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The book specifically talks about intellectual and creative work, so it doesn't apply to customer service or any of a lot of other areas. The six-hours work day experiment in Sweden also doesn't apply (in this context, there are other interesting aspects to it) as it was for nurses etc.
Facts to backup what? That most mobile phone users are outside the US? Or that most of the world buys phones in home electronics stores, not from their carrier?

The iPhone brought a bit of the outside world to the US telco market. This was only a matter of time, as the market becomes more globalized there is increasing competition in the consumer market, and carrier bound phones are less flexible and more expensive in the long run. Everybody knows this.

(I believe that even the US broadband market sooner or later will transformed in much the same way. For a long time it looked like Google was about to do it, but with that seemingly stalled for the time being we might have to wait a few more years.)

It is not reasonable to describe the iPhone as changing how phones were sold outside of a select few countries. Therefore we should not accept that explanation as to why Android phones do not receieve updates either. Those markets are small on a global scale, especially for Android which clearly dominates the lower end of the market, which is predominantly deregulated.
I used to use the BOM’s app, but I’ve gone back to using the default weather app as of iOS 11, I find it to be as accurate as anything else tbh.
This is a very common observation in my experience, but I strongly suspect it's misplaced. My guess is that there are other factors that cause housing projects to be "disastrous", and the correlation with superblocks is either coincidental, or - more likely - connected to institutional biases.

If you look at a lot of superblocks in Nordic countries, they're extremely successful, but they also have a few not-so-great superblocks dotted here and there as well.

I think there's probably examples of both to be found ("good" and "bad" superblocks) in every country, with just the ratio varying per-country.

I'd be interested to see research though as the above is just anecdotal/intuition.
As someone with 99% free time I can not agree. I only did that when the free time was just inbetween jobs and I felt I need to treat myself for doing so much work.

Since I don't I enjoy the little things again and actually spend way less money
New EMOJIS? O-M-G finally! I've waited so long!
Libraries offer tight integration with the language. A generic service that provides a HTTP API doesn't.

If you are currently using a library that operates synchronously on in-memory objects and offers an idiomatic API in the language of your choice, switching to a web service may feel like a bucket of cold water because suddenly you're dealing with an async-only interface that sits behind a slow socket and requires serializing everything to a lowest common denominator API. It's a huge tradeoff that requires serious justification.

Back in 1990, there was an industry standard called CORBA that attempted to turn libraries into services:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...

There's a reason why we're not using any CORBA-based software. (Well, the GNOME desktop was based on it for some time, but they gave up eventually.)
> It does theoretically create room for strategizing though

And that is the exact issue with it: it would soon be common knowledge that you should do so, and then the people who don't consciously try to game the system would be at a disadvantage.

In general that seems to be the goal: devising a system that cannot be gamed in any other way than giving your honest preference. In other words, ensure that the system is a self-enforcing protocol.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/self-enforcin...
Look at it this way: whenever you are running a program you didn't write yourself, you're running a bunch of commands you never checked. This is no different to, say, downloading a precompiled executable and running it, with all the same problems and tradeoffs.
You'd think so, but here's a video of for example a hippo vs a rhino without (much of) a horn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW-GX7o7hBc

Also when a pride of lions get hungry enough they'll go after anything, at which point having a horn makes all the difference.
Headless chrome is awesome. I'm using it to generate multiple PNG from SVG.
I expect truckers run into the same problem I do.

It's difficult to have enough good content, it takes time and energy to discover the good podcasts and some percent of serendipity is required to keep it interesting.
> or exceeds authorized access

that is broad enough to cover this case, if intentionally only applies to access. I am not familiar with case law in this regard -- tread carefully.

I am not a lawyer. Even if I was, I would certainly not be _your_ lawyer.

ref: https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/criminal/...
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Seems on pair with the behind-kissing of major Oil producers including one (or many) that finances terror
All I need now is CMYK support in Chrome and I can make HTML based print ready PDF rendering. That would be quite upgrade compared to my current options.
Is it trolling?

The top article is promoting/explaining polygamy and I'm giving you a real world example that hits home
I've also visited a number of React conferences.

I've also been writing code since 1995 and participated in web standards discussions during the XForms days landing me in the HTML Acknowledgements: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/acknowledgements.html

I'm also a contributor to a number of Apache 2 licensed projects.

I don't have financial ties to Facebook. In fact I'm opposed to the idea of working at Facebook.

I'm not sure what conclusions you want to draw from any of this, but feel free to do so.

I'm just annoyed to see this clickbait article on the frontpage of HN after far more knowledgeable people have had far more insightful things to say on the issue.

Yes, I want to see React succeed because I think it's honestly a good tool and the maintainers are doing a great job. But the reason I'm so obviously angry about this particular discussion is that it's spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt over what is a total non-issue for any project that doesn't have to adhere as religiously to a single open source license as the Apache Software Foundation does.

This discussion lends itself to people who don't even grasp the difference between a patent grant and a copyright license patting each other on the back for agreeing on how horrible Facebook is. I don't like Facebook either, but the only people who should tell you whether you should be using Facebook open source software are your legal department or your lawyer.

Deciding against React because you might at some point in the future have a patent you want to use to actively sue Facebook is like deciding against buying a pack of tissues because you might at some point in the future decide to set your house on fire. It's mostly irrelevant and at the point at which it becomes relevant your house is on fire.
In that sentence, it refers to major in "a major online retailer" → "a major river". From Google's definition (no idea where they pull it from): informally, used to indicate that something already said is applicable a second time.

ditto can be used as a noun (meaning the same again, e.g. in a list when you don't want to repeat something in the row below) or an adverb (as it is here, meaning likewise).
But it's a really bad example. In real history, Newton was able to keep quiet about views that would have gotten him fired and possibly imprisoned. Most of the "weird" Newtonian stuff the author is referring to are things Newton kept private, not stuff he published; we only know about them because of work done by historians in the 20th Century.

In particular, we know from Newton's private writings that he had strong Unitarian tendencies (that is, he doubted the validity of the Trinity). Had he made those views public, he would certainly have been fired and possibly suffered worse. (By the late 17th Century, it was illegal for Oxford or Cambridge to hire or even teach people who weren't proper Anglicans; denying the Trinity would have put Newton into this category.)
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That is what I have been wishing for years, and yet they still choose not to do it.
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What would be a good production level web server to be deployed with Django. The objective is to design an analytics heavy web application which would serve data from Hbase. Heard a lot about Tornado. Any views or better suggestions.
Yeah, there is no need for exaggeration. There are plenty of accurate statements about Sharia that trigger an emotional reaction among people of Western sensibilities.

For example there are countries (Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle-East where over 80% of the population supports murdering anyone raised Muslim who decides as an adult that the Koran is wrong. See http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi... for a source on that.
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... and then you have to check the fingerprints manually, and delete the ones you don't want manually.

No, what would really solve this specific issue is allowing apt-key to add only a single key, and give it the expected fingerprint (as zimbatm explains)
Not Angola, but the cadre of family members and generals that rule the country. It's a daily shame for many of us Portuguese, seeing how our governments grovel to them and keep silent while Portuguese citizens (even if they're also Angolan) are made political prisoners. Our self-respect indexed to the barrel of Brent.

I really hope they can move on, but my Angolan friends (both emigrants and living there) aren't hopeful for the short term.
I'm not assuming that, I'm observing that the review doesn't reference any of them, and wondering why (just like when we'd read an article about how some super-successful startup founder owes his success to broccoli, we'd wonder what happened to all the broccoli-eaters who didn't end up as particularly successful).

When you're recommending specific radical reform, it helps your argument to analyse specific implementation of said reform, rather than merely extrapolating from a cool research article and sprinkling a few historical anecdotes.
Shouldn't a libertarian be against NPR because it's funded by the Federal government? I get confused sometimes.
It does not. In this context, it means likewise. It can also mean aforesaid or the same thing again (in a list).
Here's an analogy, a term I abhor for the same reason: "mansplaining". It's a similarly cheap and unfair argument, because it's completely generic and can be used in any discussion. It's also impossible to argue against, because it uses any answer as proof.

(Replying to myself because the edit time passed)
http://www.socialmatter.net/ is an example of that.

Obviously it doesn't have the same reach but eventually I imagine something like this will be a future NPR for the right.

No Agenda is popular and generally well received on HN, it leans center right in my opinion.
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> This is culturally alien to me; the students receiving the benefit are not harming other students.

I don't think that this is culture. I believe that this is just math. If we devise some system that solves some optimization problem, we shouldn't meddle with that system by other means, like "common sense". We can use common sense to find possible improvements to the system, but we shouldn't apply this improvements without checking them with science laying behind system. Unchecked common sense can break system's promises entirely.

> Solution: only allow trades that are in accord with the students' submitted preferences. That is, if Alice prefers Central to Devonshire, and Bob prefers Devonshire to Central, then we could allow Alice and Bob to switch if their submitted rankings indicated that these moves were consistent with their desires. There would be no incentive to lie.

How could we know their desires? If Alice and Bob start to think creatively about it and find a way to lie about desires? Maybe they find some tradeoffs, like less chance to get into their top school against more chance to be able to trade then?

The more complex system is, the more loopholes in it, the more complex and obscure strategies becomes available.
My personal nightmare is actually autonomous factories, getting hacked and producing a drone army over night.

Sorry, daddy has to go fight the toaster factory today.
As an adverb, it means likewise, and thus refers to major in a major online retailer.
My boss always quotet that he is happy if we are able to be 60% efficient. A lot of time is wasted for the morning coffee and some time after lunch break. A 4 hour workday would make me come to work Ready and finish with at max a short break in between. I would say in about 5 hours of constant work I would definitly do more on average than with 8.

Btw I tried 32/h weeks & 3/4/5h days I never did less work in the end than with 8
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Note that this is very old HARM (radar seeking weapon) tech. There is no difference legally or morally between launching this mini plane it from a vehicle and launching a normal radar seeking missile or bomb from a plane as has been done for decades. And if the weapon causes collateral damage that is the responsibility of the person who pulled the trigger, then the commander, and ultimately the nation that did it. Even if this was some kind of "smart" weapon, nothing would change. Whoever decided to used it has responsibility for the outcome.

The moral hazard of autonomous and remote controlled weapons isn't that there is no responsibility, but that the threshold for use is lowered.
I'm not aware of this work on the Amiga. What kind of projects was he involved in?
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I love the intro video of Android Oreo launch as they used the context of Solar Eclipse on 21st August.
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The only book I put aside without finishing (Downbelow Station by C.J.Cherryh) was recommended to me again years later and when I did pick it up I found it gripping.

I really recommend you try Report on Probability A again, it was one of the best books I ever read!
This is really exciting for medicine. However, I cant help but think that there can be so much more done with this data if it were publicly available. We could easily see many more technological developments in the healthcare world if patient privacy laws weren't so strict in the US.
Clicked it because no idea what RVs are: Recreational Vehicles, meaning vehicles with fancy interior, e.g. kitchen and so on
Raymond Chen (core Windows engineer) once explained in his book that some UI changes are near-mandatory (at least for paid product) for most people to feel that the upgrade is/was worth it.

Say the engineers have done massive internal performance and stability improvements, better filesystem and what not; but those things are almost invisible to regular users. Most users want something more tangible, otherwise they will have hard time to justify spending few hundred bucks as they will feel "it's the same as before, I see no difference".

It's also (my theory) a bit of identity thing. All big companies slightly tweak their logo (even if it's just changing or removing shadow thickness) every decade or so that it feels fresh. The same applies to UI of applications and OSes.
This looks more like a manual. Where does it say that the infrastructure is open source ? I didn't see any source code.
Doesn't mean you want to talk about him or listen about him 24x7, there are better things to do.
It is different. While it is obviously true that I haven't checked all of the binaries I'm running, I at least can, through the various signatures involved, rely on the fact that it was created by a particular individual or group, whom I may trust.

Would you really assign the same level of trust to, eg, a sudo(8) binary downloaded somewhere of the internet as you would to the one provided by your distribution?
This problem, has murdered several cross-fields programs involving computer sciences. Because, once the program has started and research is to be done- someone not in comp science will drag something horrible from the bushes. Something tangled and mangled.
And it will have to be "fixxed" by grad-students, postdocs and as a result, comp science silos in.
If you haven’t heard of this before there’s a good introduction to the project at https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/07/23/making-payments-more-conv...
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https://github.com/alphagov?q=pay-
Look at the section marked ‘Key Open Source components’ and click on each microservice’s name to get to the repo.
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I could easily pay my rent (and bills and food) with less than 50% of the median wage. It would make it hard to save up for a house or car though.

"Part time job" doesn't exist in the sense the person you're replying to (probably) intended. Most of the part time jobs I see are unskilled labour where working full time would already put you at a severe wage disadvantage. These are often designed to exploit students who are piss poor to begin with and can't have a full time job anyway.

Where are all the tech companies that won't turn you down if you send an application in response to their ad for an inevitably full-time position and ask to work half the time for half the salary? Where are all the manufacturing companies or stores or schools or trucking companies that won't turn you down?
The equivalent in Sweden is having a discussion about immigration. Liberal Sweden won't even talk about it in any way that could be perceived as critical. Conservative Sweden would.
During the time I worked for Amazon, the entire Amazon infrastructure was written as services. It indeed felt like a bucket of cold water in my first month at Amazon, especially after having worked in software products company for 10 years prior to that.

But gradually, I got used to the services based architecture, where something as simple as presenting a login page would lead to dozens of REST API calls back and forth between various backend services.

I am not saying that one approach is better than another. I would have to dedicate a separate comment to discuss that. All I am saying is that developing an entire software system composed purely of generic services with HTTP based REST APIs indeed exist and are very successful in very successful companies.
Public radio here in Poland is also great, because you can find something for you no matter music or talk-show taste. Buddy of mine who is a driver also like listening to audiobooks on the way. That's great option also.
Yeah RDS does that, and it can do a lot more with proper metadata. In Sweden it has been running with at least basic functions - traffic announcements, channel following, and station names - since 1990.
You can still have a Google-branded version of the same product that provides additional, Google-only features.

An open core business model was always what Android was like, but now the opem core is shrinking with every further commit.
Well spotted thanks !
>[1]: If you can read assembly, this one's hilarious: https://godbolt.org/g/81qWoq

I only barely read assembly, so I was just trying to figure this one out.

So, the compiler has figured out that it just needs to test v against 0 (since the array is immutable), but it does this 2 times, and with a couple of apparently redundant 'je' instructions. Is that what's weird about the output?

In case it changed, this is the output I saw:

example::exists_in_table:
push rbp
mov rbp, rsp
mov al, 1
test edi, edi
je .LBB0_5
je .LBB0_5
test edi, edi
je .LBB0_5
je .LBB0_5
xor eax, eax
.LBB0_5:
pop rbp
ret
Read down a bit further https://govukpay-docs.cloudapps.digital/#key-open-source-com... the main components are linked to in the 'components' column. The link to the GitHub account also provide a filter on AlphaGov https://github.com/alphagov?q=pay-
I can almost swear that sounds like Leslie Nielsen narrating this instructional film. I wonder if this was one of his early "documentary" gigs?
I spent the whole post thinking "binwalk ..." ... "binwalk -erM ..." to myself. Clever searching for github repos though, that was a good find.
You might have to define what Radio 4 is for us in the US.

Here's a blurb about what NPR is: http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178640915/npr-stations-and-publ...

It's basically hundreds of local radio stations that mix local news/flavor with partner stations that have very popular programs
While it may feel emotionally gratifying to punish the human soldier, isn't it better overall to have a robot that can be fixed with a patch? The same sorts of arguments can be made about self-driving cars.
@matt4077:

> Here's an analogy, a term I abhor for the
> same reason: "mansplaining".
>
> It's a similarly cheap and unfair argument, because
> it's completely generic and can be used in any
> discussion. It's also impossible to argue
> against, because it uses any answer as proof.

Yes, agreed. That term often gets used when somebody isn't merely re-explaining what somebody already knows and is in fact giving new information from their own personal experiences in good-faith.

I don't really use the term 'virtue signalling' anymore, but I do get annoyed when somebody uses it and another person jumps in to tell them that they're not allowed to say it because it is used by the wrong sort of person or because it has no meaning. It does have a meaning and it is sometimes appropriate: male feminists who turn out to be using this identity to cloak their misogyny, politicians preaching about peace but consistently voting to bomb countries, Ivanka Trump harnessing a feminist image to hawk sweatshop clothing, etc.

Actually, I feel the same way about 'mansplaining'. There are cases where men step-in to re-explain what a woman just said to her or to others in a louder, more-confident tone and in these cases I think it's a great word.

Edit: You deleted your comment but I had already written this so I've posted it anyway.
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This code was rejected in one of Company interview, stating desing is not good.
> Don’t communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating.

Well, if you're using immutable data-structures, then structural sharing can be very useful. You can then pass large data-structures in constant time, and of course you can "modify" them efficiently using immutable techniques.

As long as you don't perform any writes in a shared data-structure, the memory hierarchy should be perfectly happy and no delays or locks should be necessary.

Of course, as you start scaling across multiple machines, there will be different trade-offs, as there will not be a shared memory bus.
My theory, having lived in New York and Japanese cities with lots of superblock developments, is that everything depends on how well the residents maintain the site.
Learned something terrifying today, is more like it. No wonder those big wave surfers talk about being unable to tell which-way-is-up when they get washed up by a wave.