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Oh please HN, stop posting articles that are 100% political theory without a single link to tech.

At the least, please create a category for naked politics. No, hide doesnt work very well (multiple devices, times out, etc).

One time a mod told me that articles with no link to tech got deleted. That really doesn't appear to be the. This is yet another capitalist vs communist (literally, the labor theory of value was a Marx thing) diatribe that has no relation to the tech oriented stuff many came here for. There are plenty of other political sites for stuff like this.

I often wonder, if you could vote down stories, these would probably have a severe split and maybe not make the front page or stay there. Only being able to upvote let's a small contingent push something up (just ask the bitcoin people).
How Did New York's Trains Get So Bad?
Did I want the "Datacentre" or the "Agile Datacentre"? Fucked if I know, all I know is that my servers aren't responding and your phone tree is fucking confusing.
My managers use Hype to figure out what's latest. That's the only thing they know, chasing the hype is what they call it.
Nerds are raised on sci-fi. I was. They keep waiting for the future to happen. Scouring for "new technologies" is sometimes called "scouting." It's really important for a company to appoint "scounters." Then everyone else knows "scouting" is not in their job descriptions. Then they start to focus. Many organizations never graduate from future fetishism.
If you think it's off-topic, then click “flag” and move on.
That is why we have the separation of powers. The people writing law do not have the ability to interpret or enforce it and they can be replaced by the people they represent.
Sitas –  Operate multiple servers interactively in parallel ssh
5 Real World Uses for Redis
I think it's also a way to dodge taxes.
Oh geez, here we go.

> your highly moral superior nation/ nope moral high ground is long gone for you guys

Let me start this by saying that I am not a US citizen. Also not Chinese.

> The biggest patriot of the US is forced to live in Russia because he pointed out, that the US has built an apparatus for mass surveillance.

I understand his motivations. However, can you point to me a single country in the entire planet where theft of classified information would not be prosecuted to the full extent of the law?

> If he would go back home he would be killed, legally,

You don't know that. I don't know that. That is for the legal system to decide.

> In general people that speak against the US are threatened.

No they are not. There is a very big difference between "speaking out against" and actively leaking classified information. Go try it yourself, book a plane, go to the white house and go speak out. Nothing is going to happen to you, and you will find that you won't be the only one doing that.

> yet Assange is sentenced to death in the embassy

This hyperbole deserves no comment.

> North Korea is bullyied by the world (on behalf of the US) because they have not opened to capitalism and they have a nuclear bomb

There are other countries which share the same description and are not being "bullied". What the 'people's democratic oxymoronic country' has is a deranged lunatic, playing with weapons and oppressing his people.

> To be honest, I am more afraid of the lunatic in the white house to launch one of those bombs than the fatty in North Korea.

Checks and balances. You should look up those.

> The free press is so damn broken

I'll concede this point. Actually, we could say that the press is too goddamn free, to the point where channels can spread outright lies and nothing ever happens. But then again, you can choose who to listen to, there is no state propaganda (even though there is one network that would love to become one).

> in fact I think after Hiroshima you never had it.

Oh by the way, I love Japan. Been there, great country. But it is not like they were minding their own business in WWII and got surprise attacked with a new type of weapon. They were at war.

Please, leave your couch, go to the US, see for yourself. Then do the same for other countries. I bet that at least some of your tone is going to change.
Giant Auto Industry Disruption Ahead
In the US, there is no political party where you can go to prioritize competent government. You can only choose between these two options a) more government, or b) less government.
I can’t get over the rumor mill... Friday, VMware stock jumps 20% on word that Dell would buy the remaining 20% of VMware to then IPO. As of this morning the opposite is leaked and VMware may buy Dell and the shares slide 16% the other direction. Many articles say that the board is going to meet later this month to decide. It’s amazing that tens of billions of dollars in value swing on a few unsubstantiated whispers. There may be some truth to it but I don’t think we are any closer to knowing
* use anonymous or fake team.

* promise big.

* have unfortunate accident “losng” all funds and dissolving venture.

* girls, cars, clubs, cocaine.
Do you know why/how?
My favorite quote on the topic comes from Arnold Schwarzenegger, arguably one of the most self-made people you can find. He said:

"I am not a self-made man.

Every time I give a speech at a business conference, or speak to college students, or do a Reddit AMA, someone says it.

“Governor/Governator/Arnold/Arnie/Schwarzie/Schnitzel (depending on where I am), as a self-made man, what’s your blueprint for success?”

They’re always shocked when I thank them for the compliment but say, “I am not a self-made man. I got a lot of help.”
Because I own lots of stuff made in China (even 10 years worth of stuff from living there) and I'm not boycotting them like grandparent might be. Heck, my son is half Chinese (technically made in China), my MIL in the other room doesn't even speak a word of english (and her Mandarin is heavily accented), etc...

I just liked the keyboard question.
What are the stats on even DX12 penetration?

I still encounter a fair numver of new games that are built on DX9, not even DX11.
This is the sort of thing that free education and health care for all could give so many more people.

We’re penny-wise and pound-foolish with our dispensation of public funds.
This article implicitly assumes that intensity/amount of labour should translate directly into income.

Perhaps because that's how employers typically exhort their staff to greater productivity? Never once have I had an employer say 'there's a fat bonus waiting for someone who can figure out a clever shortcut through this problem' or the like. For people who genuinely start at the bottom, personal initiative is often discouraged rather than rewarded and the benefits of innovation or exceptional performance often accrue to the nearest manager rather than the eager beaver.
I did. And hid it. Now I'll just have to hide it everywhere else, and ignore when it comes up looking through through old articles and search results.

Just because you can flag isn't carte blanche to post anything. I like the site much better (and I'm sure many others too) when it stays in its technical oriented wheelhouse.
It'd be one thing if the use of torture was increasing over time across our society, or all societies.

But using "torture was recently brought back" as a data point to rebut an overall statistical decline makes no sense. It's like saying "Apple's stock price fell today, therefore people are wrong to say the economy is improving".
It took me 7 months to finally get my issue resolved which got me access again to my account. I tried public shaming on HN, Twitter, their support boards etc - and with no luck. I get that they are expanding, and perhaps behind on support requests - but anything hitting more than two months is already embarrassing - what would it take for them to hire appropriately for the level of demand they are getting -- these are obviously not one off cases.
This doesn't seem like the case but Cathy O'Neil (the author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy) raises the point that we often see algorithms implemented in non-traditional ways when society faces tough questions. It makes me really hesitant about using algorithms as silver bullets to solve hard problems in society.
My experience in Australia is this is OK. Very few companies for example would expect you to have React experience. If you have any web framework experience (or just know JS well) you are OK.

Usually on the back end they are fussy about your main stack, e.g. C# -> Ruby would be hard. Java -> C# more possible. However within that, which frameworks you have used, e.g. Akka, NHibernate etc. doesn't matter.

NoSQL, or any particular DB technology is rarely expected.

My experience is companies are fairly conservative with their tech choices here. A 4 yr old framework is typical! Usually there will be 1 or 2 cutting edge things being tried out, but without uprouting everything.
So why assume hedge fund managers get their jobs through “connections” but professional basketball players don’t?
Here is my Python implementation:
https://github.com/shabda/experiments/tree/master/prime_dino...

I put up a show HN, but no one liked it :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16198861
yeah, the naming.... it's basically a client app for the ethereum ecosystem, much like the role a web browser has
No, I’m not. Your description here is fine, but it does not fit a huge chunk of the real economy, which was the point. Healthcare is just one example of many (agriculture, energy, telecom, etc.)
Oh yeah, what are their names? If these really really really bad people who can only be caught by ignoring 4A actually existed, one or more of them would have been prosecuted in the last decade. This is movie-plot threat analysis. Despite the ironclad logic to the contrary upthread, you cling to the idea that this is about catching criminals. Because you trust what the enforcement-industrial complex tells you about crime and the security of personal computing devices. Why is that? I can't imagine you'd believe what they tell you about crime and ideal incarceration rates...
What “under the radar” city today will blow everyone’s mind in 2100?
Back up camera is super handy to hitch up a trailer on a pickup/truck.
When people first started discussing which codecs to use on the web a decade ago, the argument made for the MPEG-LA stuff was that a) we're better, b) we're reasonably priced, c) we're already everywhere in hardware, and d) you don't have to worry about the patents because we've got you covered. Ultimately, they won on that basis. However, when HEVC rolled around, that argument was destroyed by the multiple patent pools, and the consumer groups for the patents were pissed off enough to make competitive alternatives.

I suspect that he believes that the perpetual funding stream of ever-better patents is needed to fund the research for ever-better codecs (which, as you say, is disputable but not unreasonable). I also suspect that he would argue that some of the problems of the protection racket amounts to a necessary evil (a protection racket does give you a viable means to combat submarine patents). However, the AV1/HEVC situation undermines these arguments, and this is someone who realizes the gravy train is running out of rails and is desperate to keep it from derailing instead of bailing while he still can.
It's not like the SEC has been silent on cryptocurrency ponzi schemes though.
GDP is absolutely irrelevant to warfare.

The Soviets lost to the incredibly poor country of Afghanistan. Vietnam's GDP was/is a small fraction of Russia's, yet America still lost and communism spread through the region. If war came to Western Europe again, I find it unlikely that America could've won.
The one that has been the bane of my existence is Lync/Skype for Business. So often, doing development or even just in mundane business scenarios, its worthwhile to be signed into multiple unfederated Lync pools at the same time, or just different accounts on the same pool.

I've worked with the underlying RTC libraries directly, or through the managed .NET wrapper, and there's no great technical reason for this; it's just that the Lync client has a global single-instance mutex.
Someone is definitely having a laugh at Clinton’s expense. Funny except it isn’t.
It's full of blink-and-you'll-miss-them jokes

Another fan checking in. Here's a bonus if you missed it: writer Megan Amram's list of restaurants for the Good Place. Don't read it if you haven't finished Season 1.

https://twitter.com/meganamram/status/913642289834090497
Push Notifications and Local Notifications on iOS – Tutorial
Very few deaths like this in Australia. Those few deaths are almost always with huge 4WD urban assault vehicles.

More common are kids drowning in backyard swimming pools.
English song for kids
i recommend a whole NaCl crystal
> Sometimes I feel like one of the few people who tries to act consistently

most people think they do.
Oh so you literally trigger the highest alert absolutely possible for them doing business with you and you’re surprised they never wanted to speak with you again?!

Minor fucking missing detail...
As Eminem says, “Never asked nobody for shit.”

If you can’t say that, you’re not truly self-made. The “rags-to-riches” tale has to actually be rags to riches.

There’s still doing great work and making something of yourself, but it’s very different when you do it from scratch.
> numberBigInt = numberBigInt.minus(1)

https://github.com/geonnave/primg/blob/master/index.html#L82

Could go double as fast subtracting 2 instead of 1 (why try the even numbers).
Holy wow. This is prose. This is poetry.
Libertarians don’t have much representation. You get to choose whether it’s business or personal life that should be heavily regulated.
But for this model to work, the international community of licensees has to actually believe that your patents have merit.

If you act like a cartel, generate reams of questionably valid patents so that you can hand them out to your member corporations under sweetheart terms and at the expense of your licensees, you're eventually going to piss off enough people to make the music stop.

Evidently, this is what happened. The patent pool is now so large that it's really easy for other players to come in with their own, similar patents. They can use these to create new patent pools and try to take everybody hostage with higher fees (HEVC Advance), or they can build a protective moat and threaten to sue anyone who demands licensing fees from them.

Patent licensing can be made to work in a lot of cases, but these guys really dug their own graves here.

Also, I think there are a number of alternative funding routes that can be made to work. Government funding, as you mentioned, could be one of them. Terms of the funding could stipulate that the research be made publicly available and licensable under reasonable terms.

Companies can also choose to fund the research via Fraunhofer rather than doing it all internally. Not everybody has Google's resources, and there are major advantages to having improvements included in a standard that everybody can access.
Zcash needs to fix 1. Trusted setup issue and 2. Make it possible to debug money supply.

Otherwise, zksnarks has very good potential overall.
Assuming author will see, year of approval for mpeg2 is listed as 1004 at the end of the article.

I worked in video for a several years - sorry to hear about your issues.
It's staring you right in the face: blockchain is the perfect tool for speculation.
Thank you for the excellent explanation!
No, sorry. Not yet :(
Exactly. Rather than "implicitly assuming" one thing, it quite explicitly states the opposite.
Why Bitcoin Is Not a Currency but a Speculative Real Asset
I agree, but the author doesn't tell us how to do that in practice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT
Story of my life! :p
I can't wait for my own success and fortune. After I've sacrificed my personal life and weekends for ten years, I'm glad that reputable, non-biased publications like the Guardian will have fed the rest of the population an ideology that places me as a undeserving oppressor, regardless of my individual characteristics or political viewpoint. That way, I'll only have to wait a year or two before I'm thrown in the White Privilege (TM) gulags, to spend the rest of my days carrying 100 lbs. bags of salt from one end of the gulag to the next. Thanks, The Guardian!
Mukesh Ambani’s army of expats at Jio
In Japan, we call him Shuwa-chan.
I know it's a different issue but this reminded me of the developers who mention five design patterns for every requirement listed. It's often pointless and, more often than not, it's easier to just describe what is it they mean when they mention them.

I've picked a stack, it's simple, straightforward enough, easy to pick up and understand and fits most applications, and every one I've tried to work on my own. I still try to experiment with new tools, libraries, etc, but often they end up as just that: experiments.
while theres an esssense of truth in this blog ( write simple code ) the details given miss the mark. Software shouldn't be considered a cost, that could lead to the wrong choices, it's just part of a bigger system and costs generally should be measured at the system level.

Also you have to be careful with using "interns" as a measure of minimum code level. Often the interns opt for what they feel is simple to understand but can be prone to errors. There are many micro patterns that avoid many problems that come from experience. But the sentiment about not using too clever code is generally good.
Ecclesiastes has helped me.
We don't know how Yahoo would've done under someone else. It could've been much worse.

It's perfectly possible Mayer did unique work that paid her compensation and much more in savings. Without the counterfactual, we cannot judge her.
he meant by weight its over 64% sugar.
Fat is a third of calories —36%— not half.
"But Apple is just good at marketing"
"When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him 'whose?'"
That comparison appears to says that the difference in quality between opus and he-aac is the same as the difference between he-aac and vorbis.

Opus is definitely better, but we have basically hit the wall in audio compression (we'll need a serious breakthrough to go much farther). There also isn't as much interest in audio codec research because even very large raw audio files pale in comparison to fully compressed video.
Parallels Strunk & White's Elements of Style. Who knew there was so much similarity between writing code and writing prose?

Omit needless words.

Write in a way that comes easily and naturally to you, using words and phrases that come readily to hand.

It is always a good idea to reread your writing later and ruthlessly delete the excess.

Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.
Where's my 34" irrevokable longboard smartphone I was promised, I might ask first. Or where are the desktop CPUs with fewer than 5-ring security please, without mentioning Intel Atom.

This is the time period when encouraging people to go out coincided with being aware that meningitis and melinoma must be checked out by someone whose credentials would naturally be beyond all rapportage! Then Zika. And then don't go inside if the people there travel where long-capsid viruses are common; and the TSA would like to weigh in as a completely discredited agency which will be continuing thanks. Oh and no reason, but health premiums are a thing that mean to dominate now and if you work outside you can be fired for asking about health guidance. Primaries in the US; anyone, how's your favorite Third Party holding up?
Great, great; now tell me just the good things about jurisprudence and family pride in Latin America; Canada if you like.
Eudimonia is a better way to understand happiness.
Thank you for agreeing with me and providing supporting examples.
I know this is somewhat off topic, but what's the deal with "Look no further than the Clinton email breach to see how much a single hacker can change the world."?

To my knowledge, there's no evidence that Clinton's email was breached. The DNC, sure, but the Clinton email controversy wasn't based on any actual known breach. It's sort of alarming to see this weird retconning of history.
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
I had the same experience. I couldn't get them to change my country, I provided ID, but somehow they thought it was not real.

It was over 1 year and I would have bought bitcoins from them if they didn't make this too much of a pain in the ass. Finally, I bought bitcoins from my friends. Lately, I need to sell them and say fuck it, I will create a new account. It worked!
Some may be amazed by the scale of the market at Huaqiang Bei intersection today, but it is just a pale afterimage of what it was 10 years ago, when the market was effectively filling 2 to 3 city blocks. It has been gentrified to death since then.

And to people thinking of Shenzhen as a manufacturing city teeming with garage entrepreneurs, They fared no better. There are close to no factories remaining within the city centre today, except the special customs zone on the southern tip of Futian.

All of this is thanks to the witless mayor Wang Rong that took over the city in 2009. Some oh his first orders were to bulldoze factories and build glossy shopping malls, "weekend rest" hotels, and coffee shops with $10 a pop cappuccinos, so "we can live like in civilised Western countries"
Just for your benefit, an externality is a cost or benefit that is incurred by a party not involved in a transaction.

Cheap energy generates positive externalities. Obviously I'm not talking about the buyer and the seller of the that energy, I'm talking about the social polity at large. There are positives to having large cheap energy reserves, and those positives are absolutely not priced in to the energy market.

Cheap energy is an enabler that frees resources up for other tasks. It is not a reasonable position for someone to pretend that coal is 'implicitly subsidied' because they've picked up on one negative externality and decided that it should be priced in; the net picture needs to be considered. If we were going to price in all the externalities of having such a cheap and convenient but dirty fuel it might well get an actual subsidy, but that would be silly in its own right. This is one of the major reasons why the pro-renewables crowd has such difficulty convincing anyone to price in the environmental impacts.

Sure, if the debate is had and we all decide that a specific negative externality is to be priced in then I've got no leg to stand on and I'll sing a different tune. But governments so far have implicitly accepted that that negative externality should not be priced in.
> barely out of diapers

This is ageist. Against the young and the very old.
I hear music all the time :/
I'm not opposed to that idea, but for it to work, we would have to invert our funding structures, with the majority of our taxes going to states and cities, and not the federal government. And while he seems to be happy to cut taxes, he doesn't seem to be too keen on cutting actual spending, so we're all gonna have to pay for it sooner or later.
The word "reasonable" in this case is almost a term of art, meaning "the courts get to decide". Decide they have.
Wow, pretty sure that would be totally against our consumer law in my country (Australia)...
The amount of labor does translate into income, but what are the units of measure? Joules? Hours? Indulgences?

Arguably, the units are dollars. A dollar's worth of work is worth a dollar.
Peer Review Checklist for Embedded Software
I haven't read the parent to this comment. But:

> XS [is] exclusive to Perl 5.

Perl 5 modules, including XS ones, are `use`able with P6 (`use Module::Using::XS:from<Perl5>; # P6 code...`).

> CPAN [is] exclusive to Perl 5.

CPAN has been an optional store for Perl 6 modules since 2016 iirc. In the last couple months it's become more or less the preferred store.