skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users of these systems are store clerks with IT skills on par with your average consumer.
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> Why is Nytimes so concerned about China

It isn't. It's an article called "68 Things You Cannot Say on China’s Internet", out of many thousands of articles on the site. Naturally, that article will be about China: it is typical for an article to cover a specific topic.

One should not expect all articles a newspaper publishes to cover all criticisms of the government of the country in which that newspaper is incorporated. That's unreasonable.

> Who is going to talk about draconian surveillance, secret courts, secret orders, gag orders and government officials empowered to violate your dignity and privacy by searching your phone and personal effects.

A great many people. The New York Times, for example.

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/surveillance-of-citize...

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/foreign-intelligence-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/technology/aclu-border-pa...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/business/border-enforceme...
Serious question: what initiatives would you want to see Wikipedia taking on?

It seems like their editor for Wikipedia pages is "good enough", so a maintenance mode wouldn't be uncalled for.
There's no incentive for banks or credit card companies to fix online CC fraud, because it costs them nothing.

They provide no reasonable fraud controls, because for card-not-present, the merchant pays for the fraud. The merchant even gives the bank a $20-40 "bonus" in the form of a charge back fee for every occurance.
I agree that most programming communities are friendly and open.

I can't help but notice that the same communities that have the reputation for being prickly are the ones that have the largest influx of people who come stomping in to the community, and one way or another try to turn the conversation to why everything the community is doing is wrong and stupid and how everything the community is doing needs to immediately be rewritten in accordance with their unambiguously correct opinions, even though they just joined the multi-year party ten minutes ago.

No, I do not have some particular community in mind that I'm coyly not specifying when I say that; it is a pattern I've observed across quite a few communities.
In other words ctrl-w is "kill," which is what most people would think of as "cut," and ctrl-y is "yank," which is what most people would think of as "paste."
> Can I just make a guess that you don't know anything about the Healthcare.gov infrastructure?

You can, but you couldn't be further from the truth.

> Anyway, you're are making general platitudes about "government systems" without regard for the level, department, or any other factor that would influence the quality.

I guess, but that's not really relevant to my point, which is to refute the statement "There's no excuse for doing slow, blocking maintenance operations on a live user-facing database.". There is an excuse in government systems for this. You may not like it, and you may think it's an excuse that they should avoid, but that's one reason, and these sorts of issues are pretty common in government systems.

You're correct that healthcare.gov is actually one of the better-functioning sites in that regard, but even if some aspects of it mitigate the shortcomings, that doesn't mean it's not subject to some of the other same limitations.

> It would be a genuine shock to anyone knowledgeable about these sort of things if this were truly technically necessary.

I'm emphasizing that what people on HN think of as "necessary" is different from what the government thinks of as "necessary". The example that I gave was that, if you don't have anyone on-call after hours (which is incredibly common), it makes sense to keep an important system offline during those hours, rather than risk a silent failure.
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I miss my Lumia 920 with Windows phone 8.1. I feel bad for MS (Nokia mostly) when I see Apple/Google announcing a feature that has been on WP8.1 for years (Google lens, tap to awake, ambient/always on display, offline maps/navigation, wireless charging etc.).
US already has national IDs. They're called Social Security Numbers.
They are implying that it's a massive security and privacy hole and they think taking security advice from somebody "who has a key under the doormat" is problematic.

Not that I necessarily agree with the original comment but that's the reasoning.
Fair to who? When was trade ever fair?
>Polished OS,...,battery life

I don't agree Android offers that as an OS. Battery life is a little hardware specific, but on average Android provides below par "performance per mWh" compared to the other two.
Better options now:

Traefik: reverse proxy built in Go with dynamic backends and modern integrations, good replacement for most situations. https://traefik.io/

Envoy: fast C++ L3/L7 proxy with some great features, http/2 support both ways, websockets, grpc, advanced health checking and load balancing, lots of metrics and integrations, my default recommendation now. https://envoyproxy.github.io/ + good comparison page: https://envoyproxy.github.io/envoy/intro/comparison.html
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The kind of apps we're using today won't exist anymore in 5 years.

I believe that Microsoft will dominate in AR, and quickly become the leading platform.
As others have said - many people (quite rightly) have concerns about supporting the Daily Mail by giving it clicks, eyeball time, and advertising revenue. Partly because of their reputation of being rather unpleasantly right-wing when it comes to immigration, the economy, women's rights, etc; but also partly because their reputation as a truthful source of news is resoundingly poor (as evidenced by the DM being disallowed as a source on Wikipedia, their reputation for publishing embellished or downright untrue stories, etc).

[edit]: After doing a bit more digging, it also turns out that CNN Money often publishes companies' press releases almost verbatim. Oops.
I am ready to accept a better definition, but I have not seen one. I understand that many people will not be happy with my definition, but I don't have to respect their wishes; some will be reasonable, some will be madness.

In the case in point my definition works well. Manning is a great hero of mankind and I thank him for is sacrifice. However, when he says he is a woman now no one has to accept that because a) he is obviouly a man and b) he is obviously mentally unwell (just read his tweets). For me it would be cruel reinforce the delusions of a troubled mind.

I don't see any problems in our society that require pretending that man are women. What are you talking about?
I always begin my search with Class Central. It's so useful!
I think its also the new mentality of MSFT. They are more willing to kill projects. The old micrsoft sunk so much money into xbox until it became big.
You might want to check out https://elearning.club. It offers filters by cost, duration and type (eg. Course, Conference presentation and Shows)
Nothings beats a white board for explaining something
Telegram is not closed source. Unless they mean the server.

And in terms of server, Signals is "open source" but you can't run one yourself so how can you be sure really. :\
I don't think even macOS is supported. Linux only for compilation.
Valve's announcement that games ran faster on SteamOS had an almost immediate response:

> “A few weeks after this post went out, some very senior developers from Microsoft came by for a discrete visit. They loved our post, because it lit a fire underneath Microsoft's executives to get their act together and keep supporting Direct3D development. (Remember, at this point it was years since the last DirectX SDK release. The DirectX team was on life support.) Linux is obviously extremely influential." [1]

And again, market relevance was not required for SteamOS to succeed. Gabe Newell has been very open about the fact that SteamOS' goal was to keep Microsoft in check and have a plan B for when things go south..

[1] http://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/news/steam-s-linux-and-opengl-...
Not when you hold it in you hands, which is the clearly stated premise.
> at least you get a segfault.

If there were a list "falsehoods software engineers believe about memory safety" this should be there.

https://cansecwest.com/slides07/Vector-Rewrite-Attack.pdf
It's essentially insider trading to know policy before the policy is released.

In Canada, Tax Policy Changes take effect from the day the bill is introduced to Parliment or published for discussion for exactly this reason.
Yahoo's largest problem while I was there (2004-2011) was that nobody could articulate what y! is and what it does. Actually, at employee orientation in 2004, they had a clear mission: to be a part of everything you do online: either by doing it, or cobranding it, with a goal of being in the top 3 of every internet vertical.

Somehow, over time, this message was lost, and it was no longer ok to be #2 or #3 in some verticals (like search), and having very healthy profit margins wasn't enough either. The Microsoft search deal was a bad deal, poorly executed, as well: Microsoft couldn't meet the monetization and performance requirements from the start (Microsoft paid out of pocket for a while for this), y! lost control of an important product, and the staffing reductions to search that were supposed to be enabled never came.
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Following laws is not "obedience", as long as laws are reasonably consistent and universally enforced.

Also, "don't do drugs" is not usually a law, unless in repressive jurisdictions. You can't sell drugs and perhaps possess large quantities, but you can do drugs as an adult making choices.
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I used to work for a company that built systems like this for other organizations on contract. I'd consider every project I worked on there a success. We always "under promised and over delivered". I think the key, as the contractor, is to get a good set of devs, to keep them happy, and to have a great project manager.

When these types of projects fail, it's usually because management is having problems juggling resources, and under-bid on the project. Or they're selling junior devs as senior devs.
PSA of the day: With practice you can learn to delay your sneeze by a second or two. That gives you time exhale all the air from your lungs so the sneeze has minimal power[1].

Tilt your head down too and with further practice you can learn to open your throat in order to minimize air velocity.

[1] Source: me, a former obnoxiously loud sneezer that always dismissed it as an unavoidable and comical physiological quirk because I am too big and manly to sneeze quietly. It isn't, it wasn't, and I'm not.

edit: added a step.
Channels are there but you have to use an API for them. Green threads were removed a few years ago, though there are implementations of co-routines, etc. as crates.

Rust is getting an unstable form of async and await as macros/syntax extensions, and there are RFCs discussing adding them to the language in some form. This would still be a wrapper for futures, but a more ergonomic way of using them.
> You can dictate prices and have a private service model. See Medicare Advantage for a US based example of this that is fairly popular with consumers.

Medicare Advantage doesn't dictate prices. And indirectly, this is the entire reason that it it's popular (the service is substantially better).
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"RMS is quoted as saying proprietary software should be illegal."

Yep, this is pretty much what I referred to. It is not just about code being given away, it is about making closed code illegal which is something I disagree with.

I also disagree with less strong but still demagoguery claims about closed code being somehow unethical. Or chest thumping with no data to confirm it about how all open source programmers are the most skilled programmers in the world, how open source is by definition all clean and well done and closed source programmers are all totally incapable. (Tho, people usually stop to drum this one the moment they find first job. Which tends to be closed source.) Or chest thumping about how all open source communities are totally awesome meritocratic places with no bullshit politics going on ever and how all companies are surely political hell holes.

I mean sure, old Microsoft claims about how open source is all amateurs doing bad quality work is equal bullshit, but that does not cancel out sheer ego and overstatements so often coming out of free/open ideologues. RMS totally did the work of 11 people alone, back then, right?

Case in point, overwhelming majority of open source, especially big projects, is written by employed people, which is imo, actually cool. That includes linux and that data is easily googleable. But the free software ideologists will still run about hobbyist magically developing large projects in their spare time (while they are also working overtime in companies they are employed in no less, cause they are passionate and because who would ever add two numbers together).

Another case in point, RMS boasted about there surely being more women in open source, cause it is so much better environment, until data came out and turned out women are more likely to work on close source. (The difference does not say anything wrong nor good about either group imo, just that the claim was confident bullshit based on ego thinking alone. There are enough differences that have nothing to do with how good either environment is.)
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May be your Android is underpowered? It's not an excuse, of course. My iPhone 4S might lag for a few seconds between receiving tap and displaying an action. Modern iPhone (or iPhone 4S with iOS 6) responded instantly. Or it could indicate some kind of hardware problem, where driver is causing delay somewhere in the stack, for example very slow SD-card or something similar.
C++ references aren't exactly safe either.

std::vector<int> x;
x.push_back(4);
int& val = x.back();
x.push_back(5); // ahh, val may be garbage now.

or

Foo f;
Foo& fRef = f;
Foo g = std::move(f);
The dirty secret of the "garbage collection vs. manual memory management" war is that there isn't actually a bright shining line to be drawn anywhere; it's actually a relatively smooth continuum ranging on the one end from statically allocating all values up front (in the style of embedded system) to the dynamic languages on the other end, with dozens of stops in between.
My D7100 is pretty tough and fairly new. My issue now is the weight. If I carry the D7100, 70-300, and wide angle it's a lot of weight to lug around. I do it because it takes amazing pictures, but I'm not going to pretend I like the weight.
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You can be a knowledge worker and have a job that involves working on physical product / working with equipment you can't take home with you.
Sure, but you're making my point against your original one. Copenhagen has a bit more than 400km of bike lanes [0], which is less than a fourth of what you reported NYC has. Which was my point: NYC should have much much more than 1,000 miles of bike lanes to be even comparable to Stockholm or Copenhagen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_in_Copenhagen#Infrastr...
Capitalism often means different things to different people and it's often to an authors rhetorical benefit to leave it so.

When people say capitalism they typically mean one or more of the following:

* Free markets

* Free trade

* Private ownership of the factors of production

* A form of economic organization characterized by tradable claims of ownership, & ownership separate from management.

* A form of economic organization where the primary driver of the firm is profit.

* A counterpoint to socialism.

* A counterpoint to centrally planned/managed economies.

By never being clear about what one means, and just saying 'capitalism' a skilled rhetorician can convince you one thing is good (or bad) and then lump others in as part and parcel.

As you point out profit seeking businesses do not like free markets.
A good resource by Karl Fogel on: "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" http://producingoss.com/
This was brought up before when some other gov.uk site was discussed. One of commenters mentioned that gov.uk has strict license agreement which prevents google from accessing analytics data. Do not have sources for that, but that would make sense.
This is very nice. I have always _wanted_ to use Firefox because a web built much for the community is best used on a browser built by the community with no corporate influences such as trying to push their own "web platform". It's just that it has felt far too bulky compared to Chrome.

But yeah, this is quite workable, and Quantum WebRender hasn't even landed yet. By Firefox 60 we should have even more substantial (i.e. noticeable) improvements.

It's scrolling very smoothly, and the browser rendering sites doesn't seem to impact typing into the adress bar much. It elegantly passes my personal little stress test with multiple Periscope tabs running at once, something that near killed Firefox 56. Honestly it doesn't even really flinch, and that's on an aging laptop, but an 8 core at that, so I guess the Quantum components so far in Firefox are happy about this.
> I mean come on, we have huge rolls of the public already on Medicare for a variety of reasons. Why not just put everyone on it and be done already?

1) Medicare isn't single-payer; it's a multipayer system

2) The government-run portion of Medicare underperforms the private payers in cost, medical outcomes, and patient satisfaction (the three primary axes on which success is measured).

If you want to point to data that suggests that a single-payer system would be successful in the US, Medicare is the last example you want to pick, because it suggests the exact opposite.
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I would compare such obscurity with secret laws that you are not allowed to break. It opens up a possibility for selective enforcement.
It says drop here. I tried to drag and drop an image. Doesn't work. What exactly does 'drop' mean in this context?
Does it also mean, Gates is no more concerned about Privacy or Google targeting him with ads?
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Toxic strictly means any behavior in a conflict or disagreement which erodes the relationship or discussion. Hope this helps. So for example, toxic behavior within a team is behavior which erodes the team, it's toxic because it damages that relationship. If you don't care about that relationship, you might not care if its toxic, because you don't mind if it dies. That does not mean it's not toxic though.
Interesting that the Gates Foundation have a former Saama employee co-operating with them:

> For example, according to CW1, a Big Data/Analytics Lead, a certain segment of the Saama’s sales force involved in setting up the scope and pricing of projects routinely fails to involve the company’s delivery teams to determine whether what had been represented to customers can actually be delivered. CW1 describes these individuals as high-level employees who are “running the show.” 26.

> CW1 further explained that these sales employees commit Saama to projects without knowing whether they are feasible and that, as a result, “a lot of bizarre situations” emerge, including “bad deliverables.”
Well, a great many connectors (even, or rather, especially industrial ones) are made from PA6 or 66 with some glass fiber fill; including the actual contact carriers (if they are a separate part). FR4 is somewhat hygroscopic as well; moisture expansion causes real problems for some applications. Never heard of issues with PA connectors.
First, before I sound too critical, congratulations on launching your product.

> The average organization uses over 20 different platforms to manage their content and the problem is only getting worse.

[https://xkcd.com/927/](https://xkcd.com/927/) ;) From experience, the problem usually isn't with the technology/physical tools, but with people's behaviour. Things like screening content so people have more trust in it is good, but people still need to at least begin to input content.

Though as far as being something that sits between lots of different tools and platforms, the comic still applies, and I've seen a few of those products come and go over the last couple of years.

I found the comparisons on the 'Why Shelf?' page odd. You mention SharePoint, Confluence and Bloomfire at the top, yet don't do any comparisons to them, only to things which are obviously different (e.g. communications platforms).
Doing some quick Google-fu, they seem to have removed any mention of working with the Gates foundation from their website - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Asaama.com+%22gates%...

There are still results on Google, but they either 404 or just have the Gates Foundation part removed!
It's not about steam machines, it's about the game catalogue. Steam has 3000+ titles on Linux and the Steam runtime takes away a lot of the pain of developing for Linux.
My gut feeling is that "work" (as it we know it now) is pathological. The fact that it's considered best practice to separate work and friendships, says a lot about the nature of work. Our modern age conception of work is literally 'soulless'.
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I don't have any experience developing for native, but I don't mind other people reinventing the wheel for web if it ends up being a solid package I can import into my own projects, saving me a lot of time. In short, npm is why I think people might say that.
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It'd be a fairly major expense, but not one large enough to take out credit on. It's not unreasonable to have week or two's pay in cash reserves in case something unexpected happens.
I was really hoping to have a full Windows 10 phone that ran x86-64 apps and you could then dock and use like a regular computer. I think Intel scuttled that idea when they dropped the mobile chip though. It could have been a game changer.
I see no answer there, just a belief that NSA and government will not break the laws, which is doubtful.
Where in Adam Smith does he assume rational actors?
I accidentally rode an elevator mr gates was in. Just me, him and an EA from exec area

He was carrying a laptop. No case.

It was well before cell phone ubiquity and way before smartphones.

I thought "wow, the richest man carries an unprotected laptop, no briefcase, his hair even uncombed (probably because he just came from heliport)"

I felt "LC" because i cared about a celebrity (and even noted my diary).

Later, the parking guard said it was to be a low key meeting. We all speculated and believe it had to do with using unused bandwith?during overnight hours...

I still feel LC because i read the article...
> I can't imagine trying to find three of the same old car and expect each one to have the same critical parts that aren't already rusted out/failed

Buy 2004 Camrys? Or spend that $5k on a decent single car instead…
> They don't talk about it on blogs on the Internet because that's not where the audience is. But they do talk about this.

It's a real shame. I love reading about other disciplines and knowing about the practical trade offs.