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Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project, effective immediately
For parents not to interfere. School teaches children to be less dependent on parents, to interact with a system. Interfering parent can make it impossible for a child to learn these important skills.

Parents protecting their child is a good thing, but only to a point. A child needs to learn how to live without protection from parents. How to interact with a boss (a teacher plays similar role in a school), how to do what a boss have asked, how to ask a boss for a favor, how to learn rules of a new boss and to adapt to them?

How a person supposedly could learn all of it, if every time when happened something that is not convenient for a child, parents would interfere, come to talk with a teacher, and insist on changing her rules on behalf of their child?
The authoritarian and arbitrary part of the public education system is partially about conditioning children to respect authority. It's a byproduct of the industrial revolution needing a supply of subservient workers.
It's curious that "restroom during class" is the only concrete, non-arbitrary event in that log.

"Not following instructions", "off task", "teamwork" and "great day" could mean many different things, in different contexts.

"Teamwork" could mean playing nicely along with a colleague who is bullying others out of teacher's view.

"Not following instructions" is whatever an authority wants to be.

"Off task" could mean that you're not succesfully juggling forcing yourself not to get a bathroom break while concentrating on a task.

(I may not sound like it, but I appreciate teachers and I wish they didn't need an app to justify their actions to hovering parents.)
Enforcement is step 2. Proxy with a blacklist of hostnames would do, but unfortunately, with encrypted SNIs on the horizon, full blown https proxy with custom CA enrolled on all machines would be necessary.

Step 1 is a mechanism for those, who do not want to fight the network policy, just want the autoconfiguration.
I'm sure every school is different, but I've observed 5th grade classes (I was planning to become a teacher at one point), and they never went longer than an hour, at least not without a quick stretch break or something.
Even better... _host_ your own e-mail server
When it comes down to brass tacks, after all the bluster and maneuvering, the last button to push for greedy corporations is the frickin lawyers - - I hope the NLRB crushes them . . .
I haven't found which Canadian law they are accused of breaking. Could you be more specific?

"Meng, 47, was arrested at Vancouver's airport on December 1 at the request of the United States, where she is charged with bank fraud and accused of misleading HSBC Holdings Plc about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's business in Iran."
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mysql was horrible for that, eventually bogging down to the point it was breaking the system down.
Storing was ok. Analyzing emphatically was not.

And no amount of testimonies will counter that MySQL has a lot of fundamentally broken assumptions when it comes to data structure and relations. I mean it works if you don't mind handling that at higher levels, and sometimes that's a good call. And sometimes it's not.
What do you consider a medium-sized company? Or a department even? I'm having trouble imagining a department being in an entirely different building. The companies I've worked for who I considered medium-sized had hundreds of employees and if they had multiple different offices, each department had a physical presence at each office.
What it was supposed to be -

Software development, deployment and ops come under the same role. The DevOps engineer controls the horizontal and the vertical, the code, the environment, the build, the deployment, and as such is a multi-talented unicorn.

What it seems to have become -
Sysadmins writing scripts around terraform, and formalising their work to the extent that it is at least usually reproducible.
In fact, finding and correcting faults in airplanes happens constantly. Up until the Boeing debacle this was just something that happend while nobody was looking. Now journalists are riding the scare wave generated by the relevations following the 737 max crashes and dragging all these fairly routine happenings out into the open with disproportionate coverage.
Performance isn't the only area where apple chips are superior.
Power efficiency is another, and that's a lot more noticeable to your general consumer.
This analogy is apt, because I was clearly complaining that my phone wasn't a spaceship.
The same China where manufacturers had been implicated in supplying Fentanyl to the illicit US opiate market causing widespread overdoses and death? Nobody is innocent when power corrupts.
I use a lot of Perl and occasionally some awk. My experience is that Perl is a lot faster (it really shows when you have millions of lines of text to chew).

For example, I compared two scripts that find the longest line in a file: Perl took about a second when awk took 21s.
Sure, but the link to an ephemeral Oyster card doesn't give them anything that the face recognition doesn't give them already. If they can track faces, then they can track journeys even if you're paying in cash directly for every ticket.
AWK can be learned much faster than Perl though.
I agree. These are perfect prepackaged blocks for carbon storage. Why would you go the other way?
Not all politicians have equal power.
In the US, the nominations of important positions, the laws and policies are determined by 20 Senators in GOP.

Those 20 senators (from Alaska, Missouri, Arkansas) are answerable to the demands of their constituents. Those people are not asking for Climate Change Policies. It has nothing to do with money, but the values and culture of the constituents.

It is incredible how HN and majority of the supposedly 'smart' crowd completely fail to understand the dynamics of how policies and laws are passed or made in this country or anywhere else.

It is also incredibly stupid to paint all politicians with the same brush, because if you are an immoral, evil politician you'd exactly want that situation. "All politicians are the same", "All media is the same" is the foundational strategy of bad actors.
Do you have an opinion on the Dwarf Fortress world generator? If I am not mistaken it simulates some limited volcanic and geoogical activity.
Nope, India/China's GDP dropped upon invasion and decimation of trade routes by the Western countries with the GDP gain.

People underestimate how key the US was to the opium trade in China. The US was a bigger trader than the UK/Germany/France combined at one point.
> "Did you really want to transfer from development to ops?" which me think that a lot of developers look down on operations roles and see it as a demotion.

I would certainly see it as a departure from what I want to do - design, build and deliver systems. I'm not really in it for the continuity operations.
related video for those interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aVYb-a7Uw
They don't do CO2 capture. They don't have some magic technology that doesn't exist. They capture toxic particulates.
invention (n): the action of inventing something, typically a process or device.

device (n): a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose

The purpose is different.
Most of the motion picture and television world, which is also responsible for producing digital content, and also has wide disparities in talent between people with similar titles, is unionized.
If we don't want a social credit system for ourselves, why would we implement one for our children? Here's why this terrifies me:

I was a sensitive kid getting bullied at one point and had a horrid 2nd grade teacher. Reflecting on her behavior as an adult, it was apparent that I was just a problem for her in her last year before retirement (there was a "Miss So-and-so is retiring" party we had to have as a class for her at the end of the year).

The bullying was bad enough that she would just remove me from the class and have me work alone in the library because I'm certain that it was easier than the alternative. This happened probably 30+ times until one day I broke down and started to cry because it was just a rough day, and I just felt very alone.

Librarians noticed, teacher notified, yelled at by the teacher privately for "being a disturbance", I then told my parents, Dad got insanely angry at the situation (rightfully so), and we met with the principal. I remember sitting outside of the office listening to my father destroy the guy verbally. I cried then too.

After the fact I didn't have to go to the library alone anymore, but she literally wouldn't respond verbally to me at times. I remember not being called on when I had the answer, being the only kid with a hand up. She just ignored me unless she absolutely HAD to respond (IMO abusive behavior towards a child). My grades went down and I was pulled from the gifted programs never to get back in. All of this happened within one school year.

I am horrified of what a teacher like that would have done to me with this tool.
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They are the standard. Commercial airline safety issues are uncommon enough to be newsworthy.

Boeing's customers care a lot more than most automaker's customers. 1 in 4 cars on US roads have known unresolved safety recalls.
My guess is a mirror wouldn't fit into the design, and a Fresnel lens would not have the needed accuracy for astronomical work.
I hope everyone concludes that the top level strategy everyone can implement is to reduce plastic use and demand at every level -- government, corporate, and, yes, individual.

Recycling is a tactic. Without a strategy, a tactic often won't work and can even be counterproductive.

Reducing production is a strategy. We should always focus first on the strategy, then tactics.

I recorded a podcast episode on reducing being strategic and efficiency being tactical https://shows.pippa.io/leadership-and-the-environment/episod....
So.. just to be clear. Are you aware of the consequences of economic inequality? You know, the greatly inequal opportunities, the drastic bargaining power difference, etc.

Do you think China is not going to exploit its economic power to achieve political goals?

Are you aware of China's political goals? Do you agree with them?

Just to name a few: censorship, take Taiwan, suppression of self-determination of minorities, gaining more territory in the East China Sea (island building) from its neighbors.
If google is making money off news, and isn't showing ads on it's "news" page, it must be making money off of ads on the sites it links to.

If that's the case, then they must believe the snippets send more people to news websites than they otherwise would?
Is there some context I'm unaware of?
This becomes more true the further a country moves away from democracy: in a vibrant popular democracy, people will honestly work for their nation's good and corruption is viewed as evil.

Further away from democracy, leaders are purely self serving, successful corruption is seen as a sign of intelligence and whistle-blowers, far from being heroes for pointing out maleficence, are threatened with execution.

And indeed, institutions eventually shift to working solely for the benefit of themselves and the people in charge. Mostly because any that don't are undermined until they do.
This is probably a pointless argument, because I will heartily agree this is all about semantics that are not locked into the language :). But I believe a quite acceptable distinction between 'clickbait' and a 'lead-in' or what-have-you is that the article A) does tell you what the secret is that was promised by the headline, and B) the secret is to the point of the article and not overly sensationalized by the title.

I'll borrow Wikipedia's definition: "Clickbait is a form of false advertisement which uses hyperlink text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, with a defining characteristic of being deceptive, typically sensationalized or misleading."

What I'm focusing on is what wikipedia calls the 'defining characteristic', which is what separates it from headlines intended to build suspense. In other words, a title is not clickbait if it tries to entice you with tantalizingly withheld information, it is clickbait if it lures you into an article that does not provide the information thusly withheld, or it turns out the information was inaccurately implied by the title. In the same way, a piece of food that entices a fish is only bait if it will not provide a meal but instead put the fish in a situation they did not intend on being in (getting caught).

If you extend clickbait to situations like this article, there isn't really a word left for the ones that are actively misleading. For example there's a newspaper that keeps getting me to click on its stuff in Google News because it tells me an asteroid almost blew up Earth, when in fact the asteroid had an infintesimal chance of doing so. That is clickbait. Having worked in content recommendations quite a bit, I can say it's quite a painful situation.

What would make the above article title clickbait would have been if it turned out he found spoiled milk in the freezer, or some other pedestrian product. Which happens quite a bit in Internet syndicated media.
Perhaps pedantic, but mathematics is not science, and neither is functional programming.

See: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/mathematics

> Mathematics is such a useful tool that science could make few advances without it. However, math and standard sciences, like biology, physics, and chemistry, are distinct in at least one way: how ideas are tested and accepted based on evidence. Math doesn't rely on testing ideas against evidence from the natural world in the same way that other sciences do. Mathematical ideas are often accepted based on deductive proofs, while ideas in other sciences are generally accepted based on the accumulation of many different observations supporting the idea.
It's a joke. But it goes to the point that companies founded on open source are in a precarious place
see gattr reply above.
Yes, they exist in Europe, they ban be dirt cheap, executed by companies run by penny pinchers and mostly superfluous. Going by train is in many cases faster because it gets you from city center toncity center without any airport overhead. But it also costs a multiple of a plane ticket, which should not be the case.
Why, it's not died!

It's just a wee bit less popular than the centralized ad-fueled internet.
He had a full career and he’s still alive. Quit being ridiculous.
The US government was spying on Assange 24/7
Really healthy support of money laundering by other countries (eg USA, Russia). People blame China "because visible". Although chasing the money there it more seems like China too is making for a nice place for ultrarich (1%) and others (eg drug dealers) trying to dodge taxes or other laws in various countries.

There's no data tracked though, and outside of the RCMP investigation there's basically no public information beyond speculation of possible causes.

Other than it's not population pressure.
There's very large ties between Vancouver, India and China visibly - but nothing to the degree costs hit. I found living there that the influences of India and China helped moderate things and help the city be more liveable.
Yes. I just updated my iphone to iOS 13 and thought maybe it’s a bug. No idea why you’re being downvoted.
Another great answer for many things is "It depends". :)

I don't have an issue with your approach (I think interviewers who think about the issue at all and occasionally tweak things are going to do better than those who don't) and the fuller version makes it pretty clear that the goal is to create a feeling of getting along well. For many companies the candidate is also interested in that information, but at other companies it doesn't really matter because if hired the two won't actually work with each other, or it will be brief as the new hire changes teams.

I don't do pairing in my interviews but I've thought about it. Before doing it for real I'd want to pair with a coworker on a problem neither of us have solved before, which will happen naturally if pairing is part of the company culture, then pair with them later on a problem I had previously solved but they had not, and see what differences in my own behavior (if any) appear when I have one of the possible solutions in mind. That's my main concern with doing it with a candidate, that the balance on one side of the pair for driving things is just not natural to the usual setting.

You could eliminate that concern by always using a novel problem to yourself (I've got a handful of problems I know something about but have never tried to solve, I do think it'd be fun to try and solve them with a candidate) but then there's the secondary concern in that by the end of it do you really have anything you can say besides "I do/do not get along with them and think we'd work well together"? I like to be able to say a little bit more than that, and also to create the opportunity to say "I like both of these candidates, can't say which one more, they both passed the threshold of solving the problem's basic case, but this one's code covered an extra edge case without me pointing it out." It happens that sometimes I can't even say that, of course, and multiple candidates are equivalent on the criteria I measured. But sometimes it's fine, you just care about some basic threshold, and you can just extend the offer to the first person that satisfies. I think this is probably the case more than many companies big and small want to admit.
Definitely peculiar. Three days ago, RMS stated that he intended to stay on as head of the GNU Project: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-09/msg00008...

[EDIT] Quoting the text of the above link for convenience:

> "On September 16 I resigned as president of the Free Software Foundation, but the GNU Project and the FSF are not the same. I am still the head of the GNU Project (the Chief GNUisance), and I intend to continue as such."

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088690
Not my VEMAX!!!
Extremely pedantic. In fact, contradicted by your own reference.

>The answer depends on one's philosophical views on the nature of mathematics — and in this area, philosophers and mathematicians have not reached a consensus

>...

>Now it's up to you. How is math similar to and different from science?
> When Operations Engineers become DevOps Engineers, it subconsciously says to Developers that they don't belong..

I think anyone who actually feels that way about their peers getting a title-change is being incredibly over-sensitive.

The fact is that for many years, some "System Administrator" types did already think like "developers" and use similar tooling. Those folks just didn't get recognized or paid for that, because the role was defined by what you did (keep things operational), instead of how of you did it. So when "DevOps" became a thing, it was actually not a huge leap for many Operations types. So it's reasonable that many of them found positions with the "DevOps" title appealing due to the increased pay and prestige, and the fact that they already had the skills to do it.

Conversely - many developers don't actually have much experience running production systems, and it can feel demeaning to hear those people say that Operations-types do DevOps "wrong" because operations people don't want to use the latest bleeding-edge tool or the most efficient programming language. A preference for stability and maturity is something learned from experience, and stability happens to be very valuable when it comes to production situations.

All that said, I still love hearing from dev-types who share their experiences around DevOps. Both sides should continue learning, hearing each other out, and valuing each other's contributions without assuming ill-intent or inferiority due to their educations background or previous titles.
That’s not subjective; you just made it up.

For one thing, B-52s seem to have substantial safety externalities for nearby cities.
Thanks for this nuance answer. Unfortunately, "Nuance" will always lose to "Pitchfork", even in supposedly smart and intelligent communities like HN.

There are ZERO people from the pitchfork community who understands the pressure of working in keeping a community, region or country safe. If there is a terrorist attack, the pitchfork people have to answer to ZERO questions, while CIA/NSA/Police will have to answer 'Why didn't you do something".

It is so easy to sit in their comfortable offices and homes and philosophize about privacy when you have no skin in the game.
He's 66; maybe he wants to retire?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088690

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20989696

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20958480

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965319
Thanks for your words, but unfortunately I think your hands are tied on this one. Australia was the first pin to fall within then Five Eyes, and I think the rest will soon follow.
Yes, that was ironic. 1 used to be prime for some time at some point in the past. I picked a mathematical definition that changed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Primality_of_on...
This will give some context and plenty of commentary https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088690
The CS1x is a digital synth with analog knobs for parameter control. Plenty of fun and flexibility through trial and error.

http://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/cs1x.php
The EU consistently promotes these ideas in trade agreements (for example simply by requiring equal access to courts, administration, markets to anyone, respect for privacy and consumer rights, health safety and environmental protection). They are alas not backed on a lot of issues by other geopolitical entities.
I haven't done it with a DX7, but it's pretty straightforward to map whatever you can to external midi controllers. That solution is not as tightly coupled as this solution, but it works well enough... I have a newere electribe and a midi controller with a bunch of knobs and it's a lot more fun to play when I've mapped out a bunch of CCs. So, like the "addon" is midi, but it's just a lot of work to setup maps in certain sitations, and the controllers usually don't know where things might already be set in the patch on a device.

I agree that modular are much more rewarding as you really can just tweak knobs (or have the machine tweak its own knobs in stragne ways)... that's really what I prefer.
How is it douchy?

If I write a book about calculus and people say it's too hard, because they don't know what a function is, is it then not more then fair to say to them they should first know some basic math before attempting to understand my book?

That's basically just helping the reader to me and not condescending in any way.