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Humans are inherently irresponsible with their given resources.

I personally find our waste, specifically with batteries, pretty disgusting.

What would be interesting would be for batteries to be treated as a national resource, where you basically check them out and need to return them when they are finished.

I also think it would be interesting to require that certain products, specifically everything related to connecting a device to the power grid, should all be standardized and regulated.

The amount of waste in batteries, power cords, USB cords etc - just seems unsustainable. I am sure most would disagree with me, but I find all this product/design/resource waste to be evidence of lazy and disturbingly poor engineering.

I look at a particular video of Apple's as a true marker of the level of their engineering prowess (lack of):

There is a video showing the ridiculously complex method for battery replacement in the iPhoneX - requiring a many stepped procedure and a battery-tamping-device that was obviously contract manufactured by a small-ish shop for their genius' use.

I just find that with the amount of time, effort and resources put into the design development and production of all apple products (just as a singular example among many many companies) to illustrate their lack of full competence in sustainability in their products. Sure, they may reduce waste in many areas as compared to the old way, or others, but there is still a CRAP ton of waste across the board.

/rant
Unrelated to the topic, the article points out a lot of things about certificates in the URL bar. That got me to think about the URLs themselves, can I set my browser up so it displays the punycode representation of my url?
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Speaking as an ISP: I would guess more of a fuckup in a database merge for a direct mail campaign. They know what zip codes are their turf and where they have right-of-way, and don't want to waste money on USPS bulk mail targeting people they can't serve. As an example Seattle is a patchwork quilt of either Wave or Comcast cablemodem service areas, it would be pretty rare to see a Comcast solicitation in areas where the cable plant is entirely owned by Wave. Or vice versa.
Thank you for linking to the Forbes piece. It's interesting that once deleted, it would have been impossible to read without the efforts of the good people at archive.org. It's interesting that deleting the op-ed effectively demonstrates another great value of libraries. Without them, the copyright holders can make it almost impossible to view anything they'd prefer you not see, even right in the middle of a public debate around said work.

The op-ed itself is also chillingly corporate-elitist, while simultaneously being childish. Let them eat cake and drink Starbucks.
> The financial sector isn’t the only area of business that have these types of restrictions, and it’s often significantly easier from a business and engineering perspective to block an account entirely than to cherry pick which services can and cannot be used.

Yeah, I used to work on a fraud detection team for another company, where some guy got some traction online complaining about how his payment account got shut down. All sorts of bluster about how he scrupulously followed the terms and conditions and how he couldn't possibly be doing anything fraudulent and how we were stealing his money, and lots of bad publicity in threads like this.

Turns out the FBI was investigating the guy for hosting child porn on another service using the same account, and we weren't allowed to respond in any way to his complaining online. So we shut down all his accounts and couldn't really do anything to defend ourselves against his complaints.

In my experience, like 90+% of the loudest complainers of account shutdowns are completely full of it, and are guilty of very obvious violations that they somehow fail to mention when blogging about it. I'm not going to say that false positives from machine learning systems never happen, but people who loudly complain about their accounts being frozen don't have a good track record, and since most companies aren't going to discuss exactly why they got shut down in the open, the prevailing narrative seems to be that the large faceless corporation doesn't care.
I'm not aware of a way to plug your own crypto to a lot of things that are part of standard library and I'm not aware of a way to plug your own math library to existing crypto.
I really wish they'd adopt a simple "did something go wrong? was something exceptionally awesome?" flow instead of a star rating.

4/5 stars in a movie is pretty great. 4/5 stars in an Uber is, for some nonsensical reason, abysmal. What's the point of having 1-3 at all at that point?
I think we as a society need to evolve to a more nuanced take on free speech where we can recognize its value as a society-wide norm while still seeing the necessity for curating discourse to build thriving communities of discussion.

If someone going to attempt to gaslight the debate at every turn and invoke "the Jews" as the central cause of the world's problems, I have no problem excluding them on a permanent basis. Whether they were trolling or genuine, they are a bad actor that harms the discourse for everyone.
> Real Team Chat clients are in their infancy

Is there any real innovation over IRC? Beyond that, I remember using Campfire almost five years ago and it had pretty close feature parity with Slack today. This seems like a revolution in usability and branding if anything.
Urs Hölzle (engineering VP) and Eric Veach (AdWords) also don't get nearly as much recognition as they deserve.
Not just that -- in some cases spelling of original English words was changed to align with certain political requirements. My favourite example is "queen": it was originally a perfectly norman Anglo-Saxon (i.e. Old English) word, "cwene" (pronounced more or less kweh-neh). When the French-speaking Normans conquered England, they accepted the local word for political reasons, but their scribes used the French way of spelling this group of sounds, that is using "que" like in Latin.
This is the kind of stuff the makes writing an art form.
wonderful!That qualifies it for a deeper look for me then. Thanks!
Spectrum is funny. They kept raising my rates, randomly, every 6 months. And every 6 months I’d threaten to cancel.

Finally, I got irritated and penned letters to my state AG and state Senator. Spectrum went into overdrive. Credited a year of service, wanted me to get on a conference call with their GC, a voicemail wishing me happy birthday (super weird).

Should have sensed their vulnerability.
> Unfortunately the parallels to colonization make polemic takes irresistible to outlets like The Guardian.

Quite. As I have observed before, The Guardian is all too often The Daily Mail for leftie intellectuals. These days, even as something of a leftie intellectual, I find myself often unable to tolerate it at all. And in general I have less and less patience with overly polemic or political points of view - it honestly just gets boring and doesn't make the world any better for anyone.
Downloading e-books etc. at a minimum requires a device and knowledge of how to use that device. Libraries are intended to provide information to everyone.
Please explain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia then

My own personal anecdotal experience is that thinking in words is far, far slower than skipping them and sticking to concepts and connections.
And IRC begat AIM, and AIM begat ICQ, and ICQ begat Jabber...

An IRC bot is no match for a Slack bot when it comes to simplicity and availability.
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There are tons of documents relevant to the local community that have no home but the local library, yet might be tremendously valuable for those who have roots there. Libraries are an essential community staple.
It actually depends on your dialect. Many dialects of English use negative concord [1], which is what exists in Spanish and other languages (not emphasis) instead of having them 'cancel each other out'.

For example, in my native dialect, "I ain't never had no need for none of them fancy toys" means "I never had any need for any of those fancy toys". It has nothing to do with canceling out other negatives or emphasis; if one thing is negative, they all need to be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative
Except weekend. They couldn't come up with a better word for that ;)
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Both sinaasappel and appelsien are derived from chinese apple (from dutch wikipedia: De sinaasappel komt oorspronkelijk uit China (in de oude vorm: Sina), waar ook de naam naar verwijst. In het vroegnieuwnederlands komt "appel sina" voor, in het nieuwnederlands "appelsien").

(Also in flemish appelsien is used far more than sinaasappel).
A few: Autistici, cock.li, CounterMail, ProtonMail, Riseup, ScryptMail, Tutanota, VFEmail.
The funny thing is that, in colloquial English, "Don't do nothing without asking me for permission." means "Don't do anything without asking me for permission".
Interesting language, made me dive in on this Wikipedia rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
There's a privacy aspect to also consider. Many flip phones don't have front facing cameras and gps chips in them. It's nice to know big brother isn't watching me(as much).
For me it's because with Google I don't need to go to page 5 to find interesting results.

I've tried to use DuckDuckGo several times, each time I've quickly found myself trawling page after page of results, reverted to Google and found the stuff I was after on page one.
Interesting -- do you think translators will slowly become obsolete before software "solves" the translation problem? Do you ever think there will be a point in the future where everyone can speak fluent English? It would seem the path of least resistance would be to eliminate the need for translators, and I'm not sure we'll live in a future where everyone speaks N languages, and just uses an app to translate between people.
Nothing, that's the problem of decentralization.

I know this is the common usage of free speech, but I don't think it's good-- I would rather people call it just 'Only not illegal speech' or something. Free speech, in the original sense, is only the government's guarantee-- speech is not something that the government will write laws for.

In private society, though, it's laughable to consider that that was ever the status quo. The open free speech market is a seriously toxic thing. Who wants to be forced to have their house be a free speech zone, where someone can always shout that you're a pedophile, they screwed your mom, look here for ISIS forums-- no one in real life would tolerate that. It's just a ticking time bomb of liability, going off every other week.

In the real world, in every society, people have cultures and mores to decide what speech isn't tolerated. Some are obviously more draconian than others, but insisting that everyone regress to 'Only-not illegal speech' just seems to create such a miserable, angry world.
> In previous centuries French and Spanish were dominate.

‘dominant’. I dominate; I am dominant.
OP is in Turkey :(
> I don't really want to defend behaviors similar to Yelp's. Because it's indeed annoying. But let's play devil's advocate here.

> Part of the reason why Google can have a clear and good user experience, is because they can afford it. On the other hand, for smaller company, not meeting user count goals could mean not getting funding and die. This will force them to nag the users to get them to install the app, even if doing that could annoy some of the users.

They don't have to do that. They can use the same tracking resources that other online companies use to show increased usage.

I'm not saying that I have a better solution. But their current solution is sub-optimal. Their website is crap, looks outdated. What are they even working on?
> I wonder how to get more people involved, and excited, about OSM? How do we make it the Wikipedia of digital maps?

This seems to be the general sentiment of the OSM community, without evidence that merely adding more people will yield better results.

I personally was turned off from contributing due to the emphasis on "community", even at the expense of map quality. I blogged about this 7 years ago.

As with Wikipedia, and perhaps much more so, the community can be very fragmented (both online and, obviously, geographically), and the portion holding the real power is usually very insular.

This essay https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm recently popped up on HN in reference to Valve and "flat" or non-hierarchical companies like Valve, often with a caveat to ignore its focus on the feminist movement. However, in the case of another all-volunteer project, it may apply better without that caveat.
>Google is worth more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars right now and you don't get that big by accident.

why did CBS News bother to say this? pretty much no one has ever believed a company gets that big by accident.
> we should look at their mistakes for what they are - the influence of another language - and see if we can't incorporate the ideas that caused them into English, if the ideas are good.

Except it doesn't work like that. Languages change because native speakers change them, not because some grammatical body adopts things and tries to force it on everyone.

> Newspeak isn't fiction, languages really do shape how you think.

Yes, it is fiction, and no, languages do not shape how you think. This is known as linguistic relativity [1] and it's strong form has been _thoroughly_ debunked, whereas the weak form is highly skeptical, with most arguments coming from Lera Boroditsky, who fails to control for several factors and also hasn't yet published her famous study on the matter (which was set to be published roughly 16 years ago).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
I did those kinds of things too and a lot more.

Crime rates were much higher back then and there were no cell phones or other easy communication devices that would allow the kid themselves or a random pedestrian or motorist to rapidly notify authorities if something is wrong.

The safer our society gets the more afraid we become and the less tolerant we seem to become of risk.

I wonder if it's a cognitive analog of the hygiene hypothesis for allergies. There's a part of our brain that is built for a world of conflict, danger, and scarcity and in an abundant modern developed nation it just has nothing to do but declare war on phantoms and crusade against minute or non-existent risks.

I've had debates with people recently about how bad crime is becoming and how dangerous things are. I show them graphs of crime and violence for the past 30 years. I often get total unironic disbelief -- as in they don't believe it and think the sources are biased and there's some kind of conspiracy to suppress the real statistics on crime. Things were much more dangerous in the 60s through the early 90s and people felt a lot safer.
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I am 100% in favor of public libraries, and I think that the ones we have are too ill stocked, particularly in their classics sections. Necessarily, I am in favor of increasing funding.

However, my response to this article was "Let's just get rid of the things." An unsafe library is a useless one.
What are the advantages of epub over PDF? I've never heard of anyone asking for a conversion in that direction before.
I’m not sure how you could bootstrap this idea. The only way to undercut the theatres is to lose money.
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It's not as hard as you think. Compare all the tenses in Spanish to English, for example. I live in Mexico and my peers usually think English is relatively easy.

Also, the US exports so many quality tv shows and movies that it's easy to find good English-native material for learning. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know Disney movies. Meanwhile, try finding good Mexican television.
If that happened Google would probably ban Android phones that use Google apps from using third party browsers (like they already did for third party search providers). Then your tabs wouldn't be able to sync with mobile.
The cops won't just consume the API. Software developed for the specific task will.

What I imagine is this:
1. The cop uploads a picture of the suspect taken from camera surveillance at crime scene
2. Software displays the mugshots (and names) of PROBABLE matches from the database with confidence %, color coding according to confidence level, and notice of proper use
3. Cop compares man/woman's picture with what's displayed
4. Investigation continues if necessary
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Tangential: it's worth noting that this is a historical circumstance rather than something that has to do with French in itself. When a new domain arises that a language didn't previously have words for, like computing, "home-grown" (as opposed to borrowed) words can be more or less successful. Take the French Academy for example, whose attempts at purging French of English loanwords[1] has had mixed success. (And see also the Central Hindi Directorate[2].)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise#A...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Hindi_Directorate
There's still a long way to go until even our signature get completely digitized
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You mean like on Hacker News as well? Part of civil conversation is boundaries and consequences. You have Gab if you're bummed so bad.

You seem to know what open source means, so you know full well that you can fork it if you wish.
You've got it backwards, and I find that way of thinking quite dangerous.

You have to go to the root of the problem to solve it, and the root is that corps are fundamentally driven towards monopolistic practices by competition. If it's legal, and it improves the bottom line corps __have__ to do it. Not should or will, __have__ to. Because if they don't someone else will and they'll die.

Need to treat corps like the organisms that they are. More than the sum of their parts, and with their own agency.
In Chinese, "Linux内核网络系统", literally "Linux Kernel Network System". Unlike Japanese and Korean, the Chinese language generally uses full meaning-to-meaning translations of technical terms as much as possible, and only occasionally uses phonetic nouns (e.g. 安卓 "Anzhuo" for Android) or English words (e.g. "Linux").

Chinese does, however, use phonetic transcriptions for proper names of people and places. This leads to some very unfortunate contortions, as the Chinese language is much less suited to phonetic transcription as compared to syllabary-based languages like Korean or Japanese. There's no "one obvious way" to map a foreign name onto the Chinese sound-set, and even when you do, there's likewise no obvious way to choose the corresponding characters (and you must be cautious to avoid characters with unwanted meanings or connotations).
Through these first 2 decades of the 21st century I think this industry has thrived on the fact that all of the fruit is laughably low hanging. You could "produce millions of dollars" with an excel macro. That doesn't make the skill a good thing to peg the long term health to your tech company to. Hint playing this <https://media.giphy.com/media/kwEmwFUWO5Ety/giphy.gif> game isn't software development any healthy company wants to hire for.

Moore's law has smoothed over many the failing of a mediocre dev; the next generation isn't going have same luxury (just the same as the current generation has to know exponentially more than those that made their fortune during the dot com boom).
Because the students judge the utility of having a textbook available as worth the price (or in some cases the text books come with a code that you have to have to pass the class). Same reason a book collector may prefer buying a book over checking it out at the library.

It is like asking if cooking for for yourself is so cheap and healthy, why do people eat out so much.
Note that Russ isn't going against the community, he's just going against `dep`. Most of the community, myself included is pretty psyched about go modules.

Note also that the risk you propose for bad decisions is mitigated for Open Source. If that decision really turns out to be so bad then it will be forked and a wiser leader(s) will have their shot at decision making.

`dep` isn't squashed! You are free to continue using it, it's just that they likely won't find much audience anymore.
they didn't forget. The department tasked with prohibiting alcohol consumption lobbied to ban other things so they'd continue to have jobs.
We recently overlaid the Microsoft buildings over Boulder Colorado aerial maps and in some places they were pretty good. In others, where there was just the right amount of tree cover, it was pretty bad. Houses cut up into 2 or 3 or 4 chunks, for example.

It's a great data set, but it'll probably need some curation.
EU has/is failing? I guess - in a glass-half-empty way - like everyone around the world is dying.

EU deliberately promotes multilingualism and, I'd argue, successfully[1]. English is (deservingly and also ironically) the most common language spoken in EU.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/26/europe...
>People get shadowbanned on HN for using the the term that describes this phenomenon: neoliberalism.

Nobody gets shadowbanned on HN for using the term neoliberalism[0].

I'm going to guess from the age of your account that you had a former account which was banned, and I would bet money that using the word "neoliberalism" was not the cause of it.

[0]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=neoliberalism
I find it great that "naranja" (the spanish name) is so close, almost identical, to the sanskrit "naranga"
Suspected Russian “honeypot” prostitutes targeting tech execs and VCs in an infamous Silicon Valley lounge provide a salacious illustration of the region’s spy problem

Not just SV. Russian (and Azerbaijani, Lithianian, Latvian, etc...) hookers are abundant in Seattle, Redmond, and especially Bellevue. Oh, God, Bellevue.

Exactly how many are spies is obviously unknown; otherwise they wouldn't be very good spies.

To me, the ones that charge significantly higher prices than the others are probably a good signal that they're trying to attract specific highly-placed tech folk who like to show off their money. The rest are just trying to earn a living, and working the Eastern Europe -> Pacific Northwest prostitution pipeline.
Système de réseau de noyau Linux? Cache associatif de 8 sets? Those aren't severe linguistic contortions...
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With phonetic systems like Japanese and Korean, terms like this regularly get represented as-is in the script. Sometimes they don't get translated, as you can see plenty of jargon in this Korean wiki page on C++. [0]

One example is 'computer' -> 컴퓨터 in Hangul. It's still 'computer', just pronounced with the Korean pronunciation rules.

[0]: https://namu.wiki/w/C%2B%2B
hmm care to be more specific ?
And yet, if the ACLU never ran their article, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. I say it was a job well done.
You won't forget what? The point of the article is that you don't know what happened to Warmbier, and if your only source of information about him was the media stories that ran prior to this article, what you might think you know about him is almost certainly false.
Ask HN: How do you think Quantum Computing will change gaming?
I was thinking about this topic for the last few days and get a lot of different ideas, but as I'm really a beginner in Quantum Computing field, I would like to hear different opinions about QC and gaming combination.

Cheers