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Well, it's an argument for racial profiling if certain races actually are more dangerous.

It's hard to answer your question, since both ethics and rationality are fuzzy, slippery concepts that need to be nailed down firmly to reason meaningfully about.

Or, put less pretentiously, I don't know.
About 15 years ago I started with my graphing calculator. Dont know if those have changed any over the years.

It was texas instruments flavor of basic. Simple enough to get started, automating my math homework :) Just move right to get to the edit 'tab', and select the program you want to edit. Right once more to create a new one.

By the way, if any of you reading this happened to be the manager who decided to spend a few extra cents including explanations for if/then, for loops, variables, etc in the back of the manual, THANKS! You are probably the reason I have the career that i do today. Once I realized that an evening spent programming meant no math homework for a few weeks, I was hooked!
Centralization is about control. For executive administrations, this is probably a good thing for them internally, but for most of my own communication I want my own control.

This article makes me sad because I think there is a great defense for protocols like IRC / XMPP / Email where the resulting messages are fully distributed.
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Ah... it appears the first step happened before I was up on the issue. Shame, that's even more dishonest than I thought.
The home team says it too.
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Contextually here, unlimited means "we aren't placing a limit on it by policy" not "there is no theoretical limit".
Having lived there and assuming they had an upbringing similar to the OP, then yes, I would. Like any city, there are parts that are safer than others. As long as I felt my children could understand the difference and were informed enough not to do anything too stupid, I'd be comfortable with them roaming around the city on their own for some things.
By not opting out of "BingeOn", they don't count 480p content or below towards your data cap. If you opt out, it counts against your data usage. It encourages users to only use as much data that's necessary to view a streaming video at the maximum quality most mobile devices support (Source IP block is used to determine content zero rating).

I'm a realistic T-Mobile user for ~16 years, have no problem with their network management practices, and will happily hand over my $140/month for 4 lines until the end of time. Its not their fault its a prisoner's dilemma where all carriers are offering "unlimited" data usage, but they all must perform different types of network management due to wireless spectrum being a limited resource.
I read his biography 'Every Story is a Ghost Story' (which is very good BTW) and was struck by how much matched IJ in terms of experience at both ends of the social spectrum he describes.
Safe space for women: a train car or taxi where for once, she doesn't have to feel the threat of sexual assault, molestation, groping, what-have you. (Problem men in these environments won't usually have cause to fear.)
Safe space for men: A smoking chair at the freemason's lodge where he can network his way up through society without worrying about competition from pesky women?

I'm sure I'm exaggerating, but bear with me: A lot of the traditional men's spaces look like avenues for social advancement that are closed to women. This may be incidental because men have historically run things and the politicking and networking naturally occurred in spaces where men congregated, but incidental or not, attempting to bar women from traditionally male spaces today has the effect of locking women out of society, so to speak. In a vacuum, a club where men hang out exclusively is no different than a club where women hang out exclusively, but in reality the sheriff and mayor are rubbing elbows at the elk lodge, not at the women's gym down the road. As long as men hold the reins, locking women out of the spaces where men hobnob is another tool of control.
There is a distinct difference in the attitudes of indifference, anarchy, and non-conformity in the MGTOW described in the article vs. the aggression, control, and exaggerated masculinity in PUA community.
If your house were secure, the burglar couldn't have gotten in and stolen your stuff. or stabbed you. So... who's fault is it?

(There is a whole other can of worms regarding what counts as "hacking" and what doesn't, but without knowing what the "hacker" actually did we can't really discuss it in this case)
> How would you age-gate ads?

They currently are age-gated. The age gating clearly isn't working. Advertisers in the UK are not allowed to target children with alcohol or gambling ads.

I don't care how it happens, but showing alcohol ads to children in apps for children because the parent has a credit card and owns the phone is sub-optimal.
> If your side is encouraging violence

I haven't picked a side on this thread and I haven't encouraged violence. I pointed out that empathy isn't always the solution. I wonder if your comment also applies to American conflicts in the Middle-East.

I do empathize with Graham/Atman's position and many of the commenters here.

1) We all agree firing an employee over politics is wrong.

2) Graham/Altman say Thiel is basically an employee and ending the part-time partnership is basically firing him. We should take their word.

3) If Trump is as bad as Graham/Altman describe, Thiel actually isn't an employee, and smart/rich guys with great lawyers couldn't figure out how to distance themselves, it will look bad.

But "if" arguments are weak. There is disagreement over how bad Trump is, I think time will tell. In the meantime, from a PR standpoint, I think Y Combinator didn't handle this well. Keeping Thiel on board didn't cause this outrage, Atman's explanation and Graham's Twitter arguments did.

Empathy and fighting weren't my only options, ignore is a choice. I wonder if Atman/Graham had stayed silent for three more weeks until the election is over, would this have blown over. I also wonder how hard they fought to keep Project Include as a partner.
Comparing the fine to total revenue and total profit is completely meaningless. What's relevant is how much they were saving in infrastructure costs by throttling those users.

E.g. If they saved less than $24 million and had a >50% chance of getting caught, this works perfectly well as a deterrent no matter how large there overall profits were.
That's how I think and try to act. I think that we do know what causes real hurts and scars that would make a kid regret later, in life. But there are small dangers that will just teach on how to react, avoid or deal with. And even creativity only comes from learning, trying and dealing with outcomes.

In the trade-off of security vs knowledge and discover, the parenting function is not to go to only one side.
It not only makes the reviews less accurate but it turns shopping into something of a gambling experience. Here is a current example... I was shopping for a Sony DK52 charging dock on Amazon UK. Even though this device is the only official dock from Sony for many of its current devices on sale, Amazon doesn't sell it (anymore?). It is only available new from one of 31 third-party sellers. And most of the prominent reviews on the product page [1] complain that the device they received was poor quality and likely to be fake!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-DK52-Micro-Charging-Xperia-Bla...
I really don't see what's the author's conclusion has anything to do with the White House. Obviously the guy wants to end email, like 1000 people try during the last decade, and doesn't realize it's not gona happen. Email is a resilient distributed widely supported and used open standard. Nothing is closed to it for communications, the closed farms such as slacks and whatsapp are handy, but they are centralized, non standard, company controlled tools requiring much more resources to dispatch messages and tend to lead to information overload.
Features and libraries aside, Rust (compiler and language) has 6-week release schedule, open and well-working update process and 0 decades of backward compatibility to satisfy. I don't see C++ improving on that anytime soon.
> Belichick is considered the best coach in football of the last twenty odd years ...

Many think he's the best ever and his greatest strength is considered to be preparation, especially knowing his opponent in great detail and preparing his team for their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies. He is also very flexible in how he does things, adopting very different strategies from week to week.

IMHO he would seem to be a great candidate for a technology that provides up-to-date video of his opponents if it offered some benefits.
Would be interesting to know where the material ends up, if it's not being emitted as methane. Does it contribute to the animal's solid waste? If so, how does the breakdown of that waste compare with the original methane problem, e.g. does it contribute to CO2 emission, similar to if the methane was collected and burned? (Each methane molecule contributes more to the greenhouse effect than a CO2 molecule, so this would still be a net win)
I thought the concept entertaining, up until I read the bit about "rape causing little to no long lasting harm to the victim". Shame, this could have been a fun, if weird and selfish, thing.
Never mind that the material this (allegedly) hacker exposed indicates rampant collusion and fraud that undermine the U.S. election system. Nope, that doesn't matter. The important thing is to stop the dissemination of the truth.
I have heard, basically from the horses mouth, that users are idiots. The Gnome devs apparently did some usability testing, and came away with that opinion...
I wonder what the line between "user hostile" and just regular writing is. In English class I'm pretty sure we were told to do things similar to this (get the reader's attention).
'The great trap for all Americans is clickbait'
Are you familiar with Vimium? I've been using it for keyboard navigation and RES for the rest.
I just meant to point out that if broad usage actually implies worse average code, then the same thing would happen if rust "wins". You can't use it as an argument for what should win since "has won" will always lead directly to a "shouldn't be winning" argument.
A major Intel's RnD facility is also in the area, further west (It's in the next city over) a bit north of that line. At least at the time I lived in the area the stops that would service them weren't well connected to it. There may have been some buses, but if I'd had to make that commute I'd have taken a bike on to the rail system with me.
At the other end, if we don't learn form history we are stuck repeating it.
I asked this same thing and never got a straight answer. You could download a zip file that looked like a video and it would throttle.

In their minds everyone uses adaptive streaming so if they cap "video like files" at 1.5ish Mbps then the quality would bump down.
You can't uninstall Google Apps without the same level of difficulty of removing Samsung's apps, they both live in the system partition.
Most importantly Stripe is quite a bit more expensive the payment processors I've used in the past. Less importantly but still a show stopper is that all the full-featured pieces of management software for this industry (fitness facilities) are tied to a very small number of payment processors. Some of the large ones have one processor and you literally cannot accept credit cards without using them. They're still cheaper than Stripe so it's not that big of a deal but the UX leaves quite a bit to be desired.
Find me an interesting job in Stockholm requiring Rust and I am your man!
If you have something to say go ahead and enlighten us.
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They key advantage to email over other systems - one which HRC's email problem made plainly apparent, yet the article seemed to ignore - is that it's decentralized. Sure, plenty of people use Gmail or some other provider, but plenty of others (myself included) run their own.

The article also seems to entirely miss the historical context by suggesting things like Signal as "what HRC should've used in the first place" - never mind that even its predecessor only came about 6 years ago, while email has been used for half a century.
My inability to "script" my phone is really starting to hinder my hacker-ness.

This seems like something you could build into your phone. Every day when you first interact with your phone, have tasker or something else fire off a job that auto-enables your unlimited hd day passes.

Does anyone have good introduction documentation to either: writing scripts for tasker, or writing your own android applications when you know ZERO java?
Ask HN: How do you deal with snark on an open-source project?
I'm not talking about Twitter snark or HN snark where an all-out nerd war can happen in a snap and nobody really cares. I'm talking about snark thrown in a Github issue.

How do you deal with that while maintaining composure but not totally ignoring the poster?
Why are we even taking time to critique startups like this when 9 out of 9 of these problems are already solved with cryptocurrencies that have been around for 10 years? I struggle to see why this is even a product at all?
I love Safari's reader mode exactly because it gives me a larger font black text on a white background. I'm not even that old (mid thirties) but years of monitors and glasses have taken their tolls on my vision. Low contrast, small prints strain my eyes. And when encountered and reader mode isn't an option, I usually close the site/page and go elsewhere if at all possible.
The same way Hitler did it - Massive bureaucracy, declaring large swaths as non-persons. Much of it was done indirectly - The upper bounds of those numbers attribute certain large famines as being politically motivated or blame Stalin for deaths caused by mismanagement, but even conservatively, he ordered millions of people forcibly resettled into areas that were not productive, and then failed to feed them. He sent hundreds of thousands to prisons in Siberia for political crimes - Not personally, but by setting up the system so that those were crimes and the whims of his secret police were followed.

Hitler never killed anyone - If you're talking about holding the gun. Hilter still had blood on his hands, and Stalin had more.
Which, isn't substantially different than evaluating a codec on introduced SNR.

These classic signal processing analyses tell you nothing about the correct operation of a psychoacoustic model codec design (i.e. MP3, AAC, Vorbis, etc.) An analysis of A (original signal) vs. A' (signal passed through a compression-decompression cycle) is just extracting the quantization noise introduced by the codec. That provides no information about how effective the codec was in masking that noise with the original signal content.

To illustrate, imagine a perversely designed codec: it runs two models, the first "good model" is a normal psychoacoustic model. The second "bad model" is the one the compressor uses: it applies the total amount of quantization noise allowed by the good model, but applies it in ways that are maximally annoying to human listeners. This isn't just avoiding masking, it's things like using noise correlated to the original signal, which is generally more obtrusive than uncorrelated noise, etc.

A codec using just the "good model" and one using the "good + bad model" would have (by definition) exactly the same introduced noise, but the latter would sound FAR worse to a human listener.
Because the simple act of "hanging out" on the streets might earn them an arrest for "loitering" or whatever, which in turn greatly diminishes employment when you got a record full of arrests.

As a German, it was absolutely normal for me to be outside on a public place and drink beers! From what I see on parenting-related HN posts, in US drinking beers in public is illegal in most places, and minimum age for a f..ing beer is 21.

I didn't spend all my youth drinking beer though, but just hanging out with friends at a park was daytime activity after school until I was 18 and had a driver's license - we ended up with driving around town, spending all money we had on gas, and generally having fun. Also, it was perfectly acceptable to grab a phone, drum up your friends for a spontaneous LAN party and basically spend the entire day with gaming and watching 240p porn downloaded via eMule.

My sister is a bit younger than me, and even then I saw the great difference in available time after school between her and me. Thanks to the G8 reform (instead of 9 years highschool after 4y basic school, they shrunk it down to 8y in Bavaria) not only the school days were longer, but the amount of homework and learning were massively higher.

If all your time gets eaten up by school, when are kids supposed to play or take part in outside-of-school activities like politics, sports, music, ...?
I agree, I clicked thinking its about silver halides.
> But then there is the idea of ignoring legacy C++ and treating Modern C++ as a new language altogether.

There is no "ignoring legacy C++", when you will have to deal with this or that library written 10/15 years ago. C++ is a language where you can't just ignore some parts of it just because they are inconvenient.

As for C++ vs Rust, Rust is memory safe, C++ is not and will never be despite all the bells and whistles it gets.
Has anyone done a coding bootcamp? With the plethora of relatively cheap/free resources out there from Universities, to professional institutions, all the way to YouTube, what is the appeal?

Do the certifications count for anything to hiring managers? Do you need someone to kick you in the ass on a daily basis to keep moving? Do you need the higher touch Q&A thats not available in Forums/StackOverflow type places?
You are addressing criticisms of Stalin with a logical fallacy called "whataboutism".
This is definitely a knotty issue:

Glenn Greenwald vociferously defends journalists who dig into the emails, regardless of what details they unearth.
For someone who has been such a strong voice about government violations of email privacy, I would have assumed that Greenwald would express some outrage that a powerful government might have stolen personal emails to promote its agenda.
He is well-known for long, grammatically correct sentences and abundant footnotes. Some of it was fitting in as an academic?

I find some of the writing tough (i.e. impossible to read at night in bed) but the audio book for Infinite Jest narrated by Sean Pratt [1] is really nice. The narrator's speech is somehow easier to follow despite the number of clauses and whatever else in the writing.

[1] http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Infinite-Jest-Audiobook/B0...
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Yeah, the scope of possible questions is unreasonably vast. Have you come across any exhaustive list of CS (algorithms) and SWE knowledge needed to adequately prepare for interviews? Or better than a list, a high quality end-to-end resource with Q&As?
Play Services is running all the time by default. It's default configuration is to run location services, which is highly battery intensive, to report your location to Google on a regular basis... a huge privacy issue. The Play Store auto-updates all these Google apps by default, which can use a lot of data. Play Services can and does update itself even with auto-updates disabled.

It's very hard to justify Google Play Services as anything other than malware, because it has all of the primary functions and behaviors of a virus.
> T-Mobile will pay for those benefits through a $35.5 million consumer benefit program, with an additional $7.5 million paid directly to the US Treasury and $5 million in services and equipment provided to American schools.
> You have very much failed to convince me that this is one of them.

Yeah, after further consideration I'm not convinced either.
Zerohedge is a banned site on Hacker News.
I'm not sure if wifi is actually the problem here as many are claiming, this is a good read about sports frequency coordination: http://www.radioworld.com/article/photo-holding-page/279450

Frequency management in a stadium is very hard. It's mostly done by volunteer ham radio people.
I continue to believe its a bit more nuanced than that.

I agree that if you just want to teach Python programming that a RasPi (original model is fine), a TV and a keyboard is really all you need.

I also believe that some folks are more systems oriented and would like to learn about "computers" as opposed to "programming computers". Much of the success in the embedded world comes from people who want to understand the way the computer starts from scratch and then runs its completed program. It is more difficult to serve those folks by starting with a Cortex-A architecture device.
Anything outside the US?
Is it playing dirty to use "strategically timed leaks" to combat "strategically timed leaks" now?

What a curious double standard you have.
Right up till they close your account for returning things, their customer service is excellent.
I have spent more than 15 hours on the phone with Amazon and UPS customer service in the last month.

I cancelled my Prime membership (after 10 years) last week after spending 2.5 hours on the phone trying to figure out where a package 2 days past it's guaranteed delivery date was and if it was going to arrive or if I had to re-buy it.

I have no regrets about it. Everything I bought on Amazon I can buy from other websites, and when I have an issue I don't have to spend hours verifying my name and address with someone whose accent I honest to god can not understand (I am not a native American, it is very difficult for me to understand Indian accents).
>data professionals -- 9ncluding yourself -- do not understand data fundamentals, for which reason they blame "poor performance" on the RDM.

I don't blame poor performance on the mathematical purity of logical relations between entities.

>the article does imply that on rare occasion you may be forced to denormalize

You didn't read the article carefully enough. You overlooked how the author seemed to allow for denormalization but he immediately negated the followup dev work as "never justified":

" -- and performance is still unsatisfactory. You denormalize and, as Bolenok recognizes, introduce redundancy. [..] - but they would never be justified:"
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Yes... and then the adults are the ones that will die because weren't exposed to small dangers nor did learn how to deal with it.

Being an adult isn't just completing 18 years (or any other arbitrary number). There's even discussion about when you really leave your childhood (teenagehood ?) behind. And I think it's when you acquire enough knowledge to avoid most risky situations while still enjoying life. And when you know that nobody will looking after you, because it came the time that you're the one that should be looking after others (children, elderly, spouse, you choose it).
More importantly, I can skip this article without rewarding the headline style.
> Spoiler warning guys: womankind owes you nothing.

Counter spoiler warning: mankind owes you nothing.

Yet I see tons of women complaining about "where have all the good men gone?"

The MGTOW mindset is that they're just removing themselves from the dating pool and doing stuff they find more fulfilling and valuable.

Yeah, they view dating as kind of silly and useless, but it's just another hobby, sort of like model trains. A "you do your thing, and I'll do mine".
I'm gonna run with "don't keep mass rapists in my life" strategy and not worry about it.
The photo really shows what's happening.