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I use this site primarily for seeing aggregated news related to tech, not for ideological battle. When I see hypocrisy, misconceptions, lies, and faulty logic being spread and promoted, when some rational and opposing voices are routinely shut out, I sometimes decide to make a comment in an attempt to point out this out.

If you consider me doing this "ideological battle", instead of abusing the "flag" button like others on this site do, you are woefully mistaken.

Yes, very rarely do I bite back with a kind of venom that others spread. This comment of mine that you've chosen to respond to is in response to another user's comment who grossly misrepresented a group of people as "fucking apeshit" "double standard"-applying "privileged, right-wing" individuals. So I chose to mimic their verbage and point out the hypocrisy in their thinking. Honestly suspecting there might be a chance they catch on. Yet their comment appeared untouched while mine was flagged. And here I am, now being told I've been breaking the guidelines.

I've reviewed the guidelines. They're not applied even-handedly. Abusers liberally use the flag mechanism for their own ideological battles, and the lens with which you view comments for moderation is distorted.

I've checked your link for your 'primarily' test, and no results show. Like I've stated, I use this site primarily for seeing aggregated news, and sometimes, when I see bullshit, I point it out.
>Google doesn't need to read my mail to make a good webmail interface.

No, but they _are_ able to better catch spam, categorize your emails for you, highlight the emails that are most important to you, suggest pre-written responses for you, and more -- by incorporating your data into the service.

>Google doesnt need to track me 24/7 to tell me where XYZ restaurant is on the map.

No, but they _are_ able to suggest restaurants you'd probably like, compare them to other places you've been/rated, warn you about traffic on your commute, show you photographic places you might be interested in, and more -- by incorporating your data into the service.

I don't think anyone is arguing that Google _could_ provide these services without using your data. Obviously, they could. I think the debate stems from whether those services are worth the data they depend on.

I wouldn't (and don't: see Google Apps) use any Google service that costs $5/month. In the same vein, if the features of those services got gutted in the name of "we won't use your data anymore", I wouldn't use the services either (assuming I could find a competitor that provides a better service... probably with my data).

I want personalized search. I want the ads I'm forced to see to be things I'm actually interested in. I want Chrome to log me into everything automatically. I want my data synced across all my devices. I want technology to just work for _me_.
I suppose if you are familiar with Tkinter and are happy with how it looks have at it! But there are a ton of things that can be leveraged from Python and Qt separately going this route.

PyQt uses compiled Qt C++ code so isn't really that slow, comparable to how NumPy does it's number crunching. Even if you do find it is slow, you can always come back and branch down to the C++ level when needed, although there are ton of steps you could take to optimize in Python first. There are also all the Qt tools from UI editor and Designer to QML and way more if you really wanna go down the rabbit hole...

What are you suggesting as a really good looking and fast cross platform alternative??
Well, pubs are legitimately the oldest financial structure in ireland. Cheque-central!
Interesting. Does this page show that they have had a CTO for just 3 of the past 10 years? Or only that they paid a CTO for those years?
This argument is silly and ignores the power imbalance between employer and employee.

We would be better of saying no company can offer employment on $obviously_bad_for_employee terms than letting the 'market' decide. Every employer benefits from this arrangement and no employer would have it in their contract if it didn't benefit them.

The power to just change jobs isn't as common and people on HN believe and that power is meaningless when most employers require arbitration. And why wouldn't they, it directly affects their bottom line.
Just wait until they realize what you can do with pulsed DC electronic motors.

RIP John Adams and John Bedini.
My Wikipedia account was created two months ago and has exactly two edits, one of which removed a spam link and another which fixed a transliteration error. There has been no hostile reaction.

If you're just trying to correct a citation or trivial spelling error on a long forgotten page, editing doesn't seem to be particularly difficult.
We may weep for the 7th amendment, which guaranteed the right to a trial by jury in disputes, as long having been bypassed and a currently dead amendment.

Alexender Hamilton: "The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty."

Thomas Jefferson: "Another apprehension is that a majority cannot be induced to adopt the trial by jury; and I consider that as the only anchor, ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of it’s constitution."

They tried, but greed is too strong. You've lost the right to a trial by jury. What little bit is left is dead under mandatory binding arbitration.
It was a smaller musical--off-broadway. I think it's playing in London at the moment.

Not bad although it felt a bit unnecessary as a lot of musicals adapted from fondly remembered films seem to be.
It's both a diminutive of Elizabeth and a name in and of itself. Same with Betsy and Liz. Betty can also be a diminutive of Beatrice or Bethia.

Betty White is Betty and Betty Ford is Elizabeth.

There's no "rules" that you can't name someone a name that was traditionally a diminutive of another name, and it's not even particularly uncommon. Alex is common as both a diminutive of Alexandria, a diminutive of Alexandra, and a name of its own. Zach/Zack/Zac can be a diminutive of Zechariah, Zachary, Isaac, or a name in its own right. Max can be short for Maximilian, Maximus, Maxim (which is a shorter form of Maximus), Maxwell, or it can be just Max.
Well I live in Berlin on similar salaries but the costs here are half of what I've seen in Copenhagen.

I can't imagine a comfortable middle-class life in Berlin on half of what I make.
Throwing money at an organization has diminishing efficacy.

What do you think $2 million or $10 million or $100 million would have done for the Wikimedia organization, you think they would hide the donation <div> next year?
Reminds me of one of my favorite books titled:

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes, by Charles Seife

One item discussed in the book that we as humans may just be a transport method for the data within DNA to survive time. Because without some replication it would get trapped and cease to exist.
Ask HN: What sucks about where you live?
I'll start. Here's what sucks about NYC:

1) Home

- Apartments are expensive. Can get 4x more space in Chicago for same price.

- Difficult to shop for home. Wanted a desk for my bedroom. None of the stores in the city, included Target, offered reasonable-priced desks that could fit. Had to buy online, which came with own issues.

2) Services

- Services are expensive. Want to get your hair dyed blond from someone you saw on Instagram? It's $600 and they ruin your hair.

3) Food

- Groceries are expensive and inconvenient. Get delivery or Whole Foods and pay 30-70% over Trader Joe's price. Or you need to walk/Uber to Trader Joe's, wait in line, then walk/Uber back. Local bodegas? Usually bad quality and high prices (eg watermelon is $25).

- Restaurants are expensive. Entree's in Manhattan are usually $25-35.

- Food isn't uniquely great. I recently went to a well-rated David Chang restaurant in Chelsea. Meh.

- Grocery delivery is usually done by foot. Sometimes this is great, sometimes it leads to food being delivered hours late, warm, and gross. This happens across platforms.

4) Transportation

- Can't have a car in Manhattan. Parking is $600/month in my building. Btw, the doorman gets 50%, so $300/month (yay!).

- Car rentals are quite expensive in the city. Want to rent a van to go camping? That's even worse.

- Uber and Lyft is extremely slow in the city. I generally prefer taxi's since drivers understand how to get around faster. They're also priced competitively.

5) Airport

- Traffic between airports is quite bad. Usually about an hour. Makes me jealous of the 20 min SFO commute.

6) Healthcare

- Want to book a doctor or therapist? Go to Zocdoc, enter your insurance, try to book - they call you in a day saying they're booked or don't take your insurance. Great healthcare providers are tough to find.
the source code of the server is closed?
The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines to Explain Politics
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I'm really not involved in the startup scene much at all, but my impression is that the amount of startup funding available elsewhere is just nowhere close to what's available in the Bay Area.

That might have two implications: First, more startups are able to get funding in the first place, and, second, of the ones that get funded, the average amount of money they raise is much higher.

If so, then it's not necessarily that more companies insist on starting out there, so much as that it's a sort of survivor bias: The Bay Area's business climate is just one that is able to grow more startups to a big enough size that you hear about them.
Annnnnd I'm moving to brave.
Pandora's press release says so
http://blog.pandora.com/us/siriusxm-to-acquire-pandora-creat...
"we announced that we’ve entered into an agreement to be acquired by SiriusXM, in an all-stock transaction, valued at approximately $3.5 billion"

They're presumably paying a premium on the current stock price.
In my research [1] [2] [3], Tkinter was said to be better for basic applications, PyQt better for more advanced projects.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1094530/1839209

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/108zfq/tk_or_q...

3: https://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-PyQt-GTK3-or-tkinter-for-...
Automatically Wrap REST APIs with GraphQL
Works from here - maybe just a glitch?
Responsibility is a loaded word, especially in these cases. I'm not sure it's what you intended, but your simple question has a much more judgemental and condemning tone than the entire post you're replying to -- even though you are defending the OP.
That's fair. You shouldn't trust yourself, or the companies, because your trust will be betrayed one day. Everyone is a little incompetent, its just a matter of when.

That's why End To End Encryption is the best solution we have, which balances usability with good security. It reduces the surface of attack to just the encryption algorithms, their implementation, and the keys, which is substantially easier to audit and doesn't change when the products evolve. It also allows you to say "fuck it, have the data, its encrypted so who cares". Finally, it logically separates the attack surface into two distinct parts; attackers need both the keys and the data to do harm, either alone does nothing.

In practice, trust comes down to "can I protect the keys". That's something I can trust myself to manage well, and plenty of companies sell solutions to make it easy (ex: Apple and the secure enclave of your phone).
The warrant for his arrest has been revoked by Sweden and the Swedish prosecutor found he committed no crime.
He is not expected to face the law as anyone else, the UK government has already committed crimes in deleting emails regarding him but nobody went to jail. The UN has also ruled that he is being held in arbitrary detention. The only time you get punished is when you go against the US empire. Who was punished for the murder of the two journalists in Baghdad? You only face the law when you are inconvenient.

Due to the embarrassment of the CIA w/r/t to the recent leaks the US government is going to try to prosecute a publisher of classified information for the first time ever.
Really good? Platform-native APIs.
Using "Dynamic Relational" (DR) is much more similar to existing RDBMS. You don't have to relearn much. I'm not necessarily saying DR is objectively better or worse than graph DB's, only that DR is a smaller learning curve to those using the most common RDBMS out there.
Converting a React app to VanillaJS (and whether or not it was a terrible idea)
Sounds like the US needs better antitrust/consumer laws.
But strategy/execution are not orthogonal to technology/product. Strategy is about which buckets are important (product, tech, sales, marketing, etc), and execution is about filling those buckets with the right people. Technology/product may matter a lot or not at all at any point in the lifecycle depending on the strategy.
Bureaucracy is not an issue in my opinion. I've ran a successful business in France and if you have a good accountant (and lawyer for some particular issues), it's not anymore difficult than in the US. As an individual, compare how hard it is to make your tax return in the US and in France...
Unfortunately, I couldn't.

I did find places to purchase the DVD, which has English subtitles. [1][2]

I also found a very detailed plot summary, if you want to watch it without understanding the language. [3]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Enigma-Secret-Tadeusz-Borowski/dp/B00...

[2] https://www.rarewarfilms.com/Secret%20of%20Enigma%20%201979%...

[3] http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/enigma%20secret%201979...
Thanks for the feedback! I'll have to look into that deliverability issue you mentioned. Much appreciated.
Have you tried this recently, for a high-end device in a category for which a smart alternative exists? E.g. TVs

Without liability, there is no disincentivizing including smart features for manufacturers.

I agree that "Use a user-patchable / open source / replaceable stack -> shielded from some liability" or "Lock everything down -> take on legal liability for your own security" is a sane system to put in place.

There's no reason 50%+ of IoT devices (especially Chinese clones) aren't built top-to-bottom open source, aside from manufacturer ignorance / laziness.
Coincidentally, this article came up while I'm listening to the audio book Cryptonomicon where they are talking about Turing's bike with a bent spoke and weak link in the chain, and relating it to how the Enigma works, while they're taking a bike ride at Bletchley Park. My fourth time through the book, this time with my daughter reading it.
To expand on the point, if most people are like OP, then the concept of privacy as a "human right" is on thin ice anyways. It's hard to convince people to subscribe to some vague concept or idea if they are not in immediate pain / it doesn't provide some immediate benefit.
Answer in the form of a question: How can your credit card issuer force you to do this, as a non-employee?
You've hit exactly what this lawsuit is about. They aren't saying "when I got a job as a content moderator I wasn't expecting to see traumatizing things", they're saying "my employer isn't providing adequate protections from the things I have to see as part of my job".
I think the better appearance of Qt cross-platform is the main drawing point (at least it would be for me). If I were to make a cross-platform application, or even just a Linux one, I'd likely use Qt (with Python bindings because that's what I know). I tried using Tkinter on Linux for a simple utility, but I could not figure out the theming or find any matching themes for Ubuntu.
Well, there's a lot of situations in the US where the need for the doctor to be paid becomes a blockade to getting care, particularly for those in need of mental health.
I frequent mostly heavy metal pubs and for the last 5 years neither shazam nor sound hound has detected a single song for anyone near me. Complete crap. We've been using the ancient technique of asking the DJ on the way to the bar.
At the very least, the estimated time for given routes would update dynamically, as a proposed alternative route became less efficient.
Is this more than a reskinning of Have I Been Pwned?
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> If you're building a desktop app that needs to really look good and be fast, why are you using Python?

Why not? For an app to feel fast, you need to make it responsive and non-blocking. You can easily make apps with Python and Qt or Gtk that start instantly and never seem to hang. Discipline when it comes to not running things on the main thread, using proper async techniques etc. is more important than the number crunching ability of your programming language.

And when you need raw speed, you can easily drop in some C++ code with SWIG for example. For example, I made a GUI for controlling an experimental sensor system. The GUI could look boring, but should be rock solid and always responsive, it should be easy to add new features, and it had to read data from PCIe at hundreds of MB/s or even faster. So I wrote the GUI in PyQt, the PCIe part in C++. Python allowed me to mock the hardware code out easily so I could test the GUI separately, and made it really easy to read configuration files etc. which is unneccessary painful in C++.
These are only some of the salaries of a small fraction of the employees for which the salary number is even avaiable. WMF employs 5 or 6 times as many people, and it’s not clear to me what half of them are even doing. I was an admin on Wikipedia in 2007-2010, when WMF was tenth of its current size, and the Wikipedia community never felt the lack of manpower on the foundation side. Now they are an order of magnitude bigger, but in terms of end to end impact it hardly changed at all.
Have any small business owners, contractors, freelancers, etc. had success pushing back against arbitration clauses during contract negotiations?

I've spent money on lawyers' fees in order to make changes to offered contracts in the past, only to have them rejected outright. (It makes a certain amount of sense, as $CORP isn't going to have their legal team spend hours negotiating/revising a contract with a vendor that's only worth $NNk.) Unsurprisingly, this is not an area I and, I would imagine, others like me have a lot of room to experiment in: 1) lawyers are expensive and 2) missing out on that contract might mean missing out on $BILL payment. However, _most_ contracts I'm given these days contain an arbitration clause. Having had to sue someone in small claims court (I was successful!), I _loathe_ the idea of being forced into a kangaroo court.

Anyways, I'm not looking for free legal advice, I'm just curious to know how others are navigating this issue.
> no employer would have it in their contract if it didn't benefit them

Isn't that true of every item in the contract when it comes down to it, though?
A very VERY long time ago was echo.com. It's hard to find any information about it now. But it was a streaming music site that let you rate the artist, album, and song individually with stars, and it would use those ratings to make recommendations to you. Also as you accumulated listening hours you earned Amazon gift certificates. I wish someone out there remembered them besides me.
Most people working at Google don't work on these things. They work on products that genuinely help users. Should they quit just because someone else at the company is doing stupid things? Wouldn't that just leave the idiots in control of the massive resources of the company, unrestrained by internal pressure from good employees?
Your answer sounds like "because we can".
Views are an imperfect abstraction (as usually implemented). Plus, pre-many-to-many-ing all relationships will make for a notably slower system even if views hide many-to-many-ness. (As I mentioned elsewhere, one often can't know which relationships will grow to many-to-many over time.)
I will never understand why it’s such a hot topic that the terms people agree to...are the actual terms.
As a vegetable hater that was a misconception that I used to have. Turned out that in most cases I even prefer vegan meat substitutes to real meat now for their taste and texture (they can be pretty similar, but the slight differences IMO work against meat).
Our research indicated the issue was more around data transfer and access to wifi, less around storage.
I think the phrasing of the line you quoted is too strong, but the same effect can be created without any kind of ringleader or secret cabal arrangement. You only need the right preconditions:

1. Incentive (i.e. Intel tech is cheaper than Qualcomm, but worse).

2. Pressure (i.e. lower the BOM because we're selling 10 million of these a month)

3. Lack of effective oversight.

FWIW I also differ on the statement "deceit is rare". I think ~10% of people will lie if it makes them look better short term, and ~1% will lie aggressively i.e. fraud or relationship aggression. When there is a job with a big incentive for deceit and inadequate oversight it will filter in favor of the liars.

Of course this particular case could be flimsy, all these companies are suing each other all the time, it is impossible to tell what is actually going on.
We use Qt heavily at Starsky Robotics. We initially used it because it has tight integration with ROS via RQT [1], but I'm pretty impressed with the framework in general. Lots of great tools out of the box, QtCreator is awesome and once you get the right signal/slot model in your head everything is a breeze. Plus getting to prototyping in python is always fast!

For our use case, relative speed of the GUI isn't a factor. We've considered moving to electron just for ease of development, but python is winning out.

[1] http://wiki.ros.org/rqt
Counter argument:

Vague language is the best way to enable selective enforcement. Large companies who can afford the best lawyers will be able to find interpretations that are in their favor. Smaller companies would be unable to do this and thus more likely to lose.

And this only gets worse if large companies spend more effort on lobbying — they can get vague wording that makes the public feel good (like something is happening!) but which requires no effort on the company to comply.
Whys that better than Uber though?
Dammit. This is a true threat to everyman. Class actions don't benefit everyman directly, but they are indeed very powerful shapers of corporate behavior.

Congress needs to act ... oh wait, silly me, I forgot they are beholden to corporations not voters.
> am I missing something?

Not particularly. With conditionals added, we can differentiate any behavior and pretend similarities don't exist.
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Yeah, and this explanation actually makes the most sense to me. I've seen people do enough similar things to see how someone would do this without thinking about it.