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CCP propaganda is strong - that's why.

Look at the language used "return" - people still think HK was leased. It wasn't - the New Territories were.

People don't care about HK people. I wish they did but no one does.

At least Tibet has some awareness surrounding it in the West - HK just got hung out to dry.

Of all the colonies from which British rule was removed, only HK got handed over to the thugs, thieves and torturers its population had previously escaped.

Everyone else got independence. HKers didn't even get UK passports.
The author clinging to a 100% literal translation of "self made" is mind-numbingly stupid.
The app I'm working on does the same thing:

https://getpolarized.io/

It's very similar to Bookworm in this regard.

The main reason we do it is repository integrity.

We can replicate it easily with the cloud and enable real time collaboration.

You can also keep the files on disk if you want and in their original directories as we use a hard link.
Mine is not available either and I doubt someone paid $11,500 for an Italian name with the dev extension. How come? My guess is some providers are "reserving" them.
For the same reason that the NY Times is not required to platform white supremacists, and the same reason that I don't have to host Nazi Propaganda on my website, it is part of YouTube's free speech to platform whomever they want.
>Where you start matters, but so do the choices you make.

Of course it does...but the single largest predictor of future income is parental income.

>I would argue the exact opposite. I would argue that with the rise of socialist tendencies among millennials, and the hyper fixation on gender, racial, and economic privilege, there is almost an outright rejection of the existence of merit at all. I think that the position is so extreme, that many millennials believe the output of an individual belonging to a group they consider to be universally privileged is almost entirely the consequence of their group's privileges or disadvantages.

And I would argue that this is the right-wing clickbait version of millennials. Not that people like this don't exist, but that their size and impact has been vastly exaggerated.

>People don't have a problem acknowledging privilege.

That doesn't match my personal experience with people.
It has a lot to do with the discussion when the average lifespan of a U.S. male is 79 and people generally vote for Presidents, not VPs.

It also has a lot to do with it when the current 72 year old President shows -- at the very least, arguable -- signs of cognitive decline, and the oldest President ever also showed similar signs towards the end of his term. There are exceptions, but these cases are representative of the typical case, not the exceptional case [1]

Stress is a factor in the above.

Nuclear weapon deployment (not even war) remains one of the greatest threats to civilization and would likely impact another (climate change). The U.S. President must be able to make a fast & sharp decision on this matter should the need arise (though I have to say, Bernie seems likely to make the right choice, which is always "do not launch")

[1] “…most abilities tend to peak in early midlife, plateau until the late fifties or sixties, and then show decline, initially at a slow pace, but accelerating as the late seventies are reached.” (Schaie, 1989).
You expected something else?
We could just give everyone who wants a domain a UUID.

My site could be 'uuid://09953e01-8164-4e40-8504-ed5507b50b03'.

This seems to solve all of your complaints. No clashing, reflects the real world (names are all meaningless is reality, and physical locations are nebulous).

> There’s only ever going to be one company at Apple’s corporate address.

On the other hand, there are corporate addresses that have many companies, and many domains, and many distinct technical departments with different needs.

What you're missing here is that domain names are meant to be easy to remember. That is their only goal.

They were created so people didn't have to memorize ipv4 addresses. Proposing that we use corporate addresses or gps coordinates is absolutely unrealistic and against the spirit of the domain name system in the first place.
totally silly. they also implemented the test of user presence (TUP). there's little point to a software version of a U2F token if user-interaction is still required.
I CANNOT believe this list does not include automapping via AR or other means.
No, that's an entirely separate issue and only particular to this one dumb machine in this article. Yes, I completely agree, having an automatic coffee machine run by a big mechanical arm that just presses the "start" button is really stupid and inefficient. But that's not the issue here in this comment thread about replacing human baristas with machines, in an ideal situation where the machines really can make drinks as good as, or better than, the humans. People here are decrying this automation and claiming that "human interaction" is oh-so important, and it's not. I don't talk to baristas: they're standing behind a big machine, and are busy doing something, so why would I interrupt them? If I want to chat with someone, that's what the cashier and/or server are for. Do these silly people go and talk to the cooks at restaurants too? And do they decry the obsolescence of telephone operators and elevator operators?
Less good for average HKers though...
> But they still lack the "alternate view" on your library. Those Walled Garden-Apps that work with librarys are more like a relational database, offering flexible selections and content-optimized views that filemanagers are normally lacking.

Thankfully, there are also full-text indexers like spotlight and tracker.
> What we really need is a proper study, but they are notoriously hard.

Here you go: "A large-scale study of programming languages and code quality in GitHub"[0]. I've only read the abstract (are we OK on sharing sci-hub links? [1]), spoiler alert, according to this research some languages are more defect prone than others but the effect is small.

[0] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/10/221326-a-large-scale-...

[1] sci-hub.se/10.1145/3126905
Could be an option. But then I have to take care of two operating systems instead of one. Maybe WSL will be worth a shot after the next update of Windows 10. So far I did not hear too much good about it.
...which is why you have some privacy minded people using gmail anyway, or getting biometric passports.
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> I own plugins that are more expensive than the laptop I use to run them.

For anyone curious about this statement, allow me to introduce you to Vienna Symphonic Library. It's the industry standard virtual orchestra, it's used by the vast majority of professional composers and a license for the complete library costs $14,332. We're not talking about a desperately price-sensitive market.

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/VI_Series/VI_Super_Package
Well Java is just an incredibly bad poster child for static typing. But even in Java you can do better by using modern sum types. Defining a “ridiculous number of single-use DTOs” isn’t actually a problem in languages that support this well (e.g. by allowing you to create anonymous tuples). But as you’ve said yourself: this only applies to “pretty hoary APIs”. Why not take the opportunity to create a better API (through a wrapper, if you have no control over the original API)?
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Yeah. If you can save 5 cents on the part cost, and you're going to sell 100 million of them, it's worth it (for the company) to burn a few person-years of engineering time dealing with the limitations of the chip (provided it's at least barely adequate for the task).
I've built out a similar app named Polar:

https://getpolarized.io/

It's focused around incremental reading and suspend and resume of your reading but also supports annotations (highlights, etc).

I also designed it for people like the HN crowd so it's insanely hackable.

Biggest thing I'm working on now is onboarding to make it easier to use and a web version.
It sounds like you're not the target audience of either the paper or the twitter thread.
The most relevant and interesting aspect of any conspiracy theory is the fears it exposes. Whether its fear of environmental degradation ( Chemtrails ), fear of loss of agency ( anti-vaccination, anything mentioning the Federal Reserve, most political conspiracy theories ), racial identity fears ( anti-semitism, "White Genocide", Islamophobia, etc. ).

One underappreciated aspect of the rise of conspiracy theories in the last 20 years is the fact that more people are insecure financially and have lost trust in institutions, often justifiably so. So conspiracy theories meet less resistance than they would have from people who are not worried about their survival in the face of a society that seems determined to immiserate and impoverish them if not destroy them.

Additionally we have a number of examples of institutions being subverted to malign ends, from Wells Fargo to Wikileaks, we consistently see dishonest behavior from organizations that claim to have the publics interest at heart...
With the market changing quicker than ever before due to various structural changes such as new technologies, consolidation of employers, and globalization, I would not recommend having one, or even just a handful of buyers for what you're selling. This applies to businesses and individuals.

I would demand a premium for being in a market where there are fewer buyers and I am subject to more risk of losing my income.
The question is to what degree.
Did we ever find out what the "leverage" on Bernie referred to in the Podesta emails was about?
If in the US definitely a company fail to inform. Done properly developer salary supported by time records can help qualify some portion of the salary for the R&D tax credit. At least that's what they tell us where I slave (a $FORTUNE_500)

Where things fall apart for me is logging overhead time, like time spent waking up with the first cup of coffee while reading company emails or doing IT-ish tasks on my dev system. I have no idea how to account for those times that doesn't make a mockery of the "Other" time entry.
For lighting, definitely. I'm not aware of it having ever been used for heating at any scale?
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I wonder if you read the article. Banks keep research and banking separate. At McKinsey, the heads of several practice areas are on the hedge fund's board.

Not to mention that if your standard for impropriety is the investment bank, you're lost already.
>But by that point, police had already developed suspects without Google's help, based on vehicle descriptions and a confidential informant, they said in court filings.

Even with a lack of probable cause and massive data surveillance, good old fashion police work is what mattered.
Well the .dev domains are going up in a "dutch auction" style.

The price starts off at an insane $11,500 per domain, and then slowly over the course of 2 weeks goes down to $12 per domain, first come first serve.

It's a pretty good solution in my opinion to the problem of how to "fairly" distribute domain names.

I want to pick up a few, but I'm going to wait until they are down to the lowest tier as i'm pretty sure nobody is going to pay even $100 for them. And if they do, well then they probably want it more than I do!
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I've seen companies set minimum time off, which can certainly simply the problem. (At risk of the Dilbert situation: "you need to get this done by end of year, and also take two weeks of holiday".) But ultimately, I think that's a road to this sort of cultural approach. Once people around you are taking time off, it becomes easy to justify taking time off. (And so, like most cultural things, you'd better have management doing it first.)

The best UPTO environment I've ever seen had managers who asked about time off in one-on-ones and pushed people who said "none" to take more. It also had a lot of acceptance for 'aimless' PTO; justifying your trip to the Andes is easy, but people take PTO more consistently if no one's expecting a better story than "sleep late and run some errands" or "play a new-release game".
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Yeah sorry, I really don't buy it.

Strong typing is admittedly great and there are solutions to introduce that in JavaScript. However, this is hardly a dealbreaker in complex apps written in JavaScript.

OOP, interfaces: debatable and unnecessary fluff. There are plenty of productive languages without OOP. Example: Elixir. And there are plenty of productive languages without interfaces. Example: Go.

Reflection is unnecessary in JavaScript. You can access any property within an object dynamically and the language is interpreted, so there's no need to perform fancy reflection operations at runtime.

Dependency injection is an engineering pattern. You can apply this to almost any language. And ironically, plenty of JavaScript backend and frontend frameworks have attempted to use it successfully: Angular, Ember. Hell I even wrote my own DI layer once upon a time. https://github.com/divmgl/nwire

I'm sorry, I really disagree with you. I believe C# has the ability to be productive, but there is just no way you're going to convince me that it's superior to JavaScript and its ecosystem. There's a lot of disdain on Hacker News for JavaScript and it's honestly beyond me.
More like Miranda. Strongly typed Prolog with a nice compiler
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> "This surveillance is allowed not because people are afraid to protest, but because they don't care (or rather, they care more about other [meaningless] things)."

The People aren't getting honest and consistent news about such things. The Snowden revelations were met with what relatively amounted to crickets.

Should people be more aware? Yes. Absolutely. However, the mainstream media driven system is designed to make that close to impossible for most people. Editorial: I don't think that's an accident.
Great. European carriers get the strongest protections for delays, lost luggage and what have you. Something UK citizens can keep.

Doesn't, to me, seem an economic attack. A non EU carrier can still fly to and from the EU. It merely potentially limits flying slots within the EU. Want to fly Paris to Madrid route, be an EU carrier. That seems to hold with the analogy. Pretty sure US and other nations have limits on internal routes too.

Incidentally, in preparation for a no deal farce, Ryanair are reregistering some planes in the UK to still have the option of flying our few internal routes.
Actually my comments were not that well thought from the beginning...
They are, the domains are reverse-dutch auctioned. Buying a .dev domain today is like ~$10000, it'll be $12 in 2 weeks.

Edit: Normal dutch, not reverse.
Because work that call centre workers do can't be compressed. That means each person is working 32 hours each week (no gain in productivity), but still getting paid for 40. Whereas a computer programmer might still be able to complete 40 hours-worth of work in 32 hours by increasing productivity.
I am a big friend of static typing but I agree that there should be a better connection between the types in the database, the types in the programming language and the UI validation logic. Some ORMs help but I think this could be simpler.
Isn't this what's sourceforge is for?
But Google Domains ain't issuing this TLD; Google Registry is, and they don't even push their sibling service, it's shown as any other.

So I don't see the relevance in their thread.
> Even in a fine dinning steak house, the steak was hidden by a 'salt crust' which made it practically impossible for me to enjoy it.

I don't know what restaurant you were at, but this sounds quite unusual for "fine dining steak house"s in New York.
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In Europe house prices seem fairly tied to employment opportunities. Certainly if you are working in It.
As an aside, that is one cool about page:

https://blog.joaopeixoto.net/about/
Yes! This. People get a really distorted view of reality, hanging around people earning 6 figure salaries, spending 90+% of them. Even in major cities, the median salaries are typically in the ~$50k range, and people do live and raise kids just fine. Instead of wondering how they do that, people tend to just throw up their hands, and declare it's impossible.
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I talked with one ex-McKinsey person who went from a true believer to questioning recently, starting with when McKinsey held a corporate retreat a mile away from a Chinese internment camp https://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-china-uighur-corpor...
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So both things are true.. our society is based on the idea of free exchange of ideas, AND people are susceptible to disinformation.

You seem to be under the impression that the truth will win out based simply on the virtue of being true, but that is simply not how humans work. Disinformation spreads because it can be crafted specifically to take advantage of the flaws in how humans think and decide truth. We can't just bury our head in the sand and think this is not a problem.

I am not, in any way, arguing for censorship of false information. However, I do think we need to be aware of the threat disinformation plays, and work on strategies to help inoculate our population against it. It is a false dichotomy to think our only two choices are 'ignore disinformation' or 'censor it'. We can do other things.

It is dangerous to ignore it, or to act like it isn't a threat . While I do believe that the overall arc of history is towards more understanding and truth, it is foolhardy to assume this path just happens naturally. It happens because people pay attention to threats against the truth and respond in ways to counteract it.
I also like Spark, but the 300mb download didn't succeed in getting an IDE which would not immediately crash. It's coming with its own python 2.7 which is at fault here but nevertheless.
In addition to using another registrar, it's generally a good idea to use single-purpose email accounts not associated with your identity to log in to places like Gandi and Namecheap.
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We care because if a lot of people don’t believe they can succeed they will generate substantial social unrest, which has often ended poorly throughout history.
I had a similar experience with a cookbook I was gifted that turned out to be fake: the author had impressive credentials (top culinary schools, etc.) but when I went to find more information about her I couldn't - all I could find was the same "author photo" for sale on a stock photo site. The book was a cobbled-together collection of recipes, some incomplete, apparently collected haphazardly from around the web.

I left a review saying this on the book, and Amazon deleted it because they thought my review was fraudulent. Of course, the book at the time had a 5-star rating from fake accounts.
Is that true? I know real estate is incredibly expensive in places like London/Paris and most people cannot afford to own homes there based on their working salary (which is usually much lower than the US equivalent).
The original tld expansion was a lot more involved than ponying up your $250,0000 from what I recall.
> because it's the right thing to do

On what principle? I had always thought that a job and its pay arose strictly from negotiation. But if you say one way is "right" and another isn't, that implies some reason that transcends anyone's preference.
> They were created so people didn't have to memorize ipv4 addresses

New problem: memorising a UUID is even harder than memorising an IP address. Someone will eventually invent a DNS for the UUID-space, and we'll have this problem all over again.
Bragging about your rating as a function of solved problems in practice (with solutions available) doesn't seem rational.

HackerRank also used to organize contests where they would have a certain time to tackle a number of new problems (5-10 problems in 1 hour to 1 week, depending on the contest) meaning you have no access to solutions and are competing against other people solving the same problems. They have a rating for performance on those as well.
My wife did this job - "office plant watering".

It really isn't as great as it sounds or looks. The pay is about what you'd expect (ie - tiny).

Lugging around jugs of water, trying to find a nearby working (and accessible) hose bib to fill them, or having to carry your own water in your vehicle (and hoping nothing leaks)...it was grueling work for her.

The upside was you didn't have to talk to many people, not even your employer. She did the work, logged the time, and got paid. But the physical stress was insane, and has left her with more than a few issues (back and joint pain).

I look at software engineering differently; when I'm down in the weeds, yeah it sucks - but I know that things could be much worse for me, for much less pay, and what I am experiencing really isn't that big of a deal.

I get paid a lot of money for doing something that I find very easy to do; something that is almost second nature for me (I've been programming in some form or another for about 35 years, since I was a kid). I enjoy going into my work, I don't dread it. Many, many people would love to have that. I enjoy the fact that I do.

I wish more could say the same about their own work.
I have tons of podcasts set to auto-download new episodes, and the file sizes on episodes can get pretty big. On my old 32gb phone I was constantly having to go through and prune podcasts as I don't auto-delete them since I'll often re-listen.
"Which one has the net benefit may ultimately depend on personality, domain, and shop practices."

I think personality is often the biggest issue. Some people like dynamic, some like static. You can make some rational arguments for your preference but in the end we know that successful projects have been written with either paradigm.
That was 6 years ago.
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> But if you say, start Microsoft and become a billionaire i'd say that it's fair to call that self-made success.

Bill Gate’s family clearly contributed to his and Microsoft’s success. His mother in particular had direct contact with the chairman of IBM which lead to a scrappy software company landing a life changing contract.

I’m not saying that to discount the rest of his achievements or effort either. The greatest among us not only have the drive, the intuition, and put in the work, but they also seize upon opportunities when they come knocking.

If it were not his mother and instead a friend’s mother or father that had similar contacts, I have no doubt that Bill Gates would have been just as successful. He would have found that nut and cracked it one way or another.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates