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Ask HN: Why is location factored in a remote compensation package?
When negotiating compensation for remote work companies usually offer way less to employees located abroad, even though one works the same job in the same position as her US counterparts. As far as I know the same happens between US cities too.

I understand cost of living (mainly rent) varies between locations, but many commodities are actually cheaper in the US including gas and consumer electronics. Deciding what should be one's living standard instead of declaring the price for a piece of work does not seem to be fair imo. What am I missing?
I think the article doesn't know the difference...
This is a well-reasoned answer, but probably not the same trade-off that most people would make. For example, if a car was twice as bad as the average driver (2 fatalities per 100 million miles), then you'd say 29.6 seconds per mile -- maybe something you wouldn't do at freeway speeds, but you would do at city street speeds.

But I don't think that most people would get into a car that was twice as likely to crash as an average human driver (including drunks and so forth). Which suggests that most people have a different approach to this question.
That's why I think touch screens should be relegated to smaller devices (like the xps 13). I do not want to be using a touch screen to move things on a giant 27' display. I have a trackball for that.
Really hoping this gets canned as a bad idea like the Lenovo one.

But the only time I can remember that Apple canned such a major feature in their hardware was the iPod Shuffle going voice only back to buttons.

Feel this release is way too high profile so we're going to be stuck with this mess.
You know what happens when other people sleep. It's not an issue.
I had the same experience you had. Some reasons for this: the glass was thicker, more shatter-proof but less scratch resistant, and smaller in area (large sheets of glass at the same thickness break more easily) compared to the latest phones.
My guess is the uncanny valley[0] is still too big for "realistic" human characters. As for the goofy-looking chicken, it's convenient to make an animal goofy-looking for comic relief. (And in the case of Jiminy Cricket, I think Disney would rather draw, and people would rather look at, a humanoid with a weird head than an actual insect.)

[0] "the uncanny valley is the hypothesis that human replicas that appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit feelings of eeriness and revulsion among some observers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
I was surprised by the parent comment as well. I visited Amsterdam last summer and walked to pretty much every part of the city, also took a train to other towns and didn't see hard drugs & anything even moderately unsafe.

I find that US average cities are order of magnitude more "run by hard drugs and unsafe". In SF I walk by sketchy areas and piles of needles everyday, you can't really avoid it.
Understood; different people/cultures hold different axioms for "freedom". This often confuses people.

As an old-values American, self-sufficiency is paramount: freedom is the ability to do what/when I want, with practically no reliance on others; to rely on others (say, for transportation) requires their ability/consent, and should that be denied for any reason then my freedom is limited without my choice. That includes the ability to travel 1000 miles on a moment's notice (hindered only by energy storage limits).

While I understand the "freedom" of not having to own & maintain things ("just get on the train! not beholden to servicing a vehicle"), it is those things that extend my abilities. Living out of a backpack, renting what I need when I want it, is certainly desirable - but relies heavily on the consent & capability of others to provide on request.
If you have the money it's entirely possible. Steel / Concrete is dramatically more expensive than wood framing though, like, an order of magnitude or close to it. You'll also have a harder time finding a contractor. Most residential contractors are not going to be able to build a steel / concrete structure and the job is going to be too small to interest one of the larger commercial contractors unless you're paying a hefty premium.
Yes. These measures are being taken because individuals are getting more powerful. In the long run, I don't think the state is going to succeed, but it will be an arms race for a while.
Chacha20 can do random access. See the end of my article, when I talk about counter mode. To get the part of the stream you want, you just generate the block you need (they're all the same, only the counter changes), then encrypt it. No need to generate all previous blocks.

Indeed, one reason for using AES in counter mode is this random access, which among other things enables parallel encryption. The same strategy works with Chacha20.
When you are depressed, see if there's a serious problem in your life that is causing you to be depressed and devote as much time and energy as you can muster towards exploring solutions to that problem, even if they entail dramatic life-changing decisions, because that's the kind of problem we're dealing with here.

Examples of such problems: you hate your graduate program. You have no friends in your city and no idea where to look. You are unattractive and wish you weren't. You are skeptical of your faith. You have no activities or hobbies that involve other people and wish you did. You are not as good at software engineering as you want to be. Your job is hell. You fake a character in social situations that makes you hate yourself. You are impotent at facing injustice that you perceive in the world. You are uninspired by the prospects of the career or community available to you. Any of the above + you drink, do drugs, or play video games to avoid dealing with it.
* Another: your career is pointless or selfish

Short term solutions like exercise, making friends, or talking to people, and making something will only fix the depression if they happen to address the actual problem - which there's a good chance they do. And of course, the whole situation can spiral out of control and compromise your ability to do something about it, in which case professional help + drugs can make all the difference.
And that transition has been repeatedly tried, and abandoned, in less-demanding autopilot fields. Trains, planes and ships are all less computationaly difficult yet attempts to remove drivers from the equation have come to nothing. If it isnt 100% than it just isnt acceptable.
IMO, the udacity SDC course is pretty bad.
> It's way too early to know if the Touch Bar is better UI than function keys.

It's not early, most things in UI design are actually very scientific and can predict in advance how fast you can use something. Basically touch bar is harder if not impossible to use without thinking and looking because it breaks consistency and is also slower to use because targets are smaller, i.e. you have to be more careful not to touch other targets, etc.
You realize that Verizon is buying the Yahoo brand? Altaba is just the shell company that holds onto their pieces of Alibaba and Y! Japan.
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What they've learned is the more 'busts' they make; the more $$ they get in funding next year to buy new toys and employ more people 'fighting the good fight'.
There are many friends in business; they're necessary to aid in undermining those who act like they need none, and behave with predatory self-interest.
I agree. It is sad that blackberry messed up a lot with the priv (overheating, the choice of the SD 808, etc), but the keyboard is really nice.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about what is going on. The current Yahoo basically exists of 3 main parts:

1. The Yahoo website and properties that most folks think of when they think "Yahoo".
2. The 15% share of Alibaba
3. The share in Yahoo Japan.

Verizon bought part #1. That is not changing its name and will continue to be accessible on yahoo.com. Parts 2 and 3 are being left behind in a company that is being renamed Altaba.
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A Post-Mortem on the Recent Stack Overflow Developer Story Information Leak
Likewise, if a cable installer or plumber paid by the police enters your home, could they legally search it? Obviously not.

But there's still confusion in the courts about the difference between physical and virtual property and the peoples' rights to escape search (using radar through walls or taps on data feeds). This malign overreach of prosecutors relies on that.

But I think this practice clearly crosses the line since the property is physically in the hands of an untrusted party. It'd be trivial for Joe Schmo at Best Buy to plant evidence. Because that possibility is so plausible, this chain of evidence has been compromised. Any appeals court would toss this practice as unlawful, IMHO.
Apple has never been about what "everyone" wanted though - their whole shtick has always been "the consumer doesn't know what they want until you show it to them." This attitude worked in the Jobs era because of his product vision but it's hard to sustain when you're continually regressing toward the mean in innovation after a string of outlier hits
Err, the key can be 256-bits. This is the preferred key size these days.
Based on the history of drugs like Thalidomide, I'll pick safety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#History
Yes, but there's no appetite for a change of that magnitude in the US today. But if PR is your goal, I think a more representative version of the current system is more likely to lead us to that than an increasingly less representative version of it through persistent creeping gerrymandering.
It's one thing to release the documents in a fair, unbiased method. But the release of the documents was politically timed to be as impactful as possible with hyped and staggered releases. He and wikileaks took sides and that is not something I consider ok. He had/has a vendetta.
People don't listen to logical arguments anymore.
And because women involved have no police protection as long as this is illegal. They will always be the most vulnerable members of society afraid to get help.
> I'm kind of amazed Apple still has parts for a 2yr (and presumably 3yr according to OP) old laptop

Much of this is legally required (and as well, they can get a higher price for new devices when the older ones hold their value). If you check the Apple web site you'll see that how far back they will fix your device varies by jurisdiction (country and even state): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624
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It's not just you. It's a well-researched phenomenon.

I do think there's the potential to enable full autonomy in well-defined use cases while requiring manual control elsewhere. (Still problematic--how do you enforce?)

But the idea that a driver can take control on short notice from an automated system is a non-starter. Maybe you can assume there's an adult with supervisory control in the vehicle but you certainly can't assume they're prepared to deal with urgent emergencies.
I'll be moving back to MS after my next upgrade. I'm willing to try out the function bar, but the dongle thing is what gets me. That, combined with the new iPhone aux port, doesn't leave me with much confidence in Apple.

Apple defined functionality combined with beauty. Now they are putting beauty before functionality.
I'm surprised by this. My parents live in Amsterdam so I've been there a lot and they've never told me to stay away from certain places at night. It's a city so it's not perfectly safe but I've never encountered this there
"You seem to be imagining very impressive machine learning"

It doesn't even need machine learning. I've got an image aggregator that can recommend images to me based upon what I like, why I like it, and IT LEARNS. Only a couple of times of telling it I don't like this subject matter in the picture, and it won't show me pictures with that subject matter in it. It's nothing more than a game of association and having a reliably fast database with proper tagging.

"Currently many forums just use a heuristic based on date and "total number of upvotes" to decide what to display."

That's not a heuristic. That's a simple if post count upvotes > x number, display here, if < this number, don't show. That's simple child's play TI-BASIC level programming.
"If you don't like it, don't buy it" is just about the worst line of argument you could take. It is highly unproductive and instantly ends any hopes of a useful discussion.

"If you don't like Trump, leave the country". "If you don't like the video, don't comment, just ignore it"...And then what? Let's all just shut down threads that crticise anything at all, because, of course, if I don't like it, I can just move on.
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In the case of Google, it's been building product during the last 10 years by doing the following:

- offering a free product;
- letting people build stuff with it;
- create some sort of business model and profit.

Google relies on the community to live. e.g: there would be no android without dev creating app for it, so they provide a system API letting you create something on it. Without that, Android would be an empty shell.

It's a win-win situation, but to work it needs respect from both sides. Here, I don't see any kind of respect from Google, just another beta product trashed.

They have the right to do it, but as a developer, I have the right to not want my time wasted. Hence, if Google wants its community to thrives, it needs to be nice with the people being part of it.
Thanks for mentioning DaisyDisk - I've been looking for something like that, and all the alternatives I've tried are horrible!
This is nonsense, of the class of nonsense that regularly comes up on Raymond Chen's blog with the title, "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway." https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20141217-00/?p=... is a good example.

Specifically, the argument here is that SipHash is insecure because you can read the private key out of the process's memory, or you can convince the process to dump its private key by setting an environment variable.

But anyone who can read your process memory or set environment variables has a million easier ways to attack your process. The thing SipHash is protecting you from is not yourself. It's protecting you from attackers on the network, that is, not on your machine, giving you malicious data to abuse your hash table. Nobody can protect you from attackers who can run opcodes in your Perl VM.

In the kernel, there's no such thing as a Perl VM or environment variables. There is a such thing as private kernel memory, and it is kept secret from userspace and (of course) from other people on the network, for very good reason. If you can read kernel memory, or execute kernel code, you have already won.

This is like a military officer saying, "These improved missile launchers don't keep us safe. There's a secret code to launch the missiles, and if the enemy happens to captures our capital and breaks into our military installations and kidnaps the president and steals the launch codes, they can launch our own missiles against us."
I am waiting for the legal process before coming to any conclusions. The government thinks they have a case to argue that Backpage does not receive safe harbor protections, and the only way that is possible is if they can prove Backpage was knowingly promoting sex trafficking. Which means they probably have some evidence to suggest that.
Except in Google's case, everybody's holding two guns, and holding the second to their own heads. :-)
The other giant touch surface on the device works fine for this sort of thing. Even Apples flagship demo of scrolling a FCP timeline with the touchbar is better done using the trackpad which can also zoom in on timelines too and is better positioned for use with modifier keys.

- I work extensively in video/cgi software, it's not just devs annoyed by this device.
This is true, but keep in mind when you look at the safety measures of driverless cars that they're likely being judged via these same, flawed metrics. Google's driverless cars have been in a lot of accidents! Yes, most of them have been "not the fault of the software," but the same caveats you just described apply to the software as well.

So I think we're at least comparing apples to apples.
It goes back to No One Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM. ;-)

When I came out of comp sci school in 1978, everyone thought that DEC and Data General had an insurmountable lead and that PCs were toys. Then they thought Macs were toys. Then they thought the web was a toy. I've been to countless tech conferences where the top guy from some "dominant" company told the tale of how dominant they were and two years later they were slinking around in the back of the room, no one wanting to talk to them. I could name names, but just read my blog. Hubris is a terrible thing and tech is filled with it. And your post was totally a product of hubris ;-)
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So maybe I'm not reading this carefully enough but was all of this possible from a non-global zone? If so was there a CVE number issued for this?
I hadn't thought about this until I read this article, but what do you use the FN-key for when there are no function keys?
The US is also interesting in that we have a very Frankish-state model with powerful state governments that can set their own policies. So early movers like Washington and Colorado can try various things, and other states can learn from them (while also being at odds with antiquated, rigid federal policy). Success in the early-mover states will inform change in other states.
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Must be a real hassle trying to shut down activities between consenting adults when there's an economic reason and no moral case. See recreational drug use.
How does that makes sense? Isn't it beneficial to Intel that you WANT the latest gen regardless of how little it progressed from the previous gen?
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Fair enough, I can respect that and it sounds like we mostly agree. I think some adjustment may be needed, but since this has become so political I fear things will be taken so far in one direction that the backlash will come back and punish us all.
It doesn't have to. These are just general rules that usually make things look good. You can make good-looking things that don't follow the rules if it's done thoughtfully and with a design purpose in mind.

McMansion builders are not doing thoughtful design with some sort of aesthetic vision, though. They're slapping together the cheapest materials they can find, as quickly as possible to make the highest profit. That's why it ends up looking bad. They didn't use 5 different kind of windows because they had some design vision that requires it. They used 5 different kinds of windows because the contractor said "Hey, I've got a bunch of different windows left over from other jobs, let's use them here so we don't have to buy new ones."
Doesn't add too much, but does summarize compactly.

Looks like it's hosted on Vimeo... so I don't think so, at least without hackery.
It's why I like computing. There are still thousands of app you could write better.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: "NHTSA defines fatal collisions as "alcohol-related" if they believe the driver, a passenger, or non-motorist (such as a pedestrian or pedal cyclist) had a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.01% or greater." "NHTSA specifically notes that alcohol-related does not necessarily mean a driver or non-occupant was tested for alcohol and that the term does not indicate a collision or fatality was caused by the presence of alcohol."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_in_the_United_St...

Also of note: "On average, about 60% of the BAC values are missing or unknown. To analyze what they believe is the complete data, statisticians simulate BAC information.[7] Drivers with a BAC of 0.10% are 6 to 12 times more likely to get into a fatal crash or injury than drivers with no alcohol."
Worse, the Vive has leapfrogged them with wireless support, additional trackers, etc. I feel like there's an elephant in the room when discussion the value or 'success' of the Rift. I don't think most consumers casually interested in VR realize how behind those guys are.

I do see the Oculus/Rift branding being repurposed for a Facebook social experience, if not an entire platform for phones to support, but in the realm of PC gaming or anything that requires desktop GPU/CPU levels of power, I imagine they'll always be second fiddle and will be surprised if they last much longer. Tim Sweeney is claiming the Vive outsells the Rift 2-to-1 right now. That's damning for a company with Facebook heft behind it and several years of community engagement, developer kits, hype, etc which ultimately when up against a product that came out of nowhere but delivered everything on day one: controllers, roomscale, good fov, amazing tracking, immersion, etc as well as trivially being able to do seated/standing experiences.
A lot of these issues can stem from overthinking/staying within your own bauble of thoughts (for example, no job in a developed country can be described as "hell", so if one thinks that, he's clearly too sensitive or too inwardly focused). Making something can help in that it can make someone stop thinking those harmful thoughts.
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Author here. First off, I didn't use the phrase "white privilege" in the article at all. Privilege is a combination of factors. In my case some of those come from being White. Some come from being male. Some from being an American. Others from parents and grandparents on my side of the family and my wife's working hard so that they could have something to hand down to their children.

Secondly, I think one way to look at success is as the product of two factors: privilege and work/ability. I'm intelligent and I worked incredibly hard on my startup, but that is only one half of the equation. If I had multiplied those things by a privilege value approaching zero, there is a good chance my success would have also been close to zero.

I had a moderately high level of privilege. Many people have significantly more than I do. Many people (including White people) have significantly less. The specific point I was trying to make in the article is that if I had been given less privilege, I do not believe I would have been as successful as I was. And without any privilege, I am fairly certain I would not have been successful at all.
That sounds like the same sort of arguments we heard when the iPhone ditched the physical keyboard. Guess what we don't see on many phones these days?
Did you by chance read the short story "Think Like a Dinosaur" or see the episode of The Outer Limits based off it?

It presents this exact same dilemma. Up until that point I never really considered the potential ethical ramifications of teleportation.
No, but we've got films in development where the individual grain size is just a few atoms. Got any semiconductor display techs capable of that small size?
There isn't much money in news content, at least by internet giant metrics, so I think its success is somewhat irrelevant.