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Perhaps. But the fact that they used a remote-controlled device is significant. It's quantum change in tactics for the police. It gives police far greater powers against suspects.

How long before they use drones to shoot suspects?

What about automated traffic stops, where a device asks you to roll down the window and scan your license and insurance?

If there's a robbery or burglary in progress, wouldn't it always make sense to send in a device instead of exposing an officer?

What about a bunch of kids on the corner who shouldn't be there? Why expose a cop to them, when one of them might have a gun? Instead, roll up in a well-protected car and speak to them through speakers and microphones and video.

I'll bet a remote-controlled device could eventually cuff them and take them into custody as well.

Don't underestimate the effect this is going to have on civil liberties.
Immigration is a worry because it is no longer simply intra-EU nations allowing free movement of their members, but the millions of low-skilled Middle East and North African migrants who've entered the EU in the last few years will be a strain on nation's finances for decades. Couple this with the aging of Europe and automation on the horizon and there is not the need nor the capability to sustain the new EU residents.

If you disagree I'd enjoy a thoughtful response
I don't mind collaborating, and indeed enjoy it. But don't force it upon me by an oppressive open office environment. I need quiet and an environment free from distraction and other people to really dig into my code and produce my best work.

Living in a constant state of interruptibility, observation, and distraction will not get good code out of me, and indeed many other devs. I, like many others, can make do, but why pay us so much money if you're going to put us in an environment guaranteed to make us produce sub-par code and products? Seems like a poor use of capital.
I was at (unnamed-giant-online-retailer) and a team of 12 too. Our rule is to speak with one foot standing so you have to speak fast... It takes 90 seconds per person usually, sometimes ending with "hey Dave, I need your help in X, let's talk it afterwards".

Same process run by different group will feel different.
I disagree completely. How do you reconcile products like Lambda, Dynamo, Elastic Beanstalk, IoT, Lumberyard... They have a laundry list of products which do meet your criteria of being designed for devops people to bring existing infra in, but they have plenty which clearly have app level components that devs would need to interface with. AWS has something for everyone.
I wouldn't underestimate the language aspect too.

You might get away in a restaurant in Berlin speaking only english, but it's no fun to live in a country where you can't understand anything written, whether it is to fill your taxes, or interact with your bank, or where every website will be localized to the local language.

If you and your whole team speak Dutch and Spanish and German, then of course you can hesitate between London, Amsterdam, Barcelona or Berlin.
Vienna is outstanding. Just by living there you achieved a "high quality" life.

You can move around with a Bike, the food is amazing if you know where to look, the city is vibrating, full of events and happenings and sightscenes, open concerts and people are amazing :-)
The specifics of this situation matter less than the precedent it has set for future police actions around the world.

From now on, when faced with difficult or dangerous situations, police forces everywhere will at least consider using robots, because "Dallas police did it, and there was neither public outrage nor political fallout."
That's unjust because they aren't holed up in a defensive position claiming that there are several bombs scattered throughout downtown.
How much time does ESP8266 plus sensor run before running out?
Doesn't ctrl-z actually send SIGTSTP rather than SIGSTOP? I think the difference is that SIGTSTP can be caught, while SIGSTOP is always an unconditional stop.
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That gas agent (allegedly aerosolized fentanyl [1]) didn't actually work so great, and wound up killing people anyway, so might've had the same outcome, but with more effort and just as much controversy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_hostage_crisis_chemical...
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Detection of human evolution during the past 2,000 years [pdf]
> Mainstream politicians have learned their lesson, which is never offer up such a dumb referendum to their electorate

Not if "non-mainstream" politicians win election. Not unlikely at all at this moment.
Thanks, those videos are really bewildering. Were they commonly watched by Poles back then? Weren't such direct depiction of how things were opposed by the establishment?
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What's a "spergy"?
MIT has its own CA 0_o

ca.mit.edu
Why didn't they use the robot to eg administer Thorazine?
Exactly! I will absolutely not buy Android N(owned many Android devices so far). Google collects all users activities by default while don't let me trust my own CA, how ironic. I guess Google thinks only itself is trust-able and it has the right to baby seat whoever uses its devices, in the name of protecting its users...No Thanks Big Brother.
As a British white guy who was in the US recently, who likes to date Black Women. Let me tell you what I heard from my girlfriends.

What's it like dating in London. Are interracial couples ok?

I had to laugh at that one. No one bats an eyelid - AT ALL.

Sadly, it seems to be the reverse in the US, still a lot of opposition to it.

I would say the US is still a billion times more racist than the UK/London.
You can only look at Teresa May's record, and that has been despicable. We've had vans driving around telling people to "Go home" (I am not making this up). That was an exceptional case, but the general official attitude towards immigration is hostile. Try getting leave to remain for your non-EU spouse. Unless you earn more than £18K/year and have several thousands of pounds to go through the visa process it may not be possible at all. There are many people who are stuck in foreign countries away from their husbands, wives and children.
So we just bought a port-a-potty, and screwed around on the internet for two weeks.

It seems to me, the there problem isn't agility, it's a lack of professionalism.
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Uncontainable is not part of their standards anywhere to my knowledge, and shutting down downtown for a week is not acceptable.
>The employer, however, had to pay the salary of 120.000,- to the employee and about 22% of the salary to the state and social insurance.

That's just accounting fiction. You could as well make it so that the employer pays everything and proclaim there's zero tax. The employee has to make his entire cost (and more).

>Apart from that, 120.000,- EUR for a developer in Vienna seems a bit too much. I would expect something between 40.000 - 65.000 on average

Well yes, there's no financial reason for someone capable of earning more to be in Austria. Which means there are no companies that could use these people to their full potential. In other words brain drain.

Not like high tax is an exclusively Austrian problem. The only country in Europe with sane taxes is Switzerland.
You can't have ad blocking apps on the Play (god that ridiculous name) store?
If your device isn't rooted, modify the APK to opt-in and don't share it with anyone.

If your device is rooted, just add your cert to the system store.
He said sold by Amazon. There are two ways: Fulfilled by Amazon or Sold and Shipped by Amazon. I am pretty sure he is talking about the latter. With the latter, Amazon is actually selling the item not some 3rd party. With Fulfilled by Amazon, Amazon only ships it to you, but the 3rd party is selling. It is pretty clear on the website.
You mean moving your house, family and business to another country which language you do not speak and will have to learn is less work and expensive than passing an exam you can prepare over a week end and a couple of forms to post in the mail?

Besides, having passed that exam myself I actually think it was a good experience. I learned a few things about the UK.
Some people like to give feedback.
What you simply push aside as a dumb referendum because you do not agree with it, is silly considering your thoughts are not an accurate reflection of the issues with the EU and polling of its members.

>Polls recently conducted in Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Hungary also showed that these countries could follow Britain if it succeeds in leaving the EU. Euroskeptic politicians in these countries have been adding fuel to the fire, stepping up their calls for EU-exits in light of the British referendum.

On Wednesday, French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen stressed that France should have its own ‘Frexit’ vote.

“What I'm asking for is a referendum in France. Every EU member should be able to have its say in a referendum,” the National Front leader told France's TF1 television. A March poll by the University of Edinburgh found that 53 percent of the French are in favor of a referendum on leaving the Union.

30% of Germans want to quit EU as support for Merkel’s govt. drops below 50%
While a YouGov poll in May, commissioned by Handelsblatt newspaper, found that 29 percent of Germans would leave the EU if a referendum was to take place. Only 54 percent of those living in the country supported staying in the bloc.

The mood is reportedly the same in the Netherlands, with a February opinion poll finding that 53 percent of Dutch citizens want a 'Nexit' referendum. Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch right-wing, populist PVV party, currently topping opinion polls, openly expressed hopes a ‘Nexit’ could follow a ‘Brexit.’
https://www.rt.com/viral/348039-brexit-eu-referendum-domino/
surely it's a well-reasoned tactical decision and not, "we're not letting this filthy cop-killer come out alive," because no one in our well-trained, civilized police forces thinks like that, right?
...and so it begins...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9078741

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9078762

I am not exactly surprised, but it is very sad to see, because what happens on locked-down mobile platforms, desktops seem to follow sooner or later. You can argue that power users and developers will always find ways around it, but what this does is effectively remove one more little bit of that freedom which lets users discover what their devices are actually doing, and I think that is a very bad thing in the long term.

Much of my knowledge about how computers work in various ways has been gained through exploring creatively and inspecting what things do. I use a MITM proxy on my PC that blocks ads, tracking, and rewrites webpages to my preference. I learned a lot of HTTP, HTML, and CSS just from doing that. But maybe that is exactly what those in power do not want --- users who can think and investigate things for themselves --- because such users are not easy to control.
True, that's another big reason for people to not move out of the UK. I've worked in Germany before, and I left mainly because of the language.
if you have custom apps, this announcement tell you how set your apps to trust your own CA certs.
> If your device is rooted, just add your cert to the system store.

So, basically the same as before, but there’s no UI for it anymore?

Fuck this.

I might just modify the Java SSL libs on Android to even accept my cert when cert pinning is used, if I have to spend that much effort anyway.
I'm stating a suspicion about the perceptions held by non-UK citizens. I'm not making a claim about the mindset of UK citizens. In fact, I'm not making any claims at all about the racial angle because:

1) I don't live in the UK yet

2) Race is weird
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EUs trade with each other represents only 16% of all trade in the world and this number is declining. The EU has no fintech/startups center beside the UK and thats not going to change (Berlin doesn't have the money)

EU is killing, not fostering startups. If anything startups thrive where there is complexity because it means there are problems to solve.

The EU is politically trying to solve a lot of problems but they have nothing but technocratic reasons to do so. I.e. they aren’t actually very good at allocating resources to the right problems for europeans because they have no feedback mechanism allowing for a better insight into what are the EU citizens problems.

Instead they are solving problems with the very bureacracy they helped create themselves to begin with.

If anything the EU should stop trying to solve politically what can be solved through technology and via startups.

The UK's fintech sector is going to be just fine and most probably boosted because it's not the problems of the EU that makes UK's fintech successful it's the world.

Technology does and can make up for any legislative complexity and it's going to foster a whole new slew of startups.

So the UK is going to benefit greatly for this and can now make trade deals that benefit the UK while continuing to do fintech without any problems what so ever.

EU isn't some economic powerhouse which one should only be so lucky to be part of. It's primarily catered towards supporting old industries and trade barriers. More countries should reverse back to the common market.

The fact is no one knows whats going to happen. But if history is any indication the UK is going to come out stronger not weaker from this.
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It seems like all (pretty) good ideas, this one was meant as a set of guidelines to help teams build better software. That's until agile became a dogma (to some) and a means to an end in itself, with most the focus on getting agile 'right' and the project success being secondary. It's kinda like the idea of unions when they where first started to protect workers that were being exploited like farm animals. Nowadays some big unions could care less about the workers, and care more about their own survival as an entity and get trapped in activities which have nothing to do with their original mission. Of course, please don't see this exmaple as saying all unions are bad.
A standup's supposed to be a time for everyone to give a very brief status update, and not much more than that.

If your standup has a dozen people and takes 45 minutes, that implies that either everyone's taking about four minutes to say what they should be able to cover in 2 or 3 sentences. That or someone's missed the point and your standup has turned into the kind of meeting that standups are explicitly not supposed to be, only without the chairs.
Yeah, looks like the libGDX maintainers made the same decision. They looked at BugVM and didn't like it, so they're on board with the mobidevelop fork as well as Intel's Multi-OS Engine.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/multi-os-engine
Some of those requests are very important and will benefit with actual real monetary results

That has nothing to do with agile. That's a basic failure in product management, and would happen regardless of the dev methodology.

If those features really do have such a large business impact, they should be getting prioritized (hint: the backlog isn't a rigid, time sequenced FIFO).

If they're not, either the PO sucks, or the features aren't as important as the sales guy thinks relative to other items in the backlog.
The knockoff razor blades, however, are not nearly as sharp as the real ones.
Was Gates actually the technical wizard that he has been made out to be?

It is an honest question. I really dont know. I am sure he had some great technical insights, but I haven't seen anything that would lead me to believe that he was actually a genius coder or engineer.
Confession, I didn't read the article. A title implying browsers are losing their relevance, when I and most people I know are on them multiple hours per day (if not most of the day, for work), just screams "this article is stupid."
If you're interested, Stackpoint offers a really cool (seemingly free) service to bootstrap and manage K8S clusters on AWS, DigitalOcean, and Packeg [1].

[1] https://stackpointcloud.com/
> Yes, that is wrong :)

Fantastic news, thanks!

> The intention is so that almost all extensions, especially the popular ones like tree style tabs, will keep on working; however they will need to be written to work with the new APIs.

This sounds doable.

> but IIRC regular firefox addon APIs will not be removed until the corresponding APIs exist in the webextensions format.

Again, this should sort it.

My worry was if we would be left with only chrome-like or worse browsers - for me Firefox currently plays in different league.

Edit: you possibly see why I and others were mistaken; you are the first one I know that has explained this. Feel free to tell relevant people why we misunderstood so we can clear up the FUD.
There's a good point in GP's post though. The thing is, one day quantum computers WILL BE available to the NSA or whatever. And they also have the means to record all encrypted transmissions (and they probably do). So one day, the NSA will be able to crack those transmissions that are using pre-quantum algorithms.

Using post-quantum algorithms ASAP would at least make sure that from this point on, we're "safe" from quantum computers making a sudden appearance tomorrow.
Documentation is one of Racket's killer features. There are very few language communities with its quality of documentation.
> some of the biggest tech corporations in the world today support EME

Not just support, Google and Microsoft invented it:

https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/

The best way to fight back against EME is to put pressure on those companies and their browsers.
Brno? Startup hub? A city where no one speaks English and foreigners are treated bad by locals can not be compared to a multi-cultural city as Vienna.

I studied in Brno and I have friends working at AT&T and IBM. They even have a ruby group meetup.. But a startup hub??? No.
AFAIK all the treaties Switzerland has with the European Union include a guillotine clause that cancels all treaties when one is broken. This is due to the difficulty getting the required number of member countries into agreement on treaties. This mean that if Switzerland instituted policies infringing on the free movement treaties, it'd need to renegotiate every single other treaty, potentially with less favorable terms, and long negotiation periods, during which Switzerland is effectively cut off from the rest of the EU. It's not impossible, but doesn't seem worth the cost for something that size.
I've never been comfortable with the use of the term "robot" to describe a radio controlled car (or plane, boat, whatever).

Using a ruggedized R/C car to deliver an explosive is no different from a police officer with a good throwing arm tossing a grenade (or whatever) at the attacker. In other words, the action is completely controlled and executed by a person, not the machine.

Now, if this thing had autonomous "search and destroy" capabilities and the person's role was to identify the target area and approve the kill, the term "robot" would certainly apply.

I don't like the association being created between robotics and killing. In this case a person was 100% in charge of killing the suspect. The machine was not operating autonomously.

Just like the folks who attached a gun to a quadcopter. Where that thing went and when it pulled the trigger, save a malfunction, was 100% remotely controlled. Calling it a "drone" or "robot", which implies a level of machine-based decision making, would be wrong.
I joked to a friend that if Google invented a time machine, the first thing they would do is travel back to remove the extension support in Chrome before it was launched - the ad blockers.
Club Caribe. For people of a certain age... which is much older than the average HN reader, this was the pixellated magic of the internet. Your friends at school didn't even believe you when you tried to tell them about it.
At (unnamed-giant-bank) for our standups, our scrum master would open the Jira agile board, go through every single ticket in the entire sprint and have the assigned developer give an update. This included tickets still in the to-do category. The developer would literally have to say "no progress" on 20+ tickets every day.

The entire team including PMs, design, business dev, etc. would be present everyday for that absolutely excruciating 1 hour long meeting.
That's a risk you can marginalize fairly easily. You know you're sending in the robot in advance of the shooter, so you could easily consider preparing an explosive back-up option in case the nonlethal option fails.

>Given the circumstances of facing a trained active shooter who has killed and continues to try to kill officers, I would think that > 99% of cops would find the argument that you must preserve his life at the (high) risk to officers' lives incredibly insulting.

The officers' do not have the right to execute people just because they are too stupid, too careless, or too insulted to act with honor. You can't pretend to know a persons justification for their actions. The shooter may have had mental problems. The shooter may even have been coerced. You don't know the magnitude of their mistake because you didn't have a trial in which they could try to justify their actions.

And though it is unlikely, it is still presumptive to assume there is no reasonable justification for the shooter's actions.

> It especially doesn't stop someone who has a gas mask. It isn't unreasonable to suspect someone has a gas mask if he is firing at crowd-control officers in the sort of pop-pop-pause pattern reminiscent of the military.

It is definitely unreasonable. That's basically like a just-so story; a ad-hoc justification pretending a thing you want to be true is true just because you can imagine a way in which it could be. How someone is firing a firearm has very very little to do with whether they have access to a gas mask, and there are a trillion ways in which this kind of assumption can be wrong, and most of them are blatantly obvious.
As a developer, it is highly upsetting to me when sales does this.

A well-functioning product development org has processes in place to decide what gets done first. These processes take into account tons of inputs including bug feedback, enhancement requests, potential for outages if something isn't fixed, long- and short-term competitive and strategic concerns, customer requests, and internally-sourced architecture requests.

Then some selfish jackass comes along (from whatever department) who just can't wait because WE NEED TO GET THIS DEAL, so the entire process is thrown out the window to satisfy the whims of one customer, who may not even be large, high-revenue, or strategically important, and the wrong works gets done.

Please, stop the madness. Don't go around the product team, and if you're in eng, please don't tolerate this bad behavior.
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It's infuriatingly difficult to buy anything of quality on Amazon. I really hope they improve the situation.
Knowingly selling to criminals on the other hand...
I like your comment about cubicles being a luxury. I don't know why they became a funny cliche of office horror. You don't have to be autistic to be driven mad by the constant interruptions enforced by office culture. When they tried to make pair programming mandatory, most of us decided to ignore it. Can't ignore the daily standup though. It just means I will not be able to concentrate until 10:30 every day. If that's the way they want it, so be it
yea, I saw something about a Polish community center having been vandalized. The response to that vandalism was really heartwarming though.

Also, how are you doing? Thank you for the referral a while back when I was doing my job search. The EU offices weren't hiring SWEs at the time, but the referral was still helpful.