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> reciting his meme-infected nonsensical manifesto

I've seen sparse, five-word excerpts, picked and distilled by someone that presumably read the full text.

> nonsensical

Undoubtedly it is; that's never stopped nonsense from being available before. Hell, you can buy hard copies of Mein Kampf with 2-day shipping from Amazon.

There is a tremendous Streisand effect being created around this, and I cannot figure out why.
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I've noticed these stories on The Verge and all I can think is that this is the most cyberpunk twist of all: the very texts that might inspire a cultural shift against these entities are instead repurposed and weaponized by capital to support their continued reign.
I have an antique samsung flip-phone from sometime in the 2006-08 years. My carrier is T-mobile.

I had one that I used until it was really dying a couple years ago (growing blob of dead pixels in the middle of the screen, declining battery life), which I commented on during a visit home, to which my mom replied, "wait! i have the exact same phone in a drawer somewhere" ... so now i'm still using it, just, the one that she held onto for some reason.

The comments about dropped calls are true -- my phone has gotten progressively worse at being a phone in the last couple years. I wasn't sure whether it was hardware degradation or what, but I trust folks on this thread are more knowledgeable than I am and are correct that it's due to networks being phased out. To be honest I have no idea which 'G' my phone uses.

Pros:
- battery lasts for most of a week between charges
- is not distracting at all
- I don't feel bad when I drop it
- the alarm-clock feature works
- most people are very kind about giving me directions if i get lost and ask them for help, after they hesitate and say "... can't you look it up on your phone?"

Cons:
- not all text messages reach me
- I have to manually delete texts as the phone only wants to store 30 texts at a time.
- some phone conversations include redialing a few times
- I don't have a camera in my pocket
- I don't have a GPS in my pocket
- My current employer had to buy me a cheap (no sim card / no linked google account) smartphone anyhow for 2FA apps!
- distraction is more of a general habit -- i still waste plenty of my own time browsing the internet on a laptop.
Did you update the wikipedia article with the correct citation?

Nope. And for reasons I've outlined elsewhere on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19400846
if you're at startup, you should feel the control to establish the culture you'd like to have. I'd say, introduce the emails, let the feedback be known. I think you have more control on your experience than you might think
Ah, I didn't know they did that for the 02, pretty sure the 01 ran some custom non-android OS.
you're already doing the right thing by thinking about best practises. your question is pretty vague though, which is probably what invites so many comments about "experience" being the best teacher. just saying to "learn the hard way" is doing you a bit of a disservice though, because there is a ton of material out there!! read it. oreilly my friend. and be sure to share it with your team
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> you've made a moral argument out of it,

No, I don't believe I have. I've just stated my personal opinion.
Haha, I like that.
I used my 1st gen 3310 daily for 13 years. Eventually the antenna died and it turned out to be impossible to find reliable batteries.

Mom, on the phone: "I can't HEAR you again! Go and GET yourself a DECENT phone! I am going to BUY you one myself! ..."
After this, my phone almost always died.

An excellent phone, though. Saved me from smartphones (I've never owned one). It also served well as a bottle opener when I was a student.
I justified it to myself by knowing that I'd be saving like $30-40 a month by not paying for data. Idk where you're located, but there's a provider called Ting: https://ting.com/ that charges you by usage, so my bill is like $20 a month.
One I noticed missing (based on another comment here) is ctrl+o to run a movement command while in insert mode. To me this is pretty valuable glue between command/insert mode.

E.g.
"ctrl+o 2e" to skip forward 2 words.
Honest question: are they waterproof these days? I used to have a waterproof "case" (a glorified plastic bag) for my kindle for the tub but that only worked because it had buttons. How can you use a touchscreen it with wet hands? And what if you drop it, that's $400 down the plug hole.
skepticism is in short supply nowadays
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Yes, we do indeed see a surprising number of C++ programmers in the user base (essentially people who are stuck in C++ because of performance considerations, but would like to iterate faster). MATLAB/Python/R users tend to come to Julia when they outgrow the performance constraints of their older systems.
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I've never been able to successfully alter a Wikipedia article, even for something as simple as a typo correction.

Bots always revert my changes within seconds.
This is rather ironic coming from Cloudflare given that their main product is a TLS proxy which essentially has man-in-the-middle access to all https requests running through their systems.
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Tock's pay-up-front business model destroys that trust. The not-so-subtle message to the customer is, "We don't trust you to pay."
Good plans come up semi frequently, you just need to know where to look. I worked from an RV full time for 2 years using only cell plans and I was pretty happy with the plans I had. I still use my Verizon Grandfathered Unlimited plan for home internet and routinely use >100GB/month for $80/month. That plus an AT&T connected car plan with unlimited data for $25/month and I am set. I spent a lot of time following https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/ before pulling the trigger on plans.
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Yes, it is. The word literally means a foreign language.
The real scam is that they’ll give you a 15-25% reduction in premium, even if you’re driving 80% less than average.

I get that some risks are fairly constant (e.g. theft), but premiums could be better correlated to actual risk.
1. Reading and learning from other people's work is certainly a good way to learn new approaches.
2. Learning to measure how your code/application performs will let you test various approaches so you can decide for yourself.
Not K7, but KDB+ is the de-facto time series store for financial data. It's faster than anything open source by orders of magnitude and extremely expressive. However, it's extremely expensive. If KDB had a much more user-friendly licensing scheme they would have seen much more adoption.
I like how this is published by Cloudflare, who is literally the biggest TLS interceptor in history -- their entire business model is based around MITMing connections.

If I was a group who needed to get eyes on TLS traffic without it looking too suspicious, offering free reverse-proxy services would be the way to go (for attack protection and CDN-like features, of course).
I do think that ubiquitous, highly intrusive spying will become mandatory for all cars at some point. I don't think it will be because of insurance. I think it's more likely to come from the push for "self-driving" cars and automated roadways.

I look at Tesla's spy system as the sort of dystopian future we can expect.
It’s not refined while it’s in the fruit. High content, but not refined.

Even with oranges which have very high sugar content, you cannot easily eat four oranges but you can drink their orange juice along with most of the sugar and none of the fiber.

The sugar lobby’s talking points steer the conversation toward equalizing refined and non refined sugars, and calories from refined sugars vs calories from non refined sugars.

I found this in depth lecture really enlightening

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
See if you can find someone external to your company to mentor you. Easier said than done, it's true, but most people who are currently employed can find someone in their social graph within one or two degrees of separation that's able and willing.

In most cases, the leverage you'll get from this, compared to trying to learn everything yourself, tends to be overwhelmingly greater than the cost of searching.
Add it to the list of reasons to be unhappy with Elsevier. The article makes it sound like passwords are stored in plain text. What a disaster of a company.
Self learning is one thing and being completely on your own without a way to ask specific questions on the daily basis is totally another.

If there is no one to answer your questions in your company - try and find some buddies on the internets or even change company, as in my experience, ability to ask stupid questions and get answers quick is crucial in learning programming. StackOverflow is good, but not quick enough.

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Ouch, sorry, misunderstood your question. I am not sure there is a book on best practices on APIs, but it’s definitly possible to have someone experienced help you as a company. There are good developers with experience doing this type of contractor work.
KaiOS 1.0 was released before Google invested their money, no preinstalled google software on this phone.
T-mobile's bad coverage reputation is undeserved today. They are easily on par with AT&T _IF_ your phone supports their 700MHz band.
IMO, the most likely outcome is: initially, they'll stay grounded until the flight recorders from the latest crash are analyzed, and it's confirmed that it's probably the same or a related cause (if the cause was unrelated, they might be allowed to resume flying earlier). Then a fix to the software will be developed, taking into account the preliminary results of the investigation; Boeing has a head start here, since they started developing the fix after the previous crash. After it's validated that the fixed software would have prevented both accidents, the authorities will change the rule from "all planes of this type are grounded" to "all planes of this type are grounded, unless they have software version at least X.YY on that subsystem, or are flying with no passengers to a maintenance facility to install that software version". And then the companies which own these planes will install the fixed software, and normal flying will resume.
Slack doesn't provide a self-hosting option at any tier. This allows you to host the encryption key in your own AWS account's KMS service, which Slack then (running in Slack's own AWS account) then queries.
Kernels do a lot now that they didn't used to. I'm not sure what marginal features you're talking about, can you share some with us? The ABI may look the same as it was in the 1990's but thing under the hood have gotten a lot smarter, and that smarts requires more code.

As for userland.. Even OpenBSD, my personal preference of operating system and one which is known for its 'lean'ness of base userland has 10x this kloc in /bin/ and /usr/bin:

# find bin usr.bin | egrep '\.c$|\.h$' | xargs wc -l | tail -1
689562 total

Coreutils, by comparison:

coreutils$ find . | egrep '\.c$|\.h$' | xargs wc -l | tail -1
91991 total

(The difference is because coreutils doesn't contain everything obsd's /bin and /usr/bin does I suppose, openssh, tmux etc)

Either way, that's not a mad amount of code imo... Which parts of this are 'MIT bloatware' ?
What do you use to budget?
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Go to GitHub and start contributing to open source projects that use the same stack.
> and it could navigate the internet via WAP

That's what it was called! Thanks, I was annoyed at myself for not remembering the name of that.
Who the fuck is downvoting the siblings here for no apparent reason? All of them are entirely correct. Have the anti-vaxxers invaded HN?
Indeed these are exactly the numbers they present in Table 2.
It is probably more connected to career choice and technical background of the person, then the age.

I am pretty sure that most of people can use it as domestic media consumption device (it really is perfect use case), however when it comes to work, people I meet in my business use it for it’s compact size and battery life (great for travels and portability in general), as well presentation-wise possibilities.
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> If I was a group who needed to get eyes on TLS traffic without it looking too suspicious, offering free reverse-proxy services would be the way to go

that's a pretty over the top accusation to make without citing evidence
Not the author but I assume it's to save the overhead of string parsing when you know you don't need it.
> Those drivers could be offered the option of installing them with a smaller increase in premium, and not installing them with a much higher increase in premium.

At a certain point, that's the same as being forced.
I have an MacBook Pro and it doesn't even being to compare to what my iPad Pro can do.

I've done the vast majority of research, planning, organizing, and documenting my new house build on the iPad and it's massively better at pretty much everything.

Of course the MBP kicks ass for my day job as a developer. Different form factors, different software, different use-cases.
by having customers pre-pay, the restaurant is making sure that there are not reserved seats left empty due to no-shows, which means they are more likely to serve a full restaurant

When the restaurant charges a no-show fee, and then still fills the table with walk-ins, then the restaurant actually makes more money on people not showing up. It's not like if someone misses their reservation the restaurant leave the table empty for 90 minutes.
That would be a very pleasant twist.
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> Sort of like how CloudFlare does with their "Flexible SSL". As an end user, I have no way of knowing if CloudFlare is proxying my credit card information over clear-text to an insecure origin server.

Cloudflare should really message if this is the case when using their gateway. Small UI changes to note this would likely go a long way toward coercing better overall security.

When I use Cloudflare as a proxy, I also configure authenticated origin pulls[1] for better endpoint hardening. This makes it a bit more difficult to find a way to bypass the CF proxy, since hunting around on shodan etc. to find the server in the IPv4 space echoing the same content will not work.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-the-origin-with-tls-a...
The suggested price of these treatments is absurd. “And then there is the cost. It is unclear what insurance companies will cover and treatment estimates are in the vicinity of $7,000 per month.”

Its been awhile but Im fairly confident this drug doesnt cost anywhere near that price.
Huge numbers of postgres installations are on small machines and/or machines shared with other software. And whether you want a large work_mem hugely depends on whether you want to run an OLTP workload with a few hundred connections, or an analytics workload with like 2. It ain't as simple as you paint it.
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Wasn't ZFS just collateral damage? Iirc, they primarily wanted to hit nvidia with that.
“Racism” is an overloaded term. The idea you’re describing (racial separatism) is definitely in the general category of racism.

In fact, most racism gets expressed as racial separatism. Segregation was literally racial separatism.

One problem is that this literally turns into a question of ethnic territorialism, and can easily be extended from neighborhoods to entire states (Oregon was founded as a whites-only state) to entire countries (eg the notion of sending freed slaves back to Africa, which is how Liberia was founded).

It’s also just not that hard to express even the worst racism in mere separatist terms. In fact, that’s where most racism starts.
Read engineering blogs, most big companies have it.
Follow HN topics
Read books
Go to conferences
https://qz.com/504370/norway-rewards-brazil-with-1-billion-f...

Like giving them a billion dollars, too?
I'm pretty sure the actually difficult (i.e.: not handled by the heuristics TSP solvers use in practice) examples for TSP are impractical to convert to a physical object, and I'm not sure that physics would actually do a good job with them. Remember, it's the principal of _stationary_ action, not _least_ action, so it's basically a greedy search.
I'm curious if anyone tried to hack Palm Mobile into some sort of semi-dumbphone by removing its OS and installing an open source mobile distro?
This issue is a quintessential 0th World Problem.
Yes definitely check out startup.miami - it’s a good starting point.

I’m also happy to connect you, just drop me a line.
Fair enough in general, but IMO Requests really is worth it.
I learned a lot by working on open source projects in my younger days. People were always around on IRC to answer questions, especially when answering my questions got them closer to their own goals for the project.
I was asking myself this in 2013 and in 2014 I quit my job because of it. I thought https://www.codementor.io/ was going after this problem.

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If not, it pains me to know that there still isn’t an answer besides, “quit and be skilled enough at determining that a company is good at teaching best practices.”

> books

Are a way to absorb information that the author thought a broad audience would want to know and be able to digest. They don’t replace being able to get detailed individual feedback on your work and your particular questions.

> make mistakes

In my experience, mistakes have one big flaw: They don’t teach you a way to do something correctly. It is possible to go into a situation thinking, “I don’t know what to do here and I need help.” And to come out of the situation saying, “Yep, I did my best and I failed in pretty much the way I thought I would. New information learned: none.” Ideally, you would be able to shop for or come up with a workable solution yourself. In reality, humans benefit greatly by learning from the past solutions of others and from getting personal recommendations.
Sure! Two examples where the Win32 API and/or my knowledge of it falls short,

* Layout management. There's no "easy" way of managing dialog layouts (letting controls expand/shrink on resize etc).
* Custom controls (e.g a tree-list-view) are clunky to write.

I'd much rather write PicoTorrent on top of the pure Win32 APIs, which I did in the beginning. It then evolved and when I valued time against frameworks, frameworks won, and saved me time :)

You can hit me up at the email in my profile if you want to discuss further!
It's true that taking a programming class isn't the same as taking a high school foreign language class, but it's also true that taking a high school foreign language class is unlikely to give you any meaningful proficiency in that language: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/08/the_marginal_pr.htm...
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I'm really sorry about your previous experience. The product is for people that otherwise get distracted and need a prompt to help them get on task.
Then the translation of "religion" is "faith".
If you use your phone a lot at home, you'll probably appreciate using a tablet instead.

If you use your laptop a lot at home but don't really need to type that much, you'll probably appreciate a tablet.

Otherwise, it's probably not for you.
Hey, I prefer configuration, so you'll get no argument from me on that, but it's definitely more of a word than cfg.
Single - sure, men - sure most programmers are men, but why would they favour white people? Do they work harder? I’m pretty sure white people are underrepresented in Silicon Valley, while Asians are heavily overrepresented.
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> i've never heard of any place in tech that drug tested that didn't involve getting a security clearance

If the company is accepting US government contracts, and you would be working on a team under such a contract, then the company is likely to be required to drug test you even if a security clearance is not required.
Kaldi certainly is a research project. Hopefully in the same vein as Postgres and not so much a toy implementation.

Could you conceivably run DeepSpeech and Kaldi side-by-side on the same audio sample and gain any kind of accuracy benefit?

To start with, errors would have to be uncorrelated, and you would need confidence scores on each word, which I assume you get.
I would love to be able to walk or ride my bike regularly. However, in the southeastern US it’s 80F+ (27C) with 70F+ (21C) dew point for 4 months of the year. If you travel by foot or bike, you need a shower at each destination to wash off the stench and sweat. It’s so hot here, often times your clothing becomes sweaty as soon as you step outside.

I would gladly live somewhere like Denver, Seattle, or San Francisco if money and family ties to the East coast weren’t an issue. Many of the cities with comfortable climates in the US are very expensive. The remaining, affordable cities have undesirable climates.
The things a VDOM get you is a simpler interface than the browser DOM, with an often faster comparison than the browser actually provides. There have been significant real browser DOM improvements since React came out, but I'm pretty sure an optimized VDOM in WASM could be faster because of issues of interaction with the real/full browser DOM. There are also side effects wrt the full/real DOM in practice.

I agree though, nothing that requires a place in web standards at all.
I recommend participating, daily, in communities, particularly ##programming or #python (if that's the language you're learning) on Freenode.

It's less that you'll learn best practices, but you will expose yourself to the zeitgeist, which I feel is important to being a good dev. Again, not to blindly follow it or even agree with it, but to understand it and why it's pushing in one direction or another.
Judging from the content on the linked wikipedia page for Herpes Simplex it strikes me as absurd that one would categorize it with the simple cold.
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>I think, though, the idea is if you design a place such that you don’t HAVE to have a car, then cars would be driven vastly less. For us that’s true, combined my family of five drives about 7000 miles per year, much of that on road trips from the Bay Area to Tahoe or Yosemite etc.

Yeah. A lot of people fear that a transit centered city means we're gonna take ALL the cars. Realistically I think most transit/urbanist advocates are aiming for a world with 1 practical car per family rather than 1 car per driving age member of the household.
I’m the son of a Peruvian immigrant who also grew up here. Things have been changing - FIU runs the largest comp sci program in the SouthEast.

Companies are getting funded & acquired. Engineers are building cool things and meeting regularly. Plus there are plenty of LatAm HQs here.

You should come back & visit, I’d be glad to show you around and introduce you to the people building real companies.
It hasn't been established that it's better, only that he or she thinks it's better--and we're all trying to understand why that is. Because we're (or at least I am) 99.99% sure that it's much, much worse.

To start with, the whole thing could easily be simulated in software...
I'm kind of happy with this. I was disappointed that the current generation of iPad Pros didn't support the original pencil because it meant my replacement tablet would be $130 more. I was looking at the 11" but spending $800+130 for the pencil was steep. I can get this guy for $500. Face ID isn't a deal breaker for me and at almost half the cost I can cope with the smaller display and slower CPU.
I haven't seen this advice yet but follow thought leaders on Twitter. They'll post blogs and offer advice to keep you up-to-date on what the zeitgeist of your lingua franca is.