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IIRC they were testing a new API, and didn't want add-on developers to start writing against said API until they'd finalised it, so they didn't expose it. Pocket was the test-case, and once they were done testing they'd expose the API and pocket would be easily removable.

Not that that changes the fact that pocket is stuck there right now, and we have no easy way to remove it.
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Understanding other peoples code, and coding in 'their style', requires experience too - so if you don't have a background in it, not strange you find it hard.

If you think it a worthy goal to become good at it, best way is to do it more. Otherwise, stay to something you like and do well.
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Agree with all of this post.

The only thing I'd expand on is that there is a big difference between permy recruiters and contract recruiters. The best contract recruiters know that they will have roles to fill in 6 months time, so they're going to want to keep you on their 'roster'. The best contractors know that contract recruiter help you make more money.
This discussion is such a deja vu. I had this exact back and forth with a colleague the other day (them on the give-away-all-data side). I have a reply based on this comment, thank you.
Tywin sends armies to torture villages looking for the brotherhood and burns crops despite knowing this is the last harvest before winter and food stocks are low. Most of the leaders in the war of five kings do the same thing - and get themselves killed to boot.

We only see Lady Stoneheart kill perhaps half a dozen senior enemy commanders.

I know who I think is being irrational...
The idea here is that better "web search" progressively disrupts entire industries whose job was to provide the information that is being searched: that to help people find your product you make it more accessible to Google, which then takes your information and presents it to users in ways that no longer requires you, and so you are removed from the market; the main limitation of this process is just "how smart" Google's algorithms become, so over time (as Google improves this process) you see more and more industries buckle under the all-mighty weight of Google.
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We now have a relatively good way to describe languages based on their type story:

- untyped

- (dynamically | statically) typed

- weekly...strongly typed

Currently, we only have two terms for a language's memory story: Managed, Unmanaged.
Maybe it's time to come up with some more jargon for languages based on their memory story:

- unmanaged

- (dynamically (GC) | statically) managed

- weekly...strongly managed

?

Where "strongly managed" is reserved for some future (if at all possible) language that can guarantee no leaks whatsoever (also it'll statically ensure halting)?

Resulting in most mainstream languages being [dynamically | weekly] managed languages, and Rust being a [statically | weekly] managed language?

I dunno.. maybe that will help with these types of discussions..
> They have to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders, or at least appear to do so...

Actually they could completely ignore their shareholders from this point forward and absolutely nothing would happen to Facebook the company.

They have their IPO money in their pockets and the daily ebb-and-flow of Facebook share-trading provides no benefit to them other than reputation-enhancement should they wish to go to the markets again in the future.
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I was aiming more towards the hyper-awareness aspect. The visualization of probabilities, the details that affect those probabilities, the fact that sometimes he is in the dark, a shadowy valley in which the horizons after which things are unknown are very close by (in the near future). I love that way of looking at it, it is an eye opener for me at this moment in time.

I also don't like it that he dreamed he was going to be called Muad'Dib but I'm happy to ignore such small slips of the scientific pen and extract the value around it.

By the way your post should have a spoiler alert ;) (Perhaps mine should as well)
It depends on what your strategy is and the specifics of your situation. http://www.contractoruk.com/money/ifas_guide_avoiding_new_di... has a generic guide about the new dividend tax.

IMHO, just get an accountant.
I would expect contractors would not need those.
Agreed.

The Internet isn't a good thing either. People make it out as the Internet is the great place for people to connect with each other and this great repository of information. Whilst this is true to an extent, the Internet certainly has the potential to be a cause for good it isn't used that way. The Internet is mostly a political device to push political propaganda, promote hate speech to divide people, and promote the sex culture by making pornography easily accessible.
Chiming in as I was completely unaffected... maybe this can help someone here.

I switched our applications off of OpsWorks a couple months back after losing faith in the OW team, in favor of a lower-level CI flow using auto-scaling groups and CodeDeploy.

Aside from some headaches in the very beginning (where CodeDeploy maintenance window would crash the daemon and health checks would cause an "initialize/destruct" loop) it precluded this issue entirely.

Two of our boxes were affected by the outage and disabled, however they were re-initialized within minutes by the ASG, meaning we experienced essentially no downtime.

Just be aware that if you use CodeDeploy, it's essentially just a low-level deployment hook which takes the packaged revision passed to S3 from your continuous integration setup, unpackages and runs any initialization scripts you require. You'll need to configure the security groups and scaling policies on your own which is something I know OpsWorks tries to make easier with their higher level app/layer constructs...
For some reason, everybody feels like they should have a say in the direction of large Free SW projects, even if they have never contributed.

Some criticisms of Mozilla are fair (even if blown out of proportion, like the Pocket issue), but one can not expect a project to make development even more complex by adding a "revert it because this one guy doesn't like it" button for each change or feature.
You seem to have commented on the wrong article; I think you were reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9978039.
Moved a rather big, produciton running, project (100000 LOC) recently. Was not easy but now I've this very warm, conforting feeling, that if something happens in the future, I'll be ready for it :-) (now considering the adoption rate of P3, I'd say the future is, well, rather distant :-))

For me unicode was the reason to switch to 3, not everybody lives in an english-only world :-)
Apple controls a negligible portion of the desktop market. Microsoft absolutely dominates. Anti-trust is about protecting the free market from natural monopolies, and Apple is by no means a monopoly. A walled garden? Absolutely. But not a monopoly.
inniAccounts are good too but I am very biased as I work for them.
And the institutional investors likely also have a sizeable commercial real estate portfolio, so it's just a bunch of money going around in circles. I think the general term for this is 'the economy'. We probably group similar assets in to 'industries' because certain schools of thought believe this generates more economic activity, also for convenient accounting.
> Otherwise, what's insecure about XP? Or more secure about 7, 8, 8.1, or 10?

Windows XP had no UAC and most users were surfing as admin, which was inherently more insecure. Also, XP does not have a bunch of security features the newer Windows had, see http://superuser.com/a/739204. And now without the updates, since security issues are not patched, the system should be open to all kinds of drive-by attacks and whatever was found in the last months. I do not have a list of them.
Firefox worst modern browser ever! It's even not fully compatible with HTML5 spec. And debugging in Firefox its like a doom. :)
This is the easy bit. Finding quality, well paid work, that's the hard bit. It renders all the rest of it a bit irrelevant.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9892810
Maybe it would be adding too much complexity, but a "mark as duplicate" button could be really helpful to have more meaningful "new queue". For every major topic that is already discussed on the front page, there are a handful of submissions discussing the exact same topic in the queue. And then a few more for a few days.
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I think that climate change denial is an example of a cargo cult and that we could learn more about cargo cults in general by studying this one.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9979660.
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I'm sure organic chemistry was named before organic food...

In fact, organic food is known in some other countries as "from biological agriculture" (often abbreviated to "bio food").
Modern cars have offline voice recognition that just works, without training.
Someone I know who has been in the cracking/warez scene for over 20 years, and did a lot of analysis on the XP activation scheme when it first came out, had this to say about Windows 10 and the trend in general:

Remember Gates said, about piracy "we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade"? It is happening now. And lots of other software/service are becoming "free" or massive discount, since selling your data is much more profit. Crack was about using software without paying money. Maybe in future it will be without paying with personal data or privacy. We will find a way, always. :-)
That would be nice but it isn't easy. GitLab is something people use heavily every day so I assume most run it with Javascript to get the speedup. But we're open to contributions for this.
I seriously, just a few minutes before reading this thread, out a period after a URL and was concerned "will this break? who is parsing the links, and in what scenarios will the period accidentally be considered part of the URL?" and decided "engh, I bet nothing expects periods at the end of URLs and thereby it will get chopped off, and people putting periods at the ends of URLs probably learn quickly that that causes problems and avoid doing that"... and then I read this thread ;P.
I agree with you. And I'm happy enough if the fiction I'm reading is `rational enough' in the sense that the author has plugged the obvious plot holes I can come up within 30 seconds of thinking about the story.

Just makes the suspension of disbelief that much stronger.

HPMoR's biggest flaw when seen as a piece of entertainment is that the author spends so much effort trying to convince you how smart he is. (In contrast eg Harry Potter and the Natural 20 just wants you to enjoy yourself.)
> "There are plenty of businesses they (google) will truly disrupt by taking control of the data that you have kindly provided them (spiced up with metadata)."

Even without the data, google could disrupt markets, because of their position as the "gatekeepers" of the internet.
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It's not insulting people based on mental illnesses though. The software wasn't for people with mental illnesses.
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My impression is that it was once a very good newspaper, and the inertia of that keeps most people trusting it.

Agreed, NY Times is one of the very few legitimately great news organizations left in the US.
You will find some agencies insist on a company bank account.
For example things like Content-Range are not respected by iOS, or it completely ignores Cache directives. That breaks HTTP, big time.
>> Sure. Most permanent jobs have a 4 week notice period, and you can find contractor roles happy for you to start in 4 weeks. Line one up before you quit, and there's no 2-3 week mad rushing around trying to find a contract.

One other thing to bear in mind - if you apply for a job in Banking the credit history, criminal records, references etc check will take 2-3 weeks anyway.
Deconstruction doesn't have to hit you on the head. Eg Watchmen is an enjoyable story, but also a deconstruction of its genre.

The weirdest form of deconstruction is `unconstruction' (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnbuiltTrope?from...): "An unbuilt trope is a work that seems like a deconstruction but is actually the Trope Maker itself."
So living in expensive cities like NYC/SF and London when you are younger is also becoming impossible. But we still do it... Heaps of us.
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I agree completely. I think you have a moral obligation to yourself to avoid advertising as much as is reasonably possible. This means not watching television (unless you're paying to watch it free of advertisements), not reading publications that are heavily supported by advertising (e.g. most magazines) and using an ad blocker everywhere on the web.

You will never be able to completely avoid advertising without taking yourself out of mainstream society, but you can avoid the most insidious parts, and you can try very hard to condition yourself against the rest of it.

The "second-order" advertising (e.g. critic recommendations, word of mouth) is much harder to deal with, especially if you believe that some people have good, unbiased, not-unduly-influenced opinions that you will benefit from listening to. My only recommendation is to curate the people whose opinions you listen to very carefully, and think hard about who they might be (possibly unwittingly) influenced by.

I am sympathetic to the argument that advertising pays for many of the things I like, particularly on the web. But I don't think that argument is compelling enough for it to be worth handing over control of my head.

Of course, advertising is only one factor, though it is probably the most important factor. Other systems competing for a share of your mind include religions, political parties and/or systems of political thought, philosophical systems, programming languages and/or communities (eg functional vs. object oriented), sports teams, national identities, racial identities, and more.

You may want to allow some of these access to a share of your mind (e.g. many people enjoy supporting a sports team, even when the rational part of their brain knows that their sports team isn't inherently better than any other). But for the most part, I think it's better to avoid falling into these traps.

The best exposition I can recall is one of Paul Graham's earlier essays, "Keep Your Identity Small"[0]. I would probably argue a similar point, but phrase it differently - keep your identity broad. Instead of thinking of yourself as a "Ruby programmer" or a "functional programmer" it is better to think of yourself as a "programmer" (and even better not to think of yourself as a programmer at all!). Instead of thinking of yourself as American, or Chinese, or as black, or white, try to think of yourself as a human. The broader you can make your identity, the less chance you have of accidentally falling prey to any of the theories competing for a space in your head.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
This is actually the common thing in tech now, you need to step carefully on eggshells everywhere to avoid someone being butthurt.

I miss the Internet around year 2000.
Interesting, but not entirely true. The classic western "hero journey" also starts with a brief explanation of the world and its rules. Otherwise, it would be impossible to grasp the conflict at all.
No, at least not legally. Harry Potter's author is not happy with people selling fan fiction.
> Anyone uses the same magic word (or MooCode) will join the same chat room.

Does it look at words used while chatting?

Otherwise it you have to "go into" them manually, then they are just like IRC channels, right?
What makes you think money and advertising is the only business. Think for a second why is so much on the Internet seemingly free, free Google search, free email providers, free social networks, free everything provided by money grubbing corporations. Why aren't we being charged through the roof to use Facebook, Google, Yahoo like we are charged through the roof for everything else. When you look around you see the real reason why, PROPAGANDA, the Internet is the most perfect medium for propaganda, it's the easiest way to control people, post some inflammatory article on black-white race issues and bam you've got a black white conflict settled for the next decade, a nice divide and conquer strategy get people to fight each other instead of fighting you. If race isn't enough, just publish some controversial feminist article, what better way to get the whole globe to fight each other than using the one common divide amongst all cultures: gender. That is Facebook's primary business push inflammatory articles and political propaganda to people's news feeds. The rest is all to pornography.

What you see from Google or Facebook is no charity.
The comment says 'especially with a family'

Sure, a single guy can rent a single room and walk everywhere. Add in wife and kids and you need three rooms, a car, somewhere to park it. Schooling, activities, shoes and clothes, stuff...suddenly 140k isn't looking too flash anymore.
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> Most permanent jobs have a 4 week notice period

Really? In experienced level dev jobs? Most of the people I know are on two months notice. Three months, which is what I'm tied to, doesn't seem uncommon for senior devs/DBAs/similar.
Yeah, the telcos that build pretty much the full entirety of the "last-mile" internet as we know it today can not but trusted in the least to be at all involved in any new last mile provisions what so ever.

We (fairly rich, definitely reasonably connected, people) cannot allow the third world to enjoy something as humiliating as imperfect internet (to a standard we barely enjoy ourselves, however immensely beneficial our connections are in spite of this) and we certainly can't allow some of the richest corporations in the world investing in it - after all, the result might not end up perfect.

It's much better potential beneficiaries (you know, some of the worlds poorest and most disadvantaged people) for us to complain, dismiss and and wait until someone will roll out a 100% neutral network, unencumbered by any commercial interests.
> It seems like Eliezer has convinced a ton of nerds (I hate the word but let's roll with it) that they can succeed in writing fiction by applying this one weird trick.

I think it's tapping into a rich market, that of people who believe they are much more rational (read: smart) than the broader herd. The conviction is already there.
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Is this actually the first that's been heard of this? I had no idea...
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I might well be remembering this incorrectly, but wasn't that a part of the Insider Only pre-release EULA?

I've not checked to see if it's in the more recent release EULA, but the assumption was that it was there for the beta diagnostics as opposed to the day-to-day use.
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There isn't much you can do really. The overall increase in annual tax is not going to be that big. If my calculations are correct, if you want to pay yourself ~100k per year you'll end up paying 2-3% more tax.

https://www.crunch.co.uk/blog/contractor-advice/2015/07/09/w...
The NSA is very much global and according to the Snowden leaks tapped into a large number of major internet exchanges and sea cables, including the largest internet exchange of the world (Germany, DECIX[1]) as well as the largest exchange in Asia (Hong Kong, HKIX[3]) and South America (Brazil, BRIX[4]) respectively.

From what we know the NSA has global coverage with google-style indexing[1] since at least 2012, possibly earlier.

[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/25/icreach-nsa-ci...

[2] http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/04/24/largest-internet-exchange...

[3] http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1269773/hong-kong...

[4] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-the-n-s-a-wants...

[5] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret...

[6] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x6aYnGmbQKzZGLUkWC4m...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9955553
Asides from improving JavaScript, Mozilla participated in making webassembly. There will be multiple non-JavaScript webassembly languages.
"Dropbox has a lot of third-party dependencies, some of which cannot even be rebuilt from the sources that it has. That is generally true of any company that has millions of lines of Python in production; he also saw it at Google. That also makes switching hard."

Why can't these dependencies be built from the source they have presumably the same version as the currently build binary? Is it because other components of the build chain have changed or what?

As a civilian, I found this situation mildly disturbing.
Why do you think YC finances HN?

Also, it's quite possible to watch TV shows for free without advertisements.

And, how do you get around product placement?
The Windows shell should simply allow apps to send users straight into the second screen with the browser choice available.
just because I say 'this' is broken, it doesn't mean I don't understand how it works.

'this' in JS is misleading and confusing - IMHO it's broken design
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You might be interested in ES6’s arrow functions, which change the behaviour of this to something you might approve of (you didn’t specify how you thought it was broken):

http://tc39wiki.calculist.org/es6/arrow-functions/
Technically, everyone has a say in the direction of a large, free software project. It's called a fork.
Instant security patches, instant support for new standards, etc

...as well as instantly "brick" a significant number of machines out there. At least the user has a chance of correlating something breaking with a recent update if he/she explicitly did so. MS have screwed up Windows updates before, and I don't believe they'll suddenly start getting it perfect now.
Because Python 4 will be only "whatever comes after the last 3.x", with no backwards-incompatible changes, it won't matter: porting to "python 4" will require the same effort as porting to 3. So start now ;)
For anyone else who skipped their morning coffee, he means on a log scale, not a linear one.

Time to make coffee.
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The thing is, Minitel, the system not 'quite the whole internet', provided tons of awesome features (unavailable in other places) more than a decade before the 'quite the whole internet' (as available to consumers) even existed.

Now, today the internet obviously exists, but there's a eye-watering amount of capital investment to be made in third world countries not generally well suited for capital investment, and largely populated by people with very little money, before "the whole internet" is broadly available.

So the situation is more akin to standing around in France in say, 1992 and arguing for shutting down Minitel because in 1997, there will be awesome, real internet, and having Minitel around will be an impediment to quick adoption.