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Adam and Eve – Adobe's Cross-Platform GUI Libraries
This incident is old now, it is acknowledged that this was a mistake made by the telecom itself.
> to use WeChat pay, you got to provide real-name and official ID, bank account, etc.

Isn't that a basic KYC procedure for every financial product like banking?
What about the idea?
Thanks! My reply is to your comment's parent though :)
Doesn’t IntelliJ use OSGi for plugin loading too? I looked into this a while ago and it looked like IntelliJ bundles all the OSGi stuff.
That’s insane, as there is no limit to the amount of money that can be spent on elderly care, and whole industries with the sole purpose of bilking the life savings of the elderly.

Do you have a link to the list of states?
I came across this in a talk by Sean Parent (once lead developer of Photoshop). What caught my attention was his assertion that they were able to reduce the GUI code of Photoshop by 600x, from a Million lines of code to less than 2k. It uses a declarative UI, together with what they call the 'Propagator Model' which is an R&D project by Sean Parent & his academic collaborators. An excerpt from one of their papers explains the new ingredient:

> The combination of procedural and declarative program code has found success in, for example, GUI element layout. The most familiar example is perhaps HTML, CSS, and DOM combined with JavaScript. The QTk library [...], XAML [34], and XForms [5] serve as further examples. Some of these systems, along with rule-based systems such as Drools [27], Jess [11], and R++ [14], also support concisely specifying declarative rules for maintaining consistency across values in user interfaces. Property models are distinguished from these systems by not only providing the ability to create rules that assist introducing a valid result but also by providing an explicit model of the dependencies these rules create. Inspecting the state of the model enables generic algorithms (e.g., for widget enablement) for user interface.

http://www.emarcus.org/papers/gpce2009-marcus.pdf
I had a similar story. At 16, a summer friend came to me. He told me that he knew a company that needed a web app.
He got a 5500$ contract. It was so much for us, just high-schoolers.

We didn't know how to do a web app. I knew a bit of Python, him a bit of Javascript.
So a month during, we learned how to and built the app they asked with Django. I never learned so quickly!

After a month, we shipped the app. They had a lot of users (900+), so our app that worked well with a database of two people failed miserably.

We spent nights fixing its problems.
It used an external API that we had rate limiting problems with. I implemented a cache using Postgresql.

Then, they started to ask us for more features that weren't in the original contract. They said that if we wanted to get paid, we had to do them.

Eventually, we realized they weren't going to pay for us. We asked them to pay us, and they said yes. Then they said no, contact our lawyers. Their lawyers told us they wanted to engage charges because we didn't do the job well. They were still using our website without paying us! We contacted a lawyer and quickly realized that because of the legal fees (2500$ upfront + 500$/hour), it wasn't worth it to seek justice.

We were completely fucked.

Then, I remembered they used Heroku, which was based in the US and therefore applied the DMCA laws.
We sent them an email explaining the situation and, in under 48H, they took the website down. I will always remember that morning when my friend woke me up to show me their site down.

As we did the deployment, they took a week to re-deploy our app at a server under French jurisdiction (that we could never have taken down).

Then, their whole company ran out of business as customers were leaving and asking refunds because of the lousy service. They laid off everyone, but our app is still freely accessible at https://crypto-analyse.com.

This experience taught us many lessons:
- Never work for something that you're not paid for unless you're doing charity or working for yourself.
- Contracts are no guarantee
- They made a lot of money with our app. We could have made a lot more by just selling it ourselves.

And that's what we did! We just shipped our new app (it's an app to automate crypto trading with a conditions editor), https://kaktana.com

We now make more money than we had thought before, all of that using the experience we gained from that shitty deal.

“The phoenix must burn to emerge.” - Janet Fitch
small claims court in my state (WA) is limited to aprox $5000.

This awkward area between $6k to $15k seems to be a sweet spot for abusive business practices (intentional or otherwise) because of the big time and financial commitment it takes to pursue.

EDIT: Also I should add that it's not guaranteed that legal fees can be reclaimed from successful litigation. This is probably the main reason I keep putting it off (and keep pinging them about it every 6 months, paper trail seems important)
I agree with you, though Signal does not get access to your contact list, in case anyone is looking for a less user hostile messaging app.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do...
While I don't remember any such message, after a few months it's certainly felt wrong and I've felt the sting. It'll be something I take into consideration whenever I shop around again.
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That's an awesome talk.[1] It's one of those ones that you can see once, and whenever a particular topic is brought up (in this case non-payment of a contract) you immediately remember multiple parts of it, even a decade later.

To be clear, this is a strong second endorsement.

1: https://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1
I think its a bit premature, but do you really think China under a democratic system would be better for the world?

What would Chinese populism look like when it eventually emerges given more democratic features?

Are you sure we are ready for a Chinese Trump? and for the silent majority of China to dictate foreign policy?

I'm from the school of "be careful what you wish for".
Yeah see Singapore more or less.

>The PAP has been returned to power in every general election and has thus formed the Cabinet since 1959

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Singapore
Instead of a border I tend to have a debug helper that adds a 1px outline of cyan or pink. To get the “bones” of a component or page.

Good advice. Definitely sounds like captain obvious but it’s also something I think needs to be said.
> ...solution was marriage...

What if it's an important part of the equation? Stable marriages have rather strong inverse correlations to poverty levels. Maybe finding someone rich in this case was especially fortunate, but even marrying someone of similar economic means tends to be a boon (on average at least).

And pathology... most people are "pathological" in some way. It's hard for me to tut about personal inclinations too much.
It is extreme frugality, not just frugality, when you choose to put your dining table in your bedroom.

I would honestly never live like this, regardless of my financial goals. I hope the husband is actually enjoying it...
Even before private equity, it was very difficult for indie musicians to get their songs played on the air, due to collusion with the recording industry.

These days, running AM or FM radio is inefficient and a waste of power. It doesn't take kilowatts and microwave links to blanket an area with coverage. I think the failure is not coming up with a viable digital replacement that works on cell towers. I know that streaming works fine, but there's no centralized system, or parallel representation that's freely broadcast from cell towers. This would have been a prime opportunity for the FCC to force cell companies to provide a certain number of free broadcast channels (that work even without cell service) to serve the community. Just like how they force TV and radio stations to play community service shows on Sunday morning.
> there's no special wisdom and instead they just have more powerful primitives/tools to work with

Reminds me of compound interests. Google operates at a scale where the company has enough brainpower to design systems like GFS/Colossus and Borg, which enable systems like Spanner, which enable systems like Zanzibar, and so on.
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Why not? Are you worried that one day you would be outed as such a client if everyone went around doing this?
While I hear your point that the explosion of cultural proceedings is below the utopia mentioned here, it may be worth noting that the WWW was invented by a guy born in London working partly for the French government. That was Tim Berners-Lee ;)
Only if "right-wingers" necessarily means someone with fascist beliefs. If that isn't your definition, don't imply that association by making them the target.

(for a more nuanced answer, see [1])
Have you been to Japan? People don’t make very much money and work very very hard (or atleast pretend to). They have very small houses and are so risk adverse that most are totally unwilling to even take a small chance to make their lives better. The culture is built on a foundation of shame and fear. Their economy is collapsing and they are too racist to let any immigrants in. Japanese people are probably the most hateful and racist individuals I’ve ever come across. I’ve even come across establishments that ban foreigners from the premises.

I lived there for half a year when my wife was teaching english after college and I wouldn’t want to go back. The dirty looks I got, the salarymen sucking their teeth at me, the houses I was denied from renting, the list goes on and on.

And I look white and put together. God help you if you’re black or an ‘inferior’ darker asian.
Hah. This is the only company that has ever f—ked me over. I’m a self-employed consultant who flew out to SF to work with them and was told the gig was off the working-day before we were set to begin. My lawyer said I absolutely had a case but I’d need to be prepared to open an international lawsuit against them (I’m UK-based) and I just couldn’t muster the effort. They got away with it.

They also quite cheerfully asked me ‘Hey! Next time you’re in the area we’d love to look at working together?’ Classy.
Would it be possible for both AI's to find out other AI's technique?

Don't bring up any gate walls/ firewalls stories, please. What if there is a missed case?

Here is an example.

1. News about AI-driven-fake-news gets published.
2. AI reads it and understands it.
3. EXPLAIN HERE - HOW THE SITUATION IS KEPT UNDER CONTROL ?

Its an intellectual competition. Just like how facebook's bots went on a fight that we didn't understand, the shared example may also get into that stage.
> Buy a Gucci bag and it’ll feel like half the world is dripping bespoke Hermès. You can’t win.

This is fascinating. I suspect 99% of people simply don't care and can't even tell a $50 purse from $5000 one, and this Gucci vs Hermes rivarvly is only relevant for a tiny minority of sad snobs. Like the other poster said, good for you for ditching this.
>the IBM equipment was standard tabulating fair

From https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691 :

>the codes show IBM’s numerical designation for various camps. Auschwitz was 001, Buchenwald was 002; Dachau was 003, and so on. Various prisoner types were reduced to IBM numbers, with 3 signifying homosexual, 9 for anti-social, and 12 for Gypsy. The IBM number 8 designated a Jew. Inmate death was also reduced to an IBM digit: 3 represented death by natural causes, 4 by execution, 5 by suicide, and code 6 designated “special treatment” in gas chambers. IBM engineers had to create Hollerith codes to differentiate between a Jew who had been worked to death and one who had been gassed, then print the cards, configure the machines, train the staff, and continuously maintain the fragile systems every two weeks on site in the concentration camps.
Absence of open banking standards and regulation produces such monsters.
Yeah, you're right, for that not at all similar situation there's another explanation. I'd say what it is, but you were rude enough for both of us already.
ROT13: good version
Only cockroaches fear the light.
I think that was an Intel driver shortcut.
Uncool, given that Google only exist thanks to free software.

Google started as a C, Java and Python shops. Android is born out of a Linux Kernel.

If I remember well, long ago, the initial database they used was actually an in-shop fork of MySQL.

Easy to say bad things about free software now that you have billions and hundred of geniuses to work on your own stuff.

Actually, this kind of comment reminds me of the "linux is cancer" era of Microsoft. Funny like Google is now becoming the new MS now they got all the markets, while MS pretend to be nice now that they are not the top dog anymore.
Plaid really do seem a little dodgy to me. In the UK they are effectively offering a PSD2-API forwarding service, which seems very much against the spirit of PSD2 and the open banking initiatives.
Absent the contract copyright would naturally remain with the author. The contract needs to be valid for it to be transferred to the business.
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and that explains why it's not as useful. I think just the act of having someone deliver it to you constitutes the connection. And having "every police call including kitten rescues" is a bug, not a feature. Too much information is just as bad as not enough.
In Europe we have PSD2 and similar things which are working towards much more of an oauth type of situation.
I feel like there's strong friction between HTML trying to semantically describe the structure of a page page and JS frameworks where you try to build custom reusable components which might not fall into the rigid structure defined by classic HTML.
PyInstaller is quite adequate and works well. The only problem is that all it gives you is an exe. If you want something a bit more complex it's not really much more than that.
Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses
My God that page is beautiful. Over half the vertical space is content without me touching anything. No banner bar asking me to install some bullshit mobile app. No 800-pixel panel at the bottom telling me what a cookie is. No incredibly obnoxious warning that I only have one more free article before the wisdom of the ages is lost to me so I'd better cough up five bucks.
>Online disinformation, or fake news intended to deceive, has emerged as a major societal problem.

I find it odd they would put so much time and effort countering ill-defined "online disinformation" where we already have a fairly large sample set of blatant misinformation and straight out lies churned out by well-known media outlets that remains to be addressed [1].

[1] https://archive.fo/rz2d4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws

(see citations)
My god, but you are cold and calculating.
I'm not sure they are. golang was force fitted into writing applications it was not meant for. It was made to be a C++ replacement, but it ended up anything but (basically ended up as a Python and NodeJS replacement).

I can see golang being useful in smaller tools that have some networking capability (and with GraalVM+AOT, Java fills in that niche as well). However, with anything slightly more complex (including REST APIs), and it falls way short. So it shouldn't be compared to Java.
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A lot of the phones in the US will have a radio but no internal antennae. The radio is only activated when headphones are plugged in as they become the antenna.
I would be happy just to switch to a five day 40 hour work week.
> I simply happen to understand the contextual limitations of the knowledge that I’ve derived from it

Such as?
I was recently at a lecture given by a colleague of the Yale researcher. Apparently the Yale cancer center is going to re-run most if not all of their drug trials because of these findings. So drugs that didn’t do well during the trials may actually have some efficacy if the protocol were changed to take into account gut biomes. The work in gut biomes are having a huge impact on medicine.
Certainly locally (in London), the people at our MakerLab are heavily focused on repair, reuse and repurpose which is a reaction to the modern world in much the same way that things were when you were a lad.
I’m a little confused by the title. Wasn’t nav introduced in HTML5?

Anyway, agree with what’s being said here. K.I.S.S.
Well in many places and across many industry, it would be great if we could get 5 days work week standard in the first place.

Instead, not only just tech industry in China, many are now moving more towards 996.
The Wiztree app is a great example of the benefit -- 3 seconds to view the entire drive. Although reading the MFT requires elevation.

https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-...
There is certainly nothing evil about giving users what they want in spite of the whims of a capricious (and actually evil) middleman.

So users want to install software that can intercept all of their communications? I’ve never heard someone say, “I would give up all of my privacy and install a network sniffer/key logger on my device of someone paid me*

Apple encrypted user's iCloud emails and iCloud data in a way that Apple still has access to for search. It is Apple's keys that matter in this case, not the user's keys for communicating with Apple.

That’s also not how email works. Email is not a secure communications and is never encrypted. Besides that, you don’t need to use an Apple provided email account.

The article said exactly such thing: "Before a switch announced in January, all encryption keys for Chinese users were stored in the U.S., which meant authorities needed to go through the U.S. legal system to request access to information. Now the situation is based on Chinese courts and a gatekeeper that’s owned by the government [emphasis added]."

That’s not how public/private key encryption works - despite what you read from techcrunch. The whole purpose of a public private key pair is that you (or your device) creates the key pair, you send the public key out for anyone to use. They then use the public key to encrypt a message and you keep your private key. Anyone can encrypt a message and only you can decrypt a message with your private key. Am I really explaining how public/private key encryption works on Hacker News?
TBH, I think there's a missing use case for maker spaces to aim lower on the tech tree.

Especially in cities with mostly apartments, traditional wood and metalworking hobbies are infeasbile due to the size of the tools. It's also inefficient to own them individually if you're using them 3 hours a week.

Make sure the maker space has everything your high school shop class did, market it that way, and you draw in an entirely new demographic to keep the site vibrant and fiscally healthy. There's plenty of opportunity for cross-pollination-- I could imagine someone coming in to use conventional power tools being apprenticed into using CNC equipment or 3D printing to achieve the same objectives, or the electronics enthusiasts pairing up with the metalworkers for custom panels and cases.
Hi all - co-founder of Plaid here. We're in the process of migrating this repository and replacing it with a dedicated iOS SDK repo, JS SDK, and (soon to be) Android SDK. However, I messed up the order of operations with this migration and can empathize with the reaction. I personally chatted with a lot of the commenters on the original issue before we did this and more than happy to engage/get feedback from anyone else over email/phone/in-person. Feel free to shoot me an email at william [at] plaid [dot] com if you want to chat/have any feedback.
Seems like a difference without distinction if the outcomes desired by the government are achieved through retired agents and a variety of pressure points.

The illusion of "average citizen control" is more common in USA population than China it seems, whether this control is real is debatable.
No ethics education? A prof. ethics class is required for a bachelor's in CS at most schools.
I would nominate folks like Rachel Maddow and Stephen Colbert, both very effective persuaders who use humor and selective facts to reinforce partisan beliefs in a like-thinking audience.

Peterson and Chomsky I would say are in a completely different league, as they tend to deal in a high-dimensional representation of reality, versus the comically low-dimensional representation that is typically a common denominator of all cultural meme war arguments.
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And yet, I read his comment, and I read your comment, and if I had to choose who to work with in any capacity (I could be any of employer, employee, vendor, customer, purchasing agent in this arena), it would be him over you.

Just saying the word "professionalism" doesn't make you the one who is more professiional, or make your concept of professinalism the better one.
It will first breed and otherwise manipulate humans into believing only what the media tells them.
Here the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority stated in Jan 2018 that this practice is not allowed:

https://www.finanssivalvonta.fi/en/regulation/interpretation...
After reading the title, I thought I would see a proposal to use mostly tables instead of divs for designing websites again...
Can you not sue them for 5K even if your actual damages are 7?
Is it? I feel like it's a question of prioritizing. Why focus on application size when you could instead polish a feature?
It is embarrassing, but I only know how to write HTML like it’s 1999. The last new thing I learned was an iframe, the kids tell me CSS something I should learn...
It cannot scale logarithmically because you need at least a linear number of gates to represent the inputs.

It doesn't have to scale superlinearly either, because the natural circuit using a linear number of adders is already of a logarithmic depth, which is best possible asymptotically.
Nice ad hominem.

The problem IP laws try to solve is that the best researcher is not necessarily in the best position to execute on their discoveries. Or, worse, executing on the discovery is incredibly cheap (such as new drugs) and the value is impossible to recover. The more expensive the research, the more likely that is to be.

Research either needs to be publically funded OR some kind of limited monopoly applied.

None of this implies that the current IP mechanisms are not seriously broken.
I'm not sure how much of this was detailed in the original book (I haven't read it) but the 2012 update claims to have revealed new material:

>Among the newly-released documents and archival materials are secret 1941 correspondence setting up the Dutch subsidiary of IBM to work in tandem with the Nazis, company President Thomas Watson’s personal approval for the 1939 release of special IBM alphabetizing machines to help organize the rape of Poland and the deportation of Polish Jews, as well as the IBM Concentration Camp Codes including IBM’s code for death by Gas Chamber.

Separately:

>... a newly released copy of a subsequent letter dated June 10, 1941, drafted by IBM’s New York office, confirms that IBM headquarters personally directed the activities of its Dutch subsidiary set up in 1940 to identify and liquidate the Jews of Holland.

It seems to me that there is evidence of direct involvement at least up until the US declared war in December 1941.

Source

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691
In my opinion, if you let your partner do that, you deserve it. If you do that, and later come surprised if such situation happens, you are literally an idiot, not knowing in what age you live in.

So, understand what your fetish means and how it can backfire. Any age will have its own problems like that.
Cross-ecosystem vs. cross-platform maybe.