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> "companies are selling adapters that add back all the ports that some Apple users think the company should have included in the first place"

This is what is being voted up. Might be an exaggeration (number of adapters sold / number of laptops sold), but this is not an ad.

Would you say an article on "Teenagers use Tinder" is an ad for Tinder, or an insight into that demography?
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I thinks Facebook, Google is the best.
> Is a web page that loads in fifty seconds 'correct' or is it wrong?

Of course it is correct - this is how the internet was/is with a 14k or 56k dialup modem, I don't blame you for not remembering/not experiencing it. I remember watching JPEGs render progressively from a blurry mess one at a time, or sometimes not at all. It took way more than 50 seconds to load and render all elements on a typical website.
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That is a valid concern. I'd like to believe that at some point we will shift back to developing for performance. At home I have been using a 2009 mbp with 4GB of ram and only upgraded it to 8 last year. I have still managed to put an app to the store with it (before the upgrade).
ugh, Mentana, tu quoque

I don't know where this "ministry of truths" resurgences come from but really needs to be stopped. between this and Grillo promoting a 'randomized popular college vote' to determine "The Truth", situation is increasingly scary for freedom of speech.
The problem was that back then you didn't have service providers with lock-in on a market, like today's Facebook and the Internet was only a thing for techies, whereas nowadays more than half of the world's population has access to the Internet.

Can you just not use Facebook? There are obviously only 3 choices: (1) not use it, but then you won't have an account where all of your friends are; (2) use it with your real name and lose your privacy, with obvious risks, like your employer or relatives being able to find you on Facebook or (3) use Facebook with a fake name and risk being banned for breach of contract, with all of your investments in it lost.

Lets not pretend that today's Internet is the same as the Internet from the eighties and nineties. Your father and grandma weren't on Usenet.
Probably. I've definitely never seen a good Facebook comments section on any site. Nasty arguments and low-grade garbage. Real names simply don't stop most people from being vile on the internet.
Targeted advertising to pseudonyms would be no less targeted, because it is based on what I do with the logged-in browser, not on the sequence of characters in the name field. I really don't think I get spillover ads targeted at the dozen or so people who share my firstname lastname.

But what I do with the logged-in browser is influenced a lot by wether it is a community with a real name expectation our wether it is a pseudonym playground. The virtual place where we connect with people we meet while parenting our enjoying an expensive outdoor hobby provides infinitely more valuable targeting opportunities than the places we go to indulge in shamefully inappropriate jokes. Making the community better is not a pretext for pro-advertising features, it is a key pro-advertising feature itself.
As long as Microsoft Windows is alive, anti-viruses will still burn this planet.
I don't think I was committing a logical fallacy -- I took exception to the article author's attempt at establishing alleged certainty, especially using relativistic terms.

In any case, based on your mention of learning new fallacy names, you'll probably like this site: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
As an Irish person I'd love to see us get some kind of benefit from Brexit, as we'll be the country most negatively affected by it (besides the UK itself of course).

However I really can't see the financial institutions of London choosing Dublin over somewhere like Frankfurt or Amsterdam.
Actually, there are things I believe, based on no studies at all but that's why they are called beliefs. The evidence bar for UBI must not be just high but extremely high because of the profound effect it can have on societies, for better or worse.
My country's been through communism. And if a scientist looked at us 10-20 years after the regime started, I wouldn't be surprised if the conclusion was as positive as in the basic income pilots - literacy rate jumped through the roof, poverty was greatly reduced, practically no unemployment. We all know how these stories end but my father still reminisces about the "good old days when everyone had a job" sometimes.

On the other hand, I don't think my bar is set that high. Like I mentioned in another comment here, the biggest problem with these pilots is not the limited scope or the strings attached. The problem is that they are the exact reverse of the UBI version in question. Most of the pilots can be described as "rich giving money to the poor". The UBI version that we're discussing here is "poor giving money to the rich". Because that's exactly the net effect when you dismantle welfare programs and distribute the money to everyone - those who have been on welfare till now will receive less. Those who weren't will get more.
Indeed it is, interference phenomena have so far scaled up to fairly large many atom structures in rather predictable ways. The real problem for Quantum mechanics starts happening when needing to explain gravity.
"Fake news" seems to have become a dead duck term almost immediately, because nobody can really agree what it means.

As you say, there's explicitly fake news from organizations that never pretended to be news organizations and were simply web sites spun up to fool the unwary. But there's also a real problem with "real" news orgs publishing highly suspect claims in sensationalist ways. Then there's hyper-partisanship in the news, where allegations against one side are overhyped and allegations against the other downplayed or ignored.
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I've spoken to Facebook engineers who work on their internal source control systems, and it was pretty obvious from talking to them that Git wouldn't work for their purposes. There is plenty of writing about this topic that explains in some detail why Git is unsuitable, and why Mercurial was a better option for them.

As for the 18k classes in their iOS app, I don't see why this is a sign of bad engineering? I'd expect that a large number of these are auto-generated, for example from Thrift API definitions, and I'd also expect that what we see as users is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the code needed. There's obviously a lot of analytics code, and also I'd expect the resiliency and reliability needed requires much more code than we'd expect.
Do you never install any software outside Debian's main apt repos? Never add a 3rd-party apt repo for anything that maybe you didn't trust as much? Never clone a git/hg/svn/etc. repo from somewhere and build & install the software yourself?

Ok, let's say you don't do any of that. The Debian developers are still fallible, and they certainly don't audit the source code of everything they package. Sure, you have to trust something, and I'll certainly agree that it's more reasonable to trust the Debian packagers (and their distribution infrastructure) than a lot of other things, but saying "curl | sh" (when you're curl'ing over https at least, from a website you can reasonably expect not to be compromised) is always bad is a bit extremist. At any rate, the shell script you download is there for you to inspect before running, and if you're not happy with it, you don't have to run it.

Personally, my main beef with that sort of thing is that I want to know if the script is going to accidentally clobber any existing files, or install things to a location where I might not prefer them to be installed.

Edit: I'm only now realizing that the OP has you curl from a non-TLS webserver, which I imagine is the first thing that got you upset. Ugh. Asking people to install something that way is just irresponsible.
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Hmm...If I send an email to paul@foobar.com using TLS, doesn't that protect the message between my email server and the foobar.com email server?
One of my relatives uses a pseudonym on Facebook because they were harassed at school under their real name because they're gay.
Taken even further, even in real life you are likely to have different circles of friends and colleagues - it is likely that you behave differently for each group (knowingly or unknowingly), because they each have an established way of behaving, mannerisms, etc. Just think of an inappropriate joke that one group might find hilarious and another would be appalled by.

The internet is no different, except we are now expected to behave in a singular way in a group conversation of 500 people.
To put this in perspective some one who was in last years 5 Year share save at British telecom made about half that tax free.

And this is the share options scheme for every one even the lowliest call centre worker and not a senior role.
Would that be because you're using a desktop that's not HiDPI ready?
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Coincidentally the UK government is trying to impose age verification on websites.
based on the how Github Enterprise works, they probably use the same technology, meaning ElasticSearch.

I wonder how often they rebuild the indexes, and scan for new commits. That's an interesting problem to solve actually
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Almost didn't finish reading this…

However, after reading this, I'm unsure of the real value of this text. It's quite generic, gives you no references to improve your score…

TL;DR: the plausibility of things is not always easy to recognise, and we all make mistakes along the way.
I was reading one of the recent articles published on the topic and I was shocked to hear these words “Antivirus is dead” by Brian Dye, Symantec's senior vice president for information security.

And then I ran a query on Google Trends and found the downward trend in past 5 years.

Next, one of the friends was working with a cloud security company known as Elastica which was bought by Blue Coat in late 2015 for a staggering $280 million dollars. And then Symantec bought Blue Coat in the mid of 2016 for more than $4.6 Billion dollars.

I personally believe that the antivirus industry is in decline and on the other hand re-positioning themselves as an overall computer/online security companies.
I have similar concerns. Also, these scripts pretty much never have an accompanying "uninstall" or "reset system state" scripts.

For parent: check out http://github.com/awalGarg/curl-tap-sh (disclaimer: I am the author, and it was on HN's frontpage already a while ago)
> If the locals want their history, their museum can get it back from your museum. Until then, it'll at least be protected from ending up in some foreigner's Spanish class.

go take a look at any bigger western museum. in most, most of the artifacts are foreign and no way they are willingly giving them back. if that would be the case, for example maybe 80% of the Louvre in Paris would be plain empty
Sony have a range of what are essentially Bluetooth 3.5mm jack's with some controls and a small display on them. They come with some headphones but will also work with anything else. They're fantastic, my only qualm is that I'm forever losing them!
You need access to infrastructure of ISP.

You don't even need that. You could spoof a wifi network with a PineAP or similar and MitM at that level.
people are not even trying, this image could be a jpg of <=500kb with same quality.

use png for icons, text, graphs , but save images as jpg.

i see this many times, my rule is to never exceed 150 kb for those "retina" images
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"Bot traffic is accounted for in the price advertisers pay for ads. Advertisers don't run unprofitable ads"

Ha ha, sure they do.

Brand advertisers, in particular.

You know that 1-inc by 1-inc 'video' ad playing in the corner of your screen, that vaguely has a car, but it's designed for TV and you really don't get to see 'what the product is' until the end of the spot, but by then, you've already scrolled past it?

That is 100% a waste of money for the advertiser.

There are tons of large companies with 'ad spend' and they just spend a lot of it without really knowing how effective it is.

Obviously, a lot of it it is, but many campaigns are a ridiculous waste.
> On what grounds do you reject that? Do you have hard evidence that women and ethnic/sexual minorities in the US are not at increased risk of violence and mistreatment? Or are you basing this on "feelings > reality", as you put it?

That's beside the point of what the parent comment actually said.

To illustrate: Certainly, national park rangers are at increased risk of being struck by lightning during the course of their work (as compared to, say, software developers). However, it would be silly to claim that lightning strikes of rangers are common.

What your parent comment basically did (in the analogy) is state that lightning strikes are not common for park rangers. You try to counter that by saying that lightning strikes are more common for park rangers than for others. That makes no sense.

You're engaged in a discussion that is purely about the definition of fuzzy words. What is "common"? It's about trying to get the upper hand rhetorically by defining words (from both of you). Not a particularly enlightening debate.
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Its not meant to convince those who are skeptical of the intelligence community (the same organisations who failed at 9/11, Boston, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, .., or even Iraq). It is propaganda. Its meant to convince those who believe what the intelligence community has to say. The question is, are we going to convince those believers otherwise? After all, they're in their own bubble.

Is wasting your time on trying to refute this intelligent? Intelligent people can spend our time better than trying to refute obvious propaganda. Ie. we're wasting our time.

The reason people are skeptical is because the track records of CIA, NSA, FBI, .. don't add up in history. Yet only in hindsight -in history, when FOIA requests are granted with less and less censorship on the documents- will we get a better picture on who was right and who was wrong. And we may end up never getting the full picture.
It looks like whatever Github pages is using as renderer (kramdown iirc?) does not support postfix links like [dein.vim] here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/dev/READ...

The table rendering issues I suspect are from the lack of a newline after the headers. I don't know whether it's correct or not because, yknow, markdown.

Still better than rst. :)
You can probably book Paris-Moscow and Moscow-Beijing from Russian Railways website. You'll need some visas to be done in advance. Better make a few stops along the way.
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You can buy tickets for Trans-Siberian Railway at http://eng.rzd.ru/ , English website of Rossiyskie Zheleznye Dorogi.
How are you sourcing the travel guides? Manual submission or scraping?

Nice work though!
When I crossed the border on a passenger train from Poland to Belarus and from Mongolia to China, the train went into a warehouse where the compartment was lifted and new bogies slid underneath. All while the passengers remained on the train

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Unless you have data to prove that statement, NY isn't taking any lev fin nor PE business from Brexit.

Most London-based PE houses have offices in other European capitals (Paris, Milan, Munich, Madrid, Stockholm, etc). Just take a look at KKR, Cinven, PAI Partners, CVC, Apax, Carlyle, etc, offices location around Europe.

Additionaly, most active banks have lev fin / acquisition finance teams in other European cities other than London (e.g. SocGen in Paris, BNP Paribas in Paris, DB in Frankfurt, Unicredit in Milan, Santander in Madrid, BBVA in Madrid, etc).

Should London be worried? Yes. Is the threat coming from the US? No.
It's nice to see how exciting the possibilities are. In my particular case though - and this definitely skews my view - there are zero of these around me (Amsterdam), and the app does not even makes a mention of bots. Of course I can google "messenger bots" but thats not what I mean by discovery.

I'm sure there are hundreds of useful information-based services that don't depend on links to physical storefronts.

OTOH I can see why FB would intentionally not build that to avoid a flood of frivolous bots and provide more meaningful first experiences.
No clue. Yours is a pretty efficient idea but the powerful work aren't idiots.

The power minded are already competing to control the message, hence Fox News vs CNN etc. in America and similar parallels in the rest of the world.

Speak power to power i suppose. Someone has to intelligently take the fight to them, and it has to be executed and planned at a higher level and with a broader more practical humanitarian vision than what someone in an HN forum could bring to bear.
that's not quite the same thing. It becomes obvious if you up the stakes.

In current $WORKPLACE, being found to murder children will result in disciplinary action. Too many of those and dismissal follows.

So, the dismissal matters not at all, murdering children is the underlying problem. It's illegal and no contract can make that ok.
POSIX doesn't guarantee that memset is async-signal-safe, that is clear enough, and flags like this are even a reasonable rationale. But it sounds like post-2008 memset is and should be async-signal-safe on Linux. Are there relevant systems on which it isn't? IME it's impractical to write code that will work on all POSIX-compliant systems as the standard leaves too much undefined and there is no testsuite that will let you determine when your code is depending on something beyond the minimum requirements of POSIX.
I am surprised that no one mentioned Microsoft so far. These days they are professional, innovation-driven, and do not bring in much of the unnecessary cult that comes with companies like Google. They are more open than Apple.

Also from a personal experience I think their interviews / hiring methods are better than all of the other big players.
Well, he would know about it!
> relocate whole departments there

That's not what's happening. The top performers are moved, middle- and low-level staff in London released and new staff hired in New York. A handful of middle managers may be moved or hired in Paris or Frankfurt or Amsterdam, as a conduit, too.

Clients are also shifting. The amount of first-time business I am personally seeing from new European clients, who need a considerable amount of help adapting to New York's more direct banking culture, has us hiring frenetically (though locally).
I like how Roblox register form tells new users NOT to use their real name:

https://www.roblox.com/
There is no need for another unsafe fast language. There is also no need for another safe slow language. We already have enough of those. Rust's purpose is to find a middle ground between those extremes.
As someone who generally wouldn't look at large companies, that does make FB sound kind-of interesting.

One question: how much emphasis is placed on day-to-day visibility? Is it legitimate to hide in a corner for a few weeks trying something out?
Because the only reason anyone is talking about moving staff to inside the EU at all is because the EU can't attract them itself, so has to force those people to move through law.

It's a failing strategy, long term. Can the EU "attract" employers by making it illegal for them to sell without physically being there? Sure, but that's kind of the opposite of trade.
> Yet despite hugely religious populations, both of these countries experience high levels of corruption, which I think isn't worse than the corruption that occurs in the US, it's just more visible.

Can you explain yourself more? In your opinion: Is the US succeeding despite the corruption or is it the difference in the type of corruption that is holding Ghana back?

Also thank you for your comment, very interesting and refreshing!
The population growth will continue to decline as more people are lifted out of poverty. It might take a while and a large part of the world might not notice it right now, but it's happening. It's (relatively) not long now before we will see a shrinking world population.
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Can you please link your source to "stories made up by Estonian teenagers". I'm estonian and never heard of any teenagers making fake news.
You really need 4 or 5x the options/rsu's you would get at a FTSE 100 to allow for a risk premium even more if you are taking a pay cut to join them.
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You don't need to be so cynical.

In every one of those steps, people usually have good intentions.

But the same thing happens anyhow.

There is money, managed by people who don't know how to create value.
I've loved the idea of Odo since I first saw it, but I've always been wary: the devil is in the details. I'm curious when and how information gets lost during each transfer because of the peculiarities of each format, or how those decisions are made and exposed.

Min/max limits, truncation nulls, floating point precision, encodings, picking CHAR vs VARCHAR or string vs categorical, metadata like indices, etc are some of the hard problems behind bulk loading.
Yes, in response to strong social pressure. Look at how peoples reaction to tobacco has changed. We need the same feeling of disgust abput dirty diesal engines as a smoker at a kids birthday party.
I suspect that a large part of european goods is dropped in Rotterdam, regardless of its final destination, simply because on a 20000 container ship you have many destinations. All those containers will continue on road or rail to their destination. A train to London and a train to Madrid doesn't have that detour.
Regardless of whether Facebook enforces the real name policy or not, simply assuming it internally can be damaging.

There is a person on Facebook using my exact (very rare) name, going to my exact university, living in my exact city, also happening to be gay like me.

However unlikely that this is just one gigantic coincidence, I would have been willing to let it slide if their public Facebook timeline wasn't filled with desperate pleads and public invitations to be sexually pleased in every possible bodily orifice.

Me and a dozen other friends reported the profile as impersonating me and it was denied literally 3 minutes later, which, I guess, is completely understandable considering I use a pseudonym on Facebook.

So what would be the solution? Changing my Facebook name to my real name and uploading a scan of some document to prove to Facebook that it is really me? Seems like too much to lose and practically nothing to gain (I'm not overly upset about the impersonator but I wouldn't mind them gone)
I think the author meant that the exceptions were Oculus, WhatsApp and Instagram. This would make sense given that they are acquisitions and appear to have separate offices, deployments, datacenters, etc in some cases.
As a professional, your magazines tell you about your work.

No one is going to tell a bunch of doctors that vaccines don't work.
> Is it legitimate to hide in a corner for a few weeks trying something out?

Yes.
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