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Flagging should be removed from HN, or at least give an option to un-flag. Its a good interesting article.

You stated your opinion in your comment. Why do you need to flag the post?
I don't think most people have the mental bandwidth to balance rotting away in an 8 hour job, managing family life, and having some semblance of self esteem just to add on how to escape. I think the pressure release of the weekend is the only satisfaction people can afford due to the momentum of work completely eroding their concept of life.

There are plenty of people who do though I imagine.
Discriminatory business practices should not be conflated with free speech.
Don't forget a package installer/dependency manager as in NPM/PIP/CPAN. Nowadays I cannot look to a programming language without one of those... it is just too painful to look for libraries, download them, set in a separate folder, etc...
It's pretty obvious that they are, it's hard to track something that's anonymous. It's not like the 80s/90s when these people would congregate in groups and go to parties, etc. This is a new ball game. You also have to consider that *Channers often "shitpost" and 99% of threats aren't even legitimate.
The computer is in SF. CFAA applies and the US has jurisdiction.
> As for politics and fact-checking, personally I just don’t care. If you do, then sign your damn video with a public key already and check if a video matches it.

I think we're going to see a lot of things like this, soon. Signing for ownership, definitely, but also lots of other tech tricks. We already have livestreaming, which prevents fakes in the moment. If you upload a video as soon as you take it, you can put a Google or Facebook vouched timestamp on the content. If you don't want to rely on their reputation, you can share a hash of the video content before a deep-faker would have had time to edit the content.

Timeless content like a video of police violence is tougher to prove, and fakes will be very hard to disprove, but the idea that convincing-looking fakes obviously destroy trust is a failure of imagination.
Thank you for the recommendation. As an adult learning mathematics I'm half way through "Mathematics Rebooted" by Lara Alcock and I really like it so far. It's a good read to complement school books, video lectures and Khan Academy. Burn Math Class seems like a great candidate to be next on my math reading list.
Both of these are perceptual choices you're making. In one case you've chosen to see the analogy as real. In the other case you're refusing to consider the analogy, and then casting your failure as some sort of universal ("nothing... allows"). But since other people clearly can see analogies, it's not universal; it's your preference leaking out.
Even though my experience is basically the same as the author's (8y using java/kotlin toolchain), the article still seems to be written by someone with a hammer frustrated with screws for not working properly. His points can be summed up as "Flutter isn't as stable as the java toolchain that has existed for over a decade" and "I want Flutter to work the way I am used to work".
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If my app is only as successful as McDonalds, I'll take it.
Seems like a strange mission. The fact that he's unemployed, lost his girlfriend, lives with his parents, and must monetize his efforts via 22k Instagram followers makes the exercise feel a bit sad to me. Perhaps he will learn and grow from this and it'll be worth it. I hope so.
I suspect that might be a coincidence - the Gaelic name for Loch Ness is Loch Nis with the origins of the "Nis" being a bit unclear. Neither Loch Ness, River Ness or Inverness seem very peninsula like - although Caithness does use 'ness' in that sense but it was under Norse control for a long time but it is a broad peninsula...
To paraphrase Joel Spolsky, using cultural fit for dismissing a candidate has a high risk being a form of discrimination: https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/blog/the-trouble-with-...
I really really want Randall to make a physics textbook based on xkcd. There's so much potential here.
Indeed, and the benefit of Open Source is that if the company takes a project in a direction that people aren't happy with (or abandons it) it can be forked.

In fact it could be argued that these companies only control these projects because the community allows them to.
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Definitely agree with most of the key points, but I do question the notion that men did all of the heavy labor.

Maybe in upper-class homes, but in the poorer families (which were most people), "women's work" was physically demanding... laundry was outright dangerous, for example.
It is interesting to contrast the plan with the execution of the plan in practice, whether one regards the 8Chan shutdown as defensible or otherwise.
If you're planning on having kids, the Nordic countries are still a good bet. "Free" (tax financed), high quality higher education and "free", excellent medical care mean a lot!

Edit: I've lived in Denmark since '91, and I never thought it was low cost of living, but definitely value for money.
To expand on this slightly, and illustrate:

I'm going to go out on a limb, and assert that THE most common attack performed against peoples' e-mail, is a jealous person who knows their partner's password logging on to their e-mail and reading their mail.

I know people who have done this. You probably do too.

People trust each other, people routinely tell their loved ones their passwords. And relationships routinely fall apart and trust is routinely violated.

Deleting from the server mitigates this problem and greatly reduces the window of opportunity for the attacker.

The privacy cost/benefit ratio for routinely deleting from the server probably beats every other privacy enhancing technique out there. Super simple, super effective.

Techies too often forget that privacy isn't just about the NSA, APTs and TLAs. The fact is, the people most interested in violating your privacy are the people who know you personally...
I think Zionists are the same as white nationalists and yet they are a protected class....
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Thank you for sharing bamboolib, StreamBright!

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This historical comparison just isn't fair since at no point in human history the possibilities of communication were anywhere close to what they are now.
In regards to: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/technology/8chan-cloudfla...
In both SML and OCaml writing a function that's polymorphic over numeric types is a huge pain in the ass, so I'm not sure it's a good choice for numeric programming. (Unless you count Haskell as a member of the ML family?) Though it could be that generics aren't that important here, and I'm just a weirdo who liked to do things like implementing a dual number type to get forward-mode automatic differentiation of standard functions for free...
> making open source an advertising platform for your for-profit endeavors

Can you name an example? I don't see any adverts for RHEL in Fedora or Visual Studio / Azure in VS Code, so I'm struggling to come up with something.
Ha! It's been around for 6 years or so, but I'd never heard of it before. Thanks.
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It's not "curated"?
It took them _years_ to touch r/t_d despite many reports to the admins about abusive behavior running rampant. In true Reddit form, they only did something after the mainstream forced them to react. (Same problem they had with other questionable groups, like r/shoplifting, got banned after media attention.)
There is quicklisp [1], works fine for me.

[1] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/
> still is a crime to be a minority in some countries.

Do you have examples in mind?

I have no doubt that this is the case, but I can't think of any examples.
I thought I saw a company recently doing this... in the past, Discors tried this, but only offered a selection of articles across the various sources it covered: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/02/discors-adds-nyt/

Edit: Sorry, my reading comprehension is bad. This is a pay once, read all you want across multiple source things, not a bucket to deduct payments from. So what I responded with is not what you were looking for... but maybe it's interesting anyway.
Julia type system is based on subtyping.
Another famous radioactive lens is the Kodak Aero Ekar 7"/2.5. The "aero" in the name refers to the design purpose of the lens: aerial photography.

The fact that the lens is radioactive is not particularly interesting. However, it is an incredibly fast lens for large format: on 4x5 film, f/4.5 produces a similar depth of field to f/1.2 on a 135* or equivalent digital camera. The 7" Aero Ektar produces a depth of field similar to f/.85 on 135.

Now, mounting one of these lenses to a rangefinder camera (typically a Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic press camera from the 1940s) for use in the field is a chore, and results in a very heavy and rather clumsy-to-use piece of kit.

David Burnett goes through the trouble, and the results [0] [1] are rather spectacular.

*135 is the normal "35mm" film format, the same size as "full frame" digital.

[0]http://www.davidburnett.com/users/davidburnett/images/davidb...

[1]https://www.davidburnett.com/users/davidburnett/images/david...
It's hard to argue that a project having clear leadership and being well funded would be against its best interests.
So if you can't solve for everything, you can't solve for anything? Gun massacres, in this country are on the rise. What else is and at what rate? You're arguing assumptions when we have facts and we can try to do something about facts.

You're right, we can't restart this service. These people are dead. They were shot. To death. We can never solve their problem but if we don't learn from it and try _something_ then we can't avoid the same thing from happening again. And again. And again. And again. (Repeat a few hundred times.)

But don't let me stop you. Solve for allthethings and let us know when you're done. In the meantime, a bunch of us are going to fight to solve for this current problem.
The concept of the slippery slope is no fallacy.
This is interesting because it speaks to one of the existentially troubling aspects of being human. That is the fact that there is no evidence that we can really trust for any external reason. This goes to the point that Descartes made many years ago:

1. Scientific evidence -- that's just words some other ape like yourself wrote down you now believe.

2. Personal experience -- those are just memories of experiences you think you had, but you can't really be sure, you just ask your brain and it responds, once that stops working you never "had the experience".

3. Photographs and video -- well those are just captured images, and any image or data can be changed. There is no "sacred data" that can not be manipulated.

4. Trusted institutions: just more flawed apes that you hope are more trustworthy than those they are instructing, controlling, and / or in charge of.

5. Rules / Laws: pieces of writing on paper that we all choose to adhere to. History shows that people can begin deciding not to follow them at any time, they have no power in and of themselves, only people have power, and usually because they are willing to wield violence (e.g. police, military, resistance, militia).

In the end all you have is the certainty that you are indeed experiencing something, but living with the ego-shattering realization that nothing else is certain or under your control is a very large red pill to swallow.
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"Free Speech has absolutely been impinged by this decision."

No, it hasn't. No one has a moral, legal, or ethical responsibility to pay for someone else's speech. The government must tread lightly, but private individuals are under no compulsion to listen to others. 8chan is NOT having their speech rights infringed, they are simply having a business agreement terminated. They are still 100% free to create a website somewhere else, write a book, or protest in the streets.

Do not confuse private property (Cloudflare's servers) with the public square.
Nativescript is more powerful than React Native because it gives you direct access to the JAVA/Objective C libraries if you need it.

I reviewed Flutter but got put off by the levels of abstraction.
I usually consider languages when I'm also choosing what to use it for. E.g. framework/language, or use-case/language such as Go for a small/low-level service.

Other than that I'll look at curious languages/implementations that are not yet widely known/adopted (e.g. Pony, Crystal, CHICKEN Scheme) for its own sake but not for main usage.

I would be interested in Perl6 if I had a use case for it. I don't write shell scripts that need more than bash and in those cases Python works for me. Anyone know any good Perl6 frameworks/libs (maybe for cli or ncurses)?
I don't want to ruin the language just so that it appeals to some people, it's already fine for me.
The US has a pretty large population, about 4x the population of Germany, 5x the population of England, 12x the population of Australia, and about 50x the population of Ireland, etc. By that virtue alone we are going to have more mass shootings. I don't have the statistics for China or India's mass shootings, but those would be more fair to compare in the shear numbers department.

I definitely think our gun laws are stupid, I would support legislation to curtail or completely eliminate guns, but it's not like the US just has one generic kind of person; a big and diverse population is going to bring a lot of really cool and awesome people (many of whom move to big cities like NY or Chicago, which is why I like the US), but also a bunch of xenophobic idiots that also really like guns.
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Electron is successful like McDonalds. McDonalds's customers, not so much?
Biased political commentary's better than armchair political campaign strategy commentary and horserace-style campaign coverage. At least that's about something that might matter. Looking at you, NPR.
Typically employed developers get paid per time (i.e. hourly or monthly salary). Contractors may be either per hour or a fixed sum to deliver to an agreed-upon specification.

With scriptwriting (and often art in general) you first develop the "product" and then try to find a buyer. This is IMHO not a feasible model for individual software developers.
Julia ships with femtolisp. I've never used it. To start it, run julia --lisp
Capitalism isn’t about value of work: you aren’t paid for what you deliver. Free markets are about supply and demand: is someone else willing to deliver the same value for a lower cost.
We are all consumers behaving like this, looking for the best deals on products. Don’t expect employers to behave differently.
> The numbers don't seem to bear this out. There seems to be a fairly proportional relationship between gun ownership and per capita gun deaths; see point two:

Well, not exactly: https://twitter.com/mark_j_perry/status/672946028706996224
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If running in Debug mode means it's running < 60fps I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. Native stuff doesn't do that and React Native/Nativescript don't do that either!
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I'm using Julia instead of Python/Pandas for a machine learning project and I'm happy with how things are going. Multiple dispatch is very cool. The project was previously written in R, but the performance and lack of programming clarity inspired a re-write in Julia.

There is something satisfying about writing code in a high-performance language, you just know you won't be kicking yourself because it would run 10x faster in another language.
Note that "business Internet" doesn't imply an SLA. I don't pay significantly more than a typical residential customer for Comcast business service at my house.

If you're concerned with driving every last penny out of the cost of service, then you're going to have to deal with the lowest-level consumer support personnel. That's just how this works. Grandma and Grandpa are not going to get a direct line to the red phone at the NOC for $39.99/month, and neither will you.
Their taxonomy reminds me of the one from Borges's "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...
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Author of book here. Nice comment, and very interesting question.

I am not worried about using "informality" to get more people studying mathematics.

The book is informal, but by the end of the book, the integral that gets presented is the correct definition of the integral. I've just collapsed as much of the technical language at possible and focused on the core idea. My thinking is: if someone is hooked, sure they'll run up against walls if they try to use my book and only my book, but that would be the time to turn to Stewart (famous Calc text) or comparable. My thinking it that at that point the student is ready for "rigor" and "formality", and they won't even think twice about. They might even appreciate it. I've seen it happen over a decade of calculus teaching. It happens more than you think.

But to take this a little further, I believe the "formality" you mention actually hides a fundamental and insidious truth about mathematics: Mathematics fundamentally is informal. Burrow down deep enough into the epsilon/delta of limit definitions, and you'll see at the bottom is what amounts to an informal "this is good enough I guess".

For instance, at the bottom of epsilon/delta definition of what it means to converge in Baby Rudin (pg. 46), he essentially says "if you can get sequence within epsilon of the target anywhere past N" that's good enough. But why?! There is no more unpacking or additional fundamentalism at that point. How can we be sure we can make a claim about an infinite set of inequalities? Do if/then statements work this way? How can we be sure we can use the natural numbers this way? That fundamental informality then persists throughout the text. It's fine of course, and this is the agreed upon way to do mathematical calculus, but it's also a fundamental informality.

From my point of view (and this is part of what got me writing this book in the first place): why bother going all the way "down there" just to say "good enough"? Why not say "good enough" a lot higher up the ladder closer to where the problem originated.

I'm hardly the final arbiter on this matter. But that's my opinion.
I remember my first trip to USA, in 1993, I was with a friend in Boston, and we wanted to go to Montreal in Canada.

There were 3 possibilities :

By bus for H1 hours and C1 cost
By plane for H2 hours and C2 cost

Of course H2 was way less than H1, and C1 than C2 (I don't remember the exacts values as it was, you know, 25 years ago).

But what astounded us, as Europeans, was that by train it was H1 hours for C2 cost !

It was as long by train than by bus !

So we took the bus...

In France, for doing Paris - Marseille (south east, around 800 kms), it takes around 3h30 by train and 1H30 by plane.

But by train, you start from inside the city and arrive inside the other city.

By plane, you have to go out of the city, go through security, and then the destination airport is really out of town in Marseille too (you have to take a bus then a train).

So it makes absolutly no sense taking the plane, unless you live near the airport.
The definition of the word `deplatform` is:

> To prevent someone from utilizing a platform to express their opinion.

CloudFlare is not a platform for expressing opinions. As such, 8chan was not deplatformed... so what point are you really trying to make, here?
You're missing the point brought up in both blog posts: If CF removes these sites, they literally won't go offline. They'll just stop using CF. The content is still there.

CF forwards DMCA complaints to the website host so they can deal with the illegal content. CF already uses Safe browsing (or perhaps another system) to flag domains[0] that might be phishing/malware related. Illegal porn is something the sites themselves have to remove since (as said above) removing the site from CF only saves face for CF and doesn't change the content being on the service[1].

0: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/your-domain-has-been-susp...

1: to add, CF doesn't allow video files to be directly proxied on their network (when the main point of your site/service is serving these video files), you either need to use CF stream or have your video files on a separate non-proxied subdomain. If something illegal is stored on CF stream or Workers KV, they can take it down via the abuse form since they're the host of that content.
What the hell is going on with this website? The post pops up in a modal (which is not focused, so my cursor keys and space bar didn't work to scroll at first) that only takes up about a third of the screen. Close it and there's a bunch of article links with giant thumbnails.
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React Native. Handles everything in your list. Experimentally Linux (via Qt).
Free Speech doesn’t require a CDN. Lol. It’s not like the First Amendment comes with a 99.999% uptime guarantee.

Some of you are so dense. Free speech is about not being dragged off in the middle of the night and sent to a gulag.

There’s no fine line here, no slippery slope. Everyone on 8chan is free to continue publishing whatever they want. It just won’t be published over a high availability CDN. It also won’t show up in Times Square.
The competitive options are 2%+ with no annual fee and no requirement to use Apple Pay (but you still retain that option). On this axis it’s strictly better.
Since we're mentioning some of that newer tech, it might bear bringing up things like http://jsonlines.org for log shipping. If your destination is an ELK stack, this lets you do some neat stuff like adding arbitrary fields in the log shipper and then filter on them in the backend.
code review can also be a great way to share knowledge though
A variation is "never replace/remove something if you can't explain what good it does". The classic example is the big code rewrite, where years of bugfixes and nuances get lost in the 'clean' reimplementation.
> How many expected hours/days does that translate to?

The PR review should take 20-30 min. The phone call before the on site is 45 min. The on site is 5 hrs spread across 5 interviews and includes time for lunch
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And thanks to Burnett, the prices these lenses go for has gone up quite a bit.
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Jeff (creator of Julia) created femtolisp [0] which is used in the Julia parser.

[0]: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
That's a large brush you're using to paint a group of individuals. I think I would be considered conservative by a lot of the more liberal types here but think that CloudFlare is within their rights to do what they want.
This is absolutely true. I'll usually have mulled over a problem for a long time before writing any code so have a sense of some of those other areas and have imagined mechanisms to handle some things. When it comes time to implementation, going fast focuses on the key ones.
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