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> Stay humble. You don't know as much as you think you do.

The other related takeaway I got from this is that programming looks very different from other corners of it.

Some things that one programmer thinks are required knowledge will be seen as completely obscure minutiae by someone else, and vice versa. For instance, this list seems to think I need to know about SEO, and "falsehoods about names", but I've never in my career had to deal with search engines or even names at all. The terrain looks very very different from where I'm standing... which just reminds me that I don't have a bird's eye view.
Microsoft's YouTube app removed the ads. Violation of TOS. Pretty straightforward reason for wanting it removed.

Don't act like Microsoft, of all companies, is some poor victim. They compete their ass off, and sometimes they win, sometimes lose. They lost that time.
You are probably right. I recall reading that Oracle development was funded by a DARPA-style mechanism, but I may have confused it with something. As MrMorden says in another comment it was likely the CIA who funded the development.
> Now people are weak, emotionally weak, so easily offended.

Or, more likely, they play up their "offendedness" and victimhood in order to gain the moral high ground over their opponents. People didn't just suddenly become easier to offend -- it has a payoff for them in political leverage.
If you go back and read what you wrote, you will realize how insane this all sounds.
This seems like a prime moment to ask for a review of https://github.com/sagebind/rote
Not really. Even if we accept your frame of analysis, which begins the moment somebody starts a trip and ends the moment they're done, then regulating taxi quality, driver quality, passenger safety, and paying for effective roads are all relevant factors.

But if the system isn't sustainable, then in the long term customers don't get what they want. So when we're designing society-level systems, we need to think about society-scale sustainability.

Personally, instead of our hodgepodge of retirement and health insurance systems, I think we should just fund a strong safety net out of taxes. That minimizes barriers to entrepreneurship and avoids distortions. But that's not what America had when the medallion system was being developed, so we got what we got. You can certainly propose a change to that, but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to explain how you'll solve the problems the existing system solves, or at least be honest that you're not solving them.
Sun employee here. What killed Sun wasn't Oracle -- it was Sun management's absolutely incorrect focus on selling hardware over software, and especially over information.

Solaris, Java, and JavaSoft software were always treated as second-class citizens, even though the tech was awesome.

Think of zfs, dtrace, zones, the jvm, jini, openoffice, mysql, and much more. Great tech, yet sometimes the UI/UX/DX was subpar, enhancements were slow, and critical bug fixes took too long with too little transparency. The writing was on the wall in 2000, when many engineers left and the stock dove.

Sun was a great place to work with enormous creativity and super-smart tech folks. Sun promoted "the network is the computer" and if Sun had chosen to truly aim for this -- for the value of network information access, rather than the sale of big iron -- then I truly believe Sun would be the #1 Internet company today.

Thanks for the memories - jh@sun.com
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Why are we now treating "blockchain" as an uncountable concrete noun? I know it's not a new phenomenon, but it's not getting any less perplexing.
Well, the data is definitely questionable - but unclear whether the Ornithological Society (or TreeHugger) cites unbiased studies, I'll give you that. Here is a Stanford Study with some sources:

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph240/white1/

What I like about it, is that it cites avian mortality in terms of Mortality per MW, (though one might suggest MWh is a better number, but we can extract that by assuming 20% Capacity Factor) which is the more relevant number than total deaths, because are going to see a lot more MW in the future, and presumably deaths will scale linearly.

Total Average US was 4.12 Avian Deaths / MW. With California really leading the pack at a high 18.76 per MW.

Presuming a 20% capacity factor, and assuming the united states uses about 10 million MwH/day, that means the United States will need 10 million * 5 / 24 MW in capacity, or about 2 million MW capacity (Sanity Check - 2 million MW = 2000 GW which is about 400 GW of nuclear power plants @ 100% Capacity factor - about 400 Reactors,- seems within the realm of reason given the US has about 100 Reactors right now), which means that on average, we'll see about 8 million bird deaths in the future because of wind farms.

That compares to (in 2009) - 4 million due to communication towers, 14 million due to fossil fuels, 72 million due to Pesticide, 97 million due to Building Windows, and 110 million due to feral cats.
If this is how it was meant, perhaps a different phrase would have conveyed OPs opinion better. For me, "get a life" is strongly associated with "douchey jock" behaviour, bullying, nerd-shaming (is that word a thing? it is now) and phrases like "you like math? what a nerd, get a girlfriend bro", things I'm sure many people on HN have had to deal with.
Open-sourcing would have left massive holes in the OS. A lot of code under the hood was licensed. Remove all that and at best you'd probably have a kernel and not much of the UI, networking, graphics subsystem, media kit etc. The OS didn't have a full screen command line past the kernel debugger. So, yeah, not very useful. I'm going to be honest - it was probably not worth it to employ someone to trawl through the code to clean it up. Given the Be Inc business model failed and both PalmSource and ACCESS seems to have faded in to obscurity - I get the feeling no one was going to pay for that.
Well, maybe, but it looks very speculative to me. I think anything deserving the label 'definition' would have to be much more definite than that.
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4Chan and 8Chan are similar. Most online communities that lack the kind of heavy-handed censorship you find on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit will naturally end up being right-leaning.
Restrictions like these have been used on electricity for roughly as long as they have on water. They're slightly different in that with electricity it's often the peak usage that they care about rather than total usage, but some people are ordered or paid to reduce usage at certain times where this is considered cheaper/better than building a coal plant that's only used 1 day a year.

Due to the nature of modern electricity generation, electric car batteries will help the grid rather than harm it, as they can be (and are) set to use off-peak power to avoid increasing the peaks, while getting best usage of the grid at other times.
Memory bandwidth still matters, yes. Cache sizes are still not very big, and a copy uses more cache. Obviously you may have other bottlenecks first, but it matters once you are using 10Gb ethernet or faster, for example.
And that's before Microsoft sprinkled their 'special sauce' on it. Now it's even worse.
Here is where it gets fun. You ask any libertarian on reddit and they'll tell you how it is against them. You ask any LGBT and they'll have the same answer. You ask any anarchist and they'll tell you that no, reddit does not love them. You ask t_d and they'll give you examples. You ask MRA, feminists, SJW, anyone and they'll have examples of the reddit hive being against them.

That's what you get when you have multiple echo chambers cohabiting under the same domain. The only things you can go by is which subreddits are removed or not by the admins. Which is an exercise left to the reader.
So you would like us to not tell the page what the render is doing? I'm not sure how that would play out for any number of API's that exist on the web. Developer's have consistently had the means to override the default actions of the browser (think drag and drop) but I don't think hiding side-effects or user actions helps anyone.
The reason a lot of Wall Street finance types are running to these altcoins is exactly what you say--it's the new penny stocks. There's no regulation and so they are free to manipulate prices however they wish. I'm not sure it's a Ponzi, but it's definitely manipulated by the insiders.
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... This seems normal for the US system. Punishments aren't exactly reflective of the crime, partially stemming from some of the "tough on crime" pushes in the 90's.
Bill of Materials management: what type of decisions do you need to make?
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Yup. Did this when my heat didnt get fixed for a month one winter. Was an easy case. Got a city inspector to come out and write it up first, but that might be harder in the case of floods.
I'm not from the US either. If you do not see how Communism is just as bad as National Socialism, then your educational system has failed you.
But they never did that with pink sheets penny stocks. It all collapsed for different reasons.
Yes why not, as long as its noise does not affect me, I dont have any problem.

Now can you answer my question?
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A central tenent of facism is forcible suppression of opposing views through censorship or violence. What would you say Antifa is doing when they attack people with bike locks, throw bottles of urine on them, etc?

'Antifa is specifically against free speech' is provably correct. They are intolerant of any views they disagree with to the point of inciting violence to suppress those views.

Look beyond their name standing for "anti-facism" and instead look at their actions.
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Maybe it's part of the scam?
There's a fascinating book by Joel Bakan called The Corporation, which applies the DSM criteria for diagnosis of mental illness to the modern corporation. It concludes that the modern corporation is functionally equivalent to a psychopath (even created that way by law) - an entity whose destructive behavior, if unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin.

Based on the stories I've heard about Oracle and Elison, I've often thought that Bakan might have had an inside informant at the company.

https://www.amazon.com/Corporation-Pathological-Pursuit-Prof...
Thanks. Not available in Australia unfortunately:

"We're sorry. Due to publishing rights restrictions, we are not authorized to sell this item in the country where you live."
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While I'm inclined to believe this, the big sell off triggered by this news started at the same time that the news was made public. You can view the rapid drop in Neo (heavily affected by the ban) started in the same 15 minutes when the news broke.
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Poorly ripping off an existing waning franchise was never going to make 10% of their global sales. The batman movie may be a metaphor for their downturn, but clearly not actualy a large factor.
Probably the same reasons why the Facebook App uses 3 times as much space as this whole OS: Legacy Code, Visualisations and using numerous libraries.
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"In fact that is the animal's only purpose of existence."

From the farmers point of view.
It's not clear from the FAQ[1] how this is different from a major revision to Pixelmator. Does anyone have any insight into what is the difference, if any?

[1] http://www.pixelmator.com/pro/faq/
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> Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks

I've been following AI for years but this is the first time I found such a concept. So basically a cell is like a small neural net with as many neurons as genes, each gene having (chemical) input and outputs signals. That means a cell's DNA is much more dynamic than I previously imagined. It's a self-replicating m.f. computer, that's what it is. We can only dream of similar accomplishments.

Previously I was aware of the huge workload carried out by DNA - for every protein in the body, DNA replicates the blueprints - an amazing amount of fine detailed work. It's not just sitting there waiting for reproduction. Seeing it not just as a factory, but also as a neural net is another level.
I did also imply that people are willing to help because they want to feel themselves good about helping.

Yes, I am a cynical bastard. But I think i is safer to design important institutions in society assuming bad about people instead of assuming good about them.
...if we let it.
I looked and Rawls explicitly says he disagrees with it.

What you have quoted here is saying physical safety is sincerely in danger. To me this is like him saying it's ok to eliminate terrorist groups, if that is what they truly are.
Microsoft is too busy being a dumpster fire to be evil.

I install and maintain their products for a living. I have horror stories upon horror stories representing weeks (if not months) of dev time to work around--including writing a custom plugin with an SDK just to fix a bug in the data import wizard in CRM.
Don't forget that Microsoft publicly offered to work directly with Google to get the Youtube app working correctly according to what Google wanted, ads and all. The only reason it "stripped" ads originally was because Google didn't work with them to add them in the first place. Also keep in mind that there were, at the time, other Youtube apps that worked (to some extent) just fine, and Google didn't go after them.

I also remember something about how Google demanded that Microsoft implement something that wasn't technically possible at the time in order to get the Youtube app to be fully compliant. I don't remember what that was exactly, but I think it had something to do with how they were rendering the videos.

I was a Windows Phone user at the time, and was very irritated about Google being petty and not working with Microsoft to get the app working with ads.
Not contents but behaviour. They do monitor if you use Chrome or IE, if you use Excel and for how long, etc. This alone is powerful enough.
From your experience and other things I have read, if you are a huge customer, then you get responsive support.

GCP is a great fit for me (running low traffic sites on AppEngine and occasionally spinning up a huge VPS), but it is not for everyone.

I enjoy using GCP more than AWS, but AWS probably has much better customer support. Google really should fix this.
Maintainers often have a perspective that rates backward compatibility higher priority than an individual user would. Even if they have learned from previous mistakes in policy or implementation.
Yes, but then they asked Google to help them show the ads - ie give them an API key so they actually could, but Google refused.
I never said anything about anyone's intelligent, you brought it up.

I do not belong to current Left. I do not agree with their gender politics. I do not agree with their immigration politics. On same vein I do not belong to current Right (or Alt-Right if you must). I do not support their views on homosexuality or their marriage status. I do support gun control. I do think we should help refugees, but again not the same way Left is pushing. I do not believe in White supremacy, on same vein I do not believe in White guilt over what people did over a 100 years ago.

I've always thought myself as being on the Left or at least very left leaning, but currently with all the SJW and Antifa stuff I agree with them less and less. I just want to be me.
Not just the data but also using Facebook or Google accounts means your users are much more likely to be real people instead of spam bots.
> Refresh my memory, it was [incorrect account of how GamerGate started]?

No.

> everyone

No.

> there were demands from SJW changes bunch of games to have female characters with less revealing clothing

No.
And encrypt everything.
> teach people to don't listen anybody on the Internet

That is in its own way bad for free speech; what use is speech if nobody is listening?

Harassment can genuinely make the internet or parts of it unusable for some people. I bet Diane Abbot doesn't open her Twitter Mentions, for example. http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/04/almost-half-of-all-abuse-targe...

> and to not respond with so much emotion

Desensitisation is not the solution either.
I'm more than ready for this Russian hacking sensationalism to wind down. This is a conspiracy theory that's approaching the same level of ridiculousness as the one surrounding Obama's birth certificate; we have this entirely unfounded claim that two unidentified, unfathomably sophisticated attackers have somehow been positively linked to the FSB through unspecified, "magic" means, and that the usage generic tools/software originated in and used throughout Eastern Europe is somehow concrete "proof" of this. I could also posit that the Russian interference was orchestrated by Vince McMahon, and it's been him all along. Until intelligence agencies present an actual smoking gun, all we have is a lot of smoke and mirrors.

I would be fine with the nutters carrying on with this conspiracy theory (more concern for national security and voter verification is not a bad thing, although these same nutters are generally only advocates for these things when Trump is involved), but blind "Red Scare" type FUD is not the right approach. Kaspersky has offered complete access to the source code of its products for use in a clean build process controlled by the US government. This is not a winning strategy if your company's endgame is to infiltrate US government systems.
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This.

An alternative to reddit would let you make dossiers: related news stories a little like some subreddit megathread do for huge news. So you could follow a developing story for multiple months or years. Have links to aggregate articles by authors, news site, area or protagonists.

A simple example of use: check r/science about old health breakthrough on mice and see if it fizzled or not or how advanced the human trials are.
Reddit is a business. I don't support businesses that facilitate child rape forums. You do. That's how we are different. Other businesses should not suffer for what Reddit does so I use the internet, on usenet other providers likewise, on reddit you all share the blame because you support the same business. I can't tell myself I'm only using this tiny part and those nasty people aren't anything to do with me because it's bullshit, or to provide an extreme example - I don't think you'd use 'just the comments section' of 'Playpen' and be guilt free (or free outside jail). I think you conveniently ignore the fact that there are inappropriate images of children on the site not because you believe in free speech for pedos, you simply don't care enough. And no I don't think pedo sites are a free speech issue - there are things we will not tolerate nazis, pedos, being two of them. I can't believe I even have to have this conversation. I said HN had not succumbed, I should have said '...yet'.
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Maybe the purchase wasn't that bad, now the Sun people are pouring into other companies and their wisdom gets spread more evenly
While I agree with the rest, this one is flat out wrong:

> 5. You're as much the idiot as the person you consider an idiot.

I don't throw the word "idiot" around lightly but when I do, in a work / programming context, it's apt. I'd imagine I'm not the only one in that camp.
> Clear cut criminal behavior, have the service cooperate with prosecution.

Surprisingly, this isn't illegal in very many jurisdictions. One of the first to ban it was Scotland, this year.
Hmmm...I must have missed the question in your original comment about the significance of west coast (or it was edited afterwards).
To be fair, this can be an issue. Where I live, you put your garbage in a bag (it's about €4 a bag) on the street on Monday mornings. This means if I have a bunch of faeces-soaked stuff to get rid of on Tuesday I have to let it sit around my apartment for 6 days (I have a three week old child). I am not above tossing it in one of the neighborhood bins.

As far as the homeless, I'd much rather they use the bins than leave stuff lying around the street, even if I pay more in taxes. I definitely would prefer they would put the aluminium foil and lighters in the bin to the current approach of letting it pile up in any handy alcove.
No worries, I'm sure that come with the box.
>It's like having the best parts of FORTRAN and assembly language in one place.

That killed me.
Note that Get-Random is not cryptographically secure, it's just seeded by the time stamp of the start of the session.
This is the type comment they're talking about trying to detect. It adds little/nothing of substance to the discussion and even if you were to provide sources it pulls discussion toward a poo flinging match about whether the political bias of any particular source is relevant.
> Very glad to see "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" included in this list [1]. I still struggle to always get this right.

In the real world, you'll constantly have to interact with external or internal systems that are based on the "wrong" concept, so implementing it "right" makes your system really awkward to work with.
Wondering if relate to YouTube Red sales.
Can it run Doom?

Edit: Ok I'm impressed, apparently it can even run Doom III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rluGgjcXtEY
It seems more aimed for high school and is last updated 2 years ago...
Get the dragon book, learn LLVM.
There are two (very closely related) languages. In principle implementations are compatible, whereas language version are explicitly incompatible by intention. I think that was clear from the parent.
When I'm reading HN I assume the commenters are at least somewhat similar to myself until I have evidence to think otherwise. The culture here is neither anti-intellectual nor anti-math. Given that we're on HN I'd say it's safe to assume no one is telling you to quit coding or stop caring about math. On this forum issues around workaholism and burn out come up all the time, "getting a life" is a step toward not burning out.
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There is only one thing a programmer should know. How to program with some language. Everything else is variable.
As an alternative to named parameters I've always wanted a "default" keyword for function calling.

function bar($word1, $word2='loves', $word3='Elixir') { return sprintf('%s %s %s', $word1, $word2, $word3); }

$foo = bar('Hacker News', default, 'PHP');

But I guess functions with too many arguments are frowned upon and it would encourage it.
Appreciation and status are not mutually exclusive, in fact they rarely are. I certainly do appreciate all my expensive cycling stuff, but I have long identified it as the outlet where I seem tochannel all my status purchase needs. When everybody around me is riding Shimano, I want Campag and the powermeter to go with that should better be Italian as well. I consider this to be deep in status-land, in fact it is the only part of my buying habits where the status component is so strong that I am aware of it (which I guess is universally rare, everybody has their rationalizations). The Castelli I wear on the bike has certainly been more expensive than the H&M (from the aughts, some of that stiff actually lasts!) I wear to the office.
The problem is until you try something new you can't be sure you really enjoy what you're doing that much. After 15 years of sitting in a chair and doing what I loved I found out I love other things just as much and I'm sad I didn't know earlier.
What about all the oil it takes to produce the turbines?