole other story.

Just remember that if YOU automated your job, the organisation could ALSO do it and not need you anymore - so maybe use the extra time to find a job not easily automated.
It's unethical because he puts some errors to make the work look like human work and he also reports his employer 40 hours instead of 2 hours which is not acceptable.

On the other hand, he doesn't want to lose his job and even gave the example of "starving children" so it looks like he's stuck with it.

If he developed the software during the working hours and used the company resources while developing it but still tries to own the software and selling it to his employer, it's also unethical but I already told that "I would live with this lie" because his employer never asked his to automate the job, he did it himself. By selling the software, he can even save their money by avoiding the verification and also will have to lie once and then he can relax himself. So it's a grey area for him and probably better than trying to legitimate himself or losing his job.
As a Lightroom user myself, I'm a bit worried about that. Since the subscription model began, Lightroom seems to have languished a bit - and its been years since a standalone release.

Lets hope Affinity can put out a competitive DAM tool.
Dale Carnagie wrote that in order to be successful, try to make the other guy feel like he's a winner, even if you got the upper hand. I would have kept the amount of automation under wraps!
I love "Let's Encrypt"!!!

I've been struggling to get my CouchDB to use the cert for a domain name I setup but I've not went to the support forum for help on it yet, I'm trying to learn with what's out there and get as far as I can before I do that.

But all my other domains are set up and it was easy peasy to do, saved me some cash, and after hearing about Comodo I felt pretty good about making the switch.
I didn't know that Tim Ferriss dabbled in math/crypto.
With all due respect, the career trajectory of Travis Oliphant (&co) has been nothing but spectacular! He's extremely accomplished, respected and (I hope) compensated.

You're kinda undermining your own point there :-)

In any case: "force other people to finance my hobbies" is not my favourite ideology. I find the idea of some "tenure committee" deciding what I should do with my money mildly disgusting.

You're very cavalier throwing millions around, but you do realize this is money other people had to earn and tax first, right? And that these people might have preferred to contribute and support a different cause instead, perhaps something closer to their own heart and interests?
Isn't that an optional feature?
'Boaty McBoatface' submarine returns home, hauling unprecedented data
I can't help but think the ironic day will come where someone in the organization will get the idea to automate his job and bring someone in to do it, and that's how he'll finally be let go.
Calibre will enable you to remove DRM. It is both handy and quick.
Yes, the problems that monopoly creates are analogous problems to the problems with large unions. The union management seeks to increase their own power, and the larger the union, the more possibility to abuse that power. However, the upside of having an institutional way to apply political pressure for the benefit of the worker can definitely outweigh whatever abuses and inefficiencies most unions create.
Excellent Idea. I played around with implementing a similar thing with mattermost. I would say go higher up in the food chain. and put listings from remote job sites as well.

If you dont mind me asking, can you go deeper into your thinking about targeting local and entry level vs higher price and remote jobs
> Programming is definitionally limited to cryptic text. Anything that deviates from that, especially if it makes it non-cryptic or easy, is no longer a programming tool; it becomes a tool for lowly users

Disagree. My first job trained non-programmers to be proficient in Ab Initio, whose first layer was visual directed graphs. It was a data processing tool, and yes you could click into the "cryptic text", but more often, due to the visual first layer that generalized basic data operations, the code beneath was quite understandable.

It is still Turing complete and an efficient language, just a little more accessible and easier for non-developers to pick up.
News to me, thanks.
Googling the phrase “smuggling hate speech on their iPad" came up with a host of links, as does the phrase "hate Speech calling someone the incorrect pronoun" (specifically wrt Canada’s Federal Bill C-16), and the fining of comedians and speakers in Canada has been covered ad nauseam in many forums, including this very thread.

[1] https://medium.com/@KelemenCari/american-speaker-arrested-in...

[2]http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/301661-th...
Minimum Viable Blockchain: https://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain...
If you are an Android developer it seems like it may be a good idea to use a dedicated Google account for Android development and keeping that separate from your personal email account that you use for Gmail, etc.