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> The author is lucky brainfuck is so simple

It may not be a JIT compiler, but back in 5th grade I vaguely remember writing an extended brainfuck interpreter that fit within the boot sector of my HDD. It pulled some brainfuck code I wrote (fuckboot I believe it was called) from a FAT partition designed to bootstrap the Linux kernel. I recall being absolutely amazed at how simple yet advanced the language was.
Did you consider the exponential behaviour? I get that 15 minutes makes for prices going up by a factor of 1.00026271523, so an increase by 0.026%.

Calculation: https://www.google.com/search?q=exp((15+min)*ln(10000%2B1)%2...)
One can't know that without going to the site and working it out. Exactly that title on Medium, for example, would leave it completely unclear without visiting the article. So unless you know that this is Twitter's official blog - which some people (including me) wouldn't - it's useful to have the modified title. In particular you say:

... since the original title was neither misleading ...

To me the title as it stands is misleading. That's why I wanted to make it clearer. <fx: shrug />

But seriously, your call. You thought it was editorialisation, intentional or not, and you changed it. I think the existing title is less useful or informative, but it's not my final decision. I've long felt that the blind reversion of submitted titles to the title of the article is misplaced and over-zealous, but as a moderator on other platforms, I know that every decision requires work, so not actually making a decision is a huge saving in time, effort, energy, and will.

(Several edits have been made as I try to make my points clearer. Not sure I've succeeded, but I have no more time.)
But OP said that the government could also pony up billions of dollars for the project. The main point seemed to be that universities are wasting their endowment with fancy buildings instead of doing science.
Whoah, hold on. You're referring to a preliminary injunction issued in a case that hasn't been tried yet; not only that, but LinkedIn appealed that judgement, and their appeal is still pending. That case also revolved around antitrust liability, which Twitter doesn't have. It is not at all settled that anything in front of a login screen is public and not protected by TOS's. And, of course, here we're talking about things that appear after a login page.

https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_vid=000...

The 5-minute spans around minute 20 and around minute 53 are particularly interesting. Even HiQ agrees that they have no right to ignore TOS terms pertaining to things behind login screens.
There are lots of things that are widely believed unethical for no particularly good reason. People are raised into a set of beliefs and they mostly stick with them, especially when there's rarely a reason to re-examine those beliefs.

One example of something widely believed to be unethical is nudity. There is a belief that seeing a human being in its natural, naked state is inherently harmful and that nakedness itself is shameful.

I'm not a nudist; I very much prefer wearing clothing. I just think it's a good example, because few people ever think about it. Everybody just wears clothing and only weirdos don't. The mechanism by which it causes harm is rarely examined.

(The increasing reverence towards natural things in recent years suggests to me that people may be more open to reexamining that belief, making it a more effective example.)

It's not that the majority are always wrong. Just sometimes. And not just in the past or in some other society.
I know a lot of the conversation about the API separates out good guys and bad guys, i.e. spammers.

But I'm more and more thinking that Twitter and other platforms should consider marketing automation to be a form of spam. Once you start questioning that there isn't a human behind the human account you give up on human interaction.

So yeah, maybe there's some vanity metric that marketing automation props up for companies like Twitter. But underneath that vanity metric, the real quality of the site is being diminished.
> You got your timeline backwards.

No, I have my timeline correct. You are just ignoring what I'm writing.

> Apple put the "touch screen on your keyboard" when they introduced the current design in 2016.

Yes.

So, prior to 2016, they could have been working on building out a 32GB machine, giving people what they wanted.

But they didn't.

> At the time, and for the next year, 2017, the design was perfectly fine for the then-current Intel CPUs models.

But it wasn't perfectly fine for people they are currently marketing to.
... yes, I know... ...
You might also want to know that Sony has had a change of heart recently and doesn't sell its top-notch lenses to 3rd party companies anymore, meaning that a Sony camera will always have a better sensor than a Nikon camera.
"I continue to not understand how Twitter has managed to trick an entire generation of developers into believing they need Twitter's permission to develop a third-party Twitter client. "

It's Twitter's API, and Twitter's servers.

"Has the law changed in some noticeable way to make reverse engineering the official Twitter client and extracting their first party keys for purposes of interoperability suddenly illegal?"

If you don't have permission to use someone else's stuff, you don't use it. We were all taught that in kindergarten.

"We used to do this all the time"

The fact that you abused other's web servers back then doesn't mean that it was right then or now.
May need to do a hard refresh because of the aggressive caching, but this should be fixed now!
> To that end his policies have been effective.

How?
From a quick look at the code I believe they are using sqlite.
I don't think there is such a clear distinction between fact and values ala Hume’s conception of a "matter of fact" or Kant’s distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments.

economics isn't a deductive science. i prefer Keynes' irreducable uncertainty as a principle of policy. we can't predict the future, we don't how policy is going to act out. the future won't look like the past. the chicago school's knightian uncertainty is the supply side of the same coin

there are flaws in the logical positive approach, see pragmatists like john dewey, hilary putnam, or richard rorty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLJfEVu3kbY
Seriously, excellent suggestion. Thank you.

I'm in the middle of making the switch towards maximizing positive outcomes for others, having realized that I have enough for myself. The author paints a description of self-awareness here that I'll be sure to return to every now and again.
If you use computers "a lot", the percentage of time required to learning a select few Linux userspace administrative tools, as well as the time dedicated to configuration and maintenance, is less than nothing compared to time spent on general everyday usage. The common perception that Linux is a timesink is false (not to mention most things are very much plug-and-play nowadays, e.g. networking via DHCP). And the benefits in doing so are huge, in that you now control your needs using a variety of independent tools, as opposed to the far more locked-in, proprietary solutions that Apple offers. I simply disagree with your claim that Macbooks are the best option for so-called power-users when on multiple aspects from hardware to software they're not. Macbooks/The Apple ecosystem is A choice, not THE choice.
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just rolled out a fix for this on firefox for mac, i don't have a windows computer to test the fix on...

if you do a hard refresh this issue may be resolved! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I stand corrected - I misread your earlier comment much too quickly. After re-reading this thread again, I realized my comment was written in prejudice.

> human listeners will consistently choose the louder one as "better" unless the sound is clearly low quality

This is news to me, and very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
> Setting up a Grafana dashboard is a lot easier than setting up crons that send emails. Auth is built in, including OAuth.

Not really. It would take me about 5 minutes to setup an extra worker that sent emails for an existing app.

Plus, it's a strategic decision to share numbers with a potential funder. That decision should be made each time, rather than allow ongoing analysis.

> Any important numbers should be graphed on a time series chart, and you won't have to track down emails and compare across different tabs.

I agree that important numbers should be graphed on a time series chart, what I'm saying is that sometimes changes in code can change numbers in the past. If each email has that month's spreadsheet, complete with numbers going into the past, and someone says "hey wait a minute, I thought churn in July 2017 was 4.5%, I remember because it was our worst month!" Then you can go back to see what the email said.
The joke wasn't that Republicans are criminals, but that they (and by they, the poster probably meant Trump) is an "egomaniac sociopath or just really unintelligent." I'm not defending the comment which probably isn't appropriate for hackernews, but I think that's what the joke was.
Bus altenator is 24VDC? Plus charging voltage so a 27.6v output?
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Do you genuinely believe that when many laws are written by interest groups and past with little modification?

And yes, the average race us corrupted by outrageous lies. I have literally never seen an election at any level that lacked outrageous lies by at least one of the candidates.
It's actually quite interesting. I had beers with a development officer for a major research university a few months ago. To me, this was a fascinating opportunity to "learn about how the world really works" so I had all sorts of silly questions like "how much do people pay to buy their child an undeserved spot in an incoming class" and whatever. That replies were silly, but not particularly interesting.

What was interesting...

Apparently there's recently been a new stream of potential donors of a certain type, specifically they are very interested in donating towards specific types of research (there's nothing new here, giving to XXX institution to support cancer research has been happening forever). What is different, is that in exchange, THEY WANT THE IP AT THE END so that they may commercialize it.

Of course this is silly, the PI owns their IP and when it's transferred out it usually goes to the PI's company with some cut on future revenues going to the university...

I just thought it was amusing that there's people out there hangin' around universities, hoping to buy IP under the auspices of calling it charitable giving.
“I deal in information,” he says to the smarmy, toadying pseudojournalist who “interviews” him. He’s sitting in his office in Houston, looking slicker than normal. “All television going out to consumers throughout the world goes through me. Most of the information transmitted to and from the CIC database passes through my networks. The Metaverse—the entire Street—exists by virtue of a network that I own and control.

“But that means, if you’ll just follow my reasoning for a bit, that when I have a programmer working under me who is working with that information, he is wielding enormous power. Information is going into his brain. And it’s staying there. It travels with him when he goes home at night. It gets all tangled up into his dreams, for Christ’s sake. He talks to his wife about it. And, goddamn it, he doesn’t have any right to that information. If I was running a car factory, I wouldn’t let workers drive the cars home or borrow tools. But that’s what I do at five o’clock each day, all over the world, when my hackers go home from work.

“When they used to hang rustlers in the old days, the last thing they would do is piss their pants. That was the ultimate sign, you see, that they had lost control over their own bodies, that they were about to die. See, it’s the first function of any organization to control its own sphincters. We’re not even doing that. So we’re working on refining our management techniques so that we can control that information no matter where it is—on our hard disks or even inside the programmers’ heads. Now, I can’t say more because I got competition to worry about. But it is my fervent hope that in five or ten years, this kind of thing won’t even be an issue.”

-- L. Bob Rife (from Snow Crash)
> The answer to bad speech is good speech, not censorship.

Good luck wasting your precious time arguing with Nazis while Reichstag is burning.
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As a general rule, I'd expect companies to deliver morality in line with how much the consumer can tell they're actually buying morally, and also actually cares.

So, with infinitely long supply chains and very complicated products of unclear provenance, and people who care more about looking moral than being it… not well.

Information asymmetry is not a problem well handled by default in a standard free market, I think. But all you need is certification! If only companies that don't make things in sweatshops are allowed to brand with Not Made In A Sweatshop stickers, the consumer can naturally prefer those. Of course if anyone can make up their own certification and stick it on a product, consumers get confused and can't tell what's legit.

As an example, consider the success of nutrition labelling (nutrition facts). It's much harder to make and sell food that only LOOKS healthy, calorie-wise, when anyone can check pretty easily.
This is a great question.

The main goal of Go Cloud is that the abstraction is not leaky and that you don't get access to specific features in the way you are describing in the application itself.

Now if the specificity of the thing you want happens at provisioning time but the API is the same (e.g. choosing to use Aurora on AWS vs standard RDS), then there's no problem. Go Cloud doesn't need to know about that.

If the API changes too, then that's a much different thing, and gets back to the leaky abstraction which we want to avoid. If you can't simply wire new providers to your application code and have it Just Work, then we've done our job wrong.

But remember that it's all Just Normal Go, there's no magic here. It's just standard Go. If you want to write an app that ties itself to something specific on some cloud you can; just write the code you'd write now. But that necessarily means you're tied to that product.
This one is harder to point to, eventing is still under fairly active discussion. The Eventing Glossary doc[0] and the working group notes are probably the best references right now.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JSPgieg0DiP4uIfo_zDoojo6...

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGDehQu493N_XCAT5H4XEw5T...
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> No, that's all material to the point.

No, it's not. The point being not whether arbitration is good or not, simply contesting the implication that the only reason lost because of a forced arbitration clause.

The only way you can disagree with that or argue it is to prove otherwise, which you can't.
> It is not harmful to people going long with their own money, but it is a huge risk to margin traders

Yes, appreciation on assets is great for owners.

But when talking about currencies (i.e. standard medium of exchange), it is the overwhelming consensus that deflation -- especially rapid deflation -- is harmful to an economy. The Great Depression being the most dramatic example of a deflationary spiral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Effects
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Thinking through this a bit... So the end result of this move is less SPAM and higher quality content. Great! But if SPAM is a form of activity (albeit a less desirable one) and activity represents feed liquidity - which directly impacts revenue - how does this not significantly hurt the bottom line? Time to short TWTR in Q4ish.
Yev from Backblaze here -> It's for convenience. At the end of the post you can get a .zip with all of the images in tables!
From my understanding, Eve Online gamers transcend the game itself and stalk your habits to the "real world" settings. Infiltrating forums and such. So yes, I'd expect Eve Online players (the serious ones at least) to be very privacy sensitive.

But ultimately, I don't think that this vague concept of "privacy" when applied to a game guide really matters. People normally don't shuffle books and anonymize themselves as they put books back onto the library cart for example.

And I'm old enough to remember physical library cards with the names of everyone who checked out a book. I don't recall any privacy concerns about that. But maybe I'm just old-skool or something.

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With regards to malicious ISPs MITMing their users: they kinda control your DNS requests, so good luck with that. I'm not sure if there really is a way to fully secure against an ISP-level attack against the users.

An ISP can always inject into the HTTP -> HTTPS redirection, and serve HTTP right there and then. HSTS assumes that the user has visited a clean version of your site before, if a new user comes in without ever seeing the HSTS, then the ISP still "wins" and captures your users on a fake HTTP version of your site.

So no, the level of attacks you've described, I don't believe HTTPS solves the problem.
Or, in the American tradition, it is a right not forbidden to state governments.
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Ah, but that's just it - I didn't pay $1000 for it. I pay monthly installments over two years, which is how long I expect to have the phone. At the end of the two years I'll sell the iPhone X for ~$400 I expect and upgrade to whatever is newest at the time.

I consider it more of a "self-administered lease" than a purchase. My total cost for the device will end up being about $600 over two years, or $25 / month.
Yeah, I fail to see the problem.

Same expectations for both genders. Isn't that what gender equality is all about?
Makes sense. It is best to forget useless things and fill the brain with useful ones.
I was also going to say something else, but I forgot.
Lots and lots of testing and lots of reading intel docs / example code on the internet. I probably ran cinebench and prime95 about 2000 times in the past few days.
This is only really valuable for multi-user scenarios. Just going with head tracking would likely be much easier to introduce, as you don't need specialized hardware (albeit it helps to improve quality). I remember this from a years and years old demo made on PlayStation I think, anyhow here are top results on this tech from Google:

http://www.anxious-bored.com/blog/2018/2/25/theparallaxview-...
https://www.wired.com/2011/05/3-d-ipad-head-tracking-app-now...
This happened to my dad. He bought a nice piano and started taking lessons for it. He got really into it and decided to buy a nice piano chair. He ordered one on amazon for around $300. It looked great in the pictures.

But 3 weeks after ordering it, he received a miniature version of it in the mail. It was probably 5 inches tall ... lol. He has stopped buying things online.
To continue your line of questioning: Will scientists be granted visas?
I could redesign my bank's website in a week if I didn't have to deal with their codebase, build processes, technical debt, internal politics, or the real world complexity of building a production ready website at their scale ;)
Worked on this for years, I'll be here to reply to comments today.
How do you know this doesn't happen all the time? Athletes and celebs get fleeced every single day but no one ever hears about it. No one in that position wants anyone to know they got taken. I can't imagine a VC would be any different. If you were a VC would you want anyone to know that the $X00,000 you put into an "early stage company" was actually spent on hookers and blow? Everyone knows there are shitty people out there but you were the one who gave them money. There is certainly a threshold where this turns into fraud and the authorities are called, but if you've lost a rounding error amount of money why would you risk the reputation hit over punishing a con artist? You blacklist the fraudster, sweep it under the rug, then hope your next investment covers the loss. What is surprising to me is that this is happening right out in the open all the time and no one is noticing, mainly because the fraudsters have CS degrees and know not to get too greedy or seem too incompetent. Everyone here knows you can get industry cred and a very nice salary for a couple years with nothing more than a clever slide deck.
If you don't mind me asking, where are you located and what kind of jobs have asked you for this information? Do they ask for a username or do they try to friend you to access your private content?
This is something I have never experienced and I'm genuinely curious to know what goal it serves the employer and how common of a practice it is.
Tried a simple curl cloud builder with passed in variables and it works pretty nice.

The only feature request I have is a way to mark variables as sensitive/secure and not show them in the build history step in plain text (mask the value) and change the input type from text to password.
>That's actually not true, if it's public information, then you're free to grab it.

Er, since when? Auernheimer/weev was sentenced to 4 years for "hacking" AT&T by changing a URL parameter to access other customers' info. It was questioned in the appeal decision that let him go, but the ruling was on narrow (venue) grounds.

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/att-hacker-conviction-vacated/
> we need to stop meddling in foreign affairs that don't affect us here at home.

Your argument was sound until this point.

Virtually every foreign affair in the world affects the United States.

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For example, in 2017, 7% of all US oil imports came from Venezuela. [1]

In 2018, Venezuela is the #1 origin country of asylum applicants. [2]

Venezuela's plight certainly affects Americans. What action the US should take is another question.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6

[2] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2018/04/09/more-...
How about a gold standard?
Figured it was something similar, especially given their very careful filming angles.
Ok, but this approach is pushing the complexity down the stack into the kernel/filesystem. And a general-purpose performance-oriented snapshotting filesystem is going to be making a lot of compromises that aren't really ideally suited to backup duties.

Plan9's Venti/Fossil immediately come to mind as an example of simplicity in this vein.
Yeah, it's one of those tricks that I find a lot of developers in their 20s haven't learned.

There is another trick that I use when I don't control the dev team. For example, say the company has outsourced a pricing app to a third party dev shop, in this case any decision I can make that will make the app more "table-y" I make. So instead of defining control flow to determine price for any given object, what I do is I get them to make a "rules engine" that can operate on the major variables that are typically used to make decisions. That way fine tuning changes can be done on our side, and it doesn't rack up billables. I think this is called "table based design" but Googling for it isn't showing anything.