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> better standards once a decade

Funnily enough, the first drafts of this protocol (back then, called PubSubHubbub) were written circa 2008, so this specification is about a decade in the making.

At the time it was distributing content between a number of the bigger blogging/publishing platforms of the day, and also notifying search engines so they could update their indexes more quickly.

If anything it seems like the standardization process was too long and missed the boat here (this particular problem is now most often solved by proprietary protocols), rather than being "rushed through".

Can't deny that the world has changed a lot during the lifespan of this idea, though. Cellular-connected computers in our pockets were barely on the radar when this spec was first written. I'm sure some would argue that the burdens of publishing have now shifted on to the reader (probably battery powered, spotty connectivity) whereas in this spec's original universe the burdens were on the publisher (CDNs not yet as widespread, more independent publishing from web hotels, etc).
That will be odd. Before you would be dismayed if you spoke to someone with a thick accent overseas. Now you may be relieved.
What do you mean? He says it's either/or. I'm saying it's both.
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The big problem that Nix/NixOS has is failure to integrate well with graphics libraries (OpenGL drivers, etc).

Does Guix solve this problem?
Nice work. I've been tracking this data for about 5 years on https://hntrends.com and enjoy seeing others come up with new tools and ways to analyze the data.
I think the argument is that the USA is a democracy (at least more so than the others), and therefore it's fair to criticise the USA as a whole (i.e. the citizens of the USA) for the failures of the US Government.

A friend of mine made the same comment recently in regards to condemning human rights abuses in Israel. You can condemn until your face is blue the human rights violations in Iran, but there's not a lot the Iranian population can do about it. Israel is a democracy, and therefore (at least in theory) the government represents the people.

Another point to note is that HN is US-centric. Most people here will have first-hand experience of the USA, but not necessarily of China, Russia, or Saudi Arabia.
Looking at the sample in the usage section, I don't see why you could not just write a declaration file that would catch wrong attributes and so on.
It was evidently to show you ads. Showing ads is lightly problematic, but not inheretly evil.

The privacy concerns were pretty much hidden from the public the entire time.
5% raises are insulting when a company bemoans the hardships of not being able to retain talent.

I get stagnating in pay raises after 2-3 years and receiving decent increases up to that point, but how can a company complain about retaining talent when they don't offer anything past the 5% in the first place?

It just seems strange to me that companies want the option to fire off employees at will, but also hate seeing employees take advantage of that ('job hop').

Maybe a 2 year contract with built in raise structure (assuming improvement based on pre-defined metrics) would be a better solution than at will employment.

Whatever the solution may be, it doesn't seem like many people are satisfied with the current system. Especially from a hiring management perspective.
Privacy.com is a really neat service. I'm pretty disappointed that all banks don't already have this feature built in (I know some do).
Now, it _does_ depend on your use case.

An isolated login form? Yeah, no point keeping that in Redux - it's not being shared, it's not being persisted, there's no real need to track the history of changes. But, there are certainly situations where you might want to keep some form data in Redux.

As a specific example from my own app: we show some polylines on a 3D globe, and allow the user to edit them. We need to be able to live-update the point locations and labels on the globe as the user edits them, allow resetting edits, and still be able to show the original values elsewhere in the UI. Keeping all that data in Redux makes it easy to do so.

The Redux FAQ has a list of suggested rules of thumb for deciding what state should go in Redux: https://redux.js.org/faq/organizing-state#do-i-have-to-put-a... .
There's nothing wrong with that, considering everybody else is strenuously trying to pull you into theirs. Upvote/downvote brigades abound as well as the institutionalization of power-users.

We already build our own echo chambers with personalized multi-reddits (which I use to great effect, since the defaults are trash-tier) as well as the main sub-reddit subscription list. I quite like this idea.

Groups that try to pull you into their echo chamber almost always have dubious or selfish intentions, ranging from blatant advertising to astroturfing. This puts power back into the hands of users.
Ask HN: How do you deal with distribute CI definitions?
With the move to CI configuration files stored on each repository (.travis, .buildkite, Jenkinsfile, etc) versus a central location. How do you deal with keeping all pipelines standardized? Do you have a central CI team that touches all these repos (and has the autonomy to do so)? Or is it up to developers to keep things updated? Say you want all pipelines to have a linting step, how would that happen in your organization?
Similarity Between Silicon Valley and USSR
I think as long as it's 1 or 2 short tenures, you're OK. He's (I assume) talking about 5 or 6 in a row. I also did a stint as a contractor/consultant - I list that as a single job on my resume, since I did get paid by a single employer during that time. Of course, my job title for that period is "consultant".
No one chooses to be born, let alone in the manner in which they were born.
Communities become echo chambers when a tiny minority of people who have too much time on their hands monopolize discussions. I'd even argue that this is the primary mechanism of echo chamber creation. Other mechanisms like the one OP mentioned aren't that significant a contributor in creating echo chambers.
Propaganda also acts by wearing you down, shaping your perceptions over time, and influencing so many people around you that you lose sight of where “real” is on the first place. Sometimes propaganda only seeks to demoralize you or disengage you.

Don’t underestimate it.
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> I would say that race relations have not improved

The proportion of interracial marriages as a proportion of all marriages has been increasing since, such that 15.1% of all new marriages in the United States were interracial marriages by 2010 compared to a low single-digit percentage in the mid 20th century. Public approval of interracial marriage rose from around 5% in the 1950s to around 80% in the 2000s. The previous sentences are copy-pasted from Wikipedia.
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It's very easy to make these contacts quicly if you are recognized entity in the field.

Call to Thai embassy would be the first step.
Yep, lots! See the "React Component Composition" section of my React/Redux links list: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...
It wasn't just Facebook. Most of the valley was effectively bought off in the Instagram acquisition, and even now much of the wealth is directly or indirectly linked to FB. There's a famous Upton Sinclair quote which neatly explain the seemingly strong pro-Facebook bias here :

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
I still remember running the r5 release on my Pentium III 450Mhz..never had such a lagfree and fast multimedia experience on any OS.. ZERO lag.. it's performance was amazing.. unfortunately it's lack of hardware support and multiuser made it problematic to use it as a daily driver. Even Beos Zeta (commercial version based on r5) did not really improve the situation.
Of course Boeing want to deliver the planes, otherwise they get hit by significant late delivery penalties.

However, thanks to how the industry is regulated, Boeing don't take chances if there is a risk to passenger safety. In this case, the likelihood of a single engine shutdown due to this elusive bug + the failure of the automatic restart system + the failure of the manual restart procedures, _combined with the fact that all commercial aircraft needs to be able to operate with only one of the engines_, makes Boeing ask for the exemption.

The FAA, on their part, is 100% right in demanding that Boeing show their work and is unlikely to grant such an exemption unless the risk is calculated to be negligible.
The product is a sense of connection to the food and it sounds like some customers are willing to pay a high premium.

It sounds like farmhands employed by Farmizen do all of the planting, maintenance, and harvesting, and the customer is able to view the crops from afar, probably by video feed with a personalized blog about how their tomatoes are doing.

As someone who grew up on a farm it seems very silly and inefficient but also as someone who now lives in a city and hears fellow yuppies complain about how "disconnected from nature" they feel, it makes sense that they could get some customers, but I don't see customers staying customers because the yields will be low and the prices will be high and the quality won't be as good compared to the farmers market or organic grocery.
Not the parent, but contract work should be it's own self-employed section. It's understood that contractors are usually hired for a single relatively short project, and an ability to get these consecutively and complete them in the alotted time is a positive indicator, not a negative one.
Probably changes to Electron, I don't think it has multi-monitor support.
it doesn't have to be even on sarcasm level, sometimes i get misunderstanding on elementary level, ie when texting my fiancee, meaning somebody who is the closest person to me for years.

once you don't see face of the other person clearly, misunderstandings will happen, better learn how minimize them or you and people around you will suffer from unnecessary conflicts
Your comment looks like part of the venom. "The top of Hacker News" is determined by a mixture of recency, votes and flags. Everything starts on top and then it's downhill from there. The comment you're responding to has been flagged, by the way.
This attitude is so foreign to me that you could very well be a Marsian. Rich people exploiting poor people to bare the risks and burdens of pregnancy and labor? Have you even considered the degree of desperation one would need to be in to agree to such an arrangement?
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On a fundamental level I agree with your point. Truly absolute morality implies some kind of external rule of law, which implies some kind of external lawmaker.

Where I disagree is this idea - whether you intended it or not - that non-absolute morality is somehow arbitrary, or worth less than absolute morality.

I don't agree with that: I believe that torturing someone is immoral because humans dislike being tortured (if you're in that 1% who doesn't mind torture, it's not immoral - torture away). You reduce that to "most humans don't feel positive about being tortured". But that's not a choice that 99% of humans made: it's a fact of human biology. Humans don't choose to feel pain when someone rips out their fingernails. You can say "disliking pain is arbitrary". It may be arbitrary in some sense, but not in the context of humanity, and we're all humans.

If you want to say that this kind of "moral thinking" isn't "true morality" because it's not absolute, fine. That's valid stance to take. But whether you call it morality or something else doesn't make it less valid or less useful. And to suggest that humans should not take our innate likes (warmth, safety, respect) and dislikes (pain, insecurity, lack of respect) into account when we interact with each other simply because human biology isn't "absolute" is - pardon me - fucking insane.
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As a contractor for startups in SF for 6 years and now a founder for 1, I have found the opposite of what you have about business relationships.

The homeless problem is not caused by the tech industry, it is caused by the homeowners who have been blocking apartment building construction in 90% of the city for 50 years.
Solar panels don't require as much water.
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So like, the primary motivation is some males wish to care about and nurture children? Because anything else you they can already do without women.

Actually, they can adopt children even now, so even that one is possible without lab.
Whee! My first Show HN. I've only been here, like, seven years and all.

But, yeah, I've been tooling away on TaskBotJS in my metaphorical garage for a while. I've found Kue and Bull really frustrating to use (no shade intended; they feel like they made a lot more sense in a pre-ES6 universe?) and `node-resque`, while scratching a little more of that itch, just made me miss the comfortable guardrails of Ruby offline job queues. So I made one.

As my day job is devops and devops accessories, making it easy to run and administer TaskBotJS was a big priority for me and I've tried to get the best of both worlds: mostly turn-key to run in simpler cases but less prescriptive and more pluggable at scale. TaskBotJS is pretty extensible and supports job middleware and event listeners; I have a Sentry plugin coming in the near future as an example (and also 'cause I like Sentry).

I also like to write documentation[0]. While it's not yet complete, what's there is pretty exhaustive and I try to explain my thinking as well as just "what it does"; capturing the whys is as important as the whats, to me, to better foster conversation around the project and to make for more constructive issues when systemic, design-focused concerns are raised.

It's running in at least two production environments (only one of which is mine; I dogfood but I wouldn't have released it as a "you should check this out" version if somebody else wasn't checking me) and is being rolled out to at least one more in the near-ish future.

Thanks for taking a peek, and I'd love to hear any actionable feedback that comes to mind.

[0] - https://github.com/eropple/taskbotjs/wiki
> The parliament is also calling for “evidence and legally binding commitments” to ensure that data collection under FISA Section 702 is not “indiscriminate

Ha...this I doubt will ever be provided. And if it is provided, will it be seen by the citizenry? They're either going to have to cave on the "no indiscriminate collection" requirement, accept an invalid definition of "indiscriminate" or "collection", or flat never re-agree to the agreement. Because, sadly, indiscriminate collection of data isn't stopping.
Indeed, the FAA have no real reason to authorize that; I would also not expect them to want to grant any exemptions on a blanket basis: usually aviation authorities make rulings on specific aircraft, based on the flight and maintenance data.
Well, USSR fucked up half of Europe, but China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia didn't do much to anybody (except perhaps their immediate neighbours) in the 20th and 21st century.

The same can't be said for the US.

They might be whatever they are internally, but that's a problem for their citizens.
Wasn’t mine. It was the generic meeting room presentation machine.

Don’t care about what warnings were or weren’t ignored: the main lesson is that Windows will leave you in the lurch at the worst possible time.
> Tor board, I would offer you my help, but I'm an American, so we would probably all be sent to Guantanamo

You'd be sent to Guantánamo for offending the German federal police?
Most people I talk to (even the tech savvy) don't really care about their data being collected by all these companies. They feel it's a fair trade.

Ironically an extremely tech-UNsavvy young woman I know makes sure to minimize her usage of these services (never had FB, instagram etc.) and is actually quite protective of her data.
My system one thinking has the impression the USA is better than Russia or Saudi Arabia but kinda swings and roundabouts with China.

My system two thinking, given what people say about things rather than personal experience, puts a lot of caveats on top of the China comparison.

However, basing my judgement purely on direct personal experience: regarding “greatest the world has ever seen”… I’d rather have been born a random citizen of France, Netherlands, (west) Germany, Switzerland, or the UK, than a random citizen of the USA — and again, that’s just out of the places I’ve actually visited or lived in.

Going back to second hand impressions: Canada, Ireland, and most of Scandinavia seems better than the impression I have of the USA from three visits of one month each.
Wasn't the dishwasher owned and installed by the complex? Why was the tenant responsible for damage caused by a failure of the complex's equipment?
Lack of empathy can be dealt with when expected. It also makes a difference when lack of empathy isn't coupled with sarcasm, exasperation, or boredom.

>>Everyone is a customer in need of satisfaction in the form of products and services.

The point of contacting a call center is because you are unsatisfied as a customer. Customer satisfaction is the only factor in a capitalist society. There is no alternative. If customers are not satisfied, you don't get business.

You can argue until you're blue in the face about the evils of consumerism, but it's pretty irrelevant to this discussion.
Aren't people in the tech industry numerous and powerful enough to lobby for humane conditions for their fellow citizens?
It was posted on a website which, if it's a typical news site, gets at least 40% of its traffic from mobile devices.

I understand your point, but at least the readme could have images as a demo.

Anyway, it doesn't matter that much. Clearly we all like the tool regardless.
I think the authors are confused about what’s happening here. It’s not revealing a subnetwork, you’re removing spurious interactions in the fully connected ANN thereby visually revealing the functional circuit topology that’s driving the behavior.

It’s helpful to understand the effect of pruning on artificial gene regulatory network, another class of ANN but mathematically they follow the same rules:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23151688_Survival_o...
Not if done with hydroponics. The water is frequently dosed with nutrients to keep the proper levels.
"[T]he economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users"

Loved this thread, but I think this one lost me. Does anyone know to what this is referring and mind explaining? Is this a comment on news feeds in apps, or is it a comment on the odd housing supply / zoning decisions? Or neither?
Is this person debating, or just acting economically? Does a moth fly towards the light because it believes in any explicit ideas in its brain, or because statistically moths flying towards light means a better off situation for moths as a whole? Does a baby _decide_ to cry?
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> ... it doesn't matter if you made it or not.

Yep, like in the film "Rosemary's Baby". It was Rosemary's husband that made the deal with the devil but it was she who ended up carrying the child of Satan.
>I'll go ahead and say the United States is the greatest country the world has ever seen. It's not perfect, but once you live in other countries for a bit, even if you enjoy the experience, you appreciate the U.S. a lot more.

Depends on whether you have lived in an advanced Western European country.

It also depends of your tolerance of rednecks, prudes, puritans, and ignorant people (which exist everywhere in the world, but have particularly large concentrations there).

Or on your tolerance of a messed up party system, a messed up legal system, a messed up prison system (and the biggest incarceration rates in the world), cops that have an open license to shoot people, and the worse and more widespread racism this side of South Africa. Or on your tolerance on very bad statistics on violence (especially gun violence).

Or on your tolerance for businesses having near feudal reign on their workers.

That said, if you have the money, and the connections, the US is a pretty good deal to spend them. Not to mention very nice landscapes, and generally good hearted and optimistic people (besides the aforementioned negatives).

Plus, for some industries (basically IT and movies), they're tops.
I agree, but I think they started running out of cats. Puma, Panther, and Mountain Lion are all distinct releases of MacOS, but they're the exact same species.
Two-way data binding and composability don't have to be exclusive. I wrote a web framework that provides the two together, though it's right now in early state. Feel free to try it out / use it though if you're interested:

http://reactiverelations.org/
Having more control over your data doesn't mean it's safe
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Chasing higher salaries to the detriment of your own personal growth sounds shortsighted to me.
Of late i have noticed is u praise us or condemn other countries you get down voted.
The musician analogy is good. You will find the same debate there. Listen to your genuis.
> and the ICO will enforce

Brexit aside, will they? They don't have a track record of doing so previously.
The main point was that the term can be ambiguous and it's not always both. The word "myth" is sometimes used synonymously with "creation story" or sometimes with "lie".

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/myth
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And these are simple to do, see BadUSB and Rubber Ducky
I prefer forums as well, at least for technical questions/discussions. It seems to me the biggest advantage of chat apps over forums is that you can use a single account to join many rooms. Are there any forum platforms designed around that idea?
EU model clauses can be used as well, so it doesn't mean you cannot use US companies any more.

So all you would have to do is have every EU business renegotiate contracts with or review new terms with every US business they work with where personal data transfer is involved? No big deal.

The question is if they offer a good enough level of protection if the US government can demand access to data anyway.

Right. But since essentially the same concerns arise when dealing with businesses based in the EU, let's be honest and acknowledge that this isn't really an ethical question and doesn't really have much to do with either privacy or security either. It's just a matter of the EU and its privacy legislation considering EU prying to be acceptable but not US prying, which is a political decision.
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It's a "with great power comes great responsibility" kind of thing, and it's not necessarily their fault. The US does a lot of things in general, so a lot of them are inevitably going to be bad.