skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not quite right in this case. Systemd and gnome3 were cases where the new 'version' did not need full feature parity. Both those projects were written on leisure time, with no pressure for deadline or feature. and still adopted from top down. i guess some projects forget the benevolent part of benevolent dictator for life.

systemd arguments were just "boot faster" and "it's newer". Everyone knew it was going to be broken, buggy, lacking features. As those were never actual goals.

In fact, the goals had features never intended for init. So we could say they were rushing for feature anti-parity.

https://www.tecmint.com/systemd-replaces-init-in-linux/

see the table at the end. All the features systemd have show "no" for init. And "verbose debug", something you would consider very essential on a piece of software responsible for making your machine something broken and unusable, just show "no" for systemd, and nobody ever cared, because: boot faster (or so they say)

systemd is a mistake. But i guess now it is a permanent mistake.
I don't use racket much, and even I noticed some stuff that are off. Nobody really uses srfi-19 for dates (everybody recommends Gregor iirc) and they hardly seem to use any for loops.
If it was just about crossing water, you should also have random large cities in the middle of nowhere, but if you start looking at all the major cities of the world on a map, they’re almost all on a coast or a major river.
The use of “thou” in the English translation of the Bible was made deliberately to “lessen the gap” with the divinity (as opposed to the incomprehensible Latin used by the Catholics.) Funny how that got lost and it’s now perceived as old-fashioned submissiveness.
They're talking about freeways and highways, not narrow side streets.
ITT A bunch of music snobs who think music is dead and they just don't make great music anymore and it all sounds the same.
You forgot pornography.

Utahns love porn.

Also all the crap LGBT Mormon kids go through.
It was the same in Paris (CMP and Nord-Sud), until the subway was nationalized after the war. And yet there are still major investments...

You could say the same for the national railway network, it's a state company and it didn't prevent investments and improvements (high speed trains).
> They better be tracking logins or how do they investigate fraud? If they don't have a database of every login tied to an IP, I would assert they're negligent with regard to blocking fraud.

Look there are limits to what I'm able to talk about, but consider that a fraud subsystem functioning in transaction-time is running much more slowly than something running in request time.

> A lot of the measures taken to prevent fraud also block proxies and the like.

When was the last time you couldn't use your banking website over a proxy? Only a few mobile apps actually make the decision to do this (mine did) and it's not popular.

> I don't know how many of them had mandatory 2FA then, but I think many more have now.

Which national bank has mandatory 2fa? Not that this would matter. We dealt with 2FA at level via Intuit, that wasn't great at it. Plaid got incredibly good at it. It became pedestrian when we experimented with Plaid.
> What do you think of the canary account I suggested?

I don't know how such a canary account would ever end up as a target for financial aggregation. It'd probably be a lawsuit from the aggregator for TOS violation if it was a sting operation.
Convenience and consistent access to a high quality experience. It's been shown time and again to work.

At a certain age it's reasonable to consider one's time to have a non-zero value.

It's what leads people to pay $10 a month to stream music, and even access movies, despite means which infringe on copyright being generally "free," easy, and also trivially accessed.
I remember when the Orange Line launched. We used to call it the "Black and Blue Line" because the buses got hit pretty often at intersections. I guess it was confusing for some.
His "Secrets of Consulting" book has been a treasure trove of insight for me. Sad to hear he has died.
The site would work exactly the same with legally-licensed ROMs. If it wouldn't be as much fun to use that way, then that just shows how much of the value comes from someone else's work. It's not a tragedy that it's harder to make something great than it is to misapproriate someone else's great thing.
Before systemd the error were shell errors.

before systemd the bundled logger wrote to a file, didn't direct people to journald, that lags like a champ when a log file is > 1 meg.

before systemd errors in config files were on specific lines

I don't have bias against systemd I have bias against it's flaws.

I like its config file. I hate it's documentation.

I like that it has a cron like feature, I hate that its pretty impossible to debug.

_whats my bias_? I have >>5k machines to look after, I don't want to think about systemd. (and no, not all of them drain into splunk. that costs money.)

Worst of all, I hate the attitude: every problem is a deep and personal critism.

it's not, in the same way that when a bug brings down your entire estate at 4am isn't a personal attack on me. It's just terribly annoying, and I want it fixed.
Actually, lots of people have that conviction. Over a thousand people inside Google signed on against the company’s collaboration with the military, there was all kinds of internal outcry and contention at internal forums, they pushed strongly back against executives bald-faced lies. It already happened:

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military...

And here’s the thing about labor struggle: the reason why Capital owners try to quash it before it gets started is because it’s transformative. Once people see the power they have when they act collectively, what really turns the wheels at work and in society, they’re changed.
Gerald Weinberg passed away yesterday
Strikingly similar to a buddy of mine's story who was underground to the point he became known as "Bigfoot": https://www.bigfootbiomedical.com/the-legend/
How much time are you devoting to this per day?
There are lots of reasons.

- Technical. You can create auditing systems that require a secret number the user is given at the ballot. They are also shown other numbers that would show different results to deceive people who might try to coerce. This is very off the cuff, there are certainly far more elegant solutions that effect the same result. It's hardly a difficult problem to solve with technology.

- Reality. Regardless of whether cameras or photography is allowed in a booth phone video is silent and many voting areas have completely curtained off booths. People could use this to confirm and sell their votes. Problem is nobody's buying, which leads to point three.

- Practical. Voting in the US used to be heavily restricted. Each and every vote was crucial. The total number of people voting used to be smaller than the margin of victory between candidates in "close" elections today. To have any effect in modern elections you'd need to carry out an extensive system of vote buying, which is illegal -- you'd get busted incredibly fast. As America has become increasingly politically polarized, you'd also almost certainly end up getting reported by the very people you're trying to buy votes from.
The main page only gives the phone number, but in the policy they also provide an email address you can communicate with to cancel [1]. Still, that is pretty frustrating when it should just be a few clicks. I recently had to turn off cable internet, which took an hour long conversation as the only method available, whereas turning off the power to the apartment took about 30 seconds after logging into their platform.

[1] https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015852367-Digi...
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I assert that this threshold:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

was broken by this incident:
"The Pizzagate incident, like Jade Helm before it, illustrates Jones’s ability to influence his followers to take action in the real world, no matter how far-fetched or unrealistic his claims might be. The Pizzagate “story” emerged in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign, and thanks in part to active promotion by Michael G. Flynn, the son of former National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn (who also appeared to endorse the story on social media), was still going strong a full month after Election Day, when Edgar Welch appeared at Comet Ping Pong with an assault rifle, ready to “rescue” the children he was convinced were being held in the basement. Welch fired several shots and spent close to an hour inside the restaurant before apparently determining that there were not, in fact, any signs of any criminal activity anywhere in the building. He surrendered to police, and later pleaded guilty to assault and weapons charges. Welch was sentenced in June 2017 to four years in prison."

Source: https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/alex-jones-five-...

It is rather audacious to me that you seem to assert that speech in social platforms that are owned and operated in the US with US citizens talking to each other is somehow separate from the rule of law of the US government. The internet was essentially created by the US government. The notion that internet companies somehow supersede individual governments is- dangerous.

The decision of social platforms to enforce their policies in this matter is in part in response to the will of their stakeholders, but also to insulate themselves from anything remotely close to being a party to defamation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law

> It doesn’t apply here. <- doesn't hold up for me.

One could argue that ironically, in exercising editorial discretion on content, social platforms demonstrate their ability to censure content, and thus open themselves up to liability for all of the content they chose not to take editorial action against.

If you've gotten this far in this thread, please spend some time with Alex Jones' greatest hits and give me your honest opinion of its merit.

Snarky disclaimer: I give money to the ACLU, I believe in free speech deeply, and though every fiber in my being is opposed to their cause I will fight for the right for Westboro Baptist Church to be able to assemble peacefully in public space. But even Alex Jones' site acknowledges the need for limits: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/07/censorship-platforms-...
They apparently have no fewer than 130 million monthly readers, though, according to a press release from last year:

https://www.nytco.com/year-of-audience/

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Not as trivially-bypassed on mobile, I presume.
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Ironic to see this coming from Buzzfeed.
Settlements costs would fall $27B by 2030 using blockchain
This is plain bribery. I live in Brooklyn. Now I'm less late because of Uber. Before I've gotten fired because of situations where I can do nothing but just let fate run it course as I'm stuck in B train. Or wait for a bus that hasn't even left the station.

I know cab drivers are behind this.

Uber pool has saved me so much money.

When is next election for NYC mayor
The latest version of AppShare allows content to be edited within the application itself. Appshare is built with:

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Please let me know any comments you may have.
There is no easy way to say this, and certainly no easy way to hear it. I am writing this on the evening of August 7th, 2018. Jerry died last night.

He's been in poor health, but this wasn't expected and Dani is coping with all of the things that need to be done. I told her that I would announce it to his friends and colleagues on Facebook, since she doesn't use social media.

I've been using the things he taught me a lot this summer, with some challenging personal and professional situations. I'm so glad I managed to tell him that while he could still hear it.

Knowing him made me a better person. His life goal was to empower Smart People to Be Happy. He succeeded.

Requiescat in pace, Jerry.
I pay to support their journalism.

The amount that I consume is probably less than what requires a subscription, but I started paying because I can afford it, and I feel like it’s important for them to have resources to do what they do.
You'd submit it manually.

>lawsuit

You really think an aggregator who's blatantly violating bank TOS is going to sue?
Why a business needs accounting software and how to choose it
never noticed that shortcut!
Yes! There's only upside.
> Going back to the president, what if you could find out that some angry anonymous person posting racial slurs online was actually the POTUS? That is doxing.

While I agree with your general sentiment, I hope you appreciate the irony of this particular example.
Yes but later Egyptian eras began using hieroglyphs as a syllabary then eventually an alphabet, with various mixed usage as one might expect.

We can also see a partial transition with Japanese hiragana and katakana.

The mystery to me is why China never took the next step?

Perhaps the two are related. Maybe if you don't switch to an alphabet before your society builds up too many traditions and too much structure, the weight of history (and the social status of using a complex script) tends to calcify many aspects of that society, including the writing?
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‎Sue Petersen‎ > Gerald M Weinberg

There is no easy way to say this, and certainly no easy way to hear it. I am writing this on the evening of August 7th, 2018. Jerry died last night.

He's been in poor health, but this wasn't expected and Dani is coping with all of the things that need to be done. I told her that I would announce it to his friends and colleagues on Facebook, since she doesn't use social media.

I've been using the things he taught me a lot this summer, with some challenging personal and professional situations. I'm so glad I managed to tell him that while he could still hear it.

Knowing him made me a better person. His life goal was to empower Smart People to Be Happy. He succeeded.

Requiescat in pace, Jerry.
approx. 2hrs per day apart from 8hrs of office work.
Facebook Added Balloons and Confetti to Posts About the Earthquake in Indonesia
The tolls should be raised until a lower amount of cars are around
Software Engineering Metrics for Engineering Leaders and Management – GitPrime
They don't offer decent paying jobs because the odds are that if you are a con you don't have the skills to hold the job and/or can't be trusted.
That sheep and how the ticks 'attacked' the investigators and the owner when they entered the paddock sounds terrifying and like something out of a horror movie. How do you protect yourself from 100 ticks trying to suck the blood out of you until you die?
Clear defensive programming with Go using Verifier library
Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019
I don't consider vim to be a culprit, you really can't update your key-bindings dynamically (in practice) to say more efficiently utlize the home row. It would be unusable and the UI would have no way to conway the new mappings.

Vim is still consistent, you have to mentally keep track of which mode you are in but that's second nature after you've groked it. Dynamic UI changes are not and always requires you to do one extra roundtrip and scan the UI for what options are currently available and adapt to it.
This a quite haphazard explanation, but the method itself is beautiful. It simply works.

I learned my Japanese in a very similar way, and I'm pretty dang good at it.
>Look there are limits to what I'm able to talk about, but consider that a fraud subsystem functioning in transaction-time is running much more slowly than something running in request time.

I was suggesting checking one day snapshots of access counts by IP to see what the distribution looks like to then determine what to block.

2fa: I know that chase asks me for 2fa every time I change IP, and I don't think there's a way to stop that. Should be easy for them to require 2fa on every login for any IP with a high rate of requests.
Serious???? Did you forget parking... Wasting 20 mins to 50 mins on parking
In you example, minimum is normal and enough. Equal opportunity is just that. I'm sorry if you have been discriminated against, but you can't ask more more friendly without discriminating someone there group.
Or precompute the date on insert, there are a dozen ways to refactor the data model and the query, all of which are better than extracting to txt files, a format with no schema and not based on a standard. That would be the direction I would give if a junior dev was attempting this method.
I've lived in Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles and SLC and SLC is easily my favorite of the bunch. LA has more amenities, but SLC balances that with WAYYYY more accessible outdoor activities, a proper winter, cheap housing, and nicer people.
It is easy to imagine a world where all game content, no matter how derivative, was not allowed to be used without the explicit permission of companies.

Do you think that you'd be better off in that world? One where Let's Plays are banned, and that storytelling through videogames is not allowed?

It's easy to scoff and say that's ridiculous, but from my point of view, that's exactly the world we live in right now. We could be making so much more than we are. People just aren't allowed to.

I bring up this example a lot, but Disney built their empire partly by taking Alice in Wonderland and copying it wholesale. And what was lost? Nothing. Society gained by letting Disney do that. This same freedom should be extended to all of us.
Racism pays.
I'm 27 and I pay for a digital subscription. Relative to the average age of the world, I'd say I'm "young".
Is there a USB-C version?
This is the most ignorant programmer thing I've seen said on hackernews. Utter lack of understanding for how all office workers interact and share information through Office documents.
I'm appreciative of somebody who also has OCD writing an article like this detailing how the disorder isn't at all like the stereotype of a neat freak. What's funny is, I myself am actually a terribly messy person with books and papers always strewn about (among clothes not quite in the hamper, &c).

What's interesting to me from a personal history viewpoint is that one of my earliest compulsions also centered around door knobs. However, in my case I had to cover the whole surface area of the knob (hah!) with my hand and yank it shut multiple times (the exact number was arbitrary; merely whatever "felt" right) until I was sufficiently satisfied that the damn door was indeed closed. I still do this when leaving my apartment.

Hell, reading this article and writing this comment has "caused" (ie, compelled me to) do some of my own compulsions multiple times already because just thinking about doing them means I need to. Once I get into my head that I "have" to do X, Y, or Z then it's much harder to ignore than if the trigger (or what have you) came up in everyday life. I hope you HNers learned something so me sitting here in my underpants counting powers of 2 and repeatedly moving my head back and forth like a confused pigeon wasn't totally for naught! :)

EDIT: For those more curious about this topic (all dozen of you) I wrote a short piece on my blog attempting to better illustrate the painful bizarrity of OCD through the vehicle of a fictional dialectic: https://salt.mattwie.se/essays/all-mad.html
> One criticism of New York Times that I've read online is that they won't allow you to cancel your digital subscription through their website. They force you to call them. I'm not sure if that has changed recently, but that's a pretty questionable dark pattern.

This is illegal in Europe. By law, it has to be at least as easy to cancel subscriptions, as it is to buy them.

I love Europe. :)
> optimized not for getting the best result, but for ensuring the manufacturer can't be blamed

read similar stories on r/medicine

advanced surgeons coming into the operating room with their lawyer in mind, entirely logical, totally sad
Congestion problem stems from broken Subway system. Uber is just responding to pain. Uber is like pain medicine for broken bone that subway system is.
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Wish they went bankcrupt. World or the US don’t need media companies openly supporting and defending racism.
This is part of a trend—Georgia deleted election data from 2016 when a lawsuit was filed: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/10/26/computer-file...

How is that not destruction of evidence? Seems clear Georgia has a lot to hide.
Clickable? Hard to hover on mobile.
seems common even for reputable magazines. Canceling my Economist subscription also was quite a pain.
I don't know of the legality but it is a common practice in Europe too.
> systemd's job is to start daemons

But that's not all it does and the dependencies of systemd alongside making systemd a dependency, results in a very different observable reality.
The JIT just recognizes the impossibility of Battletoads and optimizes it out.
Where is the co. incorporated?

No formal process.

If CA, write a letter and reference the statute:
http://www.jerryburleson.com/shareholder-demand-for-inspecti...

If DE:
http://www.startupblog.com/blog/shareholder-inspection-right...

Obviously DE is more company friendly than CA.

Your best bet is to:
1st) request nicely from the CFO some updates
2) if that doesn’t work, flex some inspection rights to get him to give you the updates.

You don’t actually want the inspection, and for me it’d take a court order before I allowed it, so your best bet is to play nice and be less of a pain in the ass to get what you want then litigating it.

Let me stress this again, you are a supplicant in this, you are far better off begging and cajoling and politicking with the CFO to get what you want if it’s important to you. You have zero leverage.

If I got a request from some random ex-employee shareholder requesting info, I’d say to them “see you in court” guessing that you don’t have the $100k’s in legal expenses needed to actually force the issue
Any links to that?
I wonder how much of that can be attributed to using camels to get around vs. horses & carts, with roads less necessary/helpful for commerce/transportation.
BTW, enkimute's blog is full of small, interesting bits of JS code:

https://enkimute.github.io/
Thanks for the link to the paper. This is potentially very exciting news - the benefits of Three Sisters agriculture with one of our staple crops.
While we're off-topic, I need to look this tidbit a little bit more:

> Romans had not been truly civilised – because they didn’t know about gloves
I built something very similar you might also enjoy: slacklunch.club
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not ideological boilerplate!
Ask HN: Is there TUI for curl?
similar to postman but from command line. like we have tig, lazygit for git. htop for ps command.
This was my experience with The Times in the UK plus equally difficult to unsubscribe.
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