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24,280,955 | 24,279,426 | 1 | 3 | 24,278,760 | train | <story><title>PCI Express Retimers vs. Redrivers: An Eye-Popping Difference (2019)</title><url>https://www.asteralabs.com/2019/06/26/pci-express-retimers-vs-redrivers-an-eye-popping-difference/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lizknope</author><text>I worked on a PCIE Gen3 retimer. The problem was you were trying to fool both ends into thinking you weren&#x27;t there and was kind of violating the spec. PCIE Gen4 has explicitly defined the terms allowing you to make a chip that is compliant with the spec to retime the signal.</text></comment> | <story><title>PCI Express Retimers vs. Redrivers: An Eye-Popping Difference (2019)</title><url>https://www.asteralabs.com/2019/06/26/pci-express-retimers-vs-redrivers-an-eye-popping-difference/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qiqitori</author><text>Nice article. Didn&#x27;t even consider you&#x27;d ever need something like this in a single system. Also never considered that a &quot;redriver&quot; would be able to help at all with multi-GHz signals.<p>(Note: I&#x27;m very unknowledgeable about this topic.)</text></comment> |
18,316,273 | 18,316,177 | 1 | 2 | 18,307,613 | train | <story><title>In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/11/antarctica-climate-change-western-peninsula-ice-melt-krill-penguin-leopard-seal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jnurmine</author><text>A thought. Bear with me, I might be catching a cold.<p>When a planetary climate is being intentionally altered in a large scale, it is called terraforming.<p>But just who benefits from terraforming the Earth to be more hostile to human civilization?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>There was a scifi flick a while back about aliens from a hot world infiltrating government and industry to push policies that maximize carbon emissions. Forget the title.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/11/antarctica-climate-change-western-peninsula-ice-melt-krill-penguin-leopard-seal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jnurmine</author><text>A thought. Bear with me, I might be catching a cold.<p>When a planetary climate is being intentionally altered in a large scale, it is called terraforming.<p>But just who benefits from terraforming the Earth to be more hostile to human civilization?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>titanomachy</author><text>Sort of, I think &quot;to terraform&quot; usually means &quot;to make more like Earth&quot; though.</text></comment> |
12,616,757 | 12,616,693 | 1 | 2 | 12,616,432 | train | <story><title>Driverless, Electric Shuttles Now Operating in Lyon, France</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/driverless-electric-shuttles-now-operating-in-lyon-france/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Navya found a buyer! They&#x27;ve been showing off their technology since CES 2014. Here&#x27;s their demo video.[1]<p>There are a lot of these little things available. There&#x27;s Easymile.[2] Theirs is so slow they have to show double-speed video. There&#x27;s Olli, from Local Motors.[3] It&#x27;s 3D printed and has a hipster website, but there are no installations. Even Ycombinator has one, Auro.[4]<p>Most of these things underperform a golf cart. They&#x27;re all in the &quot;when in doubt, slam on the brakes&quot; speed range for non-belted passengers. This is in some ways a harder problem than driverless cars, where the passengers are belted in and can survive at least a 35MPH collision.<p>Maybe the solution to this is to provide seat belts, and limit speed to 5-6MPH until everyone is belted in. This will encourage people to buckle up, especially with a bit of nagging.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;navya.tech&#x2F;?lang=en" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;navya.tech&#x2F;?lang=en</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;137217228" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;137217228</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meetolli.auto" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meetolli.auto</a>
[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aurobots.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aurobots.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Driverless, Electric Shuttles Now Operating in Lyon, France</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/driverless-electric-shuttles-now-operating-in-lyon-france/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heinrichf</author><text>The same vehicles are actually being tested in Switzerland by the Post:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postauto.ch&#x2F;smartshuttle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postauto.ch&#x2F;smartshuttle</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.post.ch&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;company&#x2F;media&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2016&#x2F;start-of-public-testing-of-autonomous-shuttles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.post.ch&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;company&#x2F;media&#x2F;press-releases...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.post.ch&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;company&#x2F;media&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2016&#x2F;start-of-public-testing-of-autonomous-shuttles#3E6F400CE78A4C8886C50AFC8351D490_collapsible" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.post.ch&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;company&#x2F;media&#x2F;press-releases...</a><p>Unfortunately, it seems they just shut them down after a minor incident.</text></comment> |
32,469,679 | 32,466,798 | 1 | 3 | 32,465,516 | train | <story><title>AWS GuardDuty – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</title><url>https://badshah.io/guardduty-good-bad-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m1keil</author><text>GuardDuty is another example of brilliance of AWS pricing scheme and how they manage to twist your hand to pay extra which can cost quite a lot in the end of the month.<p>When comparing EC2 to servers, nobody adds the added premiums of the extras. Things like CloudTrail, Support, GuardDuty, CloudWatch. All of these things have a variable cost that grows with usage and very hard to predict ahead of time.<p>Just last week I discovered our GuardDuty bills went up from $15&#x2F;month to $400&#x2F;month. Inspecting closer, the issue was a small script that did AWS API call at a tight while loop in a couple of EC2 instances.<p>So if you choose to enable GD, make sure to have your monitoring in place, gradually enable GD across the infra and establish clear baselines and alerting in place for costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psanford</author><text>Its quite annoying that you can&#x27;t disable parts of guardduty you don&#x27;t get much value from. I think the CloudTrail monitoring is quite useful and the VPC flowlog monitoring is basically useless (to me, I have other means of doing host and network based monitoring, I&#x27;m sure that there are a lot of people who get meaningful value out of it). I&#x27;d like to be able to turn off flowlog monitoring and just use guardduty for cloudtrail monitoring, but that isn&#x27;t an option. So I can either overpay for a bunch of extra things I don&#x27;t get any value from or not enable guardduty at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS GuardDuty – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</title><url>https://badshah.io/guardduty-good-bad-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m1keil</author><text>GuardDuty is another example of brilliance of AWS pricing scheme and how they manage to twist your hand to pay extra which can cost quite a lot in the end of the month.<p>When comparing EC2 to servers, nobody adds the added premiums of the extras. Things like CloudTrail, Support, GuardDuty, CloudWatch. All of these things have a variable cost that grows with usage and very hard to predict ahead of time.<p>Just last week I discovered our GuardDuty bills went up from $15&#x2F;month to $400&#x2F;month. Inspecting closer, the issue was a small script that did AWS API call at a tight while loop in a couple of EC2 instances.<p>So if you choose to enable GD, make sure to have your monitoring in place, gradually enable GD across the infra and establish clear baselines and alerting in place for costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>The biggest “hidden” cost for me was Elastic Blockstore IO charges! It started adding up quite quickly and I realized I had to think twice about doing IO intensive calculations on EC2! I switched over to lightsail (obviously these are for personal projects).</text></comment> |
35,724,182 | 35,724,269 | 1 | 3 | 35,723,540 | train | <story><title>On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch</title><url>https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/beamer-dressman-bodybag/en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Observation of Berlin from the weekend I spent there last month: literally the only place I was better off speaking German rather than English was a Turkish cafe. Everywhere else? Too many people understood English far better than they did German, especially anywhere to do with tech. Some of the tech people I talked to were running into being otherwise eligible for a permanent residence permit, but not being able to manage the moderate language requirements.<p>Contrast with Nuremberg and Erlangen, two relatively international cities in northern Bavaria: you <i>can</i> get around ok in English for anything tourist-related, but you really need to learn some German for day to day life. The B1 level that a permanent residence permit requires is about the right minimum level around here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>One thing that is specific to Berlin is that increasingly bars and cafes are staffed by foreigners. This is a quirk of the German employment system, a scarcity of staff, and the wide availability of expats in need of gigs. Instead of hiring permanent staff and paying them a salary, it&#x27;s less risky to have temporary workers. However, you can&#x27;t do that endlessly with the same people in the German system. You would have to employ them after a while. However, there&#x27;s a never ending stream of students and other expats flowing through Berlin willing to do that kind of job. So, lots of bars and cafes employ those instead. Also, there are a fair amount of expats that stay in Berlin that open their own businesses.</text></comment> | <story><title>On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch</title><url>https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/beamer-dressman-bodybag/en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Observation of Berlin from the weekend I spent there last month: literally the only place I was better off speaking German rather than English was a Turkish cafe. Everywhere else? Too many people understood English far better than they did German, especially anywhere to do with tech. Some of the tech people I talked to were running into being otherwise eligible for a permanent residence permit, but not being able to manage the moderate language requirements.<p>Contrast with Nuremberg and Erlangen, two relatively international cities in northern Bavaria: you <i>can</i> get around ok in English for anything tourist-related, but you really need to learn some German for day to day life. The B1 level that a permanent residence permit requires is about the right minimum level around here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamil7</author><text>It depends on where you are and what you&#x27;re doing in the city. After a long enough time here, that lack of German starts to stunt or limit you to a degree. You&#x27;ll end up in the same types of places with the same groups of people. Getting colleagues and friends to call places or answer letters or emails for you, or just stumbling along in broken German.</text></comment> |
19,210,674 | 19,210,739 | 1 | 3 | 19,209,262 | train | <story><title>Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive</title><url>https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/permanent-representations/pr-eu-brussels/documents/policy-notes/2019/02/20/joint-statement-regarding-the-copyright-directive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>The pedestal contemporary people put national identity on is just that, contemporary. National identities didn&#x27;t arise naturally. Many of them were very thoughtfully and intentionally invented. For most of human history, the idea that people over a geography the size of Engalnd would see themselves as one people would&#x27;ve been ridiculous.<p>It&#x27;s really only in the last 200-400 years that people have accepted the nation as their identifying place. Previously people&#x27;s place identity came the much smaller geography of their county, kingdom, principality or hamlet. Joining these smaller identities into larger national identities was a big win that came with many benefits. Of course it meant that these places had to give up some autonomy. Just as there are many benefits of nations giving up some autonomy to act collectively in a regional power structure.<p>It&#x27;s only our contemporary bias that tells us that the subordination of the political will of the hamlet to the nation is good and that the subordination of the national will to a continental or regional will is bad.</text></item><item><author>citilife</author><text>The issue I see with the EU, is that it&#x27;s essentially centralizing all the &quot;countries&quot; into &quot;states&quot;. Where by, each of the states will simply answer to the two countries with the most power. Namely Germany, followed by France.<p>Personally, I think it&#x27;s sad. It&#x27;s as if we&#x27;re watching the destruction of all the national identities. Only to be centralized by powers who are only interested in their own national identity.<p>This is similar to the struggle the U.S. faced at the start. You cannot have a centralized government making laws without invasively deciding everything. A federation of the EU made sense. Shared currency, shared military, etc. But by trying to manage the economy (which copyright is an extension of), they are essentially going down the path of ever increasing centralization.<p>With that, countries like the U.K., who have a strong national identity, can and should leave - if they want to be an independent nation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aikah</author><text>&gt; The pedestal contemporary people put national identity on is just that, contemporary.<p>As opposed to the pedestal people put supra national institutions such as the EU? Rome? Napoleon&#x27;s Empire? all failed eventually.<p>&gt; National identities didn&#x27;t arise naturally.<p>Neither did the European Union. All societies are man made constructs, what your point?<p>&gt; It&#x27;s only our contemporary bias that tells us that the subordination of the political will of the hamlet to the nation is good and that the subordination of the national will to a continental or regional will is bad.<p>Well, the EU is more power concentrated in the hands of fewer people. By nature it will always be less democratic than governance at a smaller scale. And these structures tend to seek even more power as time goes, not less.<p>What is better? more tyranny,bureaucracy or more democracy?<p>Ignoring local cultures and socio-economics specificities by trying to impose arbitrary rules to an entire continent? In that case there will always be winners and losers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive</title><url>https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/permanent-representations/pr-eu-brussels/documents/policy-notes/2019/02/20/joint-statement-regarding-the-copyright-directive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>The pedestal contemporary people put national identity on is just that, contemporary. National identities didn&#x27;t arise naturally. Many of them were very thoughtfully and intentionally invented. For most of human history, the idea that people over a geography the size of Engalnd would see themselves as one people would&#x27;ve been ridiculous.<p>It&#x27;s really only in the last 200-400 years that people have accepted the nation as their identifying place. Previously people&#x27;s place identity came the much smaller geography of their county, kingdom, principality or hamlet. Joining these smaller identities into larger national identities was a big win that came with many benefits. Of course it meant that these places had to give up some autonomy. Just as there are many benefits of nations giving up some autonomy to act collectively in a regional power structure.<p>It&#x27;s only our contemporary bias that tells us that the subordination of the political will of the hamlet to the nation is good and that the subordination of the national will to a continental or regional will is bad.</text></item><item><author>citilife</author><text>The issue I see with the EU, is that it&#x27;s essentially centralizing all the &quot;countries&quot; into &quot;states&quot;. Where by, each of the states will simply answer to the two countries with the most power. Namely Germany, followed by France.<p>Personally, I think it&#x27;s sad. It&#x27;s as if we&#x27;re watching the destruction of all the national identities. Only to be centralized by powers who are only interested in their own national identity.<p>This is similar to the struggle the U.S. faced at the start. You cannot have a centralized government making laws without invasively deciding everything. A federation of the EU made sense. Shared currency, shared military, etc. But by trying to manage the economy (which copyright is an extension of), they are essentially going down the path of ever increasing centralization.<p>With that, countries like the U.K., who have a strong national identity, can and should leave - if they want to be an independent nation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deogeo</author><text>&gt; the idea that people over a geography the size of Engalnd would see themselves as one people would&#x27;ve been ridiculous<p>Yet they were <i>related</i> people, ethnically, linguistically, and culturally. It&#x27;s like saying the idea of a family would&#x27;ve been ridiculous, because brothers used to fight and bicker.</text></comment> |
30,825,366 | 30,825,367 | 1 | 2 | 30,823,872 | train | <story><title>Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income</title><url>https://medium.com/@appsrentables1/google-cancels-our-google-play-publisher-account-and-ends-my-familys-source-of-income-97d4e85cd046</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tiahura</author><text>How is it broken to require a defendant to respond to a lawsuit?</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; &gt; They will have to respond to this<p>&gt; Why?<p>They don&#x27;t have to respond to the demand letter, but they do have to respond if a lawsuit if one is filed. If they don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s a default judgement for the plaintiff. (This is one of the things that is broken in the American legal system. You can force someone to spend a lot of money by suing them even if your complaint has no merit.)<p>So while they don&#x27;t <i>have</i> to respond to a credible threat of a lawsuit, it would be prudent for them to do so because otherwise there is a real risk for them of having it cost a lot more.</text></item><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>&gt; They will have to respond to this<p>Why? If they think they have the right to terminate your account, and you have no standing, why would you expect them not to ignore your lawyer in the very same way they ignore you?<p>Taking this to court might get their attention, but you also have to show grounds for why you get to override their decision. IANAL, but I don&#x27;t see why Google isn&#x27;t allowed to just say &quot;nope, you&#x27;re outta here&quot; to anyone it damned well wants. Sucks, but it&#x27;s their reputation to ruin.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>Have your lawyer write a letter.<p>As in, a real legal demand with a complaint attached that is addressed to their counsel and includes estimates of monetary damages and alludes (not threatens) to the specific jurisdiction and court it would be submitted to for adjudication.<p>Send copies of this letter, by registered&#x2F;certified mail, to several contacts.<p>They will have to respond to this and these responses will be <i>expensive</i>.<p>If you are in the right - even marginally so - your account will get fixed because it will be much too expensive to continue to ignore you.<p>Filling in web forms and emailing form addresses <i>costs google nothing</i>. It makes perfect sense that these actions (appear) to have identical results as doing nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>margalabargala</author><text>Not that concept, just our specific implementation.<p>If person A decides they don&#x27;t like you, they can sue you over and over and cost you tens of thousands of dollars and never get that back. If you don&#x27;t reply to each with a lawyer and spend time and money fighting, you lose even more money.<p>There are some bandaids like having someone declared a vexatious litigant, but that also requires time and money. If you owned some small business, someone could certainly bankrupt you before you could stop them.<p>I don&#x27;t know exactly what a solution looks like, but I do see this as a problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income</title><url>https://medium.com/@appsrentables1/google-cancels-our-google-play-publisher-account-and-ends-my-familys-source-of-income-97d4e85cd046</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tiahura</author><text>How is it broken to require a defendant to respond to a lawsuit?</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; &gt; They will have to respond to this<p>&gt; Why?<p>They don&#x27;t have to respond to the demand letter, but they do have to respond if a lawsuit if one is filed. If they don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s a default judgement for the plaintiff. (This is one of the things that is broken in the American legal system. You can force someone to spend a lot of money by suing them even if your complaint has no merit.)<p>So while they don&#x27;t <i>have</i> to respond to a credible threat of a lawsuit, it would be prudent for them to do so because otherwise there is a real risk for them of having it cost a lot more.</text></item><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>&gt; They will have to respond to this<p>Why? If they think they have the right to terminate your account, and you have no standing, why would you expect them not to ignore your lawyer in the very same way they ignore you?<p>Taking this to court might get their attention, but you also have to show grounds for why you get to override their decision. IANAL, but I don&#x27;t see why Google isn&#x27;t allowed to just say &quot;nope, you&#x27;re outta here&quot; to anyone it damned well wants. Sucks, but it&#x27;s their reputation to ruin.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>Have your lawyer write a letter.<p>As in, a real legal demand with a complaint attached that is addressed to their counsel and includes estimates of monetary damages and alludes (not threatens) to the specific jurisdiction and court it would be submitted to for adjudication.<p>Send copies of this letter, by registered&#x2F;certified mail, to several contacts.<p>They will have to respond to this and these responses will be <i>expensive</i>.<p>If you are in the right - even marginally so - your account will get fixed because it will be much too expensive to continue to ignore you.<p>Filling in web forms and emailing form addresses <i>costs google nothing</i>. It makes perfect sense that these actions (appear) to have identical results as doing nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajdude</author><text>IANAL but my guess is that it costs money for the defendant to respond to a lawsuit, so if company A wants person B to stop doing something, even if person B is within their legal right to do so, company A can still force person B to stop, because either person B goes bankrupt fighting it or person B ignores it and company A has the judgement in their favor.</text></comment> |
4,539,428 | 4,539,520 | 1 | 2 | 4,539,334 | train | <story><title>GitHub Launch Page</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1267-github-launch-page</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bpierre</author><text>With Firefox: instead of a simple bookmark or the browser homepage, I added a bookmark with a "g" keyword ( <a href="http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html" rel="nofollow">http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html</a> ).<p>Then I can use the GitHub launcher without having to touch the mouse:<p><pre><code> ⌘+T, g, ⏎, my-github-command, ⏎.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Launch Page</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1267-github-launch-page</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonz05</author><text>I wish they simply fixed their regular code search. It has never worked and is one of the features I miss. Russ Cox's Google Code Search was an excellent example of how this should look like, to bad it's gone as well.</text></comment> |
17,722,219 | 17,721,205 | 1 | 3 | 17,720,526 | train | <story><title>Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021</title><url>http://rideuta.com/news/2018/08/UVX-Service-Starts-August-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mbioguy</author><text>A deeply red&#x2F;Republican and relatively low-density state might seem like a strange place to find a functional public transit system. Utah is an interesting place. The geography of the Wasatch Front lends itself to public transit in ways that less geographically-constrained places do not. The region is mostly a north-south corridor, with occasional off-shoots to the side, which is how the transit network has developed. There is a significant tech culture, from &#x27;little silicon slopes&#x27; in Lehi to the significant student population. The valley has seasonal pollution problems caused by mountains to the east and west. This is made worse by the lake effect, which means energy solutions helpful elsewhere are less effective, like natural gas plants. What would otherwise be transient pollutants instead react with ammonia from the lake and persist in the atmosphere, further trapped by the mountains. Utah has a significant need for public transit, and getting students connected and using it is a great way for generational change to occur. Car culture still rules, and will for a long time, but this is a good thing to hear. Hopefully a Trax expansion or equivalent in Utah county will happen eventually. Until then, this seems the next best policy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hueving</author><text>&gt;A deeply red&#x2F;Republican and relatively low-density state might seem like a strange place to find a functional public transit system.<p>Only if you buy the strawmen of politics in the US of there being two &#x27;sides&#x27; with everyone neatly falling into place on a pathetic line.<p>The further you get away from the shithole that is the US federal government, the more this becomes apparent. The things each &#x27;side&#x27; is supposed to support completely changes at the state levels and varies from state to state.<p>The best thing you can do is dispose of the notion of a single political spectrum and you will be a lot less shocked when you encounter something contrary to the propaganda designed to divide people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021</title><url>http://rideuta.com/news/2018/08/UVX-Service-Starts-August-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mbioguy</author><text>A deeply red&#x2F;Republican and relatively low-density state might seem like a strange place to find a functional public transit system. Utah is an interesting place. The geography of the Wasatch Front lends itself to public transit in ways that less geographically-constrained places do not. The region is mostly a north-south corridor, with occasional off-shoots to the side, which is how the transit network has developed. There is a significant tech culture, from &#x27;little silicon slopes&#x27; in Lehi to the significant student population. The valley has seasonal pollution problems caused by mountains to the east and west. This is made worse by the lake effect, which means energy solutions helpful elsewhere are less effective, like natural gas plants. What would otherwise be transient pollutants instead react with ammonia from the lake and persist in the atmosphere, further trapped by the mountains. Utah has a significant need for public transit, and getting students connected and using it is a great way for generational change to occur. Car culture still rules, and will for a long time, but this is a good thing to hear. Hopefully a Trax expansion or equivalent in Utah county will happen eventually. Until then, this seems the next best policy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david-cako</author><text>Mormons are the kindest and hardest working people in the country. They understand taking care of each other in ways no one else seems to, and I think that is most of the reason why Utah is so functional. Christians that actually act what they speak in nearly every way.<p>An aside, smog is really bad in Salt Lake due to its geography and that is probably one of the reasons they are taking this so seriously.</text></comment> |
12,115,448 | 12,115,377 | 1 | 3 | 12,114,523 | train | <story><title>Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chrome extension</title><url>https://kjaer.io/extension-malware/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamcha</author><text>If you like to tweak your Chrome install, check out:<p>chrome:&#x2F;&#x2F;flags&#x2F;#extension-active-script-permission<p>It adds an extra level of permission where each extension that doesn&#x27;t ask for a specific website is, by default, locked out of every website, and you have to enable it manually by either clicking on it, whitelisting the websites where it can run or globally (example pic, sorry for not being in english: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;puu.sh&#x2F;q5QFR&#x2F;d6004da3bb.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;puu.sh&#x2F;q5QFR&#x2F;d6004da3bb.png</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chrome extension</title><url>https://kjaer.io/extension-malware/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>The issue with Chrome extensions, just like with android apps, is that people never check the permissions and just click OK.<p>Extensions make it even easier to install them, though, just need to redirect a user.<p>I&#x27;ve also come upon some spam sites that try to get you to install extensions with annoying alerts that prevent you from closing the page, playing a recorded message &quot;To close the page, just install the XX extension&quot;.<p>The only remedy is good screening in the app stores. Actually, for apps&#x2F;extensions installed from the official repository, I would be OK with remote removal. This would probably spark an outcry from certain parties, but as long as it does not extend to manually installed extensions it&#x27;s acceptable to me.</text></comment> |
30,155,812 | 30,155,913 | 1 | 3 | 30,154,781 | train | <story><title>The New York Times buys Wordle</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greymalik</author><text>&gt; there&#x27;s no built in social or ad bs and the results can easily be shared anywhere you want if you want<p>Not for much longer. NYT has to recoup that investment somehow.</text></item><item><author>rtkwe</author><text>&gt; NYT essentially just bought the hottest new social network.<p>No one comes to wordle wanting a social network. It&#x27;s nice because there&#x27;s no built in social or ad bs and the results can easily be shared anywhere you want if you want.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nytimes&#x2F;status&#x2F;1488264128422678535" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nytimes&#x2F;status&#x2F;1488264128422678535</a><p>&gt; for a price &quot;in the low seven figures&quot;<p>That&#x27;s a lot cheaper than I expected, considering it has a dedicated daily user base in the millions. ~$1&#x2F;active user is an absolute steal if you are just talking customer acquisition, let alone the actual asset and brand. NYT essentially just bought the hottest new social network.<p>On the other end though, a single developer getting paid millions for a few days worth of work certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>There is one freemium model for Wordle that has seemed obvious to me since the first time I launched it on a laptop after playing the first few on mobile: sync. The emphasis on historical play data and streaks make portable continuity a premium good for this particular game.<p>I had actually kind of been hoping Wardle would have the same idea and that I would at some point be able to pay a few dollars a year for an account I could sign into to keep my Wordle career in sync. It looks like that account will now be an NYT account, and while it won&#x27;t make me a subscriber by itself, it&#x27;s one more benefit to weigh in potentially subscribing at some point.</text></comment> | <story><title>The New York Times buys Wordle</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greymalik</author><text>&gt; there&#x27;s no built in social or ad bs and the results can easily be shared anywhere you want if you want<p>Not for much longer. NYT has to recoup that investment somehow.</text></item><item><author>rtkwe</author><text>&gt; NYT essentially just bought the hottest new social network.<p>No one comes to wordle wanting a social network. It&#x27;s nice because there&#x27;s no built in social or ad bs and the results can easily be shared anywhere you want if you want.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nytimes&#x2F;status&#x2F;1488264128422678535" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nytimes&#x2F;status&#x2F;1488264128422678535</a><p>&gt; for a price &quot;in the low seven figures&quot;<p>That&#x27;s a lot cheaper than I expected, considering it has a dedicated daily user base in the millions. ~$1&#x2F;active user is an absolute steal if you are just talking customer acquisition, let alone the actual asset and brand. NYT essentially just bought the hottest new social network.<p>On the other end though, a single developer getting paid millions for a few days worth of work certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>missedthecue</author><text>It could simply be content for their offering. Like when Netflix buys the right to a movie, they don&#x27;t inject ads into it, it simply makes a Netflix subscription marginally more enticing.<p>And for the NYT, a company that made a $55M profit last quarter, it&#x27;s probably a good bet.</text></comment> |
34,237,121 | 34,232,893 | 1 | 2 | 34,232,037 | train | <story><title>Men Without Work (2016)</title><url>https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lordfrito</author><text>My 2c.<p>Society doesn&#x27;t care about young men. They&#x27;re pretty much left to fend for themselves. Hopefully they have a good family structure, and a few good male friends. Without that they&#x27;re toally adrift.<p>I learned this lesson when I got a flat tire driving across two states when I was 20. No one is willing to help. I guarantee a 20 yo woman would have no problem flagging down help, heck people would stop to help without being asked.<p>I&#x27;m 51 now, and I understand why more and more men are checking out. The grind isn&#x27;t worth it. There&#x27;s a reward system in play here, you grind at life and are rewarded. Grind in school and you graduate. Grind more and you get a degree. Grind more and you get a family and career and some big toys.<p>It seems that the amount of grinding men have to do is increasing, and the net rewards society bestows seem to be decreasing. I won&#x27;t get into a shouting match on what the problems men experience are, you can fill in the blanks with your own experiences and biases, but all the men I know seem to agree that there seems to be less of an upside to sacrificing for the greater good than there used to be. As a middle aged man strangers I meet expect the worst from me, why should I try?<p>As an alternative you can spend your hours grinding away at video games and leveling up. And the games are getting better every year.<p>It seems to me that many young men are finding leveling up in games is simply more rewarding than leveling up in real life. I wish it weren&#x27;t so, but here we are.<p>Historically speaking, civilization is built and defended largely on the backs of young men. When they check out, it can&#x27;t be a net good for the trajectory of society.<p>Or maybe this is a win for feminism? Women finally have work equality and so men don&#x27;t have to work as hard anymore.<p>I don&#x27;t have answers. But the trend has been clear for a long while.</text></comment> | <story><title>Men Without Work (2016)</title><url>https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Since the Wikipedia article is so bare, I&#x27;m concerned that this discussion will mainly be a vibes-based shouting match based on the title. In hopes of averting that, some meatier content:<p>A piece from the book&#x27;s author:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;4504004&#x2F;men-without-work&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;4504004&#x2F;men-without-work&#x2F;</a><p>Some reviews and discussions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nybooks.com&#x2F;online&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;americas-lost-workers-eberstadt-men-without-work&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nybooks.com&#x2F;online&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;americas-lost-work...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;new-money&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;13176948&#x2F;labor-force-participation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;new-money&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;13176948&#x2F;labor-forc...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;20170311160320&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;eb0c4aa4-80b5-11e6-8e50-8ec15fb462f4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;20170311160320&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content...</a></text></comment> |
20,255,525 | 20,254,156 | 1 | 2 | 20,253,787 | train | <story><title>Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region</title><url>https://theconversation.com/amazon-wins-amazon-domain-name-aggravating-south-american-region-and-undermining-digital-commons-118186</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>souterrain</author><text>I continue to be against this and similar transactions as it is antithetical to the hierarchical design of DNS.<p>We are approaching a model akin to AOL keywords. Instead of a business directly controlling the namespace, we have a quasi-public institution that likely will continue to act at the behest of corporate interests.<p>For those who say the ship has sailed: I say this is only another chipping away at the democratic nature of the net. We must push back, or the beatings will continue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region</title><url>https://theconversation.com/amazon-wins-amazon-domain-name-aggravating-south-american-region-and-undermining-digital-commons-118186</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vitorgrs</author><text>I&#x27;m Brazilian, and I&#x27;m not sure .amazon would be useful for us.
Here, we don&#x27;t call Amazon rainforest, well, amazon. We call &quot;Amazônia&quot; and in Spanish &quot;Amazonia&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t see how Brazil or Peru would use .amazon for public interests, unless it&#x27;s targeted for international purposes (read: tourism).<p>But let&#x27;s be honest, the &quot;protection and awareness&quot; is needed here on South America, where they are destroying it.</text></comment> |
10,851,311 | 10,851,316 | 1 | 3 | 10,847,842 | train | <story><title>Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant</title><url>http://robindoherty.com/2016/01/06/nothing-to-hide.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ap22213</author><text>You&#x27;re really low-balling.<p>Work in the greater D.C. area. Within a 150-200 mile radius, there are literally tens of thousands of developers working directly on surveillance. Probably even more. How do I know this? From random sampling. Go to any tech event, talk to any program manager at any government contractor. The work and money is in surveillance.<p>And, that&#x27;s just government surveillance. All that tech is then spilling over into corporate surveillance. Location and behavioral tracking is big money. How do I know this? Because, sadly, that&#x27;s how I have to make my money. The problem is that there&#x27;s always another grunt like me willing to create the systems that enable this.<p>The solution: Use all of this surveillance tech and data to expose all of the VIPs. Publicly post where they are and where they&#x27;ve been, who they&#x27;ve been with, what they read, and what they buy. You do this and laws will be created pretty quickly.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;Yet we have millions of software engineers working on building a surveillance society with no sense of ethics, constraints or consequences.&quot;<p>No, we don&#x27;t.<p>We have probably a few hundred doing hard-core surveillance. We have another few thousand functioning as enablers by making social media and ad networks really attractive. We have a whole lot of <i>non-</i>engineers insisting on placing ads and tracking on their websites.<p>And then there&#x27;s the mass bulk of software engineers that have nothing to do with it, and nothing they do will stop it.<p>50% of doctors decide to stop doing something, and it gets noticed. 99% of software engineers decide to take enormously strong stands against surveillance even at great personnel cost, and surveillance continues on as if nothing happened, except maybe those who work on it get paid a bit more to make up for decreased supply.<p>It may, in that weird 20th&#x2F;21st century fashionable-self-loathing way, feel really good to blame the group you&#x27;re a part of, but basically what you&#x27;re proposing won&#x27;t do anything at all. You&#x27;re imputing to &quot;software engineers&quot; in general abilities they don&#x27;t collectively have. You&#x27;ve got to attack it at the demand level, you will <i>never</i> be able to control the supply. This also matters because if you waste your energy with that approach, you might decide you&#x27;ve done something about the problem and stop trying when in fact you&#x27;ve done nothing.</text></item><item><author>tobbyb</author><text>I think the tech crowd is in denial about their role in surveillance.<p>We expect professionals to behave ethically. Doctors and companies working on genetics and cloning for instance are expected to behave ethically and have constraints placed on their work. And with consequences for those behaving unethically.<p>Yet we have millions of software engineers working on building a surveillance society with no sense of ethics, constraints or consequences.<p>What we have instead are anachronistic discussions on things like privacy that seem oddly disconnected from 300 years of accumulated wisdom on surveillance, privacy, free speech and liberty to pretend the obvious is not obvious, and delay the need for ethical behavior and introspection. And this from a group of people who have routinely postured extreme zeal for freedom and liberty since the early 90&#x27;s and produced one Snowden.<p>That&#x27;s a pretty bad record by any standards, and indicates the urgent need for self reflection, industry bodies, standards, whistle blower protection and for a wider discussion to insert context, ethics and history into the debate.<p>The point about privacy is not you, no one cares what you are doing so an individual perspective here has zero value, but building the infrastructure and ability to track what everyone in a society is doing, and preempt any threat to entrenched interests and status quo. An individual may not need or value privacy but a healthy society definitely needs it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sven7</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what dreamland you live in, but everyone knows what happened during the 2008 meltdown what laws have been created?<p>Everyone knows how the invasion of Iraq was a complete mistake. Has someone gone to jail?<p>The public is not going to shutdown anything they are wholly complicit in and benefit from. Which is why empires eventually fall.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant</title><url>http://robindoherty.com/2016/01/06/nothing-to-hide.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ap22213</author><text>You&#x27;re really low-balling.<p>Work in the greater D.C. area. Within a 150-200 mile radius, there are literally tens of thousands of developers working directly on surveillance. Probably even more. How do I know this? From random sampling. Go to any tech event, talk to any program manager at any government contractor. The work and money is in surveillance.<p>And, that&#x27;s just government surveillance. All that tech is then spilling over into corporate surveillance. Location and behavioral tracking is big money. How do I know this? Because, sadly, that&#x27;s how I have to make my money. The problem is that there&#x27;s always another grunt like me willing to create the systems that enable this.<p>The solution: Use all of this surveillance tech and data to expose all of the VIPs. Publicly post where they are and where they&#x27;ve been, who they&#x27;ve been with, what they read, and what they buy. You do this and laws will be created pretty quickly.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;Yet we have millions of software engineers working on building a surveillance society with no sense of ethics, constraints or consequences.&quot;<p>No, we don&#x27;t.<p>We have probably a few hundred doing hard-core surveillance. We have another few thousand functioning as enablers by making social media and ad networks really attractive. We have a whole lot of <i>non-</i>engineers insisting on placing ads and tracking on their websites.<p>And then there&#x27;s the mass bulk of software engineers that have nothing to do with it, and nothing they do will stop it.<p>50% of doctors decide to stop doing something, and it gets noticed. 99% of software engineers decide to take enormously strong stands against surveillance even at great personnel cost, and surveillance continues on as if nothing happened, except maybe those who work on it get paid a bit more to make up for decreased supply.<p>It may, in that weird 20th&#x2F;21st century fashionable-self-loathing way, feel really good to blame the group you&#x27;re a part of, but basically what you&#x27;re proposing won&#x27;t do anything at all. You&#x27;re imputing to &quot;software engineers&quot; in general abilities they don&#x27;t collectively have. You&#x27;ve got to attack it at the demand level, you will <i>never</i> be able to control the supply. This also matters because if you waste your energy with that approach, you might decide you&#x27;ve done something about the problem and stop trying when in fact you&#x27;ve done nothing.</text></item><item><author>tobbyb</author><text>I think the tech crowd is in denial about their role in surveillance.<p>We expect professionals to behave ethically. Doctors and companies working on genetics and cloning for instance are expected to behave ethically and have constraints placed on their work. And with consequences for those behaving unethically.<p>Yet we have millions of software engineers working on building a surveillance society with no sense of ethics, constraints or consequences.<p>What we have instead are anachronistic discussions on things like privacy that seem oddly disconnected from 300 years of accumulated wisdom on surveillance, privacy, free speech and liberty to pretend the obvious is not obvious, and delay the need for ethical behavior and introspection. And this from a group of people who have routinely postured extreme zeal for freedom and liberty since the early 90&#x27;s and produced one Snowden.<p>That&#x27;s a pretty bad record by any standards, and indicates the urgent need for self reflection, industry bodies, standards, whistle blower protection and for a wider discussion to insert context, ethics and history into the debate.<p>The point about privacy is not you, no one cares what you are doing so an individual perspective here has zero value, but building the infrastructure and ability to track what everyone in a society is doing, and preempt any threat to entrenched interests and status quo. An individual may not need or value privacy but a healthy society definitely needs it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mordocai</author><text>&gt; The solution: Use all of this surveillance tech and data to expose all of the VIPs. Publicly post where they are and where they&#x27;ve been, who they&#x27;ve been with, what they read, and what they buy. You do this and laws will be created pretty quickly.<p>This has happened in the past and the reaction from the individual people has been to 180 completely on their opinion of surveillance (there was a recent post with sources, but I don&#x27;t have it handy). This could work.</text></comment> |
20,876,489 | 20,876,317 | 1 | 2 | 20,874,912 | train | <story><title>How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48859333</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Shamans eat mushroom (Amanita muscaria) to get hallucination trip. Multiple toxins in the mushroom cause severe side-effects that spoil the trip, including severe headaches that last 10 hours. Instead of eating the mushroom directly, they fed it to reindeer and then drank its urine reducing the amount of toxins.<p>Imagine the process that led to the discovery of this process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eggoa</author><text>Seems like the kind of process you&#x27;d come up with while tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms.</text></comment> | <story><title>How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48859333</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Shamans eat mushroom (Amanita muscaria) to get hallucination trip. Multiple toxins in the mushroom cause severe side-effects that spoil the trip, including severe headaches that last 10 hours. Instead of eating the mushroom directly, they fed it to reindeer and then drank its urine reducing the amount of toxins.<p>Imagine the process that led to the discovery of this process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sn41</author><text>Even in the present day, civet coffee [seeds from the excrement of civets who had eaten coffee berries] is used for its milder taste. [1]<p>Not really related to food, but urine was used in leather tanning etc. I read about this in the book &quot;Eskimo Life&quot; [1893] by Fridtjof Nansen, the famous explorer. [2] It is not unusual to have used animal urine and excrement for various purposes.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kopi_luwak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kopi_luwak</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;46972&#x2F;46972-h&#x2F;46972-h.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;46972&#x2F;46972-h&#x2F;46972-h.htm</a></text></comment> |
26,333,271 | 26,330,790 | 1 | 3 | 26,328,758 | train | <story><title>Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>It is necessary, but not sufficient. But you are correct. This is part of why I phrased this in terms of my belief, rather than absolute truth. There&#x27;s no way to convince me you aren&#x27;t tracking if it&#x27;s free. If it is not free, and significantly larger in magnitude than the virtue of tracking, then you at least stand a chance of convincing me.<p>Grocery stores track you because they can use it to analyze and increase sales, a fairly direct benefit that is difficult to &quot;compete&quot; with as a consumer. Internet companies use it to sell you ads, which is pretty much just about the money, barring exciting conspiracy theories. We can put a decent number on how much money that is, and it really isn&#x27;t that much money. Facebook makes on the order of $20-40 per year in <i>revenue</i> from a user [1], and the nature of the business is they do better per user than most other people. For something like Cliqz we could easily be &quot;competing&quot; with a revenue of less than $1&#x2F;year&#x2F;user, at which point the business case of that extra dollar vs. the catastrophic loss in business if they get caught is a plausible set of incentives I can believe for them to not do it. Not proof, but plausible.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19462402" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19462402</a></text></item><item><author>dimes</author><text>Simply paying for a service doesn’t remove the economic incentive for the service provider to add tracking. It will always be more profitable to track users, except in cases like DDG or Brave that stake their reputation on privacy. For instance, I pay for groceries, yet my grocery store tracks my purchases and sells that information. We can’t rely on the market to protect our privacy. Government regulation is needed.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;The service will, eventually, be available as a paid option...&quot;<p>How my viewpoint has shifted over the years. 10-20 years ago this would have instantly turned me off, but now this is the most exciting line in the entire thing to me. As long as we all expect free, we can&#x27;t expect privacy.<p>@Brave team, who I rather expect will be reading this, I can&#x27;t believe that Cliqz doing tracking on me to improve its results for free will be in my interests if it&#x27;s free. But if I&#x27;m a paying customer, you might be able to convince me that you&#x27;re doing some semi-invasive tracking but not actually selling it to anyone, because it wouldn&#x27;t be worth losing me as a customer.<p>I&#x27;m actually excited about the idea of a search engine that I pay for. Been waiting for DDG to do it but last I knew there&#x27;s still no option there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabusman</author><text>Grocery stores do not just use the data internally but also sell their Point of Sale data to third parties that analyze it and then sell their analysis to anyone willing to pay for it (mostly that is CPG companies). Point is: it isn&#x27;t necessarily a direct benefit to the end customer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>It is necessary, but not sufficient. But you are correct. This is part of why I phrased this in terms of my belief, rather than absolute truth. There&#x27;s no way to convince me you aren&#x27;t tracking if it&#x27;s free. If it is not free, and significantly larger in magnitude than the virtue of tracking, then you at least stand a chance of convincing me.<p>Grocery stores track you because they can use it to analyze and increase sales, a fairly direct benefit that is difficult to &quot;compete&quot; with as a consumer. Internet companies use it to sell you ads, which is pretty much just about the money, barring exciting conspiracy theories. We can put a decent number on how much money that is, and it really isn&#x27;t that much money. Facebook makes on the order of $20-40 per year in <i>revenue</i> from a user [1], and the nature of the business is they do better per user than most other people. For something like Cliqz we could easily be &quot;competing&quot; with a revenue of less than $1&#x2F;year&#x2F;user, at which point the business case of that extra dollar vs. the catastrophic loss in business if they get caught is a plausible set of incentives I can believe for them to not do it. Not proof, but plausible.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19462402" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19462402</a></text></item><item><author>dimes</author><text>Simply paying for a service doesn’t remove the economic incentive for the service provider to add tracking. It will always be more profitable to track users, except in cases like DDG or Brave that stake their reputation on privacy. For instance, I pay for groceries, yet my grocery store tracks my purchases and sells that information. We can’t rely on the market to protect our privacy. Government regulation is needed.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;The service will, eventually, be available as a paid option...&quot;<p>How my viewpoint has shifted over the years. 10-20 years ago this would have instantly turned me off, but now this is the most exciting line in the entire thing to me. As long as we all expect free, we can&#x27;t expect privacy.<p>@Brave team, who I rather expect will be reading this, I can&#x27;t believe that Cliqz doing tracking on me to improve its results for free will be in my interests if it&#x27;s free. But if I&#x27;m a paying customer, you might be able to convince me that you&#x27;re doing some semi-invasive tracking but not actually selling it to anyone, because it wouldn&#x27;t be worth losing me as a customer.<p>I&#x27;m actually excited about the idea of a search engine that I pay for. Been waiting for DDG to do it but last I knew there&#x27;s still no option there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinger</author><text>But paying for a service connects your real world credit profile to this transaction. I feel privacy is already broken with the credit card companies selling this information.<p>When someone tracks you and you don&#x27;t pay they will try to link your online activities and identify other activities online to tailor an ad to you.<p>I can confuse and lie to the second group but I can&#x27;t hide from the first group.<p>Anything that requires you to pay by credit card means you are already being tracked. For privacy I&#x27;m against pay services.</text></comment> |
1,720,151 | 1,720,126 | 1 | 2 | 1,719,975 | train | <story><title>Facebook is not worth $33 billion</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhh</author><text>1. Thanks for the word correction, updated.<p>2. Publicly traded companies have instant liquidity on many more shares, which makes using "last share sold" an meaningful metric.<p>3. When only 3% of the money a company is supposedly worth has been moved around, it's a poor indicator of what the other 97% would go for.<p>4. They haven't figured out how to make much profit yet. And it's still questionable whether they will. MySpace supposedly also just needed to turn on the faucet, but apparently the water ran out before they got to it.<p>5. Oh, and New York smells. (take that!)</text></item><item><author>spolsky</author><text>I hate to leap in with what seems like an ad-hominem attack on the 37 signals, but their utter and complete misunderstanding of all the basics of business is starting to grate on me, and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Chicago. Is the problem that they're sitting there in a city without any other Internet industry, stewing in their own witty ideas, listening only to the adoring comments they get from the groupies? How else could you explain just how far they seem to have drifted away from basic reality?<p>First of all, David: The word is VALUATION, not evaluation. KTHX.<p>Secondly, EVERY SINGLE COMPANY IN THE WORLD that has shares that trade is valued by taking the last share traded and multiplying by the number of shares outstanding. It's just the DEFINITION of valuation. It's TAUTOLOGICAL.<p>The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.<p>Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.<p>It's weird, it's like in Chicago they don't have multiplication or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spolsky</author><text>2. That's just not correct. Spend twenty minutes talking to anyone who trades in bonds or equity before you make assumptions about what liquidity you need to get a good price... it's not much. Facebook trades all the time on sharespost, certainly enough to be liquid and to reach a market price. Google itself only has a tiny fraction of the shares available to the public (10% if I remember correctly) and far less than 1% of the outstanding shares trade every day. That doesn't mean that the market doesn't find a market price.<p>3. Also not correct. When entire companies are bought and sold that had a previous market in the shares, the price for the entire company is usually a PREMIUM ON the the market valuation. "PREMIUM ON" means MORE THAN. Somewhere in Chicago, I understand that there is one market of some sort, I think they trade corn and pig bellies, surely SOMEONE there can explain it to you...<p>4. Also, just not true. They are very profitable and their profit is almost certainly growing at a rate that will make their valuation reasonable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook is not worth $33 billion</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhh</author><text>1. Thanks for the word correction, updated.<p>2. Publicly traded companies have instant liquidity on many more shares, which makes using "last share sold" an meaningful metric.<p>3. When only 3% of the money a company is supposedly worth has been moved around, it's a poor indicator of what the other 97% would go for.<p>4. They haven't figured out how to make much profit yet. And it's still questionable whether they will. MySpace supposedly also just needed to turn on the faucet, but apparently the water ran out before they got to it.<p>5. Oh, and New York smells. (take that!)</text></item><item><author>spolsky</author><text>I hate to leap in with what seems like an ad-hominem attack on the 37 signals, but their utter and complete misunderstanding of all the basics of business is starting to grate on me, and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Chicago. Is the problem that they're sitting there in a city without any other Internet industry, stewing in their own witty ideas, listening only to the adoring comments they get from the groupies? How else could you explain just how far they seem to have drifted away from basic reality?<p>First of all, David: The word is VALUATION, not evaluation. KTHX.<p>Secondly, EVERY SINGLE COMPANY IN THE WORLD that has shares that trade is valued by taking the last share traded and multiplying by the number of shares outstanding. It's just the DEFINITION of valuation. It's TAUTOLOGICAL.<p>The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.<p>Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.<p>It's weird, it's like in Chicago they don't have multiplication or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text><i>It's weird, it's like in Chicago they don't have multiplication or something.</i><p><i>Oh, and New York smells. (take that!)</i><p>Two of my heroes dragging discourse on hacker news into the toilet. What's the world coming to?</text></comment> |
5,311,700 | 5,311,742 | 1 | 2 | 5,311,361 | train | <story><title>Escape from Callback Hell</title><url>http://ianbishop.github.com/blog/2013/01/13/escape-from-callback-hell/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>I honestly find "callback hell" a lot easier to follow and understand than the vast majority of fixes everyone is coming up with.<p>They're just continuations, seriously, what's everyone's problem? You define a function, it gets access to the current scope, it defines the rest of the program flow.<p>If you feel like your code is nesting too deep, you define the function elsewhere and just reference it by name. Then you don't get access to the current scope.<p>Why is this so difficult to people?</text></comment> | <story><title>Escape from Callback Hell</title><url>http://ianbishop.github.com/blog/2013/01/13/escape-from-callback-hell/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etrinh</author><text>Good overview of jQuery Deferred and how to use promises (at least the jQuery flavor). Promises (or futures) are a simple concept: an object-level abstraction of a non-blocking call, but they're very powerful when you see them in action. For example, the $.when method:<p>Let's say you have 3 ajax calls going in parallel. With $.when, you can attach callbacks to arbitrary groupings of those ajax calls (callback1 runs when ajax1 and ajax2 are done, but callback2 runs when ajax1 and ajax3 are done).<p>I first learned about promises in Trevor Burnham's excellent book Async Javascript (<a href="http://pragprog.com/book/tbajs/async-javascript" rel="nofollow">http://pragprog.com/book/tbajs/async-javascript</a>) and it is still the best explanation of promises I've ever read. If you like this article and are interested in reading further about promises or the asynchronous nature of Javascript in general (both for browser and node.js), I highly recommend you check out this book.</text></comment> |
6,709,006 | 6,708,733 | 1 | 2 | 6,708,467 | train | <story><title>Android Bootstrap</title><url>https://github.com/Bearded-Hen/Android-Bootstrap</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aferreira</author><text>One thing that I like about Android is that developers can choose to minimally style buttons and similar UI elements and these differences will be applied to whatever the base <i>device</i> theme is.<p>This means that users will get a consistent user experience throughout various applications and won&#x27;t have to run around trying to figure out what&#x27;s a button and what&#x27;s a text input.<p>Sadly, this project essentially destroys all of that work and something tells me it won&#x27;t work correctly on the most customized devices (like the old Motorola RAZR running 2.3 for example).<p>Nice idea but I don&#x27;t think it makes much sense in it&#x27;s current state.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android Bootstrap</title><url>https://github.com/Bearded-Hen/Android-Bootstrap</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swanson</author><text>Cool project!<p>Unfortunate naming collision with Donn Felker&#x27;s <a href="http://www.androidbootstrap.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidbootstrap.com&#x2F;</a> though :(</text></comment> |
7,767,566 | 7,767,697 | 1 | 2 | 7,767,405 | train | <story><title>Making Your Writing Work Harder For You</title><url>https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/content-marketing-strategy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>This was partly in response to a conversation Thomas and I have been having lately with some people from the Internets, about the value of blogging in one&#x27;s professional capacity. His take was &quot;Have a blog, but don&#x27;t call it a blog.&quot; I thought that was generalizable to a larger segment of the operations of product businesses than just blogging. They&#x27;re generally called &quot;content marketing&quot; these days but I hate that word -- if someone has a better one, please suggest it.<p>By the way, if you&#x27;re a regular-ol&#x27;-geek and wondering &quot;I wonder if writing about technical topics could help me career-wise&quot;, the answer is &quot;Absolutely yes.&quot; You can use blogging <i>software</i> but it probably isn&#x27;t your benefit to adopt the blogging <i>format</i> of 500 ~ 1,000 word articles displayed in reverse chronological order about disconnected topics. Instead, you could make it a goal to write three pieces and polish them to a mirror shine.<p>(Related advice that I find myself saying frequently: If you publish OSS and expect to get anything via doing so, don&#x27;t just drop the OSS on github. Spend the extra bit of time packing it into a site with a getting-started guide, a visual identity distinct from &quot;Github rendering a Readme file&quot;, and the request that interested people $TAKE_THE_ACTION_YOU_WANT_THEM_TO_TAKE.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Your Writing Work Harder For You</title><url>https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/content-marketing-strategy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iamwil</author><text>I dislike coming upon writing where there&#x27;s no date. Because then I can&#x27;t judge for myself from what context or perspective the author wrote something. (Is the assertion that mobile market is growing in the context of pre 2008 iPhone, or after?)<p>There&#x27;s many assumptions we take for granted, even when we try to write evergreen. And sometimes those assumptions turn out to be overturned after a while.<p>When I happen upon articles, essays, blog posts, etc without a date, I usually trust it much less, and try to find similar information with a date.<p>The only way you&#x27;ll know if your writing is evergreen, is over the course of time. I&#x27;ll read stuff from 2002, and find it&#x27;s still relevant, but we need to judge whether it is for ourselves every year. And not timestamping it robs us of that.</text></comment> |
11,457,533 | 11,456,781 | 1 | 3 | 11,456,060 | train | <story><title>How good is your French accent?</title><url>http://frenchmeter.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notalaser</author><text>Ordinateur was not invented when computers came to the market. It was coined in its modern sense of computing <i>machine</i>, not by Proud French People Who Liked Their Language but by IBM France, because they felt that &quot;calculateur&quot; (French for -- whaddya know! -- &quot;something that computes&quot;, a literal equivalent for &quot;computer&quot;) was too restrictive. In the 1950s, when that happened, &quot;ordinateur&quot; had been in use for a very long time. I don&#x27;t know how common it was (I&#x27;m not a native French speaker), but it&#x27;s certainly not a word they made up on the spot (it&#x27;s of very obvious Latin origin), and they don&#x27;t use it because they don&#x27;t have a more appropriate word for &quot;computer&quot; (which they do -- &quot;calculateur&quot;, which they deemed inappropriate because a &quot;calculateur&quot; could do a lot more than &quot;calculer&quot;; just like, indeed, a &quot;computer&quot; could do a lot more than &quot;compute&quot;).<p>Many European languages had a local equivalent for &quot;computer&quot; long before electronic computers were around, and French is certainly not the only one that kept it.</text></item><item><author>teekert</author><text>The French are very proud and protective of their language. I have a similar experience, I was asking Je cherche le croissants (or something: I&#x27;m looking for croissants), I got a blank stare until my friend made a very theatrical overly french &quot;Croissants!&quot; hand waving and all, then the supermarket guy understood. I know of no other language that invented new words when computers came to the market (ordinateur) or when RNA splicing was discovered (Épissage). French will be spoken long after Dutch completely Englifies.</text></item><item><author>joeblau</author><text>Funny Story: I was traveling from Portugal back to the U.S. through Charles de Gaulle Airport and my Dad gave me 4 Euros. I went to this little bakery and the man behind the counter asked me what I wanted in French. I mustered up as much <i>throat</i> as I possibly could and said <i>croissant</i> which was apparently good enough for him to go off on this long answer to what I ordered. I looked at him blankly and said &quot;Sorry man, that&#x27;s the only word I know.&quot; He was not amused.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrstphrhrt</author><text>My fave in Québec is &#x27;baladodiffusion&#x27; for podcast. Not sure if they say that in France too.</text></comment> | <story><title>How good is your French accent?</title><url>http://frenchmeter.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notalaser</author><text>Ordinateur was not invented when computers came to the market. It was coined in its modern sense of computing <i>machine</i>, not by Proud French People Who Liked Their Language but by IBM France, because they felt that &quot;calculateur&quot; (French for -- whaddya know! -- &quot;something that computes&quot;, a literal equivalent for &quot;computer&quot;) was too restrictive. In the 1950s, when that happened, &quot;ordinateur&quot; had been in use for a very long time. I don&#x27;t know how common it was (I&#x27;m not a native French speaker), but it&#x27;s certainly not a word they made up on the spot (it&#x27;s of very obvious Latin origin), and they don&#x27;t use it because they don&#x27;t have a more appropriate word for &quot;computer&quot; (which they do -- &quot;calculateur&quot;, which they deemed inappropriate because a &quot;calculateur&quot; could do a lot more than &quot;calculer&quot;; just like, indeed, a &quot;computer&quot; could do a lot more than &quot;compute&quot;).<p>Many European languages had a local equivalent for &quot;computer&quot; long before electronic computers were around, and French is certainly not the only one that kept it.</text></item><item><author>teekert</author><text>The French are very proud and protective of their language. I have a similar experience, I was asking Je cherche le croissants (or something: I&#x27;m looking for croissants), I got a blank stare until my friend made a very theatrical overly french &quot;Croissants!&quot; hand waving and all, then the supermarket guy understood. I know of no other language that invented new words when computers came to the market (ordinateur) or when RNA splicing was discovered (Épissage). French will be spoken long after Dutch completely Englifies.</text></item><item><author>joeblau</author><text>Funny Story: I was traveling from Portugal back to the U.S. through Charles de Gaulle Airport and my Dad gave me 4 Euros. I went to this little bakery and the man behind the counter asked me what I wanted in French. I mustered up as much <i>throat</i> as I possibly could and said <i>croissant</i> which was apparently good enough for him to go off on this long answer to what I ordered. I looked at him blankly and said &quot;Sorry man, that&#x27;s the only word I know.&quot; He was not amused.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>A better example might be &lt;&lt;magnétoscope&gt;&gt;, which I learned means &quot;VCR&quot; when I studied French in the &#x27;90s.<p>Edit: accent</text></comment> |
16,233,224 | 16,233,269 | 1 | 2 | 16,232,194 | train | <story><title>Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/senator-demands-fbi-director-explain-his-encryption-bac-1822400040</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cvwright</author><text>Hi! Nice to meet you.<p>I think (some of) what the FBI is asking for lately is actually not that unreasonable -- assuming we could do it right. Chris Wray, like Comey before him, is <i>claiming</i> that they only need a way to get into a few selected devices in &quot;exceptional&quot; circumstances for criminal investigations. Whenever the FBI&#x2F;DOJ guys argue this point, they also make sure to say nice things about the value of encryption for protecting the public.<p>Do they really believe the nice things they say? I have no idea, but for now I&#x27;m willing to take them at their word for the sake of the debate.<p>Do they really want only a limited ability to access encrypted data? Again, I don&#x27;t know.<p>But suppose we could construct a truly limited mechanism that would give them the ability to recover only a small amount of encrypted data. Then we could call their bluff. If they still want more, they&#x27;d have to make the case to the public that they should have the all-seeing power that our community claims they&#x27;re trying to get.<p>We have some early work along these lines. I gave a talk about it at Enigma last week. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;conference&#x2F;enigma2018&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;wright" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;conference&#x2F;enigma2018&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;wr...</a></text></item><item><author>benchaney</author><text>I have never met anyone who understands what cryptography is, and supports the FBI. As far as I can tell, the only reason they have any support at all is because they confuse people and muddy the waters.<p>Edit: What I meant by &quot;supports the FBI&quot; is &quot;supports the FBI on this issue&quot;. If you understand encryption and support the FBI in a general sense, but think they are wrong on this issue, then you aren&#x27;t a counterpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jobu</author><text>From your link:<p><i>&quot;And so the public policy debate around encryption has been framed as a binary choice between two absolutist positions: either we allow law enforcement no access at all to encrypted data, or we must effectively give them complete, unrestricted access to all our communications&quot;</i><p>Most people support giving some level of data access to law enforcement, but the problem is that there&#x27;s no way to restrict it to just law enforcement. As soon as we give one person or group access to the data, then we&#x27;ve effectively given everyone access to that data.<p>Perhaps there was more in the presentation, but this is the only idea I see in the slides:<p><i>&quot;Idea: Make brute force key recovery possible but very expensive&quot;</i><p>Again, that assumes governments that actually follow rule of law, but any criminal is going to use stolen credit cards to rent for servers in the cloud (or a hacked bot farm) and crack that encryption at no cost to themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/senator-demands-fbi-director-explain-his-encryption-bac-1822400040</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cvwright</author><text>Hi! Nice to meet you.<p>I think (some of) what the FBI is asking for lately is actually not that unreasonable -- assuming we could do it right. Chris Wray, like Comey before him, is <i>claiming</i> that they only need a way to get into a few selected devices in &quot;exceptional&quot; circumstances for criminal investigations. Whenever the FBI&#x2F;DOJ guys argue this point, they also make sure to say nice things about the value of encryption for protecting the public.<p>Do they really believe the nice things they say? I have no idea, but for now I&#x27;m willing to take them at their word for the sake of the debate.<p>Do they really want only a limited ability to access encrypted data? Again, I don&#x27;t know.<p>But suppose we could construct a truly limited mechanism that would give them the ability to recover only a small amount of encrypted data. Then we could call their bluff. If they still want more, they&#x27;d have to make the case to the public that they should have the all-seeing power that our community claims they&#x27;re trying to get.<p>We have some early work along these lines. I gave a talk about it at Enigma last week. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;conference&#x2F;enigma2018&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;wright" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;conference&#x2F;enigma2018&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;wr...</a></text></item><item><author>benchaney</author><text>I have never met anyone who understands what cryptography is, and supports the FBI. As far as I can tell, the only reason they have any support at all is because they confuse people and muddy the waters.<p>Edit: What I meant by &quot;supports the FBI&quot; is &quot;supports the FBI on this issue&quot;. If you understand encryption and support the FBI in a general sense, but think they are wrong on this issue, then you aren&#x27;t a counterpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SheinhardtWigCo</author><text>Your talk was excellent, kudos to you for being willing to present a controversial idea to an audience that is instinctively hostile to any intentional weakening of crypto. It was certainly a hot topic at lunch.<p>My primary concern and others’ was that strong crypto is already out there and can’t ever be taken away. I understand that you’re choosing to hand-wave over this for the sake of bringing a novel idea to the table, but I’d say it’s a fundamental flaw that can only be addressed by not only outlawing strong crypto in every country, but also finding a way to prevent criminals from implementing and using algorithms that have been known for a while now. That seems, to say the least, quite hard.</text></comment> |
32,296,029 | 32,295,957 | 1 | 2 | 32,295,766 | train | <story><title>Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)</title><url>https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-transit-driving-times.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matsemann</author><text>I think this problem is bigger in many US cities compared to Europe, because of the urban sprawl. There is almost no way to make it efficient to go from most people&#x27;s houses to the city using public transport, since the area to cover is so great.<p>To me, the solution is to re-think why everyone needs to go somewhere by car to get anything done. Why not have a grocery store closer? Some restaurants? Everyone having to travel from their house to the city centre to do basically anything is so wasteful. Most of this is because of zoning laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomjen3</author><text>I live in Denmark, have pretty much ideal public transport for my work (one bus, very little walking on either end) and it still takes about twice as long.<p>Which would be fine, except when you bring this up lots of people start talking about how to make cars take more time, or making public transport free.<p>Neither of which solves the problem.<p>I probably would be more willing to take the bus if wasn&#x27;t also less comfy than my car. Not only does my car have better seats than the bus, but I am guaranteed one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)</title><url>https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-transit-driving-times.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matsemann</author><text>I think this problem is bigger in many US cities compared to Europe, because of the urban sprawl. There is almost no way to make it efficient to go from most people&#x27;s houses to the city using public transport, since the area to cover is so great.<p>To me, the solution is to re-think why everyone needs to go somewhere by car to get anything done. Why not have a grocery store closer? Some restaurants? Everyone having to travel from their house to the city centre to do basically anything is so wasteful. Most of this is because of zoning laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcntsh</author><text>The first example they give is NYC, showing cars being almost twice as fast as the train. NYC is denser than most European capitals.</text></comment> |
6,766,118 | 6,766,111 | 1 | 3 | 6,766,031 | train | <story><title>Weak passwords brute forced</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>How is this possible? I would expect repeated failed login attempts would force a timer making a brute force attack impossible? Or at least more difficult. Is that not the case or am I missing a key piece of info? (Serious question, not trying to troll or be smug.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavs</author><text>From the blog post:<p>&quot;While we aggressively rate-limit login attempts and passwords are stored properly, this incident has involved the use of nearly 40K unique IP addresses. These addresses were used to slowly brute force weak passwords or passwords used on multiple sites. We are working on additional rate-limiting measures to address this. &quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Weak passwords brute forced</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>How is this possible? I would expect repeated failed login attempts would force a timer making a brute force attack impossible? Or at least more difficult. Is that not the case or am I missing a key piece of info? (Serious question, not trying to troll or be smug.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajtaylor</author><text>The article did mention the use of 40k unique IP addresses, so I&#x27;m guessing their rate limiting is based on IP address and not the username or IP+username combination.</text></comment> |
27,176,792 | 27,175,567 | 1 | 2 | 27,171,970 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?</title><text>Many times you just want to plug something in. PostgreSQL, Node.JS Express, Java Spring, numpy, Three.js. There&#x27;s many examples where the already existing solution fits well.<p>Sometimes that&#x27;s not good enough tho. What are some tools, libraries or services you built, are they open-source and why weren&#x27;t you satisfied using what already existed?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wenbin</author><text>Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to podcasts first then listen. Maybe I’m not a typical podcast listener. I don’t like subscribing to podcasts. I just want to listen to individual episodes then move on. Similar to consuming web contents, I don’t bookmark entire websites. I just search on google, read the web page, then move on :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.listennotes.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.listennotes.com</a><p>[edit] This is my Show HN of Listen Notes in early 2017: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13310834" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13310834</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_o47</author><text>I love listen notes,
It has made it easier to search for specific podcast which I had to discover myself. now I just use Listen Notes to search with few keywords and I’m able to find the podcast for my taste.<p>Anyways love your product and I definitely enjoyed reading your article on medium where you talked about how you ran the entire company as a solo dev and that’s how I discovered ListenNotes back then</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?</title><text>Many times you just want to plug something in. PostgreSQL, Node.JS Express, Java Spring, numpy, Three.js. There&#x27;s many examples where the already existing solution fits well.<p>Sometimes that&#x27;s not good enough tho. What are some tools, libraries or services you built, are they open-source and why weren&#x27;t you satisfied using what already existed?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wenbin</author><text>Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to podcasts first then listen. Maybe I’m not a typical podcast listener. I don’t like subscribing to podcasts. I just want to listen to individual episodes then move on. Similar to consuming web contents, I don’t bookmark entire websites. I just search on google, read the web page, then move on :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.listennotes.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.listennotes.com</a><p>[edit] This is my Show HN of Listen Notes in early 2017: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13310834" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13310834</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zigzaggy</author><text>Whoa! I&#x27;m glad I found this. I think it&#x27;ll fit into my writing workflow. Thanks!</text></comment> |
14,718,086 | 14,717,123 | 1 | 2 | 14,715,493 | train | <story><title>What’s Next for Gitlab CI: Auto DevOps</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2017/06/29/whats-next-for-gitlab-ci</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knownothing</author><text>&quot;Gitlab dominates&quot; 5% of the hosted market vs 95% of the SaaS market. And their reported popularity is based on data from a single CI company. This is further skewed since it&#x27;s one of a few CI tools that actually supports Gitlab as an OAuth provider.<p>There&#x27;s no way this claim would stand up to any scrutiny or more data-gathering. It&#x27;s just marketing fluff.<p>EDIT: More on what upset me about this claim.<p>First, we have no idea of what the composition of the 10,000 applications Bitrise surveyed are like. There could be a single company that uses Gitlab to test thousands of applications that completely invalidate this result.<p>Second, this insults my (and every other competent readers&#x27;) intelligence. This is badly done marketing. And their audience is developers. So they know they&#x27;re misleading us but I guess they don&#x27;t care.</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s Next for Gitlab CI: Auto DevOps</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2017/06/29/whats-next-for-gitlab-ci</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bartvanH</author><text>I really like the core of gitlab. It&#x27;s a really good git hosting system that is easy to maintain and work with. My self hosted instance has broken only twice in the last 1.5 years and it was always because of an upgrade and it was always easily fixed.<p>But now i have to say i&#x27;m afraid gitlab is getting bloated. Why not keep the core product as a seperate thing from things like CI? a simple plugin style system would be enough for it to not feel like bloat but feel like extra options.</text></comment> |
2,255,437 | 2,254,800 | 1 | 3 | 2,254,604 | train | <story><title>Eth0 no more?</title><url>http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-desktops/2011-February/003757.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_b8r0</author><text>I can understand why people will resist this, thinking that somehow renaming eth0 to em0 or similar will break stuff, but here's the rub: It'll only break stuff that's badly written.<p>There's a right way to enumerate network interfaces and a wrong way (which is dependent on the language you're using for enumeration - the wrong way is assuming that eth0 is the only network device).<p>Bear in mind that the new convention is not entirely dissimilar to how WiFi cards have worked on Linux for some time, so the only things that will break will be things that:<p><pre><code> a) Assume eth0 instead of enumerating devices
b) Have a legitimate reason for using eth0 only (I can't think of one, but I wouldn't be surprised if one existed)</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Eth0 no more?</title><url>http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-desktops/2011-February/003757.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>javanix</author><text>From the limitations section of the wiki page linked in the article:<p><i>Not all add-in cards have a method to expose their Linux interface name(s) to external port mapping. biosdevname may provide incorrect names for such. Discussions are ongoing on the netdev mailing list to standardize a method of exposing such mapping.</i><p>Seems like this would be kind of a deal-breaker for any wholesale move like this. I'd be fairly surprised if this got any widespread adoption anytime soon.</text></comment> |
32,124,689 | 32,124,565 | 1 | 3 | 32,124,369 | train | <story><title>“Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough</title><url>https://reneweconomy.com.au/eureka-moment-as-australian-researchers-make-hydrogen-storage-breakthrough/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gene-h</author><text>This article is complete BS. The abstract of the publication does not mention hydrogen at all, and in fact concerns storage and separation of acetylene and ethylene gas, which are hydrocarbons, not hydrogen.<p>This petrochemical storage and separation technique is about as far as it gets from green hydrogen</text></comment> | <story><title>“Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough</title><url>https://reneweconomy.com.au/eureka-moment-as-australian-researchers-make-hydrogen-storage-breakthrough/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>s_Hogg</author><text>Anyone know what the catch is here? Very exciting if real, but sometimes these things don&#x27;t scale&#x2F;aren&#x27;t commercial&#x2F;something else I&#x27;m ill-equipped to perceive.<p>Not trying to knock this by any means, I hope it works wonderfully!</text></comment> |
16,726,870 | 16,726,794 | 1 | 2 | 16,726,189 | train | <story><title>Reverse engineering the Notability file format</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/03/31/reverse-engineering-notability-format/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>To summarise, it&#x27;s a .zip file containing a binary serialisation of XML, which then contains the base64&#x27;d raw coordinates...<p>Reminds me of this (it gets even better in the comments):
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thedailywtf.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;XXL-XML" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thedailywtf.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;XXL-XML</a><p><i>Nothing in here was really complicated – it was just some existing standard formats (zip! apple plist! an array of floats!) combined together in a pretty simple way.</i><p>It&#x27;s rather telling that wrapping points in 3 layers of encodings is considered &quot;pretty simple&quot;, almost the norm today, when years ago doing such a thing would probably elicit reactions more towards <i>WTF</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reverse engineering the Notability file format</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/03/31/reverse-engineering-notability-format/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Julia Evans is the best. I&#x27;ve been following her on Twitter for years because she brings so much enthusiasm about learning technology that she makes me see familiar things anew. By the end of an exploration, even it it&#x27;s something I know well, I end up saying, &quot;Holy shit, strace is cool.&quot;<p>To get a feel for her work, a bunch of her posts are here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jvns.ca&#x2F;categories&#x2F;favorite&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jvns.ca&#x2F;categories&#x2F;favorite&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
31,133,536 | 31,132,759 | 1 | 3 | 31,129,936 | train | <story><title>Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)</title><url>http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deepsun</author><text>Watching someone learns basics of programming in Python, I realized that Python is actually not that easy to learn for beginners as I thought:<p>1. Types in Python are implicit. It&#x27;s really hard to explain that they need to always think about what type something is, especially when they haven&#x27;t grasped the concept of types yet.<p>2. Indentation as part of the language. I thought it&#x27;s a great thing for beginners, but it&#x27;s actually confuses beginners that empty space affects your program, e.g. they think that spaces around assignment or arithmetic operators should affect their program too, which is not the case.<p>3. Ranges for iteration -- they just memorize the syntax blindly :(<p>So I started to wonder whether Pascal is better to learn for beginners -- you have to list all the types at the beginning, and no implicit conversions are done.<p>But now I think what about TCL? Maybe it&#x27;d be even easier for total beginners?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeflo</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen beginners, especially those without a very strong maths background, struggle with the <i>concept</i> of syntax. The idea that you need to put the thing you want the program to do into a very specific form. That any deviation is an error, even though &quot;it&#x27;s clear&quot; to humans. I think that&#x27;s something fundamental beginners need to learn, regardless of the language they use.<p>But once you accept that there <i>are</i> rules to follow, and that they are somewhat arbitrary, languages do differ wildly in the amount and obscurity of syntactic forms you need to learn just to get started. Just count the amount of different syntactic concepts in this simple program:<p><pre><code> #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf(&quot;Hello world\n&quot;);
return 0;
}
</code></pre>
and compare it to the Python version.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)</title><url>http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deepsun</author><text>Watching someone learns basics of programming in Python, I realized that Python is actually not that easy to learn for beginners as I thought:<p>1. Types in Python are implicit. It&#x27;s really hard to explain that they need to always think about what type something is, especially when they haven&#x27;t grasped the concept of types yet.<p>2. Indentation as part of the language. I thought it&#x27;s a great thing for beginners, but it&#x27;s actually confuses beginners that empty space affects your program, e.g. they think that spaces around assignment or arithmetic operators should affect their program too, which is not the case.<p>3. Ranges for iteration -- they just memorize the syntax blindly :(<p>So I started to wonder whether Pascal is better to learn for beginners -- you have to list all the types at the beginning, and no implicit conversions are done.<p>But now I think what about TCL? Maybe it&#x27;d be even easier for total beginners?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rscho</author><text>You could try something with a regular syntax. It doesn&#x27;t work for everyone, but when it works it works really well. Racket comes to mind, and it has a progressive suite of languages from neophyte to full-blown. In addition to a community focused on pedagogy and CS fundamentals.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;racket.discourse.group&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;racket.discourse.group&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
39,678,749 | 39,677,719 | 1 | 2 | 39,677,611 | train | <story><title>Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model</title><url>https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1767384751269150828</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gmerc</author><text>I like how they use stealing .... while maintaining steadfast that it&#x27;s fair use when they use other people&#x27;s data to train the model.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model</title><url>https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1767384751269150828</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tellarin</author><text>Discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39675735">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39675735</a></text></comment> |
37,392,377 | 37,390,410 | 1 | 2 | 37,385,197 | train | <story><title>WASM: Big deal or little deal?</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/01/web_assembly_wasm_column/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivanmontillam</author><text>I&#x27;m rooting for WASM to win.<p>One of the things that discouraged me from Front-end Web Development is JavaScript weirdness. It just has too many pitfalls and it&#x27;s very hard to debug for a newcomer unless you study a proper JS course that tells you precisely all of these traps before you get burned. I&#x27;ve never found a programming language that didn&#x27;t behave like I expected it on first touch, except for JS.<p>I am fully aware TypeScript exists, and there are transpilers where the syntax (modern ECMAScript) and rules are more appropriate to current times, but these aren&#x27;t &quot;native&quot; of the browser. You must still transpile to the hazardous old JS. I know transpilers avoid many of these pitfalls, <i>but I cannot avoid feeling like I&#x27;m building a skyscraper in quicksand.</i><p>The hard thing about talking about this exact topic it&#x27;s that I&#x27;m sure my comment will trigger negatively a ton of developers, because talking about JS like this it&#x27;s going to feel like I&#x27;ve insulted a cult. Let me be clear this is not my intention. I come from the static-typed programming languages world, so I have a preference for my programming to be the most correct.<p>WASM to me provides this solid foundation, if only (big IF) we manage to create a browser where the main execution virtual machine is not a JS one. I&#x27;ve dreamed of a browser that supports multiple stacks, instead of the HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS monopoly. For instance, why&#x27;d be too hard to think about something like HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Python?[0]<p>JS has been a discourager to me career-wise, and I&#x27;m doing great in Back-end Web Dev, but I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;m not the only one feeling this way about it. The web should be more accessible in this sense.<p>--<p>[0]: I am aware of the existence of Brython: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brython.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brython.info&#x2F;</a>, but it&#x27;s not my point, that is still Python-over-JS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phil_kahrl</author><text>I think WASM will win. I&#x27;ve been using JavaScript for 25+ years, and I just wrote a SPA using Rust&#x2F;WASM using the Leptos framework: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leptos-rs&#x2F;leptos">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leptos-rs&#x2F;leptos</a>, and now I don&#x27;t want to go back to JavaScript. Cargo is a superior package manager, with Cargo I might actually be able to let me my project sit for a year or two and go back and build to a working runtime without having to do a lot of dependency updates (good luck doing that with NPM). Rust has a solid type system, and with the borrow checker along with pattern exhaustive matching I can write something that I know is solid and will be difficult to break. There is no need to have multiple stages build pipeline running through Babel and Webpack which need to be properly configured; simply compile Rust to the WASM target and that is it. The WASM bundle is also likely to be smaller than a corresponding JavaScript bundle. Additionally, with Rust it is easier to do low-level stuff in the client efficiently such as feature extraction from image binaries. Also, the application I wrote with WASM is faster than a similar app I wrote in React, although I attribute that mostly to the fact that Leptos does not use a virtual DOM as React does.</text></comment> | <story><title>WASM: Big deal or little deal?</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/01/web_assembly_wasm_column/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivanmontillam</author><text>I&#x27;m rooting for WASM to win.<p>One of the things that discouraged me from Front-end Web Development is JavaScript weirdness. It just has too many pitfalls and it&#x27;s very hard to debug for a newcomer unless you study a proper JS course that tells you precisely all of these traps before you get burned. I&#x27;ve never found a programming language that didn&#x27;t behave like I expected it on first touch, except for JS.<p>I am fully aware TypeScript exists, and there are transpilers where the syntax (modern ECMAScript) and rules are more appropriate to current times, but these aren&#x27;t &quot;native&quot; of the browser. You must still transpile to the hazardous old JS. I know transpilers avoid many of these pitfalls, <i>but I cannot avoid feeling like I&#x27;m building a skyscraper in quicksand.</i><p>The hard thing about talking about this exact topic it&#x27;s that I&#x27;m sure my comment will trigger negatively a ton of developers, because talking about JS like this it&#x27;s going to feel like I&#x27;ve insulted a cult. Let me be clear this is not my intention. I come from the static-typed programming languages world, so I have a preference for my programming to be the most correct.<p>WASM to me provides this solid foundation, if only (big IF) we manage to create a browser where the main execution virtual machine is not a JS one. I&#x27;ve dreamed of a browser that supports multiple stacks, instead of the HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS monopoly. For instance, why&#x27;d be too hard to think about something like HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Python?[0]<p>JS has been a discourager to me career-wise, and I&#x27;m doing great in Back-end Web Dev, but I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;m not the only one feeling this way about it. The web should be more accessible in this sense.<p>--<p>[0]: I am aware of the existence of Brython: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brython.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brython.info&#x2F;</a>, but it&#x27;s not my point, that is still Python-over-JS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bazoom42</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m sure my comment will trigger negatively a ton of developers, because talking about JS like this it&#x27;s going to feel like I&#x27;ve insulted a cult.<p>Just FYI this line of argument is called “poisoning the well”. Definition from Wikipedia:<p>&gt; a type of informal fallacy where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the target person is about to say.<p>It is not conductive to a reasoned discourse about a technical topic.</text></comment> |
3,629,435 | 3,628,789 | 1 | 2 | 3,628,518 | train | <story><title>Microsoft needs Wizards: A 1984 Microsoft job posting</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/net.jobs/msg/4f2cf440919eeda9</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgfoot</author><text>Mike Maples talks more about Microsoft back then: (<a href="http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107465/1/oh387mm.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107465/1/oh387mm.pdf</a> ):<p>"""I can remember going to the first Microsoft Company picnic in 1988. There were only two children. Microsoft had 1,800 employees and there were only a couple of them that were married. You had all these young kids who weren't married and were right out of school. IBM had conventional dress codes; Microsoft - it was very much like a college campus. The only difference in how they lived, the hours they kept and the way they dressed, between a college campus and Microsoft was that Microsoft bought the equipment. They all wore their shorts and half of them wore sandals or no shoes. Microsoft bought a lot of T-shirts and things for them. There weren't set hours - the management system was to let people pick or sign up for what they were going to do, and it was up to them to do it. So there was very little management attention over directing people or telling them what to do - it was a very empowered work force. And my suspicion was that that was the way IBM was in the 1930s and 1940s. They were much more formal, because the time was much more formal in terms of dress. But in terms of the ages and the attitudes and the mission the people were on - I think it would be a lot the same."""</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft needs Wizards: A 1984 Microsoft job posting</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/net.jobs/msg/4f2cf440919eeda9</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>irollboozers</author><text>I am by no means an old-school software guy, but I have distinct memories of when my dad worked in emerging software companies. And more importantly, back when Microsoft was 'cool'. It was like having free soda in the break rooms and awesome company picnics was -the- status symbol of a fun career.<p>Now, people much more junior expect all of that, plus crazy workplaces, free meals, free babysitting, free carwash, free haircuts, etc. I wonder what the current entry level software engineer ad at Microsoft looks like. Which is weird, at my school UW, they weren't even there at the CS career fair. Meanwhile FB was there with free t-shirts, Google had a giant android costumed guy waddling around, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. They all made it seem like you weren't even applying for jobs, and you weren't even expected to actually have to work.<p>Microsoft definitely helped define the techie dream workplace, even after they got 'huge'. Why did that have to change?</text></comment> |
17,947,621 | 17,942,001 | 1 | 2 | 17,938,181 | train | <story><title>YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/world/europe/youtube-far-right-extremism.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atlantic</author><text>&gt; Hate speech is not free speech any more than contract killing is just a financial transaction.<p>Personal anecdote.<p>When I moved to the UK in the 1970, there was a little platform in Hyde Park called Speaker&#x27;s Corner. Anyone could step onto it and make a speech about anything, anything at all; they could do so in the strongest terms, without being bothered; there was always a small audience standing around, and often lively debate would result.<p>Most of what was said on that platform would now be characterized as &quot;hate speech&quot; by people of your ilk. And the times were not exactly peaceful; there were IRA bombs going off in England at least once a week. Yet the authorities made a point of not interfering, because memories of WWII were still recent, and the right to free speech was considered sacrosanct.<p>Draw your own conclusions.</text></item><item><author>close04</author><text>In the Solomon story one woman was 100% right and one was 100% wrong. Are there many social issues where the 2 sides that meed this criterion?<p>I think a better visualization of the problem is &quot;you can&#x27;t cross a canyon in less than a single bound&quot;. Sometimes there is no meeting half way.<p>Last but not least, compromising is sometimes not an option. It&#x27;s like the paradox of tolerance where the only thing you have to be intolerant to is <i>intolerance</i>. Because allowing that is basically killing your options. It&#x27;s like allowing bacteria to kill you because you are pro-life and not willing to kill them.<p>In the case of free speech, anything that would lead to someone else losing their freedom for the same should not be allowed just to have &quot;a compromise&quot;. Hate speech is not free speech any more than contract killing is just a financial transaction. And just like contract killing, hate speech should be punished the same as the crime it instigated to. You instigate violence, you have to be put in the same jail cell as the people who threw the punch.</text></item><item><author>tmorton</author><text>&gt; For a lot of social issues, being given the midpoint solution is like being given half a baby.<p>I think this cuts to the heart of the issue - and demonstrates the problem with this line of thinking.<p>I also think you&#x27;re missing the point of the Solomon story. When Solomon proposed that solution, one woman said &quot;No, no - give her the baby.&quot; That woman was willing to compromise. She was willing to compromise all the way, to lose the entire dispute, to preserve the important thing they were fighting over.<p>Solomon didn&#x27;t actually plan to cut the baby in half. On many social issues, there is a negative-sum, &quot;burn it all down&quot; solution that leaves both sides worse. Which side reaches for that option? Which side is willing to sacrifice the deeper issue in order to &quot;win&quot;? That&#x27;s the side that deserves to lose.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>As has been pointed out, in lots of areas a &quot;balanced&quot; view doesn&#x27;t make sense. I&#x27;m reminded of the judgement of Solomon dictating that, to settle a dispute between two women as to whom a baby belonged to, it should be cut in half and they be given half each. For a lot of social issues, being given the midpoint solution is like being given half a baby.<p>&quot;All humans are created equal and endowed with rights&quot; is a radical proposition which we are still working out all the implications of after several hundred years; any deviation from that (ie &quot;some humans are intrinsically (not as a result of their actions) inferior&quot;) starts you down the road of partitioning society and justifying worse and worse treatment of those deemed inferior.</text></item><item><author>b0rsuk</author><text>This was addressed more broadly in &quot;We&#x27;re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads&quot; by Zeynep Tufekci on TED.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15891014" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15891014</a><p>She remarked that Youtube&#x27;s recommendation system invariably pushes people towards more extreme views on <i>anything</i>, not just politics. Interested in vegetarianism? Here&#x27;s something about veganism. She has a hypothesis it works this way because the goal is to make people spend as much time on a site as possible, and feeding people progressively more extreme content works for that.<p>My comment: what does it say about us humans that we fall for progressively more extreme stuff? Perhaps that few people actually hold balanced views and nowadays a compromise is looked down upon and a mark of a weak character?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>&gt; <i>people of your ilk</i><p>Unfortunately you set off a flamewar with that personal swipe. Please don&#x27;t do that. Your comment would have been great without that bit, and there would have been no need for the nasty tit-for-tat of the below.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/world/europe/youtube-far-right-extremism.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atlantic</author><text>&gt; Hate speech is not free speech any more than contract killing is just a financial transaction.<p>Personal anecdote.<p>When I moved to the UK in the 1970, there was a little platform in Hyde Park called Speaker&#x27;s Corner. Anyone could step onto it and make a speech about anything, anything at all; they could do so in the strongest terms, without being bothered; there was always a small audience standing around, and often lively debate would result.<p>Most of what was said on that platform would now be characterized as &quot;hate speech&quot; by people of your ilk. And the times were not exactly peaceful; there were IRA bombs going off in England at least once a week. Yet the authorities made a point of not interfering, because memories of WWII were still recent, and the right to free speech was considered sacrosanct.<p>Draw your own conclusions.</text></item><item><author>close04</author><text>In the Solomon story one woman was 100% right and one was 100% wrong. Are there many social issues where the 2 sides that meed this criterion?<p>I think a better visualization of the problem is &quot;you can&#x27;t cross a canyon in less than a single bound&quot;. Sometimes there is no meeting half way.<p>Last but not least, compromising is sometimes not an option. It&#x27;s like the paradox of tolerance where the only thing you have to be intolerant to is <i>intolerance</i>. Because allowing that is basically killing your options. It&#x27;s like allowing bacteria to kill you because you are pro-life and not willing to kill them.<p>In the case of free speech, anything that would lead to someone else losing their freedom for the same should not be allowed just to have &quot;a compromise&quot;. Hate speech is not free speech any more than contract killing is just a financial transaction. And just like contract killing, hate speech should be punished the same as the crime it instigated to. You instigate violence, you have to be put in the same jail cell as the people who threw the punch.</text></item><item><author>tmorton</author><text>&gt; For a lot of social issues, being given the midpoint solution is like being given half a baby.<p>I think this cuts to the heart of the issue - and demonstrates the problem with this line of thinking.<p>I also think you&#x27;re missing the point of the Solomon story. When Solomon proposed that solution, one woman said &quot;No, no - give her the baby.&quot; That woman was willing to compromise. She was willing to compromise all the way, to lose the entire dispute, to preserve the important thing they were fighting over.<p>Solomon didn&#x27;t actually plan to cut the baby in half. On many social issues, there is a negative-sum, &quot;burn it all down&quot; solution that leaves both sides worse. Which side reaches for that option? Which side is willing to sacrifice the deeper issue in order to &quot;win&quot;? That&#x27;s the side that deserves to lose.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>As has been pointed out, in lots of areas a &quot;balanced&quot; view doesn&#x27;t make sense. I&#x27;m reminded of the judgement of Solomon dictating that, to settle a dispute between two women as to whom a baby belonged to, it should be cut in half and they be given half each. For a lot of social issues, being given the midpoint solution is like being given half a baby.<p>&quot;All humans are created equal and endowed with rights&quot; is a radical proposition which we are still working out all the implications of after several hundred years; any deviation from that (ie &quot;some humans are intrinsically (not as a result of their actions) inferior&quot;) starts you down the road of partitioning society and justifying worse and worse treatment of those deemed inferior.</text></item><item><author>b0rsuk</author><text>This was addressed more broadly in &quot;We&#x27;re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads&quot; by Zeynep Tufekci on TED.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15891014" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15891014</a><p>She remarked that Youtube&#x27;s recommendation system invariably pushes people towards more extreme views on <i>anything</i>, not just politics. Interested in vegetarianism? Here&#x27;s something about veganism. She has a hypothesis it works this way because the goal is to make people spend as much time on a site as possible, and feeding people progressively more extreme content works for that.<p>My comment: what does it say about us humans that we fall for progressively more extreme stuff? Perhaps that few people actually hold balanced views and nowadays a compromise is looked down upon and a mark of a weak character?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjplatte</author><text>That&#x27;s healthy, and we need more of that, especially face-to-face</text></comment> |
12,857,441 | 12,857,561 | 1 | 2 | 12,853,531 | train | <story><title>Switching from macOS: The Basics</title><url>http://blog.elementary.io/post/152626170946/switching-from-macos-the-basics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veidr</author><text>My own burning hatred towards Apple runs a little hotter than most, and I have been seriously googling (and trying) alternatives since 2012.<p>That was when my $9000 Mac Pro — which had been a great machine, and still was, except for the little detail about not having been updated since 2009 and thus being stuck with USB 2 (!!!) to say nothing of Thunderbolt and any kind of modern accoutrements — started to feel like a personal affront, a sneering <i>fuck you</i> directed at not just me, but everybody remotely like me. (Wow!!! <i>Déjà vu</i> bro!!)<p>Nevertheless, I didn&#x27;t switch then, and all of us complainers won&#x27;t switch now either.<p>Because <i>the fucking OS</i>.<p>I&#x27;ve tried every iteration of Ubuttnu, CentOS, and FreeBSD since. Even OpenWhatever, before the goblins bought it. I have Thinkpads and Dell XPS &quot;Developer Editions&quot; and a drawer full of other crap like that.<p>Executive summary: it&#x27;s all garbage time. It&#x27;s like going back 10+ years. Nothing works right, on any of them. Copy&#x2F;paste, batteries, wireless networking, drag and drop, high-res displays, multilingual input, even like fucking word processing and email and image editors and terminal programs... it&#x27;s all like Mac OS X Jaguar level.<p>We can&#x27;t give Apple the finger, even though we want to (and definitely after last week, we <i>all</i> want to) because there literally isn&#x27;t an OS in the world that can touch Mac OS for general-purpose workstation&#x2F;laptop use. (For niche and limited-purpose, yes, there are options.)<p>Elementary OS is a fucking joke. Every OS mentioned disparagingly above is a better choice for almost any purpose. But those are still horrible.<p>Apple&#x27;s OS advantage is what lets them say &quot;Fuck you peons, here&#x27;s some 3 year old technology and a bag of dongles, that&#x27;ll be $4000.&quot;<p>But we&#x27;re mostly all gonna buy the new shitty MacBook Hipster, or gut it out with our old ones, until a better fucking <i>OS</i> happens. And that won&#x27;t be soon — it&#x27;s not even remotely on the horizon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simula67</author><text>I have been a Linux user for a long time ( ArchLinux with Xfce ). Recently, I switched jobs and my employer issued me with a Mac. I am having the same problem : <i>the fucking OS</i>. Why do I need to press multiple buttons to see how many applications I have open ? Why does command + tab cycle through every open application ? Why does it not limit itself to the applications in the current space ? What are spaces <i>for</i> anyway ? Why does clicking on an already open application&#x27;s icon in the dock take me to a random window for the application ? Is there some logic to it ? Is it random ? I think I understand why so many people wax on about tiling window managers now, they have never seen proper window managers. Also why do I have to press Command + whatever when there is a perfectly functional control key on the keyboard ? If I am remoted into a Windows machine now I have to remember to press Control + whatever and revert back to Command + Whatever when I am back on my Mac. Also don&#x27;t even get me started on the docker networking issues.<p>But it would be unfair for me to blame Apple&#x27;s OS for most of these faults.</text></comment> | <story><title>Switching from macOS: The Basics</title><url>http://blog.elementary.io/post/152626170946/switching-from-macos-the-basics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veidr</author><text>My own burning hatred towards Apple runs a little hotter than most, and I have been seriously googling (and trying) alternatives since 2012.<p>That was when my $9000 Mac Pro — which had been a great machine, and still was, except for the little detail about not having been updated since 2009 and thus being stuck with USB 2 (!!!) to say nothing of Thunderbolt and any kind of modern accoutrements — started to feel like a personal affront, a sneering <i>fuck you</i> directed at not just me, but everybody remotely like me. (Wow!!! <i>Déjà vu</i> bro!!)<p>Nevertheless, I didn&#x27;t switch then, and all of us complainers won&#x27;t switch now either.<p>Because <i>the fucking OS</i>.<p>I&#x27;ve tried every iteration of Ubuttnu, CentOS, and FreeBSD since. Even OpenWhatever, before the goblins bought it. I have Thinkpads and Dell XPS &quot;Developer Editions&quot; and a drawer full of other crap like that.<p>Executive summary: it&#x27;s all garbage time. It&#x27;s like going back 10+ years. Nothing works right, on any of them. Copy&#x2F;paste, batteries, wireless networking, drag and drop, high-res displays, multilingual input, even like fucking word processing and email and image editors and terminal programs... it&#x27;s all like Mac OS X Jaguar level.<p>We can&#x27;t give Apple the finger, even though we want to (and definitely after last week, we <i>all</i> want to) because there literally isn&#x27;t an OS in the world that can touch Mac OS for general-purpose workstation&#x2F;laptop use. (For niche and limited-purpose, yes, there are options.)<p>Elementary OS is a fucking joke. Every OS mentioned disparagingly above is a better choice for almost any purpose. But those are still horrible.<p>Apple&#x27;s OS advantage is what lets them say &quot;Fuck you peons, here&#x27;s some 3 year old technology and a bag of dongles, that&#x27;ll be $4000.&quot;<p>But we&#x27;re mostly all gonna buy the new shitty MacBook Hipster, or gut it out with our old ones, until a better fucking <i>OS</i> happens. And that won&#x27;t be soon — it&#x27;s not even remotely on the horizon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vamur</author><text>Speak for yourself. Linux is a perfectly viable option for non-lazy people, who don&#x27;t complain about everything. And Windows 10 is excellent too if you don&#x27;t care about privacy. And it&#x27;s Ubuntu not Ubuttnu.<p>&gt;&gt; a sneering fuck you directed at not just me, but everybody remotely like me.<p>You overpaid 8k for a machine so why should Apple care? You are clearly going to buy their next product.<p>&gt;&gt;But we&#x27;re mostly all gonna buy the new shitty MacBook Hipster, or gut it out with our old ones<p>According to Netmarketshare stats at least 2% have abandoned OSX since May 2016.</text></comment> |
31,743,621 | 31,743,512 | 1 | 2 | 31,740,724 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Mintlify (YC W22) – Maintainable documentation for software teams</title><text>Hi HN, we’re Hahnbee and Han from Mintlify (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mintlify.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mintlify.com&#x2F;</a>). Mintlify lets software teams easily track and manage documentation. We’re open source and our Github is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mintlify&#x2F;mintlify" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mintlify&#x2F;mintlify</a>.<p>We worked at software companies in all stages ranging from startups to big tech, and they all had bad documentation, if it even existed at all. We decided to work on this problem and created a VS Code extension called Doc Writer which generated in-line documentation for codebases using Codex from OpenAI. Doc Writer helped people document their code more frequently and still continues to, but there were limitations. We were highly reliant on OpenAI, people didn’t want their proprietary code to be sent into the cloud, and the AI was satisfactory 80% of the time. But after digging deeper into the documentation problem space, we realized that Doc Writer only solved a small part of it.<p>We quickly learned that (1) the debate about writing documentation vs. having self-documenting code was highly controversial, and (2) entire teams hated writing documentation—not only developers.<p>We proceeded to interview dozens of startups and learned that the hardest part about documentation is maintaining it. Everybody was developing so quickly that it was difficult for documentation to stay up-to-date. Common problems we heard were that documentation was inconveniently decentralized over multiple platforms, people weren’t aware when important documents changed, and when code changes the related documentation wouldn’t be updated.<p>The goal of Mintlify is to increase visibility over documentation across your entire team so that you can easily maintain it. Mintlify allows you to centralize your documentation into one searchable place; set up integrations to receive alerts when documents change; implement a CI Check for documentation - connect documentation to code and receive alerts to update your documentation when the code changes.<p>Other solutions to the problem of documentation maintenance tend to create an editor (e.g. Notion, ReadMe, Archbee, Gitbook). We decided instead to work with teams’ existing documentation stack, because of our belief that maintenance of documentation is the real hard problem in this space. Our software is designed to help documentation owners ensure that content stays in good condition.<p>Here is our 2 min demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loom.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;892d08e178144cd89b109f9396e4db98" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loom.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;892d08e178144cd89b109f9396e4db98</a>, and you can also try it for yourself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mintlify.com&#x2F;create" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mintlify.com&#x2F;create</a><p>Ultimately, we want to create a suite of automations that makes maintaining high quality documentation easy. We plan on adding documentation owners and integrations with task management platforms so that tickets can be instantly generated prompting people to update documentation. We believe there is a market for this because of our experience with our earlier Doc Writer product, and because companies like Glean, Gitbook, and Whatfix are all tackling this problem in their own way.<p>We thank the open source community, our community, and our users for having helped us shape the product to what it is now. We look forward to your feedback, questions, ideas, and suggestions!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaycebasques</author><text>Hi I&#x27;ve been a technical writer for ~9 years: 3 at a startup and 6 at Google. I agree that documentation maintenance is probably the real hard problem. I think the winner of this space will be the one who solves the &quot;connect code to documentation&quot; aspect most effectively. Looking at your demo, I don&#x27;t think the code&#x2F;doc connection should be invisible metadata. In other words my hunch is that the code&#x2F;doc connection needs to be obvious in code&#x2F;doc themselves although I&#x27;m not sure why I feel this way at the moment. Also the root causes of stale documentation are usually a combination of 1) documentation not being incentivized by org leadership 2) the gradual but persistent proliferation of docs. I don&#x27;t mean to say that these are people problems that are not solvable by technology. I do think they are solvable by technology but you&#x27;ll need to get very creative and innovative to solve them. E.g. to address #1 maybe some kind of reporting system that makes leadership aware of which engineers are doing docs work that is truly creating value for the org. Happy to chat 1:1 and thank you for bringing innovations to my industry!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dllthomas</author><text>I&#x27;ve taken to supporting cross-references across the repo, connecting references of the form ^^{foo} to anchors of the form @@{foo}, wherever they appear (code, comment, docs).<p>Then I have CI check referential integrity and also surface connections in code review (adding annotations to all references when the corresponding anchor shows up in the diff in changed lines or context, and vice-versa).<p>In the idealized straight-forward elaboration, then, all docs would live in the repo, but I haven&#x27;t worked with a team that was on board with that.<p>I&#x27;d also like to see a better tie between docs and tests.</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Mintlify (YC W22) – Maintainable documentation for software teams</title><text>Hi HN, we’re Hahnbee and Han from Mintlify (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mintlify.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mintlify.com&#x2F;</a>). Mintlify lets software teams easily track and manage documentation. We’re open source and our Github is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mintlify&#x2F;mintlify" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mintlify&#x2F;mintlify</a>.<p>We worked at software companies in all stages ranging from startups to big tech, and they all had bad documentation, if it even existed at all. We decided to work on this problem and created a VS Code extension called Doc Writer which generated in-line documentation for codebases using Codex from OpenAI. Doc Writer helped people document their code more frequently and still continues to, but there were limitations. We were highly reliant on OpenAI, people didn’t want their proprietary code to be sent into the cloud, and the AI was satisfactory 80% of the time. But after digging deeper into the documentation problem space, we realized that Doc Writer only solved a small part of it.<p>We quickly learned that (1) the debate about writing documentation vs. having self-documenting code was highly controversial, and (2) entire teams hated writing documentation—not only developers.<p>We proceeded to interview dozens of startups and learned that the hardest part about documentation is maintaining it. Everybody was developing so quickly that it was difficult for documentation to stay up-to-date. Common problems we heard were that documentation was inconveniently decentralized over multiple platforms, people weren’t aware when important documents changed, and when code changes the related documentation wouldn’t be updated.<p>The goal of Mintlify is to increase visibility over documentation across your entire team so that you can easily maintain it. Mintlify allows you to centralize your documentation into one searchable place; set up integrations to receive alerts when documents change; implement a CI Check for documentation - connect documentation to code and receive alerts to update your documentation when the code changes.<p>Other solutions to the problem of documentation maintenance tend to create an editor (e.g. Notion, ReadMe, Archbee, Gitbook). We decided instead to work with teams’ existing documentation stack, because of our belief that maintenance of documentation is the real hard problem in this space. Our software is designed to help documentation owners ensure that content stays in good condition.<p>Here is our 2 min demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loom.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;892d08e178144cd89b109f9396e4db98" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loom.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;892d08e178144cd89b109f9396e4db98</a>, and you can also try it for yourself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mintlify.com&#x2F;create" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mintlify.com&#x2F;create</a><p>Ultimately, we want to create a suite of automations that makes maintaining high quality documentation easy. We plan on adding documentation owners and integrations with task management platforms so that tickets can be instantly generated prompting people to update documentation. We believe there is a market for this because of our experience with our earlier Doc Writer product, and because companies like Glean, Gitbook, and Whatfix are all tackling this problem in their own way.<p>We thank the open source community, our community, and our users for having helped us shape the product to what it is now. We look forward to your feedback, questions, ideas, and suggestions!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaycebasques</author><text>Hi I&#x27;ve been a technical writer for ~9 years: 3 at a startup and 6 at Google. I agree that documentation maintenance is probably the real hard problem. I think the winner of this space will be the one who solves the &quot;connect code to documentation&quot; aspect most effectively. Looking at your demo, I don&#x27;t think the code&#x2F;doc connection should be invisible metadata. In other words my hunch is that the code&#x2F;doc connection needs to be obvious in code&#x2F;doc themselves although I&#x27;m not sure why I feel this way at the moment. Also the root causes of stale documentation are usually a combination of 1) documentation not being incentivized by org leadership 2) the gradual but persistent proliferation of docs. I don&#x27;t mean to say that these are people problems that are not solvable by technology. I do think they are solvable by technology but you&#x27;ll need to get very creative and innovative to solve them. E.g. to address #1 maybe some kind of reporting system that makes leadership aware of which engineers are doing docs work that is truly creating value for the org. Happy to chat 1:1 and thank you for bringing innovations to my industry!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanyiwang</author><text>Thank you so much for the incredible feedback! We think you are absolutely SPOT ON. We would really love to chat more with you 1:1. Please reach out to us at [email protected]</text></comment> |
36,684,491 | 36,683,426 | 1 | 2 | 36,680,835 | train | <story><title>Laws of UX</title><url>https://lawsofux.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>montroser</author><text>For a site espousing UX platitudes, I don&#x27;t feel it&#x27;s too nit picky to call out their completely terrible back-button behavior.<p>You click on one of these items, read down the item detail page, then click back to go to back to the index page, and this happens:<p>- it scrolls you back to the top of the <i>item detail</i> page<p>- it fades out the detail page<p>- it fades in the index page<p>It&#x27;s janky, and wastes my brain cycles trying to parse the fleeting intermediate states. Also, the fade animations are too slow -- literally making me wait through the jank to get back to the content I&#x27;m looking for...</text></comment> | <story><title>Laws of UX</title><url>https://lawsofux.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnMakin</author><text>I would like to see more support in UI&#x2F;UX for people who are not neurotypical. Or, customizable interfaces to support people with disabilities. When you build for the common denominator, these people get left out.</text></comment> |
9,275,975 | 9,275,672 | 1 | 2 | 9,275,357 | train | <story><title>Learn Python the Hard Way</title><url>http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bluerail</author><text>Thank you Zed Shaw.. This is an excellent resource that has helped me to become what I am today.. I started learning Python using this book and he really takes time to ensure the readers understand what they are doing.<p>It may be too silly for you programmers, but almost every beginner programmers as me would have definitely cam across this resource. This has helped innumberable and I&#x27;m sure it will.. Thanks once again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learn Python the Hard Way</title><url>http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yitchelle</author><text>It is interesting that one of the way Zed advocates for learning is to type, (instead of copy and paste), the code into the computer. That reminds me when I was cutting my teeth at my introduction to computers. I would get computer magazines like Compute! and type in the 100s of lines of code that comes with it. Especially the arcade games listing. I think this method also improve my debugging skills as I was tracking down the error (usually I did not type in the code properly or there was a misprint in the magazine).</text></comment> |
36,827,654 | 36,825,656 | 1 | 2 | 36,820,469 | train | <story><title>Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors</title><url>https://blog.zaccohn.com/Fruitflies-and-the-Little-Shop-of-Horrors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>But how are they born? I&#x27;ll have no fruit flies in the house, and then I&#x27;ll forget a potato, it rots, and then I&#x27;ll be infested with fruit flies. Were they already on the potato before it rotted, or did one just happen in, found some food, and figured it would stay and start a family here?</text></item><item><author>austinl</author><text>I can&#x27;t blame medieval scholars for believing that flies spontaneously generated from things like raw meat (instead of reproducing). I would guess that fruit flies played a major role in supporting this theory.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spontaneous_generation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spontaneous_generation</a></text></item><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit flies, then sit back and observe no change in the number of flies in the air.<p>They either throw out decoys when you swat them to fool us, or there’s a large queue of them waiting to take their turn to keep the number flying constant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Obscurity4340</author><text>This is what I always wondered about maggots, like when a person in any kind of sealed room, anywhere, dies and starts to decompose. I&#x27;ve been lead to believe maggots inevitably appear and start the process but where did the larvae come from?! Food?</text></comment> | <story><title>Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors</title><url>https://blog.zaccohn.com/Fruitflies-and-the-Little-Shop-of-Horrors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>But how are they born? I&#x27;ll have no fruit flies in the house, and then I&#x27;ll forget a potato, it rots, and then I&#x27;ll be infested with fruit flies. Were they already on the potato before it rotted, or did one just happen in, found some food, and figured it would stay and start a family here?</text></item><item><author>austinl</author><text>I can&#x27;t blame medieval scholars for believing that flies spontaneously generated from things like raw meat (instead of reproducing). I would guess that fruit flies played a major role in supporting this theory.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spontaneous_generation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spontaneous_generation</a></text></item><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit flies, then sit back and observe no change in the number of flies in the air.<p>They either throw out decoys when you swat them to fool us, or there’s a large queue of them waiting to take their turn to keep the number flying constant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jb1991</author><text>I think they’re actually on fruit or may be vegetables in your case from the start.</text></comment> |
32,835,013 | 32,835,178 | 1 | 2 | 32,834,469 | train | <story><title>One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure</title><url>https://theconversation.com/one-year-on-el-salvadors-bitcoin-experiment-has-proven-a-spectacular-failure-190229</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>croon</author><text>It&#x27;s not a failure because Bitcoin tanked (relatively), it&#x27;s a failure because Bitcoin tanking was and will always be a significant risk. People who got rich from Bitcoin weren&#x27;t savvy, they won the lottery. It&#x27;s not a sound investment decision based on outcome. Investments are sound based on probability and risk beforehand.<p>El Salvador gambled which is stupid. Whether they won or lost at the lottery is inconsequential to its stupidity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afterburner</author><text>It&#x27;s worse than a lottery for some. It rewarded incorrect thinking on how the financial industry works.<p>Speculative spikes can happen for a lot of reasons, but that Bitcoin would replace all currencies (as early advocates would have had you believe) was not one of those reasons.</text></comment> | <story><title>One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure</title><url>https://theconversation.com/one-year-on-el-salvadors-bitcoin-experiment-has-proven-a-spectacular-failure-190229</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>croon</author><text>It&#x27;s not a failure because Bitcoin tanked (relatively), it&#x27;s a failure because Bitcoin tanking was and will always be a significant risk. People who got rich from Bitcoin weren&#x27;t savvy, they won the lottery. It&#x27;s not a sound investment decision based on outcome. Investments are sound based on probability and risk beforehand.<p>El Salvador gambled which is stupid. Whether they won or lost at the lottery is inconsequential to its stupidity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jollybean</author><text>It should not have been any kind of &#x27;investment&#x27; in the first place.</text></comment> |
22,547,381 | 22,547,398 | 1 | 2 | 22,547,223 | train | <story><title>Coronavirus Declared Pandemic by World Health Organization</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coronavirus-cases-top-1-000-11583917794</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>waterfowl</author><text>I am on the east coast and all of the universities have closed -- but people are still acting strange about WFH at my product company(which has full remote devs and other employees, regular WFH days, etc).<p>It is disheartening to be made to feel &#x27;tinfoil hat&#x27; for staying home. The stuff coming out of italy(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;k7ex4a&#x2F;coronavirus-has-northern-italys-hospitals-on-the-brink-of-collapse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;k7ex4a&#x2F;coronavirus-has-no...</a>) is very scary.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coronavirus Declared Pandemic by World Health Organization</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coronavirus-cases-top-1-000-11583917794</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dustingetz</author><text>Yesterday article that is relevant:<p>&quot;Critics take aim at ‘failure’ of bond designed to fight disease \ Instruments issued by World Bank have yet to pay out to combat the coronavirus&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;a6239e12-5ec7-11ea-b0ab-339c2307bcd4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;a6239e12-5ec7-11ea-b0ab-339c2307b...</a></text></comment> |
23,396,530 | 23,396,615 | 1 | 3 | 23,392,393 | train | <story><title>Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stdbrouw</author><text>&gt; The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I&#x27;d venture, a daily basis.<p>In what kind of weird and twisted world do police officers need to push cars to the side on a daily basis?</text></item><item><author>rconti</author><text>Pusher bumpers are just standard, and have been forever. A friend got accidentally rear-ended by a cop, no damage thanks to the pusher.<p>The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I&#x27;d venture, a daily basis.</text></item><item><author>coopsmgoops</author><text>I agree from a public relations standpoint too. All the new cruisers in my city are black Chargers&#x2F;Challengers with battering ram front bumpers and they look way too intense for the job.<p>I&#x27;m also scared irreparable damage had been done to the police brand such that way fewer &quot;good&quot; people will want to sign up.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>5) Change the uniforms.<p>Dress for the job you want. If they all dress like storm troopers some of them will act like storm troopers.<p>NY <i>state</i> patrol uniform: Grey with <i>purple</i> ties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northcountrynow.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;images&#x2F;Zone2Platoon2.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northcountrynow.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;images&#x2F;Zone2...</a><p>NYPD (new york <i>city</i>) police: Black on black with black ties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.timeout.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;103899055&#x2F;image.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.timeout.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;103899055&#x2F;image.jpg</a><p>It seems meaningless, but having interacted with a few police agencies I have noticed a trend. They cops that show up for meetings in head-to-toe black tend to be more aggressive. They try to assert themselves in every meeting, which is entertaining as we are the military. They cannot win the &quot;who has the bigger gun&quot; thing. The cops that come in oldschool blue shirts and ties are much easier to work with.<p>(Fyi, if those two NYPD officers in the pic were in the military they would get a talking to about attitude. Hands in pockets. Chewing. Crossed arms. In public? Have some respect for your uniform.)</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>The equipment issue isn&#x27;t going to solve anything, this is just lip service to the real problem. Police Unions have effectively created a system by which officers are nearly immune from prosecution and even if successfully prosecuted their record cannot travel with them in many cases.<p>Now one fix that removing some of the equipment will do will reduce the amount of psychological impact it has on those wielding it, as in reduce the Rambo effect. The idea of attaching military style equipment to the current problems is only for political purposes, they needed to blame Trump for the violence.<p>However in the end, there are few alternatives to fixing the police and their application and misapplication of force<p>1) Restrict conditions that can be placed in union negotiated contracts regarding officer behavior, culpability, and indemnification.<p>2) If not 1) then make it illegal for the unions to exist with regards to any public servant who is armed<p>3) civilian oversight boards that are veto proof against the police they monitor. Not only would they review incidents which are questionable they would have to involved in any use of concentrated force to include no knock warrants; something which should be illegal except in the most incredible cases.<p>4) holding elected and appointed officials of the localities, city, county, or state, accountable for the harm caused by their police forces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mstade</author><text>Clearly you’ve never driven in the US of A. ;o)<p>Facetious commentary aside – and I do apologize for the tongue in cheekness – as a European I’ve always been struck by just how many wrecks and other debris are littered by the side of the roads in the US. Mileage varies I’m sure (no pun intended) but I covered 6660 miles on a road trip through in the US last year and it seemed almost universal to me that you’d see at least one car wreck (often partially or fully burned out) and loads of other debris like blown tires etc.<p>I think I’ve even got video from when I was leaving Kennedy Space Center and just a few miles from the bridges there was a car by the side of the road engulfed in flames.<p>On my latest road trip someone explained to me that the remnants of blown tires are from 18-wheelers that just keep on truckin’ once that happens, basically ignoring it till the next stop or even later. Given how many trucks you see on the road I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s true.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stdbrouw</author><text>&gt; The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I&#x27;d venture, a daily basis.<p>In what kind of weird and twisted world do police officers need to push cars to the side on a daily basis?</text></item><item><author>rconti</author><text>Pusher bumpers are just standard, and have been forever. A friend got accidentally rear-ended by a cop, no damage thanks to the pusher.<p>The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I&#x27;d venture, a daily basis.</text></item><item><author>coopsmgoops</author><text>I agree from a public relations standpoint too. All the new cruisers in my city are black Chargers&#x2F;Challengers with battering ram front bumpers and they look way too intense for the job.<p>I&#x27;m also scared irreparable damage had been done to the police brand such that way fewer &quot;good&quot; people will want to sign up.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>5) Change the uniforms.<p>Dress for the job you want. If they all dress like storm troopers some of them will act like storm troopers.<p>NY <i>state</i> patrol uniform: Grey with <i>purple</i> ties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northcountrynow.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;images&#x2F;Zone2Platoon2.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northcountrynow.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;images&#x2F;Zone2...</a><p>NYPD (new york <i>city</i>) police: Black on black with black ties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.timeout.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;103899055&#x2F;image.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.timeout.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;103899055&#x2F;image.jpg</a><p>It seems meaningless, but having interacted with a few police agencies I have noticed a trend. They cops that show up for meetings in head-to-toe black tend to be more aggressive. They try to assert themselves in every meeting, which is entertaining as we are the military. They cannot win the &quot;who has the bigger gun&quot; thing. The cops that come in oldschool blue shirts and ties are much easier to work with.<p>(Fyi, if those two NYPD officers in the pic were in the military they would get a talking to about attitude. Hands in pockets. Chewing. Crossed arms. In public? Have some respect for your uniform.)</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>The equipment issue isn&#x27;t going to solve anything, this is just lip service to the real problem. Police Unions have effectively created a system by which officers are nearly immune from prosecution and even if successfully prosecuted their record cannot travel with them in many cases.<p>Now one fix that removing some of the equipment will do will reduce the amount of psychological impact it has on those wielding it, as in reduce the Rambo effect. The idea of attaching military style equipment to the current problems is only for political purposes, they needed to blame Trump for the violence.<p>However in the end, there are few alternatives to fixing the police and their application and misapplication of force<p>1) Restrict conditions that can be placed in union negotiated contracts regarding officer behavior, culpability, and indemnification.<p>2) If not 1) then make it illegal for the unions to exist with regards to any public servant who is armed<p>3) civilian oversight boards that are veto proof against the police they monitor. Not only would they review incidents which are questionable they would have to involved in any use of concentrated force to include no knock warrants; something which should be illegal except in the most incredible cases.<p>4) holding elected and appointed officials of the localities, city, county, or state, accountable for the harm caused by their police forces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpwright</author><text>When a car breaks down or gets into an accident, gently pushing it to the side lets traffic flow without causing damage to the motorist&#x27;s car or police cruiser.</text></comment> |
19,225,195 | 19,225,187 | 1 | 3 | 19,224,542 | train | <story><title>It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/technology/nyc-tech-startups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnmarcus</author><text>Which is why it will never really be Silicon Valley. No risk, no reward. NY is too expensive for anyone to sit around and take risks, likewise, it will never see the real reward.</text></item><item><author>code4tee</author><text>The NYC tech sector is indeed growing quite strong and is also quite grounded in the realities of business because of the diversity of NYC’s overall economy. Few cities in the world have the economic diversity that New York does. That drives the mindset to be noticeably different, mostly in a good way.<p>At several meet ups recently the moderator wasn’t shy about warning Silicon Valley companies “I’d advise you to be clear about how you plan to make money and be profitable because if you don’t the audience here is just going to grill you on how you plan to make money and be profitable.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meddlepal</author><text>Implying Silicon Valley is affordable compared to NYC is silly.<p>The Californian &quot;Try It&quot; attitude is basically the equivalent of throwing shit against the wall while using other people&#x27;s money. It works sometimes, but it&#x27;s a terrible strategy that only works because VCs hit a unicorn that wipes out all the mistakes every so often.</text></comment> | <story><title>It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/technology/nyc-tech-startups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnmarcus</author><text>Which is why it will never really be Silicon Valley. No risk, no reward. NY is too expensive for anyone to sit around and take risks, likewise, it will never see the real reward.</text></item><item><author>code4tee</author><text>The NYC tech sector is indeed growing quite strong and is also quite grounded in the realities of business because of the diversity of NYC’s overall economy. Few cities in the world have the economic diversity that New York does. That drives the mindset to be noticeably different, mostly in a good way.<p>At several meet ups recently the moderator wasn’t shy about warning Silicon Valley companies “I’d advise you to be clear about how you plan to make money and be profitable because if you don’t the audience here is just going to grill you on how you plan to make money and be profitable.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>It is dramatically easier to live on a budget in the NYC metro area than anywhere in the Bay Area...</text></comment> |
13,358,162 | 13,356,316 | 1 | 3 | 13,355,260 | train | <story><title>Nim Programming Language v0.16.0 released</title><url>http://nim-lang.org/news/e029_version_0_16_0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ENTP</author><text>Nim is a language I really want to like. Having looked for a language that&#x27;s 1) Cross-platform, 2) Script-like syntax and 3) C Speeds, Nim should be my ideal language. What I find though is a sense of frustration that grows over time when using it. Sometimes this stems from the quality of the documentation and other times from obscure problems that&#x27;s hard to Google and get an answer for.<p>I do appreciate Nim, and bought Dom&#x27;s book, but I feel it&#x27;s missing a trick in its current state. No doubt I&#x27;ll try it again as I&#x27;m ever the optimist :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>Nim is such an odd combination of &quot;amazing&quot; and &quot;huh, that&#x27;s just weird&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s a powerful theme — C-like performance with an expressive syntax and automatic memory management — that&#x27;s undercut by a range of somewhat scatterbrained, idiosynchratic features.<p>Nim&#x27;s feature set is ambitious, and it really feels like Nim&#x27;s authors decided to go &quot;breadth first&quot; rather than &quot;depth first&quot;, implementing everything but the kitchen without considering that some more complicated ideas could be deferred until the core language was mature; Nim would have benefited from a more conservative, agile, minimalist approach. At least it would have allowed it to reach 1.0 and more widespread adoption earlier.<p>Nim also makes some design choices (first-class iterators, the case insensitivity madness, the massive amount of pragmas, OO inheritance, out arguments, etc.) that I wish would have been left on the drawing board to mature.<p>A casual skim through the top of the commit history indicates that Araq (Andreas Rumpf) is still doing almost all of the development. That&#x27;s a red flag — being responsible for a complex language, compiler, standard library and documentation is a lot of work. (And it&#x27;s of course a dangerous bus factor.)<p>I also think it&#x27;s a mistake to charge for a book at such an early stage when the quality of the official documentation is less than stellar. dom96 is Nim&#x27;s most active evangelist on HN; if he wants Nim&#x27;s adoption to take off, making the book available for free should, strategically, be a no-brainer.<p>That said, it&#x27;s not all negative. If evaluated purely on technical merits, Nim is one of the most promising languages currently in development, and it&#x27;s one of the languages I intend to use this year for various smaller, experimental projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nim Programming Language v0.16.0 released</title><url>http://nim-lang.org/news/e029_version_0_16_0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ENTP</author><text>Nim is a language I really want to like. Having looked for a language that&#x27;s 1) Cross-platform, 2) Script-like syntax and 3) C Speeds, Nim should be my ideal language. What I find though is a sense of frustration that grows over time when using it. Sometimes this stems from the quality of the documentation and other times from obscure problems that&#x27;s hard to Google and get an answer for.<p>I do appreciate Nim, and bought Dom&#x27;s book, but I feel it&#x27;s missing a trick in its current state. No doubt I&#x27;ll try it again as I&#x27;m ever the optimist :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LordWinstanley</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; Sometimes this stems from the quality of the documentation..
&gt;&gt;&gt; I do appreciate Nim, and bought Dom&#x27;s book...<p>I&#x27;ve said similar elsewhere.<p>The existing documentation isn&#x27;t welcoming to those new to Nim. I&#x27;ve read the freebie first chapter of Dom&#x27;s book and it seemed very promising and I wanted to read more. However $40 for an ebook is ridiculous. I can&#x27;t afford to make that kind of outlay just to see whether or not an obscure language with very little traction is worth pursuing.<p>I think the best solution would be for the Nim foundation to use some of that bug bounty money to buy the rights to make Dom&#x27;s book freely available on The official site.</text></comment> |
31,473,373 | 31,473,368 | 1 | 2 | 31,449,368 | train | <story><title>SQLite may become foundational for digital progress</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/20/why-sqlite-may-become-foundational-for-digital-progress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>endisneigh</author><text>I&#x27;ve yet to see how you can use SQLite for a multi-user multi-write app effectively. Unless we&#x27;re all going back to single tenant, single user applications SQLite seems overhyped for the new usecases.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, there are plenty of uses for SQLite, but I think the hype is getting out of hand IMHO.<p>If you are making an app that only a single person is going to use at a time, then there are plenty of options, including SQLite. Heck, IndexedDB is sufficient. CouchDB tried the whole DB-per-user thing and it didn&#x27;t end super well.<p>Happy to be proven wrong though. If anyone has an example of a site with more than say, 10K concurrent writers (edit: changed from users) running on a single SQLite DB I&#x27;d probably change my mind.<p>---<p>Now, what <i>would</i> be interesting is a way to architect an app such that you can have a central entity, like this site, for instance, but all of your posts are actually referring to your own SQLite, or equivalent store. In that sense you can own your data completely. For performance you can specify a TTL for your data and the consumer (this site) could cache* it accordingly.<p>Though this would probably end up being a lot less performant than simply using something like Postgres, but at least you&#x27;d have more control over your own data.<p>* - This caching ideally would be enforced by the browser, and not the server, that way the server actually never touches or knows what data you have.</text></comment> | <story><title>SQLite may become foundational for digital progress</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/20/why-sqlite-may-become-foundational-for-digital-progress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tiffanyh</author><text>The answer is much simpler.<p>When people created desktop apps - they needed a datastore that was simple and reliable to use. SQLite was perfect for this.<p>Now, no-one is creating desktop apps anymore (everything is a web app), but people still need a simple &amp; reliable datastore. Even though SQLite has historically advertised to <i>not</i> be used for client&#x2F;server, people are finding that SQLite works great for most web apps as well.</text></comment> |
31,420,025 | 31,420,092 | 1 | 3 | 31,419,214 | train | <story><title>Gimp 3 Beta Released</title><url>https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alophawen</author><text></text></item><item><author>alimov</author><text>The difference is that it’s Open source, so you could certainly verify if you wanted to.</text></item><item><author>vore</author><text>What&#x27;s stopping GIMP from doing the same thing? It has more access to the network than your browser.</text></item><item><author>dankwizard</author><text>I&#x27;m always worried with browser based editors that they are sending home a copy of the image.</text></item><item><author>fareesh</author><text>I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bisRepetita</author><text>Yes, but the website owner can change its source code at any time, and even serve differently JS for each user, puting the entire responsibility on the user shoulder to check the code behavior all the time.<p>It&#x27;s not as demanding with an open source app with distributed source code and versioning.<p>So I don&#x27;t understand the snark, and how it is helpful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gimp 3 Beta Released</title><url>https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alophawen</author><text></text></item><item><author>alimov</author><text>The difference is that it’s Open source, so you could certainly verify if you wanted to.</text></item><item><author>vore</author><text>What&#x27;s stopping GIMP from doing the same thing? It has more access to the network than your browser.</text></item><item><author>dankwizard</author><text>I&#x27;m always worried with browser based editors that they are sending home a copy of the image.</text></item><item><author>fareesh</author><text>I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinclift</author><text>Hmmm, &quot;web tech&quot; includes DRM stuff these days. So that&#x27;s not 100% always true any more.</text></comment> |
13,785,846 | 13,785,693 | 1 | 2 | 13,784,521 | train | <story><title>Razer targets perfect Linux support</title><url>https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1333298720061240&substory_index=0&id=113306788727112</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathnode</author><text>I am one of many disgruntled Razer Blade Stealth and razer core owners, currently awaiting a refund.
Some customers are on as many as their 4th or 5th replacement unit. They have no English support in the UK, just a couple of german phone numbers which nobody seems to answer. The forum is terrible and they can&#x27;t translate emails correctly. It&#x27;s insulting.<p>The typical issues are usually related to firmware, which myself and other users would be willing to wait for to be fixed, but Razer&#x27;s default, almost auto-response, solution is to just send you another unit, with the same issues.<p>In general though, the razer blade stealth is not even in the same league as an x1, mbp, or xps, and it&#x27;s not supposed to be. It&#x27;s just priced the same.<p>Razer. Apple prices, gateway support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxsilver</author><text>I also got bit by this. Razer&#x27;s simpler wired keyboards and mice might be OK, but their systems are fundamentally broken.<p>The Razer Blade Stealth (7500u) has broken Thunderbolt 3 &#x2F; USB-C support. Most popular devices simply won&#x27;t work at all, even though they work with other Kaby Lake computers, and even though they work with Razer&#x27;s own previous Stealth laptop (6500u model).<p>The Razer Core has broken display software (double vsync lag) which makes it not work properly if you use an external GPU and monitor (which is ostensibly the purpose of the device)<p>Additionally, the Razer Core&#x27;s USB ports just flat out don&#x27;t work. There&#x27;s a power short of some sort in the internal USB hub, so that if you plug in a device that draws any more than the lowest amount of power, it cycles through a connecting&#x2F;disconnecting state, looping forever.<p>All of these are fundamental flaws with the product itself, so you can (and will be asked to) RMA units over and over for eternity, but you&#x27;ll never get the problem fixed.<p>---<p>Razer Support has known about all of these issues for months now. There is zero communication coming from Razer -- they won&#x27;t discuss their design flaws, they won&#x27;t support their devices, they won&#x27;t even acknowledge these issues as happening.<p>When asked directly, the CEO claimed he &quot;wasn&#x27;t looking at product reliability because we&#x27;re actually one of the top few in terms of product quality&quot;. - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;razer&#x2F;comments&#x2F;5v8zkh&#x2F;improving_razer_customer_service&#x2F;de088x3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;razer&#x2F;comments&#x2F;5v8zkh&#x2F;improving_raz...</a> Since Razer&#x27;s leadership doesn&#x27;t care about quality at all, I can&#x27;t imagine the company will ever care either.<p>At this point, I&#x27;m not spending another dime with Razer ever again, and certainly couldn&#x27;t recommend any one else do so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Razer targets perfect Linux support</title><url>https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1333298720061240&substory_index=0&id=113306788727112</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathnode</author><text>I am one of many disgruntled Razer Blade Stealth and razer core owners, currently awaiting a refund.
Some customers are on as many as their 4th or 5th replacement unit. They have no English support in the UK, just a couple of german phone numbers which nobody seems to answer. The forum is terrible and they can&#x27;t translate emails correctly. It&#x27;s insulting.<p>The typical issues are usually related to firmware, which myself and other users would be willing to wait for to be fixed, but Razer&#x27;s default, almost auto-response, solution is to just send you another unit, with the same issues.<p>In general though, the razer blade stealth is not even in the same league as an x1, mbp, or xps, and it&#x27;s not supposed to be. It&#x27;s just priced the same.<p>Razer. Apple prices, gateway support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robertdpi</author><text>Another signal about the reliability of the company is how they handle logistics.
So if you are an US citizen living in Germany, you cannot buy a laptop with US keyboard layout.
The assumption that razer makes is that if you access the website from a Germany, you are a german citizen, speaker and someone who uses a QWERTZ keyboard..<p>Im literally trying to purchase their product, but they discourage me with this absurd logic and unhelpful support.<p>The answer that support gives ia that if you want a different keyboard layout, you need to purchase it in a different country.
That&#x27;s not going to happen</text></comment> |
4,826,256 | 4,826,053 | 1 | 2 | 4,825,893 | train | <story><title>News about Mark Crispin (author of the original IMAP specification)</title><url>https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/imap5/current/msg00571.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cromwellian</author><text>This is pretty sad, I had the pleasure of meeting Mark a few times when I was part of the Lemonade working group, he seemed like a very nice guy, energetic, unfazed by commercial interests, someone who stuck to his guns.<p>It reminds me of Jon Postel, in the sense that many of the core IETF people, those responsible for building the world as we know it, are getting old now, and some of them have already passed away. Everyone remembers Steve Jobs, but the greater public at large is oblivious to people who have built even more important infrastructure.<p>I hope the history books of the future won't just jump from Edison and Westinghouse directly to Steve Jobs, but also remember those who did the massively important work done in between.</text></comment> | <story><title>News about Mark Crispin (author of the original IMAP specification)</title><url>https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/imap5/current/msg00571.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This makes me sad. I'm glad I got a chance to send him the PDP8 programming manuals while he could still enjoy them (about 10 years ago). I only met Mark at a conference on DEC hardware but engaged in several discussions on the INFO-MICRO mailing list. He was the only person I knew of who had a DEC2020 system in his garage.</text></comment> |
21,824,878 | 21,825,019 | 1 | 2 | 21,824,178 | train | <story><title>Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5399491/tech-giants-sued-over-appalling-deaths-of-children-who-mine-their-cobalt-1.5399492</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swebs</author><text>&gt;Perhaps the only tragedy greater than the criminal destruction of the environment and the lives of the people of the Congo by these companies is the fact that it would be a rounding error on their income statements to fix the problem.<p>Eh, I don&#x27;t think giving more money to the third world mining companies is going to guarantee they&#x27;re going to stop using child labor. The simplest and least risky decision for the tech companies is to simply stop buying Congolese cobalt. It&#x27;s &quot;blood diamonds&quot; all over again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve-benjamins</author><text>I think the assumption is that ethical suppliers would be more expensive and that these companies have the margins to pay more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5399491/tech-giants-sued-over-appalling-deaths-of-children-who-mine-their-cobalt-1.5399492</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swebs</author><text>&gt;Perhaps the only tragedy greater than the criminal destruction of the environment and the lives of the people of the Congo by these companies is the fact that it would be a rounding error on their income statements to fix the problem.<p>Eh, I don&#x27;t think giving more money to the third world mining companies is going to guarantee they&#x27;re going to stop using child labor. The simplest and least risky decision for the tech companies is to simply stop buying Congolese cobalt. It&#x27;s &quot;blood diamonds&quot; all over again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>the liability is with the mining company and national government of Congo. the companies purchasing products can indeed put pressure on both to improve the working conditions of miners but in the end as with nearly every human tragedy, it comes down to the government to take responsibility for its actions and inaction. nothing changes until the local government has to change it.</text></comment> |
4,241,146 | 4,240,841 | 1 | 2 | 4,240,788 | train | <story><title>Apple is back on EPEAT</title><url>http://www.apple.com/environment/letter-to-customers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>droithomme</author><text>"All eligible products" is a key, the new iPad with its glued in battery is not among them.<p>The "more efficient and longer lasting" case materials he brags about are irrelevant in their disposable products made of low quality components that are not user serviceable or upgradable.<p>It's like bragging you made your automobile frame out of solid titanium with a carbon fiber shell, but ignoring the fact that you built the engine without any way to change the oil, so you're going to be throwing it out or sending it in for major costly service after a short time. Such planned obsolescent designs are certainly not environmentally sound, and claims of the longevity and strength of the frame materials, and even of certifications, are just PR to distract and hypnotize the marketplace into believing the opposite of the reality of the situation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is back on EPEAT</title><url>http://www.apple.com/environment/letter-to-customers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>younata</author><text>The retina macbook is rated EPEAT gold.<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/</a></text></comment> |
22,320,519 | 22,320,223 | 1 | 3 | 22,318,609 | train | <story><title>McClatchy files bankruptcy</title><url>https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article240139933.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turc1656</author><text>The one thing that made them &quot;make sense&quot; to most people was that the average person is&#x2F;was terrible at personal finance and retirement planning. The company running the pension was a way for the average person to be &quot;guaranteed&quot; a retirement income without having to worry about anything.<p>Remember, corporate pensions were a big thing when the US was at it&#x27;s greatest economic strength (post-WW2) and the internet with all of its modern tools to make investing much simpler for the average person didn&#x27;t exist. You had to pay brokers for every single trade or someone else to advise you or you had to just buy and hold a small set of stocks for 30 years and hope those companies would still be around (a fair bet at that time).<p>Back then companies didn&#x27;t really go under like this. If anything, they got bought by a larger company and merged, but the frequency of that was nothing like today.<p>Today, with health care costs what they are, having pensions and defined benefit plans are insane to me. It&#x27;s much better for the company to say &quot;we will match x% in a 401k&quot;. They are defining their contribution and it has a cap. If anything happens to the company, the employee&#x27;s funds are safe as the money is already transferred. For the employee, it does require them to manage this money but that&#x27;s far easier and cheaper today and that money doesn&#x27;t require the company to be around forever. If things tank, the employee is protected.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I discovered the concept of pensions managed by corporations when Sears Canada went under and a ton of people lost their pensions. I guess it&#x27;s a pretty common thing. But it seems absolutely insane to me.<p>Who in their right mind, given any choice on the matter, would want to lock their retirement into the existence and health of a corporation?<p>Until I saw the Sears debacle occur, I thought everyone basically puts together RRSP (Canadian retirement tax havens, I think 401k?) accounts and rely on their required payments into the Canada Pension Plan. It&#x27;s much less likely that the government or a bank will fail, and the bank, unlike Sears, is CDIC backed.<p>I guess my question is: why do we allow companies to manage retirement funds?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianmonk</author><text>Also, 401(k) plans were not even possible until a tax law change in 1978 and an IRS ruling in 1981. So there was a lot of time in the pre-401(k) world for things like pensions to evolve. And now that 401(k) plans exist, pensions have gotten way less popular.<p>I would guess it&#x27;s mostly old companies who have them. One factor may be that it&#x27;s tough to transition a company to not having a pension plan once one has been established. At the very least, you create two classes of employees, old employees who have pensions and new employees who don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s a form of compensation, so you have to figure out a way to achieve parity in a way that makes everyone feel they&#x27;re being treated fairly.</text></comment> | <story><title>McClatchy files bankruptcy</title><url>https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article240139933.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turc1656</author><text>The one thing that made them &quot;make sense&quot; to most people was that the average person is&#x2F;was terrible at personal finance and retirement planning. The company running the pension was a way for the average person to be &quot;guaranteed&quot; a retirement income without having to worry about anything.<p>Remember, corporate pensions were a big thing when the US was at it&#x27;s greatest economic strength (post-WW2) and the internet with all of its modern tools to make investing much simpler for the average person didn&#x27;t exist. You had to pay brokers for every single trade or someone else to advise you or you had to just buy and hold a small set of stocks for 30 years and hope those companies would still be around (a fair bet at that time).<p>Back then companies didn&#x27;t really go under like this. If anything, they got bought by a larger company and merged, but the frequency of that was nothing like today.<p>Today, with health care costs what they are, having pensions and defined benefit plans are insane to me. It&#x27;s much better for the company to say &quot;we will match x% in a 401k&quot;. They are defining their contribution and it has a cap. If anything happens to the company, the employee&#x27;s funds are safe as the money is already transferred. For the employee, it does require them to manage this money but that&#x27;s far easier and cheaper today and that money doesn&#x27;t require the company to be around forever. If things tank, the employee is protected.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I discovered the concept of pensions managed by corporations when Sears Canada went under and a ton of people lost their pensions. I guess it&#x27;s a pretty common thing. But it seems absolutely insane to me.<p>Who in their right mind, given any choice on the matter, would want to lock their retirement into the existence and health of a corporation?<p>Until I saw the Sears debacle occur, I thought everyone basically puts together RRSP (Canadian retirement tax havens, I think 401k?) accounts and rely on their required payments into the Canada Pension Plan. It&#x27;s much less likely that the government or a bank will fail, and the bank, unlike Sears, is CDIC backed.<p>I guess my question is: why do we allow companies to manage retirement funds?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bb88</author><text>&gt; Back then companies didn&#x27;t really go under like this.<p>The mean time between job transitions was less. That&#x27;s partially because pensions created job loyalty even if was through golden handcuffs. If people had to work another 5 years for another 15-20% in your pension, people would do it.<p>It fell down because:<p>1. Corporate raiders would buy companies to take the money out of the pension plan. Pensions are by and large unregulated. And pensions are just a bunch of money sitting in an account of which payouts are largely determined by corporate policy instead of by contractual obligation.<p>2. Companies would fail to pay into their own pension fund based upon overly rosy economic projections that wouldn&#x27;t come through. This forced companies to declare bankruptcy just to get out of the burden of paying a pension that was promised as part of the salary years ago, even if it was a contractually obligated pension.<p>3. 401k&#x27;s became the norm. Because companies now no longer have a separate account they have to manage, and it&#x27;s only x% (3 or 4 usually) of your paycheck.<p>In the end it comes down to, how well you trust people to manage your future. Back in the 50&#x27;s it worked largely well, because people weren&#x27;t willing to break societal norms.</text></comment> |
13,155,295 | 13,155,389 | 1 | 2 | 13,154,876 | train | <story><title>Linux on the Mac – state of the union</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/707616/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubernostrum</author><text>Except this is largely based on mythology. People seem to equate &quot;pro user&quot; with &quot;software developer&quot; (and no other roles&#x2F;occupations at all), and invent a fictitious history in which the Macbook Pro was jumping up and down on stage shouting &quot;DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!&quot;<p>Except that never happened. The perceived dev-friendliness of the Macbook Pro was a historical accident: it turns out that when you build something for use cases like audio&#x2F;video engineering (which overlap a bit in their hardware needs with use cases like compiling software), and happen due to quirks of your company&#x27;s history to be shipping a Unix-y operating system, developers will like it. But aside from providing tools to build applications for Apple&#x27;s own platforms, the MBP and other Mac hardware wasn&#x27;t deliberately catered to developers.<p>Meanwhile, the audio&#x2F;video-engineer types still seem to like the MBP; the reviews I&#x27;ve read from them are positive about the touch bar and accepting of the fact that USB C is the future. It&#x27;s just the developers -- and largely developers who hated Apple&#x27;s products anyway and likely will never interact with the new MBP -- who say that this is proof that Apple has completely abandoned &quot;pro&quot; users.</text></item><item><author>toodlebunions</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; &quot;the realization that Apple no longer caters equally to casual and professional customers as it had in the past [YouTube video]. Instead, the company appears to be following an iOS-focused, margin-driven strategy that essentially relegates professionals to a fringe group.&quot;<p>Ouch</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rev12</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; &quot;Meanwhile, the audio&#x2F;video-engineer types still seem to like the MBP&quot;<p>I can&#x27;t speak to the professional video world, but that&#x27;s absolutely false in the professional audio world.<p>My experience is in the world of composition and sound design; the attitude towards using Mac for that shifted a while back, due to the lackluster and non-existent upgrades to the Mac Pro.<p>No one in the professional audio world that I know, or anything that I have read, has suggested they are liking the new laptop (which wouldn&#x27;t get much use from them anyway).</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux on the Mac – state of the union</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/707616/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubernostrum</author><text>Except this is largely based on mythology. People seem to equate &quot;pro user&quot; with &quot;software developer&quot; (and no other roles&#x2F;occupations at all), and invent a fictitious history in which the Macbook Pro was jumping up and down on stage shouting &quot;DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!&quot;<p>Except that never happened. The perceived dev-friendliness of the Macbook Pro was a historical accident: it turns out that when you build something for use cases like audio&#x2F;video engineering (which overlap a bit in their hardware needs with use cases like compiling software), and happen due to quirks of your company&#x27;s history to be shipping a Unix-y operating system, developers will like it. But aside from providing tools to build applications for Apple&#x27;s own platforms, the MBP and other Mac hardware wasn&#x27;t deliberately catered to developers.<p>Meanwhile, the audio&#x2F;video-engineer types still seem to like the MBP; the reviews I&#x27;ve read from them are positive about the touch bar and accepting of the fact that USB C is the future. It&#x27;s just the developers -- and largely developers who hated Apple&#x27;s products anyway and likely will never interact with the new MBP -- who say that this is proof that Apple has completely abandoned &quot;pro&quot; users.</text></item><item><author>toodlebunions</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; &quot;the realization that Apple no longer caters equally to casual and professional customers as it had in the past [YouTube video]. Instead, the company appears to be following an iOS-focused, margin-driven strategy that essentially relegates professionals to a fringe group.&quot;<p>Ouch</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>I got the strong impression that those self-proclaimed &quot;professionals&quot; are more or less exactly the opposite: people who spend an inordinate amount of time plugging in dozens of different peripherals with random port requirements, fiddling around with the hardware, and running benchmarks.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, a Mac today is still as useful (at least for web development) as it has always been. Much more so actually because homebrew has evolved to be completely stable.<p>And while CPU speeds have been stagnating (mostly because they&#x27;ve reached &quot;good enough&quot; and then some), people are ignoring two major shifts in hardware that have significantly improved the dev experience: Retina screens and SSDs.</text></comment> |
25,776,880 | 25,776,015 | 1 | 2 | 25,775,168 | train | <story><title>CS631: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment</title><url>https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MrXOR</author><text>Thanks for sharing this class.<p>The best references to learn Unix (and TCP&#x2F;IP and networking) are still William Rich Stevens books.<p>Other courses&#x2F;sources that I found very useful:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;cs114&#x2F;2003fa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;cs114&#x2F;2003fa&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;cs214&#x2F;2004sp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;cs214&#x2F;2004sp&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boris.lk.net&#x2F;unix&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boris.lk.net&#x2F;unix&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;teaching&#x2F;1011&#x2F;UnixTools&#x2F;notes.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;teaching&#x2F;1011&#x2F;UnixTools&#x2F;notes.pdf</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dasher.wustl.edu&#x2F;chem430&#x2F;readings&#x2F;unix-tutorial.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dasher.wustl.edu&#x2F;chem430&#x2F;readings&#x2F;unix-tutorial.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CS631: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment</title><url>https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qntty</author><text>This is based on the book by the same name, but has lectures to go along with it. Looks nice. I wish there were lectures to go along with Michael Kerrisk&#x27;s book The Linux Programming Interface.<p>I subscribe to O&#x27;Reilly&#x27;s video course program, and I&#x27;ve recently been watching Kirk McKusick&#x27;s course on the design of FreeBSD which is one of the best OS courses I&#x27;ve ever come across.</text></comment> |
6,274,587 | 6,274,534 | 1 | 3 | 6,274,128 | train | <story><title>How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/health/exploring-salines-secret-costs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jes</author><text>How do you explain other free markets that obviously deliver quality products at low prices? I don&#x27;t feel gouged when I buy a television, a cell phone or lumber at Home Depot.</text></item><item><author>nikatwork</author><text>Many in this thread are claiming that price fixing wouldn&#x27;t occur in a &quot;truly free&quot; market. This is misty-eyed naivety.<p>In a completely deregulated free market, it is even more in the hospitals&#x27; interest to form a price-fixing cartel. Any new player in the market trying to set reasonable market prices could be excluded through market pressure tactics (eg, tell distributors don&#x27;t sell to them or our cartel will no longer use you).<p>It seems to me that the parlous state of the US healthcare system is in fact a perfect demonstration of the dangers of a completely free market, and claims that &quot;oh no it&#x27;s not actually free enough&quot; are merely handwaving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abalone</author><text><i>&gt; I don&#x27;t feel gouged when I buy a television, a cell phone or lumber at Home Depot.</i><p>You might if you were carted into a Home Depot unconscious on a gurney, handed a non-returnable light bulb and stuck with a bill for $6,844.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/health/exploring-salines-secret-costs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jes</author><text>How do you explain other free markets that obviously deliver quality products at low prices? I don&#x27;t feel gouged when I buy a television, a cell phone or lumber at Home Depot.</text></item><item><author>nikatwork</author><text>Many in this thread are claiming that price fixing wouldn&#x27;t occur in a &quot;truly free&quot; market. This is misty-eyed naivety.<p>In a completely deregulated free market, it is even more in the hospitals&#x27; interest to form a price-fixing cartel. Any new player in the market trying to set reasonable market prices could be excluded through market pressure tactics (eg, tell distributors don&#x27;t sell to them or our cartel will no longer use you).<p>It seems to me that the parlous state of the US healthcare system is in fact a perfect demonstration of the dangers of a completely free market, and claims that &quot;oh no it&#x27;s not actually free enough&quot; are merely handwaving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikatwork</author><text>Free markets are a problem when there is a resource that can be monopolized (doctors &#x2F; medical supplies) or when corporate goals are at direct odds to community interest (a deregulated BP despoiling the Gulf of Mexico because safety measures are expensive and fuck you.)<p>Home Depot would happily gouge you if they could form a cartel and gain enough control of the supply chain.</text></comment> |
13,385,755 | 13,385,233 | 1 | 2 | 13,381,912 | train | <story><title>Mac Pro 2 Concept Design</title><url>http://pascaleggert.de/macpro.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>&gt; Moreover, you are not limited by any client restrictions<p>But you must still limit yourself to sanity and physics. Too often, designers don&#x27;t have a clue what&#x27;s actually going on behind the scenes, and embarrass themselves.<p>This example puts 16 TB3 ports on a computer, because &quot;consumers want it to be very expandable&quot; and &quot;2 columns of 8 looks pretty&quot;. It also adds two graphics cards but buries the connectors into the floor rather than making them externally accessible.<p>Concept cars by designers may have faults such as zero visibility from the drivers seat, have aggressively high front bumpers and low hood lines that look designed to kill pedestrians, utterly lack necessary things like exhaust pipes, crumple zones and spare tires, or have absurd specifications (&quot;500 miles from the 2 cubic foot battery pack!&quot; &quot;600 HP V12 under the rear seat!&quot;)<p>Your target (other marketing departments) may not care. But it&#x27;s also very possible that they encounter these limits as a part of their daily work, and will care, judging you for your lack of domain knowledge. Definitely create some concept work for your portfolio. But don&#x27;t stray too far from the realm of the possible.</text></item><item><author>greenspot</author><text>If you are a designer, this is <i>absolutely the best</i> thing you can do to sky-rocket your market value over night:<p>Create a concept design from a popular product and put it on a slick landing page. It shows that you, as a designer, are proactive and think beyond designing standard stuff (like webpages or mobile apps).<p>Moreover, you are not limited by any client restrictions[1] which hurt your work (and portfolio), you learn 3D modelling if you haven&#x27;t yet (it&#x27;s not hard just time consuming), if you are lucky with social news sites you get so much free promo and finally, it&#x27;s the eye-catcher on any CV.<p>[1] A classic and recommended post if we talk about clients restricting designers: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoatmeal.com&#x2F;comics&#x2F;design_hell" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoatmeal.com&#x2F;comics&#x2F;design_hell</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radley</author><text>Ugh - did anyone take a look at his portfolio? He designs for video games so of course the specs are exaggerated.<p>He did something fun and most of HN is railing on him. The same criticisms ought to be said here - if you&#x27;re going to criticize, first take a look at the whole picture and don&#x27;t jump to conclusions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mac Pro 2 Concept Design</title><url>http://pascaleggert.de/macpro.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>&gt; Moreover, you are not limited by any client restrictions<p>But you must still limit yourself to sanity and physics. Too often, designers don&#x27;t have a clue what&#x27;s actually going on behind the scenes, and embarrass themselves.<p>This example puts 16 TB3 ports on a computer, because &quot;consumers want it to be very expandable&quot; and &quot;2 columns of 8 looks pretty&quot;. It also adds two graphics cards but buries the connectors into the floor rather than making them externally accessible.<p>Concept cars by designers may have faults such as zero visibility from the drivers seat, have aggressively high front bumpers and low hood lines that look designed to kill pedestrians, utterly lack necessary things like exhaust pipes, crumple zones and spare tires, or have absurd specifications (&quot;500 miles from the 2 cubic foot battery pack!&quot; &quot;600 HP V12 under the rear seat!&quot;)<p>Your target (other marketing departments) may not care. But it&#x27;s also very possible that they encounter these limits as a part of their daily work, and will care, judging you for your lack of domain knowledge. Definitely create some concept work for your portfolio. But don&#x27;t stray too far from the realm of the possible.</text></item><item><author>greenspot</author><text>If you are a designer, this is <i>absolutely the best</i> thing you can do to sky-rocket your market value over night:<p>Create a concept design from a popular product and put it on a slick landing page. It shows that you, as a designer, are proactive and think beyond designing standard stuff (like webpages or mobile apps).<p>Moreover, you are not limited by any client restrictions[1] which hurt your work (and portfolio), you learn 3D modelling if you haven&#x27;t yet (it&#x27;s not hard just time consuming), if you are lucky with social news sites you get so much free promo and finally, it&#x27;s the eye-catcher on any CV.<p>[1] A classic and recommended post if we talk about clients restricting designers: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoatmeal.com&#x2F;comics&#x2F;design_hell" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoatmeal.com&#x2F;comics&#x2F;design_hell</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nition</author><text>Even as a non-designer consumer it sucks when you can look at a concept and immediately see that it wouldn&#x27;t work in real life.</text></comment> |
13,313,287 | 13,313,127 | 1 | 2 | 13,312,720 | train | <story><title>Kaspersky: SSL interception differentiates certificates with a 32bit hash</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=978</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nxc18</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how these antivirus vendors are still in business. Even when they do have marginally better detection rates than the built in solution, the licensing, annoying popups, system slowdown, and security-defeating &#x27;features&#x27; make them a losing proposition.<p>Pre-bundled and even purchased AV is so dramatically deleterious to PC performance that MS should kill it as public service. It gives the entire ecosystem a bad reputation and nowadays is completely unnecessary.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kaspersky: SSL interception differentiates certificates with a 32bit hash</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=978</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dom0</author><text>Besides the obvious badness of the overall system described, things like<p>&gt; The cache is a binary tree, and as new leaf certificates and keys are generated, they&#x27;re inserted using the first 32 bits of MD5(serialNumber||issuer) as the key.<p>You know. That&#x27;s not a mistake. That&#x27;s what a consciously designed-in vulnerability to enable taking over the system looks like.</text></comment> |
22,513,470 | 22,512,628 | 1 | 2 | 22,512,149 | train | <story><title>Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison</title><url>https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/03/managed-kubernetes-comparison/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neop1x</author><text>Egress costs at those major clouds are ridiculous. Once you start having some traffic it can easily make 50% of all costs or more. That is not justifiable! Meanwhile hardware costs are going down. We need more k8s providers with more resonable pricing. Unfortunatelly both Digital Ocean and Oracle Cloud don&#x27;t have proper network load balancer implementations which is a must for elastic regional clusters and to forward TCP in a way that client IP is preserved and be able to add nodes without downtimes or TCP resets. OVH cloud doesn&#x27;t implement LoadBalancer service type at all. So the choice in 2020 is really just Google, Amazon, Azure with their rolls-royce pricing. The cost difference between them is neglible. And then there are confidential free credits for startups. So sad...</text></comment> | <story><title>Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison</title><url>https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/03/managed-kubernetes-comparison/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>david-s</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t seem to include Digital Ocean in the comparison.</text></comment> |
19,709,922 | 19,709,271 | 1 | 3 | 19,708,429 | train | <story><title>Hardening SSH with 2FA</title><url>https://gist.github.com/lizthegrey/9c21673f33186a9cc775464afbdce820</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kylek</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought about doing something like this several times, but the proposition of using any tools&#x2F;libraries&#x2F;pam modules&#x2F;etc not installed by default, custom pam&#x2F;sshd configs, and generally anything &quot;outside of the box&quot; sort of scares me.<p>I&#x27;ve used 2FA for SSH at $lastjobatmegacorp, however all that infrastructure was supported by a team of people dedicated to such things. How finicky would setting this up for myself be in practice? (Am I being paranoid for NOT wanting to go the extra mile to ensure that I actually have access to my systems when I need it the most?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kiallmacinnes</author><text>If all you care about is your SSH key not being stolen, then you can very easily use a YubiKey (or other smartcard..) with SSH via either GPG or PKCS11. Both will mean your key never leaves your YubiKey (or other smartcard...). This doesn&#x27;t prevent your colleagues from having their key stolen, but does protect yours.<p>I can use the YubiKey for SSH from Linux, Mac, Android phones without issue, and I keep several YubiKeys with my keys on them so it&#x27;s extremely unlikely I&#x27;ll loose them all at once.<p>Re the paranoia - if you&#x27;re really the only person who can fix something, and you have lost your closest key, then - the thing in need of fixing can wait till you get home to your second key ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Hardening SSH with 2FA</title><url>https://gist.github.com/lizthegrey/9c21673f33186a9cc775464afbdce820</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kylek</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought about doing something like this several times, but the proposition of using any tools&#x2F;libraries&#x2F;pam modules&#x2F;etc not installed by default, custom pam&#x2F;sshd configs, and generally anything &quot;outside of the box&quot; sort of scares me.<p>I&#x27;ve used 2FA for SSH at $lastjobatmegacorp, however all that infrastructure was supported by a team of people dedicated to such things. How finicky would setting this up for myself be in practice? (Am I being paranoid for NOT wanting to go the extra mile to ensure that I actually have access to my systems when I need it the most?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alias_neo</author><text>I wrote a blog post on this recently, using only open-source tools that don&#x27;t come from big corps. To have TOTP second factor on Debian (like) systems you need only libpam-oath module on the server, and perhaps an open-source app like FreeOTP (RedHat) on a smartphone.<p>I&#x27;m afraid to link it here because the traffic might kill my puny box.</text></comment> |
25,049,163 | 25,049,064 | 1 | 2 | 25,048,271 | train | <story><title>My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania</title><url>https://portal.drewdevault.com/2020/11/10/2020-Election-worker.gmi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>estebank</author><text>As a non-citizen who had a chance to observe how the process works in California, I was struck by how little emphasis is put in the secrecy of the vote. The whole system looks reasonable <i>except</i> for how easy it can be for poll workers to know what you voted for.<p>Beyond that, the system is clearly geared towards increasing participation and enfranchising as many people as possible (a good thing in a democratic system).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnissen</author><text>Based on my long experience in California, I have no idea what you could be referring to. I am given ballot(s) in an opaque folder, mark my choices in a booth enclosed on three sides, and feed the ballots into the machine myself. There&#x27;s no way for a poll worker to observe me making the choices, or the marked ballot. I suppose in theory they could use the order in which people enter to locate a ballot after the fact, but that would involve riffling through a stack of ballots!<p>Voting is county by county, and it is run by human beings that make mistakes, but in the dozens of times I have voted the secrecy of my ballot has been entirely up to me. Party affiliation is not a secret, true, it is a public record. But the actual Please provide a lot more context than &quot;how easy it can be&quot; or please delete your post.</text></comment> | <story><title>My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania</title><url>https://portal.drewdevault.com/2020/11/10/2020-Election-worker.gmi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>estebank</author><text>As a non-citizen who had a chance to observe how the process works in California, I was struck by how little emphasis is put in the secrecy of the vote. The whole system looks reasonable <i>except</i> for how easy it can be for poll workers to know what you voted for.<p>Beyond that, the system is clearly geared towards increasing participation and enfranchising as many people as possible (a good thing in a democratic system).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandmeyer</author><text>There&#x27;s variation state-to-state. In NC (1996-2012 at least), no poll workers touch ballots with identifying information in them. On entry to the polling place, a sticker is placed beside your name on a physical rollbook to keep track of who has and hasn&#x27;t voted. The poll worker hands you your ballot which you take to a privacy booth to mark your choices. The voter personally inserts the anonymous ballot into the counting machine.<p>CO has universal mailings. You mail (or drop off) your ballot in a double envelope, and only the outer envelope carries identifying information. One workstation examines the outer envelope to track who voted, and a different workstation processes the anonymous ballots. It requires a little more trust on the part of the voter, but also encourages more participation.</text></comment> |
35,452,441 | 35,452,459 | 1 | 2 | 35,439,916 | train | <story><title>Mindset shifts for functional programming (with Clojure)</title><url>https://blog.janetacarr.com/mindset-shifts-for-functional-programming-with-clojure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; Recursion over Looping<p>Part of what makes Clojure a great programming language is that you don&#x27;t have to believe this if you don&#x27;t want to. Nobody has yet convinced me that recursion has any sustained advantage over looping.<p>Using a loop is generally bad practice if a more specialised operation is available (don&#x27;t loop if something is a simple map or reduce for example). But if the situation justifies a recursion then it usually justifies a loop unless the recursion is particularly neat. Recursion has the same problem as looping - it doesn&#x27;t tell anyone anything about what the code is really doing. If I see map then I have implicit and explicit expectations about what is about to happen.<p>I enjoyed the article though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js8</author><text>I mostly agree, and proponents of FP shouldn&#x27;t stress the recursion too much.<p>When I program in Haskell, I rarely use recursion myself. Most loops are just maps and folds. Need to build another structure from existing structure? Foldl&#x27;. Once I understood that the value being folded can be arbitrarily complex, FP became simpler (but terser) than iterative programming for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mindset shifts for functional programming (with Clojure)</title><url>https://blog.janetacarr.com/mindset-shifts-for-functional-programming-with-clojure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; Recursion over Looping<p>Part of what makes Clojure a great programming language is that you don&#x27;t have to believe this if you don&#x27;t want to. Nobody has yet convinced me that recursion has any sustained advantage over looping.<p>Using a loop is generally bad practice if a more specialised operation is available (don&#x27;t loop if something is a simple map or reduce for example). But if the situation justifies a recursion then it usually justifies a loop unless the recursion is particularly neat. Recursion has the same problem as looping - it doesn&#x27;t tell anyone anything about what the code is really doing. If I see map then I have implicit and explicit expectations about what is about to happen.<p>I enjoyed the article though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PartiallyTyped</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s my background but recursion feels more natural, either you are at the base, or at a point with N-1 items below. This gives you two different invariants that you can use to simplify the code.<p>Small example, though not exactly comparable to looping.<p>I needed to create a human readable qualified path appended by a hash (to avoid conflicts). This qualified path was needed ahead of the construction of an object, and the logical name must have been used in both the hash and qualified path as it was global (Yes, it was an S3 bucket).<p>I wrote a function<p><pre><code> uniqueQualifiedName: Construct x Optional(logicalId) x Properties -&gt; string.
</code></pre>
The recursive step is at the top, where the logicalId is transformed to a construct in the scope of the first argument, and the function is called again with NewConstruct x Nothing x Properties. This could easily be adjusted to work with a list of logicalIds instead.<p>The invariant in the recursive step is that once the call returns, the construct at the end of the chain will be exactly the construct I inserted, and I can pop it safely, and the scope object will be none the wiser.<p>The invariant in the base is simply that I don&#x27;t need to worry about logicalId being anything.<p>You can see then how easy it is to adapt this to work with a list, whereas with a loop you&#x27;d have to write it from zero, and then roll back. Too messy imho.</text></comment> |
20,619,382 | 20,618,039 | 1 | 2 | 20,615,760 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Compound (YC S19) – helping employees understand equity compensation</title><text>Hi HN, we&#x27;re Jacob and Jordan, the founders of Compound (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withcompound.com&#x2F;equity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withcompound.com&#x2F;equity</a>). We help employees understand their equity compensation.<p>We started Compound after seeing way too many of our friends get screwed over by startup equity.<p>You hear the story often: wide-eyed engineer accepts an offer and 100,000 options from an exciting startup. Woohoo! Suddenly you must make what may turn out to be the most important financial decision of your life, whether you know it yet or not: should you exercise your options?<p>The answer to this question depends upon many nuanced factors. Does the company allow for early exercising? If not, how long should you wait to exercise your options? When will you owe taxes? What is the Alternative Minimum Tax? How long is the exercise window if you cease employment? Will you ever qualify for the QSBS tax exemption? Will this be a qualifying disposition? Does your...wait...could you have negotiated for more equity? Do you really believe in the company? Should you even be working at an early-stage startup that you do not believe in?<p>Equity is really confusing. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. However, your equity is a crucial part of your compensation and is worth being scrutinized as such. Many people miss out on significant upside because they fail to familiarize themselves with key terms before it is too late.<p>There are 300-page books written on options but _nothing_ is personalized. Large financial institutions won’t talk to you unless you have millions of dollars in liquid assets. To make things worse, most companies do a terrible job of helping their candidates and employees understand the value of their equity. What does 100,000 options even mean? HR teams are frequently asked about equity-and tax-related matters from their employees and are forbidden from sharing useful, true things.<p>Jacob and I got really interested in these problems during our final year of university. We read books, consumed the entire tax code, and talked with dozens of experts. We became the de facto equity resource in our circles and helped hundreds of people with everything from negotiating offers to exercising options. This led to the start of Compound.<p>Over the years, there have been many proposals to fix equity compensation. There is no obvious simple answer. What is clear is that today’s system will eventually break. We are hoping Compound plays a role in the solution.<p>Compound is entirely focused on helping you—the employee—understand and manage your equity. We provide forecasting tools that show you how much your equity is worth, display tax implications (AMT exposure, capital gains), and model exit scenarios. We help you understand the value of your equity to make more informed exercise decisions. For the HN community, we are offering free informational consultations at (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withcompound.com&#x2F;?ref=hn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withcompound.com&#x2F;?ref=hn</a>)<p>We also encourage companies to adopt more employee-friendly equity procedures and policies. We build tools, like fair offer-letter templates and internal equity dashboards, to promote transparency within companies. If your team is interested, please send me an email to [email protected].<p>In the future, Compound will earn revenue by offering financial products. We are still hammering out these details—our mission is to help employees maximize their upsides by democratizing access to financial services currently reserved for the super-rich (tax planning, advisory, bespoke investment offerings, concierge services, etc.).<p>We will be releasing more guides around this topic in the near future and would really appreciate your feedback and requests. Eager to hear about HN users’ experiences, ideas, and know there is a ton of expertise among the community to learn from. Happy to answer any questions in the comments or via email [email protected]. Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Some (IMHO) very relevant past conversations on HN about equity:<p>1) Introducing Progressive Equity – Increase employee ownership as company grows: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9336392" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9336392</a><p>2) What I Wish I&#x27;d Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13426494" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13426494</a><p>3) Open Guide to Equity Compensation : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10880726" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10880726</a><p>4) Employee Equity (Sam Altman) : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7610527" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7610527</a><p>5) Guide to Your Equity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10362141" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10362141</a><p>6) Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17717727" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17717727</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Compound (YC S19) – helping employees understand equity compensation</title><text>Hi HN, we&#x27;re Jacob and Jordan, the founders of Compound (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withcompound.com&#x2F;equity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withcompound.com&#x2F;equity</a>). We help employees understand their equity compensation.<p>We started Compound after seeing way too many of our friends get screwed over by startup equity.<p>You hear the story often: wide-eyed engineer accepts an offer and 100,000 options from an exciting startup. Woohoo! Suddenly you must make what may turn out to be the most important financial decision of your life, whether you know it yet or not: should you exercise your options?<p>The answer to this question depends upon many nuanced factors. Does the company allow for early exercising? If not, how long should you wait to exercise your options? When will you owe taxes? What is the Alternative Minimum Tax? How long is the exercise window if you cease employment? Will you ever qualify for the QSBS tax exemption? Will this be a qualifying disposition? Does your...wait...could you have negotiated for more equity? Do you really believe in the company? Should you even be working at an early-stage startup that you do not believe in?<p>Equity is really confusing. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. However, your equity is a crucial part of your compensation and is worth being scrutinized as such. Many people miss out on significant upside because they fail to familiarize themselves with key terms before it is too late.<p>There are 300-page books written on options but _nothing_ is personalized. Large financial institutions won’t talk to you unless you have millions of dollars in liquid assets. To make things worse, most companies do a terrible job of helping their candidates and employees understand the value of their equity. What does 100,000 options even mean? HR teams are frequently asked about equity-and tax-related matters from their employees and are forbidden from sharing useful, true things.<p>Jacob and I got really interested in these problems during our final year of university. We read books, consumed the entire tax code, and talked with dozens of experts. We became the de facto equity resource in our circles and helped hundreds of people with everything from negotiating offers to exercising options. This led to the start of Compound.<p>Over the years, there have been many proposals to fix equity compensation. There is no obvious simple answer. What is clear is that today’s system will eventually break. We are hoping Compound plays a role in the solution.<p>Compound is entirely focused on helping you—the employee—understand and manage your equity. We provide forecasting tools that show you how much your equity is worth, display tax implications (AMT exposure, capital gains), and model exit scenarios. We help you understand the value of your equity to make more informed exercise decisions. For the HN community, we are offering free informational consultations at (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withcompound.com&#x2F;?ref=hn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withcompound.com&#x2F;?ref=hn</a>)<p>We also encourage companies to adopt more employee-friendly equity procedures and policies. We build tools, like fair offer-letter templates and internal equity dashboards, to promote transparency within companies. If your team is interested, please send me an email to [email protected].<p>In the future, Compound will earn revenue by offering financial products. We are still hammering out these details—our mission is to help employees maximize their upsides by democratizing access to financial services currently reserved for the super-rich (tax planning, advisory, bespoke investment offerings, concierge services, etc.).<p>We will be releasing more guides around this topic in the near future and would really appreciate your feedback and requests. Eager to hear about HN users’ experiences, ideas, and know there is a ton of expertise among the community to learn from. Happy to answer any questions in the comments or via email [email protected]. Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinflo</author><text>I&#x27;m shocked by the comments of those here that don&#x27;t see why something like this must exist and don&#x27;t see that there is tremendous financial upside for whoever cracks this. Employee equity can generate unbelievable amounts of wealth as well as unbelievable tax consequences&#x2F;missed opportunities. The deck is mostly stacked against employees, and you&#x27;re on your own navigating treacherous waters with little information. A strong company in this space can protect employees and ultimately advocate for them and improve the landscape. Or it can augment the deck being stacked in favor of the investors etc. depending on how things shake out for the winners in this space.</text></comment> |
24,802,988 | 24,803,016 | 1 | 2 | 24,799,660 | train | <story><title>AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service</title><url>https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>&gt;this big co strategy of &quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.<p>Then use a different license. Hoping that a company like Amazon finds it in their hearts to always do what _you_ consider &quot;the right thing&quot; is just a loser of a strategy. You seem to want all of the good of open source, with none of the downsides. Good luck with that.</text></item><item><author>masukomi</author><text>I really wish, that when COs like Amazon decided to productize a thing they either offered the core developer(s) enough $ to work on it full time (if they wanted) or a job to do that with a guarantee that as long as it was a product, and they wanted to work on it, they&#x27;d be allowed to continue. Problem with offering job is the likelyhood of getting redirected to some other unrelated work.<p>instead of forking they could work with core devs to see if they wanted to support the desired features (potentially with an NDA until release).<p>this big co strategy of &quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>&quot;Don&#x27;t like how shitty people can be? I don&#x27;t care&quot; - that is how this kind of comment reads. But let&#x27;s move on.<p>Interesting idea for a license.<p>Everyone can use and modify it, but if a large company with a market cap above $100m or a company wholly funded or owned by such company decides to utilize this project as a for-profit service, then said large company must hire me at for no less than $175,000 in 2020 value.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service</title><url>https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>&gt;this big co strategy of &quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.<p>Then use a different license. Hoping that a company like Amazon finds it in their hearts to always do what _you_ consider &quot;the right thing&quot; is just a loser of a strategy. You seem to want all of the good of open source, with none of the downsides. Good luck with that.</text></item><item><author>masukomi</author><text>I really wish, that when COs like Amazon decided to productize a thing they either offered the core developer(s) enough $ to work on it full time (if they wanted) or a job to do that with a guarantee that as long as it was a product, and they wanted to work on it, they&#x27;d be allowed to continue. Problem with offering job is the likelyhood of getting redirected to some other unrelated work.<p>instead of forking they could work with core devs to see if they wanted to support the desired features (potentially with an NDA until release).<p>this big co strategy of &quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>funkaster</author><text>This is what people don&#x27;t get when arguing against GPL: &quot;oh, it&#x27;s such a restrictive license! so viral, blah blah blah&quot;. In this case, it would&#x27;ve probable not changed the outcome, but could give the author some leverage for either compensation or mention. IANAL, but my understanding is that GPL would require you to keep the same terms and mention explicitly the original source.</text></comment> |
18,511,425 | 18,511,027 | 1 | 3 | 18,509,735 | train | <story><title>The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died</title><url>https://gcemetery.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this list is complete. Inbox is not here, and neither are the multitude of Android apps that Google kept rolling out and discontinuing (e.g. Allo).</text></item><item><author>the_duke</author><text>I know we bash Google for discontinuing services here a lot.<p>I definitely bemoaned the demise of Google Reader.<p>But if this list is complete, it&#x27;s really not so bad, considering the size and age of Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codyogden</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbygoogle.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbygoogle.com</a> &lt;- I got pissed after the Inbox announcement and turned it into a Hacktoberfest project. Going to prune it over the weekend to remove some of the cruft (specific phone models with clear lifecycles, etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died</title><url>https://gcemetery.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this list is complete. Inbox is not here, and neither are the multitude of Android apps that Google kept rolling out and discontinuing (e.g. Allo).</text></item><item><author>the_duke</author><text>I know we bash Google for discontinuing services here a lot.<p>I definitely bemoaned the demise of Google Reader.<p>But if this list is complete, it&#x27;s really not so bad, considering the size and age of Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ac29</author><text>Allo isnt dead or otherwise discontinued, though I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to see it go in the next year or two.</text></comment> |
26,339,022 | 26,339,069 | 1 | 3 | 26,337,913 | train | <story><title>Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12338</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>I’ve been thinking about this lately. Can you actually be faster than C? Like, in the sense that you can transpile any bit of Python or Lisp or Haskell or Rust or JS into C but the opposite isn’t necessarily true because not all those language support all the features exposed in C (such as goto, no bounds checking, pointer arithmetic, etc.), any algorithm for say parsing JSON can be expressed equally as efficiently in C, while a clever and hacky C-specific algorithm cannot necessarily be expressed in those higher level languages.<p>In other words, is “faster than C” even a good metric if all it means that “if you implement something inefficiently in C it will be faster than if it is implemented efficiently in not-C”?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; Can you actually be faster than C?<p>Sure, in any language that provides more semantic information than C does. For example, D enables a &quot;pointer to immutable data&quot; type, while C does not. This can improve optimization.<p>On a pragmatic note, C makes it easy to use 0-terminated strings, and clumsy to use length-terminated strings. The natural result is people use 0-terminated strings.<p>0-terminated strings are inefficient because of the constant need to strlen them. When I look to optimize C, I find plenty of paydirt in all the strlen instances. D makes it easy to use length-terminated strings, and so people naturally prefer them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12338</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>I’ve been thinking about this lately. Can you actually be faster than C? Like, in the sense that you can transpile any bit of Python or Lisp or Haskell or Rust or JS into C but the opposite isn’t necessarily true because not all those language support all the features exposed in C (such as goto, no bounds checking, pointer arithmetic, etc.), any algorithm for say parsing JSON can be expressed equally as efficiently in C, while a clever and hacky C-specific algorithm cannot necessarily be expressed in those higher level languages.<p>In other words, is “faster than C” even a good metric if all it means that “if you implement something inefficiently in C it will be faster than if it is implemented efficiently in not-C”?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>FORTRAN is faster for many tasks, and is probably more popular in high performance computing.<p>Also tasks that can be moved to the GPU go a lot faster. You can interact with those programs in C, but not natively. But some languages, like Julia, can easily move calculations to&#x2F;from the GPU. And also can transparently take advantage of parallelism.<p>Julia is in the process of growing rapidly for high performance computing. I don&#x27;t know if it has officially passed C there. But if not yet, it will.</text></comment> |
21,391,484 | 21,391,129 | 1 | 2 | 21,388,510 | train | <story><title>Hellvetica.ttf – Kern in Hell</title><url>https://hellveticafont.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huac</author><text>Very similar to smelvetica (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tholman&#x2F;smelvetica" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tholman&#x2F;smelvetica</a>) which did get takedown notices from Monotype.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tholman</author><text>Haha, thanks for the shout out. Here was the HN convo for smelvetica - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17925352" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17925352</a><p>Yeah, like a lot of people mentioned here, I didn’t really fight the takedown. Didn’t really have a lot of interest wasting any time with people who’s sole job was to ruin the fun. And on the flipped side, found it even funnier that they felt it hurt their brand at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hellvetica.ttf – Kern in Hell</title><url>https://hellveticafont.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huac</author><text>Very similar to smelvetica (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tholman&#x2F;smelvetica" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tholman&#x2F;smelvetica</a>) which did get takedown notices from Monotype.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Ew.<p>I don&#x27;t blame tholman for complying with the takedown, but my layman&#x27;s understanding is that Monotype had no legal grounds for their complaint because parody is protected -- they were just using legal language to intimidate him into complying. Does that jibe with others&#x27; understanding of the law?</text></comment> |
20,060,908 | 20,061,160 | 1 | 3 | 20,059,725 | train | <story><title>James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-05-james-webb-space-telescope-emerges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skizm</author><text>Anyone know if there are any well paying jobs in space programs of any kind? I&#x27;ve been seeing a growing number of reputable universities offering a wider range of space &#x2F; aerospace &#x2F; engineering offerings* and I&#x27;ve been getting curious what&#x27;s out there. Only issue is, a lot of places I looked pay well below market rates :&#x2F; (at least for software engineers). I&#x27;ll admit my expectations might be off considering I&#x27;ve been in the NYC area for a while now, and am used to seeing NYC salaries, but the pay is well below half of what I would make now and the cut seems too drastic even in a LCOL area.<p>* I&#x27;m mostly talking about masters programs here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcadam</author><text>Just a bit of warning: Software Engineering in Aerospace is NOT fun. You&#x27;re basically in a supporting role to the hardware and system engineers designing the spacecraft. It&#x27;s pure drudgery... process to the point of absurdity, specs and tasks being spoon fed to you with little room for creativity and&#x2F;or problem solving, etc.<p>The pay, benefits, and level of respect on the job reflect all of that.<p>If you really want to work in space, I&#x27;d go and get a MS (or higher) in aerospace engineering or space systems engineering and work at the systems level.<p>I got out of aerospace and am much happier for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-05-james-webb-space-telescope-emerges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skizm</author><text>Anyone know if there are any well paying jobs in space programs of any kind? I&#x27;ve been seeing a growing number of reputable universities offering a wider range of space &#x2F; aerospace &#x2F; engineering offerings* and I&#x27;ve been getting curious what&#x27;s out there. Only issue is, a lot of places I looked pay well below market rates :&#x2F; (at least for software engineers). I&#x27;ll admit my expectations might be off considering I&#x27;ve been in the NYC area for a while now, and am used to seeing NYC salaries, but the pay is well below half of what I would make now and the cut seems too drastic even in a LCOL area.<p>* I&#x27;m mostly talking about masters programs here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>I&#x27;m betting that in 5-10 years, there will be an explosion of aero startups. But fast and loose don&#x27;t work as well in space, where everything ends up going 11,000 meters per second at least. The culture will necessarily be a bit more conservative, and as others have mentioned, software is usually a supporting element at best, a necessary evil at worst.</text></comment> |
10,885,420 | 10,885,414 | 1 | 2 | 10,884,934 | train | <story><title>The Unexotic Underclass (2013)</title><url>http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>The veteran thing is strange. To a non-American the veneration of military personnel and veterans seems over-the-top to the point of self-parody. Watching the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, I wasn&#x27;t sure whether I was watching a sporting match, or Starship Troopers.<p>That said, for all the splashy thank-you-for-your-service it&#x27;s a shame but no real surprise that veterans are getting shafted, behind the scenes, by one of the largest bureaucracies in the world.</text></item><item><author>doktrin</author><text>Describing veterans as an <i>un</i>exotic underclass feels incorrect to me. Maybe it&#x27;s just perception bias, but for instance my FB feed contains an order of magnitude more appeals for veterans causes than literally any other endeavor. GoFundMe&#x27;s, petitions, charities, races, events - you name it. 4 out of 5 of my last donations concerned veterans (as a group) or individual vets, as were 5 out of 5 of my last signed petitions (whose value, I will grant, is probably a bit tenuous)<p>Maybe there is some other social circle out there that exclusively cares about black and latino inner city youth, or Kenya, or Bangladesh - but if they really are as over-represented and over-valued as the author seems to derisively imply, then I&#x27;d like to see some data to support that.<p>edit : the instant downvotes interest me. Can you qualify your disagreement?<p>edit : to clear up some confusion, I mentioned anecdotal experience with veteran charities and fundraising efforts in order to illustrate their relative popularity - not their success. In my opinion, a popular cause is by definition not un-exotic (i.e. marginalized), which is the notion that I am responding to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doktrin</author><text>Absolutely. The VA is a disgrace, and it&#x27;s a clear cut example of the government not living up to its obligations vis a vis veterans.<p>However, my point concerns public perception, which is to a significant degree the focus of the OP. Specifically, the author made the claim that veterans are perceived as being an unexotic cause in public consciousness - whereas I think the opposite is true. I think their cause is a popular one in America.<p>For comparison, this is how I personally perceive a few of the various underclasses he mentioned :<p>The rural poor in Appalachia? Unequivocally unexotic : lower income whites often appear to be more scorned than pitied. Inner city youth? Periodically exotic. Veterans? Unequivocally exotic, in the sense that I perceive their cause to be one of the most popular in contemporary American society.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Unexotic Underclass (2013)</title><url>http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>The veteran thing is strange. To a non-American the veneration of military personnel and veterans seems over-the-top to the point of self-parody. Watching the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, I wasn&#x27;t sure whether I was watching a sporting match, or Starship Troopers.<p>That said, for all the splashy thank-you-for-your-service it&#x27;s a shame but no real surprise that veterans are getting shafted, behind the scenes, by one of the largest bureaucracies in the world.</text></item><item><author>doktrin</author><text>Describing veterans as an <i>un</i>exotic underclass feels incorrect to me. Maybe it&#x27;s just perception bias, but for instance my FB feed contains an order of magnitude more appeals for veterans causes than literally any other endeavor. GoFundMe&#x27;s, petitions, charities, races, events - you name it. 4 out of 5 of my last donations concerned veterans (as a group) or individual vets, as were 5 out of 5 of my last signed petitions (whose value, I will grant, is probably a bit tenuous)<p>Maybe there is some other social circle out there that exclusively cares about black and latino inner city youth, or Kenya, or Bangladesh - but if they really are as over-represented and over-valued as the author seems to derisively imply, then I&#x27;d like to see some data to support that.<p>edit : the instant downvotes interest me. Can you qualify your disagreement?<p>edit : to clear up some confusion, I mentioned anecdotal experience with veteran charities and fundraising efforts in order to illustrate their relative popularity - not their success. In my opinion, a popular cause is by definition not un-exotic (i.e. marginalized), which is the notion that I am responding to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryoshon</author><text>Militarism has intellectual consequences. The tacit admission that US military members sign up to fight pointless wars is not allowed: loud patriotism drowns all dissent so that they will not be demoralized by the grim reality that they are expendable pawns.<p>It&#x27;s all PR, of course: the veterans end up as broken husks that are left to rot as soon as they get home-- a very convenient political issue that is stored safely in the bank for whenever a distraction or stirring election platform is needed.<p>To answer your question: it is Starship Troopers that you are watching.</text></comment> |
17,209,860 | 17,209,936 | 1 | 2 | 17,208,876 | train | <story><title>California approves $768M for electric vehicles</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Energy-revolution-California-approves-massive-12957685.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghouse</author><text>I drive a EV with a range &gt; 200 miles. Utility-customer funded chargers strike me as a solution tomorrow for a problem of yesterday -- limited EV range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmode</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what this means. I have an EV also and the biggest barrier to EV adoption is charging infrastructure. I have a charger at home, but realize that many more people live in apartments and condos that require that infrastructure. Further, there are days when I forget to charge, and would really benefit from a quick 40-50 mile charging at a public location. Charging infrastructure is definitely a necessity.</text></comment> | <story><title>California approves $768M for electric vehicles</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Energy-revolution-California-approves-massive-12957685.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghouse</author><text>I drive a EV with a range &gt; 200 miles. Utility-customer funded chargers strike me as a solution tomorrow for a problem of yesterday -- limited EV range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>It does not matter if your EV has 300 miles of range. Unless you want to be limited to a radius half of your max range. Otherwise, you need chargers wherever you need to go, as I assume you would like to do more than one way trips.<p>There are far too few chargers, specially outside the bay area (and even in the Bay, considering the number of cars already in the streets). EV will be more convenient than ICEs when you have both high range + charger availability.</text></comment> |
27,906,386 | 27,906,493 | 1 | 3 | 27,905,881 | train | <story><title>Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack</title><url>https://slack.com/intl/en-es/blog/news/salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-slack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keewee7</author><text>I think both Slack and Discord are good examples of products that entered already well established niches and still succeeded.<p>Slack launched in August 2013 as a plain text chat service without voice and video calls. Skype and HipChat already existed for a decade before Slack entered the market.<p>In just seven years Slack went from being an internal team chat app to making a $28 billion exit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack</title><url>https://slack.com/intl/en-es/blog/news/salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-slack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tayloramurphy</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty frustrating how many OSS projects use Slack but there are no options available to pay for a discounted pro plan. We&#x27;d love to pay a flat-ish fee for the community but it creates a disincentive to grow. Their active user fair pricing helps a bit, but it&#x27;s not great.</text></comment> |
2,387,778 | 2,387,446 | 1 | 2 | 2,387,135 | train | <story><title>When a newspaper “rips off” your blog, then taunts you about it… </title><url>http://iandennismiller.com/blog/2011/03/total-bummer-longislandpress-com-plagiarism-and-coverup/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>This is a career ender -- instantaneously -- if you do it to another print publication. Somebody at the Washington Post lifted a few paragraphs of one article from a newspaper you've never heard of in Arizona. Bam, lost her job the same day it was brought to the ombudsman's attention.<p>However, if you just run a website, you are <i>not</i> a journalist and the unwritten rules do not apply. (This is one of the cultural reasons why newspapers cannot conceive of getting out of the dead tree distribution business, even if it is killing them -- that is the source of their power and privilege, after all.)</text></comment> | <story><title>When a newspaper “rips off” your blog, then taunts you about it… </title><url>http://iandennismiller.com/blog/2011/03/total-bummer-longislandpress-com-plagiarism-and-coverup/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>impendia</author><text>You say that you don't really want anyone to get fired over this. It's a noble attitude, and I admire it.<p>I am a college professor, and even though I observe at the end of each term that some of my students have failed to learn anything, I don't really want anyone to fail.<p>However, ...</text></comment> |
38,117,287 | 38,115,609 | 1 | 2 | 38,110,286 | train | <story><title>Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git</title><url>https://garrit.xyz/posts/2023-11-01-tracking-sqlite-database-changes-in-git</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>This approach works by storing the actual SQLite binary files in Git and then using a custom &quot;diff&quot; configuration to dump each file as SQL and compare the result.<p>It&#x27;s a neat trick, but storing binary files like that in Git isn&#x27;t as space efficient as using a plain text format.<p>I built my own tooling to solve this problem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasette.io&#x2F;tools&#x2F;sqlite-diffable" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasette.io&#x2F;tools&#x2F;sqlite-diffable</a> - which outputs a “diffable” copy of the data in a SQLite database, precisely so you can store it in Git and look at the differences later.<p>I’ve been running that for a couple of years in this repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup</a> - which provides a backup of my blog’s PostgreSQL Django database (first converted to SQLite and then dumped out using sqlite-diffable).<p>Here’s an example diff: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup&#x2F;commit&#x2F;72e73b2cdd714fb1f3cd87d6a752971fc6398890">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup&#x2F;commit&#x2F;72...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chlorion</author><text>I don&#x27;t think there will be any huge difference between a text dump and binary formats here, git doesn&#x27;t really care about the underlying data when it stores and packs it.<p>Maybe a text format that is sorted before saved would compress a lot better though, both with zlib compression and gits delta compression. You can&#x27;t really sort a binary file and put it back together!</text></comment> | <story><title>Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git</title><url>https://garrit.xyz/posts/2023-11-01-tracking-sqlite-database-changes-in-git</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>This approach works by storing the actual SQLite binary files in Git and then using a custom &quot;diff&quot; configuration to dump each file as SQL and compare the result.<p>It&#x27;s a neat trick, but storing binary files like that in Git isn&#x27;t as space efficient as using a plain text format.<p>I built my own tooling to solve this problem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasette.io&#x2F;tools&#x2F;sqlite-diffable" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasette.io&#x2F;tools&#x2F;sqlite-diffable</a> - which outputs a “diffable” copy of the data in a SQLite database, precisely so you can store it in Git and look at the differences later.<p>I’ve been running that for a couple of years in this repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup</a> - which provides a backup of my blog’s PostgreSQL Django database (first converted to SQLite and then dumped out using sqlite-diffable).<p>Here’s an example diff: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup&#x2F;commit&#x2F;72e73b2cdd714fb1f3cd87d6a752971fc6398890">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup&#x2F;commit&#x2F;72...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infamia</author><text>&gt; I’ve been running that for a couple of years in this repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;simonwillisonblog-backup</a> - which provides a backup of my blog’s PostgreSQL Django database (first converted to SQLite and then dumped out using sqlite-<p>I&#x27;m curious, what is the reason you chose not to use pgdump, but instead opted to convert to to sqlite and then dump the DB using sqlite-diffable?<p>On a project I&#x27;m working on, I&#x27;d like to dump our Postgres schema into individual files for each object (i.e., one file for each table, function, stored proc, etc.), but haven&#x27;t spent enough time to see if pgdump could actually do that. We&#x27;re just outputting files by object type for now (one tables, function, and stored procs files). It looks like sqlite-diffable does something similar to what we&#x27;re looking for (separate files for each object).</text></comment> |
3,839,669 | 3,839,694 | 1 | 3 | 3,839,099 | train | <story><title>I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language</title><url>http://www.dovyski.com/2012/04/i-told-my-2nd-year-cs-students-to-create-a-programming-language</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dandrews</author><text>I did something like this once many years ago for one of my wife's students, a precocious high-schooler who needed to be challenged beyond the elementary Fortran she was teaching at the vocational school. So I outlined the steps it would take to translate a toy language into a toy computer's instruction set, and reviewed it with the young man one afternoon at my office - an abbreviated compiler theory class with an eager audience of one. Tom took the big flowchart that we made home, studying and meticulously documenting it. When he brought me the documented design a couple of days later I asked him to implement it.<p>Tom spent awhile doing this in Waterloo Fortran, and when he presented me with the working compiler I said "Good job. Now execute the code." He blinked his surprise - until then I don't think he'd considered that the toy machine could have been interpreted. A revelation! He went back home and wrote the VM for the toy machine without any assistance; it worked well and I was as proud of him as I could be.<p>A couple of years later I hired Tom and a couple of years after that he lapped me, going on to better things. 30 years later I still keep a copy of his compiler and interpreter, reminding me from time to time of the bright kid who grew up to become a fine programmer and family man.</text></comment> | <story><title>I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language</title><url>http://www.dovyski.com/2012/04/i-told-my-2nd-year-cs-students-to-create-a-programming-language</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aik</author><text>This is great. More professors need to be like you.<p>With the exception of barely 2 projects in uni, all my homework/projects were short and small scale, meaning I already knew how to complete 90% of it, and just had to learn the content from the latest lecture to complete the rest.<p>With this assignment I probably would have known ~40%, meaning I wold have to buckle down and actually get invested - figure out what I know and don't know, and self study to the answer. Because I wouldn't just be able to rely on my teacher and lecture notes, I would actually have to take (some) control of my learning to succeed (rather than expect the teacher and textbook to hand feed me everyone I need to know). Because I'm not hand fed everything, I would actually become motivated because my success (or failure) for once would be somewhat in my own hands. What a concept!!! Congrats.</text></comment> |
37,657,424 | 37,657,336 | 1 | 3 | 37,656,149 | train | <story><title>How (not) to apply for a software job</title><url>https://benhoyt.com/writings/how-to-apply/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pacMakaveli</author><text>This article is so frustrating. Get yourself on the market before spewing this shit. I recently been on the lookout for a new job and my first CV was personal. Full of my own words and description of what I did in the last 10+ years as a software engineer. I&#x27;m a bit biased but it was a really good CV.
That got me 0 fucking offers. ZERO
I rewrote my CV based on some google suggestions and with ChatGPT. I got through
next stage on every single job I applied ( 10+ ) and even received offers, finally landing a new role.
Stop talking shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjducb</author><text>Yea you 100% need a skills section that lists every technology you’ve ever worked with. I tried taking it off and got no interviews with that CV version.<p>Someone in HR or a recruiter will match up the technologies on the job post with your CV and only put you through if you list most of the ones they need.</text></comment> | <story><title>How (not) to apply for a software job</title><url>https://benhoyt.com/writings/how-to-apply/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pacMakaveli</author><text>This article is so frustrating. Get yourself on the market before spewing this shit. I recently been on the lookout for a new job and my first CV was personal. Full of my own words and description of what I did in the last 10+ years as a software engineer. I&#x27;m a bit biased but it was a really good CV.
That got me 0 fucking offers. ZERO
I rewrote my CV based on some google suggestions and with ChatGPT. I got through
next stage on every single job I applied ( 10+ ) and even received offers, finally landing a new role.
Stop talking shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brabel</author><text>I have the impression that for each recruiter with the same opinions as the OP, there&#x27;s 10 that love bullshit and flowery prose and will discard anything that sounds like a simple developer writing about what he&#x27;s been doing in a more realistic tone.</text></comment> |
20,448,724 | 20,447,435 | 1 | 2 | 20,441,519 | train | <story><title>Ownership and Borrowing in D</title><url>https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in-d/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coder543</author><text>The problem with D is that it is so non-uniform. People talk about the betterC mode, but not nearly all D code written can run in this mode. Now people will talk about this ownership mode, but very little code will really use it. To become an expert in D or C++, you really need to understand what feels like a dozen different languages... and that’s not what I’m looking for in a single language.<p>D’s concept of ownership (for now) doesn’t seem to have any plan to support partially moved structs, which are a major ergonomic feature.<p>D has organically grown just about every interesting feature ever conceived, but I would much rather use a purpose-built language, which is what Rust feels like.<p>I don’t want a C++ that’s better at being C++ than C++ is. I really enjoy how consistent and expressive Rust is. I also appreciate how intentional Go is about being Go.<p>A lot of people enjoy C++, and some people enjoy D. I enjoyed C++ back when Rust wasn’t an option... then something better came along. D and C++ try to be everything to everyone. I like D better than C++... but I have seen no compelling reason to trade Rust for D.<p>Variadic templates are much better expressed by either tuples or const generics. A fixed length array of a constant generic length is the Rustic solution to tensor-like problems, and it is being rigorously developed.<p>Arbitrary compile time computation should be separated from the body of the program. If you need to download files or read the file tree at compile time, that should happen in a build script. Rust provides build.rs for that. Precomputing values without I&#x2F;O is conceptually just an advanced kind of compiler optimization, and that’s why Rust is basically seeking to make const fns only pure functions.<p>The fast compile times are a double edged sword, since those binaries are noticeably slower than Rust binaries, from what I’ve seen. I hope that Rust will one day have a much faster compiler for development builds.<p>I also think every sign is showing that Rust is starting to get some real traction, so I don’t think I’m alone in these opinions... but they are mostly just that: opinions. You’re welcome to your own.</text></item><item><author>logicchains</author><text>If D manages to implement sound borrowing checking this will be huge! Brings it a step closer to matching Rust&#x27;s feature list.<p>- Zero-cost abstractions: Yes!<p>- Move semantics: Yes!<p>- Guaranteed memory safety: Yes! (in code marked with the appropriate annotations)<p>- Threads without data races: Yes!<p>- Trait-based generics: No!<p>- Pattern matching: No! (Although like C++, in can be done as a library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.dlang.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;sumtype" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.dlang.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;sumtype</a>)<p>- Type inference: Yes! (Plus unlike Rust, you can also mark function return types auto, and let them be inferred too).<p>- Minimal runtime: Yes! (the GC could be disabled if using exclusively borrow-checked code)<p>- Efficient C bindings: Yes!<p>D also brings some features of its own to the table that Rust doesn&#x27;t yet match.<p>- Higher-kinded types (template template params): it&#x27;s possible to implement Haskell-style monads etc. in D, if for some reason you felt the need.<p>- Pure functions: these allow you to statically guarantee that a piece of code doesn&#x27;t perform any IO and is a completely deterministic function of its inputs. This makes reasoning about a large codebase much easier, compared to Rust where there&#x27;s no way to statically guarantee a function isn&#x27;t doing any IO.<p>- Fast compile times: the reference DMD compiler is almost as fast as the Go compiler, at least for code that doesn&#x27;t do a bunch of compile-time calculation.<p>- Compile-time compute: Rust now has constfn, but that still only supports a limited subset of the language. D allows almost the entire language to be used at compile time.<p>- Variadic templates: Something C++ users might miss when coming to Rust, they allow for the creation of things like tensors of arbitrary dimension (myTensor&lt;6, 3, 2, 5, 6, 20&gt;) on which operations are checked at compile time to ensure sizes are compatible (so it&#x27;s a compiler error if you try to multiply two tensors of the wrong size or wrong number of dimensions).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; Arbitrary compile time computation should be separated from the body of the program.<p>Here&#x27;s some code that initializes an array at compile time with a non-trivial computation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dlang&#x2F;dmd&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;dmd&#x2F;backend&#x2F;var.d#L293" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dlang&#x2F;dmd&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;dmd&#x2F;backend&#x2F;var...</a><p>This used to be initialized by a separate program that generated some .d files. It was nice to get rid of that. Even better, if you check the generated object file, there&#x27;s no trace of the code used to generate the array - just the data for the array.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ownership and Borrowing in D</title><url>https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in-d/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coder543</author><text>The problem with D is that it is so non-uniform. People talk about the betterC mode, but not nearly all D code written can run in this mode. Now people will talk about this ownership mode, but very little code will really use it. To become an expert in D or C++, you really need to understand what feels like a dozen different languages... and that’s not what I’m looking for in a single language.<p>D’s concept of ownership (for now) doesn’t seem to have any plan to support partially moved structs, which are a major ergonomic feature.<p>D has organically grown just about every interesting feature ever conceived, but I would much rather use a purpose-built language, which is what Rust feels like.<p>I don’t want a C++ that’s better at being C++ than C++ is. I really enjoy how consistent and expressive Rust is. I also appreciate how intentional Go is about being Go.<p>A lot of people enjoy C++, and some people enjoy D. I enjoyed C++ back when Rust wasn’t an option... then something better came along. D and C++ try to be everything to everyone. I like D better than C++... but I have seen no compelling reason to trade Rust for D.<p>Variadic templates are much better expressed by either tuples or const generics. A fixed length array of a constant generic length is the Rustic solution to tensor-like problems, and it is being rigorously developed.<p>Arbitrary compile time computation should be separated from the body of the program. If you need to download files or read the file tree at compile time, that should happen in a build script. Rust provides build.rs for that. Precomputing values without I&#x2F;O is conceptually just an advanced kind of compiler optimization, and that’s why Rust is basically seeking to make const fns only pure functions.<p>The fast compile times are a double edged sword, since those binaries are noticeably slower than Rust binaries, from what I’ve seen. I hope that Rust will one day have a much faster compiler for development builds.<p>I also think every sign is showing that Rust is starting to get some real traction, so I don’t think I’m alone in these opinions... but they are mostly just that: opinions. You’re welcome to your own.</text></item><item><author>logicchains</author><text>If D manages to implement sound borrowing checking this will be huge! Brings it a step closer to matching Rust&#x27;s feature list.<p>- Zero-cost abstractions: Yes!<p>- Move semantics: Yes!<p>- Guaranteed memory safety: Yes! (in code marked with the appropriate annotations)<p>- Threads without data races: Yes!<p>- Trait-based generics: No!<p>- Pattern matching: No! (Although like C++, in can be done as a library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.dlang.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;sumtype" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.dlang.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;sumtype</a>)<p>- Type inference: Yes! (Plus unlike Rust, you can also mark function return types auto, and let them be inferred too).<p>- Minimal runtime: Yes! (the GC could be disabled if using exclusively borrow-checked code)<p>- Efficient C bindings: Yes!<p>D also brings some features of its own to the table that Rust doesn&#x27;t yet match.<p>- Higher-kinded types (template template params): it&#x27;s possible to implement Haskell-style monads etc. in D, if for some reason you felt the need.<p>- Pure functions: these allow you to statically guarantee that a piece of code doesn&#x27;t perform any IO and is a completely deterministic function of its inputs. This makes reasoning about a large codebase much easier, compared to Rust where there&#x27;s no way to statically guarantee a function isn&#x27;t doing any IO.<p>- Fast compile times: the reference DMD compiler is almost as fast as the Go compiler, at least for code that doesn&#x27;t do a bunch of compile-time calculation.<p>- Compile-time compute: Rust now has constfn, but that still only supports a limited subset of the language. D allows almost the entire language to be used at compile time.<p>- Variadic templates: Something C++ users might miss when coming to Rust, they allow for the creation of things like tensors of arbitrary dimension (myTensor&lt;6, 3, 2, 5, 6, 20&gt;) on which operations are checked at compile time to ensure sizes are compatible (so it&#x27;s a compiler error if you try to multiply two tensors of the wrong size or wrong number of dimensions).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>&gt;Arbitrary compile time computation should be separated from the body of the program. If you need to download files or read the file tree at compile time, that should happen in a build script. Rust provides build.rs for that.<p>This is an area we&#x27;ll have to agree to strongly disagree. For me having support directly in the language is a huge improvement in ergonomics, compared to having to run a separate script. Compare e.g. generics in Go1 (which can only be done with separate build scripts at compile time) vs in any other language that has built-in generics. Also consider F# type providers, which guarantee at compile time the correctness of code querying a database (generate the schema&#x2F;structs by querying the database at compile time). Certainly the same thing could be achieved by running a separate script as part of the build process, but I&#x27;ve never seen a language actually implement that, probably because it&#x27;d be much more painful.<p>&gt;The fast compile times are a double edged sword, since those binaries are noticeably slower than Rust binaries, from what I’ve seen.<p>Note that D also has an LLVM-based compiler backend that is slower to compile but produces much faster code, which can be used for release builds.</text></comment> |
35,679,926 | 35,679,812 | 1 | 2 | 35,678,043 | train | <story><title>My high-flying life as a corporate spy who lied his way to the top</title><url>https://narratively.com/my-high-flying-life-as-a-corporate-spy-who-lied-his-way-to-the-top/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>howmayiannoyyou</author><text>White collar criminal investigations and prosecutions have declined as counter-terrorism, drug, counter-espionage and politically motivated investigations have (greatly) increased. Is it reasonable to expect the majority of people to act virtuously when doing so puts them at great disadvantage in an effectively unregulated environment? This is what Liv Boree might call a Moloch trap - a game theoretic perspective on the common good eroded as competing individual actors seek to survive and&#x2F;or flourish.<p>The private sector attempts to control its own. SCIP, the Society of Competitor Intelligence Professionals, has a code of ethics that wouldn&#x27;t approve of this article. How many SCIP members adhere to that code is a separate question, one I&#x27;d rather not know the real answer to. Similarly, hiring managers and recruiters will sometimes interview for phantom job descriptions, the real goal being eliciting competitor information.<p>Patriotism, religion, legalism, altruistic idealism... there&#x27;s no shortage of things we can cling to when doing the right thing is difficult. But without accountability &amp; enforcement, unrestrained competition makes unethical behavior almost appear to be a necessity. We really must do better, but we are now so far removed from the collective consequences of our individual misbehavior, the road to ruin might be unavoidable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>Most people put their grocery carts back, stop at stop signs and lights at the middle of night on a lone road, and there&#x27;s plenty of examples where people go out of their way to do the right thing. There&#x27;s this common misconception that most people are act immorally but in reality the law is only written for the few. For a very clear example, I doubt murder rates would change were it not illegal. Most people don&#x27;t want to kill and recognize it as intrinsically immoral. The problem is that we ignore normal behavior and this makes us overestimate abnormal behavior.</text></comment> | <story><title>My high-flying life as a corporate spy who lied his way to the top</title><url>https://narratively.com/my-high-flying-life-as-a-corporate-spy-who-lied-his-way-to-the-top/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>howmayiannoyyou</author><text>White collar criminal investigations and prosecutions have declined as counter-terrorism, drug, counter-espionage and politically motivated investigations have (greatly) increased. Is it reasonable to expect the majority of people to act virtuously when doing so puts them at great disadvantage in an effectively unregulated environment? This is what Liv Boree might call a Moloch trap - a game theoretic perspective on the common good eroded as competing individual actors seek to survive and&#x2F;or flourish.<p>The private sector attempts to control its own. SCIP, the Society of Competitor Intelligence Professionals, has a code of ethics that wouldn&#x27;t approve of this article. How many SCIP members adhere to that code is a separate question, one I&#x27;d rather not know the real answer to. Similarly, hiring managers and recruiters will sometimes interview for phantom job descriptions, the real goal being eliciting competitor information.<p>Patriotism, religion, legalism, altruistic idealism... there&#x27;s no shortage of things we can cling to when doing the right thing is difficult. But without accountability &amp; enforcement, unrestrained competition makes unethical behavior almost appear to be a necessity. We really must do better, but we are now so far removed from the collective consequences of our individual misbehavior, the road to ruin might be unavoidable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcarr</author><text>This is one of the root problems of Western society today and I think it has its origin in the financial crisis. The perpetrators got off scott free everywhere (except Iceland) and everyone who wasn’t a banker ended up paying the price.<p>The other core component is economies completely dependent on house price rises rather than productive work.<p>The result is a break down of trust, community and decent behaviour.</text></comment> |
40,049,491 | 40,045,342 | 1 | 2 | 40,038,773 | train | <story><title>The purge of German science in 1933</title><url>https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>And 1945. Double whammy. Germany never made a comeback.<p>The anti-science culture revolution of the 1970s cemented this. It&#x27;s cool to be bad in science in schools since then, every celebrity boasts about how bad they were in mathematics etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>The purge of German science in 1933</title><url>https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>One aspect of this that fascinated me is Nazi Germany&#x27;s &quot;physics denialism&quot; (?) — the reactionary response to the modern physics revolutions of the early 20th century. (I.e. the twin revolutions of quantum physics and of relativity). It was a much weirder response than simply an attack on physicists who happened to be Jewish humans. <i>Fields</i> of physics were conspiratorially labelled as having a &quot;Jewish&quot; character, and dismissed as psuedoscience, as pathological science: &quot;Jüdische Physik&quot;. There was a fanaticism that&#x27;s hard to grapple with philosophically, a thing that&#x27;s far outside rationality, a magical thinking. How much more &quot;magical&quot; can you get than disregarding <i>natural physical laws</i>, and substituting your own? That&#x27;s the definition of magic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Deutsche_Physik" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Deutsche_Physik</a> (<i>&quot;Deutsche Physik&quot;</i> or <i>&quot;Aryan Physics&quot;</i>)</text></comment> |
14,173,814 | 14,173,017 | 1 | 3 | 14,172,378 | train | <story><title>Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+</title><url>https://www.bonobo-project.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spangry</author><text>I haven&#x27;t tried this yet, but am praying that it delivers even half of what it promises. For whatever reason I <i>just can&#x27;t get my head around pandas</i>, despite multiple attempts.<p>If this also turns out to be inscrutable I may be forced to conclude that I&#x27;m stupid...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BeetleB</author><text>&gt;For whatever reason I just can&#x27;t get my head around pandas, despite multiple attempts.<p>You need to work with pandas consistently for a month or two, and then it&#x27;ll all click.<p>pandas is not complex, nor deep. It is, however, very broad. Most of the time it is &quot;Here&#x27;s what I need to do. I&#x27;m <i>sure</i> there&#x27;s an API or two in pandas that will let me do this,&quot; and then you spend an hour or so looking at the documentation to find those APIs.<p>My first month or two was: &quot;I need to do this. Let me Google&quot;. Pretty much every time someone had asked that same question on SO.<p>If you stick to it for 2 months, you&#x27;ll eventually &quot;learn&quot; all the routine tasks and Googling stuff becomes only occasional.<p>And it does help if you&#x27;re familiar with NumPy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+</title><url>https://www.bonobo-project.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spangry</author><text>I haven&#x27;t tried this yet, but am praying that it delivers even half of what it promises. For whatever reason I <i>just can&#x27;t get my head around pandas</i>, despite multiple attempts.<p>If this also turns out to be inscrutable I may be forced to conclude that I&#x27;m stupid...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>What have you wanted to use it for?<p>Pandas is basically an R data frame for Python. A sloppy description of that is a text mode spreadsheet.<p>The description of Bonobo doesn&#x27;t immediately invite the comparison to Pandas, to me anyway.</text></comment> |
23,279,517 | 23,278,686 | 1 | 3 | 23,277,594 | train | <story><title>I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?</title><url>https://twitter.com/kaydo/status/1259747848502960130</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnick</author><text>Is there an agreed upon name for this, where a website or app loads elements piecemeal so we click the wrong thing by mistake?<p>I know it exists as an intentional dark pattern (so we just <i>think</i> that&#x27;s what happened). But it also seems so common now across computing and it pisses me off every time.</text></item><item><author>9nGQluzmnq3M</author><text>&gt; the absolute inability to override the order of items in the sharing panel<p>As an extra F.U., it also <i>changes</i> the list of contacts after a second. So I try to tap on my wife, only to have it substituted with the plumber who came once half a year ago... and this of course gets logged by the AI, ensuring the plumber continues to hold pride of place in my contacts.</text></item><item><author>rhizome</author><text>Android is such a drag sometimes. Between mystery quirks like this, where I&#x27;m sure someone who has been making Android apps for 6 years will be able to explain it, and things like the absolute inability to override the order of items in the sharing panel[1], such that Android will routinely topline sharing to a contact you got one text message from three years ago.<p>&quot;F.U., that&#x27;s why&quot; is the simplest conclusion I can draw. &quot;Unpaid concept testing&quot; is the next simplest.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn57.androidauthority.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;android-10-sharing-menu-edit.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn57.androidauthority.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liggitt</author><text>Laggy loading of items into a tappable target area is begging to be called the “slow poke” pattern</text></comment> | <story><title>I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?</title><url>https://twitter.com/kaydo/status/1259747848502960130</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnick</author><text>Is there an agreed upon name for this, where a website or app loads elements piecemeal so we click the wrong thing by mistake?<p>I know it exists as an intentional dark pattern (so we just <i>think</i> that&#x27;s what happened). But it also seems so common now across computing and it pisses me off every time.</text></item><item><author>9nGQluzmnq3M</author><text>&gt; the absolute inability to override the order of items in the sharing panel<p>As an extra F.U., it also <i>changes</i> the list of contacts after a second. So I try to tap on my wife, only to have it substituted with the plumber who came once half a year ago... and this of course gets logged by the AI, ensuring the plumber continues to hold pride of place in my contacts.</text></item><item><author>rhizome</author><text>Android is such a drag sometimes. Between mystery quirks like this, where I&#x27;m sure someone who has been making Android apps for 6 years will be able to explain it, and things like the absolute inability to override the order of items in the sharing panel[1], such that Android will routinely topline sharing to a contact you got one text message from three years ago.<p>&quot;F.U., that&#x27;s why&quot; is the simplest conclusion I can draw. &quot;Unpaid concept testing&quot; is the next simplest.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn57.androidauthority.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;android-10-sharing-menu-edit.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn57.androidauthority.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashishb</author><text>I want to know this too. Another example is Google search. If you search, click on a search result and then go back then a panel slowly appears below that link. So if you are going to click the next link, it interferes with that.</text></comment> |
21,567,797 | 21,567,770 | 1 | 2 | 21,567,466 | train | <story><title>Disney+ fans without answers after thousands hacked</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50461171</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whoisjuan</author><text>Well. There’s a reason why Netflix is successful. They spent a lot of money and time operating as a tech-heavy company before becoming a content-heavy company. Just as an example, their Open Connect appliances (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openconnect.netflix.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openconnect.netflix.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>) are an impressive piece of technology that probably needed years of research.<p>Launching a streaming service sounds simple in the paper but there are hundreds of complexities under the hood that ensure availability, speed, security, and reliability.<p>If my Netflix experience wasn&#x27;t as trivially smooth as it is (from a UX point of view) I wouldn’t pay for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disney+ fans without answers after thousands hacked</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50461171</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmn</author><text>Laughing at some of this reporting.<p>&gt; More than 4,000 customer accounts appeared in the search<p>To clear this up:<p>No, not true. The software in the screenshot called Open Bullet and it&#x27;s basically a request builder for Selenium (ok it&#x27;s more than that but you get the idea). You add in lists of usernames&#x2F;passwords (from database dumps) and it runs your script. You have success&#x2F;fail reporting, and that&#x27;s where you get &quot;Hits: 4&quot;<p>&gt; Ads on the dark web for stolen Disney+ accounts<p>That&#x27;s a sellers page from shoppy.gg — not the dark web.</text></comment> |
17,482,435 | 17,480,634 | 1 | 3 | 17,472,485 | train | <story><title>Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails</title><url>https://medium.com/@jmanrubia/escaping-the-spa-rabbit-hole-with-turbolinks-903f942bf52c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peteforde</author><text>I have nothing against SPAs for complex UI interactions. It&#x27;s sort of like taking anti-biotics; there should be a moment of reflection when you should justify your true need, lest the cure be worse than the disease. Most developers of a certain age have come up when it&#x27;s SPA by default, and can&#x27;t truly defend why they need it.<p>In this thread, there are several claims that it&#x27;s impossible to write well-organized jQuery. That sounds an awful lot like dogma to me. Also, your inability to write well-organized code says more about your coding and team-management skills than it does about any one approach. Any tech is only as good as the team using it.<p>A few years ago, Sam Stephenson (who originally wrote the Prototype library, before jQuery was a thing) gave an excellent talk on Turbolinks at RailsConf. I recommend the whole talk (turn it up to 1.5x speed, of course) but at 4:12 he does an amazing job of showing how the SPA path leads to insanity.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SWEts0rlezA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SWEts0rlezA</a><p>Here&#x27;s a mental exercise for you: the next time you start a new project, instead of deciding which SPA framework to use, start with an assumption that an SPA is wild overkill for the first iteration of your application - especially if few people on your team have working expertise with the SPA in question. Then see if you can argue FOR the tech. It&#x27;s much harder to justify something you don&#x27;t need if you start with an honest conversation about how you probably don&#x27;t need it. (This works for throwing out CDs, too: start with the assumption that they are all garbage, they all go. Then force yourself to make logic-based arguments for each one you keep. Your outcome will be night and day from if you start with everything in a keep pile.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails</title><url>https://medium.com/@jmanrubia/escaping-the-spa-rabbit-hole-with-turbolinks-903f942bf52c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lucidone</author><text>Are you building a website? The practices espoused by the author will be ideal.<p>Are you building a web app? Will you have a mobile client alongside your web app? Using a javascript framework for your client(s) and decoupling your data from it&#x27;s presentation will be a fruitful investment. All of these frameworks and their associated happened for reasons, and they didn&#x27;t involve traditional MVC being good enough for everything.<p>As an aside, I find this viewpoint prevalent in the Rails community and the Rails job I had (so, caveat, I&#x27;m coloured by my personal experience). It also lead to a culture of staunch refusal to learn or do anything new in that job, and the quality of the product suffered. It consequently led to me leaving the job, and being much happier for it.</text></comment> |
7,859,648 | 7,859,665 | 1 | 3 | 7,858,000 | train | <story><title>Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system</title><url>http://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration-of-damaged-old-immune-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>These are pretty disingenuous, uncited, and generalized examples. For example, fat has always been fine, excess calories are not. That leads to fatty build-up that does cause serious health issues. The problem is that casuals see &#x27;fat&#x27; and equate it with body fat, instead of being focused on what science has been saying saying all along: eat that calories you need and not past that as you&#x27;ll gain weight. Marketers have used this confuse to sell products, &quot;low fat&quot; craze, but that has never been the staple of nutritional understanding.<p>Lets also remember even the ones that the &quot;ancients&quot; got right, they got millions wrong, most of which were seriously dangerous. The modern person&#x27;s appeal to the past is insane to me. I think if you could travel back in time to live in one of those cultures you value so much, you&#x27;d see nothing but sickness, death, and other horrible things that would be trivially treated in post-enlightenment societies.<p>Unfortunately, bullshit like &#x27;ancient wisdom&#x27; has become popular of late thus parents not vaccinating their children, a return to extreme&#x2F;fundamentalist religiosity, and dangerous cargo cult-like beliefs like treating cancer with green tea.</text></item><item><author>SoftwareMaven</author><text>Take a look at what Weston Price learned as he traveled around healthy cultures. I&#x27;m certainly not implying &quot;everything old is good&quot;, but we have adopted an attitude of &quot;they were all stupid&quot;, which isn&#x27;t true. Let&#x27;s take a look:<p><pre><code> Wisdom: Fat is a good energy source.
&quot;Science&quot;: Fat makes you fat and clogs your arteries.
Now: Fat is important for regulating satiety and nervous system health.
Wisdom: Simple carbs and sugar should be very limited.
&quot;Science&quot;: You can eat as much as you want without any problems.
Now: High glucose and fructose loads are significant players in NAFLD, diabetes, heart disease and dimentia.
Wisdom: Fermented foods like keifer, sauerkraut, and miso are important parts of the diet.
&quot;Science&quot;: Kill all the bugz!
Now: Gut biome health may be a significant factor in many physical and mental health problems.
Wisdom: Regular periods of fasting are good for mind and body.
&quot;Science&quot;: You should eat 6 small meals every day to keep blood sugar even.
Now: See TFA.
</code></pre>
I&#x27;m sure I could keep going...</text></item><item><author>thenmar</author><text>Evidence of fasting having value is interesting, but I wouldn&#x27;t put much stock in the &quot;wisdom of the ancestors&quot;.</text></item><item><author>SoftwareMaven</author><text>There is a lot of evidence beginning to emerge on the value of fasting. This was once encoded in culture as almost every culture had some concept of fasting. We lost so much knowledge when we let nutrition &quot;science&quot;[1] completely overwhelm the wisdom of our ancestors.<p>On a personal note, I found fasting became much easier after I changed my diet to be ketogenic. With a metabolism primed for burning fat for energy and not subject to a blood sugar roller coaster, going a couple days without food is more of a mental challenge than physical hunger.<p>1. We&#x27;ve acted like nutrition can give the same cut and dry answers that physics has, and the health of our population shows how well that has worked. Worse, nutrition seems to be driven by egos and media in a way that is nothing short of frightening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tolmasky</author><text>This is a mischaracterization of the past 30 years. In the 1980s, American&#x27;s really were told to drastically reduce their fat intake due to a misunderstanding of LDL. It remains recommended to only be 10% of your daily intake of calories -- a statement of the <i>percentage of calories</i> you should eat as fat, not a statement about excess calories, which can be regarded as bad in general regardless of their source. If you look at what took place in the following 30 years since this stance, fat intake has in fact been reduced quite considerably in the United States, yet heart disease has <i>increased</i>. This has nothing to do with worshiping &quot;ancient wisdom&quot;, its simply identifying an error science made (which it is allowed to do), and rectifying it without historical revisionism.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system</title><url>http://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration-of-damaged-old-immune-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>These are pretty disingenuous, uncited, and generalized examples. For example, fat has always been fine, excess calories are not. That leads to fatty build-up that does cause serious health issues. The problem is that casuals see &#x27;fat&#x27; and equate it with body fat, instead of being focused on what science has been saying saying all along: eat that calories you need and not past that as you&#x27;ll gain weight. Marketers have used this confuse to sell products, &quot;low fat&quot; craze, but that has never been the staple of nutritional understanding.<p>Lets also remember even the ones that the &quot;ancients&quot; got right, they got millions wrong, most of which were seriously dangerous. The modern person&#x27;s appeal to the past is insane to me. I think if you could travel back in time to live in one of those cultures you value so much, you&#x27;d see nothing but sickness, death, and other horrible things that would be trivially treated in post-enlightenment societies.<p>Unfortunately, bullshit like &#x27;ancient wisdom&#x27; has become popular of late thus parents not vaccinating their children, a return to extreme&#x2F;fundamentalist religiosity, and dangerous cargo cult-like beliefs like treating cancer with green tea.</text></item><item><author>SoftwareMaven</author><text>Take a look at what Weston Price learned as he traveled around healthy cultures. I&#x27;m certainly not implying &quot;everything old is good&quot;, but we have adopted an attitude of &quot;they were all stupid&quot;, which isn&#x27;t true. Let&#x27;s take a look:<p><pre><code> Wisdom: Fat is a good energy source.
&quot;Science&quot;: Fat makes you fat and clogs your arteries.
Now: Fat is important for regulating satiety and nervous system health.
Wisdom: Simple carbs and sugar should be very limited.
&quot;Science&quot;: You can eat as much as you want without any problems.
Now: High glucose and fructose loads are significant players in NAFLD, diabetes, heart disease and dimentia.
Wisdom: Fermented foods like keifer, sauerkraut, and miso are important parts of the diet.
&quot;Science&quot;: Kill all the bugz!
Now: Gut biome health may be a significant factor in many physical and mental health problems.
Wisdom: Regular periods of fasting are good for mind and body.
&quot;Science&quot;: You should eat 6 small meals every day to keep blood sugar even.
Now: See TFA.
</code></pre>
I&#x27;m sure I could keep going...</text></item><item><author>thenmar</author><text>Evidence of fasting having value is interesting, but I wouldn&#x27;t put much stock in the &quot;wisdom of the ancestors&quot;.</text></item><item><author>SoftwareMaven</author><text>There is a lot of evidence beginning to emerge on the value of fasting. This was once encoded in culture as almost every culture had some concept of fasting. We lost so much knowledge when we let nutrition &quot;science&quot;[1] completely overwhelm the wisdom of our ancestors.<p>On a personal note, I found fasting became much easier after I changed my diet to be ketogenic. With a metabolism primed for burning fat for energy and not subject to a blood sugar roller coaster, going a couple days without food is more of a mental challenge than physical hunger.<p>1. We&#x27;ve acted like nutrition can give the same cut and dry answers that physics has, and the health of our population shows how well that has worked. Worse, nutrition seems to be driven by egos and media in a way that is nothing short of frightening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftwareMaven</author><text>There is more involved than just calories. It&#x27;s surprising that this myth continues to hold, when we understand how differently macronutrients are treated in the body. Calories are a second-order effect: you don&#x27;t gain weight because you eat too many calories, your body demands more calories because it is hormonally&#x2F;nutritionally imbalanced and, therefore, shunting energy into fat cells instead of allowing it to be used for energy. And this doesn&#x27;t get into the fact that a high percentage of chronically ill patients (CVD, diabetes, dimentia) are thin.<p>Having dealt with being overweight most of my life, I can&#x27;t help but believe the reason the myth holds on is because it is a way to justify judging fat people as less than skinny people since they just &quot;can&#x27;t control themselves&quot;.<p>Eat a better macronutrient ratio, and the body responds positively, even for isocaloric diets, whether for weight loss[1] or for maintenance[2]. But, really, isocoloric doesn&#x27;t mater; what matters is <i>ad libitum</i> eating. Ironically, every study that I&#x27;ve read that compares low carb diets against low fat diets allows <i>ad libitum</i> eating for the low carb but restricts caloric intake for the low fat. Why is that? Even with that constraint, the low carb diets win[3].<p>1. <a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2014/04/30/ajcn.113.081216.short" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajcn.nutrition.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;ajcn.113....</a><p>2. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22735432" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;22735432</a><p>3. <a href="http://nutrition.stanford.edu/documents/AZ_abstract.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nutrition.stanford.edu&#x2F;documents&#x2F;AZ_abstract.pdf</a> (I have a lot of respect for Christopher Gardner. He&#x27;s a vegetarian who started this study because he believed a vegetarian diet would trounce other diets. It didn&#x27;t, but he didn&#x27;t try to game the results. That&#x27;s an unfortunately rare behavior in nutrition research where so many people seem to be more concerned with proving their idea correct than finding the truth.)</text></comment> |
41,112,833 | 41,112,584 | 1 | 2 | 41,111,062 | train | <story><title>JavaScript garbage collection and closures</title><url>https://jakearchibald.com/2024/garbage-collection-and-closures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielHB</author><text>This behavior is required because eval exists:<p><pre><code> function test(text) {
const a = 1
function inner() {
console.log(eval(text))
}
inner()
}
test(&quot;() =&gt; { return a }&quot;)
</code></pre>
prints 1 to the console<p>This happens because the closure&#x27;s context object is shared between all closures in a given scope. So as soon as one variable from a give scope is accessed through a closure then all variables will be retained by all inner functions.<p>Technically the engines could be optimizing it when no eval used is detected or when in strict mode (which blocks eval), but I guess that dynamically dropping values from a closure context based on inner lexical scopes can be really tricky thing to do and probably not worth the overhead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>No. JS engines detect of eval in the AST.<p>It&#x27;s why you can&#x27;t rename eval and reference the current scope.<p><pre><code> const eval2 = eval;
(() =&gt; {
const a = 1;
eval2(&quot;a&quot;);
})();
&#x2F;&#x2F; ReferenceError: a is not defined
</code></pre>
---<p>The reason JS engines choose to share the closure record among all closures create in the function scope is purely for performance.<p><pre><code> function f() {
const a = {};
const b = {};
return [
() =&gt; a,
() =&gt; b,
];
}
</code></pre>
Both functions share the same single closure record, referencing a and b.<p>JavaScript developers have rediscovered this over and over and over again.<p>* Meteor.js (2013) [1]<p>* My personal journey (2013) [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.meteor.com&#x2F;an-interesting-kind-of-javascript-memory-leak-8b47d2e7f156" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.meteor.com&#x2F;an-interesting-kind-of-javascript-me...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;19798803&#x2F;how-javascript-closures-are-garbage-collected" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;19798803&#x2F;how-javascript-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript garbage collection and closures</title><url>https://jakearchibald.com/2024/garbage-collection-and-closures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielHB</author><text>This behavior is required because eval exists:<p><pre><code> function test(text) {
const a = 1
function inner() {
console.log(eval(text))
}
inner()
}
test(&quot;() =&gt; { return a }&quot;)
</code></pre>
prints 1 to the console<p>This happens because the closure&#x27;s context object is shared between all closures in a given scope. So as soon as one variable from a give scope is accessed through a closure then all variables will be retained by all inner functions.<p>Technically the engines could be optimizing it when no eval used is detected or when in strict mode (which blocks eval), but I guess that dynamically dropping values from a closure context based on inner lexical scopes can be really tricky thing to do and probably not worth the overhead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaffathecake</author><text>Nah, that&#x27;s not it. Browsers do statically detect if eval is there or not, and react accordingly. This is possible because of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;JavaScript&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;Global_Objects&#x2F;eval#direct_and_indirect_eval" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;JavaScript&#x2F;Refe...</a></text></comment> |
11,908,904 | 11,908,974 | 1 | 2 | 11,907,960 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What non-technical skills make a senior dev and how to develop them?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>OliverJones</author><text>Empathy is the key skill. Yes, it&#x27;s learned.<p>The ability to walk in somebody else&#x27;s shoes for a while makes you a better developer. Why?<p>* You acquire the habit of imagining what it&#x27;s like to use the stuff you develop.<p>* You have a feel for the daily experience of your colleagues, suppliers, executives and other stakeholders.<p>These things give you the sort of spidey-sense that lets you function independently. They also give you the ability to enlist other people to get things done.<p>How can you learn empathy? Like any skill, it takes practice.<p>--Listen to strangers. The question &quot;what are you doing this afternoon&quot; asked at lunch will usually get an interesting response. Interject &quot;wow&quot; - like sounds to keep them talking.<p>--Seek opportunities to meet end-users of your stuff. (Ask sales people to take you along on calls if that&#x27;s appropriate). Observe their work.<p>--Ask your executives and project managers questions like, &quot;what keeps you awake at night?&quot; And listen to the answers.<p>--Teach. It doesn&#x27;t matter whether you teach short courses or get a night job as an adjunct professor at your local CoCo. Your interactions with students will help develop your empathy.<p>People love to talk about themselves. You can take advantage of that to practice empathy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>Basically practice &quot;How to Win Friends and Influence People.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What non-technical skills make a senior dev and how to develop them?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>OliverJones</author><text>Empathy is the key skill. Yes, it&#x27;s learned.<p>The ability to walk in somebody else&#x27;s shoes for a while makes you a better developer. Why?<p>* You acquire the habit of imagining what it&#x27;s like to use the stuff you develop.<p>* You have a feel for the daily experience of your colleagues, suppliers, executives and other stakeholders.<p>These things give you the sort of spidey-sense that lets you function independently. They also give you the ability to enlist other people to get things done.<p>How can you learn empathy? Like any skill, it takes practice.<p>--Listen to strangers. The question &quot;what are you doing this afternoon&quot; asked at lunch will usually get an interesting response. Interject &quot;wow&quot; - like sounds to keep them talking.<p>--Seek opportunities to meet end-users of your stuff. (Ask sales people to take you along on calls if that&#x27;s appropriate). Observe their work.<p>--Ask your executives and project managers questions like, &quot;what keeps you awake at night?&quot; And listen to the answers.<p>--Teach. It doesn&#x27;t matter whether you teach short courses or get a night job as an adjunct professor at your local CoCo. Your interactions with students will help develop your empathy.<p>People love to talk about themselves. You can take advantage of that to practice empathy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>I&#x27;ve found &quot;what&#x27;d you get up to this weekend&quot; to be a great conversation starter because most people have done at least one fun thing over the weekend.</text></comment> |
5,686,401 | 5,686,160 | 1 | 2 | 5,685,903 | train | <story><title>PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library</title><url>http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0435/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>e1ven</author><text>Can someone help me understand how this helps?
I'm only a mediocre programmer, and I'm having trouble understanding the implications.<p>It seems like you declare these like any other class.
So what's the difference between this, and creating a class full of ints?<p>If I have class Color:
red = 1
blue = 2<p>etc, wouldn't I get the same thing?<p>Is the difference that you don't need to instantiate an instance of it?<p>I know I'm being dense, and I've read the PEP, but it's not quite clicking yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library</title><url>http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0435/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>comex</author><text>The syntax strikes me as somewhat strange. It requires writing out enum values (and thus avoiding duplicates or, for a cleaner look, just keeping them sorted), necessitating unnecessary effort when new values are added in the middle, and misleadingly implies that the enum values are merely class-level integer constants. I would have preferred a more explicit API that used a list of strings for the enumerators.</text></comment> |
5,319,842 | 5,319,935 | 1 | 2 | 5,319,434 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir</title><url>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hmo09</author><text>Regardless of the technical considerations, Linux and its surrounding ecosystem has a long history of many different companies co-operating on core software. Canonical's philosophy seems to fly directly against that - so far we have:<p>Launchpad / Upstart / Unity / Mir<p>Launchpad is free-software by name only, and Canonical actively discourage you to setup your own instance.<p>Upstart hasn't been widely adopted outside of Ubuntu, and has been replaced by the technically superior systemd.<p>Unity has been extremely unpopular from a user-experience point of view, and now we have Mir. So past history isn't filling me with confidence. Their philosophy seems to be "patch first, ask questions later".<p>I'm amazed how Canonical has the resources to keep branching out so much while producing a distribution every 6 months. I was under the impression they weren't yet making a profit.</text></item><item><author>pilgrim689</author><text>I don't understand all the negative reactions. Canonical is recognizing various problems in making GNU/Linux mainstream. They are then innovating at a deeper level (fixing root causes rather than duct-taping) to ultimately attempt to really attract the layman to a mobile or desktop GNU/Linux distro. Devs don't need to target Mir if they don't want to, Linux users can switch to another Debian if they don't like it, and the Layman discovers that Linux can possibly be just as shiny as Mac OS.
Can someone explain to me why this is all so horrible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>Upstart is a bad example. pacman is a package manager only used by Arch Linux and nowhere else. Should Arch abandon it because it hasn't seen wide use yet? Better yet, there are plenty of package managers that are better than both aptitude and pacman (<a href="http://nixos.org/" rel="nofollow">http://nixos.org/</a>). Should we abandon the technically inferior solutions for the technically superior ones?<p>Unity is the same way: it is open source. If you don't like it, fork it and fix it. Or use one of the alternatives. This is not Windows or OS X. Vote with your feet and move over to Gnome 3, Xfce, LXDE, or another DE. If enough people do, Canonical will see the effects and stop putting effort into Unity.<p>IMHO, Linux and its surrounding ecosystem has a long history of everyone trying to pull it into their own direction. Companies are often forced to cooperate when they don't have another choice, but if they did, they would push their own ideas of what the infrastructure should be on everyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir</title><url>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hmo09</author><text>Regardless of the technical considerations, Linux and its surrounding ecosystem has a long history of many different companies co-operating on core software. Canonical's philosophy seems to fly directly against that - so far we have:<p>Launchpad / Upstart / Unity / Mir<p>Launchpad is free-software by name only, and Canonical actively discourage you to setup your own instance.<p>Upstart hasn't been widely adopted outside of Ubuntu, and has been replaced by the technically superior systemd.<p>Unity has been extremely unpopular from a user-experience point of view, and now we have Mir. So past history isn't filling me with confidence. Their philosophy seems to be "patch first, ask questions later".<p>I'm amazed how Canonical has the resources to keep branching out so much while producing a distribution every 6 months. I was under the impression they weren't yet making a profit.</text></item><item><author>pilgrim689</author><text>I don't understand all the negative reactions. Canonical is recognizing various problems in making GNU/Linux mainstream. They are then innovating at a deeper level (fixing root causes rather than duct-taping) to ultimately attempt to really attract the layman to a mobile or desktop GNU/Linux distro. Devs don't need to target Mir if they don't want to, Linux users can switch to another Debian if they don't like it, and the Layman discovers that Linux can possibly be just as shiny as Mac OS.
Can someone explain to me why this is all so horrible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sanddancer</author><text>Upstart was used because it was better than traditional init, and was used by Fedora as well. Then again, Linux could have had a much better init system many years ago, but the GPL zealots wouldn't hear of having launchd, and its less restrictive license, be used.</text></comment> |
21,682,538 | 21,682,498 | 1 | 3 | 21,669,583 | train | <story><title>Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/health/life-expectancy-rate-usa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasey_junk</author><text>Without tackling the obesity&#x2F;sedentary&#x2F;nutrition problems the healthcare issue will persist.<p>Similarly the opioid&#x2F;meth epidemics of the last 2 decades are not (just) healthcare problems.</text></item><item><author>claudeganon</author><text>&gt; “The whole country is at a health disadvantage compared to other wealthy nations,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Steven Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University, said. “We are losing people in the most productive period of their lives. Children are losing parents. Employers have a sicker work force.”<p>For profit healthcare in America is devouring its people and economy, full stop. We can either have a society where half a million people go bankrupt from medical debt each year, thousands die from treatable illnesses and lack of access to medicines, while hospital CEOS and insurance execs walk away with millions. Or, we can have one that excises their parasitism like the rest of the developed world figured out was necessary decades ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>A good public healthcare system actually puts money into trying to address those problems, as does the government who pays for it. A private healthcare system may be a little more... ambivalent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/health/life-expectancy-rate-usa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasey_junk</author><text>Without tackling the obesity&#x2F;sedentary&#x2F;nutrition problems the healthcare issue will persist.<p>Similarly the opioid&#x2F;meth epidemics of the last 2 decades are not (just) healthcare problems.</text></item><item><author>claudeganon</author><text>&gt; “The whole country is at a health disadvantage compared to other wealthy nations,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Steven Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University, said. “We are losing people in the most productive period of their lives. Children are losing parents. Employers have a sicker work force.”<p>For profit healthcare in America is devouring its people and economy, full stop. We can either have a society where half a million people go bankrupt from medical debt each year, thousands die from treatable illnesses and lack of access to medicines, while hospital CEOS and insurance execs walk away with millions. Or, we can have one that excises their parasitism like the rest of the developed world figured out was necessary decades ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Without tackling the obesity&#x2F;sedentary&#x2F;nutrition problems the healthcare issue will persist.<p>Without healthcare system improvements, you aren&#x27;t going to succeed in tackling those.<p>But, yes, it&#x27;s true that there are more problems with US health than the health care system (though the issues in the broader economy that are at issue are very similar to those effecting the helathcare system.)</text></comment> |
16,741,698 | 16,741,777 | 1 | 2 | 16,741,009 | train | <story><title>RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SteveNuts</author><text>That goes against the paradigm. I prefer that my hostnames are ambiguous, that way I&#x27;m forced to write tools to automate administrative tasks.<p>If I know the hostname I or my team will be tempted to make one-off changes, breaking the whole &quot;cattle&quot; idea.</text></item><item><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>Depends how you mean that; I would rather a machine be named prod-app-web-7 than af74b9c. At least mark the cattle by breed!</text></item><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>This reminds me of the Pets vs Cattle analogy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engineyard.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pets-vs-cattle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engineyard.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pets-vs-cattle</a><p>With a pet, you obsess over the name and meaning of the name. With cattle, as long as names don&#x27;t collide or cause problems, you couldn&#x27;t care less about the name.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deathanatos</author><text>It is still helpful to have decent names even if you&#x27;re treating your machines like &quot;cattle&quot; instead of like &quot;pets&quot;.<p>Inevitably, some bug will occur, and in my experience, it usually happens to occur on a machine (rather than all of them at once; I&#x27;m not saying this machine is <i>special</i> — the bug <i>could</i> have happened on any of them, and likely exists on all of them because they&#x27;re all running the same code, but this particular machine ended up being the lucky one to serve that slightly unusual request).<p>Getting in and debugging the state of that machine, pulling logs, directing a coworker to look at CPU detail &quot;frobnozz&quot;, etc. is all easier if I can easily speak or type out the machine&#x27;s name. &quot;3.dev.microservice&quot; is much easier to type&#x2F;speak than say, an IP address, an EC2 instance ID, etc.<p>(I <i>fully</i> agree on not making one-off changes, and not treating machines as pets. But I think that even after that, decent naming has a place.)<p>And even with cattle, the other way, I still think it&#x27;s useful for the name to provide <i>some</i> information. I.e., 3.prod.microservice being the third or fourth instance of the production setup of &quot;microservice&quot; is better than say, some random entry from the periodic table of elements.</text></comment> | <story><title>RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SteveNuts</author><text>That goes against the paradigm. I prefer that my hostnames are ambiguous, that way I&#x27;m forced to write tools to automate administrative tasks.<p>If I know the hostname I or my team will be tempted to make one-off changes, breaking the whole &quot;cattle&quot; idea.</text></item><item><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>Depends how you mean that; I would rather a machine be named prod-app-web-7 than af74b9c. At least mark the cattle by breed!</text></item><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>This reminds me of the Pets vs Cattle analogy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engineyard.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pets-vs-cattle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engineyard.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pets-vs-cattle</a><p>With a pet, you obsess over the name and meaning of the name. With cattle, as long as names don&#x27;t collide or cause problems, you couldn&#x27;t care less about the name.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>Then the paradigm is wrong. Serving websites is the most important thing a webserver does, call it that. If that changes, rename it. If renaming it is impossible, you failed.</text></comment> |
16,402,507 | 16,402,453 | 1 | 2 | 16,401,687 | train | <story><title>California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/16/585409126/eureka-california-grown-coffee-is-becoming-the-states-next-gold-mine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>&gt; you will find out what should actually be grown.<p>the problem with that is &quot;what should actually be grown&quot; has different answers depending on whether you value profit or feeding people.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>People and especially agricultural users don&#x27;t pay anything like the true cost of water: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-california-water-shortage-again.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;the...</a>. Charge everyone the same cost per liter or gallon or 1,000 gallons and you will find out what should actually be grown.</text></item><item><author>phil21</author><text>Why is California so fascinated on agriculture which is extremely water intensive? Coffee is up there with Almonds as far as I understand the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fmihaila</author><text>&gt; the problem with that is &quot;what should actually be grown&quot; has different answers depending on whether you value profit or feeding people.<p>It can only be a choice between making a profit and feeding people <i>at break-even</i> (feeding people while losing money is not sustainable). Beyond that, the profit signal carries useful information about what the people being fed would rather eat, while keeping in line with what is economically and environmentally viable.<p>The problem with the current situation is that water is mispriced, and mispricing, regardless of whether it favours suppliers or consumers, makes it unsustainable in the long run.</text></comment> | <story><title>California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/16/585409126/eureka-california-grown-coffee-is-becoming-the-states-next-gold-mine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>&gt; you will find out what should actually be grown.<p>the problem with that is &quot;what should actually be grown&quot; has different answers depending on whether you value profit or feeding people.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>People and especially agricultural users don&#x27;t pay anything like the true cost of water: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-california-water-shortage-again.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;the...</a>. Charge everyone the same cost per liter or gallon or 1,000 gallons and you will find out what should actually be grown.</text></item><item><author>phil21</author><text>Why is California so fascinated on agriculture which is extremely water intensive? Coffee is up there with Almonds as far as I understand the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YokoZar</author><text>In this case, we aren&#x27;t feeding people. We&#x27;re feeding cows.<p>We&#x27;re also running into frequent water crises where politicians ask people to shower less while we dump 90% of the state&#x27;s water on the ground.</text></comment> |
25,989,968 | 25,989,945 | 1 | 3 | 25,989,726 | train | <story><title>Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-downside-of-clean-scientists-fear-pandemics-hyper-hygiene-could-have-long-term-health-impacts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance.<p>E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>okprod</author><text>It&#x27;s a misconception that all wet markets transmit disease; they are basically markets that sell fresh foods like vegetables. A portion, probably a minority, sell &quot;exotic&quot; animal meat, and even then &quot;exotic&quot; is a biased perspective.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-downside-of-clean-scientists-fear-pandemics-hyper-hygiene-could-have-long-term-health-impacts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance.<p>E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faitswulff</author><text>&quot;Wet markets&quot; are just farmers&#x27; markets.</text></comment> |
24,071,400 | 24,070,137 | 1 | 2 | 24,069,428 | train | <story><title>OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh</title><url>https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnz</author><text>Are you primarily a mac OS user? I am primarily a Windows user and when I occasionally have to use mac OS, I find myself regularly facing many seemingly inconsistent behaviors that really surprise me. I&#x27;m inclined to think it is a matter of familiarity more than anything.</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>macOS isn&#x27;t exactly perfect, but I don&#x27;t know any other desktop operating system that comes even close to macOS in terms of polish and user experience.<p>I understand that Microsoft can&#x27;t just redesign Windows over night, but I also fail to understand why Windows isn&#x27;t better. Better as in more consistent and more responsive.<p>As much as I like to consider other operating systems, the reality is that I don&#x27;t want the hassle and macOS just works.</text></item><item><author>breakfastduck</author><text>Some people just greatly prefer using macOS over windows or linux and don&#x27;t want their entire computer experience to be windows just because they play games now and then.</text></item><item><author>blackhaz</author><text>Why bother with Mac? I&#x27;ve just built a Xeon E5-2640 using a Chinese X79 motherboard. NMVe, proper Radeon RX580 GPU - in an open build test bench frame. All in all, something like $250 on eBay for everything. Runs the games I like well and looks great on the table, especially with two big red LED fans in front. :-)</text></item><item><author>reimertz</author><text>I bought an EGPU 1.5 years ago with the idea of replacing my gaming computer with my MacBook Pro running Windows. But due to the limitations of Thunderbolt 3 and the throughput from my enclosure, I cannot get consistent frame rates which is critical for playing fast-paced competitive games like Apex legends. It really sucks and this point, my $1000 EGPU is currently acting as a fancy adapter + charger + enabling smooth scrolling when surfing the webz.<p>But I have been exploring the idea of converting my gaming computer to a Hackintosh instead. This looks very promising since I require stability and security.<p>I just wished there was a combination of above solutions; no need to compromise between stability and performance.<p>Finally, some might say; just buy a Mac Pro! Well, I cannot motivate $6000 Just because I want to game every now and then.. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yardie</author><text>I head up our IT department and I use both; Windows for business apps, MacOS for creative apps. 10 is mindbogglingly inconsistent from the way the UI changes between old and new control panels to the way graphic scaling is horribly broken. The cloud side is getting better and works great for users. We&#x27;ve slowly peeled away 3rd party (Dropbox, Slack, Webex) services.<p>Everything in Windows 10 feels like it&#x27;s in beta. There is no polish, that final 1%, to any of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh</title><url>https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnz</author><text>Are you primarily a mac OS user? I am primarily a Windows user and when I occasionally have to use mac OS, I find myself regularly facing many seemingly inconsistent behaviors that really surprise me. I&#x27;m inclined to think it is a matter of familiarity more than anything.</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>macOS isn&#x27;t exactly perfect, but I don&#x27;t know any other desktop operating system that comes even close to macOS in terms of polish and user experience.<p>I understand that Microsoft can&#x27;t just redesign Windows over night, but I also fail to understand why Windows isn&#x27;t better. Better as in more consistent and more responsive.<p>As much as I like to consider other operating systems, the reality is that I don&#x27;t want the hassle and macOS just works.</text></item><item><author>breakfastduck</author><text>Some people just greatly prefer using macOS over windows or linux and don&#x27;t want their entire computer experience to be windows just because they play games now and then.</text></item><item><author>blackhaz</author><text>Why bother with Mac? I&#x27;ve just built a Xeon E5-2640 using a Chinese X79 motherboard. NMVe, proper Radeon RX580 GPU - in an open build test bench frame. All in all, something like $250 on eBay for everything. Runs the games I like well and looks great on the table, especially with two big red LED fans in front. :-)</text></item><item><author>reimertz</author><text>I bought an EGPU 1.5 years ago with the idea of replacing my gaming computer with my MacBook Pro running Windows. But due to the limitations of Thunderbolt 3 and the throughput from my enclosure, I cannot get consistent frame rates which is critical for playing fast-paced competitive games like Apex legends. It really sucks and this point, my $1000 EGPU is currently acting as a fancy adapter + charger + enabling smooth scrolling when surfing the webz.<p>But I have been exploring the idea of converting my gaming computer to a Hackintosh instead. This looks very promising since I require stability and security.<p>I just wished there was a combination of above solutions; no need to compromise between stability and performance.<p>Finally, some might say; just buy a Mac Pro! Well, I cannot motivate $6000 Just because I want to game every now and then.. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>breakfastduck</author><text>This is likely a huge part of it.<p>I&#x27;m primarily macOS but have a LOT of experience with Windows.<p>I still feel like I&#x27;m fighting against Windows to do anything. I just think different people are suited to different workflows &amp; macOS and Windows are very very different to each other.</text></comment> |
19,733,226 | 19,720,880 | 1 | 2 | 19,716,401 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?</title><text>Frequently while browsing this site I see a comment that is profoundly insightful about culture, mindset, career, relationships, coffee grinders, etc.<p>I realized today that I’ve always considered them in the moment and let them go. Perhaps I should have been bookmarking them and revisiting with a different perspective.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanmarsh</author><text>Ok, replying to you and next up line.<p>I do consulting, the kind I do is irrelevant because there are others with high bill rates too (I know of some iOS devs that make $2,500&#x2F;day). I have friends who are Java devs making $250&#x2F;hr. They&#x27;re not dummies but they aren&#x27;t exactly Linus Torvalds or Chris Lattner either.<p>Since you asked, I advise companies on how to implement certain development practices, things like DevOps, TDD, etc.. Before you totally write this off, hold your horses. I&#x27;m not saying this is THE path for you. It&#x27;s one of many. I just happen to care a lot about how we work together to make software and I always found myself drifting into those discussions on the team.<p>I&#x27;m based in Houston, TX. I charge $3k - $5k per day. I <i>usually</i> pay my own travel expenses. I haven&#x27;t been charging that for long and the first time I submitted a proposal at that rate I almost threw up I was so nervous. I work usually two weeks per month. I usually travel to my clients. I also sell support contracts where I offer them unlimited Slack and 1-2 calls per week. I offer them coaching, feedback, guidance. Sometimes it&#x27;s pairing on building out a Jenkins pipeline, sometimes it&#x27;s just explaining why &quot;change fail percentage&quot; is a good metric to track backed by industry studies.<p>I have a friend who couldn&#x27;t join us for BBQ this weekend because he&#x27;s traveling to SF just to visit with a former client who paid him something like $100k for a handful of Java classes he taught. I&#x27;d have to look at the invoices to know the exact amount and I have a call coming up. He went through my company. The nice thing is once you set up a company properly it becomes a vehicle for all sorts of financial endeavors. People think creating a company is scary and complicated and can really fuck you up. That&#x27;s wrong. It&#x27;s trivial to create a functioning company and the upkeep just to keep it compliant is absolutely minimal if it&#x27;s incorporated in a state like Texas.<p>If you&#x27;ve read this far, here&#x27;s the golden nugget. I wish someone had told me what I&#x27;m about to tell you.<p>1. Follow the things that really interest you, not in your head, the things that make your heart pound. Maybe that&#x27;s picking up certain types of stories in the sprint, or helping a coworker with a certain kind of bug. While your energy will come and go, that thing that makes your heart pound will always be there. It&#x27;s connected to your calling, which you might not understand until you&#x27;re in your 40&#x27;s (like me).<p>2. Always ask for more money. Ask nicely, and after you deliver something of value. The company ALWAYS can afford to give you more. If giving you $20k more will bankrupt the company then your company is dying and you&#x27;re going to be out of a job anyway. People who aren&#x27;t business owners (myself included at one time) do not comprehend the decision flow business owners take. Ask for the money until they don&#x27;t have any more. It is more ethical than letting them waste it on another kegerator for the office. Programmers in particular have a very skewed sense of the value they provide. Even a mediocre programmer is worth 10x his salary. You have no idea how valuable you are to a smart business person. Instagram had 30 employees when it was sold for $1B. Think about that.<p>3. Be polite and talk about the things that interest you with others. Share what excites you. It will be genuine and people will like that. It will link you up with the kind of people you should be linked up with.<p>4. Only invest time in the people with the most potential. Don&#x27;t waste your time having coffee with people who aren&#x27;t passionate, smart, hard working, or creative. This means avoid shit-magnets&#x2F;pin-cushions. Within 10 years these high potential people will pay off for you in multiples. For me they&#x27;ve become great friends and have fed me most of my business. Back then they were just &quot;I like this person&quot;.<p>5. Show your work. Imposter syndrom is lies you tell yourself in the absence of valuable feedback. Make things, no matter how flimsy or unfinished, and show them to people. A Russian guy once told me &quot;never show unfinished work to an idiot&quot;. So show your work, just don&#x27;t show it to idiots. Every single time I&#x27;ve had the courage to show smart people things I was tinkering with it has led to an opportunity.<p>6. Be courageous. Learn to do things you know to be wise, even when they&#x27;re scary.<p>7. Be patient. It&#x27;s the journey not the destination.<p>I know this all sounds like horse shit but how many times have you heard these exact things from &quot;successful&quot; people before? Did you ever stop to ask yourself why? Maybe they&#x27;re good principles. Maybe they actually work. If I told you the &quot;path&quot; to where I&#x27;m at and you tried to follow it you&#x27;d most certainly fail because the world is so complex that the correct answer (in discrete steps) is only knowable after the fact. The only thing you can do is be guided by principles that bear good fruit. Follow your heart, ask for more money, be polite, invest in potential, show your work, be courageous, be patient.<p>From the bottom of my heart I wish you the best. If you ever would like to chat I&#x27;ll happily hop on a zoom and share as much as I can with you. I want you to find as much joy and financial reward in your endeavors as I have found in mine. God bless.</text></item><item><author>balabaster</author><text>Nor can you say it without quantifying the structure of your earnings... Where are you based, city&#x2F;country? What kind of clients do you entertain? Also what industry&#x2F;niche does your consulting empire cover?<p>I assume you&#x27;re an incorporated consultant and the rate of $3K per day is gross revenue and not net income(?)<p>Certainly this is achievable, but people need to understand exact comparables so they&#x27;re not comparing apples to oranges.</text></item><item><author>ohaideredevs</author><text>You can&#x27;t say you make 3k a day without explaining your career path a bit so us lowly serfs can emulate.</text></item><item><author>ryanmarsh</author><text>Calling it &quot;salary-porn&quot; gives away the rest of your comment. I could have written it myself based upon the many conversations I&#x27;ve had with people here, and elsewhere, about salary.<p>For some reason many people are hostile to the idea that, at a minimum, you can make more money doing exactly the same thing for exactly the same company. Perhaps this shields them from the horror of the money they are most certainly leaving on the table, or the uncertainty of pursuing that money. The nice thing about being the lowest paid serf is the lord knows he&#x27;s getting you for a song, or at least that&#x27;s how the thinking goes.<p>I&#x27;ll just leave you with this: I make a minimum of $3k per day. I am not special. I have an IQ of 118 which is probably low for HN. The difference is I&#x27;ve never accepted that what they&#x27;re paying me is the most the company (or market) can bear. My first programming job out of the Army (with no education) was 50k&#x2F;yr. My current rate is the result of 15 years of continually challenging the offered rate and searching for higher rates.<p>Today, I work part time and have tons of time for myself and my family. I&#x27;m so expensive that my clients honor my work and value my time. I know you&#x27;d prefer this lifestyle to the daily grind of 40+hrs, a middling salary, and little respect so why not test my model and see if it doesn&#x27;t bear fruit for you.</text></item><item><author>stakhanov</author><text>Salary-porn seems to be a category that generally gets a lot of attention on HN. Personally, I feel a bit ambivalent about it. Obviously it&#x27;s useful to be able to compare &amp; benchmark, because one should go into any decision-making process being well armed with information. But on the other hand: The information exchanged is never enough to truly contextualize the numbers appropriately, and it&#x27;s a potential source of huge amounts of cognitive dissonance. You have to be pretty good at being a stoic to try to break the information down to something objective and not let it get to you.<p>For example: The $175&#x2F;hour number you just mentioned, and the fact that you seemed to imply that you&#x27;re taking it for granted that it represents a successful outcome would be clearly a source of cognitive dissonance for most people. -- If he manages to do 2000 hours at $175 every year, that would be $350k which would be impressive. But then it may be nothing: if it is a highly specialized thing where you don&#x27;t manage to get a fulltime workload out of a year, where you might spend the majority of your time with non-billable hours for project acquision, where you maybe have to cover costs of travel or time &amp; money for certifications, where you have to carry high risk, etc. etc. ...it is usually impossible to properly resolve such questions to the point where it&#x27;s useful for benchmarking and for extracting conclusions that are actionable to yourself. But the cognitive dissonance remains.</text></item><item><author>AWebOfBrown</author><text>A quote about salary, that I bookmarked as I could see myself making the same mistake:<p>&quot;Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable.
Last year we were having a discussion at lunch. Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn&#x27;t seem like much, except to a young guy that joined the previous year and had done nothing but kick ass and take names...&quot; (edited for brevity).<p>&quot;...The conversation ended up in numbers. Coworker building the house pulled about $140K base (median for a programmer was probably $125K), and his bonus nearly matched the new guy&#x27;s salary, which was an insulting $60K -- and got cut out of the bonus and raise in January for not being there a full year, only 11 months.<p>Turns out he was a doormat in negotiating, though his salary history was cringeworthy. It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was. In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him. Worst of all, this wasn&#x27;t a cheap market (Boston). The guy probably shortchanged himself well over a half-million dollars in the past decade. This was someone who voluntarily put in long hours and went out of his way to teach others, and did everything he could to help other departments like operations and other teams. On top, he was beyond frugal. Supposedly he saved something around 40% of his take home pay, despite living alone in Boston. He grew up in a trailer park.<p>He spent the next day in non-stop meetings with HR, his manager and the CTO. That Friday he simply handed in his badge without a word, walked out and never came back.<p>Until 3 months later. As a consultant. At $175&#x2F;hour.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2439478" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2439478</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>&gt; &quot;Imposter syndrome is lies you tell yourself in the absence of valuable feedback.&quot;<p>This sentence <i>alone</i> is a worthwhile comment, though the rest is great too. Thank you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?</title><text>Frequently while browsing this site I see a comment that is profoundly insightful about culture, mindset, career, relationships, coffee grinders, etc.<p>I realized today that I’ve always considered them in the moment and let them go. Perhaps I should have been bookmarking them and revisiting with a different perspective.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanmarsh</author><text>Ok, replying to you and next up line.<p>I do consulting, the kind I do is irrelevant because there are others with high bill rates too (I know of some iOS devs that make $2,500&#x2F;day). I have friends who are Java devs making $250&#x2F;hr. They&#x27;re not dummies but they aren&#x27;t exactly Linus Torvalds or Chris Lattner either.<p>Since you asked, I advise companies on how to implement certain development practices, things like DevOps, TDD, etc.. Before you totally write this off, hold your horses. I&#x27;m not saying this is THE path for you. It&#x27;s one of many. I just happen to care a lot about how we work together to make software and I always found myself drifting into those discussions on the team.<p>I&#x27;m based in Houston, TX. I charge $3k - $5k per day. I <i>usually</i> pay my own travel expenses. I haven&#x27;t been charging that for long and the first time I submitted a proposal at that rate I almost threw up I was so nervous. I work usually two weeks per month. I usually travel to my clients. I also sell support contracts where I offer them unlimited Slack and 1-2 calls per week. I offer them coaching, feedback, guidance. Sometimes it&#x27;s pairing on building out a Jenkins pipeline, sometimes it&#x27;s just explaining why &quot;change fail percentage&quot; is a good metric to track backed by industry studies.<p>I have a friend who couldn&#x27;t join us for BBQ this weekend because he&#x27;s traveling to SF just to visit with a former client who paid him something like $100k for a handful of Java classes he taught. I&#x27;d have to look at the invoices to know the exact amount and I have a call coming up. He went through my company. The nice thing is once you set up a company properly it becomes a vehicle for all sorts of financial endeavors. People think creating a company is scary and complicated and can really fuck you up. That&#x27;s wrong. It&#x27;s trivial to create a functioning company and the upkeep just to keep it compliant is absolutely minimal if it&#x27;s incorporated in a state like Texas.<p>If you&#x27;ve read this far, here&#x27;s the golden nugget. I wish someone had told me what I&#x27;m about to tell you.<p>1. Follow the things that really interest you, not in your head, the things that make your heart pound. Maybe that&#x27;s picking up certain types of stories in the sprint, or helping a coworker with a certain kind of bug. While your energy will come and go, that thing that makes your heart pound will always be there. It&#x27;s connected to your calling, which you might not understand until you&#x27;re in your 40&#x27;s (like me).<p>2. Always ask for more money. Ask nicely, and after you deliver something of value. The company ALWAYS can afford to give you more. If giving you $20k more will bankrupt the company then your company is dying and you&#x27;re going to be out of a job anyway. People who aren&#x27;t business owners (myself included at one time) do not comprehend the decision flow business owners take. Ask for the money until they don&#x27;t have any more. It is more ethical than letting them waste it on another kegerator for the office. Programmers in particular have a very skewed sense of the value they provide. Even a mediocre programmer is worth 10x his salary. You have no idea how valuable you are to a smart business person. Instagram had 30 employees when it was sold for $1B. Think about that.<p>3. Be polite and talk about the things that interest you with others. Share what excites you. It will be genuine and people will like that. It will link you up with the kind of people you should be linked up with.<p>4. Only invest time in the people with the most potential. Don&#x27;t waste your time having coffee with people who aren&#x27;t passionate, smart, hard working, or creative. This means avoid shit-magnets&#x2F;pin-cushions. Within 10 years these high potential people will pay off for you in multiples. For me they&#x27;ve become great friends and have fed me most of my business. Back then they were just &quot;I like this person&quot;.<p>5. Show your work. Imposter syndrom is lies you tell yourself in the absence of valuable feedback. Make things, no matter how flimsy or unfinished, and show them to people. A Russian guy once told me &quot;never show unfinished work to an idiot&quot;. So show your work, just don&#x27;t show it to idiots. Every single time I&#x27;ve had the courage to show smart people things I was tinkering with it has led to an opportunity.<p>6. Be courageous. Learn to do things you know to be wise, even when they&#x27;re scary.<p>7. Be patient. It&#x27;s the journey not the destination.<p>I know this all sounds like horse shit but how many times have you heard these exact things from &quot;successful&quot; people before? Did you ever stop to ask yourself why? Maybe they&#x27;re good principles. Maybe they actually work. If I told you the &quot;path&quot; to where I&#x27;m at and you tried to follow it you&#x27;d most certainly fail because the world is so complex that the correct answer (in discrete steps) is only knowable after the fact. The only thing you can do is be guided by principles that bear good fruit. Follow your heart, ask for more money, be polite, invest in potential, show your work, be courageous, be patient.<p>From the bottom of my heart I wish you the best. If you ever would like to chat I&#x27;ll happily hop on a zoom and share as much as I can with you. I want you to find as much joy and financial reward in your endeavors as I have found in mine. God bless.</text></item><item><author>balabaster</author><text>Nor can you say it without quantifying the structure of your earnings... Where are you based, city&#x2F;country? What kind of clients do you entertain? Also what industry&#x2F;niche does your consulting empire cover?<p>I assume you&#x27;re an incorporated consultant and the rate of $3K per day is gross revenue and not net income(?)<p>Certainly this is achievable, but people need to understand exact comparables so they&#x27;re not comparing apples to oranges.</text></item><item><author>ohaideredevs</author><text>You can&#x27;t say you make 3k a day without explaining your career path a bit so us lowly serfs can emulate.</text></item><item><author>ryanmarsh</author><text>Calling it &quot;salary-porn&quot; gives away the rest of your comment. I could have written it myself based upon the many conversations I&#x27;ve had with people here, and elsewhere, about salary.<p>For some reason many people are hostile to the idea that, at a minimum, you can make more money doing exactly the same thing for exactly the same company. Perhaps this shields them from the horror of the money they are most certainly leaving on the table, or the uncertainty of pursuing that money. The nice thing about being the lowest paid serf is the lord knows he&#x27;s getting you for a song, or at least that&#x27;s how the thinking goes.<p>I&#x27;ll just leave you with this: I make a minimum of $3k per day. I am not special. I have an IQ of 118 which is probably low for HN. The difference is I&#x27;ve never accepted that what they&#x27;re paying me is the most the company (or market) can bear. My first programming job out of the Army (with no education) was 50k&#x2F;yr. My current rate is the result of 15 years of continually challenging the offered rate and searching for higher rates.<p>Today, I work part time and have tons of time for myself and my family. I&#x27;m so expensive that my clients honor my work and value my time. I know you&#x27;d prefer this lifestyle to the daily grind of 40+hrs, a middling salary, and little respect so why not test my model and see if it doesn&#x27;t bear fruit for you.</text></item><item><author>stakhanov</author><text>Salary-porn seems to be a category that generally gets a lot of attention on HN. Personally, I feel a bit ambivalent about it. Obviously it&#x27;s useful to be able to compare &amp; benchmark, because one should go into any decision-making process being well armed with information. But on the other hand: The information exchanged is never enough to truly contextualize the numbers appropriately, and it&#x27;s a potential source of huge amounts of cognitive dissonance. You have to be pretty good at being a stoic to try to break the information down to something objective and not let it get to you.<p>For example: The $175&#x2F;hour number you just mentioned, and the fact that you seemed to imply that you&#x27;re taking it for granted that it represents a successful outcome would be clearly a source of cognitive dissonance for most people. -- If he manages to do 2000 hours at $175 every year, that would be $350k which would be impressive. But then it may be nothing: if it is a highly specialized thing where you don&#x27;t manage to get a fulltime workload out of a year, where you might spend the majority of your time with non-billable hours for project acquision, where you maybe have to cover costs of travel or time &amp; money for certifications, where you have to carry high risk, etc. etc. ...it is usually impossible to properly resolve such questions to the point where it&#x27;s useful for benchmarking and for extracting conclusions that are actionable to yourself. But the cognitive dissonance remains.</text></item><item><author>AWebOfBrown</author><text>A quote about salary, that I bookmarked as I could see myself making the same mistake:<p>&quot;Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable.
Last year we were having a discussion at lunch. Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn&#x27;t seem like much, except to a young guy that joined the previous year and had done nothing but kick ass and take names...&quot; (edited for brevity).<p>&quot;...The conversation ended up in numbers. Coworker building the house pulled about $140K base (median for a programmer was probably $125K), and his bonus nearly matched the new guy&#x27;s salary, which was an insulting $60K -- and got cut out of the bonus and raise in January for not being there a full year, only 11 months.<p>Turns out he was a doormat in negotiating, though his salary history was cringeworthy. It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was. In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him. Worst of all, this wasn&#x27;t a cheap market (Boston). The guy probably shortchanged himself well over a half-million dollars in the past decade. This was someone who voluntarily put in long hours and went out of his way to teach others, and did everything he could to help other departments like operations and other teams. On top, he was beyond frugal. Supposedly he saved something around 40% of his take home pay, despite living alone in Boston. He grew up in a trailer park.<p>He spent the next day in non-stop meetings with HR, his manager and the CTO. That Friday he simply handed in his badge without a word, walked out and never came back.<p>Until 3 months later. As a consultant. At $175&#x2F;hour.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2439478" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2439478</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>balabaster</author><text>Thanks, this is all valuable and my own experience bears this out. People looking to take the next step up should pay attention to this wisdom. You say you usually charge $3K-$5K per day, what do you use to determine your rate? That&#x27;s quite a large spread, so I assume you have some metrics that you use to determine this.</text></comment> |
2,119,162 | 2,118,591 | 1 | 3 | 2,117,123 | train | <story><title>What Hollywood Execs Privately Say About Netflix</title><url>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-execs-privately-netflix-71957</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanthonyc</author><text>Forgive me, but I just finished (finally) reading Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma," so naturally, this looks like another prime example to me.<p>It <i>is</i> amusing to watch the entertainment execs flail around. But apparently, it's not necessarily because they are incompetent. Ironically, it may be their actual <i>competence</i> in their current positions that prevents them from seeing the value in the long tail (or anything else made possible by new technology).<p>They have long made money a certain way. Now, a new method (internet streaming) is coming along. They would like to use it, but they <i>can't.</i> They can't because it doesn't satisfy their current customers.<p>Netflix is happy to pay for and take the deep catalog. They are new and therefore able take the risk in creating the new market.<p>I can't give the theory a good showing myself in a brief comment. But if you haven't read the book yet - go do it now. It's amazing how stuff he wrote ten years ago about older companies sounds like a history lesson to me today about Microsoft, Google, et al.</text></item><item><author>steveklabnik</author><text>Are you really surprised that entertainment executives fail to understand the Long Tail, and are pretty much giving a huge advantage to Netflix?<p>I find the jabs incredibly amusing. Shows who exactly is in the know, and who isn't...</text></item><item><author>Umalu</author><text>The article pokes fun at Netflix for purchasing little-known, unpopular titles, as if Hollywood is somehow putting one over on Netflix. But what drew me to Netflix initially was its ultra-deep selection of DVDs, which was far better than the local video store. Seems to me Netflix is trying the same thing with streaming, building the biggest catalog as fast as possible so people will view it as the #1 streaming choice, even if Warner Brothers withholds its marquee movies and sticks it with "Pushing Daisies."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chc</author><text>I think you're giving Netflix the short shrift here. Netflix entered the DVD rental service and beat Blockbuster — they were extraordinarily competent in that arena, arguably more so than most movie studio heads are at their jobs. Now they've moved outside that area of competence by getting into streaming and cannibalizing their own business before any competitors sprung up to do it. They specifically overcame the dilemma you're talking about.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Hollywood Execs Privately Say About Netflix</title><url>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-execs-privately-netflix-71957</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanthonyc</author><text>Forgive me, but I just finished (finally) reading Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma," so naturally, this looks like another prime example to me.<p>It <i>is</i> amusing to watch the entertainment execs flail around. But apparently, it's not necessarily because they are incompetent. Ironically, it may be their actual <i>competence</i> in their current positions that prevents them from seeing the value in the long tail (or anything else made possible by new technology).<p>They have long made money a certain way. Now, a new method (internet streaming) is coming along. They would like to use it, but they <i>can't.</i> They can't because it doesn't satisfy their current customers.<p>Netflix is happy to pay for and take the deep catalog. They are new and therefore able take the risk in creating the new market.<p>I can't give the theory a good showing myself in a brief comment. But if you haven't read the book yet - go do it now. It's amazing how stuff he wrote ten years ago about older companies sounds like a history lesson to me today about Microsoft, Google, et al.</text></item><item><author>steveklabnik</author><text>Are you really surprised that entertainment executives fail to understand the Long Tail, and are pretty much giving a huge advantage to Netflix?<p>I find the jabs incredibly amusing. Shows who exactly is in the know, and who isn't...</text></item><item><author>Umalu</author><text>The article pokes fun at Netflix for purchasing little-known, unpopular titles, as if Hollywood is somehow putting one over on Netflix. But what drew me to Netflix initially was its ultra-deep selection of DVDs, which was far better than the local video store. Seems to me Netflix is trying the same thing with streaming, building the biggest catalog as fast as possible so people will view it as the #1 streaming choice, even if Warner Brothers withholds its marquee movies and sticks it with "Pushing Daisies."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbange</author><text>If they can't convince their current customers that (whatever) is the way of the future, then I'd argue they are NOT competent. Any fool can be a yes-man and keep doing what the previous guy did because "it always worked before".</text></comment> |
27,884,389 | 27,884,270 | 1 | 2 | 27,882,096 | train | <story><title>Senet</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zests</author><text>I love ancient board games. It&#x27;s amazing to think about chess and how rules have been changed slightly over time for 1000 years. The game has since been stable for about 500. The computer era is revolutionizing the game again and maybe will usher in new popular variants (Fischer random, no castle chess) as our understanding of the game evolves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legitster</author><text>Richard Garfield (mathematician and designer of Magic the Gathering and others) used to give a talk about randomness in games.<p>He talked about the history of chess, and how there used to be a lot more variants of the game (some even being a 4 player game with dice!), and over time competitive players naturally will want to remove random elements from the game.<p>But on the other hand, some amount of wild unpredictability is important to attract players - there&#x27;s a softening of skill gaps.</text></comment> | <story><title>Senet</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zests</author><text>I love ancient board games. It&#x27;s amazing to think about chess and how rules have been changed slightly over time for 1000 years. The game has since been stable for about 500. The computer era is revolutionizing the game again and maybe will usher in new popular variants (Fischer random, no castle chess) as our understanding of the game evolves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text><i>It&#x27;s amazing to think about chess and how rules have been changed slightly over time for 1000 years.</i><p>Medieval chess was a very different game. For the most stark example, the queen did not get her modern move until around 1450.<p><i>The game has since been stable for about 500.</i><p>And yet something as basic as, &quot;white moves first&quot; was first suggested in 1857.</text></comment> |
8,640,572 | 8,640,471 | 1 | 3 | 8,640,067 | train | <story><title>Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Data Center</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/11/utah-considers-cutting-water-nsas-monster-data-center/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>optimusclimb</author><text>Possibly one of the most naive comments I&#x27;ve ever seen on here.<p>We keep a military at the most basic level - so that another country can&#x27;t send a boat full of troops over here, or airplanes filled with troops - invade us - and take over. In other words, basic protection against normal acts of war. Imagine if you, thizzbuzz, suddenly awoke tomorrow and found out the dictator of some small European country died, and you were the heir apparent. What would you want to have to make sure that Russia didn&#x27;t just come in the next day with tanks and declare your country was now theirs? Oh - that would be a military.<p>So great, you&#x27;ve made sure you have that. Now at the very least, if some other country violates your sovereignty, you can at least put up a fight, and it will be a visible spectacle to the rest of the world, which might come in and try and help you.<p>Next up - Inhabitants of your country speak one language. The rest of the world speaks other languages. If a newspaper in a neighboring country starts publishing articles calling for an invasion of your country, in a language most of your inhabitants don&#x27;t speak...isn&#x27;t that something you&#x27;d like to be aware of? Who do you expect to be responsible for keeping tabs on that? Are you just going to hope that one of your citizens keeps tabs on it for you and drops you an email (at [email protected]) to let you know you might want to be on the lookout for an invasion? Or would your citizens prefer your government is a little proactive about this? (assuming you&#x27;re a benevolent dictator that wants to keep his country.) Sounds to me like you want some sort of government agency that keeps tabs on such things - you know, for NATIONAL SECURITY.<p>What you DON&#x27;T want, if you have an American mindset, is for that agency to be spying on all of its native citizens. That doesn&#x27;t mean you don&#x27;t want such an agency to exist.</text></item><item><author>thizzbuzz</author><text>I am not convinced that the NSA has any purpose. What do you think is necessary about the NSA?</text></item><item><author>jsmthrowaway</author><text>As shocking as it might be, the NSA has other things to do which actually are crucial for national security. Reforming the agency will go much further than basically saying &quot;you can&#x27;t have cool servers or toilets that flush.&quot;<p>I know hating the NSA is en vogue but seriously. This is almost as bad as stonewalling and other hostilities toward other branches of government simply because the opposite party is in power (that goes both ways, before you think I&#x27;m attacking the right). The NSA committed grievous sin. I&#x27;m as upset about it as you. Even so, it baffles me that we would be having this conversation about <i>water.</i><p>God, stuff like this just depresses me. And that you love it, too. That depresses me as well. It&#x27;s a cheap &quot;rah rah go Utah sticking it to the man&quot; puppet show that is ultimately meaningless, but you and many like you just eat it up.<p>--<p>Edit: Between this stupid &quot;you&#x27;re submitting too fast&quot; barrier that I&#x27;ve never seen until recently on a &gt;year account, downvoting being blessed as okay to represent disagreement, graying comments as a result which silences disagreement and causes a dogpile effect, arbitrary shadowbans in 2014, and my critique of this political theater being interpreted as defense of the NSA or an advertisement that I need the condescension of having an intelligence agency explained to me (better: I&#x27;m not going to answer your question but anybody that passed US History knows the answer), HN has done a pretty good job of silencing opposing thought. I asked a <i>question</i> and it&#x27;s barely legible. Even now, watching people Cmd+F my username and downvote every hit between refreshes. You sure showed me for not thinking like you!<p>Since I disagree with many things HN holds dear, and since the people and technology have made clear that&#x27;s not welcome, after six years of contributing to Hacker News on various accounts, I&#x27;m done. I can&#x27;t take the technology nor the people any more.<p>It amazes me how hostile HN is now, both socially and technically, and yet people remain. The crowning irony is that people here complain about becoming Reddit, yet on some of the very lesser-known subreddits I&#x27;ve had literally life-changing conversations. Here it&#x27;s just bickering to see who is more right. Nothing of value comes of this thread, or the hundreds before it. Nothing. I want a refund of my time wasted here.</text></item><item><author>prbuckley</author><text>If every state stood up and passed bills like this the NSA couldnt have giant data centers in this country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>&gt; The rest of the world speaks other languages. If a newspaper in a neighboring country starts publishing articles calling for an invasion of your country, in a language most of your inhabitants don&#x27;t speak...isn&#x27;t that something you&#x27;d like to be aware of?<p>You do realise that you have a diplomatic corps with feet on the ground and people who speak the native languages in a substantial percentage of countries, right? And that e.g. CIA have analyst desks for handling exactly this type of thing?<p>What makes you think the NSA is needed for that? And even if they were, it&#x27;d be something like %0.001 of their resources that&#x27;d be needed for that.<p>The NSA&#x27;s primary mission is sigint targeting non-public sources, as the CIA and DIA and other agencies are under substantial restrictions in terms of what sigint they are allowed to engage in without going through the NSA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Data Center</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/11/utah-considers-cutting-water-nsas-monster-data-center/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>optimusclimb</author><text>Possibly one of the most naive comments I&#x27;ve ever seen on here.<p>We keep a military at the most basic level - so that another country can&#x27;t send a boat full of troops over here, or airplanes filled with troops - invade us - and take over. In other words, basic protection against normal acts of war. Imagine if you, thizzbuzz, suddenly awoke tomorrow and found out the dictator of some small European country died, and you were the heir apparent. What would you want to have to make sure that Russia didn&#x27;t just come in the next day with tanks and declare your country was now theirs? Oh - that would be a military.<p>So great, you&#x27;ve made sure you have that. Now at the very least, if some other country violates your sovereignty, you can at least put up a fight, and it will be a visible spectacle to the rest of the world, which might come in and try and help you.<p>Next up - Inhabitants of your country speak one language. The rest of the world speaks other languages. If a newspaper in a neighboring country starts publishing articles calling for an invasion of your country, in a language most of your inhabitants don&#x27;t speak...isn&#x27;t that something you&#x27;d like to be aware of? Who do you expect to be responsible for keeping tabs on that? Are you just going to hope that one of your citizens keeps tabs on it for you and drops you an email (at [email protected]) to let you know you might want to be on the lookout for an invasion? Or would your citizens prefer your government is a little proactive about this? (assuming you&#x27;re a benevolent dictator that wants to keep his country.) Sounds to me like you want some sort of government agency that keeps tabs on such things - you know, for NATIONAL SECURITY.<p>What you DON&#x27;T want, if you have an American mindset, is for that agency to be spying on all of its native citizens. That doesn&#x27;t mean you don&#x27;t want such an agency to exist.</text></item><item><author>thizzbuzz</author><text>I am not convinced that the NSA has any purpose. What do you think is necessary about the NSA?</text></item><item><author>jsmthrowaway</author><text>As shocking as it might be, the NSA has other things to do which actually are crucial for national security. Reforming the agency will go much further than basically saying &quot;you can&#x27;t have cool servers or toilets that flush.&quot;<p>I know hating the NSA is en vogue but seriously. This is almost as bad as stonewalling and other hostilities toward other branches of government simply because the opposite party is in power (that goes both ways, before you think I&#x27;m attacking the right). The NSA committed grievous sin. I&#x27;m as upset about it as you. Even so, it baffles me that we would be having this conversation about <i>water.</i><p>God, stuff like this just depresses me. And that you love it, too. That depresses me as well. It&#x27;s a cheap &quot;rah rah go Utah sticking it to the man&quot; puppet show that is ultimately meaningless, but you and many like you just eat it up.<p>--<p>Edit: Between this stupid &quot;you&#x27;re submitting too fast&quot; barrier that I&#x27;ve never seen until recently on a &gt;year account, downvoting being blessed as okay to represent disagreement, graying comments as a result which silences disagreement and causes a dogpile effect, arbitrary shadowbans in 2014, and my critique of this political theater being interpreted as defense of the NSA or an advertisement that I need the condescension of having an intelligence agency explained to me (better: I&#x27;m not going to answer your question but anybody that passed US History knows the answer), HN has done a pretty good job of silencing opposing thought. I asked a <i>question</i> and it&#x27;s barely legible. Even now, watching people Cmd+F my username and downvote every hit between refreshes. You sure showed me for not thinking like you!<p>Since I disagree with many things HN holds dear, and since the people and technology have made clear that&#x27;s not welcome, after six years of contributing to Hacker News on various accounts, I&#x27;m done. I can&#x27;t take the technology nor the people any more.<p>It amazes me how hostile HN is now, both socially and technically, and yet people remain. The crowning irony is that people here complain about becoming Reddit, yet on some of the very lesser-known subreddits I&#x27;ve had literally life-changing conversations. Here it&#x27;s just bickering to see who is more right. Nothing of value comes of this thread, or the hundreds before it. Nothing. I want a refund of my time wasted here.</text></item><item><author>prbuckley</author><text>If every state stood up and passed bills like this the NSA couldnt have giant data centers in this country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>optimusclimb</author><text>Since HN is not transparent about downvoting, other than that only certain users have the ability - I&#x27;d love the feedback on the reasons for the down votes.<p>How a country could exist without an organization that pays attention to what the rest of the world is up to towards the goal of keeping itself &quot;secure&quot; is beyond me. What I wrote was a fictional circumstance which I thought explained to others how you&#x27;d arrive at this conclusion - i.e. answering the question that was asked.</text></comment> |
21,301,068 | 21,300,731 | 1 | 2 | 21,300,191 | train | <story><title>Math Breakthrough Speeds Supercomputer Simulations</title><url>https://egghead.ucdavis.edu/2019/10/18/math-breakthrough-speeds-supercomputer-simulations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boulos</author><text>I only read the abstract from the most recent linked article [1], but it sounds like the results are statistically correct. For this field, that makes a lot of sense, rather than computing strictly “accurate” velocity&#x2F;acceleration from finite differences (see [2] for the basics on this integration method &#x2F; domain).<p>Edit (to make my comment clearer): they came up with a method to calculate the velocities they need for solving these equations with a new closed-form solution that doesn’t depend on the timestep size. This lets the author combine the new calculation with previous work to take big steps, yet still converge.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;figure&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;00268976.2019.1662506?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;figure&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;00268976.2019...</a> which is actually also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1909.04380" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1909.04380</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Verlet_integration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Verlet_integration</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Math Breakthrough Speeds Supercomputer Simulations</title><url>https://egghead.ucdavis.edu/2019/10/18/math-breakthrough-speeds-supercomputer-simulations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjsaah</author><text>anybody got a few sentence explanation of the new method? I worked in a lab that did MD in college, so I&#x27;m kinda curious.</text></comment> |
18,668,660 | 18,667,813 | 1 | 2 | 18,667,281 | train | <story><title>Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/now-you-can-train-ml-models-faster-and-lower-cost-cloud-tpu-pods</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>Does this require distributed training?<p>My understanding and experience is that it is not always trivial to get linear training speedups with additional machines.<p>It can be sometimes hard to get any speedup at all.<p>The difference with gradient descent can be described simply as:<p>* Single-machine training: take more steps<p>* Distributed training: take fewer but more confident and accurate steps. This could allow you to take bigger steps (learning rate) as well, but there is a limit to this as well.<p>They are not equivalent processes and it is an area of active research how to get an equivalent result with distributed training.</text></comment> | <story><title>Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/now-you-can-train-ml-models-faster-and-lower-cost-cloud-tpu-pods</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ethikal</author><text>Full ML Perf results can be found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mlperf.org&#x2F;results&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mlperf.org&#x2F;results&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
39,039,886 | 39,039,173 | 1 | 2 | 39,036,693 | train | <story><title>Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match</title><url>https://binaryigor.com/htmx-and-web-components-a-perfect-match.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>Is anyone using htmx in a large project? Seems like it could be great for small things, but unmaintainable at scale, and that all the praise is based on the former.<p>Something tells me that the backlash will be enormous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davedx</author><text>I doubt it. I think it&#x27;s like svelte, but a bit earlier in the hype cycle.<p>The &quot;State of JavaScript&quot; survey is illuminating for these kinds of technologies. They often follow a trajectory towards &quot;more liked&quot;, while remaining consistently and firmly in the &quot;not used&quot; quadrant. Everyone thinks they look amazing and refreshing, and maybe some people have even actually written some small apps in them, but (almost) nobody is using them at scale.<p>It&#x27;s not a bad thing really, but the hype can be annoying</text></comment> | <story><title>Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match</title><url>https://binaryigor.com/htmx-and-web-components-a-perfect-match.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>Is anyone using htmx in a large project? Seems like it could be great for small things, but unmaintainable at scale, and that all the praise is based on the former.<p>Something tells me that the backlash will be enormous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sli</author><text>In theory it seems like it should scale like a variation on a pretty standard full stack application that does the HTML work on the backend -- as opposed to a SPA -- but instead sends fragments instead of entire pages. I&#x27;m also be curious to see how it plays out in practice, since it&#x27;s been pretty neat for my small projects and I&#x27;m intrigued by it, generally.</text></comment> |
7,094,242 | 7,093,612 | 1 | 2 | 7,093,369 | train | <story><title>AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user</title><url>http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zobzu</author><text>Note that the authorities did tell him they were going to cause him more problems if he didn&#x27;t cooperate.<p>So, that makes the choice of telling them nothing pretty hard.</text></item><item><author>shittyanalogy</author><text>This isn&#x27;t really a story about the woes of being a google glass user, it&#x27;s a story about how people don&#x27;t know their rights and how to apply them.<p>This man is lucky that he didn&#x27;t end up accidentally giving the authorities some tiny piece of information to make his life worse. You should absolutely never talk to the authorities even if you think you have nothing to hide and especially when they&#x27;re actively trying to pin something on you. It is perfectly legal for them to threaten you with harsher legal penalties, and it is perfectly legal for you to say I need to speak with a lawyer before I make any decisions or say anything. This account is a CLEAR illustration of how they ONLY want you to confess to something and once they don&#x27;t think they can they no longer care about you in the tiniest bit. It&#x27;s not about justice, it&#x27;s about catching people.<p>Also, don&#x27;t wear a goddamn camera on your head to the movies. The man must certainly own a pair of regular prescription glasses and was being extremely naive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llamataboot</author><text>No, this is what they rely on. It is the basic &quot;If you have nothing to hide, why are you hiding&quot; line of questioning. It&#x27;s especially used to search cars at traffic stops.<p>Correct:<p>&quot;Am I being detained? Am I free to go?&quot; (repeat until one gets an answer)<p>If free to go - leave
If not free to go - don&#x27;t say another word<p>Don&#x27;t consent to a search. Don&#x27;t try to be nice. Don&#x27;t believe any bullshit you are told:<p>&quot;Look, we&#x27;re trying to be nice here, if you don&#x27;t want to be nice, we can take you down to the station.&quot;<p>&quot;You know what happens if we have to call to wake up a judge at this hour to get a search warrant?&quot;<p>&quot;Ok, then we&#x27;ll just wait here until the dogs come&quot;<p>or the almost always used -<p>&quot;Am I being arrested?&quot; &quot;Do you want to be?&quot;<p>--<p>It&#x27;s all bullshit and used to get verbal consent to searches and verbal answers to questions. You may feel like an asshole, especially if you really do have &quot;nothing to hide&quot;. The cops will do their best to make you feel scared of what they will do if you don&#x27;t cooperate. You may have a ton of privilege (perhaps you are a cis-gendered white man) and you feel that cashing it in and talking man-to-man in a nice way with the cops will get you on your way quicker. And it may. But one time, it may not, and you&#x27;ll wish you hadn&#x27;t talked. And of the larger overarching issue of living a police state with nominal checks and balances on what the cops can and can&#x27;t do, it behooves us all to limit their power to their legal minimum as much as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user</title><url>http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zobzu</author><text>Note that the authorities did tell him they were going to cause him more problems if he didn&#x27;t cooperate.<p>So, that makes the choice of telling them nothing pretty hard.</text></item><item><author>shittyanalogy</author><text>This isn&#x27;t really a story about the woes of being a google glass user, it&#x27;s a story about how people don&#x27;t know their rights and how to apply them.<p>This man is lucky that he didn&#x27;t end up accidentally giving the authorities some tiny piece of information to make his life worse. You should absolutely never talk to the authorities even if you think you have nothing to hide and especially when they&#x27;re actively trying to pin something on you. It is perfectly legal for them to threaten you with harsher legal penalties, and it is perfectly legal for you to say I need to speak with a lawyer before I make any decisions or say anything. This account is a CLEAR illustration of how they ONLY want you to confess to something and once they don&#x27;t think they can they no longer care about you in the tiniest bit. It&#x27;s not about justice, it&#x27;s about catching people.<p>Also, don&#x27;t wear a goddamn camera on your head to the movies. The man must certainly own a pair of regular prescription glasses and was being extremely naive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonwocky</author><text>It&#x27;s no choice at all. Don&#x27;t talk.<p>Look, I understand these guys have a job to do, and they have a certain toolset they&#x27;re allowed to use to do it. I don&#x27;t begrudge them that. But damned if I&#x27;m going to let a sense of civic duty lead to my self-incrimination.<p>A friend of mine spent some time at the Public Defenders office. The number of times she saw people send themselves up for long stretches in prison, under circumstances in which the authorities would &#x2F;never&#x2F; have gotten a conviction otherwise, led her to give me the same advice you see every single lawyer on television offer their clients: don&#x27;t say anything!</text></comment> |
7,186,636 | 7,185,684 | 1 | 3 | 7,184,013 | train | <story><title>Announcing Two Scoops of Django 1.6</title><url>http://pydanny.com/announcing-two-scoops-of-django-1.6.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text>Dead-tree edition exclusive is the most draconian DRM of them all in 2014. I bought the first, but won&#x27;t be a customer anymore. I&#x27;m also surprised it&#x27;s a full price upgrade so soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monkeyspaw</author><text>Referring to their decision to go print-only as &quot;DRM&quot; is inflammatory.<p>It&#x27;s a book, dude. Not a piece of technology that allows publishers to control your access. It has it&#x27;s limitations, which are fairly well known at this point in history.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing Two Scoops of Django 1.6</title><url>http://pydanny.com/announcing-two-scoops-of-django-1.6.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text>Dead-tree edition exclusive is the most draconian DRM of them all in 2014. I bought the first, but won&#x27;t be a customer anymore. I&#x27;m also surprised it&#x27;s a full price upgrade so soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>migrantgeek</author><text>It seems like you&#x27;re just frustrated that you can&#x27;t get the new version for free or at a drastically reduced price. That&#x27;s not related to DRM at all.<p>You have the rights to re-sell your first edition or trade it freely. You &quot;own&quot; the book. It&#x27;s not a rental like with most digital content.</text></comment> |
4,549,237 | 4,548,936 | 1 | 2 | 4,548,571 | train | <story><title>Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6</title><url>http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prewett</author><text>My Chinese friends tell me that there is a government requirement that maps databases have an offset. I'm guessing the Google car isn't permitted to drive around in China, because they lease maps from Mapabc [1], which presumably has the offset. If you go to ditu.google.cn you get accurate maps without the offset (but it's only in Chinese).<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps</a> (see the "Copyright" section)</text></item><item><author>olalonde</author><text>To be fair, Google Maps in China isn't great either. See "Map View" vs "Satellite View" here: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.637323,114.030954&#38;spn=0.001513,0.00284&#38;t=m&#38;z=19" rel="nofollow">https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.637323,114.030954&#38;spn=0.0...</a>. It's off by a few hundred meters (the corresponding satellite view for the previous map view is actually here: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.640363,114.025936&#38;spn=0.003025,0.005681&#38;t=h&#38;z=18" rel="nofollow">https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.640363,114.025936&#38;spn=0.0...</a>). I assume Google is aware of this issue since they don't overlay map data over their satellite view like they do almost everywhere else around the world. The fact that they can't drive their Street View cars in China doesn't help either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&#62; there is a government requirement that maps databases have an offset.<p>What do you mean by offset? Mapping companies are forced to make their data be inaccurate?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6</title><url>http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prewett</author><text>My Chinese friends tell me that there is a government requirement that maps databases have an offset. I'm guessing the Google car isn't permitted to drive around in China, because they lease maps from Mapabc [1], which presumably has the offset. If you go to ditu.google.cn you get accurate maps without the offset (but it's only in Chinese).<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps</a> (see the "Copyright" section)</text></item><item><author>olalonde</author><text>To be fair, Google Maps in China isn't great either. See "Map View" vs "Satellite View" here: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.637323,114.030954&#38;spn=0.001513,0.00284&#38;t=m&#38;z=19" rel="nofollow">https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.637323,114.030954&#38;spn=0.0...</a>. It's off by a few hundred meters (the corresponding satellite view for the previous map view is actually here: <a href="https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.640363,114.025936&#38;spn=0.003025,0.005681&#38;t=h&#38;z=18" rel="nofollow">https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.640363,114.025936&#38;spn=0.0...</a>). I assume Google is aware of this issue since they don't overlay map data over their satellite view like they do almost everywhere else around the world. The fact that they can't drive their Street View cars in China doesn't help either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>Ha, that explains it. This kind of censorship wouldn't be unheard of in China and it seems much more plausible than Google doing such a poor job.</text></comment> |
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