skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm.. I was not aware that Russ used the word "showstopper" until recently in his tweets, and even if he literally used the word in the past, the word of the meaning was not delivered, reading from the post here.

That said, the dep people also made a similar mistake on not clearly confirming with Go core team that they had a chance to integrate dep into the official toolchain eventually. They wanted dep to be the thing, and they really thought that they were on the right track.. poor folks..

If Russ managed to influence the "problematic" group to do what he wants, rather than doing it by himself, he could give these people a meaningful place in the Go community. That is the gain. If that is worthy or not (comparing with discarding 2-month work on Russ's own time) depends on your own perspectives, and I am not sure what Russ thought or thinks. No matter how, it will affect how the community grows in the future.

So this goes back to the root issue about how the Go core team view its Google-external language community (or even more fundamentally, if they will be rewarded/recognized by Google if they did a good job on making the community happy). Specifically, do they want to carry the responsibility to deliver messages to the community clearly, at least to some certain extent? Opinionated is fine and firing users (e.g. users who think generics is a must) is fine, sometimes even preferred, but hurting people that were willing to follow and contribute might not be the best way to go.
> I have a small apartment with a 70 inch screen in the living room.

Some of us have just a 14inch laptop screen at home. Just because you are able to fund your movie obsession doesn't mean casual viewers don't want a good experience.
To clarify: your contribution is useful. But incomplete.
I rode the subway alone in NYC at the age of 10, during the 70s when the city and its subways were substantially more dangerous than they are now.
Their point that the paternalist-legal argument falls in the face of life-or-death circumstances has merit though.

How many unprosecuted crimes have been allowed in the course of war? Because it "had to be done"?

Prohibiting access to highly addictive narcotics? Makes some sense.

Prohibiting personal access to whatever you want to put in your body otherwise? Not such a strong argument.

If people want to risk killing themselves trying to cure their Hepatitis C infection, that's their business. In the same way we allow them to smoke, drink alcohol, drive vehicles, and own firearms.
Summary:

- Powerful man owns business and raises money to build value and employee people

- Said Powerful man attracts female employees who flirt with him, and choose to date him

- People are aghast that a man and woman would have a relationship

This article mentions no criminal investigation and no legal proceedings.

This is literally virtue signalling and faux moral policing.

If consenting adults get involved, and money is made and value created.... then who are we to judge them?

Before thinking I'm out of line for these comments.... think back to when YOU met YOUR partner and how that can be construed by a low-IQ reporter in this day and age.
When I look at the problems of today's academy, e.g. extreme ideological bias, replication difficulties, p-hacking, salami-sliced publication --- I can't help but wonder whether the root cause is the pay structure not properly taking into account the value of a high-quality academic ecosystem. It feels like there's a market failure here here.

Due to disgracefully low wages, we're selecting people for academic life who want to be there for all the wrong reasons, be it a sense of being trapped on a bad career path, an opportunity to relish in sanctimony, or some kind of obsolete notion of the dignity of living a life dedicated to knowledge, which academic now seldom produces and which we seldom prize.

College administration costs are going through the roof. Would it hurt to redirect some of this spending toward efficiency wages for faculty? Money brings prestige, and prestige generates all sorts of benefits.
Could be very dependent on the particular program. I had a background in hands on programming and building systems, so that might also be part of the bias.

Wish her all the best! :)
I’ve had Fios for about five years and I’ve been pretty happy with it. Reliability is good, support isn’t completely useless, and be price is not bad at all. I’m currently paying $80/month for “gigabit” which is actually 940/940 or something like that. They also offer 100/100 for $40.

Perhaps the best part is that they just give you an Ethernet connection. You can bring your own router and there’s no need for any sort of modem.
> "And now their team's attention is on AI..." is quite the hype thing to say.

Googles AI blows every other companies out of the water.

> Just because you can build a bigger bridge doesn't mean you're a good car designer.

What? How is that analogous?
The capacity to poach talent is another form of freeze-out.

Talent (especially vetted talent) is both scarce and hard (expensive) to identify.
Why? I mean the certs are still valid, just for a domain that no longer exists on root DNS servers (You can still publish them to internal DNS). I mean, they'll expire and be non-renewable eventually anyway.
Article didn't reveal the meaning of the headline, don't feel like searching the video.
The situation is even worse with more obscure TLDs like .FYI.

I honestly cannot register to a good 80% of the sites I want to.
regex are proper code when written competently
The language of the future
As a native English speaker whose first written language was Spanish and who has studied and spoken German, Italian, and Cantonese, it has always seemed to me that English is one of the easier common languages for conveying simple meaning in a small number of words. With a vocabulary of two or three hundred words you can reasonably speak Pidgin English to accomplish basic tasks like asking directions, ordering food, and buying daily items. With a romance language (let alone a character-based language), you realistically need about five to ten times more words to do the same thing. This is especially true for languages with formulaic conjugation and gendered nouns. My point is not that English is better or more flexible. My point is actually that English is often ambiguous and that new speakers can use that ambiguity to convey a lot of meaning compactly. However, that ambiguity also means that fluency is hard to come by because you need to understand context and custom well enough to choose the right meaning of words that could realistically have dozens of separate and contradictory meanings. Basically, the barrier to entry is low but the barrier to fluency is high and hard to overcome.
I’ve used the EAV pattern to allow users to add “custom fields” to an object.

The application has Person objects, who work for a Department. Lets say one department wants to record their employees’ shirt size, while another department wants to record their employees’ favorite color. Then, next week, they decide to also track their favorite brand of beer.

EAV allows department administrators to set this up on-the-fly without any development or database migrations.

Another way to tackle the same problem (used by Drupal, for example) is to actually modify the database schema at runtime, creating/modifying tables whenever your users want to change how the application behaves.
So you never download and run programs you haven't written or audited?
Not only this, but I've had a very difficult time even finding original SWFs of animutations. Albinoblacksheep only seems to host video renders these days. While that works, many authors hid extra content in their videos, and that's now lost to time.
I like backpacks, don't have to worry about sizing, and they actually get used.
“Why Are You Always Working?”
Don't you just love that the feminists and social justice warriors keep quiet when an actual brutal patriarchy like Egypt imprisons a woman for exercising her freedom of speech.

Yet, if the mainstream narrative in the West is to be believed... then white guys are oppressive patriarchs.

Give me a break.

We know the reason women and the media attack white men is that we are the most accommodating and nicest kinds of people around.

It's always easy to be outraged and insult those that you know will not fight back.

Let us see how the Western media and SJW's jump to denounce Egypt as an evil patriarchy. My bet is they will barely make a peep...
Still works on Twitter an other top 100 sites, but many examples of regex matching skip this valid and useful case.

With Gmail you can move the dot around, it's effectively stripped, to make sorta unique ones. But everyone serious about validating against Gmail knows to strip it out.
I'll present a counterpoint of a different kind, since everyone is arguing about what current package managers do and don't do.

Satisfiability problems of this kind appear in a ridiculous number of fields and applications
(and not just by reduction).

The vast majority of them, in practice, are approximated rather than exactly solved.

Most of the ones that are exactly solved are in software verification, model checking, etc. Areas where having an exact answer is very critical.

Outside of that, much like you see in MVS, they approximate or use heuristics. And it's fine. You don't notice or care.

The idea that "package management" is one of those areas that absolutely must be exactly solved to generate acceptable results seems to me to be ... probably wrong.

There are much more critical and harder things we've been approximating for years and everyone is just fine with it.

(IE not clamoring for faster exact solvers).

Thus i have trouble saying a sat solver is a better solution.
It certainly would be a more "standard" one in this particular instance, but that's mostly irrelevant.
It's also a very complex one that often fails in interesting ways in both this, and other, domains.
> You have to be able to do whatever you want to your body and to think the way you want.

The problem with most libertarian ideas like this is externalities. If you take something made incorrectly and become incredibly sick, society has to either take care of you or let you die- and no one wants to let people just die. So instead, society foots the bill for taking care of you.

I'm not saying these guys aren't fighting a damn good fight. They're in the right, in my mind. But if they start a large enough movement with enough people then someone somewhere is going to eventually cut a corner or make a mistake and get someone killed or made seriously ill. And what then?
I don't see how this contradicts my point at all. This project is about saving Flash games, not Javascript.
So is GO111MODULE. You just type `go build` and it resolves dependencies as part of the build. It's even one less step than `dep ensure`.
Utility regulation in the U.S. is steeped in New Deal ideas from back when we didn't understand how economics worked. Did you know that in the New Deal era, competition was considered a bad thing, so companies had to get permission from the government before building new infrastructure because it might create competition? There's still tons of that in the Communications Act. For example, 47 U.S.C. 214.

What's really telling is that while many in the U.S. want more utility-style regulation, Europe is actively getting away from it. For example, our universal service cross-subsidy system is an antediluvian throwback compared to Sweden (tax credit of about $600 for rural folks to build their own fiber).

If you built airplanes the way U.S. municipal entities regulate utilities, government officials would just declare the acceleration of gravity to be 2.5 m/s/s and pat themselves on the back for basically having solved the problem. Not only do municipal-level regulators not really understand the underlying economics of the system, but they don't even realize they're dealing with an economic system. They don't understand that the economy that cannot simply be moved a desired end state by legislative fiat, but rather takes legislation as an input into an economic process that produces an equilibrium state that might include many unintended consequences, and may not include the desired end state at all. This is a problem with regulators generally, but is particularly a problem in the U.S. In Europe, things like telecom regulation are handled at the national level by the most sophisticated regulators and economists. In the U.S., most important telecom decisions are made by generalist municipal bodies, who have little understanding of these issues.
Sure, STARTTLS is better than nothing, but your email provider still reads your email. When we talk about email encryption, we mean end-to-end encryption.
This sort of reminds me of the ability to 3D print guns. Technology gets cheaper and more efficient and ultimately democratizes access to "things"... Physical printed items, transportation, drugs... I think we're only scratching the surface here with this.
What if the problem is that the humanities are getting worse? The ancient definition of a liberal arts education was language (typically ancient Greek), mathematics, literature (often poetry), physical sciences, and history. During my time at University, I found that students in STEM were required to take classes in literature, language, and history. At my University, it was 8 of 40 classes - 20% of the work over four years, including 2 at a second year level of above. On the other hand, the humanities majors had to take only a tiny bit of math and science (just 3 classes), without any level requirements and humanities students often delighted in taking STEM classes without any real rigor. Advocates of the humanities and a liberal arts education often claim that humanities majors are more likely than STEM majors to be well rounded, but my experience has typically been the opposite - I often have interesting conversations with software engineers about history and politics, but I can't recall an interesting conversation with a humanities major about machine learning / AI or economics.
"specially when the alternative is the product of one person's thinking on the subject done in a vacuum without the input of an entire committee of smart, reasonable people who have literally spent years diving into this specific domain."

Even this very article contradicts your assertion about how it was done.
> Words are never that far from human cognition.

If true, I wonder how humans thought before language had evolved. Sounds like hell.
By this logic, any company subject to government regulation is taxing its customers.

An observation that doesn't particularly enrich the conversation, unless the point you're making is that we should do away with all government regulation of private companies?
Let's not underestimate timing and luck. Google was there at the right time during the history of the Internet with the right technical solution and the right people. There are lots of very smart people who can do great things but if they're not at the right intersection of time, technology and business, and if they don't get lucky, nothing happens. The company has been steered reasonably well but without that initial trajectory they wouldn't be where they are today.
chiptunes, man.
If only they implemented "!g" as a simple button, I'd use DDG more often. Typing "!g" requires 6 touchscreen actions on mobile :/
On a purely data-driven basis, your points are sound for the most part. Although I don't agree that your third point, since that can be used to try to discredit any assessment of a particular group of people; for example, there can be a country with a distinct culture, but smaller states within that country can have its own distinct culture even though 100% of its occupants belong to a larger country, and there's nothing about that overlap in itself that calls into question the premise of the existence of subcultures.

However, I was not addressing the question in a data-driven sense, hence why I said "In my experience." My subjective experience tells me that one group of people is more likely, even if that likelihood is ever so small, to make a more reasonable judgment in a particular area than a different group. Now everyone's experience is going to be different, but I never claimed that my experience is universal. In my experience, the very kind of conversation that we are having is much less likely to end well if it was to take place anywhere on Facebook. People on Facebook have threatened me several times for saying far more milquetoast things than I say on HN, yet on HN I've not once received a single threat. Whatever it is about Facebook, I've found that its users on average are much more likely to jump down the throats of others than to have a real conversation. If you can't agree that personal experience can't mean anything to the person having such experience, then we're at an impasse.
Validator[0] node package seems to have a "normalizeEmail" function, site operators just need to start using it.

0: https://www.npmjs.com/package/validator
That's not true. Consent is only one basis for processing. If they stick to using it for legitimate interest reasons then they don't need consent. Even ads can be a legitimate interest, and probably are in twitter's case, though the user is always allowed to opt out of that. There's also nothing that requires parental consent to involve signing a form.
And this is the argument used to defend the opposite. Personally, I've found egregious NIH more pleasant to work with than dogmatic anti-NIH.
That's a really interesting point. Now that you mention it, I realize that when playing most games I tend to be thinking in the back of my mind about what the game "wants" me to be doing, which tends to turn games into chores. I try to walk down the hallway with the loot before the one that advances the plot, I laboriously try to figure out which side quests I'm "supposed" to be doing right now, etc. I don't end up doing many things just because _I_ want to do them.

If I want to just screw around, the game should let me. I think that's why I like Minecraft and Cities: Skylines so much.
I guess this is about risk management. So the question is, is the value of the tech being stolen higher than the possible liability incurred by essentially spying on your workers.

Now, of course, nothing keeps you from spying on your employees, but what you learn about your employees (that you would not have known if you didn't snoop on them) could cost you more than the IP theft itself.

The above is manageable by large cos, but smaller cos may not be able to absorb those incidental liabilities.
The thing is, Flash is still in use, just not on the web and it's not called Flash. It's called Adobe Animate. Adobe Animate, formerly Flash, is still in use for animating shows on television. Open sourcing Flash would mean creating a potential competitor with Animate, which Adobe surely doesn't want. The only reason Adobe would have to open source Flash is "out of the kindness of their hearts" which is not enough. This is nothing but a needlessly risky business venture to them.
Harvey Mudd College has a similar requirement for STEM majors to take a range of humanities courses.
But what would Stalin be without Marx? A minor unpleasant priest in a small Georgian town? Yes, Marx wasn't the first or last promoter of socialism. And yet the followers of, for example, Charles Fourier, didn't create totalitarian systems.
By also building the awesome EuroBrowser? It worked for Google, just saying
> These precursors are controlled by the federal government ... they’d make medicine from poison [by using the street drugs to get back to the precursors]

cf: “A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudophedrine from N-Methylamphetamine”

https://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf
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Great link! They caught the inmates who put $1000 directly into their own accounts. If they caught the smarter people, it wasn't mentioned...
I'm honestly surprised people still answer random numbers to their personal cell phone.

Business, sure. But catching false positives is what voicemail is for.
Huh? Of course I do.
Discovery Could Have Major Effect on Preventing Brain Aging
I think it is called an older Dravidian language, and not Tamil because the older Dravidian language cannot be called Tamil. It is vastly different from the Tamil that is spoken today. Calling a language the "oldest" is usually just veiled attempts at asserting racial/cultural superiority that does not really exist. Oscar Tay has a great answer on Quora explaining this, and I cannot state it any better: https://www.quora.com/Is-Tamil-the-oldest-living-language-in...
Statistics needs no introduction. Calculus by contrast deals with continuous changes in well-defined quantities, which are not like anything a sociologist encounters.

Calculus comprises the foundation of statistics. Without calculus you can learn to apply statistical experiments, but you can’t really understand what’s going on. That makes for brittle insight. Just because the set of all humans is strictly finite doesn’t mean the underlying continuity in statistical theory ceases to exist.

A two semester sequence of single and multivariable calculus is really not a lot to ask in return for delivering a robust understanding of statistics. It’s not like demanding knowledge of analysis, topology, and measure theory before learning rigorous probability theory.
What OP is saying is that movies are already copyable and yet blockbusters are still being made.
The other issue is with dark UI patterns in third party resellers, sure you can get some weird gTLD for $1 for the first year. But then if you actually build something that uses it, maybe the next year and the third year you find that the price is now $89/year. Totally undisclosed before you buy it.

At least if you buy a traditional ccTLD like .ca , or a regular TLD in .com , .net , whatever, you can expect pricing to remain consistent.
There's an excellent command line application called Auto Saving Sniffer which can be found here (ignoring the rather crude abbreviated name.)

https://www.cockos.com/assniffer/

While you need to play through the entire game to be sure you have all of it, this is a big time save, though with the downside it doesn't work over HTTPS. It's also possible to use a Fiddler script to accomplish something similar, which defeats the HTTPS problem.
I like this idea, but (and I know barely anything about games) then I wonder that maybe the resources for lets say the final level of a game are not included, if you let it idle only on the first level, no?
> Which successful companies came out of EU in the last 20 years? How well do they stack up against US (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Uber etc)

ASML. The entire SV depends on it.
Regarding Sony specifically, my first thought was "... and nothing of value was lost".
I feel like the problem comes down to people not willing to read the docs. Reading the freaking manual helps understand if your tools are precise enough or configurable to solve your problems. Then reading the source code (if possible).

Then, assuming it’s still not worth extending, inventing it yourself isn’t such a bad idea.
> they ensure that consent can only be given under duress.

Not being able to read a random website is not "duress".
> nebulous "community" that designs by democracy

I can't read that statement without thinking of perl, and the nightmare of developing in a team of perl devs. We don't need ten thousand ways of doing things and not everyone needs their way to be represented. I'm very happy to have Russ enforce one "right" way of doing things and vgo seems to fit that nicely. One less argument for me and my fellow engineers using go to argue about.
Maybe if they turned off the damn background music!