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Isn't there room in the economy for jobs that aren't for people fully supporting themselves? Part time call center work would be an ideal high school/college job.
Yeah. Weird, but amusing. And they seem so confident about it too.
Perhaps they were expecting the Echo to really flop.
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I'd stay far away from hiring anyone who explodes like this as a consultant.
I'm not making a case for anything or talking about 'existing code'.

What I said was that the infrastructure is here right now. I hope Rust succeeds in the future but there is a very big difference between the tools available right now.
There is a different between "legal to do" and "within one's jurisdiction".

They are clearly lying through indirection unfortunately. :P
Do you have any good links for the employment posts on ZH? I was telling someone about that recently then couldn't find it.
Interesting. I wonder why nothing of that sort exists for the biomedical sciences? Maybe it's been tried but these publishers won't allow it?
Hi brudgers,

I'm surprised since it does appear on the home page (https://www.sqreen.io), under the second section "^Made (by | for) developers".

Anyway, thanks for your feedback, we'll improve on this!
No, the spying the NSA does on the Internet falls more into the category of "worst kept secrets" than "conspiracy theories".
We're very new at hiring but one of our advisors recommended the STAR approach and I feel it's been quite effective.

Context: hired 15 people in the last year.
What's sad is no matter how often people like you are proven wrong you'll just keep on repeating the same bullshit.

I recall HN saying gold market manipulation was conspiracy theory, ZH was right HN commenters were wrong.

There's a long list but when it comes to finance HN commenters are typically poorly educated.
One of the root causes seems to be that everyone with the aptitude for security crowds toward jobs that don't actually involve implementing good security. It's not as fun to be a developer that is really into security but only have that be part of your job. Even if it's all you do, if your days are just "analyze, document, harden, repeat," that's a lot less fun than getting paid to pop boxes. I know, because that's what I do.

That disinterest is the entire raison d'etre of I am The Cavalry. From their webpage:

No one is rising to meet these challenges. The cavalry
isn’t coming. We are the domain experts and we are the
adults in the room. It falls to us. We Are The Cavalry.

The less-charitable interpretation of this is "Hey dummies! If we all want to play red-team, who the fuck do we think is left over to fix things?"

I went to a two-hour presentation at $serious_security_conference on $my_product_domain. I was really excited to see what there was for us. We're not running webapps on racked pizza boxes, so there is a lot of topics in our systems that aren't really explored in public security literature. Instead all I got was some dummy thinking he's hot shit because he found some vulnerable systems on Shodan. I got angry enough to walk out, and then went back thinking there was probably some value to be had. 3 times.
What if you drill a hole 500 meters down and raise and lower the weight through that?
It's not a great idea, but it's a prototype showing potentially how some thing could work.

In this case, you're already giving your private key to keybase. Making something perfectly (or perceived to be) secure, that adds a ridiculous burden on the user isn't going to be used by the masses. I figured I would at least show how a simpler system could work, albeit with some vulnerablities (which are fixable)
My comment was a little tounge-in-cheek, but as mentioned there are good episodes about the perils of being cryogenically frozen.
Suspect jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11590421

I'm sure President Trump will be a wise steward of his new security apparatus.
> People go nuts over Amazon finally profiting 500M in a quarter which is 1/20th of Apple.

Amazon profiting 500M is interesting not because they previously couldn't, but that they always chose not to, and so people are wondering the cause for the change.
The concepts behind "well regulated militia" are still used to formulate regulations on weapons. In general, it's legal to buy the same gear infantrymen use. Scary black guns with ridiculous rails and accessories, knock yourself out. Sawed off shotguns, not so much.
Because that was the plan all along?

At some point Amazon is going to get a return for all of its investment. The entire market is now dancing to Amazon's tune. Why not now?
Your comment reeks of hubris.
The related layercam project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8211473
I like the general philosophy behind Metaculus (that we should all be more public and accountable with our speculation) but I don't think the numbers are currently reliable because posting is open to anyone and there's no money on the line.
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Except this isn't limited to email, nor do you need to know the person prior to sending an encrypted message.
It's no concern of mine if someone else's business model is that badly broken.
Don't do this. It conflates so many personal/professional things it fails to give any idea whether this company is objectively good or bad and just ends up making the author look massively unprofessional.

By all means call out a company, but don't write angry, keep it professional, and most importantly don't be a dick.
Under our current wage system? No. I have not claimed any of those scenarios. I'm claiming that by reducing pay incentives from the equation, you will see a decline in certain professions and also the education typically required for those professions. These professions are also the professions that already have a supply glut and by removing one of the naturally occurring incentives for these jobs (a market wage), you only make it harder to find people able to do the work.
That's not accurate, stars have several fuel cycles for pure hydrogen. At 1.3 solar masses you sun mostly get: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO_cycle

As to size, on galactic scales all our current fusion designs are tiny. Scale it up to even just 20 miles on a side and proton proton fusion is doable. For a type III civilization capable of destroying starts that's also tiny. Remember your suggesting dysons spheres as the 'reasonable' option.

PS: The proton proton chain also produces deuterium as an intermediary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%E2%80%93proton_chain_re...
No. I'm speaking about people who spend most of their time online on conspiracy sites. I should know, I used to be one of them. I was 17 when 9/11 happened and spent most of the early 2000's reading about lizard people, the Illuminati and the bilderberg group. I'm ashamed to admit it, but once upon a time I was a daily reader of Alex Jones.

There are conspiracies. They exist. But I'm mostly speaking to the mindset of a person who completely immerses themselves in conspiracy theory as a way of life.
> (Bloomberg LP competes with Zero Hedge in providing financial news and information.)

Does anyone else feel this is particularly generous?

ZeroHedge is borderline conspiracy theorist nonsense surrounded by occasionally correct financial analysis with a level of accuracy on par with a dart board.
Looks great! I like the way rails 5 has been shaping up lately and now this. Just signed up!

Congratulations on your seed funding news. I wonder how did you guys manage the launch and closing a round simultaneously?
> often saving you a round trip to the docs

that's optimistic

those methods rarely do exactly what you think, they can be an overloaded version of another method

and more frequently there is another method with a similar method name, or one is singular and one is plural and it becomes very inefficient because the method names look the same, the exact reason why the english language has spaces and punctuation to begin with
Everyone I've talked to that works in HFT --- and that's a bunch, because we built a trading CTF --- sums Zero Hedge up the same way 'yummyfajitas (also a former HFT) does: "a conspiracy theory site without the theories".
I interviewed there 5 years ago. It was a pleasant process and I was impressed with everyone that I met. My experience was consistent with the article, it was a 'no bullshit' interview, no Google-style zingers.
Interview link was non-obvious. Then it failed to play audio in Firefox.
Maybe they're afraid of it because it's genuinely misleading and dangerous to public health?

Just because innocent people are sometimes harassed by the authorities does not mean you can use harrasment by authorities as evidence that someone's actually in the right.
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> in debug mode, arithmetic ... is checked for overflow

> in release mode, overflow is not checked

...

> "But what about performance?" I hear you ask. It is true that undefined behaviour drives optimisations by allowing the compiler to make assumptions

Are there any targets that have instructions like integer-add-but-trap-if-overflow? Or maybe a mode that can be switched? It would be interesting if there could be a high-performing path to leave the check in for release mode.
Either it would have negative mass and imaginary energy, or it has negative energy and imaginary mass - http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/tac...
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Actually new chatbots understand most common phrases like "hello" or "how are you". There is built in support for most common phrases and we continue to improve our knowledge base everyday.
You confuse two things. The main career goal of a researcher in academia is generally moving up to the tenure track. The method to measure this progress is typically a)publication in journals with a high impact factor and b) Being on the technical review committee of said journals.

The reason researchers publish in these journals is it gives them street cred. There are several open access journals - but scanty participation since their impact factor is unknown and does little to promote the researchers career.

Speaking as someone who has published myself, the paywalls are highway robbery. But, imho - it is a problem only the researchers can solve by concertedly supporting open access journals and getting involved in them (maybe a yc research idea???). The established professors would need to take the lead on this - not the underlings.

Personally - I've seen the "light" and stayed back in industry as opposed to moving into academia as I had hoped. The rat race for funding & publications & street cred seemed a lot worse there.
You could say that about all conspiracy theories, especially those that have since come true.
Thanks, looking forward to learning from the source.
They published an answer to the article.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-29/full-story-behind-b...
Oh, I think I misread that, but it's slightly ambiguous - are we restricting blocking to specific people (Aunt Susan is uptight and shouldn't see my posts) or are we restricting post visibility to specific people? I guess Dylan probably meant the latter...

I disagree that the failure of Google+ means that nobody wants privacy settings, or in general that the failure of a business means that every single minor innovation they made was flawed. Google+ failed because of the network effect - a social network is only useful if it's also used by people you want to socialize with.

People consistently list privacy controls as among their biggest problems with Facebook, and circles solved that problem neatly once people figured out how they worked. You can of course replicate a circle with a user list on Facebook, but it's nowhere near as obvious.
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My post was not comparing good or evil. I was saying that simply because you feel something does not make it so.

1 + 1 = 2, regardless of how I feel about the numbers or operators.
What's the rationale for going private?
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From my experience companies likely to be found guilty are advised to make an out-of-court settlement and often take that route.
Pragmatically though I don't use either because they are wrapped up in data structures. With copy elision and move semantics memory basically does become automatic on a day to day basis.

When I am making my own data structures I basically use unique_ptr or just use std::vector directly.

I've used shared_ptr in one relatively exotic situation and no other time.

I'm actually not even sure what you mean when you say use after free - I rarely expose a naked pointer, and when I do the lifetime and ownership are pretty obvious.

I like Rust and I'm not trying to downplay its significance, but I think you are misjudging the reality of working in C++11 - memory leaks and use after free don't seem to be an issue to me after having done nothing but C++11 for three years.
The procedure described here (https://www.reddit.com/r/nexus6/comments/3xo66d/remove_googl...) works just fine on a stock nexus 6.
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Signing up somewhere, I often find myself wishing for an email that:

1. I can create instantly (as many as I want)

2. Will forward to my real email

3. Can be turned off later

4. Won't expire until I turn it off

Most temporary email services give you an expiring inbox that self-destructs after X hours. But I want to control the destruction myself.

Any recommendations for services or libraries for building this myself against my own domain?
Germany is a complex and rather unique blend between both systems, and frankly wasn't really that diverse until rather recently with Merkel's high-volume immigration policies.

The US has a plenty of "safety-net socialism" as well, so I'm not sure of your point you are making about CA..a country that almost doubles its national debt ($12t to $20t) in only 8 years is surely doing its best to provide for its people, no?

For how many generations is that possible before the country bankrupts itself?
Online (cloud) storage seems to be a pretty silly business to operate or invest in, given the amount of solutions available and also the "threat" of open solutions that will inevitably become popular (such as IPFS). Also, essentially, storage is a commodity product. It is ready for a race to the bottom.
>When an induction motor that powers a train or car is reversed, it produces electricity.

This is only true if the motor is connected to the grid (ie powerered). You need a magnetic field to create the current. If the induction motor wasn't powered when you spun it, it would not create any current as an induction motor does not need permanent magnets to create the field.
Karl Marx analysis was that through education you can capture the praxis (savoir faire) and transform it into both stealing it from the craftsman and also making expert in doxein (savoir faire) that knows nothing (Donning Kruger effect).

I think that it has always fueled my intuition that a profession should be defined by the craftsmanship and not he education.
I think this makes sense at one level -- say they are investigating a crime in NYC where players are located in NYC, North Jersey, Ulster County NY, and Connecticut. It seems weird that 4 judges should be involved in that sort of thing.

On the other hand, if routine motions to squash or otherwise deal with a case in NYC need to be filed and litigated in Northern Oklahoma or Hawaii, obviously that becomes a big overreach that makes doing business with the court a major hassle and very expensive, as you need lawyers accredited in multiple places.
> In summary, we're looking for ANCIENT Type III civilizations.

Yes. This is because of the low probability that intelligent life develops somewhere else at even close to the same time as it did on Earth.

Our best understanding is that life has existed on Earth for something like 4 billion years, and complex life has existed for about 500 million. However, complex life capable of building spacecraft (or even radios) has only existed for a few hundred thousand (that is being extremely generous, of course), and only developed that technology in the last ~100 years.

If intelligent life has or will evolve somewhere else in the universe, and progresses anything like it did here, then the odds seem overwhelmingly in favour of one of two scenarios:

- It evolved millions of years ago, and if it has not wiped itself out, is virtually god-like by our standards due to its head start on technological development.

- It has not yet evolved, or at best is the equivalent of primates or the proto-humans of several hundred thousand years ago.
"conspiracy theories"

From their response article: "We are ok with being typecast as "conspiracy theorists" as these "theories" tend to become "conspiracy fact" months to years later. "
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Yep, it makes sense because when you drop something into the box, you can't get it back out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_box
And, again, I ask "are you under some kind of arbitrary time constraint when you have to create a novel problem solving approach?" Listen, most data theory problems have been solved, but for the ones that haven't, in work, we're asked to come up with a solution, but not in any weird arbitrarily short amount of time.

If your goal is to simply know how someone explores a problem, fine I guess. I don't agree with your approach but I can see your point. But if you expect a working implementation, that's unreasonable in my opinion and I believe you'll be rejecting many fine candidates using that method.
If the cost to students attending universities that have adequate subscriptions is small -- previously, commenters suggested this portion of their tuition amounted to only a small annual fee -- then what would be the reasons the publishers would not offer individual subscriptions at similar cost to the public? As any serious student knows, the "a la carte" prices are absurd -- how successful have they been with this idea?

One silly idea deserves another:

Generally, journals manage their subscriptions through filtering on IP address ranges.

Imagine a customer-ISP agreement that had an option whereby a subscriber could "opt in" to academic journals for a few extra dollars per month.

These subscribers might then be assigned addresses in certain designated ranges by their ISP.
I wonder if this is related to Microsoft's case (which has also been going on since 2013)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corporation_v._Unite...
I'm not familiar with the procedure of publishing a paper, so please excuse my ignorance. What's preventing someone from submitting their work to publishers AND uploading it to an open access platform? They can rely on the journal for quality-review/validation/etc. while still allowing for wide dissemination.
yep, the crisis made asshats like Peter Schiff seem like smart guys. Lots of doomdayers created awesome careers because the world legitimately did appear to be falling apart. The irony is, if anyone had listened to the ZH's and the Schiffs of the world, it actually would've fallen apart.
Congress gave the FBI the role to hack any computer anywhere in the world, no matter who those computers were suspected to belong to.

When it needed a warrant it had a pretty complicated process, and frequently resorted to gaining cooperation with the local authorities in another country and getting dual local warrant equivalents in another country. A costly redundancy and not always achievable.

The FBI is just getting the US court system to help with the mandate Congress already gave them.
Is this a joke? Are you really comparing one of the most intelligent groups of people to some lowlife trash?
So what? That's not analysis, it's numerology. Just because some things are true doesn't mean all theories are equally deserving of dignity. But the notion that the USG was monitoring the Internet was entirely deserving of dignity:

* It's their job

* The software security industry is full of people who used to hack professionally for them

* There'd been a major news story roughly every other year since the 1990s Echelon thing about NSA dragnet surveillance

There are still things people say about NSA that have the tenor of conspiracy theories --- some of them being things Snowden actually said! --- and you might be able to make observations about the character of the people who believe those things (I don't know, that was the other commenter's point).

But the basic outline of what NSA is doing with the Internet is not a conspiracy theory.
I believe this is called "Making them someone else's problem". Difficult employees get bounced around from manager to manager because that's easier than actually firing them. It's probably most common in very large companies, of course, since they offer the most opportunities to work for other managers.
I usually get better hits when I use google. Wonder what the end result of their change will bring. Perhaps less cortana interest?
If Dropbox is not aware of every competitor and their products in their market space, someone isn't doing their job very well.

How can you properly respond to your competition when you are ignorant of your competition's existence?
That's fine, but protecting you from other people doing ridiculous things isn't really the fault of modern C++ as it is possibly a feature of a GC language. I think there is utility in not letting people out of a sandbox if they can't handle it, but I also think the fact that C++11 has a stark path that should be used is different than the high wire act of C and older C++.
Sadly, they do it for their own benefit. It ticks boxes they need to tick for Federal law and tax reasons.

Do not think they do this out of the kindness of their heart.
This applies to computers outside of the US.

The FBI has already been doing this, Congress authorized the FBI to conduct all of the state sponsored hacking. It was just a little complicated.
Doubly so when they get irritated with you for responding with "and how do I know you are who you say you are?"
That's the weird thing about conspiracy theorists. There certainly are big historic coverups; here in the UK we're dealing with finally having an inquest that acknowledges the truth about Hillsborough, for example. But they form a tiny part of the conspiracist worldview.
It is related to the Silk Road case as well as Playpen users
That makes absolutely no sense - how are they doing to enforce this rule for countries like china or russia ?
Nope. Perhaps: if it requires justification, it requires revision.

I personally dislike 'Project Infinite' because the only thing I think of in context of dropbox and infinity is infinite storage, which this is not. It's misleading.
I should also note that the $53k income is household income. Median personal income is $32k, meaning that a software developer makes over 3x the salary of a normal Charlotte resident.
A lot of places with those policies also have a policy that all reference requests go to HR, even if they're received by your manager, again, for liability reasons.

EDIT: just noticed that you expect former managers to risk their job to provide a positive reference for you, despite the fact that you left them. I'd gladly write recommendations on former employees linkedin profiles if requested, but when my former employee's new employer is contacting my employer (via me) for a reference, I'm not risking my job for theirs, and I don't think that makes me an AH. If they do, I've sorely misjudged them.
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Third party libraries don't really interfere though, they can be used the same as always or wrapped up in a class that implements move semantics.