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X would be anything we disagree with. I'm an Aussie, living in Japan, mostly working for us companies (plus the occasional Indian company), I see many forms of censorship, under many different names.

I won't stand up and say I know the solution, but I certainly see the problems.
I'm not a professional front end developer but recently completed some projects in TypeScript. I found it very painless to get set up on Emacs with Tide [0] and it was a pleasure to use. I also use web-mode [1] for templates which adds some bonus features over the existing HMTL editing mode.

[0]: https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide

[1]: https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode
> You're a coward.

No, he's a Chief Executive. If the Chief Executive can make more money by saying Apple is going to bat for gay people (in America, so bold! so brave! /s) or for your privacy, then the Chief is going to say it.

You're at fault for taking them on their word. What you needed was a contract, not an open letter.
I don't necessarily blame corporations for this. My point is that we shouldn't look at corporations as agents for freedom. A lot of people seem to be doing this. In the end they will fall in line with whoever is running the country. As long as there is money to be made.
> In America, they're still free to openly complain about American policies.

You can complain only about those, that are inconsequential, or won't change anyway. Otherwise you could be labeled with miscellaneous labels and maybe also beaten at someplaces.
Reminds me a little of Parrot - http://parrot.org - I'm always interested in these sorts of projects. Will have to dive in and have a play, it looks promising!
I know how these things work note the almost.
Yet. Theresa May would build one right away if she could (and the first steps are being taken)
Actually the machines Emacs was developed on had rubout where caps lock is today. Control and meta were next to the space bar (control on the inside) and they were also wide keys like shift is.

Sun put control where caps lock goes; i don't know if they originated that or if it copied someone else's existing practice.
Just common sense, given that the China gobertment has made usage of VPNs illegal.

What do you expect?

People in China could continue using app store accounts created in other countries as usual.

And most educated people continue using VPNs too. Normal people are becoming experts in encription, security...

It worries me more that countries like the UK and the US want to follow China, in that order.
If the VPN actually works the app might still be useful. It is a game of cat and mouse between the government and the VPN providers.
I have no impact and I do not want to have any impact whatsoever... as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions
Every time the open office discussion comes up it’s immediately filled with objective statements like this headline. People who don’t like open offices seem to find it impossible to believe that there are developers who prefer them.
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How do you monetize a game where there are rarely more than 100 people online? Most of the time it felt like there were more Altspace employees than genuine players. They made serious efforts to curb harassment, but in effect managed to sabotage any chance of spontaneous interaction with other VR strangers. By the time they brought in "campfires", no one played.

Altspace was doomed the moment they decided to fundraise instead of, you know, make money. There was no reason Altspace couldn't have been made by 1-2 people. Instead, they went on a hiring spree, and the game had nothing to show for it. Really, anyone funding the VR space right now is insane: http://vrlfg.net/
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Absolutely. Most clients (in my experience anyways) is actually happy that you can provide hosting so they don't have to spend time in an area they're usually unfamiliar with.
Respect of inalienable rights.
AFAIK, S3 only provides notification when reduced redundancy objects are lost, not regular objects. How did you detect your data loss?
>Floyd can say whatever he wants to say, he just needs to warn people that they might not be able to weather the loss.

While I am least opposed to generic disclosure requirements (as opposed to a requirement of getting the approval of and registering with some specific regulatory authority, as is the case with getting an exemption to the prohibition on offering securities to the public) like you describe, it is still a prohibition on what Mayweather can say.

The law essentially says, "you cannot say X, unless you say Y and Z". It is a prohibition on what he can say under particular conditions. That being said, I haven't fully considered the implications of disclosure requirements, and would hold it as a possibility that it can be justified, on the grounds that "saying X, without saying Y and Z" is indisputably fraud, under all circumstances (those this is a very high bar to clear, and I'm not sure that the prohibition clears it).
Yes, we prefer do as I say, not as I do here. /s
If inflation is >4% then rental income and costs should also grow around that fast.
Yeh we don't need another John Deere.
So they go out of their way to prevent users to avoid censorship by themselves on their devices?
Well shit I agree. I want to see all the instant gratification producing counters (likes/views/upvotes/retweets) regulated.

It modifies people's behaviour and has the proven capacity to train them like circus animals to jump.
Not Android. The lack of updates and ease of installing a third party APK is just too high (not mentioning the occasional malware in the Play Store itself).
> but the choice is still yours.

Not really, look up fiduciary duty. When you trade publicly, you have a special form of contract to the shareholding trusts, and in turn to the shareholder.

If you breach this, you are liable for damages, and likely to be replaced by somebody who isn't going to make the same mistake.

This is a vital part of publicly traded companies.
And yet Apple already polices you for any kind of content you might deem offensive / objectionable or not "family friendly" enough on your iOS device.
We just charge hosting and a small support fee for the small sites. For startups or companies with bigger needs, we have tailor made contracts.

Imho, support has to be a significant part of a company's or freelancer's income. Otherwise, you have to constantly create new websites to avoid bankruptcy :P
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Here is an example in C http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/12/23/ , you can also check the Handmade Hero Youtube series for a more elaborate example.

Please note that the above approach is not as flexible as what you can do with Common Lisp. Also, you will need to use a subset of the language in the case of C++.
I worked at Apple during the years when the company designed and built its first campus at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino. As I recall, Apple R&D engineers were considered stakeholders and participated in the design of the interior spaces. Apple wisely decided to give each engineer a private office. There were open areas near the offices with comfortable furniture and whiteboards for engineers to meet and collaborate. I worked in one of these buildings from 2001-2007, and I can confirm that the work areas were beautifully designed and ideal for fostering productive work. It's sad to hear that Apple has apparently abandoned this approach in its new campus.
Can you provide any links for this, I'm interested but know nothing about it.
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Ah, I found the Wikipedia entry, but didn't make the connection with Phoenix. Thanks!
The Subreddit is incredibly toxic in nature and immediately bans anyone who is even remotely not participating in the circle jerk. I am talking even the tiniest hint of criticism.

It's hardly a good source for anything.
So, it doesn't support Opus in its native container format, but you could potentially do some JS trickery. Hmm :/
I have done some work in angular2 (and rails, fwiw) using emacs.

There are modes for javascript (yegge's js2-mode is one of the more feature rich modes I have seen for any language), angular, and typescript. I have not tried eslint but a quick search for emacs eslint turned up some packages.

What in particular would you be looking for in terms of front-end development?

One issue I run into is problems with poor (auto)indentation when I am editing a file which contains html formatted as a string. For example an html template in an angular module. Anybody have/fix this issue?
>You're a coward.

While you're calling another man a coward for not living your values, I'm wondering what you've done to stand up against China that's so fucking brave.
Upvoted for later reading, to never actually read like a hundred other lists and tutorials before - in case anyone was still wondering why these kinda posts are frequently on the front page.
I expect Apple to respect universal human rights regardless of the context. Freedom of speech is foundational.

And this isn't a China-vs-the-West thing. The idea that people deserve and need to be able to communicate freely predates the current governments of both China and the U.S.
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> Look around, most organisms in our world communicate using extremely simple binary language or don't communicate verbally at all.

Yes.

> Yet, they are intelligent enough to do very complicated tasks which current robots fail to do.

True.

> Intelligence is an easier problem than language, and thus should be solved before language.

Wrong.

This is the classic mistake everybody makes, including people in Computer Science.

Because if that were so our robots would already be clambering backwards through chairs (per the metaphor in the article).

You have to think of deep evolutionary history. It took centuries to come up with advanced mathematics, so in some strange to humans sense, this isn't that hard. Same with language, it only took tens of thousands of years.

For Nature to learn how to develop a nervous system capable of flexibly interacting with the environment, culminating in our brains, took hundreds of millions of years.

This isn't an claim that we have to wait that long to re-engineer such powers, but it is to point out that if the possibility space for developing a nervous system was much larger than for the same organisms to learn language...

tldr; Walking is hard.

We have been conflating what is easy for us, with what is objectively easy, because we don't appreciate the Deep Time that Nature has been working with. I suspect we will develop EMs (brain emulations, a sort of short cut) before we understand what we are doing but I hope that is wrong.
Me irl

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

> While you're calling another man a coward for not living your values, I'm wondering what you've done to stand up against China that's so fucking brave.

Well for one thing, I didn't remove vpn apps from my app store.
Buy the cheapest one the first time, and use that experience to judge if you need a better one next time.
https://youtu.be/WanGt1G6ScA?t=92 (from that video, at a timepoint which shows a young a baby crawling over a glass surface with a drop beneath it, with no sign of discomfort).

I'd say this proves the point completely. It shows that babies aren't scared of heights, and they don't acquire the fear from experience. Instead it seems likely it is that they either develop a mental model of how the world works, or they learn from watching other's behavior.
The CERN budget is roughly a billion Euro per year.
> for not living your values

He is pointing out that they are supposedly cook's own values.
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Well, our level includes working towards agreement in the HN community that aiding in censorship is bad.
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I've found that most people / companies actually do use S3 alone. Adoption of S3 on it's own is far greater than the rest of their services, at least in my experience.
It all depends on the product. Safeway shampoo might be great now, but next quarter may be watery crap. They just bid out for the cheapest commodity.

My local grocer is selling generic pasta that is actually the premium brand right now, around Christmas it was nasty junk.
I'm generally surprised when people don't. The few people I know who don't justify it with "I don't want to have to deal with all that support" (can't quite figure out what "all that support" covers).

"When people have an issue, who do they call?"
"Me"
"So... they're already calling you. Why not have some $ for that to cover it".
"I just tell them to call the hosting company".

It baffles me how those folks stay in business.

I do think in some cases, it's the email support they don't want to deal with, not so much 'hosting'. A couple of folks I know just send everyone to fastmail or google for mail hosting (not something I recommend, but they again claim they don't want the 'headache').
UK is the surveillance capital of this planet [1]. PM May expressed readiness to "tear up Human Rights"[2]. UK is the enabler of Chinese CP leadership, not a follower.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/extreme-survei...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/06/theresa-may...
They've definitely improved since then. You need to be on the $200/month plan and basically turn off the WAF (which is craptastic), then things are pretty good.

All software has bugs. They just got unlucky, though their handling of the situation did raise a bunch of red flags.
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You must watch the documentary "The secret life of babies". There is a scene where they put several babies on a "cliff" situation (with a glass in the same level to prevent them falling), they will confidently march into the glass - they do several other experiments that prove babies are fearless.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80009352
php and jquery lol
It's kind of hard cause I can't say I fully understand all of it but googling around for analog computing neural networks is a good start.

Check also real computation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_computation and work of Lenore Blum.

Im super pumped about the research into computational metamaterials http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~aalu/research%20-%20page%203.ht...
there isn't going to be a technical solution to the problem of terrible world governments, the only real solution is going to be to change the governments.
As far as I've read, Apple have always censored what can appear in their App Store, and have never allowed ordinary users of their IOS devices to get software from any other source. At the same time they siphon off 30% of the revenues. I'm surprised that anyone accepts these terms, but in any case there doesn't seem to be anything new here.
The UK is already rolling out more and more censorship infrastructure for example. All ISPs have porn-filters enabled by default (which you can opt-out) and additional block lists that you have to circumvent through technical means (e.g. wikipedia was blocked due to the Scorpion's virgin killer album cover).
Now they also want to expand those filters to cover "extremism".
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Without an 8000$ options package that won't be available in most places for several years.
You can make the choice upfront, not at the last minute. When entering the chinese market, you know what you're up to.
No. Whataboutism fallacies were pioneered by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but when used by someone in the west, they just come off as looking extremely insecure and desperate for a workable argument.

So it is a cultural difference. While whataboutisms and moral high ground fallacies are acceptable in the east, in the west they just signal insecurity and desperation.
The book "Engineering a Compiler" (https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Compiler-Second-Keith-Coo...) is a good resource and reference; I keep it on my desk at work. Like other compiler books, it falls short in meeting all practical application purposes and does great with theory. Ideally, this book should be combined with looking at modern compiler implementations.
Huh. Thanks for the info.
Yeah. You clearly intend for this newfangled freedom of speech thing to protect critical commentary, avoid repression and promote the exchange of valuable ideas; and all of the sudden people apply it in all kinds of nonsensical counterproductive ways.

Slippery slope and all...

Unless of course you really think that protecting the rich & powerful's ability to mislead and trick others is really a societal benefit.
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You might not like the (totally valid) point this comment makes but that doesn't stop it being true. Stop with the downvotes.
And one of the features caused memory leaking in PHP for a decade. .NET has real garbage collection, we can take advantage of it.
Yep. Works great. Less convenient than regular type hints, but when you need a transition tool, it's nice.

> NB : by the way, love your blog :p

Thanks :)
CloudFront is one of the slowest CDNs out there.

CloudFlare is okay as long as you pay $200/month. That's nothing in the CDN world. Amazon wants $600/month just to deploy a SSL cert on CloudFront.
The thing is that the Tesla S models out there have not been needing lots of servicing at all... So only if the service cost is MUCH higher does that prove your point (but I'm not aware if it is)
Yes, but the Tesla looks cool so even business owners can see that.
It's been known for years that Apple is actively against freedom of speech when it comes to its marketplace. Why would you expect it to make an exception for China ?
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No. The term whataboutism was used as a way to disregard an argument, without addressing it's point.

It is usable only from the position of arrogance. It has no place in a honest discussion.
My first instinct is to say I recycle, I buy my electricity from green providers, I reuse, buy second hand, work from home, eat veggie regularly etc. I do all of these things, but they are grossly outweighed by me simply existing. No matter how green I live, I still consume and produce waste, and so do my children.

How I make the world better: I collect litter at the beach and in parks and dispose of it properly. I also encourage my kids to do this. The positive effect on the environment is probably still outweighed by my consumption, but I can say that there is less trash on the beaches around where I live because of me. It's not much but its something.
It's really too bad that they got away from being an equalizer in the advertising space. Pricing the spammers out of the market isn't the best way. Keeping the advertising from becoming so in-your-face is the right way to fight this. And quit trying to get ahead of my thinking in what I want to purchase. I never recall them ever getting it right. I've never searched for something, seen an ad, then purchased. EVER.

And I'm ready to make a several-hundred-dollar purchase tomorrow and I see ZERO ads around these products. I see plenty of crap.

In my view, the founding hypothesis of the company- that people will be amenable to ads connected to what they are searching for- is incorrect. So we're seeing a pretty clumsy pivot.

I keep hoping Duck Duck Go takes it elsewhere. It could be very easy, maybe as simple as a little button I click that says "I am looking to purchase" and now let the advertisers make their pitches.

The point is, I would like to see if they got better results by letting me drive.
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I got downvoted for saying this last time but I think that was only on mac
> My point is that we shouldn't look at corporations as agents for freedom

It's mind-boggling that this even needs to be stated. Of course we should not. Anyone who does needs to step back and seriously re-examine how they look at the world, because this is an intensely false presupposition.
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None of the examples you gave are permanent neurological changes.
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In Estonia, the police started to act tough on heroin dealers and users. This resulted in dealers and users switching to fentanyl, which is more potent and therefore, more deadly. Heroin is not available any more in Estonia. Fentanyl seems to come from neighbouring Russia, but I'm not sure about that: police keeps reporting about drug busts, but there is very little scientific information available about it. Mostly it's war on drugs propaganda.

The majority of Estonian population view drug users as someone who deserves to die, because of their poor choices. It's hard to get help or any compassion when you're an IV drug user.

Attempts to create needle exchanges are met with fierce resistance from neighbours. There are methadone programs but it's tiny compared to the amount of fentanyl users.

Up to 7.5 grams cannabis is not an criminal offense and smoking weed is quite popular with the younger generation. However, in Estonia it's not uncommon to hear from police that every weed smoker will surely start using fentanyl. Soft and hard drugs are treated the same in state propaganda, which results in many young people not believing that fentanyl is dangerous: since they were lied about weed, how can they trust warnings about hard drugs?

Estonia has also a huge alcohol problem. I believe many hard drug users started using because they were drunk in the first place. Alcoholism leads to violence at homes, murders, horrible car accidents, risky behaviours like trying hard drugs and having unprotected sex - you see, Estonia has a HIV epidemic as well.
You're confusing morality and legality, and it seems you're in good company around here. But it's not the role of corporate to white knighting a country cultural revolution.

Still, interestig to see a nice quip at a completely wrong scale/context captivate such a large audience.
could you please stop representing 1.4B Chinese? if the government is so bad, why there is no systematic resistance given the fact that Chinese people had a long history of fighting the repressive regimes?
Sublime is definitely the king of start times. Vscode feels like more like a full IDE though
When you consider selection, it winds up the same. Say in china if you follow the pollution laws, your competitors will undercut you and they won't suffer any consequences because rule of law is weak. So if you follow the rules, you go out of business, you don't exist anymore, leaving just polluting companies around.

Likewise, Apple can play China's game, or just cease to exist in china where someone else will merely take their place. The situation is exactly the same, grandma is getting mugged no matter what.

But...even worse than that though, the company has to compete with those Chinese players outside of china as well, and leaving Chinese market share out, that can make it harder....they could disappear entirely from the rest of the world as well (assuming Chinese players are competent outside of china, which admittedly hasn't been shown yet). So at the end of the day, of competition is working perfectly, those that refuse to play in a market can simply be selected out completely. Leaving only players who are willing to mug grandma...not because all the companies are evil, but because the non evil companies died off.

It isn't simple. In the long run, a political solution will be needed, we can't leave morality up to private companies that have to compete or die.