skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person who filed the complaint really needs to change his first name - I find it offensive.
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That's just defining the term. AFAICT the law only says that an employee has a right to receive fair compensation for a technical improvement in some cases. It explicitly says that apart from that, procedures covering technical improvements are a matter of contracts: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/__20.html
Interesting. React is the thing. But some trends are weird:

People ditch Cordova heavily, but also React Native and native apps. Electron rises to the top, although you can't build mobile apps with it that are distributed through the various stores.

So, what's filling the void for app development, if everything just went down?
The same will happen when you fall off the happy path with ordained choice of any particular framework.
> we're sorry we hurt your and other's feelings. We'll remote the Santa Hat.

wow.

If 4chan were to make an image about a fictional interaction like this, people would call it exaggerated.

edit: this has to be a troll. I cannot believe someone would actually write like that
SlashDiv: NoCode editor for Material UI based websites
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>Maybe give people free HVAC upgrades to filter more particles.

Or just reduce pollution in the first place! AFAIK, manufacturing and running HVAC would add more pollution and cost more than switching (for instance) from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. Or even better, cycling within cities. etc.
Detailed report for each location which is not reachable from: https://outage.report/google/amp

Another report link: https://netblocks.org/reports/youtube-gmail-and-google-servi...

Connection issue appears in 20+ countries mostly in Middle East and Eastern Europe incl. Netherlands, UK, Ireland, France and Germany.

There's no any official announcement from Google and probably not the only one who is beginning to think about having another main mail account. Are there any precautions for effecting less on issues like this for another future occurrence?
It seems to be a universal phenomenon (I see similar trends in many European countries, including mine) and I wouldn't use the word "played". The left seems to be as keen on legislating morality as the right.
All those other concerns bear out as moral concerns.

Much legislation is technocratic and hides its moralism, but it’s all questions of right and wrong, good and bad, at the end of the day.
Plus, I like to start with the topic the commit was about, so its easy to scan for a part of the codebase. E.g.

user/login: Add link on home screen
auth: Refactor into separate classes
I wonder though if a recommendation engine is good after all.

I wrote a concept with (possibly local) curators to subscribe to and the ability to up- or downvote them in your news stream. This way everything stays on a 1-to-1 basis.

There is no AI judging your clicks (quantitatively I click more cat pictures than 7-page articles, even if I prefer the latter).

And no grouping/democracy which I think does not work well for taste-stuff (everybody can agree on cute cats and your bubble agrees on political opinions that are obvious to you, but thought provoking, hard to digest stuff is out again).

If anyone is interested I can send you my write up (even has a few pictures in it!).
“I” in KNX stands for inexpensive.
If I were this person I would invest my time fixing the HTTPS cert on my site[0], instead of focusing on the trivialities of commercial-backed festivities, passing them as religious offences.

[0](https://www.servicelayer.no/)
Lol. PC police FTW!
Upcoming movies people are so crazy about
I'd bet than investing in cleaner vehicles (ICE > EV) and energy source (call > renewable/nuclear) would have much greater health and climate benefits and for much higher ROI.
Maybe he meant that they will host the icon remotely, so he can block it in his hosts file if he really doesn't like it.
Should have offered a switch via popup (on startup of the new update) and/or configuration setting to disable holiday theming and etc.

Would seem to balance between sensitivities and cultural appreciation of different people, but I guess it is easier to just remove it.
Clearly a deity of commercialism has no place in a product made by ...checks notes... Microsoft.
In the UK there was a study on social isolation comparing rural and urban people to evaluate the assumption that people in "isolated" rural areas are lonely. It found the reverse - that people in urban areas are more socially isolated.

https://www.co-operative.coop/campaigning/loneliness

"The report briefly mentions the ‘rurality factor’ as presenting greater barriers to connection, with rural areas having fewer and more expensive support services such as transport links. However, it goes on to suggest that ‘rural communities were felt to be less closed off than their urban counterparts’, with rural participants more likely to ask how people are, or stop for chats."
How ironic his name is "Christian".
I use Dvorak on a Kinesis and typing on a regular keyboard isn’t a big deal. It’s surprising, but learning Dvorak or another keyboard doesn’t really make you worse at the original.
There are two problems with interfaces like google maps - and one exacerbates the other.

- it's not bloody obvious how they work - randomly clicking on meaningless icons, try to uncover functionality.
- then just as you get used to it, they change it!

My biggest feature request would be a key stroke to hide all the floating crud that is obscuring my view of the map!
Open source libraries used to make Discord
So basically the equivalent of requiring ID for getting a phone SIM, thanks for the clarification.

Did not make much sense otherwise for just email or even for active user accounts (as in unix logins), because if you have tens of thousands of them your security model surely cannot rely on the assumption that none of them are bad actors.

"Just like a phone SIM" is also where it definitely enters the realm of legal requirements. Certainly debatable, but there can't be much precedent and then it's the usual struggle between a perhaps careless group appealing to common sense and a maximum correctness camp that wants to go by the book, in its most pessimistic interpretation. When under a malware attack like that, even the slightest trace of neglect on the technical side can punish you hard. It's no surprise that the required mindset of extreme prudence carries over to the legal side. I still don't believe that the ID check would be the only correct way to handle this (e.g. snail mail still goes a long way in terms of checking legal boxes), but they surely are not in the mood for taking risks right now.
I'm pretty confident that depression is not a result of air pollution, but rather that both air pollution and depression are results of industrialization. The problem is not chemical. The problem is how we live.
I feel like this was really intended to be harmless (it's really not pushed into your face also), people need to be able to let things go.
edit: wait, multiple people is saying he's a troll, is that true?
Windows NT and Windies 95 were the first versions to have preemptive scheduling. Windows 3.11 and older would only switch tasks when he program requested new messages from the queue. Thus was totally annoying because most applications were written badly and had moments where they would go off and do things and not return to their message loop for several seconds or worse, hanging the entire system during that time. Windows felt very sluggish because of that.
I've always thought it would be an interesting service where someone did this with medication/supplements. They sent you supplies of both the real and sugar pill meds for a certain duration and you recorded how you felt.
The constant attempt to break this down into easier analogies make it more confusing..
Could you cite sources for these claims?

The numbers I've seen are opposite to what you claim, and seemed to indicate that a lot of the "trafficking" is actually people traveling to another country for a while to earn (relatively) easy money without risking getting stigmatized by people they know.

You can see sort of the same thing play out without the stigmatization with carpenters and similar coming from low-wage countries. They'll generally have worse working conditions than local carpenters (if for nothing else being away from their families), but still come for the opportunities.

I do think the stigmatization makes it a difficult subject.
So what's different to say yousendit?

I miss the option to share via link instead of by mail. I'd even argue that a link to copy and a few share-buttons of which email is just one might work best today (though heavy files might be more desktop focused after all, so I'm not 100% sure. Easy to track once built though.).
thanks for sharing good information
You can open an Issue.
The Dutch are somewhere high on the top 10 net international food exporters. In absolute terms

We could lose a lot of farms and still feed ourselves.
But that might be exactly the problem. This Buddha-Nature, the enlightenment thing, to me honestly is just like the believe in a God in other religions. It is very cult like for me.

I heard there are lot of stories out there of so called Zen Masters who claim to have achieved enlightenment (those according to your example, who can drink alcohol, kill animals for eating them) who get drunk and otherwise act weirdly and it is excused with "well, we cannot understand them, they are enlightened and we not, so we cannot see the wisdom in their actions".

I have not much personal experience with Zen, but heard that this is not so uncommon.

But of course, this doesn't say, that there are personal benefits in meditating, leaving a life without drugs, have a focused mind etc. - but maybe this things are mainly a new, western construct, attached to the base religion of Buddhism.
I didn't pick up on that. How ironic!
One time I was in Amsterdam, a guy approached us and pretty bluntly asked if we need any cocaine. That was pretty telling.
Imo that's the best reply they could have given. Certainly not a pleasant reply but it is accurate.
You realize that the average life expectancy already includes the infant deaths, right? It does not mean that a healthy 18 year old is unlikely to live past 40. Only a newborn baby is.
You'd need to be able to deal with peak-flow to some extent.
Maybe Ionic with Capacitor?
I don't know what's more pathetic—that somebody will go out of his way because of a santa hat, or that the project actually removed the hat.

What a clown world we live in!
> Please remove it immediately and make it your top priority.

Jeez, the entitlement.

> To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika.

and the stupidity.
Looks like MS fell for an individual troll. I think the real story is how companies, as risk averse as they are respond to such cases - I would probably weight the risks and do as MS in such cases.
It would have been funny as hell is they added a Menorah as well, just to troll him...
It's now 2019, and as far as I know, MSVC still doesn't have full support for the 20-year-old C99 standard.
"but the US system has to actually pay for the R&D the rest of the world piggybacks on", goes the standard counter.
It depends what you my mean by "do anything".

If that includes "have a conscious experience," then you're the one who's going to have to descend into hand wavy nonsense to explain how that's possible. Unless you've solved the hard problem of consciousness.
Different budgets probably - I've seen people kicking up an almighty fuss on a ~£40 million pound project about buying ~200 large monitors for one screen in the application (the application screen really did need to be huge due to various constraints).

One of our meetings probably cost ten times the cost of 200 monitors!
I don't want decoration on my tools. On the other hand, I prefer tools where the personality of the maker to can still shine through. Today it's just a Santa's hat for which they can't take responsibility. And tomorrow?
Nah, Ionic goes down as well for whatever reason. I'm still all in on Stencil + Ionic/Core + Capacitor.

Maybe people use NativeScript, I don't know. Just found it interesting that the trend seems to go down for ALL mobile development tools.
Razor Pit keeps the Gillette blade sharpened enough for about 2 weeks of shaving. This has been a descent money saver.
Petzold is Gold. I have a copy of the Fifth Edition that I bought new and I expect it to remain useful for some time yet.
If you look at bottom right of his included screenshot, you'll see he has tab size set to 4 spaces.

Is this really the type of person we should be taking demands from?!
This reminds me of Google so many years ago setting Father's Day reminder in people's Gmail.

At some scale, a product can't just be whimsical, or not in any cultural or personally touching way. Boring and impersonal becomes an important virtue.

There's no way this kind of fun initiative won't hit a nerve in some community or some group around the world, and if there's no logical backing behind it's just a PR hell.
I noticed the same. What a waste of time.
I don't think they should have backed down, but I understand Microsoft not wanting confrontation or a storm. But if this person is so offended, I imagine that they are constantly and persistently offended while walking the streets, full of similar symbols and seasonal displays.

I'm a staunch atheist but I still appreciate a beautiful mosque, cathedral or fun display.

(And I do find the money that could have been spent on helping others that was used to build cathedrals and palaces to be obnoxious, it's not that I have to have complete respect to accept their existence).

This story frustrated me because it seems like a needless censorship, where it ultimately just stops managers from allowing easter eggs, which used to be such a wonderful part of much software.

Hahahahahaha probably Easter eggs is also going to offend. Ok I'll call them "Cody surprises":-p
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I really hope this is just a troll.
I understand being annoyed by religious symbols, but "it's almost as offensive as a swastika"... that's just immensely callous. Especially from a Jewish perspective.
> all that is mostly done by multilingual people anyway.

Indeed, and some of those multilingual people are developers bridging between the world of international software where English is the lingua franca and their own local communities where company-internal code doesn't need to have all documentation in English, even if that's the case for the open-source software it relies on.

The bridge also works in the opposite direction, such that if you want to contribute your internal code to the international community, it's appropriate to provide them with English documentation. The TARS developers evidently realize that, their translation is just not fully done yet.
People in Japan are wearing exoskeletons to keep working as they age
I think they'd need quite high density before releasing your reservation makes sense - after all, how are you going to get home if someone else has taken the car?
Is there an VSCode extension to bring the hat back, though?
So the objection is against a symbol that is vaguely related to a festival that ties together an enormous number of various otherwise unrelated celebrations (that all happen at or around the winter solstice). The main objection to most of them being that they aren't Jewish (conveniently ignoring the Jewish festival of Hanukkah that occurs at around the same time).

Curiously the article linked that feebly attempts to tie this all together in a coherent narrative fails to mention how the red hat is related to Christmas.
Current US culture seems to consider how someone feels/perceives an action as a strong indicator that something wrong was done. (Eg: I didn't feel safe in that meeting, I felt uncomfortable by the remark, etc.)

Combine that with a touchy subject like Judaism and the Jewish history (the article linked also throws in mentions of Hitler to invoke some strong reactions) and viola
The problem with the really big geological events is that they have no safe observation distance anywhere on Earth.

I mean, I'd love to see a 3 mile asteroid strike the Earth, just for the sake of observing so many cascading disaster effects...... so long as I could do it from space, while viewing an alternate version of the Earth, in which I don't have to live afterwards.
...actually 4chan regularly runs things remarkably close with this. Sometimes they _accidentally_ turn a previously innocuous symbol into hate speech (see: "okay" gesture, welcome to 2019, where seeing someone making it makes you go and check if they're just not extremely online or actually a nazi), most of the time they just announce to the world they hang out on 4chan. The examples of less successful would be several spoof LGBT rights campaigns for, uh, unpleasant things.
I must say I'm amused by the reactions here. I realize that the reporter displays a strong reaction to something that seems irrelevant to most people here. Comments then go on to raise concerns of rationality and objectivity.

Yet most discussions I read on here are the exact opposite. They quickly dissolve into unnecessary rabbit holing about some particular niche topic a commenter particularly cares about. Few people complain about these, and many people participate. Most people participating also claim to be "rational" and "objective", yet often know very little of the topic.

I feel this here is the same. People complain that people have feelings, because they feel they are superior by being all "rational". Yet when the next technical discussion comes around, all of this is thrown out of the window because "curly braces go on the next line!!1"..
There is Delphi and Lazarus as open-source clone of it

Lazarus can use the Windows API on Windows, gtk/qt on Linux, and carbon/cocoa on Mac.

There is also a custom drawn mode that draws the GUI directly rather than using platform apis. That also runs on Android, but it not maintained anymore, so only up to Android 5 or something

Delphi is supposed to run on Android and iOS.

And Delphi 1 ran on Windows 3.1, so you could have used the same GUI since then
Absolutely not! Submitting "derp" to code review is just disrespectful of the reviewer's time.

There's a rationale for every change. The submitter knows it. The reviewer needs to know it. They can try reconstructing it from the diff, which is potentially error prone .. or you could just tell them.

I'll accept "Fix ticket #1234", since that's moved the rationale elsewhere.
>The Santa Hat on vscode insiders and pushing of religion is very offensive to me, additionally xmas has cost millions of Jews their lives over the centuries, yet even if that was not the case, pushing religious symbols as part of a product update is completely unacceptable. Please remove it immediately and make it your top priority. To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika.

This guy should be banned from the project.

Slap a couple of lawsuits in different jurisdictions for promoting hate speech (for him equating an established religious symbol to the swastika).
You really need to learn how to use a tablet.
This started happening when default calculator changed from a classic native app to the new "modern" app.
And of course the opposite issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87291
It may or may not be a troll, but that is irrelevant as to what makes this situation interesting: the fact that Microsoft caved in to such an incontrovertibly unreasonable request.
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The world is full of people who actively want to be offended. Who LIKE to be offended.

If Christmas is so offensive why is it on every media channel constantly this time of year?

They have a bubbling sense of righteous indignation ready to trigger.

These are trolls no different from any other.

The right way to handle this troll would have been to first get Christmas taken off some mainstream tv channels first.
How do either of the arguments not apply to every single job or task that anyone does for renumeration? I would not do my job without being paid, therefore I am being forced to work against my will?
Everybody should read Factotum from Bukowski, it taught more about work than any other book.
Yes, the world is complex, but OPs argument is pretty specific: That anti-trafficking rhetoric and anti-prostitution activism is largely overlapping, that it denies, by and large, the very gray areas you refer to, that it conflates the idea of consensual sex work with trafficking, and in the process has little regard for either consensual sex workers or sex trafficking victims.

> Are the African ladies prostituting themselves in Italy doing so voluntarily when they are afraid of voodoo curses? Is the meth addict doing it voluntarily? Is the girl that can't afford her daughter's diabetes medication by any other 'job' doing so voluntarily?

The first case is distinct because it's a real case of illicit external force. For the other two, it's worth pointing out that in the US, the baseline is still "arrest", "criminal charges", and "publishing your name and picture online". This happens with the silent consent of both the US public as well as anti-trafficking activists, who neither speak out against this kind of policing, nor stop cooperating with police departments.

The life of a woman needing to pay for diabetes medication for her daughter does not not improve by being arrested, nor does she welcome her source of income disappearing because of restrictive laws.

Have a look at local news reports of "anti-trafficking stings". It's always the same story. Dozens unnamed woman arrested, rarely even a claim that a victim was identified; and OP is right; the definition of what counts as trafficking is wide enough that even in those cases where it is claimed that a victim was found, it needs to be questioned whether the person actually welcomed the rescue.
Shouldn't he find his own name offensive ?
VLC gets dressed up for the holidays (the traffic cone wears a little hat), but it can be turned off in the settings. Surely making this configurable (even via some arcane non-GUI switch) would have satisfied all parties? Instead the devs of VS Code, who no doubt felt this would be a cute and generally appreciated little token to brighten a dev’s day, will be less inclined to do fun things in the future. Everyone loses.
It deeply offends me that people who think they peddle "logic and rationality" can sum religions as "magical sky wizards" and summarily consider their role as detrimental, without understanding their social, cultural, historical, and evolutionary role and development.
I'm finding the "mad scientist" cliche more and more offensive each day.
> you wanna learn react and you never used an arrow function, wtf

At least in the early days, using React was the first time most people would be exposed to webpack/babel, so it was also their first exposure to the newer JS features.
What gives you this certainty?
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What?! This has to be a joke... what happened to good old program settings to disable things?
> Build a commit parser into version control to auto-write the titles for you.

This is like the auto-javadoc software: if the computer can write it from information already in the code, it's a wasteful duplication of time.

Use commit messages and comments for why. Especially if you chose not to do something in a more obvious way for a specific reason. You can't have "self-documenting" for code the version of code that wasn't written.
Apple, Google, and Amazon team up to create “CHIP,” a new smart home standard
This is from a while ago, but Microsoft once banned software easter eggs. See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/10/21/wh...
> So far we don't know of any such thing

That's not entirely correct. We don't know that a Turing machine can have conscious experience. There's no substantiated "in principle" explanation for that.