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I have personally had my keyboard fixed 4 times and across my company it's been nearly a dozen. It's a huge pain to have to be out of computer for that repair time and deal with it in the first place. It's a huge problem.
Locality, interesting. I'd agree on BBS'. My experience of IRC, thought on efnet was expanding past my local calling area.

IM definitely took the bite out of IRC because it was far better at creating beginners that never made it to IRC, and a lot of IRC users got pulled to IM. ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN created a new type of connection.
A mutable array in Haskell is most certainly covariant so you may have to rethink your counterexample.
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> If you're trusting the vendor

Yea, because urls and websites never change! And http can never be compromised! (nope)

> but they're not particularly unsafe.

Arbitrary execution is never safe!

> These things exist because there aren't good package that don't require root. Maybe we'll get there eventually.

Well, depending on the language, there are (e.g. pip crap). But maybe folks should produce packages that maintainers can, well, maintain.
if you aren't the customer then you're the product... no wait, they are the customers.
I don't really like all this China bashing. Lots of companies are moving their production to China not because it is cheaper to produce there, but because the quality is much better.

Eg. just 2 weeks ago a favorite kanoe designer of mine announced to move his production from the US to China.
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The problem isn't doing the math, it's only doing the math based on the company's incentives.

If it were instead: multiply by the average cost to society, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one., then this is probably the best you can do (if you're a utilitarian)

On the other hand, society does have a responsibility to make sure the incentives on the company reflect what is actually important.
As others mentioned, you must ALWAYS use '--' to mark the end of option processing when you do something like this.

Relatedly, GNU getopt() (the most common one in use) has a dubious and non-standard "feature" --- enabled by default --- where it will automatically reorder the option arguments to come before the non-option ones. In other words, if you use it with something like

foo -a -b somearg $input

according to POSIX there cannot possibly be any more options after somearg, and thus you can't inject any options via $input, but GNU will reorder them and pick up options from there too. Fortunately it respects --, but this feature has personally caused me some grief in the past, and while it sounds intuitive at first, it actually complicates things because it violates the "left-to-right"-ness of (mentally or otherwise) parsing a command line.
Ha ha that's crazy talk! Eventually they threw my IRC server off of EFNet because 8 total megabytes of ram for the server+OS was too little for the working set.
Still lots of love for Rails in the HN community on this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355187
Thanks for posting that. It's a reminder that there weren't a few bad actors pushing the idea of slavery in the south. the views were widespread.
I voted for trump. I voted for him specifically because he published a list of justices that I was more or less OK with, and chose to hold my nose over a lot of other stuff - I think he's kind of a sleaze (in the locker room sense) - but the Supreme Court is so much more important than the presidency.

I am happy about Gorsuch. I am appalled that Trump has continued Obama's use of executive orders to get his way (I was equally appalled when Obama did it). I'm disgusted by the continued irresponsible deficit spending. I'm pleased by the burning pile of regulations that have been axed from the federal register. I'm annoyed by the tariffs, but I will tolerate them -- the aerospace company I work for recently transferred nearly $1Bn in IP to a Chinese JV as a precondition to gain access to the Chinese market. Trump is actually correct about that problem. The border separations were reprehensible, but 'catch and release' encouraged human trafficking of children (a child, any child, was a ticket into the USA) and was an equally bad plan. Would I say that I don't have a party? Well, I do -- the Libertarian party -- but I don't think they'll ever win so I usually vote Republican.

I guess my point is, nobody will ever be completely happy with any president or any political party, and even people with ideologies tend to be pragmatic when it comes time to vote. I think that includes supreme court justices, when they must vote on the outcome of a case.
Back in the day, the IRC crowd had a lot more 'normal people' than Usenet, which was the other social outlet on the Internet.
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To add to that, there's also the fact that any user of any ISP that throttles/blocks torrent traffic is probably going to have the same experience. Plus the fact that there's at least two people I know whose ISPs actually cut users' down speed by double of any up speed (in order to "passively" cut down torrenting without actually restricting it). So PeerTube becomes less a YouTube replacement and more an interesting implementation of streaming video via Bittorrent (which some clients already support).
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This is a very common, slightly less obvious variant of 'how come there is no white history month'. You can google your way to plenty of discussions of it, including a recently very popular Ta-Nehisi Coates video.
"Freelance journalist" is a trust fund baby job.

It might be a real job, but it isn't something for non-privileged class.

I have zero empathy for anyone stupid enough to choose a career with no leverage, no consistent pay, that requires training and serious schooling. You made the choice, and then spent the years to work at it.

You want young people and minority voices in reporting? Offer them full time positions with pay and benefits. Nobody offers that? Then having the work done by "powerless" people with self supporting financial situations is apparently good enough.

Is anyone seriously hoodwinked by this trash? Theres this false narrative that "well these people can be de-platformed!" Hi. Welcome to reality. Glad you could join us. Nobody owes you a platform, and demanding that they care is ridiculous.

Framing it as "what about women and minorities" is so disgustingly disingenuous that it makes me puke.

It's like people who get an MFA. They need the qualifications, sure. But it scratches an intellectual itch because they can afford to - you think minorities want to fight for bullshit qualifications so they can be underpaid? They're not stupid. Theres no "magic key" that allows people to knowingly take no leverage jobs and get a voice. "McDonald's fry cooks 'silenced', must return to family's second vacation home on the East coast before decompressing in Spain" isn't as emotionally impactful.

"Theres so few minority freelance SE Asia correspondents!" - Because thats not a real job, you twat. You want to fix it? Give them a full time post with pay and benefits.

But don't get up there and start talking shit about how powerless you are when you can wait a year for $500. Boo. Hoo. You think minorities and young people can afford that shit?

This is outrage machine bullshit with a side of "live your truth" fantasy bullshit shrink wrapped in a "minority silencing" lie.

The internet was better when everyone was a scientist, engineer, or dedicated hacker. We had better do something, or these idiots are going to seriously damage the future more than they already have.
This is kind of backwards. Because of the way that education is funded in the US, expensive housing areas end up with good schools because they have the funding. And people live in these expensive areas because they have the means and desire to live in an area with others of their same social status, or and/or whose reputation confers status.
Popper/Kuhn are both derivatives of Kant and very popular in physics when physicists grasp for a philosophy to justify their epistemology. Mach, also a Kantian, was Einstein's pole star but to Einstein's credit defended realism contra Mach's ideas.
3 nm is nuts. I used to perform molecular dynamics simulations in boxes that were 10 nm on each side. You can count the atoms lined up within 3 nm of space.
Surprise! He's a Democrat.
One of the keys on my MacBook Air keyboard broke about 6 months ago. The busted key made it unusable as a laptop, and I don't need/want a desktop (aka attach it to a keyboard & monitor). Authorized Apple repairs were a few hudred bucks. I was strongly considering buying another Mac, but that seemed like such a waste over a single busted key. I decided to try one of those aftermarket key repair kits, and it actually worked. I spent less than $20 to fix it. I'm glad I tried! If I hadn't been able to fix it, I would have been super vocal about how I had to trash my laptop over a busted key on a keyboard, so I can understand why people who sound upset.
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I think that science is grossly lacking in good spokespeople who are respected in the field, and it should be rewarded more within the academy, not less.

When a large fraction of the population has frankly anti-scientific beliefs and when funding for continued scientific endeavor depends on votes, science needs to continually justify and promote itself in the public eye.

Are there dangers to that? Yes. But it's worse than holing up in the ivory tower to only quietly do research.
Your setup, although appealing from an AWS ecosystem perspective, sounds like a bit expensive to me on a first reading. Of course everything depends on the specifics but Lambdas and DynamoDB are expensive at scale. I wonder how it compares cost-wise to a more traditional solution.
How does this compare to http://atrigger.com?
If the technology is demonstrably easy to make, and there is a clear need for it, and yet it's still not in wide use, then I would say there certainly is a "tremendous opportunity". The fact that some people have failed to take advantage of the opportunity doesn't mean other people shouldn't try.
Its also possible that if you have good data on a person's financial situation and behaviour (and more questionable that of their social circle) that race stops being a relevant signal in the algorithm as it was only ever a proxy for a person's finances and job security.

If there was substantial remaining bias you could probably measure the impact of race on credit while training the model but remove it or consider everyone the same race when scoring customers.

(Disclaimer: I do ML for a consumer credit company, not in the USA).
Yet now we're failing to assume good faith in our moderators, by assuming that they will fail to recognize a conflict of interest arising from questioning the extent and source of their authority, which they have reason to see maximized.

The parent comment actually seemed spot on to me. The rule is to assume good faith of your interlocutors. The parent failed to assume good faith of a billion dollar corporation. I think it's reasonable to push back against being asked to tone down the latter, while honoring the rule for the former.
The rule is simple to learn and perfectly consistent once you know it, even to a human programmer. This is in direct contrast to mathematical notation, which remains ambiguous and context-dependent forever.

While it's been over a decade since I first learnt this style of functional languages, I don't remember being confused by application syntax. It also helps that function application binds more tightly than anything else.

I don't think it's any great indictment that it is not immediately understandable to someone who does not know the rule. There will be lots of other things someone will not be able to understand in a Gluon program, unless they know Gluon. It's perfectly reasonable to expect someone to learn a programming language before they write code in it.
Have you actually read what she wrote in "The Question of Scholarships" or do you have difficulty understanding the application of a principle?

https://campus.aynrand.org/works/1966/01/01/the-question-of-...
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I mean, given what Blender is, having tutorial videos accessible by anything other than desktop browsing isn't a hopeless or horrible thing. Every Blender user has a desktop or laptop (or has modded something to heck and back in order to run Blender), so having it be somewhat difficult to access a majority of their videos by mobile, TV, console, etc, might not be such a big loss.
Another trick I learned working retail is to count out X coins, stack them vertically, and then make more stacks of the same height. Much faster than counting them all out individually!

I do a similar thing when counting "manipulable" objects of the same size --- in semi-binary. I make a stack of height n, then another, and stack them on top of each other to create one of 2n, before making another of 2n. If there aren't enough, I use the next-lower power of 2, and so on. Then I add them all together at the end and it's usually faster for me to go from binary -> hex -> decimal than do the additions in decimal. Memorably, I once skipped the last step while tired:

coworker: how many?
me: E6.
coworker: huh?
(several more seconds later)
me: ...oh, I mean 230.
I don't think you realise how the Java ecosystem works. It's not like with .net where MS does almost everything.

You can still use OpenJDK (which is what Oracle Java is based on). Oracle just put their OpenJDK distro in a subscription model. Just like RedHat does with RHEL in which case there is CentOS. But all development still happens in OpenJDK. So for example for OpenJDK there are a bunch of other distros for OpenJDK like Zulu: https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/

And if you really hate Oracle and want nothing to do with OpenJDK you can also use IBM's J9 JVM: https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/

Also Java is developed by more then only Oracle as you can see in the various JCP projects: https://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=380

And historically the largest part of Java development happens in the community. Like Akka, very.x, etc. Where in .net MS has more a tendency to put everything in the language itself.
> regionalized

What if it’s just climate? Dust and humidity are regionalized. Companies in drier, less dusty, less “sticky” climates might see few to no sticky keyboards.
Bata is originally a Czech company (Baťa), their owners were forced to emigrate and lost everything they owned in the Czechoslovakia after the communists came to power. The family of the owners was famous even during communism here, because while they were industrialists, certainly not the heartless kind. They built universities and whole towns so their employees could live in comfort. Now I read there are towns named after them in other areas in the world, so they took the practice to the global stage. Interesting.
There is also an interesting 'get off my property' aspect to this acquisition. It may indicate that there is a desire within Twitter the company for complete control over Twitter the social media platform. Because they can, Twitter will always reign over the mirage of an ecosystem built on their social media platform.
> Back in the day, lots of 'normal people' used irc too.

"Back in the day" they had no choice or little other choice but.

And even then "normal people" would prefer things like AIM and ICQ for reasons obvious to anyone except the self-proclaimed not-normal above-average über-men.
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The far left in America is much more fringe than the alt-right.

conservative policies won't help with wage stagnation. won't help with the current malaise that is effecting the middle class.
I live in downtown urban Bellevue, and I’m sure it is much safer/cleaner/more boring than the more suburban parts Seattle.
A lot of quora points.
Which do you think is more likely:

1). A person willing to risk their life for what they believe is right is a pedophile.

2). The CIA plants evidence.

After having a look at the things we know the CIA did during my life time, Iran-Contra, I'd say 2 is vastly more likely than 1.
We do, that is when we decide to buy stuff from someone else.
I think dang explained it pretty clearly in the comment. It is bad for the forum when, given some very limited set of facts, you offer the most heated, ragefest pile-on inducing explanation or theory. It doesn't require some talmudic reading of the guidelines which are, after all, guidelines and not every single thing is explicitly spelled out. 'Avoid taking discussions into flamey or ragey directions' is advice the mods dole out to some person or another nearly daily.
> Minds get eroded by technology by heavily relying on it

This has been said for thousands of years. Socrates/Plato was complaining about how writing weakens the human memory.

We need to accept that human minds are limited and technology is meant to extend them. Science has advanced considerably due to computers despite the appearances.

The way out of the current “impasse” is through even more technology. We might not be able to solve all the mysteries of the universe without intelligence augmentation or superintelligent AI.
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If we're talking about user roles for users with the implicit implication that it indicates a position relative to others, I'd say "owner" is worse.

In this context, though, the subject is the repository, an inanimate piece of property, not any other user. In that context, I'd argue that both "owner" and "master" are descriptive and very difficult to interpret offensively unless you're going out of your way to interpret them as such.

There are subtle differences in connotation between "master" and "maintainer", too - think "king" and "steward", apologies to Tolkien - it's not like they're synonyms and a swap is just being done in-kind. I think there's actually a case to be made that "maintainer" is a better label for the role, given the existing context of a project maintainer being one who has administrative control over it (and the existing "owner" root role), but to change the label with the reasoning that "master is exclusive, so we picked up a thesaurus" isn't going to pass the sniff test for a lot of people. A slightly more tactful approach of "we decided this better describes the role as it already applies to modern team organization" would have worked just fine.
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The 8 Plus also scratches much easier than earlier iPhones
I don't know if adding another post will convince you. But for what it's worth, I'm also a long time Mac user, and this new MacBook has had multiple keyboard failures, just as tptacek describes. I've had about 5 different keys fail on me, each time for a few days, until a didn't key takes their place.
Man, I miss those guys almost as much as Ghoulardi.
That's a Bill Hicks quote.
>You're right, though, that nothing actually meets that bar.

Then your post is content free. If you find nothing to meet your personal standard of being journalism than you finding wikileaks to not be journalists merely means they are the same as the New York Times.
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Nobody is going to stop doing business in California. If California was its own country it would rank sixth in the world by GDP – ahead of France, India, Italy and Brazil.

Besides that, it's cultural power is also a force to be reckoned with. Pissing off California would be a big mistake.
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> This would be true if there were better-paying alternatives out there that were accessible to most people, but there just aren't for many.

Exactly this. People like to complain about low-paying jobs as if they're exploiting the workers, but the workers aren't stupid. If there were better options available they would take them.

Trying to crack down on low-paying jobs is just cracking down on the only work available at all.
Julia also does loops with two indexes.
I think his context is as a speaker on stage speaking in a meta way. Did he successfully predict audience reaction?
Not when you have GC graphical debuggers like Java,.NET and JavaScript do.
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It’s included in New Zealand too, due to the consumer guarantees act, a fantastic piece of legislation. Possibly summarising to the point of error “a purchase should last as long as a reasonable person would expect”.
I think the level of security provided by passwords or password managers is probably of little import, when confronted by a nation-state actor, and indeed a top tier nation-state actor, with nigh unlimited resources, and an axe to grind over a serious grudge.

We have wi-fi routers being used to passively see through walls, with enough fidelity to read lips and record finger movement.

Put someone under a microscope long enough, and every single password they use will reveal itself. Whether locked behind a manager app (sooner or later you'll snag the master password for it) or directly entered.
Maybe, but then why would Twitter acquire Smyte in that case?
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DDB is serverless in the sense that you don't have to worry about scalability issues, but you have to worry about design issues[1] if you want to take advantage of everything DynamoDB has to offer. I find dynamo's autoscaling very problematic: It's both slow to kick-in and you can scale down 4 times in 24h, not cost-effective if you have spikes.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...
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You just described why game developers prefer to target consoles.
I really, really wish people would stop using + for string concatenation in new languages they design. It shares only a tangential relationship to arithmetic addition, and even that's a stretch. It's caused an enormous amount of bugs in numerous different languages. Please, let's just let that concept die for newer languages.
I've been searched well within the country (probably 70 miles from the Mexican border) by some kind of border patrol/immigration officials, who randomly stopped me and kept me there for over an hour. Their reason? My car was riding low, and looked like it might be loaded with drugs. Are drugs even that heavy? I had long hair at the time.
This is an issue about regulations.

You will not see regulations against the fossil fuel industry under a republican president, house and senate.
Yeah well, that assumes that everybody will start using Rust no matter how complex the language becomes.
Right, sometimes it's just the standard of service. I wrote an app for a local restaurant/bar in exchange for lifetime free food/drinks and I still get great service. This is also in a place where tips aren't a thing.
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Adding another data point here -- my iPhone X screen is full of small scratches. It's really noticeable.
> Maybe something like this will finally force Apple to start making their laptops more serviceable.

I am afraid they will just increase the already huge margins, to account for similar cases in the future.
if the Smyte shutdown limits the opportunity of current and future Twitter associated startups, whose business model is to help companies safely navigate the social media landscape, then that sounds like a win-win for Twitter