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Using your own logic, a company could justify slavery in order to deliver the best product.

Software can be made without forcing people to work insane hours. Other sectors of the programming field accomplish this, yet games companies are somehow incapable? No, they clearly use and abuse people who have a passion for making games.
People are quick to criticize the fire and deaths, but you can't argue with the fact that the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was very successful.
I think it goes further than just music.

There is something that I have noticed in my life, when it comes to the people I'm drawn to and the people that are drawn to me. We all tend to share a particular similarity, in that we end up being 'darker' people in one way or another. When I say 'dark' I dont really mean like 'emo' or 'goth', but in the way that our humors are usually darker, and we all have either dealt with or are dealing with some kind of despair. I think it's a feeling of 'not being alone' when you are with someone who 'gets it', and it's a sort of warmth that you dont come across much in the day to day. I dont think dark people just like dark music, I think dark people like other dark people.
Actual political scientists use the term to describe the US. Everyone knows what it means as a blanket, general term for a class of governmental systems. Unless there's a good reason to split that hair, they don't, and you shouldn't either. No-one's confused or gets the wrong idea when someone describes the US as a democracy.
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It sounds like it’s a regular truck frame, but with the gaps filled with batteries.

Seems straightforward to me. Modern full-size trucks are still essentially body-on-frame.
He explains his reasoning both on page 76 of the free to download book and in the parallel complaint thread on the linked article.

His reasoning is that GTK2 is stable and GTK3 changes with each iteration.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/02/facial-recogniti...
When I was contracting (not for Epic) I always negotiated an hourly rate. When they called for overtime I loved it, the meta is to become 10-20% more productive by whatever metric they use but bill 50-100% more hours at 1.5x my already large bill rate. I can generally work for 6 months like this without any life changing burn out symptoms.
But the same can be said about Nim, this ability depends on the implementation.
> Point me to a popular open source project that is written in Ruby that is not web based ?

How is that relevant? The question was what justified Ruby at the time.

If "Ruby on Rails" was the only justification, why did people use it for the 10 years prior to that? Were they not justified in using it? That's just nonsense.
> If your point is that you'll eventually go to jail, after many years of warnings and chances to pay

This may be the case in principle, but in practice I actually don't think this is enforced here in Australia.

Last time I neglected to vote in local government elections (because I legitimately didn't know they were on), I got a letter seeking an explanation, then a $20-ish fine, then no further correspondence and no credit record strike or any further consequences. (I think that may have been because The Greens won that election and they weren't interested in chasing people over tiny fines).

Here's a story of what happened to someone who didn't vote in the last federal election: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/what-happens-when-you...

And yes I get that if after multiple court summonses and defiant refusals to appear or pay, you could theoretically end up being hauled off to jail, but I don't think this has ever happened in Australia.

I can imagine a magistrate just ending up rolling their eyes and saying "oh fine, go away".

But the "compulsoriness" of voting here does mean that more people pay attention and take politics seriously, and politicians have to try address the needs of the entire population and not play games relating to people's willingness or ability to vote.

That said, it is not compulsory to lodge a valid vote, and drawing genitalia on the ballot paper is a socially acceptable form of voting.
> Genes can be hacked. Scientists have discovered how to store data and even animated GIFs in DNA, and even believe malware could be placed in DNA to compromise the security of computers holding databases. Still trust them?

This is really hyperbolic. Who is behind the institution publishing this and what are their motives?

Edit: Oh... Mozilla????
It's math! -1 * -1 = 1
> Genes can be hacked. Scientists have discovered how to store data and even animated GIFs in DNA, and even believe malware could be placed in DNA to compromise the security of computers holding databases. Still trust them?

Trust who? This bullet makes no sense to me. The entire list seems to boil down to "big company bad, wear tinfoil hat." There are certainly valid reasons one would not want to have their DNA sequenced by a public for-profit company, but this list is reaching.

> A pair of socks is a better gift.

I mean, really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X23v5_K7cXk
>given all the media coverage showing that a system designed for safety may have been a factor

What a mealy-mouthed way to say Boeing murdered 347 people by making an essential safety mechanism DLC.
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Currently I have been using Fidelity + FutureAdvisor to manage my investments, but am looking at switching providers for a number of reasons:

- Major portions of Fidelity's online functionality are broken and have not been fixed for months

- FutureAdvisor seems to be intentionally removing features from their product that provide transparency (historical performance graphs, list of actual investment holdings, regular updates on changes in value)

- With many new RoboInvestor market entrants, it seems like there may now be options out there with lower fees than FutureAdvisor's 0.5% fee

I'm curious to hear what others on HN use and how your experiences have been.
Women have been historically oppressed and that most criminals (including rapists) are male anyway. Your "not all men" sentiment is unwelcome here.
You'd be shocked to know how long after this was shown academically to be a Good Idea™ it took to get it into operating systems like Windows. The reason back then was because application programmers depended (incorrectly!) on sequential allocations so when you started randomizing things you'd break stuff.

Idk if that's the case here but its been a big reason historically.

I know OpenBSD doesn't prioritize new features but KASLR is a pretty significant security improvement, right?
If you're interested in some philosophical perspectives of depression, you may find these pages as interesting as I did:

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2038.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2037.htm
I agree that a lot of the major podcasts don't focus enough on clarity. That said, I've found more high quality content than I'll be able to listen to by digging a little deeper.

I've gotten into music composition recently, and I've been completely blown away by the number and high quality of music writing podcasts like SongExploder. I'm constantly and pleasantly surprised by what I find.
> but for surfing, some hobby programming and as a travel OS OpenBSD definitely won me over.

Mac OS X has won me (and many others) over when it comes to these topics. I'm curious why BSD would be your choice. It sounds painful?
Well, before talking about the reason why we are moderate in activism (which is debatable), I'd like to understand why you believe the Dutch are particularly amoral profit-seekers. Do you have references comparing the Dutch history with the Spanish? With the slavery practices among the African tribes? With the destruction and mass-murder of the American natives by the Brits? With the plundering of the South American treasures.

At least the Dutch stayed independant during the first world war, while entire generations were slaughtered on the battlefield from other nations. For what? Economic reasons.

No, we're meek activists for simpler reasons. Our population density is high, so we needed to build on a culture of tolerance and acceptance. We are constantly battling a common enemy: water from the seas and the rivers. This required understanding, cooperation and negotiation. We are a country with diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds, which also requires a certain level of cooperation instead of activism.

And yet, I think we are actually quite high on the political activism ladder, but not on the militant activism. Hurting our neighbours entails hurting ourselves, so we prefer talking over destroying.
Ah we’re at the pre-crime stage of our police state. Surely this will turn out well.
Possibly stupid question: If only a few bits of nonce are needed to recover the key, what's preventing iteration of all possible values of those "few bits"?
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Yeah except that epic already prints money via their engine licenses and has since the days of UE3(when MS paid for the development of Gears while the rest of us licensees fended for ourselves mostly).

There's literally no reason for this other than exploiting developers for more money.
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I hope you mentioned your reason for cancelling to the airline.
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The phones now are considerably larger though. Combined with old phone thickness it would add up.
> requires a lot of knowledge that most developers do not have

Any resource you would recommend?
I can say that myself, on hot days, often go into stores, grab a drink, drink the entire thing while doing the rest of my shopping, and pay for the empty bottle when I leave. My wife was horrified when she saw this behavior, and made me stop when we had kids to not set an example for them (I now do it only when I’m not with the kids), but not once (in at least 100 instances) has anyone ever questioned me on it. Contrast my experience to whatever experiences that kid had to make him yell to a cashier until she acknowledged his drink.

Edit: to people wondering why I do this, I can only say that it’s something that I never even thought of as weird. That’s what growing up rich can do you.
They're supposed to go into production end of next year. Given that they haven't even built a working one, I'd say that's optimistic, but I do hope they succeed! We will see how much the extra investment they have is going to speed up the process.
Unless the default changed one of these last few years, I'm pretty sure if you don't use `-enable-kvm` then qemu emulates the selected architecture. That's probably why it doesn't need root.

EDIT: Nevermind, `-enable-kvm` also doesn't need root. I'm not sure what libvirt uses root for.
The article makes no mention of racism. The article only mentions "fidgeting, restlessness and other potentially suspicious body language".
exactly my thought. the author was either removing good reasons or making up bullshit reasons to arrive to the magic number of 23. just why?
It is when the quest for fairness goes too far. Predictive policing is close to this, and also causes strong reactions: complaining about negative feedback loops, but seemingly ignoring that these problem neighborhoods need more police attention, if we want to combat violent deaths and youth gangs.

Police has a limited capacity. I want that capacity, paid for with taxes, to be optimized. If that means racial profiling, because some races are more prone to crime, then so be it. That is another form of fairness. Humans employing these techniques make use of common sense, a long sought after feat that AI barely mimicks.

You do not fix societal problems, such as racism or racial crime statistics with algorithms anyway. These communities should put the blame elsewhere, starting with themselves, before they point the finger at "racist" algorithms. It is not statistics fault when certain groups are more or less likely to commit crimes.
Would it be possible to completely remove MCAS, and simply train pilots that this version of the plane stalls more easily? Stalls are a known phenomena that all pilots are very competent to manage.
I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned the DC-10, because the line from that song has been going through my head every time I read about this ("She's like a DC-10, guaranteed to go down").

I'm just wondering what the artists are going to do to immortalize the MAX...
Yes (for both Chrome and Firefox), and it massively improves browsing experience, IMO. At least for Chrome you can even do site-specific exclusions.
I have a VW Golf R and test drove a Tesla M3 last week. I had set my expectations ahead of time but I was still let down by the interior quality of the vehicle. German auto companies have a great understanding of what makes a car feel like higher quality. It is a mix of design, materials, fit, usability, and sound. VW group, Mercedes Benz, and BMW spend considerable amount of money refining the user experience. Tesla is early in its life cycle and likely prioritizing drive train, batteries, and auto pilot. I see Teslas as more utilitarian in that sense, but I won't kid myself. I love the feeling of a well built car that can go fast and feel fast and sound fast while keeping me happy with creature comforts. Side note, the M3 should really have a full hatch instead of the traditional sedan trunk.
Case in point: valid user credentials and it doesn’t matter what app is trying to authenticate. Issue a different key for every user (or every user per login or device) and your problem is solved.

Even if your app doesn’t require any login there’s no reason you shouldn’t go through the same process. Every device gets its own key and then you apply limits to it...
Responding to the headline: Because depression isn't sadness, it's a mental illness that causes a numbing, hollowing feeling that robs you of joy. In my experience, it's more akin to despair than sorrow.

Feeling anything (even sadness) can help make it easier to cope with it if you're unable to seek effective treatment.

Which is most people, probably. Most people I know who have depression can't (or won't) seek effective treatment, usually because of cost prohibition.
My first thought seeing the headline was of this quote:

"What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?"

- Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

Also relevant from the book:

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
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Flogger, a Fluent Logging API for Java by Google
I came here to say exactly this. Once I got tired of sad music, my brain was tired of being sad. I could gradually improve my mood by shifting the music I was listening to.

Fascinating that I'm not the only one who does this. This must be a thing.

Thankfully I only deal with depression occasionally now, but this trick worked great for me.
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I'd like to point out that Concorde had a perfect 30 year safety record up until this incident.
No, it is not “almost as if” that at all because the mode of that interaction determines everything. You can have all the things you describe and still fail. India’s system, for instance, is modeled off the US in part and it has different problems. Other governments are modeled differently and work well. This is a facile statement that is simply appealing to national pride.
How to handle organizational secrets is definitely your concern, however, you are probably too junior to be making decisions on implementing security best practices in production. Likely your company has methodologies in place to deal with deployment secrets. Ask a senior dev how they handle secret management. In many companies there are key management tools such as Hashicorp Vault or Ansible vault. Basically without knowing your environment its hard to tell you what to do, but there are lots of options out there, and your company may have already implemented some of them.
Wouldn’t systems like this have the intelligence to have these known rings in their databases? Of course they can have new (unknown) recruits but that gets costly.

I can have sympathy for the teenager who steals a snickers bar, ok. But these roving bands of shoplifting thieves, I hope they get caught and put out of business.
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I'm not so knee-jerk negative about the take industrial complex but boy, this seems like they needed some filler. I dislike the civilizing influence of the "well-produced" podcasts like stuff from NPR. It's not that they're bad (necessarily, but some of them are polished bullshit) it's that they're NOT weird and kind of bad.

EDIT: Ironically, the ones he holds up as standards (S-Town, Pod Save America) are the ones I generally detest.
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>I think its a sign of the late economic cycle

Agree but I think this late cycle period still has a few more years to go.
Presumably because we have 23 chromosomes.
This list is similar to what antivaxxers would push. We are looking at a slippery slope here.
Kurzgesagt had a really great video[1] on loneliness that described the downward spiral that people find themselves in.

> > The controversial implication is that depressed people deliberately act in ways that are likely to maintain their low mood.

> How is this remotely controversial? Finding something you like is not the same as liking your state or disposition for depression.

i think that is controversial because it assigns agency to the person experiencing the depression, that they are causing their own depression. but the most common complaint from people with depression is that people are always telling them to "just cheer up" etc etc. this is the same sentiment in a specific context. "if you just didn't listen to depressing music all the time, maybe you wouldn't be so depressed."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Xv_g3g-mA
I would consider paying if you respect my data and privacy, i.e. not selling or exploiting it.

I stopped using mint for this reason, plus security concerns.
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True crypto-libertarians would of course respond that once cashed out to "some other form of currency" it still isn't owned by you.
I had a normal latency stream (about 1.5 seconds) of the world cup on one England game. I saw the goal going in about 5-10 seconds before the cheers from the neighbours watching on DTT.

For the FA Cup final I had two feeds, one the 4K BBC version, and one on SDI from Wembley. The goal went in, and I'd completely forgotten it by the time the 4K goal went in.

The trouble is, things like twitter, whatsapp etc, will work to the lowest latency, and for a football game that's about 50-600 nanoseconds to the earliest viewer. Twitter can push the message within a few seconds (or the VAR result or whatever)

Latency needs to be in the sub-10 second goal-glass range.
This article is missing some context about why the judge's application to be an immigration judge (and not telling anyoke) was a bad thing. Taken from a linked previous article:

Because the prosecution in the case includes people from the U.S. Department of Justice—the same federal agency that oversees immigration courts—defense attorneys are asking to throw out all of Spath’s rulings as tainted.

“Any disinterested party would question the impartiality of a judge who is seeking employment from one of the parties appearing before him. It’s an obvious conflict of interest,” Navy Capt. Brian Mizer, the current lead defense attorney for al-Nashiri, told the Herald.
Age discrimination is also illegal, but do you really want to track grannies the same as teenagers for shoplifting?

Same group that complains when a TSA agent frisks a five year old white kid. All in the name of fairness.
How do they create first sample from which to "learn" without importing current bias?
good luck having a conversation with them with that type of latency
Because "sad songs say so much" as Elton put it. It's probably considered a bit corny now, but it's dead-on.

"From the lips of some old singer

We can share the troubles we already know

...

If someone else is suffering enough oh to write it down

When every single word makes sense

Then it's easier to have those songs around

The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you

And it feels so good to hurt so bad

And suffer just enough to sing the blues"
Sometimes I print the orders in my office and physically take them to the farm. Other times, I transmit the orders to them online, and they print them at the shed.
> drink the entire thing while doing the rest of my shopping, and pay for the empty bottle when I leave

I have a friend that does the same thing and it just seems really weird to me.

My groceries aren't mine until I've paid for them. And also, as a person with not always a lot of money I sometimes (very rarely, but still) find that I don't have enough money for the things I wanted to buy. What if I'd started consuming the goods, got to the till and couldn't pay?

If I needed to drink first I'd buy the drink first, drink it, and then proceed with the remainder of the shopping.

Anyway, people can do what they want. I'm not going to berate anyone for this. But I still think it's really weird.
For tech, yes. But does that mean the whole economy or tech sector goes into a recession? I.e. will the fact that Uber tanks after IPO have an effect on Apple?
I checked out this and the some of the author's other posts. A lot of complaints here in the thread are valid and pretty consistent through their articles. However even though the ideas are scattered and loose and they're trying to market their product, there was a lot of interesting food for thought - it helped that I've spent some time studying FP. I also feel that operating systems have been stagnant for a long time. Yes, the OS should manage hardware and resources, but also the OS is a platform on which other things are built. The platform part is mainly what has felt quite stagnant and perhaps more layers of systems on top (JVM, containers, etc.) might not be the best answer. Adding a layer on top has the benefit of compatibility and reliability that the layer below provides, but layers also compound constraints, possibly sticking us with local maxima.
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If you're on iOS, try a little blocker app called Unobstruct - it has a share sheet extension that strips off all obstructing overlays (social media sharig stuff, dickbars, etc) when activated. Very effective, and on demand.
'People Eat Their Own': Margaret Atwood on Free Speech
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