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Not political, no. A technological revolution, in the disruptive sense.

We can look to other disruptive technologies over time to see how the entrenched / favored industries handled the change. The story is mostly the same, but the players are different.

The mercatilist impulse is to freeze economics to ensure current levels of profit via state fiat. Even companies that start out revolutionary/scrappy/innovative become conservative after they acquire large market share. It's more important to maintain profit levels, quarterly earnings, and share price than it is to make a risky attempt at another disruptive innovation. Unfortunately, that impulse too often leads them to lobby the legislature or crown.
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Depends on the memberstate, in germany the politicians are seated by the parties with longer lists on which you can vote.
If you phrase the problem as "design a better hash table, given the hash function h(x) = 4", then the obvious first thing to do is discard the provided hash function, and use any reasonable hash table implementation with a new hash function, say h'(x) = x. (If x "is an object" instead of a primitive type; then some underlying representation of x in a register is a pointer; that memory address can typically be converted to an integer that can be the hash value.)

Thus, I would argue that the problem reduces to the case where you have a reasonable hash function.
When reading comments like this it feels like: there's no ambitious startup in Europe to become one of the large companies. Because now a startup has less than 3 years to add this content filtering, which provided as a service or not, is going to cost €€€.

Do you think Spotify would be able to grow if it was created on March 27 2019 instead of 2008?

A successful Content filtering as a service (compliance.ly & co. In your example), assuming it gets adopted by all major websites, seems like it would shift the problem to an even bigger gatekeeper than YouTube, how is this a good thing?
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As for virtualization, Fuchsia already has its own KVM equivalent called Machina which so far can run Debian on top of Zircon and with several compatibility changes for supporting the ART runtime in Zircon already merged in, it should be also possible to run Android apps with this.

But perhaps the reason Fuchsia won't struggle unlike the other OSes you mention, is that it is possible that it will be compatible to run all the Android apps in the play store from day one, thanks to Machina; allowing a smoother transition, a process similar to what Apple did with the PowerPC to X86 switch but in Google's case, its for a completely different OS.
> Poor didn't have access, they couldn't afford a computer, much less an internet plan. Step out of the Hacker News bubble for a bit.

I was very, very poor. So were most of the kids I grew up with. Most of us couldn't afford new computers; that's true. So we bought old ones. My father - tears in his eyes - lugged in something ancient that he'd picked up for $50, having no idea how to use it but hoping that putting it in front me would do me some good. AOL had been mailing everyone in town (Detroit). Some kids got PCs from the nearby churches, some got them from the school (others still only ever used them in school). We collected and hoarded the access disks, and would go ringing each others' phones or knocking down doors to share websites we'd found. Imagine my embarrassment when I realized the AOL search results page was not the entire internet, and that I could click on any text with a blue outline.

> doesn't correspond to reality

I know there are people who managed (or didn't..) to grow up poorer than I did. But even poverty is a spectrum.
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Sure you can client side predict, but since the real game lives on the server, you want the minimal latency to that server so you see the most up to date version of what’s really happening, and your actions take effect as quickly as possible. You still want the lowest latency here.
I'm bemused by the idea of France (74) and Germany (96) - totaling 23%, controlling the parliament alone.

I haven't looked at who voted, but I suspect that the votes aren't on a country-by-country basis either.
Interesting, used to be in a clan of over 100 people that used it no problem, very few of which were engineers. Not sure what particular functionality held you up?
Debian (by far the largest repo of mainstream Linux) has about 70k packages, and gives approximately $0 payout to package owners. By contrast, Google Play and Apple App store have around 2 to 3 million apps each, and aggregated payout of double-digit billion dollars. It should be fairly obvious why they attract so many bad actors.

> App stores manage to be simultaneously more restrictive than a repository and less trustworthy than downloading executables through a web browser.

Downloading executable through a web browser is something entirely different than Linux repos. Not sure I agree it's less trustworthy than Google Play and especially Apple App store, comparing to Windows download side. If it is, it's mostly down to the the monetary incentives.
I think nobody else goes where they are going right now. Very forward looking and absolutely amazing listening when you "get it". Elseq, NTS Sessions and now these 40+ hours of live archives released. There is an algorithm that just does things to sound. Sometimes it's just noise that turns into the most beautiful thing in the world.
At the end of the day, laws and authority are just a bunch of humans playing make believe with each other.

It all comes down to enforcement. Without enforcement, laws and authority are meaningless.

Take the USA and England as analogous to Taiwan and China.

In the 1700s, England had a "One-England policy" and claimed authority over the US colonies. The US colonies disagreed. Some of the international community acknowledged the One-England policy. Some didn't.

At the end of the day England tried to enforce their authority/laws and lost. Thus, England actually didn't have authority over the US colonies.

I suspect something similar may happen someday with Taiwan (though hopefully with less violence than the American Revolutionary War).
You'll only be able to refinance if a bank is willing. If a recession is the driver of a fed rate reduction, that seems less plausible.
> effortlessly

Uh...have you ever actually used AWS? There's friction all over. It's certainly not a seamless experience going from API to API.
The postal service can send a box with say 10 * 6 TB hdd quite fast. Say 2 days for delivery.

480 000 000 000 000 bits / 86400 sec = 5555.56 mbit/s

And you can send as many boxes as you like in parallel.
I'm curious; were you an employee at the startups or a founder? The experience (and stress levels) will vary quite a bit between the two (and I'm not saying startup employees have it easy by any stretch).

I can definitely see someone who has been in a founder role for years wanting to trade that for the stability, predictability and low-risk environment of a FAANG for a while, especially if they have a family, kids, etc.

Although a few exceptional people can do both, most founders sacrifice elements of their personal lives in order to put enough energy into their businesses. A "successful" founder can be a failure at home. It's not that you're absent, but you're also not the best partner/parent/friend that you can be during those periods. A stable, "boring" job can be an opportunity to dedicate more to those important things.
Downvote if you must... but deep down you know it’s true.
Behaves as expected on both my XPS and SB.
> I feel like Taiwan represents a talent opportunity like no other.

Yup.

When I was in Korea I met a few Taiwanese that my employer poached from Asus, HTC, Benq, ...

The state of their tech scene seemed quite dire. They would easily double their salary in Korea, for a pretty similar CoL. Eventually most got fed up with the Korean work culture and left for even higher salaries in... mainland China!
This is correct. Most FPS game protocols are 90%+ unreliable UDP acting as a carrier wave for a very small subset of reliable/ordered data. The key here is to get this unreliable time series data across with the lowest latency and the greatest consistency (least jitter), and packet loss. That’s what we do at Network Next.
> Is this just acceptable now?

No, but where before it was a hard requirement in Java to deal with NPEs, newer libs are less likely to return nulls, so it's usually a bit safer than it was. You also avoid leaving references around that could potentially leak.

There is also a bit of fashion with streams and JS-inspired call-chaining.
I have no problem reading it and I do not subscribe to The Spectator.
Correct. And they get that interest by placing it in an interest bearing account.
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Finland was there, however, already long before that, as an eastern province of Sweden.

It should be noted, though, that if Finland had stayed as a part of Sweden, it might not exist as a country today; Sweden has had a policy of forced assimilation which is shown in how the traditionally Finnish (and Sami) culture in contemporary northern Sweden has been largely replaced.

Tsar Alexander I ended war against Sweden (1808-1809) with a pact with the local nobility, if we may call it so, where Finland would be "lifted to be a nation among nations", and as a result, Finland indeed did become an autonomous nation.

This is why the "faithful Tsars" have statues in Finland. Finland did not see itself as a part of Russia, but as a separate nation which just has Russian emperor as the ruler (Grand Duke). Swedish legislation was preserved (some laws in law book still date from 1734).

Weaker, pan-Slavic Tsars (Alexander III and Nicholas II) then tried to reverse this development, and suppress Finnish nationalism, and as a result of this, Nicholas II was called "the oathbreaker", and due to this and many other similar bad policies elsewhere in his empire he lost his crown and his life.
I've often seen families get particularly hostile when an in-law involves him or herself with the death or illness of a parent. It doesn't matter whether you're right or what approach you use. They're likely in one of the worst times of their life, and they're not going to be receptive to negotiation tactics.

Why is your wife not having this conversation?
When [you use NVC on me], I feel [patronised] because I'm needing some [respect as a fellow human being]. Would you be able to [drop the insincere MBA bullshit and treat me like an adult]?
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This is fine in theory, with a big caveat.

Our lives are increasingly dominated by big entities, and the political ones are often small fish compared to giant international corporations that can play smaller political entities off against each other (example: Amazon headquarters).

The idea of limiting the size of political entities has merit, but it will backfire unless you also limit the size of economic entities. (And you need to do this first or possibly somehow simultaneously, because once you reduced the size of political entities, it may no longer be possible to limit the size of the economic entities.)
Our customer is the game developer not the player. They are free to pass the cost on to the player if they wish, but I think it’s much more enlightened to simply sponsor your player’s connection and help them have as much fun as possible. When players are having fun, they like your game more, stick around, tell their friends, and spend more in your store.
"The second source of frustration is that, away from technical literature, discussions of giant pterosaur flight frequently suffer from major cases of Dunning-Kruger effect, especially when parties have knowledge of planes. I've experienced this a lot in my career, and not just in the wilds of social media: many of my TV and film consultancy jobs have required defending basic tenets of pterosaur anatomy - even their basic, there-for-all-to-see proportions preserved in articulated fossils - to folks who just can't or won't believe what the fossils show. Having a casual understanding of engine-driven man-made flying machines does not equate to knowing all there is about everything that has ever flown, but you would not know this from some conversations."

It's nice to know that humanity is the same everywhere.

As for me, I'm more curious about their heads. For an animal the size of a giraffe, they're feckin' huge. What's up with that?
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I always found it slightly frightening when an app depends on cache characteristics for max performance. It has to be rather isolated on a machine to be able to expect it to be used.

I've always found it annoying that the cache offers drastic speedups for doing things 'wrong' in the sense an algorithm is faster in cache than the 'correct' way until it scales out of the cache.
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This is where annotation based null analysis can really help.

https://dzone.com/articles/eclipse-annotation-based-null-ana...
Am i missing something, or is this landing page really nothing more than a screenshot and an app button? I know minimal pages are trendy, but that seems like taking it a bit too far.
I went through a phase where I was pretty interested in NVC. I learned some useful things mostly have to do with the distinction between observation and evaluation and emotion and thought.

However, I feel the system can't justify its particular choice of words used to describe universal needs and also can't justify the notion that those concepts would apply in any situation. I remember seeing Marshall Rosenberg speak in person once at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. During the question and answer part, one person asked where the universal needs came from and why Rosenberg chose those particular needs instead of others. At first, he acted confused by the question. Then he paused for a moment and finally answered, "I'm not sure. God I suppose. The universe. Whatever you want to call it." What I felt he had done, perhaps unintentionally, in that moment, was to give every person in the room a method to make righteous requests with NVC, not just requests. It made me realize that there's easily a debate to be had about what needs apply in what situation. A person might not be reasonable in suggesting that their needs aren't being met and may develop a really wrong attitude on top of that in viewing their needs as universal (i.e. being righteous and requiring no justification).
Don't use platforms them. Host it yourself.
Considering how that site handles links from HN, you might want to consider linking it through https://nullrefer.com or the like.

http://nullrefer.com/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Many constitutions were written by some "wise father of the nation".
Right now we are an SDK that embeds in the client, server and backend for applications. It is open source too (BSD license), but not yet publicly released. Will be released soon, I look forward to seeing what people do with it, outside of games.
Acceptance of Amex stands at just over a third of retailers UK wide. For London it is more like 50-60%.

Source: used to work as a CC payments analyst.
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Practically, if bike lanes are adjacent to the street as they are in many places, cyclists can only really expect motorists not to hit them from behind. Motorists simply are not aware of what's going on around them. If the cyclist is next to an auto, she must always be ready to react to it. In fact, "next to an auto" is a somewhat tenuous location, because you can't always jump up on the curb. Passing (usually on the left) is fine, being passed is fine, between autos is fine, because all of those allow either the driver to observe the cyclist or the cyclist to react safely to sudden changes in direction by the auto.

If I'm approaching an intersection like that pictured and I'm even with an auto, I brake and take the lane behind it. If the auto moves to the right to turn, I pass it on the left in the main lane of traffic. No matter what the auto does, I re-enter the bike lane after I clear the intersection. No one needs to pass me while in the intersection, and I want to be both visible and able to react to right-turning autos from the street I'm crossing. Faster traffic makes this impossible, but faster traffic can see you from behind and will generally discourage turns from the cross street.

There are morons who try to race around you to hook in front of you, and this type of intersection offers no protection from that, but most drivers are not that thoughtless, even if they lack general awareness. You just have to deal with that asshole. Once he gets that front bumper even with me, I'm already ducking right and braking. In some instances, I'll also be grabbing my U-lock and preparing to damage his car with it.

Like I said, completely separating the traffic seems like a great solution, but it simply will not be universal any time soon. Until then, ride defensively.
Don't give up on your brother-in-law. He's making seemingly irrational decisions but look at it from is point of view. His father may be dying. Regardless of his relationship with his father, this is a very difficult thing to go through. And then he suddenly has a lot of responsibility placed on him. He's having to answer questions he's never been asked before much less having given much thought to. He's being told things that he may not understand well or at all (medical and legal). His power trip probably stems from feeling like he needs to be "the man of the family" and be strong for everyone else to the detriment of himself. He likely feels like he'd be perceived as weak if he reached out and asked for help, when that's actually the number one thing he needs to be doing right now.

My recommendation would be make some space for the way he's acting and let him know you and his sister love him regardless, know how difficult this must be, and are there for anything he needs and then, don't say anything else. Don't provoke him. Let him come to you. He may not and if he doesn't, then accept that there is nothing else you can do that won't make the situation worse. But it's just as possible that simply listening to him if and when he talks, almost playing into his power trip, may actually open him up to sharing more information with you.

We humans are such strangely paradoxical creatures sometimes. :) Good luck and I wish you and your family the best.
This is true, but without a marketplace and somebody paying, how can we tell whether the QoS requests are legitimate? I mean, “yeah, my traffic is always real-time priority”. People just will cheat it... so Network Next is a way of doing this, while saying, OK, for the truly real-time traffic, applications are willing to sponsor it. Since it’s paid, it won’t be exploited.
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Why pretend like China isn't the one censoring this.
Perhaps, you can take the lead on this by expressing gratitude first. Thank You

>https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/gi...
> Aphex Twin (aka Richard James) is known for creating original, complex sounds whenever he can, but his next creation might just take the cake. He tells Groove that he hired a programmer to develop music software based on mutation. Once you give the app an audio sample, it automatically generates six variants on that and asks you to pick your favorite before going on to create more variations -- think of it as natural selection for sweet beats. The software still "needs to be tweeked," and there's no mention of a public launch, but the early output reportedly sounds "totally awesome." Don't be shocked if one of James' post-Syro albums uses this software to create some truly one-of-a-kind tunes.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2014/12/29/aphex-twin-mutation-musi...
As an aside, one of their papers (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...) has a great diagram of the wing parameters:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?id=10...
Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission
I am not really that familiar with Java, but I don't understand how to get a JVM heap dump if there is an exception that brings down the JVM or even a thread. Is it even possible?

I work on mainframe (z/OS), and it is completely normal there that when an application fails with exception (they're called ABENDs - from ABnormal ENDing), you can get a dump of memory of the application. From that, you can see all the values of the offending variables and all the relevant system areas and so on.
Unfortunately they’re both terrible to each other. Always have been, likely always will be. Even in relatively stressless situations they end up at each other’s throats in seconds.

The family (not my wife) asked me to talk to my brother-in-law about this because nobody else could get through to him.

I totally agree I’m not the right person to get in the middle. There’s just nobody else willing or able to.
Isn't this what you get when you drink heavily of the Lambda Kool-Aid?
This is a family issue so it would have been your wife’s job to deal with this. As an in-law you are often an outsider when it comes to these issues.
Announcement blog from last year https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/07/10/introducing-firefox...
Better than nothing, but worse than having a type system than disallows the exception it in the first place.
Tens of thousands of Finnish workers gave their lives during the Finnish Civil War because they preferred a Soviet Finland to the bourgeois, Nazi-aligned country it became.
The end-game of capitalism.
to their longterm detriment
I've heard this before, but between myself and nine of my friends who regular a Mumble server, none of us ever had much difficulty using it. I've always thought it was simple and relatively intuitive. What about it do you find difficult as a user?
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A non-"rockstar" hiring process and parallel job track (with potential for cross-over) so they can get in people who are happy to do "boring" work on an interesting product might do it. Probably can't be in the Valley or anywhere else ultra-high COL. I think part of the problem is they (seem to?) only staff folks who both can and are inclined to leave quickly if they don't get to do the fun stuff.

Again, though, may not make sense for them from a $$$ perspective. Jank and rough edges galore may be something they're willing to live with.

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How this works in my head:

Manager: Could you take a look at the Android developer documentation? Some of it's badly outdated and have you actually tried using it? A lot of the advice is... kinda bad. Also maybe look at a few of these UI components we had the Summer interns make, they've got bizarre implementations and are difficult and inconsistent to customize. Oh and god have you looked at our issue tracker? Has anyone, actually? Like, ever?

Developer: Hey so have you heard of this place called Amazon?

Manager: Uh I mean how about we start a fourth greenfield instant messaging product instead?

Developer: That's better. Amazon? Who's Amazon?
The conjecture (that hasn't been proven) is that every integer that does not equal 4 or 5 mod 9 has infinitely many solutions (integers that = 4 or 5 mod 9 are proven to have no solutions). Parametric equations for 1 and 2 have been found that generate infinitely many solutions for those values but it is otherwise an open question.
It's easier for care teams in this situation to speak to one person. I suppose your wife (if she felt up to the task) could have asked if your brother needed relief, but 21 hours in an emergency is a very long time and being the only one on deck for 21 hours is a very stressful circumstance.
There's nothing ironic about that. If they had a shorter feedback loop, things could be getting fixed faster.