skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm content with either framing. Both can be fixed through deliberate construction of a market using regulation.

But in the US, we don't acknowledge that we are already regulating, and we are wholly ideologically committed to the notion that "regulation" is bad.
> Goodbye Android builds.

Think of it as an opportunity. Clearly this product has proved its usefulness, so there's a whole market to be served.
Tesla Model S: Yes, you can drive an electric car to the Scottish Highlands
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Fat vegans are out there. "Vegan" is no magic bullet.

Calories are inescapable. The body's output changes in compensation for incoming calories, but only within a certain range.

Also, there is all sorts of processed crap that's bad for you that qualifies as vegan because no animal products are involved. Hydrogenated vegetable oil, anyone?

You could be a potato chip and cookie vegan.
That's why I said in absolute worst case scenario. I know that in the past I actually wrote some program in high school that did use that.

Nowadays, thanks to vulkan and AZDO with glMultiDrawElementsIndirect, you're right, of course — you might even use a single syscall per frame.

That's why I said, in absolute worst case.
Trinitron TVs definitely were the best. Famously, the Trinitron as a product was a huge inspiration to Steve Jobs and influenced the design of the Apple II casing.

My favorite trivia about them was that, for some engineering reason, every Trinitron screen had a barely perceptible horizontal line artifact about 2/3 of the way down the display. This was true in every Trinitron, from televisions to monitors even through the 1990s.
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State encouraged private monopolies.
There must be a lot of cases where a rich person buys expensive treatments for a terminal illness that would be deemed hopeless and left untreated elsewhere, and that has to show in the statistics somehow. I don't consider this a big flaw in the U.S. system.

Probably not a lot, since most people aren't rich. But more to the point: That stuff happens other places as well. I'm in Norway, and there is a private healthcare system. Most of the time, I hear it being used for shortened waiting times or more luxury in the hospital, but I'm pretty sure rich folks can go to other lengths - on their own dime. This doesn't affect the state much because it isn't their freaking money.

Also the mostly private health care sector in the U.S. doesn't have similar incentives to cap their spending at a certain point as their publicly funded counterparts in Europe.

I think this is correct, but I think the fragmentation is what causes it. The fragmentation means there is no incentive to combine resources to make things cheaper and easier. Where I live in Norway, people can have - free - up to 6 nurse visits a day. Even if you live on an island or are spending your summer in a remote cabin. All because overall, the outcomes are good. People live longer, happier lives the longer they can be at home and it is cheaper than sending the same people to a nursing home.
No, it means the natural distribution of views gets turned into a bi-modal system of allegiances. Each party defines itself by its opposite. It then becomes much harder to cross the gap because doing so involves changing most of your political views to their polar opposites and losing most of your friends.

Quantifying "social division" is tricky, but I feel that multi-party systems offer much more scope for saying "we agree on A and B but disagree on C". While small differences can also be very divisive because humans are like that (big problem for the Left) it means you get less negative voting.

"Against X" and "For X" are not symmetrical positions, because there are usually lots of different alternatives to X. Only in a 2-party system do they produce the same answer.

The UK is mostly, but not totally, a 2-party system, and it's really noticeable how the regional parliaments do politics in a completely different way, with different party groupings. This is at least partly to do with the voting systems (AMS for Wales and Scotland, STV for the defunct NI assembly).
The general reply is on the linked page: 'Each country has unique rules and regulations affecting a company’s ability to conduct business in that country, as well as the employability of its citizens. These rules can be complex.'.

The rules in France and Sweden around hiring contractors make it impossible for us to hire more people there.
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We have requirement from sales people and right now are are using helpdesk and issue tracking tool to maintaing this .

Any suggestions or tool for improving the process .
> Under EU law (this is not legal advice), any bug that wasn't known to you at time of sale, but was present at time of sale, has to be fixed by the vendor.

Is this true for software as well?
One time I got frustrated enough with Maven not quite supporting what I wanted to do that I sat down and wrote a plugin that just did what I needed.

A short while later I was wondering why I'd never tried that before: Maven plugins are really quite simple to write.
That is very well put. I quoted this in our product handbook https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/be35fdc4... Thanks!
Only within reasonable limits. There may be some points in favor of not eating the sugar close to going to sleep: earlier in the day rather than later. However, sufficiently fierce face-stuffing will overcome this advantage.
Actually I remember reading at some point that the people who have the best careers in tech move between government and private at the right times, when there is going to be a downturn in the economy they move into the security of government work and work on the rules and regulations that will govern the future, as the economy turns back up they move into consulting regarding those particular rules and regulations.

This actually points to one of my major career mistakes in that when I left my government job I was burned out on the standard I had just spent some years seeing through to law, and instead of working consulting on it I took a totally unrelated job (based on the enticements of a friend who promised we would get to work on something I really wanted to work on)

I left millions on the table just by that one stupid decision.
but then again I was really burned out on it.

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Learnings 2017 (by an anonymous account “Introvert Founder”)
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When is Cordova support going to land in App Center?

We use HockeyApp just now, and App Center's rather strange lack of Cordova support is a total deal breaker for us.
Where does their sentence about the specification come into play in your interpretation?
After I posted the comment I figured that was the case.
80 some learnings from 2017 about being better self, building product, building a startup.

A few that I loved and that rhymes with me -

18. The definition of a good team is — a team where you can blindly trust the next person. Having technical skills, having social skills, having network and connection, these are the skills that can be developed, but the trust is a tough one.
19. Simple (is better than) Complex. Fast (is better than) Slow. Transparent (is better than) Opaque.
29. Be driven for new ways to solve a problem.
30. Be ready to jump in and figure it out.
31. Trust!
39. Don’t give up, take a deep breath, sleep, rethink.

80. Focus

Short and Interesting read.
> any bug that wasn't known to you at time of sale, but was present at time of sale, has to be fixed by the vendor

Unfortunately, this is incorrect on many levels.

First, under EU warranty laws, it's not any bug that is covered, but defects that have been assured or are expected to not be present. I'd expect disclaimers to allow for certain errata, for example. EDIT: user ta_wh posted an example for such a disclaimer in a sibling comment.

Second, the vendor is usually not the manufacturer, and therefore seldom in the position to fix the defect themselves.

Third, depending on the nature of the defect, the vendor might have other options besides fixing it/getting it fixed, eg: discount, or returns.
I have yet to see a web service where the database interactions do not leak into the business code.
I mean they would likely argue it's still substantially conforming even if it has bugs that come up, but I'm trying to figure out what kind of a case they could actually win.
Thanks. I guess I'll stick to my 8700k then.
I assume you mean in a sarcastic way. If not:

Of course it is. That’s what our man in congress is for.
None of those cows are raised on feedlots. Feedlots are used to fatten and "finish" the beef.

Most all cattle start their life being grass fed.
I myself have had little difficulty in debugging Chisel designs using waveforms: virtually every Chisel node has its name maintained in Verilog.

Sure, there are many, many more temporary variables created between nodes, but what I care about when debugging is "what are the values of my Chisel nodes"? It's like debugging by looking at assembly, but with your C/C++ variable names carried through to the disassembly.
The law applies to any sale between a consumer and a company, even one for free.

It does also apply to software, but software vendors will rather refund you than fix it.
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> after all is said and done, programming is about having your computer "do" something - whether it be to write some bytes to the disk or to send some bytes to the network.

Not always. Often, particularly in scientific computing, you just want to ... compute ... a result. I mean sure, the computer needs to display the result to you, but the computation isn't about displaying it, it's about computing it. Just like adding up a bunch of numbers on a calculator isn't about getting the calculator to "do" anything.

> often you don't need such a complicated abstraction, you just "need something done" before (or after) building.

Abstractions should be simpler than the thing they abstract over, that's their whole point. Treating my computer's memory as a flat array of numbers is simpler than thinking about how much current is flowing through each RAM wire. "Compile all source files" is simpler than "execute javac Foo.java, then execute javac Bar.java, then..."

> Whether it be that you want to download an HTML file to package, or to move the resulting file to a certain directory, or to clean a certain directory, your build language shouldn't be that arcane that you have to create a "build.sh" to get things done.

You shouldn't need a build.sh, agreed, but nor should you need particular things to happen to particular directories. Maven has great support for things like "package my documentation in the standard way". It's only when people try to fight it about the low-level details that they really shouldn't be caring about that they run into trouble.
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> So DRM works for games, because it takes a while to crack them.)

It really doesn't.

> For the vast majority of the internet users, it does.

The significant majority of internet users have been carefully conditioned with propaganda to be afraid of file sharing and other more convenient options.

The idea that it works just enough to be valuable is what these media corporations are constantly telling themselves, and each other. They have managed to cultivate a culture where that is almost true, so they continue to believe it.

What they are too afraid to believe is that DRM devalues their product more than it controls customers' spending. If that isn't true now (I am quite certain it is), it will be soon.
Rich people can still buy supplemental insurance in most other places.
if I had an 8700K (I have a 7700K, btw) and my use case was gaming (that's this cpu's target market) I'd keep it. Otherwise I'd get a Ryzen.
It held the aperture grill. It was truly a triumph, a huge success. I wish my Trinitron was still alive.
> Kind of similar to the often repeated quality triangle in Software dev

Which was disproved in practice.
I rather use native UI code + C++ for business logic, use Qt or Xamarin than even bother with React Native.
>If termination is difficult, surely many inept remain.

And, if the top of the organization is dysfunctional, making termination much easier (especially where 'easier' means 'no obligation to cite justification') just gives the psychos and empire builders more unchecked power.

If termination were easier but 80% based upon a majority of coworkers signing a document stating "this person is not doing their job properly" you could raise accountability and euthanize the empire builders at the same time, but somehow I don't think when they say "it's too hard to fire people" that's what they're aiming for.
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.... sports?

Only if they aren't something that attract a crowd. I see very few colleges cutting basketball or football programs so they don't have to maintain stadiums any more.
I'm sorry but what is the point of this article?
TL;DR
Alsa is buggy?
Ubuntu terminal is better than iTerm?
What do you actually... do? It's hard to figure out from your website. I think it sounds like you're a consulting firm?
Are you American? Streets in plenty of European cities still look like that.
Another view: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/who-is-reality-...

That was circulated with the comment "the risk is not so much people running to the Russians as people running to civil society - the NSA is not as popular as they think."

The NSA, like much of the US system, demands absolute unconditional loyalty. Internal dissent is not possible. Taking dissent public will get you sent to prison where you're not allowed to speak to journalists.
Don't forget that the usa sells arms at a loss to it's Ally's when you consider all the r&d aspects.

I'd also bet that you are underestimating some of the militarys classified weapons. Wouldn't even surprise me if we have nukes in space.

Finally look at it this way. There's 23 aircraft carriers in the world right now. The us has 11 of then. China's aircraft carriers are 2nd hand from Russia.

The us navy might not be 15x the size of the next 15 county's. However on a per equipment basis it's likely got a good advantage and we are likely some multiple bigger.
With bugzilla everyone can understand what tasks
exist. With jira you need a manager for what. Control of the information flow is the basics of geek politics.
> Clearly on-demand streaming implies broadcasting.

That's the trouble with words.

The words imply that one thing is the other, but that just doesn't work out in reality.
Source? I have a different viewpoint, a lot of people have national pride, still have a better network back home, or their parents' business, so that they actually go back to work in their home countries.
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Yeah most CLI mergetools are awefull..
if you want a nice git GUI, just use SmartGit.
https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit
> It shouldn't be possible to break laws by accident.

There shouldn't be a law that anyone can break without affecting anyone else.
Kaiser's HMO is much worse than a PPO. It's not that great of care.

Now compared to Medicare sure it's great.
We'll have a comparison between GitLab and Codestart/Codecommit up soon https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/1807
More a consequence of the schools happily trading teaching quality for research prestige.

And for sports prestige, of course.
Up until quite recently sony's grade 1 CRTs were the only* thing you could "grade" on. Even though they had stopped being manufactured in ~2006 there was a strong second hand market up until at least 2011.

* well kinda, it was the only thing at the time able to properly display the anywhere near the dynamic range that 10bit log provide.
Beware of Coinbase
How do you actually use this?

Simply transfer the Bitcoin from GDAX to Kraken and back again?
> Haha. Not really. American salaries, standards of living are among the highest/best in the planet. Plus an abundance of economic opportunities and relatively low discrimination compared to what one may face in other developed countries.

"Let me fix all of these points for you!" - Donald Trump
A concrete example: Private health insurance in the UK is cheap, because it excludes a lot of the basics - you use the NHS for that, and only call your private insurer if you e.g. need a specialist or if you can't get an appointment with your GP.

Yet only 10% opt for it, because the NHS is generally good enough. And of those 10% a lot only have it because it's offered as a mostly free perk by their employer.

But I do think that there is a segment - part of those 10% who opt for private insurance - that will always pay extra to get "the best" whether or not there is a major difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid_metabolism

TL;DR: dietary fatty acids are disassembled and then reassembled into triglycerides which are stored in adipocytes (fat cells) until needed.
I'll be honest, I didn't read most of the rest of the article until I found their conclusion. It's at least falsifiable, even if we have different definitions of shy.
Linux is fine if you're at home and have a few hours to kill to figure out how to tweak something, but if you're at work and need to do a video call using startup-of-the-week's proprietary service and use a projector at the same time... good luck!

Seriously though, that's the main reason I use OSX... It's usually compatible with the random toolsets my clients use without any additional tweaking.
I grew up in a house that still has a sewing machine. My grandmother knew how to use it, and my father does too - he still repairs some old pieces from time to time, but never touches anything made of newer fabrics, he says there is nothing that he can mend there. Funny thing, he's a civil engineer.
Yes, I am mostly gaming on that PC. Thanks.
Interesting article. Undoubtedly, some of the earliest uses of the letter were lost in Tre Kronor, where Sweden kept its national archives until the castle burned down in the late 17th century.
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Why Use Debian Stable on the Desktop?
A quick google says:

<<According to Title 3 of the US Code, the US President "shall earn" a salary of $400,000, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainment.>>

Where can a mediocre software developer get $450K+?!
I thought there were two lines?
OP here.

I was really disappointed by his posts in the last year, since he is a very important author and figure in my career.

Therefor I could not let this slide.

The question that still bothers me is: should I read material from people I think are showing unacceptable behavior?
Strange issues for a laptop officially supported to run Ubuntu. Looks like he is on 16.04, I wonder how 17.10 and later 18.04 would treat him.

I run Solus (Gnome) on an Asus bx410 and I have 0 issues. Would really love it though if the DPI would adapt to the monitor and keep everything the same size.

Oh, I shouldn't say more or my comment will be longer than the article.
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Or Visual Studio Code.
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As the o in 'more'
You make it sound like "political law making" is a problem and some other form of non-political law making would be a superior solution. The performance of the civil services in dictatorships indicates otherwise: they're invariably more corrupt, more prone to latching on to bad policies and refusing to give them up even in the face of disaster and so on.

Governments don't refuse to fire incompetent people because of "political law making". They refuse because firing people is hard, emotionally draining, legally risky and something that managers will only do when properly incentivised. Without competition or profit there is no incentive to rock the boat and pick a fight at work, so why bother? Some noble idea of higher quality public service? Fat chance.
Ok maybe almost certain is a bit strong but the aircraft maneuvered after losing contact along a path towards the open ocean pretty similar to one the captain had practiced on his flight simulator less than a month before. Not sure how an overheating battery pack would do that. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/mh370-pilot-fle...
Functionally, for the consumer, streaming is mostly identical to a recording. Want to listen to a song? Press play. The storage just happens to be on some server somewhere.
> only tangentially related to technical meaning of those terms.

Let's get some new words then.

We need to be explicit.
I had to respond to this because I am also a person who switched from Mac OS to Linux for work.

But I still have my Macbook pro at the office, it never leaves the desk there.

My ambulatory laptop is a Thinkpad X260 running Fedora.

I have none of the issues described in the article

But you do raise valid points. I work in an organisation that loves Microsoft and store-bought solutions like Skype for Business.

My answer is to use a tablet for video conference calls, a Pixel C in my case but any modern tablet will work.

So with that solved the only major gripe I have with using Linux professionally is all the enterprise VPN solutions that in one way or another require Windows.

Juniper JunOS pulse for example, I haven't been able to get that working on Linux. They do have an official Linux client but like you said, it requires some finagling.

Other than that though I think Linux has come a very long way from the old mentality that you had to spend long nights getting everything to work.

I used to do that, but the last 5-6 years I've been too busy with work to bother. So I was using mostly Apple until about 4 years ago when I bought a Thinkpad X230 and started using Fedora.

Another issue that doesn't come up often but is quite debilitating is when I need to screencast to someone. Wayland isn't supported anywhere so I have to logout and log back in with X just to screencast.

None of the other issues you mentioned affect me, projectors and hdmi screen sharing works just fine.
This is fine if the performance is low but positive and if, as sibling comment points out, your organisation can absorb large amounts of waste.

When an employee's performance is actually negative, i.e. they make things worse rather than better e.g. due to personality issues, then moving them around isn't going to work well.
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