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37,128,897 | 37,123,195 | 1 | 2 | 37,121,458 | train | <story><title>Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns (2021)</title><url>https://gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-musescore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShadowBanThis01</author><text>MuseScore is trash. You can&#x27;t even reorder notes or rests by dragging them (and you&#x27;ll get attacked if you ask about this in the forum): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AlJdKP5SvAc">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AlJdKP5SvAc</a><p>We&#x27;re talking about simply swapping the order of notes or rests in a measure, which doesn&#x27;t change the number of beats or otherwise invalidate it.<p>Keep downvoting, apologists.</text></item><item><author>gorkish</author><text>MuseScore = Fantastic market leading open source music notation package.<p>MuseScore.com = Stage 4 cancer.<p>It gives me some solace that the application will outlive the company. Perhaps if they themselves realized this, they would do a better job of stewardship for their community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hluska</author><text>I downvoted you because of your “keep downvoting, apologists’ comment. Your original comment was overly aggressive hyperbole. Instead of realizing your comment was the problem, you decided that we’re all just musescore shills.<p>That’s boring.</text></comment> | <story><title>Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns (2021)</title><url>https://gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-musescore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShadowBanThis01</author><text>MuseScore is trash. You can&#x27;t even reorder notes or rests by dragging them (and you&#x27;ll get attacked if you ask about this in the forum): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AlJdKP5SvAc">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AlJdKP5SvAc</a><p>We&#x27;re talking about simply swapping the order of notes or rests in a measure, which doesn&#x27;t change the number of beats or otherwise invalidate it.<p>Keep downvoting, apologists.</text></item><item><author>gorkish</author><text>MuseScore = Fantastic market leading open source music notation package.<p>MuseScore.com = Stage 4 cancer.<p>It gives me some solace that the application will outlive the company. Perhaps if they themselves realized this, they would do a better job of stewardship for their community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reikonomusha</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if an extraordinarily complex GUI program that services a hundred different kinds of users lacking a single feature is enough to classify it as garbage.<p>What alternative open-source, well-maintained, GUI-based engraving software would you recommend?</text></comment> |
30,650,556 | 30,648,743 | 1 | 2 | 30,648,424 | train | <story><title>Inspecting Web Views in macOS</title><url>https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/inspecting-web-views-in-macos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>Wow. I always thought the argument in favor of using web technologies on the desktop was that cross-platform became easier. And yet here is an example of the most unambiguously single-platform app I can possibly imagine, and under the hood it uses web - and React of all things! Crazy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avianlyric</author><text>It has the advantage of allowing the iCloud team to update the preferences panel without the need to release macOS updates. Allowing them to decouple iCloud updates from the macOS release cycle.<p>Sure you could use something like SwiftUI and create some simple DSL to dynamically build a native UI. But at that point you’re basically building a slightly crappier, less flexible version of HTML. So might as well use HTML+CSS and take advantage of the decades of learnings it represents.<p>I’ve personally used a similar approach to power a banks fraud warning UI. Made it possible for us to quickly iterate and change our UI as various strategies used by fraudsters evolved. Meant we could go from see a new issue, to updating our ML models and deploying new UI in under a week, which is faster than the app review process.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inspecting Web Views in macOS</title><url>https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/inspecting-web-views-in-macos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>Wow. I always thought the argument in favor of using web technologies on the desktop was that cross-platform became easier. And yet here is an example of the most unambiguously single-platform app I can possibly imagine, and under the hood it uses web - and React of all things! Crazy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>A settings view that is largely shared between macOS System Preferences, iOS Settings and icloud.com is not single-platform. Windows Settings uses React Native for the same reason.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30384494" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30384494</a><p>Edit: mention iOS Settings.</text></comment> |
35,692,964 | 35,692,616 | 1 | 3 | 35,691,243 | train | <story><title>'Delete Act' seeks to give Californians more power to block data tracking</title><url>https://www.kqed.org/news/11947039/delete-act-seeks-to-give-californians-more-power-to-block-data-tracking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Why make this so difficult? Just ban personally targeted advertising. That&#x27;s what everyone is really trying to achieve. Nobody really cares about any individual&#x27;s personal data beyond using it to try to sell him something. Ban using it for advertising and it becomes worth less than the cost of collecting and storing it.<p>Sites can just go back to content-based targeting for ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>advisedwang</author><text>Privacy is about more than just targeted ads. That is just the most obvious application. Here are a handful of other practical privacy concerns:<p>* Negative information about you floating free (mugshots websites, revenge porn, news articles about past behaviour)
* Health and other behavioural information (e.g. used by health, life and auto insurance. These days your medical info might be used to sue you in another state even!)
* Privacy in semi-public places (ring cameras, uber dashcams)
* Financial information being used against you (credit ratings obviously, but also being deemed a fraud risk makes a lot of transactions difficult)
* Criminal history is commonly used in job applications.<p>I&#x27;m not saying we need to go to one extreme - how would loans work without credit ratings, and CCTV definitly improves safety in some situations - but I just want to point out the range of issues at play. Most of these already have some kind of legal compromise.<p>Also beyond practical concerns there is a principal at stake too. We fundamentally deserve some degree of privacy just for it&#x27;s own good.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Delete Act' seeks to give Californians more power to block data tracking</title><url>https://www.kqed.org/news/11947039/delete-act-seeks-to-give-californians-more-power-to-block-data-tracking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Why make this so difficult? Just ban personally targeted advertising. That&#x27;s what everyone is really trying to achieve. Nobody really cares about any individual&#x27;s personal data beyond using it to try to sell him something. Ban using it for advertising and it becomes worth less than the cost of collecting and storing it.<p>Sites can just go back to content-based targeting for ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>Yes, and as a result people might consume a little less than they did before and that will help the climate as a nice side-effect.<p>I guess we&#x27;ll get a ban on personally targeted advertising when Chinese companies start buying data brokerage firms in the U.S.</text></comment> |
6,952,177 | 6,951,901 | 1 | 3 | 6,951,727 | train | <story><title>Lavabit Proceedings Unsealed [pdf]</title><url>http://cryptome.org/2013/12/lavabit-027.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wylie</author><text>Even though the name and email of the suspect are redacted, it says that the suspect is being investigated for 18 U.S.C. §§ 641, 793d-e, and 798(a)(3). This is exactly what Edward Snowden was charged under[0].<p>[0] <a href="http://news.rapgenius.com/Hon-john-f-anderson-united-states-of-america-v-edward-j-snowden-criminal-complaint-lyrics#note-1895859" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.rapgenius.com&#x2F;Hon-john-f-anderson-united-states-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lavabit Proceedings Unsealed [pdf]</title><url>http://cryptome.org/2013/12/lavabit-027.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clamprecht</author><text>It takes a lot of balls to stand up to the US government, under the threat of jail time and huge fines. Full respect to Ladar Levison.</text></comment> |
36,197,643 | 36,197,440 | 1 | 2 | 36,194,941 | train | <story><title>Why did Usenet fail?</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/why-did-usenet-fail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redprince</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Usenet quite extensively in its heyday. At one point I even ran a Usenet site with dozens of peers and thousands of users. All on a very beefy (for its time) Sun E450.<p>In my opinion Usenets greatest strength was also its downfall. It is a distributed system without central authority over who could connect to the network or firm control over groups and their contents. To connect to it as a peer, you just had to find at least one Usenet site willing to exchange messages (peer) with you. Usually that wasn&#x27;t a problem. ISPs, universities, organizations of all kinds were running their own servers, offering Usenet client access to their customers and members for no additional charge.<p>In a distributed system without central authority, innovation is exceedingly hard though. The protocols and features were basically set in stone. Taking the concept of offering discussions among users to a centralized or closed system made it possible to innovate very fast and offer superior features to the users.<p>As the article pointed out, that wasn&#x27;t the only protocol which got picked up that way and innovated upon until it displaced its origins.<p>Since Usenet is still frozen feature wise were it was 30 or more years ago, I don&#x27;t see a revival coming anytime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martinald</author><text>This is the key problem with decentralised systems. They simply can&#x27;t innovate as quickly as centralised systems.<p>We saw this with usenet and we also saw it with IRC. IRC really is what slack was, 30years ahead of it. However, IRC has so many essential missing features it never caught on - push notifications, saving your state when offline, admin controls, etc. I know some of these were solved with extensions and workarounds (having a shell connect to irc an then you connect to the shell for persistence for example) but it&#x27;s a huge hack. This compares to Slack or Teams where they can push a back and front end update to millions&#x2F;billions(?) of users in a very short space of time to add additional functionality.<p>This is another reason why all the decentralised &#x27;blockchain&#x27; things would have struggled (on top of many others).</text></comment> | <story><title>Why did Usenet fail?</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/why-did-usenet-fail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redprince</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Usenet quite extensively in its heyday. At one point I even ran a Usenet site with dozens of peers and thousands of users. All on a very beefy (for its time) Sun E450.<p>In my opinion Usenets greatest strength was also its downfall. It is a distributed system without central authority over who could connect to the network or firm control over groups and their contents. To connect to it as a peer, you just had to find at least one Usenet site willing to exchange messages (peer) with you. Usually that wasn&#x27;t a problem. ISPs, universities, organizations of all kinds were running their own servers, offering Usenet client access to their customers and members for no additional charge.<p>In a distributed system without central authority, innovation is exceedingly hard though. The protocols and features were basically set in stone. Taking the concept of offering discussions among users to a centralized or closed system made it possible to innovate very fast and offer superior features to the users.<p>As the article pointed out, that wasn&#x27;t the only protocol which got picked up that way and innovated upon until it displaced its origins.<p>Since Usenet is still frozen feature wise were it was 30 or more years ago, I don&#x27;t see a revival coming anytime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liotier</author><text>&gt; without central authority over who could connect to the network or firm control over groups and their contents<p>Moderation. In public forums, everything else is trivial and moderation is the invisible stinking hairy elephant in the room. To the question &quot;why isn&#x27;t there a decentralized open protocol free software X&quot; the answer is moderation. Think or it as the discreet but efficient bouncers without which a sufficiently popular public place cannot maintain a welcoming atmosphere. Newsgroups became sufficiently popular, death by inadequate moderation ensued.</text></comment> |
16,832,641 | 16,832,513 | 1 | 2 | 16,832,121 | train | <story><title>Someone Stole My Book (and My Job) and Is Selling It on Amazon</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/internet/267446-someone-stole-my-entire-book-and-my-job-and-is-selling-it-on-amazon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jostmey</author><text>This a major problem for amazon. I bought a baby product off amazon. I noticed a few weird things about my product, so I emailed the inventor. They told me that some Chinese company had stolen their product design and was seeling fakes with the same name on amazon.<p>I refuse anything from amazon for my baby. Hell, amazon even sent me an opened package of similac formula</text></comment> | <story><title>Someone Stole My Book (and My Job) and Is Selling It on Amazon</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/internet/267446-someone-stole-my-entire-book-and-my-job-and-is-selling-it-on-amazon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhallenworld</author><text>I indirectly know of someone who makes extra money by plagiarizing little known books, changing the cover and republishing them on Amazon. I&#x27;m surprised Amazon has no system to detect this kind of gross plagiarism. Remember Google&#x27;s digitize all books project? This would be a useful use-case for it.</text></comment> |
38,000,368 | 37,999,193 | 1 | 3 | 37,996,780 | train | <story><title>Retro Arcade Game Ads</title><url>https://buzzbloq.com/retro-arcade-game-ads-a-nostalgic-look-at-marketing-of-the-past/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unleaded</author><text>Most these ads are for operators, not gamers, that&#x27;s why they all talk about earnings. (I still don&#x27;t know where you would have seen them though..) I think I did see an ad for an arcade game targeted to gamers encouraging them to annoy their arcade to get one but I forgot what it was..<p>also some of these look like mega drive box art?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnvanommen</author><text>&gt; Most these ads are for operators, not gamers, that&#x27;s why they all talk about earnings. (I still don&#x27;t know where you would have seen them though..)<p>I used to hang out at my local arcade after elementary school. Your basic 1980s latchkey kid, who grew up in shopping malls. If you&#x27;ve seen &quot;Fast Times at Ridgemont High&quot;, you have the general idea.<p>I&#x27;ve seen a ton of these ads, because I used to annoy the people working at my arcade, so they&#x27;d let me read their monthly copy of &quot;Replay&quot; magazine. A trade journal aimed specifically at arcade operators.</text></comment> | <story><title>Retro Arcade Game Ads</title><url>https://buzzbloq.com/retro-arcade-game-ads-a-nostalgic-look-at-marketing-of-the-past/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unleaded</author><text>Most these ads are for operators, not gamers, that&#x27;s why they all talk about earnings. (I still don&#x27;t know where you would have seen them though..) I think I did see an ad for an arcade game targeted to gamers encouraging them to annoy their arcade to get one but I forgot what it was..<p>also some of these look like mega drive box art?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text>I have an arcade now with a marquee of ~8.5&quot;x11&quot;. I&#x27;ll pick up trade flyers for the games I have and switch it out based on what game I currently have installed in the cab.<p>Maybe other operators did the same, or they just postered a wall with them to let arcade goers know about the new games.</text></comment> |
31,018,933 | 31,019,005 | 1 | 2 | 31,000,658 | train | <story><title>A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/marriage-problems-fight-dishes/629526/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrFantastic</author><text>It&#x27;s ironic to me when women choose successful ambitious men to marry and then complain these same keep striving to climb up the corporate ranks.</text></item><item><author>beckler</author><text>About 10 years ago, I had a internship at Newell Rubbermaid. As part of the experience, the entire group of interns across all the brands got to have lunch with the CEO and basically ask him anything we wanted.<p>At some point, someone asked about his biggest regret. We all expected some business blunder, but he said that he was offered an executive position by Kraft to lead their Asian segment, and that his wife really did not want him to take the job because it would require them to move to that region. He regretted not listening to her, because it ended up being the catalyst that dissolved their marriage.<p>We were all stunned silent, and you could tell that he was genuinely remorseful and so vulnerable in that moment. There are only a handful of moments in that internship that I vividly remember, but that was by far the most impactful one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzzyz</author><text>Marrying a successful and ambitious 20-something in no way commits one to be fine with the same ambitious person uprooting family’s life a decade or two later and moving to the other side of the world. Family is about shared sacrifice for its well being, and sometimes (in fact, usually) one needs to sacrifice their career for the family. That’s life.</text></comment> | <story><title>A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/marriage-problems-fight-dishes/629526/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrFantastic</author><text>It&#x27;s ironic to me when women choose successful ambitious men to marry and then complain these same keep striving to climb up the corporate ranks.</text></item><item><author>beckler</author><text>About 10 years ago, I had a internship at Newell Rubbermaid. As part of the experience, the entire group of interns across all the brands got to have lunch with the CEO and basically ask him anything we wanted.<p>At some point, someone asked about his biggest regret. We all expected some business blunder, but he said that he was offered an executive position by Kraft to lead their Asian segment, and that his wife really did not want him to take the job because it would require them to move to that region. He regretted not listening to her, because it ended up being the catalyst that dissolved their marriage.<p>We were all stunned silent, and you could tell that he was genuinely remorseful and so vulnerable in that moment. There are only a handful of moments in that internship that I vividly remember, but that was by far the most impactful one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksdale</author><text>Marrying a successful, ambitious man does not, in any way, mean that a woman should defer completely to every single career decision a man makes. I&#x27;m sure this executive&#x27;s schedule was already plenty demanding without the burden of moving to another country.</text></comment> |
8,115,946 | 8,115,765 | 1 | 3 | 8,114,901 | train | <story><title>Stellar</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/stellar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxf</author><text>I was able to successfully sign up and get 5,000 STR, so that worked for me at least. But then I started looking a little deeper into the blog post.<p>&gt; Development is led by Jed McCaleb and Dr. David Mazieres in collaboration with a small team of others. (The technology is based on the open-source Ripple project, originally created by Jed a few years ago.)<p>So, is Stellar fundamentally the same thing as and&#x2F;or a fork of Ripple? They&#x27;ve hired the same guy who started Ripple (Jed McCaleb), and as I recall there were a lot of concerns around that, as noted in a WSJ article [0] and other places. Jed is also on the Stellar board, too, one of only three members -- and so wields a considerable amount of influence.<p>If so, then doesn&#x27;t it have all the same problems and concerns as Ripple? Centralized authority holding a large chunk of initial funds, questionable governance decisions, etc., just to name a few of the political problems, not just the technical ones.<p>I&#x27;d love to see the &quot;IP layer for currency&quot; described by Stripe succeed, but I&#x27;m not sure that this implementation of it represents a good idea. And I&#x27;m also concerned about whether Jed, the cofounder of both MtGox and Ripple, has the best interests of Stellar at heart.<p>[0] <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/22/ripple-alternative-digital-currency-plunges-as-mccaleb-liquidates/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;moneybeat&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;22&#x2F;ripple-alternative...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text><i>&quot;If so, then doesn&#x27;t it have all the same problems and concerns as Ripple?&quot;</i><p>Correct. Like Ripple, Stellar requires special (and dangerous) trust in certain nodes. For example, gateways (<a href="https://www.stellar.org/blog/introducing-stellar/#gateways" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stellar.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;introducing-stellar&#x2F;#gateways</a>) have to be trusted by the Stellar network as they send messages like &quot;a user deposited 100 USD via a bank wire transfer, so please accept this digital representation of 100 USD, trust me&quot;. This trust is dangerous as people running an (initially) honest gateway may start acting maliciously and lie about how much USD or EUR or other currency exist on the network. By the time the malice is detected, maybe the network could trace all USD or EUR that was issued by the gateway, and revoke it, suddenly pissing off a lot of users who owns this currency as it would disappear from their wallet. Users would then loose trust in Stellar, and the network would collapse...<p>Stripe would presumably be the first gateway trusted by the Stellar network. Okay, so what if Stripe decided they could not trust other gateways and wanted to remain the only gateway? Well Stripe would be the <i>only</i> way to inject USD or EUR or other currencies in the network, effectively making Stellar a fully centralized digital currency, with the entire Stellar network being dependent on Stripe not being hacked, not being abused by a malicious employee, not shutting down, etc.<p>This is the complete opposite design principle of Bitcoin which requires absolutely no trust in any specific authority.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stellar</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/stellar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxf</author><text>I was able to successfully sign up and get 5,000 STR, so that worked for me at least. But then I started looking a little deeper into the blog post.<p>&gt; Development is led by Jed McCaleb and Dr. David Mazieres in collaboration with a small team of others. (The technology is based on the open-source Ripple project, originally created by Jed a few years ago.)<p>So, is Stellar fundamentally the same thing as and&#x2F;or a fork of Ripple? They&#x27;ve hired the same guy who started Ripple (Jed McCaleb), and as I recall there were a lot of concerns around that, as noted in a WSJ article [0] and other places. Jed is also on the Stellar board, too, one of only three members -- and so wields a considerable amount of influence.<p>If so, then doesn&#x27;t it have all the same problems and concerns as Ripple? Centralized authority holding a large chunk of initial funds, questionable governance decisions, etc., just to name a few of the political problems, not just the technical ones.<p>I&#x27;d love to see the &quot;IP layer for currency&quot; described by Stripe succeed, but I&#x27;m not sure that this implementation of it represents a good idea. And I&#x27;m also concerned about whether Jed, the cofounder of both MtGox and Ripple, has the best interests of Stellar at heart.<p>[0] <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/22/ripple-alternative-digital-currency-plunges-as-mccaleb-liquidates/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;moneybeat&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;22&#x2F;ripple-alternative...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joyce</author><text>Great question - here are the two key items:<p>- Stellar is a nonprofit. No one owns it. The board and advisors represent a diverse group of people in tech, finance, nonprofit and academia to encourage cross-pollination of ideas. The board is also required to expand to 5 members by year-end.<p>- Almost all the stellars will be given away for free (95%) because the goal is to educate and provide access to digital currency&#x2F;financial services. This is really good for cryptocurrency as a whole because it provides access to a huge segment of the world that would not have access to digital currency otherwise.<p>This should all help the effort be open and transparent.</text></comment> |
19,791,793 | 19,791,742 | 1 | 2 | 19,790,125 | train | <story><title>Facebook is redesigning its core app</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523265/facebook-events-groups-redesign-news-feed-features-f8-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manmal</author><text>I find it frustrating that communities are using FB. Notifications and mentions go missing left and right, and its UI is not (yet?) ideal for proper discussions - I much prefer the plain forums that have always existed. I get that FB is convenient because most people have an account already, but a FB login button would also do the trick for most communities. We surely don’t need a multi-billion company to host events and groups for us. Lock-in (social graph etc) is actually quite low for these features, so I think this is a bit of a desperate move from them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Forums are nerdy and almost nobody wants to check N number of different forums to keep up with any groups they want to be part of.<p>FB isn&#x27;t convenient because people have an account that works with &quot;Login with Facebook.&quot; It&#x27;s convenient because it&#x27;s a one stop shop for your members.<p>Whether FB is ideal is going to vary per community though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook is redesigning its core app</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523265/facebook-events-groups-redesign-news-feed-features-f8-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manmal</author><text>I find it frustrating that communities are using FB. Notifications and mentions go missing left and right, and its UI is not (yet?) ideal for proper discussions - I much prefer the plain forums that have always existed. I get that FB is convenient because most people have an account already, but a FB login button would also do the trick for most communities. We surely don’t need a multi-billion company to host events and groups for us. Lock-in (social graph etc) is actually quite low for these features, so I think this is a bit of a desperate move from them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;I get that FB is convenient</i><p><i>&gt;We surely don’t need a multi-billion company to host events and groups for us</i><p>This is the crazy part about most &quot;cloud&quot; and &quot;social&quot; things today. Instead of spending money on making core technologies easy to use and accessible to all people we (collectively) fund middlemen who provide usability as a centralized, temporary service. This is exactly like TurboTax, except it&#x27;s happening with all kinds of IT products and <i>almost nobody cares</i>.<p>For example, there is no fundamental reason why creating your own forum should be significantly more complicated than creating a Facebook account and installing their app on your phone. The only essential pieces of information you need for a forum are universal name&#x2F;id of some sort (e.g. a domain name), administrative login and administrative password. Maybe not even that. Really, you don&#x27;t even need login&#x2F;password if you&#x27;re okay with using email for authentication. Everything else is made-up bullshit that IT industry refuses to optimize (and, in fact, makes more complicated as years go by).<p>This isn&#x27;t just about being annoyed by Facebook&#x27;s bloated UI and glitches. We live in an increasingly information-driven society, so the ability of <i>normal people</i> to own and control their online information is increasingly important.</text></comment> |
38,964,554 | 38,962,318 | 1 | 3 | 38,961,463 | train | <story><title>Postgres Incremental Backup</title><url>https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-17-incremental-backups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theanirudh</author><text>A very much needed feature. Had a nightmare scenario in my previous startup where Google Cloud just killed all our servers and yanked out access. We got back access in an hour or so, but we had to recreate all the servers. At that point we were taking Postgres base backups (to Google Cloud Storage) daily at 2:30 AM. The incident happened at around 15:00 so we had to replay the WAL for the period of about 12.5 hours. That was the slowest part and it took about 6-7 hours to get the DB back up. After that incident we started taking base backups every 6 hours.</text></comment> | <story><title>Postgres Incremental Backup</title><url>https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-17-incremental-backups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aeyes</author><text>Awesome feature and a great demo as well.<p>I have been missing this for the last....15 years. I hope that it will make it into the final release.<p>I wonder how much time combining the backups will take If you have 100 or 500GB, the tests didn&#x27;t address this. I might have to spin up an instance to try it out.</text></comment> |
15,962,519 | 15,960,476 | 1 | 2 | 15,960,056 | train | <story><title>The Screenless Office</title><url>http://screenl.es/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>On the site, under &#x27;3. Slow Computing&#x27;:<p>&quot;Another aspect of contemporary screen-based culture is the constant psychic conflict often referred to as the &quot;Attention Economy&quot;. In just trying to watch one youtube video, a typical user is confronted with dozens of other appeals to focus somewhere else: comments, ratings, related videos, advertisements, video responses, etc. Because screen-based interaction is premised on temporal immediacy, we are, as users forced into a state of hyper-attention where we must constantly fight against the, largely commercial, attempts to make us look at something else. When we remove the screen (and by necessity, simplify the interface) we introduce a new form of temporality, where the speed of interaction might more accurately reflect our ability to percieve and understand information.&quot;<p>I think this is the important part of the whole idea.
On the other hand, and, in my opinion, you can achieve a similar experience as:<p>1. use a laptop and&#x2F;or desktop<p>2. disable your notification system on your desktop<p>3. browse the web with an extremely simple browser, like w3m<p>4. one display<p>5. full-screen mode<p>6. don&#x27;t scroll gradually; read from top to bottom and use pgup&#x2F;pgdown<p>I found this the best way to focus on content and work, however, most workplaces won&#x27;t tolerate not responding to instant messages and notifications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keithpeter</author><text>While upgrading my Slackware current installation on an old recycled laptop, I decided to install Alien Bob&#x27;s KDE5 package set for lutz (works well on a humble core-duo with 2Gb RAM). The readme advises installing outside of X, so I was sitting at a console for 45 mins while the packages downloaded and installed. Bored, I found myself hitting Ctrl-Alt-2 and Ctrl-Alt-3 to run w3m and mpg123 in different virtual ttys. Reading and Music. Around 60% of my normal laptop use cases covered there and then.<p>Posting this on Debian command line with the evilwm and Firefox. No notifications, quiet, minimal.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Screenless Office</title><url>http://screenl.es/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>On the site, under &#x27;3. Slow Computing&#x27;:<p>&quot;Another aspect of contemporary screen-based culture is the constant psychic conflict often referred to as the &quot;Attention Economy&quot;. In just trying to watch one youtube video, a typical user is confronted with dozens of other appeals to focus somewhere else: comments, ratings, related videos, advertisements, video responses, etc. Because screen-based interaction is premised on temporal immediacy, we are, as users forced into a state of hyper-attention where we must constantly fight against the, largely commercial, attempts to make us look at something else. When we remove the screen (and by necessity, simplify the interface) we introduce a new form of temporality, where the speed of interaction might more accurately reflect our ability to percieve and understand information.&quot;<p>I think this is the important part of the whole idea.
On the other hand, and, in my opinion, you can achieve a similar experience as:<p>1. use a laptop and&#x2F;or desktop<p>2. disable your notification system on your desktop<p>3. browse the web with an extremely simple browser, like w3m<p>4. one display<p>5. full-screen mode<p>6. don&#x27;t scroll gradually; read from top to bottom and use pgup&#x2F;pgdown<p>I found this the best way to focus on content and work, however, most workplaces won&#x27;t tolerate not responding to instant messages and notifications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d4nt</author><text>&gt; most workplaces won&#x27;t tolerate not responding to instant messages and notifications.<p>This. IM conversations take longer than in person ones (or video chats), have a higher rate of misunderstandings, cannot be flagged for follow up or bookmarked for reference, and the red blobs contribute to higher stress levels. It adds nothing to productivity, IMO. Yet being ‘present’ on slack is the new being at your desk before the boss.</text></comment> |
18,634,319 | 18,632,694 | 1 | 2 | 18,629,735 | train | <story><title>American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-entrepreneurs-who-flocked-to-china-are-heading-home-disillusioned-1544197068</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Markoff</author><text>this reminds me common sight of foreigner with local Chinese girlfriend&#x2F;wife and sellers in markets blaming her for helping foreigner<p>so much for possibility of integration into Chinese society as foreigner, no matter how good it&#x27;s your Chinese or culture knowledge you will never be accepted</text></item><item><author>onemoresoop</author><text>Re-posting this sad and yet amusing comment from RalphWise:<p>This story helped me recall an article I read in the FT about 10 years ago. A Germ an businessman set up shop in China and hired locals to help him run the business. After about six months, he came to work one day only to discover he was fully cleaned out. No cash anywhere, all the books and inventory gone.<p>His employees had figured out how his business worked, started their own business within his business, siphoned off the cash and profits and took him hook, line and sinker.<p>When the locals were asked why they did it, they said it was simple...&quot;he was a foreigner, and he deserved it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhegart</author><text>We take America too much for granted. I came as an immigrant child 25 years ago and aside from maybe 4-5 relatively minor incidents, I haven’t faced any major racism. Considering that I have maybe 2 dozen interactions daily and have encountered likely 10,000 people in my life that’s quite extraordinary. A recent survey came out that 60% of millennial believe America is one of the most racist countries in the world.<p>Have significant immigration to any other country and watch the tribalism rise up. America post 1990s has been the most welcome place for mass immigration in human history.<p>In regards to China, I think they are great with foreigners. Urban China is quite fantastic. Might get a few dirty stares if with a Chinese woman but all things considered that’s not bad at all. Hopefully soon it’ll get better over the coming decades.</text></comment> | <story><title>American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-entrepreneurs-who-flocked-to-china-are-heading-home-disillusioned-1544197068</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Markoff</author><text>this reminds me common sight of foreigner with local Chinese girlfriend&#x2F;wife and sellers in markets blaming her for helping foreigner<p>so much for possibility of integration into Chinese society as foreigner, no matter how good it&#x27;s your Chinese or culture knowledge you will never be accepted</text></item><item><author>onemoresoop</author><text>Re-posting this sad and yet amusing comment from RalphWise:<p>This story helped me recall an article I read in the FT about 10 years ago. A Germ an businessman set up shop in China and hired locals to help him run the business. After about six months, he came to work one day only to discover he was fully cleaned out. No cash anywhere, all the books and inventory gone.<p>His employees had figured out how his business worked, started their own business within his business, siphoned off the cash and profits and took him hook, line and sinker.<p>When the locals were asked why they did it, they said it was simple...&quot;he was a foreigner, and he deserved it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antt</author><text>Give it 30 years. Including a lot of uncomfortable call outs
when someone starts going on about how great the Chinese are genetically.</text></comment> |
11,184,301 | 11,184,188 | 1 | 3 | 11,183,836 | train | <story><title>Oden: experimental, statically-typed functional language, built for Go ecosystem</title><url>http://oden-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cgag</author><text>I&#x27;be been mulling over a similar concept for a while, really excited for this. Go has such great tooling and a nice ecosystem, but could use some language improvements, like coffeescript or the alt JVM languages.<p>I really want sum types, strict semantics, and untyped IO, and a good ecosystem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oden: experimental, statically-typed functional language, built for Go ecosystem</title><url>http://oden-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whateveracct</author><text>Why use :: for type annotations instead of the more standard single colon?</text></comment> |
32,829,191 | 32,829,018 | 1 | 3 | 32,826,437 | train | <story><title>FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/tvqddc/fb_feed_is_98_suggested_pages_and_barely_any/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fairity</author><text>No, this isn&#x27;t a consequence of the status quo newsfeed algorithm. This is a consequence of Facebook making a purposeful strategic shift away from in-network content to suggested content. This strategic shift was highlighted in their last earnings call as a way to compete with TikTok, whose success is partly explained by their focus on suggested content. On the earnings call, they signaled that they were shifting more to a mix of the two content styles in the coming quarters, but the OP is likely enrolled in some sort of test that is giving them 98%.<p>See the below excerpt from Meta&#x27;s Q2 earnings call:<p>&quot;One of the main transformations in our business right now is that social feeds are going from being driven primarily by the people and accounts you follow to increasingly also being driven by AI recommending content that you&#x27;ll find interesting from across Facebook or Instagram, even if you don&#x27;t follow those creators. Social content from people you know is going to remain an important part of the experience and some of our most differentiated content. But increasingly, we&#x27;ll also be able to supplement that with other interesting content from across our networks. Reels is one part of this trend that focuses on the growth of short-form video as a content format.&quot;</text></item><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>Yes it’s a negative feedback loop created by the very bad product decisions they made to optimize for local maxima of getting more ads revenue. You inject more and more ads followed by more and more suggested content, thereby reducing the in network content. The in network content doesn’t get as much of traction, therefore people stop posting. This in turn forces the feed to have more and more suggestions and a few stale in network posts from days ago. This drives engagement down from people who want to see in network content and they leave. So what is left is people who do engage with suggested content, pushing the product to make decisions to push even more suggested content. All of this continues till eventually fatigue sets in and a sudden rapid drop in engagement kicks in because your global maxima of a quality product was lost long time ago and your product dies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamrzou</author><text>Yes, here is a chronology of key events:<p>2020 — Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.axios.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;05&#x2F;facebook-launches-its-tiktok-rival-instagram-reels" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.axios.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;05&#x2F;facebook-launches-its-tikto...</a><p>2021 — TikTok overtakes Facebook as world&#x27;s most downloaded app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asia.nikkei.com&#x2F;Business&#x2F;Technology&#x2F;TikTok-overtakes-Facebook-as-world-s-most-downloaded-app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asia.nikkei.com&#x2F;Business&#x2F;Technology&#x2F;TikTok-overtakes...</a><p>Feb. 2022 — Facebook loses users for the first time in its history — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;facebook-earnings-meta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;faceboo...</a><p>July 2022 — Facebook and Instagram are going to show even more posts from accounts you don’t follow — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;7&#x2F;27&#x2F;23281451&#x2F;facebook-instagram-meta-recommendation-discovery-engine-ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;7&#x2F;27&#x2F;23281451&#x2F;facebook-instagr...</a><p>July 2022 — Instagram knows you don’t like its changes. It doesn’t care. — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;27&#x2F;instagram-video-shift-kardashian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;27&#x2F;instagr...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/tvqddc/fb_feed_is_98_suggested_pages_and_barely_any/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fairity</author><text>No, this isn&#x27;t a consequence of the status quo newsfeed algorithm. This is a consequence of Facebook making a purposeful strategic shift away from in-network content to suggested content. This strategic shift was highlighted in their last earnings call as a way to compete with TikTok, whose success is partly explained by their focus on suggested content. On the earnings call, they signaled that they were shifting more to a mix of the two content styles in the coming quarters, but the OP is likely enrolled in some sort of test that is giving them 98%.<p>See the below excerpt from Meta&#x27;s Q2 earnings call:<p>&quot;One of the main transformations in our business right now is that social feeds are going from being driven primarily by the people and accounts you follow to increasingly also being driven by AI recommending content that you&#x27;ll find interesting from across Facebook or Instagram, even if you don&#x27;t follow those creators. Social content from people you know is going to remain an important part of the experience and some of our most differentiated content. But increasingly, we&#x27;ll also be able to supplement that with other interesting content from across our networks. Reels is one part of this trend that focuses on the growth of short-form video as a content format.&quot;</text></item><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>Yes it’s a negative feedback loop created by the very bad product decisions they made to optimize for local maxima of getting more ads revenue. You inject more and more ads followed by more and more suggested content, thereby reducing the in network content. The in network content doesn’t get as much of traction, therefore people stop posting. This in turn forces the feed to have more and more suggestions and a few stale in network posts from days ago. This drives engagement down from people who want to see in network content and they leave. So what is left is people who do engage with suggested content, pushing the product to make decisions to push even more suggested content. All of this continues till eventually fatigue sets in and a sudden rapid drop in engagement kicks in because your global maxima of a quality product was lost long time ago and your product dies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bazeblackwood</author><text>Bad strategy, imo. Sounds like they should have tried to answer why people used their product in the first place. “A competitor does it” isn’t a valid excuse—its like suggesting The French Laundry switch to fast food because McDonald’s is a competitor.</text></comment> |
13,919,515 | 13,919,474 | 1 | 2 | 13,918,141 | train | <story><title>Epoll is broken – part 2/2</title><url>https://idea.popcount.org/2017-03-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-22/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>I always found it interesting that WinNT got this one right very early on (IOCP; first appeared in NT 3.5 in 1994), and thus avoided all these problems, and a series of subsequent APIs trying to correct them. The way you do <i>efficient</i> asynchronous I&#x2F;O in Win32 today is still the same as it was 20 years ago.<p>For those unfamiliar with that model, here&#x27;s a brief description:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20101101112358&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.sch130.nsc.ru&#x2F;www.sysinternals.com&#x2F;ntw2k&#x2F;info&#x2F;comport.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20101101112358&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.sch130...</a><p>My understanding is that kqueue in FreeBSD is also conceptually similar, but I never had a chance to take a close look at that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Epoll is broken – part 2/2</title><url>https://idea.popcount.org/2017-03-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-22/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrumlow</author><text>From the man page...<p>&gt; Q6 Will closing a file descriptor cause it to be removed from all epoll sets automatically?<p>&gt; A6 Yes, but be aware of the following point. A file descriptor is a reference to an open file description (see open(2)). Whenever a file descriptor is duplicated via dup(2), dup2(2),
&gt; fcntl(2) F_DUPFD, or fork(2), a new file descriptor referring to the same open file description is created. An open file description continues to exist until all file descriptors refer‐
&gt; ring to it have been closed. A file descriptor is removed from an epoll set only after all the file descriptors referring to the underlying open file description have been closed (or
&gt; before if the file descriptor is explicitly removed using epoll_ctl(2) EPOLL_CTL_DEL). This means that even after a file descriptor that is part of an epoll set has been closed, events
&gt; may be reported for that file descriptor if other file descriptors referring to the same underlying file description remain open.<p>EDIT:<p>Lots of comments here seem to think this should be unexpected or is a bug. Closing a FD you are using is a bug. I think epoll does a fairly good job of letting the user know that it is watching the description and not the descriptor. Failing to read the man page for dup would also leave you in a blind spot. I have been writing code for linux a while now and I did not think it was any secret that a file is still open until all of the fds pointing to it are closed. That is why you have to take care and close your duplicated fds at the right time otherwise you will end up with file handles leaking. The example code provided illustrates this perfectly.<p>As a side note using dup2 to get your original FD passed to epoll associated with the still open description from the duped fd should allow you to remove it.</text></comment> |
16,788,170 | 16,787,467 | 1 | 3 | 16,785,507 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?</title><text>Hi,<p>I&#x27;m writing this on my late 2012 MacBook Pro. Time goes by and I know rather sooner than later I&#x27;ll need to replace it with a new machine. In 2012 I paid around 1000$ for MacBook Pro + Samsung SSD (256GB) + 16GB RAM, I made modifications on my own.<p>I check notebookcheck from time to time. I read reviews, opinions about new laptops. The point is, I don&#x27;t know if there is any machine that could be recommended in reasonable price. At work I&#x27;m using some new MacBook Pro which (i5&#x2F;16GB&#x2F;128GB SSD) which is noticeably slower than my current machine.<p>Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I&#x27;m an Android developer, compilation of a big project I&#x27;m working on takes enormous amount of RAM and CPU nowadays (with new Android Studio it&#x27;s even worse). From time to time I work on web projects, so handling several instances of docker shouldn&#x27;t be a problem for a new machine. I prefer Linux over MacOs over Windows, so good support for Ubuntu&#x2F;Fedora would be nice.<p>I checked some computers in details but most of them fail in one or more aspects:
- hinges - MacBook has superior hinges, if I pay more than 1000 - 1500$ I expect to have great hinges
- price
- performance
- Linux support<p>Price is quite important for me, I&#x27;m from Eastern Europe. What computer would you recommend in, let&#x27;s say, &lt;2000$ ?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoffeeOnWrite</author><text>I’m on my 4th Thinkpad T-series - T520, T530, T450s, T460s - each one was a a winner. I ditched the T5XX series when they borked the keyboard layout by adding a numpad. Used to run Ubuntu, now I run Debian, stable or testing depending on point in release cycle at install time. I plan to take another look at Ubuntu now that they gave up on Unity. A coworker is happily on the T470s (first USB-C in the series). I always get 1920x1080 since my eyes are accustomed to it, but multiple coworkers are happy with 2560x1440. Used to get the Nvidia cards, now very happy with the integrated Intel graphics. In general, last year’s hardware requires almost zero messing with Linux to make everything work, whereas with the latest hardware, be prepared to solve a couple minor issues. Ubuntu’s font rendering or Infinality are both amazing and better than macOS or Win10 to my eyes.<p>I’m ridiculously excited to eventually upgrade to a T480s because it’s the first in the series to offer a quad-core CPU. They’re selling the quad-core with Intel graphics which is exactly what I want. I hope Lenovo did a good job with the thermal engineering...<p>Thanks to all the open source developers that deliver this totally rad experience on Linux, Debian, and Gnome &lt;3</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>Friendly reminder that Lenovo made a deliberate choice to ship malware payloads to its customers from the factory [0] by preinstalling an SSL MITM proxy configuration from an adware vendor. This is not some suspicious technology with legitimate uses like Intel Management Engine. This is not concerns about the second-order implications of your voluntary uploads to Facebook and Google. It&#x27;s not even an agency with a real national-security mission overstepping its bounds. It&#x27;s honest-to-goodness we&#x27;re-going-to-fuck-you-because-we-can pwnage officially authorized at the highest levels of the company to make a few bucks. When you ask your Lenovo machine to browse the web, you&#x27;re not seeing the web, you&#x27;re seeing a version edited by Lenovo&#x27;s advertising partners. Sure, anyone here can beat it, but where <i>else</i> in the stack have they subverted your machine?<p>If you&#x27;re even slightly concerned about data privacy and user freedom, please do not be complicit in Lenovo&#x27;s continued existence.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;9&#x2F;6&#x2F;16261988&#x2F;lenovo-adware-superfish-settlement-fine-state-ag" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;9&#x2F;6&#x2F;16261988&#x2F;lenovo-adware-sup...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?</title><text>Hi,<p>I&#x27;m writing this on my late 2012 MacBook Pro. Time goes by and I know rather sooner than later I&#x27;ll need to replace it with a new machine. In 2012 I paid around 1000$ for MacBook Pro + Samsung SSD (256GB) + 16GB RAM, I made modifications on my own.<p>I check notebookcheck from time to time. I read reviews, opinions about new laptops. The point is, I don&#x27;t know if there is any machine that could be recommended in reasonable price. At work I&#x27;m using some new MacBook Pro which (i5&#x2F;16GB&#x2F;128GB SSD) which is noticeably slower than my current machine.<p>Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I&#x27;m an Android developer, compilation of a big project I&#x27;m working on takes enormous amount of RAM and CPU nowadays (with new Android Studio it&#x27;s even worse). From time to time I work on web projects, so handling several instances of docker shouldn&#x27;t be a problem for a new machine. I prefer Linux over MacOs over Windows, so good support for Ubuntu&#x2F;Fedora would be nice.<p>I checked some computers in details but most of them fail in one or more aspects:
- hinges - MacBook has superior hinges, if I pay more than 1000 - 1500$ I expect to have great hinges
- price
- performance
- Linux support<p>Price is quite important for me, I&#x27;m from Eastern Europe. What computer would you recommend in, let&#x27;s say, &lt;2000$ ?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoffeeOnWrite</author><text>I’m on my 4th Thinkpad T-series - T520, T530, T450s, T460s - each one was a a winner. I ditched the T5XX series when they borked the keyboard layout by adding a numpad. Used to run Ubuntu, now I run Debian, stable or testing depending on point in release cycle at install time. I plan to take another look at Ubuntu now that they gave up on Unity. A coworker is happily on the T470s (first USB-C in the series). I always get 1920x1080 since my eyes are accustomed to it, but multiple coworkers are happy with 2560x1440. Used to get the Nvidia cards, now very happy with the integrated Intel graphics. In general, last year’s hardware requires almost zero messing with Linux to make everything work, whereas with the latest hardware, be prepared to solve a couple minor issues. Ubuntu’s font rendering or Infinality are both amazing and better than macOS or Win10 to my eyes.<p>I’m ridiculously excited to eventually upgrade to a T480s because it’s the first in the series to offer a quad-core CPU. They’re selling the quad-core with Intel graphics which is exactly what I want. I hope Lenovo did a good job with the thermal engineering...<p>Thanks to all the open source developers that deliver this totally rad experience on Linux, Debian, and Gnome &lt;3</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paride5745</author><text>This.<p>I&#x27;m on a ThinkPad t470s, amazing little machine, I love it more than my old MacBook Pro 2015.</text></comment> |
6,595,783 | 6,595,689 | 1 | 2 | 6,595,329 | train | <story><title>Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round</title><url>http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/10/22/russian-programmer-fights-goldman-sachs-and-wins-one-round/?mod=MW_home_latest_news</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>No, it&#x27;s very clear what he did was wrong. He works in an industry that does not allow you to email code home or copy it off of company computers. Goldman might be a little different, but where I&#x27;ve worked, this was definitely a no, no, and you could easily be fired for doing it.</text></item><item><author>downandout</author><text>It&#x27;s very clear that Goldman is trying to punish him for leaving, while sending a message to their other programmers that if they leave, their lives will be ruined. Even if this guy ultimately wins the state trial, he will never get back the years he has spent fighting it. Goldman has already won, and in this case that is appalling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>According to the original article, Goldman was actually violating the license terms of the open source software it had modified by <i>not</i> releasing it. Further, while you and I may have our opinions, a judge found Goldman&#x27;s actions to be so egregious that he ordered them to pay the defense costs for someone accused of stealing from them. That is exceedingly rare, and wouldn&#x27;t have happened if there were any doubts about either Goldman&#x27;s conduct or the intentions of the programmer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round</title><url>http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/10/22/russian-programmer-fights-goldman-sachs-and-wins-one-round/?mod=MW_home_latest_news</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>No, it&#x27;s very clear what he did was wrong. He works in an industry that does not allow you to email code home or copy it off of company computers. Goldman might be a little different, but where I&#x27;ve worked, this was definitely a no, no, and you could easily be fired for doing it.</text></item><item><author>downandout</author><text>It&#x27;s very clear that Goldman is trying to punish him for leaving, while sending a message to their other programmers that if they leave, their lives will be ruined. Even if this guy ultimately wins the state trial, he will never get back the years he has spent fighting it. Goldman has already won, and in this case that is appalling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Amadou</author><text>Fired is one thing, but malicious prosecution is completely out of proportion to a rules violation.</text></comment> |
20,365,345 | 20,365,398 | 1 | 2 | 20,364,523 | train | <story><title>81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent</title><url>https://news.sky.com/story/met-polices-facial-recognition-tech-has-81-error-rate-independent-report-says-11755941</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>...which makes an 81% false positive rate remarkably good. You&#x27;ve massively whittled down your list of potential subjects and made the job of humans immeasurably easier. An 81% false positive rate would be nightmarishly awful if this system served as judge, jury and executioner, but it&#x27;s incredibly useful as a means of improving the signal-to-noise ratio of surveillance data.</text></item><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>Bayes&#x27; theorem strikes again. Even if the odds of a false positive are only 1 in 1000, if 1 in a million are criminals then out of 1000 flagged people only 1 might be a criminal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>That would be true if wiggling out of the net of justice when you are innocent were not so expensive. There are a lot of poor people who can&#x27;t afford the system you speak of.</text></comment> | <story><title>81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent</title><url>https://news.sky.com/story/met-polices-facial-recognition-tech-has-81-error-rate-independent-report-says-11755941</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>...which makes an 81% false positive rate remarkably good. You&#x27;ve massively whittled down your list of potential subjects and made the job of humans immeasurably easier. An 81% false positive rate would be nightmarishly awful if this system served as judge, jury and executioner, but it&#x27;s incredibly useful as a means of improving the signal-to-noise ratio of surveillance data.</text></item><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>Bayes&#x27; theorem strikes again. Even if the odds of a false positive are only 1 in 1000, if 1 in a million are criminals then out of 1000 flagged people only 1 might be a criminal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhohle</author><text>Except for the people who are falsely accused and may be hassled in the process.<p>Around 15 years ago I would often schedule last minute flights while traveling for work. When I did, I almost certainly would receive an enhanced screening from TSA. I was the false positive, and when traveling on tight schedules, I was not amused at the frequency in which I was considered suspect (in contrast to the treatment from the airlines, who treated me like royalty). Of course, TSAs true positive rate is 0%.</text></comment> |
24,248,324 | 24,245,758 | 1 | 2 | 24,245,166 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping</title><url>https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-cost-saver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aramalipoor</author><text>Just published a tiny CLI utility to save some bucks on AWS development environment while I&#x27;m not really working.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aramalipoor&#x2F;aws-cost-saver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aramalipoor&#x2F;aws-cost-saver</a><p>The idea is to stop&#x2F;shutdown any resources (such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, ECS tasks, etc.) when you&#x27;re done for the day and restore them back up next time you continue.<p>Currently it&#x27;s in a very early stage, a hobby side-project :)<p>Ideally I&#x27;m thinking to provide a CloudFormation template or terraform config for example, to provision a scheduled Lambda with predefined &quot;start of work&quot; and &quot;end of work&quot; times and have it automatically do that for you.<p>I&#x27;d like to know if something like this would be useful for you too and what do you think about it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vageli</author><text>Are you aware of cloud custodian out of Capital One? [0] Does this and much, much more (like delete noncompliant security groups, etc).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudcustodian.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudcustodian.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping</title><url>https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-cost-saver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aramalipoor</author><text>Just published a tiny CLI utility to save some bucks on AWS development environment while I&#x27;m not really working.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aramalipoor&#x2F;aws-cost-saver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aramalipoor&#x2F;aws-cost-saver</a><p>The idea is to stop&#x2F;shutdown any resources (such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, ECS tasks, etc.) when you&#x27;re done for the day and restore them back up next time you continue.<p>Currently it&#x27;s in a very early stage, a hobby side-project :)<p>Ideally I&#x27;m thinking to provide a CloudFormation template or terraform config for example, to provision a scheduled Lambda with predefined &quot;start of work&quot; and &quot;end of work&quot; times and have it automatically do that for you.<p>I&#x27;d like to know if something like this would be useful for you too and what do you think about it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>This is amazing....<p>Edit: I wonder if you could put this inside of a lambda with just a role.</text></comment> |
2,649,144 | 2,648,866 | 1 | 3 | 2,648,626 | train | <story><title>When hard books disappear</title><url>http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/06/when_hard_books.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nirvdrum</author><text>I'm really lamenting the demise of physical books and am happy I went through college when I did. Without a doubt having a whole volume of books at hand in a lightweight device is awesome. But reading a book is about much more than just the content to me. None of the devices on the market adequately model how I interact with a book and I think fundamentally they can't.<p>E.g., I constantly refer back to previously read material. I never know 100% where it is or know in advance that I'm going, but I have a rough idea of where it was by the thickness of the book. If I'm reading a novel, I like to refer to some previous dialog. If I'm reading a math book, I like to go back to the motivating example. When the depth component is removed it's surprisingly difficult to find my place. Likewise, I can navigate through a book by thumbing through it much faster than I can press the "prev" or "next" button or try to perform a binary search by entering in random page numbers.<p>Having said all that, I have a Sony Reader and I keep it in my bag when I commute. If I end up getting stuck someplace longer than anticipated, it's really handy to have a whole library at my hands. It's just not my preferred way of reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpedroso</author><text>I work principally in academia, and I recently bought a Kindle to cut down on printing costs for PDF files (acquired from various sources, principally JStor). I find it increasingly unsatisfying.<p>1. I have to cross-reference page numbers for every citation. When you're talking about hundreds of citations from dozens of sources, you come to regret not reading the originals in the first place. I don't see the day when citing Kindle locations becomes acceptable among the standardized citation guides (MLA, Chicago, etc.) since many users convert PDFs by themselves, and different settings (e.g. omitting introductory pages, dedication pages, title pages, etc.) mean different locations.<p>2. Annotations. Everyone tells me how easy it is to insert notes and highlight passages, but the currently available methods do not give me the same flexibility as a simple pen:<p>2A. Discontinuous highlighting/underlining. Sometimes I don't want to highlight every word in a particular passage, but Kindle does not allow me to do this; as soon as the highlight ends, the next highlight can only be treated as a completely new annotation.<p>2B. I can't draw. Arrows, lines, maps, even illustrations are an important part of my annotation process. On the bottom of one section of Plato's Meno, for example, I have about a half a dozen drawings trying to make sense of a particularly interesting geometry problem (about which several papers have been published) [1]<p>2C. Multiple language/character support. This is a particularly difficult issue when dealing with translations. Even if I'm not reading a Greek text, I may be on-the-fly translating between English, French, German, and Greek (often 3 or even 4 of the above within the same paper!). As such, quite a few of my notes are in Greek, and so you can imagine my disappointment with the Kindle.<p>3. Jumping between passages is difficult. Sure, I can search the text - but I guarantee that's actually <i>slower</i> than flipping through pages. And if I direct students to a particular passage? That one kid using a Kindle in the corner of the room is still looking for it by the time we have moved on.<p>These are not all just Kindle problems, they're obstacles that eBooks and their complimentary software have to overcome to actually obsolete the physical book. I don't mean to suggest that these issues can't be overcome [2], but I believe the paperless revolution is much further away than some like to believe.<p>For the small amount of for-pleasure-not-work fiction that I consume, I'm probably not going back to paper.<p>[1] <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/jholbo/writings/dialogues/meno/meno9.html" rel="nofollow">http://homepage.mac.com/jholbo/writings/dialogues/meno/meno9...</a><p>[2] No doubt the failure to adopt these features stems from low demand -- most of the demand in the industry is for popular literature, not the sort of people who are writing all sorts of things in the margins of their books. There are also some curious UI/UX problems that need solutions, e.g. scanning pages.</text></comment> | <story><title>When hard books disappear</title><url>http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/06/when_hard_books.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nirvdrum</author><text>I'm really lamenting the demise of physical books and am happy I went through college when I did. Without a doubt having a whole volume of books at hand in a lightweight device is awesome. But reading a book is about much more than just the content to me. None of the devices on the market adequately model how I interact with a book and I think fundamentally they can't.<p>E.g., I constantly refer back to previously read material. I never know 100% where it is or know in advance that I'm going, but I have a rough idea of where it was by the thickness of the book. If I'm reading a novel, I like to refer to some previous dialog. If I'm reading a math book, I like to go back to the motivating example. When the depth component is removed it's surprisingly difficult to find my place. Likewise, I can navigate through a book by thumbing through it much faster than I can press the "prev" or "next" button or try to perform a binary search by entering in random page numbers.<p>Having said all that, I have a Sony Reader and I keep it in my bag when I commute. If I end up getting stuck someplace longer than anticipated, it's really handy to have a whole library at my hands. It's just not my preferred way of reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oinksoft</author><text>I think this just explains that physical books will be practical and widespread until we see some groundbreaking eBook user interface that can match those benefits (I'm not holding my breath).</text></comment> |
25,447,489 | 25,447,865 | 1 | 3 | 25,446,399 | train | <story><title>A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)</title><url>https://dwheeler.com/chess-openings/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>metroholografix</author><text>Below 1700 or so, openings are mostly a waste of time and tactics rule the day. Learning the basic opening principles and two basic opening moves that you keep playing (one for white, one for black) and focusing on tactics [1][2] is in my experience the fastest way to advance.<p>After 1700 or so, specific openings can be studied. I suggest playing d4 instead of e4 as white (avoids dealing with the Sicilian) and as black the French defense (for e4) and the KID (for d4). This is mostly coming from the POV of getting good at the game with a minimum of theory preparation, whilst being able to deploy the same openings in blitz and bullet games if need be.<p>Another bonus of getting strong at tactics, is that you&#x27;ll be able to see and appreciate ideas behind the openings and your game analysis will also improve. There are excellent GM analysis videos on Youtube that one can start extracting value from too.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chesstactics.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chesstactics.org</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chesstempo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chesstempo.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)</title><url>https://dwheeler.com/chess-openings/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text>After a lifetime of chess, I&#x27;ve more recently become a fan of Fischer random chess (aka Chess960)[1], where the back rows of pieces are shuffled before the game begins.<p>It puts puts people on a more equal footing in terms of their actual chess <i>playing</i> skills instead of their opening memorization abilities.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fischer_random_chess" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fischer_random_chess</a></text></comment> |
21,934,236 | 21,934,318 | 1 | 3 | 21,927,473 | train | <story><title>Hard deadlines are not user-first</title><url>http://jatins.gitlab.io/me/why-deadline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozmbie</author><text>In my experience when people focus too much on sprint deadlines, they miss the purpose of sprints.<p>Timed sprints exist not for the benefits of managers, but for the benefit of developers. They exist so that the development team has a shield against managers making last-minute decisions and changing priorities without notice.<p>If the focus and discussion is regularly on short term deadlines, then the developers are not driving the process, the managers are. It means that sprints are seen as a management methodology and not a development methodology. And then everyone has a hard time.<p>Managers who think this way know they’re not “allowed” to make mid-sprint changes so instead they focus on the end&#x2F;deadline.<p>The managers should be spending their energy supporting the team and figuring out what the priorities are for the next sprint(s). If they’re spending their mental energy on deadlines then they’re doing everyone involved a disservice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strictfp</author><text>Sprints exist so that both management and devs can realize that there is more work than there is time. It forces devs to be focused and scope their work. It forces management to prioritize and scope down as well.<p>Keeping the deadline of the sprints is supposed to force management and devs to agree on reasonable scopes, such that the output of the dev team becomes predictable with time.<p>This enables devs to get trusted by management, breaking the poisonous relationship.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hard deadlines are not user-first</title><url>http://jatins.gitlab.io/me/why-deadline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozmbie</author><text>In my experience when people focus too much on sprint deadlines, they miss the purpose of sprints.<p>Timed sprints exist not for the benefits of managers, but for the benefit of developers. They exist so that the development team has a shield against managers making last-minute decisions and changing priorities without notice.<p>If the focus and discussion is regularly on short term deadlines, then the developers are not driving the process, the managers are. It means that sprints are seen as a management methodology and not a development methodology. And then everyone has a hard time.<p>Managers who think this way know they’re not “allowed” to make mid-sprint changes so instead they focus on the end&#x2F;deadline.<p>The managers should be spending their energy supporting the team and figuring out what the priorities are for the next sprint(s). If they’re spending their mental energy on deadlines then they’re doing everyone involved a disservice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; If the focus and discussion is regularly on short term deadlines, then the developers are not driving the process, the managers are. It means that sprints are seen as a management methodology and not a development methodology. And then everyone has a hard time.<p>Right. This is the thing that&#x27;s nearly impossible to achieve in most places and why so many people hate Agile: because they&#x27;re dealing with &quot;imposed agile&quot; where the managers are driving the process.</text></comment> |
16,721,150 | 16,720,572 | 1 | 3 | 16,705,432 | train | <story><title>Have I Been Pwned Is Now Partnering with 1Password</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-is-now-partnering-with-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtirloni</author><text>No Linux support yet (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1password.com&#x2F;downloads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1password.com&#x2F;downloads</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latkin</author><text>They recently introduced a 1st-party CLI that supports Linux:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.agilebits.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;06&#x2F;announcing-the-1password-command-line-tool-public-beta&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.agilebits.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;06&#x2F;announcing-the-1passwo...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app-updates.agilebits.com&#x2F;product_history&#x2F;CLI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app-updates.agilebits.com&#x2F;product_history&#x2F;CLI</a><p>However their official CLI sadly only supports interactions with the subscription service. If you are using local vaults then there are still open source CLIs for Linux:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;latkin&#x2F;1poshword" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;latkin&#x2F;1poshword</a> (disclaimer: my project)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;georgebrock&#x2F;1pass" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;georgebrock&#x2F;1pass</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Have I Been Pwned Is Now Partnering with 1Password</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-is-now-partnering-with-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtirloni</author><text>No Linux support yet (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1password.com&#x2F;downloads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1password.com&#x2F;downloads</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aheilbut</author><text>There is an open-source linux client that works reasonably well, at least for retrieving passwords.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hg.icculus.org&#x2F;icculus&#x2F;1pass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hg.icculus.org&#x2F;icculus&#x2F;1pass&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
12,041,187 | 12,040,078 | 1 | 2 | 12,037,844 | train | <story><title>Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?</title><url>https://gist.github.com/jdmaturen/5830b83c1425c4767f7e1bd4c9561718</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>There was a PE firm that came around about 4-5 years ago trying to raise money on this very premise.<p>Their thesis was that<p>- startups would remain private longer.<p>- employee&#x27;s lost their options when they leave<p>- longer periods to go public means more employees return options to the pool which means employee option pools can be smaller<p>- longer private periods leads to more rounds raised which benefits investors over employees as the former can participate on each round to keep from being diluted<p>- exits would come eventually and the investors would always have superior terms, I believe that they were working under the assumption that investors would never have mandatory black out periods after IPO so they could essentially participate in the opening day IPO pop.<p>This is one of the coolest and most maddening things about finance. Every time you think you&#x27;ve come to a big realization, usually you find out that someone else came to the same conclusion many years ago and has been making money &quot;arbing&quot; it out ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyman</author><text>Where are all these secondary market companies &quot;arbing&quot; it out on employee stock option liquidity? The market should be HUGE, both for locked-in employees, and for buyers who want a small discount on hot startups.<p>This would totally solve the 90-day exercise period problem for the employees, without requiring company goodwill.<p>Some companies like ESOFund, 137 Ventures, EquityZen can do deals without company involvement, with a non-recourse loan with limited upside&#x2F;downside, or a forward contract with cash delivered today, and the certificate held as collateral until IPO, when it is transferred.<p>There are increasingly share restrictions (which some consider unenforceable) on sales&#x2F;transfers, loans, etc. First-hand knowledge online is scarce and lawyers give unclear answers due to the novelty of these deals. Can the company find out? Intervene? Sue? Are they likely to? Do we need a public case and TechCrunch headline in order to find out what the outcome is? How different is self-financing vs. a rich relative vs. angel vs. a marketplace investor?<p>Ask HN thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12034716" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12034716</a><p>Edit: It seems like I misunderstood, and the investors are investing in the company itself, not buying employee shares on the secondary market. The major point still stands though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?</title><url>https://gist.github.com/jdmaturen/5830b83c1425c4767f7e1bd4c9561718</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>There was a PE firm that came around about 4-5 years ago trying to raise money on this very premise.<p>Their thesis was that<p>- startups would remain private longer.<p>- employee&#x27;s lost their options when they leave<p>- longer periods to go public means more employees return options to the pool which means employee option pools can be smaller<p>- longer private periods leads to more rounds raised which benefits investors over employees as the former can participate on each round to keep from being diluted<p>- exits would come eventually and the investors would always have superior terms, I believe that they were working under the assumption that investors would never have mandatory black out periods after IPO so they could essentially participate in the opening day IPO pop.<p>This is one of the coolest and most maddening things about finance. Every time you think you&#x27;ve come to a big realization, usually you find out that someone else came to the same conclusion many years ago and has been making money &quot;arbing&quot; it out ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jerry2</author><text>&gt;<i>same conclusion many years ago and has been making money &quot;arbing&quot; it out ever since.</i><p>Can you (or someone else) please explain how you&#x27;d make money based on set of assumptions listed above?</text></comment> |
38,050,190 | 38,049,847 | 1 | 2 | 38,046,396 | train | <story><title>Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom</title><url>https://www.ch3ngl0rd.com/staring-at-a-wall/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>basisword</author><text>The options aren’t iPad or uncontrollable noise. I think you’re missing the third option - parenting the kids. Disciplining children (even just verbally) seems to be something nobody wants to do anymore. If I was told to be quiet as a kid I did it because I knew I’d get in trouble otherwise.</text></item><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>&gt; In a restaurant they might even learn language and ideas from the adult conversation<p>Their parents will have their phone in hand while pushing the discussions.<p>On the general point: I remember a time smaller kids couldn&#x27;t get into most restaurants at all because they would disturb the atmosphere (and I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s still many shops that won&#x27;t allow kids).<p>Also people are way more susceptible to kids being noisy. It might be because exposure to kids has been so low for the majority of adults, but parents will get an utter amount of flack for letting their kid cry or shout and not immediately cater to them.<p>It&#x27;s hard to have it both ways, our modern society will need to be more open to kid noise and disturbance if we want parents to just let the kids be kids.</text></item><item><author>gizajob</author><text>I think it’s basically a crime against children and humanity for parents to put an iPad (flashing meaningless drivel) in front of their children while pushing them through a supermarket, or a park, or in a restaurant. It baffles me how frequently I see this done nowadays, like children need a constant flashing distraction to keep them from asking questions or being bored. I want to smash every iPad I see used like this. Let children be bored and have their own thoughts. It’s not painful for a child to have to sit in a trolley or a stroller while they’ve nothing to do. In a restaurant they might even learn language and ideas from the adult conversation no matter their age. In my eyes, if you’re a parent who does this, it’s a parenting <i>fail</i> particularly given you managed to get through your own childhood without the same.</text></item><item><author>jader201</author><text>I believe smartphones have completely destroyed most people’s ability to be bored. Whenever anyone has an opportunity for boredom, they pick up their phone.<p>Oftentimes it has even moved up the priority above the bottom — boredom — and even taken precedence over other leisure activities like reading, TV, or just sitting and talking. For many, it’s even close to the top, trumping work and other responsibilities. So boredom certainly stands no chance.<p>If people actually try and sit with just their thoughts, staring out into nature or the walls of their home, they become anxious, like an addict that can’t get their fix.<p>I appreciate many of the modern conveniences that come with smartphones, but I often miss the days before them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Some kids will behave with just a verbal cue. For the better or worse, most won&#x27;t. That&#x27;s one of the reason some restaurants have a play area, to deal with that tension.<p>&gt; Disciplining children (even just verbally) seems to be something nobody wants to do anymore<p>&quot;Parents these days&quot; ?</text></comment> | <story><title>Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom</title><url>https://www.ch3ngl0rd.com/staring-at-a-wall/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>basisword</author><text>The options aren’t iPad or uncontrollable noise. I think you’re missing the third option - parenting the kids. Disciplining children (even just verbally) seems to be something nobody wants to do anymore. If I was told to be quiet as a kid I did it because I knew I’d get in trouble otherwise.</text></item><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>&gt; In a restaurant they might even learn language and ideas from the adult conversation<p>Their parents will have their phone in hand while pushing the discussions.<p>On the general point: I remember a time smaller kids couldn&#x27;t get into most restaurants at all because they would disturb the atmosphere (and I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s still many shops that won&#x27;t allow kids).<p>Also people are way more susceptible to kids being noisy. It might be because exposure to kids has been so low for the majority of adults, but parents will get an utter amount of flack for letting their kid cry or shout and not immediately cater to them.<p>It&#x27;s hard to have it both ways, our modern society will need to be more open to kid noise and disturbance if we want parents to just let the kids be kids.</text></item><item><author>gizajob</author><text>I think it’s basically a crime against children and humanity for parents to put an iPad (flashing meaningless drivel) in front of their children while pushing them through a supermarket, or a park, or in a restaurant. It baffles me how frequently I see this done nowadays, like children need a constant flashing distraction to keep them from asking questions or being bored. I want to smash every iPad I see used like this. Let children be bored and have their own thoughts. It’s not painful for a child to have to sit in a trolley or a stroller while they’ve nothing to do. In a restaurant they might even learn language and ideas from the adult conversation no matter their age. In my eyes, if you’re a parent who does this, it’s a parenting <i>fail</i> particularly given you managed to get through your own childhood without the same.</text></item><item><author>jader201</author><text>I believe smartphones have completely destroyed most people’s ability to be bored. Whenever anyone has an opportunity for boredom, they pick up their phone.<p>Oftentimes it has even moved up the priority above the bottom — boredom — and even taken precedence over other leisure activities like reading, TV, or just sitting and talking. For many, it’s even close to the top, trumping work and other responsibilities. So boredom certainly stands no chance.<p>If people actually try and sit with just their thoughts, staring out into nature or the walls of their home, they become anxious, like an addict that can’t get their fix.<p>I appreciate many of the modern conveniences that come with smartphones, but I often miss the days before them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brvsft</author><text>Sometimes parenting the kid means precisely not giving a response to their annoying and noisy behavior.</text></comment> |
16,046,666 | 16,045,635 | 1 | 3 | 16,040,903 | train | <story><title>A basic income experiment in Kenya</title><url>http://nordic.businessinsider.com/kenya-village-disproving-biggest-myth-about-basic-income-2017-12</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blueyes</author><text>The title is misleading, because this experiment start in late 2016. Sure, they plan to run for 12 years, but right now it&#x27;s more like a 14-month experiment. Even when the experiment is over, it will have been done on a very small sample. In the dozens, and some will surely drop out.<p>Slightly misleading headline aside, I&#x27;m glad the experiment is being done, since international aid had a lot of problems. The promise of UBI is that you don&#x27;t need huge bureaucratic infrastructure to help lots of people. Maybe all you need is a payment system. Direct cash can put more resources in the hands of the beneficiaries, and less in the hands of aid organizations that exist primarily to persist.[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;03&#x2F;411524156&#x2F;in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;03&#x2F;411524156&#x2F;in-search-of-the-re...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A basic income experiment in Kenya</title><url>http://nordic.businessinsider.com/kenya-village-disproving-biggest-myth-about-basic-income-2017-12</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aaron-lebo</author><text>Interesting to hear results in the field.<p>My question is how does that transfer to other environments? Do the results at $22 a month in Kenya translate to the results at $1000 a month in the US? There&#x27;s a lot more interesting things to buy with a $1000 in New York than there is with $22 in a village in Kenya. It&#x27;s also a different society, different people. Maybe more religious, etc.<p>Just throwing out a stupid idea: Kenya&#x27;s population is 47 million. To give all of them $22 a month (ignoring age cutoffs), unless I&#x27;m doing the math wrong would be just under $13 billion a year. If some really wealthy people really want to test this, it&#x27;s not impossible.<p>Unlike the article&#x27;s repeated claim that this is the &quot;greatest myth&quot; (it&#x27;s really annoying how news articles editorialize with untestable statements like that), the biggest issue is still cost. How do you realistically put together and pay for a program that can become policy in the US? It&#x27;s the 3 trillion dollar question.</text></comment> |
7,332,863 | 7,332,101 | 1 | 2 | 7,331,648 | train | <story><title>Ship's cat</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>junto</author><text>Based on this:<p><pre><code> Emmy was the ship&#x27;s cat on the RMS Empress of Ireland.
She was an orange tabby cat who never missed a voyage.
However, on May 28, 1914, Emmy tried to escape the ship.
The crew could not coax her aboard and the Empress left
without her. She was reportedly last seen on the roof of
the shed at Pier 27, watching her ship sail out of Quebec
City.[citation needed] Early the next morning the Empress
collided with the SS Storstad while steaming through fog at
the mouth of the St. Lawrence river and rapidly sank,
killing over 1,000 people.
</code></pre>
I have decided to disembark any ship when the cat leaves.<p>The article also led me to a Wikipedia page about the Dicken Medal [1], which is fascinating.<p><pre><code> The PDSA Dickin Medal was instituted in 1943 in the United
Kingdom by Maria Dickin to honour the work of animals in
war.
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickin_Medal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dickin_Medal</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ship's cat</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msane</author><text>The internet cats on Hacker News are of a classier variety than those you find at more run-of-the-mill pages, requesting cheese hamburgers and speaking unskillfully. These cats have Wikipedia articles, with footnotes. Some are decorated veterans.</text></comment> |
10,599,354 | 10,598,985 | 1 | 2 | 10,590,187 | train | <story><title>How Inflight Wifi Works</title><url>http://thepointsguy.com/2015/11/how-in-flight-wi-fi-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>&quot;Prior to the integration of in-flight Wi-Fi, most airline passengers passed their time at 30,000 feet completely disconnected from the world below them — but these days, that’s a highly uncommon occurrence.&quot;<p>Am I missing something here? 99% of the flights I take don&#x27;t offer Wi-Fi, and in most cases not even power outlets. And those that do have Wi-Fi seem to be charging 30% of my monthly internet bill to provide it for a mere few hours. Like, no thanks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmsmith</author><text>Data &gt;&gt; Anecdotes [1]<p>60% of domestic flights have wifi on them. My apologies if you are flying outside the US or using regional carriers 98% of the time (which might not be included here).<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;for-onboard-wi-fi-not-all-airlines-are-equal.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;for-onboard-wi-fi-not-all-air...</a><p>(this was google result number one for &#x27;percent of flights with wifi&#x27;)</text></comment> | <story><title>How Inflight Wifi Works</title><url>http://thepointsguy.com/2015/11/how-in-flight-wi-fi-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>&quot;Prior to the integration of in-flight Wi-Fi, most airline passengers passed their time at 30,000 feet completely disconnected from the world below them — but these days, that’s a highly uncommon occurrence.&quot;<p>Am I missing something here? 99% of the flights I take don&#x27;t offer Wi-Fi, and in most cases not even power outlets. And those that do have Wi-Fi seem to be charging 30% of my monthly internet bill to provide it for a mere few hours. Like, no thanks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>I think you&#x27;re an unusual case. There are a ton of flights with WiFi these days.<p>I don&#x27;t get the complaints about cost, either. They&#x27;re connecting you to the world from six miles in the air. It&#x27;s a pretty impressive technical feat, and $10 is a pretty reasonable cost for that. When you really need it, it&#x27;s very cheap, considering. When you don&#x27;t really need it, well, your cat GIFs can wait until you land.</text></comment> |
9,244,122 | 9,244,142 | 1 | 2 | 9,243,605 | train | <story><title>The Mystery of Extraordinarily Accurate Medieval Maps (2014)</title><url>http://discovermagazine.com/2014/june/14-the-mapmakers-mystery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Supersaiyan_IV</author><text>And the mystery of how northern Canada and Northern Pole had a common shore.
Now rethink the amount of ice that has melted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortehu</author><text>&gt; northern Canada and Northern Pole had a common shore<p>What do you mean by this? Doesn&#x27;t it every year?<p>Here&#x27;s this winter&#x27;s maximum: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/seaice_max_2015_feb_25_overheadviewnoave_print.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;thumbnails&#x2F;image&#x2F;sea...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Mystery of Extraordinarily Accurate Medieval Maps (2014)</title><url>http://discovermagazine.com/2014/june/14-the-mapmakers-mystery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Supersaiyan_IV</author><text>And the mystery of how northern Canada and Northern Pole had a common shore.
Now rethink the amount of ice that has melted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duskwuff</author><text>That region was barely explored at the time -- the coastline in that area was probably based on observations from only a few voyages. (Given the harsh conditions up there, it&#x27;s also likely that the observations were subject to more error than usual.) I wouldn&#x27;t put too much stock into it.</text></comment> |
25,441,729 | 25,441,919 | 1 | 3 | 25,439,834 | train | <story><title>Google Analytics Opt Out</title><url>https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>przmk</author><text>Except Pi-Hole has some serious limitations as it only acts as a DNS server.<p>I haven&#x27;t been able to block Youtube ads on my tv for example.</text></item><item><author>x3ro</author><text>Analytics opt out for your entire network: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net&#x2F;</a> &#x2F;scnr</text></item><item><author>veeti</author><text>Universal analytics opt out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1vuio0pswjnm7</author><text>The easiest way to avoid YouTube ads is to avoid using the YouTube website and its &quot;Javascript player&quot; to play videos. The Google Video download URLs to watch the video, without any ads, are right there in the hxxp:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xxxxxxx webpage. I use a tiny shell script of only 97 characters to extract them. The truth is, where YouTube ads are concerned, neither a modified dnsmasq plus RPi so-called &quot;Pi-Hole&quot; nor any browser extension &quot;ad blocker&quot; is required. No user needs to run Javascript to play videos just like no user needed to run Adobe Flash to play videos. Flash and Javascript are useful, maybe even essential, for tracking and advertising, but are unnecessary for playing video.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Analytics Opt Out</title><url>https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>przmk</author><text>Except Pi-Hole has some serious limitations as it only acts as a DNS server.<p>I haven&#x27;t been able to block Youtube ads on my tv for example.</text></item><item><author>x3ro</author><text>Analytics opt out for your entire network: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net&#x2F;</a> &#x2F;scnr</text></item><item><author>veeti</author><text>Universal analytics opt out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luag</author><text>If you use android TV, you can install <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yuliskov&#x2F;SmartTubeNext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yuliskov&#x2F;SmartTubeNext</a></text></comment> |
14,037,777 | 14,037,674 | 1 | 2 | 14,036,658 | train | <story><title>Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options</title><url>https://medium.com/@patocano/why-i-will-not-exercise-my-gitlab-stock-options-bf6f3dda62e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeveb</author><text>&gt; Damn, that email from the CEO about his private Twitter. That&#x27;s completely out of line.<p>It regarded his <i>professional</i> work on GitLab: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;suprnova32&#x2F;status&#x2F;720396175954698240" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;suprnova32&#x2F;status&#x2F;720396175954698240</a><p>I think it&#x27;s completely appropriate that he link instead to GitLab for such a thing, and I think it&#x27;s remarkable that he didn&#x27;t think the same. This isn&#x27;t like the ad world, where if your customer is Coke you can&#x27;t be seen drinking a Pepsi in public (which I agree is crazy): he was posting about GitLab itself, linking to their GitHub mirror instead of to their own site, which completely undermines the GitLab position.</text></item><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Anyone who just cares about the numbers: he was given options of 45,000 shares, of which 15,000 had vested. These 15,000, or 0.0833% of the company, were available to him at $0.27&#x2F;share, or $4,050 total. So he had the opportunity to buy 0.0833% of the company at a $4.8MM valuation. Given that they recently raised $20MM at an undefined valuation it really says something that he chose not to exercise the options. I really recommend you all read the post.<p>Also, damn, that email from the CEO about his private Twitter. That&#x27;s completely out of line.<p>For those of you that didn&#x27;t read the article, the CEO called him out about a specific tweet (on a personal account with only 146 followers) where he linked to GitLab&#x27;s page on Github for crying out loud.<p>(also, curious note: this comment went from 4 points to zero in less than five minutes. Hmmmm.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haswell</author><text>Not commenting on whether or not this was &quot;right&#x2F;wrong&quot;, but it&#x27;s worth noting that the GitHub contributor page is showing something different than the GitLab contributor page (adds vs. commits). If adds is what he wanted to show, GitHub may have been the only place to show that.<p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that if you search Google for GitLab source code, GitHub is the first thing that comes up. To an uninformed outsider, it looks like GitHub is where GitLab development happens.<p>It may not have been the best thing to do, but I don&#x27;t think this tweet &quot;completely undermines the GitLab position&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options</title><url>https://medium.com/@patocano/why-i-will-not-exercise-my-gitlab-stock-options-bf6f3dda62e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeveb</author><text>&gt; Damn, that email from the CEO about his private Twitter. That&#x27;s completely out of line.<p>It regarded his <i>professional</i> work on GitLab: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;suprnova32&#x2F;status&#x2F;720396175954698240" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;suprnova32&#x2F;status&#x2F;720396175954698240</a><p>I think it&#x27;s completely appropriate that he link instead to GitLab for such a thing, and I think it&#x27;s remarkable that he didn&#x27;t think the same. This isn&#x27;t like the ad world, where if your customer is Coke you can&#x27;t be seen drinking a Pepsi in public (which I agree is crazy): he was posting about GitLab itself, linking to their GitHub mirror instead of to their own site, which completely undermines the GitLab position.</text></item><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Anyone who just cares about the numbers: he was given options of 45,000 shares, of which 15,000 had vested. These 15,000, or 0.0833% of the company, were available to him at $0.27&#x2F;share, or $4,050 total. So he had the opportunity to buy 0.0833% of the company at a $4.8MM valuation. Given that they recently raised $20MM at an undefined valuation it really says something that he chose not to exercise the options. I really recommend you all read the post.<p>Also, damn, that email from the CEO about his private Twitter. That&#x27;s completely out of line.<p>For those of you that didn&#x27;t read the article, the CEO called him out about a specific tweet (on a personal account with only 146 followers) where he linked to GitLab&#x27;s page on Github for crying out loud.<p>(also, curious note: this comment went from 4 points to zero in less than five minutes. Hmmmm.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>There doesn&#x27;t appear to be a GitLab equivalent. And that still doesn&#x27;t change that it was his personal Twitter with 146 followers. The Tweet got one single like. &quot;Undermining the GitLab position&quot; with a Tweet that has one like seems ridiculous.</text></comment> |
21,489,234 | 21,487,078 | 1 | 2 | 21,481,316 | train | <story><title>Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kempbellt</author><text>I may (or may not) have built my own Netflix competitor. It had more content than all of the major providers combined.<p>Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;)<p>The service was available cross region. Stored videos in multiple resolutions for streamability in low-bandwidth situations. No DRM bs. It cost me under $400&#x2F;month to run the whole service, and I could access it from any device, anywhere I had internet.<p>I gave access to a few friends and family and they all chipped in to help cover expenses (it was never profitable). I ran it for a few months before I started to lose interest in maintaining it - it was mostly just a proof-of-concept, and fell back to Netflix&#x2F;HBO&#x2F;other subs for convenience.<p>I applaud Netflix, HBO, etc for offering competitive solutions to monopolistic cable companies and other restrictive media outlets, but this will <i>always</i> remain a problem.<p>Once you create a piece of art and put it out for the world to see, you <i>cannot</i> control how&#x2F;when&#x2F;where it will be shown. Stop trying... Just make it more convenient for people to pay to view it.<p>Going after people for low-level copyright violation, like sharing a password, is childish.</text></item><item><author>LeoNatan25</author><text>No worries, I&#x27;ll just use the torrent sharers. I bet those will give me a constant 4K quality on all my devices, no ridiculous DRM, get to keep them once I terminate my &quot;subscription&quot;, etc. Oh and it&#x27;s free, not 10-15$ USD for each service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comeondude</author><text>Dude ...<p>This comes off as incredibly self-entitled and arrogant.<p>That piece of art? It takes years and tremendous amount of people hours to bring these films into existence your enjoyment. I grew up in Hollywood, in family of filmmakers. My friends are actors, producers, and well anybody else who is involved in the business - and we all dedicate unbelievable hours of love and labor into the “non copyrighted cat videos”<p>Yes. The system isn’t perfect, but ... what you’re doing is quite frankly, stealing. It’s offensive. We’re entitled to our livelihoods as much as you are.<p>Show some gratitude please.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kempbellt</author><text>I may (or may not) have built my own Netflix competitor. It had more content than all of the major providers combined.<p>Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;)<p>The service was available cross region. Stored videos in multiple resolutions for streamability in low-bandwidth situations. No DRM bs. It cost me under $400&#x2F;month to run the whole service, and I could access it from any device, anywhere I had internet.<p>I gave access to a few friends and family and they all chipped in to help cover expenses (it was never profitable). I ran it for a few months before I started to lose interest in maintaining it - it was mostly just a proof-of-concept, and fell back to Netflix&#x2F;HBO&#x2F;other subs for convenience.<p>I applaud Netflix, HBO, etc for offering competitive solutions to monopolistic cable companies and other restrictive media outlets, but this will <i>always</i> remain a problem.<p>Once you create a piece of art and put it out for the world to see, you <i>cannot</i> control how&#x2F;when&#x2F;where it will be shown. Stop trying... Just make it more convenient for people to pay to view it.<p>Going after people for low-level copyright violation, like sharing a password, is childish.</text></item><item><author>LeoNatan25</author><text>No worries, I&#x27;ll just use the torrent sharers. I bet those will give me a constant 4K quality on all my devices, no ridiculous DRM, get to keep them once I terminate my &quot;subscription&quot;, etc. Oh and it&#x27;s free, not 10-15$ USD for each service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magduf</author><text>&gt;Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;)<p>Cat videos are far more enjoyable to watch than the dreck that Hollywood is putting out these days.</text></comment> |
21,416,863 | 21,416,091 | 1 | 3 | 21,409,066 | train | <story><title>The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview</title><url>https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-designs-the-machine-learning-software-engineering-interview-bbbb9fc8bb28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starpilot</author><text>Good source of data for training a de-bullshitter.<p>Input: A year and a half ago when we began scouting for this type of machine learning-savvy engineer —something we now call the machine learning Software Engineer (ML SWE) — it wasn’t something we knew much about. We looked at other companies’ equivalent roles but they weren’t exactly contextualized to Lyft’s business setting. This need motivated an entirely new role that we set up and started hiring for.<p>Target: We invented a position called a machine learning software engineer.<p>Input: First, candidates on the ML SWE loop go through Lyft’s hiring review. The review is a regularly scheduled session for a committee to study candidates with an unbiased perspective and decide whether to hire them. Working alongside the review committee is a separate panel of interviewers that provides technical feedback. This feedback is designed to help the committee decide if there’s a fit and, if so, the candidate’s technical level. At first glance, this review process may seem cumbersome. Examining the checks and balances more carefully, however, we notice that they are intentionally introduced to put friction on the hiring process. Having a consistent review committee unifies standards and eliminates bias.<p>Target: A committee and a group of interviewers evaluate a candidate for fit and technical level.<p>Input: Despite the what-ifs, being transparent about how we design interviews can improve our interviews. Call it enlightened self-interest: candidates invest time to talk to us and we mutually benefit from learning if there is a good fit. Even if there isn’t an immediate fit, positive experiences build brand and improves candidate sourcing. Maybe the candidate can reapply when the timing is better. Practically, hiring an engineer easily costs tens of thousands of dollars. By showing how we iterate on our interviews, we reveal what we truly care about and how we try to probe at them, hopefully adding to the virtuous cycle for the hiring pipeline.<p>Target: We don&#x27;t respect the time of our readers and are hopelessly unenlightened on this fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hcknwscommenter</author><text>Left unsaid is the &quot;everyone gets a veto&quot; crap that destroys hiring 10x contributors. I have personally been involved in numerous interviews (as the interviewer ), where my fellow interviewers have deliberately shitcanned candidates because they seemed extremely well qualified and highly motivated (as compared to my colleague). Everyone gets a veto is almost uniform in my field and it is a massive problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview</title><url>https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-designs-the-machine-learning-software-engineering-interview-bbbb9fc8bb28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starpilot</author><text>Good source of data for training a de-bullshitter.<p>Input: A year and a half ago when we began scouting for this type of machine learning-savvy engineer —something we now call the machine learning Software Engineer (ML SWE) — it wasn’t something we knew much about. We looked at other companies’ equivalent roles but they weren’t exactly contextualized to Lyft’s business setting. This need motivated an entirely new role that we set up and started hiring for.<p>Target: We invented a position called a machine learning software engineer.<p>Input: First, candidates on the ML SWE loop go through Lyft’s hiring review. The review is a regularly scheduled session for a committee to study candidates with an unbiased perspective and decide whether to hire them. Working alongside the review committee is a separate panel of interviewers that provides technical feedback. This feedback is designed to help the committee decide if there’s a fit and, if so, the candidate’s technical level. At first glance, this review process may seem cumbersome. Examining the checks and balances more carefully, however, we notice that they are intentionally introduced to put friction on the hiring process. Having a consistent review committee unifies standards and eliminates bias.<p>Target: A committee and a group of interviewers evaluate a candidate for fit and technical level.<p>Input: Despite the what-ifs, being transparent about how we design interviews can improve our interviews. Call it enlightened self-interest: candidates invest time to talk to us and we mutually benefit from learning if there is a good fit. Even if there isn’t an immediate fit, positive experiences build brand and improves candidate sourcing. Maybe the candidate can reapply when the timing is better. Practically, hiring an engineer easily costs tens of thousands of dollars. By showing how we iterate on our interviews, we reveal what we truly care about and how we try to probe at them, hopefully adding to the virtuous cycle for the hiring pipeline.<p>Target: We don&#x27;t respect the time of our readers and are hopelessly unenlightened on this fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inerte</author><text>I have another target for your second one: We share a Google Drive full of resumes and people put their names on a spreadsheet when they like the candidate. Then we interview them!<p>It’s super innovative and fit to our business context!</text></comment> |
16,846,074 | 16,845,458 | 1 | 2 | 16,844,775 | train | <story><title>ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility</title><url>https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-048-released</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>This has been one of my favorite software projects to watch, because it&#x27;s such an insanely monumental undertaking and moves so damn slowly. There were people working on this two decades ago, putting in tiny fixes and little bits of code and whatnot, and they did it even knowing that basically nobody would see their work for decades.<p>Hell, I have never seen a ReactOS installation in the wild, and I&#x27;m the kind of person whose friends install Haiku, Nix and NetBSD as their daily drivers. And the second-hand stories I&#x27;ve heard about people who did install React was basically &quot;I was bored, I put it on a drive, played around for 5 minutes, and wiped it.&quot;<p>But that doesn&#x27;t discourage them. Meanwhile, work keeps going on in the background. So many untold man-hours of thankless work going into the project, and the vast majority of that &quot;hard&quot; work with no payoff for years.<p>And now it&#x27;s finally getting close to actual Windows, after decades of work, and soon (well, years, but still) people will be using it everywhere as a replacement for Windows.<p>This is one of the most important software projects in history. My hat is off to the ReactOS developers, and congratulations on the latest release.<p>[edit] Here are the names of the 75 programmers that have worked on ReactOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactos&#x2F;reactos&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CREDITS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactos&#x2F;reactos&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CREDITS</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>&gt; soon (well, years, but still) people will be using it everywhere as a replacement for Windows.<p>No they won&#x27;t. It&#x27;s a fringe OS that requires technical expertise to install. Not only that but it looks like &quot;old Windows&quot;. Users won&#x27;t want to work with a Windows from a decade ago. Not only that but it&#x27;ll have bugs and no support.<p>You&#x27;ll see tiny pockets of people using it but as Microsoft gets closer and closer to simply having a free OS it doesn&#x27;t seem likely anyone would ever use this OS for anything beyond &quot;hey, that&#x27;s cool!&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility</title><url>https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-048-released</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>This has been one of my favorite software projects to watch, because it&#x27;s such an insanely monumental undertaking and moves so damn slowly. There were people working on this two decades ago, putting in tiny fixes and little bits of code and whatnot, and they did it even knowing that basically nobody would see their work for decades.<p>Hell, I have never seen a ReactOS installation in the wild, and I&#x27;m the kind of person whose friends install Haiku, Nix and NetBSD as their daily drivers. And the second-hand stories I&#x27;ve heard about people who did install React was basically &quot;I was bored, I put it on a drive, played around for 5 minutes, and wiped it.&quot;<p>But that doesn&#x27;t discourage them. Meanwhile, work keeps going on in the background. So many untold man-hours of thankless work going into the project, and the vast majority of that &quot;hard&quot; work with no payoff for years.<p>And now it&#x27;s finally getting close to actual Windows, after decades of work, and soon (well, years, but still) people will be using it everywhere as a replacement for Windows.<p>This is one of the most important software projects in history. My hat is off to the ReactOS developers, and congratulations on the latest release.<p>[edit] Here are the names of the 75 programmers that have worked on ReactOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactos&#x2F;reactos&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CREDITS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactos&#x2F;reactos&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CREDITS</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakna</author><text>&gt; Hell, I have never seen a ReactOS installation in the wild<p>It&#x27;s not especially common, but I do know of a couple kiosks and a PoS system that run ReactOS under the hood to avoid Windows licensing.</text></comment> |
4,242,132 | 4,242,272 | 1 | 2 | 4,241,921 | train | <story><title> Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM </title><url>http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/07/hello-everyone.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sb</author><text>There is also another project named HappyJIT doing much of what is described there. The corresponding paper was presented at last year's Dynamic Languages Symposium [<a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2047854" rel="nofollow">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2047854</a>]<p>It would be nice if there were comparable benchmark results available, or a discussion of what is different between both approaches/implementations.<p>EDIT: bb link didn't work, replaced it with ACM portal link.</text></comment> | <story><title> Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM </title><url>http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/07/hello-everyone.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikic</author><text>I love this. It's always nice to see PHP being implemented on new platforms (we already have it to some degree running on C++, on JVM, on .NET, now on PyPy). Sadly most of those projects don't really make it to a production-ready state :/<p>In any case, keep up the work!</text></comment> |
15,127,693 | 15,127,331 | 1 | 2 | 15,126,577 | train | <story><title>No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jondubois</author><text>The problem is that investors are too easy when it comes to giving second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth chances... And they absolutely suck at giving first chances to the right people.<p>Investors just sit there and assume that the right people will find them, but they don&#x27;t. The right people are too busy working to be chasing down investors 24&#x2F;7.<p>The first-timers who end up getting funded over and over again are usually the ones who network 24&#x2F;7 and their only real talent is seducing investors who confuse their well-rehearsed talk for passion and intelligence.</text></comment> | <story><title>No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timothycrosley</author><text>Way to spin trying new ideas and having determination to find a way to succeed despite failures in a negative light? The fact this has become the norm is good! People used to think that all the smart people just came up with a good idea all the sudden out of luck, and never failed. The reality is the people who succeeded in the past in spectacular fashion, are the same people who failed over and over again in spectacular fashion (pivoted).</text></comment> |
3,605,459 | 3,605,087 | 1 | 3 | 3,604,680 | train | <story><title>John Nash's Letter to the NSA</title><url>http://agtb.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/john-nashs-letter-to-the-nsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thebigshane</author><text>National Geographic recently had a "special" on "Inside the NSA: America's Cyber Secrets" where they mentioned and showed this letter. They said the NSA didn't end up doing anything with it but still wanted to classify it for 50+ years so that no one else could use the ideas within.<p>My favorite parts of the episode were:<p>- All of the Windows XP machines everyone was using<p>- The flashing red lights on the ceiling in secure areas (familiar for those that have been in similar secure facilities)<p>- The obnoxious re-enactments where real employees pretend to gather and discuss on-going developments. It was outright silly.<p>The episode just aired in January and it looks like it isn't on their site yet, but there are related videos: <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?search=%22Inside+the+NSA%22" rel="nofollow">http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?search=%22Inside+t...</a><p>EDIT: The NSA press release mentions it too. They say "featured" but they didn't spend more than 5 minutes out of the hour program.<p><pre><code> The Nash letters were also recently featured on the National Geographic [...]</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>John Nash's Letter to the NSA</title><url>http://agtb.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/john-nashs-letter-to-the-nsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ohashi</author><text>I am pretty sure you can see them at the cryptography museum right next to the NSA. I went two weeks ago and Nash letter is right in the front.</text></comment> |
32,554,462 | 32,554,374 | 1 | 2 | 32,553,574 | train | <story><title>Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor</title><url>https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Application-submitted-for-US-molten-salt-research</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>A 1MW research reactor.<p>Anyway, why is it always a fluoride salt? Is it because of the melting point or because of some nuclear property?<p>I imagine there is some very relevant reason, because a less reactive anion (even chlorine) would be much easier to work with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Fluoride salts are good for fissile uranium + fertile thorium. If you want to work with a plutonium&#x2F;uranium 238 cycle then chloride salts are a better choice. Plutonium doesn&#x27;t dissolve very well in fluorides.<p>Molten chloride reactors can have performance characteristics right out of science fiction, it seems possible for such a reactor to not only breed more fuel but to destroy the long-lived (500 year) fission products such as cesium and strontium.<p>It never gets upvoted on HN when I link it but I&#x27;ve been following MSRs for a while and even spoke at the first thorium energy conference and I&#x27;ve been watching people&#x27;s thoughts about designs evolve and this one<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moltexenergy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moltexenergy.com&#x2F;</a><p>is well ahead of the others.</text></comment> | <story><title>Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor</title><url>https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Application-submitted-for-US-molten-salt-research</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>A 1MW research reactor.<p>Anyway, why is it always a fluoride salt? Is it because of the melting point or because of some nuclear property?<p>I imagine there is some very relevant reason, because a less reactive anion (even chlorine) would be much easier to work with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpinkston</author><text>Good question - here&#x27;s a paper and quote on this:<p>&quot;Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) was designed to operate at high temperature in range 700 - 800°C and its fuel is dissolved in a circulating molten fluoride salt mixture. Molten fluoride salts are stable at high temperature, have good heat transfer properties and can dissolve high concentration of actinides and fission product.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aip.scitation.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1063&#x2F;1.4972932" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aip.scitation.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1063&#x2F;1.4972932</a></text></comment> |
4,809,543 | 4,809,623 | 1 | 2 | 4,808,975 | train | <story><title>EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation</title><url>http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/20/europarliament-scolds-visa-mastercard-paypal-for-killing-wikileaks-donations-initiates-regulation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy+%28Falkvinge+on+Infopolicy%29</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Falkvinge</author><text>Well, the proposal has been adopted as a report today. The Parliament has formally requested legislation to be drafted - it has gone beyond the proposal stage.<p>So this has entered the famous _wurstmaschine_ - the legislative sausage machine - where something will come out the other end.<p>Cheers,
Rick</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>This is a proposal, for legislation to be drafted, backed by the Pirate Party. Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. Much less has happened than this article implies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Falkvinge</author><text>(also, I am no longer the party leader of the PPSE; I led the party through its first five years and the election where we put our first people in the Europarl. Today, my focus is international)</text></comment> | <story><title>EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation</title><url>http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/20/europarliament-scolds-visa-mastercard-paypal-for-killing-wikileaks-donations-initiates-regulation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy+%28Falkvinge+on+Infopolicy%29</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Falkvinge</author><text>Well, the proposal has been adopted as a report today. The Parliament has formally requested legislation to be drafted - it has gone beyond the proposal stage.<p>So this has entered the famous _wurstmaschine_ - the legislative sausage machine - where something will come out the other end.<p>Cheers,
Rick</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>This is a proposal, for legislation to be drafted, backed by the Pirate Party. Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. Much less has happened than this article implies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>The article opens by asserting that the EU has "ordered new regulation to regulate". I took this to mean regulation had been passed. Instead, this is analogous to the U.S. House of Representatives passing a motion to send an issue to committee (where legislation is subsequently drafted). Not insignificant, but nothing that will change too much on the ground (yet).</text></comment> |
15,563,407 | 15,563,458 | 1 | 2 | 15,561,204 | train | <story><title>New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-zealand-foreigners-buy-property-ban-coalition-talks-prime-minister-jacinda-arden-a8017261.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ACow_Adonis</author><text>Speaking as an Australian, , where we already have nominally similar policies, and keeping in mind the metro house price phenomenon is repeating in several places in the world in a similar fashion, there&#x27;s just one small problem with these policies:<p>There&#x27;s limited evidence available that it&#x27;s foreign buyers primarily responsible for our high house prices :&#x2F;<p>The primary cause has always been local steady employment, low interest rates combined with liberal access to debt with households culturally disposed to pumping that into housing.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to blame this on Chinese money (which I&#x27;m sure is a common story in many parts of the world where house prices are taking off), but the far bigger cause had always been leveraging afforded by local households combined with a low interest rate environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ACow_Adonis</author><text>Just replying to myself now to add: the solution to high house prices is, like much transport policy, boring and well known but not implemented for political reasons. On the housing front: tax capital gains, limit leveraging ability, implement a land based tax and zone&#x2F;invest appropriately to encourage new supply. This will bring housing far more in line with what people expect.<p>This brings us to the other awkward point though: truthfully, I&#x27;m sure many New Zealanders, just like many Australians, neither want their housing prices&#x2F;investments to drop in relative price or to return to closer relationships with local use.<p>Which leads us to the policy&#x2F;political pantomime game so often involved in these areas where people want to have their cake and eat it too: &quot;I want afforable housing for my children that doesn&#x27;t make my property prices drop!&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-zealand-foreigners-buy-property-ban-coalition-talks-prime-minister-jacinda-arden-a8017261.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ACow_Adonis</author><text>Speaking as an Australian, , where we already have nominally similar policies, and keeping in mind the metro house price phenomenon is repeating in several places in the world in a similar fashion, there&#x27;s just one small problem with these policies:<p>There&#x27;s limited evidence available that it&#x27;s foreign buyers primarily responsible for our high house prices :&#x2F;<p>The primary cause has always been local steady employment, low interest rates combined with liberal access to debt with households culturally disposed to pumping that into housing.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to blame this on Chinese money (which I&#x27;m sure is a common story in many parts of the world where house prices are taking off), but the far bigger cause had always been leveraging afforded by local households combined with a low interest rate environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Smerity</author><text>As another Australian, our housing prices is broken for multiple reasons but foreign investment is a _major_ contributor.<p>Credit Suisse research indicates that &quot;foreigners are acquiring 25 per cent of newly completed supply in NSW and 16 per cent in Melbourne, or 21 per cent if we combine the two states&quot;. The total value of new houses in both states was $39 billion over the relevant 12 months.<p>After the Chinese government cracked down on monetary restrictions (i.e. Citizens of China can normally only convert US$50,000 a year in foreign currency and have long been barred from buying property overseas), Lend Lease reported 30 to 40% of foreign purchases now being cash settled.<p>Transparency International consider Australia the worst money laundering property market in the world.<p>Foreign investment, especially for countries which avoided the 2007 housing bubble such as Australia, is a major issue.<p>A friend will be posting an article on the multiple bubbles he sees in the Australian economy, and property is potentially the most concerning of all given how exposed our banks are to housing loans.
We may find Australia finally seeing their house bubble pop like the US in 2007.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smh.com.au&#x2F;business&#x2F;property&#x2F;australian-property-cheap-for-chinese-buyers-credit-suisse-20170323-gv5ets.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smh.com.au&#x2F;business&#x2F;property&#x2F;australian-property-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transparency.org&#x2F;whatwedo&#x2F;publication&#x2F;doors_wide_open_corruption_and_real_estate_in_four_key_markets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transparency.org&#x2F;whatwedo&#x2F;publication&#x2F;doors_wide...</a><p>Updated to include direct link to Credit Suisse: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research-doc.credit-suisse.com&#x2F;docView?language=ENG&amp;format=PDF&amp;sourceid=csplusresearchcp&amp;document_id=1072773781&amp;serialid=vGaaRmOdA9BYZyKVi%2BOQvCfX%2BJZ8vpuaqcWf8o4NoF8%3D" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research-doc.credit-suisse.com&#x2F;docView?language=ENG&amp;...</a></text></comment> |
20,566,273 | 20,565,719 | 1 | 2 | 20,564,554 | train | <story><title>Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/why-do-kids-have-imaginary-friends/594919/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fouc</author><text>What about kids that fake having an imaginary friend because they heard about imaginary friends?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thecrash</author><text>Some people believe that creating imaginary friends is a deliberate process, and can be done by anyone who comes across the idea:<p>&quot;You’ll create a tulpa by imagining a person in your head, and treating them as a person. The exact mechanism is unknown, but as you give a tulpa attention, and believe it can be a sentient person, it will grow into one, and act independently of you.&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tulpa.info&#x2F;what-is-a-tulpa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tulpa.info&#x2F;what-is-a-tulpa&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/why-do-kids-have-imaginary-friends/594919/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fouc</author><text>What about kids that fake having an imaginary friend because they heard about imaginary friends?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juped</author><text>This could be more common than having an imaginary friend, although the line between having an imaginary friend and pretending to have one is blurry.</text></comment> |
9,157,293 | 9,156,968 | 1 | 3 | 9,156,348 | train | <story><title>MySpace: what went wrong – by its former VP of online marketing</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaronchall</author><text>I was an early user of both MySpace and Facebook. MySpace came first. It seemed like an easy way to create a rather customizable web presence. I created a page myself. But the experience sucked. Most customizers turned their MySpace page into a really bad website, with (loud) music that would automatically start up, and you were always a click away from a near-pornographic image (uh, Dad, Mom, no it&#x27;s just MySpace, I&#x27;m not surfing for porn!)<p>The article seems off base. I don&#x27;t get how Facebook avoids being all over the place. But, yeah, they did avoid the obnoxious ads (at first), and I can visit someone&#x27;s page without blasting music or getting an eyeful of html poop.<p>Could they have avoided losing out to Facebook? I think if they created MySpace 2.0 without all the crap (essentially what Facebook did) and made it easy to migrate your accounts and activity, they could have prevented Facebook from taking over social. But they didn&#x27;t, and it was crap, and I basically put up a MySpace message saying I was moving to Facebook for all the reasons, and that&#x27;s where people could find me. And I think a lot of other people followed suit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krrrh</author><text>I totally agree with this, and when Facebook launched it was clear to me that the restrictions it placed on customization of profile pages, and providing smart defaults for layout, don&#x27;t, and color would make social more functional and valuable for most users.<p>But I still appreciate Ze Frank&#x27;s defense of ugly wrt MySpace democratizing design tools, and his observations that the fact that so many people were cutting, modifying, and pasting css was at the time weird and kind of wonderful.<p><a href="http://interconnected.org/home/2012/05/22/ze_frank_on_ugly" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;interconnected.org&#x2F;home&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;22&#x2F;ze_frank_on_ugly</a><p>&gt; As people start learning and experimenting with these languages authorship, they don&#x27;t necessarily follow the rules of good taste. This scares the shit out of designers.
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&gt; In Myspace, millions of people have opted out of pre-made templates that &quot;work&quot; in exchange for ugly. Ugly when compared to pre-existing notions of taste is a bummer. But ugly as a representation of mass experimentation and learning is pretty damn cool.</text></comment> | <story><title>MySpace: what went wrong – by its former VP of online marketing</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaronchall</author><text>I was an early user of both MySpace and Facebook. MySpace came first. It seemed like an easy way to create a rather customizable web presence. I created a page myself. But the experience sucked. Most customizers turned their MySpace page into a really bad website, with (loud) music that would automatically start up, and you were always a click away from a near-pornographic image (uh, Dad, Mom, no it&#x27;s just MySpace, I&#x27;m not surfing for porn!)<p>The article seems off base. I don&#x27;t get how Facebook avoids being all over the place. But, yeah, they did avoid the obnoxious ads (at first), and I can visit someone&#x27;s page without blasting music or getting an eyeful of html poop.<p>Could they have avoided losing out to Facebook? I think if they created MySpace 2.0 without all the crap (essentially what Facebook did) and made it easy to migrate your accounts and activity, they could have prevented Facebook from taking over social. But they didn&#x27;t, and it was crap, and I basically put up a MySpace message saying I was moving to Facebook for all the reasons, and that&#x27;s where people could find me. And I think a lot of other people followed suit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mahn</author><text>&gt; But, yeah, they did avoid the obnoxious ads (at first)<p>I think that&#x27;s debatable, perhaps it wasn&#x27;t as bad as MySpace at the time, but the facebook I joined in 2008 was fairly obnoxious with advertisers using profile pictures of the users left and right; the thought of it becoming a company the size of Google never crossed my mind back then. In retrospect I think they were very lucky not to lose their userbase and traction to a better service when the advertising and application spam got unbearable.</text></comment> |
17,322,703 | 17,322,485 | 1 | 3 | 17,322,097 | train | <story><title>Blooming Password – A banned password check using a bloom filter</title><url>https://www.bloomingpassword.fun/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloomthrowaway</author><text>Sorry to say this, but this is actually worse than just truncating the hash.<p>Why? Bloom filters are designed to maintain a reasonable false positive rate while still allowing you to add items extremely quickly (high insertion rate).<p>Since the bad password list is presumably fixed (or almost so) you can do checks faster and with a lower FP rate by just truncating the hashes and prefix sorting the list ahead of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teraflop</author><text>I get your point but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s accurate. If the list contains 500 million hashes (approximately 2^29), then in order to achieve a false positive rate of 0.001, you must store at least a 39-bit prefix of each hash. A Bloom filter can do better -- approximately 14 bits per entry -- because it uses multiple hash functions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blooming Password – A banned password check using a bloom filter</title><url>https://www.bloomingpassword.fun/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloomthrowaway</author><text>Sorry to say this, but this is actually worse than just truncating the hash.<p>Why? Bloom filters are designed to maintain a reasonable false positive rate while still allowing you to add items extremely quickly (high insertion rate).<p>Since the bad password list is presumably fixed (or almost so) you can do checks faster and with a lower FP rate by just truncating the hashes and prefix sorting the list ahead of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>honoredb</author><text>But that&#x27;s still 12G of memory, since you can&#x27;t compress it. Is there a data structure that&#x27;s better optimized for space and probabilistic membership tests?</text></comment> |
38,391,217 | 38,391,272 | 1 | 3 | 38,344,444 | train | <story><title>Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support</title><url>https://www.notebookcheck.net/Three-chips-in-and-Google-Tensor-is-on-life-support.768438.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>99% of smartphone consumers don&#x27;t care about &#x27;ML performance&#x27; as a primary concern. People care how fast apps open, and battery life. From the perspective, the tensor chips are pigs that nobody is excited about.</text></item><item><author>elromulous</author><text>In general I agree that the tensor hardware has been mostly a disappointment. I mean this more in general performance than in ML.<p>In ML I think the story is a little different. Hardware design&#x2F;production pipelines are measured in years. The LLM &quot;revolution&quot; is relatively recent. For the Pixel8, I imagine some folks at Google had to make the really tough decision of whether to run weaker, smaller models on device, or run the giant LLM models in the cloud, giving <i>much</i> better results, albeit slower (and with ofc the requirement for an Internet connection).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senkora</author><text>iPhones have all sorts of little niceties that are directly enabled by good ML performance. For example, automatic OCR of text within images, even on websites. I think the facial recognition for grouping photos by person is also done locally by the ML chip.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support</title><url>https://www.notebookcheck.net/Three-chips-in-and-Google-Tensor-is-on-life-support.768438.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>99% of smartphone consumers don&#x27;t care about &#x27;ML performance&#x27; as a primary concern. People care how fast apps open, and battery life. From the perspective, the tensor chips are pigs that nobody is excited about.</text></item><item><author>elromulous</author><text>In general I agree that the tensor hardware has been mostly a disappointment. I mean this more in general performance than in ML.<p>In ML I think the story is a little different. Hardware design&#x2F;production pipelines are measured in years. The LLM &quot;revolution&quot; is relatively recent. For the Pixel8, I imagine some folks at Google had to make the really tough decision of whether to run weaker, smaller models on device, or run the giant LLM models in the cloud, giving <i>much</i> better results, albeit slower (and with ofc the requirement for an Internet connection).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>That&#x27;s a bit reductive. They also care if their apps work _well_ – if their pictures look nice, if their dictation is responsive, if their assistant understands queries, if OCR is accurate… which is all about &quot;ML performance&quot;.</text></comment> |
20,883,055 | 20,881,590 | 1 | 3 | 20,877,700 | train | <story><title>Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-04/michael-burry-explains-why-index-funds-are-like-subprime-cdos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptero</author><text>I will try to interpret, but obviously it is just my interpretation (and personally I mostly agree with many theses Burry gave). First, he does not really talk about being a &quot;good citizen&quot; or not. His points are for &quot;greedy citizens&quot; who, in his view, should be worried (about his pocketbook) if he is heavily invested in passive index funds.<p>This is due to his &quot;bigger and bigger crowds, same exits&quot; analogy: individuals easily move through doors at will; but if a crowd rushes out through the same door, injuries happen.<p>His premise is that many stocks that index funds invest in have low liquidity (small door): half of stocks in SP500 trades less than $150M a day. This is tiny (he quotes total market cap of indices of $150 trillion). What happens if there is a small, but synchronized outflow for any reason? If customers ask for 1% of index funds to be sold, index funds <i>have</i> to sell 1% of their holdings in the exact ratios defined by the index, including stocks with low trading volumes. Which is a problem, as there may be no one to sell them to, so prices of those stocks may crash and create a big panic causing additional sales of index funds bringing down bigger chunks of the market.<p>That is the gist of it I think.</text></item><item><author>markbnj</author><text>Not knowledgeable on these matters, so my money is in index funds. Obviously a lot of other people are in the same category as myself. The article seems to be saying we&#x27;d all be better financial citizens if we put our money into actively managed funds, or did our own investing. The latter is out of reach for most people, and with respect to the former it&#x27;s somewhat puzzling that managed funds can&#x27;t consistently outperform index funds (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;active-fund-managers-trail-the-sp-500-for-the-ninth-year-in-a-row-in-triumph-for-indexing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;active-fund-managers-trail-t...</a>), and so the managers of those funds in a strict sense don&#x27;t earn their fees. So what is the average person with a couple bucks to invest supposed to take from this? The market is in peril because not enough money is flowing to people who do a poor job of managing it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blacksqr</author><text>Burry&#x27;s point is not that a lot of indexed stocks are relatively illiquid and thus index funds would have a hard time getting out of them in a serious downturn.<p>His point is that the index funds don&#x27;t own the stocks at all; they trade derivatives like futures and CDO&#x27;s that mimic the movement of the stocks in leveraged fashion, and the more people who dump their money into index funds without doing their own research, the more leveraged the funds become.<p>He&#x27;s warning that in the next serious downturn, over-leverage may cause cascading collapse of index funds and the economy with them, like it did in the mortgage finance crisis.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-04/michael-burry-explains-why-index-funds-are-like-subprime-cdos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptero</author><text>I will try to interpret, but obviously it is just my interpretation (and personally I mostly agree with many theses Burry gave). First, he does not really talk about being a &quot;good citizen&quot; or not. His points are for &quot;greedy citizens&quot; who, in his view, should be worried (about his pocketbook) if he is heavily invested in passive index funds.<p>This is due to his &quot;bigger and bigger crowds, same exits&quot; analogy: individuals easily move through doors at will; but if a crowd rushes out through the same door, injuries happen.<p>His premise is that many stocks that index funds invest in have low liquidity (small door): half of stocks in SP500 trades less than $150M a day. This is tiny (he quotes total market cap of indices of $150 trillion). What happens if there is a small, but synchronized outflow for any reason? If customers ask for 1% of index funds to be sold, index funds <i>have</i> to sell 1% of their holdings in the exact ratios defined by the index, including stocks with low trading volumes. Which is a problem, as there may be no one to sell them to, so prices of those stocks may crash and create a big panic causing additional sales of index funds bringing down bigger chunks of the market.<p>That is the gist of it I think.</text></item><item><author>markbnj</author><text>Not knowledgeable on these matters, so my money is in index funds. Obviously a lot of other people are in the same category as myself. The article seems to be saying we&#x27;d all be better financial citizens if we put our money into actively managed funds, or did our own investing. The latter is out of reach for most people, and with respect to the former it&#x27;s somewhat puzzling that managed funds can&#x27;t consistently outperform index funds (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;active-fund-managers-trail-the-sp-500-for-the-ninth-year-in-a-row-in-triumph-for-indexing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;active-fund-managers-trail-t...</a>), and so the managers of those funds in a strict sense don&#x27;t earn their fees. So what is the average person with a couple bucks to invest supposed to take from this? The market is in peril because not enough money is flowing to people who do a poor job of managing it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OrangeMango</author><text>&gt; What happens if there is a small, but synchronized outflow for any reason? If customers ask for 1% of index funds to be sold, index funds have to sell 1% of their holdings in the exact ratios defined by the index<p>That&#x27;s pretty interesting.<p>In 2019, the average daily trading volume of Berkshire Hathaway (class A) was 0.04% of the total shares outstanding. If all people that held this stock were forced to sell 1% of the total shares outstanding, look out!<p>On the other hand, Roku has averaged 15.6% this year, with a standard deviation of 10. 1% of total shares isn&#x27;t even going to be noticed.</text></comment> |
40,352,869 | 40,351,844 | 1 | 3 | 40,342,008 | train | <story><title>A Pattern Language</title><url>https://patternlanguage.cc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>no_identd</author><text>To quote Dorian Taylor[no affiliation, albeit we do follow each other on Twitter &amp; BlueSky] from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;doriantaylor&#x2F;status&#x2F;1585008553554677762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;doriantaylor&#x2F;status&#x2F;1585008553554677762</a>:<p>&quot;Chances are if you&#x27;re in software or digital design, you&#x27;ve heard of the book A Pattern Language, well, you may not be aware that Christopher Alexander effectively renounced patterns in 1996 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;98LdFA-_zfA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;98LdFA-_zfA</a>). He said he had something better…<p>The problem is, that better something happens to be four books and 2500 pages, and weigh 12 pounds. And, it&#x27;s about buildings, not software. So my service to you is interpreting the text for software, and cutting the reading down by an order of magnitude.&quot;<p>That &quot;something better&quot; being Christopher Alexander&#x27;s Opus Magnum, &quot;The Nature of Order&quot;. Dorian&#x27;s working on this under the name &quot;The Nature of Software&quot; here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;the.natureof.software&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;the.natureof.software&#x2F;</a><p>And here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttondown.email&#x2F;natureofsoftware&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttondown.email&#x2F;natureofsoftware&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Pattern Language</title><url>https://patternlanguage.cc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>This book (and the timeless way of building) were so important when we designed our house with our architect.<p>Two points that have stuck with me in the decades since:<p>1- find the nicest place in your property and <i>don’t</i> build there<p>2- corridors are wasted space because you travel through them and don’t linger. In the end we had only one corridor like space, and it had glass walls on all sides (one side was doors open all summer) so you felt like you were outside, plus it expanded so there was a place to sit.<p>The two page chapter structure works well for this. The Society of Mind uses the same structure.</text></comment> |
6,522,016 | 6,522,014 | 1 | 2 | 6,521,522 | train | <story><title>Future instruction set: AVX-512</title><url>http://agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=288</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>Is there a good place to begin to learn about this stuff from the ground up? Maybe a user friendly compiler written for the purpose of education?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hvs</author><text>From the ground up? Well, there&#x27;s always the source:<p><a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;www&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;processors&#x2F;architectu...</a><p>For learning assembly? For MASM I enjoyed this book years ago:<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Intel-Based-Computers-5th/dp/0132383101/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Assembly-Language-Intel-Based-Computer...</a><p>For GAS something like this might be more appropriate:<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Assembly-Language-Richard-Blum/dp/0764579010/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381333909&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=assembly+language" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Professional-Assembly-Language-Richard...</a><p>Patterson &amp; Hennessy is used a lot in colleges to teach low-level architecture and assembly:<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Fifth-Quantitative-Approach/dp/012383872X/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Architecture-Fifth-Quantitati...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Future instruction set: AVX-512</title><url>http://agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=288</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>Is there a good place to begin to learn about this stuff from the ground up? Maybe a user friendly compiler written for the purpose of education?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minimax</author><text>The shallow end of the pool is simple RISC CPUs e.g. Atmel 8-bit AVR. The complete instruction manual is something like 160 pages (compare to x86 at 3k+) and there are tons of beginner resources for doing assembler on those chips.</text></comment> |
14,881,584 | 14,881,452 | 1 | 2 | 14,880,659 | train | <story><title>Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>I don&#x27;t get your complaint at all. What would you rather have them do? What would &quot;sticking to their guns&quot; involve?<p>Or would you rather have them not &quot;make so much noise&quot; about social justice?</text></item><item><author>xienze</author><text>&gt; You cannot do business in China without doing what they tell you.<p>Of course, I get that. But it&#x27;s always companies like Apple that make so much noise about social justice who don&#x27;t stick to their guns when China&#x27;s involved.</text></item><item><author>coldcode</author><text>You cannot do business in China without doing what they tell you. Period. Either you do it or you leave. I work for a big company (you would all know) and we have a large business unit in China, they own 52% of it. They decide what goes in and how customers can use it. We don&#x27;t get to decide anything without government approval. It&#x27;s so easy to claim the West shouldn&#x27;t do what the leadership of China wants in China, but in reality the only alternative is to abandon China to those who will do what they are ordered to. The market is too large to leave. If you don&#x27;t agree to their rules you don&#x27;t play in their sandbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>honksillet</author><text>Don&#x27;t do business in china! It&#x27;s that simple. If you can&#x27;t do business in a local without getting blood on your hands, then don&#x27;t do business there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>I don&#x27;t get your complaint at all. What would you rather have them do? What would &quot;sticking to their guns&quot; involve?<p>Or would you rather have them not &quot;make so much noise&quot; about social justice?</text></item><item><author>xienze</author><text>&gt; You cannot do business in China without doing what they tell you.<p>Of course, I get that. But it&#x27;s always companies like Apple that make so much noise about social justice who don&#x27;t stick to their guns when China&#x27;s involved.</text></item><item><author>coldcode</author><text>You cannot do business in China without doing what they tell you. Period. Either you do it or you leave. I work for a big company (you would all know) and we have a large business unit in China, they own 52% of it. They decide what goes in and how customers can use it. We don&#x27;t get to decide anything without government approval. It&#x27;s so easy to claim the West shouldn&#x27;t do what the leadership of China wants in China, but in reality the only alternative is to abandon China to those who will do what they are ordered to. The market is too large to leave. If you don&#x27;t agree to their rules you don&#x27;t play in their sandbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tziki</author><text>They could always do what Google did and abandon China.</text></comment> |
35,105,185 | 35,105,079 | 1 | 3 | 35,104,866 | train | <story><title>$3.3B of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB</title><url>https://twitter.com/circle/status/1634391505988206592</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>It&#x27;s totally incredible that Circle, owned in big part by Coinbase, a HN unicorn which always tried to do things legally, ends up probably losing $1bn (about 30% of of $3.3 bn) due to good old regular banks doing what they do best: making customers deposits disappear.<p>Now Circle is sitting on $30 bn in short term US treasuries backing USDC and I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re forced to give the yield back to people holding USDC, so Circle has to be minting something like, what, 1 billion yearly now that rates went up?<p>So they may be able to get away with eating a $1 bn loss.<p>Meanwhile the tether&#x2F;Bitfinex fraud in the Bahamas is continuing to do just fine and its Circle&#x2F;Coinbase&#x2F;USDC that happen to be in trouble.<p>Because of an actual bank unrelated to crypto.</text></comment> | <story><title>$3.3B of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB</title><url>https://twitter.com/circle/status/1634391505988206592</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whoisjuan</author><text>People say that this SVB fail is isolated and idiosyncratic but I see a lot of stress in the system.<p>If there&#x27;s no solution to this debacle by Monday this is going to keep cascading with no predictable trajectory of where it ends.</text></comment> |
9,852,888 | 9,852,833 | 1 | 2 | 9,852,294 | train | <story><title>NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols</title><url>https://www.nyse.com/market-status/history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>This isn&#x27;t much of an issue for traders That&#x27;s a nice benefit of having 40+ trading venues in the US. They had problems at the open as well with connectivity on one of their gateways.<p>Issues like this crop up all the time and most of the time they are resolved before the open.
The good news is that they aren&#x27;t reporting any lost trades or trade busts yet so this isn&#x27;t as bad as the BATS open at BATS:)<p>Having said that, they&#x27;ve announced that they will cancel all open orders, that is a huge deal, I can&#x27;t remember the last time they did that.<p>To put that into perspective, cancelling all open orders would be the Silicon Valley equivalent of Ebay loosing all bids on their current auctions.<p>NYSE has always been considered second rate in their IT compared to the NASDAQ and BATS and this won&#x27;t do much for their reputation.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> meant BATS not FB, thanks!<p>One other point to keep in mind when throwing around hacking conspiracies. The exchanges aren&#x27;t running on public networks. You can&#x27;t DDOS them or hack directly into the matching engines. Though I&#x27;m sure you can break in via some other NYSE owned network and make your way to the matching engine somehow.<p>To hook into the exchange you either go through a blessed intermediary like GS or you plug directly in via colocation. You just can&#x27;t keep pinging the NYSE on port 80 to bring it down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonu</author><text>Actually, the FB IPO open fiasco was on Nasdaq not BATS. Nasdaq, has had way more serious issues in the last 2 or 3 years that I can recall compared to NYSE.<p>[EDIT] The BATS issue you may have been referring to is BATS IPO when they tried to list on their own exchange. The technology failed miserably that day, so much so that they decided to pull the IPO altogether. One of the biggest fails I can think of.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols</title><url>https://www.nyse.com/market-status/history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>This isn&#x27;t much of an issue for traders That&#x27;s a nice benefit of having 40+ trading venues in the US. They had problems at the open as well with connectivity on one of their gateways.<p>Issues like this crop up all the time and most of the time they are resolved before the open.
The good news is that they aren&#x27;t reporting any lost trades or trade busts yet so this isn&#x27;t as bad as the BATS open at BATS:)<p>Having said that, they&#x27;ve announced that they will cancel all open orders, that is a huge deal, I can&#x27;t remember the last time they did that.<p>To put that into perspective, cancelling all open orders would be the Silicon Valley equivalent of Ebay loosing all bids on their current auctions.<p>NYSE has always been considered second rate in their IT compared to the NASDAQ and BATS and this won&#x27;t do much for their reputation.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> meant BATS not FB, thanks!<p>One other point to keep in mind when throwing around hacking conspiracies. The exchanges aren&#x27;t running on public networks. You can&#x27;t DDOS them or hack directly into the matching engines. Though I&#x27;m sure you can break in via some other NYSE owned network and make your way to the matching engine somehow.<p>To hook into the exchange you either go through a blessed intermediary like GS or you plug directly in via colocation. You just can&#x27;t keep pinging the NYSE on port 80 to bring it down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrdrozdov</author><text>I&#x27;m really happy to see that they&#x27;re canceling all open orders. It&#x27;s much better than letting them stick around and then execute with unexpected behavior. It looks like NYSE learned from what happened related the FB opening (just as you alluded to), and what happened with Knight around the same time. Playing it safe can be a smart move, even in the stock market.</text></comment> |
3,367,182 | 3,367,038 | 1 | 3 | 3,366,894 | train | <story><title>Crunchfund VC</title><url>http://crunchfund.vc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kloncks</author><text>Creator of the page over here.<p>Woke up to a really nice surprise here, especially having made this page two months ago. Submitting it to HN wasn't my plan; someone else randomly found the page and did that. Yes, indeed, it's Kout.me...if you care more, here's a short description:<p>Kout is a dead-simple eCommerce platform that enables anyone, anywhere to be a merchant across any platform with ease, elegance and simplicity. We make it fast &#38; easy to both sell items and collect money online and do this by generating a simple one-page checkout that corresponds to a unique URL. We're also doing really cool things with dynamic pricing, payments, as well as social &#38; mobile commerce.<p>Ah. I love HN.</text></comment> | <story><title>Crunchfund VC</title><url>http://crunchfund.vc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kmfrk</author><text>I think it's a clever and bold move that fits the target demographic of Michael Arrington. :)<p>If it weren't Arrington, I might find it a little skeezy, but .vc domains aren't that desirable anyway.</text></comment> |
17,613,975 | 17,613,847 | 1 | 3 | 17,613,442 | train | <story><title>Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast misses</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-stock-crushed-after-revenue-user-growth-miss-2018-07-25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdev</author><text>&gt; Wehner also said Facebook still expects expenses to grow 50% to 60% from last year<p>&gt; “But as I’ve said on past calls, we’re investing so much in security that it will significantly impact our profitability,” Zuckerberg said. “We’re starting to see that this quarter.”<p>That sounds like a big 1-year jump. From what I can tell, the big Facebook scandals (fake news, Cambridge Analytica) came from faults in company policies rather than security glitches.<p>I wonder if labeling it &quot;security&quot; is a PR thing as their web ads all focus on FB taking active steps to make sure those types of scandals don&#x27;t happen again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>I was directly involved in one of those &#x27;incidents&#x27; several years back where FB gave our app a special API that others did not have. This was because it was easier for us to build the &#x27;FB experience&#x27; for their users, than it was for FB themselves. It was clean, legit, above board and secure.<p>It&#x27;s astonishing how different the &#x27;media narrative&#x27; is from reality, and it confirms my belief that the press runs on such narratives (i.e. building up, crashing down) because in both directions the truth is inflated for dramatic, i.e. click-bait reasons.<p>Our large company built a very good FB app that effectively was &#x27;FB&#x27; on our platform. It was FB branded - for users, it was effectively the &#x27;real&#x27; (and only) FB. Obviously that app had to have special APIs.<p>Everyone involved from top to bottom was pro. We didn&#x27;t store data, nor did we want or need to. The way the tech was setup (data goes to app), we didn&#x27;t really have the option. Users logged into their own accounts and retrieved their data, it&#x27;s not like we could just access data arbitrarily.<p>Everything was pro and above bar - and nobody in the equation - a lot of us regular, conscientious people - thought for a second that anything was wrong or irregular in any context.<p>In fact - the whole situation could be described as: &quot;FB hired 3rd parties to develop some code&quot;, which surely they do in some circumstances.<p>Nobody was harmed in any way, and there really wasn&#x27;t risk of anyone being harmed.<p>I understand that with 2018 hindsight, we might look at things a little differently, but in reality, I think we&#x27;d have <i>still</i> done it. Perhaps there would have been more checks and assurances (i.e. FB takes ownership of code and actually publishes the app), but in reality it was (and would still be) fine.<p>As far as the Cambridge story - this is also misleading because the API&#x27;s that were used there were available to the <i>entire world</i> and everyone knew exactly what they were. Were there tech people screaming foul? The press? Not really, they seemed reasonable, until it seemed that some bad agents were getting a little unscrupulous, and so FB did the right thing and altered the APIs to make them more secure. Security polices change all the time, in this case they tightened up given some field data. That&#x27;s it.<p>It&#x27;s really a story about Cambridge&#x27;s scammy behaviour, and possibly lies to FB on where that data was, not about FB.<p>I don&#x27;t like Facebook, I don&#x27;t use it, I don&#x27;t like being &#x27;productized&#x27; etc. etc. - but I don&#x27;t feel that the information in these scenarios has been properly handled by the media.<p>Because there are legitimate issues with privacy in the new world order in 2018 that are finally coming to bear, and we definitely want to re-evaluate our situation with FB, basically, we go and dig up &#x27;something that happened 10 years ago in which nobody was harmed&#x27; to build a &#x27;kind of misleading narrative&#x27; around the the &#x27;legitimate issue&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast misses</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-stock-crushed-after-revenue-user-growth-miss-2018-07-25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdev</author><text>&gt; Wehner also said Facebook still expects expenses to grow 50% to 60% from last year<p>&gt; “But as I’ve said on past calls, we’re investing so much in security that it will significantly impact our profitability,” Zuckerberg said. “We’re starting to see that this quarter.”<p>That sounds like a big 1-year jump. From what I can tell, the big Facebook scandals (fake news, Cambridge Analytica) came from faults in company policies rather than security glitches.<p>I wonder if labeling it &quot;security&quot; is a PR thing as their web ads all focus on FB taking active steps to make sure those types of scandals don&#x27;t happen again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggg9990</author><text>A lot of their security&#x2F;policy work is hiring tons of humans to fix things. For example they are hiring an additional 10,000 content moderators. That will obviously impact profitability.</text></comment> |
41,088,222 | 41,085,810 | 1 | 2 | 41,036,663 | train | <story><title>Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)</title><url>https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freetanga</author><text>I think the genre has gotten smaller, but higher quality. Games are more a work of love than a marketing hype.<p>Thimbleweed Park, Kathy Rain, whispers of a machine, Disco Elyseum, Unusual Findings, Sexy Brutale, Darside Detective, blacksad, obra-dimm, takes two, Orwell, unheard, shadows of a doubt, 12 minutes…<p>I actually enjoy these slow-burn games a lot</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gormo</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget Wadjet Eye&#x27;s entire catalog, including the Blackwell series and especially Primordia, Resonance, and Technobabylon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)</title><url>https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freetanga</author><text>I think the genre has gotten smaller, but higher quality. Games are more a work of love than a marketing hype.<p>Thimbleweed Park, Kathy Rain, whispers of a machine, Disco Elyseum, Unusual Findings, Sexy Brutale, Darside Detective, blacksad, obra-dimm, takes two, Orwell, unheard, shadows of a doubt, 12 minutes…<p>I actually enjoy these slow-burn games a lot</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmiller1</author><text>To be entirely fair, the guy who wrote this article CREATED Thimbleweed Park.</text></comment> |
1,421,405 | 1,421,331 | 1 | 3 | 1,421,244 | train | <story><title>Hello, Lua. (Apple opens door to interpreters on iOS devices)</title><url>http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/06/10/hello-lua/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fictorial</author><text>The title and blurb is misleading.<p>You need permission from Apple on an application by application basis. Interpreted code is to be used in a "minor way" for "minor features". Thus, writing an entire iOS app in an interpreted language (such as Lua) does not seem likely to be allowed.<p>I'm not a lawyer though. Of course, Apple is fickle and contradicts itself often. Indeed, I would not be surprised to find Titanium gets free reign and Corona does not, or vice versa.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hello, Lua. (Apple opens door to interpreters on iOS devices)</title><url>http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/06/10/hello-lua/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evo_9</author><text>Interesting. I'm surprised this change hasn't been covered at all by the tech press.<p>So does this 100% clear the way to use tools like Unity or Appcelerator? I'm particularly interested in Appcelerator (starting a droid/iPhone app in a few weeks) and there isn't a clear statement on their website about this change.<p>Update: I've emailed appcelarator about this change and requested clarification; I'll update again when I hear back.<p>Update 2: still no word from Appcelerator. I've spent some time digging through their forums and I think they just don't know what's going on either. It seems like they are just waiting to see what happens today when people start to submit iOS 4 Apps. I guess we'll know the answer becaus of this either way, hopefully soon.</text></comment> |
33,091,329 | 33,091,293 | 1 | 2 | 33,085,410 | train | <story><title>Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/feds-seized-311m-in-bitcoin-btc-the-crypto-hacker-stole-it-back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw101010</author><text>&gt; The prosecutors accuse Harmon of a very unusual crime: remotely swiping Bitcoin...<p>As opposed to what, &quot;locally&quot; swiping Bitcoin?<p>&gt; ... Bitcoin stored on a computer device the government had already seized in another case<p>Yeah that&#x27;s your problem Mr. Prosecutor, you have no idea where bitcoins are &quot;stored&quot; or what the device you have seized is. Which leads me to think you are not qualified to &quot;seize&quot; this type of assets.<p>It&#x27;s 2022, Bitcoin has been working practically non-stop since 2009, and governments and the medias have been claiming that only criminals&#x2F;terrorists use Bitcoin for almost as long... you would think people in his position would know what private keys are and how to secure Bitcoin funds they pretend to &quot;seize&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s simple, like all crypto newbies this prosecutor has just learned: Not your keys, not your coins.<p>This apllies if you have keys and you are not certain you are the only one to have them... anyone else with these keys can&#x2F;will most likely claim them before you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonas21</author><text>Uh, those are the reporter&#x27;s words, not the prosecutor&#x27;s.<p>If you read the indictment [1], the word &quot;remotely&quot; never appears, and it&#x27;s pretty clear the prosecutors understand how Bitcoin works.<p>If anyone&#x27;s clueless here, it&#x27;s Gary Harmon, who showed up at his brother&#x27;s court hearing, learned that the government had not yet secured the Bitcoin that it legally had a right to, then almost immediately moved that Bitcoin to other wallets, and... just figured nobody would notice?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;521749057&#x2F;USA-v-Gary-Harmon-Indictment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;521749057&#x2F;USA-v-Gary-Harmon-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/feds-seized-311m-in-bitcoin-btc-the-crypto-hacker-stole-it-back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw101010</author><text>&gt; The prosecutors accuse Harmon of a very unusual crime: remotely swiping Bitcoin...<p>As opposed to what, &quot;locally&quot; swiping Bitcoin?<p>&gt; ... Bitcoin stored on a computer device the government had already seized in another case<p>Yeah that&#x27;s your problem Mr. Prosecutor, you have no idea where bitcoins are &quot;stored&quot; or what the device you have seized is. Which leads me to think you are not qualified to &quot;seize&quot; this type of assets.<p>It&#x27;s 2022, Bitcoin has been working practically non-stop since 2009, and governments and the medias have been claiming that only criminals&#x2F;terrorists use Bitcoin for almost as long... you would think people in his position would know what private keys are and how to secure Bitcoin funds they pretend to &quot;seize&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s simple, like all crypto newbies this prosecutor has just learned: Not your keys, not your coins.<p>This apllies if you have keys and you are not certain you are the only one to have them... anyone else with these keys can&#x2F;will most likely claim them before you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FormerBandmate</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s simple, like all crypto newbies this prosecutor has just learned: Not your keys, not your coins.<p>The US government can throw your ass in prison for the rest of your life so yes, it is their coins. This is the basis of all government power and in a lot of cases, like this, it&#x27;s good</text></comment> |
38,134,644 | 38,134,765 | 1 | 2 | 38,134,381 | train | <story><title>Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024</title><url>https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rco8786</author><text>&gt; the text editor<p>This is...not a super accurate way to describe VSCode</text></item><item><author>gberger</author><text>Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code, the text editor, which will remain supported.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>It’s in the same feature family as emacs, Sublime, Notepad++, etc — all of which are called text editors.<p>They all have extension architectures that expand on what that means, but they all cover the same kind of use cases and they all stop short of traditional Integrated Development Environments.<p>Unless you’re saying that none of the others should be called text editors either (a daunting uphill fight against history), it’s an exactly accurate description.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024</title><url>https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rco8786</author><text>&gt; the text editor<p>This is...not a super accurate way to describe VSCode</text></item><item><author>gberger</author><text>Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code, the text editor, which will remain supported.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belfthrow</author><text>From the crappy bolt on things required to make it anywhere close to a decent IDE, it is essentially vim with tons of incompatible plugins that continually conflict one and other.</text></comment> |
25,733,270 | 25,732,887 | 1 | 2 | 25,731,419 | train | <story><title>My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network</title><url>https://carter.sande.duodecima.technology/decentralized-wishlist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>e1ven</author><text>I had written a toy social network a few years back the past which had these features - It worked very much like an encrypted version of usenet.<p>This is probably my bias as an engineer showing, but the technology doesn&#x27;t seem like the hard part-<p>I always understood that having an resilient network means people will use it to post some bad things, but I don&#x27;t know if I really internalized the scope of that until later.<p>I had originally envisioned it might be useful in oppressive countries, where people needed a way to communicate - Recent events have shown how dangerous that can feel when you&#x27;re in the midst of people who feel like that describes them.<p>As another HN post pointed out, there are two natural audiences for such networks - Idealists, and those who can&#x27;t get away with stuff on other networks.. And the second is going to be far more common. That will influence the culture, and help to drive other &quot;good&quot; people away from the service, amplifying the effect.<p>Even if you have user-selectable moderators (Which I had, similar to the request the author makes), without a huge war-chest to hire a large team of default moderators, you&#x27;ll never be able to keep up. The default experience for the average user will be terrible.<p>Over and over, I ran into issues like that - It&#x27;s relatively easy to built the technological network, but managing the social network aspect is an unsolved problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>at_a_remove</author><text>If you have an old-ish head unit in your car, it may receive an RDS (Radio Data System) feed that could tell you what station it is or what song is playing. However, many stations around here are using it to advertise Club Fitness and Golden Oak lending. If you cast further back into the mists of time, anyone could send you a webcam or chatroom invite ... this was naturally exploited by spammers approximately ten milliseconds after its invention.<p>I have since formulated the concept that any communications channel, any at all, where it does not cost to transmit per message will eventually be colonized by the advertising fungal organism. Even low-cost messaging can be colonized, but the lower the cost, the faster it comes.<p>Similarly, like FreeNet, any communications channel that can be used to post Things You Do Not Like <i>will</i> be used to do so. And that once you implement some kind of wide-scale filter against that, absolutely nothing can be done to stop someone from attempting to take over, to add and subtract to that filter, for their own purposes and their own ideology.<p>I have no solutions for this.</text></comment> | <story><title>My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network</title><url>https://carter.sande.duodecima.technology/decentralized-wishlist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>e1ven</author><text>I had written a toy social network a few years back the past which had these features - It worked very much like an encrypted version of usenet.<p>This is probably my bias as an engineer showing, but the technology doesn&#x27;t seem like the hard part-<p>I always understood that having an resilient network means people will use it to post some bad things, but I don&#x27;t know if I really internalized the scope of that until later.<p>I had originally envisioned it might be useful in oppressive countries, where people needed a way to communicate - Recent events have shown how dangerous that can feel when you&#x27;re in the midst of people who feel like that describes them.<p>As another HN post pointed out, there are two natural audiences for such networks - Idealists, and those who can&#x27;t get away with stuff on other networks.. And the second is going to be far more common. That will influence the culture, and help to drive other &quot;good&quot; people away from the service, amplifying the effect.<p>Even if you have user-selectable moderators (Which I had, similar to the request the author makes), without a huge war-chest to hire a large team of default moderators, you&#x27;ll never be able to keep up. The default experience for the average user will be terrible.<p>Over and over, I ran into issues like that - It&#x27;s relatively easy to built the technological network, but managing the social network aspect is an unsolved problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grahamburger</author><text>IMO this is why federation is an important aspect of decentralized networks, and is commonly listed as a reason for use Mastodon &#x2F; the fediverse. Each instance can set their own moderation policies and decide what other instances they want to federate with. Notably mastodon.social and the instances related to it haven&#x27;t become cess pools of hate speech, because they do have strong moderation policies, but for users who want to post that stuff there are other instances they can find.</text></comment> |
21,176,962 | 21,176,998 | 1 | 2 | 21,175,921 | train | <story><title>Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9pz_EmKhA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlEinstein</author><text>If you&#x27;ve not heard of TIS-100 then, given that you&#x27;re currently on a site called &quot;Hacker News&quot;, I heartily recommend it to you: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;tis-100&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;tis-100&#x2F;</a><p>Also excellent is Shenzhen IO: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;shenzhen-io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;shenzhen-io&#x2F;</a><p>Also excellent is everything here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thethirdone</author><text>I would recommend Opus Magnum over TIS-100 even for people on this site. Its the result of the Zachatronics formula having time to grow after SpaceChem.<p>The main reason I personally prefer Opus Magnum is that solving the levels is easy, but optimizing is challenging and rewarding. TIS-100 on the other hand has a higher difficulty to initially solve the puzzles and optimization becomes a little bit of a guessing game. Also having only 3 saved solutions per level makes it hard to optimize without losing past solutions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9pz_EmKhA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlEinstein</author><text>If you&#x27;ve not heard of TIS-100 then, given that you&#x27;re currently on a site called &quot;Hacker News&quot;, I heartily recommend it to you: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;tis-100&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;tis-100&#x2F;</a><p>Also excellent is Shenzhen IO: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;shenzhen-io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;shenzhen-io&#x2F;</a><p>Also excellent is everything here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duskwuff</author><text>Another older but really good Zachtronics game that I like to recommend is KOHCTPYKTOP, which simulates something similar to MOS semiconductor logic. Your job is to build ICs which conform to predefined stimulus&#x2F;response patterns.<p>Unfortunately, it requires Flash, so it may be difficult to get to run in a browser nowadays. Totally worth it, though!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-people&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...</a></text></comment> |
4,019,457 | 4,019,317 | 1 | 2 | 4,019,040 | train | <story><title>API Design - Matt Gemmell</title><url>http://mattgemmell.com/2012/05/24/api-design/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timtadh</author><text>This is a great document. Lots of detail, good recommendations. I recently gave
a short lecture on API design and came up with the following "touchpoints" of
API design. These are sort of general guidelines and a lot less specific than
the article was.<p><i>orthologonal</i> - Properties and methods should not overlap in functionality.
If two methods do sort of the same thing but differently that
is a design issue. They should either do entirely different
things or there should only be one method. Providing two is
confusing and can potentially lead to bugs.<p><i>consistent</i> - Naming of methods, properties and other entities should be
consistent. Example if you have a method "getColor" you should
not have a method "get_width" or "width" or any other variation.
You should stick with one format. In the same way argument orders
should be consistent. For example, if you have a method
"translateCoords(x, y)" you should not have a method
"setTopRight(y, x)". This principle is extensible into other
domains as well (such as exceptions).<p><i>composable</i> - Methods and functions should be reasonably composable. Instead of
creating giant methods which do many things create small methods
which do one thing really well. Then provide a clear way to
compose methods together in order to accomplish a task. In this
way methods do not have to be written which explicitly perform
complex tasks.<p><i>learnable</i> - All design is for naught if the API is not well documented. Much
has been written on the importance of this step but it should be
stressed again. Good documentation can make up for any number of
short comings in the design. So document your api, provide
examples of how to accomplish tasks.<p><i>discoverable</i> - Hand in hand with documentation comes the ability to be able to
naturally discover other parts of an API. This can be provided
in a number of ways based on language and platform. In Python
providing great dynamic help via the "help()" command and
docstrings is a good start. For web APIs consider providing an
"explain" API which returns documentation.</text></comment> | <story><title>API Design - Matt Gemmell</title><url>http://mattgemmell.com/2012/05/24/api-design/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ebun</author><text>"APIs are UX for developers."<p>This simple statement just changed the way that I think about API's.</text></comment> |
13,603,100 | 13,601,121 | 1 | 3 | 13,598,182 | train | <story><title>PICO-8 lighting, part 1: thin dark line</title><url>https://medium.com/@krajzeg/pico-8-lighting-part-1-thin-dark-line-8ea15d21fed7#.2prysaoe5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of how I was watching a friend play a game recently (can&#x27;t remember the name, sadly) with a really clever and unique way of accomplishing line-of-sight lighting effects. It&#x27;s a top-down 2D game, but the engine is 3D, and all level geometry that would block LOS simply projects upward an infinitely tall black tower (with a slight gap between the bottom of the tower and the ground plane, so that you can see enough of the geometry sprites to determine that there&#x27;s a wall there). Combined with a fisheye lens effect on the camera to exaggerate the towers, it&#x27;s a very convincing and artistic effect.<p>EDIT: Found it, it&#x27;s called Teleglitch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iEnS4wPRETw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iEnS4wPRETw</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PICO-8 lighting, part 1: thin dark line</title><url>https://medium.com/@krajzeg/pico-8-lighting-part-1-thin-dark-line-8ea15d21fed7#.2prysaoe5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sleazy_b</author><text>To anyone that&#x27;s remotely interested, I&#x27;d really suggest getting yourself a copy of PICO-8 to fiddle with. When people post their games, they include all the code&#x2F;assets by default, so there&#x27;s a ton of stuff to read and learn from and it generally is a fun tool to mess with. I&#x27;m working on my first Tetris clone atm myself</text></comment> |
22,953,346 | 22,951,856 | 1 | 3 | 22,947,968 | train | <story><title>Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?</title><url>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180338</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>highfrequency</author><text>Is there reason to think that people in the past were more selfless and less economically motivated?<p>I&#x27;d wager that throughout history, most great ideas and optimizations came from people who were either seeking profit or other kinds of status (eg recognition from peers).</text></item><item><author>moosey</author><text>Ideas are easy to find, it&#x27;s just that the bounds that we have been limited to work within, both economically and societally, have become tighter and tighter. Today, the leadership of the vast majority of private institutions have only the goal of increasing their own economic power, and similarly there is constant media production reminding people how important the almighty economy is, causing people to focus on any potential fear of economic pain. Regret being one of the most powerful emotional responses that we have.<p>We don&#x27;t have to look far in any direction for solutions that improve our education systems, our research output, and the general welfare of humanity. Unfortunately, the forces of corruption will always be strong, and it will take a more creative and imaginative people to implement them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>&gt; Is there reason to think that people in the past were more selfless and less economically motivated?<p>Not sure if more selfless but the common ownership of agricultural&#x2F;pastoral land was a thing in the rural parts of my country (Romania) until relatively recently.<p>The community-owned rural pastures (called &quot;islaz&quot;) are the last to go right at this moment, it&#x27;s like seeing the English enclosures play out with 200 years difference right in front of one&#x27;s eyes (the &quot;islaz&quot; from my parents&#x27; village has been sold out to a private entity only 4 or 5 years ago). We also used to have common ownership and common use of the agricultural land in the Middle Ages, with some remnants of that system still extant in some mountainous communities until the late 1700s - early 1800s. They were called &quot;obști&quot; [1]<p>&gt; The obște (pl. obști) was an autonomous agricultural community of the Romanians&#x2F;Vlachs during the Middle Ages. Mixing private and common ownership, the communities generally employed an open field system. The obști were usually based on one or more extended families. This system of organization was similar throughout the Vlach-inhabited areas and it generally receded as overlords assumed more power over the rural communities and as the peasants lost their freedom by becoming serfs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?</title><url>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180338</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>highfrequency</author><text>Is there reason to think that people in the past were more selfless and less economically motivated?<p>I&#x27;d wager that throughout history, most great ideas and optimizations came from people who were either seeking profit or other kinds of status (eg recognition from peers).</text></item><item><author>moosey</author><text>Ideas are easy to find, it&#x27;s just that the bounds that we have been limited to work within, both economically and societally, have become tighter and tighter. Today, the leadership of the vast majority of private institutions have only the goal of increasing their own economic power, and similarly there is constant media production reminding people how important the almighty economy is, causing people to focus on any potential fear of economic pain. Regret being one of the most powerful emotional responses that we have.<p>We don&#x27;t have to look far in any direction for solutions that improve our education systems, our research output, and the general welfare of humanity. Unfortunately, the forces of corruption will always be strong, and it will take a more creative and imaginative people to implement them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>claudiawerner</author><text>&gt; Is there reason to think that people in the past were more selfless and less economically motivated?<p>Perhaps, but perhaps not. The point isn&#x27;t about some innate feature of humans that has only increased recently, but rather that throughout history humans (and the great classes therein) have faced material (not only economic) hardships. It is material conditions which drive history.<p>I think there is a huge dividing line between inventing to seek profit and seeking &quot;other kinds of status&quot;. The only thing in common these motivations have is that they arise due to our relations with other humans. Likewise, many motivations, depending on the predominant point of view (which certainly does change with time and place) can be viewed either altruistically or selfishly. I&#x27;d wager that a cynical society, or one dominated by the totalizing logic of capital (&quot;accumulate!&quot;) would have a tendency to see previous motivations as selfish, because it&#x27;s very hard to empathize with people through history. In other words, we view things in a certain way because it is unimaginable to us to see it any other way, since we have no experience with those times and places and the motivations therein.<p>The ancient world is filled with proverbs and sayings and stories of heroism for some kind of greater good, certainly without looking for some kind of profit, and more often than not, without looking for some kind of recognition. As to whether these are just stories we tell or whether there is some truth to them is an important question. It&#x27;s probably worth asking anthropology, or at the very least sociology. The latter has discovered huge changes in public consciousness since the industrial revolution.</text></comment> |
39,490,662 | 39,490,252 | 1 | 2 | 39,481,670 | train | <story><title>I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic</title><url>https://every.to/chain-of-thought/i-spent-a-week-with-gemini-pro-1-5-it-s-fantastic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eliezer</author><text>This is a slightly strange article to read if you happen to <i>be</i> Eliezer Yudkowsky. Just saying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>firtoz</author><text>Can you please let me know your exact thoughts and feelings as verbosely as possible? I&#x27;m training a very specific AI model and need this data - just kidding.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic</title><url>https://every.to/chain-of-thought/i-spent-a-week-with-gemini-pro-1-5-it-s-fantastic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eliezer</author><text>This is a slightly strange article to read if you happen to <i>be</i> Eliezer Yudkowsky. Just saying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aChattuio</author><text>You are Eliezer?<p>You wrote the HP fan fiction?<p>Cool, your ff was the first.one I ever read and loved the take on it :)</text></comment> |
22,265,809 | 22,263,315 | 1 | 3 | 22,262,339 | train | <story><title>Migrating to CockroachDB</title><url>https://www.openmymind.net/Migrating-To-CockroachDB/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianpgordon</author><text>&gt; if you want password-authentication, you must configure your cluster to communicate using certificates. You can start each node in &quot;insecure&quot; mode, but then can&#x27;t use password authentication. There&#x27;s a issue about this. Like the people posting there, our network is already secured, so this requirement is just an unnecessary nuisance.<p>Eh, I&#x27;m not sure how I feel about this. Obviously you should secure your network as best you can, but how confident are you really that a bad actor will <i>never</i> find a foothold anywhere in your network? I think I would advocate for your services to all communicate securely (TLS et al), even internally, and if your database supports mutual client&#x2F;server auth like it sounds like Cockroach does then you should use that as well. Particularly if you&#x27;re depending on at-rest encryption handled transparently by the DBMS to protect your users&#x27; data - that won&#x27;t do you much good if someone can just sniff&#x2F;MITM network traffic and wait until a bunch of your data has been queried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>I roll my eyes so hard at people who say &quot;well our network is secured, so it can insecure on the inside&quot; I&#x27;m surprised I don&#x27;t have a repetitive stress injury by now. It shows a shocking lack of foresight and is honestly insanely unprofessional. This is the exact same kind of opinions that lead to just about every major data breach in recent memory.<p>Secure everything, and assume that everything is compromised. Anything less is downright negligent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Migrating to CockroachDB</title><url>https://www.openmymind.net/Migrating-To-CockroachDB/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianpgordon</author><text>&gt; if you want password-authentication, you must configure your cluster to communicate using certificates. You can start each node in &quot;insecure&quot; mode, but then can&#x27;t use password authentication. There&#x27;s a issue about this. Like the people posting there, our network is already secured, so this requirement is just an unnecessary nuisance.<p>Eh, I&#x27;m not sure how I feel about this. Obviously you should secure your network as best you can, but how confident are you really that a bad actor will <i>never</i> find a foothold anywhere in your network? I think I would advocate for your services to all communicate securely (TLS et al), even internally, and if your database supports mutual client&#x2F;server auth like it sounds like Cockroach does then you should use that as well. Particularly if you&#x27;re depending on at-rest encryption handled transparently by the DBMS to protect your users&#x27; data - that won&#x27;t do you much good if someone can just sniff&#x2F;MITM network traffic and wait until a bunch of your data has been queried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jupp0r</author><text>I came here to mention this, too. It&#x27;s been shown from numerous leaks that defense in depth is a much more effective approach than simply relying on network security.<p>You mention that query response data can be sniffed by an attacker in case networks are compromised. The much worse scenario is that the passwords themselves can be intercepted, giving attackers full access.</text></comment> |
1,926,960 | 1,926,081 | 1 | 2 | 1,924,923 | train | <story><title>A Collection of Useful .gitignore Templates</title><url>http://github.com/github/gitignore</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pilif</author><text>I'm of the opinion that artifacts of IDEs an OSes should not be part of a projects .gitignore. After all, different people could be using different environments for development and I really don't see the need for a projects .gitignore to contain the subset of all possible artifacts.<p>Use .git/info/exclude or a repository independent personal .gitignore for this.<p>The projects file is for files created by running the code or maybe some unavoidable build artifacts happening in all cases (.o files for example)<p>I really hate commits with messages like "updating .gitignore for Joe's new IDE"</text></comment> | <story><title>A Collection of Useful .gitignore Templates</title><url>http://github.com/github/gitignore</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avar</author><text>Some projects like Git itself refuse to add editor droppings like <i>~ and #</i> to .gitignore. They consider the .gitignore file to be <i>only</i> for things that the build system produces, e.g. *.o and binaries.<p>If you want to ignore things that your editor adds you should add it in .git/info/excludes, not .gitignore.</text></comment> |
4,732,362 | 4,731,820 | 1 | 3 | 4,731,356 | train | <story><title>More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed </title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=bcode%3D&oq=bcode%3D&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=inurl:bcode%3D%5B*%5D%2Bn_m%3D%5B*%5D+site:facebook.com&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&filter=0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=8c0bb27d33614e56&bpcl=37189454&biw=1560&bih=698</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkjones</author><text>My name is Matt Jones, and I work on the Facbook security team that looked into this tonight. We only send these URLs to the email address of the account owner for their ease of use and never make them publicly available. Even then we put protection in place to reduce the likelihood that anyone else could click through to the account.<p>For a search engine to come across these links, the content of the emails would need to have been posted online (e.g. via throwaway email sites, as someone pointed out - or people whose email addresses go to email lists with online archives).<p>As jpadvo surmised, the nonces expire after a period of time. They also only work for certain users, and even then we run additional security checks to make sure it looks like the account owner who's logging in. Regardless, due to some of these links being disclosed, we've turned the feature off until we can better ensure its security for users whose email contents are publicly visible. We are also securing the accounts of anyone who recently logged in through this flow.<p>In the future if you run into something that looks like a security problem with Facebook, feel free to disclose it responsibly through our whitehat program: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitehat" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/whitehat</a>. That way, in addition to making some money, you can avoid a bunch of script kiddies exploiting whatever the issue is that you've found.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blauwbilgorgel</author><text>Since this is already out there as a known issue, and concerns Google too, check out:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22wants+to+be+friends+on+Facebook%22+%22If+you+don%27t+want+to+receive+these+emails+from+Facebook+in+the+future%22" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=%22wants+to+be+friends+on+Fa...</a><p>And you'll find at the time of writing 250.000 more results where the "wants to be friends" email with the auto-login link is posted on blogs. Many of these blogs are also hacked, in that they redirect you to Russian dating sites if you visit the homepage.<p>An example of such a blog with password reset email is:
<a href="http://papajimummyji.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://papajimummyji.blogspot.com/</a><p>An example of a spam-redirecting blog is:
<a href="http://demiansyahhh.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://demiansyahhh.blogspot.com/</a> (possibly unsafe)<p>For some more Facebook reset emails see:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22You+recently+asked+to+reset+your+Facebook+password.%22+%22this+message+was+sent+to%22" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=%22You+recently+asked+to+res...</a><p>EDIT: Twitter emails are also exposed:
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Forgot+your+Twitter+password%3F+Get+instructions+on+how+to+reset+it.%22+site%3Ablogspot.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Forgot+your+Twitter+passw...</a><p>Youtube emails:
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22YouTube+sends+email+summaries+like+these+so+you+can+keep+up+with+your+channel+subscriptions.%22+site%3Ablogspot.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=%22YouTube+sends+email+summa...</a><p>Twoo emails:
<a href="https://www.google.nl/search?q=%22Massive+Media+NV%2C+Emile+Braunplein+18%2C+9000+Ghent%2C+Belgium+BE0834322338%22+site%3Ablogspot.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.nl/search?q=%22Massive+Media+NV%2C+Emile+...</a><p>And likely more web services.</text></comment> | <story><title>More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed </title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=bcode%3D&oq=bcode%3D&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=inurl:bcode%3D%5B*%5D%2Bn_m%3D%5B*%5D+site:facebook.com&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&filter=0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=8c0bb27d33614e56&bpcl=37189454&biw=1560&bih=698</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkjones</author><text>My name is Matt Jones, and I work on the Facbook security team that looked into this tonight. We only send these URLs to the email address of the account owner for their ease of use and never make them publicly available. Even then we put protection in place to reduce the likelihood that anyone else could click through to the account.<p>For a search engine to come across these links, the content of the emails would need to have been posted online (e.g. via throwaway email sites, as someone pointed out - or people whose email addresses go to email lists with online archives).<p>As jpadvo surmised, the nonces expire after a period of time. They also only work for certain users, and even then we run additional security checks to make sure it looks like the account owner who's logging in. Regardless, due to some of these links being disclosed, we've turned the feature off until we can better ensure its security for users whose email contents are publicly visible. We are also securing the accounts of anyone who recently logged in through this flow.<p>In the future if you run into something that looks like a security problem with Facebook, feel free to disclose it responsibly through our whitehat program: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitehat" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/whitehat</a>. That way, in addition to making some money, you can avoid a bunch of script kiddies exploiting whatever the issue is that you've found.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazyjones</author><text>The URLs don't need to be posted online. Some browsers (Chrome, possibly Firefox with Safe Browsing mode, very likely any browser with a Google Toolbar installed) send visited URLs to Google and they will be indexed. I don't know if this is officially documented by Google, but several people have reported seeing this while testing new/beta websites that weren't published or linked anywhere.</text></comment> |
35,407,070 | 35,406,395 | 1 | 2 | 35,404,025 | train | <story><title>Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3588242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dylan16807</author><text>&gt; C23 furthermore gives the compiler license to use an unreachable annotation on one code path to justify removing, without notice or warning, an entirely different code path that is not marked unreachable: see the discussion of puts() in Example 1 on page 316 of N3054.9<p>I don&#x27;t agree with that description at all. Here&#x27;s the code:<p><pre><code> 1 if (argc &lt;= 2)
2 unreachable();
3 else
4 return printf(&quot;%s: we see %s&quot;, argv[0], argv[1]);
5 return puts(&quot;this should never be reached&quot;);
</code></pre>
The only code path that&#x27;s &quot;entirely different&quot; is lines 1,4,5 and in that case of course you remove a return that&#x27;s after a return.<p>And the other valid code path is 1,2,5, which has `puts` after `unreachable`.<p>To need `puts` you have to imagine a code path that gets past the &quot;if&quot; without taking either branch?<p>Maybe the author means something by &quot;code path&quot; that&#x27;s very different from how I interpret it?<p>I would be pretty surprised if the above code means something different from:<p><pre><code> if (argc &lt;= 2) {
unreachable();
return puts(&quot;this should never be reached&quot;);
} else {
return printf(&quot;%s: we see %s&quot;, argv[0], argv[1]);
return puts(&quot;this should never be reached&quot;);
}</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ternaryoperator</author><text>This reminds me of a point made by the late Stan Kelly-Bootle, who for years wrote the Devil&#x27;s Advocate column in UNIX Review magazine. In the early 1990s, he was discussing Microsoft&#x27;s new C compiler and noted that in the promo material for the new compiler, it showed a benchmark for a loop that counted from 1 to 10,000 then printed &quot;Hello&quot;. MS claimed that without optimization it took a few milliseconds, after optimization: 0 ms. A small asterisk explained the optimizer simply removed the loop. Kelly-Bootle pointed out, that the only reason a developer would write such a loop was to introduce a needed delay. Therefore, deleting the loop was not optimizing, but in fact pessimizing. And so, it was in fact Microsoft&#x27;s Pessimizing C compiler.</text></comment> | <story><title>Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3588242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dylan16807</author><text>&gt; C23 furthermore gives the compiler license to use an unreachable annotation on one code path to justify removing, without notice or warning, an entirely different code path that is not marked unreachable: see the discussion of puts() in Example 1 on page 316 of N3054.9<p>I don&#x27;t agree with that description at all. Here&#x27;s the code:<p><pre><code> 1 if (argc &lt;= 2)
2 unreachable();
3 else
4 return printf(&quot;%s: we see %s&quot;, argv[0], argv[1]);
5 return puts(&quot;this should never be reached&quot;);
</code></pre>
The only code path that&#x27;s &quot;entirely different&quot; is lines 1,4,5 and in that case of course you remove a return that&#x27;s after a return.<p>And the other valid code path is 1,2,5, which has `puts` after `unreachable`.<p>To need `puts` you have to imagine a code path that gets past the &quot;if&quot; without taking either branch?<p>Maybe the author means something by &quot;code path&quot; that&#x27;s very different from how I interpret it?<p>I would be pretty surprised if the above code means something different from:<p><pre><code> if (argc &lt;= 2) {
unreachable();
return puts(&quot;this should never be reached&quot;);
} else {
return printf(&quot;%s: we see %s&quot;, argv[0], argv[1]);
return puts(&quot;this should never be reached&quot;);
}</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wahern</author><text>I think the point is that if the `argc &lt;= 2` path is unreachable, then that means argc is <i>always</i> greater than 2, permitting the compiler to optimize the entire block to just:<p><pre><code> return printf(&quot;%s: we see %s&quot;, argv[0], argv[1]);
</code></pre>
IOW, the conditional has been elided. But you&#x27;re right in that the wording of the complaint doesn&#x27;t match the example. The author presumably had in mind some of the more infamous NULL pointer-related optimizations, without spending the time to put together a properly analogous example.</text></comment> |
28,503,062 | 28,502,361 | 1 | 2 | 28,500,040 | train | <story><title>Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers?</title><url>https://gist.github.com/rain-1/c4be54e6506116c7b99e8f474a3b1ca8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>H8crilA</author><text>Just remember that &quot;netsplits&quot; exist in every distributed system, be it a chat app or a database. It&#x27;s just the CAP theorem. IRC has chosen to sacrifice C (consistency).<p>The only thing that changed in the modern times is that the P (partitions) are extremely rare in modern high octane cloud infrastructures. Also, modern solutions often decide to sacrifice A (availability), by returning an error saying &quot;we&#x27;re aware of the problem and we&#x27;re working on a solution&quot;. This is what happened quite recently when Google authentication went out and half of the internet went dark, while under the hood they had a simple out-of-quota situation on one of the replicas of their core authentication systems. The system was programmed to sacrifice A (availability) and reject all authentication requests.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers?</title><url>https://gist.github.com/rain-1/c4be54e6506116c7b99e8f474a3b1ca8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>Well, from my historical reading of it, initially, IRC was a federated network of servers that were essentially one network, the way email is one network: there was no shared administration or anything. Anyone could run a server and jump into the network. Due to abuse, servers began restricting who they peered with, and it fractured into multiple networks.<p>So really, I suspect it was designed to be distributed and federated, and it just became what it is by accident.</text></comment> |
29,815,037 | 29,815,062 | 1 | 2 | 29,807,454 | train | <story><title>Anarchists making their own medicine (2018)</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>I know a bunch about pharma. The folks who are doing this and saying it&#x27;s cheaper are often completely neglecting costs that are borne by corporations: the initial R&amp;D, but also the immense amount of quality control and regulatory compliance.<p>I&#x27;ve also talked to the biohackers. S ome of them are smart, careful, and just get stuff done in the lab. Then there are the attention hogs who inject themselves on youtube (typically with no ability to know if they did anything at all), many of whom, after a few years, realize that what they are doing is naive, and that there was actually a reason for the entire establishment around pharma.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anarchists making their own medicine (2018)</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nynx</author><text>I hope we can eventually have self-contained machines that can synthesize many different types of medications. By certifying the machines or testing them thoroughly, you can lessen the worry that people will synthesize the drugs wrong.<p>I think this is almost possible for a large range of simple, small-molecule drugs.</text></comment> |
26,033,491 | 26,033,217 | 1 | 3 | 26,032,307 | train | <story><title>Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers</title><url>https://denverite.com/2021/02/02/in-the-first-six-months-of-health-care-professionals-replacing-police-officers-no-one-they-encountered-was-arrested/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imperio59</author><text>Difference is, if your only tool is a hammer, everything is a nail.<p>If you send a mental health professional to all sorts of situations, their solutions will be mental health related (medication, treatment, commitment, etc...).<p>If you send a cop, their solutions will involve the criminal justice system (citation, fines, arrest, jail time, etc...).<p>One of these has a long history of strong checks and balances and improving itself over time (latest major improvement: body cams). The other one of these is primarily fueled by giant corporate lobbies who spend a lot on every single political campaign (read: Big Pharma).<p>Can you guess which one is now being touted as the &quot;new solution for all our societal ills&quot; despite having no track record of actually being able to fix any of these ills?</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>&gt; No one is talking about the very big risk associated with this, that mental health professionals can commit you against your will with no trial<p>Increasing cop presence won&#x27;t fix that problem. In multiple jurisdictions, cops can also refer you to be involuntarily committed.<p>So we&#x27;re not creating an extra judicial system that has no checks and balances, that system already exists and cops are a part of it. We&#x27;re talking about the potential benefits of removing <i>one</i> harmful part of the equation. If you want to also talk about the negatives of involuntary commitment and make progress in that area, that&#x27;s totally worth examining as well, but it&#x27;s not an argument for flooding the streets with more cops.<p>Getting arrested doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t be involuntarily committed afterwards.<p>Also note that in some cases, getting arrested and thrown in a holding cell can on its own be just as traumatic of an event as being held for an involuntary mental evaluation -- particularly if someone is genuinely suffering from a mental attack. And arrests don&#x27;t require trials either. A sizable portion of the people in our jails have never been convicted of crimes, they&#x27;re just stuck there because they can&#x27;t pay cash bail.</text></item><item><author>imperio59</author><text>No one is talking about the very big risk associated with this, that mental health professionals can commit you against your will with no trial, which is an erosion of civil liberties (incarceration without trial). Having known several friends who got committed and held against their will in psych wards when there was no good reason to, because their insurance was good, this is an issue.<p>Notice they don&#x27;t give any stats about outcomes, but the primary cited issue is &quot;mental health&quot; which is very vague and a subjective assessment.<p>We should not create an extra judicial system that has no checks and balances. Otherwise we will head towards medical authoritarianism which could easily be abused by those in power (psychiatrists and others) for their own personal gain.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;rosalindadams&#x2F;intake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;rosalindadams&#x2F;intake</a> for an example of what I mean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>&gt; If you send a mental health professional to all sorts of situations, their solutions will be mental health related<p>Can you even say that with a straight face? Do you really think if these guys got sent to a robbery, they&#x27;d be all &quot;the thief obviously needs Xanax!&quot; instead of saying &quot;This ain&#x27;t one of ours, send a cop here please&quot;.<p>Cops have, for whatever reason, ended top being sent not just to criminal justice related incidents, but everything else as well, including mental health related incidents which they&#x27;re manifestly untrained for and incapable of dealing with. But they &quot;deal&quot; in those situations anyway, in ways we&#x27;re all tired of seeing from body cam footage and in the live crosses of news stories about police violence protests.<p>&gt; One of these has a long history of strong checks and balances and improving itself over time<p>And yet &quot;Some of those who work forces, are the same who burn crosses&quot; is just as heavily quoted and relevant to 2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;06 as it was when it was written over 20 years ago... I do not agree with your claims about the relative track records of the two groups involved here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers</title><url>https://denverite.com/2021/02/02/in-the-first-six-months-of-health-care-professionals-replacing-police-officers-no-one-they-encountered-was-arrested/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imperio59</author><text>Difference is, if your only tool is a hammer, everything is a nail.<p>If you send a mental health professional to all sorts of situations, their solutions will be mental health related (medication, treatment, commitment, etc...).<p>If you send a cop, their solutions will involve the criminal justice system (citation, fines, arrest, jail time, etc...).<p>One of these has a long history of strong checks and balances and improving itself over time (latest major improvement: body cams). The other one of these is primarily fueled by giant corporate lobbies who spend a lot on every single political campaign (read: Big Pharma).<p>Can you guess which one is now being touted as the &quot;new solution for all our societal ills&quot; despite having no track record of actually being able to fix any of these ills?</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>&gt; No one is talking about the very big risk associated with this, that mental health professionals can commit you against your will with no trial<p>Increasing cop presence won&#x27;t fix that problem. In multiple jurisdictions, cops can also refer you to be involuntarily committed.<p>So we&#x27;re not creating an extra judicial system that has no checks and balances, that system already exists and cops are a part of it. We&#x27;re talking about the potential benefits of removing <i>one</i> harmful part of the equation. If you want to also talk about the negatives of involuntary commitment and make progress in that area, that&#x27;s totally worth examining as well, but it&#x27;s not an argument for flooding the streets with more cops.<p>Getting arrested doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t be involuntarily committed afterwards.<p>Also note that in some cases, getting arrested and thrown in a holding cell can on its own be just as traumatic of an event as being held for an involuntary mental evaluation -- particularly if someone is genuinely suffering from a mental attack. And arrests don&#x27;t require trials either. A sizable portion of the people in our jails have never been convicted of crimes, they&#x27;re just stuck there because they can&#x27;t pay cash bail.</text></item><item><author>imperio59</author><text>No one is talking about the very big risk associated with this, that mental health professionals can commit you against your will with no trial, which is an erosion of civil liberties (incarceration without trial). Having known several friends who got committed and held against their will in psych wards when there was no good reason to, because their insurance was good, this is an issue.<p>Notice they don&#x27;t give any stats about outcomes, but the primary cited issue is &quot;mental health&quot; which is very vague and a subjective assessment.<p>We should not create an extra judicial system that has no checks and balances. Otherwise we will head towards medical authoritarianism which could easily be abused by those in power (psychiatrists and others) for their own personal gain.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;rosalindadams&#x2F;intake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;rosalindadams&#x2F;intake</a> for an example of what I mean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thelock85</author><text>&gt; Difference is, if your only tool is a hammer, everything is a nail.<p>Seems this program has a hammer and a screw driver for nails and screws.<p>&gt; Can you guess which one is now being touted as the &quot;new solution for all our societal ills&quot; despite having no track record of actually being able to fix any of these ills?<p>Hyperbolic, no? One can certainly find people shouting from the halls on any issue. Doesn’t every startup need time and opportunity to create a track record.<p>&gt; primarily fueled by giant corporate lobbies who spend a lot on every single political campaign (read: Big Pharma).<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if police unions and big pharma are within the same order of magnitude in political lobbying.</text></comment> |
25,899,021 | 25,899,179 | 1 | 2 | 25,898,447 | train | <story><title>Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison</title><url>https://mathoverflow.net/questions/382003/need-advice-or-assistance-for-son-who-is-in-prison-his-interest-is-scattering-t</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sebmellen</author><text>It&#x27;s tragic to see bright young people in prison like this. Travis (the son in this post) is 25. To be in prison since 19 years old, with the earliest release date in 2027 (latest in 2045)... Goodness. This sort of time in jail is what you get for murder in parts of Europe [1].<p>Anyway, sorry if it&#x27;s off-topic. Very inspiring what he&#x27;s up to.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life_imprisonment_in_the_Netherlands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life_imprisonment_in_the_Nethe...</a><p>&gt; <i>Due to the strict nature of the sentence, most &quot;common&quot; murders result in a sentence of around 12 to 30 years.</i><p>EDIT: If you downvoted me I would appreciate knowing why. What is it that I wrote?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whiddershins</author><text>Think, for a moment.<p>Let’s all think.<p>Are we saying it is tragic for smart and young people to be in prison but not older or less intelligent people?<p>I’m not messing with you or being snarky. I felt your sentiment keenly and then wonder what exactly I’m agreeing with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison</title><url>https://mathoverflow.net/questions/382003/need-advice-or-assistance-for-son-who-is-in-prison-his-interest-is-scattering-t</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sebmellen</author><text>It&#x27;s tragic to see bright young people in prison like this. Travis (the son in this post) is 25. To be in prison since 19 years old, with the earliest release date in 2027 (latest in 2045)... Goodness. This sort of time in jail is what you get for murder in parts of Europe [1].<p>Anyway, sorry if it&#x27;s off-topic. Very inspiring what he&#x27;s up to.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life_imprisonment_in_the_Netherlands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life_imprisonment_in_the_Nethe...</a><p>&gt; <i>Due to the strict nature of the sentence, most &quot;common&quot; murders result in a sentence of around 12 to 30 years.</i><p>EDIT: If you downvoted me I would appreciate knowing why. What is it that I wrote?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>&gt;This sort of time in jail is what you get for murder in parts of Europe<p>Uhhhhhhhh... You know he killed multiple people, right?</text></comment> |
15,980,086 | 15,977,105 | 1 | 2 | 15,971,633 | train | <story><title>I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/i-hacked-hq-trivia-but-heres-how-they-can-stop-me-68750ed16365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>applecrazy</author><text>This article practically rips off my article as well as an article I cited in that post, which I submitted earlier this week. If you put both articles side-by-side, they have the same structure and a fairly similar approach to the problem. While this could be a coincidence (and honestly, I don’t care), I’m still a little miffed that the author didn’t bother to cite his inspiration.<p>The post in question:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;applecrazy.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;protect-trivia-from-bots&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;applecrazy.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;protect-trivia-from-...</a><p>Proof:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15944171" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15944171</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stervy</author><text>Hi applecrazy! I&#x27;m the author of the article.<p>I&#x27;m really sorry that the work seems like it plagiarizes yours. I started this project as soon as HQ Trivia came out, and I did not see your article until reading this comment.<p>A few other comments on this thread show that others (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nbclark&#x2F;hqcheat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nbclark&#x2F;hqcheat&#x2F;</a>) also implemented very similar techniques, so it seems that this may just be a &quot;great minds think alike&quot; situation :&#x2F;.<p>I&#x27;d love to support your article as well, as I love your format and videos! Let me know if you&#x27;d like to talk about plagiarism, would love for us to talk directly instead of on comments.</text></comment> | <story><title>I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/i-hacked-hq-trivia-but-heres-how-they-can-stop-me-68750ed16365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>applecrazy</author><text>This article practically rips off my article as well as an article I cited in that post, which I submitted earlier this week. If you put both articles side-by-side, they have the same structure and a fairly similar approach to the problem. While this could be a coincidence (and honestly, I don’t care), I’m still a little miffed that the author didn’t bother to cite his inspiration.<p>The post in question:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;applecrazy.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;protect-trivia-from-bots&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;applecrazy.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;protect-trivia-from-...</a><p>Proof:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15944171" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15944171</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>It is different enough that it just looks like parallel thinking. I have been working on the same thing - breaking HQ, i&#x27;m certain that almost every hacker had the same thought when they first played the game - that it is possible to take a number of approaches to beat it or at least get some assistance to beat it.<p>edit: fwiw your post is more fleshed out and better, but OP had some interesting approaches to using the Search API for quick responses to the difficult class of questions. I feel bad for missing your original post<p>I have three techniques that i&#x27;ve implemented so far - the first is similar to what the two of you did with screenshots and OCR. The second is MITM based, and the third is probably the most interesting since it has a higher success rate and is much more difficult to defend against.<p>I started when it was 30k viewers per session but now it is up to almost a million and the lag has been bad<p>I might eventually publish some info - but I was interested also in the challenge of how you would defend against these schemes as HQ will need to be on the ball. I can imagine that, in the long-term, cheating will become a big problem and a competitive advantage they could have over the clone apps is the ability to guarantee to contestants that they&#x27;re playing against other humans rather than against machines.<p>I <i>believe</i> that there are successful cheaters at the moment because the ratio of winners to participants (especially later stage participants) has worsened. I don&#x27;t have enough hard data to prove that and it&#x27;s mostly anecdotal but obtaining the data to back up that hypothesis shouldn&#x27;t be too difficult (there used to be regular $100+ wins, today the win rate feels an order of magnitude higher)</text></comment> |
39,486,181 | 39,486,034 | 1 | 2 | 39,485,098 | train | <story><title>Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform</title><url>https://beta.tauri.app/guides/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>martpie</author><text>I am currently working on porting Museeks [0] from Electron to Tauri 2.0, mainly to reduce the memory and app size footprints, which are the main things everybody complains about with Electron.<p>What I really like:<p>- the dev experience is stellar and comes out of the box. No need to setup binary compilation, webpack, vite, hot-reload, TS compilation for back-end, etc yourself. You can pick your favorite JS framework with Vite, during setup, or use a Rust frontend (kind of what electron-forge is doing, but it is buggy, and landed yeaaaars after Electron was released).<p>- the architecture makes sense (commands, security, plugins, all very well-designed)<p>- they provide official plugins for common-usecases (SQL, config, etc)<p>- Rust is fun and interesting to learn for folks like me used to high-level languages like JS or Python<p>What I don&#x27;t like as much:<p>- facing webview-specific UI issues (feature X does not work on Safari, Y not on gtk-webview etc), with Electron, you know if X works on Windows, it will work on Linux or MacOS<p>- some rough edges with the framework or the ecosystem (not as mature or dev-friendly as npm&#x27;s or Electron), but the crates (and Tauri&#x27;s) maintainers are very friendly and reactive.<p>- the focus on mobile apps, It seems like a very different space, and it feels weird to try to build with big mashup framework. I would rather have them work on more integrations, but whatever.<p>- changes in the Rust backend can take minutes to compile, and rust-analyzer is damn slow.<p>Overall I&#x27;m really happy and having a lot of fun. I will keep working on this port and release it when I can. Kudos to the Tauri team, what you are building is awesome :)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;museeks.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;museeks.io</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform</title><url>https://beta.tauri.app/guides/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>videlov</author><text>We have been using Tauri for about a year (a desktop app) and I am very happy with our choice. What I initially found attractive was the smaller binary sizes. Over time I have come to really appreciate their stance on security and implementation of the Isolation pattern[0].<p>When we were deciding whether we want to build our business[1] around Tauri, the final argument that helped me decide was the video manifesto[2] on their site as I felt that we were aligned on values. Having interacted with the community over this one year I have had a very positive experience, therefore Tauri definitely gets my recommendation.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tauri.app&#x2F;v1&#x2F;references&#x2F;architecture&#x2F;inter-process-communication&#x2F;isolation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tauri.app&#x2F;v1&#x2F;references&#x2F;architecture&#x2F;inter-process-c...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gitbutlerapp&#x2F;gitbutler">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gitbutlerapp&#x2F;gitbutler</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tauri.app&#x2F;about&#x2F;intro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tauri.app&#x2F;about&#x2F;intro</a></text></comment> |
14,479,915 | 14,478,566 | 1 | 3 | 14,477,680 | train | <story><title>Linux follows an inverse form of Conway's Law</title><url>https://medium.com/@aserg.ufmg/does-conways-law-apply-to-linux-6acf23c1ef15</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tytso</author><text>Conway&#x27;s Law absolutely applies to Linux. The trick is to remember that the communication patterns that Linux is optimized to reflect is &quot;git tree pulls&quot;. Over time, things have been factored to minimize the amount of cross-tree merge conflicts. That way we can decentralize the development effort, and worry much less about conflicts when Linus has to pull from a hundred-odd git trees (many of which have sub-trees that were merged together by the subsystem maintainers before Linus then pulled them into his tree). But <i>that</i> is the primary communication pattern which is critical, and we have absolutely optimized how the code has been laid out to minimize communication difficulties --- when defined in terms of merge conflicts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux follows an inverse form of Conway's Law</title><url>https://medium.com/@aserg.ufmg/does-conways-law-apply-to-linux-6acf23c1ef15</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smitherfield</author><text>Misleading y-axis strikes again: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn-images-1.medium.com&#x2F;max&#x2F;800&#x2F;1*MiF0VmKW19IC3OlVDISgZA.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn-images-1.medium.com&#x2F;max&#x2F;800&#x2F;1*MiF0VmKW19IC3OlVDI...</a></text></comment> |
8,901,694 | 8,901,762 | 1 | 2 | 8,900,779 | train | <story><title>Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knodi123</author><text>&gt; I really don&#x27;t understand how this practice persisted for so long next when we have the right to due process.<p>Can someone clarify for me- I read the article, and it SEEMS to be saying &quot;the feds will no longer be participating in this process, which will of course still be carried out by state and city police&quot;. It&#x27;s more about where seized money gets allocated, than about limiting the actual seizures.<p>Is that right?</text></item><item><author>clavalle</author><text>Good.<p>I really don&#x27;t understand how this practice persisted for so long next when we have the right to due process.<p>For people who think it only happened to drug dealers who were difficult to prosecute; it happened to my elderly parents.<p>My grandfather died suddenly in Georgia and we were the closest family at the time. My parents packed up their car in a hurry and started from Texas down I-10. In Mississippi they ran into a drunk driving checkpoint. They, being elderly conservative Republican business owners driving a luxury sedan that never conceived that the police would not be on their side, consented to a search of their car. The police found an antique revolver (my dad is an avid collector) locked in its case in the trunk. That plus the $800 he had in his wallet as travel money was enough to get them thrown in jail for the weekend and their property seized as suspected drug dealers.<p>$8000 in local lawyer fees later they got their car back but the antique gun had &#x27;gone missing&#x27; along with the cash. Their lawyer said they were lucky to get the car back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tw04</author><text>Under federal rules, the departments got to keep the forfeitures. IE: the cop who pulled you over could literally pocket the cash. 0 oversight.<p>Under State rules, in almost all states, the money goes into the general fund. And there is due process to actually seize the asset. We&#x27;re essentially removing the incentive from the police officers to pull people over. It does them no good to take your stuff if it just goes into one big pot that they&#x27;ll never see again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knodi123</author><text>&gt; I really don&#x27;t understand how this practice persisted for so long next when we have the right to due process.<p>Can someone clarify for me- I read the article, and it SEEMS to be saying &quot;the feds will no longer be participating in this process, which will of course still be carried out by state and city police&quot;. It&#x27;s more about where seized money gets allocated, than about limiting the actual seizures.<p>Is that right?</text></item><item><author>clavalle</author><text>Good.<p>I really don&#x27;t understand how this practice persisted for so long next when we have the right to due process.<p>For people who think it only happened to drug dealers who were difficult to prosecute; it happened to my elderly parents.<p>My grandfather died suddenly in Georgia and we were the closest family at the time. My parents packed up their car in a hurry and started from Texas down I-10. In Mississippi they ran into a drunk driving checkpoint. They, being elderly conservative Republican business owners driving a luxury sedan that never conceived that the police would not be on their side, consented to a search of their car. The police found an antique revolver (my dad is an avid collector) locked in its case in the trunk. That plus the $800 he had in his wallet as travel money was enough to get them thrown in jail for the weekend and their property seized as suspected drug dealers.<p>$8000 in local lawyer fees later they got their car back but the antique gun had &#x27;gone missing&#x27; along with the cash. Their lawyer said they were lucky to get the car back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ensignavenger</author><text>The Missouri Sate constitution requires that any proceeds from seizures go to an education fund. In Missouri, not a penny should go to the local cops. Unfortunately, local cops would frequently violate the state&#x27;s constitution by turning over the seizures to the feds, who would then keep a percent and give the rest back to the local cops. Of course, the local cops should have turned it over to education, as that is clearly what the state constitution requires, but they would routinely violate the constitution and keep the proceeds for themselves.</text></comment> |
33,261,480 | 33,260,594 | 1 | 3 | 33,254,597 | train | <story><title>75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12</title><url>https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/time-with-kids-before-age-12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Defitio</author><text>In my opinion plenty of people just use kids as a scapegoat for meaning of life.<p>My question would be why you value your kids time more than bouldern?<p>Because you made them? Because they consume so much time with them?<p>Or because you are just better in being a parent and biological getting satisfaction out of it?<p>Unfortunately for me I&#x27;m not sure if I would end like you or the other poster who regrets it sometimes.<p>Also I&#x27;m not sure if I want to force another&#x2F;new human through my experiences like going to school etc.<p>In dune the king new&#x2F;realized that he can&#x27;t do what is necessary but has to prepare his son to do so.<p>I have the opposite though: perhaps I need to not to have kids to stop the cycle of creating meaning through procreation.<p>Yes I overthink stuff and one way or the other I still think becoming a parent would be a life changing experience but besides all of the normal thoughts climate change comes on top of it.</text></item><item><author>natnatenathan</author><text>This is exactly my experience, probably from age 28 until I met my wife at ~34. My friends and I would go to all these bars, clubs, rock climbing trips. While I loved my friends and generally enjoyed doing those things, I felt this long-term malaise of meaningless. The loss of freedom getting married and then greater loss when having kids was unexpected and a jarring change. But it has made me such a better person. And even though it sucks going through the same chores every day or when my 4 and 6 year olds are in maximum procrastination mode. I wouldn&#x27;t trade my worst day with them for my best day of freedom when I was younger. I&#x27;ve never been more happy.</text></item><item><author>dionidium</author><text>If it makes you feel any better I delayed having kids and spent my 30s dating and hanging out and going to bars -- and it was terrible. I was never more depressed. I got tired of dating. I got tired of bars. I was lonely. My life had no meaning or direction. I had a nice career and could go anywhere and do anything I wanted, but it turns out none of that made me even a little bit happy.<p>I remember one summer making plans to go camping with three different groups of friends three weekends in a row and realizing at the end of it that all three weekends were exactly the same. Nothing new happens. You&#x27;re not missing anything if you just stay home.<p>Happiness is extremely overrated. I had a lot of laughs in my 30s, but my life was a disaster. Now I&#x27;m tired and busy and I don&#x27;t go out and do &quot;fun&quot; stuff very often, but I&#x27;m much more satisfied. My biggest regret is that I waited so long to start my life. Brunch isn&#x27;t life.</text></item><item><author>WheatMillington</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m necessarily having the same experience as you.... my advice to people who aren&#x27;t sure if they want kids, is DON&#x27;T. It&#x27;s bloody hard, you sacrifice A LOT. Don&#x27;t have kids unless you&#x27;re very sure it&#x27;s what you want.<p>I have 2 kids under 6 and I feel like I just don&#x27;t have any time for any of my hobbies any more. I leave for work first thing, come home in the afternoon, and haven&#x27;t had any time for myself until the kids are down at 7.30, and I&#x27;m utterly wasted. Weekends are just chaos, yeah we can divide and conquer but that only goes so far.<p>As for enjoying hanging around with kids.... I don&#x27;t know what age that starts, but I&#x27;m 5 years and counting.<p>Honestly I&#x27;m exhausted, and I&#x27;m not gonna lie, I have some regret about having kids when I see the child free people around me, and how they&#x27;re spending their 30s.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>One of the things I have a hard time conveying to non-parents is that the most time-intensive parts of parenting don&#x27;t last forever.<p>I&#x27;ve talked to a lot of young people who say they don&#x27;t want kids because they think their personal lives will permanently halt the moment they have kids. I spend a lot of time trying to explain that:<p>1) I still spend a lot of time with friends and can do most of my personal hobbies&#x2F;activities on weekends. My wife and I are good at sharing the load. You don&#x27;t need 2 parents watching kids 100% of the time.<p>2) The sleepless nights and diaper changes are a mere blip on the scale of a lifetime with kids. You deal with it, then the kids grow up quicker than you think. Don&#x27;t let the idea of the first few months&#x2F;years define your entire decision for how you want to structure your family for the rest of your life.<p>3) You actually <i>like</i> hanging out with your own kids. I talk to a lot of people who are anchored to some negative experience they had 10 years ago babysitting for someone else&#x27;s kids, as if that was representative of parenting life. It&#x27;s not at all. At the end of the day, I actually rush to finish up my work so I can have more kid time. It&#x27;s fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lee</author><text>&gt; Or because you are just better in being a parent and biological getting satisfaction out of it?<p>It is totally this. We are biological creatures and we cannot escape that.<p>Love, sex, friendships, relationships, parenting, happiness, and so forth are all aspects of our biology. We are not automatons living a purely rational life. Satisfaction in life depends on those biological mechanisms and shouldn&#x27;t be seen through a purely rational lens.<p>Kids aren&#x27;t a scapegoat for a meaningful life. They do absolutely make life meaningful. Much in the same way eating a delicious meal brings pleasure. We depend on our biological wiring to feel such things.</text></comment> | <story><title>75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12</title><url>https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/time-with-kids-before-age-12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Defitio</author><text>In my opinion plenty of people just use kids as a scapegoat for meaning of life.<p>My question would be why you value your kids time more than bouldern?<p>Because you made them? Because they consume so much time with them?<p>Or because you are just better in being a parent and biological getting satisfaction out of it?<p>Unfortunately for me I&#x27;m not sure if I would end like you or the other poster who regrets it sometimes.<p>Also I&#x27;m not sure if I want to force another&#x2F;new human through my experiences like going to school etc.<p>In dune the king new&#x2F;realized that he can&#x27;t do what is necessary but has to prepare his son to do so.<p>I have the opposite though: perhaps I need to not to have kids to stop the cycle of creating meaning through procreation.<p>Yes I overthink stuff and one way or the other I still think becoming a parent would be a life changing experience but besides all of the normal thoughts climate change comes on top of it.</text></item><item><author>natnatenathan</author><text>This is exactly my experience, probably from age 28 until I met my wife at ~34. My friends and I would go to all these bars, clubs, rock climbing trips. While I loved my friends and generally enjoyed doing those things, I felt this long-term malaise of meaningless. The loss of freedom getting married and then greater loss when having kids was unexpected and a jarring change. But it has made me such a better person. And even though it sucks going through the same chores every day or when my 4 and 6 year olds are in maximum procrastination mode. I wouldn&#x27;t trade my worst day with them for my best day of freedom when I was younger. I&#x27;ve never been more happy.</text></item><item><author>dionidium</author><text>If it makes you feel any better I delayed having kids and spent my 30s dating and hanging out and going to bars -- and it was terrible. I was never more depressed. I got tired of dating. I got tired of bars. I was lonely. My life had no meaning or direction. I had a nice career and could go anywhere and do anything I wanted, but it turns out none of that made me even a little bit happy.<p>I remember one summer making plans to go camping with three different groups of friends three weekends in a row and realizing at the end of it that all three weekends were exactly the same. Nothing new happens. You&#x27;re not missing anything if you just stay home.<p>Happiness is extremely overrated. I had a lot of laughs in my 30s, but my life was a disaster. Now I&#x27;m tired and busy and I don&#x27;t go out and do &quot;fun&quot; stuff very often, but I&#x27;m much more satisfied. My biggest regret is that I waited so long to start my life. Brunch isn&#x27;t life.</text></item><item><author>WheatMillington</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m necessarily having the same experience as you.... my advice to people who aren&#x27;t sure if they want kids, is DON&#x27;T. It&#x27;s bloody hard, you sacrifice A LOT. Don&#x27;t have kids unless you&#x27;re very sure it&#x27;s what you want.<p>I have 2 kids under 6 and I feel like I just don&#x27;t have any time for any of my hobbies any more. I leave for work first thing, come home in the afternoon, and haven&#x27;t had any time for myself until the kids are down at 7.30, and I&#x27;m utterly wasted. Weekends are just chaos, yeah we can divide and conquer but that only goes so far.<p>As for enjoying hanging around with kids.... I don&#x27;t know what age that starts, but I&#x27;m 5 years and counting.<p>Honestly I&#x27;m exhausted, and I&#x27;m not gonna lie, I have some regret about having kids when I see the child free people around me, and how they&#x27;re spending their 30s.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>One of the things I have a hard time conveying to non-parents is that the most time-intensive parts of parenting don&#x27;t last forever.<p>I&#x27;ve talked to a lot of young people who say they don&#x27;t want kids because they think their personal lives will permanently halt the moment they have kids. I spend a lot of time trying to explain that:<p>1) I still spend a lot of time with friends and can do most of my personal hobbies&#x2F;activities on weekends. My wife and I are good at sharing the load. You don&#x27;t need 2 parents watching kids 100% of the time.<p>2) The sleepless nights and diaper changes are a mere blip on the scale of a lifetime with kids. You deal with it, then the kids grow up quicker than you think. Don&#x27;t let the idea of the first few months&#x2F;years define your entire decision for how you want to structure your family for the rest of your life.<p>3) You actually <i>like</i> hanging out with your own kids. I talk to a lot of people who are anchored to some negative experience they had 10 years ago babysitting for someone else&#x27;s kids, as if that was representative of parenting life. It&#x27;s not at all. At the end of the day, I actually rush to finish up my work so I can have more kid time. It&#x27;s fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skinnymuch</author><text>If you can edit this. Edit out the “you” to “people”. It doesn’t look like an attack then. I see your comment is greying out so it’s getting downvotes.<p>Having diff perspectives is cool so it would be unfortunate for yours to get flagged because it seems too aggressive.</text></comment> |
40,749,016 | 40,746,008 | 1 | 2 | 40,744,558 | train | <story><title>How babies and young children learn to understand language</title><url>https://lithub.com/how-babies-and-young-children-learn-to-understand-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>Words beginning and endings are learned too because people raising young kids are spending a great deal of time decomposing and telling them simple words. Repeating &quot;cat&quot;, &quot;cat&quot;, &quot;cat&quot; with pauses.<p>Statistical learning --and there are studies about this-- is also obvious when multi-lingual kids <i>make up words that do not exists</i>.<p>They&#x27;ll use words from one of the language they know to come up with words (or words beginning &#x2F; ending) in another language. These words, statistically, could make sense. And they&#x27;ll pronounce them &quot;properly&quot;. Yet they don&#x27;t exist.<p>So it&#x27;s not just the words: it&#x27;s the pronunciation too.<p>As the father of a fully bilingual kid (french &#x2F; english) that was fascinating to watch.</text></comment> | <story><title>How babies and young children learn to understand language</title><url>https://lithub.com/how-babies-and-young-children-learn-to-understand-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexey-salmin</author><text>&gt; Think about listening to a language unknown to you, one with different words, grammar and prosody. You will be at an utter loss to identify its words, let alone their meaning.<p>My experience learning French basically. I&#x27;d say understanding where one word ends and another starts was much easier for English and German. On paper I was able to grasp the rough meaning very quickly thanks to vocabulary shared with English and Latin, but listening took a year: I was facing a solid wall of sound, no cracks.</text></comment> |
30,304,728 | 30,304,453 | 1 | 3 | 30,303,891 | train | <story><title>How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers</title><url>https://blog.kuperate.com/how-fresh-grads-who-have-never-coded-anything-of-significance-get-sold-as-senior-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a4isms</author><text>There is no standard whatsoever for the adjective &quot;Senior&quot; when applied to engineers:<p>Sometimes it means, &quot;Able to work without someone looking over their shoulder at all times.&quot;<p>Sometimes it means, &quot;Able to lead and mentor others.&quot;<p>And sometimes it means, &quot;Has organizational skills above and beyond engineering skills, able to lead cross-team initiatives and deal with all the human&#x2F;organization issues around the engineering.&quot;<p>The latter definition is the most interesting to me, it describes what &quot;Staff&quot; and &quot;Principal&quot; engineers do in most orgs. But if I had to pick a line to draw, I&#x27;d say that while a Staff or Principal spends most or all of their time working on projects that involve the human&#x2F;organization issues around the engineering, a senior engineer is one who does this at least part of the time.<p>There are other, perfectly valid perspectives on what makes an engineer &quot;senior,&quot; but what I like about this one that&#x27;s relevant to TFA is that this kind of &quot;seniority&quot; is hard to fake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robbyking</author><text>On a related note, I dated a woman who was promoted to vice president of a small start up when she was in her 20&#x27;s. She had to hide her title on her resume when she left because no established firm wanted to hire someone whom they assumed they&#x27;d need to pay a quarter million dollars to be competitive.<p>Sometimes grandiose titles can work against you.</text></comment> | <story><title>How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers</title><url>https://blog.kuperate.com/how-fresh-grads-who-have-never-coded-anything-of-significance-get-sold-as-senior-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a4isms</author><text>There is no standard whatsoever for the adjective &quot;Senior&quot; when applied to engineers:<p>Sometimes it means, &quot;Able to work without someone looking over their shoulder at all times.&quot;<p>Sometimes it means, &quot;Able to lead and mentor others.&quot;<p>And sometimes it means, &quot;Has organizational skills above and beyond engineering skills, able to lead cross-team initiatives and deal with all the human&#x2F;organization issues around the engineering.&quot;<p>The latter definition is the most interesting to me, it describes what &quot;Staff&quot; and &quot;Principal&quot; engineers do in most orgs. But if I had to pick a line to draw, I&#x27;d say that while a Staff or Principal spends most or all of their time working on projects that involve the human&#x2F;organization issues around the engineering, a senior engineer is one who does this at least part of the time.<p>There are other, perfectly valid perspectives on what makes an engineer &quot;senior,&quot; but what I like about this one that&#x27;s relevant to TFA is that this kind of &quot;seniority&quot; is hard to fake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flatiron</author><text>Sometimes it means “someone who can bill $300 an hour” with no relation to actual ability. I was a “senior” three years out of college and I had no clue what in the world I was doing.<p>Come to think of it after 20 years I kinda still feel that way.</text></comment> |
37,292,235 | 37,292,198 | 1 | 2 | 37,274,882 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter</title><text>Hi all!<p>I&#x27;m going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;)<p>Anyways... here&#x27;s the repo:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;liam-ilan&#x2F;crumb<p>I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>poulsbohemian</author><text>Here&#x27;s perhaps some unexpected and unsolicited advice... so pretty clearly you aren&#x27;t going to have a hard time with the CS curriculum (assuming that&#x27;s what you intend to study) so my $0.02 is - find a second or even third major to augment your skill set. If you are already able to get to this level on your own, you&#x27;ll likely breeze right through a typical undergrad CS course of study. So consider other courses of study that might be a bit more of a challenge &#x2F; might give you an even broader skill set four years from now when you enter the workforce or consider grad school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cardanome</author><text>I don&#x27;t know the specific curriculum but I would caution that being a competent programmer does not directly translate into academic success. Yes, the author will have a massive head start but but that does not necessarily mean they will find studying easy.<p>At least that was my experience as a self-thought programmer. The first weeks were super boring for me but also lulled me into being complacent until I suddenly found myself in deep trouble. Just because you understand the practical side does not mean you can will automatically grok the academic side of things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter</title><text>Hi all!<p>I&#x27;m going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;)<p>Anyways... here&#x27;s the repo:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;liam-ilan&#x2F;crumb<p>I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>poulsbohemian</author><text>Here&#x27;s perhaps some unexpected and unsolicited advice... so pretty clearly you aren&#x27;t going to have a hard time with the CS curriculum (assuming that&#x27;s what you intend to study) so my $0.02 is - find a second or even third major to augment your skill set. If you are already able to get to this level on your own, you&#x27;ll likely breeze right through a typical undergrad CS course of study. So consider other courses of study that might be a bit more of a challenge &#x2F; might give you an even broader skill set four years from now when you enter the workforce or consider grad school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dustingetz</author><text>i did this and regret it (38 now and have a technical CS startup), i studied electrical&#x2F;computer engineering but what i should have done was gone to a better CS school or get approved for accelerated course work. the main problem for 18 yo me was lack of visibility into what a good CS program looked like, as opposed to just knowing more than the CS teachers at an eng school not ranked for CS. also, take as much math as you can.<p>you should be studying: lisp ocaml haskell, interpreters (SICP), compilers, type systems, transaction processing, effect systems, FRP, concurrency NOT java guis python SQL databases webdev gamedev .. whatever</text></comment> |
21,846,356 | 21,844,811 | 1 | 3 | 21,843,713 | train | <story><title>Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages</title><url>https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>In case it&#x27;s not clear, Tesseract is developed by Google since 2006, having been started at HP in 1985 and open-sourced by HP in 2005. [1]<p>As far as I know, it powers all OCR at Google (e.g. in Keep, Docs, etc.).<p>This (Tesseract.js) is a WASM port of the project by a separate group of people.<p>I investigated using this port a couple years ago, but as you can see from the demo, it&#x27;s fairly slow to initialize and run, so I never found a practical use for OCR client-side rather than server-side, but I still think it&#x27;s tremendously cool.<p>In case anyone&#x27;s interested (shameless plug), because I do a lot of academic research that involves tons of copying from webpages, PDF&#x27;s and screenshots and pasting into notes documents, I created a tool at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastemagic.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastemagic.com</a> that helps selectively remove rich text formatting, remove line breaks and does OCR on screenshots and camera photos. Setting up Tesseract on my server and creating a simple HTTP endpoint for it took less than an hour, and for free I had OCR as powerful as Google&#x27;s. Pretty cool I thought.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tesseract-ocr&#x2F;tesseract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tesseract-ocr&#x2F;tesseract</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antimatter15</author><text>Disclaimer: I was the original author of Tesseract.JS— though all the hard work nowadays is done by Jerome Wu. If you&#x27;re interested in supporting the project, consider backing the OpenCollective (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opencollective.com&#x2F;tesseractjs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opencollective.com&#x2F;tesseractjs</a>)<p>By all of that, what I mean to say is that I&#x27;ve learned a decent amount of fun OCR trivia over the past few years.<p>Firstly, the engine that powers Google Cloud Vision is almost certainly an entirely independent code base from Tesseract built on neural networks. In fact, the most recent major version of Tesseract (version 4.0) was a sort of rewrite of the core of Tesseract to use bidirectional LSTMs to seem a bit more like the modern OCR pipeline that systems like GCV use.<p>The original Tesseract algorithm dates back a previous AI spring— in the 80s when neural networks were cool (before they were uncool, and then subsequently cool again). The core of the original algorithm involved fitting polygons to character shapes in order generate features which could be matched by a kind of rudimentary neural network.<p>One of the primary authors of Tesseract is Ray Smith (at Google)— who gave a presentation at some point a few years ago about the history of OCR— though I can&#x27;t quite find a link to it at the moment.<p>OCR actually predates electronic computers. In 1929, someone had invented a machine that would take a piece of paper and shine a bright light on a single letter, and pass the letter through a carousel of letter masks, so that it could hit a (effectively single pixel) photo-sensor. When the carousel and the letter mask were in alignment with the printed letter, then the drop in brightness registered that a particular letter was seen!<p>OCR was used by the US Postal system for sorting mail as early as 1965, but it wasn&#x27;t until 1976 that any system could reasonably support more than a certain number of hard-coded fonts (fun fact this was invented by Ray Kurzweil, the Singularity is Near guy).</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages</title><url>https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>In case it&#x27;s not clear, Tesseract is developed by Google since 2006, having been started at HP in 1985 and open-sourced by HP in 2005. [1]<p>As far as I know, it powers all OCR at Google (e.g. in Keep, Docs, etc.).<p>This (Tesseract.js) is a WASM port of the project by a separate group of people.<p>I investigated using this port a couple years ago, but as you can see from the demo, it&#x27;s fairly slow to initialize and run, so I never found a practical use for OCR client-side rather than server-side, but I still think it&#x27;s tremendously cool.<p>In case anyone&#x27;s interested (shameless plug), because I do a lot of academic research that involves tons of copying from webpages, PDF&#x27;s and screenshots and pasting into notes documents, I created a tool at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastemagic.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastemagic.com</a> that helps selectively remove rich text formatting, remove line breaks and does OCR on screenshots and camera photos. Setting up Tesseract on my server and creating a simple HTTP endpoint for it took less than an hour, and for free I had OCR as powerful as Google&#x27;s. Pretty cool I thought.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tesseract-ocr&#x2F;tesseract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tesseract-ocr&#x2F;tesseract</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhanhfo</author><text>&gt; As far as I know, it powers all OCR at Google (e.g. in Keep, Docs, etc.).<p>Afaik Google no longer uses Tesseract for any of its products. Googles Clould OCR is <i>much</i> better than Tesseract.<p>I think Google devs still work on Tesseract, but only as their side project (not sure about this, obviously)</text></comment> |
8,968,548 | 8,968,613 | 1 | 3 | 8,965,938 | train | <story><title>Learning about art using JavaScript</title><url>http://vart.institute/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clay_to_n</author><text>Jenn Schiffer also has an absolutely hilarious blog, CSS Perverts: <a href="https://medium.com/cool-code-pal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;cool-code-pal</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Learning about art using JavaScript</title><url>http://vart.institute/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pella</author><text>my favorite - Kandinsky styled maps .. ( not javascript )<p>&quot;Mapbox Studio, More Kandinsky than Matisse&quot;<p><a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/09/mapbox-studio-more-kadinsky-than-matisse.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlemapsmania.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;mapbox-studio-mo...</a><p>map: <a href="https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/gmapsmania.6e688409/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiZ21hcHNtYW5pYSIsImEiOiJOYnlnSFpvIn0.5f62d0cnrWCA1KioxzXtqg#16/40.7760/-73.9685" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.tiles.mapbox.com&#x2F;v4&#x2F;gmapsmania.6e688409&#x2F;page.htm...</a></text></comment> |
25,470,032 | 25,469,957 | 1 | 2 | 25,459,506 | train | <story><title>DRY Is a Trade-Off</title><url>https://orbifold.xyz/dry-trade-off.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisiszilff</author><text>I think this misses the point of DRY a little bit. DRY isn&#x27;t about not copy pasting code, it&#x27;s about ensuring that knowledge isn&#x27;t repeated. If two parts of the system need to know the same thing (for example, who the currently logged in user is, or what elasticsearch instance to send queries to, etc.), then there should be a single way to &quot;know&quot; that fact. Put that way, DRY violations are repetitions of knowledge and make the system more complex because different parts know the same fact but in different ways and you need to maintain all of them, understand all of them, etc. etc.<p>Code blocks that look to be syntactically the same are the lowest expression of &quot;this might be the same piece of knowledge&quot; insofar as they express knowledge about &quot;how to do X&quot;, but the key is identifying the knowledge that is duplicated and working from there. Sometimes it comes out that the &quot;duplication&quot; is something like &quot;this is a for loop iterating over the elements of this list in this field in this object&quot; and that is the kind of code block that contains very little knowledge in terms of our system. But supposing that that list had a special structure (ie, maybe we&#x27;ve parsed text into tokens and have information about whitespace, punctuation, etc in that list) and we start to notice we&#x27;re repeating code to iterate over elements of the list and ignore the whitespace, punctuation elements in it, then we&#x27;ve got a piece of knowledge worth DRYing out given that all the clients now need to know what whitespace &amp; punctuation look like even when they&#x27;d like to filter them out.<p>It&#x27;s worth pointing out that DRYing out something isn&#x27;t necessarily &quot;abstracting&quot;, it is more like consolidating knowledge into one place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThrustVectoring</author><text>&gt; ensuring that knowledge isn&#x27;t repeated<p>The most fun bug I&#x27;ve encountered as a web developer is of this category. Two pages, both check for a logged-in user and redirects to the other if found or not found, respectively. The bug was a subtle difference in how these were calculated, the details of which are unfortunately lost to the sands of time. The end result was that if you sat on one of the pages and waited for your user session to time out, you&#x27;d get stuck in a redirect loop between the &quot;logged in&quot; and &quot;please log in&quot; versions of the page.<p>Anyhow, the point of this is that when you calculate the same fact two different ways, you will occasionally build something that makes an unwarranted assumption that because it&#x27;s the &quot;same fact&quot; you wind up with the same answer. This is an entire category of easily missed and often subtle bugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>DRY Is a Trade-Off</title><url>https://orbifold.xyz/dry-trade-off.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisiszilff</author><text>I think this misses the point of DRY a little bit. DRY isn&#x27;t about not copy pasting code, it&#x27;s about ensuring that knowledge isn&#x27;t repeated. If two parts of the system need to know the same thing (for example, who the currently logged in user is, or what elasticsearch instance to send queries to, etc.), then there should be a single way to &quot;know&quot; that fact. Put that way, DRY violations are repetitions of knowledge and make the system more complex because different parts know the same fact but in different ways and you need to maintain all of them, understand all of them, etc. etc.<p>Code blocks that look to be syntactically the same are the lowest expression of &quot;this might be the same piece of knowledge&quot; insofar as they express knowledge about &quot;how to do X&quot;, but the key is identifying the knowledge that is duplicated and working from there. Sometimes it comes out that the &quot;duplication&quot; is something like &quot;this is a for loop iterating over the elements of this list in this field in this object&quot; and that is the kind of code block that contains very little knowledge in terms of our system. But supposing that that list had a special structure (ie, maybe we&#x27;ve parsed text into tokens and have information about whitespace, punctuation, etc in that list) and we start to notice we&#x27;re repeating code to iterate over elements of the list and ignore the whitespace, punctuation elements in it, then we&#x27;ve got a piece of knowledge worth DRYing out given that all the clients now need to know what whitespace &amp; punctuation look like even when they&#x27;d like to filter them out.<p>It&#x27;s worth pointing out that DRYing out something isn&#x27;t necessarily &quot;abstracting&quot;, it is more like consolidating knowledge into one place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>I haven&#x27;t seen this &quot;don&#x27;t repeat knowledge&quot; take before, it&#x27;s pretty interesting. I see why you don&#x27;t want mutated various versions of the same information all over the place, but you still have dangers.<p>Especially if you &quot;overly reduce&quot; your knowledge. If your common recipe is &quot;do A, B, C, D, E&quot; and you reduce that to just &quot;do X,&quot; for instance.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this often turn into &quot;now, instead of the knowledge being repeated in several places, it&#x27;s hidden in one place and only one person knows it.&quot; Everybody else just relies on the library doing its magic, and when someone needs to do something differently, they have this huge mountain to climb to figure out how to modify the code to also do &quot;J&quot; for certain cases without breaking everyone else.</text></comment> |
20,401,285 | 20,400,982 | 1 | 3 | 20,400,654 | train | <story><title>Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-mitigation-co-benefits-1.5205552</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>This viewpoint is expressed often but there are many counter arguments.<p>Nutrition is not a solved equation. We simply do not know how exactly various foods affect our health, the extent that human genetics and microbiome affect “proper” nutrition for a person, what all the essential nutrients are, what the immunoresponse to various foods are, and any number of unknown unknowns about diet. Any claims to the contrary are irresponsible at best.<p>You mention biodiversity but seem to be glossing over the role of ruminants in the ecological system, and the severe lack of biodiversity which can be the consequence of large scale crop production.<p>These and other reasons lead me to be concerned that this viewpoint is to some degree tainted by ideological blind spots.</text></item><item><author>asterix_pano</author><text>If we simply stop eating meat, it would be better for us (less cancers due to red meat and pesticides), for the environment (much less pollution, resources consumed, deforestation, CO2 and methane emissions - more biodiversity) and for the animals... so in the end it is obviously way cheaper and better but we always find excuses not to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dashundchen</author><text>&gt; You mention biodiversity but seem to be glossing over the role of ruminants in the ecological system, and the severe lack of biodiversity which can be the consequence of large scale crop production.<p>That is true, but it&#x27;s very likely the meat you buy was not grazing freely, and instead was stuffed with feed in a feedlot space or sometimes let to graze on a tiny plot to be &quot;grass-fed&quot;. This is how the scale of our industrial animal agriculture is met.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.splendidtable.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;inside-the-factory-farm-where-97-of-us-pigs-are-raised" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.splendidtable.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;inside-the-factory-farm-...</a><p>&gt; While doing research for his book Pig Tales, author Barry Estabrook visited a farmer in Iowa who raised 150,000 pigs a year. What he saw at this factory farm -- the way 97 percent of pigs in the U.S. are raised -- is a far cry from Old MacDonald&#x27;s.<p>&gt; &quot;[The pigs] never see the light of day,&quot; he says. &quot;They never set foot on anything but a bare, hard floor. They breathe that poisoned air 24&#x2F;7.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sentientmedia.org&#x2F;u-s-farmed-animals-live-on-factory-farms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sentientmedia.org&#x2F;u-s-farmed-animals-live-on-factory...</a><p>&gt;According to the latest Sentience Institute analysis, the percent of U.S. farmed animals living on factory farms is…<p>* Broiler chickens (99.9%) live on factory farms<p>* Turkeys (99.8%) live on factory farms<p>* Egg chickens (98.2%) live on factory farms<p>* Pigs (98.3%) live on factory farms<p>* Cows (70.4%) live on factory farms</text></comment> | <story><title>Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-mitigation-co-benefits-1.5205552</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>This viewpoint is expressed often but there are many counter arguments.<p>Nutrition is not a solved equation. We simply do not know how exactly various foods affect our health, the extent that human genetics and microbiome affect “proper” nutrition for a person, what all the essential nutrients are, what the immunoresponse to various foods are, and any number of unknown unknowns about diet. Any claims to the contrary are irresponsible at best.<p>You mention biodiversity but seem to be glossing over the role of ruminants in the ecological system, and the severe lack of biodiversity which can be the consequence of large scale crop production.<p>These and other reasons lead me to be concerned that this viewpoint is to some degree tainted by ideological blind spots.</text></item><item><author>asterix_pano</author><text>If we simply stop eating meat, it would be better for us (less cancers due to red meat and pesticides), for the environment (much less pollution, resources consumed, deforestation, CO2 and methane emissions - more biodiversity) and for the animals... so in the end it is obviously way cheaper and better but we always find excuses not to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>&gt; Nutrition is not a solved equation. We simply do not know how exactly various foods affect our health, the extent that human genetics and microbiome affect “proper” nutrition for a person, what all the essential nutrients are, what the immunoresponse to various foods are, and any number of unknown unknowns about diet. Any claims to the contrary are irresponsible at best.<p>Nevertheless the same applies to the way we changed our diets in relatively recent times, and yet that hasn&#x27;t stopped us.</text></comment> |
24,832,831 | 24,832,912 | 1 | 3 | 24,827,360 | train | <story><title>Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes</title><url>https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quotemstr</author><text>As you should. Bash --- at least bash 3.x --- is available literally everywhere and has many features essential for robust programming, like local variables. Instead of writing for some antique shell, we should all just write for bash or zsh or something modern. I don&#x27;t care about being compatible with some random AIX installation that&#x27;s from 1870 and powered by a steam engine.</text></item><item><author>klodolph</author><text>I appreciate that this isn’t full of Bash-isms—it’s sometimes hard to find out how to do something in a shell script, because you get a bunch of Bash results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>sh is used because it is POSIX sh–you know it will work not &quot;literally everywhere&quot; but really, truly, literally everywhere. And your bashisms aren&#x27;t going to do all that well on BusyBox, or dash. Just because <i>you</i> don&#x27;t care doesn&#x27;t mean that we should make incompatible scripts and not be aware that we are doing so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes</title><url>https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quotemstr</author><text>As you should. Bash --- at least bash 3.x --- is available literally everywhere and has many features essential for robust programming, like local variables. Instead of writing for some antique shell, we should all just write for bash or zsh or something modern. I don&#x27;t care about being compatible with some random AIX installation that&#x27;s from 1870 and powered by a steam engine.</text></item><item><author>klodolph</author><text>I appreciate that this isn’t full of Bash-isms—it’s sometimes hard to find out how to do something in a shell script, because you get a bunch of Bash results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wl</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked on storage-constrained embedded systems where adding bash and its dependencies expanded my root filesystem by 50%. busybox ash is a much smaller alternative.</text></comment> |
26,669,226 | 26,668,402 | 1 | 2 | 26,667,852 | train | <story><title>Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters</title><url>http://tom7.org/lowercase/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>euske</author><text>Fun fact (not fabricated BECAUSE IT&#x27;S APRIL 2ND OVER HERE):<p>Japanese alphabets (kana) doesn&#x27;t have a concept of upper&#x2F;lower cases. There are two different types of kanas (round ones and square ones) but they are kind of equal in terms of strength&#x2F;stress so they can&#x27;t be used to express anger.<p>People on 2-Channel forum (Japan&#x27;s 4chan, basically) came up with a brilliant idea, which is to insert a space between each letter so that it looks a bit wider and has an extra oomph.<p>Example:<p>- normal: 今日はいい天気だね。 (it&#x27;s a fine day, isn&#x27;t it.)<p>- angry: 今 日 は い い 天 気 だ ね 。 (IT&#x27;S A F*KING NICE DAY ISN&#x27;T IT)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxnoe</author><text>This is a form of typographic
emphasis also widely used in German Fraktur texts, called Sperrsatz:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sperrsatz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sperrsatz</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters</title><url>http://tom7.org/lowercase/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>euske</author><text>Fun fact (not fabricated BECAUSE IT&#x27;S APRIL 2ND OVER HERE):<p>Japanese alphabets (kana) doesn&#x27;t have a concept of upper&#x2F;lower cases. There are two different types of kanas (round ones and square ones) but they are kind of equal in terms of strength&#x2F;stress so they can&#x27;t be used to express anger.<p>People on 2-Channel forum (Japan&#x27;s 4chan, basically) came up with a brilliant idea, which is to insert a space between each letter so that it looks a bit wider and has an extra oomph.<p>Example:<p>- normal: 今日はいい天気だね。 (it&#x27;s a fine day, isn&#x27;t it.)<p>- angry: 今 日 は い い 天 気 だ ね 。 (IT&#x27;S A F*KING NICE DAY ISN&#x27;T IT)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Clewza313</author><text>The standard&#x2F;formal way to emphasize in Japanese is with bōten &quot;side dots&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.japanesewithanime.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;furigana-dots-bouten.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.japanesewithanime.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;furigana-dots-bout...</a><p>However, there is no easy way to enter or display these online, hence hacks like spacing.</text></comment> |
37,529,283 | 37,528,793 | 1 | 3 | 37,527,928 | train | <story><title>Books for Game Developers</title><url>https://mrelusive.com/books/books.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>i_c_b</author><text>Wow. This post gave me emotional whiplash.<p>I opened the collection of links, which is quite good if a bit old. But then I had a subconscious mental itch, and thought, wait... where had I heard the name mrelusive before? That sounds _really_ familiar.<p>And then I remembered - oh, right, mrelusive, JP-what&#x27;s-his-name. I&#x27;ve read a huge amount of his code. When I was working on Quake4 as a game programmer and technical designer, he was writing a truly prodigious amount of code in Doom 3 that we kept getting in code updates that I was downstream of.<p>And he was obviously a terrifically smart guy, that was clear.<p>But I had cut my teeth on Carmack&#x27;s style of game code while working in earlier engines. Carmack&#x27;s style of game code did, and still does, heavily resonate with my personal sensibilities as a game maker. I&#x27;m not sure if that particular style of code was influenced by id&#x27;s time working with Objective-C and NeXTStep in their earlier editors, but I&#x27;ve long suspected it might have been - writing this comment reminds me I&#x27;d been meaning to explore that history.<p>Anyway, idTech4&#x27;s actual game (non-rendering) code was much less influenced by Carmack, and was written in a distinctly MFC-style of C++, with a giant, brittle, scope-bleeding inheritance hierarchy. And my experience with it was pretty vexed compared to earlier engines. I ultimately left the team for a bunch of different reasons a while before Quake4 shipped, and it&#x27;s the AAA game I had the least impact on by a wide margin.<p>I was thinking about all this as I was poking over the website, toying with the idea of writing something longer about the general topics. Might make a good HN comment, I thought...<p>But then I noticed that everything on his site was frozen in amber sometime around 2015... which made me uneasy. And sure enough, J.M.P. van Waveren died of cancer back in 2017 at age 39. He was a month younger than me.<p>I didn&#x27;t really know him except through his code and forwards from other team members who were interacting with id more directly at the time. But what an incredible loss.</text></comment> | <story><title>Books for Game Developers</title><url>https://mrelusive.com/books/books.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jessetemp</author><text>Circa 90s and early 2000s.<p>I like how there&#x27;s a whole book on quaternions. I&#x27;ve never understood them and I&#x27;m convinced every definition I&#x27;ve read was written by someone who also didn&#x27;t understand them. I might try to find a copy if I ever dabble in 3d again<p>Edit: To clarify, I understand the <i>need</i> for quaternions (to avoid gimbal lock), just not how to use them manually. Euler angles are simple enough, I can change whichever axis by some degrees or radians. But with quaternions I never understood what was going on under the hood</text></comment> |
32,762,719 | 32,762,055 | 1 | 2 | 32,749,906 | train | <story><title>Blech: A language for developing reactive, real-time critical embedded software</title><url>https://www.blech-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>girvo</author><text>Would be interesting to see how to use this with FreeRTOS. We&#x27;re using Nim at work for our firmware on top of the ESP32-S3, which has been pretty lovely, but even then there are some challenges with matching how FreeRTOS wants us to work vs how doing it in Nim should be done.<p>The biggest challenge in embedded programming languages is this tendency for languages to &quot;rebuild the world&quot; rather than work with what we already have, and thats just a non-starter for most of us as the amount of IDFs, HALs, drivers and libraries out there are too numerous to throw away.<p>But the flip side of that, is they are typically all <i>very</i> C-focused, and so even in a language with really nice binding of C functions (Nim, Blech too from the looks of it), you end up having to contort your Nice Language code into a C simulation most of the time, which really sucks. And don&#x27;t get me started on C++ libraries&#x2F;drivers...<p>I wish I knew what the answer was to this. Nim gets pretty close in my experience, but even it has rough edges for this stuff. Dunno, its a hard problem -- Blech&#x27;s binding syntax looks decent and the rest of it&#x27;s features look fantastic, so I&#x27;d love to be able to reach for it, but C&#x2F;C++&#x27;s continued dominance and body of work makes my head spin when I think about the task all these languages have ahead of them if they are to get real traction in industry.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blech: A language for developing reactive, real-time critical embedded software</title><url>https://www.blech-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elromulous</author><text>From the docs:
Blech is a German word and roughly translates as bare metal. As its name suggests, a Blech program can run on pretty much anything:<p>* directly on “the Blech” in an embedded device,<p>* on top of a realtime OS,<p>* as a safety-critical component integrated via some middleware,<p>* in combination with a simulation model.</text></comment> |
27,365,748 | 27,364,599 | 1 | 3 | 27,352,217 | train | <story><title>A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease</title><url>https://padiracinnovation.org/News/2021/06/a-possible-link-between-childhood-trauma-and-alzheimer-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway803453</author><text>I&#x27;d like to share a perspective that I can&#x27;t reconcile. I&#x27;ll start with a quick list of personal childhood(6-16 year old?) trauma: sexual abuse at 12 by a sadistic man 3 times my size that I feared, getting hit with a baseball bat in two separate incidents the second time fracturing a vertebrae, at 12 having an adult hit me so hard it fractured my sternum (to this day my chest has a bony ridge), losing 3 close childhood friends starting at age 10, watching a woman&#x27;s head get run over by a city bus at age 6. Getting beaten so badly by a gang that my eyelid has a permanent droop (the girls mocked my new asymmetry) Watching a neighbor who I liked get stabbed in the neck and then beg for mercy (he had gambling debts) when I was 10. I could go on.<p>Oddly, at the time none of the above &quot;traumatized&quot; me because the media, movies about NYC and the mob, Catholic school (lots of torture pictures in our study book), other friends experiences, etc. set my expectations that violence and sadism against boys&#x2F;men is normal and that I am lucky to not have gotten worse.<p>I didn&#x27;t start to feel anger or trauma until I went away to college in the early 90&#x27;s and no one seemed to have similar stories. Not even close. Oddly living somewhere safe with decent people made me bitter and resentful.<p>What I can&#x27;t reconcile is that my new friends genuinely felt bad for me in a way that my NYC buddies didn&#x27;t. And that somehow created the trauma. Is that typical ? And does that imply that an avoidance strategy, or a wise-cracking support group, might have better mental health outcomes than time with an empathetic therapist ?<p>&quot;Overall, education seems the most important mediator.&quot; according the article.<p>Good thing I got that Masters degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>&gt; I didn&#x27;t start to feel anger or trauma until I went away to college in the early 90&#x27;s and no one seemed to have similar stories<p>I&#x27;ve got stories like yours. And I too thought I wasn&#x27;t traumatized, at least not too much.<p>But I was wrong.<p>The trauma was a weakness below the surface and given the right mix of pressure (the pressures of startups don&#x27;t by default provide a safe environment for mental health) it gave way almost 35 years later almost ending my story.<p>A year of therapy later and I live a simpler life now. I survived my past, few could and there&#x27;s strength in that.<p>I concur with you that a kind of anxiety exists due to people who just shrug it off, and this was worse and seems to keep the past more present.<p>A few kind individuals heard me, didn&#x27;t dismiss, and didn&#x27;t judge, and have been more support than leagues of others. And being heard by those few people who are softer and gentler, has been absolutely restorative.<p>I&#x27;m glad others don&#x27;t have stories like ours, but sad that means most people can&#x27;t connect with survivors who do have these stories.</text></comment> | <story><title>A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease</title><url>https://padiracinnovation.org/News/2021/06/a-possible-link-between-childhood-trauma-and-alzheimer-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway803453</author><text>I&#x27;d like to share a perspective that I can&#x27;t reconcile. I&#x27;ll start with a quick list of personal childhood(6-16 year old?) trauma: sexual abuse at 12 by a sadistic man 3 times my size that I feared, getting hit with a baseball bat in two separate incidents the second time fracturing a vertebrae, at 12 having an adult hit me so hard it fractured my sternum (to this day my chest has a bony ridge), losing 3 close childhood friends starting at age 10, watching a woman&#x27;s head get run over by a city bus at age 6. Getting beaten so badly by a gang that my eyelid has a permanent droop (the girls mocked my new asymmetry) Watching a neighbor who I liked get stabbed in the neck and then beg for mercy (he had gambling debts) when I was 10. I could go on.<p>Oddly, at the time none of the above &quot;traumatized&quot; me because the media, movies about NYC and the mob, Catholic school (lots of torture pictures in our study book), other friends experiences, etc. set my expectations that violence and sadism against boys&#x2F;men is normal and that I am lucky to not have gotten worse.<p>I didn&#x27;t start to feel anger or trauma until I went away to college in the early 90&#x27;s and no one seemed to have similar stories. Not even close. Oddly living somewhere safe with decent people made me bitter and resentful.<p>What I can&#x27;t reconcile is that my new friends genuinely felt bad for me in a way that my NYC buddies didn&#x27;t. And that somehow created the trauma. Is that typical ? And does that imply that an avoidance strategy, or a wise-cracking support group, might have better mental health outcomes than time with an empathetic therapist ?<p>&quot;Overall, education seems the most important mediator.&quot; according the article.<p>Good thing I got that Masters degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>It’s a delicate subject to discuss, to say the least. There has been some tangential research in this area, but most researchers want to avoid the perception of questioning anyone’s response to or definition of trauma.<p>We do know that the language used to describe a situation can have profound effects on the perceived severity. There is a famous study in which subjects were shown footage of cars crashing into each other and asked to estimate the speed of the collision. It turns out that the way the collision is described has a significant effect on the estimate of the speed. For example, asking someone how fast the cars “smashed” into each other results in more severe estimates than if you ask how fast the cars “collided”. There has been extrapolation to suggest that merely reframing events as traumas is enough to amplify their severity, which could unfortunately create unhelpful negative feedback loops when others are merely trying to help.<p>There is also a trend toward younger generations feeling that their lives are more due to fate or random chance than their own actions. Reframing outcomes as traumas inherently shifts the outcome to something that is inflicted upon us. Is it possible that prior to your friends’ reframing of those events you viewed the outcomes more as your own successful navigation out of (obviously terrible) random events? Reframing events as traumas can shift the perspective to one of being a helpless victim rather than an active navigator.</text></comment> |
23,768,943 | 23,769,019 | 1 | 2 | 23,766,947 | train | <story><title>The GNU Name System IETF Draft</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>als0</author><text>&gt; GNS is based on the principle of a petname system and builds on ideas from the Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure (SDSI), addressing a central issue with the decentralized mapping of secure identifiers to memorable names: namely the impossibility of providing a global, secure and memorable mapping without a trusted authority.<p>Great to see people learning from SDSI and SPKI, which have largely been forgotten despite their achievements.</text></comment> | <story><title>The GNU Name System IETF Draft</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>The draft spec mentions DHT in several places long before it defines what exactly it is (in section 4)<p>Perhaps the spec would be better if it added a table of definitions at the top, just like it has a table of names for the cryptographic primitives.</text></comment> |
32,207,439 | 32,207,566 | 1 | 3 | 32,204,256 | train | <story><title>Spain will introduce free train travel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/spain-will-introduce-free-train-travel-to-help-ease-the-cost-of-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>There&#x27;s <i>no way</i> to make a coast-to-coast trip in the US as fast as a plane ever. It&#x27;s like, what, 4500km? Even with the fastest regular passenger train in the world which runs at 350 km&#x2F;h, this will be a 12 hour trip and that&#x27;s not including the time the train will spend below that speed e.g. for stops. Compared to that, your average Airbus A380 hits 900 km&#x2F;h as regular cruise speed, rendering that into a much better 5 hour trip.<p>Not to say high-speed rail doesn&#x27;t have its uses - by far not, the chief one being replacing flights &lt; 2 hours - but anything above the 2 hour flight time is better kept served by plane.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;travel&#x2F;article&#x2F;worlds-fastest-trains-cmd&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;travel&#x2F;article&#x2F;worlds-fastest-trains...</a></text></item><item><author>alar44</author><text>I&#x27;d say the biggest issue is that trains are slow as fuck. If I take a plane I can get to either coast in a few hours from the Midwest. A train will take 1-2 days.</text></item><item><author>itronitron</author><text>I&#x27;ve ridden Amtrak a few times on different routes, TX to CA as a child, midwest to DC as a student, and northeast to southeast (NE corridor +) with a pregnant wife.<p>The main issue with train travel in the US is that many passengers are going to need a car when they reach their destination.<p>If I could pick one major rail investment for the US it would be to follow I-95 from Florida to New England. There is a lot of commute and vacation traffic along that interstate (I-95) that can be stressful and people would probably happily move over to Amtrak if the service guarantees are good.</text></item><item><author>stormbrew</author><text>&gt; If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out<p>My understanding is that in north America the big problem with passenger rail is less cost and more the fact that there&#x27;s a bias towards freight in track right of ways. Even if you&#x27;re willing and happy to pay a lot to travel by train, scheduling is still likely to be screwed up somewhere by a big ass freight train in the way and there&#x27;s nothing you can do about it.<p>Edit to add after a double check: I guess in the US it&#x27;s technically the law that passengers be given priority but it&#x27;s poorly (or just not) enforced[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dotcom&#x2F;english&#x2F;public&#x2F;documents&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;HostRailroadReports&#x2F;mythbusters-enforcing-amtraks-legal-right-to-preference.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dotcom&#x2F;english&#x2F;p...</a></text></item><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Free or extremely cheap transportation is a fascinating development. I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don&#x27;t expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?<p>If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out. Maybe it&#x27;d gain some popularity and we could finally see a shift away from cars. Public transportation is a difficult process because until the money is spent and the line is there, people are not sold. Whereas with cars, even if a highway is not built, people still have a car by default. Therefore the government needs to float money, either in infrastructure or in subsidized fares. At least subsidized fares is a little less binary than infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herewulf</author><text>You make good points but you forgot to factor in the 2 hours early that you need to show up at the airport. Getting on and off a train can take only minutes.<p>I&#x27;ve only ridden Amtrak once but I guess there are also security requirements that do take some time also (as opposed to most European countries).<p>I&#x27;ve also experienced lots of unexpected delays on flights whereas trains seem to be exceptionally on time (especially in a country like Germany). You&#x27;re also assuming a direct flight also (though this is probably more related to cost which is another issue).<p>All in all, a coast to coast journey that takes 12 hours vs. 7 doesn&#x27;t seem so bad if:<p>- I can spend maybe 8 of it sleeping in a bed
- The difference is 5 hours
- I can eat some real meals in a dining car
- I can walk around reasonably</text></comment> | <story><title>Spain will introduce free train travel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/spain-will-introduce-free-train-travel-to-help-ease-the-cost-of-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>There&#x27;s <i>no way</i> to make a coast-to-coast trip in the US as fast as a plane ever. It&#x27;s like, what, 4500km? Even with the fastest regular passenger train in the world which runs at 350 km&#x2F;h, this will be a 12 hour trip and that&#x27;s not including the time the train will spend below that speed e.g. for stops. Compared to that, your average Airbus A380 hits 900 km&#x2F;h as regular cruise speed, rendering that into a much better 5 hour trip.<p>Not to say high-speed rail doesn&#x27;t have its uses - by far not, the chief one being replacing flights &lt; 2 hours - but anything above the 2 hour flight time is better kept served by plane.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;travel&#x2F;article&#x2F;worlds-fastest-trains-cmd&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;travel&#x2F;article&#x2F;worlds-fastest-trains...</a></text></item><item><author>alar44</author><text>I&#x27;d say the biggest issue is that trains are slow as fuck. If I take a plane I can get to either coast in a few hours from the Midwest. A train will take 1-2 days.</text></item><item><author>itronitron</author><text>I&#x27;ve ridden Amtrak a few times on different routes, TX to CA as a child, midwest to DC as a student, and northeast to southeast (NE corridor +) with a pregnant wife.<p>The main issue with train travel in the US is that many passengers are going to need a car when they reach their destination.<p>If I could pick one major rail investment for the US it would be to follow I-95 from Florida to New England. There is a lot of commute and vacation traffic along that interstate (I-95) that can be stressful and people would probably happily move over to Amtrak if the service guarantees are good.</text></item><item><author>stormbrew</author><text>&gt; If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out<p>My understanding is that in north America the big problem with passenger rail is less cost and more the fact that there&#x27;s a bias towards freight in track right of ways. Even if you&#x27;re willing and happy to pay a lot to travel by train, scheduling is still likely to be screwed up somewhere by a big ass freight train in the way and there&#x27;s nothing you can do about it.<p>Edit to add after a double check: I guess in the US it&#x27;s technically the law that passengers be given priority but it&#x27;s poorly (or just not) enforced[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dotcom&#x2F;english&#x2F;public&#x2F;documents&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;HostRailroadReports&#x2F;mythbusters-enforcing-amtraks-legal-right-to-preference.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dotcom&#x2F;english&#x2F;p...</a></text></item><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Free or extremely cheap transportation is a fascinating development. I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don&#x27;t expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?<p>If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out. Maybe it&#x27;d gain some popularity and we could finally see a shift away from cars. Public transportation is a difficult process because until the money is spent and the line is there, people are not sold. Whereas with cars, even if a highway is not built, people still have a car by default. Therefore the government needs to float money, either in infrastructure or in subsidized fares. At least subsidized fares is a little less binary than infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudosysgen</author><text>If you also take into account the time you spend at an airport and the possible slowdown from the wind (900km&#x2F;h is airspeed) while having a theoretical but technically feasible 450km&#x2F;h high speed train as well as the time it takes to go to and from airports (you can put train stations downtown and near public transport) you can actually achieve parity in most situations, or near parity in others</text></comment> |
20,670,722 | 20,670,833 | 1 | 3 | 20,669,504 | train | <story><title>Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high</title><url>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/h-1b-visa-denials-at-all-time-high/articleshow/70613732.cms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; we don’t employ immigrants to save money.<p>&gt; The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.<p>You don&#x27;t have to pay immigrants less in order to be saving money by employing immigrants. The whole point is that by expanding the labor pool, you&#x27;re reducing salaries and negotiating power for everyone.<p>That&#x27;s not what the H1-B system was designed for. It was designed to facilitate hiring folks with specialized skills you can&#x27;t get locally. <i>E.g.</i> you want to hire an Indian person who did his PhD on something relevant to a project you&#x27;re working on.</text></item><item><author>doh</author><text>We are still a small company of 40+ people and have quite unprecedented issues with H-1Bs, from transfer though extension. Literally every single H-1B extension or transfer got slapped by RFE. The amount of documents we had to produce to prove that an employee, who works for us for 3 years, is still valuable, is just mind-blowing.<p>BTW we got RFE equally for people that are from Europe and India.<p>PS: because it was brought up by someone in this thread, we don’t employ immigrants to save money. Check any of my “who is hiring” posts [0] and you can see, that we pay equally across the US to all employees based on their skill level. We bring immigrants because we’re having hard times finding skilled workers locally. The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20587535" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20587535</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>&gt; you&#x27;re reducing salaries and negotiating power for everyone.<p>Rather, you&#x27;re leveling it by expanding the labor pool to include the rest of the world, aka via globalization. Not inherently bad imo, but I could understand why someone patriotic would find this problematic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high</title><url>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/h-1b-visa-denials-at-all-time-high/articleshow/70613732.cms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; we don’t employ immigrants to save money.<p>&gt; The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.<p>You don&#x27;t have to pay immigrants less in order to be saving money by employing immigrants. The whole point is that by expanding the labor pool, you&#x27;re reducing salaries and negotiating power for everyone.<p>That&#x27;s not what the H1-B system was designed for. It was designed to facilitate hiring folks with specialized skills you can&#x27;t get locally. <i>E.g.</i> you want to hire an Indian person who did his PhD on something relevant to a project you&#x27;re working on.</text></item><item><author>doh</author><text>We are still a small company of 40+ people and have quite unprecedented issues with H-1Bs, from transfer though extension. Literally every single H-1B extension or transfer got slapped by RFE. The amount of documents we had to produce to prove that an employee, who works for us for 3 years, is still valuable, is just mind-blowing.<p>BTW we got RFE equally for people that are from Europe and India.<p>PS: because it was brought up by someone in this thread, we don’t employ immigrants to save money. Check any of my “who is hiring” posts [0] and you can see, that we pay equally across the US to all employees based on their skill level. We bring immigrants because we’re having hard times finding skilled workers locally. The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20587535" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20587535</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>This trope gets brought up a lot but the definition of specialized skills is broader than PHD level expertise. That is your interpretation of it and not that of the law or of the Federal Government.</text></comment> |
8,522,682 | 8,521,817 | 1 | 2 | 8,521,311 | train | <story><title>DigitalOcean partners with Mesosphere</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/digitalocean-partners-with-mesosphere-to-allow-developers-to-focus-on-apps-not-servers/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pquerna</author><text>This seems completely insecure. I just spun up the small cluster, and it does nothing to firewall off or isolate the instances from the internet?<p>Eg, Zookeeper is listening on port 2181 on the public internet?<p>How is this OK?</text></comment> | <story><title>DigitalOcean partners with Mesosphere</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/digitalocean-partners-with-mesosphere-to-allow-developers-to-focus-on-apps-not-servers/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hortinstein</author><text>I would love to see someone quantify the value in this through a tutorial or real world use case. I am Having a little bit of trouble wrapping my head around it.<p>Does this have enough security baked in to run a production web app? Still trying to get through the marketing speak on on the page...</text></comment> |
6,989,739 | 6,989,612 | 1 | 3 | 6,989,179 | train | <story><title>Questions I'm asking in technical interviews</title><url>http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pamelafox</author><text>I wrote a blog post on a similar topic, after mentoring several would-be engineers that were curious about finding a good fit after graduating:
<a href="http://blog.pamelafox.org/2013/07/what-to-look-for-in-software.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pamelafox.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;what-to-look-for-in-softwa...</a>
That post also turned into a slide deck:
<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/pamelafox/engineering-culture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speakerdeck.com&#x2F;pamelafox&#x2F;engineering-culture</a><p>I think we cover very similar areas. One of the big red flags for me, personally, is code review (lack thereof). If a company doesn&#x27;t believe in its value, that reflects on its whole perception of coding as a collaborative process, and I just can&#x27;t get on board with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Questions I'm asking in technical interviews</title><url>http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>These would also be excellent questions to ask yourself about your current job to decide whether it&#x27;s a place where you really want to be.</text></comment> |
15,365,063 | 15,364,964 | 1 | 2 | 15,364,558 | train | <story><title>U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>musha68k</author><text>As much as I’ve always loved to come to the US and as fascinating as some US conferences are (e.g. StrangeLoop might be my personal fav) – no international attendee or speaker can be expected to put up with this ever expanding amount of bullshit anymore.<p>If the science community or “our industry” really want to encourage and unlock the magic of diversity we need new venues for a whole lot of conferences either in Canada or the EU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>Oh I think you will find the EU is not far behind and in some area&#x27;s further ahead in this orwellian future. Germany for example on verge of rolling out facial ID recognition and trialing currently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-germany-security&#x2F;german-police-test-facial-recognition-cameras-at-berlin-station-idUSKBN1AH4VR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-germany-security&#x2F;german-p...</a><p>This with data retention laws imposed upon ISP&#x27;s, they already have all your data, so no need to ask.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>musha68k</author><text>As much as I’ve always loved to come to the US and as fascinating as some US conferences are (e.g. StrangeLoop might be my personal fav) – no international attendee or speaker can be expected to put up with this ever expanding amount of bullshit anymore.<p>If the science community or “our industry” really want to encourage and unlock the magic of diversity we need new venues for a whole lot of conferences either in Canada or the EU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misiti3780</author><text>The law is obviously offensively bad, and I do not support (dual citizen to the US), but I think the bigger problem here is any country can do this now -- and any of them that can get away with doing this will do it. The real solution is get the fuck off facebook.</text></comment> |
2,586,216 | 2,586,137 | 1 | 2 | 2,585,668 | train | <story><title>Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/review/R3SKPG9XEJYASE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0812589041&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hugh3</author><text>Unfortunately does nothing to change my view that authors should probably keep away from their own reviews. If he'd had some brilliant new insight that would be one thing, but instead he just comes off as slightly more defensive than anyone who has sold tens of millions of books should.<p>I guess it was 1999 when this was written, though, so the norms for online reviews had not yet been established.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwecker</author><text>Keep in mind also that Orson has written several books for writers and does a ton of workshops etc. For sci-fi he's a pretty prolific (and good imo) writing teacher. In his response he was specifically targeting literary concepts that he teaches and has written about while trying to dilute some of the ad-homonim attacks that were apparently exploding for the book at the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/review/R3SKPG9XEJYASE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0812589041&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hugh3</author><text>Unfortunately does nothing to change my view that authors should probably keep away from their own reviews. If he'd had some brilliant new insight that would be one thing, but instead he just comes off as slightly more defensive than anyone who has sold tens of millions of books should.<p>I guess it was 1999 when this was written, though, so the norms for online reviews had not yet been established.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>These days Amazon has a place where writers can comment on their books. It may not have existed in 1999.<p>It's one thing to fake a review, but there's nothing wrong with using that spot to talk to your readers.</text></comment> |
20,162,460 | 20,161,578 | 1 | 3 | 20,157,809 | train | <story><title>Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/11/introducing-matrix-1-0-and-the-matrix-org-foundation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>This interests me, as a potential user; but it’s only a killer feature if it’s accessible.<p>I start by looking into Hangouts matters, because I use Hangouts to talk to some of my family, currently only on my phone and not on my laptop; and I see three projects listed in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;projects&#x2F;try-matrix-now" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;projects&#x2F;try-matrix-now</a>: matrix-appservice-hangouts, mautrix-hangouts, and Hangouts Bridge. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;projects&#x2F;bridges&#x2F;#hangouts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;projects&#x2F;bridges&#x2F;#hangouts</a> lists two, matrix-puppet-hangouts and matrix-appservice-hangouts.<p>Bridge, puppeting bridge, appservice—I have no idea what any of this means. I’m generally hoping for something like an instruction to install a piece of software on my laptop with `curl … | sudo bash` or some unsigned .exe or something. (Are any of these things basically a Matrix server that I could run on localhost, or do they slot into a Matrix server that I’d need to host elsewhere?)<p>And so I give up. The content formatting of those pages on matrix.org was super-ugly anyway, it’s clearly either not a good product or not for normal people. (This remark may seem harsh, but this <i>is</i> how most will think.)<p>What do I need to do for all of this to get Hangouts, SMS and Slack working in Matrix? Is Matrix ever going to focus on users and make questions like this easier to answer, or will it remain a niche product that I should not bother with?</text></item><item><author>mikenew</author><text>The not-so-talked-about but killer feature of Matrix is that you can bridge other services into it. I&#x27;m currently able to send and receive messages from Hangouts, iMessage, SMS, and Slack all from within Matrix. If I&#x27;m working on my laptop I can put my phone in my bag and not even touch it for 8 hours, because there&#x27;s no need. I have Riot running on my laptop with a full keyboard and access to all my communication platforms.<p>It&#x27;s not exactly easy to do (iMessage requires a dedicated Mac, for example), but it&#x27;s possible. And it works pretty well. Pulling out my phone to tap out an SMS when I have a full keyboard in front of me seems silly at this point. Hopefully the bridging will continue to evolve and become more accessible to the average user, because it&#x27;s amazing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arathorn</author><text>The most mature bridges are available today via a user-friendly appstore if you click on the integration button in Riot. The matrix.org site is intended for developers rather than end-users. If you want to see user-focused stuff, go to Riot.im. That said, there is still work to be done to make the UX around bridging better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/11/introducing-matrix-1-0-and-the-matrix-org-foundation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>This interests me, as a potential user; but it’s only a killer feature if it’s accessible.<p>I start by looking into Hangouts matters, because I use Hangouts to talk to some of my family, currently only on my phone and not on my laptop; and I see three projects listed in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;projects&#x2F;try-matrix-now" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;projects&#x2F;try-matrix-now</a>: matrix-appservice-hangouts, mautrix-hangouts, and Hangouts Bridge. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;projects&#x2F;bridges&#x2F;#hangouts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;projects&#x2F;bridges&#x2F;#hangouts</a> lists two, matrix-puppet-hangouts and matrix-appservice-hangouts.<p>Bridge, puppeting bridge, appservice—I have no idea what any of this means. I’m generally hoping for something like an instruction to install a piece of software on my laptop with `curl … | sudo bash` or some unsigned .exe or something. (Are any of these things basically a Matrix server that I could run on localhost, or do they slot into a Matrix server that I’d need to host elsewhere?)<p>And so I give up. The content formatting of those pages on matrix.org was super-ugly anyway, it’s clearly either not a good product or not for normal people. (This remark may seem harsh, but this <i>is</i> how most will think.)<p>What do I need to do for all of this to get Hangouts, SMS and Slack working in Matrix? Is Matrix ever going to focus on users and make questions like this easier to answer, or will it remain a niche product that I should not bother with?</text></item><item><author>mikenew</author><text>The not-so-talked-about but killer feature of Matrix is that you can bridge other services into it. I&#x27;m currently able to send and receive messages from Hangouts, iMessage, SMS, and Slack all from within Matrix. If I&#x27;m working on my laptop I can put my phone in my bag and not even touch it for 8 hours, because there&#x27;s no need. I have Riot running on my laptop with a full keyboard and access to all my communication platforms.<p>It&#x27;s not exactly easy to do (iMessage requires a dedicated Mac, for example), but it&#x27;s possible. And it works pretty well. Pulling out my phone to tap out an SMS when I have a full keyboard in front of me seems silly at this point. Hopefully the bridging will continue to evolve and become more accessible to the average user, because it&#x27;s amazing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shaan7</author><text>&gt; or not for normal people<p>Given that the documentation you&#x27;re reading is for sysadmins, it shouldn&#x27;t be a surprise that its not targeted to end-users (assuming that is what you meant by &quot;normal people&quot;)<p>&gt; but it’s only a killer feature if it’s accessible.<p>Again, depends on your definition of accessible. Personally, if there is a feature I really like, I don&#x27;t mind being patient and spending couple of hours to understand the docs.<p>I&#x27;m not denying that Matrix needs to improve the issues that you&#x27;ve pointed out, but that shouldn&#x27;t make one disregard how useful it is.</text></comment> |
33,808,681 | 33,808,623 | 1 | 3 | 33,801,973 | train | <story><title>The Casino-Chip Society</title><url>https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akira2501</author><text>If money only exists in the mind of people, how could there truly ever be a &quot;science&quot; of it? It strikes me, from a somewhat cynical point of view, that &quot;economics&quot; is a somewhat confused and lower resolution study of &quot;psychology,&quot; which I think offers a the workable explanation for your final sentence.</text></item><item><author>jrm4</author><text>This is <i>so good.</i> I was in another thread suggesting that, even if you hate crypto, it&#x27;s still valuable to understand and accept the &quot;fiat is all made up&quot; idea, even if it&#x27;s often badly stated and argued.<p>I have a degree in economics, but I confess I really didn&#x27;t understand the whole thing until much later in life, when I was able to look at it through the lens of e.g. video game design. Which is to say, there are real consequences and real effects of actions -- but the economy still isn&#x27;t something like &quot;nature&quot; or &quot;scientific&quot; despite what many would have you believe. It&#x27;s much more like a <i>designed game</i> who&#x27;s rules can be tweaked, sometimes arbitrary, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>felix318</author><text>Numbers also only exist in our minds but that doesn&#x27;t make mathematics a branch of psychology. There is a rational side to economics because money can be measured and the measurements are reliable.<p>The unpredictable side of economics is of course the behaviour of the various economical agents, and regarding this I think economics is closer to astrology than to psychology.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Casino-Chip Society</title><url>https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akira2501</author><text>If money only exists in the mind of people, how could there truly ever be a &quot;science&quot; of it? It strikes me, from a somewhat cynical point of view, that &quot;economics&quot; is a somewhat confused and lower resolution study of &quot;psychology,&quot; which I think offers a the workable explanation for your final sentence.</text></item><item><author>jrm4</author><text>This is <i>so good.</i> I was in another thread suggesting that, even if you hate crypto, it&#x27;s still valuable to understand and accept the &quot;fiat is all made up&quot; idea, even if it&#x27;s often badly stated and argued.<p>I have a degree in economics, but I confess I really didn&#x27;t understand the whole thing until much later in life, when I was able to look at it through the lens of e.g. video game design. Which is to say, there are real consequences and real effects of actions -- but the economy still isn&#x27;t something like &quot;nature&quot; or &quot;scientific&quot; despite what many would have you believe. It&#x27;s much more like a <i>designed game</i> who&#x27;s rules can be tweaked, sometimes arbitrary, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plsbenice34</author><text>It&#x27;s like game theory. Once you set rules and laws you can mathematically model and analyse players&#x27; behaviour in reaction to those incentives. Assuming players follow a selfish strategy can be a useful approximation of the psychology sometimes. Since it&#x27;s &#x27;just made up&#x27; societies can modify the rules.</text></comment> |
8,763,768 | 8,763,909 | 1 | 3 | 8,762,871 | train | <story><title>Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/obama-to-announce-u-s-cuba-relations-shift-as-gross-is-released.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>I&#x27;ve visited Cuba on a Canadian passport. Aside from the beautiful beaches the thing that struck me most was the desperate poverty of people living in shacks outside the 5 star resorts.<p>While I hesitate to predict that this change will be all for the good, I do believe that the poorest in Cuba will benefit significantly from increased trade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soperj</author><text>I felt the same way visiting San Francisco, the abject poverty of the people downtown outside $400 a night hotels is just incredible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/obama-to-announce-u-s-cuba-relations-shift-as-gross-is-released.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>I&#x27;ve visited Cuba on a Canadian passport. Aside from the beautiful beaches the thing that struck me most was the desperate poverty of people living in shacks outside the 5 star resorts.<p>While I hesitate to predict that this change will be all for the good, I do believe that the poorest in Cuba will benefit significantly from increased trade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyahoo</author><text>On the other hand:<p>- average life expectancy in Cuba is almost the same as the USA (and higher than Mexico, Belize, Bahamas, Brazil, etc.).<p>- literacy rate in Cuba is higher than that in the USA<p>- Physicians per 10,000 people: Cuba has 67, USA has 24<p>In the Ebola crisis, Cuba has been leading from the front.</text></comment> |
22,867,645 | 22,867,671 | 1 | 2 | 22,867,062 | train | <story><title>Valve and HackerOne: how not to handle vulnerability reports</title><url>https://blog.jakegealer.me/valve-a/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtlynch</author><text>I think Valve and HackerOne handled this poorly, but I think the author is partially at fault for repeatedly failing to communicate the issue clearly.<p>I worked as a penetration tester for a while, and I had trouble understanding what the author was saying. The headline should have been that the steam mobile app makes requests to the plaintext HTTP URL (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com</a>) instead of the TLS-authenticated URL (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com</a>). Without TLS, an attacker can impersonate the Steam store server and steal credit cards or trick users into installing malicious apps.<p>The author reported this as:<p>&gt;<i>The vulnerability is that an attacker can perform a man in the middle attack by spoofing an HTTP request pretending to be from store.steampowered.com. While the client does check for an eventual HTTPS redirect, it can redirect to an HTTPS URL.</i><p>There&#x27;s so much ambiguity and missing information in that writeup:<p>* Who does the attacker send an HTTP request to? I think the author meant to say an HTTP <i>response</i>.<p>* In &quot;it can redirect,&quot; does the word &quot;it&quot; refer to the &quot;the client&quot; or
&quot;redirect?&quot;<p>* I think &quot;it can redirect to <i>an</i> HTTPS URL&quot; was supposed to be &quot;<i>any</i> HTTPS URL.&quot;<p>* <i>Why</i> is the client vulnerable? What should they be doing instead?<p>Also, the author&#x27;s exploit scenario is to just make the Steam app load his portfolio page, which might have further muddled things. It sounds inconsequential that an attacker can trick Steam users into visiting a developer&#x27;s portfolio page. It might have been a clearer report if the proof-of-concept redirected to a website that looked like the Steam store but had a warning saying, &quot;I&#x27;m an evil copy of the Steam store that will steal your credit card number.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve and HackerOne: how not to handle vulnerability reports</title><url>https://blog.jakegealer.me/valve-a/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Saaster</author><text>Companies receive so many &quot;First, you have to be on the other side of this airtight hatch, then you...&quot; reports that anything that looks even remotely like it will just get summarily closed. My personal favorite ones start with some form of &quot;I copied the user&#x27;s cookies from device A&#x27;s file-system, and...&quot;<p>Just some suggestion on how to report these kind of things, because there is an actual underlying issue here worth fixing. It&#x27;s good that you didn&#x27;t mention the reverse proxy. Next, don&#x27;t say &quot;spoofing an HTTP request&quot; in your first sentence of the report, that&#x27;s an immediate red flag. If you have access to spoof something on the network, it&#x27;s already not an issue for 99% of people and an instant low priority. Instead, say &quot;Steam insecurely relies on a redirect response to upgrade the hosted content from HTTP to HTTPS, instead of directly establishing the HTTPS connection&quot;. How this can be exploited is now much more general than just being a spoofing issue, with both the problem and solution clearly stated.</text></comment> |
29,152,691 | 29,152,509 | 1 | 3 | 29,150,953 | train | <story><title>China Bans Flightradar24</title><url>https://theprint.in/opinion/chinascope/china-says-indian-govt-backed-group-evil-flower-is-attacking-it-shuts-down-airlines-data/762663/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>speakspokespok</author><text>Speaking for the USA, the ADS-B data stream you see on FlightAware&#x27;s commercial feeds has military and police aircraft data filtered, even if those aircraft are broadcasting that information. While ADS-B data reception is public, certain data types must be removed in your commercial offering per FAA.<p>Near me in Puget Sound &#x2F; Seattle are two intl airports, several military bases including a nuclear sub base, plus we&#x27;re near the US &#x2F; Canadian border. Air traffic as you can imagine is very interesting and includes state police Cessna&#x27;s at night cruising for people speeding on Highway 18, military transport through JBLM (military base) but no fighter jet ADS-B. There&#x27;s commercial air traffic, hobby planes, private jets, hospital and news helicopters. There&#x27;s flight paths and local flight patterns. My current mystery are the small, black, unmarked DHS (I think!) helicopters that cruise Discovery Park lighthouse every few hours. They don&#x27;t show up on ADS-B at all. There&#x27;s more but you get the idea of how cool this all is. SDR is just wild. All you need is a Pi 3 and the PiAware image, the antenna and the 1050 filter they suggest. PiAware has a local webinterface that shows everything it&#x27;s picking up but will be filtered later by FlightAware.</text></comment> | <story><title>China Bans Flightradar24</title><url>https://theprint.in/opinion/chinascope/china-says-indian-govt-backed-group-evil-flower-is-attacking-it-shuts-down-airlines-data/762663/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dirtyid</author><text>PRC air corridors are concentrated in coast, commercial and military aviation are heavily intermixed because it&#x27;s where population and security considerations are. Does not take much to capture a lot of data for useful analysis.<p>Somewhat related, Ministry of State Security commented on 3 security breaches to Xinhua recently. Case #3 was meteorolgical observation equipment setup near sensitive military base that sent data to overseas org. Insinuation seems to be it was part of crowdsource intel gathering for commercial purposes that ultimately had links to foreign military. Open source intel OSINT has been blowing up, so PRC looking to secure data.</text></comment> |
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