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>I'm convinced I'm right, and I've transformed any opposing arguments into two ad hominen attacks relying on stereotypes

I don't have anything to say about the debate of free will vs determinism, but I particularly dislike your style of reasoning. Most people do this within topics of politics and economics, which conveniently allows them to allow their confirmation bias without putting themselves in the other person's shoes to understand where they disagree. Instead they'd rather go with the prejudiced "oh they must be that kind of (stereotyped) person."
This sounds great! Can I e-mail you to get a better idea of the work/roles?

Thanks! :)
When would something illuminated blue? When it's both working smoothly and worthy of attention?
bingo ;)
Can we not repurpose CAN for medical purposes?
I believe rapid iteration (and learning curve) is what made php and javascript (and delphi, anyone?) that popular.

I'm happy there's another platform but they really should use some existing language with mature tools and libs. Why reinvent everything again? Unless their real intent is to lock you to their own ecosystem and then mildly steer you to using or preferring to integrate with their own products.

BTW: Is dart really open? Publishing sources does not mean a thing, is Google making choices?
The Battlenet app contains Activision Blizzard games, Destiny 2 and the latest Call of Duty is on there now aswell.
Anecdotal data point: I have been hospitalised a number of times in Europe (German, Austria) and this article really resonated with me. Every time I returned home, I was relieved to be able to get back to a regular sleep schedule and it really befuddled me during my stays that I never seemed well rested, as if this was somehow the hospital administrators task to ensure that I didn't just use my hospital visit as a pseudo-vacation.
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Uber drives its Indian workers to despair
Some thoughts cross my mind:

- what doesn’t get hacked? Isn’t life a continuous trade-off between risks and chances

- If you’re afraid you’ll expose private information, then just don’t use a platform like that?

- these platforms use user generated content, true. But they provide the platform and the product. I think that is a fair deal.
wouldn't that be code that someone uses to build applications that other people want to use? Nobody is sitting around going, darn we need a new open source fizzbuzz application and we need it today!
I should also add many of those who use IRC use a bouncer like ZNC which handles things like away messages, play buffer etc.

Running a bouncer is a lot less effort than your own synapse home server for Matrix I might add.

Many people still do use paste-bins especially when they want syntax highlighting. Most of the support channels for major Linux/BSD distributions are on IRC still as with open source software.

For public communities end-to-end encryption isn't really necessary because they are public. IRC has authentication and transparent encryption.

Additionally it's very distraction-less and there are plenty of good console command line clients, eg weechat, irssi etc.

To this very day I use email and IRC daily. Thunderbird and Weechat start when I login.

Sometimes I use qTox to stay in touch with family (parents etc) as it's easy to use (particularly for non computer literate users). Decentralized and peer to peer. Many of my computer-illiterate friends have commented on it's simplicity when compared to other proprietary options.

I sometimes use Matrix if I need 'some other service ie gitter' or Matrix itself. When gaming with close friends we usually use my mumble server.

As much as I would like to use Signal do not like the fact that it is bound to a phone number and is centralized. I wrote about that more in depth here https://reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/9re6l5/chat_sol...

Many years earlier I used XMPP with OTR particularly when GoogleTalk and Facebook had gateways. Now that Google shut down their gateway, and now Hangouts I'm certainly not going to adopt their next fly-by-night software.

I've never had any motivation to go near discord, slack, telegram or some other fly-by-night software. I also have no need to try out things like Rich Communication Services (RCS) which are also vulnerable to state "technical assistance order" style notices.

It is time more people used more end-to-end, decentralized encrypted tools. The more people that uses these tools the less eager governments will be in passing useless laws that won't really help anyway.

It's clear state governments won't stop at trying to make the centralized ones put backdoors in on command, UK Australia etc.
Rudy Giuliani, a Trump cybersecurity adviser, doesn’t understand the internet
Police officer job applications plummet at most U.S. departments
I think the issue summarised the first line the author writes: "I’ve been hospitalized once in my life."
I understand where you coming from. However, would the patient know if machine is functioning correctly if it is silent? What happens if it's not plugged in correctly?
My mother is a doctor (in a different specialty), and this came up when we watched 10 Things I Hate About You, which repeats the myth.

You're correct; as far as the patient is concerned, it's better for them if you let them sleep. But it's easier for everyone else if the patient isn't allowed to sleep, as sleeping and dying look exactly the same.
Did anyone who upvoted this actually watch the documentary or the trailer, or do HNers just automatically upvote anything that's anti-Facebook and Google these days?

The documentary is mostly right-wing conspiracy theories about how liberal tech companies are trying to undermine democracy and favor Hillary Clinton. Watch the trailer if you don't believe me. Or read this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878332/creepy-line-anti...
In reality PageRank is surprisingly resistant to such effort. The SEO typically involves bit of social engineering and hacking (example convience well known website to link you or spam the comments of unpatched blog engine).

The h-index, the measure used by researchers, is surprisingly gamable on other hand. For example, two researchers can buddy up and self cite each other few hundred publications in junk journals with DOI and will suddenly become the most prominent scientist of all time. It is mind boggling that even Google Scholar doesn’t use pagerank.
It also misses the affirmative action given to these minorities. For example, extra exam points to get into college, secured government jobs, and the biggest is they were not bound by the 1-child policy.
Cynically, I'm going to say you either find unsurprising matches (eg. photos of the same group of people taken on different days) or even more convincing and hard-to-detect false positives.

If your goal is explicitly to find something extremely rare - unexpected face matches in different places - you will be flooded with false positives even if the false positive rate is fairly low.
Yum install epel-release

Yum install qt5-
New strain of Ransomware infected over 100,000 PCs in China
3rd and 4th order rainbows
To be fair - its a very suspicious time to be haymaking. Threshing maybe yes - but haymaking... A word of advice: Don’t burn the candle in both ends - you need your strenght to work on the jarls estate (unless you are on a tenth or headtax plan of course).
Yup. While the US had anti-miscegenation laws, China gives bonuses to inter-ethnic marriages.
From an European standpoint, this text reads like a nightmarish dystopia. I find solace in the trend towards banning cars altogether inside the cities.
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It gets trickier with investments and retirement funds (“foreign trusts”).

E.g. selling your own home in Canada doesn’t trigger capital gains, but it can on your US tax return.
> Dropping DirectX and allowing Vulkan on the XBox would be the great move.

The sad thing is Vulkan and DX12 are not gaining traction even on PC. Very few games support these low level apis , so adding support for Vulkan on Xbox seems pointless first and foremost.
Chinese opioid chemists are cooking up clones the law has never seen
I asked my doctor relative about this once and IIRC they basically said because hospitals are not hotels - if you're inpatient in America you're pretty sick and more than likely need periodic monitoring for your condition. As soon as you're well enough to be sleeping for long periods of time without observation you'll get bounced.
I don't really know this. Just provided what similar functionality exists in FB.

It's a black box for most of us. You might need to provide fake data to make it relearn. There were comments here and there about people liking various pages/posts not related to them, just to feed it with junk.
That's important, because China hadn't rolled out the "social credit" system back then.

China has a new approach to control. It's not Orwellian. It's not the USSR's. It's not a police state. It's a new thing. It's the gamification of authoritarianism.

The previous system of control was run through the "work unit", when almost everybody worked for the state. The party mostly acted through work supervisors, rather than cops. That started to come apart once there were more private employers. The social credit system is an attempt to get back that level of control. It's going to be interesting to see how this works out.
TLDR; a professor kept recycling his books in to perhaps 1000s of papers with identical content. It is however not clear from the article how all these went past peer reviewed publications for decades.
Cache warming: Agility for a stateful service
Explain ”provably fair” as if I was 10
> - Achievements - Friends lists - Voice and text chat - Family sharing - Streaming - Multi-drive support - A decent refund policy - User reviews - An easy-to-use mod workshop - Cloud saves - User-generated tags - Independent curators

Do people really care about this stuff? I've started holding my nose and grudgingly using Steam, and really all I want is a way to buy a game and get it on my hard drive. I don't need a middle-man to launch it for me or clutter my system up with achievements and friends and yet-another-chat-app. Every time I run a game, Steam even shows that little pop-up--as if I needed a reminder that it's constantly sitting there in memory, eagerly waiting for me to hit SHIFT-TAB and "engage" with it. Can't I just play the damn game I bought without the distributor trying to insert itself into the experience at every opportunity?
Still using old school Carbon and classic BBEdit Lite on my Power Macs. No other text editor ever came close.
Same in Austria, we have "quiet hours" to allow patients to sleep without any interruptions.
The Peresvet laser
Quora: 100 Mln User Hit by Security Breach
Show HN: TubeHero – An SEO Toolkit for YouTube Content Creators
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I mean desktop, not mobile, Windows Mobile is dead. MS is not hardware company, so why not make money on good product? And stick it to both, Quallcomm and Intel, they got bit nasty with their 3G and LTE patents :)
What sort of faulty logic is this?

HK/TW are wrecked culturally in their own means, and therefore the Cultural Revolution has not damaged Chinese culture?

Sounds like you just want to grind your axe against the claim that HK/TW are the torchbearers of Chinese culture, which is entirely a strawman you constructed.
Cybernetics didn't fail expectations. It works astonishingly well. But it seems people had some pretty weird and dumb expectations when lifting it from the domain of hardware and into more "fuzzy" real-world systems. Feedback loops are an incredibly powerful tool, but they get misused (often purposefully), and then the blame for that misuse somehow falls on the feedback system.

Consider:

1) As a user, won't be satisfied with a feedback system if the company on the other end is evil. Take Uber as an example. The tension between drivers and passengers isn't caused by the 5-star rating itself. It has another critical component - that Uber set the system to squeeze out as much value out of drivers as possible. Since they essentially optimize for bad driver treatment, drivers get defensive, and this screws up user experience. Hitting with 1-stars until morale improves isn't the solution; not exploiting people is. Similar thing happens in some customer service interactions, where rating is - again - not a signal on quality, but on whether or not I hate the other person enough to want them to lose their job.

2) A rating system won't work for you if you connect it to a money-printing machine. This one should have been obvious immediately, and definitely should be by now. This is why Amazon, eBay, Yelp, et al. have problems with reviews. As long as their presence or absence impacts immediate sales, they'll be gamed to the point of uselessness.

3) Some companies like to deploy ratings to skip doing the work, and then they cry foul when the results don't materialize. Again, Uber won't solve driver problems with star ratings; that would require actually meeting and evaluating people. I can hear the screams - "but that doesn't scale!". So what. I want to go to the Moon by lifting myself by my own bootstraps, but I can't, because that's not how physics works. I'm not going to cry that I can't get what I want without doing the work that's necessary to get it.

4) Feedback loops must be actually closed for them to work. I.e. not just collecting the data, but acting on it.

5) If you can't capture the entirety of your vision in directly measurable metrics (and you probably can't), then don't follow them blindly. In particular, be mindful of what you actually measure, 'lest you end up pissing off a lot of users and defending yourself with "data told me so". "You make what you measure" works both ways.

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TL;DR: Blame the people/companies deploying feedback systems for being clueless or having malicious intent, not the feedback systems themselves for simply working the way they work.
Show HN: A VIM-inspired keyboard only interface for WYSIWYG rich text editor?
Hello, I am working on a project that you can think as Typora + Vim keybindings.

Here is a demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97lAMRrAcF4&feature=youtu.be

I have previously posted on reddit/r/vim here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/a2kjx9/work_in_progress_rich_text_editing_with/

Do you think there is an audience?

Do you think that it needs to be collaborative and implement branching in itself, or it is better just as an editing interface for Markdown and let Git handle branching/merging in plain text?
> Making something like this opt-in is equivalent to not having it at all.

Microsoft were doing opt-in telemetry in Office, Visual Studio and the .NET framework for a long time, so it must have provided value for them. The installer used to politely ask you to consider opting in to help improve the product.

JetBrains products still follow this approach of respecting the customer and asking politely.
This is very cool. So could this finally make efficient switch() statements with string keys a reality?
The article's premise was that you can maintain the current quality of monitoring while increasing sleep quality with simple changes, and that increasing sleep quality will improve the patient's recovery.
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> 1) Pretty easy to guarantee if main looks like stage1(); stage2(); stage3(); etc.

You can only use the global program order once, I'd rather save it to spend on something more important. val result1 = stage1(); val result2 = stage2(result1); ... means my code dependencies reflect my data dependencies and I'll never get confused about what needs what or comes before or after what (or the compiler will catch me if I do), so I can refactor fearlessly.

> 2) Change a plus for a minus and it is still an int.

True. If you get your core business logic wrong then types won't help you with that (though FWIW I'd argue that it's worth having a distinct type for natural numbers, in which case - and + return different types). But I found that at least 80% of production bugs weren't errors in core business logic but rather "silly little things": nulls, uncaught exceptions, transposed fields... and types catch those more cheaply cheaper than any alternative I've seen.
Given the economic situation of call center employees, nobody deserves a good service to be honest. I don't swallow the cost excuse because we wouldn't see that much fluctuation in jobs like these if true.
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Not even inside the cells. Excel column / rows filters. Hard to do better than those. I wish a lot more apps with data implemented something half as good.
Well said and I completely agree. Unfortunately many people grew so dependent on their services. That they remain glued to the company.
They have a couple different flavors. My favorite is the one with peanuts in it. I don’t recall seeing garlic bulbs.

It looks like this:

http://nymag.com/strategist/article/lao-gan-ma-best-chili-sa...

At Asian supermarkets, they should be less than $5. I usually see them them at Ranch 99 (a Chinese chain supermarket) for 3.99.

But the price can vary if you go to a predominantly Korean or Vietnamese supermarket.
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Cautions (or why it’s hard to write a dupefinder)
not specifically about professional services firms, but potentially relevant:

"Ask HN: How to handle acquisition offer from a competitor?", 2012, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624505

"Ask HN: How do you deal with potential acquirers?", 2014, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074264

"Don't Talk to Corp Dev", 2015, http://paulgraham.com/corpdev.html

"Ask HN: What happened after acquisition?", 2016, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12226915
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My style of reasoning is how it came to be by all the events I've lived in life. A lot of unfavorable events, unfortunate circumstances and with its happy moments. I could try to do mental gymnastics to produce something more desirable for "you" but I prefer to simplify my observation into what I wrote. I don't really see any substance other than from your ego in your reply.
Mobike:China’s Surveillance and Social Credit System Alive and Kicking in Berlin
Perhaps you are from NL, Denmark, Germany or Sweden. Traffic management in Italy, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Greece is insane (and you can't even take a right when it's red!)
The entire 2013 Microsoft Office suite clocked in at ~45m lines of code, so Word is not even close to some of the really large programs considering Office also includes Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc. [1] While we're on the subject, the biggest issue I personally have with Word is formatting, specifically dealing with images, tables, and padding. I feel that it's pretty satisfactory for day-to-day tasks, though.

[1] https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-li...
Facebook API are becomed more irrilevant year after year. This change want change the situation.
I believe that free will is possible. Our conceptions of existence are limited by our perspective; that of a causative (and, OK, possibly random) reality, but it's possible that our wills are interfaced with super-dimensional spirits (souls, if you like). The fact that we cannot conceive of an existence which is not causative does not mean that our spirits do not dwell in one. One way of approximating such an existence is to consider it as "timeless". This timeless spirit may then, in a sense, exercise influence on our wills throughout our entire lifespan, simultaneously (perhaps through a quantum interface). You could call this deterministic, but how is it deterministic in any meaningful sense if our choices are "determined" by a spirit which is, by definition, our essential self, free of circumstantial preconditions?
The web server is configuring CORS policy properly, but the browser is making client-side calls to localstack. As far as I can tell, localstack has hardcoded a CORS policy that is a mismatch for the requests being sent.

The cleanest solution is to extend the dev pipeline with a proxy for localstack. It won't take me long to knock that out, but it's not something I can prioritize at the moment.
Even if they want to, I think it’s technically very hard to accomplish. See this pic: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/di...

Many critical components are deep inside Windows kernel, in dxgkrnl.sys, they are very hard to unbundle from the rest of the kernel.

Other critical components are in vendor-implemented drivers, both user mode (this part compiles shaders and implements many per-game compatibility hacks) and kernel mode (this one talks to actual hardware).

Fortunately, there’re already third-party implementations of D3D on top of something else.

Gallium 9, the main downside is no Intel GPU support.

DXVK currently only supports D3D 10-11 and WPF is based on 9, but apparently some people are working on D3D9 support.

There’s also VK9.
We just took the top-starred Java projects from GitHub, assuming that their source code and naming are of good quality.
These included projects like elasticsearch, hadoop-common and maven.

We assumed that their code and naming quality are worth learning, such that the learned patterns will transfer to other code and projects, because they are popular and actively maintained projects. So, as you can imagine, FizzBuzz is not that common there :)
You can be a patient and be so sick of the noise that you decide you want to opt out of the monitoring - or you DIY anyway, as most hospital do not take requests kindly.

I was once in ICU. The cardiac monitor was beeping loudly whenever I was starting to sleep.

After the first few time woke me up in pain, I bent over and pushed the button to power off the cardiac monitor. Problem solved! I fully admitted all the risks - but there comes a time when too much is just too much.

I then had a great night of sleep :-)
Made an estimate from my personal experience. Simply saying, "only a fraction of developers..." would be a weaker statement.
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