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Math.random() * 20

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Ok, Thirteen it is.

1. Because clicking a link is quicker than `apt-get install krita`

2. Because clicking a link is quicker than: "E: Package 'krita' has no installation candidate"

3. Because clicking a link is quicker than `aptitude search krita`, seeing krita data files, but still no krita

4. Because I apparently have to open up a browser and type "Debian krita" to figure out how to install krita, so I might as well just run it in my browser

5. Because when it crashes in Chrome it's less likely to be a security risk

6. Because, unlike Linux distros, browsers have standardized on this system called a "link" to install new apps

7. Because I can run the program on someone else's machine without having administrator rights

8. Because I can run the program on someone else's machine without installing stuff to their user directory

9. Because I could probably even try it out on a kiosk where I have no rights at all (weak, I know)

10. Because, unlike Linux distros, browsers vendors as disparate as Mozilla and Microsoft were able to agree that clicking an "x" is the way to uninstall krita-in-the-browser

11. Because the web has at least two high-quality natural language search engines that I could use to discover this hypothetical krita-running-in-a-browser and they don't error out if I have typos

12. Because if I wanted to study how the GUI works I click a shortcut and an entire development environment inflates like a life raft on my machine, or someone else's machine, or any machine that runs a modern browser.

13. Because I could have spent this time using krita instead of writing thirteen fairly obvious reasons why clicking a link is preferable to screwing around in whichever Linux cult I happen to be stuck inside at the moment
> Its clear that IBM's products aren't as good as Amazon/Google

You may want to reformulate. Neither Amazon or Google are competitors to IBM because they don't target B2B. Besides, IBM has products in many market segments where these companies aren't.
Who do you think would give us that data? Facebook? Doubtful.

I think it's reasonable to assume that if 50k people tweeted about it, a far larger number probably took action (active tweeters are just a small subset of the population) or are at least thinking about reducing usage or deleting.

Deleting facebook has been a topic of conversation in my circle for months since I did it ~4 months ago or so. It's definitely on people's radar as far as other media seems to indicate (we've had anti-facebook threads daily for months on HN), and my friends (mostly tech people and very active facebook users) have almost all reduced their usage significantly.
> Worker’s rights trump ROI


Where? Do they accept skilled immigrants? What Rosetta Stone do I need to buy. 


At least in the America I see around me, this is very untrue in the vast majority of cases.
As much as I love FF, this is not true.
Chrome supports VP9, FF/Safari do not.
VP9 is a huge leap ahead of VP8, and Google is not wrong to use it in Meet.
What's more, FF only supports UDP which requires a much less firewalled environment.

On another note, the lack of support for sessions is the real killer for me. And the lack of WebSocket debugging is a big strike against the dev in me.
I use FF as my primary browser, but gotta give credit where it is due.
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> So, when mentally ill people want to cause harm they don't use those methods.

Not sure what you mean by mentally ill, but they have definitely been used for that in Europe.
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> ...how do you assign weights to [metrics]

To start with, you don't. Baseball managers and scouts look at a lot of metrics: runs, hits, walks, OBP, VAR, number of pitches in a career, convicted felonies, etc. But at the end of the day, there are people making judgement calls. They're just, ideally, exceptionally well-informed people.

So what I'd like to see, at least initially, is a healthier universe of metrics we can automatically grab from code bases. Deciders can set up dashboards or reports for those as needed. There would still be actual conversations and decisions involving actual humans, but they'd be looking at this data as they're having qualitative discussions about their options.
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> Trump telling the Russians or Wikileake to release some more stolen emails?

That was on public TV with reporters around. I remember that, pretty sure it was a joke. Is that the only evidence of Russian collusion?

To go back, it all started with Russian altering votes. As in, hiding in Wisconsin, in the bushes with laptops, giving Trump extra votes. We even had recount which both Stein and Clinton supported. People were donating towards it and everything.

Then it went Putin and Trump are exchanging secret hand gestures at G20.

Then some Trump people were in the same hotel at some meeting at Putin people, so that was considered "collusion".

Then it was the piss "dossier".

I still don't see solid evidence of collusion vis-a-vis the amount of time and energy devoted to talking about. Many articles today even start with "Given that Trump colluded with Russia...". So used as an established fact and I think it is far from it.
Ian Betteridge[1] called for you.

More seriously though, it's not unusual for newsroom editors to modify or even completely rewrite article headlines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
("Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.")
I'd say if you haven't done something criminal in 17 years you'd probably learned your lesson and should be allowed to fully function in society.
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I actually had a few of these kits from different years... I think the newest was from the 1990s and I couldn’t even say for sure when the oldest from was. Sadly I sold the kits piecemeal about a year ago before I moved. They all went to good homes though, as the people who got them were all very excited about them.
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> Sometimes I can even see "naked" plain text page for a moment, before styling is applied (ex: on GitHub pages.

Yes, I've seen the same on GitHub. Note sure this is a GitHub or Firefox bug. (I use Nightly). Could you maybe file a bug at bugzilla for this?
That's a strange way to think of it, that the state can supply that as a right. The people of the UK, and anywhere, have the freedom to say anything they'd like...if the state intervenes, they are removing the individual's existing liberty to do so. The first amendment is not a right provided to the people, but rather a restriction placed on the state, removing its own capability to impede upon an inherent liberty.

I never think it's a good idea to think of a state as affording you a liberty which you had to begin with.
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What if each subreddit was an independent forum? What if each youtube channel was a blog hosted on potentially a whole bunch of different hosts? If reddit is so much better than the alternatives what are you doing on HN instead of /r/programming or similar?

The only thing you'd lose is the unified user profile but we have the tools to have distributed identities (oauth and friends). Before the era of social networks having mililon of forums for niche topics was common. Now you just create a subreddit instead.

Want to talk about knitting? Search for "knitting discussion online". Here are a few results: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/knitting-and-crocheting https://crochettalk.com/ http://www.knittingparadise.com/active-topic-list

Each site does not contain "everything I want" but each fills a particular niche. The fact that you actually have to search for them to find them can actually be seen as a bonus, you don't have the sort of "cross-contamination" you can observe on reddit when a community is suddenly popular enough to propelled into the frontpage and you have an influx of people who overrun your community and destroy its "culture".

Should reddit disappear tomorrow I'm sure we'll do just fine. Youtube is more complex because video hosting is much more demanding in terms of resources.
> I suspect Dennett wouldn't deny people perceive internal experience, heck -- evidence of that has been serialized right in your comment. He accounts for each of the phenomenon you describe (mental imagery, dreams as you mentioned, inner dialogue, pain) in his work, just not ascribing any fundamentally non-physical traits to the special-personal-feeling-ness of them.

Right, but under Dennett's account, it only seems like we have subjective experiences. He compares it to the sun rising and setting. It seems like the sun literally rises and sets, even though we know it's the Earth turning. Similarly, Dennett thinks neuroscience will show that although it seems like we have these subjective experiences, they are really nothing more than brain activity, and as such, can be fully described by third person, objective scientific account. This is contrary to what philosophers like Chalmers and Nagel have argued.

> It's not hard to imagine how Dennett's claims could end up so often being mischaracterized

And the same can be said for any philosopher that attracts a lot of disagreement. There are plenty of Chalmers detractors. Do they understand all the subtlety of his arguments? However, I do think Dennett and Chalmers understand each other well enough.
Well, obviously it was dark. It was new moon on March 17, one day before accident. However, dark is normal conditions for driving.
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So can we take your argument to its logical conclusion, that you are against all content moderation on any site?

Or where exactly is the line?

This is not censorship.
Posted an issue here: https://github.com/vladmunteanu/th2c/issues/27
The CLOUD Act would let cops get our data directly from tech companies like FB
I'm not sure what you mean with your question. My point is that Rust's GUI ecosystem is improving due to investment of Gnome.
How do you feel about the sex trafficking bill that just passed?
I find that a lot of pain is in the details that can be fixed with a few hours or days of work.
So in your worldview, "Linux package manager" is literally the only alternative to web applications? I guess Windows and macOS don't have native apps at all then.
Why would anyone be upset at a company shooting themselves in the foot? Discrimination is a luxury of the wealthy as it has a real market cost. If these older employees really are equal or more productive per dollar cost than their younger counterparts then surely someone will pick them up and get a market advantage.
Ask HN: What actual Facebook data fields were obtained by Aleksandr Kogan?
I know that when a user provides permission, a Facebook third-party app can obtain certain information from Facebook about the user. From what I understand, Aleksandr Kogan obtained some information about users' friends. My question is, what information was originally permitted to be seen by the third-party app. I thought in most cases, it was just the name/id of the friend. Obviously, if a user's friend is public, much more can be obtained but does anyone know what data fields were actually obtained by Aleksandr?
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Paint.net is pretty notable too. Windows only, but free, and halfway between paint and what Adobe offers. There are many plugins that either meet or exceed what you can find for Photoshop.
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"Technical Debt is most of the time used as a negative connotation, but it doesn't need to be like that all the time. It's like taking a loan. It will allow you to deliver software faster in adverse circumstances without having to invest enough time to find the best design for a problem."

Lol yeah, taking out a loan for all your future hires to pay back later.
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It also has the corner cases of curves that exactly align with the overlay and hence never cross any lines.
Sadly because our ancestors missed the opportunity to see such an event, as rare as we think it to be.
Have to say I respect the guy for what he built up to around 2008 but I have to call this one. He's basically following the old tobacco 'four dogs' strategy if you follow his statements. Some examples from just the past couple of months of statements mostly from last night (all paraphrased):

1) First of all, I don't have a dog. -> 'The idea that someone affected an election with ads on fb is pretty crazy.'

2) And if I had a dog, it doesn't bite. -> 'Facebook is a force in the world for good, because it connects everyone, and my job is to work on something my kids will be proud of, as long as facebook is important.' (benefits outweigh the harms, equating FB with the internet). This is dubious.

3) And if I had a dog and it did bite, then it didn't bite you. -> 'Security is a problem that is never solved, so we like everyone else will always be working on it forever.' Implication: if I weren't working on internet security, someone else would be, and security design problems would still be a threat to internet users, so stop complaining about the state of internet security, because odds are it hasn't affected you, and by the way, look how much I am investing in it by hiring thousands of people to do content moderation on everyone's behalf.

4) And if I had a dog and it did bite, and it bit you, then you provoked the dog. -> '#deletefacebook is obviously not good, but nobody is acting on it in any meaningful numbers' (calling everyone's bluff and in my interpretation actually daring everyone to try and create a more secure and beneficial internet experience without facebook).

Please reply with modifications; I think the essential gist is there.
This is nothing new for them. My father started at IBM in 1968, and was forced into "voluntary" early retirement in 1993. He at least got to keep his pension, but if he hadn't gone voluntarily and opted to stick it out like some of his colleagues, he would have been let go in the following months and lost everything.
This was my first thought as well when watching the video
If content is centralized in this manner you should expect it to moderated and influenced from a central source.
Some types of claims are not waivable by law. But I'm not sure discrimination should be one of them. Your proposal would have the effect of making it impossible to settle such claims in exchange for severance payments on termination of employment. This would only be helpful to employees who naively sign a separation agreement without understanding what they have given away. Perhaps a more nuanced approach could work, eg, the one taken by OWBPA to impose a mandatory post-signing period in which an older worker can revoke their signature. This is currently the law for "older workers" but I see no reason not to extend to all workers...
>What should I watch for if I want to go down this path?

Watch out for age discrimination. The best way to fight it is to start saving immediately for financial independence if you haven't already. Once you have F.U. money you can work on whatever you want--paid or unpaid, it will not matter.

Collins - The Simple Path to Wealth is a good book with the basics of how to achieve financial independence.
Came to say something similar; I see it with library choices a lot as well; poor library choices ~= sloppy programming. I've had a lot of issues in the the past with 'conventional wisdom' lib choices that result in a lot of re-work as predictable issues with those choices arise.
It's BS that this is a problem.

I have various breaks in my resume, including for layoffs, working on my own things etc.

Just have a reasonable narrative and you'll be fine.
I'm not shocked, but why would you assume people would got around reading the documentation of random APIs they are not working with?
This approach tends to work well. If they don't want to worry about it, they've effectively delegated it to you.

The only problem is that this setup is subject to the tragedy of the commons. If it takes 25% more work to make a change cleanly, the developers throwing hacks around look 20% more productive if we ignore technical debt. And, worse, they're often the only people in the world that understand the hacks, so they get to be the hero-experts that come in and save the day when everyone else is trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

So even if we'll do our best to bake the cost of cleanup into our day-to-day tasks, that only works as long as a critical mass of the developers in the organization do the same thing. Otherwise, you'll have a full time job plus some just cleaning up messes.
Hey, I posted an issue on the repo for a Python 3 port here: https://github.com/vladmunteanu/th2c/issues/27. I think you should give the same explanation there as you did here and close it outright as what you said makes sense. There is still a lot of Python 2.x code being written out there with companies looking for quick ways to upgrade their stack. While I wish it weren't so, your point makes a lot of sense.
You must be an expert[1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Railway lines are physically barring people from crossing them. Walking on rail tracks is actually forbidden. When a railway crosses a road there are physical barriers and audiovisual signals to prevent people from crossing when a train is near.

Roads in cities are shared spaces. Pedestrians have to obey traffic laws but as a car driver you are taught to anticipate incorrect behavior from pedestrians, especially to accommodate children who might not know any better or the elderly who might be absent-minded (e.g. start crossing a street then turn back because they worry they might not make it).

It's driver education 101. If there's a parked line of cars and there are apartment buildings and maybe you even spotted children playing, anticipate that a kid might dart in front of you for some stupid reason because they don't understand the risk. So slow down and anticipate having to come to a full stop.

This was a high visibility situation on an open road with no other traffic. The pedestrian violated traffic laws by crossing the road outside a marked crossing but that happens all the time. A human driver would have anticipated the possibility of this happening when they spotted the person standing beside the road in the distance. They would have decelerated when they saw the person start moving onto the road and they would have made a full brake when it became clear the pedestrian was going to walk straight onto the road with no regard for their own safety.

The automated car showed no signs of having adjusted to the situation whatsoever. Sure, the pedestrian was stupid and got herself killed, but the car was driving recklessly and bears the full responsibility.

EDIT: to be clear, your example is equivalent of a person climbing onto a highway/motorway, not of a pedestrian crossing a street.
His "charity" is not a charity at all. It's a personal influence machine, which he has been using to hire political operatives and influence policy.
And when they are that noisy it happens only 1 or 2 times per year at most. Give people a bit of room to have fun. If it is [much] more often they might get kicked out.

Informing the neighbors or inviting them to the party also works. If you are really pushing it you buy them some flowers and ask if it wasn't to much trouble the day after. If you have a normal relationship asking if the neighbors can tune it down a bit shouldn't be a big deal either.
Oh, that doesn't make it any easier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Long_Is_the_Coast_of_Brita...
> But there are simple ways (i.e., asking or ordering the employee to send you conversation transcripts) to get the information needed.

Are you serious? So, someone accuses an employee of abuse and you casually stroll by and ask them to send relevant conversations your way? And you expect them to comply without cheating? Why don't we try this approach with other misdeeds, for example, when someone complains about theft, we just ask thieves to come by the police station with the stuff they stole. Do you think that would work?
I feel it’s easy to become a compulsive contrarian on Hackernews because of how many people are often willing to support or defend your contrarian view.
Servers don't need a Mali GPU which is the major bottleneck to support mainline linux.

I'm constantly amazed by people wanting to see Intel die for a minor price decrease. The open source drivers for intel gpus might have not been provided by intel but at the very least they exist. The same cannot be said by ARM. When it comes to proprietary software ARM is at least as evil as intel. By replacing intel with ARM you're going from bad to worse.
2 points to your comment:

No major tech company has shown such disdain for the privacy for its users and

No tech company (at least no customer facing tech company) has driven the handling of user privacy this badly into the gutter.

So much went wrong over the years with Facebook and user privacy (normally followed by a mealy mouthed bullshit apology, same as you see now) that they do not deserve any more benefit of a doubt.

Threatenting to sue the publications uncovering this tragedy is just about the icing on the cake.

And yes, I "deleted" my account some 4 years ago.
YouTube and Reddit should be like paper and pencil.

If I used paper and pencil to break the law, then it's between law enforcement and me, I would be super annoyed if the pencil refused to write what I want to write because the pencil manufacturer thought it might be illegal or just simply undesired.

What the Content Providers are doing is anti-thesis of neutrality towards ideas and the supporting arguments. If someone breaks the law using their platform then let the someone file a complaint and let law enforcement handle it.

Should the burrito truck ban you from utilizing the calories from the breakfast burrito if you intend to do some insider trading that morning? If the burrito place can't block you from eating, then why should YouTube and Reddit be able to block you from saying what you have to say?

Can't believe that the hacker news crowd was jumping up and down for months at a time for neutrality of packets as if ISP is going to stop you from saying what you want to say, but all the while Facebook/Google/Twitter/Reddit can stop you from saying what you say anytime they feel like it, and those advocating "Neutrality of service providers" are perfectly fine with it.

Can folks be little more realistic about what the real danger is?

Out packets are not threatened, our thoughts are.
That is correct but the parent claimed they did not occur at all, which is false.
My point is that Gnome is not interesting for people interested in cross-platform GUIs.
There are many insectivorous bird species. We've become more efficient at killing insects, and thus depressing their populations. Agreed?

What are the insectivorous birds eating if their populations aren't declining?