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My father was a career diplomat for the US Foreign Service. He retired in 1988, and when he wrote a book based on the world of The Wizard of Oz, he still needed to clear it with the home office before publication. In 2012.

Which they did promptly. But yes, there are government jobs that have this sort of stipulation in them that covers anything you produce, ever again. (I'm neither defining nor maligning the practice, just providing an example.)
It's a bit of a subtle distinction. A lot of voice acting on cartoon boys is done by women (classic example: Bart Simpson)

So they can make it sound more masculine but still high pitched
Don’t know why this is downvoted. When a bank stores a record of a cheque it’s a scanned image for that very reason.
That would be rather misguided though. It's not like a device is going to know the exact time the interrupt handler routine would run, hash it, and go back "whoops, better not fire an interrupt yet because it won't be on the right tick!"
Should be "(2018)" even though it's December 31st :).
People are still afraid of `var`?
I've got it to work on hardware I bought previously. No problems on an older Dell laptop, some hassles on a PC with two AMD graphic cards.

Linux comes with strings attached. On the other hand I had to deal with Win7 issues as well (such as the Windows Updater hogging up 50% of the processor) which weren't easy to fix either. In hindsight, it's on par. On Linux, it's easy to switch to a previous kernel, I like that really. And I use timeshift before critical updates.

The only concession I did, was to buy an HP printer recently because of HP's support on Linux.
So again, you have a people problem and not a tech problem.
Demon Internet were the closest thing to xs4all. They were the only ISP who could provide me ADSL when I lived in the UK. Back the BT had marked our entire new build housing estate as being too far from the exchange to get it despite the fact that we had fibre up to the last 100 meters or so.

For five years I was the only person there who had ADSL.

In The Netherlands I've been a loyal customer of xs4all for 12 years now but with this move I've signed up to Ziggo. Got to hit KPN where it hurts.
> We have over 250 tests passing, most of which are autogenerated from running the same layout in Chrome. This ensures web-compatibility and overall correctness.

So if it outputs like Chrome, then it is web-compatible? While I understand this from a practical point of view, this is also clearly a result of render engine mono-culture.

Let's see how innovation goes within a 5-10 year time frame if everything is bound to Google Chrome.
> Type systems provide a lot of safety with less work, meaning less bugs and more productivity

I hear this argument all the time. As well as the opposite: type systems slow you down and only catch easy-to-find bugs. Would love to see a real study that quantifies productivity among static and dynamic systems and ends this flame-war once and for all.
The author did have a JTB that his pull request caused the bug. The point is that we hesitate to say that he knew that his pull request caused the bug, because he had the wrong justification. If you take issue with the justification, suppose that he was supposed to be the only one working on the code that day, and that the person who introduced the bug was working from home without telling anyone. He’d then have a JTB but still lack knowledge. If even that isn’t enough justification for you, then you have a problem with the entire JTB definition, and you’re essentially offering a circular definition as an alternative (since the only justification you’ll accept is justification that itself provides knowledge).
If you use grub, it's easy to switch to the previous one.
For it's automated password changing function, Dashlane sends the passwords in cleartext to its servers to do the password changing process.
Why not Ubuntu or Mint? These generally work out-of-the-box.
WTO terms and the issue of Northern Ireland are fundamentally irreconcilable. So I'd say it's more than a stretch; it's outright inconsistent.
Maybe read the article first before criticizing it? :) The article specifically addresses that and explains how this is more complicated than just oxygen deprivation.

"It’s not obvious why, though. The obvious culprit for reduced cognitive function is the thin high-altitude air depriving your brain of oxygen."
`"strict": true` is default on `tsc --init`.
Apple do support OSM. In one European country, Apple Maps actually uses OSM data solely.
> seen or needed anything like Common Lisp

That's not the point. It's not half a Common Lisp, but half of (the features) of Common Lisp: code generation/macros, runtime scripting language, loading of code, interactive error handling, a console to interact with the program, dynamic objects, exchanging data in a textual format, a configuration language, etc. etc
Like when Google were little and their actual tagline was "Do No Evil".
Author of stretch here! I would love to add tests for other browsers as well, and it should be pretty easy as we are just relying on webdriver. Targeting chrome was done as a first step as I had previously set up webdriver tests with it so that was just easiest :) The goal is for general web compatibility and not just chrome-compatibility though.
Zenon: a statically typed language that compiles to C++
although I don't think it necessarily applies in this case from all I've read in all cases where you look to your hobby activities as a source of needed financing those hobbies become more like work. Hopefully it is work that succeeds for him, and that he will enjoy.
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What technicians don't realize is how often PEBKAC is located at the programming station.

Developers surprised by users lacking a mental model of the operating system, who follow HIGs without understanding why they exists, or who never see how their applications are used, are prone to build applications that kill by a thousand paper cuts.

It doesn't help that people skills are moved to a separate discipline and not taught as part of the essential CS curricula.
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> The possibility that a free, democratic publishing platform increases the agency of the average citizen is not permitted here.

One day the trolls / bots / advertisers will find out that a lot of well paid influential engineers regularly read HN, and that will be the end of it.
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Wow, just wow. I would like to buy some of your magic ISP beans please and plant them here in North America.
I presume that a lot of intelligence gathering is rather benign...

Analyzing the course of political debate and the mood is important to understand a country you're working with. Not that this is particularly secretive work.
That’s not true. Apple is using and contributing current, ODbL-licensed OSM data.
Last year I drank the cool aid and bought a mechanical keyboard.

I don't get it. Compared to butterfly they are pretty bad.

Extremely long key travel is supposed to be save me from carpal tunnel. I find it quite exhausting. More worrying is the tactile feedback. When a butterfly (or any other chiclet keyboard) clicks, it registers.

Not so much on a mechanical, not even the tactile. It is worst on the linear gaming keyboards, where resting your fingers on the keys can cause them to register. Normal linear keyboards do need to sink deeper before registering, but again, there is absolutely no feedback.

The tactile keyboards have a "click" somewhere, but it is not connected to the actual keypress registraion.

On top of that they are ridiculously tall.

Like most people I prefer thinkpad or old mac keyboards over the butterfly keys, but they are pretty fine, and I would call them very tactile, but I guess that is going to rub a lot of people the wrong way. So maybe I just go with calling them very responsive, with a high correlation between the audible and felt click and key registration.
should be:

say 'fuck you, <insert name of colleague here>'
I think part of that is democracy is a good brand and applies to concretely different things like:

* No votes, just voluntary interactions

* The people voting on every issue

* The government/representatives being chosen randomly from the people

* Elected representatives being voted for by the people

* Political parties being voted for by the people

Then you have more details like franchise, denizens vs citizens, bicameralism, and more to worry about.

I would also say China today is neither a democracy (as least as you would think) or an autocracy.
2 genders times ~25,000 date of births (70-ish years) times 40,000 zip codes equals 2 billion. The population won’t be uniformly distributed over date of birth or zip code, but that gives a factor of six or so leeway.

The 87% paper is https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.p.... It says:

”It was found that 87% (216 million of 248 million) of the population in the United States had reported characteristics that likely made them unique based only on {5-digit ZIP, gender, date of birth}. About half of the U.S. population (132 million of 248 million or 53%) are likely to be uniquely identified by only {place, gender, date of birth}, where place is basically the city, town, or municipality in which the person resides. And even at the county level, {county, gender, date of birth} are likely to uniquely identify 18% of the U.S. population. In general, few characteristics are needed to uniquely identify a person.”

More info likely available via http://latanyasweeney.org/work/identifiability.html (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967)
Hmm, I've only had two email addy's over the last 30+ years, pretty sure the first one was 1986 or '87 when I opened an account at portal.net, in Cupertino, not too many private isp's back then.

I got it to keep up with my fellow caver friends and join the cavers mailing list, a private list for NSS members who were actively exploring caves all over the world.

For my "computer", I couldn't see spending 3 to 4 k on a laptop, so I dropped $350 on a Brother Power Note and an rs232 modem, together they did everything I needed and wowed all my friends when I printed out a cave plot in the middle of the Mojave Desert on my tiny battery powered B&W printer.

I used my first Password in 1977 at work (private telco interconnect in silicon valley), it was DEVO, yes, I was referred to as the company's resident punk rocker service technician.
The UK was the sick man of Europe. Then, basically around the same time:

1. Thatcher made economic reforms

2. Oil was found in the sea (UK oil production correlates a lot with the rising UK economy)

3. The UK joined the EU (EC)

The Oil is gone and they want to leave the EU. Let's see how it goes.
"Representative democracy". The power to accept or deny things like the treaty of lisbon lies with the members of parliament that represent the people, not with the people itself. Why should it be different for things like the treaty of lisbon than for things like taxation?
> countries like Russia, Zimbabwe, Turkey etc - where elections are a farce

You underestimate the propaganda of Erdoğan, Putin and the likes. Elections themselves can be actually 100% proper - but for example in Turkey's case, 90% of the media is owned by pro-government people (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Turkey - Demirören group is managed by this guy: https://www.haber61.net/images/upload/erdogan_demiroren_basb.... And Çalık is managed by Erdoğan's relatives). Same story applies to many of the dictatorships.
Apple obeys the laws of the countries is operates in. Are you suggesting they should not?

On your second point, they Tim Cook has already said on their earnings calls that they could have monetized user data if they wanted to and chose not to. In fact they built Apple Maps at huge cost specifically so they would not have to give personal data to Google. They've been very clear about this.
I don't need types in my project, because my architecture is clean enough, so no need for autocomplete here.
More messy typings (maybe useless) hurt my eyes and slow down my VSCode as well.
Not mention integrating with current JS ecosystem, import, export problem.
FIX YOUR ARCHITECTURE FIRST, TYPINGS doesn't help.
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Corporations exist to limit the liability of owners, in particular to decrease risk to owners. Given that owners of corporations are given such special treatment, it makes perfect sense that such an organization does not inherit the rights of the citizens that are protected from the results of the corporation's actions.
It'd make sense that even if the human brain can cope on the oxygen available at higher altitudes (since versatility is kind of our thing), it might not do so well at high altitudes while also exercising vigorously, since then the brain and the muscles are competing for scarce oxygen.
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A similar ISP, very much alive and kicking, is https://www.init7.net/en/ in Switzerland. In particular, with their fiber7 brand (see https://www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/), they tick all the boxes mentioned in the article: no caps, fully symmetrical gigabit fiber, ISP actively promoting and pushing net neutrality, ISP actively engaged politically, very knowledgable support staff, etc.
Catching up is usually faster than pushing the state of the art further.

I think the smartphone industry’s slower growth is more the result of diminishing returns from the form factor than the cessation of Moore’s law.
> Apple obeys the laws of the countries is operates in. Are you suggesting they should not?

They can always choose not to operate in those countries. But they do, and accordingly making a conscious decision to endorse those laws in the name of profit.
The other day I was thinking that if I create a black cube in a simulation with white background, and generate a number of PNG images of the cube in different positions, The adjusted weights I get in my network when it classifies with success in further simulations(applying the learned weights to classify now, instead of learning and adjusting the weights), Can also be used to classify a real life black dice on a real life white table, if the camera is well positioned and the light is right. In this case, the learning would "generalize", from the simulation to the real life. Maybe this simulated data used to adjust the weights could also be called "synthetic data" or "simulated data" or just "artificially generated data".
(disclaimer: I work at Red Hat, not on any OS/distro)

This is a nitpick, but Red Hat did not get bought by IBM. What happened was IBM announcing the intention to buy Red Hat.

It's maybe a subtle, but possibly important distinction. Red Hat is still its own independent entity until the deal goes through (which means IIRC passing the board's approval, SEC and likely other stuff). This is expected to happen in late 2019 I believe, but it might still fall through.

This doesn't absolutely dispel any possibility of IBM's influence, but it should be very low/zero until the merger actually goes through. But I also don't know how all this works.
Does anyone else hear that ECHO?
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Huh. Nomenclature. FWIW Ive also never heard of A/B being limited to binary or requiring full N sets of resources. I've only seen it as small subsets of traffic that is ramped up to some confidence interval. Similarly two concurrent variants is the simplest and minimal value. But Ive also seen literally thousands of concurrent variants with enough workload & consumers. Agree on overhead, as it's essentially a version management + stable routing problem you dont/shouldnt increase resource requirements.
This is awesome. Just yesterday I was asking around the TS community what good (opensource) CLI with plugins/extensions were there that were written in TS. I was looking for code I could use as learning and inspiration. I was led to vscode and angular-cli, which are both in github. Funny enough, they are also mentioned in this PR's comments.

Jest, once/if migrated will be another great addition. Hopefully that will happen soon. The community would really profit from great inspirational codebases (CLIs in my case) written in Typescript.
> Catching up is usually faster than pushing the state of the art further.

Not so for exponential growth. e^x will always be greater than e^(x-t).
What else do you expect from Russia or any other country that tries to overpower the others? It's just like nature, when the lion takes over the group and he is constantly challenged.

Now, if someone challenges you and you are easily defeated, then it means you don't deserve to be the leader. If our leadership is failing, then so be it, they don't deserve to rule the world.

Blaming brexit on Russia is new to me, albeit not surprising.

Brexit was a timed event destined to happen for the simple reason that Germany France and Great Britain cannot rule at the same time. They never could and they never will.

And Great Britain for one reason or the other found itself behind, they were unable to do push their supremacy over Germany and France. Either you leave or you knee, or you fight. They were unable to force other powerful countries to make them do what they wished, as they had done in the last 6 centuries before.
>We should expect and welcome research with the awareness of vested interests.

No, we should ban vested interests from funding research studies and reduce the SnR.
Probably a lot of people ended up not choosing them simply because they are more expensive. You do have to distinguish yourself in the marketplace and XS4ALL has failed in that regard for a long time. All they have left really is the name and history.

People aren’t going to pay extra for a reskinned KPN service.

KPN meanwhile majorly improved their service with extensive free installation service while XS4ALL remained with the useless Gideon offering.
That is indeed. Thank you for that.

Instead of requiring filtering on behalf of rightsholders that refuse to license to platforms (an asymmetric relationship that just increases costs for one party), I wish that the EU would legislate FRAND style royalties.

As in, if you want copyright protection then you have to issue Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory licenses to any platform that may want to host the content. Don't want to issue such a license? Then the EU won't help you protect your work. In that way a platform could just host the content using a central database and performing deduplication instead of using the same central database to forbid viewing. Rightsholders would get royalties by virtue of the license agreement, EU would spend less money policing copyright since there would be many more legal avenues to access content.
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I feel like this was doomed to happen sooner or later, but I wonder if this happening now has anything to do with the new KPN CEO being appointed last April.
> This seems to imply it's doing something to the battery chemistry? Maybe a brief pulse of high-rate discharge every now and then to help balance things out?

That's usually within the domain of the battery management system. There's not much the charger itself can do (there is intelligent communication between EV and charging equipment, but not as granular as the view the BMS has).
Why not? A New Yorker who visits Japan needs a ride around town as much as they need housing? Ok, maybe not quite as much. But they do benefit.
And typescript is a fantastic tool. Yet, the commenter in question keeps blaming it for ills that have nothing to do with it.
We had PICNIC back in the day in the UK too, plus "ID ten T" often went on the notes.

ID10T
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There is also the context of the reviewer.

Richard P Gabriel was one of the six persons responsible for the CLOS specification: Daniel G. Bobrow, Linda G. DeMichiel, Richard P. Gabriel, Sonya E. Keene, Gregor Kiczales, and David A. Moon.

Richard was also the CEO and founder of Lucid, Inc. - a Common Lisp vendor. His company developed and sold a production quality Common Lisp implementation for various UNIX systems.
>The bigger question to me is, does that immediately invalidate their results?

Considering that most such research results are already non-reproducible and p-hacking, the added vested interests land this squarely in the crap category.

People like us nerds thinking it through strict logic ("still this does not necessarily invalidate") might reduce some false negatives, but it mostly just wastes our time and has us taken for suckers from industry/marketing con men. With this kind of "research" taking a shortcut in its evaluation is more productive.
I remember hearing about this on a Security Now episode [1]. Just because the US government funds the project does not mean they dictate features. Here is a quote from Roger Dingledine (co-founder of Tor) found in [1]:

"I should take a brief moment to explain how funding proposals work, for those who worry that governments come to us wanting to pay us to do something bad. There is never any point where someone comes to us and says, 'I'll pay you X to do Y.' The way it works is that we try to find groups with funding for the general area that we want to work on, and then we go to them with a specific plan for what we'd like to do and how much it would cost for us to do that, and if we're lucky they say okay."

[1] https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-693.txt
I am an XS4ALL subscriber and this was very sad news. They are a great provider with a great history.

Note that The Netherlands had another (tiny) provider with a similarly long history and hacker ethic, DDS:

https://dds.nl

Ten years ago or so, I was a DDS subscriber. I once send an e-mail to support and was answered by a technically competent sysadmin. If KPN destroys XS4ALL, I might move to DDS again (if they offer fiber in my area).
One of the most interest HN comments I saw last year claimee many programming trends that burn out make false promises about not needing to worry about database design anymore.

The insights you're looking for could be cutting research problems or near trivial depending on the condition of the app db.

I have become fond of saying that the opportunities of ML and data science are just more rewards for getting your database schema right.
Nothing because I am not claiming to be an expert in these fields.
> The illogical and ridiculous predictions that somehow the only thing keeping British people alive is huge payments to the EU, is not only factually false, but insulting to boot

Of course it's false: it's a strawman. Payments to the EU to keep people "alive", really?

> Now there are people who seriously believe the country will be brought to its knees by trading on WTO terms

I am astounded by the number of WTO experts in this country of late. Yet nobody can explain the practicalities, they just say "trade on WTO terms" as the answer to everything. Weird
Seems about correct by energy going into your tank, but not energy actually going to the road later. Divide your result for that by 4 or 5.
There was a time when TypeScript was woefully incomplete when compared with FlowType. When I first had to choose between them, the thing that sold FlowType to me was how it handled null checking, but I was also impressed with the rich type system with advanced type inference.

Then of course, TypeScript greatly improved and added many of those features. The Flow type inference engine is probably still more advanced, but TypeScript does good enough, and has good developer ergonomics all across the board. Hopefully Flow improved since I last used it but if not it regularly ate tons of memory, was difficult to configure, and had poor IDE integration. So in the modern TypeScript world it's hard to choose Flow despite it's potential advantages, imo.