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You seem like a forthright person, but with or without metaphors, we're still talking past each other.

My point about remote exploits, airplane crashes, and cops is not about me. Yes, public facing software needs to be careful, but (fun metaphor) that's like saying prostitutes should use condoms. Web servers, browsers, firewalls, and the like are built specifically to communicate with untrusted entities. That's some of the most promiscuous software out there, and yes it gets exploited. But most people don't need to use condoms with their wives, and nobody is going to exploit software a newbie wrote and runs on his home computer. Safety should not be the fundamental criteria for a newbie programmer to choose a language and learn how to write fibonacci or hello world. When they're ready to write nginx, then they should be careful.

My point about the questionable productivity gain and safety was a reply to your estimate of the billions of dollars lost. If you're not more productive, and you aren't really safe, then you aren't going to save those billions.

> What, you can't use that explicit separation of what is known safe and known unsafe to point out computational problems and ways they can be solved? I find that hard to believe.

I didn't say anything like that. We're talking past each other.

> Unless you think unsafe is Rust but "lesser, not really". It isn't. It's part of the language.

(Metaphor time again) I've got a really safe bicycle. When the safety is on, children can't get hurt while riding it. If you care about the safety of the world's children, they should use my new safer bicycle. Oh, but you can't pedal it on paths I don't provide unless you disable the safety. Is my bike really that safe?

> 1: https://www.exploit-db.com/remote/

I have no idea how many people compiled and ran a program today. It's probably millions. Bayes's theorem might be a useful way to normalize that long list you linked. I don't see a single program from a home programmer on that list.
If we replace Mutually Assured Destruction based on nuclear bombs with MAD based on the fact that we can all shut down each other's electrical grids at will, I think the world will be made a lot safer.

That is, as long as the nukes can't be hacked...
Zuckerberg: Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah

Commenter: Aren't you an atheist?

What a non-sequitur. I tell someone "have a good trip" even though I'm not going on the trip. I tell someone "Good luck with that promotion" even though it isn't my paycheck. Why would it be surprising that an atheist wished someone Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah?
concerning halabja let me quote my fellow countryman:

Dieter Backfisch, managing director of West German company Karl Kolb GmbH, was quoted by saying in 1989 that "for people in Germany poison gas is something quite terrible, but this does not worry customers abroad."

i hate all this being discussed and referenced in a one-sided way. as if saddam or putin or others are the only evil.

background on how the west delivers all the groundwork which they then condemn: https://fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/cw/az120103.html
I think you have a great point looking at the deal in hindsight, however Instagram couldn't have looked that impressive to the typical institutional investor at the time. Facebook already had 845 million monthly active users with a large portion using mobile. Instagram was much smaller and if anything people were skeptical if a social network could be profitable. The acquisition could've made Zuckerberg look wreckless and backfired.
I think the best VCs have done amazingly
Agreed. It's really disappointing they didn't simply offer the TB as an option on the 15".
Does accuracy of information really make a difference there? The Stasi were terrifying because they had no accountability - you could be taken away in the middle of the night on a whim, or because a disgruntled neighbour had accused you of treason. A Stasi who had accurate information about who was opposing the state would in some ways have been less terrible.
Hacking attempts are, and will be forever, part of reality. Just as are prostitution or drug abuse. Therefore, they should not be seen as something special, something newsworthy, or even something illegal. (It is the lack of security that results in break-ins, that should.)
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I think the lesson is social media is a form of fashion, and Facebook may have to continuously by new upstarts to stay trendy.
It is a valid concern, but I think as usual it is more about if this data in possibly available, not if there exists such a service as this. Because if it is, then there surely is somebody, who has this information, as thus possesses power that you (and me) do not possess. In that case I'd argue that public availability is somewhat better. In the end, you do know that somebody is buying votes, it is just that you cannot do that. It is very much possible that they already have closed back-office system like this.

It concerns me more that "politician" is a very ambiguous word. Basically everybody active enough is a politician, even though he may or may not be in senate, belong to some party and such. And an open dataset on "pretty much everybody" seems a bit more questionable than on those we consider "being in charge".
Why host Jekyll on AWS Lightsail and not S3?

It's simpler, faster, and cheaper.

Plus you can use Cloudfront and use AWS Certificate Manager for SSL.
(and more then likely turned off voting machines in Clinton's disctricts)
Wow, really? I wasn't able to find any reference to this online.
Yes, I think it's approximately as straightforward as building a SaaS company from scratch. Which is to say "non-trivial" but very, very within the realm of possibibility.

I've written a ton on this topic, on HN and my blog. So has Thomas, among many others.

Professional services can be very lucrative; film at 11. My lawyer charges $750 an hour and my accountant $600. I have no difficulty believing they have 70% utilization. I know there are HNers that find this difficult to credit. If you take nothing else from the 3 million words I've written, take "you can charge vastly more for your skill set than you do if you connect the deliverables directly to business value." (True for consulting, regular employment, selling products, etc.)

It's boringly straightforward to scale the business after you've done it once. Success breeds success; you ask your newly satisfied client for referrals and follow-on work, you use case studies made with them to target firms at similar or slightly higher levels of sophistication, you turn the one-off engagement into something that you can predictably pitch and execute like a restaurant can predictably cook eggs to order, etc.
I bought one of the first gen zenbooks. The trackpad was completely unusable due to terrible windows drivers (dragging didn't work right). I vaguely remember failing to install linux on it.

They had two models of ssd, but one laptop sku. One model went to review websites, the other's performance degraded to actually be noticably slower than a hard disk. You could replace the ssd, but it was a non-standard form factor, so you needed to buy an expensive m.2 converter.

The keyboard dropped keystrokes.

The screen was meh for the time.

This was their flagship laptop that year.

After it has been a full decade, I might consider buying another asus laptop.
I guess only another consultant could understand this, but no matter how you slice it, $30K/week consulting rates will never translate into $1.5 million/year. You won't even get close, and you'll break your heart trying.

You can't bill the hours you spend finding clients or networking or redoing your website or waiting around through four months of utter doldrums before being overbooked and killing yourself to keep your promises.

Don't get me wrong, I love consulting and I've done a lot of it. But sometimes you just want solve problems and get predictable checks, even if your effective hourly rate works out lower.

When I pay my lawyer $300/hour for contract work, all I can think of is, "How does the poor guy make a living?" Because I've seen the grim reality of the math. My lawyer works damm hard for that nice office. At least patio11 had a weekly rate (or maybe a per diem), and not an hourly rate.
I agree that it can be difficult to figure out where to limit the scope. On the other hand, figuring out a place to start where you can agree is important, otherwise people are left talking past each other. Trying to clarify a few points being discussed does not mean everything else not mentioned is being ignored or assumed to be justified.
The whole point of bottle deposit laws is to motivate individuals to return the bottles, so the municipality doesn't have to deal with it.
Your points about being careful about labeling are fair. I guess what I'm saying is this:

Imagine that you have to set rules. The health and well-being of many people depend on you doing a good job setting those rules. You want to determine the most optimal rules but you have limited time and budget. You need to pick a number. You are lower-bounded by what is feasible and you don't know where your upper bound is.

In this scenario, I think it is reasonable to pick a number which is near the lower bound and probably below the upper bound (aka what they did) rather than figuring out what the upper bound is. -Because honestly it may not be possible to reliably determine the upper bound (without literally poisoning people). Data is often scarce or bad when it comes to things which cannot (legally, ethically) be tested.

Moreover consider the failure modes: If you pick an upper bound which is too low but still trivially attainable for most people (97.5%) then you inconvenience a very small minority of communities. If you pick an upper bound which is too high, you are literally personally responsible for causing brain damage in children. It's the sort of situation that the term 'better safe than sorry' was intended for.
> the swappable batteries

the Carbon X1 doesn't have swappable batteries.
Houses are a depreciating asset, and should be seen more like a car than anything else. Japan gets this right.

While some houses are built to last and worth saving (e.g. most houses you see still standing 150 years later) - most are definitely not. Trying to maintain a typical poorly constructed wood frame McMansion for 100 years probably doesn't make a lot of sense.

Plus I've lived in old crappy houses. Old wiring definitely sucks - you may be limited in a room you want to do something else in, and then realize you can't do much due to the plaster walls to fix it short of gutting the entire area. Most plumbing is only really rated at 20-30 years, but it's rare to ever see anyone replace it wholesale.

I've lived in crappy yet well maintained (but not updated) houses and it's not that much fun.
They worked out the software and driver issues, so now it's pretty much fantastic hardware design with moderately good performance specs.

The only two (small) downsides that I run into regularly:

1. Some important software doesn't handle high DPI mode in Windows 10 well. Specifically Adobe offerings. Visual Studio 2015 has some small issues too.

2. The 3000x2000 pixel screen makes gaming a bit finicky. Games rarely support 3:2 ratios other than the native 3000x2000. The dedicated GPU is pretty capable, but not always 3000x2000 capable, so you're often stuck with 16:10 ratios that approximate 1500x1000.
Nope. Looks like you asked me this same question quite a while ago (kudos for persistence in trying to get it updated!):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975378

Not aware of anyone making available newer, working patches since then either... I don't even have any working chumby 8" devices anymore.
I've had the 7 for a few months and I am considering returning it. The phone is overall solid build quality but uninspired/boring. There are flaws that make this model a definite downgrade from previous models. I buy Apple products because of the thoughtful little details they pay attention to that you didn't know you wanted till you noticed it. Its a super high bar to be sure but its one that is part of their brand and the justification for the insane markup they charge. I would compare it to buying a bespoke suit or a quality time piece. You pay this kind of money because you are serious about having the best and want every little thing just right. The 7 is just kinda "meh" and thats not how I want to feel when I spend this kind of scratch.

The headphone jack is of course super annoying and I run into so many case where I wish I had it (for instance when trying to play a song back through some monitors for my friends). Just such a stupid and unnecessary move.

The deal breaker for me (and can anyone confirm if they are experiencing this??) is that the lightning connector just refuses to stay plugged in if I jostle the phone even slightly. Tried different cables, case on and off. Always the same. Its possible that I have a defective unit I guess.

At this point the only things keeping me are a) I need an iOS device for some work projects. b) I am concerned that I wont be able to move all my data over to another platform without massive pain.
it has much bearing because it demonstrates historical precedent. show us _real_ evidence. what specific code was planted by whom exactly and when and how? can you _be sure_ it was person 1? are you sure person 2 didn't impersonate person 1?
What you're describing is a blog. I wouldn't wait a day for it, since the blogs I follow provide links and commentary within hours. The challenge is to find one that isn't a one-trick pony, i.e. isn't just about one topic like politics.

If you want to launch a new one and be successful, you'll have to find a way to stand out from the crowd. That's probably going to be a "bias" of some kind, or at least a particular philosophy you intend to bring to bear through your commentary.

For example, I would be interested in reading a blog that reports on the news through the lens of black swans and antifragility (see Nassim Taleb's books). It's something I haven't really seen done well.
Remote controlled aircraft are not even in the same ballpark as autonomous aircraft that pick up humans, and drop them off at school/work/home. No one is arguing that this won't be common place someday, but that is a distant future. Self driving cabs are natural a iteration of an existing mode of transportation. Going from manual land cars, to automated flying cars is not even close.
The nuisance factor for me when I lived in Boston (25 years ago; hopefully recycling has improved since then) was that homeless people would tear open the rubbish bags looking for containers that could be turned in for cash. If even a few people were lazy and threw deposit containers in the trash, the rest of us paid the price.
> You will have to claw my x201 out of my cold dead hands, I've not found a single notebook (even the newer ThinkPads) that are as comfortable to use. I've got no crummy trackpad wasting space and a 16:10 display that's designed for work, and not watching cat videos.

the X201 has a trackpad. The X1 carbon (and several other models) have 2560x1440 displays.
I saw that film too.

It's not hard to hide few cubic meters of bombs and shells well in the country. Or just sell it over border, to Syria.

http://www.wnd.com/2004/06/25309/
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As a former Big Law lawyer, I can assure you it's currently the case in America, too.
Seems like people are misinterpreting what he is saying. He is NOT saying he really thinks he is slow. I think this is a polite and less direct way of saying that constant pressure to increase 'productivity' is counter-productive in terms of outcomes and harmful to employees psychologically.
Faception - "personality detection using facial recognition"
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Why? Seems cheap? <4x? Next phase is a sales force to get customers.
> This is why I'm convinced that people should honestly share like 1% of what they are really thinking in comments. Yeah, there might be a 1% chance that Instagram would succeed, but do you really want to look like the idiot doubting it could ever happen, with your comment immortalized on the world wide web five years later when you're proven wrong?

The world has enough silent cowards. Give me an outspoken person who puts their money (/honour) where their mouth is, any day.
We have had some interesting run-ins with scrap collectors. In part because Sunnyvale (or at least their garbage contractor) uses the proceeds from the the sale of recyclables to offset costs of collection. Thus when someone raids the recycle bin for the cans and bottles, it takes money away from the garbage company that was nominally discounting garbage fees based on expected returns. The city council made an ordinance to allow the police to stop people from doing that.

When I hired the janitorial company at the office I included in the contract that they could keep any proceeds they collected from extracting recyclables in the office trash. For me the benefit was that it didn't matter which can you threw out recyclables in, the janitorial staff would sort them out and recycle them. It gave them a bit more money in their pocket, and it made it easier on folks trying to figure out which can to use for what.
To be clear, I don't think Facebook is flawless. All the issues you bring up are definitely true.

I just think it's unfair to assume that these issues automatically make Facebook evil and that there's no good they do.
The problem with that is that in most cases, one of the two of you will be more talented and get more traffic, resulting in the other guy getting flamed by commenters, etc. For example Sean Hannity's show used to be "Hannity and Colmes", one right-wing and one left-wing commentator, and poor Mr. Colmes was just outnumbered and outgunned to the point that he quit.
Isn't spark more versatile than tensorflow at this point? It does graph processing and deep learning.

Plus it's built for distributed processing.

Pyspark makes it easy to use.
Yes. You would have no idea of this reading Hacker News threads about Snapchat 4 years ago, though.
Pitch the gig, sign the contract, then you do the boring logistical details. One of them is arranging travel. At my shop that was simple: "How doed $FOO handle business travel? Are you going to book my tickets/hotel or would you prefer to be invoiced for them?" "Great; send me a copy of your travel policy."

I also thought, early in my consulting career, this would be a big deal. It never was. Nobody who can hire 10 programmers is surprised what a trip from Nagoya to SF or NYC or Berlin costs.
That's irrelevant. It's a positive filter, not a negative one (I didn't claim the absence of everyone using it indicates lack of success).
Much like other applications of software it's just a cheaper replacement or at least supplement to what people were doing manually for years or centuries. Katrina Leung prised more secrets out of the FBI using her wiles than China does with hacking.
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> You sound very negative towards conducting more experiments on this, when the results have been unexpected every time it's been tested.

This is wrong. There is a strong selection bias, where a many team tried this and only those that got a "successful" measurement get press.

It's very difficult to get the list of all the unsuccessful (unpublished) experiments, but someone recollected a list em-drive test http://emdrive.wiki/Experimental_Results The important column is the last one. More than 1 means that if it's correct the device is breaking the current laws of physics. Anyway, I count 5 zeros in that list. [And I think that the other are experimental errors.]
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Translation:- Larry Page is spending millions of his personal wealth - which he is entitled to do - into a development quest to develop personal dual-use road/aircraft.
This will never become economic, although is has been shown many times to be doable, with numerous products developed. None survived the economic screen, let alone the FAA screen.
Let us see why:-
Ever see a traffic jam? lines of 1000's of cars stopped or going slowly in a wave pattern. - Yes - we see them all the time.
Can you see, in your mind's eye an aerial traffic jam, with 1000's of airplanes halted in mid air for a clear path? No. We have never seen them, and we never will, until we invent sky=hooks to hang them on, or a workable anti-gravity system(which may well be impossible).

That said, the planes will have to keep moving a little above stall speed. Can you imagine the air traffic control nightmare of these 1000's of carplanes?

So these are enough to defeat the mass aspect. They may well be viable in Australia, our back with large vistas of flat land and little weather on which 10,000 or more landing strips can be built. Well, we have that now in Australia, but we use airplanes to go from place to place over longer distances and we use cars/trucks for local use.
ALl this said, Larry will make his plane, he may sell a few to the idle rich, but they will never become commonplace.
That's my limit. The more I learn about China, the more I don't like the country.

Yea--bring on the usual political correctness HN.

Until these Asian countries start treating animals better, including Japan; I will try to avoid buying their products. (I'm not leaving out Africa, etc., either)

I worked at a American national park one summer. There was a group of visiting Chinese Christian Campers in a park cabin. I remember being invited to a dinner party. I went. I was shocked at what I saw. "For dinner we have Stellar Jay soup." There were protected dead animals all over the cabin. I told them they can't do this. They acted like they didn't know our laws. I let it go. I just figured they really don't get it. And yes--they had a ton of store bought food bought by the sponsors. I remember talking to a Chinese pre-med student. He told me the cruelty to animals is commonplace in China. I asked him is it just the poor Chinese? He said no, it's just, "Chinese look at animals as food--period. They have no feelings. They have no rights. He went on to tell me a few stories I can't repeat. That was years ago, but I have had it.

I will try to only buy from countries that have some values I can relate to. Yes--it will be difficult. I might fail?
I would appreciate a short and intuitive explanation of it. :-) Thanks.
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Well, the lead-containing paint is probably under several layers of lead-free paint. Just don't mess with it. If there's any cracking or peeling, move.
World Net Daily is a far right propaganda site.

Edit: They're also Christianists who believe we're living in the end times.
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University jobs as well. Almost no way to get fired, unless you are just flagrantly negligent. Huge amounts of paid time off, generally flexible hours. Middling salary but generally great benefits. Boring but stable and predictable. Some people like that.
That is something to consider. There is a difference though between working harder because you're afraid that you'll be replaced by someone faster and cheaper and working harder because you're motivated by feelings of guilt and shame. I don't think either one is particularly healthy, but in the former case you can at least make a rational decision whether the job is worth enough to you to risk burning yourself out.

It's also worth considering that not all developers are easy to replace, for various reasons. A lot of big companies aren't in a position to be choosy as long as their employees are reasonably competent and can do the work.