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Uh, that’s actual the default behaviour I’ve witnessed at small and large companies I’ve worked for: complain or be critical of the shiny bright path that executives push you onto, and you’ll be branded a nuisance to suppress. Rule n.1 of survival has always been “don’t rock the boat”. The one time I felt safe enough to speak my mind without filters, I eventually paid the price for it.
Starvation and rape aren't everyday life concerns for Americans. Everyday life concerns are my car won't start, my date stood me up, will I get that promotion, I haven't got a thing to wear, the cabbie overcharged me, etc.
It's COBOL, but my first software development job. It's a good pay for a novice-dev in Sweden ($44k/yr and our currency has dropped by 1/3 compared to the USD).

I like the language and environments, and it's fine that almost all developers are close to retirement, they are great libraries of knowledge after having worked in the system for 20+ years.

It's mostly the legacy ways of working around here that are an annoyance, communication by email and having to wait for order- and project numbers before starting any development, instead of being allowed to develop improvements that can just be implemented when/if they get the ok.

The wait time does allow me to create some automated tests of which we had absolutely none, that other young developers here also benefit from.

I'm gaining knowledge and the system seems to be getting replaced in not that long, at which point my fiancée wants to move back home to the states, but health insurance woes has kept me from looking into that.
I am old enough to remember when .com .net .org and so on had real meanings. But those days are long, long gone. When was the last time any registrar ever refused to issue a name based on the nature of the entity requesting it?
I worked for a small UK coupon company and our UX team done it on a regular basis.
> It is hand waving simplicity against the complex reality of biological limitations. Some people simply have more endurance for the suffering of life, better motivation or better opportunity and environment.

I expected the general population of HN to be well trained enough to instantly realize this. I guess it was my fault for tricking myself in believing I could find such a place.
I agree that brown noise generally sounds more calming and pleasant, for example some people enjoy falling asleep to brown noise. In my personal use case of shutting out external noises, I find that it's only the higher frequencies that can make it through the noise cancelling headphones and earplugs, and pink noise helps my brain ignore those better than brown noise, as it melts into the pink noise more closely. It's definitely worth trying both out, in various environments, to figure out what works best for you.
So in other words: you still need to be "tech savvy" to do this...
oh my god, thank you, I thought it was me going insane, I can't make code snippets with syntax highlighting, when pressing the three graves (```) the entire line (and only the line I'm on) becomes a monospace block, it totally breaks how I use slack.
I don't think you can trade through that site. But apparently Robinhood is launching in UK soon
I'm more wondering: this service has been tried and failed at least once by OnLive, who were acquishutdown: "Sony has acquired important parts of OnLive. Due to the sale, all OnLive services were discontinued as of April 30, 2015."

Is the technology now good enough? But haven't gamers' expectations increased in the meantime? Is there any group of customers more notorious for unreasonable expectations and anger when those expectations aren't met?
I would think that would be because there are a lot of existing non-profits with .org domain names, for whom it would be far from ideal to lose that, or to have to spend larger parts of their budgets on their domain name.
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Hi all,

Would love to know the answer to this question as I have potentially no background in this area (to the point where I do not even know how to ask the question properly).

I’m interested in the views that various religions have on data, data privacy and AI.

How do various religions feel about AI? What are some considerations on data privacy that someone from your religion may make that an atheist or non believer would not? Are there any considerations that one would need to take to de-bias data sets from the perspective of your religion? Do religions find it ethical to use AI for their own behalf, or does anyone know of any such projects where a religious body has done so (i.e. predictive models for churn / conversion)?

I seriously don’t know anything on the position for any of these issues, and would love to hear from people that do or have thought about it. I know a lot about DS and I know that design for AI / ML considerations will gain importance in the future if they currently have not already. Whereas I know a lot about DS, I know very little (probably area I’m most ignorant about) religion so I would love to hear people’s opinions here
I can definitely maintain an install of whatever is needed. Why would I use time doing something that doesn't create value over and above just using a paid for solution?
If it is the primary method of communicating within your team/company, then you will find it difficult to not use it, or rather you will be left out of major decisions/changes.
Not sure why you were being voted down - Teams was explicitly positioned as a competitor for Slack.
I could not reproduce the example issues from the blog post, but the dual asterices inside the back ticks still fail for me.

The upside is that it's now possible to have bold passages in monospaced text. I missed that before.
Hindi (which I'm learning) is similar - व (usually transliterated 'va') is somewhere between an English 'w' & 'v' - not as much 'lip vibration' as the latter but more than the former.

It varies across the v <-> w spectrum depending on region, and also some words seem mostly nearer one or the other (but it's the same character, there isn't a second).

You sometimes hear that in native speaker's English, but more 'v's sounding nearer a 'w' than the other way around (as in native German speakers).

Fascinating how growing up with different languages teach us different sounds, and those we didn't use can be so difficult to produce, even if we can hear and understand the difference.

I struggle with two things in Hindi: aspiration (transliterated as 'ta' vs 'tha' for example, but that's not an English 'th', it's 'ta' with air forced out) which I usually either don't pronounce clearly, or it's way over-exaggerated; and retroflex consonants, which I can hear but often struggle to pronounce correctly quickly enough to flow with the rest of the word. And particularly 'd.a' which when correctly pronounced contains (to my ear) some 'r'.
> I've barred the use of Confluence at our company specifically because of this.

It's worse than literally every other wiki I've ever used; even worse than phpBB.
Something I don't understand is how to deal with cache coherency when you need the same data in a bunch of different configurations.

Take a typical game loop and assume we have a list of Transforms (e.g. world matrix, translation/rotation/scale, whatever - each Transform is a collection of floats in contiguous memory)

Different systems that run in that loop need those transforms in different orders. Rendering may want to organize it by material (to avoid shader switching), AI may want to organize it by type of state machine, Collision by geometric proximity, Culling for physics and lighting might be different, and the list goes on.

Naive answer is "just duplicate the transforms when they are updated" but that introduces its own complexity and comes at its own cost of fetching data from the cache.

I guess what I'm getting at is:

1) I would love to learn more about how this problem is tackled by robust game engines (I guess games too - but games have more specific knowledge than engines and can have unique code to handle it)

2) Does it all just come out in the wash at the end of the day? Not saying just throw it all on the heap and don't care... but, maybe say optimizing for one path, like "updating world transforms for rendering", is worth it and then whatever the cost is to jump around elsewhere doesn't really matter?

Sorry if my question is a bit vague... any insight is appreciated
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I'm curious where you live. Is $300/year a big expense for you? Computers and developer salaries are usually much higher.
Can't disagree with this enough.

GPT-2 is good at generating coherent original sentences based on a given corpus, but they don't really mean anything, which rapidly becomes clearer with each extra sentence. Ask it for an essay and you get a string of sentences with zero underlying point. The distance from here to writing original novels is very, very far. (Experimental poets, however, might need to worry!)
To quote a slightly off beat song...

How hard is it to decide to be in a good mood
And then just be in a good mood?
That's all I have to say because it's a straight up fact
You control your emotions it's as simple as that

That's the core of the argument in basically all these things. I'm not saying it's true, but it is a perspective on life. :)
That's not the Great Pyramid; it's the Pyramid of Khafre.

Neat rendering though.
Microsoft's XPS format solved many of the issues with PDF. Unfortunately it was too late and came from the wrong people so didn't succeed.

As it's a zip file it also needs to be read from the end although it can be linearised as well.
thanks, looks great!
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I doubt those exceptions cover spying on behalf of a third party who is not party to the GDPR.
this is one of my favourite videos about the sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFyAN1m2iug

The guy has some really good videos BTW!
Never knew this existed. Thank you.
Addressed in the article - you did read the article, didn't you? - but:

a) brand entrenchment - it's difficult to get organisations to rebrand

But much more importantly

b) the entire ethos goes against the sociological and ethical values of the .org TLD and those who chose it to represent their entities.

Also the deal appears to have been done immorally, in bad faith, with timed offers based upon insider knowledge by individuals who stepped out of one job into another of conflicting interest.

Not everything is about individual prices.
An analogy is not a comparison. I think an analogy here was made to reinforce the point made, not to in any way claim that Facebook somehow deals with indentured servitude.
UK workers 'pull sickies to avoid going to work'
Why do you say it's a de facto vowel?

It isn't used like a vowel. There's no word 'XwY' for any string of letters X,Y - and you can't prounounce 'xwy' (for any single letters x,y) without adding vowel sound.
I wish the "Iverson bracket" (number 0 in this list) had caught on in a bigger way. It can really simplify writing conditional expressions, as opposed to e.g. a case expression.
Of course, we had rules against that in terms of service,
but hey, circumventing those is not a big risk

And maybe not legal nor enforceable
> Surely some laws in the UK were broken?

The surveillance in the embassy is in clear contravention of the Vienna Convention that the UK ratified on one proviso: that the surveillance wasn't sanctioned by the Ecuadoreans. If they did sanction it, it's not clear what, if any, law was broken.

The article states that there's evidence that the US also had laser surveillance outside the embassy. This would definitely be in direct contravention of the Convention regardless of whether the UK sanctioned it or not. I would say though that this appears completely at odds with the whole of the rest of the article: why bother when you're recording everything from the inside?
What are those tricky things?
Unusable input boxes are rather common nowadays. I know several web sites for which I know from experience I should edit my text somewhere else and then paste it in, then delete and repaste if I need to change anything.

In general, I've never met a WYSIWYG system that I've found satisfactory. Admittedly, I do have a rather low anger threshold for stray invisible formatting.

At an even higher level of generality, isn't it a bit sad that we still don't have a good way of handling text on computers, something that lets you portably handle typographic emphasis but doesn't allow stray double spaces and crap like that?
It's true this is how a typical centralized commercial solution would be marketed. However, it's a bit trickier for Matrix since it's an open protocol with a neutral governing foundation and many client implementations.

Although New Vector (the company behind Modular) is currently driving most of the development of Matrix and Riot (the first and reference client), matrix.org itself is supposed to be a neutral network-related site. Notice the remark that it's controlled by the Matrix Foundation at the bottom of the page, and not New Vector.

That said, Riot does have a reference to Modular, but it's buried here: https://about.riot.im/free. I'd personally be fine with it being displayed somewhere more prominently (or at least under a more intuitive section name than "Free!"). I also think it would also be a good idea if the Riot page mentioned Matrix (or the Matrix logo) somewhere above the fold.
> Why do cries of "free market!!1" __always__ seem to end up meaning "I want to profit at the expense of the public good"?

Jeez, I wonder how many calories you burn each day by jumping into conclusions...

The entire internet was built by free market ethos in the sense that it was a network of people doing what they thought was best for them and their causes. But ofc, that´s not as important now is it? after all, once the fruits of the free market ripens, somehow the rules change and suddenly "public good" means whatever people want it to mean as long as it extracts value in their favor.

Now don´t get me wrong, I dislike this .org bullshit as much as the next guy, but imagine if I would have said:

Why do cries of "public good!!1" __always__ end up meaning "I want to abolish all profits and usher in the marxist utopia"?

It would be utterly stupid of me to say that because that is not the case, and the same goes for your statement.
The difference between you and the big corps is, you care, they don't.

You care about delivering a high quality and high performance application, big corps just want to sell a product.

Also, just because they have a bigger budget doesn't mean they are all about spending it, they probably want to squeeze it as much as they can.
Can someone please help me come up with a reason for Slack not making this update opt out for those of us who can maneuver a keyboard?
In this case, you could argue that the "users" is almost equivalent to the people (of EU), because of how widespread the usage of Facebook is. What we see here is that the people is starting to decide that some things that Facebook are doing are not acceptable anymore.
I tentatively agree that character isn't built by extreme hardships. But I do suspect that being shot at would determine what kind of a man you are, and there's no way to know that in advance.

For example, being a navigator, my father sat up front behind the bombardier. There's a plexiglass hemisphere in the nose. The Me-109's favorite attack plan was the head on attack (because the B-17's had a gap in coverage in the front). He said you can see the cannon flash as they fired at him (usually aiming for the pilots, who were right behind my father's position, thinking "how can they miss".

What would you do in such a situation? Nobody can tell in advance.
To give far from proper 100% analogy: I don't need somebody to tell me to start exercising to lose weight, I need a goddamn pill to make it happen!

The path to happiness can be complex one, but there are myriads of possible, non-guaranteed routes - exercise, meditation, yoga, drugs legal or not, backpacking in 3rd world, fulfilling jobs, good relationships, kids, etc. Even trying will take you on a path to be a better, more balanced human being.

Nobody will ever 'give you ability to be happy'. Either you will reach it yourself, in your own unique way, or you won't.
The glengarry leads are for closers only.
There's always alternative clients. Ripcord ( https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ ) is not 100% there yet, but it's definitely usable, tiny, and gets out of the way.
It's not uncommon for languages to have a sound with a dedicate phoneme.

There are still some slots free in the sounds matrix that no language as yet uses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uZam0ubq-Y
The language sounds that could exist, but don't
and again submerging into another six-year nap.
Maintenance overhead. It doesn't seem like it would be a huge change, but only they will know the real cost of supporting both.
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Why so snarky? The parent poster asked a valid question, and "my organization relies on it and de-facto mandates its use" would have been a good answer.
I've just looked at the to 4 sites for mensrights and see hosting on Azure, GCP, Cloudflare and godaddy.

Do you have any links to any cloud or other hosting company kicking out any mens rights sites?
MHtml doesn't execute javascript, see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=452901 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=330663
Previously discussed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582622
If bad genes are sufficient to make you depressed, then that doesn't imply they are also sufficient for making you any more happy in any point in time.
Yet again this sounds like the pet project of a VP trying to make his bones while ruining the product, and nobody at the company is powerful enough to overrule him.
Yes I live in an European capital with fairly strong rent control, and a competitive housing market, and everyone I know is pretty convinced they will die in their current apartment.
> 3. Don't stop innovating. The developers who were there since day 1 who refuse to adopt new tech? Yeah, get rid of them. They're pulling the rest down to their level.

Here is one, listen to the experienced developers, stop innovating tech and focus on building what the customer actually wants/needs in a robust manner. In my experience, the focus on 'new tech' and not customers has been the death of startups I have worked in. Flakey products based on the latest and greatest tech has been another.
Tried registering a .EDU domain recently? Or a .NGO? There are plenty.
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> it is a waste of our human labour for thousands of people to be working book stalls for entire lifetimes when there is a more efficient way to disseminate knowledge.

Those who earn a living doing that might disagree about it being a waste of labour. A job that provides an income is useful to society even if you don't consider the thing being worked on to be worthwhile. (FWIW I prefer physical books to reading on a screen).
> There was also a case where a user with over 1500 tabs open (scientifically considered a “tab hoarder”) noticed extreme slowness when opening the “all tabs” dropdown. It turned out that he had tripped on an O(N²) edge case, and the issue was fixed.

Good god.I've seen some ridiculous tab collections but that is next level.
I like your idea, and I will add a bit to it.

If we could have a potentially infinite afterlife, or potentially infinite reincarnations, then just one life doesn't matter much.

But if there's no such thing, if there's only this life and nothing after, then every single second being alive is the most valuable thing ever.
Well I dont really understand why all of you are complaining, yes a product manager tried to improve the way we can write things because 95% of people don't know Markdown or something like that and the first iteration is not perfect for code users.

But they will probably correct the pain points listed in this article, why would they revert back their change if this is the best for Slack overall ?

Coming here is good to draw the attention on those issues so that they can fix it, but this is not the end of the world !
The simple truth is that significant UI features should default on and be possible to disable on launch.

Give me a simple text edit option (heck, even Jira lets you choose between the two because they understand users have different preferences) and I'll be fine.
> Can't disagree with this enough.

I'm not sure if you're actually disagreeing with me.

My point is once some future neural network starts to grasp continuity and context (something GPT-2 does not do) I think writing won't be safe from AI.

I couldn't speculate when that would be, but I've seen some unpublished efforts that make me think it's sooner than many people might think.

But between here and there will be the opportunity for AI-assistive writing that could facilitate what my developmental editors and beta-readers do.
If you were starting from scratch it would look quite different, the obvious change would be Unicode only. In fact it would probably look much like XPS.
You're saying this to a community with the mantra, "move fast and break things."
Alternatively, here's my entry for "Beating GNU wc with GNU wc":

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=100m bs=1M count=100 2> /dev/null

$ time wc -w 100m
2319144 100m

real 0m4.543s
user 0m4.512s
sys 0m0.029s

$ time env LC_CTYPE=C wc -w 100m
2308032 100m

real 0m0.842s
user 0m0.842s
sys 0m0.000s

Your program is faster, though.
It didn't catch on because Mozilla never gave a shit about XULRunner, and they were clear about it.

In the late 2000's there were many companies who launched products based on XULRunner (Miro, Songbird, Joost, Tom-Tom...), but when they encountered bugs in the platform Mozilla's response was always "bug doesn't affect Firefox, we don't care". Even if you made a PR yourself (actually a patch at the time), good luck to get it merged if Firefox wasn't impacted.

Note that XULRunner was called this way but you didn't have to use XUL, you could use HTML for UI just like in Electron today.

If Mozilla saw the potential in their platform as a development platform for third party, it might still exist and have a bigger market share than Electron today. Maybe GitHub would have used it instead of developing electron, actually.
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Funnily enough I was hired on a 12 month contract as a software developer.

Four months into that contract I was moved over to a struggling 'Slack' enabled project, to help them work through their ever growing backlog.

I knew someone working on that project and discussed with them the project's use of Slack only to realise it was nothing more than a talk fest and not for me.

So when the project manager approached me, asking if I would like to join in on the Slack discussions, I declined.

Needless to say that did no go down so well.

However, I stuck to my guns and 12 months on my contract was renewed.

To this day Slack is still not part of my daily development life.
On the other hand, perfection looks like nothing ever blowing up while job always getting done.
... and for those that choose not to renew based on cost or ideological protest, there's the opportunity for a scammer to slide their hand quietly into the glove of trust that was lovingly crafted by the previous long-term owners of the domain.
He wasn't acquitted. The prosecution have chosen not to pursue the investigation because of the elapsed time.

And it was one rape allegation that they've stopped pursuing, not two. I don't believe there was a second one. The other allegation was for sexual molestation which passed the statute of limitations a while ago.
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