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Legal structures are meaningless without the political and economic power to enforce them.

But beyond that, it’s about values. You can’t start with a business culture that rewards competitive greed and narcissism over empathy and cooperation and expect it to suddenly start acting against its own core ethics.
> instead of messing with cross compilation.

To be fair, cross-compilation in Go is as simple as setting and environment variable.
How I developed perfect pitch in 30 days at 24 years old
It's not like regular companies distributing Android are known for delivering security patches in a timely manner...
It's not a very good safety net when it's completely optional.

Sure, it's technically optional in Rust too, but in Rust, you have to wrap raw pointer dereferences and stuff into unsafe{} blocks. The default is safety. In C++, your whole program is an unsafe block.
Is your appeal to authority really the Simpsons?

Thalidomide had nothing to do with the changes in how drugs are approved. The thalidomide "problem" was solved by never testing drugs in pregant women - of course if you are pregnant and get ill then tough luck.

The FDA has nothing to do with the regulation of genetically modified mosquitos as it is outside its regulatory control.

Yes plenty of people are trying to kill this idea and yes these people have slowed and will probably stop this idea ever being used. I would like them to be held responsible for the millions of deaths that result.
Do not live a life of regret. Have experiences. Maybe, having an Amazon experience is a good thing? How about (for instance) if it turned out the big data science being done inside Amazon took you to JPL or Antarctica or into your own startup?

I tell a joke about failing to get hired by Microsoft in the 1980s. Sure, I'd be fully vested, but I've worked continuously since graduating.

In a million years we're all fossils. Life is too short to waste in coulda-shoulda-woulda
Estonia’s Estcoin Abandoned as the ECB Trumps the IMF
Haha, your comment reeks of inexperience. The thing you have namely not experienced is the pain of having to port an entire service to a different language because SQLAlchemy is as slow as a snail.

But yes, keep on using your ORMs because using a query builder is too hard. I'm sure your significant experience building services that will at most ever handle 2 QPS is very important to the software engineering world.
Is poverty really linked to food scarcity in western countries anymore ? The statistics show that overall, the poor are fatter than the rich.
This kinda story is my biggest fear - the state interfering with my family.
Hmm, what's the problem with this guy? After told on the face that his statement is unfounded from a much reliable source, he doesn't correct his statements nor apologize for spreading (seemingly?) false information (If you dissent, please elaborate with more strong evidences, not some holy "Sources"), instead, he continues with what appears to be insinuation that he is more authentic.

Totally NOT COOL.
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Startup idea: proof of consent as a service.

A website/app where you can quickly declare consent for a specific activity, and share that declaration privately with a specific other user of the app. Each entry is secure/private to only you and the person you share it with. The entries are timestamped, you cannot delete them.

Then before the act, you quickly do a consent exchange and each person has the proof that the other consented.

You could make the entries visible only for a period of time to their own users, after which they are only accessible if there is a legal process, to avoid them being used as trophies/outing.

Obligatory Dave Chapelle Love contracts: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/jwmvxd/chappelle-s-show-love-c...
Mining is not a security issue though. It doesn't break into anything. It just wastes CPU cycles.

If by "delivered to websites" you mean without the site owner's consent, via ad networks or comments/whatever user generated content, then it's a problem of trust and/or content filtering, it's orthogonal to browser sandboxing.
So basically we have to choose between silently accepting sexual harassment and coercion or being frozen out of opportunities?

How about men take some responsibility for this situation and figure out how to treat women as normal human beings?
I was just looking into Onyx right now actually, haha. It's the first result when googling for distributed clojure. Not quite sold on the model, I don't yet know how the internals work so it feels a bit too magic. But I only got a quick peek so it would be unfair to dismiss it.

The vast majority of apps don't require distribution but I'd like to use a model of computation that would support it when needed so as to avoid large refactoring. And, preferably, allow for code reuse with systems that are distributed.

EDIT: Watching a talk about the internals of Onyx made by the creator. I gotta say, I'm liking it more and more.
Maybe key thing is to do a good research and to not use it as social policies rather than doing no research at all?

If I knew that my natural behavior is disadvantageous (given that time preference is an advantage), I could behave more consciously and do more analysis than intuition. Rather than just killing everyone suspected to be more succesful than me, if you know what I’m saying.
"Controlled" is the key word here. It means the network controller is running erlang. The actual switches and routers run C.
Really naive question:

How many deep learning models would need to be trained so that a model (maybe a decision tree) for generating deep learning models could be trained?
You got me, fair-and-square! Speaking holistically though, most of the programs I enjoy using on a daily basis were written in either C or C++. Safer languages should have a tremendous edge here, but the proof has not made its way into the pudding.

Just think C works as a kind of "high-pass" filter for programmers--and is net positive to overall software quality. Memory issues? YMMV
Ask HN: No more crypto/blockchain themes?
After few months, this is the first time I came on HN and there is no single topic at first 3 pages about crytpo and blockchain. What can we use of that (crypto/blockchain) technology in the future?
Yeah, designing a market is hard and needs professional economists involved, not just politicians riddled with conflicts of interest and taking all their information from lobbyists.
In the land of Bollywood, Apple, Amazon, Netflix struggle to make inroads
I try not to do this as I never bought into the idea of evolving a prototype into a production app.

My first prototypes tend to be in create-react-app with session-storage (state dies with browser session).

After that if the use case seems solid I choose the appropriate tech for the job
PHP isn't dead, and it will never be dead, but as a long time and continuing professional Perl developer myself, let me tell you that you're better off just accepting that your language of choice isn't in vogue anymore.

It's not all bad once you're on the ass-end of history. I'm sure you can easily identify a few negatives being the language de jour bring (such as lots of shitty programmers joining the community all the time). Welcome to middle-age. ;)
One thing that’s interesting is that is also how the SuperFX chip for the SNES worked, IIRC. It basically was it’s own processor and rendering loop. The SNES’s onboard CPU was provided only a basic program to interface with the frame buffer, sound, and input.

The major difference is that in addition to the actual rendering CPU, it also had hardware that specifically converted the frame buffer into the SNES tile format to easily dump without issues.
Storing Encrypted Credentials in Git
I try not to do this as I never bought into the idea of evolving a prototype into a production app.

My first prototypes tend to be in create-react-app with session-storage (state dies with browser session). I publish this as entirely static content on Amazon S3 (via CloudFront).

After that if the use case seems solid I choose the appropriate tech for the job
But positivism claims knowledge comes only from a posterior knowledge not a priori. So it does not require completeness in any formal system, just consistency.

And even if a deductive system is inconsistent in an interesting way, observation (a posterior knowledge) will catch it and force us to devise another system.
The problem I have with this is it’s always tempting to believe the aristocratic class deserve their riches when I’m one of them.

Perhaps the idea only “feels right” to me because I like the conclusion it leads to.
There's tons of substitutes for Google Maps:

https://f-droid.org/app/net.osmand.plus

https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.axet.maps

https://f-droid.org/app/com.junjunguo.pocketmaps

https://f-droid.org/app/com.zoffcc.applications.zanavi

Either specify why you think Google Maps is so irreplacable or don't make such a blanket statement.
Most Python libraries are a lot more mature than NodeJS libraries. This makes sense because they are also often a lot older. That being said, all ecosystems have their up- and downsides. Fpr example, I think package management for NodeJS is infinite amount of times better than for Python. Pipenv only came around one year or so ago.
They regularly do this.
By "hereditary" are you meaning determined or influenced by genetic factors or inheritance of behaviour and assets between generations?
With no disrespect to Dabney, but these kinds of obituaries make HN kind of morbid in my opinion.
Because they have access to only poor quality foods. There may not be calorie scarcity but there is nutrition scarcity.

And yes, for some there's also "food insecurity" which is not knowing where your next meal is coming from or having to choose between food and other necessities (shelter, warm winter clothing, medical care, transportation, etc.)
In a society, peoples rights are a lot of times in conflict. In this case, I imagine that the right of the neigbours to be able to rest at night superseedes the right of the visitors to have fun by doing "botellón" (dinking on the street) at night in a residential area.

In any case, this is not special at all. Every European city has regulations about pollution, including noise pollution.
The warranty can be a really good value on some used cars https://youtu.be/MzQCj-dbgN0
طرق ازالة الكرش بعد الولادة بالاعشاب
I want to praise you for taking the time to admit that you were wrong about a topic you didn't know much about. It is something that is seen far too infrequently in this world.
Often the poor are fat because healthy food is more expensive. So yes, scarcity of healthy food is linked to poverty.
Thanks for breaking down a concept that is completely overwhelming into simple pieces of information!

Great work!
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Your cats are an unrepresentative sample of the mammal population, your conclusion is biased.
Good to know, thank you very much for the link!

I've just been thinking: If one manages issues within a separate git repo -- couldn't we also store pull requests this way? I've always been very impressed by how good `git diff` and `git apply` work together, so theoretically, one should just be able to store the result of `git diff master...HEAD` in a new issue. The rest sounds like a tooling problem...
You pay that warranty on top. And it is good deal for a car that you know will require service. You can find good deals at CarMax. I found a car at CarMax $2k under the dealer. Now maybe I could’ve gotten it cheaper otherwise but I doubt much more.. also you have to realize that used cars are in demand vs new. Today it is often cheaper to buy new.
Yes it has been studied and like every basic human trait it is partially genetic and partially environmental.

As for why you are being downvoted there are many here on HC that are strong believers of the blank slate myth [0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate
"The system looks at sets of pictures of the hive door taken every 10 seconds. It then extrapolates out the background, assesses the objects that have moved in the frame, and then counts the things that are likely to be bees."

"The Techcrunch article spamtastically plagiarises a BoingBoing article from the day before (including misspelling the author's name) and complete and utterly misunderstands the core technique"
Braces Have Made Snoring a Modern Health Problem
Isn't NodeJS the Javascript of backend?
How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
What is the alternative?

Expert systems with a myriad of rules that fail the moment they get an input that was not considered?
The Long View: Nobody Expects an Accountable Inquisition
The Nokia N900 had a FM transmitter, allowing you to stream to e.g. your car radio. Nowadays we got different solutions and this is mostly redundant (though still possibly of use in what we now call "older" cars). The transmitter was very short range, and therefore it was legal.
It's hard for us to train new devs in Ruby and Rails.
We've found Go to be superior in deployment + speed up on new developers.
I usually go for Postgres, but I suppose one advantage is that backing up involves the filesystem rather than figuring out how to do a db dump. Not entirely sure if it's that simple though.
Starting Strength is a great program, but I can't understand how beginners are doing power cleans without any kind of guidance from a trainer. Power cleans are really hard to learn - it took me months of going to Olympic weightlifting classes to get even close to good form on them. How did you manage to learn this from a book?

Also, you need to be doing them on a lifting platform for the end of the lift, when you have to drop the weight all the way to the floor. Not too many gyms (in the UK, at least) seem to have these.
Just stripe subscription? Customers of my consultancy also require Bitcoin, Wire transfers and other payments. We use http://killbill.io/ now. It supports multi tenancy.
Still can’t detect whether the consentor/s are legally capable of consenting.
That’s harsh, dude
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I wager there are some small python/bash/perl etc. scripts in use in Cisco firmware, tomorrow headlines - "World runs on Bash! Apocalypse is nigh!"
This is far from universally true. Granted, people aren't starving to death, but there are plenty of poor people who are malnourished in the US.
Yes, Domoticz [1] is specialised for that.

"Domoticz is a very light weight home automation system that lets you monitor and configure miscellaneous devices, including lights, switches, various sensors/meters like temperature, rainfall, wind, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, electricity usage/production, gas consumption, water consumption and many more. Notifications/alerts can be sent to any mobile device.

Best of all, Domoticz is open source and completely free! You only need to invest in hardware."

See their HCL here [2]

[1] https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Main_Page

[2] https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Hardware
> the vast majority of people who want to be actors suck at being one.

It's difficult to reduce the dimensionality of people down to one continuous variable, let alone one binary variable; though some actors, I will concede, could almost manage this.

There's few objective criteria we can actually define a good/suck scale on. Acting quality is very subjective. I tend to find unknown European actors far more convincing than many big name US actors who are chosen to play basically the same character over and over again and perform the same limited two-or-three facial expressions from the set of {happy, sad, angry, confused}. As we've come to learn recently through scandal, performance on screen may not always be the first consideration of some studio execs.

If you're talking financially, that's great: we have an objective measure. If the whole point of being an actor is to make money for themselves, then I can tell you who the great ones are. To the studios though, perhaps it's the actors that will pull in the crowds but not cost too much that are the best. In other words, the amount of money they are expected to make for the studio.

Let's look at the games industry. To be a successful games developer we think we can probably agree on what is good. But to a manager I should imagine a good games developer is someone who helps ship on time and doesn't come to their door telling them what nobody else dares tell them that the bugs that QA found are deep, hard to fix and morale is low. Again, if we define by earnings tor the individual I'm not even sure where pays well.

If we define developers by money they are expected to make for the studio, I'd imagine EA and King employees must be pretty high up.
Consider the following experiments:

- a poor man and a rich man are going to work when they each see a dollar coin on a sidewalk. Which of them would bother to pick it up?

- a poor man and a rich man are both drunk after spending a night at the bar. Which one would take a $50 taxi home, and which one will take a bus for $5 (you have to wait 15 minutes for a bus).

- a poor man and a rich man are both hungry and walk by a restaurant for rich people. It would take an extra 15 minutes to walk to a crappy diner for poor people, but a lunch costs 5x cheaper there. Where would each man dine?
...except the listings that are "Fulfilled by Amazon"...no?
I misread the title somewhat and now got a «bright» idea: Why not put noise-canceling loudspeakers on plazas? No idea whether this really would work, but I think we should explore a technical solution. Because people need a place to let off steam. A possible double win?

Edit: I googled and found this: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/87833/outdoor-ac... -- it seems that there are limits of physics which make such noise-canceling loudspeakers infeasible. It's a pity.
Isn't "beta" supposed to mean "not quite ready for production"?
As someone who manages a team at a large corp that uses react native and ships a successful project things have definitely changed. It feels like Facebook has lost interest.

- the android debugger has been broken for months (it opens to the wrong url, delta patches also broke source maps). No one at Facebook cares. Do they not use the debugger?

- pull requests have stopped being merged. We have FIVE outstanding pull requests fixing bugs as old as ones ignored by Facebook from 2016. No one will reply or merge them anymore. We've been told to just create a fork on GitHub for our project. Apparently that's what every serious RN user does because Facebook doesn't really care about it anymore.

- they have a bot who auto closes bugs somewhat randomly. For example an old bug that Facebook ignored with hundreds of comments gets closed for "inactivity", but it's not active because folks all complained and now they're just waiting for someone to fix it.

So it all combines to a situation where the platform is buggy, but you can't get fixes merged, and filing bugs is largely a waste of time since all it gets is auto replies from the bot and "me too" responses from others.

We really like RN, it helped us ship fast at first, but Facebook absolutely seems to have lost interest in it and in having a community around it.
You can with this system. You just pay extra so that someone can bring it back.
Yesterday I setup my blog on Hugo. Very happy with that. Hugo is written in go but you only need to write markdown and deal with single config file. I managed to find theme that supprts overlay for images and various other options for images. Simplicity is the name of the theme. There are also themes with ready up forms, might be enough for your particular scenario.
Pho is the inverse of fat though, I would go for westernized ramen for that.
I've never bought a car at Carmax but when I was selling my car they offered me a better price than the dealer.
Out of curiosity, why is that concerning - assuming we are really at some kind of historical low e.g. low compared to more then just hippy 80ties including pre-contracepion eras?

Is that you think it is lack of sex that makes people have less children (meaning that they would have them had they not be too lazy to have sex)? Or that there are less relationships or that people keep solely their own gender peer group? Mark of people caring about work more then humans? Or something else?
Cisco gear has enough problems regardless of programming language. They could start with not hard coding passwords. I will never trust them again.
I second that resources consumption with Rails on the production system is only a problem in specific settings (e.g. when your business model depends on many cheap transactions, or when you are running on diverse sets of hosts outside of your control… I'm looking at you, GitLab).

Nonetheless, as a junior Rails developer coming into a 5 people team on a mid-sized project, I saw a diverse set of performance problems during the development phase. E.g. asset pipelines that take ages to compile so that rapid development cycles become impossible or a test suite that took heroic efforts to get down to 15 minutes despite not really doing much computationally-wise. I'm open to alternative interpretations, but I've got the impression that in more performance oriented frameworks the best practice would not turn out to be setting up and tearing down half your server stack before and after each controller test, but instead we would have chosen abstractions that can be plugged together more efficiently.
I'm going the other direction - I've been in embedded/systems since forever, but focused mainly on mobile since forever .. and now I'm more and more convinced that the insanity of hell that is mobile development, is no different than the putrid festering cess-pool that is web, and the only way out is to write yet another host app, with its own ecosystem-supporting embedded script capabilities, turn the whole thing inside out and write all of my own damn GUI controls, subscribe to nobody's slippery gravy treadmill, and just say no: to all the things.

Like the DOS days, if you don't have your own GUI lib, gtfo... I know its an offensive position, but frankly I find the big web con, and all the fancy dancing of mobile, to be just as offensive.

Lua all the things.
Do you both mind elaborating a bit on this? I have to admit CPU instruction scheduling is not really my area.. I'd love to hear more.
Kinda sad but the gist is that this went on for years and years and it wasn't until the people got support that they could prove there was an issue with noise.

Nobody in authority listerned or even checked until then.
I'm...pretty sure I just became in support of that controversy, for no other reason than to improve cryptographic proof UX.
Definitely, migrating here was a pretty good decision.