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> I disagree.

They're literally a response to George Floyd being murdered. The straw that broke the camel's back. Every single protest has chanting of the high-profile cases of black people being murdered by police.

> The chaos and riots are a direct result of weak leadership. When the mayor and governor practically declare a "purge" this is what you get.

I have no idea what this is referring to.

> This would happen in any place and any time in which the government stands down and tells the civilian population they are on their own.

When the government stands down from what? Civilian population on their own for what? I have so many questions.

> We've been locked down for months and it seems like the only thing that's legal to do is burn down buildings and rob stores.

Are you trying to make this about the pandemic?

> This will only be ended with overwhelming violence. Either the state needs to step up and accept their role/responsibility as the monopoly holder on violence, or I fear the general population will. And if the average joe does it, it'll be in the form of mass killings at rallies, which no one wants.

It will be ended when cops stop murdering black people. That seems like a more copacetic solution than escalating violence.
You just have the target wallet address and the "send" button, zero bullshit, like paper money.
That's simply a false dichotomy. You can very easily tailor social programs to help correct for the effects of historical injustice without resorting to discrimination by simply targetting the effect itself, not the group that was discriminated against. Any group that is disproportionally affected by the effect will be disproportionally helped by the alleviation and remediation of said effect.

The argument that we need more racism because of racism is a vicious cycle. I hate all racism, no matter if it's well intentioned. The road to hell is all too often paved with good intentions.

Groups do not endure injustice, individuals do. The moment we start thinking of people as competing groups rather than individuals, individuals become devalued and get thrown under the bus without regard for their unique personhood. Under a program like this a well to-do black immigrant who is not the product of a history of injustice would receive preferential treatment over a non-black person trapped in generational poverty who may have personally endured injustice.

Why do white leftist think that blacks are dependent on special treatment from whites? Isn't that white supremacist in and of itself? They are still denying us the dignity of succeeding on our own merits on a level playing field.
I expected it would link to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y instead of a rick roll! Nice one.
Could a disease (I just read it's a virus, til) like polio "spontaneously" reform or re-evolve if it's eradicated completely?
Is there a list of what they have changed their programming language to? Like... Reddit indeed used to have their initial implementation in Lisp, but it is now Python.
I use Python by choice and the more there is growing need for Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Data Mining, the more I can not leave Python.

I try Rust, Ruby and others on the side. But Python is just so heavily fortified now that I constantly suggest startups who are going to build non-trivial tech to select Python. Also the whole Linux, deployment, etc. space is filled with Python.

Biology, Physics, Math folks also use more Python than any other language.
The sea is not 'owned' by any country

But all the ports are. Come up with rules, and just dont let ships dock if the owners of the ship dont follow the rules

Doesnt seem that tricky.
Great classification.
Does your phone not come with a back button? How do you navigate "back" in Android? The lack of back button seems to be a common complaint, and I just can't understand it. EDIT: "I just can't understand it" means I'm evidently lacking information about how other people use their phones, so I'm hoping someone who does understand can explain it to me.
On the contrary, it will make Hey more known to the community, like free advertising.
Mockery is probably the best tool for growth hacking ;)
It's the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, so it would be apt to credit them both; erasing her does not do her, her work and her achievements justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Gates#Awards_and_recog...).
Just one factor: Trains usually have large space overhead, this separates them from planes and even buses. In a train, you feel like you are sitting free in an airy room. (Even though it can be crowded laterally).
Some of these are wrong: Rappi used PHP exclusively for it's first year, for instance
> We have a duty as a nation to attempt to heal the damage that we have caused.

25% percent of the US’s population as a nation is 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, a substantial portion of which arrived after 1965 because desegregation and immigration reforms coincide. [1] Whatever “we” you might be thinking, it risks running an egocentric fallacy to assume it expands to the entirety of the US population.

[1] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/02/07/second-generation...
What do we cut out of the curriculum to find space for these things? We are barely able to teach people how to read, write and do arithmetic properly. I agree that these skills are essential, but it is so easy to just say that we should teach it in school.
Scrum is a pandemic itself...
My favorite from the list: https://youtu.be/UQHaGhC7C2E
Interesting that all of them which have "Y" for category "LowLv" incorporated one or more of c++, go, or rust[0]. Many which have "Y" for "DataSci" similarly use strongly typed/compiled languages (including Java). However, for general ecommerce / service-oriented offerings, there can be no dispute, given this list, whether ruby or python by themselves are up to the task.

[0] Dropbox is listed as python only, but it is well known (and documented) they have re-written key elements of their back end in rust. https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876293261/the-link-between-di...
This Story makes a solid argument that police unions are a huge part of the problem. The unions’ protect bad cops, negotiate work rules, influence Elections, effect training programs and oppose reform.

Maybe its time to look at getting rid of public employee unions altogether.
As soon as they tighten regulations on shell companies and awful lot of wealthy people might have to start paying tax. Those people also happen to be highly influential in the world of global politics. Sitting in their ivory towers, a devastating explosion in a 3rd world country miles away won't change anything.
It's a sad reflection of the world we live in today.
> Was anyone doing any of that prior to gutenbergs bet on the printing press..

That comment is disingenuous and outright deceitful.

Guttemberg wasn't selling ebooks that downloaded books from an online store. My question was who else offered a similar product to Amazon when Amazon launched Kindle.
I found two examples in credible (for this topic) news sources of Sheriff's departments testing out volunteer auxiliary programs in rural counties.

I see no indication that they are provided any equipment.

No weapons, no "bulletproof vests", nada.

Whether or not they have to pay for the required training is unclear.

Also -- and I ask out of genuine curiosity -- how is this not aligned with the idea of community-based policing?
As far as I remember, he did NOT go into nk without a guide. He travelled through a non-tourist-approved border crossing without a booked guide, but the border guards let him through after arranging for a guide to meet him at pyongyang station.
I wonder why the crew had to remain onboard for 10 months. Were they being held for the debts? Could they not afford to fly out? They didn't have to stay in Lebanon if it was a question of visas or what-have-you.
Except really we've established you weren't personally targeted and were just a random person in a protesting mob...
Same goes for politics, or any position of power/authority really, the people who want it the most are the worst alternatives.
I am not aware of any other site that is both excluded by the internet archive and has been found in the past to engage in dishonest attempts of covering up its mistakes. I would argue that both of them combined is quite a strong of an evidence for my claim.
>The parent post seemed hold that even this position is amoral.

I supposed because our ways of measuring intelligence are faulty, if someone tells you they will gene optimize your kids for high intelligence they must be using some measurement for what that is.

on edit: as I believe most human qualities have at least some environmental component it could well be that you have a gene that increases the chance of getting a quarterback, decreases the chance of intelligence and still end up with

1. a dumb quarterback
2. a smart quarterback
3. an dumb non-quarterback
4. a smart non-quarterback

only with different percentile chances going in to the process. Although if someone is a parent increasing chances for a dumb quarterback I am betting smart result is unlikely (unless the kid hates parental authority and becomes smart to spite them, which is basically what I did)
I'm curious too. From a quick search, I found WebDSP, "A client-side DSP library utilizing the power of WebAssembly".

https://github.com/shamadee/web-dsp

> WebDSP is a collection of highly performant algorithms, which are designed to be building blocks for web applications that aim to operate on media data.

> The methods are written in C++ and compiled to WASM, and exposed as simple vanilla Javascript functions developers can run on the client side.

..On further reading, they have functions for video and image processing, but not audio as far as I can tell.

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There's Glissando, "A web-based digital audio workstation using the web platform APIs (Web Audio, Web MIDI) and WebAssembly".

https://github.com/glissando-daw/glissando-app

They mention "VST support", but I cannot imagine how that's possible from the web.
Most startups on HN would be far more honest if they just came full circle and made an email app like hey.com.

But anyway, looking forward to the Microsoft Word, errr, Notion clones in the coming months.
Don’t knock it til’ you try it
Will this affect services like Crofflr, or do they use a different mechanism?
Well what Jobs did was eliminate all the extras and focus in on Apple’s core strength.

Which resulted in the famous four product matrix.

And then once stabilised, innovate around their core vision - appliances (Jobs always wanted the Mac to be an appliance) that are a delight to use.

Which resulted in the iPod.

How would that apply to Mozilla?

Core strength - development platform for the web?
Core vision - open and privacy-safe information sharing?
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My primary card declines all non 3D Secure internet purchases unless I click the scary sounding "Open card to all internet purchases for 60 minutes" button in the bank app.
No log-log plots nor fat magic markers in this paper though.
Regimes collapse due to their people’s will.
To be honest, I think that landing page is great.

HN people will get mad when a landing page is not just words on a page, but will also get mad when it is.
And to add to the points made in this article, regional data should also be exposed. Extraction could have made it to the #1 spot simply because it had Randeep Hooda and Chris Hemsworth in it and not because of the story-line. The whole of India would have been rooting for a Bollywood actor in a Hollywood film.
> I've been trying really hard to replace all my usage of "you're wrong" with "yes and".

How does it work with e.g.?

A: 2+2=5
B: Yes and....

I've seen this advice in some local guideline for holding effective meetings, but there are certain scenarios where saying

'yes and' or 'this might be true from your POV, but please consider'

feels more like trying to manipulate someone than just trying to figure out something (agree on sth), esp. when it's a technical discussion.
> Indeed, eight years before Orville and Wilbur Wright took their home-built flyer to the sandy dunes of Kitty Hawk, cranked up the engine, and took off into the history books, Lord Kelvin, the President of the Royal Society of England made a forceful declaration. "Heavier than air flying machines are impossible," said this very powerful man of science....Rumor has it Lord Kelvin was slightly in error.

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/speeches/fg_kitty_haw...
I believe the longest single train trip in Europe is still Nice-Moscow via Genoa, Milan, Austria, Poland, etc.
Ruby certainly seems to have advantage in terms of spinning up a basic working product, which matters more than developing a well engineered solution.
I thought this would be https://heeeeeeeey.com/
There might be others, but the big advantage in my eyes is that Re, because it is pure-OCaml, is platform independent, whereas Re2, being backed by the C++ lib of the same name, is not. At Jane Street this is relevant because we share a lot of code between Linux servers and JavaScript (running in Chrome) clients.
The takeaway is "make sure you use a tool like R8 or ProGuard to remove unused code paths". That's where most of the savings came from, and the advice applies to Java projects as well.

But true, if you care about every last byte, you might use Java instead. You might also use another language entirely.
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Have you considered NextDNS.io for adblocking?

It's a life changer!
Facebook changes name of its annual VR event and its overall AR/VR organization
I agree with you, but it is also worth considering how much computation had to go into producing those couple of gigabytes.
To use a quote template from The Office:

Jo: Question 1: Can I trace ownership of the ship and the goods it's transporting?
Dwight: It's complicated
Jo: Yeah, but you see... it's not.
Incorrect.

Cement was at East Precinct.

Fire was at West Precinct.

You've received misinformation that filtered down from one very dishonest conservative source, MyNorthwest.
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Just tonight, it sort of happened, in Wisconsin.

There were rioters armed in various ways. A favorite was a long and narrow skateboard, because denying that it is intended as a weapon works pretty well. Business owners, homeowners, and their friends were caught in the middle, and typically armed with rifles similar to the AR-15.

Rioters chased a guy down the street. He fell. The rioters were soon upon him. He shot at one while on the ground, and got hit by a skateboard. He then managed to stand (this I feel is where the biased video editing will start) and fire at the skateboard attacker who was coming back for another attack. That shot, at a range of 1 to 5 feet, turned the attacker's biceps into a mist that is visible in the video. (other footage shows a fist-sized chunk missing) Way off on the right side of the video another armed rioter apparently has second thoughts, stopping his approach and backing off a bit. Yet another rioter doesn't seem to get the message, continues approaching, and is shot. The shooter then carefully walks down the street.

Meanwhile, in a different location but close enough that the shots from one video can be heard in the other, there is another shooting with a similar gun. This time the rioter suffers a head shot or two, then drops down with whole-body spasms that suggest brain stem destruction. I could see a bullet wound on the side of the head, but it looked like a grazing wound. I think there was another that hit the neck or entered a nostril. The nose was bleeding, and the neck was hidden by a scarf.
> It’s hard to blame people for misunderstanding slogans that supposedly don’t mean what the plain meaning would suggest.

I find it very easy to blame people who are not willing to spend 10 seconds researching what a movement stands for. We can't say that it's okay to read three words on a sign, interpret it in your own context, and then blame the movement when you don't "understand" it. It's a slogan! What do you expect for a less-than-five-word sentence that people can unite under?
The problem with air mattresses in cold weather is that they conduct heat. The gas inside the mattress absorbs heat from your body and transmits it to the edge of the mattress and into the outside air. To be prevent this heat loss, cover the whole air mattress with a blanket or put an insulator between your body and the mattress.

I spent many years in the tropics without air conditioning. But I had a water bed. The waterbed works similarly to the air mattress, absorbing your body heat and emitting it over a large surface area. This is great when the weather is hot. The bed also has a large thermal capacity. Cover it with a blanket during the day and leave it uncovered at night. Then when you lie down at the beginning of the night, it will still be cool from the early morning.

How well would a waterbed work in a camping situation?
I hear what you're saying, but, who or what organization would else would do it? Individual countries struggle with it because, amongst other reasons, they're not as wealthy or stable as the US and Europe was when they beat (in this case) polio; they struggle to stay afloat, and they have bigger concerns for their people, base necessities like water, food and housing.

The UN? They (to me / personal viewpoint / citation needed) don't seem to have any power, influence, means or goodwill to handle a problem like this. I mean they have never been as silent as they are now, while China and the US have literal concentration camps, Russia is assassinating political opponents and is encroaching on other countries - directly (Ukraine) or indirectly (influencing governments, heavily influencing destabilizing decisions like Trump's election or Brexit), the US is in a civil war and on a crash course towards a fascist dictatorship, currently working towards a sham election, actively undermining postal services so mail voting will not work so that Trump can go "Well shit is fucked, I'll just stay on a bit longer to fix this for you" and declare national martial law so that the army can beat down whoever objects.
Seriously this. Ironically Apple defends us from monopoly, maybe accidentally.
No, they aren't supposed to neither feel the guilt nor repent for color of their skin.
Asking myself the same question, it seems hard while starting out especially for B2B.

A “good way” seems to be to cold call / cold e-mail businesses that would benefit from the product. This is sadly considered illegal in germany. The only way to get in contact with them would be if they sign up for a mailinglist, which needs a lot of marketing money. Maybe someone knows other good ways?

Attending events, conferences, etc. is not possible either during the pandemic.

2020 doesn’t seem to be a good year trying to start a company :(
> For me it's the weird new way of handling custom search engines that annoys me.

It's like we used to have a "search bar" and when you wanted to "search" for something you used the "bar" designated for that purpose...

And since this "bar" had a designated purpose, it was also super-easy to configure, at will, for that express purpose without things getting confusing, cumbersome or complex. It really was pretty damn good.

But nonono. Chrome wanted to leak every single thing you typed into the location-bar straight to Google anyway, so clearly we should get rid of the search-bar and do that too.

What on earth was the FF-team thinking?
What, pray tell, is intellectually stimulating or useful to curiosity about this website?
Because there are a lot of reasons you could have a lot of cash on hand. You may have a big upcoming expense. Or that cash might even be from a bank loan that you will need to pay back.
I preferred wandering the woods. I transferred to a university that was more about wandering than coaching.

I'm skeptical of the calls to overhaul. Undergrads and even masters degrees went through this and now we have group projects and less individual learning. Too much focus on team work and collaboration. If anything we need to be teaching more wandering through the woods, more being on the out over the in of the group.

I would say there should be sort of a short PhD, maybe akin to MPhils, and ideally a step above the masters but below the PhD. The MPhils fulfil this ideal of more professionalized programs while PhD programs can remain more to their traditional styles.
Huh? $10 for 5 minutes is about $120 an hour. Which is a a way-too-low estimate of the fully loaded cost of a skilled developer.
I think there's a distinction in terminology here. "Activist" generally (among people I talk to at least!) refers to activist organizers, who mostly agree that stunts like this are both bad and strategically unhelpful. Unfortunately, it's in the nature of community organizing that sometimes the community goes off script.
You don't need to militarize the police in order to have a riot response. The warrior mentality is toxic and actually exacerbates the problem.

In every protest I went to where things escalated, it was the police doing the primary escalation. Bull rushing the crowd. Trying to grab things from the crowd. Shooting teargas and OC gas and flashbangs into the crowd prior to even making any announcements. Bicycle cops hitting passersby with their bicycles. A kid got maced.

None of this requires the straw man that protests never turn into riots.
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I would expect crime statistics to peak shortly after a surge in policing but not actual crime.
The fact that JS barely makes the list indicates to me that YC companies tend to have entirely separate frontend and backend codebases. That either indicates separate teams of frontend and backend developers, which I think is unlikely in a young company, or that there's an expectation that developers in early YC companies are expected to use (at least) two languages. Something to think about if you're starting out as a dev and thinking of looking for a role in a YC startup.
Apologies. The injunction ended up passing such that the tooling was not in fact revoked by Apple.

Epic relies heavily on deploying Fortnite in order to test the Unreal Engine at scale. Fortnite itself is, in some sense, the test bed from which many improvements and fixes are carried back to the mainline engine. Any studio or publisher relying on the Unreal Engine to deploy to iOS or MacOS would be more or less immediately effected, especially given the volatility of Apple's APIs.
Investing in housing should lead to building more housing, which will lower prices for everyone. Is the investment only used to renovate existing housing?
> the good software engineers in China (the ones who work for Google etc.) get paid just as much as their American counterparts

That's not true. I can provide a data point: a Googler who works in Beijing, 3 years into his career with 2 years at Google[1], get paid roughly 72k USD per year. I don't think this is even comparable to the compensation level in Valley. That said, if you compare with the Japan or Europe (except Switzerland) counterpart, it does seem to be on the same level, so the outlier here is US.

[1] To be fair this does not matter because he is stuck at L3 due to works nullified by internal protests.