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> Great change is rarely brought about with merely individual action.

Hmm... I specifically mentioned collective action. But I think there’s more we can do than vote. We can work to reduce our impact, tell everyone how we did it, and then form collectives that embody our goals. I prefer the notion of supporting companies that care rather than forcing companies that don’t care to act like they do. Perhaps it’s good to force bad actors to comply to some minimum level, but voluntary action can go much farther. For example we’re unlikely to solve the climate impacts of meat consumption with the law - because we probably can’t ban meat consumption - but voluntary veganism makes a big impact over time.
Also to note on the engines used it went from khtml to WebKit and then google forked WebKit into Blink. Also opera switched from writing their own engine and moved to chromium .And now it seems the next version of edge will also use Blink being derived from chromium. Which puts everyone in a position that on all platforms you are using WebKit derived browsers (also mobile is in the same boat with WebKit powering both Chrome and Safari.
All thanks to the LGPLv2, I guess? Maybe we should have handed the internet over to RMS.
Braille has many of the same properties, and it could be worthwhile to train yourself to read it visually. If you went down that path, though, I think you'd get to a point where you'd say: hmm, if I'm going to start over I might as well make the letters one column of dots, so the words are roughly square-ish and can form more visually distinct shapes. The shape of Braille words wouldn't be much of an improvement over Latin - unnecessarily long and skinny. Which is probably a good fit for a finger but less optimal for an eye. And then there's that unnecessary sixth dot.

As to the originality, most computer science students have looked at a binary versions of ascii charts at one time or another. Turning them sideways and making a font out of it isn't discovering relativity. On the other hand, even Braille had its percursors (see your Wikipedia link), and Braille users don't reject it on that account, do they?

> Silicon Valley

You're assuming I'm from Silicon Valley. I am here now, but was actually in Ohio when I came up with Dotsies :)
I'm happy to pay if I have an offer in hand and it's up to me to decide whether to finalize the paperwork (e.g. onboarding interview), but not for something that isn't guaranteed. If they aren't satisfied with a video or phone interview, they had better pay to have me come out.
BTW, does anyone know the reason why the people in Germany in particular seem to have much stronger anti-nuclear stance than the surrounding countries?

This is entirely anecdotal of course, but I know many people from different European countries and (except for the physicists) all Germans I know seem to associate nuclear power with nuclear weaponry and polluting mother nature to a degree that other European countries just don't have. No matter what the educational background.

Is there some historical precedent? Some political movement unique to Germany?
> On a separate(?) topic, a lot of tech organizations seem to be fond of saying they want to hear all ideas and judge the ideas on their merits, but when you actually say something that goes against popular opinion or conventional thinking within the organization, people aren't open to it or are even hostile or dismissive

Another one I often hear is some variation of "present solutions not problems", often from developers and not just management. Except problems are easy to spot and solutions often require a substantial time investment to solve and present, time that won't be allocated unless problems are identified. Even if you spend your own time on the solution it will often be dismissed by people that don't see the problem in the first place, it's just "how we've always done it". It's basically a long winded way of telling people to stop complaining.
It is. “Legal” != “moral”.
Its part of dotnet core, so you don't need Mono installed. And you can build a self-contained dotnet core application so you don't need core installed to run it.

AOT is possible via something like CoreRT, but its still a bit beta and not straightforward. From my experience the only limitation with CoreRT and F# is certain reflection heavy functionality. No problem with generics.
Could anyone elaborate on why he's not simply using git-svn?
What is abuse?

Do you mean rolling a new protocol in Chrome without warning that magically makes Google faster because they rolled it out on their end as well? This already happened with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY.

As long as what they do is technically good and not too heavy-handed, developers won't resist. In fact it is likely to be welcomed. But the effect will constantly leave Google a half-step ahead of everyone else on the upgrade train. After all it isn't hurting developers, it is just leaving Google with a slightly better competitive edge.
That's because "recycling" is just the packaging industries way of avoiding blame for manufacturing infinite garbage.

One day the world might realise that we live in an infinite garbage world because we pay the packaging industry to make infinite garbage.

Recycling is not meant to work, it's meant to keep attention away from the packaging industries role in destroying our beautiful planet.

It's all about the money.

The solution isn't to clean up/recycle the garbage - it's to stop making it.

Turn off the tap.

It's like the sugar industry - for decades everyone thought that obesity was caused by fat in food and the solution was to eat less fatty food and to lose weight by exercise. This suited the sugar industry extremely well because it turns out that obesity is caused mainly by sugar, but they no doubt big sugar was very happy that everyone was pointing the finger at fat as the problem and exercise as the solution - that lets the sugar industry off the hook very nicely.

The packaging industry must laugh behind its hands at all the people trying to recycle and clean up all the garbage that it makes, when the real solution - which no-one currently proposes - is just to stop manufacturing garbage in the first place. Everyone is focused on how to deal with the garbage - there's no problem to deal with if you stop making it.

If you read all the comments in this thread you'll see how the number one focus of most people is to work out how to handle the packaging - there's no questioning at all of why it exists.
I wanted to call you wrong, but it appears that I had confused him with someone else - I had thought that Vern Unsworth, who had this "issue" with Elon Musk, was one of the initial divers laying out the guidelines through the cave as he was quoted as "helping the Thai SEALs with mapping out the cave), however, the actual life-risking guideline setup was done not by him but by other British divers - Richard Stanton and John Volanthen.
Under the condition that a major website is behaving in a purposefully malicious manner, a one-off patch might be reasonable.
As a kid, I survived Chernobyl in Belarus without noticing. I am living now in Belgium. Thiange nuclear power plant is some 60km away. Still, my daily worry is not its relative proximity but the so called brownout plan, that is a plan devised by the Belgian authorities to disconnect portions of the country from the electricity grid in case of capacity shortage.

Why would such a rich country have a capacity shortage? Because it decided to close its nuclear power plants. French are shy of investing into nuclear as well and Germany has its own share of problems to keep fluctuations of power generation under control.

We are also limited by EU regulations with regards to coal plants capacity cap. And we can not even keep coal plants ready to fire without running into troubles with EU competition authorities.

European power grid is falling apart, and general public did not notice yet.

I am stashing candles and batteries at home. I have a gaz heater, just in case. And a bit of wood. But I really freak out at the possibility of an extended blackout.
> The reason I asked about a literate programming version of the shell script is that it speaks directly to Knuth's original stated goal: "I’ll try to prove the merits of literate programming by finding the best possible solution to whatever problem you pose" In the context of that requirement, the it's the use of literate programming that's more of a concern than the specific implementation.

And McIlroy's "solution" is provably not the "best possible solution" if you are interested in the algorithms, algorithmic complexity, the resources used, you know, all the topics studied by people doing computer science. All these topics are still relevant today.

That is the domain that was of interest to both Bentley and Knuth, and McIlroy "sabotaged" the whole by presenting effectively only a list of calls to the stand-alone programs which he hasn't developed himself, which he avoided to present, and even without looking at them, just by analyzing what are the best possible implementations of these, every student of computer science can prove that McIlroy's solution is worse.

If you carefully read the original text (and if you understand the topics of computer science), you can recognize that McIlroy was aware of the algorithmic superiority of Knuth's solution.

Knuth definitely and provably won.
> The NY Times should be very careful what it wants. The article is almost implying that the National Enquierer did something illegal with its coverage of the election.

That's no longer in any reasonable dispute, given the non-prosecution agreement between AMI and DoJ. There might still be room for disagreement about the precise scope of the illegality.

> However, the NYTimes has been also accused of u[n]fair coverage against Trump

Not all accusations are created equal.

> If we break the taboo of prosecutors looking at a newspapers political coverage

It's not a taboo, it's already been broken if it was, and there'd be no teeth to campaign finance law if we didn't.

> it won’t be long before The NY Times itself ends up u see the microscope and that will be bad for our democracy.

The political coverage of the New York Times has been the subject of criminal action and civil lawsuits in the past, some of each of which set important First Amendment precedent. Being under the microscope isn't new territory for the Times.
I agree with the spirit of what you're saying, but if the people who think advertising/surveillance is an acceptable endeavor moved to the waste disposal industry, the main innovation they would bring is that included with every product there would be a bonus pile of someone else's garbage.
Indeed! Yes. Thank you.

Also: https://arcdigital.media/is-texas-willing-to-violate-the-con...
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refund all the tax collected
While I agree that personal (and collective) responsibility is important, does it do much to address the systemic issues which drive industry-standard use of these products? Let's say that we succeed in convincing companies to use less plastic - would it follow that a plethora of other horrible industry practices follow suit? Isn't it also true that against such a big "target", global capital, even large scale collective action only very rarely results in genuine and lasting change?

My liberal side says this: we should petition governments (despite the fact that not a single petition to the UK parliament has been successful?) to act on such pressing issues by imposing penalties for use of substances known to be ecologically harmful. Granted, collective action and personal responsibility is still needed, but it's easier to pressure your government than it is global capital, since the leverage of a government is more than the sum of its "parts" (the people).
We, the people alive today, are going to be written in history books as generations who had the potential to achieve unbound greatness but decided the potential was better spent lining pockets and feeding dopamine addictions.
> figuring out trash separation and recycling.

This is a well and truly solved problem. And has been for many years. (http://www.cpmfg.com/recycling-equipment/optical-sorting-equ... ....etc )

I assume it's ok then to go back to "selling more ads to sell more crap" or can we deal with real problems for a change like 1 billion people living in poverty, and not first world issues with wanting to feel good about our consumption.

And as an added bonus when people don't worry about their children dying they get to do fun stuff like recycling so everyone gets to feel good, even rich people in the first world.
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Can confirm! Also,
- bread is awesome in the fridge, lasts weeks.
- put ice cubes in a plastic bag to stop sublimination
- drown basil in olive oil, squeeze out the air, cover in olive oil, then refrigerate - lasts months
- peppers: soak and refrigerate in vinegar

I struggle with cheese - olive oil can work but it's awkward.
You get what you measure.

What would you say is a good measure of an effective police officer?

Would you say percentage of closed cases? Because that's what leads to this.

Would you say, the number of crimes reported per capita? Because that's what leads to this.

It's unlikely you'll find these people or catch them on average. You may get them for something else and be able to close several cases at once, but the truth is you'll just never see them again. So if you take the report and open a case, your numbers look bad. Crime per capita is up, percentage of closed cases goes down.
Electron (RocketLab, actually) is chasing a wildly different market segment.
How is it Google? Anyone could just fork Chromium and do anything about it, it's open source after all. Microsoft could buy people from Google if they wanted to, they probably could buy an entire Chrome team. Google has some control over Chromium engine right now, but this control is fragile. It's the same control that Oracle has over MySQL. Abuse it and you'll have MariaDB instantly. Abuse Java control and you'll have plenty of companies forked Java and ready to provide real LTS for Java 8. It'll be the same for Chromium.

The best outcome would be to have some Non-commercial organization funded by Google, Microsoft, Yandex and other big players who benefit from Chromium which would have some kind of independence. But current situation is not that bad.

There are other things than just source code license. May be Google has patents for Chromium sources and could use them to forbid fork? Then it's a bad situation but I didn't heard about that point of view yet.
Ask HN: Name 3 Companies you think will still be around in 500 years?
Every. It's the same solution as Co2. Tax things including negative externalities and things will self adjust. You can even do a tax refund at the end of the year and it'd work.
In Finland there's a 15 cent refund on small plastic bottles and 40 cents on large ones. It may not sound like much, but its enough that at any time of day you can see people combing the parks and searching through public trash cans for any sort of recyclables. It is essentially crowdsourcing sorting to the local alcoholics. Win-win
> The thief could simply sue under private law.... There's certainly options

But they won't, because they are a desperate individual who is going around stealing packages from people. The kind of person who does this is very unlikely to have the money to sue someone.

They will instead just run away as they are probably just afraid of getting arrested themselves. Someone who has stolen one package has probably stolen dozens. Rationally or not, they'd probably just be afraid of getting caught for all their past thefts.

> . In reality, law is an imperfect

Indeed it is imperfect! Which is why someone who "wiretaps" desperate thiefs is almost certainly going to get away with breaking the law.

Lots of people in this thread are talking about how the police just won't care if you bring them irefutable evidence of theft. If police don't care about that, what do you think is the likelihood that they will care about illegal wiretapping of thiefs? I'd guess that the answer is "a very low likelyhood".

> In other words, only if you're sued by the public prosecutor.

But you won't be sued by a public prosecutor or targeted by the police. Because they have better things to do with their time. They aren't even going after the thieves, if you will remember!

> For one, the thief may BE a police officer

This is extremely unlikely. Instead the thief is probably going to be some desperate individual or homeless person with no ability to go after you for "wiretapping".

My whole point is that if nobody is getting arrested for the theft, the chances of the police bothering to go after people for wiretapping is even less likely. And the desperate thief won't have the money, resources, or motivation to pursue you in private court.

If it is so easy to get away with theft, then it is certainly going to be much much easier to get away with wiretapping thieves.
> Recycling presumably puts much less new CO2 into their air than making it new

I'm pretty sure it doesn't. If it did recycled products would be cheaper than new, but they aren't.

It depends a lot on how much free labor AKA consumer pre-sorting you get though. Countries where this is seen as normal and expected have workable recycling.
Yeah, that's a 3DoF - your location in the room is not being tracked.

The HTC Vive rarely gives you this feeling as you are free to walk about and there is a 1:1 relationship between the VR and real world.
Cumulative Flow
They're also voting with their wallet with every purchase. Not buying plastic crap that gets thrown out after one use would help.
Ya know this isn't a bad idea to float on python-ideas. I first thought pyflakes would flag it, but it doesn't.

Don't think it would hard to implement a warning, without need for strict, as python already spits various warnings when given non-optimal code.
This is making me angry. How come people are so stupid?
haha, yeah, that's right about stakhanov.

wikisource actually does crowdsource this type of work. regarding crowdfunding: it's not actually all that capital intensive and i prefer no capital and no responsibilities. otherwise i could get in trouble balancing responsibilities toward crowdfunding investors versus responsibilities toward the employer who i actually work for to pay my bills.
I had a company try to hire me internationally. This was on the strength of a close friend's internal reference and persistence over months. I wasn't looking. After some phone calls with their senior management I finally agreed to travel to an interview and they agree verbally to pay travel expenses. When I was half-way there - having put substantial money down to fly internationally with a family of three - they cancelled the interview and backed out. No apology. Killed the friendship.
It's not the weather, it's your life prospects.

If you're living in developed, cosmopolitan, prosperous Moscow[1], it's one thing. If you're living in a small, dying, de-industrialized Soviet-era town in the middle of nowhere, your life probably sucks, your local government is incredibly corrupt, your future economic prospects are non-existent, but a bottle of vodka costs $3 USD, and will make you happy for an hour.

[1] Average life expectancy in Moscow? 77 years (The US is at 79). Average life expectancy in Russia? 71 years.
> How is it Google?

Because a majority of users are using Google Chrome.

You're right, if Microsoft could convince chrome users to switch to Edge, they would have more power. Things can change, but I don't see how this would happen.
I've never gotten a better score than 3, nor a T block in hatetris.

[edit] Today managed a score of 7 with playing around with it.
I don't think anything is going to resolve the "i'm having a stroke" feeling when a VR game freezes or crashes.

Imagine your vision froze in real-life, you would rightly freak out.
Where I work, being able to ship to the business is explicitly advertised as a job perk.

"Ship to us, and here's how to get automatic email notifications of when your package is here!"
They're still aiming for a first release of the phones in Spring 2019 (this is from the newsletter, not the blog post)
Likely a holdover from the Cold War and conflation of nuclear arms and nuclear energy generally. Germany, then West Germany specifically, was basically Ground Zero in the event of a superpower conflict so there was a significant anti-nuclear faction in Germany with respect to the basing of medium-range nuclear missiles, for example.
It's because we insist on recycling glass, requiring it to be separated, which is expensive: Glass is heavy, worthless, and breaks into tiny shards.

If we removed glass from recycling then you could have two streams: Metal, and burn. Where we would burn paper and plastic for their energy, requiring less energy to be extracted from the ground.
Is it even possible to anonymously lease a VPS?

I guess you would need to use cash, at a minimum.
> It found that 1.1 million abusive tweets were sent to the 778 women in this period—that’s the equivalent of one every 30 seconds.

That's one per 30 seconds for all 778 women combined. Per woman, it's 1 per 6.5 hours.
> interest in the climate and region play huge in long term retention

You're a smart guy. In my experience very few people consider this.
Swedish alcohol taxes are so high that its impossible to be alcoholic unless you're well off. It's a pretty big problem in Finland with a 30% alcoholism rate. Finnish alcohol taxes are somewhat high as well, but many people in Helsinki bypass that by buying from Estonia.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finlands_unacknowledged_p...

https://nordic.businessinsider.com/alcoholism-finland-2016-8...
No. That's ridiculous. If they want to hire you remotely they can interview you remotely. Unemployment is at an all time low, so employers are competing for the best. If they can't afford a an interview I imagine there may be more issues at hand
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These days people can't even consider the possibility of listening to opposing points of view let alone actually doing so. This a recent thing.
No, your example is not an issue of using 3 spaces for indentation versus 4 spaces like the author described.

That snippet is an example of not understanding indentation-based scoping at all.
Political news coverage is not, of course, illegal, that's just 1st amendment stuff. Coordinating with a campaign in regards to coverage is, however, an "in kind" political contribution, not merely an exercise of one's own views, and is a violation of campaign finance law. Which is hardly the full extent of all of the illegal activities that AMI engaged in on behalf of the Trump campaign.
My point was that a 2 degree change in the atmosphere now isn't so extreme for a 1+ billion year old organism as all the other history it has lived through.

I'm not trying to brush off the impact of global warming, I'm just placing it in the context of 1+ billion years of Earth history.
> because someone thinks recursive acronyms are still funny

Not that I was expecting depth from a site called "hackerfactor" by a guy who wrote something like "open source sucks", but seriously, this middle school level "sass" (and about a popular practice at that) shouldn't be near tech writing.

Should have stopped reading there. On that note, this has way too many upvotes for such a misinformed, badly written, sophomoric piece.
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Because it's not about tempting the thieves, it's about accepting the fact that thieves exist. It's about risk mitigation.

He didn't say "Hide your stuff better", he said "Don't treat your car like secure storage".
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Interesting, seeing AWS supports Oracle's own software (RDS versions of Oracle and MySQL!)
Platforms like Sia, Filecoin, Storj, and Maidsafe do exactly this; they pay their hosters their requisite amount in coins by the hostee.
Firefox on Debian gets nowhere. Just the landing page.
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