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> It's amazing how radios don't care about international borders. :)

Indeed they don't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...
Interesting, I have noticed ("excuse based") defensive mechanism when it comes to this topic ...

most people I have witnessed start to use very poor arguments of why they want to stay on social networks ... very similar to people with "un-noticed" alcohol problem.

But yes, nothing magical happend without it. Just maybe realization how stupid it is.
Interesting approach. I have to wonder though, if such a thoughtful strategy is needed to stay sane what else is unhealthy?
The FP analysis admits that one of the ways that a citizen renounces their citizenship is by "serving in the armed forces of a foreign state if such armed forces are engaged in hostilities against the United States."

The legal issue was whether serving in the armed forces of a non-state armed force engaged in hostilities against the US (i.e., Al Queda) would satisfy this condition.

And the overwhelming decision by every lawyer that reviewed this in the administration was that it would. Note that the linked NYT article does not say that the Obama administration admitted he was (still) a US citizen. That was added by the FP author, and the Obama administration has never conceded that point.

Note: if he had fought with ISIS instead of Al Queda, it wouldn't even be an issue, since ISIS did declare itself to be a state. Under US law, any US citizen who fought for ISIS could be treated as renouncing their US citizenship and the protection of the US constitution.
> College should be for academically interested adults. It shouldn't be a rubber stamp that's required to hold a white-collar job. I think the culprits here are the colleges themselves. They're selling a bad product to people who don't need it at a very high price.

Don't think the colleges are the culprits. Their goal is to increase matriculation, get more students, more research grant money, etc. They are just trying to do more of what they have already done.

Arguably, the real culprits are the businesses that require college degrees, i.e., that require said "rubber stamp". A person who spends 1 year taking a $15k set of trade-courses will likely accept less pay than someone who spent 4 years and $150k. However, most businesses will choose the 4 year college grad every time.
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Yeah mine's been off the charger for about eight hours today and I'm only down to 70%. You'd think a launch-day Series 0 would be suffering more battery degradation by now.
If you were willing to use Slack after all, then I guess you were willing to consider non-FOSS alternatives? In which case, one service you don't seem to have considered: Discord.

Yes, really, for business. Look past the theming.

Discord has a much more solid tech base (and engineering team) behind it than Slack, IMHO. A better API, too; and—unlike Slack—real support for third-party clients!

I built my own niche team-collaboration app back in 2012, and I tried out a lot of things, but ended up building my whole own stack. That was back then. If I was doing it again today? I'd just make it an alternative Discord frontend.

(There are also offerings specifically designed for the "build your own custom frontend for our chat backend" use-case, like https://pusher.com/chatkit, but IMHO Discord even has these beat.)
Are you saying my application doesn't need to have any logic for handling network connectivity problems once I have a service mesh? That sounds hard to believe. Maybe I don't understand what code I wouldn't need any more.
"Facts can't be copyrighted, so such things as whether or not a person worked for a certain company, or went to a certain school, are unprotected"

There's an infinite number of ways to describe a job history, without any single standard, so I don't think it makes any sense to say that a profile or resume is not copyrightable.
Or certain integrations won't work outside of the USA. (e.g. Apple Music doesn't work with Alexa in Canada.)
You are correct, I forgot about that caveat.
There is few literature on the effect of marijuana on sleep. It mostly looks like it decrease your REM sleep while increasing your deep sleep when you take any of it (the process inverse when you stop).
Actually, any open data or even feedback would be of help.
Pretty accurate, but nuclear can spin up and down, by controlling the fuel rods. This is one of the major advantage of the technology and why many suggest it be used in combination with solar, wind, and hydro (many as in the IPCC, which is why CNN pushed hard on everyone during the climate debates). It can be used to provide a base load (greatly reducing the need for batteries (or the need to invent good enough ones!) And can also scale back when it's sunny and windy. All while producing no emissions when running.
Photographers. Many will choose a smartphone that would work as a "b" camera. Is it really that difficult for you to come up with other examples?

Here is one: I'm a botanist. I take a lot of pictures of herbarium specimens (pressed plant specimens in natural history museums) to make morphological measurements. I have a Sony A7RM3 that is a MUCH higher resolution, better quality camera, but it's a lot bigger, requires more setup time, etc. With an iPhone, the pictures I take are automatically uploaded into Apple's cloud storage and available on my laptop. It's a very nice, simple, relatively seamless system.
AWS is the opposite of homebrew. Lyft has no business maintaining its own data centers and operational overhead. There is a huge opportunity cost involved with running your own infrastructure. AWS and the like free your own teams from worrying about how to provision new systems, upgrading DB server versions, etc. Running your own data center is hard.

Running your own DC is the same as building your own chat app. It is almost always more expensive and almost all the people who claim they can do it cheaper inhouse aren't factoring in all the costs--both costs that are easy to measure and those that are almost impossible to measure

Examples of hard-to-quantify costs for running your own infrastructure include:

- What is the cost to the company of being three versions behind on mongo because IT doesn't have the bandwidth to upgrade? How many work-arounds do teams have to do because they couldn't use the latest features of mongo?

- What is the cost to the company when developers cannot quickly spin up new environments like they could using a service like heroku?

- How much innovation and new business (read $$$$) is not happening because the in-house IT simply doesn't have the toolset so a dev can quickly riff on an idea?

- How many engineers have good ideas and don't bother building them because spinning up an environment is too much trouble?

I'd argue by not using AWS you are holding your product teams back and stifle innovation. Unless of course you want to waste company money to build out your own half-assed provisioning tools that are lousy knock-offs of AWS's tools. But then, you might as well just use AWS...
Yes! I’ve never used FB, and refuse to, as a result I miss all sorts of notification of things occurring because everyone seems to assume everyone does use it. Drives me nuts!
Mandatory safety features, lack of impact testing, lack of service/repair infrastructure, and an abundance of <10k used electric cars (leafs for example) that do not have these drawbacks.
But they were larger
Apple's DNA from the get go is being an integrator.

Wozniak knows how to put it together more efficiently and Jobs scoured catalogs to get the best deals and knew where to source in the valley.

The secret sauce is just the Apple way of putting it together and serving it to you.

The clone wars era taught them to stop doing that but those days have been so far spread to now that this we're finding ourselves repeating similar mistakes.

Additionally there was also the Apple era of just rebranding shit for the sake of establishing halos and ecosystems. There were a period of Apple branded Sony monitors and Apple branded printers. They opted out of that and went with the retail option these days. At least they learned from that.

But yes, Apple got bigger. What once was getting chips from Sunnyvale to Cupertino is now getting chips from Shenzhen to Cupertino. And the milestone we've hit now is Apple today announcing a new camera with phone communication abilities.
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I am having the hardest time to get the agency and programmers to stay on top of and on schedule with our website build. We are happy with some things they are delivering but are finding it very hard to keep them on task and on time. Do you have any tricks or tips that have worked for you in motivating an agency or developer that might be a creative approach we could take to nurture this relationship and get things back on track? Please share your experience or ideas.
Which is still the primary sense in UK English [1], if I'm not mistaken (I'm a US speaker, so I can't confirm firsthand).

1. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/corn
I signed up to Apple Music for this very reason, and will likely dump Spotify despite my love for their Discover feature.
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This is such a nice intro, really well done.
But... they did, uChat is a fork of Mattermost, and they contributed the changes back to the open source project.
Manually patching the source in a few places, most of the time it's just adding a header file or two since some of them predate ANSI C and the standardized header files. The other things have to do with adding -DHAS_... to force them to know that opendir and friends are actually present, so that make install will actually work.
Nexus 4 was my favorite phone - beautiful form factor, nice screen, worked well.
Sturgeon's Law
> Equip fully the world with solar and wind and the trains will have to leave their stations when the wind blows and not at any other moment.

Wind just doesn't stop blowing across the world all at once. When one place is in the doldrums, another is likely windy. With a sufficiently connected grid, a large deployment of wind turbines can smooth out production in ways smaller, regionally focused deployments cannot. I posit that a global distribution of wind power is _more_ available than a regional one, not less, as your comment seems to imply.
I have worked on medical/improving patient outcomes consulting projects three or four times - enough to get a feeling for how difficult it is to accomplish all of: keep patient data private, convince data partners to spend the resources to sanitize data, share benefit of research amount partners, and work with different data formats.

I heard a keynote at NACL a few years ago that was a call to arms to solve these problems.
Interesting. IBM adopted Slack just fine, back in 2016. I believe they've got at least 100k employees in their Slack workspace. Not sure if it's Slack or IBM doing the hosting/scaling for it, though.
And then in a few months' time you can do it in a new app with a slightly different UI!
People on HN downvote comments that are pro anarcho socialism without saying why they disagree. HN is a very capitalist place apparently. It would be nice if we could really engage in these discussions, but people seem to want to just downvote without comment.
Did the base phone price increase this year? I thought it stayed the same and improved some of the materials used in regards to toxicity and sourcing concerns.
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Not enough signals when everything is tagged "nofollow"
Does anyone know where/when this talk was given? It looks fairly similar to another one Rich Hickey gave at QCon 2012 on Datomic, with a transcript and link to video for that talk available here: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi... but note that the slides and talk are not identical to that one, and that recording is missing a few minutes at the beginning.
They might have to pivot into a chat company
> Even though it is true, it is dwarfed in magnitude by the repression in the communist world.

From 1789 to the first Empire was only 15 years; to the Thermidorean Reaction even shorter.

> The French revolution was attempting to terrorise a political ellite.

That's a very generous interpretation. It's certainly what Robespierre would say, sure, but it's just as much what Lenin would say.
Excellent read. I also liked his history of algebra: Unknown Quantity (https://www.amazon.com/Quantity-Real-Imaginary-History-Algeb...).
I don't see why this was downvoted. We really are heading towards exactly such a future, in which the only psuedo-chance of recapturing privacy will be through surgeries that modify biometric indicators.
This is exactly what they did

https://eng.uber.com/uchat/
You mean free clothes?
There are other options. RabbitMQ [1] is the usual although clustering has always been fragile.

If you dont care about open-source then there are plenty of other options like AMPS [2] or Solace [3]. The latter has a free edition.

1. https://www.rabbitmq.com/

2. http://www.crankuptheamps.com/

3. https://solace.com/
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They did. Which makes them not an example of the GP's comment. Most companies do, in fact, end up literally attempting to "write our own chat application" from the ground up. (After all, that's where Slack itself came from—NIHing an MMO-game's chat middleware!)
> the people that were going to come, were going to come anyways.

This is the same for you aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews

You’ll keep in touch with the ones you actually care about and vice versa
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I think it would be a lot of effort to keep changing the paper until you get the perfect abstract. It would be easier to train different models or do random sampling from the predicted distribution.
You're describing the "Fast" Fourier Transform, which is a specific algorithm for efficiently calculating the Discrete Fourier Transform of a signal.

The plain ol' Fourier Transform is also a bit different than what's described in this blog post. Fourier Transforms can be thought of as an extension of the Fourier Series described there. The Fourier Series shown there all have not only finitely many terms, but also a finite frequency spacing between successive terms (eg. 1Hz, 2Hz, 3Hz, ...). Fourier Transforms build up signals from _all_ frequencies, so are expressed as an integral over frequency components instead of a sum, even if it's an infinite sum.
"I feel by far less distracted. My attention span feels more robust than it ever has."

I would consider this magical.
Out of interest, where in EU are 5%+ rates a thing?

Hmm, or maybe you were talking about card payments over internet?

Yes, I was. For example, Stripe's current pricing here in the UK is 20p + 1.4% for European cards (so a transaction of around £5 has a 5% fee) or 20p + 2.9% for non-European cards (so a transaction of around £10 has a 5% fee).

Other online card payment services are broadly similar for small businesses paying the standard advertised rates.
why on earth do such configurations happen to have the capacity to approximate any function you prescribe??

Well they don't. Only certain classes of functions with bounded varitation will have a convergent Fourier series approximation. I think the best way for these demos to introduce this stuff would be to focus on the one with the steps, point out the Gibbs phenomena around the jumps (ringing). Then show for smooth blobby things you are all good though.
I think historically a lot of mathematicians had a lot of problems with Fourier's methods applied to the heat equation for these types of reasons (which initial/boundary conditions are ok, etc) hence we have the whole field of harmonic analysis now...
Anarcho socialism hasn’t succeeded yet, but I still believe it must succeed in the future if we are ever to see real freedom for the masses and to avoid near total destruction of the Earth’s biosphere.

If anyone wants to downvote me, I ask that you choose one of two alternatives. First, tell me why you want to downvote. Or, read this article by Albert Einstein talking about the necessity of socialism:
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
I feel like this should just be a single page that says “NO” in 120 point type.
> it was the privacy/legal/security types driving this strategic decision

Booo on legal.... like I said earlier, it's easy to armchair quarterback. Sometimes I wonder how the fuck humanity even manages to make progress with so much waste and boneheaded decision making.
Not all splitters are surge protectors, but most surge protectors are splitters (though single outlet surge protectors do exist). It is likely that when OP said "surge protector", they meant something like this: https://imgur.com/qHR9UFu
> And whatever it is in the culture that uses liberty to zealously oppose regulation of fire arms and corporations but lets this stand for almost a generation.

I think if you talked to the people who opposed firearm regulation (not their representatives, not a media portrayal, and not some vocal minority), you would find that most also opposed this watch list. Hence the existence of the NRA, the EFF and the ACLU.
The sort of people who might secretly incite and then stage a successful armed revolution and coup are probably expecting a coup, or at least a few revolutionaries in every party meeting. Not restricted to the left though.

Stalin got there by being a violent thug, he would stay there by being a violent thug. Ditto Franco in Spain, for at least a decade or so after the end of the civil war.

Repression of scientists, and minorities of all kinds? Difference of any kind from the party/dictator's view is to be mistrusted, thus purged, or at the very least repressed. See Saudi Arabia - which Franco's Spain resembled in its later years, with extreme repression of women and religious dogma.
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SPARK [0], to put it simply. Contracts and static analysis rather than runtime checks takes Ada from being good to being great.

I do prefer GNAT's error messages over AdaCore's compilers (despite the compiler frontend still being based on GNAT), but SPARK adds a ton.

[0] I should note that SPARK 2014 is also available as a GPL'd "community" edition.

EDIT: Asterisk + HN formatting
Is that motivated by a desire to help the user, or does the social network have a more selfish motivation for driving user engagement? I think it's more the later than the former, though I expect the social network to pretend it's the former.
Ask HN: What price would you pay to undo data you shared across all media/sites?
I've seen some really good tech on this in Seattle. They had made a version with obama's voice and then he could narrate any book. Still some things that needed to be done to make it sound more human but 90 percent there
I’m not doing it at all because I don’t have a car - I only ride using this app.

Picking up someone on your way to work could be ideal or a challenge if you need to get to work early. I’m not sure what your point is - it should have zero opportunity cost or it’s a bad deal? Does your current job have any opportunity cost?
I read it right the second time around, and had to think it over until I stopped imagining gas plants.
Comments here are missing one point. The very first thing the page says is “a new pro line for iPhone that delivers advanced performance for users who want the very best smartphone”. This is not meant to appeal to the mass market. It’s to silence critics that the competition is faster, has a better camera, longer battery, etc.

It’s true, this phone is not innovative and they pretty much say that.

I’m curious what would be innovative in a phone now, as opposed to incremental.
Nothing magical happening is what's supposed to happen. I've seen lower stress levels simply because I'm not as connected to the news and political cycle. But that's also because I only check once a week. It's the new normal, which isn't magical, because it was also the old normal.
I downloaded the study - it's long and filled with pictures so haven't read yet.

I expect they made the mistake of not taking into account the increase in cost due to a primarily renewable grid. Such massive changes in the type of generating supply will yield massive changes in the costs to supply power. As you remove all the dispatchable power sources (power generators that you can put on line at will) you have to build really big heat or electricity storage and would have to have emergency generating capacity for the potential of extremely low wind and sun for days and weeks at a time. Basically, you'd have to have all the natural gas generators and pipelines for the eventuality of bad renewable conditions. Who will pay for that? Just leaving them idle 95% of the time is not the best use of money and it's possible the government may have to pay for renewable's storage problems.

Geography is also a serious concern. Texas will have vastly different economics than than Washington or New York.
What did Dijkatra like? Pascal?
I always thought the way the parent poster uses social media is the way it's supposed to to be used. That's the only way I've ever used it.
My experience is that rest of the world has moved on to group chats and sharing a lot there

In the US my experience is that tail end millenials and gen Z are gravitating to group chats too. Pretty much just millenials and older and the subset of those with no international friends are the people stuck on the public oversharing train. And some women that could pass in a forever 21 catalogue.
Just happened to not close the tab yet :)
The licence is Apache-2.0, which is permissive, similar to MIT.
How do you explain Amazon, then? They invented AWS to sell books on the Internet.

The real issue here is a lack of vision at the top. The current CEO needs to step down for the health of the company. He has a clear lack of vision for the company, as evidenced by his statement of "do your divisions look like what they should if we had to start over?" Who says that? Something so vague that is basically grasping at straws and shows a complete lack of strategy. Would Jeff Bezos say something like that? I highly doubt it, because he has complete control over his company and a vision that has worked at micro and macro levels.

You can do things that aren't directly related to your core business and these things should generate value both internally and externally. If you can't do this, eventually, your company will stop growing.
When I quit I ended up reading books and watching TV for entertainment. I literally read over a million words of fiction (Worm) in one month with the spare time.

It was a lot more fulfilling, and I'll remember that time. While in contrast there are few social media moments I'll miss.

I had to actually force myself to get back into social media. I'm not sure what the author here means by withdrawal; there was maybe a period of 1 week trying to get back in, but it was over quickly.

One big thing that happened was the number of consulting contracts went down significantly and never recovered. I'm quite Facebook active and used to get two interview offers a month. In fact last month I got a huge opportunity that I would have gladly accepted if I wasn't committed to anything else.

I'd be happy if social media was just wiped out and we went back to socializing on forums and IRC.