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If you read any legal opinions in visible cases they are never just the judge feeling or not feeling sorry for the plaintiff (or defendant) and are deeply steeped in the law as written as well as precedent before even approaching making new precedent. Maybe a judge could comment but I’d venture they would almost avoid territory that would be ripe for appeal as much as possible.
We took a hacker to a public WiFi café (2014)
It's absolutely not OK to treat other users like this on Hacker News. If you think a comment breaks the guidelines, flag it quietly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Didi Chuxing took on Uber and won. Now it's taking on the world
Would you please stop replying with completely other issues? The HN guidelines explicitly preclude comments like this, with good reason. We're happy to occasionally make an exception but not when it's a repeated pattern.

It would also be good if you'd drop the meta. 6 of your last 9 posts have been just about HN; that's bad. Meta posting is the fastest growing weed in the garden.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm sure the author took those low-budget projects to get at least some reviews. The rate gets better as you fill your profile and get good reviews, otherwise the customer will have to choose between 10 identical profiles (except that the names are different).
>Banking apps are terrible. No argument there. Hopefully the new open digital banking legislation will fix that.

Honestly the Nationwide app is pretty good imho
It definitely _should_ allow you to challenge your own email address without any charge. If you're still having trouble and you'd like to test it out, please drop me a line on hello@takehome.io and we'll figure it out. The trial has worked great for everyone else so it sounds like a juicy bug I'd love to hunt if it's not working for you.
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Right, while 99% of people online prefer sharing/social networks to post stuff, content creators / businesses only use those to interact, while they host their content self-hosted.

What I'm trying (perhaps with not great success) to describe is something similar to WordPress, but made more for curation / organizing material found online and shared on pages designed yourself. And also easier to use just while doing regular stuff online (reading, finding stuff, watching videos), rather than having to go into the CMS of WordPress and "create a post"
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More than the current system of loading thousands of ad networks?
> Due to degraded compression performance

Are there any efforts underway to fix that? Seems like you could solve that problem by sharing the compression dictionary between documents transmitted over the same connection.
Sorry, but I can't agree. It's basically a cookbook. It doesn't present the material in an analytical style.
The reason for amerikkkan kids' lazyness is that they realize and feel that life is easy in parasite amerikkka, sucking the toil of third world workers. The same for the sense of entitlement. And of racist beliefs of being smarter, more productive etc. As all amerikkkans on HN. For reference read the books by Zak Cope, John Smith, Samir Amin etc. On First World parasitism.
This is how today's digital technology is making us more lonely
We used git submodules. The "app" repo didn't contain any code, just configuration and the submodules, which are essentially links to other repos (the app modules, in this case). Those libraries could be freely linked from multiple apps, of course.

Disadvantage: it's not a package manager; it doesn't read all the dependencies from each library, resolve the duplicates and install them centrally. Instead of that, we only had submodules in the top repo (the app) - a bit like having a single requirements.txt file.
It's really like some kind of kafkaesque greek irony or bad horror movie. Most of these people probably wish they threw away the ticket.
Try scaling that model the whole world. How do you get some random country to join it? The costs of maintaining all that regulation framework are astronomical and depend on political circumstances that might change quite quickly (Brexit for an instance).
There's just no way that the whole world will have something like that in the next 25 years.
So, if you love your banking system, don't switch to bitcoin.
It doesn't mean blockchain doesn't have any value for other people/use cases.
No, I don't think that was entirely serious. 128 bytes should be more than enough to last for a very long time, not just a little bit longer than the author's life.
The fact that you’ve named an IDE vendor rather emphasises that there is a substantial gray area. By no means everyone wants to use an IDE (let alone that specific one...)
the point is that everyone would know that she is now rich.
Check out Revolut. It's pretty awesome (no affiliation, just a happy user).
That's what I've always done. Fix it when you see it. Eventually, you have a clean codebase.
I recently started a new job. Before I spoke to anyone, I was issued a Hackerrank test to complete. I'm not saying I like it, but the coding challenge is often near the beginning of the hiring funnel to weed people out before the investment of interviewing.
I understand what you were saying, but I made the (unfounded) assumption that most of the general ad-blocker population were turned onto it by someone they trust who is more computer-savvy, and those people will generally continue to recommend ad-blockers to their less-savvy friends as long as good reasons still exist.
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Our industry is pretty hilarious in this sense. In school, it's expected that you go through multiple drafts to complete an essay, and usually those who skipped that process paid a penalty. Publishing is a high speed industry, but time is still set aside for revisions and editing. These same standards seem to rarely be applied in programming, I guess because our work isn't seen as writing communication. We make computers "go". Because of that, we are too often writing and reading each others' rough drafts.
I like the looks of https://openmined.org/ for decentralized sharing of data and models.
I don’t get it. No one is challenging the owner of the ticket, as far as I can tell. This woman is the owner. So, assuming they can confirm that she is the rightful owner right now using whatever existing process is in place, then why not do that confirmation, then let her choose to assign the winnings to an anonymous trust?
Im curious. What do you mean by "actual ML"? Isn't regression always a form of curve fitting? So is actual ML = curve fitting with fancier models (like multi layer perceprtrons)?
Thanks for the link, I like to think I can read German reasonably well but you'll forgive me if that page is a bit much to digest right now ;-)
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This reminds me of a very, very complicated episode of 'Nathan For You' (a phenomenal show for those unfamiliar) - where he pays someone to legally change their name to a celebrity's name in order to open up a fake bank account with said name, then go into a restaurant and fake a "celebrity big tip" scheme to bring the restaurant some needed PR.

But there's a snag! Nathan's lawyer lets him know he has to legally announce the name change in a circulated newspaper. This might draw attention to his scheme, right? So in order to get around that, he creates a fake newspaper, and circulates it around a handful of major cities for four weeks to make the name change announcement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU1U2Eyep_4
I use Iridium for this and other things: https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium

I tried setting the Autoplay policy at the browser level once but found that it was inconsistent and broke certain players. Iridium works perfectly.
Could be an interesting enhancement. Sounds a little bit like what Capybara, a test framework for Ruby apps can do[1], things like

click_link('Link Text')
fill_in('Password', with: 'Seekrit')
choose('A Radio Button')
check('A Checkbox')
uncheck('Another Checkbox')
select('Option', from: 'Select Box')

1) https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara#navigating
Unfortunately 5. doesn't work if your company doesn't do any code reviews.
Not everyone on HN is familiar with him. And HN isn't really a social club, or a support group. Terry's in a shitty place, but this isn't the place to go to get help, and an upvote isn't going to address the issues in his life.

Besides, where does that policy end? Will we let Torvalds post free-verse poetry? Should Brendan Eich be allowed to write political screeds?
It is valuable as a store of value though. Either pure like gold, or tied to something more like assets. USD is a bit strange because it is both a store of value used by many countries as well as a currency. there is an implicit peg to oil though. So the the price of oil is something fairly important to the US.
There are probably commits that add hundreds or thousands of auto-generated files, raising the average.

Also, it depends on how much you squash - my latest 10 commits turned into just one when merging to master.
> I guess that's the difference between science and engineering, broadly speaking.

Science also doesn't need to have a model that explains everything. Because if it did, we wouldn't have science.
Git hasn't been run by Linus for over 10 years, and uses this workflow. Is it flawed in some ways? Sure, but it works and has its advantages.

Furthermore the way patches are submitted, discussed and reviewed has little to do with the process by which they're eventually accepted or rejected by a BFDL maintainer, unlike what the GP is claimnig.

If the kernel used say Github pull requests you'd just have Linus rejecting some of those instead of refusing to accept patch serieses submitted by E-Mail.

The GP is just railing against some bad experience with the "True Gatekeepers", as if a company that was dysfunctional enough to use E-mailed patches as some unreasonable filtering mechanism wasn't able to do so via other methods.

The advantages of the E-Mail workflow is that it's fully distributed (aside from the ML hosting), bug/patch discussion can naturally flow into one another, everyone can use their favorite client that they can script etc., and you don't need an active network connection to participate (do all your patch review on the plane), all as opposed to using some opaque web UI.
I think this should set a precedent, and I am quite confident that it wouldn’t cause any problems other than the lottery being upset about losing publicity.
This is why "Every generation thinks they invented sex". The underlying challenges of parenting aren't specific to a decade or technology and I'm guessing how my parents handled the Atari is applicable to how I will handle the iPad.
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Some excerpts:

> Talking specifically about Brianna Wu, Loni Reeder said, “based on her political aspirations, personal assumptions, and libelous accusations against a man [Nolan Bushnell] where no complaints have been raised or filed — she made a big, unfounded noise against Nolan — and the Pioneer Award honor was withdrawn.”

> ...

> To Summarize…

> •Activists expressed prior desire to bring the #MeToo movement to the video game industry.

> •No one who has worked with Nolan Bushnell has complained of any impropriety.

> •Several past employees, including women, have come forward to speak in Bushnell’s defense.

> •Al Alcorn directly refutes Brianna Wu’s interpretation of his story.

> •All former Atari employees are telling stories that are consistent with one another.

> There were drugs, there were hot tubs, there were relationships, and none of that would fly today. But none of it indicates a culture that was hostile to women.

> Indeed, Loni Reeder and other former Atari employees recently worked on a spreadsheet in order to contradict the sexism claims being lobbed at Nolan Bushnell. According to their research, in those pre-Warner days of Atari, 36% of the workforce were women.

It's sounds like the accusations are basically a twitter political hit-job with little grounding in fact. Social media was a mistake.
I've always known it as software that exists and is actively being rewritten, so a mainframe system would be the legacy system while writing a new Windows application to replace it.
Why?

Equitable relief is precedent-setting, and derives from the basis of "whoa, our rules feel 'off', lets give this person a break".

If you want the precedent to be narrowly used, you just write a ruling that makes it clear that the outcome is exceptionally fact specific.
Youtube isn't perfect but the facebook video player is terrible.
Yea but that's pretty much all hacks reported in the news. It's often social more than technological.
Is it still profitable when you account for electricity cost?
Actually, the POC required both sharedbuffer object and ASM js (actually an even worse thing than a bytecode)
I really disagree with the common advice to take the lump sum - unless the winner is elderly. It seems to be centered on the idea that you can earn more interest/dividends yourself, but there are a few problems with that.

1. To get higher rates of return, you expose yourself to more risk of losses. The risk is real, i.e., you could lose everything.

2. You need even better (riskier) returns to pay for all the legal/investment/accounting advice because lottery winners rarely have experience here, at least not in the first year.

3. You need even better returns (and more risk) to make up for the taxes you pay up front. The annuity is based on pre-tax funds, and federal tax is much higher than the 25% initial withholding.

4. A $2-3 million windfall is more than enough to live on a sensible six-figure budget and get some practice with investing. If you screw up, you get another windfall next year. Just avoid debt.

5. Will taxes go up in 10 years? Who cares. They won't go to 100%. Even if you lose everything for 9 years straight, you'll still be rich in 10 years with far more certainty than if you took the lump sum. Just stay out of debt.
Thanks! Webhooks to implement that kind of post-receive functionality are on the TODO list. If you like, get in touch at hello@takehome.io and I'll let you know once they're done.
No, qualia/awareness is not magical, it's prima facie undeniable, we are aware of things, and we have an experience of the world.

OK, "magic" is the adjective adjective added for flavor, "no measurable properties" is the key term. The most obvious point is the "philosophical zombie" which specifically posited to have no measurable differences from a non-Zombie.

It doesn't seem particularly strange that a "thinking being" would be receiving and processing data. Human language can used to reference internal experience that is assume to be common to all humans (as your construct above shows). But these references can't directly be to something "primal" since they're representations.

Essentially, this style of mysticism references internal experiences with individuals emotionally valuing their internal experiences and wanting them to be irreducible to just matter. And once the mystical concept goes out in the world, it wants to cloth itself in the appearance of science - first philosophical zombies are have no identity except "the same on the outside, identical on the inside" and then opportunists wanting to leverage this canard take out their microscopes and imagining measuring to regain some respectability. Yet, let us posit the unmeasurable and then try to measure it. I assume the church of the Giant Spaghetti Monster has a rite for doing just this.
Hah, smart move
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Interesting. I'm not sure if I can do anything to improve the performance further. The frame rate stays by almost 60fps and the amount of repaints on the site has been reduced to a minimum. It runs smooth on my older retina MacBook, but I can also see a subtle janky animation when I scroll fast.
Security is extremely difficult to buy safely if you are an un-savvy purchaser.
Absolutely, and I say that having worked in microfinance before receiving this request.

But to me, that doesn't mean we engineers can't still draw a line somewhere, especially if we are called on to participate. Just because peer pressure works in some context, it doesn't mean that it is always the right choice, and we need to debate the tradeoffs in different contexts (much like engineers debate tradeoffs in any technical decision).

For example, the easiest way to cut the price of loans down would be to kill anyone if they didn't pay; defaults — and loan costs — would fall dramatically. This would immediately provide loans to many people who are priced out. While that may be useful in some scenarios, it's not a system I personally believe in.
Deep learning is the new alchemy. So perhaps we can learn from alchemists?

PS: The parallel between DL and optics is (if viewed historically) a bit misleading, because for building lenses we first had a theory.
My experience is that it's not so much that Elixir and Phoenix are complicated, but rather that they're very different from what a Rails (or Rails-like) developer is used to.

There's not just Phoenix' deceptively Rails-ish approach, but also Elixir as a functional (and somewhat strange?) language, and while you can do without knowing much about OTP, it's not exactly invisible.

On top of that, I find that all the best packages embrace this weirdness. Ecto is wonderful, and by far my favorite 'ORM', but it's very different from the more common ORM's. splitting up the view layer in templates and views is, in my opinion, a step up from the Rails approach. But it took me a while to adjust. The sparing use of macros is also 'weird', but again I find it a step up from what came before.

I kind of feel the same way about Elixir/Phoenix as I do about functional programming in general: Whether it's actually as complicated as it is often said to be or not (perhaps just a matter of 'what we learned first'?), I find that once I got over the hurdle of learning the building blocks and mindset, the stuff I could do felt more fun, more expressive and less brittle, and the approach is starting to infect all the other coding I do.

At the same time I completely understand that if you're comfortable with Rails, and it does the job, or if you use a lot of gems that might not have a (mature) equivalent in Elixir, there's no good reason to bother unless you need channels, perhaps. I have the luxury of being able to use my own tech for many projects, as well as the time available to dive into the Elixir/Phoenix ecosystem.
Watching older movies and television shows today I'm struck by how much longer shots are and how there are so many fewer cuts. I'm sure that, to some extent, pacing in movies was dictated by the practicality of technology. Modern-day non-linear editing and digital production allows for more frequent cuts at a much lower expense. I wonder, however, to what extent there is a feedback loop occurring between audiences and directors that drives shorter shots and more cuts.
I think you meant to say voila (or voilà).
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A code formatter will save you tons and tons of man hours.
I definitely do the best I can, but as someone sort of in this position I worry that I'm becoming a worse programmer for it.

I'm junior enough that I often don't know what to do. I've never gotten really good at full unit testing for example. I really do think in situations like this my best bet is trying to find somewhere where they follow better practices.
Those places are basically unicorns, as far as I can tell. I have my own anecdotes, of course, and they oscillate between "we cared about code quality" and "we didn't have time." My experiences and the conversations I've had with others lead me to the conclusion that: almost all of us have deadlines that we didn't really help set, that we're always struggling to meet those deadlines, and that there is a stupid amount of money on the line that drives these decisions. And, so it goes, "get it done and ship it yesterday" is the commonality that I see.

That said, despite the frustration, I do try to hold myself accountable for writing clear and concise code as much as I possibly can and off-setting the times when I have to commit some clever hack with long-form narrative style comments.
Neat! Can someone tell me why the notebook style presentation like this is gaining popularity? (e.g., jupyter notebook)
They took "Never quit trying" to heart
I think you've got a pretty high opinion of the HN crowd. What you described probably applies to <10%.
Seems like there could be an interesting synergy here with the Pomodoro technique (though the 15/5 cycle would need to be modified since the studies appear to use 10 minute breaks).
It's not because it's common that it's not harassment, there's no causal link here.
My school had a required Computer Ethics course for CS majors. It was a bi-weekly discussion section with readings and a final essay, so not really a full size course. We covered intellectual property, privacy (SOPA was in the news at the time), net neutrality, and free speech/social networks.

These are all obvious subjects, but the idea was to get people to read about them and debate them, rather than just have an uninformed opinion and never discuss it.
Also known as the Locus of Control[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
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When I write two functions in the same project I get a compile error if I change the signature of one without changing the call site. This is analogous to a monorepo, in which I have projects in separate directories but with a unified build.

If you really want to take this analogy to its logical conclusion for separate repos, you're gonna have to do something more like compile every function as a dynamically loaded library. And then hope you notice a function signature change because the dynamic linker won't tell you.
I've seen a lot of well-intentioned code refactoring that made the code objectively worse. Refactoring well takes a pretty seasoned programmer to do it.
>If the law is wrong (or even if the spirit/intent of the law does not apply here), she should win and the law should change or be struck down.

That's orthogonal. What you propose translates to that while the law is not changed (which can take decades in some cases) we should let people suffer rather than "skip technicalities" when we can.

How about sodomy laws (still present in some jurisdictions). Should they be imposed upon gay men until those laws change? And no biggie if people suffer in the meantime?
I've heard the current trend described as "relativistic across space, absolutist across time".

EDIT: found the source https://twitter.com/roundsqrcupola/status/927331324574216193
There is a dev design/plan time that could be utilized to solve that.
I signed one oath in my engineering school in France to get my degree. I loose my title if I'm caught not respecting it. The title gives me access to a few jobs that require it (state, secret services, C-level of a few companies) as well as a special tax cut for companies using employees with the title.
A.I. will be 'billions of times' smarter than humans
I think that's a sign of enterprise dysfunction - problems that can be solved in that way aren't real problems, they are neglect and delinquency.
Sure, you can do what you want with the money, right? But that doesn't solve the problem of her name being public.
I usually start with "cars" or "dogs"...just to get an idea of what sort of results I will get.

This will give me an idea of if I will be served ads, and if the search engine includes snippets from wikipedia, etc.
And sending a request to a couple of newpapers to have your full name redacted will most likely just be done without further questioning.