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So this is something I want to fix about commit messages.

If you screw up and forget to add the documentation to the commit message, there is nothing you or I can do about it. And if the commit log is not uniformly useful in this way, then people start to discount the value of the commit messages.

And then I have to explain to people who keep cutting and pasting code around improperly are ruining our commit history. I often get a shrug.

The first part we could do something about, and I hope we do in the next version control system (there's always a next one). All sorts of metadata should be capable of being attached to a code commit. Some of it stuff we have been relegating to third party tools, which means you can't reason about it as a whole.

Did this commit get a green build? Did it have a code review? What PR was it in? Did we run any static analysis? Did we learn after the fact that this code doesn't solve the problem or is a bad solution?

If all of this is at my fingertips, I've got a better chance of getting a bunch of people (myself included) to have a broader understanding of the code, or at least an easier time getting familiar with it when I need to.
Our rods and cones are no where near uniformly distributed, even after accounting for the blood vessel running around the retina.
I believe the rss:// protocol could (still can?) be used to shell out to your reader.
>The whole point of putting these graphs together is to show that something sudden happened then.

Yes, it appears that way.

Not all the graphs show a total change in 1971, but around it. Perhaps what happened was a multifactor process begun in the 60s and finished in the 80s? Cultural as well as financial?
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Fees basically always fall on the consumer (in part) as higher item cost
Zero sum, huh?
> Taking PCB design files and using them at a competing company absolutely is IP theft. I'm honestly surprised anyone would think they could even get away with this; the old company just has to get their hands on one of the competitor's units and open it up and look at it.

I am not a Google employee but my understanding is that the biggest fear is not that Anthony Levandowski stole all the stuff but that Uber or another unscrupulous company would race ahead with inadequate self-driving causing a backlash that would bring down a legislative ban hammer on everyone, including Waymo. I think that is the real danger here.

Personally, I don't want Anthony Levandowski in prison. I just want him or people like him to not be able to work on self-driving cars.

I want self-driving cars to arrive and will gladly campaign to ban humans from being able to drive on public road when that day arrives.
Totally not saying "you're holding it wrong", but maybe once you're more than a few couple levels deep into a nested map it's time to look at an in memory db like [Datascript](https://github.com/tonsky/datascript)? Actual Datalog queries can replace get-in vectors growing out of hand, and you also get better mutations with transactions.
I like your answer but what bothers me:

1. What are the tools we don't know Palantir has? We know a few and while these fit in your description, they're kinda dangerous apps, and this brings me to point 2:

2. Who they sell these to?
It's more accurate to say that git blame has that information but doesn't make it especially easy to get to.
If I eat two meals in one sitting and then wait 23 hours before my next meal is this a form of intermittent fasting? I still get the same amount of calories as a normal person but there's a long period where I get nothing.

(I've been skipping breakfast my entire life so I don't really get the 3 meal thing.)
Don't you feel like shit if you don't eat anything for a whole day? Does your body adapt?
> Not only did it revolutionize the commercial property business

Did it though?

WeWork still isn't in any of the cities near me, and there's been plenty of co-working, "rent-a-desk/cube/table/office", shared workspace places around for a long while.

WeWork's pricing is ludicrous to boot.

The main difference I can see is WeWork has gotten VC money to grow larger than just a single building - which is how most of the other co-working places operate.
> if you wanted to truly solve the root causes of racial discrepancies in education you'd need reform at the elementary school level.

You'd probably also have to reform family life for many individuals as well, not just elementary school. Are they from a single parent household? Do they have books at home? Do their parents read to them? Do their parents help out with homework and make sure their children are doing their homework?

School is not the only aspect contributing to someone's education. Parental involvement is also a huge factor and cultural differences contribute here.

See my previous comment about the importance of culture and values and their impact on success here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20810810
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Instead we get tarball dumps with no change history.
A banker mailed a building brick by brick via post office. Was cheaper than standard shipping.

https://www.ksl.com/article/32424611/vernal-bank-built-by-br...
They do! But they don't have the data, these are tools, just like a browser access the web, Palantir solutions access gov data and link to who knows what datasets, but on paper, they ain't no NSA.
You seem to be agreeing violently. A carbon fee + dividend takes money away from people who pollute, and gives it to people who don't. That's essentially tax funded emissions reduction - pollute less and the government will give you money. And schedules? The ratchet covers that.

You make a good point about the intellectual property, though. The system will still work without such precautions, though - eventually if polluting became expensive enough, relevant technology would be licensed.
Absolutely this. A bubble doesn't look like one until it pops, so you can't just say "everyone's buying $2000 spin bikes, everything must be fine." For starters, Peloton does a majority of its sales through Affirm and other consumer financing instruments, and books them as revenue. It's more accurate to say "everyone is buying $2000 spin bikes using 30% APR installment loans."

In the risks section, Peloton says that their revenue could decline due to changes in credit markets and decisions made by credit providers - a.k.a. if a bunch of people start to default on their expensive luxuries.

"In the future, we cannot be assured that third-party financing providers will continue to provide consumers with access to credit or that available credit limits will not be reduced. Such restrictions or reductions in the availability of consumer credit, or the loss of our relationship with our current financing partners, could have an adverse effect on our business, financial conditions, and operating results."
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Chemicals work great against varroa, of course. I'd go with chemicals, ideally as a preventative but also if you catch them fast enough.

That said, the bees themselves, if not stressed, also do a pretty good job against varroa. You just have to avoid stacking the deck against what they'd do naturally.

We've had good results replacing solid hive bottoms with mesh. It turns out that bees hate varroa even more than beekeepers and will spot varroa mites on their colleagues and pop them off. If you have mesh bottoms on your hives, the bees walk across the mesh no problem, but the mites fall through the mesh to the ground. With a solid bottom, the mites just climb up from the hive bottom onto the next bee that passes by.

In a natural hive, there would have been no hive bottom for the mite to land on.
A few years ago, that was the thinking when a 'high temperature' (much colder than room temperature) superconducting cable was trialed in Germany [1].

[1]: https://www.tdworld.com/overhead-distribution/ampacity-proje...

[2 with follow-up presentation]: https://snf.ieeecsc.org/abstracts/stp475-ampacity-project-%E...
Actually, I had not point. I was just wondering.
To the average consumer it's slower, bigger and more expensive than the alternatives - I suspect that'd kill it even if it had WhatsApp. They seem very aware of both issues though. In the talk their CTO mentions that they see it being used alongside another device. She also mentions they are only making 10,000 units so mass adoption clearly isn't the target.
> it was the structural constraint of already being in an immutable context that prompted the cleaner design.

Yes! This is what I think most languages retrofitted to include functional features miss: the constraints of immutability and (customarily) no global variables force you to think about what data you actually need where, and often lead to a cleaner design.

Constraints are incredibly valuable.
This was super epic to watch. It's really cool to see the development process.
The raptor has been called the most advanced engine in the world, and this 150 meter hop seems like a really nice milestone. 60 second burn, successful lift-off, and landing as well!
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No. Virtually all devices since 2015 have hardware accelerated vp9 decoding. iPhones have had it going back to the iPhone 6.

Apple is refusing to enable it in software because... TBH I don't know why. It's royalty free. I literally can't think of a reason besides juvenile pettiness.
Clearly, this phone is not intended for mass appeal, so I don't think this is an issue :)
You think too highly of yourself. Why do you think whatever you create is something special. It's most likely Shit. There is freedom in knowing you are one in 7 billion.
Real creation happens when you give freedom to your mind to do whatever it wants to. There is no time constraint, no feeling that i need to get this done. It's spontaneous. You are following someone else's script here. You are equating activity with accomplishment
> Every new release brings something new.

Elm giveth, and Elm taketh away. I remember seeing stories about how new Elm versions removed some bits of functionality available in the previous versions...
does it clear this? https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-steer-clear-of-windows-...
With Jekyll you can also get a simple RSS view directly in a page template, rather than bring in a full plugin. (Useful, for instance, on GitHub Pages where the available plugins are restricted.)

For example: https://github.com/WorldMaker/blog.worldmaker.net/blob/gh-pa...

(Mine's additional fun because I also tried to make sure that three previous RSS URLs remained supported in my migrations across multiple blog engines over more than a decade and a half.)
In iOS 13, due to release next month, one will be able to simply tap-and-hold on a link, then choose to download the file. Safari on iOS will finally include a download manager just like the one on macOS.
Honestly I find people more trustworthy if they don't feel the need to dress like Mr. Burns.

It's a tech talk, not a catwalk.
What's really crazy to me is how expensive those spin classes are, how many people go to them, how little they pay the stay, and how all those companies still lose a ton of money!
I disagree. The history of business is full of counterexamples to that.
It's my understanding that direct marketing mail helps keep the USPS profitable. Here's an excerpt from a report on whether they should offer simplified addressing for saturation mail (every address in an area), but the point is more general.

Source is https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library..., and emphasis is mine:

> The implementation of new products that support customers and improve its bottom line is of paramount concern for the Postal Service. In fact, profitable new volume benefits all mailers and consumers in the long run by helping the Postal Service fulfill its fundamental obligation of affordable universal service. Volume is significant because the Postal Service is a network industry and the vast majority of the costs for its delivery network are fixed. Greater volume spread across this network would lower the average unit cost of every mail piece delivered. A service such as simplified address mail, which has the potential to significantly increase delivered volume could dramatically help the Postal Service and all users of the network.

In other words, they are going to visit everybody's mailbox 6 days a week no matter what. Stuffing more mail into it while they're already there costs them very little.
I agree somewhat. But I have an Apple TV 4K. The CBS All Access app knows that I’ve already subscribed through iTunes and I subscribe to the no commercials subscription.

As far as apps that use your provider log in, with the Apple TV, you log on once with your provider and with your permission, all of the apps use your system configured login.
Being a couch potato for several hours a day will shorten your life span
That’s still a huge difference. Someone having printed flow control diagrams, knowledge of what did and didn’t work, and the list of packages and tools used in a spreadsheet is very different ripping the entire source code.
Never underestimate the damage an absentee boss with no skin in the game can cause to the boots on the ground. Out of sight, out of mind is all too real.
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If you are suggesting that decrease is proportional to an increase in abortions, I believe you would be very wrong

https://www.guttmacher.org/infographic/2018/changes-worldwid...

coupled with some estimates on population indicates the total number of abortions has gone down by about 10%.
That analysis seems incorrect in that it only looks at two devices for the iota case. While I haven’t read iota whitepaper very carefully, I assume it has a blockchain inside, which means many devices must verify each transaction. This needs to be taken into account as well.
Spotify said they wouldn’t be profitable for the year. I provided the link above.

You can look at the different published Netflix deals and see how much they are borrowing to license content to get an idea of how much it costs.
Because the world is only a meritocracy in the sense that the inventor of the term was trying to mock.
The automatic status of property rights and protection by both government and industry inherent within the long established framework of IP is very functionally different in nature from a labourer attempting to arrange an adhoc right to payment from future travellers for work they have put into a bridge.
They don't really need to. Honestly a large chunk of Windows' usage, aside from "mandated by IT" is video games. This is a use case that Apple is disinterested in and Linux supports poorly.
> A city should in my opinion regulate to maximize the happieness of it’s inhabitants

Putting rich and poor people together maximize happiness?
Saying "US taxpayers" is essentially the same as "US citizens". The parent wasn't suggesting direct tax payments into the postal service.
Pragmatic in what way?
What if we gave the community of upstarts and creatives that run the Omni the same $100m budget of the Oodi library?

I've been to the Omni space where Counter Culture Labs is - and while it's cool that it is completely organic and has a great supportive and local feel, it also really feels cobbled together and limited.

At least with lots of tool libraries popping up around the US, there's volunteers who just hang out and get involved with projects that people bring in.

Imagine if that was the new kind of 'librarian' job - coder, fabricator, artist, designer, community oral historian, and archivist.
Yes, the same features that made it desirable for its wartime usage are rather handy for the tourist today!
Of course it is meaningful. Go ahead and do your next demo on a shitty android phone.

> mocks in tests, lint rules, isomorphic

What, is that like the stuff that irked you this week? Elm has tons of stuff to offer, some drawbacks too.
Constraints are necessary for ingenuity and creativity too.

Also, those constraints create consistency though necessity. For example, you can write immutable code in Javascript/Python/Whatever, but because it doesn't force it on you through constraints of the language, you have no guarantees that other parts of the application follows your immutability rules, so many of the benefits are lost. Being able to make assumptions about a program, because the language enforces them to be true, is very useful.
That's pretty hilarious, then again I'm not the masses. Still awesome though.
> Scheduled tasks are a great way to brown-out your downstream dependencies.

I've been trying to convince my division to prioritize adding events to our stats dashboard.

Comparing response times to CPU times is just expected level of effort to interpret the graphs. But you don't have any visibility into how a chron job, service restart, rollback, or reboot of a host caused these knock-on effects. And without that data you get these little adrenaline jolts at regular intervals when someone reports a false positive. Especially in pre-prod, where corners get cut on hardware budgets, and deploying a low-churn service may mean it's down for the duration.

This might end up being a thing I have to do myself, since everyone else just nods and says that'd be nice.
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>You want it too much, that becomes dangerous, because you're afraid of trying and failing.

Interesting perspective. I hadn't thought about this, but it rings true at first glance. Thank you for sharing.
I’m currently an MS employee and use Macs whenever I can, just as I spend more time inside WSL than anything else on Windows 10 except probably Firefox, and it all works well.

We use computers to achieve goals. What they run tends to be, more often than not, merely circumstantial.
It is true. Elm has taken some syntax away and native packages, and made the language better by being simpler and error free (I have never had a runtime error).

Upgrades since 0.17 have been pretty easy too - there is automated tooling that does the heavy lifting.
"Revolutionized" is a frequently-abused superlative, but they have made some significant improvements to the coworking space model. In NYC, they have multiple locations. You can pay for membership and use whichever space is convenient for you. Their facilities are great. They have some nice perks, ranging from minor expected conveniences (WiFi, copy room, kitchen, etc.), to silly hipster nonsense (who the hell actually likes kombucha enough to keep it on tap?), to things they do better than others (mail room, easily-scheduled conference rooms, exceptional and constant cleaning). They also allow businesses to scale up by offering private mini-offices inside the larger coworking space, which is a nice place to call home while you transition from a two-person moonshot to a twelve-person startup. They didn't invent anything new, but they do it really well, conveniently, and with multiple locations so that you can deal with one company in multiple geographic locations. I don't know if that counts as revolutionary, but no one else does it that well.
I'm not sure why you and the sibling comment reference gay men - I'm thinking of a female-identifying person needing to respond to 'platonic crushes' when a male might instead see 'I want to buy you a beer', or simply hear that his blog is inspiring.
Your P is objecting to 'other conspiracy theories' (thus implying the forementioned is one).
Yup. https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-13-brings-secure-file-s...
To give the opposite view, my experience with Nextcloud was a disaster.

The setup was painful, the UI would randomly not respond to my requests, and in general it just felt like a bad PHP hobby project.

Then to top it off their sync client basically deleted half of my photo collection for some reason, and nobody seemed to have any idea why, in general adopting a ‘that sometimes happens, just reset the sync client’ stance.

I mean, that’s cool, but meanwhile it’d synched the deletion across all my machines.

Thankfully I had everything still synched to Google Drive as well, but I need to be able to trust my sync client.
Nah, just mixed the latex with baby aspirin and chased the dragon. I got to find out who my opiate addicted friends were when I did that, because they kept asking me about my garden for years after sharing the results with them. I thought it was OK, not amazing, but it definitely worked. I grew them accidentally after trying to compost some unused poppy seeds I bought at the grocery store.
I stopped using Facebook and other social networks in favor of reading more blogs and write on mine. I installed a new RSS feed and I enjoy it quite a lot.
I'm really glad you enjoyed the article :)

I realize that there are some ways that people serve ads where they vet them and make sure they're not tracking readers. But even if it was easy to set something like that up, I wouldn't feel good running sponsored content or ads on my platforms -- it's not the relationship I want to have with my readers.

I take a much more negative view of ads than most other people I know. I don't just dislike ads that track users or that are poorly vetted. I dislike the psychological effect that ads have on people, I dislike the attention that they take, and I am very cautious of monetization schemes that are too closely integrated into the consumption of content. I can't think of a way I could run ads that wouldn't make reading my blog a worse experience.

I know that's a somewhat extreme position to take. But it's not that advertising is inherently evil, it's just that it has more consequences and costs than most people realize. It's not only about privacy, security, or money.

Given how large the current advertising industry is, where possible I try to block it and harm it indiscriminately. I encourage people to block ads even on websites that they would otherwise support. I think it would be good for society if the advertising industry got a lot smaller, even if that makes funding online content harder.
Chinese netizens learning to use GitHub through cross-dressing
Being Sober in Academia
If you hit any of them, then you have proven to the sender that you are a real live person, and that you really did actually accept their spam e-mail message.

Or near enough to that effect.
Equinox is $180-$500/mo, and popping up like mushrooms on every block in NY (36 so far). A Peloton bike is downright frugal in comparison.
I think you're confusing "terminal dues" (which is what countries charge each other for delivering a package in the destination country) and the actual cost of shipping between countries (which is what I'm talking about here)
New Jersey cops turn citizens’ phones into surveillance devices
Why would the legal team care about the license in this case?
It's actually an article about a GNU/Linux phone, not Android.