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You're asking for more of contributors than you give back to them. You ask them for their work but then you and you alone reap all of the financial benfits.
On twitter/fb, people can look up your account by phone number. This is really fucking stupid because I only added my phone number for two factor authentication. So now I have to choose between security or people finding my dumb throwaway accounts.
Git is well suited to graphical interfaces, since it's quite useful to visualize the commit graph and for viewing diffs. The fact that the git command line tool is quite awful makes this even more of a no-brainer.
Exactly my strateguly as well, seems to work perfectly.

Another trick I do is send my CV as a text file with Unix line endings. Engineers would be able to read it easily. Irrelevant recruiters or the HR department, not so much.

Sadly Windows notepad in recent versions of Windows 10 can read Unix line endings just fine, although quite a few businesses have not upgraded yet.
Bernie Sanders has.
the most radical part about them isn't their formal demands, it's viciously assaulting pedestrians while screaming slurs
While I agree with a lot of the summary of the article, I personally would not call Redux event driven. Events have a fairly familiar context (that is evoked in peoples minds, who are familiar with them) and that is closer to a pub sub of loose events. where a signature is published and possibly data is published, and then subscribes are added vi a reference to a function.

I would call Redux and Action based function where an Action is passed into a function and then a switch statement decides what to do with said action.

It is a small nuance but there is a difference, I personally prefer event based systems as they tend to produce less boilerplate, but in the grand scheme of things Redux is a great library so it is not that much of an issue to use their Action based semantics as it accomplishes they same end result.
Not true in general, however IIRC it is the case if you want optimal (i.e. n log n) time complexity.
That's literally what everyone does. It's called "investment".
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> wrong pronunciation

Ah, sorry, but nowadays no pronunciation is "wrong" - that is unspeakable oppression.

We've achieved full Humpty-Dumpty - "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society
NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot
Is that even remotely true? Where is your evidence for that? Are you just cherry picking anecdata?

I've seen thousands marching for climate change recently, I've seen numerous local/state governments in the USA fighting hard, not to mention numerous friends who have adopted low-carbon behaviors specifically due to climate change. There is far from loss of hope here, there is a lot of emotion: anger, shame, incredulity, depression, but there's a lot of motivation and optimism too.
It's good to ask those things. I can only answer for myself, which is maybe not a western view point, but anyway:

I assume almost everybody thinks shining lasers on the old lady is bad. I don't think violence against civilians is ever justified. However wrong though, it is probably never fully one-sided

The last video you linked ends with a 'civilian' having molotov cocktails thrown at him, and the author of the video uses this to discredit the protests..... But... that 'civilian' has a gun in his hand. He is an undercover officer, and those events happened shortly after police shot someone with a live round in the same area

The police have not pressed charges against mafia caught on camera beating people up, but they have recently arrested a pregnant woman for wearing a facemask*

I think the protesters have been more restrained, but they still definitely make mistakes. Sadly this doesn't get us out of the spiral of violence: to do that the gov and police would have to face loosing their jobs; and maybe just as hard is they would have to accept that the protesters' anger and vitriol as true

--

Nonviolent means were employed during the earlier umbrella revolution and occupy central. These didn't seem to work. But I agree that the anger, vitriol, and violence on all sides is creating another wall...

*facemasks are quite different in HK than the west. The SARS epidemic and close living quarters means people see them as essential to health and safety -- so the facemask ban is bordering on offensive in HK culture

-- Hope that helps. Years ago I was in a warzone where the people were undefended by their government. The church was preaching forgiveness to those who attacked them, and it was impressive to see how effective it was. But it was a very big cost
Communism is a utopian ideology from the 19th century. That doesn't mean communists don't exist, and the people who advocate that ideology aren't communists. Of course China isn't a communist society. Nowhere is or ever will be.

It's a bit like saying Tom Cruise isn't a real scientologist because Xenu doesn't exist.
I agree. My point is that holding companies liable to an ever-shifting window of public opinion about their actions is not as long-term a solution as addressing the parts of the system that encourage or require their behavior.
I wouldn't say math was invented. One thing plus another thing has always been two things, even before we existed to give names to that concept. The names, symbols, etc were invented but the language of mathematics is just how we describe what has always existed.
> I believe most of them are self-made and have signed the giving pledge

Why do you believe this? As far as I can tell Dan Gilbert is the only one I see on that list.
That's a bit of a relief. Thanks for the clarification.
That is actually somewhat fair, but I wouldn't let it dampen my criticism of China.

That is: The (implied) claim is that criticism could lead to the fall of the government of China (I wish!) or at least to social turmoil, in which a lot of people could die. Given China's history with respect to social turmoil, fearing a bunch of people dying in such circumstances is completely warranted. And thinking about the consequences of your words is never a bad idea.

But when I look at the way China is treating the Uighurs, "people might die in social turmoil" doesn't look like that much of a change from the status quo. In particular, it doesn't look like enough to keep me from saying the criticism of the Chinese government that seems so clearly warranted.
You can disable this functionality in the privacy settings for Twitter-- not sure if Facebook allows it, though. Either way I totally agree that it's a dumb feature to have turned on by default.
I'm surprised also. I found an app called Buycott today which has an interesting approach. It seems focused more on boycotting companies than nation states. Going to try it anyway and also look into the API.

https://www.buycott.com/
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you can do merge sort in place
I don't really follow how this is different from normal, motherboard-based desktops, which are already modular. Can anyone explain?
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Phil%20281b/Ph...
It is almost universally accepted as correct. ESR coined the term, and agrees. Bruce Perens agrees. All of Debian agrees. Red Hat agrees. The Linux Journal agreed. LWN agrees. There is no room for ambiguity, as far as I can tell.

You do seem to be out of touch, on this issue at least.

EDIT: Put Linux Journal in past tense, as it no longer is running.
Please.. just go look.

Since his inauguration, the S&P500 is up 27.37%. At this point during Obama's first term, the S&P500 was up 65.19%. Apples and oranges, true. Let's look at the preceding 46 months before Trump's inauguration. Over that time, the market rose 26.69%.

Anyone pretending the market under Trump is anything but "normal" is participating in partisan hackery. Don't do it.
I think it's fair to say that WW1 was an overblown response. All the background tension doesn't in any way make WW1 justified. I imagine the poster you are responding to thinks the same thing.
> While I agree with your general sentiment, free speech absolutism is meaningless in employment settings without something like militant labor organizing to defend it.

couldn’t that also be accomplished though employee ownership? e.g. without the militancy?
Raise hands everyone who's surprised by this...

They say they inadvertently did it, which may be true. But if they have the data it can be abused.

Goes for all those "omg think of the terrorists" data collection plans as well.
There seems to be a subtext to this paper. A subsequent correction/addendum to the same journal reads:

> The authors regret that as Victor Timmers did not carry out the research under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh, nor in collaboration or consultation with any personnel at the University of Edinburgh, the affiliation of “University of Edinburgh” has now been removed from this work at the request of the Institution. In addition, subsequent to the publication of the Paper, Victor Timmers has disclosed a potential Conflict of Interest with regard to the work, namely: “non-financial support from Innas B.V, during the conduct of the study”.

> The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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Innas B.V appears to be the same consulting firm where the first author works.

Reading the paper full-text, you see a lot of policy recommendations and one wonders what the standing of the authors is for full-on policy recommendations, based on the very limited data in the paper.

Namely, the analysis is really just using vehicle weight as a scale factor on a primitive PM2.5/PM10 "emissions/kg" relationship. Re-suspension of road dust dominates these particulates (in their model, anyway), and EVs and ICVs both do this, so any PM reductions by EVs are dominated by road dust kicked up by their larger weight.

Here's a much more detailed review paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223101...

And here's a non-review that examines ozone emissions, but from a much more serious modeling point of view:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223101...
Didn't China say they are willing to open their market more.

So, I think this proves that nothing changes. I'd be supprised that any TV-channel could show a Winnie the Pooh figure ever again.

It's like one big kindergarden, but for >1 billion people.
Fascism and Communism differ mainly in their aesthetic. The universal end result is authoritarianism and mass suffering. If they were diametric opposites, China would never have been able to pivot so quickly and easily from fairly orthodox communism during the Mao years to the sort of Fascist/state capitalist model they use now.
I want someone who focuses on getting work done and doesn't get their jollies from brand marketing.

Code beats blog posts.

Side projects are great when you can't find a rewarding day job. Why would I hire a consultant who doesn't find gigs that tax their expertise?
You could do that, or just boycott the one(s) you feel strongly about. Any action is better than inaction.
The problem is that the type of moral outrage in this thread is exactly the kind of thing that is necessary to motivate mass killing (otherwise known as war).

War is an appropriate conflict resolution approach for ant colonies, but not for people. I hope people here realize that.
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I've been a registered user since 2010, but I haven't been active for the past six years (give or take).

I've recently had copious amounts of free time to catch up on everything, and when I logged back into HN I discovered my priviledges on the site had been rather severly curtailed.

My best guess is I've been pigeon-holed as a "troll" because some of my comments diverge from the hive-mind that used to -- and possibly still does -- make up the majority of the contributors to HN.

Just because I don't buy into the HN group-think doesn't mean I'm a troll, or that my opinion (read as: downvote) has no merit.

I haven't really wanted to downvote anything I've seen in the past nine months, but I feel a recent posting merits my downvote... but that's apparently not an option that's available to me.

Dunno. Maybe things have changed around here. But if I'm a long-time verified user of this site I would hope that my opinion -- even if it's a negative one -- would carry some kind of weight.
DIR-655 has been EOLed in 2012... what do you people expect. Of course they won't release firmware updates forever.
Is that why most people are inactive in showing their opinion to the government? There have been nice developments in the last years, but there probably should be more initiatives.
Yeah, if they think Genghis Khan failed on battlefields, I don't know who succeeded.
The moment the money becomes more important than the morality, the morality leaves, never to return.
Are you serious? Liberals and Conservatives talk about how shitty America is constantly. Either you’re not American or being deliberately obtuse.
Fascists and Communists are very similar. Mussolini used to be a marxist, the Nazi party started out as an explicitly socialist party and was until Hitler took over. Many people today call the regimes of Mainland China and North Korea fascist. People used to call Chiang Kai Sheks regime fascist, but earlier in his career he was the "red general".

The two seem to always be found near each other.
The same argument can be made with any other tools in existence. Don't blame the tool for doing something bad, blame the user.
Just realize that you are most likely using Phones/Computers made in China to call out the NBA.
That's an interesting take on it. I wonder if you're right. (And I'm torn as to whether to hope that you're right, or to fear that you are.)
I hate merges. "Merged ... into ..." is such an uninformative message! Some codebases are filled with those. I prefer seeing each individual commit messages, so... rebasing all the way for me! One problem I have with this is that the committer date of all commits become identical instead of retaining their original date aligned with the author date (which I would like to be the committer date). Is there a way to workaround this or fix it in a "non-dirty" way? It might be the case that I am doing something wrong, if so, what am I doing wrong exactly, or how should I go about it?
You are just theorizing that #2 is happening with no evidence.
It's hard to imagine a trade deal where sanctions against Chinese companies are upheld.
The markets will sort it out though. That filtered out candidate has some inherent worth and companies can take advantage of that. Competent hirers will then always use multiple AI hirers and experiment with hiring to make sure they're not losing out on talent that's been inaccurately filtered out.
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I think you need 500 karma or so.
What I did for my SVGs was use CSS to actually change the internal fill/stroke colors directly. Unfortunately you can only do this if the SVG is inlined as markup (as opposed to shown in an <img> tag), but it's computationally much cheaper than using filters, because the latter operate on the image as a set of pixels rather than a set of shapes.

The logo design itself is really slick, though!
Oof, every single Clojure related HN post, there's always at least one person claiming that Clojure is dying. Clojure is not dying! Look around, Clojure today has more conferences, meetups, podcasts, jobs, and books. More than any of non-mainstream languages. More than Haskell, Elixir, OCaml, Elm, Rust.

I'm sorry for snapping at you. It just makes me sad to have to fight unwarranted skepticism all the time. People throw opinions out of the blue, sometimes without even considering a heartfelt attempt to try things out first.

Evangelizing for Clojure has become a moral issue. Just like arguing with gun-control, climate change opponents, and anti-vaxxers. No matter what arguments you bring to the discussion, those who don't want to listen - just wouldn't.

You say: "Clojure is very pragmatic",

They'd be: "I don't want to learn Emacs".

You say: "But you can use VSCode, Atom, Eclipse, Vim, IntelliJ to write Clojure",

They: "Too many parentheses..."

You say: "Other languages have more, and a bunch of other things like semicolons, commas, curly braces, and operator precedence rules... "

They: "But it's not statically typed"

You say: "It has Spec. Spec can do things, most type systems cannot"

They: "But I don't like JVM..."

You say: "JVM is a very robust, solid piece of tech..."

They: "Clojure is dying..."

---

Honestly, I don't understand this tribalism. Like people really don't want it to succeed. It isn't some zero-sum game - the success of one language ecosystem does not mean there's less pie for others. There are many things in other languages - Rust, Elixir, Javascript, etc. directly inspired by how they first were done in Clojure. Just think about it: Cognitect has a team of fewer than fifty developers, and the Clojure community has no more active members than engineers working for Google, yet there's a constant pace of innovation for the entire CS community. Maybe the language has something to do with that, after all?
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At least Twitter is admitting that information collected for one purpose (two factor authentication, account recovery) should not be used for another unrelated purpose (advertising and use by "business partners.")
Depends on how many of the small docs you deal with, I see useful differences on small documents because I process reasonable amounts of them. A 10s change on a million docs for just decoding for a single library is easily worth it for me.
This conflates "self-made" with "started with nothing". In some ways they align but they're not useful as synonyms.

The major difference between inheriting money and attracting investors is that you need to be more convincing for the latter to get the money on offer. The investor to whom you are otherwise a stranger might want to put some contract together to make sure they see a slice of the pie if you're successful (big if!), but if you fail they don't demand their money back.

But how can you call it "self-made" if you're using someone else's money? It doesn't matter which pocket it comes from, at some point very early in the process you are dependent on the pocketbooks of others.
Did this about six months ago over at my site. Was annoying to get it right but glad I did.

Some people find these kinds of sites pointless these days, but I enjoy keeping one even if I rarely update it anymore. Spirit of the web and all that.

https://rymc.io/
As developers, can't we use progressive enhancement to support as many scenarios as we want?
Two of these were discontinued in 2018 [1]. I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought a router that a vendor was still listing as current, and the next year told that it was EOL and would get no more updates.

[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/news/d-link-wont-fix-serious-secur...
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"developing a procedure to send counties regularly updated lists of felons on their rolls who have unpaid fines and fees, but it has no timetable as to when it will be ready"

Oh, I know when it'll be ready. About 2 weeks before the election, just in time to purge voters without giving them enough time to do anything about it.
But what do you do when it's the radio firmware itself that has a security for and the vendor stopped patching their devices? It's a pain in the ass to secure a closed source binary blob.

Example: https://hackaday.com/2019/09/05/esp8266-and-esp32-wifi-hacke... what if Espressif dropped support for these a while ago? You couldn't securely use these in some scenarios without reverse-engineering the binary blobs and patching the flaws. And I can't imagine how many of IoT devices out there use that chip or a derivative.
" we have addressed the issue that allowed this to occur and are no longer using phone numbers or email addresses collected for safety or security purposes for advertising. "

Does this mean the matches they've already made on these identifiers are still active?
Looks like a cooling nightmare.
Seriously, you need to learn a little about company formations, especially Articles and Memorandum.
If congress passes a law that says "Partisan gerrymandering is illegal, the courts can determine if a district is gerrymandered", then that would be enough to make partisan gerrymanders justiciable.
Very cool! I've had similar ideas in the past. Nice execution! This is the project I launched earlier this year: https://betterweathernow.com My results are currently limited to a 2 week forecast, but I look forward to incorporating historical data. Now, I'm exploring my best option(s) for monetization. Definitely open to partnerships.
But the article isn't talking about individuals and their anxiety as it relates to work process. It's literally saying that an IC who is too fixated on the architecture might spend too much time digging into tech debt and "get stuck" on assigned task work. Do you find that this type of person in the one who comes out and says that they don't feel productive? It just seems like the opposite of "I feel stuck how can I not feel stuck anymore." It's more like "these are ways where ICs might lose track of the bigger picture and get off task in a way that hurts team productivity."

Are you really saying that an IC who spends enough time on mentoring/tech debt/on-call fires that it's impacting their task completion is going to throw their hands up in the air and say "I can't figure out why I'm not getting more tasks done"?
Which communist society was not "State Capitalist"? IIRC State Capitalism is a term invented by Trotsky, who used it to describe state control of the economy is opposed to workers control in the utopian vision of communism. But the early USSR rapidly abolished the workers councils while he was still a major figure in the USSR.
I think you misread

> UI chrome

Versus

> Chrome UI
It's not widely available yet, https://caniuse.com/#search=prefers-color-scheme
You speak of privilege as an absolute category; I was thinking in more relative terms. If you take two people, of whom one has access to clean water and the other doesn’t — wouldn't you say that the first is in a more privileged position than the second?
Conversely, that's what's amazing about the Web, right?

Whenever people introduce any of those things, like when iOS was introduced, they had to decide how to port all the existing content and interactions and widgets to mobile and touch interfaces. As a result, if an entrepreneur or hobbyist makes an app on one platform and wants it to be at least minimally usable on another platform, the Web way, way lowers the barrier to make that jump.
You can't take credit for someone else's work.

If I was capable of issuing every possible order to every employee, am I more entitled to the profits derived from their output if they happen to do something I mentioned?
I imagine the problem isn't closed vs open source, but the fact that on Linux it would be trivial to mount a massive NAS (think dozens of TBs) in a way that's completely invisible to the Backblaze client and pay $6/month for unlimited backups. There were people on /r/datahoarder who stored petabytes on Amazon's "unlimited" backup before the whole product got canceled.
It can be disabled (and at least in Twitter's case, I remembered it asked me if I want to enable it).
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I really need something like this!

I think a touch friendly version would be useful for people on tablets.