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Solution to loniliness on the internet is be decent looking, hot or the vision of what ppl want (aka the beauty standards we're programmed to desire). Those who fit that mold probably aren't the target audience for this app.

Overall the Internet and the dating/hook up apps I believe are one of the problems to the loneliness epedemic Ive read about (all or many of us are too judgy online). People being immediately judged and swiped right on (throw to the bin) without ever getting to know someone. Someone who might make you pee your pants with laughter!
> As part of the British Empire, East Africa used some of the...

Minor correction,only parts of east africa were British colonies.
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I submit lots of one-word grammar and writing fixes.

For me it's not about the reputation boost - it's that I see a minor flaw and can offer a quick fix, rather than just moving on and pretending I didn't see it.

It's like picking up litter when you see it on the street.

That said, I'm not a maintainer of any open source project with actual users, so I'm not familiar with the kind of gamesmanship you undoubtedly see once a project is popular.
There's no way to know for sure. If it was clearly illegal and Facebook's lawyers thought they were going to lose they'd settle with the IRS. If it clearly wasn't illegal the IRS wouldn't pursue the case. The courts are needed in the fuzzy area to interpret the law and answer the question - was it actually illegal?

Other alternatives: If, for example, the IRS has been pressed into the case by public or political pressure they may pursue an unwinnable legal case to win in the court of public opinion or to give other corporations with fewer legal resources than Facebook pause before they engage in similar.
You get a little more information from the DNS queries than the IP headers because of shared hosting, but it's largely the same information, so using two different providers doubles your exposure. If they're different parties, either one could invade your privacy.

So it seems to me that it's better to choose one provider you trust and use it for both. If your VPN provider is molesting your DNS queries, get a different VPN provider.
Article resume: biggest cs problem now is a diversity of serialization formats, because most of current code consist of parsing various formats, so OS must to do something about it.

No, it is not a so big problem. And no it will not do our life easier. Also author did not mention about the real problem of semantic. How client should interpret a structure to compose a valid request.

OS should not know about userspace structures because OS don't do anything with it. It stores and transfers chunks of bytes and its semantic is defined by userspace. And forcing current popular serializing format on OS level is the most dumb idea ever.
In my experience, users are far more likely to stay silent, if they accept or welcome a change.
By making it illegal. People already do that and when they get caught they sometimes go to jail or otherwise pay severe penalties. Also a company with no profits already pays no taxes so to the extent you wanted to roll the dice this way you could do it just as well under current law.
> I really think VPN providers should also provide (open?) DoH resolvers,it helps with their privacy image and a good/fast resolver helps with their performance image.

And now you're 1 step forward, 2 steps back with the VPN provider having the sum of what was previously divided between your DNS provider and your ISP. Major VPN providers become one-stop-shops for snoopers and I'd bet some of the less scrupulous ones are happy to market your data.

There's unfortunately no free lunch but how's this? Run your own recursive resolver offsite (unbound is easy to set up), connect to that over private VPN, use DNSSEC when you can.
Corporations have similar legal rights to corporeal persons. Freedom of speech, access to the legal system, etc. As a result of having similar rights, they should be taxed as corporeal persons. It is not rocket science to conclude that corporations in the U.S. should be taxed at the same effective tax rate as real persons.
They would lobby for regulations but this would eliminate a huge amount of economy-warping tax carve outs and prevent a lot of crony capitalist donations to politicians.
> more likely that it will return yearly like the current flu

The flu mutates yearly, I'm not aware of this new virus having that ability.

In your scenario over time everyone will have encountered the virus and either are now immune or they die. At that point the spread will slow.

It's not like this hasn't happened before: H1N1, Ebola, Zika. They all died down eventually.
Depends on your threat model.
Plan B could be large vertical shafts drilled into tall mountains. Let the high altitude winds create the venturi effect (low pressure) to suck air up the shaft and have turbines in the shaft to generate electric power. Similar to hydro power the construction costs are significant but after that it's almost trouble free energy.
Doing an anthropology Ph.D. is not bettering yourself through education. It is extremely costly consumption, taking six to ten years of your life that you could be earning real money and developing skills that would help you in your post academic career. Maybe it would be worthwhile if there was at least a 90%+ chance of a job with tenure at the end of it. But there isn't. Most people who start an anthropology Ph.D. drop out. Over three quarters of those who graduate with Ph.D.s never get a tenure track job[1], i.e. they never spend a single day doing what they trained to do.

Doing a Ph.D. in Anthropology is for people with parents or spouses willing to support them or who have independent means. It is not for people who will be even slightly put out financially if they don't get a job afterwards.

[1]https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo...
Better "us vs them" than "me vs them"
I understand what you’re trying to say here.

And there’s an argument to be made in the other direction too: everyone should be doing everything they legally can, and where it makes financial sense to exert the effort, to avoid paying any more tax than they have to...

because giving money and power to politicians is like giving whisky and car keys to teenage boys.
Wouldn't a 0% corporate tax make it even more incentivized than it is today?

As a novice, this feels like an approach that punishes the well-off, who may not expend the resources to structure all assets/liabilities this way, at the expense of the super-well-off who will simply pay multiple other people to re-organize their own financials.
Sometimes the projects are "open sourced." For example, the findings of "Project Foghorn," which aimed to produce a synthetic fuel from seawater, were published in two academic papers, one explaining the economics and the other the chemistry. https://x.company/projects/foghorn/

Another, "Project Malta," which aims to store energy in molten salt, was spun out into an independent company. https://www.maltainc.com/our-story
Sorry, it's in a related PM article by the same author (and linked in the original post):

"In an effort to try and clear up the debate, Popular Mechanics sought the help of a digital forensics expert to analyze the video. Having processed over 1,000 cases, including high-profile investigations like U.S. vs Zimmerman, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, Primeau Forensics is regarded as one of the nation’s leading digital forensics experts.

...

When asked if there was enough with just the video to meet the threshold of legally admissible evidence or make a definitive conclusion, Primeau says, “Based on preliminary forensic video analysis, it is my opinion that the FLIR video recordings provided cannot be relied upon as true and accurate, and therefore should not be admissible as evidence in a court of law.”

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30538203...
That would make a lot of sense if he is from Bulgaria. Also, in other cases too.
This is a source of great frustration to me as someone who previously worked at Google X. So many promising projects thrown in the trash, when all of society would have benefitted if Google had open sourced their defunct projects. You know how some economists joked that you could stimulate the economy by paying people to dig holes and fill them back up again? Doing a bunch of development and then abandoning it seems just as wasteful to me. They trashed a lot of valuable off the shelf hardware that could have been donated to schools too. It’s all such a waste to me.
Materialized views, the upcoming ability to query directly from an RDS transactional DB through Redshift, and finally true separation of compute vs storage with RA nodes IMO make Redshift the market leader by a huge margin now. I haven't actually tested RA nodes yet, but if performance is even just a fraction of legacy nodes then the competition is already dead. Redshift already is one of the best engines to optimize a query
Then you get companies leasing jets, houses, etc for employees uses instead of pay.
> Is this actually illegal though?

At the risk of sounding reductive, that is exactly why it is in court: to figure out if it was illegal.
>Rest of Canada has a points based system but is being played by low skilled workers.

It's not being played by low skilled workers. It's being played by wage suppressing mega-cops such as Tim Hortons and McDonalds and low skilled migrants from places like India are unsurprisingly jumping at the opportunity to get out.
I thought most people want a visual filter first? And if this is a product for another part of the market, how does this their experience more efficient? Doesn't blurring an image just decrease the efficiency of the filter? (i.e. one side feels they have 'wasted' time chatting that they wouldn't have initiated shown the non-blurred images first). Eager to be proven wrong, and would love to hear other thoughts.
I think the nicest part of this is for people to be able to poke at and inspect every part of the code - very cool. Normally these things are hidden in large loops! Here you can tug on a single thread and follow it through.
I think the browser is the described OS here: every-api passes objects around, IndexDB is your filesystem, remote REST & GraphQL servers are returning structured JSON objects to your program, you can add a <script> tag to your <html> to pull in your single-function scripts (i.e. leftpad).

Seriously though, the question of "why isn't it done this way" is answered a couple times: "it's all just bytes in the end". Bytes & arrays-of-bytes are really the only thing that you can trust that all systems and all languages interpret the same (even 2-byte integers can be interpreted differently by different systems). Presumably the author just wants to be able to memcpy structures between programs or from disk, or maybe with some high efficiency pre-allocated heap stuff, but you really need to have code to validate the bytes, essentially requiring the parsing of your data-structure which the author is trying to avoid.

Running programs with some common argument notation does sound really nice, but ideally that's just calling a function from your language's binding to their library (as their executable should do, right?).
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There should also be no speed limits, since some people drive too fast anyway. And murder should also be legal, since some people murder anyway. Let’s just remove all laws, since they’ve all been broken at some time.
FWIW, I was just sharing this with someone the other day when discussing the same issue https://gist.github.com/whalesalad/820810f2e969eef816402241a...
And the funding that doesn't require you to work is increasingly offered less.
> Over three quarters of those who graduate with Ph.D.s never get a tenure track job[1], i.e. they never spend a single day doing what they trained to do.

Doing a PhD isn't training to get a tenure track job, and going into industry or teaching or whatever else you want in life is not a failure.

> Doing a Ph.D. in Anthropology is for people with parents or spouses willing to support them or who have independent means.

Yeah, all these millionaires are lining up to work in anthropology between trips on their yachts.

Do you not value studying where we've come from at all?
> Also, for example, the mayor of London is Muslim, and up until last week, the #2 most powerful person in the UK was Muslim, the #3 most powerful person is a woman of Indian heritage. There's been very little fuss over that.

And since last week the #2 is a man of Indian ethnicity. There is a quite decent chance that the first non-white PM of a major European country will be a Tory in post-Brexit Britain. (Certainly, it’s the most likely to happen in the U.K. Meanwhile, what are the odds of say an Algerian PM in France or a Turkish PM in Germany?)
Rent control won't help the striking grad students, though, since they are here for a short time. Rent control is for giving ownership-lite to people.

The only thing that helps graduate students is in the short term a COLA so they can survive, and in the longer term far far more housing so that there is enough to go around.

The prices are the symptom of the underlying problem. The price controlled stock in Santa Cruz is miniscule, and the lines so long that nobody who lives here less than a decade ever has a hope of getting a price-controlled unit.

Unless we address the shortage, we will have one of high prices, long lines, or lotteries. None of these are acceptable solutions for students. (Or really anyone, for that matter. We have to stop trying to exclude people and finally welcome them.)
Xamarin / Mono / .NET? It's maybe a lower bar than leaping into XCode and Swift, and it's possible to deploy on both iOS and Android if using Xamarin.Forms ...

Not really a recommendation, but something to consider, maybe.
These also sound a little like the AT&T "You Will" ads from 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Will
Now, how can I use it in a private, non aws cloud?
Business owners that do that had better be very careful and keep plenty of documentation. There are legal "tests" (read requirements) that must be met for those lunches, travel, cars, computers, etc. to be considered an expense. In many cases, any "non-business" use/benefit/enjoyment renders the entire expense not a business expense. Yes, it is not so rare for small business owners to play loose with the rules. And then they get audited and end up paying a lot in back taxes.
"It eased gently into democracy several hundred years ago"? It's a shame it didn't extend that courtesy to my homeland, Ireland—we were one of those countries that had to wrest democracy through violent revolution, except it was from the British state. As someone who's great-grandfather was lynched by British soliders, I'll thank you not to whitewash your state as a benevolent beacon of democracy and human rights.
That's fair. It will be interesting to see what people do along those lines, creating various materialized views, joining them at query time, chaining materialized views, and I think most important to your point, creating new kinds of sinks for the updates.

Right now Kafka is the only sink ( https://materialize.io/docs/sql/create-sink/ ), but because it integrates with Confluent's schema registry, I'm guessing it should work well with many of Confluent Connect's sinks, ( https://docs.confluent.io/current/connect/managing/connector... ). Elasticsearch would be an especially useful sink connector I think to your point.

I haven't used any of these things together, so right now I'm totally speculating on the potential.

What I'm mostly envisioning is that there are a lot of smaller scale applications where the complexity of adding an activity feed just isn't worth it. But if you could implement a feature like that trivially it could be game changing.
Don't feel old, I still remember doing Blitter stuff on Amiga, or how sad I was that the newly bought 3Dfx card wasn't compatible with my PCI version and had to exchange it for a Nvidia, hardly did I knew.
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> In my 4 years at Santa Cruz I was not aware of one low-rent housing development being built.

So, there's a huge demand for housing for rent. But no housing is getting built. Does Santa Cruz have a Tokyo-level population density and there's literally nowhere to put more housing? Doesn't look like it last time I was there. Do hitech companies somehow use their nefarious influence to prevent housing from being built because they know how their workers enjoy long commutes in heavy traffic? Doesn't sound likely to me. So why there's no housing being built? Somehow I don't think it's Netflix's fault...
Also: Azure and Office 365. Both started by Ballmer.
And there are already rules which are supposed to cause non-business use of jets, houses, etc to be personal taxable income.
I just read Bryan Ward-Perkins’s “The Fall of Rome” and it argues pretty persuasively that the era after the fall was materially worse off than during the Roman Empire. Specifically the quality and quantity of manufactured artifacts and dwellings in the archaeological record appears to fall off substantially. Not to mention there’s some evidence (eg graffiti fragments) that indicates literacy also declined in this period.
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time and time again i've read this flavor of communist rhetoric. time and time again, nothing changes and neither the reader nor the author is inspired to do anything differently after it's regurgitated.

Yes, yes i'm sure if it wasn't for those greedy corporations we'd all have more time to run hedonistic treadmills, and our lives would be meaningful. what are you going to do about it, nerd?

so save your comments for reddit, and i'll save mine for /dev/null. maybe dang will pipe this one for me!
> The assumption you make is that people extract more value from their lives from receiving "free" money than "earning" it from doing "useless" work

But of course they do, because if they didn't then they could just take the "free" money and still volunteer to do the useless work. Maybe some people like digging holes and filling them back in -- it's good exercise.

But anybody who can think of anything more productive to do with their time is then given the option to choose that instead.
all that is properly considered income for the employee. of course, if the co. fails to report it, then it's a difficult matter to police.
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I'm from nowhere near Europe and I'm not letting anyone pin me as pro/anti-brexit. I just think it's weird how some "common sense" policies that benefit one country often come at the cost of another country.
Ask HN: How do you handle toxic coworkers?
I recently started a new job (web developer). One of the other coworkers is passive-aggressive and judgmental. Someone broke production today and he left several comments in Slack that seem intended to make this person feel bad. His comments are usually just tame enough not to be obviously abusive but hurt nonetheless. He frequently leaves the thumbs-down emoji as a comment on a PR (with no explanation or suggested improvement) and tells people that decisions they've made "don't make sense" or are "weird". Leadership doesn't seem bothered by it and even invite him to "do his worst" when leaving comments on a PR. I've only been here a few months and I'm completely sick of it. I come home wiped out whenever I have a bad interaction with this person, which is several times a week. I would like to quit but I don't have another job opportunity. How would you deal with this person? Just ignore them? Call them out when they are being passive aggressive? I've tried to feel out my manager about the situation and he seems mildly unconcerned. It feels like there's a lot of potential for me to be labeled "too sensitive" or "not a good fit".
You might want to try leaving better comments? The one at the top doesn't really make any sense. If you left one that did convince people, it would probably get upvoted.
Fair enough thanks for your reply
Make this for the world :)
HN probably thinks you're implying that immigration decreases your wages, but that's not necessarily wrong. By basic economic theory, an increase in the supply of labor decreases wages.

Eventually you get the situation in the U.S. where electricians and union garbage collectors make more than mechanical engineering PhDs, because they aren't importing more electricians the way they're importing engineers.

It's one thing to make a moral or ideological statement on immigration, but it's another to deny the economic reality. Unless we change the way our economy works and how we allocate money, there is a finite amount of capital available to given sectors. Surely no one would argue with the extreme example, like what if every single adult in New York was a roboticist--how much do you think working roboticists in New York would get paid?
Unfortunately, that policy creates a perpetual motion machine.
Change "VPN" to "no log VPN" and the problem is solved. Conveniently the most popular VPNs are no log.

It isn't a free lunch though, these are paid services.
Yes, I'm likely reading too much into it.

I think it means that I don't want to work in bioinformatics, if there's such ambiguity over what seems to be a basic term.

Does the term "residue" include the ex-amino acid components at the end of the protein?

The text is clear that it doesn't. The popup says that "a residue is a molecule from which a water molecule has been removed". But it's internally inconsistent, and the IUPAC definition says that it does include the ends.
Yeah, in this case dimensionality would refer to degrees of freedom, not the cardinality of the space.
Discussed at the time on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193216
> "it will be very inexpensive"

then your publishers will make very little money.
My post was about the weird feeling of walking down a path and shortly afterwards seeing it carried away by a sudden landslide. I took steps and lived my life without realising that the ground was about to shift just under where my feet had been.

Nowadays, if I wanted, I would be able to move to the UK as well. Would I do it? Probably not. It’s sad, but I wouldn't want to go back to a place that is becoming more and more unwelcoming.
> pockets the unreported tax

I’d assume tax fraud is much more common than money laundering. Maybe drug dealers and the like create enough of a market for “reverse zappers” to exist; not sure.
That's nonsensical and not even close to what was being said.

Taxes are not a moral issue nor do they have a victim. The proposal isn't to eliminate them entirely, only to remove corporate income tax and make it up in other changes for a net win for the economy, and it's perfectly reasonable to discuss.
This things should really be banned...
Your argument is totally irrelevant to corporate tax rates. I’m not advocating for legalizing murder, stop being ridiculous.
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The market is a beautiful thing; it will quickly and swiftly tell you if you’re right or not. No need to fret over any apologetic comment.
Given all the other comments it sounds like many people agree with me. What part didn’t you understand?
> Homes shouldn't be an investment

Try explaining to somebody who just bought an asset that costs 10x their annual salary, at 5x leverage, that they shouldn't care whether this asset appreciates or not. Be prepared to duck quickly.

> Especially in a country as large as the US

I'm pretty sure there are places in US where housing is literally 20 times cheaper than Santa Cruz. Somehow it doesn't make anybody feel better.
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