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I don't like Javascript at all, even with all the linters I could find its too easy to make mistakes. Too many old broken language constructs they can't fix. Java's strongest sell has always been an extremely reliable platform, strong typing, and solid standard libraries, things I also can't say about JS.

Typescript on the other hand is glorious. My favorite language now. Fixes all the issues with using JS for large applications besides flaky libraries. I still don't think its ready for server-side development, not until they add threads (WTF is taking so long). When you're running on a 32 core system node doesn't make any sense.

Yes, I know there's various workarounds like launching multiple copies of your app, but that still limits parallelism on the app level and its pretty lame.
I'm surprised the pharma companies are still even producing opioids. They've been so demonized for it, why should they?
Why? Top performers are poached all the time. Plenty of people do excellent work in jobs they may not love. Both promotions and bonuses are usually tied to performance review cycles, and right after bonuses vest is the most popular time to leave.
They should set up a way for viewers to fund creators through YouTube itself instead of through a third-party crowdfunding service. That way, they can take their cut for keeping the lights on. Since they know what videos you watch, they could automatically distribute teh monies the same way they already do, but just not show you an ad.

What would be really nice, from a viewer standpoint, would be if it was done on a flat subscription rate, like Sirius XM and the BBC do it. Basically make a premium version of YouTube, but I'm sure their marketing department will try to give it a cooler, but less useful, name than YouTube Premium.

And they shouldn't freaking block videos because the creators flipped a switch. That's just stupid. If they're not willing to offer the videos without ads, then offer the videos with ads.
> Pick boring unless you can’t is my approach.

But when you can't, being able to learn from the lessons of giant companies via their open source software sure is a blessing!
There are already checks and balances. Unfortunately Congress and a sizeable portion of the public are with him. He is not a dictator, he legitimately won the election and I can see good support for him on my Facebook "friends"
Because there is truly no other viable solution for pain management in certain situations.
Maybe for .01% of ranchers. I grew up on a ranch in Utah. Ranchers that make money from tourism or the rodeo are few and far between compared to the total number of ranches in Utah.
Disagree. It just as easily could say "we do not think that your council actually does anything useful about human rights".
Huh? Your having a big monolith service binary doesn't mean that this whole binary gets paged in from disk all the time for every request. If you're specializing and dedicating particular instances to particular tasks, you'll get cache-mediated locality even if you have a big binary that can, in principle, do lots of different things.
This is a full graphics library not just a pattern filler. http://roughjs.com/ It renders to both Canvas and SVG
Yeah, I could see them demanding adding ads to the videos / pages. YouTube is a business and expecting them to host and stream videos worldwide for free is unrealistic. This seems like they would have the right to run ads anyway so I'm not sure why they would need to force them to select that option. (I can also see blenders desire to not have ads but I don't think youtube is at fault for not wanting to actively wanting to lose money on their videos. If that is really the problem it might be interesting to have youtube open a paid option for the cretors to pay for the service and not have any ads / user tracking stuff.)
We used to do this at LAN parties in the 90s... of course goatse was the preferred background. People quickly learned never to leave their seats for more than 30 seconds. Most people would just do a 5-10 minute power-nap in their chairs.
Sorry, I was in the process of writing a long form answer about how the US has lost it's ability to claim the moral highground and it's ability to admonish other countries, claiming the truth, justice and the american way. And also a paragraph or two on how those committing a 'wrong' often view people telling them they are wrong as being biased.

but then I thought, hmm, the current president's style of interacting is a cheap, emotive, sound bite to appeal to his audience, so I thought I would respond in a manner similar to that.

have a nice day.
> That's conflict-resolution logic, and up to the peers to decide a priori (they will likely already have this, since it is not an uncommon scenario.)

Or you could just say you don't know?
How are they able to do this without it making their rides significantly less competitive against the other ride apps that are not C-neutral?
One of my favorite parts:

-- Before the Law

A man from the country seeks the law and wishes to gain entry to the law through an open doorway, but the doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go through at the present time. The man asks if he can ever go through, and the doorkeeper says that it is possible "but not now". The man waits by the door for years, bribing the doorkeeper with everything he has. The doorkeeper accepts the bribes, but tells the man that he accepts them "so that you do not think you have failed to do anything." The man does not attempt to murder or hurt the doorkeeper to gain the law, but waits at the door until he is about to die. Right before his death, he asks the doorkeeper why even though everyone seeks the law, no one else has come in all the years. The doorkeeper answers "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Law
I'm a 5th generation Detroiter. My ancestors came here and I guess we just never left. Many of them are buried within the city limits. We were firemen, laborers and my great uncle played for the Tigers farm team. We were here during the automotive boom and the riots and the bankruptcy.

I have seen Detroit through decades of changes and have worked and played down there since I was a kid. I remember when Charlie LeDuff "played a round of golf" from one border of the city (8 Mile) all the way to the other border (the river) to illustrate how vacant it was.

When you are a Detroiter in another city, and people ask you where you are from, you get some sideways looks. Detroit has always been synonymous with crime, corruption and murder. Our ex-Mayer is in a federal penitentiary.

When I saw Louis CK at Joe Louis a couple years back and his opening joke was something like "I've never been to Detroit so I came in early and walked around downtown on a Tuesday. Was there some type of nuclear accident recently?"

The city, in the last few years, has made massive improvements but honestly nothing gives me goosebumps more than thinking about that train station being renovated and open to the public.

Its such a beautiful building on the outside and my family has relayed stories of how beautiful it was on the inside when it was operational.

I never vandalized the city when I was a kid but I always wanted to break into that building and just look around.

Hopefully soon I can go there and see it with my own two eyes. I plan to bring my son.
I've heard nothing but bad things about PayPal and how they often hold your own money hostage. Why don't people switch to alternatives? Are there no good ones?
Research shows that scheduling events causes less productive time before event
Just tubes in.
I never thought I would see the day that Google removed Big Buck Bunny, the definitive copyleft short film, on copyright infringment grounds, against the actual creators, and there would actually be some argument over whether or not this was proper....
I would love to buy a preinstalled peertube instance on a Raspberry Pi and plug it in somewhere around the house.
I like http://en.cppreference.com/, as lusocoding posted, but I've noticed many prefer the unified UI of http://devdocs.io/cpp/ - It does seem less complete though.
Not necessarily. If the employee is going through a body shop (and it sounds like he was, since he had a recruiter) then he might be an employee on W2 of the staffing agency, but not on the actual payroll of the company. That's different than forcing the person on a 1099 as part of an employment contract.

In the end he's still a "contractor" in the eyes of the company, and typically if something goes wrong, he's gonna be the first to go.
Couldn't agree more - AirBnB were already saying upgrading is a pain and this sounds like it'll be substantial.

I hope RN is going to stop relying on beta code for releases too.
Oh, you meant typical for you.

One task that is L1 cache bound and does not frequently stall for memory (if you code it up well) is matrix multiply.
> and for security reasons we're unable to offer further details

To give a little behind-the-scenes here, I worked for a bit for a web hosting company that had this as standard policy. This was because, before it was put in place, scammers would actually use coordinated campaigns of support calls with otherwise legitimate accounts in order to extract piecemeal details about how the company's fraud investigations worked, then reorganize their scamming to precisely evade the time periods and credit card checks used at the time.
:-/

This PeerTube-based Blender's webpage NOT working in Links2[0] (or any other browser without JavaScript) and Pale Moon[1,2].

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1009218500383080449

[1] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1009208842494906368

[2] https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/675
Thanks - I like that previous thread better.
For some bizarre reason, regardless of which browser I use, I can't open this facebook page. (ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED)

Is there code or a summary available elsewhere?
So, you're saying because you think you've discovered one case where there might be a problem, Firefox should completely change their architecture? And you're saying this in a discussion which frequently mentions how extremely varied workloads are?
They're not the ones who are liable for the consequences of the opioid epidemic. Once the FDA approves a drug, unless someone can prove that the researchers knowingly misled investigators, it is nearly impossible to sue the pharma companies. The doctors who prescribe the medication (using guidelines provided by the pharma company) become their human liability shields.

They couldn't care less about bad PR because their patents are a massive barrier to entry and they're pretty much the only ones hiring highly educated biologists outside of academia and medicine.
This is frustrating because I expect wikipedia to be neutral.

Clean, pure, informational; the opposite of "7 reasons $politician hates America".

Honestly when a group like wikipedia makes a move like this it just undermines my trust in them.

Then again it's not unreasonable to look at every information source with narrowed eyes.
Surely a 3 year contract means the company is in breach of it by not paying you?
The system didn't need to be stopped. The employee's contract wasn't renewed, which is indistinguishable from a decision terminate him, so the system executed the termination as scheduled.

The system did exactly what it was intended to do, it was the humans who screwed up. Humans who presumably understood the way the system was designed, and didn't care enough to do some due diligence.

>I also do not understand why a check couldn't be cut. Submit to accounts payable with an email approval?

He was fired. It doesn't matter that people didn't intend for him to be, he was, it went through the system, it was a done deal. Paying people not in your employ is fraud, even under the best of intentions.

The real lesson here is that few of us, no matter how much money we make, how into the culture we are or how long our tenure has been, are more than a row in a database to our employer, and we can be dropped at any time. The contractor in this case would not have had much more "job security" with humans in the loop.
Thank you!

I don't want my scumbag parents or extended family getting information about who is carrying out my affairs from random companies after I die. There's a reason why I'm planning on writing a will to specifically exclude them from any sort of inheritance if my husband and I died together.

Plus these were unmarried partners!! Unlike spouses, unmarried partners have no legal standing as next of kin in most of the world.
Because there is a disconnect between reality and what you hear. PayPal is fantastic.
A clear and present danger. Youth are being exposed and educated to a much higher level today. They know full well the uselessness of such dogma and warped thinking.
One thing is that monks usually exist inside religious organizations. Religions are highly traditional, do not concern themselves with western science and are slow changing.

The other thing is the question of what do they think is worth doing. Imagine a person who's been enlightened. He/she may have been miserable, depressed and suicidal in the past, but now has reached state of no suffering and is completely happy. Very likely goal of such a person is to reduce unneeded suffering of others. The most straightforward way is to help others reach enlightment.
You have to wonder how many of their 100 engineers are going to dislike having to become iOS/Android devs.
Microsoft tries cutting the Ribbon in Office UI upgrade
I'm not having a convention with Trump supporters in it.
It's not exactly a nonprofit enterprise. I doubt if they have personal concerns about the corporation facing criticism when they're making billions and billions of dollars.
The accuracy matters (at least it seems to be so to me) because if all you have is "a rough facial footprint of a known bad actor" and you use a technology with a 1% error rate - given that there's probably something like several hundred million airport border crossings a year in the US - _somebody_ is going to have to deal with a million false positives a day, which doesn't seem like a win given I suspect the number of bad actors for which facial features are know but cannot be detected with the in-place passport/fingerprint/retinal crossing system is probably in the single digits per year...

The aggregated individual cost to the 1% false positives - when deployed against a population of several hundred million travellers a year - seems outrageously high to me.
Yeah the company is lucky he wasn't well on his way to finding a job somewhere else at this point.
If you read my post, you'll see that I'm not denying the existence of those choices, but I'm pointing out that those choices are the inevitable result of genetic and environmental factors that nobody ever decided on.
How to Dominate Email Marketing in a Post GDPR World
I would say that would be an HR responsibility more than a CEO’s responsibility. It’s hard to judge Tesla’s HR philosophy based on a passing comment by Musk.
Even simpler explanation is that false positives are real. All sufficiently complex systems have them. I'd imagine that triggering a false positive the first time greatly increases the likelihood that a second false positive is triggered.

I'd also further assert, that simply being an HN reader means you are more likely to trigger a false positive than the rest of the population. Blizzard does some very aggressive memory scans, and they look for tools that are much more common with developers than the rest of the population. I've personally used a well known library for code injection, that if I'd had it running on an unrelated binary while playing WoW they would have seen the signature of the library, and likely Blizzard would have eventually banned my account.

I don't know if the parent was doing things that Blizzard considers naughty or not, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt given what I've read about Blizzard's Warden.
I am interested only in ones, who already stay at home.
<cynical thought>Note that two of the three team members are from Facebook...
To be fair, terminals are really nice.
Yup, there could be a balanced middle ground, not sure how big.

How to get the VCs to do better tech vetting? Definitely an issue. I would have thought that the downside of losing would be sufficient motivation to invest in really solid tech vetting, but it seems like they treat it more of a cost center. Perhaps seeing $700 million go "poof" in this instance will provide some motivation in the future?
Didn't Itanium suffer from the same issues as the Netburst architecture?
Why we need to use HTTP/2
What's disturbing is that this automated process did not verify the termination with his manager or an actual human in HR.
Hey, I'm one of the creators and current maintainers of A-Frame.

We (the creators of A-Frame) started Supermedium as part of YC W18 to continue to push VR on the Web, and we recently released a WebVR application on top of A-Frame to craft VR worlds inside of VR inside a browser (https://supermedium.com/supercraft).

Let us know if you have any questions about WebVR or A-Frame!
Absent from the reasons given for ranch decline is that "Per capita U.S. beef consumption peaked in the 1970s and has since declined by about one-third, according to USDA data on food availability." (http://www.wri.org/blog/2018/01/2018-will-see-high-meat-cons...) Though this does seem to be trending up again lately.
For quite a few things, certainly so:

-Particular climate conditions can have a distinct and pronounced effect on the taste. I am not a wine connoisseur, but all the times I've had oolong tea that tastes like Taiwanese high mountain oolong, it indeed was from that region.

-As others have noted, fermented products take the bacterial culture in the air, and that certainly varies from place to place. Belgian Lambics won't taste the same as Lambics brewed in other places.

I don't think these two examples require much science to be supported.
>He was fired. It doesn't matter that people didn't intend for him to be, he was, it went through the system, it was a done deal. Paying people not in your employ is fraud, even under the best of intentions.

There's basically a certainty that it was a violation of his contract and company policies that made it not legally sound. A company can also pay whoever it wants for any reason.
Lytro's light-field camera technologies have huge potential for 360 content and the photogrammetry industry, but they effectively sat on the technology doing very little with it (compared to their competitors), until Google hired some of the employees as the company shut down earlier this year.
thats how i felt too, and i'm now a big fan of vue. its funny how that works.
For the record, I was being sarcastic.

And fancy shapes and materials resulted in the F-35 clusterfuck.
T-Mobile/Sprint to challenge Comcast, Charter to become in-home ISP
It doesn't feel like microservices address the same problem. For one thing, if you have a CPU bound task, splitting it out into two different servers is often going to worsen the problem, as now you have network communication overhead to contend with on top of everything else.
People are pointing the finger at Saudi Arabia on the Council, but the US perpetrated torture in the Bush administration.

The difference is that we brought the torturers to justice, they were tried and convicted and we swore never to do that again.

Just kidding, we did none of the above and the person who ran the torture program is now the head of the CIA.
Thank you devdocs.io is one I haven't seen yet.
GitLab Migrating to Google Cloud Platform Instead of Azure
This appears to be the source for the above claim:

https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1009010581549060097

> Google sent a contract to Blender Foundation in which we have to accept monetizing our Youtube channel content.

and link to contract:

http://download.blender.org/institute/Contract%20between%20G...

The contract looks like a regular monetization contract, so the cause-effect relationship between blocking and monetization is not made clear.

Why would Google single out Blender for this? Unless they had copyright concerns and needed to revshare with copyright holders, or they want to go "freemium" and make all high-view/quality videos monetized.
Even before Net Neutrality became policy there were shenanigans happening with ISPs throttling the biggest service in terms of broadband usage: Netflix. And Netflix opted to pay instead of battling it at the time.
Initial prototype aside, I wonder how married the Qt team is to the canvas approach.

Improved performance is great, but not very helpful if it means the solution gets considered a nonstarter by almost everyone evaluating it. As long as the responsiveness is acceptable, I'd rather have a DOM-based approach that supports accessibility and generally behaves like other web pages; users who need better performance can always switch to the native app.

Maybe some kind of hypothetical hybrid approach could somehow get the best of both worlds, or maybe both render targets could be supported (with DOM default/preferred and canvas recommended for use cases like games that need the performance gain).
bzip2 isn't very large, and they seem to believe they speed that up too. I don't see why this wouldn't speed up small things. Whether it's a big program or a small one, it probably has hot code and cold code, and organizing the code in such a way that the hot stuff is all together is likely to help. Same goes for making sure you don't have to take branches, etc.
A new form of government applied to the U.S
Federal Constitutional Minarchy that enforces an Absolute Constitution with Voter-Representation
Federal government restrained to 3 roles, the courts, the military, the police that enforce life, liberty, and property rights. The uses of these 3 institutions are to be funded through user fees. The people are to decide the foreign policy decisions through what strictly 1 per 30,000 representative, equalling around 10,000 congress people right now. The president’s power will be of foreign policy strictly and only. The foreign policy decisions by Congress will and can be repealed by a referendum of 90% of the population consenting to the repeal, only. Voting is to be done through the states and counties respectively. The counties will stay as they have right now forever. The only citizen identification will be done through the local states. All government whether be municipal, county, state, or federal will not have the ability to make any law, only to enforce the Absolute constitution. All the original amendments cannot be repealed by any means whatsoever. The new amendments can only be added by the consent of 98% of the population, again done through a referendum. If 98% of the population does not show up, then all is rejected.
What assurance is there that it won't happen again? It says everyone was powerless to stop it. Pretty much the opposite of job security.

If the author one day decides to just fuck off for 3 weeks with no advance notice, somehow I doubt the company would continue contracting with him.
Unity editor comes with Google Analytics and you can't even disable it in the free version.

They're also collecting information from games built with Unity.

I feel Google just wants more data and Unity is already okay with that.
> All the funeral director would have to do is ask if the deceased had any social media accounts and do you want me to contact them on your behalf?

This would make a great plot for a novel, a disgruntled funeral director starts "killing" people digitally by marking various accounts permanently deactivated after death. And thanks to advances in genetic engineering, even showing up in person isn't enough to prove they're who they claim to be anymore, so they can't drive, work, buy anything, or communicate with anyone.