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The best way out of it may well be to force yourself when you're uncomfortable... Give presentations at tech user groups, as an example. It's uncomfortable, but if you do it a few times, it gets easier. Just make certain you have time to prepare, practice and leave 1/5 to 1/6 of your time for questions at the end and/or interruptions for questions.

Avoiding interaction, will only make you less comfortable with them over time, then the next thing you know, you're well into your senior years and lonely. The one thing you do want to be aware of is not talking too much in social situations... ask questions and listen.
Should you accept a pull request from a very bad person?
Doing so will require a complete shift of responsibilities for parties involved. I myself witnessed many "brains being broken" scenes when somebody tries to explain why Linux kernel development being done for "free", to men with educational background in business.

In the end, you will never be successful doing so, be sure 99%. But whether they understood the bigger picture of things or not, technical needs need to supersede business needs, or that tech business will not work.
Torrents couldn't be used to launder money for corrupt purposes. Anyone in crypto who didn't see this coming was blind or willfully ignorant.
Ask HN: Why and how is Gartner Inc. still relevant?
I just came across one of Gartner's most recent publications (predictions, trends, ...).

I'm finding it hard to distill through the fluff to find meaningful insights.
Their trends are dated and it feels as if someone has spilled the buzzword paint on a slide deck.

I'm experiencing first-hand the mess they have caused by suggesting an operational/outsourcing model that makes it extremely hard to get anything done other than planning.

How are they still relevant?
>Why is it a problem when poor people want to move in but not rich people?

Because they are a drain on the local economy, often have mental and/or substance abuse issues, and live outside. Is that a real question? You can't honestly protray most homeless people as free spirits painting on the sidewalk and "living their best life".
In all honesty, it sounds like a dangerous prank for the players. It's funny since it turned out alright but I don't think they knew it would be completely safe.

I don't know how structurally sound the surface was there but if I had a season-ending injury because I stepped on a balloon or because my leg fell through the grass then I'd be pretty upset about it.
Tarjan! I remember being stuck for months and not being able to get into the catacombs under the Mad God's temple. I also remember the triumph of actually living through the night for the first time.
Gatsby did a great job incorporating Mikhail Novikov's work on the Gatsby Source GraphQL plugin. Kudos!

If you want to see another example of Gatsby powered by a GraphQL native CMS, check out the following tutorial: https://docs.graphcms.com/tutorials/developers/gatsby_and_gr...
If you are writing "business" apps (for some definition of business), you should probably use a PaaS.

If you want to create a PaaS, Kubernetes is an excellent foundation (see Knative).
The comment with Intel was already mentioned in 2008 at https://deadracoon.livejournal.com/87049.html
Homelessness has recently risen rapidly in cities where the cost of rent has also recently risen rapidly.

So is it that other cities are suddenly shipping over way more people, or is it a predominantly local problem caused by rapidly rising rent that can no longer be afforded?

We have cities where existing residents can no longer afford housing that are actively seeking to attract more business to move in, and with that create more competition for housing and higher population. You can't fix the results of housing cost inflation if you keep the upward pressure on the cost - you just will be spending more of your money chasing the upwardly-moving property prices your other policies are causing!
There's a minimum when you have deployed each one of your hundred microservices to a server, though.
I disagree. The inability or unwillingness to provide for one's self is the condition, and there are many constraints which may force a person into that condition. Homelessness is a side effect and consequence of the condition.
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I’ve been in SF for about 7 years and became homeless in June. The #1 thing that helps me is cash in my pocket, from day labor (odd jobs) and boosters from family and friends who know I’m not a drug addict/alcoholic. Obviously the latter can’t be offered by a gov because it would be abused, but work for cash saved my life. IME cash in hand is the biggest help.

#2 by far is bathroom access... followed by water and food. Anything beyond that feels too permanent for a healthy able bodied person.

The way people treat me when showered is night and day. And then going to places with opportunity/wealthy people and away from homeless populations is essential.
> I simply don't understand why some people won't buy the product because it's not open source.

Because Microsoft is putting ads into its email application.

The software people pay for.

Used to be, you could say "If you didn't pay for it, you're the one being sold."

Well, their users damned well did pay for it, and they're still being sold.

You can say you'd never do that.

I'm sure Microsoft would have said they'd never do it five years ago, too.
It is irrelevant what the percentage is. If you are good at allocating capital efficiently, you will become wealthy. Therefore, the wealthy has positive skew to their capital allocating ability.
Well, it could also happen tomorrow. There is just a larger possible timeline.
A first problem is how to recognize these incredibly brilliant people. The current answer to this is the tournament to tenured professorship. If you select those who already succeed in this system, you are not really doing anything new, so something different should be done but it is not clear what.

A second difficulty is the "rest of their lives" part. It's quite hard to believe ROI would not be required when rich people are involved in some way or other. Charity is PR, and so the system will optimize for PR.
Well yeah that's the obvious way to make money running tether.

Demand drops and the value of 1.00 USDT drops below $1.00, redeem the USDT yourself and profit on the spread.
I tried learning web dev with a LAMP stack and it was frustrating. I hate learning systems that try to do everything for you because you get way too many boxes with question marks over them in your understanding.

Its different after you know how things work, but to start with I really appreciated nc and node http servers
give people housing.

Unfortunately, this is likely to be a solution with adverse consequences and likely won't fix anything. I am for diversifying our housing stock in a way that better serves our needs, as I commented on at length elsewhere in this discussion. But this is a problem space I have studied, and I don't think this works, for a long list of reasons.
Anecdotally, iOS 11 made my iPhone 6 run slower than iOS 10, but iOS 12 made it run faster than iOS 10. (This is in line with other reports and benchmarks you'll find if you go looking.) There's an awful lot of snark about iOS slowing down with each successive version, but I'm not at all convinced it's universally true. (Again, anecdotally, I'd say iOS 7 and 9–11 were guilty of that.)

At any rate, the big issue I tend to hear about Android phones getting updates is "my Android phone isn't getting updates." My iPhone 6 shipped in 2014, and iOS 12 actually ran on 2013's iPhone 5s. How many Android phones that shipped before 2016 are getting Android P? Are there Android phones that shipped in 2016 that aren't?
There's probably not a lot of outright malevolent actors out there. Just a lot of people slightly favoring things which are in their own interest. Which, we should say, is generally understood to be what's supposed to happen.

People with school age kids probably vote to approve new funding for school districts at a higher rate than people without kids. Even if the difference is only a couple percent. Is that a scandal? No. Indeed, if nobody had kids, there probably shouldn't be a school. If everybody had kids, why, a good school is an the very heart of the community.
This uncannily reminds me of how I first learned to program (at ~10 years old, not 4, sadly).

Growing up, at my grandparents house, we had a communal old Mac (running OS 7 or 8, and BeOS for a while). Being a curious kid, I would often watch my uncle play Civilization II, and I would play myself. One day, I went to observe what he was playing, and instead it was programing in FutureBASIC. It sparked my interest, and he taught me the basics. This became a lifelong hobby, and I went from learning FutureBASIC from him, to then discovering a whole world of information online, learning REALBasic and PHP next, and C, Objective-C, and more. As a teenager, I made Mac apps and websites, and eventually when the iPhone came out, mobile apps. This gave me disposable income in high school (from selling shareware) and funded my one-way ticket and move to Silicon Valley.

A simple gesture like that, that sparks the right interest, can give someone an entirely different life and career.
Another author of science fiction who made some chillingly accurate predictions was Hoshi Shinichi[1], whose works are generally not that well known in the West, even among some of the broader scifi fandom. In particular, I vividly remember reading his novella "Voice Net"[2] in college.

From the late author's (now inconsistently accessible) website:

> Shinichi Hoshi's futuristic story is set in the banally dubbed "Honeydew Condominium," a modern, twelve-story complex just outside the city. It starts at the gift shop on the building's first floor. The lackluster shop owner routinely uses his telephone to do just about everything: from counting cash register receipts to monitoring his vital signs. The story follows the seasons as it climbs floor to floor, watching people's lives change under an increasingly ubiquitous network of machines.[3]

The novella was written in 1969, so he imagines everything as spoken over the telephone, and yet he describes: a service of personal information managers who call you each morning with reminders including friends' birthdays and local events, banking conducted almost entirely remotely with dubious sharing of spending habits, and many other eerily accurate parallels to today. At the time I was first reading the book, Facebook had just started to nag you about your friends' birthdays.

Voice Net has a slow burn meta-narrative through its trajectory of short stories (each chapter) that builds in a very unsettling way and is really a treat. I won't say anything more about it here.

It's a pity his work isn't more widely known in the West, though Voice Net was available on Apple's iBook store (which does not have a web portal I can link to here) when I first read it and appears to be on Amazon's Kindle store[4], though the latter may not be a translated version.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Hoshi

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24751717-voice-net#

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180827191647/http://shinichiho...

[4]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L40GY50
Subsidizing nuclear more expensive than new wind
The UK's mass surveillance regime has broken the law again (September 2018)
Flow-based programming is visual - http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/
Also I just found this hardware description language called Clash [1]. It's based on Haskell and compiles to VHDL.

That sounds really awesome to me! I'll learn VHDL as well, but this seems like a nicer high-level language with a really good type system.

[1] https://clash-lang.org
The correct answer is probably to build some new housing supply but definitely not as much as the peak demands.

Why is that? It doesn't change the fact that once the mines are gone, they're gone. The value of existing homeowner's investment has been preserved but nothing's been done to buffer the economy or help people pushed out of rentals. It's just transferring wealth to rentiers.

Diversifying the economy -- having an environment more encouraging to industry, not less -- is the right answer.
What prevents people from setting up such LLCs and go nuts on such naked options? I mean you can bankrupt the company if they go wrong, reap it if it works out. I am sure I am missing some gaping hole there.
I don't know why you find it implausible given that there are plenty of people who already do both those things while having enough money not to.
>These studies always sound dubious, just like the misrepresentations that you are pointing out.

So are you suggesting we base our understanding of this problem on anecdotes?

The problem I have with that is that the anecdotes that you present are constructed to support the idea that there is nothing to be done, that we must simply accept that homelessness is too big a problem to be solved or even quantified. I refuse to accept that conclusion, and support efforts to understand the problem rationally.

http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/San-Francisc...
You do nothing of the sort. You're buying a specific combination of hardware and software that may or may not get upgrades and security fixes over time, just like any Android phone. Apple just has a much better track record at doing that than any Android vendor.

On the other hand when I buy a laptop or an access point I just do minimal checking of supported hardware in case there's something that's very exotic and then I get to install whatever software I want for however long I want to keep the hardware in service. For the HN crowd this should be worrying. Mobile is the #1 hardware platform by unit volume and there's no way we can actually target these devices sensibly.
The US really does have a problem, and it seems to be related to particularly inefficient and uncompetitive contracting and caused by poor governance structures. The fact this battle has to happen in the media at all instead of having a clear chain of decision-making is evidence something is wrong.
Yes, I meant the other NLP.

> You know that neurolinguistic programming is pseudoscientific new age magic bullshit, right?

I know no such thing. I'll grant you that most of the people talking about it, and many of the practitioners, are saying "pseudoscientific new age magic bullshit", and that's extraordinarily unfortunate.

Nevertheless, the foundations and principles of NLP are sound and the reproducible results should not be ignored. NLP develops algorithms for change that work. Is it a scientific body of knowledge? No. But it should be. We should do science to it.

I'll point out that it originates with an application of Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to transcripts of therapy sessions with very effective therapists (Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, and Milton Erikson. I think I spelled the names right.)

It's not pseudoscience because it doesn't claim to be scientific. Despite it's unscientific nature it does provide reliable, repeatable algorithms for overcoming our worser natures. We can use the techniques without buying into any "new age magic bullshit" whatsoever. The whole point is that you don't have to believe in any particular thing to have the techniques work. It's like aspirin. You don't have to believe in aspirin to relieve your headache with it. Aspirin doesn't care. NLP is the same way. In fact, you can alter your belief structures using NLP, so logically it's ontological status must be "meta-belief", but that's getting way far afield.

My main point stands: NLP works. (So who cares if it's wrapped in astrology or the "Enneagram", or wearing rubber pants? We can clean it up later when the fire has been put out, eh?)
It may be difficult, but it's often the right approach. Difficult things are often the right thing when it comes to social interaction and dealing with other people. Nobody likes it, and unless you're a Narcissist or similar, it is never completely easy. It tends to take work and practice.

For me, the path out was making myself speak publicly.
Totally. You can also see the small exhibit in the Stata cafeteria.
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People love to latch onto the outlier cases when an iPhone gets slower or half-broken after an update. For the last 5-6 years however, everyone I asked told me that their iPhone and iPad either gets a bit smoother or stays the same after a new iOS.

So please don't imply iOS updates brings iDevices "ever closer to unusably slow" because that's very non-factual.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiJqTBCQuw
The very action of enforcing the "need to be at least 13" is respecting what COPPA demands.
> The point of the article was to debunk some of the perceived "evils" of proprietary software.

The idea that software can sell my information isn't just a "perceived" evil anymore.

Back in the 1990s, the closed-source advocates had more of a point: Internet access wasn't omnipresent, and wasn't assumed to be, and it was legitimately more difficult to monetize whatever information you could collect, if only because hard drives to store it were more expensive.

These days, well, Microsoft is adding advertisements to its email application. What else is it doing? Anyone who knows has signed an NDA. European governments might be able to GDPR some of it out of them, but I doubt they'll be able to get all of it. Code is law, after all, and steganography is a very old field.

The trust has been poisoned. The innocence is lost.
I don't see that there is an argument - rather that a separate chain of discussion has started. It's fair to then say "well that's all fine but what I was thinking of was X" which is what I am reading. I think that there is a big difference between frames of Einstein (I don't understand these) and frames of reason and perception (I don't understand these either) but I do see that there are two different things!

Like I don't understand either Australia or Argentina.. but I know that they are not the same!
That's not a very direct way to control revenue. What they can't do, is post higher prices.

The kind of teachers who have control over revenue are private school teachers, ballet teachers, music teachers, teachers at cram schools.
Proprietary software can be downright dangerous if you tightly integrate it in your work and the vendor suddenly goes away or shuts down the software. But this has nothing to do with copyright, Software Freedom Conservancy defends GPL for the copyright holders that they represent.

The biggest issue with proprietary software is the unbalanced relationship with the vendor that it implies.
Just wanted to let you know your page loaded faster for me on mobile than nearly any other website in recent memory. Kudos.
I see confusion about reference frame. It is perfectly okay to say something is happening at 1 million light years away. And there is no ambiguity within our presumed Earth reference frame. Of course we won't know for another million years if such a claim is true. But if it is, it is perfectly sane to say it happened a million years ago when we do observe it. The point is given a reference frame, it is perfectly fine to specify an event with location and time, so long as you specify both location and time. These have nothing to do with light cones.

[Add] To give another more relevant example if we observe a signal today coming from a location one million light years away, there is no ambiguity to say it happened a million years ago at such and such location. Anyone in a different frame can compute the time and location of the event unambiguously for their own frame, knowing the relative velocity between the frames.
> I am dismissing those that reject proprietary software on principle

If they dismiss it then they don't need it. You can't force anyone to buy things they don't need, at least in free society that is.
It is because of institute hostility that there are fewer hacks.

That hack in particular took multiple months of preparation and was took down by the institute in less than 1 hour; before anyone could really see it. Also the amount of security and possible consequences has increased drastically in the last 2 years; continuing the trend of the last 6 years.
Just paying for housing is a surprisingly cost effective and simple solution that is empirically backed as more cost effective and better outcomes for the individuals involved in nearly every study.

Housing first, then figure out what support looks like for other issues.
ABEND was also used in Novell Netware, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the most recent actual incarnation (rather than a reference, as in a game).
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"Secrecy is not necessarily a bad thing provided a proprietary software vendor’s incentives are aligned with your own objectives."

That's the point: if you're being secretive, then your end users are denied the ability - without undue effort - to verify for themselves that you or your software are acting in their best interests or "aligned with [their] own objectives".

Transparency is a dependency of trust. No ifs ands or buts. If you can't be transparent because "boo hoo we can't make any money" then I can't trust you, and no reasonable person should.

The tired excuse that "but but but the black hats will see our code and hack us" is just that: a tired excuse along the same lines as "security by obscurity". The black hats will find holes in your software anyway, because they're motivated to do so (whether because it's how they put food on the table or because they find it a fun challenge). The least you can do is make it as easy as possible for the white hats to spot those zero-days first.

None of the arguments in this article are groundbreaking or compelling. They're the same tired bullshit excuses closed-source devs always try to feed their users for why said users should be fine with "don't worry, just trust us, we pinky-promise we're not selling your data to advertising networks (wink!)". Maybe you are, maybe you're not. Maybe you aren't yet but might in the future. No way to know for sure without full-blown reverse engineering every single build.

And note that none of this has to do with software freedom. Yes, most transparent software happens to be free software, but you can be transparent and proprietary. From a trustworthiness perspective, I don't care if there's a thousand-page Apple-style EULA in the source tree; I just want access to the source tree. Conflating transparency and freedom is a tell-tale sign of strawmanning here.
Smith talks about land specifically. Not sure where you're going here.
> You do nothing of the sort. You're buying a specific combination of hardware and software that may or may not get upgrades and security fixes over time

Bringing in strictly theoretical supposition which is directly at odds with what's historically been a very solid track record from Apple isn't doing your argument any favours. Unless I misunderstood you.
To do more cleaning you need more station closures and delays
Don't you think it's possible to take an ideal too far? Like, beyond the point of pragmatism?
* Unionized workers make very good money in New York.

I didn't believe a friend of mine who only finish college was making $218,000 a year basically for early morning train track cleanups (device to pickup trash, stay away from 3rd rail), until I saw his bi-weekly paycheck with my own eyes. He's been doing that for last 5 years and they hire more people to do the same. What an insult to anyone with MBA, PhD., anyone pretty much who doesn't work for Union.
Object destructuring and currying in functional JavaScript
> A Kubernetes cluster is not a computer, it is a cluster of computers.

Well, when you tot up all of the channel processors and LPARs and so on...

A mainframe isn't a computer, it is a cluster of computers.