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I think there's some truth in both perspectives, and the balance of process vs. software improvement comes down to how aggressively you need to compete on price. On cheaper stuff where prices is a bigger determining factor, it makes sense to me to focus on process and driving down cost. For markets where that's less of an issue, software innovation is the way to go. The Here One headphones [1] seem like they manage the balance pretty well. The Onyx One is super cool by the way.

1: https://hereplus.me/
i've worked 100 hours for a year at a time. thats not living to work. that's being a useless zombie

nothing quite stings like being woken up from sleeping underneath your desk at 8 am, not having left the office for a week and smelling like a rabid dog and being told that your level of commitment is disappointing.
Your post made me think of an old Joel on software post where they wrote some access thingy to print customs labels.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/13/how-to-ship-anythin...

How many companies hired temps to fill out forms for these types of tasks? Plenty I'm sure!
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I don't mind invisible trackers, it's the visible ads that I hate.
You could just temporarily remove them from Trusted Contacts...
I agree. I've been impressed by his selection in previous years. This year seems drab with the exception of The Grid. Also, doesn't he read fiction? My fav book of the year was Ready Player One :)
Seriously, I end up using Notepad++'s find-in-files search as a grep, it works so much better than any other Windows grep tool I've found.
I disagree with you - Figure out your process and automate with software.

Your software will only be as good as your process. There are mid-market ERPs that are 30 years old or more (specifically, Dynamics NAV comes to mind). These software solutions implement the processes that have been honed by humans for more than a thousand years. It is much easier to innovate elsewhere. I am curious which specific ERP packages you have found to be innovative.
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The phase I like to remind myself is: "Be interested, not interesting."

Obviously, trying promoting such an idea to a culture that worships the selfie is foolish at best.
> there's no longer term plan to ban politics

That was definitely not clear to me from the post (although it is reassuring).
What else does status quo mean?
Does political discussion not gratify intellectual curiosity?

Yes, political discussion can gratify intellectual curiosity. Empirically it hasn't worked out very well on HN.

To me, your comment completely ignores the paragraphs written by dang in the submission, both the content, and the fact that it's temporary. What do you think of the intent? Do you disagree? Have you seen or participated in any of the recent (past two or three months) of political threads on HN? Do you have showdead on so you can see what's being posted and flagged? Do you think it's okay? If you don't agree with the intent or think there is an issue, that would put your comment in one context. If you agree it's an issue and disagree with the political detox week, then that's another. Would you elaborate on your comment?
Well, of course. Would it be easier for me to sell you something if you were calm, relaxed and would't really need anything more to be happy?
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I had this at the time, but wasn't sure if there were more applications for it?

Also, kind of impressed with the font design given the extremely limited constraints.
This will most likely have unintended negative effects.
It requires a skillset which IMHO is actually not so rare particularly in parts of China and Russia, where hacking these systems is part of how all the unofficial repair shops can survive.

In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this particular task, extracting the boot ROM, was already done long ago by a few groups but not publicised --- Apple's bounties may seem enticing, but these people know it's the end if they tell Apple; they'd rather keep it secret and use those "holes" to keep investigating and sell their results to repair shops, which may ultimately yield far greater profit.
To me it seems especially late since the platform has been broken wide open.

The "jailbreaks" now have access to both processors used to boot the system and games, so they can run code before the system loads and intercept writes to their memory locations.

They can block exploits in new firmware versions (and have), but the system has sold so many units there doesn't seem to be a realistic chance of "breakable" systems running out for those interested.
That seems a little poorly worded. The court ruled that a US citizen's communication that was monitored while they were targeting the foreigner he was communicating with is valid under 702. A win here would have contracted the precedent pretty substantially, but the loss doesn't really expand it beyond what we already have.
I don't know if I agree. Software is a pain to write well, especially for a process that's not yet understood.

A simple example from my personal life is writing down exercises I do at the gym. I was surprised by how many different type of exercises there are. At first it was just "lat pull down, 80 pounds, 3 sets, 10 reps". Then I tracked different manufacturers, to stay on top of machine differences. Then I started tracking number of attempted reps, along with reps at lower weight. Then I made a note for weights per arm, for machines with independent weights on each side. Then I took into account the base weight for the bar. I could add features forever.

To manage the complexity, I started looking at software to help. I decided to scrap the idea of building software in favor of writing exercises on a sticky note I stuck to my wallet, and later migrating the data to a "good enough" spreadsheet.

Software is meant to serve us. If you let it take over, it will. Manufacturing benefits from software in places, but sometimes a pen, sticky, and spreadsheet is all you really need, and if you outgrow it, you'll understand exactly how software can help.

My uncle and 101 year old grandfather make machine parts in a shop with a bunch of old school analog stuff. They have a computer for a milling machine. It all works great.
If you think all that data is going to be used for is ads, you're probably mistaken.

All that data is stored. They know all your contacts, how you write, what your interests are, where you go every day. What if suddenly the country your in makes it illegal to do X, or feel Z. They decide to arrest everyone who meets the criteria, and there's nothing you can do.

Although, you are correct now, it is ads. But the risk is SO great I really don't understand not taking precautions
Source? Also is the 4 weeks time a universal constant?
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You should just allow your users to provide their own Twilio API credentials and pass the costs to the user. You can even only make this option available on your plus and pro plans, increasing your ARPU[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user
From http://blog.bonus.ly/a-look-at-googles-peer-to-peer-bonus-sy...:

> A typical example would be one employee giving $175 to a peer that “coded an SQL query for me and saved me a lot of time.” ... the sums involved might be considered “insulting”.
Thanks - quoting it apparently doesn't work right as the final quote becomes part of the URL.
Agreed. Anything past 3 to 5 is either "Actually, I'm really not sure" or "Sorry, I can't be bothered. You figure it out." In other words, you're not telling me anything and you're not saving me time. So annoying.
Adding to this, it's a war against malware too. I'll whitelist Forbes' ads if Forbes fixes my computer when it catches malware from one of their ads.
According to Patrick Vlaskovits and others, there's no evidence that Henry Ford actually made the quote. So, I would agree that it's probably bogus.

https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast

https://www.quora.com/Did-Henry-Ford-actually-say-%E2%80%9CI...
AHH no way I had this idea like 3 months ago. Goes to show - ideas suck, execution is important.
Eras, the bane of my existence.
In this order:

1) Product (will people buy it?)

2) Process (can you scale it?)

3) Software (now scale it)
I seem to recall similar research in rats or mice that found that "sleep" states occurred randomly when awake, and slowly synchronized into moving waves of "sleep" when asleep. If I am indeed remembering correctly, then it would seem more likely that this localized sleep mechanism is shared by all mammals, including humans. I'm sure many of us have experienced cycles of awareness while supposedly fully awake as well.

I wonder if it extends to reptiles, fish, etc.
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I don't disagree. But that's kinda embodied in what I meant by "natural" in the broad sense. I hear ya.
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The pedantic bullshit in these comments is why America is in the shitter.
I haven't used it, but check out Habitica. (formerly HabitRPG, I think) https://habitica.com/
"Programming Clojure" is on the list. Is this because a version of the book influenced a later version of the language?
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You must be a blast to work with.
I don't understand why everyone is ridiculously tough on interviews but wimps with firing.

Just do a 1 year probation, and payout a couple of months severance with an NDA/non-disparagement clause. If the guy sucks, send him off.

When I read these threads I'm always blown away by the time wasted on the hunger games hiring process. One guy on another thread was talking about 5 interviews with homework. What a waste of time.
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Ah, I see. I guess I was a bit quick to judge. I think the community is not as bad as you say, but it definitely could be better. Maybe this change will help a bit?
you know, I've come to like you dang. I still detest this place and everything it stands for, but seeing you chipper (if somewhat resentful about having to be chipper) towards the kind of problems that come with your job has a way of cheering me up. Like you know the check will clear, but even so, no one works for money.

not that you asked, but both as a clearer moderation policy than we've seen before and as an experiment, I think this is a good move. there is some regret that you're lagging well behind Reddit's knowledgebase, as this sort of thing has been done many times there, and there's not much new information to be found.

That said, it does exacerbate the filter bubble of this place: based on how subreddits' experiments have gone, expect the moderate center to support you and press to make it permanent, expect a little bit of grumbling that might make you think that you've made your point and don't need to make it permanent, and expect... a few more people to leave silently.

You're a prop for the VC establishment, but damn if you aren't an earnest human, too.
On the other hand, it's 'set up once and it just keeps chugging along', and isn't Yet Another SaaS To Manage.

Also, if you want a 'proper' ops alerting SaaS, you're looking at something along the lines of $50/user/mo or $15/server/mo, neither of which is trivial.
And now, Google injects itself directly within and throughout the level of trust some people only place in their parents or spouses.

It used to be that certain truths were only know between two people, but now for many, it will be those two people, and Google.

Even if it were any other company, the totality of awareness a single organization has, from childhood on up should give us some pause.

Microphones, accelerometers, cameras, GPS, and now annotated depth of relationship, instead of presumed depth inferred from ancillary metrics.

At this point it's getting a little strange.

With software and services these days, there's almost nothing people won't consume. It's as if people will eat everything in a package labeled as food, even if most of the contents are inedible.

More and more, it feels like people know they're eating fish hooks, but maybe they'll pass the foreign objects they've swallowed, before any fisherman tries to tug the line and set the hook.

But even if you or I don't buy in, when everybody else does, the outliers still get hooked and still lands in the boat, just by implicit association and proximity.

The stakes are raised ever higher with each beat of this game. It's like the quote from Apocalypse Now:

Ah, man... The bullshit piled up so
fast in Viet Nam, you needed wings
to stay above it.
Note the difference between "is allowed" vs "must".

If you write a program that relies on this behaviour you're going to have a hard to track down bug at some point.
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Doesn't affect my logic. Tragedy of the commons.
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I particularly dislike the small sidebar videos that autoplay after a minute, and have absolutely nothing to do with the subject the page is ostensibly covering.

Open an article on protectionism, head off to Wikipedia to look up some unfamiliar terms, suddenly, "COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD ARE DEVELOPING SEXBOTS. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS?"

Now my wife wants to know why I was researching sex bots, and the more I try to explain the situation the deeper I dig myself thanks to the Othello Effect.
"A part of the definition of living things is that they reproduce."

Kind of :).

We don't really have a definition for life.

Imagine an alien ship landed, and out popped these things. They said 'hey what's up' in their language. Cool. And as it turned out - they don't 'die' by natural causes, or reproduce. The pop out of some chemical process. It's a little creative, but physically plausible.

We could build 'mechanical wombs' fecundated with ovaries and sperm we farm. Is that reproduction? What if we are able to synthesize sperm and ovaries form scratch? 'Reproduction'? Depends on how you look at it I suppose :)

As the Scientist stated in the article, there really isn't a hard boundary between the living and non-living, because when you reduce our definitions down the level of physics, there is no distinction, at least materialist terms.

'Life' is something we observe, and give a name to, but because of the underlying assumption of materialist science (that the Universe is matter/energy bouncing around randomly) - it really doesn't have any real objectivity. You (or we, collectively) just define it to be what you (we) want it to be and that's it.
Yeah right. The homebrew scene on 3DS was literally kickstarted by piggy-backing on a special cartridge made exclusively for piracy purpose (which was exploiting a 3DS firmware vulnerability). People developed the exploits for piracy first then the homebrew developers came. The first few homebrew software for 3DS were shipped as modified "launcher.dat" files for Gateway 3DS.

This shifted later on in the console's lifetime, but at that point people had already developed "backup loaders" and most users were already in for the piracy more than the homebrew.

Not that homebrew isn't great, but it would be a complete lie to say piracy isn't the biggest application of these exploits.
Indeed. Almost as many characters as in the google.com page source.
It sounds like a case of more is less. That is, there's a tipping point - that's not really PHP's fault - where quantity of participants makes quality close to impossible. Yes, there is quality PHP usage but it's rare, if only because the masses create so much noise. Look at WordPress for example.
I want to say this again: a technical recruiter should not define hiring policy or hiring process. Their value is in their relatively low cost per candidate.

I look at this a little differently. OP seems to treat Engineering as a totally independent organization within a company. In bigger companies, I understand. But I don't think it makes as much sense in a smaller company, where, often, the tight-knit culture is what's keeping the ship afloat.

Engineering is one piece of the pie. The success of the company is everyone's success. Consequently, the team's hiring process can and should be influenced by people outside of Engineering, to some extent. One has to take the comapany's culture in account.
This is the second time I've now heard of this since starting the repo. I cannot believe an online financial institution allows this.

Feel free to submit a PR if you like.
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That is what I am led to believe. Once you take a photo on the iOS 10 device it will attempt to perform face recognition.

What I am not sure of is whether iOS will attempt face recognition on photos transferred to it from another source.
Thelma requests Elliot’s location and in five minutes can see that his last known location was...one block away from Julia's apartment ha-ha.
Great comment, once you have lived the difference between R and Python error messages you will unlock the next level of the data science maze.
They wanted to see information about how you use something they offer. You wanted something they offer. You declined, which is your choice, of course. I think you both lost that battle.
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That's not what the parent comment said. They only claimed "pretend to understand politics -> easy", "pretend to understand specific advanced tech -> hard", "HN is great, because comments mostly come from people trying to understand things".

You jumped to conclusion about what "matter in real world" actually means that wasn't in the comment.
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What connection does that have with California? Here, aquifer water is owned in a wildly different way than flowing water.
According to the screen shot in the repo, it's not even case sensitive either.
> Although, you are correct now, it is ads. But the risk is SO great I really don't understand not taking precautions

I'm a bit nonchalant, I suspect because I work in marketing and see this as trying to get more relevant ads to me. And I'm always interested when ads show up to see what triggered said ad where obvious.

For the potential for abuse, it is a concern. I feel the key is we have a choice on a service like this. And what seems a slightly strange opinion, I am more OK with companies collecting this type of information but would be disturbed if I knew the government was generally accessing it without court order.

Really if your that worried about big brother you should not be carrying around a mobile phone at all. Governments already have ways to track location and activate mics in the background, so in that way its nothing new, now we also have the information.
I for one am willing to pay for content as long as it's large enough to o cover most of the sites I frequent, fixed rate subscription, no extea fees for content (pay per comment/timed exclusivity for paid members to drive membership fine by me), and most importantly, a way to personally choose who gets a portion (at least 25%) of the subscription fees.

Short of that I really don't give a damn. It's not my problem.
Safari books online subscription is one thing I personally find the most useful. Potential cost could be $0, though, if your local library has access.
You know how every generation conceives of the brain as a machine that's analogous to the latest technology of that generation? Like in the 19th century, the brain was a steam engine, and then in the 20th it was a computer? Well, apparently now the brain is a smartphone.
Kind of like seti for ai if you think about it. I wonder if they have a protocol for what to do if they detect an advanced ai on their system?
Happens frequently to me with uMatrix. Then you look at the list. You know the usual suspects like jQuery, google ajax, bootstrap, Akamai etc. fairly fast.

On other sites you look at what they want to include and you just think "yeah, no, let's not do that" and just close the page.
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That's actually pretty awesome, tbh. I imagine you could turn off the location permission from Google Now if you don't like it.
Seems like the article misses an interesting analog in power gating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_gating
Chin Up.
It makes me a little sad that 175 bucks for a relatively minor task is considered an insult. Maybe it's not enough to drive the behaviour the company is looking for, and sure it's not a huge amount in the scheme of an top quality software dev's paycheck, but it's still a couple of days' pay for a lot of the US.
My real life experience - met Vonnegut as I was walking to work (Manhattan, NYC).

Me: "Sir, are you Mr.Vonnegut?".

KV: "Hmph".
Me: "It is an honor to meet you. Fan of yours from when I was 16".

KV: "OK".

Still very fond of him and his works :)
You're asking questions on a forum because you're stuck. You don't know. You might not even know what you don't know.

You're disheveled. You're shirt isn't tucked in. So you're not going to know you're fly is down as well.

The basic question is your shirt. The SQLi issue is your fly.

Put another way again :) Is it reasonabke to expect someone struggling with a SQL question to get SQLi concerns right? Fuck me. They can't get the query. Do you really think they're thinking about injection?

There! Any better? That's all I got. :)
You can also get the same functionality with either G+ location sharing, or third party apps like glympse.
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See, if Nintendo had provided a simple way for developers to play around in their own consoles (as simple as "the 3DS will run files that are signed by you, in its regular sandbox; we provide no support for this feature") we likely wouldn't have seen the newest ground-leveling exploits.

Say what you will about the piracy scene, but Nintendo almost killed it with the newest software updates. It took passion and experience, not money, to cause the newest events of what happened here. What if that passion could have been redirected into cool homebrew in the first place?
A convenient just kill it button would also work imo.
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These strike me as clearly separate concerns. The magnitude of downvoting and flagging is also quite different.

And of course, we'd never know if the people who aren't banned would stoop to the foul crime of ban evasion. As they used to say, the law in its majesty commands that neither the rich man nor the poor sleep under the bridge.

Moreover, I was describing a general pattern of discourse, not just this one thread. If you don't feel you see this pattern, there's not much to argue about...

And of course, it is not just the mods. Downvoting polite discourse for content is something some people feel a social responsibility to do. We certainly can't avoid the consequences of the secular growth in this popular sense of responsibility.
I thought Shoe Dog was a great book, although my favorite book of the year was a Gates Notes recommendation for summer reading-- The Vital Question, by Nick Lane. If you're interested in biology and the origins of life, it makes some provocative claims, and backs them up. If this doesn't change how you think about life on earth (and elsewhere), I don't know what will...

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Summer-Books-201...

https://www.amazon.com/Vital-Question-Evolution-Origins-Comp...
I am afraid most people are missing the target audience of this feature.

This is for people who live in unsafe areas and have trusted family member than they do want to watch over.

This is an app that should have been released in India immediately after Nirbhaya incident. For a Company thats supposed to move fast, Google definitely blew timing of launching such a feature.
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you've been demoted to Level 2.