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> ... What the fucking FUCK?

You seem to have it all figured out. Did you do any serious research on the subject that could perhaps justify your perspective? You criticize the proposal mostly because it brings change, but you do not really analyze its impact.

The lawmakers in the committee have probably spent hours studying this proposal and discussing it in detail with field experts and other affected parties. The result of their vote was far from unanimous, which means that they were not able to reach a generally acceptable consensus. To me, that indicates that the judgement about the proposal is not simple or straightforward and that quick conclusions of the "hold my beer" type should be avoided.
It's situations like these that bring into sharp relief the necessity of decentralization and encryption. Government leaders at large have proven time and time again that their level of knowledge should, in any rational world, preclude them from making legislation concerning it, particularly when so much of legislation in general is spurred by special interests stuffing money into their pockets.
That's not at all the case.

http://atulgawande.com/about/

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is also Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally.

http://atulgawande.com/research/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Gawande%20AA%5BAut...
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I would for once love to work in an office where the sound of your keyboard is the biggest concern when it comes to noise... :-(
Interesting argument. Because this is the same anti-trust argument the publishers used against Google: "Google has monopolistic power, so they should be obliged to list our content (and then, pay)".

On that argument the Spanish version of the copyright law, Google decided to shut down News for Spain completely.
I built an app from idea to mvp in 2 days with Rails last month. It has user accounts, reddit style threaded comments, collaborative maps, algorithmic popularity feed for posts (like HN front page or reddit) and a bunch of other little stuff. I basically had an idea on a Saturday and by Monday morning I could demo it to my team.
I use the device (unmodified) very regularly. It's fantastic, highly recommended. The only problem is the price tag.
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Wow, I really butchered that last night while using my phone.
Breaking the origin-model in Edge, using range requests and web audio
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Have you ever noticed that people who find light-hearted satire "unfunny" typically tend to be deeply insecure about the subject being satirized? Like they never admit to being offended but instead pretend the joke was boring, uninteresting or some other sleight.

I'm a weightlifter, my friends are fitness freaks. We can laugh at ourselves, and we can certainly laugh at wannabe-alpha's.
ffs, there goes my next few weeks! Thanks for the info ;)
Electron… fair point! Except we were comparing new web GUIs.

On the flip side Electron explicitly does not impliment confirm() and prompt() which made me furious.

So there is definitely truth in the general js=cluster-fuck sentiment.
I'm completely with you. Rails is still my go-to for short one-off projects that I need to build something FAST.

Hell, I even use it for quick n' dirty data analysis because working with Active Record is so easy. Rake import the data, then muck around with the Active Record models in Rails console. I honestly prefer this to working with Jupyter notebooks, unless I need graphing or something fancy out of sklearn.

"Rails can't scale" is a misnomer. Heroku and Github are RoR apps (or at least started there). At scale you might start pulling in some other services and technologies.
Nope they posted a blog article[0] last week about their plans. Please check your facts first next time because there’s been nothing from Facebook to indicate that.

[0] http://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14/state...
Ugh those keyboards make me feel like such a plebeian with my mediocre apple keyboards. I do not understand the appeal and just put my headphones on.
Propaganda organs like Russia Today already have versions translated in various European languages. They would be absolutely delighted to be the last and only piece of internet news to be available on google.
Europe is shooting itself on the foot as always.
Didn't I read somewhere that Stripe is developing a type checker for Ruby?

Edit: yep https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17217815
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/07/msg00374.html provides some links that are in line with my experience. YMMV of course.

Quote:

One user described the releases this way: "Stable is never broken; Unstable is immediately fixed; Testing is neither" [3].
A Debian developer seemingly agreed, responding "That's because some things might break in testing during migration. E.g., when we upload a new major release of something like MATE and half of the packages take a bit longer to migrate to testing, you end up with half of the packages of MATE in testing on the old major version and the other half being on
the new major version.
This will definitely break" [4].
Chris Lamb also seemed to agree, asking the user why he had not considered Unstable over Testing [4].
My current team does weekly, and two of us are remote. Our half hour meeting invariably runs over an hour, up to two hours. If we did it daily, we could keep it to the cap without really taking more time.
Isn't there a premade library that will abstract these optimizations away? e.g. a rope library. Looks like there's a few libraries out there that implement this data structure. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure))
> These are European laws designed to regulate industry inside the EU.

More like regulating industry which are accessible within the EU, which may not even be EU based. So these laws have broader reach, similar to how the US DMCA had broader effective reach.

> If an American company decides to do business in the EU they're subject to the same rules as any business already operating inside the EU.

If an internet service decides not to ban access to EU users, they become subject to these laws. It doesn’t matter whether the company is based in the EU or not for the law to apply, but rather if they are serving EU users.

This is similar to laws passed by states like NY and CA in the US which require things like privacy policies to have certain disclosures, the effect is that regardless of the law coming from a specific jurisdiction, due to the nature of the Internet and not wanting to turn customers away through geographical blocking, companies far and wide get roped into following these local regs.

> So claiming this is designed to hurt US tech companies is quite a reach. If you feel American tech companies are being hit harder than their EU counterparts then perhaps that is because those American tech companies were attempting to game the system to begin with.

So here’s where I think you’ve made an unjustified leap. It’s very possible to pass an unfair or hairbrained law which applies to everyone operating in or serving a jurisdiction (EU) and even where the terms of the law apply evenly to all companies, but where the practical impact of the law is targeted to impact specific players in the market.

It’s clearly obvious (just look at the actual discussion of the politicians as they work to enact these laws) that they are motivated by an intense dislike of US tech company dominance in the EU.

But the amusing thing is the laws so far have just managed to further establish US tech dominance. So we see an ongoing escalation where nationalistic bias against specific companies drives increasingly poor public policy.

> It's really no different to how goods manufactured outside of the US still have to adhere to American safety regulations if they want to get sold inside the US.

It’s similar in the sense that they are both domestic policies which have international reach. For example, we’ve seen product safety around lead content in children’s toys due to Chinese imports with lead.

The key difference is that the policy is made completely ignorant of specific companies deemed “responsible” but follow from a pure general principle “lead should never be in children’s toys.”

In this case we have obviously terrible policy (“you should have to pay to link to someone on the Internet”) because the underlying principle driving the new regulation is in fact more like “how do we save old media in the face of big bad Google”?
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I agree. This seems like a cut and dry case of things you should gather up your coworkers and say no to.
Behringer sued Dave Smith Instruments, forum posters, and lost
Facebook doesn't need to justify it. All they need to do is send a notice to their users asking for consent. How many of them do will read what that entails, and how many of those would decide their privacy is more important for them than facebook?
My first (Rails) job was not advertised as looking for Rails dev, and I didn't touch any Rails code for probably the entire first year. Hiring manager was looking for a Ruby developer without tons of experience, or strong opinions about which gems to use. It was common for me to receive an assignment with instructions to complete it without downloading any gems.

Most of my projects, were not web apps. ETL type things. When it was time for me to develop something with a web front-end, we still did not use Rails. Sinatra and (pick any template language off the shelf.)

Ruby and Rails are both large skills that take lots of experience and maybe even training to become competent at using. When hiring junior developers, I think based on my experience at least, a hiring manager would do well to defer them from learning Rails until the latest possible moment. Better to learn one major skill at a time.

(Then again most HN readers are probably not trying to get hired as a junior developer anywhere.)
As a european citizen, I fear that this marks the beginning of a new age of china-like censorship in europe. The EU was a very nice idea that got executed very badly.
Satire articles are valuable when they highlight a real problem. If they fail to do so, they just sound like complaining. This article falls into that latter category IMO.

There are plenty of actual jerks out there, with habits you can write about satirically, but weight lifting? Come on. It just sounds like jealousy of other people who take better care of their own health than the author does his.

Also, if I were a co-worker of this author who lifted weights, I would probably feel personally offended, as it implies he had me in mind when writing the article.

I did find the standup section funny though.
No they purchase the land build a very nice apartments and rent them out to upper middle class young people.

But yesterday's upper middle class apartment complex plex is today's middle class complex, and tomorrow's affordable complex.

Also the well off people who live in the nice complex arent bidding up the prices of old multifamilies as much because of more housing stock.
Also, take GC pressure into consideration; pass by value is 'free' in that it does not put data onto the heap and thus does not cause any GC overhead.
I agree that ragging on weightlifters isn't the strongest part of the joke. But I liked the caricature of the a-hole at standup who is both the take-it-offline police and the primary offender. I've been that a-hole and fully deserve the send-up.
"from my experience, getting these senior insiders to lead a newco would just result in more incremental innovation. Most of them came up in and benefited from the current broken system and are either too conservative to embrace drastic change or don't want to rock the boat.
"

Exactly. Reminds me of some parts of the IT department in my company. I don't trust anybody who has worked there for a few years because any reasonable person would have left or lost his mind. They certainly will not be innovators.
but can be run without user confirmation/interaction, which is good and huge.
>One example is that radio stations don't have enter agreements with individual rights owners to license songs.

Isn't that because the music creator already entered an agreement with a rights organization? If the music creator didn't enter an agreement with a rights organization, the station would have to directly enter an agreement with the musician. The musician has the power to decide whether to sign with the organization or not.
When you come in on a contract you need to fix or add something specific. Keeping the existing codebase is usually last on the list of priorities.
I took a short walk down this idea of a vertically integrated system, essentially building the system as a research lab (something like NIH building 10), including approaching some senior people. I sort of wonder if maybe they modified their expectations for the venture after a search revealed that experienced CEOs weren't interested.

You have to address questions like "Where are you going to get physicians? Nurses? Ancillary staff of all kinds?"

The real estate and financial models are trivial by comparison.
What I mean is technical issues - searching an encrypted graph database has got to be very complicated!
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Am I the only one who appreciates the difficult situation that ICE is put in here? They're tasked with enforcing U.S. immigration law which, like any immigration law implies that only certain people are allowed to enter the country under certain circumstances. No matter what they do, they're going to be stuck dealing with otherwise decent people who are knowingly violating immigration law. I see a lot of people complaining, in the most hyperbolic way, but I'm not seeing anybody suggesting any solutions other than "let anybody come who wants to come" (which might actually be workable, but a lot of other things would have to change at the same time).
I agree with you, however this is amalgam of all personalities :)

There was a guy I nicknamed Fidel, because he would go on endless tirades during standup.
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Definitely better and definitely scarier than the current "security question" technique.
No, it's still being worked on. To quote their latest blog post:

We're working on a large-scale rearchitecture of React Native to make the framework more flexible and integrate better with native infrastructure in hybrid JavaScript/native apps.

http://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14/state...
While the article states that other languages were evaluated, it seems as though the project was motivated entirely by the author and the evaluation was just paying lip service to what was basically a foregone conclusion. Don't get me wrong, I like D from the small amount of playing I've done with it -- and maybe it is the best tool for their purposes -- but this doesn't strike me as an impartial evaluation.

The need for nested functions bugged me as well. That seems like an odd deal-breaker and hints at code smell, rather than a genuine technical need. If it's just for the sake of one-to-one transpilation, then I can see the point, but a refactoring exercise seems like a better effort to make than language migration. (Also, don't Rust and Go have closures? Surely that would satisfy this requirement.)
I don't think anyone is against CrossFit. The general concern is that many of their athletes lift weights with poor technique and eventually end up injured, which isn't healthier at all.
Yes, I work on a team that uses NLTK for lots of word canonicalization tasks in an NLP-heavy search engine. There are other options that work well too, but we have found NLTK to be very good, even at a large scale.

Our pipeline uses NLTK to take in a string of text, do word tokenization, lemmatization and stemming, and construct bigrams and trigrams, as part of a large map-reduce job for building text search indices.
Jeff bezos mentioned they were looking for someone with expert knowledge, a beginner's mind, and a long-term perspective. Any leader of a current large healthcare organization would probably fail the 2nd and potentially 3rd criteria. In light of these criteria, the choice of Atul Gawande makes sense
You are really smart. Can I work with you? Ha.
Windows will beat them to it, with the Linux Subsystem.

You can also go with a Docker+mounted FS, which'll let you run the code in the container, but edit the code with whatever.

Hell, I even do this on my mac so I don't have to worry about the rest of the environment setup.
One popular option: https://jfrog.com/artifactory/
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How about tech that absorbs CO2 and produces some useful output.
To be fair, if I owned a home in silicon Valley, it would presumably be most of my net worth, not to mention a significant shift in housing prices could bankrupt me. I would likely vote to artificially limit supply in the interest of self preservation.
> I full heartedly believe this institution played a major role in retaining the piece after World War 2.

Not this canard again.
Countries that have known peace within their homeland territory post WW2 were countries that either owned nuclear weapons, or befriended a power that owned nuclear weapons.
The EU has nothing to do with peace within continental Europe. In fact it could NOT stop extremely bloody conflicts like the Kosovo War from happening. But I guess 1998 is ancient history?

The nuclear bomb is the true peace maker. It's what made the US and USSR so frightened of even the possibility of a conflict between each other.
Start here: https://www.railstutorial.org/book

You'll fly through it.
“Plug in your own mechanical keyboard“

Note to anyone who does this: I know, I know you think it’s cool but it’s so not and you’re an asshole. The only way you can redeem yourself is by taking the keyboard home immediately and resigning because no one wants to work with assholes.
Works pretty well for the gym though, I wonder if this is intended or not. ..
While not an audit like many have said, this is better than the continued silence.

Tether has shown proof of reserves, by former director of FBI. Examinations took place in Washington, D.C.
Well it is from Jan 22, 2016
> people driving into lakes because their GPS told them to

That one has actually happened: http://bgr.com/2016/05/17/car-gps-mapping-directions-lake/

It's a little unfair, though. There was heavy rain, fog, and a second article [0] says it was also in the middle of the night. The photo there also does make it look easy to mistake as a road.

[0]: http://torontosun.com/2016/05/13/woman-follows-gps-ends-up-i...
Not directly related, but maybe the lack of genetics in go was a dealbreaker?

Also I inagine the qt bindings are better in D.
Bonus points if the multitude of accounts don't map 1-1 to people. Sometimes an account is for a user, sometimes it's for a team, sometimes it was a user until they quit and it became a team account but still with the original employee's name. The accounts are all individually managed, of course, so getting access to something requires raising a ticket to the relevant team, then testing whether the account they gave you actually has permissions to do your job. But sometimes you find that they only gave you read-only access because only they can actually modify that cluster. Oh, and sometimes you find that an ex-employee only had maybe half of their accounts deactivated, and one of them has been recently used, and you have to find out whether you're looking at a security breach or just "recycled" account use.

We use SSO now. It's nice.
Making fun of people's diet, clothing, and hobbies is a pretty low form of humor.

It's funny, in years as a software developer I've never heard someone made fun of for wearing a ratty Nintendo t-shirt or a greasy ponytail or whatever, but I've heard mean-spirited remarks about fraternity shirts and people coming to interviews in a suit.
In a previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17304571) it became apparent you've fallen for Tether's misinformation to the point where you believed they'd passed an audit. Again, they have completed zero of the "frequent" audits they claim on their website.

Is it possible you see objections to Tether as "so crazy" because of this sort of fraud on Tether's part?
If my recent projects are anything to go by where they pushed for a microservices architecture, authentication and user information beyond usernames / passwords / permissions are two separate domains, and thus stored in separate systems (and databases).
Simple economics, actually. It's virtually a fact. For one, Facebook employs a knowable number of people. It's not infinite (though it may seem like it). The problem is, these things are always done in half measures, and they'll never actually build enough to solve the problem, so you'll never see it proven.
I got a ps4 vr for christmas. Had to return it. I wanted sooo much to like it but the stomach nauseous and fogged lenses just happened to quick and often. I returned it.

I just don't want to wear VR stuff I'd rather get something like from lawnmower man or something without all this stuff strapped to me. Is anyone doing anything like that?
This is interesting for sure. It answers at least one question, and certainly makes the idea that they are solvent somewhat more plausible.

That's all it does though, given that there's absolutely no effort made to determine liabilities. For all we know those accounts could have been funded with a $2bn loan, or better yet customer deposits (ie via Bitfinex) which this analysis is completely silent on.

With that said, it's interesting.
open offices are a clusterfuck you have no option but to wear headphones anyways, I don't know anyone who doesn't have headphones handy in an open office.

1. People having meetings at their desk cos conf rooms are never available.

2. People talking random non work related stuff in groups.

3. Keyboard noises.

4. Food smells.
How do you not consider drinkable tap water to be a huge deal?
I have my doubts about Crossfit being a healthy long term proposition. From what I have seen only a few people keep it up long term. It seems more like a short term rush. Reminds me of people who get into running, then train for marathons, do one and then stop running because the effort is too much.
i wonder how you ensure its 24-7 reliable? i am definitely interested in using it
They are not. SSNs can and have been reused