skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't providing a "Neutral" source of news basically impossible? Even if you could somehow address all sides of a story (e.g. besides actual scientists let's also interview some flat earthers to allow them to explain how the Earth is flat) the mere fact that there's too much to report and the channel invariably needs to choose what goes on air mean that it's no longer neutral.

Giving air time to flat-earthers isn't neutral, it's pandering to idiots.

Neutral is clear and factual reporting on issues, regardless of where on the political spectrum that lands you.
Very interesting! So all known "stuff floating around in our solarsystem" like Hale-Bopp et al have been deemed originating from here? Or have that conclusion just been taken for granted?

Edit:

Looked at the paper and saw this in the abstract:

>None of the approximately 750,000 known asteroids and comets is thought to have originated outside our Solar System, but formation models suggest that orbital migration of the giant planets ejected a large fraction of the original planetesimals into interstellar space1.

Very interesting that this has been the thought of affairs for objects in our solar system. I have never contemplated it and just assumed we must have been visited before by such objects.
You forgot about the 'per core' licensing costs for the DB server, that's the real killer in many cases.
I wonder if any compositing window managers support FreeSync. That could help significantly, for any v-sync related latency.

Vulkan rendering would help as well.
What Should I Do If I Disagree with My Friend’s Dream?
That's humorous. On a serious note though, Skype should be renamed to "Skype--" in the US. After MS bought it, it became a buggy piece of crap. Every new version had more useless features and was more prone to crashing/freezing up than the last. Screenshare and the other golden features became riddled with issues. Skype was once great. During the period in which it was down for "maintanence" many believe that spying measures were added. In any case, there are much better options these days considering how bloated and buggy the actual client-side software has become.
A team is not a fiefdom. Using "authority" to handle conflicts likely won't lead to good results. Different people need different guidance, and overall management seems poor at dealing with people.

Also: "[implementing] a private variable in a class" is not a "task". A diff should be a single idea (i.e. have a purpose on its own). Adding unused code with no purpose just makes it likely that code will stay dead forever. In codebases I work in, an unused variable would be a lint error and that code could never ship.

> If you are iterating and being “agile”, then you can remove it later realizing your mistake, and if you code it right, then it will not be intertwined into code so deep that is causes a delay.

It seems like the author hasn't worked with a large code base before. With a constant pressure to ship, dead code can sit around in your repo for a long while--and often good engineering initiatives aren't incentivized as much as they should.
I can severely recommend Firefox with the tracking protection. It's quite a refreshing experience compared to Chrome.
>How do we/the developer know it was “a hack”, and also “a bad idea”? The word hack isn’t used in the article.

Well we don't for sure, but based on that paragraph I quoted, it sounded like it, especially since the author immediately mentioned ripping it out if it proved to be a bad idea in a later sprint (which doesn't happen as often as you would like in software shops with deadlines.)

>The lead should have .. well, led .. by having a business logic reason for the inclusion of the variable. If they did and the developer still refused, then they’re in insubordination territory.

I would be comfortable with that scenario.
Muni/Public broadband has already been limited in 20 states.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/isp-lobby-has-al...
This is the first time I've encountered the term "BLUF". Turns out, it's the equivalent of TLDR - "Bottom Line Up Front".
This is still happening to this day.

They now redirect skype.com to skype.gmw.cn
Year's ago i was coding a warehouse management system and in this edge case, that required a moon full and blood sacrifice to even have it occur i stuck some debug code/message that was only ever meant for me to try and figure out how it was happening.

5 years later i get a call. "We have a weird error message it says ... How did i even get here! This error is bad and you should feel bad."
Another HNer said that it has been missing from China for a while now, redirected to something called "Tom's Skype." I'm not wholly surprised considering that even the official Google Play Store is banned.
The title clearly states that it disappeared from multiple app stores not just apple's. At least for Android China has multiple app stores not just Google Play.
this reminds me of the argument that instead of going to USB C 3.1 as the grand unifying connector for all peripherals (including video), we should have instead migrated to Ethernet cables for everything.
Harvard Faces DOJ Probe Over Affirmative-Action Policies
Or here's an even better solution: ask the developers for a solution, and then ask them how long it will take and why.

Then go to your supervisor (or stakeholder or whoever) and tell them your engineers said it's going to take this long because of technical reason X, Y, and Z.
Modern motherboards often still have a PS/2 port! And most USB keyboards still support PS/2, a passive adapter works great.
da vinci virus great scott
I'm not talking about voice calling tremendously simplifying meetups, since this is not a smartphone feature. But how about navigation? I really wouldn't like to go back to the time without navigation.
It’s apparently to do with the orbit - they identified this as extrasolar purely by the fact its orbit would be extremely unlikely to have arisen from our solar system’s protoplanetary disk.
Sure... Like Lars von Trier wrote Dancer in the Dark.
> This is the short version of how the conversation, but suffice it to say that the teammate decided he was in control and wanted the team lead to convince why he should implement a private variable in a class.

The teammate decided they're an adult. And looking at the "military" tag I'm not convinced the blog post author is.

> He isn’t a bad worker, but the relationship between the leadership style and his work style are clashing

The relationship are clashing? At this point, I'm really only interested in the view point of the person who so far didn't even get to speak, because the person talking about them I heard enough from.
"can i have my paycheck?"
"convince me."
Oh — that's great thing! As I am one of the main developers around it, I'd love to get your feedback and comments!
I think people here need to lighten up. I know we are all programmers, and we are sometimes portrayed as snobby and entitled, but we don't have to live up to those stereotypes.

I understand it's frustrating when a tool you use is expected to work a certain way and it doesn't. I understand it's even more frustrating when the output could change depending on the time of day. That doesn't mean it is our place to gang up on an open source tool that is designed to make our lives easier.

I think we should be allowed to have some fun every once in a while, and this "gimme gimme gimme" easter egg is awesome.

It seems the maintainers didn't realize that this easter egg was affecting a command that was designed to have a predictable output so that is the real issue here. Just a simple bug. If this was output on some help screen or something like that then no one would be complaining.
You must've seen automated subscriptions which you did not want to renew?

My comment was more a general statement to combat a type of procrastination (a deadline which must be met slightly before its date), specifically with the mechanic of both automated and manual subscriptions. Calendar reminders work wonderful with _both_.

I can also think of various scenarios where you don't want certificates to be renewed. Or well, maybe you don't but the users would. Like for example when your server no longer works, or got confiscated. A low timeout aids in lowering the amount of those certificates.
Who says there are explanations? It's basically an accepted and unavoidable fact of life that you can't access certain foreign Internet services at times. It is what it is.
I've been a team lead and never had the "authority" to tell someone exactly how to write their code. I also would consider "convince me" a very appropriate response. If I fail to convince, I don't get what I want. That team member isn't insubordinate in my eyes, they are going places.
That's throughput, though, not latency. I would guess that servo's input latency is significantly more than 2ms, even if their throughput for certain rendering operations is 500 fps.
You're welcome to write your own version of coreutils, then, if it's that a big deal for you (you may want to take the opportunity to raise the size of buffers everywhere to fit your machines resources realistically).
> And other than Russia, the US is the only country with a GPS infrastructure at all.

Wrong; there are three operational global navigation satellite systems: GPS (US), GLONASS (Russia), and Galileo (EU). China has a regional (Asia-Pacific) system that they are in the process of upgrading to global coverage, as well.
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Depends on the complexity of the html and CSS in question. To reproduce a full desktop environment, even just using Canvas, would be challenging and I highly doubt it would allow 500fps.
You're looking at the survivors who had the resiliency and positive outlook. There could've been many many more who didn't and died in part from lack of that resiliency.
That's just their local official distributor. It's been that way for a long time. http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1353906/micro...
BankBot bypasses again security checks implemented by #Google for the Play Store
I've seen many, many projects in the civilian workforce fail because, guess what? Not everyone gets to be CEO and CTO.

Sometimes leaders are wrong, and sometimes those who should lead are tyrants, but sometimes folks need to get in line and follow.

Different situations are different.
By that definition, a clothes dryer with a humidity sensor is a robot. (And I'm fine with that!)
lifetimespan
This is what I think no one will be able to compete with amazon on warehouse logistics. Kiva's model of bringing the shelf to the picker is hard to improve upon. And it is probably patented.
if i could convince people to do things, i would be selling amway, not leading a software team.
Does anyone found an alternative to "BackTrack Tab History", an extension that copies the history of the current tab to newly opened tabs? The author thinks he won't be able to port it to Quantum.
ethernet over multimode fiber, I want to be able to have accessories hundreds of meters away from my computer
That is what they say (the government) or is that what is implied (by the government) or is that what you inferred?
I did, they mentioned a key, it didn't work.
Don't confuse bandwidth and latency.
Convincing a colleague of why a particular direction is a good thing to do is never a waste of time.
For example, take Columbia Heights to Foggy Bottom. 2 transfers (yellow/green -> red -> blue/orange/silver). Red line is red line, expect 10 minutes on the weekends if you're lucky. The B/O/S at metro center are frequent enough (except when they're not; I've seen 20minute headways enough times that I'm leery of even trying), but the Green/Yellow lines I see an average wait time of 10-12 minutes on the weekends. That's about 20-30 minutes of waiting.
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Try popping the start menu open on a Windows 10 machine with a mechanical hard drive.
My take away from this is quite different. Or at least tangential.

I expect Apple and any other company to have to comply with local laws in various countries. It's unavoidable. What else could they do? Refuse and loose access to that population?

But right now, as regards device encryption and back doors, there is a sort of mutually assured destruction. A MAD that the US law enforcement (e.g. FBI et al) are constantly trying to undermine. Right now Apple claims the iPhone is designed such that they cannot unencrypt it. The FBI wants to force them to create a method.

Regardless of the technique used that then will make every similar device world wide subject to the whims of local law as regards allow that country access.

What would stop any country from then demanding blanket access to devices? But at the moment this doesn't seem happen because there's an unspoken detente among adversarial countries to not demand such back-doors.

This situation reminds me of that. Since it is possible for Apple and others to block things on their app stores, countries demand it.

It's a cautionary tale of why it's important for companies to design certain things from the bottom up to prevent bad behavior.
In the military, leaders are taught to explain their guidance to subordinates whenever possible. But sometimes, a Soldier needs to just be quiet and roll out. Yes, this does require a Soldier to trust his leadership. It also requires them to be a professional. It is not your job as a subordinate to mentor/develop your supervisor. It is that team lead's supervisor. If I were treated this way, that subordinate would lose some of his paycheck or be forced to work many extra hours performing menial tasks.

Far more importantly, I would have lost respect for that individual. It's one thing to ask for clarification (which is awesome), it's another to convey blatant disrespect and unprofessionalism. No matter the circumstance or poor leadership, you do not demean yourself like that.
The page is down, what a coincidence!
You're not a hustler. You're a bull-shitter
Do you mind linking to it? I tried digging through your comment history to find it and couldn't.
I would say right now, good developers have more of an authority parity with business than any type of employee has ever had, based on scarcity and necessity. Hope it lasts.
Same here. On my last team, I took it as a point of pride that the developers had no hesitation to protest my suggestions for implementation and even flat out override them. We were also the only group in the larger team who met our objectives on time without working long hours. I don't see those as unrelated.

It's a good thing when your developers come up with better solutions than you, and even better when they aren't afraid to choose them over yours.

When the manager is the most well-informed person on the team about implementation, that's when you should worry.
This topic is explored somewhat in the (excellent) puzzle video game "The Talos Principle". Without spoiling much, the game world contains many instances of archived Internet discussion, including some self-aware posts as to the permanence of the users' thoughts long into the future.
> Lead: This is not a choice. I am telling you to do this.
> Teammate: You need to convince me.

I've reached the point in a discussion with a subordinate where I've had to say "this is not a choice" multiple times in my 30-year management career. Only twice has the person absolutely refused and only one of those times was this part of the reason the person ended up being fired.

I'm amazed at how many times these kinds of ultimatums come down to some strange, abstract principle: "I won't pollute my code with a global setting, instead you're going to delay the release a couple of weeks while I re-write the code and we re-QA everything." No, that's not what is happening.

At some point, it is my job to make the call. If you think it is your job to make the call, you should find a job where it is your job to make the call.

I assuming, of course, your lead is not asking you to do something immoral or illegal. Since I've been on the other end of that before.
> and is why we should be proactively working to make it illegal.

Absolutely, it should be outlawed now! Do you have an address for the person in the Chinese legislature that I should be writing to, to pass the relevant law?
In part this can be explained by different cultural values. Chinese value social harmony over individual freedom.
Me too, since devs like those of libinput are specifically and actively addressing such latencies.
>Good developers don't like to write bad code.

Good developers produce something. (and I'm condemning myself there)
I would have added this "feature" with a mechanism to detect if it's running inside a TTY. That way, automated tests, pipes or scripts that parse the output wouldn't have this problem.

But seriously, who uses a documentation tool for automated tests every minute? That use case is just insane and out of the scope of man IMHO.
Of course the main reason the military needs that is because on the battlefield, people in your team keep dying and you need to stay effective with new inexperienced team members all the time. Anything more sophisticated than "follow orders or else" just fails.

So if this is his way of working, maybe by now it's actually necessary for his teams...
I've been using Vimium-FF since I first installed FF57 Developer Edition.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
Senior developers know that wasting two days fighting would be better spent elsewhere. This is an example of a midlevel programmer who can program but doesn't understand the big picture. Probably the type of person to follow one way of doing somethig and freakout on anyone who suggests something different. This developer doesn't get it... they need a few more years of seasoning.

The lead is in charge of making those decisions. Having a working feature in time for the sales demo is more important than some code purity.

They do not understand the difference between getting paid to do a task vs creating a personal hobby project.
> Lead: This is not a choice. I am telling you to do this.

> Teammate: You need to convince me.

Lead: If you don't do it, you will be fired and replaced with someone who will. Convinced yet?
Google Play Store

Windows Store

Samsung has their own deal.
Explicit breach of contract.
The public interest is not handwaving, it is the entire purpose of govermnent. Under your definition laws banning slavery for example are "public interest handwaving".
Angular client demo using OAuth2 Authorization Server to protect Caché resources
Is this a joke? The third parent of your comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747940
As interesting fact, because he hated Gnome and called them fascists. Actually I used to prefer KDE too, but as time goes by I learn to appreciate simplicity.
Some of the Samsung robot vacuums can do this:
http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_trouble...
I doubt they're manipulating this sort of thing.

But, when you're engineering search results to manipulate public perception, you don't just obliterate all of the undesirable content with hamfisted obviousness. You just weight the content differently. Maybe you ensure that anyone already looking for that content can find it, but ensure that a more generic search is favorable. Maybe you just manipulate the heap to ensure the top result is the good one. Maybe you merely aim for a favorable ratio of desirable to undesirable content.

Consider: "best search engine"

The results are full of discussions about alternate search engines. Both duckduckgo and dogpile make the front page. Yet, the #1 result is an article about how Google is the most popular search engine: https://www.reliablesoft.net/top-10-search-engines-in-the-wo...

Is that true? Sure. Is the result manipulated? Probably not. But if I was google and I was going to manipulate a search result, that's exactly how I'd do it. I'd maintain the illusion of impartiality by presenting lots of alternatives, but I'd ensure the most prominent result was the one I wanted.

In any case: a quick search is insufficient to detect search bias and proves nothing.
Except it does work FreeBSD:

[lau@primus ~/test]$ mkdir setgid nosetgid

[root@primus /home/lau/test]# chmod g+s setgid

[root@primus /home/lau/test]# chgrp lau setgid

[lau@primus ~/test]$ ls -l
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 lau users 4 21 Nov 14:52 nosetgid
drwxr-sr-x 2 lau lau 4 21 Nov 14:51 setgid

[lau@primus ~/test]$ touch {nosetgid,setgid}/test

[lau@primus ~/test]$ ls -l *
nosetgid:
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 lau users 0 21 Nov 14:52 test

setgid:
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 lau lau 0 21 Nov 14:51 test

Looking at your example, I'd guess you didn't set the setgid bit as your `ls` doesn't show the group column to be `S` (instead stating `X` which is the default a directory would be set as).

OS build and file system:

[lau@primus ~/test]$ uname -a
FreeBSD primus 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 #0: Mon Oct 24 18:49:24 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

[lau@primus ~/test]$ mount | grep " / "
zroot2 on / (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
What's the difference with duplicating the tab then going to about:blank?
Well I don't know for sure hence the question.

I mean I'm used to the United States where almost anything the government does the government has an answer for it (albeit probably not good answers). I guess in large part the free press sort of forces this.

So are you saying the government doesn't issue an official stance and that they just do it?
David Allen's has the statement, "You can't manage projects; you can only manage actions related to projects." This paradigm reduces the anxiety of projects, which really does effect my creativity.
Numerous games, including those having complex graphics and behavior, can render 120+ frames per second and realtime interactions (physics, optics, reactions) on pretty average hardware. I don’t think that game scripters who make final things like scenery or ui face complexity much harder than those in gtk/qt/wpf/htmljs widget programming. Details would be interesting though, since I’m no game developer.

If true, it must be something very wrong with traditional ui systems?

Edit: my apologies, I didn’t read the article first and thought it measured complete feedback like “press ctrl-f and wait for element to popup”, but I’m interested in my question regarding games anyway.
> "On what grounds would you litigate?"

Thousands of companies couldn't do business and no lawsuit? I don't see this happening. I could see everything from freedom of speech issues (newpapers, churches, private schools.. ), to freedom of commerce, Antitrust issues (my competitors blocked internet to), to political parties worried about their sites service, -- I would really need 10 white boards and 4 lawyers to map out thousands reasons.

"The Antitrust Movement".[i]

A more interesting current issue related(ish): [ii]

[i] http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-16-2-b-...

[ii] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling...

> Just degrade it, enough to stop working.

Ok let's say we go as far as 'China's Great Firewall'. I worked with may chinese crews they just use VPNs through "ok'ed" lines just furthering my point.
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