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Thankyou for this.

I've often thought of learning in terms of "learning trivia" vs. "understanding
concepts", but had never applied the word "trivia" to learning programming facts.

I'm a hobbyist, rather than a professional, so I learn what I want, while aiming
for comprehensive knowledge. Over time, I have become bored with learning frameworks
and libraries, and have become much more interested in learning standards.

The phrase I have ringing in my head is "don't learn APIs", which is rather
like your "don't learn trivia", but I think "trivia" captures the essence of it
better. To be a little more nuanced about it, I think the thing to avoid is learning
APIs for things that are not either standards, or defacto standards of long-standing.

Of course, learning APIs is necessary, but everytime I find myself wading through
API documentation, I stop and ask myself whether it will still be relevant in
a few years time; often the API will change, or even worse (I'm thinking of React
here), the whole ecosystem will probably have disappeared in 5 years time.

This talk[1] makes a similar case.

Obviously, if someone wanted to pay me to learn and use React, that would be a
different matter.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n2xnOiWI8
iOS 12 runs on everything through the 5S, and notably improved performance over iOS 10/11 on the same devices. [1] is a bunch of benchmarks from back in the beta period.

My kid has it on a 6, and it's legitimately good performance there.

Good luck getting the latest Android onto a 5 year old handset without jumping through some non-trivial hoops.

[1]: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/09/ios-12-performance-improv...
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> The rules you mention are very localized

So what???

> but my next-door neighbours will follow different rules.

Some rules are different, many are not.

> Alas, money is always an overriding concern.

No it isn't, see what I wrote.

Your entire comment is an amazing display of cluelessness about the forces acting on you. Cultural norms are a FAR bigger factor. Yes you don't realize it, see what I wrote.

You are also quite confused about what is being discussed. What is that about building houses and buying stuff? If the topic is too difficult for you, just don't comment, posting incoherent random thoughts is useless. Yes, we indeed use money in the economy, great insight.
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I spent far too long finding that. Great game, haha
The "unlock your phone" part is obviously a problem, and the focus of HN's attention.

What gets me is an Officer can say to your face "You are not under arrest" but then handcuff you, take you someplace against your will, and detain you there without access to a lawyer.

How can that possibly be the conduct of Officers in a free country?

I could even understand if the Officer just plainly said "we can not let you board this flight, you must leave the airport" or something similar. But handcuffs and detention even though you are not under arrest is insanity.
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If think it can depend on how much the audience is expected to know about the topic and product beforehand. With 7-zip I'd expect much of the target audience knows about it, or at least knows what a zip program in general is.

When you are trying to describe something which is new (to the audience at least) it looks reasonable to me, to begin with "what can you get out of this and in what situation".
Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing is a good resource for explaining path tracing: https://youtu.be/frLwRLS_ZR0
Could indeed be seasonal, there have been studies and it's a registered disorder[0] called SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), usually it lasts up until spring/summer. Light therapy might work as a non-drug cure.

[0]https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/seasonal-affective-di...
Well, you have data to indentify bias when it happens now. You can either use it to “equalize” distortions in judgement, or bring it as argument to abolish them
They ask those questions because they're questions that honest people should have no problem answering, but someone who is trying to hide something might make an unconscious facial expression or something. Basically they don't care about what your answer is, they are watching to see how you answer.
> You're contradicting yourself in your first and second paragraph...

Those two paragraphs are talking about different OSs. 1st paragraph is talking about Windows, 2nd paragraph is talking about non-Windows systems with first-class package managers such as ArchLinux, Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, etc.

> Those proper package managers still rely on the packager doing things correctly

Sure, but the point is you can query what the package manager has done.

> There's plenty of linux packages that creates files during operation in their designated /var/log/xxx /var/db/xxx /etc/xxx /home/xxx/ directories that you're not able to query using the package manager.

That's half true. You can query that /var/db/xxx and /var/log/xxx has been created by the package manager and often the directories (and their contents) will be owned by the user which the daemon runs under.

However I do agree with the point regarding your $HOME directory and actually made that point myself:

> Of course you still have the problem of the software writing files during its operation but that should be limited to $HOME (on POSIX systems) or any path that is writable by the owner / group of the user that application runs as (which should be limited even if it’s a system service).

As an aside, you can also query what files a particular application has open. In fact there are a few ways to do this from querying the /proc/$PID directory through to tools like `lsof`.
Oh, I can totally recommend to my boss forking out at least 2000€ for commercial support by people who take two weeks to respond to any sales requests without knowing if these problems are actually fixable...
I agree, but have one nitpick - it's not that the free market can't sort this out, but that this is exactly the solution the free market is set up to organically create. Can't afford the tech? Sell your identity to marketers! That's all free market and I don't think we give the "free market" (scare quotes because we're so far from that in actuality it's painful) enough credit for creating these exact problems.
TSA is security theater. Nothing more.
You’re the guy writing compilers at Google, so ya you’re the exception my friend.
£2,500 Dell XPS ships Home out of the box unless specified otherwise.

Windows SKU has nothing to do with hardware.

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/2-in-1-laptops/new-xps-15-2-...

Actually I can't seem to configure that directly from dell to come with Pro lol. Seems there's a question about that too.
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When I was young I thinkn internet is freedom. These day it is more of a control device by the state.

In the older days, you can hide from the state. These day you can’t. Your day to day activities are recorded.

China is just one example. And they are not the only one.
You're on to something. I recently took several, and they contained a lot of questions (100+). I noticed that many of the questions were testing suspiciously similar things, only worded differently.
Why does this need blockchain for?
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I understand this article is mainly concerned with a particular power plant that may have its potential structural defects downplayed due to financial reasons.
this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfucXtyEsU) is also pretty good.
It's a surprise to me that nobody has pointed to the EFF whitepaper and recommendations on this issue.

Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices

https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017

EFF Border search pocket guide (printable PDF)

https://www.eff.org/document/eff-border-search-pocket-guide

Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border - EFF’s guide to your Constitutional rights at the border

https://www.eff.org/document/digital-privacy-us-border

It has all the information you need to deal with it.
Is ASP.NET Core platform popular among developers who use non-Windows platform? Can we develop applications on top of ASP.NET without Visual Studio?
I had this at Gatwick last year...

"Hey idiot, get your goddamn bags off the (expletive) belt! Hurry the hell up!"

At which point another passenger decided to take advantage of the confusion and tried to steal my phone...

"God (expletive) damn you! Are you trying to make my (expletive) life hard?! Just take your bags and go, you're holding up my line!"

Approached the airport, "we do not comment on security matters".

"How can I take this complaint further?"

"You'll need to ask your solicitor to contact our legal department."

And then there was Stockholm Arlanda...

(On the way in) "Good morning Sir. Welcome to Stockholm."

And on the way out...

"Sir, is this your bag? Can you please turn the laptop on for me?"

'Do you need me to log in, it's for work...'

"Oh no, I just need to see it turn on."
I feel that the new "PC" word for race is ethnicity. As I understand it serves pretty much the same purpose.
So, and now go back and read what I wrote until you understand it. My hopes are low though, but you can at least give it your best effort, even if the result is underwhelming.
Ask HN: fundraising while pregnant
I'm about to start fundraising for a new startup, with one co-founder. She's likely to be early in pregnancy during the fundraise. She'll be entitled to take maternity leave for up to a year with low pay, although her intention is to only take a few months.

Should we disclose her pregnancy to prospective investors?

I'm quite worried that telling them would impact their investment decision, when I believe that it shouldn't. But not telling them might undermine their trust in us.

Details: likely to be an angel round, based in the UK, first money into the company.
The whole packaging process is a bit wonky. I’ve had a couple of broken or buggy builds on Debian.
I sadly get:

This site can’t be reached.
sh-meet.bigpixel.cn’s server IP address could not be found.

I'm using CloudFlare DNS.
Somehow you assume they will be able to get into that tunnel at these intervals
Three years ago I got a similar call to build a user-facing knowledge graph for the region. Effectively replicating Freebase, backed by the regional telecom and the Royal Family. It was likely the same group that approached you because I was approached in precisely the same way.
So tell me how learning how to make a hammer (or the physics behind it) is beneficial to the average woodworker or construction worker’s daily job. Sure, using prior knowledge of physics to optimize your hammer swings might be worth while for the guy swinging a hammer a million times a day, but most of us are happy just picking the hammer up and using it to get the job done.
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Power of defaults. People have Home, they stay on it.

Nonetheless, if you can go from Home to Pro with 13€ it feels quite ridiculous that there is a Home/Pro distinction at all from the very start.
I couldn't agree more. Just recently we visited Hawaii with our 6-month-old daughter. We were going through security and got pulled aside because one of the baby glass bottles was filled with water.

About 20 mins of bomb testing and pat downs later and making us and our daughter drink the explosive water... To be fair most of the people working that day were fine, it was just one complete moron calling the shots that made it 100 times more difficult than it needed to be.
You can develop using VS Code + build using command line tool "dotnet".
> using a Mac SE/30 to display what A Spotify client/player is playing.

It's quite a nice philosophical question who does the playing. Isn't the Spotify iOS app also just displaying what is being played by the iPhone ADC/MPEG Decoder/Network Library/Spotify Server?
You are free to install any operating system on it that you like. Just like your desktop. We will probably also see 100% free android versions (like Replicant) to be released for this phone when it's out. But you could also install another GNU based Linux system of course, or just another DE.
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Given that there are less bias and systematic error in the review tools than in managers judgement ...
My GCSE English teacher insisted that when you write anything you should ask yourself who the audience is. If your audience is scientists or engineers, then give them facts.

This reminds me of the Perforce landing page from decades ago - in the pre Git era. Unlike all the other commercial version control vendors of the time, their page said basically, "Perforce is fast, reliable version control. It costs $79 per seat". That made me made me think, "ah, this is product designed for engineers", so I bought it.

Today, Perforce's landing page says, "Your DevOps Journey Starts Here" in big letters. How times have changed. I don't buy Perforce any more.
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Thank you.

Also, to reply to your parent - Heinlein recommended public flogging. I believe it's criminally underused.
I imagine that people who buy a Mac, want to have a Mac and it's their choice to pay. Maybe I am wrong. But people who buy a PC, have no choice but pay the Microsoft tax for the pre-installed Windows on it.

So, yes, it is reasonable to be angry when they put advertisement on the hardware that you paid on the OS that you paid together with the hardware. It is creepy, and belittling too.

Luckily IT professionals have yet the choice to install something else. Let's see how long it takes until we have no choice what software is allowed to run on devices that we buy.

Sorry for the rant.
Ok, we're taking bets on what the first sandbox-escaping attack will target. My money is on a privilege escalation based on this gem:

> Our solution is to construct what we refer to as “dynamic base image”: an operating system image that has clean copies of files that can change, but links to files that cannot change that are in the Windows image that already exists on the host. The majority of the files are links (immutable files) and that's why the small size (~100MB) for a full operating system.
Don't most TBMs already work non-stop in a continuous process - with tunnel lining being fitted as the cutting head moves forward, and trains bringing lining segments and moving dirt away.

Was certainly how the CrossRail and Channel tunnel machines worked

See diagram on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17365934

Musk keeps showing this comparatively tiny machine, whereas in reality they're 150m long
I'd wager that the ex inhabitents of the Fukushima region disagree.

And this was Japan. You can't accuse them of being a bunch of Vodka swilling engineers that misjudged the signalling of a couple of dials because they were drunk.

The problem is that the consequences of a nuclear catastrophy are horendous and in the hands of profit seeking, private companies with a potential tendency to cut corners it gets outright dangerous.

The fear of nuclear is absurd and 100% due to the success of a mostly anti humanist environmental movement and the completely un-scientific political debate that surrounds this

You don't know me. You have no idea who I am or how I form my opinions. You just essentially judge anbody a manipulated, non-thinking idiot who disagrees with your point of view.

Now that's rally quite sad.
Visual Studio Code is reasonably popular. It’s available on Windows, macOS and Linux. It even offers debugging.

Though you can basically use any editor.
People buy SSDs so that FAANG single page apps take a minute to load.
I hate this idea. To the best of my knowledge there's no evidence of anything illegal on my phone or any of my social media accounts. But still, I would absolutely loathe the idea of handing over an image of my phone in perpetuity. Might as well give you a scan of the contents of my brain. Not much evidence of law-breaking there either, but I'd rather hold onto it, thank you!
I don't recall calling someone a pedophile in front of millions of people.
well, In theory you can store (and fetch) the data directly, rather than just using it as a routing table.
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When you get technical about this 100 miles from every international airport is a border as well...

How does that impact that map ?
American culture has shifted in the last decade to be extremely critical and scathing towards anyone or anything that attempts to change the status quo - even if it's an attempt to make things better.

See all the negative comments in this thread, for example.

Instead saying "Jeez, this looks interesting. I'm happy some billionaire is trying to fix the horrible traffic problem instead of just buying more McMansions and yatchs. It seems complicated and I'm not sure it will work because of reason x, y and z, but it will be cool to watch!"

The collective American voice is now: "Stupid! Will never work! Waste of time!". (And angrily at that)

It's a real shame, because people who genuinely try to make life better for others are rare, and America needs all of them they can get!
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The app I use to do that is literally called AppCleaner, been using it for years it’s one of the first things I install.

For example, the other day I moved Word to the trash, 5 seconds later I get the AppCleaner pop up letting me know it found an additional 2GB of shit that Word just littered around my machine that wouldn’t have gotten removed by just deleting the app. And unfortunately, that definitely hasn’t even been the worst offender I’ve run into, and at this point I’m very rarely not surprised by the amount of leftover crap that doesn’t get removed when deleting an app.
If we carefully parse this, and suspend any usual assumption of good faith, this actually seems much worse:

> But people had to explicitly sign in to Facebook first to use a partner’s messaging feature.

This does not say you had to "explicitly sign in first for Spotify to get access". It says you had to sign in to use the feature enabled by Spotify already having access.

> After signing in to your Facebook account in Spotify’s desktop app, you could then send and receive messages without ever leaving the app.

This says exactly the same, only using the Spotify example. It again dodges the question when data sharing started.

I hold the idea of assuming good faith in the highest regard. But a statement as important as this must have gone through several layers of lawyers with the finest combs available, right? To then so artfully miss answering the actual question... It would be quite a coincidence.

If indeed it is deliberate, OP of this thread falling for this artfully crafted admission of guilt should actually command some respect for the craftsmanship of their PR people, in a certain, ethically-challenged light. Although people ignorantly finding fault with everything the Times does may just be an easy mark for PR wordsmiths.

Edit: After perusing OP rock_hard’s history, I will have to once again break “assumption of good faith”, sorry. Almost literally all their posts are defending Facebook, or making accusations against Apple, Google, or the New York Times. I’ve often seen responsible disclosures of self-interest by, among others, people working at Google here. This is the first time I’ve seen a pattern this suggestive of the opposite.
All dog breeds are part of the same species, and dog breeds are fundamentally a social construct. Does this mean that we need to stop categorizing dogs into breeds?

I find it hard to understand how some people still cling to 1960s "there is no such thing as race" arguments while in the real world you can send a swab of spit to 23andme or similar services and get a precise breakdown of your ethnic background down to the percentage.
The information provided for dating, could be interesting for many other purposes....
Luckily, you can just do

printfn "Hello World from F#!"

4 lines (you can squash it into a single line, but meh), and you have a complete console app

[<EntryPoint>]
let main _ =
printfn "Hello World from F#!"
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> "Only Microsoft would come up with a new security feature and then intentionally and arbitrarily limit its availability to the most expensive version of their OS."

What's your point? How is that not a reasonable business model?
Only if you assume that the market was not already aware of this and therefore has not already priced it in.

Companies are (at least theoretically) valued based on their future potential. Just because "real value" of user profiles may not currently be getting realized, does not mean that it isn't already incorporated into the value of the stock.
In some, but very few circumstances. In particular, I don't think the railway operator example works in the UK, at least not automatically, because, otherwise, why would they have special legislation relating to "penalty fares"? Look for the legislation on http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ if you're interested.

Here's an illustrative example that may or may not accurately correspond to the current state of the law in any particular jurisdiction, but it show why this implied contract stuff doesn't work in practice.

A farmer might put up a big notice saying: "By camping overnight on this field you agree to pay me £100 per vehicle per night." Then a bunch of travellers might camp there. Can the farmer sue the travellers for the £100 per vehicle per night? My guess is that he could only sue them for damaging his grass, because, despite what the notice said, the travellers didn't "agree"; they camped illegally and without permission, like they usually do. Probably they smashed up the notice to show what they thought of it. Therefore the farmer can only sue them for trespassing, not for breach of contract. (He might also sue them for the cost of replacing the notice if they did smash it up!)

Likewise, you could put a notice on the front door and every window of your house saying that by breaking into the house burglars agree to pay you X pounds. Would it help you in any way? Of course it wouldn't. You'd get laughed out of court if you tried it.
The market for IT folks is excellent and there are many many great companies out there, most of them not very famous. If you've gotten an interview at Google you will definitively find work elsewhere.
I'm out of the loop for a few years now, but isn't NAT hole punching still one of the biggest problems? AFAIK, there is still no reliable solution that works without an accessible 3rd party server.
What do you mean by blank area?
Wow. I thought the experience I had with Gatwick was a one-off... :(

These days I aim for London City or Leeds-Bradford if I can, Heathrow is my second choice, and I'll actively avoid Gatwick and Manchester unless there's no other alternative.

I keep meaning to try Glasgow or Edinburgh for departures... I've flown into Edinburgh due to a KLM screw-up but never departed from there.