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Not necessarily. Opposition to (intentionally) vague documents that have the potential to be used as methods of exerting political power can be seen as purely operational in order to keep the project afloat.
Hi there, Dart is a really versatile language for our needs: it's what powers stateful Hot Reload, for instance, because it has a powerful VM and JIT compiler that work really well for debug purposes, but also compiles natively to ARM code that runs on both iOS and Android. That combination is pretty compelling, and also hard to find in other languages. Dart also compiles to JavaScript, so you can use the same business logic for your web apps.

Honestly, the language itself is easy to learn if you come from a managed code background -- as ever, it's the domain knowledge that takes time to build (e.g. the libraries and framework of components and classes that any complex application takes advantage of).
> Seriously, perhaps there are other ways to accomplish that.

Yet another hidden assumption right there: that art must (or should) come from full-time professional artists (as opposed to hobbyists and/or part-timers).
Having had a kidney stone and having captured it for diagnosis in a piss filter I can guarantee that they really aren't that interesting. Just looks like a tiny little pebble you might find in your shoe. They also hurt. A LOT. As in the kind of pain that made me think, "I am going to just keep yelling until somebody does something to stop this pain."

Seriously, what is the point of this Times article anyway? It's like let's write a big long article about something that means absolutely nothing to anyone and is of zero practical importance except trying to reenforce the dubious idea that good things come out of human suffering.
Or hack the network they're all connected to and direct hoards of cars traveling at maximum speed into your target.

This kind of stuff was done in the Daemon/Freedom sci-fi books, which are entertaining and becoming concerningly less fiction with every passing year.
The fact that not being able to say "gg ez" sapped your will to play a game is part of the problem, isn't it? What happened to getting enjoyment from, you know, actually playing the game, rather than the pointless shit-talking that literally no one else benefits from?
>I have no problem.

Yet you are on hacker news. After some reflection I've realized that hacker news and reddit are just as bad for me as facebook is to others. I am reading unfiltered opinions from all people and I don't think that is particularly valuable or healthy.
Quadcopters never have variable pitch props, they just vary the speed of them to vary thrust. Moreover, thrust from the bottom or top doesn't really matter (look up the Pendulum Rocket Fallacy)
I will, I don't take it personally.
Care to provide an example of a recent "dodgy claim"? I'm coming up empty.
To make the data live after the original node goes offline, you have to push your data to random nodes which also push to random nodes.

Your node blindly accept data, store it and upload it.

There are some P2P network implementations which did that and failed horribly bad on the end. A few abuser can DoS the network.

Oh and there are illegal data and numbers. I'm rather extreme freedom-of-speech advocates myself. But even for me, there are some immoral data I will never help spreading it knowingly.
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You see, the problem is that people universally accepted "the cloud". When Alexa first appeared it was beyond me why anyone would buy. Turns out Amazon's marketing worked so well it's now a standard household item in many homes. The constant calling home by all Android phones is another example - we learned how to live with it. Health data tracking seems just another tiny step. Until people revolt against this huge issue, there is no way things change as greed has no limits as history shown us.
Add null type annotation support to the big missing feature list. At this point every major mobile development language has nullability support, including plain old java.

I think nullability annotations have been the one major feature that have reduced crashes in the mobile apps I've worked on, and I've worked on some huge ones.
This is effectively the system used by the popular festivals in the UK, particularly Glastonbury. You need to pre-register for tickets, which involves uploading photos. When it goes on sale, only pre-registered users can buy, and the photos are checked on entry. Other festivals do the simpler thing of checking the names on the booking against ID. Many allow a secondary market in tickets, but only at or below face value for those who are unable to go. This shows what can be done if they really do want to stop scalpers.
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Theoretically? For the same reason many companies have different advertisements that target different populations - because different advertisements play to different needs/desires, so you can engage with people in the most efficient way in terms of conversion.
Because you would reciprocate? I can imagine people forming networks where they trust each other and systematically pin each others‘s files.
I like the look of it!

The basic idea has been executed already using PHP by Perch CMS[0], but this looks like it could be a good alternative (esp. if it's open source!)

0: https://grabaperch.com/
Are you only thinking about her public marketing image?

Sure, I am aware of that, but making fans buy multiple copies of the same album to be in with a chance of spending even more money on a concert ticket is part of that image too.
I'm failing to see the problem with that dialog

To me, the problem is that you are made to choose that one set of changes must be lost. A better design would be (1) save, (2) revert to original, (3) accept other change version instead, or (4) put me into a diff/merge process so I can control which changes (from both sources) are to be posted.
> Hence the argued bad practice of presenting tweets on news shows as well thought through and relevant opinions.

Why would they be irrelevant? It is opinion that people think. It migh be wrong, but they still vote on that, choose schools on that, make decisions and judgements about real life people around them etc.
Totally with you on the disappointed part. People want things to work, but they don't care why something works and something else doesn't. So usually they allow others to bullshit them into using mediocre solutions just because these were cheaper to implement for the "provider".

However decentralized systems have huge advantages. E.g. in an unsure system (i.e. the normal broken unreliable network, especially when on mobile) decentralization helps to keep the few things running that by coincidence currently work. In a centralized system you always have a few things that really, really need to run, otherwise nothing works. That's for instance why the "ugly" email has survived the competition against "userfriendly" chat apps like ICQ and QQ. People still use email today. So even without much interest in them there can be quite some value for people who implement and design them.
You should never say “never”.
Once insurance companies can accurately predict everyone's risk and then proceed to charge each person accordingly, how is it insurance anymore? The whole point of insurance is to distribute risk evenly over a specific population.

I think insurers should distinguish between controllable and non-controllable factors, and they should not be permitted to discriminate on the basis of non-controllable factors. For instance, if someone chooses to ride a motorcycle instead of drive a car, then there should be a premium for that policy. However, if someone is born with a genome that predisposes them to dying much sooner from a specific disease, they should be charged no more than anyone else, because you can't control your genetics.

I doubt most companies would willingly take the initiative on this though...

With regard to the article's point, not everyone is able to exercise effectively to keep themselves in shape. People with disabilities are not necessarily able to go for a run and should not be penalized financially for being unable to do so.
You joke, but IS and JaN/JFS in Syria used the piloted versions of these: SVBIEDs aka suicide car bombs. Soviet APCs were abundant enough that they could even deploy armored variants.

They were extremely effective in combat, and called the "poor man's cruise missile" by analysts. Here's a video of a strike; note that they were often used in as the opening salvo of combined arms attacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZBAU_TTZ-4
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What a beautiful name for a CMS
A city states, gotta do what city states do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR
Hi, there are a few things I have wanted to ask from someone who is working with Java professionally as it is the programming language I know best (for context: I am a student who will be graduating in a year).

What is Java still being used for? is it mostly Spring work and Android apps or are there still other use cases?

What do you use Java for? or What is the nature of work that you do which makes use of Java?

It would be very helpful if you could answer these.
I agree that Flutter would have been better off using a popular language like Swift or Kotlin.

However, it really isn't a difficult language to pick up. I ported a Java app to Flutter and it was mostly just a case of copying the class files and fixing the syntax errors.
In particular:

> He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.
Isn't control over the application the new centralization?
I still don't see the selling point over Qt, Xamarin or using C++ with native views.

React Native is not something that I would even consider, for that I would rather do Web apps/PWAs.
Depends on how you define "here to stay." All fashions come and go. I am willing to absolutely guarantee that there will be no trace of Instagram in 50 years, maybe it would vanish in 20 years. It could be irrelevant even earlier than 10 years. Same with Twitter, Facebook, and other so-called giants. 50 years ago, Woodstock didn't even happen yet. A lot changes in that amount of time.
As someone who did a presentation on DVCS for the local PHP devs in 2008 I have no problem understanding that. I covered Git, Mercurial and Bazaar. Even back then I predicted that git will win. It might not look very user friendly, but the foundations were rock solid. Branches on Mercurial seemed very clunky compared to git's.
The purpose of the Vitality program has almost nothing to do with the advertised improvements in health but act as a 'land grab' of healthy lives from other insurers. Its almost entirely to do with selection despite what they may advertise.

Established insurers that dont start their own incentive program to keep these healthy lives are in for a very rough time as Vitality will spread like a cancer.
Ask HN: How to use AI to target the 60% of people who get their jobs networking
The battle seemed to be between Bazaar and Mercurial for so long. Both were easy-ish to use and both were written in Python.

Mercurial usually had the speed advantage but then git came along and wasn’t written in Python. Speed wise it blew Bazaar and Mercurial out of the water.

It was harder to learn for someone used to svn, perhaps, but the sheer weight of both Linus and Linux made it hard to ignore.

I think GitHub deserve a lot of the credit for git’s omnipresence, though. With Launchpad our aim was to create something bigger than “just” a code sharing site and fairly or unfairly both Launchpad and Bazaar were seen as too close to Canonical. Whereas GitHub picked up the mantle that Sourceforge had dropped and made something way more collaborative than Sourceforge but held onto the idea of being a neutral third party.
I’m waiting for the first hipster hand made kidney stone jewelry.
"What is it about tweets that would mean they're not legitimate expressions of opinion? "

It's not about the legitimacy of the tweet or even factualness.

When journalists want to create a fake narrative, what they do is say "people are saying this" and then show a few tweets to support them. Even though almost nobody really may be thinking in those term.

For example, there's a lot of social justice clamour over things like award shows lately. The thing is, people don't care that-that much. They may a little, they might have some nuanced ideas one way or another, but the 'journalist' reporting will say: "People are really upset about so-and-so's comments" - and then show a few tweets of either random people or celebs.

Individual tweets are not remotely representative of anything, and yet they are used as 'representative' data points all the time.

Not only do journos do this in purpose (i.e. willfully misrepresenting) but I think they are actually influenced by the Twitterverse. I really do think that many in the press think that Twitter is real or representative.
So you agree the business model is manipulative, but that the ones being manipulated should be the "target to blame" for their stupidity?
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> “Some of our tools, like continuous integration, are already best in class,” GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij told VentureBeat.

Either the GitLab CEO has never heard about Jenkins and TeamCity or he is making false statements to get more investor money.
I won't even hold it against a company of 100 people to invite Deepak Chopra provided the employees are aware that the company has a New Age

If you’re a devout believer in religion A and your employer forces you - unknown to you at the time you were hired - to attend religious ceremonies of religion B as a condition of your continued employment - that is surely massively illegal
Ask HN: As a job seeker or a recruiter, do you like video resume?
I am exploring an idea of a job portal where video resume would be a key aspect. Before I plunge into the development side of it, I want to know in general on how comfortable people are with a video resume.

I have two specific questions.

1: As a potential job seeker, are you comfortable creating a video resume and will you create one?
2: As a potential recruiter, will you prefer receiving a video resume along with a text resume?
They are irrelevant when they are cited as in any way representative.

"People are clamouring for more of X in Y" and then they show three tweets.

When really maybe nobody cares. Or maybe they care in the other direction entirely.
I'm unfamiliar with phabricator's history. What makes it ironic?

Did it have both out the gate and meet criticism?
Well, when I read the name "Vapid" and then "for people who create websites for other people" it really did bring to mind certain projects from the past. The kind of projects where you don't want the bulk of an enterprise-ready CMS getting in the way of a fast exit :-)
Yes, but this time, it'd be explicit, including details - who decides, how quickly, etc.
It's pretty god damn smart, work hard for 10 years and have generational wealth for the rest of your god damn life. He knows that this was a lucky break of fame, and as celebrities rise and fall with fads.

It's way better than most startups.
I still don't know AI or robots capable of doing work of electricians, house constructors, shoe repairing, car repairing and so on. There's a class of job too complicated for a robot at the current state of art (say, for next 50-70 years at least), because humans do it better and even in awful conditions.

AI can't cope with bad weather or too complicated problems.

See how the "autonomous cars" drive well on sunny and dry days against windy or snowy days
Do you really want a dev environment where there is only one way of doing things?
Somehow that page manages to be just as infuriating as the one for framer. Why do I have to wait for elements to be blended in so I can read them... They should at least make them keep being displayed once they were shown.
Bazaar... now there's a name I've tried to forget.
But in a physical context, vapid can be also mean "shallow" or "flat" which kind of matches the idea of a flat CMS, I guess.
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To let an external express server handle it. Which they think will be better than the current in house solution.
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Android APIs get partially rebooted at every Google IO, and the NDK is what it is, no need to add extra immature tooling into the mix, which isn't even officially endorsed by the Android team.

In that regard one is safer (CV) using Qt or Xamarin, given JavaScript, C++, C# and F#.
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Sure, also I learnt an incredible lot about English while learning Spanish. (e.g. I didn't know ten and tain in English words means to have) Also I can just about read Portuguese, and my French, Italian etc are so much better. I knew nothing about how Latin evolved into those languages.

Also - I learnt because I was making online friends in Latin America, and 10 years later I've got friends in just about every Latin American country + Spain, almost none of them English speakers. It hasn't been a 'hassle', it's been amazing, life-transforming. ...Well OK, the subjunctive is a hassle :-)

There are sites like livemocha and lang-8 that match you with people learning your language, so you can teach each other. I haven't been on those sites much - I almost immediately met a great teacher both times I've tried, who became a dear friend, the first in Nicaragua, the second in Spain.

Also I have to say that the word foreign seems very silly and parochial to me. "People from every other country in the world except my own" is a strange category.
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If you are starting to get obsessed with those stones, you may want to watch "The Wisdom of Crocodiles" [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120894/
The problem is the business model based on the manipulation of individual behavior. Social-media platforms know what you’re seeing, and they know how you acted in the immediate aftermath of seeing it, and they can decide what you will see next in order to further determine how you act—a feedback loop that gets progressively tighter until it becomes a binding force on an individual’s free will.

And that's why algorithmic order has won over chronological order in feeds.
What's interesting is that Git is fast up until it isn't, and it's written in such a way that fixing performance issues that do pop up is hard (or extend the software when more custom behavior is needed).

That's why Facebook chose to just fix the slow parts of hg[1], rather than fix the slow parts of git, to build a VCS which would scale with its codebase.

[1]: https://code.fb.com/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/
It's not your place to tell me how to enjoy the game. It shouldn't be the developer's place either. This is one thing Valve understands really well and it's why I like them a lot.

This image explains part of the problem when it comes to matchmaking, but it applies to other aspects of the game. https://i.imgur.com/0OA7fIt.png Companies like Valve understand that the best way for them to exist is to be a neutral platform that has some very basic rules, but then groups of people come together and create their own servers with more appropriate rules for that group. Some servers will have harsh moderation, some will have nearly none, others will be somewhere in between. Individuals can then find the servers they like best and everyone is happy.

Companies like Blizzard don't understand this and so they push for the view that they think will make the most people happy (at the expense of others), which is to prevent people from acting in ways that they deem are abusive. I disagree with what they think is abusive and so I'll just stop playing their game since they don't want me there.
By the same token, why have multiple programming languages? We can just use C. Why have different operating systems, we can use Windows for everything.

I'm actually super happy about mercurial support. Git is very complex and that complexity is a real barrier to entry and a time suck when a beginner invariably screws up. And if you feel comfortable with your git Fu, please explain to a beginner how to recover lost commits using git reflog or when you would use an octopus merge.
Note that this sort of thing is explicitly advised in books like How to Win Friends and Influence People, which is 90 years old—-So it is an old game.

> hopefully we’ll kick them out

I’d prefer that they learn. “Kick the bastards out” just leads to a cycle of interns building your product.
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The difference is the amount of available C#, Kotlin, TypeScript or Java jobs and Dart ones.
The guy who was rear-ended is equally happy, I bet?
It is also to distribute cost over time. It may not be positive EV to buy accident insurance (insurance companies make money somehow), but people buy it because they can't handle one time costs that are very large.
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I up voted you because I think it's a shame that people down vote for having a strange point of view. I'm assuming you aren't trolling :-) Having said that, I completely disagree ;-)

I've used RCS, CVS, Source Safe, Perforce, bzr, subversion and git professionally as a programmer (and that's not including home grown VCS systems that nobody has heard of). I like git, but it's hardly going to be the ultimate VCS ever in the history of the universe.

I remember using RCS and switching to CVS. You have no idea how happy I was! It was like night and day. When I eventually started using distributed VCS systems I had that same feeling.

We need a variety of systems where people are pushing the boundaries in order to get to the next level. I don't think Mercurial is the next level, but there are some really good ideas in it. Sticking to a single implementation will hold our whole industry back.

To be fair, learning a new VCS takes as much getting used to as changing the colour of your sneakers compared to all the other stuff you have to learn in your career. If you hold on too much to a small little island of technology, you could find that the rest of the world passes you by pretty quickly (Speaking as a fairly old guy, a lot of my former colleagues are in that predicament right now -- it's not fun).
The microphone part: https://youtu.be/I6U-NkOQTe0
You mean like a legal contract?

I'm genuinely unsure of what you're getting at here.
Hm. My understanding is that the git and mercurial worlds follow different workflows around branching, merging, forking, etc.

Does that cause a huge impedence mismatch in the UI? Or will they converge?

In the same vein, I wounder if it's possible for a single repo/history to be checked out with either tool. You clone with hg, I'll use git. We both merge with patches as a common language.

Disclaimer: only use git