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There was a time when your comments here would be discussed and generally agreed with instead of blindly downvoted and removed.

Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time HN had a good discussion about US censorship and surveillance.

Weird.
I second this. I use Next.js with lambda, so I don't have to worry about servers. Works great...
Peer review is what keeps the literature accurate and the crazies at bay. Prompt response to a review request is always much appreciated. Always work your way through any theorems and proofs--as an editor I found that many reviewers skipped doing the math. And beware of statistics--many researchers have only a limited knowledge of statistical data processing and sometimes come up with strange results in their march to publication. Remember that negative results are also important.
I take this to mean: apart from the barnacles on GPG, could there be a system which does what GPG does for software development (signing), without the non-functioning web-of-trust of GPG, or the hierarchical system of x509 signing? Something that deals with lost keys, compromised keys/accounts, loss of DNS control, MitMing, MitBing, etc?

I think it is probably in the class of problems where there are no great foolproof solutions. However, I can imagine that techniques like certificate transparency (all signed x509 certificates pushed to a shared log) would be quite useful. Even blockchain techniques. Maybe send someone to check on me, I'm feeling unwell having written that.
Some people buy pants with manufactured holes, as I'm sure we all know.

What's bizarre is when you see two people wearing the same brand/pair of pants with the same manufactured holes. All the holes/rips/tears in the pants are identical, a marvel of mass-production.
This is what HN is always missing on the anti-SPA rants. It’s almost always a requirement from the client. How many hours have been wasted on here by programmers writing overwrought comments about how we’re losing touch with the user because of all of our complicated frontend frameworks? No. It’s almost always because the client’s designer wanted a real-time updating hamburger menu or whatever.
Would it be accurate to characterize your opinion as "SKA not SPA?"
Ms. Anandkumar nailed it, this is blatant hype bordering on hucksterism. Elon Musk May have left, but his influence remains I guess.
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"they seldom attack humans but they will happily eat snakes and alligators."
This may not be a good idea. A lot of Indian towns are now facing problems of leopards attacking (and sometimes killing) humans, and these attacks have started to happen in crowded cities like Mumbai. Leopards earlier never attacked humans, but as they lost their habitat and the leopard population has grown, they now routinely attack people, sometimes carrying off kids.
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I don't think PWA offline storage is anywhere reliable or predictable enough to be advertised as an actual benefit. It's essentially a fancy cache at this point:

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/instant-and-o...
>Surely, someone would have eventually invented the stirrup, given ridable horses.

Perhaps, though the stirrup as we think of it shows up a lot later than horseriding does. Although the stirrup seems obvious at first glance, it requires a number of advances in saddles to support, or at least to take full advantage of them.

That said, as the article points out, you don't need stirrups to have cavalry, or even heavy cavalry.
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Watch the Amanda and Rob segments of A Different Brain by Louis Theroux. (available in the usual places). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07c6fjk
If this makes you mad, definitely don't look into the taxes of just about every other company in the US. Particularly don't look at defense, integrated oil E&P, agriculture, or residential construction. I bet those industries would love for you to be outraged about Amazon and it's 21% off a $10B base instead their total subsidies that probably are high tens of billions or greater.
They're an predatory invasive species that's been clogging up dam gates and killing native predators like alligators. The goal, if it were even possible without causing more harm, would be eradication from that ecosystem.
> it's often just simpler to use a SPA framework in the first place.

Simpler or more convenient? I've yet to see a production-grade React setup (for example) that is simpler than having either vanilla JavaScript or even jQuery to achieve the same interaction. The amount of tooling required to do simple interactions does not justify the technology for most applications IMO.
An ethics course is mostly about familiarizing you with several frameworks that can be used to make decisions about ethics.

For instance, "don't build stuff that can be abused" is not a good framework for ethical decision-making. "Abuse" has no clear definition, and "can be" is an incredibly high standard. By this standard, the hammer should have have been invented. It's incredibly easy to hurt someone with one! There are no safeguards whatsoever!
Well I'm gonna be one of the people downvoting all the whataboutism I see, if you have 13 comments doing it that's 13 downvotes.

Immorality in one region isn't excused by immorality in another. If what you mean to say is "This is absolutely inexcusable in China, and inexcusable in the West too" that's fine, but completely irrelevant to the article at hand, but I don't think that's what you're saying.
This fixed mine. A 5 dollar tool.
Biologists are trying to make bird flu easier to spread. Can we not?
Thank you!! :-D
I guess I'm not entirely understanding how the scenarios you bring up to myself and others aren't sufficiently solved in the current Dockerfile implementation, along with other command-line tools that I can use immediately or retrieve trivially. A 'framework' for bash + docker feels a bit anti-pattern-y/or at least the benefits just aren't obvious for the way my team uses Docker presently.

That said, if what you've put together has solved problems for your team, maybe it will for others, so don't let my incredulity spoil anyone else's curiosity who reads these comments later.
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> People oblivious to 99% of the goings-on around the world merely parrot opinions they read in the media about 1-2 select places

If you had been about to respond to that commenter "You are oblivious to 99% of the going on's around the world [0] and merely parrot opinions you read in the media", that probably would have given you pause. Being more indirect isn't being more polite, in my books.

[0] that could be parsed as either "to 99% of the stuff of which I am aware of, so I am aware of 100 times more things than you", or as "to 99% of all the stuff that actually goes on the world, which would mean you are aware of 1% of everything going on right now, which would make you something between Q and God", both of which are silly.

> At the same time when you see tons of blog posts, and media stories and so on (and movies and TV series) against country/situation X, you don't see any about country Y which is similarly or much worse, but an ally (or indifferent).

Another way to look at it is that 99.999% (exactly) of the stories here are basically fluff that can disappear quicker than you say "whoops" if the serious stuff isn't dealt with. How come that the precious few cases when something serious, whether it's in the US or elsewhere, gets some attention, are played off against each other? What does this achieve? What does this create room for? It's not a zero-sum game, where making assumptions about a commenter who made a very short comment stating a simple fact, without a hint of any of the stuff you conjure up, somehow improves discussion taking place elsewhere or in the future.
Are you asking why reputable news organizations don't publish assumptions?
looks like many other articles were posted first, including this one: https://www.southcoasttoday.com/news/20190215/update-payless... ... pro hillary people just like CNN so much
Tax credits and stock-based compensation are the likely reason. Some people will argue that with Amazon being one of the richest companies in the world there should exist no scenario in which they don't pay federal income tax and that the tax code should be simplified to close up these loopholes, but I just want a tax code rewrite so politicians and the media can stop exploiting the uneducated masses who don't understand what a tax break is.
It's possible this problem was an excuse that allowed him to mentally justify the <fancy new fridge> he really wanted. The last thing he wanted to hear is an easy fix.
Yes this is true. I don't pick up lawnmowers anymore because mine is fine. But I have given some of my old ones to people that just moved into a home and stuff. And yes I am selective about appliances unless I know a friend needs one. Currently everything I own is plugged in and being used, no yard full of junk :).

As for the Hall field sensor yeah I know I probably could have found an equivalent on Digikey and saved $15 or so when you factor in the shipping, but the convenience factor and knowing that I just fixed an otherwise fine $1700 commercial shredder for $25 is fine.
Possibly, though your perfect API design may differ significantly from your perfect site structure. It feels reasonable to consider both and see it as a positive if the use cases work.
They shouldn't. They have deferred tax assets from years of losing money. This is perfectly reasonable. If you want to be mad about something, be mad about Google and Apple domiciling their IP in Ireland and siphoning all their profits there.
Oh, don't worry I'm convinced! I just find it strange calling this "going solo", because the guy telling us this isn't.
But it's ok because they create so much value for the economy, right?
I feel better about the money staying in the hands of people that actually (and efficiently) provide useful services and products to people, unlike bureaucrats in the government who have no incentive to do things well and be efficient (and in reality have the opposite incentives).
> TBH if the thing is getting rewritten every two years because of $new_paradigm, code quality matters less.

I disagree with this. De-prioritizing code quality because a rewrite is on the horizon is a great way to paint yourself into a very bad corner.

Imagine letting your codebase rot with the assumption you're going to rewrite it only to have your CEO walk in one day and completely shift priorities to build some new feature to land a new customer or appease a current one (a not-too-different scenario happened to me once.)

Priorities change all the time, and quality code grants the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
"... to legitimize the housework that women were already performing ..."

Yeesh! Is there really something 'illegitimate' about housework? Such a ridiculous tone. All work is important and should be done well and with pride. A person is not less than or "in a ghetto" if their contribution to a family is taking care of most of the housework.

I'm a guy and I remember taking Home Ec and Shop, and then those being phased out. All students were expected to take both, and I remember learning a lot there. I suppose its much more important to learn about "Catcher in the Rye".
Facebook has paramilitary factions genociding the Rohingya? I'm not denying that Facebook played a role in the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in Myanmar but to place the blame directly on them is absurd. Facebook is just an ill-moderated medium.
Similar story for my ironing board: A nylon runner wheel cracked in half, breaking the folding mechanism. Modeling a replacement in CAD (I used fusion 360), 3D printed it, little drilling to get the axle to fit, and the ironing board was back working same day. It felt great to fix a problem like that - there’s something very techno-utopian about it, like you’re living the dream of a Wired article from 1997 predicting a future where we will all effect household repairs by replicating spare parts.

But that’s happened once in the three years I’ve owned a 3D printer. Simple mechanical part failures just don’t seem to happen that often.
Sort of, and humans sort of can too. The only metabolite of TTX I’m aware of is just the oxidized form. Primarily though it’s excreted “whole” through urine. It actually doesn’t matter if dolphins can metabolize it any better than humans if they’re getting a low dose per kg. Humans eat puffer fish for the same reason, the residual toxin in the flesh gets you a little high. As long as it’s a non-lethal dose, you excrete it (primarily in urine).

It’s also a potent analgesic at low doses, so maybe they do it primarily for the buzz, or to relieve aches and pains.
I've been using parts of it on most Rails apps I've worked on for the last few years.
The form object pattern (Reform) really helps when you need to update the same model in different places with different validations.

For example maybe an Order only needs a price when it's created, but needs a invoice number (and some other validations) when marked as paid, but an admin should be able to override those validations at any stage. If you are doing something like that with standard Rails the model is going to end up as an untestable mess, where as the form objects can be tested on their own.

My only complaint is that the creators of Trailblazer really don't seem to like Rails, so trying to get them to both work together can sometimes be a bit tricky. And the documentation is lacking if you want to do some more complicated things.
Sure, I was just pointing out that control wasn't on your list - it doesn't fall under any of aerodynamics or propulsion or structures.
> "Tax credits and stock-based compensation are the likely reason."

From the second paragraph of the article:

> "The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says the company is subject to a 21 percent tax rate on its U.S. income. However, through various tax breaks and credits, the company will receive a tax rebate of $129 million."
I think you mean ‘whittle’.
Well as somebody who is very anti US-monitoring, let me help you understand:

Your comments are so unproductive (i.e. emotional/irrelevant/us-vs-them) that they actually undermine the cause you say you're concerned about. You give the rest of us a bad name.
I think the exact number comes out of thin air but from observation I agree that only a minority of people are cut out for this work. Most will find it boring and tedious.
There are three aspects of Docker that aren't too bad in itself (and have obvious or logical reasons), but taking them together leads to close coupling and code duplication:

- There is no composition of images, but only inheritance

- Shell scripts can't define any environmental variables that will survive beyond the script itself

- Docker doesn't have any way to take or template values from other Dockerfiles

That means that you might be able to separate RUN logic out into shell script (like the method deck-build proposes), so that you can compose multiple tools into the same image. Still any ENV variables that your tools might need (if only a simple $PATH) need to be manually copied into the composing Dockerfile and maintained when changes occur.
> just introduce an Apex predator - the majestic Jaguar

This is just what Florida needs: Jaguars.

I can already imagine the new "floridaman" headlines...

On top of that, what could go wrong?
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Sheesh, take a look at their errata page: http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/errata.html
I'd probably add sweaters to the list. They can develop holes, pulled threads, etc. that can be darned or, for casual use, patched. I've also had dress jackets repaired--usually because the lining has torn or something along those lines.

I also repaired or had repaired outdoor gear of various types. That's mostly about functionality so the repairs don't need to look great.
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> What do you guys (yes, guys) think about making Fabio the standard image instead?

No objection here. Heck, make both the Fabio and Lena images part of the test image set so that everybody's happy (or at least equally unhappy).
Luckily most people don't feel like that or we'd be living in a pretty bleak world.
Americans are stuck up sexually, that's the gist of it.

There's also a clear trend in the US to get outraged at all sorts of injustices of the past, some real, some percieved.

It's shocking to me to see that white men - the very people who had a massive contribution to building America into what it is today - are given so much crap from pretty much everyone else.
Turbolinks specifically?
A weird kind of porn, but I'd love to see a picture!
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19181356
The article refers to $11 billion in net profit. They haven't known what to do with all their money ever since convincing the tech industry AWS was cheap, this month AWS will net around $700 million in profit.

It is simply their desire now to not pay taxes, not pay their workers well, to clone 3rd party vendor's products under their own brands, to copy the occasional SaaS hosted on AWS etc.

The article actually says they received $129 million instead of paying taxes on $11 billion profit!

https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-2018-aws-delivered-most-of-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-amazon-com-antitrust/e...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn...
love the colour. Took me right back to the Data General days.
> But it seems they share some worrying vices as well.

Is this meant serious or ironical. I hope the latter I fear it's the former.

> At one point the dolphins are seen floating just underneath the water's surface, apparently mesmerised by their own reflections.

An animal that seeks intentionally a consciousness-expanding experience must be conscious on a higher level. Evolutionarily such behavior mostly handicaps the ability to defend - so it must be addressing a psychological desire.
> smoothness in their flows

...what?

> continuous saving

No problem.

> and all those nicely choreographed state transitions

Learn to say "no." It works wonders whenever people tell you that your aircraft has to go under water now.
...which has been on Netflix for a few years.

Ah... needs a "[2013]" in the title.
People having voluntary interactions instead of being forced, what a bleak world.
I think this means you are sacrificing the component library requirement. There is not a sane way to intermix js,html,css as a single component with dependencies on other components with your approach. What you end up with is 3 very distinct/separate/unique/difficult to maintain solutions across css, js (probably 4 if you include js/html), html.
I'm guessing you don't live in the EU.
1. It's like saying you don't need Rails, just use Sinatra and if your app really needs it then use Rails. I'll pick rails even for a super simple project because I'm very comfortable, quick with it.

2. "You don't need the complexity of SPA or javascript fatigue" and then you install webpacker gem that wraps around webpack and not only you have a headache of webpack but also of a gem that wraps around it. And then you need some front end libraries and you start including them in in the way that feels like a workaround.

I mean no disrespect to these wonderful tools, I appreciate the hard work being put into these gems, and I will admit I didn't give it TOO MUCH effort to learn. I tried it. didn't feel right. moved on.

I've just decided for myself that for now I'm gonna keep my backend ( ruby, db, server ) in one mental bucket, and all the fronted ( css, js, html ) in another.

For me to go traditional Rails way it has to be a super simple app, at which point there will probably be other tools to solve the problem.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19155655.
Ludicrous! Ludacris is the rapper :P
Guessing by lethal shockwaves are from relatively small explosions (like packets of C4), I'm going to go ahead and guess the energy dispersed from this would easily shatter all the concrete of the bunker and instantly kill anything living.
I'm not against adding chemicals to food. I was just pointing out flaws in the examples.

We should test foods to the best of our ability to make sure they are safe, but I don't think there should be many restrictions otherwise.
What I usually don't understand is that when people bring something up like this, the intent feels like it's to make me mad at Amazon. Did Amazon break the law? No. At least not in this case, as far as I know.

If you see a problem with this picture, the problem IMO is an overly complicated tax code that mostly benefits people/businesses with the resources to navigate it.

That aside, if Amazon paying nothing in federal income tax largely has to do with offsetting previous losses, what's the problem? That seems fair, and I would really want someone who has a problem with this to explain why it would be more fair to tax a business' gains one year by ignoring previous years' losses.
Sorry, I don't have the complete context - SSR stack, app architecture, load times etc. So, I'm not in a position to comment on your SPA migration. But, I'd like to share thoughts from my current situation.

We have a flagship product written in web forms (started in 2006). It's a big solution. Performance has always been a challenge with it.

While I'm not proposing a complete rewrite into SPA, due to - migration requires a lot of effort, huge risk for missing functionality, errors etc.

The biggest problem with the product is - app posts back the entire page, which most of the times is huge, even if we changed just one field. The viewstate is enormous. My proposal is to switch to json objects for information exchange between server and client. We'll get the benefits similar to SPA without rewriting for it.

This approach is also described in MS's silk project - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=272...
> No one uses or needs ML for overfitting 4 variables. You can do that with regular statistics just fine.

True, but an ML routine can try an approximately infinitely greater number of models. If I'm using x,y and z to predict w, and I've tried all the linear terms, all the squared terms, all the interactions, all the log terms, and I start throwing in other things, my readers will, rightly, raise an eyebrow. Maybe there's some discontinuity to exploit, but if so, I'll explain it -- a policy change for people age 65 or older, say, or a market that exists in one state and not an adjacent one.

The ML, by contrast, can invent the most absurdly jagged multivariate functions imaginable, and we typically* don't even know that it's doing so, let alone why.

*as others have written here, we can actually investigate the how (not the why) by inspecting the algorithm -- but the number of papers that do is much smaller than the number that don't.
I wonder if anyone has ever studied their reaction to human musical compositions? All I can find are articles concerned about the impact of sonar and ship noise, but as a purely intellectual pursuit would they enjoy Motzart? Drum and Bass? God help us... Ke$ha?!
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>I feel better about the money staying in the hands of people that actually (and efficiently) provide useful services and products to people, unlike bureaucrats in the government who have no incentive to do things well and be efficient (and in reality have the opposite incentives).

Right, because tax money, once collected, simply vanishes into thin air and never, ever shows up as the income of private companies, nor drives entire sectors of the economy.

At least that's how it works under the purple skies of planet Libertaria.
Who do you think builds and maintains the infrastructure Amazon uses to provide those useful services? How do you think it gets paid for?