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> But the store is a proprietary and effectively closed app ecosystem completely under Google's control, thus the issue of monopoly exploitation.

Having a monopoly isn't illegal. Using that monopoly to gain an advantage in newer markets is. And the problem with this argument is that you're getting this backwards: when Android 1.0 shipped, Google already had a foothold with Search, Gmail and Maps. The whole purpose of Android was for Google to have a mobile platform to not get locked out of the mobile market. They aren't making money from licensing it and Android wouldn't exist if they couldn't use it for distribution of their apps and services. And the same conditions applied then, as in you want the Android Marketplace (now Google Play) then you have to also ship Google's apps, with HTC Dream (the very first Android phone) shipping with Search, Gmail, Talk, Maps, YouTube, Calendar and Contacts. Did they miss anything important in version 1.0?

> The only part of the Android ecosystem that in any way really violates user freedoms

The "violations" on user freedoms that you're thinking of are subjective issues, not lawful ones. Android is the only mobile OS that allows for Firefox and for third-party app stores without jailbreaking it. Which means that users have the freedom to install and use any alternative they want, a freedom that's not available for the other mainstream mobile operating systems.
Even worse is that iOS browsers cannot implement their own rendering system, so they are all locked to Safari's version of WebKit. At least browsers in Android can truly be different than both the in-system chromium based webview and Chrome itself.
"Folly" is a relatively common English word. "Wangle" is less common but I still see it from time to time.

What I find more interesting than the naming is FB's willingness to remove features from Folly as they are made redundant by Boost or std. I'm unaccustomed to such a lack of arrogance from a major player.
Why AI won't wipe out humanity  yet
Dark humor is like a child with terminal cancer. It never gets old.
These days, while there may be much talk of digital connection being a civil right, that doesn’t make it a civic duty, or a legal compulsion.

Social media tries to use it as a "civic compulsion." They say: Hew to our ideology, or you're not allowed to have an online presence. We will shame and destroy your online persona. So much of our culture and commerce is online and digital, this may well feel like banishment to many.

The same progressive movements that railed against the thought control, coercive pressure, and shaming methods of the church and the old cultural establishment have sprouted online movements of predominantly young people who use silencing tactics, banishment from civic organizations, and coercive shaming to further their agenda.

I find this a damn shame, because I count myself as a progressive and across the long arc of history, this only delays substantive progress. It's like trying to invade and occupy a country by holding land with troops. It's expensive, causes great collateral damage, and it turns many potential allies against you. It can "work," but only when you utterly rout the opposition, and even then, it often just plants the seeds for the next set of conflicts.

True activism can't just stop at demonstrations and resignations. It doesn't stop with committees or legislation or court cases. The end goal is to win hearts and minds. Beware of those who say they're winning hearts and minds, but backing it up with coercion. Beware of power, even limited contextual power. Power that lacks self awareness can be locally perilous.

(Really, is that stuff really about justice, or is it about the pleasure of watching someone get their comeuppance? And has our culture degraded to the point where a large fraction of intellectuals are unaware of the difference?)
Oh, definitely agreed. I bought a moto 360 and, as someone who doesn't want notifications, it's almost useless. I only like the navigation mode, but that updates too infrequently to be useful.
Specifically, reducing NOx (without using DEF) pretty much requires the engine to burn a richer mixture. This means more fuel injected, so less fuel efficiency and more unburnt hydrocarbons clogging up the particulate filter. Without retrofitting DEF systems onto the older cars, any fix is likely to be a significant hit to efficiency and reliability. I think maybe performance would suffer too but I forget how that would work.
>The last special he made, he bombed so hard I just stopped following him. It's just hard to find things funny when absolutely no one else is smirking...

I thought it was his best yet, but you touched on a good point: If his (or anyone else's) comedy isn't your style anymore, that's fine -- you just stop following/listening to them. If you're at a club, you get up quietly and leave. Maybe ask a manager for your money back if you feel you deserve it.
For what it's worth, I try to not bring up Rust in threads about other languages; it just happens that most threads about Rust appear in threads about other languages.

I would rather talk about the implementation of async I/O too.
Yup, I know folly as well (non-native speaker as well). But it doesn't make sense to name a library 'folly' does it?

What I was wondering is if this some self-deprecating humor or these words are popular phrases from some popular book/meme/play.
I like that they explained the reasons behind the design decisions of the library. Looking forward to the post about the RPC part!
Just a point of discussion:

> “Exactly,” agreed Danielle, “and just like with the previous project, the model will get some wrong, but this will be outweighed by the cost savings of not having to check every single gadget.”

And that's how we consumers go from being able to receive a 100% reliable product every time (i.e. "Quinn's team works very hard to avoid penalties") to needing to go through the hassle/delay/cost of returns. Sure the QA department "has to pay" for the return, but does that economic model accurately include the cost of lost goodwill?
These things still existed even after the Internet.

I graduated a couple of years before the first iPhone came out and when having a Blackberry or other connected device was not the norm. I still used the internet pretty heavily, but it was just not mobile. Odds were that the person would see the message on the door first before they got an email you sent.
That it's not kept up to date is one of the lesser problems with the scorecard.
Point taken. Made comment less polarizing.
So... one company is upset that another company has entered their market, after they've been scamming consumers, selling a $20 item for $40 for years?

Color me shocked.
<Former Amazon>
I won't go on about the work quality at Amazon, there are plenty of other places to read about that.

It _is_ important to note that the average retention at Amazon (even for excellent people) is ~50% for 1 year, and ~20% or lower for the 2nd year.

Therefore, these comparisons should really take that into account. Amazon MAY look higher than Microsoft (for example) but because you only see 20% of your total vest the first two years, and everyone in the company makes a max of $160k with anything else bringing you up to market rate being a yearly "bonus", you likely won't see the majority of your earnings.
</Former Amazon>
can we get a map of caffeine intake by region.
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You can laugh at everything but not with everyone. (Pierre Desproges)

Before you make an offensive joke, check who's around you.
Complains about advertisements... shows an advertisement half way down the page...
There is a new right to never be offended, with the concomitant privilege of defining what is offensive.
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Another human activity where avant-garde is fully indistinguishable from straight parody. Such a world we live in.

The takeaway should be to keep some sane garde-fou principle, such as "form follows function", and use it as unit test before rolling out a design/product/...
Or you know, the 12 years from Sputnik to Apollo 11...
The homeless aren't hungry. The leading causes of death for the homeless aren't starvation or malnutrition -- it's drug abuse, cancer, and heart disease: http://pschousing.org/news/drug-overdose-1-cause-homeless-de... Sure, they're not the healthiest bunch in the world, and they have much shorter lifespans than the average non-homeless person, but they sure have a much longer lifespan than even the well-off did 10,000 years ago.

The homeless survive off the infrastructure of society, where food is relatively plentiful because of the massive commercial agricultural system we have in place. Not only is commercial agriculture in the US completely different than the small agriculture in rural Africa, that the Diamond essay is talking about, but the homeless aren't farmers! They're consumers of agriculture, but not producers of it. So, while I agree with the essay, and think it makes some interesting points, it's just not applicable to the homeless.

Also, the 20 hour week it mentioned is entirely devoted to obtaining food, and note that they say that's "during a month when food was plentiful" If the only work we did was for food, I'd only have to work one day a month!

While access to food, shelter, and other amenities we take for granted may be "insecure" for the homeless, they're still available. The homeless congregate in cities because that's where the food banks, homeless shelters, sources of sporadic income, public restrooms, and convenient places of shelter from the elements are. They have the ability (although, again, an inconsistent and insecure one) to be warm when it's snowing, receive medical care when they need it, eat a variety of food, and hang out in the library surfing the Internet during the day.
I don't disagree.

You rarely see curl|sh installers for server stuff though. I think the topic at hand mostly concerns workstations.
Well if it already turns a profit, imagine how great it will be for the new owners when they start charging more for public access to public data. And imagine how hard it will be for Private Eye and others to dig into the corruption which is endemic in the UK property market. Some people (if they really qualify as human) see those as positives rather than negatives.
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Probably true, but think of it as a "wax on -- wax off" kind of thing: having a habit of looking for tiny micro optimizations is fun and builds a bias to optimization.
"networking and rpc" must be written in the languages your server and client are written in, (or something compatible).

Writing a networking library in Go does nothing for Facebook if their services are written in C++.
I'd read up on the Bolshies a bit. They were murderous thugs. That's not exactly propaganda, that's a mix of Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and various bios of the principal players.

"Toddler with a hand grenade" is exactly right. Thing is, it was ever thus. None of this even remotely compared to the disruption had because of color (organic) chemistry.

Question the status quo all you want, but it's always there for a reason. One need not make a fetish of it to observe that it took all the errors we could muster to get it this far.
Main HN Thread on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453754
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Doesn't removing features break backward compatibility?

My favorite C++ library is Qt; they never remove public API for that reason. In Qt world, we update regularly to get the bug fixes and other features. Last thing I want to do is port my code to some other new API to update the library.
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It's strategic because they know that most candidates barely know what an RSU is and salary is the main factor they will take into consideration. So companies can get by with paying the workers half what they'd make at Google and still make it seem competitive because the salary may be the same.
The claim that losing weight won't make someone happier always surprises me. To be sure, there are those who have deep seated issues that won't be solved by losing weight, or for those who lose a little it won't make a big difference, but I can state with confidence the fact that I am happier and my quality of life is better for having lost weight. Just getting better sleep (and not needing a CPAP to do it) has made a world of difference for me. Anecdotal, I know, but still.
No. You shouldn't view her just as a 'former slave'. She risked her life to help destroy slavery. Characterizing her in such a binary way is short-sighted, I think.

You should view her as an American hero and this is one way to honor our heroes. What I find in poor taste is that we haven't honored her in some equivalent fashion until now. The Tubman museum in Georgia is pretty great though. There's a statue in Maryland too. Outside of that, on a national level, I'm not sure what we've done.
'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?' —Stephen Fry
Because you want to spend 10x as many CPUs?
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I'm a former Amazonian. Since you asked my opinion, I'll give it.

It's a truly horrible place to work and I would never ask my worst enemy to go work there. Engenders the worst in humanity (people review, anyone?), terrible technical architecture, many systems based solely on tribal knowledge that leaves the door every day, comp structure that is nearly outright lying... I could go on.

Some people say that it was just the group I worked in but I worked in retail (1 year), new businesses (1 year) and AWS (1.5 years). There's virtually no difference. I still have PTSD (or at least what feels like PTSD) about by 3.5 years there, and I'd give anything to get that time back.

BTW, I'm now at another 20k+ person company which is doing very well, and making 30% more than my total comp when I was there.
very cool! It would be nice to see your code.
The author suggests that dark humor has an inoculative effect on tragedy. It can also be remedial. I was reminded of how Mel Brooks explained why he makes fun of Hitler.

Of course it is impossible to take revenge for 6 million murdered Jews. But by
using the medium of comedy, we can try to rob Hitler of his posthumous power
and myths.

(http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-intervie...)
Reflecting on things that made you happy in the past increases your current mood. I actually find that pretty intuitive.
Salary is a function of perceived importance it has nothing to do with the language. There just appear to be a lot of high paying Java jobs, because there are a lot of companies still using Java as their lingua franca.

Most programers will tell you that the pay scale in software is like a hockey stick curve. Up really fast then flat line. Therefore, you move to the top of the S curve and then stick around long enough to approximate O(n).
I was specifically thinking of X.ai and FB's M when I wrote that. I've met plenty of dumb bots.
I just wanted to point out the barriers a developer faces when trying to use C++. Sorry, I can't resist compare it to what I know, which happens to be other programming languages different to C++.
This statement seems to be fundamentally incorrect or untrue.

Land is valuable for its many uses:

* To grow on
* To live on
* To collaborate on
* To build on
* To travel on

etc and etc and etc.

What do you possibly mean that it "has no value"?
Why do I have to part with 30%-40% of my earned income so that some corrupt politicians can spend them on wars and distribute them to their cronies ?

We part with 30-40% of our income because we make enough to pay that but not enough to afford accountants that can hide our income or find creative means to reduce our taxes so we can pay less.

Why do I have to play by the rules when the only advantage of doing so is a "clear conscience" which nobody gives two cents about ... maybe just my 5-year old daughter.. but she also believes in Santa Claus.

We play by the rules because we know what the potential consequences are, are unwilling to risk that, and we assume everyone else is playing by the rules as well. Also, we may have created rules for ourselves that perhaps don't need to apply and/or aren't the ones others play by. I think we need to find out what rules they play by (if at all) and start basing our decisions off of those.

So this scandal has really put me at a moral crossroads - will I go on being a "sucker" or play by the "big boys' rules" and be taken 'seriously' - take advantage of the weak, find ways to avoid taxes, steal, cheat, etc ?

Unfortunately this seems to be one of the few ways to get ahead aside from winning the lottery (waste of money) and saving that money.

What's even more disturbing is that this scandal was provoked by maybe a handful of executives at VW, but now tens of thousands of engineers and workers are going to pay the price - in the form of layoffs, reduced bonuses and so on.

They're quick to take credit when something groundbreakingly successful occurs but even quicker to shed responsibility. Again, this seems like another "rule" they play by to get ahead.
We've been here before. See "The Physiocrats" for this related to agriculture.

If my species is dependent on suffering for its derivation of "value" then it deserves whatever suffering it gets from that.
Nano-bender can help https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benderama#/media/File:Futurama...
Mostly because it's easier, performant, and because of the nature of the language it's less likely I would make a mistake doing anything in the language compared to C++ or C.
Generally you have advocated TextSecure as one of the only good available options.

Given the comments you linked to, and the time that has passed. Is this still your top suggestion?

Additionally, in your mind, what criteria are most important for you (if you were going to build your own scorecard, which I know you cautioned against) to help the cause of getting people to use secure messaging?

Put another way, if a new secure messaging service came out, how would you identify that it's a TextSecure-like recommendation vs a cryptocat-like recommendation (other than the obvious 'they rolled their own encryption, and did it badly')?
Well, I know that some thermoplastics can be mixed with good results. I've a roll of polycarbonate-ABS in my printer right now. Normally polycarbonate prints at 310C, and this blend prints at 295C.

Ive seen other blends as well, with intermediate temps between the 2 initial plastics. Now, I only have experience with PLA, ABS, Nylon, PVA, Polycarb-ABS, and HIPS. A lot of this is still unexplored as it took industrial quantities to do anything.

WHat these machines will allow is experimentation on small batches and how plastics work and don't work. And that's awesome.
Interesting! I presume this has a cost? And how would attendance work? Would I get to go as many times as I want during a given week/month?

Adding a "live" component could be a great addition to nanodegrees. When trying to complete these online courses, self-motivation is often as big a challenge as the content, if not more. A mentor and/or "study buddies" could solve that problem.

(Note: I'm currently enrolled in Udacity's Full Stack Web Dev nanodegree)
I have used this library pretty heavily in some of my recent work and I love how easy it makes building performant async network servers in C++.
Minor nitpick: It would be nice though, if they built shared libraries by default though, last release I took I had to tell cmake to make a shared library. Since this is used by fbthrift as a dependency, I think it really makes sense to build it that way by default. I also use fblualib and it builds with a very old version of some of these libraries probably because the FAIR team didn't want to mess with tweaking the builds so they can work with standalone wangle (parts of the library used to be part of folly).
Mad scientist shrinks Arduino to size of an AA battery
This reminds me of this blog post regarding “how to make a rape joke” — http://jezebel.com/5925186/how-to-make-a-rape-joke

tldr: “do not make a rape victim the butt of the joke, QED”

I think that applies quite well to this topic; dark humor ceases to be funny when it becomes an actual attack against another person.
My own practice in recent years has been to analyze trends and convert them into investments. So for instance, I have substantial positions in McDonalds, Altria, Philip-Morris, Exxon Mobile, Facebook, and Service Corp (none of which do I patronize). People be gorging, smoking, posting online, and dying. To invest in rampant financial ignorance, I looked into pawn shops and payday loans, but those are all privately held (e.g. super-lucrative, don't need outside capital). I'm looking into banks, Visa and MasterCard, and other facilitators of credit and payments, as possible growth areas.
I agree completely, but I can't wrap my head around why chat is so big in China despite this. Any ideas?
It's time to clean up your gists
Yeah, most manufacturers would be happy with that deal. It isn't what Amazon is doing though.

When I sell to CostCo, I'm very happy to manufacture their house-branded vitamin C in exchange for them carrying my premium name brand vitamin C in stores as well. I make money on both products. (Heck, I as the manufacturer pay money out of my own pocket to advertise that CostCo branded vitamin C.)
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Just like Shake Shack is "scamming" people by selling an $8 burger when McDonald's sells a burger for 99 cents. What scammers! (sarcasm)
Has anyone else read this, because it looks really promising?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/phage-alzheimers-cure...
I guess that just reinforce parent's point.

Cheating is not so bad, why aren't you doing it ?

I won't go as far as saying that we should train our children to cheat but the moral stigma we put on cheating is completely at odds with the actual practical effect of cheating in society. If you tell your children that cheating is bad, you deprive them of the #1 tool that the majority of successful people and companies have been using ( and the most famous cases of cheating like how Bill Gates tricked IBM are considered legendary genius moves )

Of course you can cheat too far, like we see in China with fake milk and that kind of things, but the Western ideal of "no cheating ever" is not the answer to that anymore than "abstinence" is the answer to unwanted pregnancies.
How do you define "non-harmful"?

I've known a number of senior executives in well known tech companies who are regular users (weekend partiers) of a number of drugs ranging from marijuana to cocaine, heroin and LSD. They are fortunate enough to have enough income to buy quality product, not cut with harmful chemicals.

Given that they lead very successful lives, I think the drug use is not harmful to them currently. Perhaps as they age out of their 40's and 50's the drug use will become more of a burden on their bodies, but there are certainly lots of lifestyle choices that are harmful to one's health that don't include any drugs at all.
You're right, quantifying happiness is nonsense, but that doesn't stop people trying. I think it's a reflection of a common mindset that sees science as universally applicable.