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(I guess, everyone in this thread is ranting about the same. Here's my anger:)

We have slowly morphed from "users of the internet" to "a product of the internet".

The internet, today, is so interested about what I do every second. This made every common man a celebrity. A friend recently said she's aware of her data being used to snoop on her, but she refrained to stop it citing that it gave her "momentary happiness" to stay on social networks. I practically couldn't deny what she said.

While I follow ('ed) a few discussions over internet, the moment I turn my phone screen on, I get disrupted by the numerous feeds from social apps ending up forgetting what I had to look at. I keep confining me to the same space eventually.

The internet is following the greatest blindfold of democracy: "Set strict boundaries for individuals of the society and let them argue within those limits infinitely. Keep them busy with controversies within those boundaries so that there isn't time left to think beyond the limits"
I've been doing contract work for the past 3 years and I've learnt to avoid such situations like the plague.

At my last job I ran into the situation where I completed a project but my manager was lazy about asking for the next project. I don't like disturbing people so I only asked about the new project 3-4 times during a week and my manager always told me to have patience.
At the end of that week she actually had a 2 week vacation planned so I ended up not doing any meaningfull work for 3 weeks.

My manager had to sign my bill with detalied work. It just sucked making up "work" for 21 days and then billing for it but my manager signed off the work; 3 months later when the project rand into some delays my manager arranged a meeting where se stated that she feelt the project was running late because of my slacking off.

Anyway, I'd never do that again -- I'd just email the manager about not having any work and clearly bill my time as "waiting for work".
I think it was just meant as an example of public media, not the worst of it.
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Yes, Very True and I have found a similar article which every non techie should read if he/she is interested in coding: https://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/Science/24960/113373/a...
I still hang out on Something Awful and Resetera (videogame oriented, the follow-up of Neogaf after it imploded). Forums are so much nicer than Reddit or Twitter or Facebook.
Good point, but the idea here is that if the workers invest in the inevitable future and turn automation into a passive income instead of total loss for them(as it will happen when their trade is robotised by someone else). They might as well invest in anything else however collectively investing in the business they understand and are part of could bring considerable advantages such as educated “bets” in the startups and structured job losses(as not everyone will lose their jobs to the automation at the same rate) and all the the benefits that come with scale as opposed to individual micro investments.
Google to pour $550m into JD.com in a strategic partnership
For readers outside the U.S. who get redirected to a regional homepage, you can view the article via this link:

http://archive.is/j7AGG
> The aboriginal peoples of the world .... had everything they needed, so tend not to invade for "more." To answer the question, "why" maybe a bit deeper view is worthwhile.

I don't think this works as an explanation. Could not all countries in what we now call Europe have sustained themselves if they so chose?

And anyway, assuming we all agree on what is meant by aboriginal peoples, aren't there plenty of examples of aboriginal peoples carrying on extended wars and raids?
Well, the problem with cyber offensive is that while even a minor disruption in network infrastructure in western countries will have a huge impact on both economy and society and could cause significant losses. Whereas even if you completely destroy networks of Islamic state I doubt it will hurt them a lot. Cyber warfare escalation is not really a smart move when your economy really needs IT infrastructure and your opponent does not (or does but to a significantly lesser degree)
I would be interested in cool places where influencers don't go...
SA is something awful forum apparently. We should define these terms!
I'd argue that at least Ebay falls into that category. Lots of scams are being pulled there, e.g. fake Nvidia GPUs with hacked firmware to appear as higher end models, or power banks and batteries which claim to have 10 to 100 times more capacity than they actually have:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/323268262433

https://www.ebay.com/itm/311915446387

https://www.ebay.com/itm/222645678821

Ebay could proactively fight those scams or at least remove the fraudulent offers after they've been reported, but they do nothing and profit from it instead.

Hopefully, laws will eventually adapt, but until then, there's a lot of money to be made from unsuspecting customers.
But unless they had your ID before, how can they tell it’s the ID of the account owner and not a homonym?

Also how would they defend against fake IDs? If the purpose is to prevent malicious access then they better expect that attackers will try and use fakes.
amazon meaningful? it's like the opposite of what the dude is looking for here.
That's exactly what Frank-Lin Distillers Products in Fairfield, CA does.[1] Ethanol arrives in tank cars from refineries in the Midwest, and is delivered to their railroad siding. Water come from the water main. The ethanol goes through some additional distillation and filtering. The water goes through a de-ionizing plant. Water, ethanol, and flavoring are mixed and bottled, to produce over a thousand different brands of booze, using many different types of bottles. The bottle factory is conveniently located across the street. Only a hundred different recipes are used. Few people notice.

Many brands of booze are purely marketing operations, with the production outsourced. Frank-Lin used to make Skyy Vodka. Skyy, the company, just provided the hype. That line was bought by Campari, which has their own in-house production facilities. Frank-Lin still makes Beyond Vodka.

Frank-Lin has a cost advantage. In the US, booze production is separated into distillers, distributors, and retailers for tax purposes. Frank-Lin is a distributor. The distiller is a refinery-scale operation back in the Midwest which makes industrial and beverage alcohol. So Frank-Lin handles the distribution of all those brands directly, bypassing a level of warehousing. Most of the low-end booze, and some of the high-end booze on the West Coast comes from Frank-Lin's plant.

[1] http://www.frank-lin.com/
Capability is only 1 factor and it alone does not define earnings (which seems to be the only metric you mentioned). Skills, education, interests, motivations, family, and more, make much bigger differences in careers. It is not as simple as what you make it out to be.

And yes, the only way to remove discrimination is to eliminate it completely. Anything short of that is still just discrimination by a different name.
Global Coordination for Planet Earth
Hello people of earth,

It is clear to me that we reached a point where technology can enable us to coordinate at a global scale towards the effort of evolving the species and ensuring our survival through the eons of time.

I believe that the next 200 years are crucial in dictating the direction of our species, therefore we need to take massive action.

There are many problems with our current global structure, after going deep and analysing the root-cause I've discovered that most problems are related to lack of "Emotional Intelligence" in our leaders. It took me a while to figure this one out and I can share the research I did and my thought flow, however the purpose of this post is a bit different:

I would like to know if there are any other groups that have the goal of globalisation in mind and if not, begin assembling a master-mind group and start the systematic process.

In my utopic vision things would look like this:

- Completely cut the spendings for military (by removing the necessity of having military -- globalisation)

- Offer the basics to all humans on the planet: healthy food, water, shelter and access to internet and education.

- Have a global-scale project called "Planet Earth" where, with the help of the internet, we can all sync and oil the cogs of our species in one centralised place.

- Improve the educational process across the globe by maximising the potential of all human resources

This is just me throwing out an idea that sits in the back of my mind for a while now. I have no doubt this is possible. However I have doubts whether or not this can be done during our lifetime (next 70-80 years) and I would love to hear feedback and constructive criticism from all the great minds that apply their focus around here.
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Debit cards overtake cash in the UK, largely due to adoption of contactless
Generalization: Do not follow the rules that you think are there, only follow the rules that are really there. Challenge your own assumptions.
Vue overtook React
"Spatial memory"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_memory

It may be splitting hairs, but I think the mammalian brain, at least, can simulate/remember/imagine additional 'dimensions' like X/Y/Z spin, derivatives of velocity like acceleration/jerk/jounce.

Is space 11 dimensional (M string theory) or 2 dimensional (holographic principle)? What 'dimensions' does the human brain process? Is this capacity innate or learned; should we expect pilots and astronauts to have learned to more intuitively cognitively simulate gravity with their minds?
There's a race between humans and horses every year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
Every other month an amazing project from Fabrice Bellard comes back under the spotlight on HN. I guess you could train a ML model on previous posts and make a automatic karma-generating machine :-)
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I don't know why the underlying language for the code is important in the product description? Seems a little clickbait to me. Instead why not focus of the UX you provide or the speed that you have. I just don't get why the mention of GoLang is required, unless its a hobby project for someone learning GoLang. I've seen a lot of these projects mentioning Rust or GoLang lately, capitalising on their popularity, I get that Open Source projects help in understanding the language and hacking around it, but repetitive projects also do this! Is there some reason for it? Btw, I did like the UI, only ended up with this error "Error: tls: oversized record received with length 20306" post login.
Everything I said was from my own viewpoint (I thought that was pretty clear).

You wrote “There is very little difference in results between a nation blocking you or Google blocking you right now”, which I interpreted as an individual-targeted sentence. Since I already try to avoid Google (in fact, it’s me blocking them, except for YouTube), I tried to imagine if it blocking me would be a problem.

Of course I don't think that everybody shares my view or can relate to my experience, that would be preposterous.
Just checked the gmail 'dark' background color, which always looked pretty black to me. Is actually #111111
That's indeed the book I was referring to. Thank you for clarifying.
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There is absolutely no need to follow TDD to be good at testing.
> and don't even use video memory for them, they just copy data from buffer in main memory into a memory-mapped framebuffer. This must be slow

No, it is as fast as it gets and it's the correct way of doing it (in fb at least).
It is a terrible idea, if not radical.

Outcomes are what they are, all you can do is make the process fair and let people do what they would like to. There are infinite groupings you can make of people (race just 1 aspect) and no matter what you pick, you will see group A be better or worse on some metric than group B.

Wanting to equalize outcomes based on random aspects is a recipe for chaos. Even if we reset the world tomorrow and gave everyone exactly the same resources, the inequality would appear within minutes. Therefore there is no purpose beyond emotional feel-good to say that everyone should be the same at the end because it only leads to misery by all.
Again, I don't think we need services from companies not willing to respect GDPR. Its intent is quite clear IMO.
Definitely need to have a look in to this. It seems inconceivable a human on foot could outpace a rider on horseback!
Great quote, apparently by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
In today's research community this doesn't matter. All that matters is how many papers you publish - no matter how stupid they are.
Are we seeing the emergence of a generic software best practice of centralised state management emergence across the industry? This table based storage pattern is now common to:
- functional frontend apps via redux
- classical apps and server backends via relational databases
- game engines like the one mentioned here, and Unity's Entity Component System
- probably more systems I don't know about

It seems to me like separation of state and behaviours is one of those fundamental rules that should apply to most large software applications.
Go Entity/Component/System implementation
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Its tremendous and superb (Superpowers)
What part talks about the US?
If your soul isn’t in some sense coupled to the thing you spend most of your time doing, I simply do not understand what you tie your identity to...
There is a game theoretical flaw in the way many software teams work together
Maybe seperate channel info and chat messages (like e.g. kvirc enables to do)?
This is how the EU market has worked, in many ways, for years. There have always been moats due especially to localization and payment gateway issues. See: the legendary Samwer Bros clone companies.

Certainly GDPR only increases the width of these moats, but the market dynamic isn't much new.
> There are better ways to do that than to suggest I'm in the wrong forum, I don't belong here and take it elsewhere.

I realize that part of what I said could be construed that way, and I apologize.

I do try very hard not be ad-hominem and avoid talk about the commenter, in favor of talking about the comment itself.

So, to be clear, I was making no statement about you not belonging here. Rather, I was saying (and only after actually asking for the kind of content/information I was hoping for) that this isn't the best forum for illustrating a problem without an accompanying suggested solution.

I do still hope to read your thoughts on making the system less corrupt.
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> Arnold’s career, written, as many of the best and most readable histories of the revolution are written these days, by an independent scholar who is not caught up in the academic world’s obsessions with race and gender.

Possibly the most neckbeard thing you can write. Race and gender matter. To ignore that is to say that they don't. But, this article is celebrating a white man ignoring both those things?
>get approx 2x the download bandwidth

What about latency?
Surely they did look like the one on the left if you looked in the frame buffer. What they most certainly didn't have was TTF/OTF fonts rendered in true colour with anti-aliasing.
Apparently you place no value in an evaluation done within a broken process - and rightfully so.

I have to ask: how do you tell a good process from a bad one?
Most people don't drive the kind of car that can comfortably average 180 km/h over such a long trip. Even if I did, I probably wouldn't always do it because of the fuel cost. Driving fast can easily double the cost of your trip compared to driving efficiently. At which point I'd rather just spend the money on a train ticket (given the choice). Driving that fast is hella stressful
It must be frustrating when you run into threads like this, though.
I agree, I wish people would be more discerning and write less, tweet less, etc. and just wait until they have something really interesting to say. Then you have these marketing experts telling people to post at least once a day to keep their audiences engaged. Yuck...

I guess the world will always run by extroverts.
> When you put pure black next to a set of meticulously picked colors, the black overpowers everything else. It stands out because it’s not natural. All of the “black” everyday objects around you have some amount of light bouncing off of them, which means they aren’t black, they’re dark gray. And that light probably has a tint to it, so they’re not even dark gray, they’re colored-dark gray.

But black on a screen is not an unnatural black per se. On most screens you will get a baseline brightness and tint, and larger black areas pick up (diffuse or clear) reflections from the environment.
In a similar vein https://kenrockwell.com/business/two-hour-rule.htm

I don't really agree with this, but it is an interesting symptom of modern business.
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Ask HN: How to be reachable only for emergencies
I'm reading deep work by cal newport and I'm trying to implement his advice on allocating times of unreliability for deeper style of work.

The problem is that I need to be reachable at any time by 2 persons, no matter what.

My first idea was to use SMS only but alas, my ISP shares my number with the whole world and I get one SMS message every other day, another option was to use an external software IM (e.g. Signal) and ask those persons to join the platform to reach me.
This would work wonders for me since I would add a flashy notification to my desktop and achieve my peace of mind but one of the two is not really internet/computer savvy and I can't be sure he'll be able to signup/install AND operate a telephone app in the time of need.

For now top bet would be to have a webpage they can navigate to and press a big red button to summon me on normal IMs, do you have better ideas?
That site is wasting my mind on GDPR and anti-adblock nonsense, try this link instead: https://outline.com/F9Uj9P
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> Is all unit/functional/integration testing and continuous integrating TDD?

No. They differentiate in the matrix.

> If you're not familiar with TDD, you haven't yet achieved that level of mastery.

That's not true - I've worked on teams with far lower defect rates than the typical TDD team.

TDD can help keep a developer focused - and this can help overall productivity rates - but it doesn't directly help lower defect rates.
Greed is what prevents unlimited data.

When greed is not the problem (due to competition, etc) then those markets already have unlimited data.
> The final optimization would have been to write a language that would define game entities in terms of the game components they were subject to and automatically generate the single class that was union of all possible types and would be a "row" in the table

django-typed-models
https://github.com/craigds/django-typed-models

> polymorphic django models using automatic type-field downcasting

> The actual type of each object is stored in the database, and when the object is retrieved it is automatically cast to the correct model class

...

> the common thread was that a hierarchical OO structure ended up adding a lot of unneeded complexity for games that hindered flexibility as requirements changed or different behaviors for in-game entities were added.

So, in order to draw a bounding box for an ensemble of hierarchically/tree/graph-linked objects (possibly modified in supersteps for reproducibility), is an array-based adjacency matrix still fastest?

Are sparse arrays any faster for this data architecture?
> Strangely, dealing with computers at this extremely basic level of stored instruction pointers, buffer overflows and assembly language actually let me gain the skills required to be an "actual programmer".

There is nothing strange about that. People learn in different ways. For me the Head First books were a great alternative to the scores of dry "here is fact 1. And here is proof for fact 1. Here is fact 2. Here is proof for fact 2." books, which bored me to death and didn't help me with learning.
Except that none of those situations you suggest indicate 'laws catching up to the internet' - except in the case of Craiglist prostitution ads which is within the special case group I noted.

None of those companies were broadly breaking any rules to the point of fundamental ambiguity wherein 'we all waited to see what was going to happen'. I see your point about Pinterest but it wasn't really an existential issue, really.

And none of said companies faced existential issues or angst awaiting legal clarity on anything really.
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Thank you for the productive advice. This will Help us a lot of ways. May I ask what is that you do? Curious and might be useful for a professional opportunity.
I think you got it backwards, the GC was rudimentary on the Xbox.
I think development of technology was often motivated by finding means of freeing slaves from atrocious work to give them dignity; if a machine could be built doing the same, that allowed some slaves to escape. Ultimately, this showdown can be seen in our field where many are motivated by similar principles whereas others still want to keep the control of others, warping the rules to their benefit.
Nice shots!

I have a wife and three young kids. I either have to burden my wife solo with the kids or I'm paying for five return flights plus car hire which means visits start at $10k/trip so are a bit tougher than they used to be pre-kids. My domestic dream is for when panels come way down in price so that a wall of screens is a done thing!

I've visited Southern Utah maybe 5-6 times from Australia, so far. Ideally I'd visit annually - my other dream is to run a regular tour taking Australians over and showing them around, mostly as an excuse for me visiting again and again! I tell people it's probably the best density for natural attractions in the world.

This is not all Utah, but includes a reasonable amount of it: http://www.isaacforman.com.au/outdoors/
Same for me

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