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I chose a tech degree and job because I like it. It's my hobby still, even though I do it full time for work. I live a comfortable life, I'm well paid, I have paid parental leave, long paid holidays, I have a large amount of influence over tech decisions. I have actively rejected offers to do more management as I want to do 100% tech. This means my pay has probably plateaued after 10-15 years now if I don't change jobs. I work from home if I want (and currently from a sunny island). I leave my kids at 8.30 and I make them dinner at 5. Every day. I fill in those lost hours here and there when I feel like it. I have never had to work overtime.

> the range of topics that I can discuss while at work is very limited

If you aren't allowed to talk politics, sports, or whatever you want at the coffee machine, switch jobs.

> all software companies these days are huge corporations that treat you like a number

Change jobs. You might find it's better to do software in a non-software company. I do.

> I definitely feel like a slave. [..] there are no means of escape

Is your value on the job market that bad? Demand for software developers has never been higher. If you have fingers, chances are there is somewhere that will hire you. If you have no formal training, and no possibility to leave a geographical area (e.g. divorced with kids in that small town) then that might be a kind of geographical prison.
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I removed myself from FB around 2 months ago. It wasn't anything special, didn't notice anything lacking from my day-to-day life whatsoever. Also didn't notice any "liberated" feeling or anything like that as well.
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I went to one Android dev meetup in China and some of the local engineers seemed frustrated, because GFW occasionally blocks Github.com or developers.google.com ...
To be fair to him, if you had a world class propaganda operation working on your behalf most of the time, you'd be a bit mentally unprepared for what happens when you go against it as well. Poor boy probably thought he squeaked to (partial) victory twice on his policies or statesmanship or something ridiculous like that.
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They voted to let people have a voice in it, not make the decision.
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Nor the protocol neither the service, but the data.

If you're going to encrypt all the backup locally before send it to rsync.net, tomorrow you will need to transfer all the GB again, even if just one bit did change...
Plenty of statements made by the Prime Minister and others since the referendum could conceivably be interpreted as Article 50 invocations if the EU wanted to go down that road.

They won't, of course, because an acrimonious Brexit is in nobody's interests.
I've just about finished the Audible version - which is excellent as the narrator manages a subtle impersonation of the various voices.

Worth noting that it is laugh out loud funny at some points as well, which I wasn't expecting.

Edit: To think that for a single text about a tweet we'd probably have a different PM....
Yes, the key word here is "non-binding".
It's a shame that SystemD, has this issue. Hopefully, once the fix is made, they can get back to the business of obfuscating the init process.
From the pass website[1]:

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The community has even produced a cross-platform GUI client, an Android app, an iOS app, a Firefox plugin, Chrome plugin, a Windows client, a pretty Python QML app, a nice Go GUI app, an interactive console UI, Alfred integration (1) (2) (3), a dmenu script, OS X integration, git credential integration, and even an emacs package.

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If this weren't the case, I'd agree :-)

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/
"524 San Anselmo Ave., Suite 107"
Does not sound like a real address as there seem to be 100x more companies registered with the same address.
At 0.03 (1tb = $30/mo) it's still much more expensive than pretty much every other service mentioned in this thread.
Gathering data in privacy- and freedom-respecting manner is something I'd really like to learn about. Any sources or reading material for this?
>Open manhole.

Not sure why this would be a problem? The car can identify a dangerous road surface and navigate around it.

>Many stop signs.

Is it really so bad if the car does stop at every one? It's inconvenient, but not dangerous. Unless there's someone behind in which case the car should know whether there's a safe stopping distance behind and act accordingly.

>Fire in a tunnel.

This doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to detect. And also, I would expect self-driving cars to have an emergency stop button.

>Tornado.

I would imagine this could be detected as a visual anomaly, but more generally... yeah natural disasters suck.

>Potential car-jacking.

I really don't think this should be the car's responsibility. If there's a serious risk of people with guns ambushing you on a road, then it's not safe and you shouldn't be driving there. How the self-driving car reacts to that is the least of my concerns.
I consider them more insecure than a reasonably well made password manager, all that is between you and any possible site you will ever register on or have registered on, is a master password.

On the other hand, I can change my Lastpass/Keepass password regularly, denying a cracker access to my accounts in the future.

The security of any password manager, including hashers, is not only how secure it is against attacks, but how secure it is after it has been successfully attacked and how easy it is to recover full security without losing too much data.
This is the really concerning part. silently fixed in the upstream git is not at all an acceptable way to deal with serious security flaws in your product.
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How does Chromium fare by itself?
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The site is down for me. http://i.imgur.com/4goIadC.jpg

While this is nothing new, more sites like these are always welcome. If you plan on keeping this alive long term, please consider making an API so I can use it from the command line. Also, these services tend to get misused a lot, so you might want to log everything. Maybe encourage people to encrypt before uploading, too.

Take a look at a few existing services as well, to figure out what else you can add.

[1] https://file.io
[2] https://transfer.sh

Just got done writing a script for the latter - https://gist.github.com/Prajjwal/63f5df1176ea05ee3679c04e0fa....
"If allowed to revert to my natural sleep cycle..."
I very much understand this. I don't think people realize that for me, I have to watch my sleep every day - including weekends - to be able to be at work at 8am during the week. Sleeping in on the weekends means that sudddenly, I'm awake at 1am monday morning.

The spouse bit hasn't been an issue: He has a similar body clock luckily. Jobs are more difficult.
There's pass, which should be right up HN's alley:

https://www.passwordstore.org/

I've been using it for a few years. Works for me.
Why have you linked me to an article which states ~90% of leave voters do not regret their vote?
>Depends on how you measure that. Samsung sells more phones.

In profit? That is, the main thing that matters for for-profit companies?

(And even considering market share, Apple is not too shabby. They just go for market share of the high --expensive and higher margin-- end of the market, not the overall smartphone market. Which is what they did since 1997 on every field -- even the iPod shuffle was an expensive mp3 player compared to $10 and $30 dollar options with similar features but less build quality/ecosystem/integration etc).
I use a small paper notebook to store my passwords. That I can trust.
Make 100k for 2 years?? I scrape together 25k as junior dev. I really wonder how you manage that in your 20s.
Hanlon's Razor; perhaps whoever wrote/merged the patch didn't consider the possibility of an exploit?
Right. If you ask a question, you have to take the answer seriously. In a democracy, the voters' vote matters even if the result does not please the government in power.
OnePlusOne X, cheap but solid and high performance Android.
Or rather, how much of this is user configurable: https://github.com/iridium-browser/tracker/wiki/Differences-...
Can I make Chromium less Google and increase privacy?
> All the in-memory stuff is nothing but a cache, distributed or not.

That's flat out wrong.

A cache is a limited store that maintains a sub-set of the data that has been placed in it. Typically the eviction policy is temporal.

A database or datastore on the other hand requires explicit removal of data that has been placed in it.

p.s. Which is why we can meaningfully talk about "cache misses" in context of a perfectly functional cache, but "missing" data in a database is generally discussed in context of a buggy datastore or database.

p.s.s. Most certainly we can have pure in-memory datastores/databases, as semantics of a database are orthogonal to its datastore component. And you don't have to take some random hn user's word for it. Go ahead and ask Michael Stonebraker. :)
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> As the designers move away from the relatively trivial confines of well-maintained urban spaces and into different countries and cultures, I seriously question their ability to keep things reasonable for the rest of the human drivers

And why should we support and enable unacceptable infrastructure and a broken culture? Isn't it better to force everyone else to conform to a single well-thought-out and managed system?
>Combined with the expectation that "execution" ceo's tend to miss new trends, as they prioritize reliability and "the grass on this side"

So what are these "new trends"? And who caters to them better, with what products? Google, Microsoft, Samsung?
Yes, it could be. I remember reading about MKS Toolkit in computer magazines (both print and online, IIRC) earlier; they used to advertise in them regularly. But many tools - not just of that category but others too - are still being sold; I think they are just not that visible on some forums like this, where the talk tends to be more about the web and the latest technologies.
Well it is a custom skin built into the Google App. I have the Nexus 6p and enabled it by making a change so my device identifies as a Pixel to Google. There was no additional software installed and that was all I did to enable it, make a small text change from "Nexus 6p" to "Pixel XL".
Don't hold your breath.
Ag work in general is only a few percent, sure, but look at the %/industry.

Here in California, for example, ~45% of ag workers are estimated to be here illegally. Similar percentages are in construction, and other manual labor jobs.

Also keep in mind that the job descriptions of this migrant population are fluid- who is counted as agricultural vs. construction, etc. changes by season and state.
The reality is that you are not going to feed a town with a tractor or a robot acting as a tractor. This is because with your robot, you are producing cereals. If you want to feed the town, you need fruits and vegetables.

Now, if you want high density, sustainable fruits and vegetables production, you need to pay extremely attention to your soil. Practically it means, try to never walk on it and produce multiple species on the same area to use the different patterns of root networks, shadow and cross protection effects.

If you do that, you end up being highly productive on a small surface but it is also very hard to see opportunities in using robots. Take a look at a very smart people running a small farm[0], he is relentless in using and building the right tools to save work and improve output etc.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Market-Gardener-Successful-Handbook-S...
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> "It's basically done, but I haven't added Y or Z yet" is always the prelude to receiving something he's been "working on" for three months and actually put in, charitably, two or three days of actual work.

Reminds me of the Typical Day interview (from Office Space): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iiOEQOtBlQ
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> I definitely feel like a slave.

In no other area it's that easy to break free. You on your own or with a couple of friends/colleagues. As a side-project if you have that much energy, or full-time if you saved some money.

Don't want to take the risk and effort? Work on projects of other people/companies. Even less risk? Take a part-time job, that will still get you a decent income and heaps of spare time.

> As a result, others take advantage of us

Do you have a family, debt and ill parents nearby that make it impossible to look for something else, or why do you allow that somebody takes advantage of you?

I think that you (we) are in one of the most comfortable, luxurious and free positions that ever existed.
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So if we're well into fining based on probability of causing loss of life due to distractions, can we also fine parents with young children (screaming, fighting, vomiting, etc all distract)? How about fining people on a recurring basis if they have a slower reaction time than some threshold?

I'm only partially being sarcastic. I'm genuinely curious how these punishments for being impaired scale up. I would rather have someone drive by me after 4 drinks who is not tired rather than a mother running on 2 hours asleep with a screaming baby (sleep deprivation is also as bad as drunk driving). Yet the former would lose his/her license at a checkpoint for a year and face a $10k fine, which you say is too little. But the latter would be waved on through.

It all seems very arbitrary and detached from the risk imposed and rather attached to the societal naughtiness of the activity.
If it's ciphered somehow, sure, why not? ;)
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Despite being in the man page, the flag --version didn't work for me on Ubuntu 16.04 (various different installations):

$ init --version
init: unrecognised option '--version'

systemd --version works though:

$ systemd --version
systemd 229
They know what they are doing. The whole point is to get you to use their cloud services. But now, if you are a Project Fi user, they are charging for data access to your own content you upload to Play Music.

So now I am back to managing music files on my device and changing them out and feeling like I jumped 10 years back to the past.
I'm a lottery winner too, I guess - I often keep Chrome running weeks at a time on a Windows machine, because I tend to suspend the system instead of shutting the computer off...

Anyway, I came here for a tangent about those "less than stellar video hosting" sites: I have an idea how to kill two birds with one stone - getting rid of them, and fixing the Internet. Can we convince MAFIAA to go after ads on the web? After all, that's what keeps illicit streaming alive.

(Torrents will obviously survive, but at least right now, most people don't know how to use them.)
I always thought programming is kind of literature, because you write in language for machines and humans at the same time ie. mix of logic and inspiration.
This is a context thing, in the UK this issue is so much discussed that the meaning is clear.

I agree that if you're not familiar with the case you could read it the wrong way though.
Waterloo is pretty good in encouraging their students to pursue and monetise their ideas. They quite fancy being able to brand themselves as a university preferred by accelerators and incubators.
Although there are no _legal_ requirements, the root programmes (which bake these CAs into software like operating systems or web browsers) such as those from Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Oracle get to impose requirements.

All of them today require the CA/B Baseline Requirements plus whatever else takes their fancy. Issuing these certificates violates the Baseline Requirements, because the subscriber did not in fact have control of example.com, and probably not of these testN.com domains either

How would your hypothetical New York attorney with an appliance in a safe validate control over the example.com name ?

This is the Internet, nobody cares that you've shown some balding guy who works above a liquor store a fake driving license in the name Bob Smith - we need to know if you're really ycombinator.com or hsbc.com.hk or a-eon.biz and so the BRs require that Certificate Authorities have an effective way to validate that.
If Parliament refuses to carry out the people's wishes, would this be a case in which the Queen would be justified in stepping in?
The current state of software development has been bothering me. Having spent several years in the software industry, I don't find the motivation to write good code, or design elegant fixes for bugs. I have worked in large MNCs as well as small companies and I see the same trend every where: The management does not care about code quality or elegance. They just want to ship things ASAP. As a result, even if a few developers care about code quality and elegance, majority of the developers don't. They just want to put together a working software, no matter how it is achieved, and be done with their job.

Now, even if the minority of developers have coded a few modules that look absolutely elegant and neat, it interacts with the majority of the software that is complex, ugly and sometimes bloated. On top of that, in many teams, developers often touch each others' code and modules to make bug fixes, enhancements, etc. which means all code (whether currently elegant or not) tends towards ugly.

How, under these circumstances, do you maintain your motivation to write good, clean and elegant code after having worked about 10 years in the software industry?
The fuel cost of a fission planet is less than 15% of TCO, so it's not going to be much cheaper, if at all.
Stop spreading misinformation, Vulkan was not influenced by DX12.

> Vulkan is derived from and built upon components of AMD's Mantle API, which was donated by AMD to Khronos with the intent of giving Khronos a foundation on which to begin developing a low-level API that they could standardize across the industry, much like OpenGL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)
I believe Oracle is still using Beehive Collaboration Suite https://stbeehive.oracle.com (conferencing as a part of the suite) internally, for email (thunderbird is the preferred client WoW), calendar (CalDAV) etc.

Beehive Conferencing used to be the default option for remote web conferencing (it actually has a better Linux version than WebEx). Beehive's predecessor, cannot even remember the name, use to be Windows ONLY and crashes attendees' Windows (BSOD) randomly (15-20%...) LoL
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It is not a question with an easy answer. In general, people that come here to work are a net benefit, as they provide cheap labor, and spend much of their income locally. But this is only speaking in broad swaths.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/immigration-does-more-good-than-...

For a good start on reading material.
Yes, i just found it, thanks!
Unfortunately, the on Firefox side, i can only use PassIFox extension, which has been too barebone to fit my needs. KeeFox has been excellent - especially if you have multiple accounts associated with single domain or even subdomains. What i use a lot is to open up a website with particular credentials (search in KeeFox by Ctrl-1) or to generate passwords (Ctrl-4) (good if you are the one making logins for other people).
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There is this Australian company which is building autonomous robots for farming, you might find it interesting http://www.swarmfarm.com/
I should have specified better. The main reason why LastPass is interesting at all, is Team Support + a good web UI. We need to be able to send passwords to team-members so we have one source of truth for our logins.
That sounds very much like https://visualping.io/
At the same time, I would not restrict what a grown rational and self-aware human (emphasize rational and self-aware) is and isn't allowed to do with themselves. See biohackers, attempts at cyborg conversion, and Dallas Buyers Club. I don't recommend it. But whatever, they are individual agents. Of course, if they're actively promoting misinformation, especially that which affects people negatively, as Ron Woodroof apparently did with AIDS drugs, that's another story....
All politics is local. All Theresa May's actions since getting the leadership have been on the basis that she will always choose being Prime Minister of a smoking crater over not being Prime Minister of not a smoking crater.
Maybe with Qt5 it will scale correctly in HiDPI display?
There is both an outside war and an inside war going on, and right now i worry as much or more about the inside war.
I hope you are trolling, because just about everything you said is false. Further, what do you have to gain by defending Zuckerberg? Anyway, let's break it down:

> These indigenous families opted to sell their land and were compensated at some point. So please elaborate on what you mean by Zuckerberg's boundless "greed"?

Yet the linked article states "complicated history of land ownership in Hawaii and can result in owners being forced to sell their land at auction. In some cases, defendants are even required to pay the legal fees of the plaintiff – in this case, the world’s fifth richest man."
Now, the article may not be the most unbiased source, but I certainly trust it more than some armchair colonial apologist on HN.

> Were I indigenous, I think I'd actually find this kind of Western academic white-knighting slightly offensive. You'd be essentially questioning the agency, sovereignty, and decision-making capacity of my people's ability manage resources.

An interesting (if emotionally baited) spin on it, possibly an appeal to incredulity. Zuckerberg can easily afford the best Hawaiian property lawyers on the planet. It doesn't seem like a fair fight to me.

> The partial land-owners with lineage to the original 14 parcels of land on the North Island are being compensated for something then never knew they had, and are not being evicted from the land. Those that sold their land also initially knew what they were doing. So it's unfair to hold Zuckerberg solely accountable for the market forces that dispossess the indigenous of their land.

Poor old Zuckerberg is just an innocent free-market agent? He's just drifting with the tide of capitalism? Bullshit. A guy like this only sees the world in terms of opportunity. He has no morals (show me evidence of the existence of these morals). He just weighed up the cost of dealing with the indigenous population vs bullying the locals with better lawyers.
Vulkan still has extensions. The whole reason game developers want to have lock-in is so that you can squeeze the maximum possible quality out of a known set of hardware.

Once you start abstracting that away you are falling behind other companies who may be able to draw slightly more particles at slightly higher frame rates at slightly higher resolutions.

The whole reason Nintendo is still saying "we have Vulkan" is because they are the only console manufacturer were raw graphical performance was never the system seller.
Brexit is in nobody's interests, and yet here we are.
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