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Can you give example of such cultures? My impression was always that it was contrary to what you wrote. For example, tourism (taking a train to a neigboring city just for fun) was invented in XIX century England to show common folks that there's something other than drinking that they can fill their free time with.
Silicon Valley is changing and its lead narrowing
I think anyone who gives an article the now cliche "Why [popular thing] sucks" doesn't care about receiving charitable responses.

His use case at the end is describing microservice architecture. Microservice architecture is trending, ergo JWTs are trending. I don't see the problem.
> Ultimately patterns (atoms, cells, people, societies, whatever) organize by efficiency, by how well they reduce energy gradients across time

You'd probably like the Selfish Gene by Dawkins. He makes a strong case that societies evolve very differently from cells/species.

Edit: Thought I'd provide an example. Suppose there is a herd of animals hunted by a predator. Imagine it was possible for a single member of the herd (maybe the oldest/weakest) to sacrifice itself and save the rest of the herd from taking additional casualties. From the perspective of the herd, it's the best option for longterm survival, "reducing energy gradients", as you say. However, that would not happen. You generally don't see animals purposely sacrificing themselves for the good of the larger group. There are some exceptions (e.g. bees) but Dawkins very convincingly argues it's not for the good of the group.
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This is great, but it still is incredibly sad that only certain people get this benefit, instead of it being something given to everyone in the country like in most of the civilized world.
> Innocence doesn't mean that you didn't use the service. Should the taxpayers foot the bill?

Of course the tax payer should pay. The criminal justice system is a service of society. The tax payer receives that benefit and as well pays its costs.

I'm really not sure what role and responsibilities people expect government to have in society.

What's next, start charging innocent people room and board for the period they were locked in jail, because they used that "service"?

The govt is not a business. Its purpose it not to make money, nor extract money from people charged with crimes. We don't want a society where you pay police each time they come to your house.

Capitalism isn't the end goal of society, it's a tool. I see way to many people on HN (not you specifically) where it seems the only tool they know of to solve a problem is "hmm.. I'll try to apply capitalism to that".

It is possible to frame every interaction in society as s product or service. The fact that we can doesn't mean we should.

I frequently see people caught up in the "technical problem solving" of how to transform something else into a buying and selling transaction with zero foresight into motivation or consequences of doing so.
Women joining the workforce lead to a long term decrease in the labor supply. The only reason wages haven’t gone up is a massive influx of foreign born workers that keeps supply high.
> I am quite convinced we are losing at the wealth game globally - despite many people's attempts to illustrate that global poverty is decreasing (I lack data and drive to prove this point sadly)

So what is it that has convinced you that we're losing, in the face of evidence to the contrary?
> The latest of these is MTV forbidding free food in new campuses because it hurts local business.

Mountain View passed this law as part of a project-specific requirement in 2014, the project being The Village at San Antonio. Facebook is planning to lease office space there but no specific timeline.

Earlier discussion: Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies | http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17619658
I find it incredibly interesting that a company can make these sort of demands for a change that the determine is better for society. Wonder if people will consider this a grass roots change for worker good or the unwanted imposing requirement of a a mega-corporation.
The struggle of VR
According the the pdf factsheet linked in this thread they were just existing pieces in new colors. So the transparent parts for the lights and I imagine LEGO doesn't sell technic in Bugatti Blue.
What section of the book did you enjoy the most?
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I remember a prank site that you could direct people to with fake href links and it would open a couple of hundred popup windows before you could close your browser.
> Google is a company that have a track-record of breaking the law

Like when, and did they get punished for that and change their ways?
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That sounds great, but it seems like a Hard Problem, given that lots of sites/apps use modals for necessary things like logins and shopping carts. I suppose one approach would be to inject some kind of 'close and stay closed' control into any elements that cover the page (nice for paywall gray screens, too...)
So Mozilla should clearly state that being a non-profit they need funds and that they are willing to compromise the privacy of their users.
Salaries aren't that great, in my personal experience. My spouse was offered about $200,000 for a job in Foster City, and $190,000 in a city in the Midwest. My spouse's friend took one of those $200,000 jobs and for about 1.4 mil bought a house smaller than our starter house. We bought a 3300 sqft house for less than 400k.
Do you believe it's worth taking on investors to bring in people that have both connections and input that will be helpful for growing your product?
So long as it is Lego and not Stickle Bricks, yes. This is the law at my sister's house where the dad builds cars out of Lego.
Congratulations!

Are you familiar with code golf? If not, I recommend it. In Code Golf, the objective is to complete a programming task in the shortest program possible, measured in bytes. While doing so, you really learn about the nuances of your language and its obscure features.

When I was about your age, I joined the code golf community at Stack Exchange, and since then my JS skills and general programming skills have improved greatly. I hope that you would find it to be useful too.
Yubikeys are about the same cost:

https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/

What makes you think that the cost to produce the hardware is less than $10? And what reason would companies have to offer keys below cost?
Is this similar to http://json2table.com?
It takes more TLB entries, but not physical cache space. Virtual indexing just makes use of the page offset being the same between virtual/physical mappings in order to select the cache set before mmu translation is available.
I would like to comment on it from a few 100KB USENET client, but that option isn't available to me.
So is this "First Party Isolation on by default", or something else?
F35 isn't so much a fighter jet as it is a political graft and jobs program, and in that light it's a smashing success.
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They going to stop producing in China then?
You should have tokens with short durations that are refreshed upon use. That greatly reduces the odds of a token being stolen or leaked and then used before it expires.
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“Hate speech” is actually a great example. I’m a fan of the fact trans people are getting better treatment in today’s society, but if some obnoxious jerk says “there are only two genders” or “Chelsea Manning is a dude”, that may make him an asshole but it’s not a crime, it’s not aggresssion or violence.

Yet “hate speech” is literally a phrase created to justify oppression against people for having opinions you don’t like.

I may choose not to associate with a jerk like in my example, but the perpetrators of “hate speech” concept want to deny him basic human rights, and often do violence against him.

Ironically for the “crime” of being different.

Basic human rights s are rights for everyone.

Genuine liberals used to advocate for the right of the KKK to march. The ACLU even filed a lawsuit Withings the past ten years defending their right to make white robes fools of themselves.

When “liberals” stopped defending human rights, you lost the plot and the whole point of being liberal.
Disappointed in what the ACLU has become. I don't think their fundamental intentions are off, but in order to raise money in an anti-Trump era, they've definitely veered off course in practice.

EDIT: For those downvoting me, you should give this a listen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/podcasts/the-daily/aclu-n...
Why did you waste your money on unnecessary real estate, monitors, and chairs, if no one needed them?

Why not sell that stuff and hand out cash bonuses to employees?
Sure, but even for those priorities which I share with that page it's fairly misleading. Old links, mischaracterized links, cherry-picking procedural votes instead of judging each session of Congress by what got done during that session, etc. Obama could have closed Gitmo at any time, simply by vetoing one of the eight defense appropriations bills that kept it open. In his first two years, he could have also simply asked Reid and Polosi to keep that rider out of the bill.
You can use HN with JS disabled.
> I’m confident that we can continue improving Slack together.

A thousand times this. Thanks <3
> GC'd languages and non-GC'd languages you write code with completely different allocation patterns.

[citation needed]
That’s funny that the municipal speed limit for a 200 sq mile area including urban and rural densities is 30 mph.

200 square miles where people want to make left turns and forming gaps in traffic make sense.

Unless you live in a city where no one ever makes a left turn; dogs, children, and sports balls are outlawed; and you're the only person on the road ever.

You do realize there are other people out there driving, don't you?
Yes, Google used to provide Feitan keys. That doesn't really address whether or not these are Feitan keys. (I'm also not sure what you mean by rebadged).
I think this is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875658
But that's just it- only for all tokens.

What if a user changes their password? Until that token hits its timing limit, they've got free reign. Or, you use denylists, requiring the database again.
So, this is one thing I like about Gabirel Wyner -- in his book, "Fluent Forever", he's got a section in the first chapter where he talks about how he defines fluency, and he fairly openly acknowledges that he personally sets a very low bar. It's basically just being able to engage in small talk without too much hesitation, with no expectations placed on developing a large vocabulary, or mastering every verb tense, or any of that.

I suspect that's what's happening with a lot of people who cultivate a reputation as hyper-polyglots: When they say "fluent", they mean, "about on par with a 4-year-old, only more literate". When everyone else hears fluent, they think they mean, "masters of the language".

(edit: I pick 4 years old because that's about on par with the benchmark Wyner is using - in his book, he seems to be using 1,500 words as the benchmark for a working vocabulary. I believe that's about average for a native English-speaking 4-year-old.)
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Progress by any means necessary. It would be absolutely phenomenal if legislation fixed this for everyone today, but until that time, there are a lot of people who will benefit from this who otherwise wouldn't.
Here's a quick selection, excuse my partisanship, I couldn't find an equivalent list for specifically European innovation:

Antibiotics - British

Tank - British

Television - at least shared by Britain and others

Stereo audio - British

Computer - critical aspects conceptualised and realised in Britain

Jet engine - largely German/English

Radar - largely British

Maglev - British

Hovercraft - British

Float glass process - British

Carbon fibre - British

Liquid Crystal (or at least a critical step) - British

RSA encryption - British

World wide web - British

SMS - British

Shall I go on?
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>) There is less and less actual work to be done due to technological progress;

I don't think that's actually true. Here's a quick list I threw together on another post:

>Replication crisis? Aging infrastructure? Global warming? Cancer research? Environmental destruction? Food scarcity? Documentation and bug hunting in software? Taking care of frameworks? Early childhood education? Heck, even beyond all the problems on Earth, there are plenty of people who want to work on things like sending people to Mars.

But as people pointed out, those things need collective action and political will. Our current mentality is that we should have minimal collective action, and the vast majority of our resources should go towards what can bring us the largest personal profit returns, no matter the impact on humanity in general. I think we're seeing some of the limits to that approach.
> - no sharing across threads, otherwise locking is required for refcount updates

If you are sharing across threads you will need a synchronization mechanism, whether you have reference counting or not.

So it's not exactly fair to assign this cost to reference counting.

General reference counting does make adding or removing a reference a read/write operation, though of course non-naive implementations don't do this at every turn. Not to mention tracing GC has a reference cost as well.
Have you been to Cuba? That was not my experience there at all.
I'm not sure I understand the ACLU's statement. Is Harvard's discrimination against Asian-Americans for their race not racial discrimination to the ACLU? Or is it OK because it benefits worse-off races? I'm open to alternatives, I'm not trying to establish a false dichotomy here.
A while back I took flying lessons. They have a procedure and checklists for most things. This is decidedly a good thing. Checklists are great for reducing errors and should be used in more situations.

Of course there is also a question of whether these procedures can be updated. And whether you can improvise in an emergency. You need more training for that. But this doesn't mean checklists are bad.

Another example: when cooking a new dish, if you start with a recipe you'll probably get up to speed faster than just winging it. This doesn't mean there's no creativity.
One would hope that a local government that lost its town Facebook or Google would be influenced by that loss, but maybe things are actually so bad that they wouldn't be.
> In every major historical engagement the US has fought it went in woefully under-equipped, under-manned, and out-gunned. It prevailed because it can tool up quickly and out-produce.

It doesn't seem wise to rely on that always being true. The U.S. has not been involved in wars for very long (considering the history of war) and war has changed so much recently that assuming things won't change in the future seems like a bad plan.
Given that my 386 had 2MB in 1991, 8MB were quite a lot, hence the joke.
Some four hundred respondents provided information about their gender and their orientation, among other personal details, including their I.Q.s (which were above average). Nearly half spoke at least seven languages, and seventeen qualified as hyperpolyglots. The distillation of this research, “Babel No More,” published in 2012, is an essential reference book—in its way, an ethnography of what Erard calls a “neural tribe.”

The answer is IQ. I knew that before even reading the article. Same for speed reading, memorization, etc. anything that is cognitive has a large IQ component. I dunno why it's so hard for researchers to get this. Instead we hook subjects to machines to look for brain patterns or we try to look for any other explanation besides the most obvious one, IQ.
One problem with this model is that competition exists. It requires to adjust the business model, or give away (a part of) the market.

This sometimes produces waves of change (seen as painful and haphazard by the old staff), when new ways to run the company are invented to keep up with the competition. Then, with new stability, a new calcification phase comes, etc.
OT: I initially mis-read this as "Jay Z's new garbage collector".

Talk about an intriguing headline.
Almost certainly not for local code. My experience is that building codes make the IRS tax codes look clear and concise. Often multiple conflicting rules apply and you're trying to hammer out some reasonable common sense with 2-3 different people in planning office one of which is almost certain to go on vacation while you're in permitting process. You'd be luck to get city plan reviewer, architect and contractor all in the same room for an extended discussion.

There are architectural programs that will render a 3d space to help with visualizations. Or any 3d drawing program like autocad can help as well.

Generally the linting is done manually when you ask for bids on your plans from contractors. If your plans are really poor they won't bid or they will come back with suggestions or prices that incentivize you to rethink things.
The fact that you are being downvoted for this is such a perfect proof of what you're saying, ironically.
During the recruiting process, I expect a company to be putting its best foot forward. If things seem disorganized at that stage, then I assume that day-to-day operations at the company are even more disorganized.

Additionally, it always makes a big difference to me if people high up in the organization (even if they aren't technical) are involved in the interview process. If a founder or C-level employee spends some time talking to me during the hiring process, it's a positive sign that they see this as an important position and you as an important hire.
Sure, but the recommendation algos amplify the mob, which is as intelligent as its dumbest member.

So, cool that you have decided what's fake, but if the mob thinks otherwise you're toast.

See anti-vaxxers and their effects on innocent children, both their own and others.
Notably, the comments section of the article is overwhelmingly in favor of schools not discriminating based on the color of the applicant's skin.
You're getting closer to the problem:

JWTs were designed to be single-use (or very, very short lived) claims (with optional cryptography features).

It was never meant to be "offload everything to the client and obviate the need for server-side storage". It was never meant to be the new hotness among the NoSQL Scalability crowd.
At the same time, it's also given women the ability to survive and exist in society without requiring them to be married or otherwise supported by a man.
"the hole is covered using Alexander Gerst's finger for now" - https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/9bi49u/the_iss_is_cu...
Why do people trust a random article over some statement issued by the government?

If a government is trustworthy then you need no laws to prevent disinformation. If its not trustworthy then the last thing you want is laws that allow them to clamp down on information.

The traditional western concept is that an educated people will be able to discern who to trust and when ...

This is also why western societies are democratic.
There is a no-true-Scotsman position here. If you extrapolate from science fiction, there is a level of VR implementation that we can imagine, if not implement, that would enable distant collaboration with out the defects that are mentioned in the siblings of this comment. I feel that VR today cannot deliver enough to resemble Holodeck fidelity, more like .1 H, and maybe at least .5 H is needed.

Maybe pair programming needs less to be fluid enough to be beneficial.
Disappointed in ACLU's stance. Why not apply the same logic to other parts of admission and ensure Asian students receive equal share of sport scholarships.
Why? State Council Decree No. 619 gives 14 weeks of paid parental leave to all Chinese.
Schools turn to AI to monitor students' mental health
Except Intel + mitigations still much faster on most workloads than AMD without mitigations.
This argument, while important, is the low hanging fruit of the affirmative action debate in my opinion.

We would not need affirmative action if legacy based admissions wasn't so prevalent in top schools.

We would not need affirmative action if every school district in America recieved proper funding to support teachers and enable smaller class sizes, test prep for students to take specialized exams, and after school extracurriculars, both academic and non-academic to prepare them for college.

The best elementary schools in the nation are driven by property taxes, how many people do you know bought their house because of the school district? You probably did. Yet we really don't take these things into account when having these discussions. Everyone wants a fair and equitable opportunity for students to get a quality education but to really do so we need drastic reform to really enable that. There's enough political will to tackle the symptom that is AA but very few people want to tackle the causes.
That argument is plausible, in general. In this specific case, I don't think it is. Harvard admissions policy benefits at least as many white applicants as non-Asian minority applicants.
This might help:
https://mobile.twitter.com/cpeterso/status/10216265102962851...

It seems very conspiracy theory'ish, but the speed and responsiveness difference is undeniable.
Jump to [1] isn't styled, maybe that's something you can look into?

[1] https://gmc.uy/jumpTo.png
I would prefer one from Apple as well, but mostly because my laptop (which was built by Apple) only has USB-C ports, so carrying an USB-A adapter, like the one shown in the picture [1], would be a deal breaker for me and many others. Something like the YubiKey 4C Nano [2] would be good.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/79ojvAK.jpg

[2] https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#yubikey-4c-...
Maybe they’ve updated it since I last used it, but I suspect that “dollar dollar bill” is still a subtle tag that indicates that the transaction was a “bill” payment.

I just checked and I still get four emoji: lightning bolt, plug, lightbulb, money with wings (those probably aren’t their proper names, I’m just guessing) with the text “electricbill”
Harvard doesn't offer sports scholarships.
How was FirefoxOS better than AOSP?
Keep in mind, most of tech is bullshit jobs that have no impact on product, business or customers. Tech for tech’s sake.
The list is mostly from a country that's not exactly in Europe anymore ;)

[edit] I should have been more specific and said that I didn't include the Brits in when I think of flagging innovation in western Europe. The focus was on Germany and to some extent the countries directly around it.

That being said: not a single union jack in sight in the page below ...

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

You have to get down to #28 to find one in this list:

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

And that's the key: however inventive folks from a given country may be, if the socio-economic system they operate in does impede innovation (and TBH I don't know enough about your island to comment about that), then all of these great ideas are for naught, they end up benefiting others.
Billion euro milestone for Latvian P2P lending startup Mintos
>Its like having kids

I have 2 kids. Everyone I've spoke to who has 3 or more has said that the jump from 2 to 3 is as big as the jump from 0 to 1.