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I think this situation is a lot like the "shouting fire in a crowded theater" example.
basically Chinese government doesn't want its citizens to talk anything cultural, political, spiritual, religious, etc.
If you wanna talk fashion, food, travel, music, and the likes, that's absolutely fine. and it seems Chinese people are perfectly content with it.
I heard that wechat is transparent to Chinese authority. Last year, a dozens of college students who are Marxist activists and advocate for workers' right in Shenzhen(yes, that techy wonderland so much applauded on HN) were arrested and disappeared since. Some say the authority can watch their every move via wechat.
Even for a "embedded noob", the specs are not that useful. You need something better. See my other posts in this thread for alternatives.
I’m annoyed that those figures are given to a precision of ten animals. No way is that correct! And some of the figures on that one have a precision of hundredths of an animal?!
Article is all about Clojure, not ClojureScript. Two different things.
I doubt they’d bother to euthanize you first.
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Problem is you can’t fund a 401k and traditional IRA at the same time. Then you can’t fund a Roth IRA if you make too much (and it’s only $3k/year anyway). The government has rigged it so they are getting a cut of your retirement savings, one way or the other.
I’m curious why it matters to you. 55MB is a trivially inexpensive amount of storage and bandwidth in 2019. It simply doesn’t make a practical difference to the vast majority of people who will use this whether it’s 55MB or 5MB.
yeah, but "less reason to" is not "more reason not to"
Fair, though I would have thought that the best monetisation would come from events and commission on kits and parts. You should expect to, at very best, only just cover your operational costs from the videos and print subscribers. Events on the other hand have the people physically there and, unlike the web, you can be reasonably sure that the people who rented you the building haven't faked the visitor numbers, at least until someone invents better holograms.
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It's hard to imagine a V-12 engine achieving Prius-level efficiency.
Technically they could. According to the docs, they destroy the email after delivery.
Do you have any citation on that ? From what I know the vast majority of all professional programming is done in English. Even companies like SAP that had a lot of programming in German have shifted to programming in English.
Electric guitars and tube amplifiers might be. But there is a decently high risk in playing with the grounding on those things.

I’ve had my share of grounding faults while plugged into the wall or on stage (and that was just with the factory wiring on a 70’s Traynor YGM4). ...ouch

But guitars are simple enough. You can replace components to add new features or change tone and volume responsiveness and even add certain wiring/component patterns to allow you some gain in the internal guitar circuits.

Old effects pedals as well. There’s a ton of modding or BYO instructions out there.

All the analog, point-to-point stuff is easily-enough hackable anyway.

I mean if we’re drawing an equivalent to a car... the relative starting costs might be high, depending.
Well the Poisson uncertainty is only reasonable if the count is sampling a random process. But yea, they could try adding Poisson uncertainties and using a probabilistic emulator like a Gaussian process.
Obviously that is part of the point of the interview, though, right?

You are able to identify these over-confident people and prevent them from being a toxic influence on a team.
Commenter in this branch put it all together just right. Also Dyatlov notes all industrial disasters was attributed to personnel error in Soviet Union, no matter which real reason it was, for political reasons.

I'll let myself add some reasoning about accusations against Dyatlov. Even if he violated some instructions (it is still not so clear), environment and way operations conducted in SU (and maybe in some modern countries too) implicitly require that. Management requires real results, not obedience to rules and instructions. Senior personnel has to deliver what is expected from them no matter how. But if something goes wrong, negligence to rules will be formal reason to blame. So, there was no evil layman who got himself near top of hierarchy and made evil decisions. All hierarchy consists of people who was installed at their positions for a reason and they do what is expected from them. Otherwise, replacement occurs.

Basically, if you replace in this situation Dyatlov with somebody of same rank, outcomes could be eventually same or even worse.
Similarly, the pointy shoes still live on in Mexico and Southern USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_pointy_boots
The West has to be wary of becoming a surveillance state. More often than not tech companies in the West are using China tech as an example of how they should operate. We have to protect our civil liberties. I grew up in a post-communist country in Europe, riddled with corruption and dictatorial tendencies, and it is really not a nice place. It's strange that as technology becomes a bigger part of our society, the more it is used against us.
I wouldn't be be concerned, The other side too have to think twice before suing me.
Sorry, I was referring to the firing of the reporter, not the initial push for 'code red' reports.
I guess I'm not super concerned, because I stopped watching TV news a long long time ago. In general they do everything they can to spread fear, and this is just an extension of that.
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As a poor kid in the 80's, I couldn't really afford music. Most of what I had was recorded on cassette tapes from OTA broadcasts from a nearby college station. They would even, late at night, play full albums from time to time and cue you on when to press record, flip the tape, etc. The quality was shit, of course, but I didn't have much better to compare it to.
You can always fake your name when you submit the DNA. Then this doesn't really matter.
Since Windows 98, we used Idoswin (https://www.idoswin.de/) which always calculated directory sizes in the background. It showed the sizes of directories it already calculated and made the field empty for every folder where the size was not ready yet. Usually the small directories are ready first and only the big (>1gb and many files) take a few seconds. This is done in the background and therefore doesn't disrupt your workflow at all.

Another method would be to make it midnight-commander style: add a button which will calculate & display the sizes of the directories.

So the time to calculate it is not really an issue.
Use-cases are exactly cleaning up space and roughly calculating backup sizes/sizes of folders I want to copy at a single glance. You could also ask: why do we need to display the size of files in the explorer. The reasons are roughly the same.
And tens of millions of pigs in China apparently: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/an-estimated-150...
I regret taking their test with 200 bucks now. It used to be novel and years back, the concept of a totalitarian society with surveillance, database, social credit was still very remote
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Impressive!
A good outcome for mice over the long term is to seal off holes in the building so mice stop coming inside.
Strictly speaking, it's neither an Open Source nor Free Software license, because of th usage restriction which is incompatible with both the Open Source Definition and the Free Software Definition.
Thanks!

Feels good to buy an article on Blendle again. Last I checked I found little interesting and I so want that project to succeed.
Apple does not have my faceID biometric details and does not need them outside of my own device. Wouldn’t that make your assumption just as bad?
Part of the issue is the test design. If the university takes the top 1% of performers, then it could mean you need 99% correct answers. But students scoring 97% or 99% correct on a test already know all the material. The difference is in luck and accuracy, not intelligence.

The solution is to write a harder test that is only meant for the top 10% of students to take and actually contains harder questions.
What does that have anything to do with the point being made of the OJ Simpson case as an example of money winning cases? In both the civil and criminal case the parties with more money/resources lost respectively.
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I suppose my problem is that I’ve tried to set limitations. The people I’m setting them upon don’t agree.

So that leaves us at a crossroads. I either grit my teeth and continue to put up with what I see as unacceptable behavior, or I enforce the ultimatum and refuse to engage.

This is hardly the first time I have ever had this kind of argument with any of the people involved. It goes, as many family arguments tend to, along a predictable and repeatable pattern: argument, agreement, repetition.

Eventually I had to realize that this has happened dozens of times and if I don’t change any variables we will just continue to repeat the cycle for the rest of my life.

All of that said, I don’t have kids. I don’t really want them, but I assume at some point it’ll happen. I do realize that having grandma and grandpa there is valuable. You’ve got a free babysitter and the family roots. If it came down to compromising my ultimatum and not having that connection... I would absolutely, 100%, without any question, tell my mother to F off again.

The whole thing ends up being exactly what you said - sometimes family are a blessing and built in friends, but sometimes they aren’t and you find other friends to fill in that gap.

I just can’t stand it when people say that family is all that matters.
Obviously you know what you’re talking about, but this comment comes off as unnecessarily rude to me. And not befitting of Hacker News.
Do you have any examples? I can’t think of any instance apple forced users to an inferior app, besides either an app blatantly violating user privacy (like tracking children) or a company they outright purchased, like Siri and what is now Shortcuts.

I’m not saying it’s definitely never happened, but I’d be love to read about some examples.
This is indeed very scary especially now it requires facial recognition part... to sign up for WeChat, you need to have a valid phone number; to use WeChat pay, you got to provide real-name and official ID, bank account, etc. From the WeChat social network, relationships are easily identified.

The mere existence of such tool is destine to be misused, regardless who made it. This is what real power looks like.
You get privacy with Google ? Root your phone and check how often your Android phones home 1e100.net . Even the stupidest of things like opening the phone settings will make Android to call up big brother. I can only imagine what they do when you login to the phone.
> Didn’t expect to see them in this post, did you?

No one ever really does expect it.
or can you?
you have your credit card information surrendered.
The unconscious part of our brain goes to work while we go play.
Lawsuits are costly in terms of money and time invested. They’re a drag. Just the threat of suing often is enough. Incentives are not necessarily equal. You might have on one side a startup just trying to get a product out of the door, on the other side a zealot trying to push his agenda. The whole thing could end up sinking the startup. What’s a viable risk/payoff trade off?

Copyrights can be inherited, too. Who knows if the estate doesn’t have a particular view on good and evil and spends the entire inheritance suing small scale developers just to prove a point.

Now, in this case, it’s a fairly obviously benign case, but for good reasons, (corporate) lawyers stick to well-known licenses and risk avoidance.
How much emissions reduce depends on how high the tax is, how well it is enforced, and how easy the divers technologies and trade-offs to reduce emissions work in practice.

On the one hand, if the tax worked perfectly, emissions would cease completely, and there would be no prize money funded.

On the other hand, if there was a lot of tax take, that would be a big incentive for companies to do their own research and put up prizes.

Government picking winners in such a beauty-contest competition is inherently dangerous.

Eg one obvious 'idea' is to just reduce your consumption, like driving less. Or running your aircon less often and only at higher temperatures.

Those ideas are very effective, but are their prize worthy?

The only prize worthy aspect of them would be in the social science / propaganda necessary to get many people to adopt them. How are you going to judge that? (And in that case, the politicians who voted for the carbon tax can arguable claim the biggest part of that prize..)
This was at a large, established German company with German management. It wasn't as extreme as you are reading it but these dynamics did exist. Having large American offices working closely with the German ones made the impact of the works council on the operation of the company quite obvious because the Americans on a team were not subject to it (and there was a directive to operate "west coast style"). My other American friends that worked many years for German companies observed the same patterns.

I'm not saying works councils are bad per se, but they do have an effect on flexibility and execution speed that is significant enough that many Americans notice, especially in the western US where fast and flexible is the native mode of business (eastern US traditionally has a bit more rigid and European-like business culture).
What the app was capable of collecting is different from what the app actually collected,

Yes they pinky promised not to collect all of your data. So will you email me your social security number if I promise not to use it?

Who cares? There's nothing evil about circumventing some arbitrary Apple policy to give users an app that they want.

Yes there is nothing wrong with breaching a contract....

Not your private keys but Apple's private keys, which gives the Chinese government unfettered access to everything Chinese users store in iCloud https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in.... Worse, the change was applied retroactively to data the users had stored in iCloud prior to the change. No other US tech company comes close in evilness.

That’s not how public/private key pairs work and the article said no such thing.

The app is still available in the Play Store, and people still use it because nobody was surprised by what it collects. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and....

So you’re absolutely sure that every single person who downloaded the app was aware of what it was able to collect and that everyone who downloads it was legally of age able to consent to data gathering?
Interesting... r² could be viewed as both an identifier and an operation.

r² = r^2;
A = πr²
Compiling to javascript is mostly pointless and unnecessary, and should be the exception rather than the rule.

Dynamic content on the web (javascript, web apps) is not a corruption of its original intent. Running code as well as viewing static documents was always a part of the theoretical future envisioned for it.

Eternal September is a natural part of the evolutionary process of online communities, and it is not always harmful. Cultural elitism and gatekeeping, however, are always harmful.

The web was not a mistake. The modern web is superior in terms of the breadth and depth of its content to the old web in many ways, and that old web wasn't the bastion of quality content and creativity that people seem to remember.

Design is not a waste of time, nor is it just eye candy and fluff. It matters. It matters a lot.

Stallman is not always right about everything.

The Last Jedi was flawed, but in time will be regarded as the best mainline Star Wars film outside of the OT (assuming episode 9 isn't utterly brilliant.)
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Just for context I packaged an empty UWP app using the release flag for x64, zipped it, and the final size came out to 23.2 MB.
We like them because of nostalgia. They were awful compared to what you can find these days online and in podcast form.

As a child I remember radio being the same 11 songs and a ton of ads.
That's BS. Why should I spend more money or effort to protect myself from disease-carrying pest?

It's not like people use those to deliberately kill some endangered creatures (if yes, ban those people, not my glue trap). And by the way, banning them would also stupid because glue traps easily be made at home (I assume).

Invest in, or develop a better and cheaper way and let me know when you're ready.

We also need a laser-based mosquito killer device, those UV traps are crap. A while ago there were some cool demos on the Internet but I haven't seen any shipping products...
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"with good building practices", "get to a point" this is planning an ideal future despite having a system where the legacy infrastructure very much still needs to be accommodated for. We can't disregard what already exists, and that involves a considerable amount of base load.
Correct. It would still be compatible with many of them, though. There’s no provision forbidding additional restrictions placed on the software in MIT, BSD, APL, MPL for example.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s quite easy for more technically adept users to forget how scary and daunting something like custom rom installs can be. Just because something is technically feasible, doesn’t mean it’s accessible to many or even most users.
> In the 40s and 50s most Europeans who actually lived WWII considered the USSR as definitive in determining the war.

The USSR not only contributed most to the outcome, it also suffered most losses - 20 million or more dead, more than 10% of the population.
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This is just modern Russia.
On the one hand, shadowbanning is reversible through public action now, so it's not as bad as it was. On the other hand, you can lose your ability to do so if you vouch for too many comments the mods consider divisive or low quality.
The talks a few years ago put a datacenter around 60k servers. us-east-1 region has multiple availability zones that each has multiple datacenters (both more so than the typical region because it's the largest one).

Consider that a Fortune 50 has hundreds of thousands of employees. With one desktop per employee that's already way more hardware to manage than an AWS datacenter.

Now think of how many servers, mobile devices, network gear, access points there are to run the business. 60k servers is not uncommon. A million devices is nothing special.
Well, that's going to be hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contemporary_ethnic_gr...
Alot of what has helped me evolve, is listening to HBR Ideacast podcasts.

There are alot of discussions which basically come down to how humans interact and communicate with one another, and what works and what doesn’t.

I noticed I compliment others quite a bit more since listening.
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If not for 23andme, who would have created a comparably big database of SNPs? I dont understand what showcasing disease means.

I know we are all good people, but most of novel science happened with methods that we would find totally unacceptable today, from lobotomizing people, to deafferenting cats, to sending dogs to space. If 23andme didnt have established a large user base, it would be impossible to get a comparably big database given today's regulations (and climate).
Are mutations in DNA arising from truly random events? When I say random, I mean outside of the knowability of Laplace's demon?

I know quantum mechanics contains true randomness, in the creation of DNA copies does this randomness contribute?
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I miss the curation of music they provided (though college stations partially fill that gap) and local news (which has been systematically and intentionally dismantled by policy changes made in DC).

Lack of local news has done tons of damage to the US, since it greatly reduces the accountability of politicians, and awareness of local issues.
Somewhat off-topic: the Prius isn't all that efficient in an absolute sense.

(That's because it's still a big and heavy car. Even with a conventional internal combustion engine, you can get a better mileage, if you are willing for a more European style smaller, lighter car.

Relative to its weight and size, a Prius is pretty efficient.)
I used to listen to the (Dutch) radio when I did my homework in the '80s. There was much less choice than there is nowadays which meant that a fair portion of my class mates also ended up listening to whatever program I'd listen to, leading to a shared common ground. The program I mostly listened to ("De Avondspits" (The evenening rush hour) hosted by a fairly well-spoken DJ by the name of "Frits Spits") was tailored to school-age youth and played a mixture of styles larded with spoken word (people could send lymericks [1] which related a song for the chance of winning some trinket) and call-in competitions. Sitting up there in my room doing my homework the radio, knowing that my classmates and others were also sitting somewhere doing their homework while listening to the same program gave a sense of being part of... something. Nothing big and earth-shattering, just a bit more than the drudge of sitting there doing homework. This being the Netherlands there were no commercials, other than a short block around the hour.

Of course I could also listen to my own music back then: play a mix tape or some records. I could get records at the library which I subsequently taped. While not comparable to the width and breadth of choice offered by official and 'pirate' online options now it still was a form of choice. It is just that, sometimes, it is nice not to have to make a choice other than switching the thing on, turning down the volume when some song comes by which doesn't pass the muster.

There were more programs like this: "Het Betonuur" ("beton" means concrete, they played hard rock etc.), "Stampij" (also hard rock), "De LP show" (a prosaic name which means "The LP (record) show", playing tracks of newer prog/symphonic rock/experimental artists), "Superclean Dream Machine" (even weirder music hosted by an ever weirder person), etc. I often had my tape recorder at the ready to record anything worthwhile.

I can now play the music which I heard back then at a moment's notice by using any of the online venues available to me. In many ways this is an improvement, but...

Imagine walking over a beach and finding a diamond in the sand. That would be an amazing discovery, something you'd remember for the rest of your life. Remember when you found that diamond back then? Remember what you were doing, with whom you were doing it, what came after?

Now imagine walking over a beach where there is no sand any more, only diamonds. They're everywhere, littering the streets, hiding under the thrash can. You pick one up and look at it: a diamond, big deal. You drop it and walk on...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)
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