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I like how they hand-wave away the entire thing by saying "its been debunked" with no analysis or article link.

Also why is NYTimes at liberty to decide whats real and fake news ? Agree or disagree, their political analysis leans heavily left.
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It isn't on the NYT to disprove the owners aren't child molesters, it's the crazies posting conspiracy theories which are still just that. This type of thinking above I think is a major problem these days.

Just because someone says something crazy on the internet doesn't mean that the person being accused is automatically guilty until they take the time out of their life to disprove said thing, it's the exact opposite.
I know where I'll be eating dinner if I ever visit Washington DC. If enough people make a practice of standing up for victims like these, we might see less use of weaponized slander.
Did you learn nothing from Nov 8? These people are not just not joking, they are literally this uninformed and stupid that they would elect a man guaranteed to pass legislation that hurts them financially, all because he's a baggard, racist and serial sexual harasser.

Why are people acting surprised by it anymore? Why are people acting surprised by Trump installing a white nationalist as his chief of staff?

None of this is surprising, funny, or shocking to those who've been paying any amount of attention in the run-up to the election.

Stop laughing. Stop acting incredulous. Start pushing back against neo-Nazis and those who wish to re-subjugate LGBT people. (Or shock their genitals to turn them straight).
> their political analysis leans heavily left.

Well it's the newspaper of New York, so it's hardly surprising.
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> what they thought

What makes so sure about this? These claims are so nonsensical that it
could be “what they wanted the reddit conspiracy hive-mind to believe”.
Seems to me the easiest way to support both types of MagSafe options (many machines out there from 2009-2011)
Why? 71% of Republicans doubted Obama's birthplace.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-ele...
I may be wrong but my understanding was that the Renaissance painters would use their assistants/apprentices to perform all the more tedious and time consuming tasks, which in those days including making the paint itself. And in terms of the actual painting, several stages of underpainting and the less "interesting" passages of the painting (e.g. backgrounds, clothing) would be done by assistants, leaving the artist to work on the focal points of the painting (e.g. faces).

This is very different to getting assistants to create "original" dot paintings, working to a formula, where the artist's hand only intervenes to sign the work.

And I'm not saying it wrong, or not art, just that it is fundamentally different to the old tradition of studio assistants.
With 802.11g you're actually taking up four channels out of the available 12? So people hopping in the middle are messing with people on both sides of them. Sorry for the mobile link. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11g-2003
There are plenty of languages that provide that same benefit of straightforwardness while also lacking warts and being even easier to embed; for example Lua, which was designed with express purpose of simplicity and ease of embedding.

The real answer is probably that in 2003 JS looked more interesting/good enough that it was chosen in this case.
I wish all emojis just disappeared. They're stupid, don't add any value, waste unicode space and developers' time.
It worked pretty well for Microsoft though.
Then we can look to the republican voters to denounce their actions.

That is, after all, the standard that we hold Muslims to. As well as the standard we hold progressives to when anarchists try to turn peaceful protests into riots.

The party of personal responsibility is often quick to hold groups accountable for the actions of individuals.
It depends on the semantics of "universe". I consider a simulation to be its own universe, if you don't agree with that definition then it's a different universe - but it might be one with completely different physical laws.
I'm impressed with the abstractions! What are recommended "Learn Eve" tutorials?
After completely failing at predicting Trump's election victory and completely misjudging the views of the populace, the mainstream media is now taking advantage of this situation using the tag 'fake news' to label competition to restore its credibility. A Pizza Shop on a crusade against 'fake news', new term for this month, who knew?
Ask HN: Are people still developing new SOAP APIs?
Last I encountered a SOAP based service was during my internship in a financial firm in 2013. That was the time when I started my career in IT. I remember having some study material about SOAP in one of my engineering course. Outside of that, I haven't used SOAP much during my career.

I am asking this since the question of "Difference between SOAP and REST" came in one of my recent interviews. From what I know (and what I found on Google) SOAP is a protocol with tight coupling between client and server for information interchange which is closely related to business logic. Whereas REST is more flexible stateless architecture for data transfer.

Can someone please correct me if I am wrong about this difference between SOAP and REST? Also, what is the present-day significance of SOAP?
Dynamo might fill this need for you; you can provision a 1/1 table for less than a dollar per month and just put everything in it. Dynamo will bank some provisioned throughput for you to allow bursting, and the client apis all implement exponential backoff in the event of a throttle, so a 1/1 table isn't nearly as scary as you might initially think.

Of course, then you're using Dynamo.
Note that the security level of this by design is no more than the proof-of-work cost of N blocks, if you pay back the loan N blocks before the deadline. Proof: If the required key is X bitcoin blocks with no transaction to lender, and you pay it back after X - N blocks, the lender need only mine N blocks, starting from the Xth, to obtain the key (X blocks). They can do this at any time.

Therefore, to obtain "acceptable" security, one should probably pay back the loan long enough before the deadline that the economic cost of mining N wasted blocks outstrips the value of the blackmail material itself.

(Not considered: the economic calculation probably changes if one entity is giving out multiple such loans, and can therefore mine "fake" witnesses for multiple encrypted materials at once?)
This reminded me of that scene from "The Big Short":

Mark Baum: I don't get it. Why are they confessing?
Danny Moses: They're not confessing.
Porter Collins: They're bragging.
I was just thinking about the recent Black Mirror episode about how easy it is for a hivemind of righteous (or totally false wacko) anger to appear and make victims.

The way twitter/4chan/facebook work is that it's basically a streaming tube of recency, where content gets pushed through it and everyone is forced to look at the top of the heap, ie the newest memes.

If you actually had a graph the size of your network, and the font size of the comments/content your friends' post actually reflect their voice in context of the whole network (e.g. smaller), maybe you'd see it less as a spotlight and more as background noise.
Keep in mind, they do not use ECC RAM.
There is no formal right to or recognition of secession in international law, even if the seceding population votes for it.

Kosovo and Bangladesh were widely recognised as valid seceded nations due to previous oppression; Rhodesia and Biafra were not and suffered fatal international sanctions as a result.

But there was no rule of law behind this, in each they were sponsored or opposed by a powerful nation which had an interest in the outcome. It's who you have as friends that determines whether the seceder or the supranation is 'right'.
Its not so much that I think its true (I don't) its just that I wouldn't, exactly, at this point be surprised if it was.

In any event, most of the stuff I read is less "omg guys this is totally 100% correct" and more "this is a seriously strange and disturbing set of coincidences" mixed with a lot of memeing circlejerk.

And after things like

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/corey-feldman-elijah-w...

and things like Jeffrey Epstein and the whole Jimmy Savile thing, I'm just not sure anymore of ANYTHING. Honestly, the fact that the NY times feels the need to publish an article debunking it is a (very very tiny) shove towards it being true.
I do the same for my parents, but I stopped buying Airport routers a while ago. The reason I did has nothing to do with Apple or a deficiency in the product and everything to do with my parent's broadband provider. The broadband modems they rent out suck. And because my parents have pets, the modems die regularly. And when they do, they can't just send a replacement unit, they have to send a technician out.

I handle all the phone support and leave my mom a script for when the repair person comes and in both I'm making sure that the replacement unit is a simple modem and not a combination modem/router that they like to give out. And yet each and every time, if I'm not personally present when the technician visits, I find that the technician set up the combo router and the nice, expensive Airport is sitting idly by, useless until I can figure out how to make their PoS combo router operate as a bridge, which isn't easy considering how poor the web UIs are on those boxes. After repeating this process many times, I gave up on buying stand-alone routers...it's just too frustrating.

So if my mom, who has a techie son who knows the difference between a modem and a router, can't reliably get her broadband provider to give her a simple modem without router functionality, what are the chances that other people with her level of acumen who don't have a son like me can get them to do it? I never like to generalize my own experience to explain larger trends, but I think in this case it might be apt. I imagine Apple has trouble with Airports from the broadband companies pushing their own inferior solution to people who don't understand enough to push back. Apple probably has a lot of angry feedback from people who don't realize that the Airport they paid a bunch of money for is sitting unused next to a crappy, inferior box that has been setup and connected to their internet, which is actually the box causing the problems.
Then, by all means, go use whatever software you want.

There's a place for ideological purists in software and I for one am glad RMS is around.
I don't understand the need for this. The main benefit of the Pipfile seem minute, and can already be achieved with requirements.txt.

But I'm sure I'm missing something. Please feel free to convince me I'm wrong :)
jjelly is a child molester. This is a well-known fact.

You deny it? That's exactly what a child molester would say!

You have proof you are not? All lies obviously. This is a major coverup and a conspiracy!
I don't see how the system will work for anyone.

A $6000 deductible is basically a catastrophic policy, it discourages care which is perhaps the point. Of course if you have ever seen an uninsured ER bill then that $6000 suddenly looks comparably cheap.

How expensive will it all get before it breaks?
Here's the diff:

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I will denounce anyone who claims this is definitely true, there is 10000% nothing definitive here, but you can't really fault people for investigating after the number of secret child sex abuse scandals that have happened in the past two or three decades.
You can deride the NYT, but none of what you said makes this pizzeria owner's plight any less real. It is a very real problem that the populace can be manipulated to the point of irrational misdirected hate like this.
Deliberately crippling your product on Apple platforms does not in any way "remind users that it is not in agreement with Apple's treatment of its users". In fact, it's fairly ironic that, in an attempt to protest someone else's treatment of users, Emacs has decided to treat its users badly. Deliberately crippling Emacs will not make Apple change, and will not get people to switch away from Apple platforms. But what it might do is get people to switch away from Emacs.
During one time I was using a recruiter to get a position, he had me interview with a company that used an online coding test as a first-level filter. I didn't know what they were going to ask, but I asked if he had any idea - all he would tell me was that it was something like good-ole "fizzbuzz".

So I studied a bunch of stuff. Anything and everything but fizzbuzz (not that I needed to study that). Then I decided to go for the test - which was timed - and...

...fizzbuzz.

I'm sitting there a bit dumbfounded - seriously? So I coded it up from memory; I could have easily pulled a solution down off the net, but I figured "what the hell - let's go old-school" on it. Also - if I just cut-n-pasted something in, and they saw "it took the candidate one minute to code it" - they might suspect something, then google search the plagiarized code. No good.

So - I coded it up; it was in PHP, but the job was supposed to be for javascript/node (???) - so I wrote it as a class, then I spent the remainder of the time optimizing it - making it the fastest FizzBuzz solver I could, complete with tests and demonstration code. I took up the entire available time, and submitted that. I made sure to add proper PHPdoc comments to everything.

...and I got an "in-person" interview as a result. At the end of that was an another "live coding" session - this one using javascript for a "single page" app. They left me to it, and I got everything coded up inside of 15 minutes or so (there was a paper document laying out what the challenges were in the example code). They were watching my progress via screen sharing.

Apparently I completed the task quicker than other applicants. I later learned that some applicants just sat there unable to do anything (not even google around for help!), or they would take convoluted paths to implementing the changes; not necessarily wrong answers, just not efficient ones - and would be sitting there doing this for a couple of hours (at which point the interview would be brought to a close).

At the end, I got the offer.

Ultimately - those are the kind of challenges I like - give me a real coding assignment, something close to what you are really working on. In this case, it was also in two different languages - so I could also help to "bridge gaps" between a PHP team and a javascript team as needed (added value for the employer).

I really dislike whiteboard coding - completely unrealistic, and while I gather why it is a widely used tool, I think there are better ways to gauge a developer's competence for the position - and actual coding challenges to solve problems seems like one of the best ways to do so (though I also understand that it is very time consuming - so an up-front online timed challenge might be a good pre-filter for on-site or further interviewing).
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Ask HN: What is it like to work at LinkedIn as a software engineer?
Hey HNers,
There is plenty of information on glassdoor but first hand experience from you guys is always invaluable. I will appreciate any comments!

Thanks.
> What is the use of having hundreds of billions in the bank if you're not investing it in growing or creating product lines?

Is this an accurate characterization of Apple's strategy over the last 12-24 months? A lot of stuff has happened:

- Expansion of their cloud services. Apple Music, iCloud, HomeKit, Health are all vertically-integrated services that (in theory) just work across your Apple devices. Siri improves little-by-little every day; Maps is low-key excellent in major US cities.

- Release of the Apple Watch and (soon) Airpods. Note that the Airpods (and new Beats) include the W1 chip, which qualifies as the "no-fiddle" type of innovation you mentioned before.

- Their vision of personal computing in the iPad Pro. iOS is stale on these devices (and I suspect we'll see an overhaul this year), but Tim Cook sells these as "computers" for a reason.

- Continued growth along their main product lines. The iPhone is still the best smartphone for most people, the iPad is the best tablet available for anyone, the MBP was redesigned. These are boring points that produce crazy $$$ for Apple.

- Many rumored projects: AR, self-driving cars, a redesign of the iPhone, the ongoing play for streaming TV, a near-certain redesign of their desktops.

It's difficult to judge Apple at this point because computing has changed. Capital-O Opinions mattered more when the alternative was a muddled computing ecosystem. Since then, other companies have copied the Apple playbook, and we see
well-designed, vertically-integrated products everywhere. Apple is the tide that raised the fleet of "tech product" ships, for better or worse.
Ah yes, the "legitimate credibility" of 4chan. I'm sure they're horrified by it finally being obliterated by this, and not every other op over the last 10 years.

> Worst case, thousands will pay the price in rights, access to services or the ability to live in a democratic society, free from the challenges (life threatening or otherwise) that they sought splice from.

I'm not sure what your point is?
My question is how would this affect the market?

Apple will stay Apple. I don't think they'll go anywhere.

The question is Google. If this happened in 2008, I don't think Android would have taken off anywhere close to the way it did.

But now? One one hand, Android has millions of apps already on the market. On the other hand, Microsoft now has potentially millions of old, existing, applications.

I don't think it will make a dent in the phone market. It's too commonly used as a hand-held rather than a station, and windows apps are useless there.

On the other hand, it can tank the Android tablet market
It's just a donation to bengio's lab (separate). Not their own lab.
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Make an example of a few then?
If you want similar functionality to the first questions without audit, try netfilter. It's still shitty logs, unfortunately, but so is most monitoring.
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This is a wonderful sentiment, but as someone who lives next door to this place, you absolutely don't want to eat there.

If you come to DC, by all means buy some food from there, but then throw it in the garbage and I'll happily treat you to a much better dinner.
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> It is a very real problem that the populace can be manipulated to the point of irrational misdirected hate like this.

It's things like these that sometimes make me question the democratic system. These people aren't fit to vote.
Has anyone here even looked at the case presented against CPP? Incredible to think that there is no one here against this pizzeria and the CP ring it supports. Cognitive dissonance and ignorance at its best.
Yep you're 100% on the money. I've been watching this unfold since it started with anons croudsourcing the podesta email dumps looking for crimes.
This is really awesome! I love seeing code visualized!
What exactly are you suggesting here? That the NYT made up this story? That they shouldn't report on this story because they got Trump winning the election wrong?

This seems like an interesting and informative story to me. Threads for any NYT story are going to get really tedious if they all get a "they got Trump wrong so why should I listen?" comment attached.
It's the same movement. Shipping containers are just convenient big boxes.
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Paywall? WSJ? I didn't knew it was an scientific publication were peer reviewed papers were sent.

And the only thing that can be read had nothing to do with homeopathy.
You're certainly right about the plight of the pizza shop, but the NYT is not normally in the business of reporting on the plight of a pizza shop. That was merely a story that fit a larger agenda (their recent push to discredit independent media by focusing on fake news).

Fake news is a problem but trusting corporate media is not a solution.
It's very, _very_ hard for me to hold back an emotional response right now. It destroyed practically everything, I worked in the CBD as I said, at the hospital, I know what buildings were brought down because I watched bodies from those buildings enter my building and many of them not leave, I then didn't flee Christchurch straight away, I stayed a year after the second quake to help where I could while I thought I was still valuable. The tilt slab concrete crap that remained was no part of Christchurch they were warehouses and storage facilities turned industrial or commercial sites. The buildings that were destroyed were Christchurch, did some of them rebuild - sure but not many of them and most never can because they wouldn't be up to code. I'm leaving this hear as to be quite honest I think you're only trying to get an emotional backlash that would make me look irrational.
I'm not claiming my worldview is empirically testable or even verifiable

Then why did you say "(don't take my word for it; try it out" ? Isn't that explicitly saying it is both testable and verifiable?
> A Pizza Shop on a crusade against 'fake news'

Getting dozens of calls threatening to kill you, having your kid's pictures reposted all over the internet, and getting doxed are not how I would describe "a crusade against fake news". This is hardly new. Swatting, gamergate, etc are all manifestations of similar things. Why are you so dismissive?

Internet mobs are easy to rile up and difficult to control. Each individual participating only takes one minor action (for example calling and yelling at the other party one time) but the victims of the abuse suffer a massive torrent of hate and slander with basically no recourse. People get fired because their employer doesn't want to deal with the harassment or bad press.

For a long time a simple accusation was enough to get the mob going. Now you don't even need that much, just some conspiracy-mongering and a few likes on Facebook and you too can send a mob after anyone for no reason at all!
For many hosts, bandwidth is what they are really selling. You may rent a server from them and they may make some money from that over the capital costs, but the amount they are charging for bandwidth in comparison to what they pay for it is where the real money is made.
This thinking, coupled with reports from the media huddle in Trump Tower today and his statements on libel really make me afraid for the free press in this country.
Are bandwidth in costs free? Are you referring to bandwidth out costs? I don't work for them but I imagine they model bandwidth out as disk reads for accessing and reading your data. Think about how much it would cost to read at the rate of a 1 gigabit line from disk continuously for a month. Put a CDN in front of S3 if you have high bandwidth costs and low diversity of files.
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