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For starters, not everybody can afford that kinda stuff. The comment you're replying to even talks about how his car only has a tape player and a radio. This cassette revival is primarily happening with young people who are in college or have otherwise low paying jobs (or no jobs). A lot of young people have old used cars with cassette players. For people in bands, as well, putting out music on a cassette is the most cost effective way to put out music physically.

And to address the bit about the phone, you'd be surprised how fast phone storage fills up with other stuff. My (admittedly several years old) phone's 8gb storage is more than half filled by system bloat so I have to use an sd card to put music on it. And that's not even including apps. This, unfortunately, isn't really an option anymore for the vast majority of phones (with the notable exception of most Samsung phones).
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First thing's first. Sign up for unemployment benefits.

I was laid off last April and my employer gave me a severance package in exchange for a similar confidentiality agreement.

It took me several months but I was able to secure a new job with better benefits but with a lower salary.

Update your profile on LinkedIn. Update your résumé.

Talk to lots of recruiters. If you have friends in the industry, ask them if their companies are hiring.

Just keep pounding away at it and you'll find the right spot.
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Came to say this. Most people only knew about the bad type 1 tapes and very shitty cassette players. Double deck were double shit for the same price.

My father was a radio announcer and technician so he had good players and good tapes that were wonderful, even though I didn't know the metal type.
This seem more like speculation unless Chris actually says something. Being frustrated in a giant company is something I understand 100%. Moving up the food chain to be more in control is something I also understand which often means going elsewhere.
>you just don't get this stuff on Sony or Microsoft consoles.

Well, now you don't really get it on Nintendo consoles either. Out of the series you named only one has had a remotely recent installment, and the metroid IP had only been used for taking down fan projects since Other M. That's why, as of now at least, there's no way I'm buying one of these. I can play all the best games from Nintendo's library in Dolphin, on the same PC I run Skyrim on. I don't really see how that game is still supposed to be a selling point.
I voted for Obama twice. I feel duped.
I should point out that even with the 'correct' setting (which isn't default) whatsapp will still re-encrypt and re-transmit any unsent messages under the new key. All the 'correct' setting does is notify you of the key change.

The article is factually wrong on this.
* Work on a pet project with a technology you always wanted to work with, get into flow and put it online. This will be the most fun and will give you tons of self-confidence in a very short time.*

In addition to the personal mental benefits, as a hiring manager, I would look favorably on this. It shows initiative. It shows that you aren't wasting your time between jobs. Should your unemployment extend to a few months or more, if you can show you were doing something useful, that's a huge plus.
I sometimes get the impression that all the secrecy, and leaks, and rumors, etc. are a game they play to generate anticipation and excitement about their products. There is no surprise when they announce, but we are all awaiting the big event anyways.
You're making some big claims about the cleverness of this marketing strategy. But I'm going to disagree that "reducing demand" and "staggering releases" are the way to release a video game console. I see no advantage to doing so.
While very useful, you can only construct a collision-free hash function if you know all possible inputs. Otherwise perfect hash functions can only give guarantees over the frequency of collisions.

In the more general case, for a hash function with n bits output, the pigeon hole principle demands that we have a collision at least every 2^n inputs.
Regarding ACLs, I'd say that there's little choice here: it has to be NFSv4.

The rationale for this is that POSIX ACLs are firstly too simple to model what we need. And they are also non-standard (POSIX .1e ACLs are a DRAFT specification which was never ratified).

NFSv4 ACLs are vastly more featureful, already implemented to support NFSv4 in kernel, though not available in userspace AFAICT. On FreeBSD and other platforms using ZFS, they are also used by ZFS and are directly exposed to userspace, making rich ACLs usable as the default permissions model system-wide when running on ZFS. Linux, unfortunately, doesn't yet do any of this, even when using ZFS.
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Apple is a victim of their own success. It's a dilemma really. Their culture vs public interest.

I am sure they are exploring new spaces like VR, AR, cars, etc but they haven't finished a decent product yet so they don't announce it. They are the opposite of Google, where they announce every new project only to kill it later (Ara, Fiber, Glass, etc).

They don't really like to announce a product before it's ready. The root is their hardware background. They need to nail the product in the first iteration or it will fail. Move fast and break things don't apply to them.
their OEmbed endpoint isn't very good, either. Seems they'l be packing up someday.
It's not. the linked BI article speculates on other possible reasons.
It's a nice article, although they probably need to say that they're talking about cryptographic hashes earlier on, at least mention that some hashes are very easy to find collisions with.
Too bad there isn't a focus on expanding the openness of how many rights are being violated by surveillance.

I can understand why Obama is so pro surveillance.
When you belong to the minority spectrum that has already made it past the point where surveillance will only help.

I just wonder what minority is going to face more of a struggle to get to the point where Obama's minority now is in history.
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I remember receiving the downvote brigade[1], when Moxie himself said that I should trust WhatsApp without having the source code and the ability to put it on my device.

We (even a "smart" community like HN) clearly do not have the ability to think critically about security, and even when our leaders are sincere -- and I really don't mean to suggest Moxie/Signal was complicit in this move -- we still rush to defend our champions so quickly that we don't even think about what's going on.

However something really important is that this might be mere incompetence: FaceBook might not have any mechanism for launching this attack, they just thought the notification message was annoying so they didn't display it. To that end we need to be vigilant about stupidity as well.

Where does it end? Will we actually stop being okay with buffer overflows and sloppy programming? Or are we going to continue trying to "be safer" and use "safe languages" and continuing to try to solve the problem of too much code to read clearly with more code.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669395
That sucks. Luckily in this environment you have a good chance of actually making "extra money" due to the layoff (severance + new job pay overlap)
I echo the suggestion to take some time off and travel if your state's unemployment situation allows it (some states now require you to physically check in to receive unemployment benefits)
Unemployment benefits - YES YES YES! Too many people view this as "welfare". It's not, at least not in the negative sense. You have been paying taxes into this system your entire career, for just this eventuality - in a sense, it's your money.
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How does one protect oneself for this?
No idea and don't want to dig into Intel docs right now, but I would be surprised if they were full fences as I think xbegin/xend would only require acquire/release semantics.

xacquire/xrelease can be used as modifiers to existing lock prefixed RMW instructions which are already full barriers, giving them optimistic locking capabilities.
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Question: In the last few years, how many such online petitions have resulted in some positive, effective action?
Yes, that would be the historical method.

But that is different to the "observe", "measure", rinse-and-repeat methodology which is commonly understood as the scientific method.

The methods by which one studies physics and history are different, but history is no less scientific, and it falls within the sciences, as does theology since it depends on the historical method.

Theology cannot argue or learn anything about God for which there is no historical basis.
Is this new? I've heard for years that stress causes all kinds of health issues (first of all, heart disease) and thought it's universal knowledge.
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The trash can Mac Pro was not leaked in advance (and by leaked I don't mean speculation that Apple was updating the Mac Pro, but actual pictures of it). Also I believe photos of the Watch didn't emerge ahead of time. Know why? The Mac Pro was built in the US, same for Watch prototypes.
Super Mario Run was a smash hit in terms of downloads -- over 50 million in its first couple weeks -- but was a disappointment in terms of revenue: not quite so many of those trial players turned into paying ones as anticipated.

What part did player onboarding play in that surprise?
Monster Hunter has become a console seller for me after playing it for the first time on the Wii, so it looks like I'll be getting a Switch too.

(Cost of the console / number of hours played on Monster Hunter alone) always justifies it.
It's sad how much room there is to disrupt music with what i consider basic features in data storage.

Eg, why are we still using playlists? I want to be able to sort/listen to my music by tags, ranging from "cool" to "energetic" to "happy". Ie, a string tag, a tempo tag, and an emotion tag. I want to be able to filter queries to an arbitrary number of tags and genres. I want to be able to filter by who it was produced by, who played in it, per album or per song.

Most of the features i want don't require any complex content recognition algorithm. And yet, like it's 1990, most of the music apps i use (spotify, google music) lack what i consider to be basic features.

Why did Gmail "pave the way" with tagging instead of folders, and yet i'm still stuck using Playlists in Google Music? Why does Spotify support a nice rich community for playlists, but seemingly won't let the community add meaningful data to songs, albums, etc and then let me query my song collection from that?

I know, i'm sure there are plenty of mp3 players and etc that do this just fine - but i use Spotify, and i want the features in there. I want a streaming collection of on demand music. I like the variety. I'd kill for my above features with a Spotify-like package.
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To be fair, if it hadn't been upvoted we wouldn't have got your awesome response.
Regarding accrued vacation time - when a firm offers "unlimited" vacation, that means they no longer have that on their books as a liability (since the employees aren't building up a balance). So you don't get it paid to you when you leave. If your firm converts to unlimited vacation and you have a balance at the time, talk to them about being paid for it. Either lump-sum right then, or offer to let them pay it to you over time. You earned it, you deserve to either take the time or get the money.
Small discussion from when the article was newer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836584
That's true for petrol engines, though. The price fluctuates, though not generally wildly, and I know -for example- that it will cost me $25-$30 to fill up my car.

I imagine the fluctuations of the electrical grid are no different and likely more stable. It would make sense to charge more during the day when there's a higher load on the grid anyways, and considering the price of Teslas, I am confident the owners can afford it.
The alternative to DRM would be OS level sandboxing of applications, and particularly their installs. There are a multitude of benefits that would come from that.
As a webdev it's occurred to me before that at almost every conference I've been to there have been employees from Google, Mozilla and Microsoft happy to chat about their browsers. They're also active online, via Twitter or whatever.

Apple, on the other hand... I've never once met a Safari dev. How does that help anyone - including Apple? Feedback with the people who develop on your product can be very valuable, and it seems Apple aren't interested in any of it.
This reads like a big joke. I do not think Facebook could get remotely close to figuring out this technology. But watch me get quoted in a post in 2022 about how naive we were.
I got laid off a year ago. I got severance + unemployment, making more cash then I did at work. Within a month I found a new job making 40% more. This could be a blessing. Treat it as such, and enjoy the paid search for better employment.
They could tell local authorities; this usually gets things done.

Unless, of cource, $activity isn't even illegal in that other country.
It was but there wasn't a lot of information about how stress caused heart disease. This article talks about a potential mechanism for how it happens.
Only if they are available digitally (no DVD slot for Wii U discs) and only if Nintendo offers some digital game transfer program like they did between the Wii and the Wii U (digital games are tied to your console, not an account)
While I agree with the sentiment, be careful not to overdo it. The employment market can be fickle - you will probably find a job easily in this industry, but you might not.

So, enjoy the time off. But keep an eye on your financials. Don't wait to start collecting unemployment benefits. Don't wait to start planning - whether that means contacting recruiters or planning a pet project - start doing something soon.
How much do you listen to music on Spotify? If you were rating music on scale of 1-10, how much music that you listen to on Spotify is at a 7 or above?

My Discover Weekly used to be pretty mediocre until I started better curating my playlists. I'd grab a playlist, throw it on in the background and call it good enough. There were certainly songs that I didn't like playing, and the algorithm had no way of differentiating what I did and didn't like.

I pruned my playlists so that the music playing is only stuff that I highly enjoy. This made a huge change to my Discover Weekly and my Daily Mixes.
That about sums it up. If you're going to pick exactly one combination, why pick the one that's loaded for so many people? But honestly I wouldn't have even noticed if it hadn't been so unbalanced. Here's the actual video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nabG4yPZqFM

She doesn't even land a punch. If it were a back and forth with the dude eventually winning, it wouldn't have stood out to me at all and I wouldn't have commented.

If they had shown several fights and this was one of them, it also wouldn't have stood out.
because it uses existing interpreters on the target host, fixed locations only happen in a homogeneous environment. Most IT shops commonly have to deal different OS/Distrbutions/Versions so the same way you cannot have just 1 tshirt size for everyone you cannot have 1 interpreter path.

I'm saying 'interpreter' instead of Python because you can create modules in any language, Ansible only ships with Python ones, but Perl, Ruby, etc modules exist also and usable by Ansible.
This existed in Dota2 for some time as well; one could use an (illegal) mod to quickly start/stop attacks until it found a crit animation.
They must have, i'm a Spotify sub and i've never used FB with Spotify. At least, that i remember. I rarely (read: maybe once a year) login to FB so i despise any FB-only login services.
They do pay their staff. Unfortunately the stock compensation was based on the … highly optimistic … story they told around the IPO about growing to be as large as Google or Facebook. Why spend prudently when you're about to be stupid-rich?
"The games are on cartridges.. what year is this?"

Assuming you are referencing optical media: A year in which optical media is actually having a hard time keeping up with cartridges in capacity and size and gets blown away on random read speed. (Possibly raw read speed too, depending on the specs.)

In the PS1/PS2 era, the optical media advantage in size and price per MB was clear. In the PS3 era it was possibly less clear, but still advantage optical media. But that advantage is largely gone now. The only advantage optical media has now is that it is still cheaper to make per MB (or GB if you prefer now), but carts have gotten cheap enough that that isn't necessarily a killer anymore.

Plus as I understand it, very few games even now fill a DVD, let alone fill a Bluray. And the optical media have some very significant disadvantages that are getting worse and worse relative to the rest of the hardware over time, particularly random read latency. Even the PS3 era required a lot of hacking under a lot of game's hoods to arrange the exact order things appeared on the disk to be able to stream in at anything like a reasonable speed, which is why this generation just straight-up requires you to install it to a hard drive (at least sometimes, I don't know if it's every game)... and even the hard drives they can afford to put in consoles at scale are starting to become performance bottlenecks themselves!

Optical media also means you aren't portable, which is a bit of a downer for the Switch.

Assuming you mean "why include anything at all and just let people download to local flash", I imagine it's because Nintendo still wants to sell to people who may not have internet connections that casually download 5GBs. Also, cartridge ROMs are a lot cheaper than flashable media, which is still expensive relative to the size of modern games to put in a console. I've got 512GB of very nice flash in my laptop, but that part alone cost more than the entire Switch. I imagine hitting their price points with enough flash to make it so that you're not constantly deciding which 5 AAA games you can fit on there would be quite difficult. Plus if they do ship out a game console in which the games are constantly "thrashing", Nintendo will actually pay for all the additional downloading that will result. And the end-user result is poor; "hey thanks for inviting us over but three of us need to agonize over which games to delete and then three of use will use your network connection to re-download Splatoon 2, oh dear, look at that, it's gonna take 5 hours" is not what they are looking for.

SD cards are not a perfect answer either; quality varies greatly. I can see why the 3DS has gotten away with it even as a putatively AAA console might not want to trust it entirely. It would help if people didn't buy the cheapest thing they could find with the capacity they want, but they do.
SOPA is the only one I can think of and then they rebranded it
The nice solution here that would please security-conscious people with an opt-in would be for that opt-in to prevent automatic re-encryption and re-transmission under the new key.

To expand on the example given above, if the police get your phone, turn it off and wait for a while. You might have quite a few incoming unreceived messages. They can then simply take the sim, put it in a new phone, and register that with whatsapp. They can then read all messages sent to you since they turned of your phone.
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True, good point!
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They could be design decisions that are tailored for Google's use or issues for which Google has other compensating controls.
I really agree with this as well. Jumping right into another job at another company can have its draw backs. If you can afford to, take a trip and change your perspective and reflect about what you want next for yourself.

When a potential employer inquires as to a gap in time on your CV just say you went and did some traveling and "recharged your batteries." It is completely respectable and envious thing. Also you will be glad when you are sitting at your desk at your next job working late that you went out and saw some of the world. Likewise you will also be glad when you are sitting on a beach in Southern Thailand somewhere :)
No titles at launch is common for Nintendo. SNES had F-Zero or Super Mario World. n64 had pilotwings or super mario 64. Gamecube had Luigi's Mansion, Wave Race something or other, and Super Monkey Ball.

Admittedly, Wii had a bunch of launch games.
Yes, but most other platforms don't have the same level of vibrant public discussions.

On things like Facebook, discussions are mostly between friends or "friends of friends", with no chance of an outside opinion, for instance.
From the news article:

Boelter said: “[Some] might say that this vulnerability could only be abused to snoop on ‘single’ targeted messages, not entire conversations. This is not true if you consider that the WhatsApp server can just forward messages without sending the ‘message was received by recipient’ notification (or the double tick), which users might not notice. Using the retransmission vulnerability, the WhatsApp server can then later get a transcript of the whole conversation, not just a single message.”

I frankly didn't understand what was said here.
I guess we should have voted harder? 'Cause voting is the answer to problems with elected governments, right?

Right?
Yeah, it's true that CDs are technically superior. But vinyl is certainly high enough quality that it's good enough. Tape is noticeably low quality. But vinyl records, regardless of their technically deficiencies, sound really good. And, at the end of the day, if music sounds good, it is good.
This works. Attempting to rent or purchase the largest movie you can find (from the itunes store) using a device that has less free space than the size of said movie will result in the freeing up of a significant amount of space without any noticeable negative issues. I have done this many times in the past. I am currently on a jailbroken ipad Air still running 8.4, but I dont think the jailbreak, nor the ios version affect this. Also, I had success when attempting to purchase as opposed to renting the movie. I have never been charged for the movie and I always see significant free space afterward. Several of the comments on the link page mention they were charged for the movie. I was not.
Or, if you prefer pop-culture references, the same thing was summed up in a joke on The Big Bang Theory. Quoting from memory: "Right and wrong are absolutes! There is no scale between them!" - "Of course there is. Saying that a tomato is a vegetable is less wrong than saying it is a suspension bridge."
But why? I don't think Trump has a more privacy-oriented stance on surveillance, so what motivation does Obama have to still rush this in?
They are! EDG is a tiny company but is extremely highly regarded and its founders (Stephen Adamczyk, John Spicer,
Daveed Vandevoorde) are considered legends in the community.

At a time where GCC was still catching up, MSVC was in the dark ages and clang still not existent, EDG used to be the standard compliant C++ front end. It is still the front end for a lot of proprietary compilers (Intel, MSVC intellisense, Comeau) and I hear it is a very high quality codebase.
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I have had Spotify for about a year and have never had to connect Facebook.
Not sure if I understood you well: do you imply that Moxie was involved in creating this backdoor?

EDIT:

Sorry, misread.
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