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> It's a challenging situation for an engineer's brain that defaults to problem solving mode.

I couldn't agree with this more. I have struggled with this myself recently in my relationship, so I'm glad to see this article here.

I'd say it's a safe bet that a much higher percentage of people who frequent HN, compared to the general population, are in the same boat. It's the reason many of us are drawn to programming/ engineering. Emotions are of much less value to our brains/ personalities than logic. I think it will be one of the greatest hurdles for us to having a lasting, happy relationship.
Lol. CoreOS and Hashicorp products often throw “cloud” and “discoverability” around but lack crucial features for ops supportability found in solutions that came before. Zookeeper, Cassandra, Couchbase didn’t evolve in a development vacuum chamber. New != better.
There was interest in native Java compilation, not in doing the work for free.

Most third party commercial Java SDKs do have support for native compilation, specially on the embedded space.

Around 2009 GCJ suffered an exodus of developers to OpenJDK.
I've been using Linux for 2 decades, and this year I moved to MacOS, with the newest MacBook and a 5K iMac. Everything pretty much just works, is much prettier by default than I ever got my Linux installations to be.

Given my experiences, I have full trust that the MacOS engineers will do good stuff with Mojave too, at least eventually. I still like Desktop Linux, though, and sincerely wish it will be as good some day. It most definitely is not today.
As someone who is currently sleeping under a bridge most nights, I would be happy to tolerate that frustration until a more equitable system can be implemented.
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Thanks for the honest answer :) I wish you the best and your attitude is the right one to get customers so good luck! :)
If you want to become the new Ukraine or Libya, follow their recipe (it is what you will find online, that "non-violent" Gene Sharp stuff).

By historical records, the successful revolutions happened during or after a war (as cause or effect), when the national army is vulnerable and it is possible to create a revolutionary army based of defections and rebels, and this army will usually be supplied by the foreign enemies the national army is fighting.
I need a lot more details. How is it going to increase conversions. Show examples. How does it not use any code? What’s the process to use it? Don’t use ‘anon.’ Just spell it out. Human language. In your subscribe box say ‘enter email to subscribe’ or something more specific. Where are T&C and Privacy?
Come on, no they're not. Those screenshots are virtually identical.
Well for starters they have been cleaning up Android from GPL related licenses.

Android now compiles with clang, including their own modified Linux kernel, and gcc is no longer supported on the NDK.
I wouldn't be thrilled with it, but sure I'd take the Walmart job if I could get it. I've done worse jobs before.
The USB port did start appearing on some PCs before the iMac—largely because Intel put it in its chipsets—but it was practically abandonware with precious few peripherals prior to the iMac. When the flood of peripherals did arrive, many of them were styled with translucent cables and casings to match the iMac, even when sold for Windows PCs.
Or behind it, by attaching a case were the wall mount would go.
This is an absolutely terrible idea, because truth is not something that can be inferred from the text alone; epistemology is hard enough for humans, let alone for machines. The approach of decoding human text into statements in propositional logic has been tried, it was the first 70s "AI wave", but ultimately it broke down on the complexity of the problem. Modern "ML" can only give you a stochastic truthiness.

The only people who haven't given up on the approach of a massive symbolic reasoning database to work out what's true and false are Cyc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

You might be able to have a system which auto-flags known bullshit statements, but people will get outraged by that.
Learning SIMD with Rust by finding planets
... and the first 10k digits of pi might be 'true', but are neither educational nor entertaining.
Commodore 64 aside, I'd love to have a native (non-Electron) client for Windows at least.
It’s called out explicitly in the list of features - TCPA compliance. It’s one of the most important things you need to provide and yes it is up to the end user to follow these rules correctly. It’s no different than how HIPAA/PCI polices work - you are responsible for following the rules.
You can argue it, doesn't make it right! Nor are micropayments the only solution. Nor do sites make a fraction of a cent - it's usually at least a few.

With ads comes everything from annoyance, tracking, data theft, and malware. All things I am not a fan of, nor are they worthwhile tradeoffs for visiting a site.

But i'll agree - it's not as easy to do other things as it is to serve ads. You have to be creative, and also provide actual value that people are willing to pay for. But trying to romance the idea of serving ads - that it's good for users - is insulting.
Today I'd prefer work in a place where most social media sites were blocked (except Hacker News?).
Even better, they had custom multipliers for different kinds of upvote reason. This let you do things like set "Funny" to -1 if you didn't like Slashdot's sense of humour.
I fear the astroturfers have gotten their claws in, as i constantly see conflicting, and downright asinine, comments hovering at +5 (insightful).
Yes it is inherently wrong, you are wasting my time every single attempt.
I'm not sure what projects you're thinking of; just moving the info is easy, making it fairly foolproof for a non-techie source to avoid leaving a datatrail while sending infomation+having a dialogue with you is hard.
You can also tag people, and have their score weighted accordingly (and they can see how you tag them in their profile)...
You just miss your childhood. Those things still exist if you dig a bit.

Furthermore, it could have been just your group. Most people I know from back in the 90’s were just playing games.
So your safety nets for those "who really need it" are more expensive because of the bureaucracy needed to determine this. Furthermore it becomes a disincentive to accept work (as the article states) and rewards dishonesty i.e. "working the system".
The average quality is always abysmal. Most of the content on that old web was also abysmal, it's just that no one cared at the time.
The European Commission is polling if daylight savings should be abolished
I flagged it because it's high on controversy (repetitive debating of Elon Musk's motives and merits) and low on intellectual curiosity - which is what is meant to be HN's core focus.
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Yeah any kind of community "tagging" system is fertile ground for trolls and whatsnot. Just check out the mess that is steam tags, where soft-core visual novels gets mixed in with just about anything thanks to troll applied tags.

We are simply asking for another racist AI or gorilla moment.
An online form builder with database storage
This is the kind of HN post I love the most. Now, if only s somebody could port Julia to C64...
Nice writeup. I have been tempted to try ZFS but to be honest it seems like too much of a hassle compared to rotating three portable usb drives with TimeMachine, and periodically creating ZIP / GPG encrypted backups with descriptive names and dates, and copying to OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox. A few times a year these backups also include email, contacts, snapshots of github repos, etc.

This may sound time consuming, but it is not. For day to day, the 256G drive on my MacBook, github, and Dropbox are what I use for work.
>Reading these comments make you feel as though we're in a weird parallel universe where the internet disappeared somehow.

I've seen people claim that the big social media silos have "centralized" and "taken control of" the web so often that I'm starting to wonder if it's just hyperbole or if people really do think the rest of the web somehow ceased to exist.
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Avocado is the English word.
Aguacate is the Spanish word which was derived from the Nahuatl āhuacatl.
Freetype has been superior to Microsoft's and Apple's implementation for years, with incremental improvements ever since.

One of the reasons I would never buy a Windows or macOS machine. These companies really need to sort out their quality issues with font rendering.
The smallest (11") macbook air weighs about 1kg, and it doesn't have that fucking retarded keyboard.

I have chronic pain and the idea of paying an extra almost half kilo in weight for my laptop is enough that I gave a Windows PC a try for a year.
As I understand it contracts fall under law, TOS fall under nothing except maybe getting kicked off the platform.
I'm not distracted, you simply don't understand basic economics.
Yes I think `Transition.NO_TRANSITION` uses the new FFI, GNFI, or Graal Native Function Interface, described here [0].

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2500832
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Yep, it could be that decision fatigue is strongly relevant here, see https://nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-d... for a great write-up on this.
It's cheaper, fast enough, and has a non-garbage keyboard.
I didn't downvote you, but I can see a reason for downvotes others than your arguments.

Maybe this post is not seen as relevant starting point of the discussion you wanted to have.
Nice list. I would give them a try. There's a site for data science if you find useful:

http://www.datatau.com/news
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470636
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It's also easier to implement non-gamma correct blending, but seeing as it looks terrible and uneven, Apple so far has not done that.

More so, most technical people don't even understand that one, so good look getting a non-Jobs type to see the importance.

Non-retina displays are going to stick around for years. Not everyone wants high DPI, I for one much prefer working on a giant non-Retina monitor instead, for more real estate instead of detail. I don't know what they put in the water in the Bay Area, but everyone seems to be moving towards a lowest common denominator approach.

This is a terrible decision, and if they don't fix it, it'll be just another reason to abandon the platform.
Honestly i see the iphone as the start of the "scale" moment.

There had been smartphones before iphone, for a long time.

Damn it, the iphone was not even launched as a smartphone. It was launched as basically a ipod that could make calls.
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Of course not.

I'm saying if it takes 6 months to train a worker to productivity, it's not unreasonable for a company to reject someone who's had 5 jobs in 5 years.
Interesting! One of the instructors is RocketMan. :-)

https://crates.io/crates/rocket
I'm guessing they're going for a newspaper cram-in-as-many-characters-as-possible-in-a-narrow-column aesthetic. In my opinion, that was never a flattering look and it isn't now either.
There are two things I do.

1- I start with coding to learn not learning to code. This approach helped me to put my thoughts into actual code so for example I want to learn how to request data from database I started by learning how to create a database and the specific codes to print that request and from there you branch to different things along the way and after that you could look for basics course about that subject to to learn different ways and extra information.

2- I look for templates or things like that and deconstruct them and look through the code and to try it myself then you code start to re-code this template from start to finish by yourself.

3- I try find the source of pages I like and use inspection to learn how things were construc toted.
It's really a pity they're removing the functionality. Would it be possible to have a browser extension enforce it?
I'm working on one for the mac, which isn't quite windows of course, if anyone cares? Looks like this so far: https://i.imgur.com/ATNdP6p.png
GlobaLeaks is very explicit, also to the user, that HTTPS is not secure and strongly recommends using tor.
A website about reading things with a font choice that discourages it.
Mayan languages are also spoken by millions of people in Mexico and Guatemala.
I suggest to remove the first sentence that is just a distraction from the later points that you make, especially without some further elaboration.

If we can create some technology, then dismissing it because it can be used to do bad things seems futile. Bad actors will create and use it anyway[1]. If you want to protect some secrets then have a decent security protocols in place, network of trusted people, slightly different data encrypted with different public keys and so on.

I don't think government intelligence needs projects like this to do what they want to do.

I doubt you are trying to argue not to have knifes because they kill people. You work at Google so I think your context may come from the fact that you can easily put things that make a lot of sense after considering them carefully in a bad light when presenting them to public without enough context. But you can do that based on any information, not necessarily private.

In general, in politics, data doesn't seem to matter all that much, unfortunately. We don't have democracy. We have some media-cracy. Majority of voters opinions are heavily influenced by the media. So it's them who actually make decisions (or whoever controls them).

That's why Snowden for example, probably had much more influence on people who already thought about those things, than it had on general public.

1. bioweapons come to mind and those are indeed scary as our current defense is pretty much what I'm considering to be futile
One thing that I noticed when I had to switch from a Linux desktop to an MBP is how much worse text anti-aliasing is. The crispness just isn't there, especially at smaller font sizes.

Certainly the MBP has a high-res screen and can live without it, but it's highly reflective, and anti-glare external monitors provided by most employers are mere FHD, and most fonts become unpleasant and hard to read without anti-aliasing on them.

Maybe anti-aliasing was just hard to implement nicely in OSX graphics stack, they struggled with it, and decided to remove it.

I suspect that most of Apple's "proper computer" sales are laptops where they put a retina display anyway, and if you shell out $2k for a laptop, you can afford to spend $300 for a 4K external display.

In other words, they (correctly) decided that theirs is the premium segment, and that segment can afford to switch to retina-only hardware.
There should be a dictionary of common scoring systems and their flaws. So

- Scoring on comment count :: Flame wars.

- Scoring on forwards :: Chain letters.

- Scoring on sum of "likes" :: Memes and simple jokes.

- Scoring on five-star ratings :: hides important issues.

And so on. This way, we can make an informed business decision on what kind of junk we can best defend againt.
> Still I totally agree that getting paralyzed is a big problem, it's way better to program something "the wrong/inefficient/bad way" rather than to program nothing.

I'd argue that this depends on the situation. If you're writing code that needs to meet a deadline but also needs to be supported months/years from now, there are considerations and the possibility that you'd have been better off not writing the code before learning about at least the reasonining behind the existing alternative

Still, I'm with you on GTD being my personal preference in most situations.
So stick a raspberry pi rigged to automatically upload the file in your pocket and go use the free wifi at your local library?
The sequel to this book -- Statistical Models: Theory and Practice -- and it's accompanying (well, this is how I was encouraged to read them) text -- Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue with Social Sciences -- are excellent for intuition building and accumulating a number of examples for personal reference.
Hundreds of very good reasons to fight Amazon's growth as much as possible. We are sacrificing our rights, hurting our society, pushing people to near-slavery for 2 day shipping. It's disgraceful.
If our LG 21x9 displays all look like crap when we dock our MacBook Pros, then it’s just one more justification for the Windows lovers (yes, they exist) to move to Surfaces. Adobe doesn’t care which we run.
In 2014 I had an idea, didn't go anywhere though:

"I've been working on a project to implement a feature similar to PDF native 'custom annotations,' but using an external JSON file. The idea is to allow a more hacker-friendly way to add javascript-powered interactivity to a PDF file, and allow a js-based-document-viewer to interact with other elements in a web page. Somewhat like using an external subtitles-file for a video instead of hard-coded subs, allowing you to use things like HTML5 tracks for generating events etc. (manipulating PDFs internal workings is hard work for those who create documents/content, and the JS support is old-fashioned, if I remember rightly).."

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.pdf-js/2...

I think mostly I liked PDF's precise, fixed control over layout, and wanted to be able to program some js onClick callbacks on top of it in an easy way. Maybe sometime I will revisit the ideas, see if there was something there.
That is not a commonly held interpretation of the law, especially if the entities collecting & processing the data are not in the EU.
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>As I am sure you know, those devices only record your voice and send it to the server when they hear their hotword.

HAH. Says who?? Are you seriously going to trust companies with a terrible track record and every incentive to do this, are you going to trust them not to use their always on listening device to listen to you? I swear I don't say this to derail the conversation but I literally cannot fathom in my head how you can think like that unless you're a paid shill.
I think the problem many developers see is the expectation that a "react developer" needs to know most of these things to call themselves such. It's a very similar issue to what many have with the term "full stack developer".

It's a big leap between "I can get the job done if you want me to write some react code" and "I can write you an enterprise app in react", but both of those can be inferred as react development.
If a stalker isn't going to deploy many pi zeros with cameras, then Amazon isn't useful to him either. It's still up to the customer to actually take the images.

For implementing facial recognition, yeah, it takes a little bit of coding skill. Same as integrating with Rekognition.
Set your browser zoom to the inverse of your scaling factor e.g. if you have a 2x scale set the zoom on the page to 50%.
Says a lot about 'justice' in this country. Some things never change
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WTF, spam!
Remember when OS X have native ZFS support? It's unfortunate that Oracle choice the licensing path they did.
Would use ZFS as the root file system on macOS if it wasn't so convoluted [1] — gives the impression of being liable to break on major updates.

[1] https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/ZFS_on_Boot
What’s the alternative?
Is it ironic that the site didn’t survive the “slashdot effect”, showing the 500 error now.
Spinning disks, I suppose
Sort of. Except EITC is anemic and a work incentive with a focus on children rather than a negative income tax.

Someone supporting a kid gets a much larger max benefit than someone earning the max benefit with no children ($3,400 vs $510) and the benefit tapers away for low incomes.
Ads are fine if they actually individually curated by the website without JavaScript bullshit tracking. Until that day happens again, I am going to aggressively block ads and occasionally turn the filters off and randomly click ads to waste their money.
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Maybe this person's eyesight is better or worse than yours, or perhaps just different. You might be surprised what some people are bothered by, or trained to spot, that others aren't...

Here's a possibly better comparison, because it annoyed me that the windows weren't aligned: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparis...
I certainly care. Is this open source, how can I help?
> The actual reason is that switching to hardware-accelerated font compositing means that you lose out on subpixel antialiasing

But what was this crazy obsession with hardware-acceleration of every rendered character and its grandmother? While you're busy Flippin' 3D I get it, you can temporarily render aliased Wingdings if that makes your life easier, but at least for Pete's sake I just want to enjoy not tearing my eyes out the other 99.99999% of the time. If there was anything slow or poorly implemented in XP it honestly wasn't the taskbar font rendering.

(Not angry at you; just annoyed at the situation they caused.)

> DirectWrite can now support hardware-accelerated subpixel AA, and the OS does so by default.

No, it (still) doesn't. This is my taskbar: https://i.imgur.com/zzIusQD.png
I don't know about appliances, but the last few times I tried to repair a failed electronic device I found them to be un-repairable by design.

It is so frustrating to know that all something likely needs is a small surface component, but you can't repair it. Usually this is due to components being epoxied or dipped for seemingly no reason. At least thanks to ebay, you can sometimes find a duplicate broken device that can be harvested for whole PCBs.
>Jeff Bezos sounds like a psychopath from his public profiles.

Then maybe he is.

>He has the right to run his firm as he sees fit of course

No. If he is harming society then we the people should stop him, fuck his "right" to do what he pleases.
Mycorrhizal Fungi (the wood wide web) will be the cornerstone of the coming wave of new microbiological inoculants that have the potential for a realistic new green revolution.

Already farmers I know in Canada are getting 15% increase in their soybean yields by inoculating with mycorrhizal Fungi, which incidentally also aid in rhizobium nitrogen fixation, which is the other most popular biological innoculant. Fascinating stuff and oh so ripe with potential.