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> We have a lot of in-house Java expertise. Should we pick Go

Give go an honest try. I am sure it will not disappoint you.
How many people were working on repl.it before the first public release, and for how long?

I have been following Repl.it since it's first release. We were quite amazed when repl.it was released. We, a bunch of students, were building a project very similar to what repl.it was in it's initial days, during the same time period. we never managed to get our project to an usable stage, and eventually everyone abandoned it.
Your link seems to be broken.
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Communication isn't the problem, in my opinion. Its the empty-calorie idle content consumption. All the people (myself included) in the train or bus or streets who are idly scrolling through facebook or twitter feeds, reading some low-content articles on some clickbait subject -- the kind of stuff that I can spend hours reading, but then not be able to act on or remember any of it. What's the point of consuming content if you don't remember it a day or two later? I estimate that about 90% of what I encounter online makes no difference to my life (both in terms of usefulness and entertainment) other than to consume my time, my energy, my focus and my phones battery ;) All the while, the advertisement is telling me I'm not good enough and don't have the right things.

Back in the early 2000's, I did spend a lot of time with text messaging and I did spend a lot of time on messenger applications/irc etc. The way I communicate with others hasn't changed that much: I use different apps or websites, sure, but ultimately its very similar. What has changed, though, is how much content I consume idly, just to pass the time, because my internet-addicted brain tells me I should, not because I get anything out of it. I'm slowly working on reducing it, at least.

> but it's the behaviour that's the actual problem

Sure, but what we put out there encourages certain types of behaviour and the current norms of internet use encourage an, in my opinion, unhealthy addiction to low quality content consumption.
What do you mean "fake 3d"? They are as 3D as any other computer generated images with linear perspective. Quake is even using a rasterizer like nearly all games today.
I discovered that when I customized my settings and wanted to port my colors to another system
Düsseldorf-Berlin is available for 19,90€, I doubt flights are much cheaper than that.

You just have to check sites like https://bahn.guru/ to find the cheapest connections.
But alcohol consumption is ridiculously evolutionarily beneficial. The ability to digest ethanol has evolved independently twice, and each time it swept to dominate ~95 percent of the population in less than 500 years.
One may interpret this as one nations view that punishing those who fail is more important than helping them not to fail, since as if they deserve to fail if they can't make it on their own.
While this view may or may not be justified, I believe it is to the detriment of all.
When we migrate databases, we execute a Docker container with a specific environment variable to let it know that it's time to migrate. The CI environment doesn't actually have a network connection to the DB; it just updates the Docker images and then when the deploy task executes it starts this Docker task remotely and polls for success/failure.

I think Kubernetes has some nicer features that could make this easier but I haven't had a chance to try this out yet.

In fact, the CI environment and production environments are on different AWS accounts. This way if you accidentally execute tests with the wrong connection strings (and we have done this before), they just fail because they can't connect.
It was an effective proof of how ridiculous the media is. They were desperately looking for anything they could use against Trump, so they swallowed the laughable "OK sign = white power" story as quickly as they swallowed Smollett's story.

Proving that the corporate media is mostly propaganda may not suit your political preferences, but comparing it to "goat-kissing" ranks fairly highly on the nonsense meter - and these days, that's really saying something.
Out of curiosity, why do you find it cringe worthy?

Do you think the statement is untrue?
What makes you believe that he tries to convey "how dominant he is" instead of just stating a fact?
Why would it be a problem that he has a personality disorder[1]?

[1] I believe that Linus himself aknowledged that when the CoC was added to the kernel documentation.
> Some API requests include plaintext passwords (also fine and normal)

Wait, no ? How is that fine and normal ? It doesn't seem fine and normal all.
I think the main problem with a lot of high level language software developers (Java, ...) is that they often fail to consider the consequences of the fact that their software runs on real world hardware -> Memory access, Cache, Network Latency, Bandwith (Memory and Network), etc. Instead its all about artificial constructs as Design Patterns, OOP, etc. which often results in bloated, slow and therefore unusable software.
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> risks discrimination aginst chronically unwell people

Technically it's not discrimination, they actually cost more, and their insurance would therefore be more expensive, in a free market. To the extent that the society values "fairness" and wants to help those people, government / non-free-market solutions are needed, with the society paying for them collectively.
Christchurch Tragedy Exploited by Cybercriminals
Reputation/connections... Been a GM/VP in an MNC? That level is what people look for in consulting deals.
Then that’s not a particularly nice thing to do. People naturally make mistakes, and I’m pretty sure that the consensus is that belittling them when they do doesn’t really help.
Ask HN: What is the best tech you have purchased on Amazon?
Not any more. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane/boeing-...
I wouldn't have took Vitality up on this offer for anything but an Apple Watch, but I trust Apple not to give them access to anything behind my back. They also use the workouts feature as input to their point rewards stuff, so it's a pretty good deal.
Even if I wanted to use Spotify's messaging client, I'd imagine a layman's expectation would be that Spotify needed access to send and receive it's own messages - it's not that obvious it needs to be able to read that email to your boss you wrote three years ago.

Of course as a technician with knowledge of how OAuth and web APIs work, the implication that it really needs access to all messages seems a lot more reasonable - but I don't think this view is necessarily valid in a larger context.

Implementing more fine-grained permissions is absolutely possible. See e.g. Telegram: Even though Telegram bots appear as mostly ordinary users, they by default cannot access the messages of the channels they joined - they can only access commands that users were explicitly sending to them. You need a special permission to have a bot actually be able to access a channel like a human user would.
Some of them happen to achieve similar effects in a more pleasant way.
It’s really frustrating to see large influential companies continue to perpetuate misinformation about GDPR – legislation for the benefit of ordinary users. It’s doubly frustrating to see Hacker News users fall for it (other posters arguing that GDPR is not a valid reason for removing comments have been heavily downvoted). As an influential group themselves, Hacker News users continue to perpetuate these misunderstandings. There’s no provision in GDPR stating that users have the right to retract or amend content they have published. The GDPR is only concerned with personal data so comments should only be amended/removed if they contain information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person – which could be the comment author themselves or an entirely different other person.

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1554/de...
> end up having the most expensive health care, higher education and apparently, prison system in the world; that this fact does not trigger more thought and discussion;

I'm thinking that a defining quality of Americans is their propension to spending. Saving money is just not something they seem to think about- it's not what you save that is important, but the total amount of money circulating in the economy. There are little incentives to make things less expensive, there are more incentives to consume as much as possible, both for privates and for businesses. It's wasteful, but contributes to make the economy stronger (even if the resulting society is more unequal and harder for those who earn less).
Yeah, I expect the seller to know what they're selling.
Currently Jakub Balas speaking about Using Python in new space industry is not a rocket science: https://2019.pycon.sk/en/speakers.html#speaker_balas
This is more an issue with the Swift overlay for AppKit than Swift itself.
> it’s about providing the best standard of life to as many individuals as possible

Which is also a nice thing to have but definitely not the main objective for people on "my" political side. Main argument for privatising stuff is not being optimal or not: it's the principle of making the government, which is the only entity with monopoly on violence, as weak and as small as possible.

Think about it as a microkernel (I must admit that I don't know enough about kernel development, so this analogy is very crude). Even if moving different services from the kernel to user-space would hurt perfomance, it's still a good security practice: this lost efficiency is worth, even if the advantages are "abstract" and not clear from the get-go.
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> Specifically, 37% of inmates are African American, suggesting they may be incarcerated for lesser cause than those of other backgrounds.

There are also more men than women in the prison system. Doesn't mean the system is being sexist.
If you're talking about the people, I would say that pretty much no one here (talking about the average guy), heard about article 11 and 13
This seems like a very poor account of what it is to be charitable in argument.

It is essential to coherent conversation that you do your best to understand your interlocutor's position. If their argument betrays some particular idiosyncrasy or mistake, then you should focus on and examine that. If you instead ignore those features of their position and impose a view upon them which they don't actually possess - 'the best possible interpretation of their argument' - then you will not actually be engaging with their reasoning, and thus you'll be less likely to understand the source of your disagreement, analyse the merits of those differences, and convince one another.

You should not be looking for a 'good' or 'bad' interpretation of their argument, you should be searching for an accurate one.

I think better principles of charity would be:

1. Assume good faith
2. Be open minded to alternative views
3. Don't treat arguments as a battle of wits but as an attempt to move towards mutual understanding
4. Assume the person you're arguing with is at least as intelligent as you
5. Engage with their reasoning
The Airbus A320neo production lines are booked through 2025. Airlines and leasing companies can't really cancel their 737 Max orders and buy A320neos instead. Maybe Airbus can get more orders for other models if buyers decide to go with Airbus instead of Boeing for larger planes, but that can also be an expensive switch to make if their pilots are certified for the Boeing but not the Airbus models. There are plenty of factors at play here.
Do you maybe mean "raycasting" as used in Wolfenstein or Doom compared to a proper 3D engine like the Quake games were using?
I think it's worth thinking about the history of incarceration, for context.

Until fairly recently, prison wasn't really the way most punishments worked. They did hangings, beatings, shaming, banishment...

Imprisoning people long term is expensive, and kings probably couldn't have afforded anything like a modern scale prison system. The closest thing was more slavery than imprisonment, and economically self-sufficient or better. Anything from the indentured servant transports to the Americas to "hard labour" in a gravel mine or somesuch. Cannon fodder, sometimes.

The way we got to here was largely moral reasoning. Those punishments are cruel and inhumane. Early versions of modern prison systems were often created with the idea they'd rehabilitate (reform) people.

I think it's debatable, after generations of experience, that prisons make people more criminal. At the very least, rehabilitation doesn't work very well.

We're stuck with different ideas of what prisons are even for? Rehabilitation sounds societally useful, but the failures have been overwhelming. Justice? Deterrence?

Surely, with that sort of budget (not including courts/lawyers), we can do something more useful.

Prison startup?
Isn’t that answered by the nature of kickstarter? If your lawyers aren’t offering solutions to implement your idea get new lawyers.
Low latency H264 streaming on Jetson TX2. Glass to glass latency measurements
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>In the pin factory, when learning comes first, we neither expect nor want the workers to improvise on any aspect of the product, except to produce it more efficiently.

Sounds like a Dickensian nightmare to me. I would have thought some of the best placed people to suggest improvements are the people who build the pins, second only to people who use the pins every day.

Stay classy HBR.
I'm running a company on ledger-cli [1], emacs and org-mode [2]. Sure, there are some additional scripts that will pull banking logs or do repetitive tasks, but these are basic building blocks.

Tried GnuCash few times - first time I failed because I didn't know how to work with double-entry accounting [3]. Second time failed because GnuCash isn't flexible with currencies (maybe things got better now).

All these tools has steep learning curve, but things pays back with extreme flexibility and longevity over time. Everything is a text, which means I can access it from everywhere (scripts, editors, phone). I'm keeping everything on git (invoices, payment details, project status, todo list), so every change is recorded and, most important, I'm not dependent on external company's product that can go bankrupt tomorrow.

As I'm doing business with customers from different parts of world, I'm trying to be flexible by accepting currencies whatever is suitable for them. This is nightmare for ordinary accounting tools and AFAIK only ledger-cli and derivatives are able to handle it properly (eg. cryptocurrency payments and transactions). Hell, I'm even using ledger-cli to track my car fuel consumption and expenses which shows level of flexibility (try that with GnuCash).

Emacs/org-mode is for everything else ;) Invoices, project planning, drawing charts, coding, calculating and preparing tax reports, forecasting (you'd be surprised how powerful Emacs calc [4] is).

[1] https://www.ledger-cli.org/

[2] https://orgmode.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_syste...

[4] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.htm...
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>Quake and Doom were all about elaborate fake 3d

A nitpick: DooM (1 and 2), just as well as Duke Nukem 3D were indeed "2.5D" elaborate fakery of 3D. One of examples of the ruse: a level was basically a (floor, ceiling) height map, and there could be no two overlapping rooms one above the other.

On the other hand, Quake (1) was an early pioneer [1] of real, actual 3D, including an OpenGL backend and all that. That's one of the reasons it required significantly beefier hardware: needing a Pentium for smooth gameplay, while DooM would run perfectly fine on a mid-end 486, which is a generation older.

[1] cf. Marathon
Read my comment again. I didn't say anything about the overall prison population, just that private prisons have a very small share of overall US prisoners (especially in California, the state mentioned in the article). So I'm skeptical that privatization is somehow driving the prison policy.
Thanks will check it out!
I will admit that I didn’t take the time to read through those articles, but I doubt any of them mention the positive effects of using profanity to deride others…
:) Of course my dystopian scenario holds only if these trackers were taken seriously. Maybe at this stage, it’s just a way to promote a discount.
Yeah checking out some of the comparison photos and the textures have definitely received a bump in resolution/quality.

Most obvious to me in the quake logo/skull on the left of this[1] image.

1. https://images.nvidia.com/geforce-com/international/comparis...
I like the concept of how this works. Do you have a mailing list. I think I want to wait for a couple more color wheels.

In any case:

> "Ability to bookmark your favorite colors for later."

Is this read-only? Can I share such links with clients (i.e., people who aren't using the paid version)?

What that said, some sort of web font integration would be a nice touch. Begin able to show a less design-minded clients a "rough draft" of colors and fonts would be helpful.

If not, if anyone can suggest anything for doing a simple, rough draft-y "style guide", that would be helpful.

Thanks again. Nice work.
Nordic countries have low crime rates to begin with, which allow them to build relatively spacious prisons and allocate more treatment resources per prisoner.

It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem we’ve got. We could just not prosecute many non-violent crimes, like our District Attorney chose to do in San Francisco. But that didn’t pan out well and we now have the highest non-violent crime rate of any major US city.
> I am increasingly surprised that this system is still supported, instead of one that costs less and provides more

So you're for decreasing the amount of public spending on health care in the US?
Did spectramax's comment contain any new information for you? Do you think it contained new information for anyone? Judging by the responses, that's not the case. Posting what can be summed up as "The government of country X is evil." predictably leads to comparisons with the US government, all of which is just noise. It's certainly not going to dissuade anyone from supporting them, since nobody thinks of their actions as supporting them. If you actually want to change someone's behavior, you're going to need a different kind of argument and make sure to avoid flame-baiting.
Honestly what worries me more is what else is lurking in the plane that we don't know about.

MCAS will be fixed and done right. But what other systems the same mindset have enchanced.
I just ran into this during a business trip. Extended my work trip and needed medication. Had the Dr fax me the prescription.

With insurance my cost is 68$ US ... here in Germany without insurance it was 13$ EU

Insurance is socialism for profit and they are raking it in.
That depends what harms society more. Perception of unsafety or actual crimes.
It's actually in ActionPack / Railties but I've raised the issue:

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/35702
Because that's a direct consequence of the system their elected representatives have burdened them with?

Edit: To be completely fair, that probably explains why they have to pay it, not why they should.
why do you find it cringe worthy?

It's cringe-worthy the way someone who barks "do you not know who I am?" at a McDonalds employee is cringe-worthy. It's the grandiosity and lack of self-awareness.
My favorite piece of trivia used to be: "US civilians own more firearms than every police force and military in the world combined". This was based off Small Arms Survey's 2010 estimates of US civilians at 270 million and police + military at 226 million[0].

But according to the Small Arms Survey's 2018 report linked in the article, the factoid has been upgraded to: "US civilians own more than _twice_ as much firearms as every police force and military in the world combined". (US civilians at 393.3 million vs police + military at 155.7 million [1])

[0] http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/H-Research_Not...

[1] http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/T-Briefing-Pap...
Unions have special protection under the law, which means they are more of a regulated market than a "free market". It's government (or corrupted politics, depending on your viewpoint) all the way down, man.
I'd argue give every American $75k and watch America become great again for real
Agreed.

But we choose a free market or whatever because we believe it will produce the best outcome. If it doesn't work as envisioned then we can either tweak it until it does work, or throw it out and start again, the worst option is to leave it alone, especially as we know it works elsewhere.

There seems to be a view that free market v socialism is a binary choice. Its a continuum, and both pure socialism and pure free market are equally bad. No country follows either path 100%.
I have an anegdotal explanation of "no cooking" but don't lynch me. The is a major representation of South Asians (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh) among IT folks. They're infamous for poor sanitation and hygiene standards. Heavy use of spices, the smell of them biting into every fabric in the apartment, yellow stains of curcuma all over the place. Then cherry on the top - eating with hands while not washing them neither before, nor after the meal. I shared personally kitchen space with them during university times and that cured me for good from South Asian cuisine.
> There isn't one - which is the point.

The GP was asking because of this statement:

IMO, we already have the mental-disease equivalent of germ theory
Doom used 2D sprites, so "fake 3d" if you ask me.
ooga boooga
NZ I believe is $100 per year total.
We had Q3RT 15 years ago: http://www.q3rt.de/
>However if you look at a lot of the research projects you kind of scratch your head at the actual output (which imo is the real problem).

Can you elaborate? What do you mean?
> Imagine if Apple sold a $500 iPhone for $250 if it was called, say, a yPhone, and simply lacked the elaborate white box and the little Apple on back. That would be patently absurd. An iPhone in a brown paper bag is still an iPhone.

To be fair, Apple already does this. If you buy a refurbished Apple device, you are essentially getting a cheaper iPhone with slightly worse packaging.
it is not 100% state-controlled. A lot of the fees and cost are indeed state-controlled as in set by the state, but the actual insurance companies, clinics, etc are private.
I'm not sure how the current generation works, but I have very good experience with ASUS Zenbook serie (especially 16GB UX32LN - still works flawlessly). Also I can recommend 2018s XPS - works just fine with xubuntu (haven't tried other distros).
The thing about getting comfortable is rust is that even if the entire ecosystem burns up in ashes, you can still get a decent job switching to C++. Learning and using rust makes you a good systems programmer in general, not just at Rust.

Having said that, I don't think the rust ecosystem is going to go up in flames anytime soon, but lack of professional application at the moment doesn't bother me too much.
what's that niche?