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I think intelligence in general is not exactly what makes you do well with people, it's more of a certain type of intelligence that has no direct relation to what (most of us) consider intelligence.

I myself consider to be really intelligent and even attractive, although my interest in relating with people is really low and thus it's difficult for me to interact with strangers. I'm bad at this kind of intelligence that makes you good at human relations.
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I would suspect a similar circumstance for the author's situation. Facebook does do some weird things to try to resume user engagement, but I've not really seen them re-active accounts on their own. More than likely it was password reuse resulting in a breach.

The Author even considered that the password was checked by some automation against sites like haveibeenpwned, which makes sense to me to some degree for Facebook to be actively checking against, but they seem to dismiss this in favor of a spying option.

I agree that having to submit a government issued ID seems a little incredulous for being able to deactivate the account, but as others have suggested, I'm not really sure how else the author can prove they are who they say they are. It seems that any such approach would be equally egregious to the public eye (i.e., anyone can make a fuss and shut down a facebook account), but certainly there must be some middleground, such as multiple authentications.

A lot of the sanity checks used by companies are pretty unreasonable for most users to remember or pass - Microsoft and Skype, for example, have basically locked me out of my main skype account; their recovery challenge was to name the exact account names of 6 of my contacts as well as the the last two group chats I had been a part of. Since I hadn't used the account in about 2 years, this was really difficult for me, and the account names were even more difficult since people were using handles instead of real names, so the exact formatting was all but forgotten.

Riot Games Inc. had similar methods, asking "what was the first skin you were gifted and who gifted it?" when my friend was trying to recover their hacked account. That was stuff that had occurred years ago, and we had no idea who gifted what and when.

Again, I don't really pretend to have a good solution for these scenarios, but such solutions seem like they're just obstacles for the actual owner instead of neerdowells that overtake accounts.
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Really cool! This could prove useful for interior designing.
The comment you wittily replied to was specifically: "[f]or those who still have access"
Support's at help center which needs login.

Facebook afaik does nor have twitter support.
The one example you chose (sales) was bad because competence in sales is only in the ability to sell. So if women are having trouble selling, then they are objectively worse at that that job, which is not the discrimination everyone is trying to stop.

Take software engineering instead as an example, you should be able to hire an all women team of top engineers by paying regular market salaries. There would be no downside and all upside if the gap between male and females of the same skill level is true.
That book is by far the best one I ever read about Functional Programming in general, even if you don't want to learn Scala itself it is an amazing reading about FP.
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Ok, that's a fair point. If you open code indented somewhere else, there might be changes.

In my experience, as my IDE (Intellij Idea) highlights lines that are changes for git, these errors are trivially detected. But perhaps for a newbie, this could be confusing? In any case I still think it is a net win.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965612 and marked it off-topic.
> Well I respect Mr.Lamport`s point, but to prove liveness you are almost doomed to use temporal logic.

I thought CSPm/FDR4 proved liveness on infinite event trails without temporal logic? Can't one extract "never" and "sooner or later" by just exploring the whole state space? Deadlock/livelock will never happen etc.
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Original comment sounds more like google's shill comment, to be honest. Because iPhones take pictures instantly too (although they have a quick ui feedback), and it's either hard to believe that attendant never touched iPhone, which is, like, well, the most popular phone ever; or it's indeed that pixel doesn't indicate in any way that it has taken the picture.
Converged systems market is so hot it just went backwards
There's http://neuralstyle.com/ , based on different code that does a similar thing . It's quite GPU intensive so it takes a while and I think the free options are limited.
Every time I read something that makes me want to tell someone that they are a blithering idiot whose ideas are only worth writing down if its on paper that is soft enough to use as toilet paper I take a breath and find I can express what is wrong with their ideas without saying so.

Actually having to focus on the ideas as opposed to the party has a tenancy to improve the quality of the analysis.
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Every german keyboard can do this. And a quick (non-exhaustive) google image search shows that many other keyboard layouts support it, e.g. french, turkish and portuguese (brazil but not portugal)
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This analysis isn't sound. Doubling the supply of labor has drastically driven down the price of labor. While that's good for employers, it's questionable whether or not things are better for employees with so much competition for good jobs.
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Well, a theory is that Agile is responsible for both. While its short devlopment cycles help deal with essential complexity (you understand better the customer's problem because you have more interaction with them), it also implies incremental coding which often increases the accidental complexity.

As an example:

After a short development cycle, you created a database schema where each Client class has a single address, and because it was done quickly, the address fields are in the same Client table.

In a second development cycle, your customer tells you that their clients may have one or more address and one of them is the primary. The quickest path to delivery is to keep the address in the Client table as the primary address, and add a secondary address table.

While short development cycles help in not screwing up large requirements, it also impairs our ability to see the larger picture, and cause us to take decisions that we need to undo afterwards.
Otzi is a member of haplogroup G[1], which is fairly rare in Europe, especially Scandinavia, while more common in the Caucasus and near east.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRXiwWpmSbs
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> I suspect that account credentials acquired from breaches of non-Facebook services are being used to attempt to access Facebook accounts.

Given you more or less gave away the idea that you reuse your own passwords, if you haven't already, I suggest you start using a password manager and changing all your passwords to something random.
Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements
The thread above was not about modern agriculture; it was about the pre-historic time when agriculture was adopted and the availability of more food enabled more children to survive.
NASA is using a mixed reality space station to train astronauts
Microsoft's new tool helps you easily migrate your stuff from Mac to Surface
Some companies do it to just get an idea of what's available. I had a job as a contractor at a startup and when they decided they wanted to convert me to full-time they had me apply to their job ad.
I think you misunderstand the benefits of rust if you believe that writing the whole OS in rust makes any other security pointless.
You're right, US keyboards do not support AltGr! I have always used european keyboards and every one of them supports AltGr, so I assumed that US keyboards did the same.

Just for testing, I installed a few new keyboards on my KDE desktop, and I can confirm that French, German, Spanish, and Greek keyboards have support for AltGr combinations to get superscripts/fractions/other characters.

I've never required that a keyboard could allow any character. However, this is indeed possible today, as Shift+Ctrl+u+HexNumber allows to quickly insert any Unicode character. (This works under Xfce and KDE, and probably other DEs.)

Nevertheless, I think that a 100-and-more-keys keyboard should support a subset of the most useful ones. I am a physicist and an Italian, so having quick keyboard combinations for exponents, fractions, and the euro sign € is extremely handy for my everyday activities.
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Is it just me or is this just a hidden advertisement for the book "It's Not All About "Me": The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone" by Robin Dreke [1]?

The book is mentioned (and linked) several times in the article and in articles the article itself cites as sources (and links to).

[1]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0060YIBLK
The problem with being attractive as a male is twofold. You're constantly antagonized by other males, even in the most trivial things, and it's harder to been taken seriously because most people correlate good looks with low intelligence. Bottom line is that you have to try harder than everyone else because everywhere you go you'll face hostility, especially in the corporate world.

For example, it took me a lot of years to realize why men where constantly bragging about their lives when I first met them. Initially I thought that this is common, that everyone does it. But it turns out that they do it because I'm good looking and they feel disadvantageous, even if I downplay the way I look. Imagine how it feels if pretty much everyone you meet comes with you with a fake personality. It wears you down and makes relationships too difficult.
Believe it or not, some people are excited by their work, and believe it's the most important thing they're doing.

Not everyone is a slave to a job they hate, which seems to be your perspective here.
A simple and effective way to write meeting minutes -MeetNotes
A bit of texturing that would be smaller than a pixel on the original version would not hurt that.
My iPhone 4 takes unbelievable macro pictures. I hate to say this, but better than my Canon 20D, with an L lens. I was thinking about buying a macro lens for Canon, but can't justify the it anymore.

Just macro in my world though. The dslr still takes better portraits, and nature shots.
Great tool - it's also available for the most common distros (RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu...) and it supports LVM, EXT4...
WhatsApp must not be 'place for terrorists to hide'
Convert meetings from annoying interruptions to an effective tool
MeetNotes can make your meetings purposeful. Create meetings on the go, define agendas and assign tasks all through a simple interface. www.meetnotes.co
I feel overwhelmed by the domain; as an ex photoshop addict, it's already above "complex job" level. I wonder if people feel bad about AI "stealing their hobs" (not a joke).
> Are microservices more complex or less complex?

I've long argued that microservices are a great way to reduce complexity; however, I had one project that I was involved in where microservices definitely added complexity. You get it right that,

> less complexity in other areas, because parts of your code are firewalled off from each other, so you have a smaller problem space when making changes/fixing bugs.

This is exactly right, and is exactly how microservices should make things less complex: by limiting the surface area that needs to be inspected when issues arise.

Where microservice I was thinking of fell short (IMO), is that it received JSON structures on the wire, and essentially, those Mappings and Lists made it all the way down to the lowest layers of the code. Deep in the heart of the service, Mappings and Lists are constructed, bubbled all the way back out towards the HTTP handlers (being mutated all the way) and then finally serialized and put on the wire as JSON.

Obviously (or, at least, I hope) this is not good. At any point, all I know is that I have a Mapping or a List; I have no real idea what the semantic business type of the thing is. (Unless it has a good variable name.) No validation (aside from it being JSON) is done, so if a structure is not well formed, that error isn't detected until such a time as it matters to the code (b/c something expects a String, and it isn't, for example), and everything grinds to a halt.

Couple a few of these together, and a badly formed JSON substructure can wind its way through multiple services. This can make debugging hard as you can't attach to a single process and follow execution from inception to failure, and the problem now spans potentially multiple machines.

So, this makes me wonder if this is where all the vitrol for microservices comes from (I've never really heard a good argument against it) or if it's just a strawman. The above, of course, is a failure not of microservices, but of mostly input validation and an unwillingness to strongly type your parameters. (Mappings of Lists of Mappings of etc. count as "stringly typed" in my book.)
awesome, wish there's no matlab requirement; can the matlab code be converted to python?
With a lower skill level it plays weird, almost useless to learn from compared to playing other humans.
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I'm not sure if your assertion is relevant because the jobs for H-1B are not that poor I think.

Your assertion may be wrong; it depends on what is "poor" in a poverty-stricken zipcode.

The median per capita income in India is 616$. PPP adjusted that is 2351$.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_... shows people at the 6.48th percentile in the United States earn $2500.
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Ask HN: Unix philosophy as a way to live
Does this philosophy influence your life style, your work and relationships? Quote: The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development.
LyX actually has support for math macros, or is that support just not ergonomic for you? Not certain what the best way would be to support macros in a graphical math editor.
I wonder if this allows running things like mitmproxy on your phone. Or maybe someone is aware of a good alternative?
If you feel like an impostor, then you almost certainly are one. Most impostors probably don't even realize that they're impostors.
I've never felt like an impostor, every day I have the opposite feeling.
Pretty obvious your leaked email/password (from another website) was tried against facebook.

And while I agree with not likely to upload photo of our driver's licence/etc.. it's pretty likely this is really just to verify that it's your account to delete (although I'm sure you could photoshop something that passes pretty easily if you were malicious) and it sounds like they remove that proof of identity pretty securely afterwards.
The pen provided with the app is great but the website is not very social
Well, if you give somebody your facebook password and they reactivate your account, shouldn't you be angry with that somebody?
That's great! Enjoy trading hedge funds or whatever.
Tobias Stone talks about identity, cryptography, and the future of citizenship
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How to Dockerize Windows Applications: The 5 Steps – Elton Stoneman
Let's call a spade a spade -- these people are parasites. After reading the linked article I ran a generic inquiry and discovered that "Paul Lutus
is on Facebook[1]." False and annoying. I suspect this is how Facebook can claim to have so many followers. I'm sure there are many dead people who are "on Facebook" too and, by virtue of being dead, less likely to object.

1. https://www.facebook.com/paul.lutus
Isn't this the main purpose of FB anyway - to boast how much your life is better then everyone's else?
I started relationships at the age of 24, I was really impressed how easy it was for me. I always thought I was some kind of nerd loser, which I still feel I am.

During all my life my method was always to slowly ask personal questions and "open up" people, let them talk about themselves, their job and skills.

What people love is to let them talk about their problems, without criticizing them about it. I think I learned that from therapy. Once you do that, people are hooked and it's a pretty good way to learn about them. It's not manipulative as long as you don't exploit it against them or for your interest, which is really evil (and they will notice it very quickly).

Then of course, you should always open up yourself if the person opened up to you, and that can be difficult, generally you should talk about yourself without necessarily waiting for the other person to ask.

I always felt those things were kind of manipulative, but I asked and it seems they're not.
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Every single time a girl is talking with a guy and thus making model, a guy is talking with a girl too.

In any case, most girls are not approached from a young age by hundreds or thousands of guys thou. Only few very super popular girls are like that. Tomboy girls also have a lot of experience of talking with guys, but only in their group of friends, hardly hundreds. Both groups are not even close to being majority of girls.

Less then super popular girls exist, really :).
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Yes! I imagine being like, "Damn, I always wanted to see Venice when it was snowing, but alas it was sunny during my short visit."
I believe it's a little bit of "column A" and a little bit of "column B".

On one hand it can feel maddening that a generation (or two) of young IT professionals have seemingly gone full-circle and tried all kinds of techniques only to end up leaning on tried-and-true technologies of the past (think: NoSQL vs ACID compliant relational DB's, Ruby/Python vs Elixir/Erlang, Flash/Flex - XML based design vs React/Javascript/HTML5/Canvas, Dynamic vs Strict typing, etc).

There has been a lot of re-inventing.

However, I think this had to happen. Many great ideas of the past were amazing ideas but they simply were before their time, not quite implemented well enough, we're too heavy/complex for the hardware at the time, and so-on.

Software has been moving too fast for the collective mind to keep up.

Maybe, in an ideal world, we would have methodically built up on the best of software from the 60's without wasting time and effort experimenting with new ideas. Honestly, that might have been awesome for productivity and the advancement of humanity as a whole. That's not how we seem to function as people, though. I can't help but think of "space travel" here (it sure didn't carry on exponentially from the moon landing ~50 years ago).

In my mind I believe this always happens with technology of any kind. It may be why we're discovering that ancient civilizations probably had much more interesting technology than we initially imagined. They simply has certain cycles where they "really hit a sweet spot" and other periods where it all became contrived.

On that note, if anyone has any suggestions for books about this subject please let me know. I know it's not an original thought and I'd bet there's been some interesting research.
Especially considering that Nokia gave a huge push to computational photography back with the N900. In fact, the name "GCam" is probably related to "FCam".

I guess this is just how marketing copy ends up being handled at companies this size. Apple constantly insinuates that they wrote WebKit from scratch, and that it constituted some sort of "innovation".
Comcast does this with their customers' cable modems (every cable modem broadcasts a Comcast network that any Comcast customer can use). It's somewhat evil and clever because it encourages you to use Comcast over and equivalent service because of the Internet access you get while out and about. They've given choosing an ISP a network effect.
0ad is fun but it lacks a lot of polish for the UI and has performance problems (even though, it is getting resolved). A lot of new content is added but there are problems of balance. I wish they will stop to add new civilizations and concentrate and making a release version.
I agree, and I also couldn't get into it at first. It does come together later on though and I'm happy I kept watching.

That said, there's a difficult to describe lack of something in the show that keeps it from being great, and it bothers me that I can't put my finger on it. I loved Firefly and BSG and have watched most episodes at least twice (possibly even ten times in the case of Firefly), and yet I can't see myself rewatching The Expanse.
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it weights 1/3 of tesla so it degrades 3x slower
It'd certainly be nicer if, like a phone booth, they let people who aren't members of said network connect for five minutes by putting a quarter into a machine, so that they could then use said wi-fi to, say, make a (VoIP) call.
The author clearly has access to the email account associated with the account. I don't see why they demand identification when they can just send a verification email, like literally every other website. What facebook is doing would make sense for a bank. They're not a bank. I know they think they are super duper important, but they're just another website that has no business demanding anyone's ID.

Can you imagine the chaos once they get hacked and their ID database leaks?
And this has been an inspiration ever since.
There's this joke on Arrested Development where Lucille Bluthe complains there's (paraphrasing) no manual on raising children. They then cut to an Amazon search revealing hundreds of search results for books on "Raising Children".

While this is excellent snark and a great witty rejoinder to internet arguments, there is something underlying which I think is useful: Figuring it out yourself is commendable, but no-one's going to mind if you look for some expert advice from time to time.
Of course it isn't. But which market?

Anyway, we are talking past each other.
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>because most people correlate good looks with low intelligence

Where is this coming from?? I'd argue the opposite of this, if anything.
Or even better, snow in a tropical country, which can never happen in real life.
+1 for this
The best book for how to use Scala. It talks about not just how to use FP, but also why to do it and the best practices.
I could care less about games looking like they're "authentic" WRT to curvature or phosphor grid pattern, but things like aspect-ratio correction (non-square pixels), colour switching[0], or cheap transparency tricks through composite[1] are another matter entirely.

[0]: http://www.aaronbell.com/secret-colours-of-the-commodore-64/

[1]: http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.fr/2015/03/the-case-for-comp...
They say:

> We aren't aware of any suspicious login activity on your account

So they admit they don't think anything is going on, even. Facebook is just punishing the author because they committed the sin of password reuse. And the punishment for password reuse is apparently demanding ID before allowing the author to do anything with the account that belongs to them. Even though they control the email address associated with the account.