skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm saying recognize the hypocrisy instead of constructing weird arguments to justify it.

People with different priors on whether Apple's managers (or managers in general, or managers of large corporations in general) are likely to be hypocrites, will probably have opposite judgements about which explanation is a “weird argument”. So I don't think framing it in these terms will resolve any disagreement, unless there's some non-circular criterion (maybe you have one and I haven't seen it or am not understanding it) for judging an argument “weird”.
That's just your personal experience. Here's one from me: I use it all the time. I wish this was how js worked or that chaining operator would become standard soon. Reason is, there are times where you need some deeply nested variable in state, but it may not be already initialized, so you need to check it every time you access it. Gets tiring really fast.
Agree as well. I love the Apple Watch. The LTE really changed the game for me personally.
That's cute, expecting the federal government to even barely function in this dysfunctional era.

We don't get action on these things because Congress is fundamentally broken.
There's also a response from someone at System76 here: https://plus.google.com/+CassidyJames/posts/RDKMJtGoX62
No there isnt a secret cabal of jewish warlords ordering christians around. Or Muslims. Or atheists even for that matter.
If one billion events happen in a day, then some one-in-a-billion event is likely to happen every day.

Some of them, like a coin landing perfectly sideways will just go on Youtube. Some of them will end up in the news.
>The browser remembers my choice for each site, how many new, different sites do most users visit per day (that would need audio)?

How many sites need notifications? And why do I need to decline that permission at least once a day if not more often?

And the issue is that putting this behind a notification removes the downsides of asking for it. Currently if you play audio un-prompted you piss off (a percentage of) your users. If that was behind a notification, you would only inconvenience those users, so there's less of a downside of trying it assuming that only people that want it would click "yes".

My "perfect solution" would be for the major browser developers to get together, and come up with a web standard for where these notifications/prompts will live in the browser chrome, and roughly what they will look like, so that everyone can standardize on a similar UI. Then move from a prompt to a "badge" of sorts, and give websites the power to instruct users how to discover and switch that permission on/off when needed.

I believe on desktop chrome most permission prompts live in the upper-right corner of the address bar, if we could all standardize on somethign like that (at least on desktop, then figure something out for mobile) website owners could then instruct users "to see notifications, click the (standard-notification-icon) up there and select 'yes'".

For "rare" things like notifications, camera access, gps location, and others that seems like a good tradeoff to me, but for "more common" things like audio/video, I don't think it fits.
>"Diesel buses are very energy efficient. Electrified rail is surprisingly inefficient."

I would really like to see a citation, because I find that extremely hard to believe.
I like "operator", particularly if you purchased the business (seems like you didn't in this case but you don't rule it out). It also shows your role was doing things, not thinking of the idea ("founder"), delegating ("CEO"), or just getting money from the product ("owner").
Read it again: it's his clients that are using google
I have moved away from Google, that is the point of this mailserver. My point is that Google isnt interested in doing anything I send to @gmail.com addresses except classifying it as spam.

Now it would be nice if the people I want to email would move away from Google, but I highly doubt that is going to happen anytime soon.
It's not about receiving mail, it's about sending to others using Gmail accounts.
But they didn't spend the time to keep GNOME up to date or make sure it was well integrated. Now that it's the default again, it gets more attention.
Nice strawman.

No, there is not, but everything the US and the NATO does is to protect Israel at the detriment of the rest of the world.

The fact that there's no way to have this conversation just proves it further.
I dont mind HN mob downvotes, I hope it helped OP
"catastrophe as the Australian coral die off,"

I went deep sea fishing in Florida a few months back. It took forever to get to a place where there were actual fish. I asked the captain why, basically, he knows where there are large shipping container wrecks and that is where all the sea life is.

Thing is, building coral and sea life is super simple [same with killing it]. You literally can just lay down wire grids and get things moving [1].

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-26/scientists-discover-ga...
Reference to William James' Varieties of Religious Experience. The first meta-narrative to treat religious practise as social phenomenon:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/621/621-h/621-h.html

And it's easy to see the parallel the author makes. Every minute aspect of modern living has become "religion". And there is a very public jockeying amongst a high priest class of prognosticating pundits all vying for influence and attention.

But in the most fundamental matters of import beginning with the categorical assumption is essential. Namely, that there exists for any given problem, an optimal answer. It is simply a matter of collecting empirical evidence and making the appropriate analysis.

Steven Pinker argues in his most recent book that if there were "no Hitler, there would be no nukes!" It was only the pressing war that goaded formerly peacefully inclined nuclear physicists to construct such technologies. With the resultant problems we now face of non-proliferation, cyber command and control, etc.

And the logical extension would then take the form: well the Five Eyes nations or G-7 that represent our democratic allies need to develop the next generation of weaponry. To maintain the balance of power shifted in our favor. And so the policy of "mututally assured annihilation" continues ad infinitum until someone happens on a doomsday apparatus ;)

But it is far from optimal. An optimal solution would be something akin to peaceful equilibrium throughout the planet. With space based deterrents against alien attack. But barring an actual concrete threat in that regard. We lack the foresight and will to make it happen.

Obviously I believe part of the solution is electing more scientists and rational thinkers in positions of power. Which brings us back to square one. How to effectively communicate and "nudge" an outcome that foments optimal solutions.
I once heard a story about Asian people dressing up before going to McDonald's.
As long as they don't recommend it to other people then I'm fine with people doing whatever they want.
Right.

I don't think it's about the fish in particular, but that we're training ourselves--practicing even--to be uncompassionate to all things, human or not. We're supposed to be the better species here.
This is a very nice web site describing a programming language with unparalleled expressiveness, power and permanence.

I am heavily invested in Common Lisp. We are developing a programming environment for designing new materials and molecules called Cando (https://github.com/drmeister/cando) using Common Lisp as a scripting language. Cando is running on Clasp (https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp), a new Common Lisp implementation that interoperates with C++ and is based on LLVM.

What attracted me to the language, after 35 years programming in almost everything else, was how organically it lets one write software and how I don't have to worry about it fading like the next programming fad.
There's really only one reason I do use GNOME Shell: the Pidgin IM integration and Panel OSD extensions popup a pidgin notification in the center screen where I can reply back to it inline without having to switch to the desktop where pidgin is running (or switch to the active pidgin window even if it's running on the other monitor with the static desktop). I do so much communication with various people throughout the day (using protocols supported by Pidgin) that this saves me a whole heck of a lot of time. I just wish it was available for other desktops.
You're right, but that reflects more on human psychology than the quality of the argument. I'd argue the problem with discussion of current events on social media is exactly this - quotes and arguments are selected for psychological potency, and not merit.
This is why we need carbon taxes. Instead of having to do hours of research for each item you buy, the environmental impact would be baked into the price.
Disproving Einstein's concept of Space-Time
I'm currently using a System76 laptop, but it's for sure my last one. The build quality is pretty poor and the touchpad is so annoying that I disabled it. When the fan broke and had to be replaced I had to take over the shipping costs and replace it myself. While I don't matter replacing parts, I don't see why I have to pay for the shipping during the warranty. Now this article on top, I'll see if I can get rid of it quickly, I went back using my old Lenovo X230 again anyway.
I'm sure the initial reaction here is going to be lamentation about the state of documentation. People will correctly point out that, if multiple entities misread the documentation, it just have been unclear. And they are right. But that doesn't make this Intel's fault alone. Clear or unclear, the documentation described behavior that was understood at the Intel organization, and the shipped product worked as described.

Where was the security testing at the OS level? Why can't there be automated test suites that catch unauthorized access issues before ship (if not before merge commit)? If your vendor delivers an insecure product and you don't discover it, how much blame do you share?
4. If you hold the conversation in private, you’re almost guaranteed to avoid everything below the lower dotted line. Everything below that is a show put on for spectators.

This is definitely not true. I think most people have social shaming arguments (another way of putting this is tribalism) so drilled into them that they believe it at a very core level and will socially shame you (in a less aggressive way) when speaking in private because it's core to how they think.

"I hate how you're always agreeing/on the side of X"
> Classy. That's a great, professional way to build relationships and really makes people want to work with you on your project.

That's.... not how this should be handled. Unsure this person's position, but if they're high enough to matter, that's not the position they should be taking here, regardless of their feelings on the matter.

They also didn't address the technical parts of the article besides saying "it will probably work though we haven't tested it". They didn't discuss the reason for the degradation of communication, nor the particulars of the decisions made, or even acknowledge the scenario the article outlined, instead talking about the author negatively.
Since 20+ years ago I used decent window managers that let me have a 2x2 workspace. VERY simple to use. Moving the mouse works within a workspace and the same way across workspaces (mouse off any edge).

Moving windows worked within workspaces (click, drag, drop) same as across workspaces (click, drag, drop).

Basically the principal of least surprise. Moving the mouse and clicking shouldn't have special rules across workspaces unrelated to the rules of working within a workspace.

So basically you could basically intuitively work on a space much larger than your screen without having to think about it.

Ubuntu 18.04 forces vertical workspaces (so 1x4). In the dual monitor config it only moves the left monitor across desktops. And moving windows between workspaces is a nightmare. Step one is move the mouse to the top left corner and click activities to expose. Step 2 displays all your windows as tiny icons, 2/3rd of your screen is just the background, so they aren't much bigger then icons, and theor position once exposed is unrelated to the original position. So now you have to refind your window, then drop it into one of the workspaces. But you can't watch or tell where it lands. So then you have to switch workspaces and refind that window.

Quite the pain compared to 16.04 (or any decent window manager since olvwm 20+ years ago) it's just drag and drop.

Additionally there's no spatial relationship. So a window that's off your top edge of your workspace doesn't show up in the workspace above yours. It's basically just 4 unrelated workspaces. They also prevent wrap around, so you can't go from 1 to 4, but have to visit 2 and 3 first.

Reminds me of the first hacks to OSX and Windows to get more than one desktop. Linux folks figured this out 20+ years ago with olvwm, ctwm, and many others.
I hope you're wrong on systemd on a Mac. I have to assume its being used for systemd-under-(systemd-infested-linux)-under-virtualbox or systemd-under-docker (or even systemd-under-docker-under-<systemd-infested-linux>-under-virtualbox). systemd-under-docker is particularly pointless IMHO if it's even possible. Could someone using systemd on a Mac chime in and explain the use case?
I see friends/family browsing the web and they will go to a news site, click "no" to notifications, need to click away the fullscreen "want to subscribe to our newsletter" modal, then scroll down to the content. Adding a "want to allow this to display video" is just another step you need before being able to use the site.

NoScript / JS off by default will get rid of 99% of those annoyances and give you the article content immediately. (I am aware of the sites which hide the content behind JS, which are truly "shitty UX", but if more people used this config, perhaps they wouldn't proliferate as much. Fortunately most news sites aren't like that, in my experience.)
Google does not have any sales function
>Yeah, clearly they read the dialogue if by adding more dialogue you change their action.

No, because with our first-stage dialog we can just keep showing it until they click yes, but with the native dialog we only get one chance, and if they click "no" we might not even get a callback that they clicked anything at all on some browsers (which I honestly kind of like from a privacy standpoint).

But to be clear, i'm not happy with the 2-stage dialog. It feels condescending to ask for permission to ask, and for non-business applications it just slows down the "thing" that you are asking for permission for even more. But thus far it's the only thing that has consistently worked for us.

>The problem may have been that simply asking for permission to use the camera in general and not stating when and how you would use that permission

Our app is a business-oriented application that is running on dedicated company-owned phones in most cases. Users are trained on how to use it, how to set it up, how to create accounts and more.

About 8% of our new users still click no on average 2-3 times spending less than a second on the dialog according to some analytics I have on it. It dropped from 15% with the change from 1-step to 2-step permissions, but that's still a LOT of users that instinctively click "no".
The problem with cars in cities is not just the pollution, although that is a huge factor.

It is also the fact that they are grossly inefficient space-wise. The majority have only the driver (and maybe, maybe a single passenger) in an otherwise empty car. Congestion would be vastly reduced if we could get most of those people on public transport or bikes instead.
Same here, still not usable on my mac
I do not think it gets downvotes for pointing out documented anti-semitism. My guess is that the first sentence is a downvote magnet. Nothing else in that post points to insanity. IMO, it rather indicates a very shrewd politician working to control public opinion and get rid of opponents using all tools available.
> Freedom is never constraint on others

Of course it is, you have to constrain the powerful so they cannot take freedom away from the dispossessed.

You have to restrict the freedom of Southern plantation owners to own slaves to ensure the freedom of slaves. You have to restrict the freedom of corporations to merge into a giant conglomerate so you can protect the freedom of choice of consumers. You have to restrict the freedom of corporations to charge for the origin of internet traffic so you can protect the freedom of internet users to visit any site they wish.

Freedom in society is always an exchange and a compromise. Your freedom to swing your fist ends five centimetres away from my nose.
> Given the number of people who hate unauthorized autoplaying video (including silent video), it’s sort of amazing that Chrome’s product management team hasn’t added a way to prevent it

I wouldn't hold much hope for them doing this - the official autoplay policy announcement blog post says [1]:

> One cool way to engage users is about using muted autoplay and let them chose to unmute (see code snippet below). Some websites already do this effectively, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...
I don't see him talking about the closed source flashing tool afuefi, which seemed to be the reason for the hickup in working together.
I switched to arch linux a couple of weeks ago after being an ubuntu user for 8 years. After installing gnome3 I see not much difference between arch linux and Ubuntu. Sure, maintaining packages is quite different (and better) in arch linux than Ubuntu. I guess I was always a fan of desktop managers and not quite concerned about the distro.
Even if you eradicate Null, programmers will create a singleton object to represent it.
Gmail Icons are Hard
It's people like you that elected Donald Trump. You can't just disagree with someone, you need to attack them personally.
microsoft is the same, one day our emails started to go directly to spam for office365 customers, the only effective thing that i could do is to move to mandrill.
there is zero spam, and all our emails are b2b notifications so no spam, not even newsletters.

sending emails (if you care about delivery) became very centralized
It's cool to be passionate about a cause but name calling drags everyone down. Not the right site for a comment like this.
Unity was never the main reason people chose to use Ubuntu -- it was always (well, from when I first heard about it until I lost interest (5 years ago)) the claim that Ubuntu is easier to install than Debian.

I never understood the fixation about ease of installing, as that's something I either did once every few years on custom hardware, or had automated already using a CFM. For stuff I installed manually (laptops, occasional desktop rebuilds) partitioning was always the thing that gave me the most pause - and a graphical installer vs text installer didn't really impact that process. Picking a new hostname wasn't any easier with a GUI than a text interface either.

The common claim was that Ubuntu had have better X, init (upstart), installer, and maybe some more recent exotic drivers -- but I was hard-pressed to identify the differentiating factors from Debian testing (what most of my friends & family were on, at my behest).
I've been skipping all the Unity drama by staying on Xubuntu which is really snappy and stays out of your way.

Also, Gnome on this laptop (Dell Inspiron 15 7000) gave me (and several others users, as per forum post https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2358975 and some bug reports I found on the internet) a freeze or stutter every 10 or so seconds. So instead of having to start debugging shit from a fresh Linux install like I used to do in early 199x linux days, I chose to install xubuntu and just get to work and be productive.

Try XFCE today, really (and install all gnome apps should you need to run something from that desktop environment: they integrate great with xfce).

o/
Learning Web Development? These Skills Will Make You Stand Out (Part Two)
Yes, I was shocked how good Kubuntu is. Gnome looks nice but the lack of configurability is a show stopper for many power users.
Wow, the article shows that many vendors mis-read the docs: Apple, Microsoft, FreeBSD, Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and other Linux distros...as well as VMware and Xen.

This is going to be a busy day!
Fugue – Free stock music for videos, games and UI
Debate and criticism are defence, it seems to me; their value lies in averting heartache and war. For the purpose of changing the world, the ultimate argument is to create something new and substantial and then make progess with it, giving people somewhere to jump to.
Does workspace grid [1] work on 18.04? Not sure how to get wrapping, though.

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/484/workspace-grid/
They are probably just growing and reinvesting.

It’s a solid product though. Much better than QuickBooks or anything else I’ve used.

Don’t forget the vendor lock-in. Once an org start using accounting software - they are very unlikely to switch.
I use Xero and the interface and functionality is great, but what makes you think someone writing JavaScript for Xero has the skill to work on AI or spacecraft?
Is there an easy way to remove systemd yet?
Also wondering this. The article mentions the difficult problem of scaling up red algae farming - could the active ingredient not be synthesized commercially and added to feed that way?

edit, from Wikipedia: "The substance may be hazardous to the environment, and special attention should be given to aquatic organisms. Its volatility and environmental persistence makes bromoform's release, either as liquid or vapor, strongly inadvisable. ... Bromoform is a confirmed animal carcinogen"
Although I presume the bromoform binds to the enzymes and/or otherwise reacts in the stomach, as usual there are pros and cons associated with this sort of thing
How do you convince network giants like IBM, Intel, Cisco, Nokia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Juniper, D-Link, among others, that net neutrality regulations are a bad idea? They currently support what Ajit Pai is doing. They have even have gone as far as crediting his repeals for greater investment into their network infrastructure.
#StallmanWasRight
An Open Code Base Is Not yet an Open Source Project
> It may be time to try Ubuntu again.

It may be time to try/support Debian GNU/Linux again.
How is it unregulated? People have been sent to jail in US for practicing veterinary medicine improperly.
Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
People Leave My Website Fast: What I Do Wrong?
Freelancers and remote workers, what's your favourite environment to work?
If you are free to work from anywhere, where do you like to go? Curious to know any good spots!
(mapcar #'string-downcase
(list "Hello" "world!"))

This is a great example of why I don't want to use Common Lisp.

Compare with Python:

[word.lower() for word in ("Hello", "world!")]

Beating Node and Ruby in terms of speed is also a big non-argument, with so many attractive programming languages to choose from that are both fast and good looking.
Gnome just never seems right. Unity is way more polished. Which is a shame. I initially supported gnome over unity when Ubuntu released it. But, once you get used to the polished feel, its not something you want to do with out. Gnome currently STILL feels like a step or 2 backwards.
Yeah, something like "Hello, I'm Rogers' Assistant..." to fit current Google naming conventions would probably be fine.