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> Airlines are usually very aware of lost revenue due to these kinds of factors

Good to know. My own point at which airlines are worth the hassle has increased from a 6 hour one-way drive to 14 since the security "improvements" began. Which means that I'm regularly spending ~6-8 additional hours on the road simply to avoid an ~2 hours of airport security unpleasantness[1]. Driving > 6hrs generally costs more too. And it's still worth it to avoid the security process.

[1] even better - once through security I can look forward to a cramped, unpleasant experience for the duration of the flight (6'2" guarantees miserable - the $20/inch of legroom option notwithstanding).
We already know Zen matches Intel's overpriced "enthusiast" chips clock-for-clock. If Zen clocks well, it will totally kick ass!
But it is one that you need to already have been educated about. The author seems to be assuming that all their readers have CS degrees or have read a certain narrow slice of technical content elsewhere. It's bad writing for a generalist platform like Medium.
What about the case where I want to know if a piece of software being pushed into my phone has been approved by a specific person?
Why would they not just hire people as contractors (instead of turning every non-US-resident down)? That's how I've been working for years and it's better for me as well as for the company.
On most shared hosts, it blocks. The action taken by mail() is dependent upon your php.ini settings.
By the way, when exactly did this hate for open offices started? I remember everyone hating on cubicles and preaching open offices, now it flipped back?
> The public address could be enough for the server to realize there are two browsers from the same LAN. Then it tells the browsers to look for each other.

> I'm not really sure that it is practical with large LANs (a /16) but it doesn't look impossible. If they design for privacy they could develop an algorithm that works.

Not even a little bit practical. Most big lans disallow broadcasts, or limit them in various ways. The only way for peers to find each other is to know each other's private IP address. And private IP addresses contain nothing of value.

Now if you're using a VPN which you intend to use to protect your privacy, well... There are countless of other problems with that if you just turn that on, use the same software as always, and think you are now 'anonymous'.

> And if I connect with a VPN I probably don't want to bypass it. I've got customers that accept unconveniences to protect their network with VPNs. Should browsers break it with WebRTC? I didn't think so. It's a vulnerability that I keep blocked.

It's not a vulnerability. It is a very, very useful feature. You just happen to think that enabling a VPN will magically give you a privacy shield, which is misguided at best.
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If anything I find his writing more sympathetic to a layperson.

He consistently likes to disparage those he thinks portray false intellectualism and academia (whenever you see IYI in his writing it means Intellectual Yet Idiot).
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Looked at mine and most of it is mundane/useless stuff like "open Spotify", "How many ounces in 13 lbs", etc. But there are some "text so and so: hey meet me wherever" type recordings...I find that little concerning, but not entirely unexpected. I like that there's an option to delete all of that info, but is it -really- deleted? Or just hidden from my view and kept on Google's servers and still associated with my account?
GPS isn't possibly tracking mechanism because it works via passive reception of a satellite signal.

Wireless networking in mobile devices is a tracking mechanism. It works to an extent without help from GPS data. Even with GPS off, your device can know quite accurately where you are based on other environmental information.
You can tour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station, which includes going deep in to the Elidir Fawr mountain, and tours around the turbine hall and other interesting things.

Or at least you could 10 years ago.
Indeed. Another venue for why it cuts out code is that it makes code more reusable. As a result, you are more likely to integrate nicely with already written libraries than write your own code. Technically, this is a way of reducing your codebase as well lol.
I was not very precise. I actually meant heat-spreader instead of heat-sink.

Kaby Lake has bad thermal conductivity between silicone and heat-spreader (metal top of CPU). If you crack-open the CPU and replace thermal paste, it will reduce temperature under load significantly.

It is common problem for Intel CPUs since Ivy Bridge. i7 are affected. Extreme version is soldered and does not have this issue.
I have little idea of how 3D XPoint works but if it is that fast and non-volatile what prevents it from replacing RAM+Disk? Cost I presume or are there other reasons?
I don't think it flipped 'back', as much as it's flipping towards the middle? I say this working in an office with 4 desks, which to me is just as fine as working from home.

About a thousand people work this way in this building.
An article with sources!!! Love it.

I have been remote for about 7 years now. Was in the office for 2 weeks when I moved for new hire training, that is it. Entertained a few positions at other companies that paid about the same but wanted me to drive 10-15 miles one way (about 30-45 minutes due to rush hour). No thanks! Surprised author did not say anything about that lost productivity, not to mention I have always viewed driving to/from work as a business expense yet Big Corp doesn't agree.

Glad author talked about how some people like the office, some people are good at it, while others are best at home. Just like everything else, everyone is different.

I will view the rest of my career as successful if:

1) I don't have to go to an office everyday

2) I never have to be on-call
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> Nowhere in the article does it say that anybody has committed a murder.

Article headline: Amazon refuses to let police access US murder suspect's Echo recordings.

If your point is that the suspect is not a proven murderer, then yes, of course I was speaking loosely and not adhering to the legal definition of innocence until proven guilty. But in point of fact, yes, we do strip some privacy away from murder suspects when suspcicion has justified a warrant or subpoena. It's quite necessary in investigating a murder to do so, and we generally have no issue with detectives asking a person's friends, employers, etc. about their activities on and about the night of a heinous crime.

The question of interest here is whether your Alexa logs should be considered "Something you told a friend" or "Something you told a lawyer / priest / spouse." The question of whether police are allowed to pry into a murder suspect's private life, indirectly, with a warrant when they are investigating a murder is well-settled common law.
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How so? The Markov chain reference is only used in a reformulation of the same statement already said in layman terms.
Thanks, the first part is also in the closed captioning if you click the CC button on the video.

Edit: just the first part of what the guy says- not the part about being a doctor from the woman.
> a soda can on the road can mimic a large vehicle.

This might not be a bad thing... in my early twenties I saw what I thought was a paper cup in the road and ignored it. When I hit it, my car felt like it was thrown up in the air - turned out to be someone's starter motor. I ended up with a cracked wheel rim and a flat tire.
I used the UCSC Science Library daily when I was an undergraduate. I found the library close to useless: lots of open space with little seating. Beyond the frequently-used reference books (Bielstein, my old friend) and weekly journals, I rarely accessed the historical books.

What really stunk about the library is that is was impossible to study. A classic east-coast library has basements and subbasements with lots of study spots and it's quiet like a tomb. The Science Library at UCSC was never quiet and it had very few seats, so you'd have a hard time finding a place to study.

I'm not opposed to removing the weekly journals- they are almost entirely read online. Even the historical journals are/should be scanned for online access.
A good tldr of the resulting change here: https://blog.heroku.com/ruby-2-4-features-hashes-integers-ro...
That's what we have "protected classes" for. It makes it illegal to discriminate on things which might otherwise give an imagined, or real, business advantage.
Actually the headline for this should be "Amazon PR team spins disturbing surveillance capabilities via Echo to make it seem like they are fighting for privacy"
If it was de-duplicated, it means that another copy of the work exists in the UC system and you can use the interlibrary loan system to access it. ILL has existed for a long time and was the common way to access rare items.
I see the "if you don't like it, don't use it" suggestion quite a bit. Can't we advocate for better public understanding of, and decentralization of, location services while also acknowledging that the best way right now is to leave it in a metal box turned off? The concepts of privacy and location services are at odds with one another, but reducing it to "love it or leave it" leaves the potential middle ground of preserving some privacy while reaping the benefits of location-aware information unexplored.
Precisely. If you're going to take up illegal activity, maybe don't search "How to do illegal activity" on Google the week before you do an illegal activity.

There are, to be certain, concerns about ubiquitous data being used in fishing expeditions, but a dead body in a hot-tub on a person's property is hardly "fishing expedition" territory.
Notice, after takeoff. Takeoff and landing are when centre of gravity is critical. You're supposed to return to your originally assigned seats for landing too.
It seems like they are putting those drives on x2 PCIE slots there is no way it's going to outpace any NVME drive.

Their capacity is also very small this looks to me like 2005 when Lenovo had SSD cache addin cards for the pc/express card slots.

Give me a 2tb drive or go him until the the 960/960 pro is all the rage.
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A person on a conference has not mentioned details. The reason for Java is productivity and access to a bigger pool of developers.
I feel like it's the natural thing that happens, open offices are being pushed so a lot of people will push back. I think the thing that people don't realize is that there is not a single fit solution for how an office should be, unless that solution is flexibility. Some type of middle ground where you have your own work space but also spaces for collaboration. Also forcing all people to telework or not telework isn't the answer, but like myself I want that option. If I have to drag myself to work five days a week my productivity can take a hit. However I'm excited when I get to work from home because I just have to toss on some clothes and go into my office. Not all people like to work from home, but I would rather ditch the distractions that are inevitable in any work place.
7GHz in a consumer part isn't going to happen for Intel for a very long time, probably a decade.
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This is really hard to support the headline from the story.

The artical says Amazon twice declined to hand over Echo data... I'm presuming because the police didn't have a warrant. The article says Amazon has been handed over a warrant (now?)... so... Amazon will or will not refuse to hand over the data now with warrant in hand???
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I feel that the hidden trick to the live classroom recordings is to watch at 2x-4x speed and rewind and go back to 1x the moment you don't understand something or if you are explicitly following a worked example (even then I usually cruise at 2x). If you have pause you can just work at a different pace.
Yes, thanks -- I should have made clear that this is what Gross used. Wonderful book.
Monopoly has zero depth. Zero! Imagine making a computer game out of it, so throwing the dice, counting money and moving your game figurine is automated. What is left? Almost nothing. It is busywork, there are no decisions for the players to make.
I like to create. Not replay things I have already played a hundred times before
I have definitely purchased something on prime now in part because the bags fit so perfectly into my recycling bin...
Maybe it's because I came to the party late (started professionally in 2007) but I've never heard anyone preaching or praising open offices. It's either been a neutral "I dunno this is just how we do it" or an annoyed "man I really wish I could have some peace and quiet to concentrate."
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The longer view of this is to kick ass with the [current] company(ies) you work with to build a rep and become indispensable which would afford you some benefits (like remote working) down the road.
When people started working in them. Cubicles are arguably worse and people aren't promoting cubicles when they criticize open offices.
It appears that it does escape shell commands. The issue is that PHPMailer had already escaped them. The exploit is exploiting the "double escape".

The real issue to me is that unlike Perl and Python, PHP doesn't provide a way to spawn a process without invoking /bin/sh. If PHP had support for the various incantations of exec(), you could pass arguments without needing the shell.
I've only worked for small organizations remotely, but I did have the experience of working for a satellite office (~25 people) of a large company (~6000) and we felt very alienated. They did value our work, however. I think if you are working on something that brings value then you are valuable. If you aren't doing that then you don't have a lot of leverage.
Both fair points, but your link states that cats' killing statistics are perhaps exaggerated, not completely false, and we don't know by how much.

My (seemingly incorrect) assumption would imply that even if we remove all wind turbines we would only make a dent of about 1/10k. It is still a reasonable observation unless we find out the cat kill stats are off by four orders of magnitude.
If I recall correctly, this argument has been successfully applied, from a legal standpoint, in the context of traffic from IP addresses on shared resources not mapping to individual user behavior (and, relatedly, in the context of a vehicle being photographed in violation of the law not proving that the vehicle's owner was driving the vehicle at the time the law was violated).

I imagine it'd be a harder argument to make, before a jury in a criminal trial, that the dataset showed the house was occupied because the occupant had rigged beforehand an elaborate system of intentional resource wastage to fake occupancy in the way that would fuzz a police investigation, as opposed to the much simpler explanation "the suspect was home." Burden of proof might be high.
Cyber attacks are financial, and involve money and information.

Murder is the permanent end to a human being's life.

The difference makes your argument a non sequitur.
Everyone has a right to bear arms. turkey used that right, with a single gun and a single bullet, to end a war that billions of dollars of US resources couldn't. Russia backed away, and putin cried.

If ANYONE attempts an unreasonable search or seizure: KILL THEM WITH YOUR GUN. the founding fathers EXPECT you to. of course, this is the other side of the same coin... "if you're doing something that someone might kill you over, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it"... as long as we keep killing perpetrators, we eventually won't have to.

you are all pussies. you have done this to yourselves. you're completely pathetic.

you're all idiots.
That may very well reflect reality, but you also point out that it might not. Would it be better, therefore, not to post the claim in the first place?

(I'm not trying to accuse you of doing something wrong. This is just a minimal, relatively harmless example of a larger and more concerning phenomenon in this age of information spreading so quickly with so little verification. I suspect we're going to need to take a sharp turn towards self-censoring those little unsupported claims, among other strategies.)
The general public thinks Edward Snowden is a traitor who should be hanged. How exactly are you planning on getting them onboard this cause?

Hey guys - this is going to make a bunch of your apps work poorly or not at all, but it protects you from something you aren't informed enough or smart enough to be scared of in the first place. Please support me?

Oh, and by the way, it'll make your phone cost more money.
DRAM is still significantly faster than 3D XPoint.
I think there's room for discourse in this area TBQH. There are many alternative terms that would communicate the purpose of the framework and its class members just as well, if not better than something with 'slave' or 'enslave' in the name. Especially if you want to potentially attract adoption among users who might have ancestors who were enslaved, and also incidentally have a harder time getting a job in tech. I know I for one would like to use a software package that doesn't also remind me of a painful memory.
The interview experience is terrible. I completed a much more ambitious project than I needed to, demonstrating the ability to pick up a complex new framework quickly (React Native). I also implemented a very thorough auth system demonstrating mastery of secure programming (proper salting, message signing, defense against timing attacks.) That didn't matter one bit, I got denied for omitting a requirement which wasn't in the listed requirements and for not communicating to clarify the requirements. Whilst I understand the value of timely communication with real clients, I assumed these guys could get their own assignment requirements correct.

In addition to all this, you will get a much lower rate than you're expecting. While it's true that you set your own rate, they basically told me if I don't charge at the same below-salary rates as the rest of the people on their network, they won't send business my way.

So huge waste of time on the interview, plus you'll make less than a salaried position for the advantage of sporadic work and no benefits. Stay away if you know what's good for you!
As long as it's voluntary, it's fine. We should keep educating people about the risks as long as we don't curtail what people can do with the technology voluntarily.
v2 is a 0kB file. As you note, v1 is still available, just as with any other paper that was updated.

In any case I don't think that withdrawn papers support the OP's claim that PDF links are hard to find for normal papers.
Ask HN: Do a coworking space make you more productive?
I'm having doubts on buying a coworking space versus working from home. Not sure if coworking will really boost my productivity (since in home I have a few distractions, but not many).
To be fair, cubicles were also dehumanizing, the whole rat maze thing. After several decades of cubicle life I think workplace engineers were desperate to try anything.

So we tried open spaces, and they were possibly more terrible (I like them but I'm weird). But proper offices are expensive, so.

Joel Spolsky took offices pretty seriously, I recall this bit: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/09/24/bionic-office/
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We should wait and see what they release before being too critical.
Post a link to your resume. There may be some obvious problems we can diagnose.
Cubes versus open amounts to the same thing. Neither promotes deep work.

http://calnewport.com/blog/

We need to aknowledge that jobs come in at least two flavors: deep work and interrupt driven. Software engineering is deep work. Operations is interrupt driven. Don't expect the same environment to be optimal for both.
You didn't want them installed because you were concerned they might rat you out when you murdered someone? ;)
For me as a French reader, Taleb's writing style feels familiar, just like French sentences translated in English: long and constructed sentences with articulations, and some soft punch inside.

Maybe it is not the proper style for English native speakers, but it feels a clear and well organised writing style to me. On a higher level, Taleb's thought may have weaknesses, some contradictions, some unmomtivated leitmotives. But still interesting and thought provoquing.
Harvard has 30 percent legacy admissions. Those are definitely not income-blind.
This argument applies to all speech that has now become easier and cheaper:

"If nobody cared about your opinion, it would not be financially viable to publish it. But now we have blogs/tweets."

Effectively, cost of publishing was working as a quality filter. Now, we need to actually implement proper filters instead of bad proxies for quality.
It would be appropriate to list the model years there, especially if other years have solved the problem!
I agree with much of what the author says, but think it's worth mentioning:

1. There are people who work better in an office than at home, I am one of them, my home is a place to relax and not think about work, and my workplace is a place to concentrate and not relax, the boundary helps me keep the right work life balance.

2. Open offices can be good. We have an open office for space reasons (not enough space to have cubicles or separate rooms), but design it for software engineers so it's very quiet for the majority of the time.
And shortly after breaking even "International" with even fatter margins. Amazing projections.
I've found that the best argument for working remotely is simple: "because I can."
If Eric Schmidt is ever suspected of murder, I would expect his full dataset to be called for.
I was introduced to Markov Chains in high school - it's not that strange of a concept. And yeah, Taleb has some rough edges, is unapologetic about his arguments, and enjoys calling people out. But it's refreshing to find that someone isn't dumbing a topic down so that it can covered at an "8th grade" reading level like the NYT.
I know about delidding.

I thought this:

> You literally have to cut this CPU in half, to make it usable for OC.

referred to turning off the cores, not delidding :D

But you don't need to do either to "make it usable for OC". Just get a good cooler.
It did? The US may be the only first world country in the top 20 obese countries.
After reading the article, one word comes in mind: flexibility. It's really about you and your employer/fellow employees coming together to find out what works and what doesn't. Everyone is different and everyone has different needs.

The author talks a lot of "I". "I am this...", "I cannot this..." etc. While these articles are interesting, I would love to hear the counter-side.

Is the overall efficiency of the team lacking because some people are full-time remotely? How do the people who go to the office feel about working with the remote engineers?
"I remember everyone hating on cubicles"

I don't remember anyone complaining other than people who previously held even more luxurious offices. And I lived (and worked) thru the cubicle era. Still in one today, love it, not as nice as an office with a door, but it beats open offices.
Totally agree with the last sentence. I had to relocate due to some family health issues and was able to renegotiate my existing position into a remote one.
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First, streetcars aren't trains. They're good at circulating people around an urban center, but not for getting them in and out.

Second, even that article indicates streetcar systems were well on their way to death before the conspiracy started.

Third, the participation of oil companies in it was tangential; it was auto manufacturers who drove it.