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> The problem is not the web tracking, the problem is your obsession about it.

The problem is the web tracking. And spending even a tiny amount of energy reviewing and installing Ublock Origin improves one's mental health in a way that's obvious when observing the browsing patterns of somebody who doesn't block ads.

If one wants to extend that obsession down to the source of web tracking and attempt to hide one's behavior from the entire advertising industry, that may run the risk of having a detrimental effect on one's health. But a) there is potentially new information which can be gleaned from trying, and b) one can always scale back to and depend on an easy-to-install set of ad-blocking solutions to filter the worst of it.

The only thing you'd save from not worrying at all about web tracking is a small up-front cost of installing an ad-blocker. Those savings pales in comparison to the distractions of being a constant subject to ads.
Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist
ART 3.0 Released: ASCII Art Library for Python (+ Font Typo-Tolerance)
Well, for one, they start playing while they are still in their youth. You could make a better argument for free decision making if you don't allow tackle football under 18.

Second, in order to weigh risks, you need to not have billion dollar companies spending millions of dollars to hide the effects of concussions.

Third, do we let people take any risk they want? If a company wants to pay someone for a job that has a 95% fatality rate, do we let them do it? What if it was 100% fatality rate, but the person knows this and agrees to it? Can you pay someone to kill themselves?

If we agree that a company shouldn't be allowed to pay someone to kill themselves, the rest is just deciding what level or risk we are comfortable with letting people trade for money. Football might be on the 'too risky to allow people to trade for money' side of the equation, once we know the actual risks.
It's hard to imagine YCNYC was almost ten years ago--time sure flies. I still remember Alexis Ohanian speaking to the attendees outside as we were waiting to enter. Hopefully, YCNYC 2 is in the works now that interviews are taking place in NYC.
It seems all of this was possible before the new API.

Google Docs already had an HTML import/export API, which allowed you to download a document, make changes, and save those changes back again. That would allow you to implement any kind of templating you like. This API just makes it slightly easier and more visible.
> anti-aliasing of multi-scale data, terrain shading, large- and out-of-core visualization

Webgl will basically do all of that for you, including the out of core if you can stream the data in.
Could you provide some links/keywords about these alternative solutions? This sounds very interesting but I don't know were to start.
VS Code and TypeScript itself
I remember this shop very fondly, I used to walk home from school, and pick up quite a few components for various electronics projects, but while I was away at uni it closed, I was very disappointed when I went back to my parents.

I can't remember what it was called. But I had a friend who worked there many years ago.
How does one get the grocery?

I'm assuming you'd have to be home in order get them and there would be an app that tells you an estimated delivery time and location of the vehicle.
That's not what a leaky abstraction is.
Starship Technologies has been going at this for ~5 years already, and I feel extremely skeptical about this entire 'autonomous last mile delivery' thing. Home delivery is a solved problem; we pay a few EUR for it and a human turns up in their car, plus there's no need to have a valuable 10k EUR robot delivering a 5EUR pizza. For packages, there's three different package locker systems within 10 minutes walk of our house. To access any robot we'd need to go to the front of our apartment building anyway.

I guess I must really be missing the point of all this, as a bunch of people seem to want to throw a lot of money and effort at the 'problem'.
> The problem that you end up with past a certain scale in a component-based app without a state management framework (third party or your own) is that you're performing business logic inside view components.

I respectfully disagree here. All UI views in React can be controlled via parameters. Very few components in a React application require state management. You can add parameter functions to handle various events as well.

> which allows you to use equality comparison instead of a deep compare to see what state has changed

You are doing a lot of deep compares on state in a real world application? Why? If you only use parameters for the state of your component, everything is already handled by React out of the box.

> every slice of the state can only be managed by a single, pure function

Really? You can trigger reducers from literally anywhere in your application. Not only that, you can create multiple reducers to handle each action type. I've seen a situation with 24(yup, 24) reducer functions for a single action type. Many of those reducers contained complex business logic checking the overall state of the application. Then you have 2 or 3 action functions all with different business logic for that one type. Race conditions everywhere. setTimeout 0, here we go again. Step debugger hell. Of course, you should never do this, but in the real world, this is what happens over and over again.

> means unit testing your state transitions is almost laughably trivial

If you use parameters for state of a component it is 1,000 times easier. Because a component's view is not coupled to the global state of your application. Pass it parameters, test that it looks correct. Change a parameter, check if it is correct. Dead simple. Your tests are not bound to global state at all. Again, you started with an anti-pattern of managing state in child components, and now, instead of not doing the anti-pattern, you are adding yet another tool to fix it. Instead of just not doing it.

In summary, what you are describing is the "theory" of why Redux and associated tools should work. In every case that I've seen(10+ at this point) that has not happened. Not because Redux is a bad tool. Its not. But in the real world, it has become incredibly expensive for many organizations to maintain.
The CTE issue was already "settled" in court: http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/15229132/appeals-court-up...

>The settlement would cover more than 20,000 NFL retirees for the next 65 years. The league estimates that 6,000 former players, or nearly three in 10, could develop Alzheimer's disease or moderate dementia. Fewer than 200 of those retirees opted out of the settlement, while 99 percent approved.
And if you got in a car and drove against the direction of spin you would become lighter. While if you went with the direction of spin you would become heavier.
Some of the most refreshing coverage I've heard of football, the NFL, and even CTE has surprisingly come from Freakonomics (the podcast). They had an episode covering CTE [0] entitled "How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?" that was sparked by Brian Urschel withdrawing from the NFL after a CTE study came out. Recently, they did an entire series on athletes, and their full interview with Dominique Foxworth [1] was also enlightening from a business / incentive perspective. He's a former player, and former COO of the Player's Union.

One thing that gets lost in all of the discussion of the NFL are the vast majority of former players who were amateur (although it is debatable if NCAA players are amateurs), who are likely to experience a similar result as NFL players, but without the enormous cash-generating machine or potential future settlement money.

[0] - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/brain-damage/

[1] - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/domonique-foxworth/
Ryan Heise's site is a good place to start with this:

https://www.ryanheise.com/cube/theory.html
https://www.ryanheise.com/cube/fundamental_techniques.html

From there you should have enough of an understanding to start Googling things, playing with a cube, and Learning the Heise method: https://www.ryanheise.com/cube/heise_method.html
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Is there any concrete evidence of Huawei backdoors?
My understanding is that natural gas has to be trucked in from the south, as the North Slope doesn't export it overland. I could easily imagine the local coal mine being cheaper, especially accounting for winter supply mitigations.
>they got bored with it

I've always wondered why Google is so bad at keeping various services going. Your comment caused me to reflect that Google hires a lot of smart people. Smart people tend to get bored with working on the same thing and want to work on new shiny things. Could it be that the smart people at Google do a bang up job of creating new services, but then get bored and move on to something new, leaving the previous service to slowly die and eventually get abandoned?
Using the assumptions in the post you linked, I got that the gravitational energy bound in that system is on the order of 10^17 Joules. That's about the yield of the Tsar Bomba (so not quite a small explosion, lol), so we could get a thermonuclear device of similar magnitude of those to transfer most its energy into the two, it should separate them.
School's not procuring more chocolate because they think too much chocolate is unhealthy, so it should be kept out of the hands of children.

AFAIK it's not the RPi foundation's policy that RPi are unhealthy or that they should be kept out of the hands of children.

So I don't understand what you're trying to say with your analogy?
"Soccer" brings in more revenue American football, baseball, and basketball....combined.

This article's 5 years old, but still relevant: https://mic.com/articles/91009/soccer-s-global-dominance-of-...
A rate for all channels in the world!
How pre-release versions are handled, or should be handled is definitely the biggest areas for improvement I've run into.

It's often unclear what one should expect tooling to do, with regard to computing/comparing ranges/versions there. Or even what one should expect such numbers to mean even as a human, with regard to changes from adjacent versions. It's not entirely clear to me even what would be the most useful understanding/requirements to have in this area, what it _should_ be. In practice, there is a lot of confusion, and inconsistency between tools.

Possibly because semver assumes just a one-dimensional list of ordered versions (reasonable, do the stupidest thing that might work and actually be implemented and adopted), but the pre-release issue really introduces a second axis. It's not clear to me what the solution is.
How am I, that by way of misfortune and bad timing, ended up depending on the obscure "feature" added in 1.2.3, to know that upgrading to 1.2.4 will actually break my thing?
Pascal is faster than C++
We've already asked you not to post shallow dismissals. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> we didn’t want to be stalked around the internet by adverts for breast pumps and baby carriers

Install an ad blocker.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
The main advantage of ECC is reliability so buying used RAM doesn't seem like a great option. If you're willing to buy used a good way to get a nice workstation is to just buy a used workstation machine (e.g., HP Z400/Z600/Z800 line) and just upgrade the storage and GPU. But if you're gaming or trying to upgrade a home server what you want instead is a nice Motherboard/CPU/RAM combination. Right now Ryzen would be a great option for that if there were some good ECC UDIMM options.
I believe this was meant as a reply to my comment, and I agree with you entirely.

Often the easiest metrics are the least useful. I worked in an office that wanted "production hours" (the business was largely labor-oriented, where that was actually a semi-useful metric, but it's not a useful metric in software development). It was gamed, as long as people charged directly to a project they were "productive". The costs of training and all were hidden as much as possible so projects and teams could seem productive. This meant that customers were being billed hundreds of dollars an hour for training that may not have even related to their project (bordering on fraud here, certainly abuse of some kind). But it also meant that the training budget (organizational) was slowly being cut, because no one was using it.

Selecting your KPIs carefully may not prevent failure, but choosing them poorly can almost guarantee failure or mediocrity.
The NFL is the biggest LEAGUE by revenue, but soccer is by far the bigger SPORT. Just add up the revenues from all the national leagues. To my knowledge, there is only one other professional league in the world (in Canada) that plays (more or less) the same sport as the NFL.
Great. Can we automate changing every single goddamn spreadsheet to not be in US date format? And while we're in there, how about adding a locale for New Zealand?
Does Office 365 yet allow multiple users to edit the same document simultaneously. I really like they way it is done in Google Docs.
Web 3.0 is the internet of race conditions and hangs.
I'll pass that report on to them - have you reported it already? In which browser is that happening?
I thought the claim was the NFL was the "biggest" sports LEAGUE in the world not "biggest" sport - "NFL" isn't a sport, it's a sports league. The NFL isn't the only American football league and I even heard that Vince McMahon is thinking about reviving XFL;. EDIT: Vince McMahon is planning on reviving the XFL in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2020)#Revival
Making poor eating decisions can cause bodily harm much quicker and more severe than repeated concussions from playing football.

Should the default position also be that we don't deem adults to be capable of weighing the risks when choosing what food to eat?
Probably a reference to the granddaddy of these kind of sites, Source Forge.
> Budweiser's main hook throughout was that they did not
> use high fructose corn syrup in their ingredients!

In the interest of counter-acting deceptive marketing:

None of the named competitor beers use high-fructose corn syrup. They use regular corn syrup. Meanwhile, Budweiser does use high-fructose corn syrup in some of its products (but not Bud Lite specifically).

While the ads did not mention high-fructose corn syrup (they would not be stupid enough to make an actually false claim), I'm sure that implied association was intentional.
Yeah I am not sure about the NFL being the biggest in the world, but I got a bit of a laugh out of eSports being more relevant. People forget eSports is decades old now at this point, and the pinnacle of the eSports world is Korea where it has just now caught up to even challenge traditional sports such as Soccer. In America, there is still a way's to go.

"Activate (www.activate.com) projects that in the United States eSports will have more viewers than every professional sports league but the NFL by 2021" and will need to more than double viewership to topple the NFL.

And if you consider "traditional sports" holistically like they are treating "eSports" it is more fair to consider NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS viewership together, of which have large non-overlapping segments, then the gap becomes more of a chasm.

Riot released viewership total for the Worlds finals a couple months ago, and viewership in NA was significantly down than the previous year. In fact in almost every eSport viewership figure, if you discount Chinese and Korean viewership, the rest is almost insignificant -- an MLB playoff game attracts more viewers. I will say we are in the twilight years of the NFL, but what is more likely is that another physical sport topples the NFL throne rather than an eSport.
I didn't mean Nigerians or YC program in particular, but the general idea, that visa applications from different countries might be treated differently. Therefore, the idea of interviews in a "no visa required location" makes a perfect sense to me.
Only the forum includes New Relic, but the whole site has GA
Startup Hiring = Finding “FSO” (Figure Shit Out) People
I quite like that scheme. It saves all the debate about whether to increment the 2nd or 3rd number.

The downside to such a scheme in terms of production releases (rather than libraries), is I have where 2.3 might need a fix for production, while 2.4 is being worked on. So the natural release number is 2.3.1. With ComVer you are forced to make your production fix 2.4 and rename the WIP version 2.5 which can be a pain depending on your JIRA/CI setup etc.
I've been a professional programmer for over 30 years; I'm pretty sure I don't fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of programming. Thanks for assuming that I'm stupid or ignorant, though. (For the record, I agree with your definition of the purpose of programming.)

You don't have to prove to me that monoliths are bad. I get it. (You don't have to prove to me that spaghetti is bad, either.) But you seem to have missed my point.

Monoliths don't just happen. They didn't just wind up in your server room because the roof leaked during rainy season. They didn't get delivered by FedEx by mistake, and your people went ahead and signed for them. No, the monoliths are there because people wrote them.

Why did people write them? 1. Because they didn't know better, and just fell into it. 2. Because they thought that was the best way to architect something. 3. Because they didn't take the time and effort to make something more modular.

People cause the monoliths. To fix monoliths, you have to fix the people problem, or you're going to continue to get monoliths.
Blizzard is one of the most competent developers out there. They understand the fundamental game mechanics to a competitive degree (starcraft 2, overwatch, los) and their games are incredibly polished.

Right now the game market is getting eaten by these f2p games(fortnite, lol, etc) and they haven't found a space to expand into. If there's one place I feel blizzard could innovate in would be in a star citizen like game. Imagine an epic mmo game that had the expanse of no man's sky, the economy of eve online, and the shooter mechanics of overwatch. It would be an massive undertaking but there's definitely a massive market there as you can see with star citizen.
Only the Forum includes New Relic.
The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top Percent Perpetuates Inequality
My take on this is that USA Orwell Inc. already has backdoors on all the things and now Huawei is exposing those backdoors and/or replacing them and/or have all their own.

This is what has to be going on--you're watching two corrupt domination systems duke it out in real time.
All of Airbnb? All of Facebook (in Flow)? All of Palantir, Coinbase, and Stripe?

No one answered that post because your history proves that you are not asking in good faith.
The point is with leather helmets you won't use your head as weapon because you won't feel as protected.
But, that's all boring work. Creating new features is a lot more fun!
That's like slapping a crown on a rotting tooth and calling it good - you prevent the problem from affecting your daily life, but nothing has been fixed and the clock is ticking...
Somehow I feel like WebGL in the browser isn't going to just handle it for things like the main image on the project page, where the compressed dataset is > 1 GB already.
Yes, that does seem to be what the evidence indicates.

People generally rate their diet and exercise as significantly better than it really is, leading them to significantly underestimate the risks to themselves.
Maybe I am just being cynical, but part of me thinks their real motive in keeping their unborn child a secret is so they can register the domain name and claim social media profiles for their child before they are born.
True, although to be fair I imagine it harder to build a power station in Alaska. And solar isn't going to be a great solution either!
Call by the refs.
Yeah for some reason I've started getting snail mail marketing for expecting parents. We are on an IVF journey, and in the unfortunate event we don't get the result we want, I'm not looking forward to a poorly timed mailing.
Awesome. And they're finally pushing pypy3 in their Ubuntu PPA too (https://launchpad.net/~pypy/+archive/ubuntu/ppa)!

I use pypy3 pretty heavily in some personal projects, and the install process has always been extremely annoying. This is great!

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I wish they'd set up a CI-build PPA (or any install process that's not just "wget binary").

I actually looked at setting up my own ppa at one point, but it's apparently involved enough that I didn't have time.
Not at this time, and you probably won't ever see any.

The press coverage, of course, leaves you free to let your imagination run wild.
The one neat thing about hacking the ARM (its an at91 system if anyone knows details) is that I can get access to the raw data underneath. IE, the real-time cell counting events. I can envisage some neat deep learning on something like that, if only the dataset existed.
Office is getting to (but not quite at) that sweet spot of "it just works". So long as you save into your Onedrive a lot of that is magically taken care of.

And then you get that one user who takes the collaborative document, downloads it to their desktop, then emails everyone a revision.
> I love TypeScript. It's like the good parts of Java (classes, type-checking, good support for service-based programming models) with Javascript goodness like handy functional programming tricks, concise code, reactive programming, and not having to worry about concurrency.

This, 100%. And I'm saying that as a guy who's been writing Java for the better part of 10 years.
If you are talking about events for $(document).ready type things -- there is a turbolinks event for page:load -- it's a copy/paste replacement.
One difference I’m aware of since 10 years ago is that talent has gotten more expensive in the Bay Area.
I'd be careful calling people names like that around here.
You would think so, but there was a pronounced movement lower in the PDF I linked to in sentiment in the last two quarterly survey results.
> As a couple with troubles conceiving... it was not welcomed. It was salt on a wound.

As a trans woman who repeatedly gets ads for period stuff, I feel much the same way.

At first, I thought it was cute. "Aww look, I even pass to the ad algorithm", and it eventually turned into "oh fuck, another reminder that my body is never going to work the way it was supposed to".

And it got stronger and stronger as time went on. It started with the occasional ad for pads in Gmail's promotions tab... then I started seeing ads for period products on Facebook... and then I repeatedly got ads inviting me to take part in clinical studies for painful periods and ads for all different kind of menstrual products, to the point where just loading Facebook would set off my dysphoria.
Same here. Every paragraph some other person was introduced and that made it very hard for me to follow the story.
I don't know man?

I think this is just saying which league has the most revenue. I'd find it very difficult to believe that the number of people who played American Football professionally and recreationally was anywhere even close to the number of people who played soccer on this planet last year. I'd be pretty confident betting that the number of people who play basketball on this planet dwarfs the number of people who play American Football. (And the number of people with an interest in soccer or basketball on this planet definitely dwarfs the number of people interested in American Football.)

Maybe American Football can make a lot of money because it is in a rich market? Not really sure. But you can't really argue soccer and basketball as the global sports. It's not even close.