> I don't understand why there has to be this dichotomy, you're either active on social media and miserable or off of them and happy.
Because this is propaganda, not news. What is newsworthy about this post? Nothing. It's just another of a neverending anti-facebook propaganda hit piece by the propagandists. And propaganda isn't about nuance or objectivity. It's about extremes.
People quit cnbc, switch from coke to pepsi ( or vice versa ), switch from galaxy to iphone ( or vice versa ), etc and it makes them happy. Is that news? CNBC could do the exact same article about itself since there are plenty of people who stopped watching it for the better. Just like there are people who watch it and are happier. And most people just watch it because it's there. But why would it spread propaganda against itself?
Tomorrow we'll see the same anti-facebook propaganda. Just like we have gotten one every single day for months now. It's getting to be obnoxious.
Yours is a valid concern, but people can also fool attribution software easily. You could even write software that alters your paper into a few different people's writing style. That will render any attribution process useless. Just like you can disassemble code, you can obfuscate it.
What happened to graphene? A couple of years ago, that's all anyone talked about? I thought graphene was going to get us back on the exponential incline that is moore's law?
I'm guessing the answer is no ( betteridge's law ) and we are going to stay in the multi-core environment for a while. 128, 256, 512, 1024, ... cores. Though I suspect that is going to run into problems very quickly.
I guess this is for the nontraditional programmers since computer science is a mathematical field and programming is simply applied mathematics in some sense. I don't see how you could get a CS degree without being competent in mathematics to some degree since CS is a mathematical field.
Why is this news? Everyone does this, including the nytimes. The nytimes marketing department offers their clients on all kinds of identifying/targeting traits for advertising.
From your fashion to your viewing habits to which news you consuming to even the types of pets you have and everything in between is used. Where you work, where you live, what kind of parenting situation you have, etc.
Isn't that the point of political and corporate advertising? Isn't this why the nytimes and cambridge analytica is in business? Is the obvious "news" now because of trump and the "right wing"?
Considering the DNC spent a lot more money than the RNC the past few elections, there are far more organizations who targeted left-wing voters than right-wing voters. But I guess the nytimes doesn't want to write an article about itself and its ad team and their clients.
Actually, he couldn't. He thought he could hide. But we find out in the ministry of truth and room 101 that everything he did "secretly", like writing in his diary or his rendezvous with julia, were known to the authorities.
But I agree, unless we wake up, I think a mix of 1984 and Minority Report style of dystopian future awaits us.
> Fentanyl only exists on the dark web because of the Chinese labs pumping it out. Wake up!
The chinese labs wouldn't be pumping out fentanyl if people weren't demanding it. If it isn't china producing it, it would be produce elsewhere ( even in the US ). Stop with your scapegoating rhetoric.
> They see this as just revenge for the British selling opium in China.
It wasn't just the british. A huge part of the US industrial and political power derived from colonizing china.
Though I disagree with your fearmongering and your erroneous equating of the US with britain, I do agree that we have to come to terms with china one day over our historical transgressions and their future ambitions. It's inevitable at the very least that china will want the US our of east asia and possibly want retribution for a century of brutal colonization/humiliation/rape of china. How these issues get resolved will determine the future of the US, China and the world in the 21st century.
> Who is “we?” People who look like me, a white person, who did mean things two centuries before I was born?
"We" as in the nation or government? And it wasn't 2 centuries ago. We were colonizing china up until 1949.
People truly do not understand how much "we" ( as in the US and imperial europe ) screwed over china. I bet not 1 in a 1000 americans knows that the US were imperial colonizers in china even after ww2.
I see the same comments every time a china topic is posted on HN. I wonder why?
> I don't think it would be far-fetched to assume that some very protected and valuable IP has leeched through our doors and into China's hands.
China has a "technology transfer policy" for foreign companies doing business in china. So if intel has a fab in china, they agreed to the technology transfer.
> In all honestly I really can't fathom how the American government let this deal occur.
Probably because it benefited US companies and the wealthy.
If china is stealing anything, it's here in the US, not from intel who agreed to trade technology for chinese market access.
The difference is that with fp ops, it's part of the design and understood that you should never directly compare the equality of fp numbers since they are estimates. You should check for equality of fp numbers by checking their difference according to your needs.
Whereas for int ops, equality works within the limits of the design.
In short equality means something different in fp by design. For int, it means what we think it means within its limits. When we overflow, then things get screwy.
> If Reddit and other similar sites want to make a point, a banner won't be enough. They need to do the unthinkable: Block all access from the EU.
What they need to do is work together in a unified manner like the media and the politicians have done. Instead, they are bickering and fighting against each other while the journalists and politicians form a unified front against freedom and free speech.
> Legislators are relying on a population who is too distracted to care what they're doing.
Exactly. They rely on a lazy populace and of course relentless anti-tech propaganda from news organizations.
> Slightly off-topic, but: has PostgreSQL largely replaced MySQL for new projects? I'm seeing larger numbers of positions advertising for Postgres, even here in the Midwest.
Perhaps, but I suspect people who are migrating from mysql are moving to mariadb, not postresql.
> Postgres seems so chock-full of features now
Now? PostgreSQL has always been more feature-rich ( especially compared to mysql ). What made mysql popular was it's lack of features ( simplicity ) and its tie-in with php/etc web development. Web developers loved mysql because it was simple and easier to manage because it was so feature poor. Give credit where it is due. MySQL really rode the web development momentum. But PostgreSQL has always been the more mature RDBMS.
This is a basic features list ( maybe somewhat biased and somewhat dated ) but the overall trend still holds today.
> It seems to me that the biggest thing that the author does not know about the provenance of Google's style guide is just how massive Google's projects that this guide applies to really are. A lot of the author's complaints may not make sense on their project with a few engineers, but they are absolutely vital in a code base on which thousands of engineers work on every day.
I agree. People work on their small pet projects for school or wherever and think that's how enterprise development really works. Unless they have worked on a major project, it's very difficult for them to understand.
But even more important than sytle, it's consistency. You shouldn't use a coding style/standard because it works for google. You should create a coding style that works for your team or organization and stick to it consistently. Oftentimes, keeping to the style is more important than the style itself.
Maybe.
> You should sue your school for the permanent damage they did. Both in terms of grammar as well as history.
Okay. You might want to read about US history yourself. Take a gander at yellow journalism also and the history of news and news companies.
> In any case: if journalism is so useless, why are you jumping through hoops to read it?
I'm not.