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may be [hopefully] civilizations reach mental maturity preventing such pollution of their galactic neighborhood with self-replicating trash before being able to perform such pollution. "Morris worm" at galactic scale :)

With regards to aliens - i see the Bible as exactly historical document of such an unplanned/unauthorized contact by an alien observer gone rogue. Contains all elements, like medical nanobots, [food]replication, specific lessons that violence is the main obstacle of civilization development, blue light sterilizing the cave with decontamination workers in white overalls and some devices on their backs (angels :), etc... Hunt for the lost sample of the alien's DNA - Holy Grail- which also contains those nanobots.
Would you elaborate on B a bit? I don't quite see the moral value judgment in surviving while society collapses.
The update may not be rolled out yet -- still see the old version on my phone with no updates available.
I agree completely. I had the original Samsung Vibrant, then almost every Galaxy phone up the 7. After the 5th one, each phone was worse than the last. I'll never go back to a Samsung.

Couldn't be happier with my Nexus 6P. Not the most powerful phone out there, but it just works.
Apple's new AirPods onboarding is sublime.

One quibble: whoever believed that grey text on white paper was a good idea has issues that need to be addressed.
Envy does not justify murder.

Most modern philosophers have taken the view that envy itself is immoral.
Does this offer anything that trumptracker.github.io doesn't?
My stint at Google led me to feel more happy about storing data there, not less. The sentiment wasn't uncommon among my coworkers.

Unauthorized "looking at data" is a good way to get escorted from the building before the end of the day.
You're absolutely right, I misread those.

Passive voice would be "to be drawn", "to be read", etc.

Thank you.
I wonder, has there ever been a challenge to magazine publishers under disability discrimination laws?

Businesses in UK & USA, AIUI, have to make reasonable accommodations for disabilities. It would be supremely easy for a magazine to forward a PDF copy that a legally blind person could use with an eBook reader or similar.
It was the same kind of hack as the "Russian election hack". Poor password practice led to routine unauthorized access of individual accounts. Guessing or stealing somebody's password is not usually a hack.
I turned a routine traffic ticket into the constitutional trial of the century
You should ask someone who actually knows about that topic, e.g. any doctor that works with people with sleep problems, what they think of your statement.
I think people should stop trying to put others into categories to feel superior about themselves. People have a range of talents and shortcomings. No one is perfect.
Well, also it would divide their focus between producing excellent browsers and bureaucratic certificate details.

I think it would make more sense to create another non-profit variant of Let's Encrypt for EV certs.
How would the gulfstream land without a crew properly maintaining the landing strip, clearing it of debris, providing air control, etc?

Not to mention that fuel spoils fast. Gasoline lasts only a few months in normal conditions, up to a year in optimal conditions. A small detail that almost all apocalypse movies seem to ignore...
The number in the ledger will obviously survive, will the value?

I mean, say I have some food that I want to trade (not just me, me and my big squad of well armed killers). Are you going to trade instead with the guy who says he has lots of bitcoin?
Your comment is racist.

I am also pointing out that the article itself has a racist undertone.

Culture exists.
browsers effectively would have a monopoly over their users

Sure, and there's already such a troublingly small vendor's market to begin with (Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, really).

This idea would definitely have problems, but then again so does what we're doing now...
Did you ever get bored with a game of Spore, and start a new game on a different planet?

We have to assume that any creation-capable deity has to be patient enough to try the cosmic life-evolving minigame at least twice before quitting forever, right?

"This game sucks. I never should have programmed it. After a couple billion years, I always get the atheist bad ending, no matter what I try. One star."
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There is a collection on boarding critiques that you might find helpful.

https://www.useronboard.com/onboarding-teardowns/
> Because 1 in a trillion = 0 is pretty much what we're informed by day-to-day usage and intuition

Avogadro's constant is 6.022 x 10^23 [1]. There are a hundred billion sets of a trillion constituent particles in ever mol of anything. A reaction that happens to water once in a trillion years would occur 20,000 times a second for each 18 mL of water.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant
I remember the first time in my career I encountered someone like this. I thought I was mistaken or crazy, or just naive since I was new to corporate work. This person MUST do something or he'd have been fired! But after watching for weeks, then months, as he literally accomplished nothing, instead spending all his time self-promoting, taking credit for other people's accomplishments, and "managing upward", I was convinced I wasn't crazy. His official job was to write code, but his real job was shaping the perceived reality of his boss and his boss's boss, and he was very very good at it. This person has, since, gone on to be rather successful (at least a successful sounding title at a well-known software company).
Surprised they let you do this since most any rack server is longer than the allowable carry-on length.
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Multi cellular life has evolved several times. There are several distinct cases of single called organisms promoting conditions which aid others of it's species. Causing a colony to form, and then spawn new colonies.

Now, highly complex multicellular life seems to share common descent. But that likely has more to do with predation than anything else. Further single called organisms preform horizontal gene transfer to both other single called life and multicellular life, making things impossible to trace back.
More recent? The current post is from 2 hours ago. The one you posted is from 2 days ago.
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Yep and that's a problem, I think the solution there is harsher penalties actually enforced, if you need to increase the salary to make people take that job then so be it.

Other countries do infrastructure better and have water that is demonstrably better than in a lot of places in the US.
I'm a night owl. I've forced myself into becoming an early riser just to mitigate the 45-1hr of traffic and get to the gym. I don't feel like it's helped my productivity whatsoever, though. It's like no matter what, I get a complete boost in productivity as soon as the sun goes down.
So did I miss the boat on getting rich off of selling survivalist gear?
Indeed! But even further, "cables who control you"... well, "only" monitor... for now ;-).
That's the exact same thing I thought as soon as I saw the headline.
So what do you do for internet access? You do realize that whoever is giving it to you can plunder your data as they mine the hell out of it for whatever they can get, right?
It's slightly different, because as long as what goes through them is encrypted you don't really care about the pipes. Well, you should still care about the metadata, but it's not exactly the same issue.

With Cloud computing, operators frequently have access to all your data. Sometimes it is part of their business model to use it (e.g. gmail). As long as you are aware of that, no problem. They typically won't use your data for things more harmful than targeted advertising (although you should check that ToS do not give them ownership of your data...), except if you're, say, a paedophile, in which case they might tell authorities (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11012008/Paedophi...).

In other words, your data is typically well protected as long as the cloud provider and entities which could require access to its data (e.g. law enforcement agencies from its home country or the countries where its servers are) are not part of your threat model.
Thinking that "secure" is a boolean is fundamental misunderstanding of security.
> Six years later his fake MSc is still up there in LinkedIn.

That's a shame, but let me tell you a slightly different story.

We needed to hire a chemist. We found a great candidate: 25 years in industry, five jobs (i.e. not a job-hopper; people had apparently found her competent), some of those jobs were where someone at the company knew someone there so we could check on her.

BS in Chemistry from university X. Hey, I attended university X and she was my year! I looked her up on the alum site maintained by the university and indeed, she had graduated with a BS the same year as me! But the BS wasn't in chemistry.

Clearly she'd been doing the job. And if she'd put her actual degree on her resume we would have been excited to have her in for an interview. But since she lied on the resume it went into the trash and she never knew.
So is Hangouts the new Google Voice? The focus shifted from Google Voice to Hangouts (it receiving MMS, etc), and now it's shifted back to Voice? Why can't they just combine it all into a single app and be done with it.
Perhaps more as in "additional, recent discussion"
I wouldn't downvote OP, he clearly recognizes that his own vision is an old one, and by far not the mainstream.
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The poster didn't say any of that, he just said that it seems specifically designating a kill box does not by itself override rules about target identification. That's all. There may be other factors that could cause an inappropriate target to get targeted illegitimately, but designating a kill box by itself doesn't do that. If you have reason to disagree with the actual point being made, please go ahead.
This has been true in my experience. Interviewed at FB recently, they gave me a take-home project that we would go over together in the on-site interview. I spent a lot of effort on the project instead of typical white-board coding. I did great on the project but did so-so on the white-boarding. No offer.
Apply for the mid levels anyway. I never post for a junior position, because we don't have the time and money required to train you up to where you need to be. However, part of this is also about confidence. If you're fresh out of school, but you code as a hobby, and are really into learning about how code works, and have some chops, then depending on the hiring round, you can easily score higher than a mid level dev that has simply worked with Visual Studio his whole career and is inept if an IDE isn't there to hold your hand the whole way through. That's beyond useless to me.
I thought that the Carvana trade-in onboarding was pure magic. A "custom" video that described the valuation of my car was so cool that even though I ended up trading in my car with a car I bought at a dealership I really wanted to be a Carvana customer.

https://www.carvana.com/trades
logz.io does not appear to support TLS on their homepage. I'm getting mixed content errors that are preventing stylesheet loading.

So, correct link may be http://logz.io instead of https://logz.io
FTA:

> In the case of working from home/remote work, some employees do not do their best work from home, or simply don’t like it. That is fine—but you should trust your employees and treat them like adults. Let them make the call for themselves.

it directly addresses performance and that employees should be enabled to make the choice.
I'll send this along to the one friend I still know using Google Voice though. I'm sure he'll be excited, he was just complaining about something the other day and I was nudging him toward bailing.

With Google losing interesting in Voice and integrating it into Hangouts, then apparently losing interesting in Hangouts too, I'd been telling him that Voice was probably dead-dead.
That seems to be the pattern yes, it's not like any of this is new either, political theory and treatises from centuries ago show this recurring cycle of the concentration of power (whether that's direct power, soft power or power via wealth) followed by gross abuses of that power and then systemic change (ranging from chopping the head off the nearest king through to the fall of the soviet union).

Not sure what the solution is or that there is any single solution, wealth inequality seems to beget greater wealth inequality.
If you have a demanding job and are raising kids, your rare, few hours off are very precious - you'd hardly want to spend them driving back and forth between dealerships and haggling. And you're just too tired to put in that effort.
Find those large staffing companies and submit your resume right away. Meanwhile keep learning and practicing. A junior HR person from that staffing company will be with you right there in the actual job interview sitting on your side of the table (but of course their customer is the company, you are the product, and they probably won't be much of a help and take a big cut). Maybe you need to practice that whole procedure a bit. Remember, if you can do FizzBuzz then everyone in the room breathes a sigh of relief since they had 3 people worse than you on this day already :-)

In the end you'll have an actual job as a real programmer doing Java at a bank and soon you'll realize the job is kinda boring and most of your colleagues are kinda average at their job and you realize why companies would advertise to find mid-senior level people :-)

But you've made it. You started kinda late in life and you wondered if you were smart enough to do it, but of course you put in the work and you got the results.

And now it's up to you if you want to cruise along or use that precious skill, the ability to sit down in the evenings and study and practice, and go on to do something you'll be proud of.

Can you do it? Yes.
Having grown up in poverty in a third world country that is extremely chaotic, the doomsday obsession in America is laughable and a little disturbing at the same time. Society doesn't break down like that. Can someone explain why is there such paranoia in the US about societal collapse ? It it video games, movies, media frenzy, hyper partisan politics ? All of it ? I know people who have created bunkers and stock pilled food to prepare for apocalypse. Seriously !!
Indeed, cf cöoperation and etc... in their pages.
Are you focussing on the word 'focussed'? That is a correct spelling of the word and if memory serves, the New Yorker have written about how their style guide requires it.
When is Google / Mozilla going to just blacklist them as a CA for anything going forward? This seems like a thing where they'd be lucky to give you a single warning as this could literally get people killed due to oppressive regimes doing MiTM.
Because you absolutely are. I've always thought that anybody who seriously thinks society is going to collapse should just move to a developing country, buy a farm, and get-on getting-on. Because there's really no way to prepare other than to get started on your post-collapse life.

I grew up on a farm in very rural USA and we often face mini-"disasters". The roads would be impassable due to snow, power would go out for weeks sometimes. My life has shown me that you don't prepare for disasters, you just do without.

You're cold, hungry, and miserable. Guns and ammo doesn't help because there's nothing really to hunt, same goes for fishing (most people don't live within walking distance of a non-polluted waterway). Better not get too attached to electricity or driving because it's going to be impossible to store any significant amount of fuel.

A collapsed society resembles rural Afghanistan or India more than it does whatever wild west these people are imagining.
This is the key part here, IMO: "... because the tanks, which often weigh more than 100,000 pounds, would destroy the roads, the source said."

An Abrams tank ranges from 54 to 65 tons (108,000 to 130,000 pounds or ~49,000 to ~59,000 kg) in weight and is 32 feet (9.7m) in length, including the main gun. They can not only chew up the roads, but their length could make maneuvering through DC rather difficult.

As for missiles, if you look at the Patriot system hauled on a HEMTT, it's even less maneuverable. The HEMTT is even longer and taller than the Abrams by default; I don't know how much additional room the launcher itself would require.

For all the talk of "optics" here, I think it was the practical implementation that shut things down before any sociopolitical aspects were considered.
I have an Apple TV, so to watch Amazon content I'm consigned to stream it from my phone using AirPlay.

However, that works surprisingly well. And it has a bonus feature: While the episode is playing, you get annotations on the phone about what actors are on the screen and what music is playing, with the ability to click on them to get bios etc.

(I'm sure this isn't offered on every show streaming on Prime; the last example I remember was Goliath.)
Cool. I use the app from time to time and it was really decrepit.
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Ask HN: Request specific PM for renewing contract?
I'm a software contractor being extended my contract. I have the potential to work with one of 4 different technical project managers. 2 of these are painful to work under as they are inexperienced, unaccountable and plan extremely poorly. Is it tactless to specify which PMs I prefer to work under and why (even if just saying "more experienced, allows me to execute better") under my extension conditions?
I can concur with that last part. One of the strongest developers I've ever hired had one of the worst resumes. If it weren't for the fact that he had a friend on the team who vouched for him, we'd have never bothered with the interview.

I remember reading the resume then walking over to my boss's office to ask "why am I even wasting time phone screening this crap?" and getting the answer "Steve knows him and says he's pretty good. Cut it short if he's not."
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I agree with this, too. Most of the super rich have wealth and resources that matter in a stable global capitalistic economy/society, but these will have no value with the breakdown of that system. The truly important skills, post-disaster, will be those needed to survive without civilization. The ones that survive will be those that already have those skills or are quick to adapt, AND are physically located in areas with enough resources to survive.
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we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now.

Nope. Not even close. We survived the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam War protests. For all our online angst and whining, we're not even 1/10th as far toward the tipping point as we were back then.
One thing every cloud storage company could do here is be explicit about what data is and isn't encrypted at rest (I'm assuming all data is encrypted in transit), and what data is accessible to what group/number of people.

I would say that I have more trust of public cloud storage here because their business' livelihood depends on you paying money for storage, something you might not do if they are snooping through your data.
So in the brand new blog post, they link to this page: https://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html

When you click around, you get to see icons and screenshots from a bygone era
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Well it will soon land in stable as well I am sure. But its amazing to see major browsers moving in this direction and educating users about security.
thanks for the positive feedback y'all!
I just use it as a secondary number because the area code for my real number is for so far away. Sometimes that would seem strange or suspicious, and I use it during those times.
Yeah, it's about identity. Some people really want to be the sort of person who gets that "a watch isn't about time". Some people really want to be the sort of person who reduces it to that.

I find the latter nicer to be around overall.
I'm really curious what those guidelines are. I don't see them listed in that link.
Maybe a majority of HN readers these days are fakers?
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The specific root cause is Google's practice of promoting based on product launches; it literally doesn't matter whether that product goes on to be successful. This practice creates a strong and perverse incentive to continually launch new products while discouraging iterative development of existing products.
Protip: it's just a wish list. Apply anyway. You might be the only one who does.
My main number is in Google Voice, and has been since 2010. I've lived every day in fear that they would 'spring clean' the product, like they did for Google Reader.

I'm just happy to see a commitment to the product, and to future updates. There really isn't anything else like it out there. I love it.
I suppose I should have said "willing to go to bed at a reasonable time" but I don't supposed that would have left you satiated.

> You should ask someone who actually knows about that topic

The irony of you calling someone out for being rude is almost palpable.
People from Nigeria.
>Envy does not justify murder

In a post apocalyptic society it's kill or be killed.
When a blog post on Hackaday blows past 300 comments, you know you've hit a maker-nerve.

Good news for the KiCAD project I guess.
That is a very important distinction, between "remote" and "distributed" a.k.a. "remote-first", "remote-only" and "all-hands-remote-even-if-not-really"
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I'm really happy they're showing Google Voice some love.

It's certainly been neglected over the years, but despite that I've stuck with it (all the way since the GrandCentral days) because the alternative is so much worse. I've changed phone providers numerous times and also travel internationally: the fact that each of these moves would've otherwise required either complex number porting or letting people know about my new number is enough to make me put up with Google Voice's inadequacies. Plus, I love being able to manage SMS from my computer, just like it's another inbox.

I hope they're serious about maintaining and updating GV going forward. It's conceptually essential.
Pass off someone else project as your own? Doubtful. This attitude comes across as having trust issues. To me, it's a sign of a company with a rotten culture to be avoided.

But if someone was able to clone and deploy someone else's project and pass it off as their own, it at least demonstrates that they know git, the command line and some ops.
> we often face mini-"disasters"

True! I remember one time when our transformer blew up, and we lived for several weeks without electricity until we got a replacement.

Nothing like listening to the world cup on a battery-powered radio. Fun times!
I lived in London where I was on 115k GBP per year. To be honest I lived in an ex council flat in not a great area and never really felt like I had "made" it (despite being in the perceived 1%). Everything went to saving for a house deposit for a pretty miserable house in london!!! The only time we actually felt middle class was when we travelled to cheaper destinations overseas.

I was transferred to SF about 2 years ago. I got a nice pay increase to $250k, live in a lovely neighbourhood, bought 2 cars (1 new, 1 nearly new), 2 motorcycles (1 new, 1 nearly new), have already saved 100k USD and now planning on getting my sweet wife a great boob job.

Never looked back!
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