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"Transparency" is a pretty word, and I like transparency in a lot of things, but not in everything, and I don't think it's good here. I've given my reasons in another comment close to this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18468332
Yeah, what a weirdo. Caring about other people and shit. Despicable!
“I’d rather be hit by a bus than fly in an Airbus”

There’s versions of these type of statements for all aircraft manufacturers. Does it add anything to the conversation to state them? Not in my opinion.
I don't know if there is a best. I think most ETL tools look similar how they visualize dataflows, and in what they do.

I think SAP BW is pretty good if you are an enterprise. Especially if you have a large SAP Landscape. Then extracting data is simple and fast.

Pro
I like their concept of infoobjects to organize the metadata.
I like the way you can schedule jobs and monitor these.
I like the programming features to customize SAP BW.

Cons
I do not like the GUI, but newer versions look more modern.
Licenses.
Expensive.
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I have it and its mostly useless except that it gets you discount at few top tier conferences. If you go to lot of their conferences, the membership will almost pay for itself. The free stuff that comes with membership is virtually useless and many times borderline spam.

I'm however considering cancelling this as my protest against their mostly pay walled publications. Interestingly even if you have membership they still don't give you access to it! In many ways they are as bad as Elsevier but have managed avoid attention because technically they are "nonprofit" on paper and they run lot of top tier conferences.
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But it's about the habits in people's backyards right? Or about restaurants?
One day, in my early twenties, I was feeling sorry for myself (as early-twenty-somethings often do). I began reflecting how love was just a chemical in my head or somesuch self-indulgent nonsense.

And then it hit me -- there's a chemical in my head that makes me fall in love! And I got all excited because -- wow, that is some crazy shit! And what a bizarre, crazy thing it is to be a human and have all this stuff going on inside you that somehow adds, multiplies, and exponentiates to make up who you are.
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This exact scenario is going to play out near my house over the next two weeks. SF Bay $2m houses. I should send pictures to the county building inspector.
If I wanted someone to actually heed what I was saying, I'd suggest a textbook or a set of online lessons to work through and offer to answer questions about the subject matter or the profession. "Simple, put fingers on keyboard, struggle, and figure it out through practice" would be equally useless advice for learning musicianship, writing, or anything else involving a keyboard. With computers it's especially strange since there are so many resources today for people starting out.

In fairness, it's a free country, and these people could have found someone to recommend a textbook or some classes easily enough.
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So every company mission statement ever?
A key point is balancing these, sometimes fully satisfying one will ignore another. Communication is all about balance.

Note that these apply to programming languages as much as they do to natural language.
Soon only humans will talk about orangutans in the past.
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What kind of patterns do you have that renting iron is more expensive than Azure/AWS? That seems counter-intuitive.
"Hold onto your butts"
Well, I had Adrian Carmack and John Carmack in mind, but frankly I don't really recall who it was, just that there were two of them.

Wikipedia mentions that “by mid-1994 John Carmack had purchased two Ferrari Testarossas,” so it's possible he was both of the guys. But I'm sure others did well too.
I do believe Manning got a fair trial. She also got all the medical help she needed for her gender transition. She did violate the law, and quite severely. She also put American soldiers at risk. And she got a pardon. Overall, it didn't go that bad, did it?

So yes, I do believe the United States is a lot better regarding Human Rights. Even in Guantanamo bay the prisoners are kept in relatively Human conditions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022663
He probably meant John and Adrian... both Carmacks and founders if ID
Yes. This is a very specific failure mode, and given the publicity of this event, it's not going to catch anyone else out.

Now, that doesn't mean I didn't double check the aircraft types for some upcoming flights flights...
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Is it possible to firewall Microsoft products using only the things that the average person has access to? (A telecom-supplied router and a Windows computer.)
At least the giants, like Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins.
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True, but note that this is also true of observations about other humans. How do I know that the behaviour of other humans isn't just instinctive?

I'd argue only assuming that mt experience is similar to theirs. I think it is far more reasonable to extend this line of thinking to orangutans, than it is to jave different standards for humans and other apes...
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Yes, but we now live in a world of weaponized package takovers, such as the Kite incident with IDE plugins, or the security mishaps that have afflicted npm. The “I’m a good guy, you’re a good guy, we’re all good guys” approach doesn’t really cut it any longer.
"Depends on what you mean exactly". You can cross compile x86 apps from any architecture you can run the compiler. If you expect to also run them on the local device then it still depends on more detail of what it is you mean by x86 development. 64 bit x86 emulation still isn't supported so you wouldn't be able to run apps compiled in such a fashion. Drivers/kernel level stuff is not part of the application emulation layer so would not work. Other than that, it would most likely work (albeit slowly).
Why does scientific reductionism need an antidote?

"antidote to scientific reductionism" seems about as useful as "antidote to nonblindness".
Any plans on doing the same for japanese? At least for Hiragana and Katakana? Would be pretty neat!
Off-putting? You should check PANTONE and their licensing business. Anyway it's all about mixing electromagnetic waves.
I don't believe it's possible to firewall Microsoft products in the general case of a power user that has access to an edge router.

You'd have to do something insane like IP whitelisting only for services you care about, hope that none of them use MS services like Azure, disable Windows Update entirely, etc.

It might be possible in the abstract sense of "right now nothing is getting out" but they have root on your box, it's closed source proprietary software, and you've basically broken the OS with this firewalling anyway.

You need to be able to trust them.
Yeah I usually only double check airline types for comfort rather than safety. But I think you're right that these heavily publicized events actually create more scrutiny/cautiousness, especially from US airline pilots.
We easily treat language as a malleable device. Just look in literature or internet subcultures, but you can see it in day-to-day life if you think about it. You probably do it, too.

The idea and exercise of this is so ubiquitous that I think you're blind to it, like when people suggest there is no American culture.
I'm a very big user of Google Books. They've digitized a large chunk of the world's libraries and made them freely available. Despite the thousand and one ways in which they have betrayed their original principles, I am personally very grateful for this one offering of theirs.
I'd say it could be both. I'm honestly not the best person to ask as I'm not really a BBQ aficionado, perhaps someone else could chime in.
Packages in the official Debian archives are generally well behaved. Unofficial packages, sometimes less so. There was an incident a couple of months ago where a package (from Microsoft, incidentally) replaced your /bin/sh with bash. Wouldn't it be neat if such an atrocity wasn't possible?
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Maybe, there are the electronic noses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_nose
But I'm not so sure how sensitive they are.
Really? What word would you use to describe a baby (or androgynous looking person) whose gender you weren't sure of?
>employee at biggest surveillance machine in the world considers working at the 2nd biggest surveillance machine

Thats the most typical HN look at it
You could do it with a laser from quite some distance. Stronger LED can also kill the sensor.

I would also pay kids that tend to like kicking lampposts.
It unofficially changed a couple years ago to:
"Move fast and break things.
And fix your shit."

(source: my brother, who worked there for a few years following acquisition)
Why the hell do the classrooms need to be disinfected in the first place? What are they teaching them, how to harvest organs from Falun Gong practitioners?
To the few comments above: stores with automatic self-checkouts were a thing in Japan for a decade, but the trend has reversed. Properly trained cashiers were faster than machines, nor had issues with "please wait for attendant every second checkout."

The biggest problem for them were that they after all, all required some amount of human intervention for work. Because of that, the store had to buy both a self-checkout machines, then hire a guy to click buttons on the machine, then a security guy who looks if nobody tries to do any tricks and rough up ones who do.

I think the better way is how it is done in China: you have gigantic (shipping container sized) wending machines placed all around residential blocks and such. Works well for packaged products, but not for fresh produce. When it needs service, a truck comes in, picks it up whole, and a new, fully restocked one is placed in its place in a few hours by the same truck with a crane.
It might actually be that things like election interference came up so quickly that their problem was not moving fast enough to stop it before it was a problem. If their motto was "observe the problem for a year and have at least thirty-three planning meetings before making a decision", would they have addressed the problem better? Probably not. The problem was that they didn't move fast enough and break enough things.
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>Anyone from MS willing to chime in?...

If MS is making money from this, the last thing anyone involved in it will do is tell you how much.
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It's too bad Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook won't ever stand firm together and tell the EU regulators to get bent and go home.
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They probably also contribute to microplastics pollution when the clothes slowly break down during washing.
Intentions don't matter anywhere near as much as results.
In the real world, you get rewarded only for achieving results, not for trying.
Because we wouldn't have any concepts of art or beauty or music or many of the things that seem to make life worth living.
"This extortion attempt is a hoax and have seen zero evidence to suggest otherwise." -- https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/1063392853014048768
Really? The title luckily isn't as click-baity as this: "Why I no longer use TypeScript with React and why you might want to switch too"

But I haven't noticed any big differences in compilation times between JS and TS. Maybe the initial load is bit slower with TS. I find the arguments for switching to JS + JSDoc lacking at best and they are not winning me over to even consider a switch.
This.

The fact that you're running Windows means you are potentially already compromised.
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I remember that back in the early 90s, the DEC Alpha was pretty "weird", as it was one of the first common LP64 unix machines. I fixed so many issues due to sizeof(int) != sizeof(char *) when building open-source packages for DEC OSF/1 in the early 90s..

Later, the alpha was FreeBSD's first 64-bit platform, and when working on the port to alpha, we hit a lot of the same issues in the FreeBSD kernel. As alpha was also FreeBSD's first RISC machine with strict alignment constraints, we also hit a lot of unaligned access issues in the kernel.

Ah, those were the days. I now find myself grumbling about having to check to ensure my code is portable to 32-bit platforms.
If all you’re doing is hosting stuff on VMs, then yes you can do it on VPS hosts. But if you take advantage of the managed services and you do it correctly, you can save money on managing infrastructure and you can develop a lot faster.
What deters people from becoming Patreon creators is not being supported. I certainly would never voluntarily support someone if I for all I know they could already be grossly overpaid for what they do.

If supporting someone with X€ is any kind of "vote", it's a vote that they should get X€ more than they currently get for their work. It may be hard to make an educated decision about that, but it's impossible without knowing a creator's current income level to begin with.
This is the same reason why, every time I’ve considered joining, I opt not to. I’d rather see my funds go to support broader access to the content, scholarships and other research grants, and the like, not gate keeping.
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I wouldn't say it's a conspiracy so much as "how business is done"
Would be interested to know more about this. I see you posted an article last year, but it's since been deleted.
having read your linked article, it doesn't seem so much that her conclusions were incorrect but that she exaggerated (intentionally or unintentionally) their impact. Expanding on the subcomponents of big five traits like conscientiousness seems like valuable work to me. Nonetheless when I'm reading self-improvement books I always take the claims with a pinch of salt because most of them over-hype their contents anyway. I'm still finding the book interesting and educational nonetheless.
They apply to communication. That's the fun thing. Ultimately, implicatures (a corollary of Grice's Maxims) are an information theoretic concept, though I haven't yet seen research that treats them as such. I would love to read about it, though.
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Maybe they want to be more like google, ad-driven - when you compare revenues and overall state of the companies, I can understand why some top managers decided for this. Also testing how much users will allow, which is a threshold constantly moving towards more apathy.

Its dumb, dangerous to users and I hope they will get a massive slap on the wrists. But Win10 is out for long time and nothing is happening.
There's, I'm guessing, somewhere between 5 and 600 million consumers, er, I mean, people- in Europe.

I think that's a large part of the reason they don't stand up to the EU.
The point is that we already have millions of lines of code written in this less-portable C dialect, and probably thousands more are written every year. So no, it's not the same as a new language (for which all that code would need to be rewritten).
It could go either way, depending on who they end up attracting. Attracting people who appreciate the culture of Tulsa and want to fit in rather than force Tulsa to change to accommodate them would be a good thing for Tulsa. Attracting people who otherwise dislike Tulsa and want to change it is a recipe for disaster.

People don't react well to outsiders coming to their home and telling them how they should live. Just ask all of the states receiving large numbers of California refugees.
I was very recently one of those students. Knew from the very beginning I never wanted to work for FB. If you don't totally agree with their political leaning, disagree with censorship, and hate ads, why would you want to work there? Sounds miserable.
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I think you misunderstood what I meant, as my overall point is indeed that having good perks is most of the time a win-win for both the company and the employees.
I know, right? Someone has to stand up for the right of these corporations to collect and sell everyone's personal data to the highest bidder.
Brutal.

In my case, my friend's name got replaced with something like "Schookums Bear <3" after replying to an email from his fiance.
> SpaceX has quite effectively shown that you can out compete bigger players with a combination of modest availability of capital, talent and out of the box thinking.

But did that employing hordes of ex NASA, Lougheed, Raytheon, MDA engineers, and best and brightest at that.

SpaceX is as far from a ordinary SV startup as it can be.
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Hey man, thank you so much for the kind words! It really made my day.
Will rewriting the function I made in "resources.h" (setcolor(), from line 682)[1] using ANSI escape codes do the job?

1. https://github.com/Akshat412/Caverns-Kobolds/blob/master/Sou...
I can't buy into the idea that these companies have contributed a net negative to society. Their existence has vastly improved communication over the internet for billions of people. Weighed against their cons, I still think it's a net positive.
An amateur is not a person that has no knowledge.

An amateur is a person who pursues an activity independently of their source of income.

It's kind of amusing that general understanding of the term has flipped in this way - basically it implies that if you're not doing something under a capitalistic structure, you're probably doing something wrong.

A bunch of software that you use on your computer on an everyday basis was produced by amateurs.

Hobbyist might be a better term.

I have a degree in Physics. I'm not even an amateur physicist - I don't really do anything in the field at all, my time is spent moving pixels about on screens. :P
> The amount of immigrants in any environment is a great indication if people are racist or not.

No, it's not at all. There are plenty of highly racist and toxic places where people still immigrate despite the racism, for other reasons. That doesn't negate the racism.

> If Bavarians are so racist how come we have so many immigrants in Munich?

"If Bavarians are so racist against Arabs and so Islamophobic, why are there so many Turks, Croatians, Italians, Greeks, Poles, and Romanians in Munich?"
> I reached the article limit

Add Outline.com/ before the URL, like:

https://outline.com/https://www.economist.com/international/...
That trial would be political and biased. Same as what was done to Manning.
That could be the path that got General AI started... :-P

don't know if I'm serious or not.

Let that A.I. figure out tutorials based on what people search for.
I climbed (hiked) Cotopaxi in Ecuador, and you can see Chimborazo from the summit.

Cotopaxi is 5,897m, so it's still further from the center of the earth than Everest.

Full story of my climb and photos here http://theroadchoseme.com/cotopaxi-summit
Never heard of those and I do read a lot so they hardly qualify as giants even though they have had their share of success. Stephen King, on the other hand, is probably not going to be forgotten any time soon (I find his books dull tbh but nobody cares about my opinion :).
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The one you reference in your HN profile.
It's good, though, that the European countries stood together and told Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook to get bent and go home!

As an EU citizen, my response to "we're sorry not sorry but due to recent EU laws, we can't continue to offer you this service" is: get bent, go home. I hope we, as the software development community can finally understand and appreciate that the insane proliferation of personal data modern tech has become dependent upon is a Bad Thing.
I'll take intentions over wilful ignorance any day
Taken down for copyright infringement apparently, I'd guess within 20 minutes of it ending.
I have a hard time believing that you never used or heard of English's ubiquitous gender-neutral pronoun.

You certainly weren't using "it" to refer to humans.

I'm actually dumbfounded that someone would make this claim. It's almost as unbelievable as someone saying they've heard "ze" more than they've heard "they" in real life.

I don't believe it for a second and think it's more like when my girlfriend recently admitted she's never seen the metric system in recipes. I found this hard to believe and, sure enough, when I made her scroll through the recipes she'd saved in just the last month, "g" and "ml" are at least half the measurements. "Oh, haha, nevermind," she says.

Edit: You use "they" all the time in your comment history for genderless entities like Apple and TechCrunch (didn't want to scroll further). Some could say this is the plural pronoun, like when people pluralize "Radiohead {is->are} a good band", but since you do use "is" in these contexts, you are indeed quite familiar with the singular "they". And if you consume any English at all (as you certainly do on HN and Reddit), you see it daily.

It might seem like I'm making a big deal about nothing, but more and more often I'm starting to see a certain reality revisionism that makes me feel like I'm being gaslit by the people around me.
> I can cite many anecdotes of folks who have tried living in different environments and fled due to (lack of) diversity and the political culture.

The opposite is far more common. White Flight is not just the name of my Bee Gees cover band.
Technology was blackboards black in my day and it wasn't that long ago.
For one thing, static_assert is C++, not C. There's still plenty of C around, and plenty more is being written.

The other problem with this approach is that it effectively defines lots of distinct subtly different pseudo-platforms, each a set of assumptions. And your average developer might not know which of those assumptions actually are "portable enough", and which are not. The point of defining such a profile would be for experts to provide a blessed set of assumptions that is, in fact, portable across all general-purpose platforms that are in active use.

For example, the fact that CHAR_BIT is 8, or that int32_t is defined, or that ints are two's complement, are all reasonable assumptions. But two's complement overflow for signed arithmetic is not, even today - even though in practice it works just fine on some platforms (more specifically, on some implementations).
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>The whole point is you can't actually compute it.

You can't compute the probability. But you can compute an upper bound on the probability with a reasonable confidence, which is what the author is doing here.

This is standard statistics and might be useful in some cases. It does assume that the events are independent, but this is a pretty standard assumption that you have to check whether it applies in your case, or at least approximately applies in your case.

>What he's doing here isn't science, it's a guess.

Which is a pretty big thing in this subfield mathematics called statistics.
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Let’s move this tidbit to a structered api of common knowledge! Dewey decimal for data, not just a generic search engine for datasets in different formats (like the recent google datasets site), but a familiar, goto resource.
nice deflection monopolist.