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I only use facebook over the browser when using my phone. The facebook applications request an appalling number of permissions... never mind the general intrusiveness and battery hogging.

Screw you Facebook.
They remain accessible, same as always; The only thing that changes is the application you are using to look at the chat history.
I actually would suggest that, in many (most?) situations, someone may not know their value, and that's not a negative reflection on their professionalism. You can do all the research you want, but there are many situations where you can't discover enough of the company's pain points or match your skill set(s) to their needs to figure out what you are worth to them.

And even if you can do all that, there's no reason why the dollar value you put on your worth to them has to be similar to the dollar value they have in mind. You could argue, in that situation, that you may not want to work for a company that doesn't value you "properly", but I hesitate to believe that there's always (or even often) an objective version of "properly" that disinterested observers could agree on.

Having said all that, I am still not sure I buy into the idea that the best negotiation tactic is to evade (even "professionally") providing a number.
"As a side note, Tutankhamun is an interesting figure largely due to his father, Akhenaten, who completely upset the entire Egyptian religious system. Akhenaten demanded that the egyptians worship him directly, and he in turn worshiped the god Aten, forsaking all other gods in the egyptian pantheon. This was a big deal due to the importance of the religious bureaucracy at the time, among other reasons. When Tutankhamun (originally Tutankhaten) came to rule after his father's death he restored the old ways, including the importance of the religious establishment."

Which is the origin of his name. We write "Tutankhamun", but his name is literally "Tut-Ankh-Amun" - the Ankh of Amun, or the life of Amun (the God he restored).

"Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun"."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
Emphasis on legitimate, Facebook is giving Google a run for their money when it comes to privacy invasion.
As far as I know it's not supported on iOS. Even if Chrome had push notification on iOS I can't think of any logical reason to build a push notification inside Chrome if I were Facebook. You think Chrome is open web, but it's not. It's an app built by Google. If Facebook were to depend on Chrome push notification (which by the way doesn't even exist but for the sake of discussion let's say it does hypothetically), it would mean it's depending on Google on both Android and iOS which means when it comes to mobile Facebook MUST go through Google 100% of the time. You may say they can use Firefox, but for the same reason, why would they add one more layer of gatekeeper just to let their users communicate? You need to realize this "open web" concept is not really open anymore when it comes to mobile.
Would be better if they called it Lolita :)
Simple yes, practical no.
Please no. With the oil downturn we can finally find qualified software devs to hire... the last thing we need is Google snapping them up!
Would be better if they called it Lolita
> So really, your argument only applies to public facing servers or web browsers.

Or, you know, literally anything touching a file format that might be downloaded. PDFs, word documents, images, zip files, movies, music, sounds, icons that show up in your file explorer, user profiles, any sort of web client (email, games, chat, wget, package managers, ...) lots of poison apples out there.

This kind of nonsense is why the best advice to handling USB drives you find on the ground is to toss them in a fire barrel - everyone thinks they're "behind a firewall" and that they're totally protected! They have all the protection of a wet tissue in a hurricane.

Oh, but I'm just writing a terminal! I don't touch file formats! It's safe to auto-execute commands in response to pasted newlines! ...and then you've helped enable the spread of malware through clipboard hijacking Javascript. Oops.

Firewalls are not a panacea. Firewalls are a roadbump.

> Unless you're writing one of those, I think your argument is weak.

I think your security is borderline nonexistent. I think I cannot trust you with C. I think someone is probably in your systems if you're in charge of the security side of IT, of anywhere of significance, unless you delegated enough responsibility to make you a figurehead.

I mean no offense by this. A lot of reasonably talented and smart programmers make the same mistake as you, and go write a bunch of exploitable vulnerabilities in C as a result. It's not like you're one of those madmen disabling ASLR, NX, stack cookies, or some of the many other mitigation techniques being used to try and clean up after this tragedy of our times. ...right?
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> Too much to ask?

It's just that for services like that the wealth is the data, they don't want 3rd parties to profit from their precious data. Instagram (free) API was shitty anyway, so I bet not a lot of developers was using it. Twitter API and data is far more useful.
You're correct. That's what I ultimately meant.

His words were met, in the media, with challenge. Having his words even echoed was a feat in and of itself. You or I could not replicate his feat as we don't have the stage. People hinged on his every word because of his prowess in a field people could understand. Guys like LeBron James and Michael Phelps are the only folks who could garner the same level of respect in the here and now, but the field has changed, there's too much money at risk...

Case and point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l35nC0jVNuk
And we were doing it because Facebook was pushing their messenger app, when the normal Facebook app handled it just fine.

They just simply decided one day, oh hey let's redirect the messages page on the Facebook app to a static page saying "download messenger" and not give any access to the messages, including view-access. Even when you get a notification on your phone about a new message.
The British are so strange. This kind of abuse of power would never be contemplated by American authorities.
I just don't see the correlation, though. Your aptitude for being an engineering/technical leader need not be at all tied to your skill at negotiation. Those two things are very different skills. A place like HN should know that very well, as we often talk about the difference between soft skills and technical skills.

Personally I'm not a hard negotiator (though I'm willing to walk away if my -- generally not super aggressive -- number isn't met), but I tend to move myself into technical leadership positions fairly quickly when joining a new org.
Ali wasn't "allowed" anything. He lost his livelihood for roughly a third of his athletic prime for standing up for his beliefs. He faced constant racism and bigotry. He was viewed as a bad guy by most of the country for much of his early career. Many people even refused to call him Muhammad Ali including other African American boxers. He persevered and became popular through shear will, determination, charisma, and talent, not because anyone allowed him to be that way.
I bet we could make a decent impact by simply banning SUVs.

In Sydney so many people drive around these pristine 4WDs for their 3-4 person family or just for image.
"The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! Rumble, young man, rumble!"

rip
1800 watts isn't nearly enough to do 80km/h. Maybe 60km/h, tops.

Power goes as the cube of speed, so 80 takes more than 4 times as much power as 60.

Of course, your speedometer could be lying to you.
I'll assume, by Chrome you mean desktop Chrome. This is irrelevant to my comment. I was specifically talking about realtime push notifications via mobile devices. Also remember that your preference is just your preference, many people would want to be able to make sure their messages get seen in realtime. And Facebook probably wants that for their users too. Again, I'm not saying this is a good thing. I'm just saying it's not an illogical decision. You are free to complain but it would be stupid for Facebook to keep going this way just so they can support the legacy technology.
Here's another explainer: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/insider/when-death-comes-a...

The obit for Steve Jobs was initiated 4 years before his death.
Business bill pay, yes. If you make a payment to an entity that is set up to accept electronic payments they'll do that, but otherwise they'll cut a check.

I'm actually really curious whether other American banks have equally terrible statements, or if it's just them. Anyone?
I'm not sure that's true; Facebook are keen users of serviceworkers and the Facebook web app provides push notifications on Chrome in Android using just that mechanism.
Tell that to China. Reflection attacks are still alive and well.
I have the opposite question: if its main selling point is being ubiquitous, why the fuck wouldn't they want to maximize the number of ways users can access it so that it stays, you know, ubiquitous?
That's a very weak reason not to use the messenger. You're confirming that if you want to create a good app, you should not listen to complaining users.

Judging by your comments you're not going to use the app period. You can just say so instead of creating artificial reasons which don't hold true for you anyways.
Which means I will actively start steering my conversation partners to matrix.org and vector.im
The challenge would be to make such a device fully autonomous while yet being safe; someone intentionally trying to fly the plane into the great void, never to be seen again is an exceedingly rare scenario.

It is, however, an option such a tracking device should try to stay on top of. Hence, it would be best if the crew could not disable it.

The problem with that design decision made, of course, is that it would be a shame if a plane fell from the sky because of a failed tracking device which the crew couldn't disable (typically fire because of an electrical issue).

However, there are intrinsically safe radio transmitters available for use in explosion-hazard environments, where fire obviously is a big no-no.

Problem? It would need its own, dedicated power supply; probably a battery (which comes with its own set of challenges!) charged via solar panels and aircraft power.

Making systems tamperproof and failsafe is hard. Should be doable, though, leaving the question of who is to foot the bill; chances are that will be a bigger problem to solve than the engineering side of it.
Rumble young man, rumble. Rumble in peace now ..
Assuming he went from socially incompetent to socially competent. Patio11 seems very much like he is more naturally gifted than the [stereo]typical developer in this respect.
Is there any fundamental reason that compile-time regular expressions couldn't be just as fast as Regex::new? They could use the same regex implementation.
> We need another (dozen) Cassius Clays.

And yet you call him by a name he himself changed and hated.
Android 6 fixes this excessive need for permissions by mobile apps. You only grant permission at runtime and can withdraw it at anytime.
There's a big difference between Trump's blowhard populism and Muhammad Ali's firm, unpopular beliefs. Trump says things with no filter, with utter disregard for their meaning, consequence, or congruence with the last thing he said. I respect him for having the guts to be stream of consciousness and throwing out each thought, but he's not, in any of his campaign, stating policy, but just this thought process.

Muhammad Ali had much to say. He was an outspoken civil rights supporter, anti draft activist, and convert to Islam, and a true believer in all those thoughts even when the majority of the country, even his fans, were against his positions. Hell, I'm against two of the three of those, and I still respect him enormously. He had a well spoken, eloquent, and coherent speaking style. He made you understand what his precepts were, how they shaped his philosophy, and he came to conclusions that you could respect. He wasn't simply outspoken, he was a good orator and a philosopher.

There's a great interview with him in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Tom Wolfe is not his intended audience, but is utterly enthralled. He comes across as genuine, progressive (in a meaning of that word that is positive), and concerned with his fellow man (if intending to be insular in parts of his philosophy.) He's no saint, but one of the most genuine people in the stardom limelight.
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they did this before and rolled it back, if i'm remembering things correctly.
This is true. But Aboriginal's did execute controlled burns for reasons XYZ.

One reason for controlled burns was to create a funnel in a thick new growth area in order to funnel the herding animals for hunting purposes.

These controlled burns had successs in diminishing the risk of wild unstoppable fires.
Practical enough for me. The only thing I use Facebook for is to say "Thank you" when folks wish me a happy birthday on my "wall". For literally everything else, the friends and family worth talking to have gotten the message that I'm not reliably reachable on Facebook and therefore should be reached by other means (and if they're worth talking to, they should already have my phone number and/or email address).

It's about drawing a line. I drew that line two years ago, and not once have I looked back or otherwise felt any semblance of regret or frustration from it. Among SMS, email, Telegram, Google+/Hangouts, ordinary phone calls, snail mail, in-person, and the cornucopia of other communications options out there, there's zero reason to put up with Facebook's nonsense.
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We are not garnered respect, within birth, but the parents who choose to bring us into this life are.
Not to mention that Facebook's apps are notorious for their battery usage (probably because of their egregious privacy-violating "features", but whatever).
I'd like to see a valid, largeish-scale test-run of it too, and I'm against the concept entirely. If anything, it'll give us a go-to example against or for the idea.

Though, to be fair, with the way governments/politicians seem to handle failed/failing projects, it might not be such a great idea.
>No, I assure you that stockfish definitely does not look "all the way down (ie to states where the game is over)" in most positions, even with pruning - that would take too long. It uses a static evaluation function to evaluate positions without searching down the tree further

Ehh alright, it calculates the value of a node exactly (or exactly assuming its evaluation function). MCTS does not.

To be clear, what I meant, that you pulled out of context is that Minimax requires an exact calculation of the value of each child before choosing the best and returning it, this requires either simulating every possible game, or an evaluation function (depth-pruning). MCTS uses monte-carlo methods to estimate the best paths instead of trying all of them naively. At t=infinity, MCTS is equivalent to Minimax, because it will try all nodes. But it can run in time constrained systems better because it picks a much smarter order to run in.

>You described the "Monte Carlo" part of MCTS but not the "Tree Search" part. It's right in the name! See for example the first paragraph on page 20 of https://gogameguru.com/i/2016/03/deepmind-mastering-go.pdf, which clearly describes AG constructing a search tree.

yes. That has nothing to do with minimax though.

Which is what I said. AlphaGo uses pruning. AlphaGo doesn't use minimax with or without pruning, it uses MCTS (with pruning).
Some great quotes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3624652/The-30-best-...

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the USA won the medal of gold. The Greeks said you're better than the Cassius of old.' - He said this quote after he won the Olympic light-heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Games in Rome

Pretty amazing for an 18 year old .. if a bit Trump-like.
Not everyone has access to that application.
An earlier HN article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9478442), partly an appreciation of Ali's style, made me look up an early fight of his from 1966:

http://youtu.be/oJUzl0aFHZw

It lasts only 8 minutes. The opponent is clearly a slugger who is baffled by Ali's style. Ali moves very fast, and fights with his gloves down. I'm not a fan of boxing, but she's right, that fight is an amazing spectacle.
If you do need sub-ms accurate time keeping, then "just" running ntpd is not enough. You need to have a low-jitter connection to at least one stratum 1 server (if you don't know you have one, you don't), or a local clock. Otherwise, ntp doesn't give you more precision over openntpd -- only faster convergence after you've lost contact with servers for a few days.

If you don't know _exactly_ why you need ntpd, the default should be openntpd.
What is missing in Python API? You can set breakpoints/watchpoints with gdb.Breakpoint.
oh, you can easily download it back from the site and replace it i believe. (that's what I did on mac os x at least)
You mean like AOL? I haven't seen your vitriol since the last big FB redesign that even my aunt complained about, which was like what, 5 years ago? I even posted something to FB in the last few years, once it was apparent that FB had not done further obvious redesigns, "remember back when we all hated FB and were going to never use it again?" Nobody replied or liked it.

FB is the Great Mall of the Internet, people don't really care if it sucks because it's just a place where people are. Many don't even have a concept of websites sucking.
Not in the US they haven't. I've certainly watched it enough to know the hoops they can jump through, the long method: Check is scanned by a machine at the register and a modem or network check happens to make sure the account is in good standing, they get the person's id and write things down on the check from it and then ask for a phone number. Makes me appreciate self checkout a lot. Some times they just scan the check and give it back which typically confused the heck out of the person who just wasted 2 minutes filling it out.
Facebook's "Paper" app has a better UI than the official client, and it still has messaging directly integrated.
We turned down the help because it wouldn't have done any good. The fire was too large for people to put out. Only rain can kill it now.

Believe me, we didn't turn down help out of pride. We have a ton of experience dealing with these things. We know when a fire is fightable, and when it isn't.
Apologies, my computer mouse malfunctioned and I downvoted you while swapping between windows, and I felt so bad about doing so I feel compelled to comment :(

And I actually agree with you...
Muhammad Ali on Racial Integration (1971)
And with the proper insight, we could make our current models look like as crufty as alchemy does today.
Agreed.
I recently switched jobs after an 8 year stint at my previous employer, and it took me many months and many recruiters and possible employers, and every single time I started from the position of "Let's not waste anybody's time, my total Cost-to-Company is xyz, benefits include zyx, if you can't beat that, then we have nothing to talk about."
Yes, brutally honest, but it also at least doesn't waste anybody's time with useless phone interviews and reference checks and and and.
Has there ever been a time like that?

Sounds like you have a bad case of "back in my day"-itis.
What's wrong with the color rendition of RGB panels? The newest ones are some of the most color accurate displays available.
Yep, it's pretty antiquated. Wells Fargo only added the ability to transfer money to an account number online a couple years ago and I think it still only works with some banks.
Even in the UK they're finally being aggressively phased out. When I moved here in 2000 was the first time I'd had a cheque book - in Norway where I'm from, I believe my parents last used cheques in the 80's.

Like Germany, Norway have/had giros in widespread use, though. The UK technically had a giro system, but actual giros are rarely used here. The big difference between a giro and a cheque is that with a giro it is the payer rather than the payee that instigates the transaction - either directly to the recipients bank account, or by effectively registering an approval with the bank and sending something similar to a cheque to the recipient (but with the difference that the sender has first directly confirmed the transaction to the bank).

So to me cheques have always seemed backwards from the logical flow.
Try Mbasic.facebook.com instead. I also use the browser for Facebook, and have now switched to mbasic instead. It's great.
He does say that the original file gzipped is 132 bytes, doesn't seem worth it to me.
>direct person-to-person transfer via account number. Any bank to any bank,

The US doesn't have that? I can't transfer money to you, even if I have your bank account number? How are people expected to transfer money to each other then?
I don't think any athlete will ever match Ali's impact. He could get into see anybody. The US State department used him as back door conduit to pass messages.

He was a big fan of basketball. He had a house outside Benton Harbor on Lake Michigan is the southwest part of the state near Indiana. Someone passed word to the coach of the Michigan State Spartans that Ali was a fan of the team. Coach Izzo arranged for him to attend a game each year.
I concur with you. I realized that social apps were taking too much of my time an uninstalled them from my phone. I only use my laptop to access fb and Twitter and I'm very happy with the move.
What's wrong with Team Foundation? I have never used anything but git, but I have had people suggest TFS.
Like those controlled in the iOS Privacy Setting page?
Well, this will mean even less fb interaction for me.

FB iOS apps were resource pigs and data whores. Neither installed.

Maybe I'll just vnc in to a browser on the home machine when I need to message.

Otherwise, iMessage it is.
Limits vary based on your bank, card type (debit vs credit), account type (personal vs. business) and what you're doing with the money (withdrawing cash vs. spending online). You can also ask to increase the limit. People can also get multiple cards and use them for online payments.

... limit of $2k USD per day.

AWS and AdWords both accept cards and people spend a lot of money there. Online accommodation booking can cost more than $2k and people have no problems doing it.

If you have items with high prices, just send users a quick notification to check whether their cards have a limit and to ask their bank to lift it.
As a Brit who finds this sort of thing completely scary/abhorrent, I often wonder what it is about our culture that makes this so. I think a big part of it is the class-system, which has its roots in feudal structures from millennia past, and is still very much alive and well today. We all grow up to develop an innate sense of class (I look up to him, I look down on him etc.), and for the majority of people, they do trust the upper classes. The royal family has approval ratings through the roof, we have an Etonian PM and largely Etonian cabinet. We just don't have the same distrust that most countries seem to have. On the ground, this comes across as "well it's probably for the best, they know what they're doing", when trying to discuss matters like these.

Also, I'm assuming there's an injunction out about this - can't find it reported anywhere in the UK press.
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