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I was assuming that the upgrade was more of an IT thing, that all the company computers are now on IE11.
I wonder if the Snapchat generation are going to grow up and uses Snapchat for business. Like now when everyone uses either WeChat or WhatsApp for business.
What is the endgame for companies like Twitter and Facebook? It seems like the only behaviour for publicly traded tech companies is grow or die. So what happens when they hit some theoretical maximum? Is it not acceptable that they're making money? Is there no steady state? Not saying that Twitter is there. But theoretically what does that look like?

"Hey, so we basically maxed out our target market share. We're healthy, profitable, popular, but this is basically the limit. There aren't any more people in our demo left on the planet to capture."

"Nope. Go make more money. Sell more ad space. Or shift focus to a new product or something."

"But that will either degrade the quality of our product or take our eye off the ball and allow a competitor to eat our lunch."

"Too bad. I don't care how profitable you are, only that you're more profitable than last year."
I suppose to reassure them of the personal touch -- that this isn't a copy+paste response. But to me it usually feels forced. Much better to find a more natural way to remind them this is a personalized message, like referencing their situation. "As this is an urgent request, Jennifer, we can provide..." vs. "As this is an urgent request due to your upcoming status meeting, we can provide...".
In our local post-monopoly phone provider, 30 years ago dispatchers would call the local strip club bartender to reach their technicians. They were all on a first name basis.

It was much better to work for these companies back then. Now, everything is super efficient and all that extra value the technicians generate go straight to executives and shareholders.
What fiasco?
Slack has 8M DAU, which is probably at most 1% of the total team chat market. The whole article makes no sense.
Privacy is such an ubiquitous concern for librarians that most ILS software offers automated, time-based purging. Set it up once and it just happens without any staff intervention.

n.b. My company creates and manages library software.
The discussion about the original post can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17623023

This response is a long one, of which the ending deserves special note:

> I hope this story serves as a warning to others: if you’re interested in making substantial contributions to the Go project, no amount of independent due diligence can compensate for a design that doesn’t originate from the core team.

> Maybe some of you are reading this and thinking to yourself, “well, no duh, Peter, that should be obvious.” Maybe so. My mistake.

It personally made me think of this issue / PR in the Go issue tracker, https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20654, about support for constant time arithmetic with bigints. Currently, operations on bigints in Go may leak secret data via timing channels, because calculations with different values take predictably different time. The maintainers have chosen to specially modify only the P256 curve (but not P224, P384, or P521) to work in constant-time.

The author of the issue has written an extensive (somewhat strawman) PR that includes the constant-time code inside the current implementation of the bigint. That's a choice – for seemingly good reasons laid out in the issue, and of which the author admits that it also could be a separate package – but the rest of the conversation is halted in indecision about how the core team should proceed, without referring back to any of the arguments and reasons the original author has put forth.
Those can all be expressed in ASCII TeX
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I think we all agree that Slack has been the most successful in this space. This article presents statistics for Zapier users, though, and I don't think that's going to tell you much about the market as a whole.
>>we don't believe the administrative hassle of moving the site would be worth the benefit

this is so short sighted, especially for software used to admin productive systems
I thought this was easily the strongest point in the whole article. Penalties for negligence should be based on actual, calculated risks. End of story.
In reality, it probably varies a lot by location. Apparently, in Utah (as stated in the article), they actually passed "free range parenting" laws. But try that in certain other metro areas and you're going to get in big trouble.

Personally, I'd rather leave the country than live in Utah...
The chances of losing your domain are lower than your chances of becoming a false-positive of one of these Saas account-banning automations.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/268/5213/1060

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I follow mainly programmers and I love this feature. I always discover interesting tweets, which are useful for my job.
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> By the way, this may be even more true for men, who are routinely viewed with a skeptical eye when it comes to parenting decisions.

Strongly disagree.

> The glee at which our current culture laughs at the perceived incompetence of men with regards to parenting has taught us all to expect fathers to be completely boneheaded at all times.

Exactly. I, as a father, can get away with all kinds of things because according to society I don't know any better, whereas my wife, as a mother, is expected to be perfect all the time and when she does something that doesn't measure up to someone's unvoiced, unwarranted expectations she's harshly judged for it. This is true not just for mothers but for all women in the US, all the time, basically from birth, doubly so if they're POC.
A masters in Library Science or equivalent is almost always required. Typically (from my casual research) people are hired that have other prior library experience and can show a lifelong love of books. New masters degrees (master in information science at Fla State for example) have an ability to have more exposure to UI design, media creation, digital metadata and more.
> The ACLU has not published its data set, methodology, or results in detail

This is my biggest gripe with how the ACLU has conducted this. I find it hard to distinguish their "test" from clickbait.
Risk is inherent in any investment. If someone put their life savings into Bitcoin while it was at $20k should b they be compensated by the government? A taxi medallion is like any other investment: its price is subject to fluctuation and if someone took that risk of investing in it the consequences are on them.
Thank you! I have to do serious improvements on the landing page, so I will also check its language to be beginner-friendly. Or I don't know, maybe I should even translate it...
Windows 10 has been bombarding me with "start your Office free trial" ads for years. I keep disabling the notification, and it keeps coming back when I get updates.

That's my only complaint, but it isn't a small one. Having advertisements so deeply baked in to an operating system is disgusting.
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This is what the whole IndieWeb movement is about -- being distributed rather than merely federated. I'm mildly concerned that the two camps seem to be building their own protocols rather than working together (excepting the existence of Bridgy Fed, perhaps).
What is the proper use of curly versuss straight quotation marks? Do they serve a purpose other than style?
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The editorial was not about placing limitations on new parking, only about removing minimum requirements.
I want movie theaters to close.

I think people that do not attend movie theaters also do not mind. If they liked movie theaters they would attend.

I have a small apartment with a 70 inch screen in the living room. The three movies a year Hollywood produces I am interested in can be watched from the comfort of my own home in 4k surround sound for $4.99 a few months after they arrive in theaters. I can control the volume, I can pause when I want, I can eat/drink what I want, and I have control over the audience I watch the movie with.

The only advantage a movie theater has is that it receives movies a few months earlier. If movie theaters close that solves that advantage.
I am guessing legal and/or PR had a fit and removed it, as any publicity around this sort of thing is very sensitive these days, even though they were pointing out legitimate errors in the ACLU's work.
Know. Your. Audience.

It's amazing how often people forget this detail.
> They will heavily regret this decision.

Unlikely. Yes, this is a political decision as most actual users of the systems were ok with the linux client. However, the article is a bit misleading. They are bringing the systems used by a subdepartment of the states department of finance in line with the stack used within the remainder of the department (about 1/3 were linux clients, the state already owns over 50.000 other windows clients (lower estimate, most likely more if you include organization which manage their own infrastructure (like universities)), they know what to expect from microsoft). While the systems worked it always required special attention when interoperating with other states (for example: certain informationrequests by other states are standardized between all states (based on a shared windows solution). Lower saxonian employees could not interact with it directly and had to rely on their inhouse solution instead of reusing the existing and proven solution used by all other states). There are notable costs associated to beeing a special flower while maintining conformance to financial regulations.

Yes, I believe that biting the bullet and migrating more departments to open systems would be the better longterm solution (which would also force vendors to port their solutions). But there will be several elections before that pays off and would require a significant investment before the benefits show (and possible coordination between the states) and in the midterm moving to Windows might be the better option. Moving to linux doesn't win an election, but failing to move to linux might loose you one.

However, even after the move about 1/4 to 1/3 of the computers/servers owned by the state will run linux/bsd (iirc).
That's the problem: the places where you can parent rationally are also places where it's hard to find good food, good medical care, or good jobs. And strangely, the voters in those places are the ones that are usually pushing for more war and more defense spending.
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so american libraries are actually free then? where i am they are not.

merely cheap. they get used as internet cafes with a bunch of bookshelves gathering dust. getting books is something that has already largely been replaced as the most useful books are the ones they do not have.
yes the service is primarily used by poor people. also by me. but i am pretty sure the market can fill the gap of 'internet cafe'. in fact i'd love it if one opened up here again.

i am not sure whether i like subsidizing librarian salaries and especially maintaining a useless librarian education program with my tax pay. I just dont think its justified to send people to school for four years to learn for this.

also their opening times are sub-par because it is the public sector. privatisation would benefit me, as they'd quickly realize internet cafes would need to stay open in the evening. right now they just outcompete private internet cafes. not because they are cheaper, but because they have superior marketing presence, paid for with tax.

i have nothing against librarians. like the author says they are usually nice people who are indeed quite willing to help. i am sure the trade will continue to exist, just like we still have postmen internet cafes would still need attendants to help people use the computers and the printer.
This looks great! Coworkers don't work in the shell at all though so there's that, but I might use it at times.

They're lookin for that syntax highlighted and interactive experience you know.
I think people are underestimating the amount of energy production required for sustainability. We use fossil fuels in many other applications besides turning into combustion fuels and if we want to start scrubbing CO2 so we don't turn into Venus that is even more energy. Take fertilizer production for example, we already know it is an energy intensive proccess, a large portion of global energy supply is used on making fertilizer, but it goes farther than that. The base reagents we turn into solid or liquid synthetic fertilizer is more fossil fuels which doesn't get accounted for as energy production, yet it is containing a ton of energy still. We could draw what we need for the fertilizer from the atmosphere and water, but it will increase our energy expenditures for production an entire order of magnitude higher, if not more. Who is counting the carbon pollution from that fertilizer after it comes out of my ass or rots on the ground? The same goes with other processes and materials. Plastics is a big one, nobody counts the amount of 'energy' stored within plastic as a material, plastic doesn't easily degrade, but it does degrade and release its decomposition products into the earth and atmosphere, and at increasing rates if we take the reports of plastic-consuming bacteria evolving and gaining numbers seriously.
Totally agreed on your first point. The article actually explicitly addresses the last thing you said.

>Dr. Sarnecka, the cognitive scientist, has an answer to this. Her study found that subjects were far less judgmental of fathers. When participants were told a father had left his child for a few minutes to run into work, they estimated the level of risk to the child as about equal to when he left because of circumstances beyond his control.
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>I love the way this finding makes plain something we all know but aren’t supposed to say: A father who is distracted by his interests and obligations in the adult world is being, well, a father; a mother who does the same is failing her children.
That’s why I host my own Email. Maybe after more of these random, unaccountable unappealable accounr bannings happen, people will wise up and stop relying on cloud services for essential things.
> Those can all be expressed in ASCII TeX

So it isn’t enough that we have to be limited to ASCII, we have to be limited to only one of several typesetting engines as well? Your claim above that ASCII ought to be enough was already odd, but to defend it now you are going into even more absurd territory.

Furthermore, TeX’s feature set does indeed include a few basics, but it still lacks some typesetting features later made available in Unicode. This is one reason why modern TeXnicians appreciate being able to typeset TeX-formatted documents with Unicode characters included thanks to xetex.
Slack is buying, and shutting down, HipChat and Stride
English is such a horrible language to learn, I pity non-native speakers. On that basis, the rule is: you're not allowed to criticize another person's English, unless it's their native one.

They didn't ask for this language, it was forced upon them.
The academic library is a weird environment to be a programmer in. Tenured/tenured tracked (or quasi-academic, as the case may be) librarians think of you as a para-professional librarian rather than a professional in your own right (and call you "techie").

On the one hand you have MARC21 (originally designed for printing catalog cards), and on the other hand MARC is supposedly being phased in favor of many competing flavors of RDF. The academic library fetishizes standards built on esoteric technology.

There are a lot of fun projects though, and as a programmer I get the feeling that I'm really making an impact. (I'm not on a campus any more, more of an academic library consortium).

I do think (hope) that Open Access initiatives will eventually disrupt the high costs of licensing academic publishing (the academy pays for the research in the first place, and then pays a second time to get access to it again). If research products were open, then there would not be a demand for something like Sci-Hub. Even when you consider ILS and OPAC migration projects, the on-line collections budget dwarfs the technology budget in libraries.
I'm sure you can find some sort of rhyme that'll work just as well.
Have there been open source projects that had the opportunity to and decided against it?
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No need for name-calling on here please.

For the large majority of people (95%+), as per my last message, the library is not always preferable in terms of cost, distance and availability, that's all. There are reasons most people don't go. But for some, libraries are still relevant. Please notice that I never said the libraries are useless.

Even a poor rural person, usually working a lot and living far from a city center, might not have the time nor the financial resources to often go to the library.

Also, I've seen homeless people with a cheap tablet in NYC streets using the Link NYC hotspots [1] for free charging and WiFi.

[1] https://www.link.nyc/
Aside from CAPI, I'd note the excellent platform support (traditionally one would use CCL as a free alternative as SBCL isn't quite there yet) and the possibility to deliver "tiny" executables due to tree shaking.

The class explorer is also excellent for navigating CLOS heavy codebases. Profiler and overall IDE experience is far better for anyone without Emacs Stockholm syndrome (which I do have btw).
“Confront your own mortality, sooner rather than later.” Startupper or not, if you have family, get that life insurance; it is cheap when you are young.
> "Pursuant to our terms, we cannot reactivate your account, nor provide details as to why it was closed."

Am I correctly interpreting their statement as saying that they're constrained by their own self-imposed policies?
So it's also impossible to verbally abuse people in person, since they could have chosen to wear earplugs? If you accept phone calls from unknown numbers, calls can't be abuse?
We are a rolling Software Distribution and providing up to date software is one of our main goals.

Another is building that software with good security flags, see: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/improved-securi...

We also keep track of CVEs in our software and actively look for patches (e.g. pycrypto is dead now but Debian maintains patches to fix reported CVEs) or write our own (though usually to fix build-system bugs rather than security issues).

But yes, static linking and leaving software building to non-experts using whatever tools they like (without studying anything to do with low-level binary security or how to achieve that), statically linking insecure (some time to become old) libraries is far from ideal.

Anaconda Distribution strongly prefers dynamic linking and shared package dependencies so we can update to address critical security issues without needing to rebuild significant portions of our stack.
Regulations do exist... Europe seems to be the only once even superficially enforcing them.
Many of the “cultural exports” are, however, essentially propaganda to glorify the power and righteousness of the American empire.

History has proven that this “soft power” approach to be incredibly effective. After all, we still study and celebrate similar texts from the Greek and Roman empires, even though they’re 1000s of years dead. Much less so those who they conquered, exploited, and enslaved.
> The point of antitrust regulations is to stop the anti-innovation practices

Is that true? That doesn't match the definition of any antitrust regulation I'm aware of. AFAIK antitrust regulation is intended to enforce _fairness_, not _innovation_. Often the two go hand in hand, of course, but I think it's worth not conflating the two.
I'm 34 and I remember being left alone in the car all the time while my mom ran errands or whatever. I specifically remember a time when I discovered how the cigarette lighter (remember those?) worked when I burned the tip of my finger on it while my mom was in the post office.

I rode my bike all over town. Several times my friends and I walked across town to the video store by ourselves, rented a Sega Genesis and a few games, and hauled it all back to someone's house and stayed up all night. I was probably around 12.
Yes. As noted in the article, the now-extensive reach and power of CPS-type investigations is the most damaging typical harrassment. Other parents concerns are annoying but a bit silly. Cops don't have much legal ground in the minor things, as noted. But CPS can pretty do whatever it wants.
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A cron job with rclone. Converts and copies Google Docs too.

https://rclone.org/
I don't even remember who that is. Sounds Idan.
The hardware is the intent of the design, the emulator is the expression of the actual behavior. eg a game that inadvertently relies on a cache miss.
As usual, this contains comments negative to Huawei.

I wonder how a negative sentiment can be created by multiple small cuts like this
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I agree with you about the tracking/monetization problem.

My first comment was just about cost and (spatial/temporal) availability, in response to the parent.
The problem is it's not that rare. The police, prosecutors, and judges involved here are still there, and they're going to consistently act this way towards parents under their jurisdiction. The only rational way to deal with this is to leave that place. And many places in the US are just like this now; sure, you could move to rural Montana and maybe avoid this, but good luck getting a decent job there.
Every language has tradeoffs. Sure, Spanish might be easier to pronounce since the rules are more rigid, but on the other hand the information density is way lower. It takes 2-3 syllables of Spanish to communicate the same information as 1 syllable of English.
FTA: "His orange exists only to brighten up tawny, a dark brown."

Almost like orange-is-to-brown as pink-is-to-red. This is more apparent when looking at http://colorizer.org/ and choosing HSV colorspace with H==34, S==80, and varying V==[20,90].

EDIT: reverse pink/red.
Which shows in how they don't create companies that massively reinvent society. They get killed in the cradle before anything can occur. Above examples of massive world reinvention have all been in the US.
Well, there's a cost-benefit calculation. It's not all about the risk. If you want to get groceries, you have to drive, walk, bike, or take a bus to the store. Each has some level of risk, and some amount of inconvenience.

Once you get to the store, there is some amount of risk to leaving your kid in the car. As she points out, it is infinitesimal. The ideal comparison would be to say that there's more risk of the kid being hit by a car while walking from the parking lot to the store than to just sitting in the car. Given the stats she quoted, I wouldn't be surprised if this were true.
I love this quote at the end of the the google cached result - "we should not throw away the oven because the temperature could be set wrong and burn the pizza."
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It's funny that "thou" seems so formal now.
Stoppelman's Yelp is a bad example. I don't want to visit a page that pesters me to install their app instead of showing me the reviews I came to read. If Yelp's ranking has been lowered, good riddance.
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