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Cleaning it up doesn't fix the problem: we're producing disposable garbage.

We can stop buying disposable stuff -- plastic bags, coffee cups, stupid gifts people use for thirty seconds before throwing it away, etc.

How much stuff within your reach or eyesight will be used for under a month then never again that you could have not bought?

It's a start that will improve your life not to get the stuff. Yes we can do more, but let's at least start with what we immediately control.
Mostly referrals. Though now I'm looking for something more stable and am expanding my searches through Linked In, Gunio & Stack Overflow career this weekend.

(10 years doing iOS, Android, React, Javascript, Ruby and more recently Erlang + Smart Contract programming, if any of this interests you/your corp reply with a contact page!)
My kids are worth more than all the money in the world as far as I'm concerned. Besides, there's a lot of cushion in that $1,000,000 figure. Frugality is so underrated.
Need Some Feedback on the Python Job Positions Aggregator
Model 3 was designed to go head-to-head with 3 Series.
Toyota's Hybrid Synergy drive was patented in 1969, and in use 6 years before Tesla was founded. (10 years before Musk was on the scene.)

The drive is available in numerous models, including plug-in hybrids. These cars only perform better with more batteries added. Over the long term, it's interesting to ponder removing the ICE entirely and put a battery pack in its place.
Oy. Follow the money. Luther had a very rich patron who wanted to cut a peasant uprising off at the pass, and who thought that redirecting or capturing the still-bubbling Huss Protestant movement by pushing forward a new religious leader who would agree to also oppose peasant rebellions was the way to do that. Luther, unlike others who had nailed protests to the same door (including Luther's mentor) agreed. The patron was also the local head of state and could afford to pour a lot of money into the then still very expensive process of printing. That free printed matter was passed around isn't surprising; the money to print it all was what was new. Admittedly, as printing costs reduced, sooner or later something like this was eventually very likely. Ideological leadership goes to those who can afford a printing press, a la Marx.

It was a shock just how successful the strategy was. true.
These constraints should ideality be in the type system, or other statically checked constraints.

Most OO languages have type systems not fitting for such checks, though. Thus runtime checks, often a part of a setter.
I tried that, but apparently craigslist.org/com are filtered by the HN shadowban filter
It's only fitting that the other trending piece on hacker news right now is this one -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16652952
New Checkout Widget Makes Adding Payments Painless
OStatus is a collection of protocols, which was known for powering StatusNet (now known as GNU Social) since 2010.

ActivityPub is a lot more recent, and is a "consolidated" protocol designed to replace OStatus. It's fairly recent, so Mastodon is one of its first implementations, and Gargron (the main dev of Mastodon) contributes to the W3C Working Group in charge of the spec since ActivityPub support was added to Mastodon.
I like your thinking :) https://github.com/patrickmn/define
Actually, we need to do is organize politically and demand that our political leaders use the vast resources at our disposal to build a society that takes care of everyone’s essential needs for free, rather than allowing them to be hoarded by a relatively tiny caste of unfathomably wealthy assholes. Teaching people to scrape by on scraps is the opposite of what we need.
Lazarus. He should be back in a few days.
2020 is very soon. In car terms, it's "tomorrow."
Water Crisis knocking at our door step
The bigger problem is that even if they create their own platform - let's say the NRA rolls out guntube - they're still at the mercy of registrars. Don't read TheDailyStormer (unless you really want to) but do read about how much trouble they're having keeping free speech on the internet - gab.ai is in many ways a similarly objectionable site which has been threatened with the same treatment.

I agree that platforms have the right to police content but I disagree strongly with registrars seizing domain names without a court order.

Everything might go back to normal if these bans ever see a California courtroom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
We do at CB Insights (and we are hiring)
Could someone explain to me how this isn't going to go down in flames to an immediate First Amendment challenge?
I still use on axios over fetch. Mainly because fetch doesn't have abort function. axios implements cancelable promise proposal that didn't go though TC39

Tho it has been a while since I checked TC39 status on fetch
I've been programmatically blocked from viewing their tweets through one of the various blocklists out there. So this submission shows a blocked feed for me (unless I sign out of Twitter). So any alternative link would be nice for me and other people who also may be blocked.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/pYANJau.png
Yeah, when you read the article it's clear they mean it's in the plurality. In a title it's ambiguous without the context, but not overly deceptive.

It's not downplaying it, it's only stating that claims of its being "the size of Texas" and "you can see it from space" are exaggerated.
I wonder how long it will take to ban that too, like is Bitcoin ban imminent? Perhaps not a ban, but a legislation rendering it practically useless due to compliance burden. Modern congress now acts impulsively, fast, like in basketball.
The South Korean method seems more efficient. Also they chose 20:00 which is way beyond work hours and still allows overtime.
WhatsApp desktop is an Electron app that is leagues behind the Telegram clients. It also requires your phone to be on and connected to the network. It's not comparable at all.

As far as I know, secret Telegram chats don't have a private key stored anywhere but your phone.
Man, the Vectrex, I bought one on clearance from Toys R Us when they were discontinued in 83/84. Such a fun console
its written with ruby on rails and react.js
Wow it really is great. Plan to share with everyone I know who would find this interesting. Already watched a few of them and they are all just as enjoyable. Hope he gets a bunch more subs and keeps making videos.
Plato's shadows have absolutely nothing to do with living in a simulation. He was talking about degrees of true knowledge and their alignment with his idea of a multi-layered existence.

No multi-layered metaphysical construct in the ancient world discussed simulations. There isn't even a vocabulary that could describe an abstract simulation rather concrete reenactment, like drama or a physical model.

Some ancient religions spoke of the physical world as an illusion, but that too does not mean anything like a simulation.

A simulation is a virtual reality created by a higher intelligence in a real-world environment with great real-world power. Plato's forms weren't discussed as beings who did anything, and in the end were just reifications of predicates.

Descartes' skepticism is the foremost example of a simulation issue, but in addition to the great flaws in his arguments in the Discourses, saying you can't absolutely prove that your senses are not an elaborate deception is no indication that it is.

Profound ignorance and misunderstanding of philosophy is, for me, the most salient feature of the latest discourse on world-as-simulation.

2 weeks of an intro to philosophy college course would correct most peoples' thoughts on the matter, as examining Descartes is the most basic first step in learning philosophy.
I assume you're familiar with that product?

Am I reading this correctly: You're running an agent on your various devices that sends data to their cloud? Application names at minimum, I assume. Website addresses as far as I can tell. If they harvest window titles: Probably file names you open.

Are you comfortable with that?
I really like flexibility. To me that’s the balance. If they set your work hours how do you have balance? For example, dr appointment or meeting kids teacher in the middle of business day. The balance is being able to jump online that evening when you get home, IMO. So I’m always curious about how these mandated work hour things are implemented and enforced. Because if they just shut off the systems at 5pm, then you’re just missing work. That’s not balance.
I hear this sentiment a lot lately, and I do not agree with it at all, you're basically just hand-waving the issue away and retroactively deciding what is a real world, practical problem or not after we've already found a solution to those problems. The NFL theorems are not inherently worthless, you are making them worthless because you are throwing away nearly all of the possible problem space, under the assumption that space is not relevant, but that is just a guess, you don't actually know.

I mean, yeah, sure, not knowing if we've hit the global minimum on some optimization problem may not matter as humans, because no one gives a damn, but that is a completely arbitrary line, not a mathematical one. Too often I hear people say "well, NFL is irrelevant" as an argument for why they are mathematically correct, or why their results are mathematically significant, and that's simply a load of crap. Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, but you're basically just throwing darts at a dartboard.
To be fair, I think saying they all "simply wanted the credential" is a bit dismissive of the Indian students. I'm sure many of them are passionate about computer science, and view an American MS as a path to higher learning and understanding in a subject they care about as much as they see it as a useful credential.
This is only valid for more modern, hollow doors. If you have ever had to kick down a door more than a century old in an emergency (as I have, to get to an epileptic having a seizure in the bath, who died in similar circumstances a couple years later), those doors were thinner at the core but solid; you have to hit them more toward the center and very violently to flex them so far they yield. They don't just break into convenient parts. Our ancestors made things to last.
Careful: Autoplays a video with sound for me. Muting the video and scrolling the page unmutes the video.

Firefox Nightly, Windows. My coworkers didn't like the music, I think.
I used to get blinding pain in my right shoulder and neck and thought I might have to change careers because it kept getting worse and worse. Tried all kinds of stretching and stuff, some helped, but nothing took the pain completely away.

I was in so much pain one day I couldn't use the mouse with my right hand, and began using it with my left hand. The pain gradually went away and I've never had problems since. I think I had a bad habit of some kind when mousing with my right hand I never developed when using my left. Now almost exclusively mouse left handed.

That said, physical exercise, especially hiking and yoga, have helped my neck, back, arm, leg stiffness & pain, etc. considerably. It's as necessary as brushing teeth for me to feel physically ok to be able to keep working in an office.
There are Mastodon instances with hundreds of thousands of users and millions of messages.

However, Mastodon is federated, so there are thousands of instances with less users. And because each instance does not need to store the state of the whole network (only accounts followed by its users), it scales very nicely.
Reframe - okay, good point. But reframing this way opens the door to mission and feature creep, when you may just want things to work; so be wary of that.
Curiosity Rover: 2,000 sols on Mars
In general humorous Reddit-style comments aren't welcome here. Every community has its own standards.
For some reason they felt the need to spam my phone and computer with a notification about this.
Indeed, the typical American now spends more hours just to pay for land to sleep on than hunter-gatherers did to live.
Why is it obvious that someone being high at work is a problem? We're not all airline pilots, neurosurgeons, and bomb techs.
This was my only and immediate reaction. It was a serious faux pas.
You're overthinking this and getting lost in technology. The guy surely did that stuff. What likely happened is that the guy pasted an URL into the wrong browser window.

Having a separate browser that jumps through all the well-audited crypto hoops you want doesn't really help you if you have a native Safari window sitting next to it where you read your gmail.
> I'm not looking for massive pay, just something to occupy my time and some side money.

You have two options.
Start working on a side project which you find interesting. Apply any new technologies you'd wanted to learn. You can either profit from it, or worst case, you learned something new from that. I don't want to glorify failure, but the most important thing is to ship it.

The less risky option is to build your brand/credibility in a niche area, like offering a lot of value in form of blog posts, free e-books etc. This is more organic, takes time, but builds the trust which makes it easier to find clients.

Both options involve a combination of various skills other than pure technical competence like marketing and project management.
As far as I know, yes. Or use the wasm version of graphviz.
Facebook could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and hand out everyone's personal information to passers-by and it wouldn't lose any users.
Thanks.

I also just found the rPerf and CPW consolidated spreadsheet from IBM (including pre and post Spectre/Meltdown numbers).

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/files/basic/ano...
It could be that the risk reward calculation is different for CL than other sites. Personals is just one part of a much larger site for CL where as a dating site's only business is personals so they really don't have anything to lose by taking the risk.
Hidden Camera Report Shows Cambridge Analytica Discussing Entrapment Methods
> Your knowledge of statistics could use some enhancement.

In this we agree.
India actually _didn't_ try this approach. Nearly all our industries were corrupt government owned 'public sector' industries. The idea using this approach is to develop innovative, private industry in a regulatory-friendly environment while providing proper trade protection and financing.

Automobile Industry In Japan was heavily protected
http://www.americanautocouncil.org/sites/aapc2016/files/Japa...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/japan-the-forgot...

South Korean industry was heavily protected from 1960-90 and now is well-protected through unique Korean mandatory standards (nice WTO loophole).
Which could also mean an intelligence officer('s personal machine, who is known to be) working out of the agency's hq...
It implies that the IP was from GRU HQ, but the only definite statement is that it is this specific officer, who works at this specific location.
Having a 'break' shouldn't need to involve working in the area you are having a break from in order not to look bad.

I would be more suspicious of someone who doesn't know how to have a break. That would be my red flag... "so you spent your year off in front of a computer?"..."um, yeh, I am self-motivated". Red Flag blows in wind.
As a 25yo and someone dealing with RSI, I am terrified. What do you recommend for dealing with neck and the back?

Currently, have switched out my mouse for a trackball in the right hand and a trackpad in the left (though occasionally). Next up is the keyboard and chair.
It's definitely changed over the past 7 years, being filled with mostly escort/sugar baby ads in recent times.
Cofounder of 2 person startup leaves 1 month before demo day
My cofounder just left our startup 1 month before demo day in our startup accelerator program citing that we didn't work well together. We had had issues in the past 2 months and he is definitely more high strung than I am. He told me this two days ago, completely out of the blue with nothing (that I can think of) that triggered it. I have a month to demo day and am stuck with both the business and tech side to build out. He didn't get any shares because we have a one year cliff and we started the company in Jan. Would really like to ask if others have had the same experience, your interpretation of the situation and any advice you might have.
Thanks
> But there is no excuse for using 3rd party libs. Just don't use it. If you not know: do not use it.

Pretty much everything in development relies on the work of other people. I used 3rd party lib just as an example, but what if it's in the framework or even the language that an engineer uses, who would be at fault then? You can't expect every developer to have gone through the entire source code for whatever language they are writing in.

Sciences build on each other and and after a certain period of time you have to take things for granted in order to keep moving forward.

> The same rules apply for medical and other areas.

No, they don't. Doctors kill patients all the time and they aren't banned from medicine for it. There is an investigation, they make sure it wasn't intentional and there wasn't any gross negligence and that this isn't a repeating pattern, if none of those are the case they see what they can learn from it and move forward in hopes that what they learn can help other doctors.
Why is state outsourcing the job they are getting paid taxes for and expecting private sector to do it for free ?
Curious to know what city you lived in when you met. I also met my wife via an online dating site about 7 years ago, and at the time we were under the impression that CL personals were super sketch. Obviously it isn't that way everywhere, but where I am (Palo Alto) that was the belief among all of my friends.
> going off of Arthur C Clarke's definition, life is magic. And we're trying to create something equally magical.

I assume you're referring to his "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"? If so, you're misrepresenting it, because he's clearly saying it's not magic, it just appears that way to the unadvanced. And there's a big difference between "appears to be" and "is".
But it's also saying that "the 79,000 tons was four to 16 times larger than has been previously estimated for the patch."
dot is still the best. If you're okay with wasm, use Viz.js

http://viz-js.com/
You have a right to publish your own materials. You do not have a right to make a newspaper publish a classified that is against its policies. Similarly, you can put whatever you want on your website. You cannot force another website carry your content simply because that website has achieved some level of distribution.
I understand the desire to throw one's hands up, but it's this attitude that imbues the Facebooks of the world with power. They have power because people give them power by using Facebook. Stop using Facebook and tell everyone you know to stop using it and why. Make a stand. It's worth it.
Well, you can describe a negative number or a rational number, but an infinite sequence of non-repeating decimals is a different matter.
> Have any of those charges included allegations of Russian collusion by Americans?

Yes, the very first charge made public, the charge against, and guilty plea and statement of the offense by George Papadopolous are specifically about lying to investigators about his collusion and attempted collusion with Russians connected with, and whom he believed to be connected with, the Russian government, on behalf of the Trump campaign and with ongoing coordination with higher campaign officials.
Damn, 3.5 million users?? Congratulations. That's a lot of lightning rods.
Promises compose, bubble errors, lift sync errors, can be awaited, have combinators like Promise.all(), they're where the ecosystem headed, and more.

Thinking that promises are callbacks because .then() takes a function suggests misunderstanding.
Tech Companies Applaud Measure to Clarify U.S. Access to Data
80%+ of private events I attend are hosted on facebook (nearly 100% of social ones.) Every gig I attend I find out about due to Facebook (easier than reading a print gig-guide.)
> Also RT published the names of the two officers who controlled the G2 account: Sergei Afanasyev, GRU Deputy Chief and Grigoriy Viktorovich Molchanov, Head of the GRU Academy.

It's surprising that RT published those. I thought it was an entity controlled by the Russian government. Why would it be publishing the names of its own officers when supposedly the said officers went out of their way to appear Romanian and not Russian.
All in a day’s work for Bain Capital.
Effective Unit Tests for Time Travel
In Norway 40% of the sold cars are plug-in electric.
It’s not a blind spot I’m worried about. People frequently walk at full speed up to the edge of the sidewalk, then stop just before they would walk into traffic. Should an autonomous car assume that any pedestrian walking towards an intersection is going to continue into the roadway, even if they don’t have the right of way? That’s not what a human driver does.

Likewise, I can be standing still with my toes on the curb, and then lunge into the street. Should a self-driving car assume that every pedestrian standing at a crosswalk could walk into traffic at any moment, and slow down accordingly? Again, that’s not what human drivers do.

There are a number of surface streets near my house with speed limits of 45 mph, and crosswalks every 1/8 mile or so. Requiring cars (autonomous or not) to avoid any possible pedestrian incident at every such intersection would be a disaster for traffic throughout and a huge step backwards.
You seem pretty worked up about this one feature.

> 3. A popular enough feature to possibly gate the entire calculus for users to switch services.

I'd say GitLab's CI/CD system is a lot more useful of a feature. At the very least you can use the actual git blame or another git UI as a workaround. Good luck setting up a replacement CI/CD system.

> 4. Obviously useful feature, as evidenced by the gitlab triage engineer being convinced to add an issue with a single paragraph plea.

That's not how triage works. Just because a bug is filed doesn't mean it's "obviously useful". If the employee had immediately given it a high importance, a release date, and assigned it to somebody, that'd be a different story.

> 5. Gitlab is seemingly unaware of this publicly available information, to the trivially rectified detriment of their own bottom line.

Well, since there is another bug already filed for this feature more than six months ago, [0] I'd say they are quite aware, they just don't consider it as important as you do. The particular person that replied to you just didn't know about it (not surprising when they have more than 10k bugs open).

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/37135
Show HN: Developer Console and inspect the DOM on mobile
I can't agree with you enough on this :)
It's indeed hard to build a freelancing career between a day job and life.
I think OP is making reference to this quote by Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkz7xgsPGmQ
Or just start fresh in the morning.

There are reasons these regulations are being enacted. Reducing abusive workplace environments takes priority over flexibility and convenience.
Base your entire company culture around 40 hour work weeks. If you find people are needing to work more than that to get things done in time, it’s a planning/work load problem, and you need to hire more people.