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Why uncomfortable men wouldn't men be targeted like that? Let's say you are a powerful and interested party, let me think, let's say you are the US government. You want copyright infractions to stop (let's say that is a worthy goal, it does not really matter), and you also want to do your little dirty Intelligence without the public interfering.

There is this guy Assange, who is making a good case for the other side, difficult to stop and, like most guys, has a thing for women.

How easy is it for you to get some random (or non-random) woman, and get her to testify against him? You have a score of ways to get somebody to do that for you. Look somebody with a grudge against Assange, or pay her enough money, or promise her whatever she may want.

The thing is, since women's word is accepted at face value, men have absolutely no way of getting fair treatment.

If I was younger now, I would even be careful not to approach women as a normal person.
You probably shouldn't ever use the phrase [random-technology] developer. It puts you in a box that associates you with all the shortcomings of the given technology.
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To me, reason for this is that most of those HN posters are people with progressive-left tendencies. They will never like the idea that a capitalist will be the one doing this kind of job far better than the collective (state).
RPi is used for a lot more than IoT.
I'm guessing limited computing power while refining the algorithms.
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Interesting, so people may get used to talking to their mobile phones after all. Just wondering about the stats - why is the most common search "ok google ok google"?
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What a "democratically elected" government does and what private people think is acceptable are not necessarily the same thing. There's often a surprisingly strong discrepancy between government action and the will of the people.

Also, a lot of people feel that the government (in a Western/Northern European country) is mostly trying to protect its society even if some actions are misguided, while it's hard to make a statement about the benevolence of large corporations. Governments ought to be loyal to its citizens, while corporations only answer to their shareholders; their actions have no moral leeway nor are they beneficial to the majority of people. Facebook is not trying to protect society, it's trying to benefit from it.

In most EU countries you are entitled by law to request to see and even demand removal of any data any company has on you at any time. This has been problematic in the past but will clash hard in the future with companies based outside the EU wanting to do business – or whatever name you want to call the activities of internet giants – with EU citizens.
Stop that. Stop that shit right now. This is not a business, and we don't you acting like a jerk CEO and yelling at people.

I guess you didn't get downvoted because people agree with you. I agree with you also. And yet, being right is not an excuse for the overly antagonistic way you made your point.
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Is Facebook trying to be slack now?
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I don't really see a point, partly because social and work don't mix in my dictionary, partly because I consider Enterprise Communication a solved problem. What is the incentive to move away from e.g. an already integrated Atlassian stack?

Maybe it can be an option for new companies? It is hard to tell without the pricing information.
Agreed on all counts.

I also wish YC gave more details about what they mean when they talk about improving society. What's the metric?

I'm not really sure about the relevance of the concept of "mass media" today when people get their news from more and more fragmented sources.

And the idea that the polarization of media is bad also seems highly questionable. In fact, one of the leading researchers on the question of media bias showed that competition between media (which leads to polarization) could reduce bias (http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/BiasReputation.pd...).
That does seem awfully low given your experience. I hope you could double that by moving to one of the places you mentioned.
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My Operating Systems course had a really odd grade curve.

There was a listed one in the syllabus, but then the exams were so difficult that nobody was scoring above 80-85 out of 100, so there had to be an additional full grade curve after that.

So yeah, post-curve isn't helpful. Unless there's some way to normalize the data.
The term is not really advertiser friendly. Adsense (also YouTube) TOS makes it very clear ALL the content needs to be family friendly to begin with. Of course, I understand big labels are given an exception but it doesn't make it less hypocritical.
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The problem with this is that TeX cannot be described using a context-free grammar (CFG). Knuth has discussed this in the past. So, building a compiler for TeX is almost impossible.
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Yes, but that just means they can decide to do something special with it in the future, not that you can use it for your own purposes.
The proper way to do it, though it does mean that things such as using ssl for wildcard domains at an arbitrary level become difficult and potentially expensive.
Meh. I don't buy the "moderate valuing of philosophy is a philosophy" argument. If everything is a philosophy then nothing is a philosophy.

My point is, suckless products can actually suck despite following their "philosophy." It's not only the UI, although strictly adhering to the "UNIX" philosophy has its flaws. No, it's the suckiness of the source code that I'm talking about, e.g. dwm is composed of ad-hoc internal abstractions and special cases based on arcane X11 WM domain knowledge, not to mention the suckless comment "philosophy": that comments are a sign of bad code therefore don't use them.

Their "philosophy" is narrow-minded and overly simplistic, like a religion. It's also not based in truth, just biased anecdotes, e.g.

"Most hackers actually don’t care much about code quality."

...What? Is there a source for this information?

Their "philosophy" only makes sense for the smallest toy programs. Notice how there is no suckless kernel, It would likely be a heaping pile. Dogma loses, science wins.
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I think the reason we have such bad security is that non-technical end users just don't care. You can try a dozen different approaches to getting them to care about security, but they often cannot be bothered with it.

Thus, if you want to go the legal/penalty route, you need to sue the end users. The entity that owns the house/office that installed the unpatched CCTV camera is effectively responsible for the behavior of that camera. If they then want to shift the responsibility to the manufacturer, that's their choice (and effort).

What it will do is make users consider a bit more carefully when choosing devices and manufacturers, and it will make manufacturers have to consider (and promote) their security and patching practices to maintain marketshare.
I was pretty surprised, when I found out that Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL, Composer of the film music for the new Mad Max movie) was using a Windows PC in his studio. Maybe more and more are moving from Apple hardware back to Windows hardware. Altough you still see most of the people using MacBooks for their live acts.
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If some people on earth can find other people that will make themselves explode in airport or train stations, I'm pretty sure we will find people to die on Mars as heroes.
What arguments to use to prevent people from sharing password with trusted ones?
Elon's Simpsons episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
I feel the same as the OP, and had never thought of this as a possible cause. Unfortunately none of my friends live close to me.
Well, the point where Wolfenstein cropped up was to demonstrate that raycasting as done by old 2.5D game engines was actually a way of rendering voxels, even though it's rarely called out as such. The fact that dynamic objects were not modelled but represented by sprites has little benefit to be mentioned there.
> German data law is very strict

Technically this law is European-wide, not just Germany. It's from the EU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Basically the EU's Bill of Rights). Article 8 lists your personal data rights.

The EU/US Safe Harbour was invalidated by the Court of Justice of the EU, after an Austrian person took a case against Facebook in Ireland.

> The only problem here is that the penalities for breaking the data protection laws aren't very high ..

DPAs have the authority to force companies to stop doing things. They might not be able to fine Facebook a meaningful amount, but they can get a court order to stop them doing it.

> I'd like to see percentages of a companies revenue.

That is being proposed.
What's your role in the company?
I got invited to a YC event - meet companies, they pitched - a recruiting event. More than a few pulled the "we work hard, play hard, are a family" card.

If you have friends/family, avoid such.

Cultural fit is bull shit. It's about getting people to work more at a fixed rate. I've been there, done that, ran away to better things.

As someone expected to write code - make sure "operations" isn't a hidden requirement - devops - could meaning call duty. If you were not required to be operational when hired, and suddenly fall into the roll, start looking around. Operations takes planning, but some use "culture" as an excuse for lack of planning.
Would you trust Facebook with your internal corporate communications and by extension the company's innermost secrets?

Good luck to Facebook in getting traction with corporate customers with the most atrocious privacy record of just about any company.
It seems to me that, as others have suggested, this might be just a silicon valley bias, real or perceived.

At 32, my skills in both hard and soft outstrip anything a developer in their early twenties could match, no matter how passionate or innately skilled they are. There is a certain 'momentum' you pick up as you get older, especially if you have been constantly feeding it with new experiences, learnings and failures. Having confidence and the skill to back it up can only be obtained with a decade or two in the industry.

And if my contracting rates and employment prospects are anything to go by, employers recognise that.
Yeah, and having an automatic, secure, reliable patching routine for embedded devices is not trivial (and thus really expensive). What's even worse, we already have millions of deployed devices, and some of these probably don't support upgrading the firmware at all, or require manual intervention from users who have no idea they are part of the botnet.
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If you are not building large applications then TS is counter productive. Just consider the extra compilation step, the dependencies and obfuscated source code.

While it can be tremendous help, calling it a best practice misses the point.
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Oddly enough, the billion-plus, relatively-well-educated, developing nation your CEO happens to have been born in might find itself a slightly corporate emphasis.
> What I meant was that, if the license's meaning was disputed in court, the court should agree that it meant what the company intended for it to mean.

And my point is that sometimes what the company intends/wants is illegal. And the courts should

For example, a company might want employees to sign away rights to minimum wage. We can clearly see what the company intends in that contract, but the courts will not agree with it.

"Contracts are sacred and unbreakable" is an ethical/legal stance associated with libertarianism, and it is not what many countries follow.
I don't think growing food in space is all that important, as long as you can grow it on Mars. You can pack supplies for 80 days, especially if you have an effective water re-usage system like the one on the ISS.

Once on Mars, we could probably use something like this:

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/the-martian-food-growing-sy...

For producing crops and oxygen, and maybe even supplies for a return trip.
> Python built into Windows 10

I'm on 10 and I had to install it.. Am I missing something?
Most Linux distributions are not going to have enough hardware to rebuild large fractions of their packages when a vulnerability is found in a popular library in a reasonable time.
Also, many users will be unhappy to download gigabytes of updates when this happens instead of few megs.
(Not every organization runs an internal mirror and not every user sits on a 1GBit pipe)

This would lead to very slow security updates for the end users.
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The law of unintended consequences says that our next problem will be "non-NPE trolls".

"We made a batch of 10 'somethings' last year, so we are not an NPE or a troll!"
Yes, maybe suggest single founders live in the same house/apartment complex...
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They did not have any breaches, did they? I'm curious what you are referring to.
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What exactly about Apple's marketing would you say is "status symbol" based? I mainly see ads with a focus on the products themselves.
That's equivalent to asking why a 2D game or game engine would use a 2D grid when it could get more precision by defining arbitrary 2D polygons. If you're making something like Tetris or chess or Conway's life or whatever you don't want precision, you want a grid.

(Naturally, one can model a system as a grid but render it as arbitrary shapes, or vice-versa.)
There's a "risk" of bias here? The point seems to be that the professors don't have a good prior -- they have a bias and are confusing it for a prior, and that's what was demonstrated by the experiment.

(that, and perhaps CS professors aren't particularly good at statistics)
> I'm not convinced German constitutional protections are weaker than the 4th Amendment.

Here's a report from the EU commission about why the US constitutional/legal protection is much less than the EU (and hence German) equivalent:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/519215/IPOL_STU%282015%29519215_EN.pdf

Basically: Unlike the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, US 4th Amendment doesn't cover non-US people outside the US, and it only covers government warrents. What Facebook does with your data is not covered by the 4th Amendment. What Facebook does with your data is covered by Article 8 of the EUCFR.
You can just design your game art to avoid Moiré patterns. This is also what all TV productions generally do.
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Leaflet maintainer here. There is some work on a rotation code branch, plus I've been working on something called "Leaflet.GL" to do WebGL rendering. The OL3 folks just have more time and resources, you know. Also Leaflet must still work with IE8 (OL3 doesn't, there are some cases where that's needed).

We have a friendly relationship with the OL3 folks, even though sometimes we're jealous of their WebGL rendering, and sometimes they're jealous of our lower learning curve.
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This seems particularly well suited to non-IT-development workflows, like those in marketing and sales agencies, various organizations that already intensively utilize FB for their businesses by further providing a seamless integration between workplace activities and public/customer related ones.

What about webhooks, e.g. for CI and Github related processes, or about bot support?
There are a lot of comms that aren't really sensitive, no?

Event organization, menu updates, building maintenance updates etc.

You're right that it can't really swallow everything, but it actually helps (users) that it can't. It relegates FB to a casual thing and not a real business tool. Whether or not this is good for Facebook is a different matter, and I agree with your implication that it probably isn't.
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But you browse HN and are most probably a software professional. You're definitely not the average consumer.

Me personally, I ask for Macbooks because they mostly don't offer shitty products as their entry models. And even though I'm a fan of business laptops such as Thinkpad and Latitude, every single time I asked for one management starts to cheap out with terrible TN screens, minimum RAM and spinning drives.
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> Facebook isn’t bound by German law (unless they operate in Germany, which they do)

If you're not in the USA or Canada, and use Facebook, your agreement is with Facebook Ireland Ltd, and bound by Irish, and European, data protection law.

A Facebook user in India has EU data protection rights.
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I can't see how end users could be possibly empowered to analyze the IT security risks of off-the-shelf IoT devices, before buying them.

There are already safety standards and according mandatory certification processes in place that (should) prevent electric appliances from burning down your house (CE) or from bringing down airplanes (FCC).

What is (urgently) needed is a similar approach to mandatory IT security certification for IoT devices. This is also advocated by Bruce Schneier [0]:

Security engineers are working on technologies that can mitigate much of this risk, but many solutions won't be deployed without government involvement. This is not something that the market can solve. Like data privacy, the risks and solutions are too technical for most people and organizations to understand; companies are motivated to hide the insecurity of their own systems from their customers, their users, and the public [...]

[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/07/real-world_se...
> Achieve better memory footprint than heavyweight distros using dynamic linking and all its problems

If this is really effective in reducing executable size, it's supremely ironic, since the original point of dynamic linking was to reduce the overall size of groups of executables by sharing common function libraries.
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> Yeah, and having an automatic, secure, reliable patching routine for embedded devices is not trivial (and thus really expensive).

Roku (and others) seems to have figured that out. They cryptographically sign each update.
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shared object libraries are exactly that, a special case of an ELF executable. Special, in the sense that they are not directly executable by users on the command line, other than that, there is no difference (as regular ELF executables can be compiled as re-entrant, position independent code just like shared object libraries).
But at no point, either in the CRT or in the human eye, do the ringing artifacts actually show up. So any pipeline that renders those when you blow the pixel up is worse than rendering just a giant square.
That's just part of the hard work of producing something and distributing it. You have to overcome criticism. Both armchair experts and real experts will shit all over what you do for different reasons. It's a necessary evil, you have to pick out the good feedback and ignore the bad.
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Not entirely what you're describing, but pandoc goes a long way towards being a sort of LLVM for text documents. In order to do all the format conversions, it transforms inputs into a tree-based internal representation, and then translates that into the output format.

Unfortunately it doesn't have a (pure) TeX reader yet, but that could be implemented relatively easily.
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> I’ve published a dozen articles ... build software with thousands of paying customers. ... work on open source Python. ... read almost 40 business books, and I live and breathe HackerNews.

Why not start your own business or become CTO? Why work for someone less experienced?
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Why? Most software out there sucks. Computers suck. Most people are unbelievably bad at designing and writing software. Very few of us are RJ Micals or Adam Leventhals, or Jeff Bonwicks. Most people have major issues with reasoning and implementation when it comes to writing software. It's the reality.
They did the same for the VFX industry, actively stopping the leading compositing software to go and do other things.

However at least Jobs told the collected heads of the VFX houses to go fuck themselves in person.
As system administrator of my home network, it worries me that a device on my network might be involved in an attack like this, and I would never know.

Maybe the target of such an attack could gather a list of IP addresses used in the attack, then pass them to Google, who might warn on their search homepage if you browse from one of the IPs on the list? (e.g. "Some of your internet devices may be at risk, click here to find out more") I know IP addresses are a poor proxy for identity, but it could be a step in the right direction.
> The problem with this is that TeX cannot be described using a context-free grammar (CFG). Knuth has discussed this in the past. So, building a compiler for TeX is almost impossible.

Neither can C++[0], yet there still are C++ compilers out there. It does raise the bar significantly, though.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/a/14589567
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