skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's the famous case of the FedEx guy who told his staff he could pay for fuel for the planes or pay their wages. He then went to Vegas and gambled the money to keep the business going. That's how we got FedEx. Irresponsibility and recklessness.

It's not an isolated story. For every successful business that doesn't something insane and wins there are 10 that fail. We never heard about all the other shipping startups that failed and whose employees went home with empty paychecks. We praise this fucked up psychopathic level of risk taking, and then we end up with companies and cut throat and toxic as Uber.
So what? That's how people learn.

This patronizing attitude of hiding all complexity from users is getting beyond ridiculous these days.
In the US college is NOT free, and that's 330 million people living here.
Well, that makes me want to upgrade.
They purchased the assets (including land) from the government who purchased the land and built the railway.
It's crazy to think that someday soon. We will have assembled actors.

People that don't actually exist, appear to be human but are CGI, and that the audience prefer over real, living humans.
As someone who lived with a phone that would run out of battery around 3pm when unplugged at 7am - I would have gladly traded that experience for a slight slowdown of the software. I can't believe that the "significant stress and annoyance" of having a slow phone is any worse than "significant stress and annoyance" of having a phone that just switches off. Slow phone > dead phone.
What good is the coin if you can't ever spend it? Sure, you can hid it away somewhere the government can't find, and just sit on it... but then what? When you eventually want to spend it on SOMETHING, unless you're going completely black market, there's going to be a record. When the guy making $50k/year suddenly buys a $2.5 million house, the government is going to ask you where that money came from.
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Regulate people using handcranks to power portable transmitters transmitting information at variable frequencies to be received and picked up by those who know of beamforming and antenna design.
(Oops, "read" was supposed to say "race".)
>Maximizing ticket revenue allows the system to offer better service for everyone who uses it

So only rich people will ride the subway but those who do will have a better experience?

> To the extent that people are priced out at the margin, that can be addressed through targeted subsidies (or guaranteed minimum income).

Please provide examples of this working in practice.

It doesn't seem to work for healthcare, education, etc.

The places with "good" healthcare, education, transportation, internet, etc, don't make it expensive and then hand out vouchers to poor people. They make it free or so cheap everyone can afford it.
Bindgen is really awesome, makes is dead-simple to integrate with existing libraries.

That said the only place where there's a little friction is around macros since they need to be evaluated in context. However it's easy to use another header to declare them as static const/discrete function and then bindgen picks them up just fine.
go ahead and close my account. you guys have tolerated a lot worse in the past with others. i'm just being substantive, because you know, i sort of know what i'm talking about.
The FedEx founder literally got lucky. He gambled the companies capital in Vegas to keep the company going.
Fair enough, maybe this falls apart when we started talking about fiat currencies being exchanged directly for Bitcoin (i.e. when "real" money got involved). Prior to that really happening, it seemed like one could create new Bitcoin through mining, which was a conversion of computing power/electricity/time directly into crypto-currency value - not a direct conversion of fiat currency into crypto-currency value.

With mining now being cost prohibitive, it's not as reasonable of an avenue of gaining Bitcoin.. and "real" money has entered the game - and with that, comes regulation.
>"[..] the situation in Russia, and lots of people getting the information from government channels [..]"

It's not only people getting the information from government.

I have spoken to Russians living in the European Union, that don't support the current Russian government, and there is an agreement that the current situation is better that the 90's , that they frequently describe like the "wild west".

This is, I think, one of the reasons of the popularity of Putin in Russia.
This model, like nearly all of them, loses many details of reality in order to be satisfying.

Of course that CEO is working counter to his organization's goals. That's the perfect cleanliness of having organizational goals that are not subject to the religion, decade, loneliness, or stomach contents of the person currently interpreting them.

If your "mission" is nearly unusable as a mission, in that probably even the people in your organization can't uniformly agree on its application, the model breaks down. That's what you signed up for with fundamentally subjective pursuits.

So, if the CEO of Freedom, Inc said she hates freedom, that's bad optics and fire-able. If she applies her understanding of freedom in a way I don't agree with, that's a tough shit moment for me. And these are the situations we debate.
If this gets me the ability to force my phone into low battery mode all the time I’d be for it.

I get caught out with a low battery too often. And having to remember to turn it on every time... if I could remember to do that I’d just remember to plug the damned thing in instead.
I know they screwed up recently with the Mr. Robot malware, but I think it's really important for developers to get behind Firefox again. As the American government fails to provide any sort of check on its behemoth corporations (Apple, Google, and Microsoft) and to protect consumer privacy, Firefox is basically the last contender for real consumer protection standing.
Dementia is a multifaceted disease, of which sleep plays a big part in the exhaustion of waste products. Inflammation also prevents the exhaustion of waste products.
Batteries degrade over time. I wouldn't classify that as faulty hardware. I would say it's faulty design (battery should be easily replaced) and faulty communication though.
Yup agree. Something that was in back of my head but couldn't quite come up with a way to say/write about it.
What are some useful, active web based projects to contribute to?
Show HN: Tool for speech recognition with a remote fallback (Native/External)
V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release v6.4
>We have a reasonable amount of money in the bank (no matter the number it's never enough) and the only debt we owe is the mortgage on the house.

This is an extremely unhealthy perspective.
I don't see why this is necessarily the case. You can boot lightweight VMs with a unikernel in under 10ms [1].

[1] http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/lightvm.pdf
It's indefensible that defer works on the function and not on the scope.
The ECU isn't intentionally degrading performance, it's balancing the air to fuel to compression ratios for optimal combustion of fuels and reduced emissions. It's a dynamic systems and degradation in performance occurs as a result.

It's not intentionally handicapping the performance to hide the fact that your fuel tank can no longer hold the same volume of fuel.
That's a fairly uninformative site. It makes a claim and does nothing to back it up.
Benefits of Cyber Security Career in the 21st Century and Beyond
The Product Manager – Sales Team Catch-22: Areas of Friction and How to Mend Them
Justice League is in Star Wars: The Attack of the Clones' level of horrendous abuse of CGI.
Ehh, I use Safari as my main browser (it feels more "native" than Chrome & FF, has seemingly lower CPU usage than Chrome, and is WAY better for the battery), and I rarely suffer for it. Once in a while there is a site that does something fancy that requires Chrome, but it is rare.
But even now what you're arguing against is attribution. His original comment is just attribution, there's no guilt attached. Readers may choose to attach their political opinions to attribution and you may think that's fair or not but it seems ridiculous to me to be calling out someone for posting about the interests behind a story.

So let's cut the crap and be real here, this article is basically propaganda. The entity responsible for producing it will never produce a politically unbiased article examining some critical issue because their raison d'etre is to produce politically biased articles. What you're saying is that it's on us an individuals to line by line refute all the crap propaganda that gets spewed out. There's no way to do that in the 21st century, there's too much information. We need to be able to attribute and write-off when necessary. This article was written by a right-wing think-tank who's explicit mission is to promote free market ideals? Why would I read that? You and I both basically already know what is in it and that the writer is a complete partisan.
A lot of successful governments use the euro, a currency which they neither own nor control?
I don't mind being taxed at all.

What I find stressful is calculating - not just the 'what was the USD price at the time of the exchange' that has to be manually entered and looked up into the exported CSV spreadsheet... BUT tying that to the movement of coin from Coinbase to the exchange. It's a pain.

I regret using Bittrex, as there's almost no tooling for this available.
Bitcoin: peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency (2009)
> The sooner you accept this, the less likely you'll burn out.

I learned this at my first software engineer (though we didn't call it such) job back when I was 18; closing in on 45 years of age, and I'm still here at it, and don't see that changing soon. I have thought about management, but I really don't have such experience, and I'm not a real people person anyhow - plus I like to code.

Another thing I have learned - at least here in the United States: Not only do they not care about quality, they usually don't have any loyalty to you as an employee. They'll let you go without any warning at all, and if you're lucky, you'll get some severance pay.

So save your money, build a savings account with FU cash in it (6 months to a year of salary - or more), and don't be afraid to drop an employer like a hot potato if things aren't working out, or a better offer is in the works.

And above all else, don't let your skills stagnate.
Drawing power causes voltage drops; I suspect what they're saying is that a degraded battery under heavy load will momentarily drop from 40% to under cutoff threshold.
I sometimes feel like Chrome is the new Internet Explorer too! There have been a number of GSuite features from Google that don't work on Firefox. Google Hangouts for one! Also on that list was U2F auth and some others. Here we have Google products that only work on the Google browser. What does that sound like? Maybe Microsoft and all their ActiveX IE shenanigans in the past!

The moral of the story, which I think the article highlighted very well, is that the web platform is based on standards. Build to the standards. If you don't like the standards, advocate for new ones! It's hard work but it's how we got where we are and how we will continue to have a web 100 years from now.
I think basically he is saying there is a bit of a dichotomy in stating that communities overestimate their abilities to apply value judgements and then at the same time state that they should only judge people based on their contributions and value to that community.

As much as you might like, you can't really separate some specific technical ideal of "value" or "contribution" from a person's actions on the whole. People are people, and communities are collections of people with human interactions and interpersonal relationships.

I'll also add that the false equivalence between excluding Allan Turning because he was gay vs. excluding people who express homophobic attitudes because they want to exclude people who are gay is just another way of stating "in order to embrace tolerance we must be tolerant of intolerance". Can we all finally accept that for the fallacy that it is?
Normally this sort of issue is solved with a capacitor network. It's actually common to get them removed during a "cost optimization" stage because the device will still appear to work. Just with grately reduced reliability.
Had no idea about this or the controversy around the original new yorker article, thanks for taking the time to include the whole text of the letter.
> People with Licenses are not a concern, and should not concern anyone. Gun Violence against others is committed by criminals.

Of course they concern people including myself! Just because someone has a license doesn't mean they won't do something stupid. That includes a license to drive cars. There are lots of restrictions such as speed limits, traffic lights and so on. And everyone is a "law abiding citizen" until their very first homicide.

>Once you account for other sources and caused of Gun Violence (i.e the War on Drugs, and other government actions) the "threat" from legal gun owners is a statistical abnormality

I am well aware that half of all gun violence is suicide, and I specifically exclude it from my estimates when I say that the USA has gun HOMICIDES the size of the Paris attacks every 6 days.

Just to be clear - mass shootings account for a tiny percentage of those, and the issue is not with assault weapons. It is with GUNS. More guns means more chances for regular people to get into spontaneous gun violence over altercations in a bar or on the street. Nevermind gangs and so on.

Yes I am NOT talking suicides.

My point, however, is that just as we are discussing things now, you should discuss about gay marriage and other things. And not just knee jerk fire someone when they don't bring their political views to work.
A neatly unassailable point of view.
They should've named it Long JavaScript !
Sure - but this has long surpassed 'ideas and opinions'. Oppression of gay people, minorities, and other marginalized groups is not founded in 'opinion' - it's a fact and representation of life. Gay people are currently in a situation where someone is trying to actively oppress them. When you donate to anti-gay causes, you're directly enabling harm.

This doesn't have anything to do with censorship - it has to do with letting people know that taking an active participatory position in oppression is not acceptable.
That would have been so much clearer if they'd just written "…upon an exchange of virtual currency for other property, including other virtual currency."

But they didn't, and thus the 'other' can easily be read as "other kind of property" – leaving 'virtual currency' to 'virtual currency' unaddressed.
No, but my response applies in the abstract
If anything it's a call to go back to individual sites/blogs and finding some kind of micro/subscription architecture that works. Flattr kinda failed, but Patreon has at least made some headway.
How does excluding the coworker help you? It certainly won't make them suddenly realize that you do deserve human rights after all. Why not make the best of the situation and create something of value to both of you?
Hookdoo allows you to execute the same script on multiple servers. It's centralized, and you don't have to maintain multiple versions of the same script on multiple hosts. You can easily add or remove servers where the script should be executed etc...

It also adds the concurrency control feature so you don't have to worry if you want only one instance of the script running, or want to kill the currently running one, or run them in parallel etc...

Another feature would be generic trigger rules where you can use values from payload to see if the script should be run at all (i.e. push to the feature branch, but you want to run the script on merges to master...).

As a developer, all of this might sound easy to implement, but whatever you make, you also have to maintain... And as you know, the business requirements tend to change quite often and you'll get to a point where you have to generalize your custom CGI scripts, and you end up spending more time maintaining infrastructure than doing development on the actual product.

Webhook on other hand is pretty much a CGI server with a few handy features :-)
you are right, check those links instead then :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051267

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/op-ed...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-safari-web-browser-is-be...
Yes, of course experience can be very valuable! However, it's rather tricky to share with people you don't know. You can't just make a bare assertion:

"Life is much better in Europe than in the US."

"How do you know?"

"Someone said so on the Internet."

You see? It doesn't transfer.

I think it makes more sense to tell stories of specific things that happened to you, and let people make their own generalizations.
ban buzzfeed and huffington post articles?
Oh really, just beliefs?

Is it merely my "belief" that I can publicly criticize our government in whatever way I want (short of threats) without fear of government reprisal?

Is it merely my belief that no transaction with any bureaucracy, government or otherwise, has ever required me to pay a bribe, and that being asked for one would be offensive and probably just inconceivable to any American?

Your defense of authoritarian regimes is a simple-minded rehash of "at least the trains ran on time". There's nothing clever or new about it; for all of history depots have used safety and convenience to justify stripping people of basic human rights.
The bigger effect is probably how software is developed. Most devs have a shiny new phone on their desk, we make it fast enough and then stop, therefore an older phone will appear to be slower because the app is still fast on our devices.

QA will test on a older phone but most companies don’t have tight performance targets so what used to be 60 FPS is now 45 and what used to be a 200 ms load is now 250 ms.

The difference is imperceptible during dev because each new feature shaves a few FPS and adds a few ms.
not OTC -- it's centrally cleared by us.
This idea has been explored at least a few times in movies:

S1m0ne (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/
No and I think your opinion is harmful.

IE literally refused to implement standards, rendered broken dom elements, allowed for proprietary native extensions and had many different apis for them. They had 90% of the market share and no other viable platforms. This meant developers built things which exploited these broken features causing huge compatibility issues when they aren’t (every other browser).

A simple lack of features didn’t make IE... IE. Safari is a pain in the ass but it sure as fuck ain’t no internet explorer.

I think Chrome is propagating lazy developers who think everyone uses their browser. Which means things only work in Chrome and no where else. It’s not as bad as the IE situation yet and hopefully it won’t be with Firefox kicking ass again.
Apple now requires games with loot boxes to disclose odds
The tide of public opinion seems to have turned against argument 1. I don't follow law close enough to really know if legal decisions have also been turning against it.
Comcast’s network investments soared–with net neutrality rules in place
Yeah but in all fairness, even among humans, so many people go by those names. If Ford Prefect had paid a bit more attention when he first arrived, he might have gone with one of those as well, instead.
I’m definitely seeing several sites lately that require me to use a particular browser, lest I see blank elements or “buttons” that infuriatingly do nothing when I click them except in certain browsers.

It’s not consistent though. Usually switching to Safari is what works but sometimes I must use Firefox. On one government site it seemed the only working combo was to use an iPad, as no desktop browser worked on my Mac.

My latest gripe has to be log-in screens though (Google is guilty): forms are as old as the web and I resent that I can’t even log in anymore because your Unnecessarily Fancy Form just doesn’t work on all browsers!?
There is a project[1] + whitepaper[2] on projecting the likelihood of future white collar crimes written by Sam Lavigne, Francis Tseng, and Brian Clifton.

[1] https://thenewinquiry.com/white-collar-crime-risk-zones/
[2] https://whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com/static/whitepaper.pdf
It does say in iOS that your battery needs to be replaced [1]. Everyone keeps saying they never told anyone about this but they basically announced it to the press with a statement (as well as the notice in iOS) when iOS 10.2.1 was released [2].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207453

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/apple-says-ios-10-2-1-has-...
Wait, are you leaving Mozilla or your day-to-day responsibilities with Rust? I'm confused about the message here.

Either way, your help in providing documentation and mentorship to me personally on IRC and thousands of other aspiring rust devs is something I'm profoundly grateful for. Thank you, Steve!!
Not really, it is a worry in model planes or vaping devices which draw significant current.
Phone it has a temperature sensor and only other risk you have is it being bent or punctured.

I always wonder how people use those vaping devices (especially cheap ones from ebay) without fear of them blowing up, energy density is crazy there.
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If China's firewall can't stop it, nothing will
> Don't accuse others of astroturfing or shillage. This always degrades discussion and rarely hits the mark. Email us instead and we'll look into it.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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I have 3+ years of experience in iOS development(Swift & objective-c).
I'm not ashamed for waiting longer. I'm ashamed for the same reason I would expect doctors to feel ashamed about Andrew Wakefield.
My most recent serverless configuration file was probably approximately 90 percent aws specific (cloudformation) syntax anyways.
They didn't just screw up once . They've screwed up many times over the years with many projects and attempts that run counter to the core values that Mozilla claims to uphold. Bryan Lunduke articulated this very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMALm1VthGY

At this point Mozilla has to prove to us that they are worthy of our usage
Same experience here. Safari is my daily driver for casual browsing because it feels smoothest and integrates well with the OS, iPhone, etc. The only times I can remember it being a problem are when I see a bleeding edge tech demo posted somewhere like HN.
As an iPhone 6 user I downloaded a an app called CPU Dasher X and found that my CPU was being throttled to 600MHz once it fell to around 40% charge. Not great. Now looking at a battery replacement (~£40)
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The ol' car analogy has failed you here.

Cars do sometimes stop working after a year because their batteries fail and the great majority of people in that situation take their cars to a repair shop rather than do the work themselves.

Actually, the battery in a phone is more comparable to the entire fuel delivery and ignition system in a car, not just the battery. Even fewer people could handle that work on their own.
Imagine you sold a thousand of those and after realizing the mistake shipped a bios update that underclocked the CPU instead.
My smartphone in 2008 was an iPhone. It slowed down unacceptably and I never bought another piece of Apple hardware again. My 3 phones since then all remained usable past 2 years until I was ready to replace them on my own schedule.
so, this is like the DHCP client/server version of IP over avian carriers?
No offense, but I'm not sure I understand the point of this post or why it's relevant / upvoted.