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I know this won't be a popular opinion but this kind of behavior is why I'm leaning toward some of the ideas that big companies need to be broken up with firewalls between them.

Just because he leaked some details about stuff from their hardware/software divisions (violating NDA) does not mean he deserves to be treated like this and be locked out of the App Store entirely like this.

I understand there has to be some incentives not to break NDAs but given that app stores are becoming such a massive part of our lives, we cannot shadow-ban people just because the platform owners are not happy.
> Note: if you are interested in conducting an independent review of the factuality of the claims expressed in this article, please contact me.

Since the author reads HN, I'll assume this comment counts.

> The Chief Executive of Hong Kong (Carrie Lam) is elected directly by the mainland Chinese government, and the people have no representation in the election whatsoever.

The Chief Executive is elected by the Election Committee. While that includes some members representing China's National People's Congress, the majority is made up of a carefully gerrymandered selection of company representatives and professional associations, similar to the Legislature Council. https://www.elections.gov.hk/ecss2016/eng/figures.html

Also, if you intend to e.g. prevent Chinese developers from using your products, I'd advise against it. Foreign code hosting platforms are a major way for Chinese developers to organize where they can't be reached by the government.
You are right; I probably could have thought of a better example, but the oil-change seemed to apply to more people.

Personally, I'd say I've saved a lot of money learning to fix a sprinkler, replace a ceiling fan, unclog a drain, fix a leaking faucet/pipe, painting the interior of a house, etc - more of the homeowner DIY than the car owner. The equipment needed for these is usually less than the cost of hiring a professional to do them.
If there was much sympathy for the students in the Tiananmen square incident, it's now totally wiped clean by the Hong Kong rioting.

Use YouTube, it does slightly better than your main stream fake news.
Oh, he totally has. But that doesn’t mean Apple shouldn’t tell him why they locked him out.
"The United States would be unable to buy $155B worth of electronics, which we already have domestic manufacturing capabilities for4

4: https://www.lg.com/us/press-release/lg-electronics-to-build-...

4: http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/22nm/pdfs/Global-Int...

This is a truly perplexing argument, especially the sourcing to "make" the argument. Ones an article about a single factory that LG opened for washing machines in the US, the other that Intel has chip manufacturing plants in the US. This does not make the argument that America has the resources, both human and raw materials, to pull off a China manufacturing pull-out.

A lot of the article, especially the parts on who gets rich off this arrangement and the human rights components are very much on point. But making it out like a China manufacturing break would just be simply accomplished because LG makes some washing machines here is pretty ridiculous. It would be very difficult, and it would require a lot of government assistance & policy encouragements to develop people, acquire access to rare earth minerals, and lay out vast sums of upstart capital to get factories built. It would take time. Making it out like it's a simple fix is convenient and simple, but like most complex things that are made out to be simple & convenient, it's just flat-out wrong.
I definitely observe the problem on both domains. Maybe less on my name domain, but it's hard to tell.
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The Iraq war is just one example out of the many atrocities that the US has committed around the world. (as we speak, the US is currently supporting coups in Latin America).

So even though the US has absolutely no moral high ground - I still think that it is important for individual Americans to take a stand against atrocities around the world. I don't think we can discredit Drew's post based on the fact that the US government is just as (or more) evil than the Chinese government.

I do think that special care needs to be taken to avoid the hypocrisy and call out US atrocities as they happen - but calling out the Chinese crimes is very important in the current global climate.
Google is running a service that is practically the most important service, for millions of people. If they get locked out of their email, they could potentially lose access to everything.

To ban people flippantly and then hide behind automated customer service is inexcusable.
Cars have changed a lot too. Less boxy these days.
On the other hand, after terminating the contract, saying "you would be getting an e-mail with instructions to get your access restored", without doing so, is pretty weird. I mean, lying is not illegal, but still.
What are the alternatives of not kinetic or economic? Sanctions of government officials? Cyber warfare?
Would it? I’m not familiar with laws around representing people, but if someone unrelated to Neumann wrote it with no input from him, would royalties still be owed?
For those wanting more examples, some probably more nefarious, look into Google dorking.

Here’s an execellent presentation from Blackhat many years ago but is still relevant: https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-05/bh-us-05-lo...
I think there's progress happening, banks just tend to move slowly. Competition from fintechs may end up providing the banks some incentive to upgrade. The other problem is, as a consumer, you're probably last in line for new stuff. Businesses can demand new software or better economic terms and back that up with their (large) deposits loan book. Consumer deposit accounts, on the other hand, are often money-losers for banks; they only offer it as a cross-sell into mortgages or some other lending.
Don't say I wouldn't have done it this way
I think it is not about not trading persay - it's about not supporting a totalitarian mercantilist. While we both benefit on paper, the fact that so much of this wealth is concentrated at the top in America slows the velocity of money, and the fact that the Chinese are using it to fuel totalitarian measures compounds the trade deficit to the point where it is no longer simply about money and jobs.

Maybe having a gigantic trade deficit is natural and okay, but when it is being used to fund the CCP it is problematic. America may have to take a short term hit, but if it moves its factories out to India, Thailand, Taiwan, Mexico, even back to America the marginal loss in wealth due to trade will be outranked by the substantial benefit to society we will get from not fuelling a nation that seeks supremacy at the cost of humanity.
This is an issue with a lot of companies and industries. It's getting really old, and I really hope we see it happen to actual senators so we can see some damn change over it. I'd love to read about how Paypal shutdown some senators account or campaign donation account or whatever, maybe then we will see congress start to turn tables.

If you're going to discontinue service with a client then provide proper background into why that is. It's a damn courtesy.
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For me personally, I find Youtube ads tied with peak annoyance. Ads which jarringly interrupt my audio, like Youtube ads inevitably do, are the worst.

Usually, audio ads are an ignore-able abomination, fortunately my audio is muted most of the time. However, if I'm watching a Youtube video, then my audio is almost certainly NOT muted, hence the terribleness of the ads.

Often an ad interrupting whatever content I'm watching on Youtube is enough to make me reconsider whether it's worth bothering finishing the actual video.
"I was watching Disney movies on my HUD yesterday and now the right arm of my nanotech exoskeleton is stuck in a boot loop. I knew installing the Disney+ application was a bad idea."
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That's not what's happening. Rambo is known for reverse engineering Apple beta's and pulling information regarding unreleased products and then publishing that info via 9to5mac. As many other people in this thread have mentioned, it likely violates the terms of the Apple Developer Agreement.
They do work together. There is benefit in controlling the growth and rise of the Chinese and american populace. I don't know how you guarantee working conditions for 1 billion people. Just the spread of resources alone gets thin very quickly. Buy giving them the space to rise by selling to the US with subsidized shipping and what else has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, abuses or not. That is a fundamental good assuming it is stable. I think the courageous view is to integrate the cynical view and go one step further.
You should actually try microservices in a larger team before dismissing all these. Having large feature sets behind a load balancer and having the rest of the app fail gracefully when a feature goes down, means you can have worry free deployments. You can deploy a single feature, you can do a tiered role out on a feature, without impacting any other service. You can also easily deploy more instances of a service. As long as you've done the work to make your internal requests stateless then you should be able to maintain high perf by scaling instances.

Beyond Polygot, I would instead phrase it as new features can roll out without dealing a large legacy tier of code. Most of your code can be Java with a single high performance service written in C++, lets say. If you're compressing video in an async manner, do you really want to throw that in your RESTful Spring service?
Nytimes is paywlled, here is Cheng's own account of the events:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/cheng-man-kit/for-the-record-...

Edit: archive link for the above https://archive.is/LWyz2

(I guess I'm on some kind of list now)
Lots of reasons, although as i said in my post, unless it's a "strategic acquisition" at a huge multiple, it's usually not because "the math" of selling makes more sense than holding it. In my case, having the liquid capital from the sale allowed me to start a fund to invest in more companies like this (https://earnestcapital.com/). Something I probably couldn't have done while operating my SaaS and just out of the business's profits. Other reasons are that the acquirer is a better fit to take the business to the next level, so if you hold it the business will likely degrade whereas a buyer has the capacity to invest in and grow it... also to create opportunities for growth for talented employees who may otherwise get bored and leave.
So we know international trade is a thing and we know specialization is a thing. We know economies will over time become more value add and go up the chain.

That’s not a problem if we put in place policies and regulations that put our workers on even footing with foreign workers. Benefits, protections (OSHA), anti-dumping, market-based pay (no institutional labor), IP protections, even access to markets, etc. that is handicap any imports proportionately for not meeting those baselines.
Talk isnt cheap when politicians wont even speak about real issues in the country
Apple preparing to build the ‘next generation of media apps for Windows’
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The unusual thing though is my first exposure to "lock-out/tag-out" was as a minimum wage employee at WalMart ~30 years ago. Among other things, they had a large cardboard bailer that compress all the empty cardboard boxes into a bale about 4ft x 3ft x 3ft. It would hold it there while you threaded baling wire through and tied it off. Then it would release and dump it onto your waiting pallet jack, so you could cart it off. We had to lo/to whenever it required service.
8 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
Except that terminated account now also means that he and other people aren't allowed to run his code on their own hardware at home.
to solve that, I expanded the space cadet to other layers
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Social skills are a huge part of my own IT work.

If you can use social skills effectively, you get to decide (to some degree) what you work on. If you don't, then someone else decides what you work on. As long as you're okay with that trade, there's nothing wrong with it.
Point 2 is very important and very hard to get right. For unit tests, there is a clear dependency on the code and you can easily just run a subset of the tests. But wouldn't you have to run any system and integration tests of the affected module, as it's not clear what effects the code change can have? This will blow up CI times again. How did Google deal with this?
If you're serious, that's an awfully dark thought.
I think you need to provide a bit more info, are you using Apache Kafka? Something else?

The function would be individual batch requests divided by total requests multiplied by 100, but I dont think thats what your looking for.

Edit: actually, for your question it would be the inverse of batch size multiplied by 100, eg. First batch has 50 request so that would be 1/50×100 or 2%
Lies are lies. Chinese lies are easy to spot and rarely pretend it's lying. Western lies are so elaborately fabricated and that's what inspires articles like this.
Exactly! Especially for developers of cross platform software, it's bad enough having to emulate or find hardware, now what they need a plethora of developer accounts too?
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Yeah, what a weird example. Youtube and Instagram only gave bandwidth and storage away for free because they wanted to grow and be able to eventually monetize. They weren't charities one day that suddenly went "evil".
Your personal success may depend on your ability to communicate with your peers, managers, and subordinates. The linked page is not exclusively about finding a mate; in fact, on a quick scan, I didn’t see that mentioned at all.
Because you already knew Haskell and you knew what open sum types are. You learned some semantics.
I’m not one of these people, but maybe they just don’t understand the purpose of this and think it’s a “shakedown,” a “help me get re-elected” thing, etc. Not everything is a conspiracy.
That (kind of) phone already exists: https://www.fairphone.com/en/

It's pretty "brickish", but you can order replacement parts easily and service it yourself: https://shop.fairphone.com/en/spare-parts/
I have someone I work with who quite literally mocks people for voting for a 3rd party and actually tries to "shame" them for it, usually using a line like "which means he is voting to keep the incumbent in" (usually with more colorful words about the incumbent and the voter).

Voting 3rd party exercises your right to say you don't like either of the other 2 candidates. I will not argue which candidate it will help, but i think this line of thinking is detrimental to our voting process and wrong to rub in peoples faces.
Except it doesn't. In nearly every case where a decision by Apple was reversed, it was internal communications with the affected party that led to the resolution. I would love a source that said that bad-mouthing Apple to the media resulted in the outcome they wanted.
In the area of the U.S. I currently live in - a few common phrases of conversational Spanish.
I'm using SA as well; it's fine for me. My big trick is to route a bunch of stuff right into the spam training system. E.g., when a tagged address I've given out is compromised, that goes right to training. The same goes for spam to random names: also right to SA spam training.

My theory here is that statistically, by the time a spammer tries to send one to an active address, they're likely to have already fed things into the trainer, often multiple times.
Kinda OT, but I feel Philip K. Dicks' A Scanner Darkly is a much more realistic depiction of today (even for the year it's set in - 2006), especially the situation surrounding the mass surveillance issue.

I'll highly recommend the movie adaptation of the novel, it's one of the more faithful ones. It seems to get lost among all the big-budget blockbusters that the other adaptations were.
Reminds me a little of the Upspin project:

https://upspin.io/

At least some of the motivations are the same.
Sure, but there is no way this should be used as a reference in 2019. It was wrong even in 2003 when it was written - Unicode 3.0 from 1999 defined the maximum number of code points, surrogate pairs, and code points above U+FFFF.

His single most important fact still rings true though, "It does not make sense to have a string without knowing what encoding it uses."
Bootstrap or just don't raise 'too much' capital and not from VCs. Lots of optionality still available for founders who raise eg less than $500k and don't give up control. (I'm not exactly neutral on this tho)
Lets not conflate 'personal responsibility' with slavishly obeying terms of one-sided contracts. Neither is it the 'hand that feeds you'. 'The hand that has placed itself in control of your market' is more apt.
I'll agree that wind turbines' effect on arable land is much, much lower than solar. That being said, there is still some effect. After all, the land is rendered useless during installation and certain types of maintenance (maybe these cycles could be scheduled when the land lies fallow), and there has to be certain infrastructure (roads/paths) for maintenance.

I'm not against using wind where it is particularly efficient (old strip or surface mining areas may be particularly great); I just think it needs to make economic as well as ecological sense. Wasting a bunch of industrial capacity (largely powered by fossil fuels still) to create wind and solar energy that are more expensive and less efficient at scale than, say, nuclear seems like a bad idea.
Even if that's all true, and even if Apple has good reasons to lock his account, why not just tell him the reason? I don't understand why tech companies have this passive aggressive attitude when users violate their rules of witholding information and giving some vague canned responses when asked about what's going on. Just tell him what happened in detail.
2020 X Prize: $10M to the first person who can figure out how to keep California's electricity on.
I stopped reading here:

> $155B worth of electronics, which we already have domestic manufacturing capabilities for [4]

The citation here is to the effect that the manufacturing technology is already present in the US. This does not at all translate to the capability to produce these goods, in at least three respects:

* Capacity of production (an industry manufacturing billions of goods requires at least new plants to be built)

* Logistics network (transportation, special zones with enough industry concentration to generate economies of scale)

* Skilled and experienced labor. Take whatever item you can think of, the people who have been in the manufacturing business for that specific item for over a decade have skill and experience above and beyond the mere technological capability to produce.

All of these things would translate at least to higher production costs (regardless of thoughts on currency exchange), market shrinkage from lower affordability, and potentially shortages as well.

The real economy is not as easy as software - you can't just install a new OS and run, it takes decades to transform industries at this scale.
Step 0: Tell a specific person to call 911, or do it yourself if you're alone.

If the person isn't responding and doesn't appear to be breathing, move them to a hard, flat surface (if possible). Put your hands one on top of the other (both palms facing down) and interlock your fingers. Place your hands in the center of the chest (at approximately the level of the nipples) and push hard and fast, letting the chest recoil fully between each compression.

If you're pushing hard enough, you will feel popping and cracking as the bones and cartilage of the rib cage move/dislocate. If you're allowing the chest to recoil back up fully between each compression you really can't push too fast (going too slowly is the far more common failure mode).

There... those are the important bits of adult CPR (for the layperson).

The courses are hours long so that the Red Cross/AHA can justify the fees and sell textbooks.
I don't think that the cheaper goods that China gave the world only benefited the %1, and actually has helped a lot people in america and the world.

I also don't think that the economic miracle that has happened in China is a bad thing, and they could of been more singaporean/south korean authoritarian vs. genocidal authoritarian to achieve it. I really want china to become another Japan or Korea eventually.

I do agree with you that China is basically a modern day nazi germany, pre WW2 at this point.
> The 1% are above any state. They will align with any state that gives them favorable tax loopholes. If America clamps down they will just leave. Look at Eduardo Saverin for example.

The ability for an individual to choose their favored tax jurisdiction is an artifact of law, and laws can be changed. If America decides to clamp down on the 1%, it can also create laws to disincentivize leaving for tax reasons, like Saverin did.
> After the horrific events of World War II, people wanted a positive view of the future; an escape from what we had just gone through

A ton of the sci-fi from after WWII has cold-war undertones, nuclear fallout / post-apocalyptic, block politics, space race between US/USSR, etc.
Cyber punk started at the end of the Cold War, when the total nuclear war risk was less present.
I was waiting for the orange man bad post. Do you know who built the cages for children? Do you know who banned the exact same countries for travel that Trump did? Do you know who arrested 8 whistleblowers? Do you know who killed the first US citizen without hearing? Newsflash, it wasn't the orange man.
Mainstream in America. But far from it in mainland China.
I agree with that statement but I don't think they're stringing him along. We only have his side of the story and, based on previous instances of similar behavior, that story is likely incredibly biased, flawed, and not reflective of what's actually happening.

In this case, there may even be a lawsuit involved so it's not as simple as a customer service rep telling them "you've been banned".
I'm not convinced that most people are hurt by trade with China but I'm perfectly fine with paying $2 more for a keyboard and $15 more for a cupboard to not deal with a murderous communist (redundant, I know, no one is really surprised here, right) regime.

What is true is that this will not meaningfully impact lives of ordinary westerners. There is no reason other than corporate greed for the status quo.
Same problem (actually worse than yours), have been using the employer-provided Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 for more than a year, and resting a TouchPad (Magic TouchPad 2, I'm a Mac user) on the home/page up keys.
It's inexpensive, comfortable and quick and easy to adapt to (not ortholinear, no weird layouts). The downside is the membrane keys... I'd love to have a mechanical shaped like this and with a recess for the TouchPad.
Shadowbanning people who have a wide reach on other platforms doesn’t usually work all that well, as this instance shows.
That may be the point, but it’s not what happens in practice. In reality, laws are vaguely worded on purpose with the promise that “we won’t enforce it in instance x”
I suggest you to read the first hand report of the tortured Employee of the British Consulate.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/cheng-man-kit/for-the-record-...

It's far more detailed and interesting than the article, and it clearly exposes the mindset of a 21th century secret police.
That's certainly the traditional narrative, but it always smelled a bit fishy to me because I've seen far more success in outsourcing manufacturing than I've seen in automating it. Sure enough:

https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...
Clouds.