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Almost. Back in the Ma Bell days, connecting equipment to the Bell telephone lines without authorization was an actual crime. You could be be prosecuted for it.

You couldn't develop telephony product at all unless you were Bell.
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PC BS is BS.
Sublime startup time is... well, sublime. It's instant. Great for quick note taking.

But, startup time is a tiny tiny fraction of "normal use" time for anything besides jotting quick notes, and I'm weird and take notes with an actual notebook on my desk, so I don't have much use for Sublime.
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They can and they have.
With some of those horrible buildings pictured, there is zero original or conceptual about them at all. They're just cheap and generic.
You raise a really good point there, I hadn't considered the distraction aspect when writing my comment but there's definitely a lot of benefit from reducing the distractions when learning.
Lots of governments mandate specially designed archive systems for this very reason: OAIS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archival_Information_Syst...], so we should never be totally lost. But there are very good reasons to be concerned that the most prolific information creators & recorders in all of human history may be doing so in an information 'black hole' [https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/internet-foun...].
I'd agree data is very important. So what data, exactly, is your implied view that the FDA is the primary reason US food is safe to eat, based on? Anecdotal evidence is of limited value, but that value does tend to far exceed blind speculation. Let's say I told you that in some developing nation that 'only' 1 in 6.7 people contract some form of foodborn illness each year. You'd probably laugh at my usage of 'only' there and try to frame that as evidence of the hugely positive role that the FDA has had in the US. The problem there is that that number is actually from the US [1].

The issue with data is that it really just doesn't exist on an international level. Most nations do not provide cleanly comparable numbers. The WHO has collected and presented some data here [2] but it's not even close to an apples to apples comparison. It focus on 'disability adjusted life years' (DALY) as opposed to raw occurrence rates. DALY is a measurement of years of life lost, which means it works as a proxy for healthcare and knowledge of a population. It's also heavily driven by effects on children < 5, who make up 40% of all effects in their data. I am most interested in incidence rates among those with normal and developed immune systems since it does seem to be incredibly comparable and that is where the vast majority of the FDA's effect would lay.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/index.html

[2] - http://www.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/199350/1/97892415651...
As per the book - The Power of Habit - The 5am alarm and wake up is the keystone habit which in turn triggers further habits.
I found this to be true where one good habit triggers many others and vice versa is true too
I agree, and one specific thing that is very annoying is that tech podcasts seem to rely on Twitter as their sole means of communication with the show. Some shows and networks don’t have email addresses, just twitter handles, and others actively tell you not to email their address as you probably will just get deleted. I’m not on twitter and have no desire to be but I would like to contact the show once in a blue moon.
> please remind your bosses and colleagues what happened last someone abused their position to dominate the browser market.

They got rich(er) and crippled competition for years to come?
> and every company of which those agencies, etc. are clients.

That will generate a lot of harm, especially to small business.

How about boycott all clients of bad corp? This affects the money stream of bad corp directly (instead of the money stream of its services providers).

Second order effects will be similar though.
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Sorry, but you can't have an account called dick_sucker2 on HN. That amounts to trolling the site with everything you post.

I've banned the account but you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com with a better username and we can rename it for you and unban it.
but why? If they have contracts with these external companies, and revenue, why shut it down. Even if it isn't for a huge amount of $.

The goodwill itself has to be worth a TINY bit.
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a kid and have recently (last few months) had some pretty bad anxiety - this comment makes me wonder is the anxiety just restless of the mind? Will tell my GP I have ADD next time I see him and see what he thinks.
Can you give some examples of "did the right thing and still ended up bankrupt."?
Integrated debugger is a big step on the way to IDE-land as well. Having it interact with high quality language servers takes it another step (find all refs, jump to definition, etc). Throw in automated tasks and build rules and the line between enhanced editor and IDE starts to get really blurry.
You don't find it inconsistent to dismiss one bit of anecdotal evidence while referencing another? I expanded more on the data issue here [1].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371829
First let's assume that rat is one of the 15%

Then no, that's totally wrong.

To not want the hurt and pain to go away and be replaced by bliss would mean you're a broken rat.

The cure, is to not have a drink.

To not want a drink would be very dangerous. There's evidence sucide is high around solution attempts like this. You're be suppressing healthy parts of the brain.
They're twitter users, unlikely twitter customers.
Not sure if the parent expressed anything approaching either anger or hate.

> ... that protection will require facial recognition software.

Why?

Lots of things are effective, but life in a free country means that we don’t do some of them.

We could put cameras in every home, make them illegal to disable. Ban encryption. Censor the web. Ban cars that can’t be remotely disabled.

Free societies are free because there is slack in the system. This freedom is how norms evolve. Gay sex could put you in jail when my parents were teenagers. Supporting Nelson Mandela when he was in jail was supporting the leader of a terrorist organization. Heaven forbid smoking a joint. The status quo is not divined.

My point is, that regardless of your issue, authoritarianism is not a good answer. Even if you think it might swing things in your favor today, there are no guarantees that it will tomorrow.
> We (Sift Science) have been building something similar for 7 years and aren’t going anywhere.

But that doesn't come with any actual guarantees does it?
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Hi Mathieu,
Yep, was going to say, that the patch set has evolved rather
notably. Good job.

Did you manage to push the required changes to glibc or do
you maintain your own user space rseq lib?

-ss
Good for them! I tend to be cynical about Google's advertising business, but it's nice to see some engineers sticking their necks out for their values.
The police cannot do any mass surveillance with AWS Recognition. For that they need access to huge amount of video feeds.IF they already have access to such video and use primitive techniques to sift through them for identifying criminals, then Rekognition makes it cheap and value for money for the taxpayers. Sifting through data to identify people is police work. Why hobble it by mandating that they use expensive outdated slow technology?
If the police has no access to streaming video feeds on a mass scale, the tool can't help. If they are accessing the feeds illegally, then they are breaking laws - AWS can terminate accounts. Any proof that they are doing this illegal activity?
I recall when Mozilla announced that they were dropping legacy extension support, people were upset. Firefox legacy extensions pretty much had free reign in the browser internals, making them very powerful, but also making performance improvements difficult and API changes a headache. Now that Firefox has "done a Quantum" and vastly improved performance, it has won back some users, but there's still a vocal contingent of legacy extension fans holding on to some old Firefox version or a fork.

I use Atom precisely because of its extensibility, although I'll admit I wish it were faster sometimes. I've never used VS Code but I understand it beats out Atom in performance by limiting extensibility, much like what Firefox Quantum has done. So I feel "Atom Quantum" already exists in the form of VS Code, and Atom going that direction would cause it to lose whatever proposition it has in the eyes of its users (who do exist, although you wouldn't be able to tell from this thread alone) and turn it into "a crappy VS Code/Sublime knockoff."

TL;DR: As an Atom user, I would much rather Atom keep its focus on extensibility and make performance gains where possible, rather than drop its focus and try to become VS Code.
That's why we should keep what we got, it's not coming back!
> Because users and devs both need to remember that companies are not friends, and contracts are only as enforceable as the courts will allow.

I bet their term of services mentioned that they can cease operations on no notice.
But its not clear to me that encoding productions in source code adds any value over encoding them in the various other forms used by expert systems of old. Prolog also compels binary constraint satisfaction, recursive descent parsing, backtracking, and depth-first resolution — all undesirable constraints that are easily avoided using other fact representations or resolution engines.

Until the startup in question can make a compelling case for using prolog, much less avoiding the brittleness inherent in expert systems' resolution model, count me a disbeliever that their 'better way' really is.
>I'm a bit confused by what you mean by "favors" here. Do you mean that an otherwise/previously cannabis-using patient would report more favorable results (and/or fewer negative side effects)?

In cases in which the active agent is THC or a similarly psychoactive agent, patients are indeed more likely to report positive overall effects simply because they know they're receiving the active agent; i.e. the placebo effect. This would apply whether they've used cannabis before or not. You don't have this problem with trials of the non-psychoactive cannabis chemicals, which fortunately is most trials.
If you're giving the majority of your time (that you are awake) to someone else and can't afford housing you're not "working", you're being enslaved.

Like c'mon. Working for less than a livable wage is just called making America worse. It would be much more productive to kill yourself and reduce the leverage employers have over the proletariat.
Many beautiful San Francisco buildings are simple boxes with a Italianate facade. Many generations later, people still seem to admire them.
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There is another one here https://github.com/ghmlee/rust-docker
It's too old and with no development at all, but it does have TLS client capabilities. You can add it to your project too.
I used this in one of my projects, but I only had use of a single command and it kinda worked for me.
I doubt it.

There is no "USA sales tax" or VAT. But there are hundreds of different sales tax nexuses at the state, county, and city level.
VISA and MasterCard do pretty well from what I hear. PayPal too.
It's not really a good argument. It's an ok (if stultifyingly predictable) argument when it's made about free services. When you enter long-term business relationships, pay for services, sign contracts, it's quite reasonable to expect to receive what you paid for. Not a lot of useful stuff would get done or made at all if we all turned into preppers.
> You don't have a hard decision to make until you have another job offer on the table.

You don't have a hard decision to make until youve been fired and you don't have a backup plan.
I'm glad that pretty much the whole thing is 'use pgbouncer.'

This was my exact situation at a previous position. We needed up to 20k connections to a single pgsql master. Even the most monster postgres server falls over around ~600 connections (up to 1k depending on usage).

Using a pgbouncer-per-webserver we easily got to 20k.

I will say this was with 9.3 though, things may have changed on that front. Nowadays I use pgsql primarily for analytics, so there's only ever 20-30 connections tops, albeit doing quite heavy querying.
This is great! Have run up some very expensive bills trying to scale postgres. Eager to try this out.
I have been in a similar position. In case you stopped receiving your salary, you should bail immediately.
If you are being paid, start preparing to jump ship while continuing to work.
> Very little care is given to preserving for any extended period of time.

For some stuff, yeah. But there are specific archive-oriented system designs and storage formats made from the ground up for independent access. The hard working employees of national digital archives, museums, aerospace, and basic research see the importance of re-usable, re-verifiable, high quality data. "Digital Permanence" is an achievable goal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_permanence].

My personal opinion is that we likely overvalue some of the fluff on YouTube, from a generational perspective... Losing things not forward-encoded to the sands of time like so many cultural touchstones before them is a natural part of the creative destruction of culture. 250 years from now, even a massive movement/moment like "Motown" will have been worn down to a nub of understanding. I think that's good, because it'll make room for new stuff. No one cares about our vacation slides ;)
I’m not sure what you are saying. Computational semantics parses sentences to possible interpretations in first order, or higher order logics. It is not some sort of alternative to FOL. And it is still a rapidly developing field.
> This is a pretty sad statement of your personal values if you're serious.

It's an indication how deep the rot has gone. Tech culture is deeply sick.
Yes, they are a giant waste of time and in general slow things down and don’t improve your ability to add more features over time. Bigger win from having good tests and properly factored code encourage by shared owership (no disincentives to change any code you see fit)
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What would be these businesses backup plans if Smyte went bankrupt instead being acquired?
That’s not obvious. Do you have any reason for thinking so?
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because the good times are not going to last.
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Thanks for the reply.

I'm considering the BBS02 but I really like the torque sensors. I was hoping that there was some mass produced Chinese model T but couldn't find it.
Buzzfeed posted an article called "How Twitter Made The Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback" just today:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-twitter-made-the...

even as those eulogies were being published, things started changing. Twitter began beating earnings expectations. Star ex-employees trickled back in, finding a new, more positive internal culture than the toxic one they’d left. Advertisers came back too, as did users. The company finally began addressing its trolling problem. And its stock, once unappealing to analysts like Nathanson at $14, is now trading above $46.

It’s still somewhat taboo to say it, but it’s no longer possible to deny it: Twitter is making an unexpected, somewhat miraculous comeback. It is the first major consumer social company to lose users and start growing again in a meaningful way.
FIVE PERCENT FEES? After inflation that basically brings your ROI from holding risky equities down to savings account rates.

She gets paid better than the world’s most successful hedge funds to be a glorified baby sitter to grownups?

I picked the wrong career.
Of employee leverage (and hence wage growth)? I don't think so, because those employees who opt out aren't competing for jobs with those other employees. I'm not an economist, though.

It might be a better indicator of "how well is the economy serving the needs of the people", depending on what you value.
HDD are fast ~enough on sequential read/write in this scenario.
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Do we really? The last decade or so sure appears to be about reinventing wheels more than everything else, both as a generational motto and as an incentive for cloud businesses. Not only has preservation and forward compatibility of Web content been a non-priority, it's being actively worked against and cheered at with major content outlets using JavaScript-only sites, and many projects turning to JavaScript-heavy approaches even for content-oriented sites. We peaked around 2005 or so in our collective efforts to recognize the value of standards in information processing and preservation. Doing regular HTML sites is considered old-school and on the verge of becoming a forgotten craft with newcomers fixated to look at frameworks.
The irony is that HTML and SGML already operate at a higher level than frameworks and JSON, much in the same way that SQL operates at a higher level of abstraction than record-oriented ORMs.
> since it seems to work pretty well but can’t be readily explained

That is becoming less and less true.
> We should we wary of making very general remarks, period.
That is abterrible analogy.

What we have is either ten people walking or 10,000 people strapped in the space shuttle cargo bay. That it takes the ten people 30 years to walk from Lisbon to Singapore vs 45 minutes with the shuttle isn't the right comparison. It's that the shuttle explodes 2% of the time.

That you are forcing me to be with you on the shuttle because you don't understand the risks should be all the reasons we need for walking instead.
Their recklessness is usually what makes them "good" (in the sense of public appealing) artists. There are exceptions, surely.

It makes sense that they behave this way, but it is certainly annoying for those who have to deal directly with this.
> in many ways having buildings degrade and get rebuilt is a good thing

To bring in an IT comparison: getting some app to 150% so that is never needs to be changed again, is one way to make software. Getting it to the relevant 65%, getting users on board, and maintaining and upgrading it as needs develop gets you 'live' faster, and saves bucket-loads up-front, and saves bucket-loads if you have to terminate the project at any point.

Lots of nerdlings want to tweak and polish until perceived perfection, costs be damned. Getting things out the door and into production is where value is created, though. It matters if Amazons new HQ is ready in 3 years or 15...
Sticking with a major brand won't protect you from literal counterfeit goods, only from shady brands. Amazon also has a counterfeit branded goods problem.
I have never once encountered this misconception until now. Every explanation of deep learning I’ve seen begins with an explanation of the origin of the phrase.
Because that's incorrect. Yes, it outputs `UIView` objects. But that's far from being native. Just a few examples: a button/"touchable opacity" is not a `UIButton`, it's a custom view where RN fakes the touch animation in JavaScript(!). Gesture recognizers are faked in JavaScript. Animation doesn't use Core Animation but fakes it either in JavaScript or in custom C++ implementation in the Animated module. It's one big lie to call React Native "Native".
The call to wind down business with existing clients is a worrying trend. Why would I avail services of a startup if there is a risk that upon acquisition, the startup's new parent company won't service us anymore. It's a risk.
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They had customers (hence the problem) and so they had revenue. So they should have had plenty runway.
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2 and 20 is what premier hedge funds make (many charge less nowadays). 1% is a standard financial advisor fee.
Presumably you would get more than half an hour to migrate.
How is Atom with a11y? I tried using VoiceOver with Atom but I couldn't quite get it to work. Is accessibility something the Atom team is committed to?
It sounds like they were using leave-one-out cross validation. My machine learning is a bit rusty, but I don't think that overfitting is the issue.
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As someone whose used python since the 2.1 days in high school, why not create a language with the type system you want instead of killing python? There is a reason why python is this good when it specifically chose to not implement the features that are now being added to it.
> That Google doesn't provide support is a myth.

Try getting support for anything that's not G Suite or Project Fi (which have arguably good customer support). Sometimes the "support" is just a link to the forums.
"And where is the incentive to preserve this stuff?"

To my understanding there are institutions including the library of congress whose main purpose is preserving information. Not all information, of course.
The argument that penalties should be paid out of the purchase price would probably hold water. When Smyte entered into those contracts they took on some duty to honor them and to suddenly dishonor them and divert all the assets out of the company so that penalties wouldn't ve avoided would be constructive fraud.
Not knowing anything else, there's a good chance you know your position may be gone in the next 3-8 months... One man shops can do a lot, but for a tech startup of note it's a joke.

This window is the time to get your resume together, watch online courses on company time, and start using some hot new tech in some capacity at your job. Your time should be focused on building your resume and attractiveness on the job market, and to differentiate yourself from other applicants.
I was the second to the last engineer at a startup that dropped from 15 to 3 people. my boss was the CTO, who I worked with on the perpetually 6 months from release “idea”. I switched to work for marketing guy, and together we shipped an update to a published product that had fallen on bad times. The update did great business, leading us to hire and grow till the company employed 100 people.
Gibson’s future just may not have happened yet. In the ‘50s our sci-fi showed rockets landing in the same manner (in reverse) that they launched, and it’s slowly becoming a thing now. Some things, like people living in space or AI, were always obvious and easy to predict. Some things were strangely overlooked (cellphones).
I imagine that’s the fee her firm takes, assuming she has some employees, a snazzy office etc there will be overheads out of that - but yeah, accountants do well.
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That is true, but the original poster was talking about heap allocation of simple integers, not larger values.
> He's definitely more concerned with preserving the old ways from being abused than he is with protecting the new ways for me and for you.

What more can he do?
> Keep your heads down and accumulate resources seems to be the best advice.

This is the problem with society at large IMO.

Sounds like a toxic or at the very least an incompatible workplace. You should look for a different place to work, and possibly a different line of work entirely, since you don't seem to enjoy the "meaningless engineering". Money isn't everything.