This statistic is mentioned a lot, but it would be interesting to see a breakdown by amount of traffic on those sites. In these metrics thanks to the big web companies, the reach of Wordpress is much lower and other application frameworks are more predominant.
The thing is, features like Postgres' native UUID column types, JSONB and HStore are killer features that give developers data flexibility they didn't use to have before, meaning with one database I can go between relational or MongoDB-style JSON dumping where needed.
This, plus strong consistency to prevent shooting yourself in the foot, is valuable for 99% of use cases where you don't need insane web scale.
MySQL still doesn't support nested DDL's, and this has caused me extreme amounts of pain in old projects where consistency was expected and we did not receive it on crucial payment processing.
Open Media is pretty good at social media and pressure campaigns.
The BCCLA is top notch if you actually need to win a court case. When they take on a case they don't fuck around, and they have high powered lawyers working pro-bono for them.
The great thing about the EFF is they're not as narrowly focused. Open Media is pretty good, but they pick their fights more carefully and don't tackle social or ethical issues the same was the EFF does.
"Computer" should be the wake word, and everyone would be happy with that thanks to global, english interoperability in all places and contexts.
But thanks to the hubris of corporate branding and marketing departments we are unlikely to have this universally understandable command usable. Instead to use any light switch every consumer will need to ask what bloody set up the person has...
Alexa devices actually have "Computer" as an option. I did it for a while, because I dislike pretending a computer is a person ("Alexa") and I certainly don't want to address a company ("Amazon"). I ended up switching back to "Echo" after I realized that people in my house say "computer" too often for it to work well as a wake word.
The problem with that is that people use the word "computer" in natural speech far too often to make it useful as a wake word. You'll continually get false positives anytime someone in a sci-fi show says "check the computer" or "computer, tea, earl gray, hot".
But in this case it doesn't work. I don't repeat the name "Chrome" 20 times a day like I will for a Google Home. This is a serious f*cking flaw and it actually makes me worry for Google's stock price that they can't see how obvious of a problem this is and/or are too paralyzed to fix it.
Dude Obama's team was the first to spearhead true micro targeting. Their Voter Activation Network (VAN) was even bought by the Liberal Party of Canada, and forms the core of their Liberalist voter tracking software.
They all do. I have Canadian friends I know from all the parties working on campaigns. They're basically Americans, just looking for career opportunities. They are not foreign agents with a foreign agenda, and this is not the scandal you are making it out to be.
Why would HN penalize tweet links!? Hacker news is a perfect place for stories that intersect technical and journalistic expertise to be explored more in depth with a focus on truth. In journalism tweets are how evidence of a story evolves. Taking away twitter linking from journalistic minded HN users would be like taking away the ability for a coder to link to github...
