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Yea, the video you want to see is a month in when he really should be taking a sick day, but San Bernardino's hot as shit and he can barely afford to keep the AC on, and his wife's eight months pregnant so maintaining health insurance is sorta important. That's Bias for Action!
The emphasis on "customer obsession" is clearly working, since it has topped the polls for best corporate reputation two years in a row. http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-tops-harris-poll-corpora...

I work for Amazon, and I personally am a huge fan of the "LPs" . I consistently find myself mentally consulting them when I'm not sure what to do in a particular situation. I also think it really helps to work in an environment where everyone shares the same core values.
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Today, people around the world marched in the name of science. Back in 1969 we put a man on the moon, and in 2017 we're having to march in the name of science.This appears to be one giant leap backwards for mankind.

The age of the printing press coincided with the age of reason. Is the age of the internet the harbinger of an age of disinformation, alternative facts, and ignorance?

This post looks at that very possibility, and if so, is the future taking us backwards? Are we devolving as a species?

https://jimdroberts.wordpress.com/2017/04/23/the-information...
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its a 0day. a bug not intentional. the effect is the same but can and ussually does get fixed(whether timely or not is another thing).
> I'd say it isn't solved. What.CD went down. Fuck, that still hurts.

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It would also be really nice if Google told you the last time an app accessed your account (or at least within a certain time frame, like "last 30 days", "last 90 days", etc). Facebook shows this information, and I just went and checked my app authorizations on my Google account to make sure that Unroll.me wasn't there, since I stopped using it a while ago and deleted my account, and saw that it was still there, but with no last accessed time, only the initial authorization time. It's frustrating that Google can't add a simple piece of very useful information onto their dashboard.
In a way it's pity it was so easy.

/etc/services is now testament to a multitude of broken dreams.
I don't think this fits "Show HN".

Unrelated though, but I just found that SCP entries have discussion forum, link at bottom (cmd+f 'discuss').
Hard to say, that is much more of moral argument rather than one you could argue much based on fact.

Part of the NSA's job is signals intelligence, so they specifically find the vulnerabilities as a means of access. And if that were not the case, they would not have spent the time finding the vulnerabilities, so those 0-days would still exist and be potential attack vectors regardless.
I don't get it... He starts off by correctly stating that nobody seems to agree upon what a tablet is useful for, and then finishes by saying the turnaround is nigh because the tablet will eat away at the PC (which is pretty much the same prediction we've heard for years).
If you have the references handy, those recent papers would still be interesting to folks (like myself) who aren't in the field/up-to-date but are interested in the topic!
Which matters a hell of a lot more than those professionals' opinion, as unfortunately democracy's current models rely far more on what the amateur 'baseline' knowledge is and not 'what the professionals know'.

As the professionals are probably fine bellowing off their ivory towers so they can later go doen as "having been right" rather than actually attempting to change things (except Lessig who iirc tried with a PAC), I don't think relying on them will get you anywhere. Better to analyze what the people think and why, and work to improve that baseline, than ignore it.

(Or come up with an alternative model of democracy which does privilege 'professional known' information with minimal corruption risk somehow.)
Im super excited to see what apple does in the next 12-24 months. Apple hasn't seemed to do much of anything substantial for the past few years, but now there's tons of rumors flying around left and right about _every_ product line.

It seems as if they were taking some time to settle in and regroup before another period of innovation. I really hope it pans out well and we see some great new and improved products.
I'm interested to see where Apple takes the iPad when they refresh the iPad Pro line. Perhaps closer to the Surface Pro.

Having said that, this article is devoid of any content. It simply says "yes, iPad revenue has dropped but it's still massive" and "trust in Tim Cook". Neither of those are particularly insightful.
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I have one major thing that holds me back from considering iOS a viable replacement for a more traditional OS for daily computing: App and browser tabs are seemingly (not sure what is actually happening on a technical level) backgrounded if you switch away to a different app/safari tab. This results in the app restarting/browser tab reloading.

Perhaps this is some sort of caching behavior, and prior apps/tabs are ejected to make room in memory? Either way, it's very disruptive to have apps/webpages reload when switching back.

Until I can count on basic things, like my webpage to still be there if i open my laptop on a plane with no wifi, or my SSH session not to be logged out simply because i switched to a different app, iOS simply cannot serve as my main computing OS.
"A market in which buyers are not free to choose better products is not a free market."

Which is not the case here.

If I sign a one year gym contract and suddenly a much better, much cheaper gym opens across the street, I can whine that the gym market is "not free". In fact it is, not like "free" in "free beer" but in "free" like in "freedom". But if I insist of using the better gym instantly I may have to pay for two gyms at the same time.
Pardon my incredulity, but if you use React, how can you not know that it uses a JS runtime? While it's not as bad as Cordova, you're hardly doing your users any favors in terms of performance by using React.
Coefficient of elasticity. It's fundamental to understanding how incentives work. It's also something you learn in Econ 101 or from any basic economic textbook. This guy clearly hasn't bothered to do his homework.
Coming from a farm, I've driven both manual and automatic transmission cars, trucks, tractors, heavy machinery, semi-trucks, etc.

At some point the type of transmission used is only one part of the car that is going to affect its performance. I have not done anything in an automatic that I cannot do in a manual transmission car. Sure, my automatic pickup will accelerate faster than the manual one I had before it. But that is more due to the engine horsepower to vehicle weight ratio than the transmission. (2013 f150 w/ 350 hp vs 2004 f350 with 250 hp)

My guess is the reason that it is becoming harder to buy new manual transmission vehicles is declining demand and the cost associated with extra development to create two versions of the same car.
In his book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman suggests that the age of the printing press coincided with the age of reason.

The Internet is perhaps the invention that most closely parallels the invention of the printing press. But, unfortunately the Internet appears to be working paradoxically to the development of knowledge.

Is the age of the internet the harbinger of an age of disinformation, alternative facts, and ignorance?

Is it possible that the Internet could cause our cognitive devolution as a species?

https://jimdroberts.wordpress.com/2017/04/23/the-information...
Prefacing that I think we all have a right to privacy/right to be forgotten, or whatever phrasing is used for this in the EU, as a thought exercise, I'm wondering if you didn't want to abide by this, could you effectively do it? If I run an app and didn't want to handle the whole process of deleting user data or wanted to keep it for later, for whatever reason, would it be possible to forbid/block EU users/customers from using the website?
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>>No system of regulations you build won't eventually be corrupted because (exactly as he says) there exists no neutral desireless arbiters in our world to enforce them.

I don't believe that. Al Capone was notorious for bribing the police and the judges, or intimidating them and their families if bribery failed, to the point where many people thought he was invincible. That turned out to be incorrect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchables_(law_enforcement)

There exist people in the world with strong moral standards and fearless attitudes. We just need to identify them and put them in the right positions.
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Amazon tries to push Leadership Principles into every part of at least their corporate world. It's supposed to drive decision making for basically everyone, brand new engineers on up (I don't know if they push them lower down the stack). What I'm getting at is it's not solely for "leaders" as in high level folks.

> live a life never caring about money (> 200k a year)

I'm in my 3rd year as an engineer here (and of my career). Their target for me is 175k as a new SDE II, but I'm already well above that considering AMZN growth. If we're talking calendar year, as long as AMZN doesn't take a dive, next year I'm easily hitting 200k (yes, I realize how crappy the reliance on RSUs is). I'll probably hit 200k as an actual target next year. So, your number isn't difficult to reach, which is both great and ridiculous.
Are you seriously suggesting they lying-by-small-print is somehow the more moral course for them to have taken?
Yep, on Linux and OSX it supports OpenGL 3.3.

The hardware fully supports DX 10.1. DX 11 API works fine on that, with feature level 10.1.

> I don't think you need to worry about that when gaming is concerned though

That’s correct for AAA titles. Casual gamers however often play on PCs without a dedicated GPU.
Absolutely agree with this - but I would also add IBM and Accenture to the list :)
Amazon employee here. Just to clarify these leadership principles are intended to apply to everyone at Amazon, not just those that are in "lead" positions, but if you are applying them a lot you are much more likely to end up in a senior or manager position. These principles are also a significant part of both the initial hiring process and the post hire advancement within Amazon.

Pay obviously varies but I've found it to be competitive with what I've been offered by other large tech companies, and better than almost all startups I've talked to, especially when you factor in that compensation in Amazon stock is actually worth a lot of money, while startup stock is a gamble with pretty bad odds.
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https://www.slice.com/ This Slice?

That headline "Your inbox security is our top priority" sure seems hilarious now. Also, I wonder why the article refers to it as Slice Intelligence? Is that their official company name on the paperwork? Is it to portray this shadowy intelligence gathering agency for hire? Both?
It would be often addressed to the head of an organisation even if they never saw it.

These days it would be proper to address it Dear Sir/Madam IF you did not know the gender of the person.

Besides that, in this case it really was pretty much all Jon Postel making the decisions.

Good story - the time that Justin Hall tried to register fuck.com in 1994.

http://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.html
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situations like this is what makes it really hard for others in this space to survive. I run https://clean.email (and we don't store/retain/sell any data, just charge people to use it) and the biggest issue we have is lack of trust because of news like this.

although every day someone would still email with a question "why you are not free like unroll.me".. sigh.
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Yeah, sure, the richest company in the world is going after your petty money with this.
Easy. Food stamps.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconn...

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/walm...
With all this hubbub about 'fake news' - 'fake science' may be even more dangerous.
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It's getting a bit repetitive in this thread, but I can't help but to mention that what you're proposing is the legal status quo in the EU.

At some point so many people started annoying Facebook with these requests that they added a self-service option to download all the data they have on you somewhere in setting. (Google has something similar, "Google takeout")
There is a phrase which I live by - If it's free, you're the product.
And I just upvoted your vote because I do agree... or it was because your post was top-voted?
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For data in a single list, they're essentially equivalent, but they differ when one wants to put things in multiple lists.

For instance, a collection of Ts might want to have a list of the ones with property A and the ones with property B (independently, so any T could be on list A or B, or both, or neither). This could be done by having two std::list<std::shared_ptr<T>> (or something similar, like replacing the shared_ptrs with raw pointers, or indices into an external std::vector<House>), but this pays for the storage for each T, for the prev/next pointers, and also the storage for the pointer to the Houses (plus extra overhead of shared_ptr, etc.). With intrusive lists, one can have next_a/prev_a and next_b/prev_b pointers directly in the Ts and only pay that slight extra cost.
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I can't help but remember:

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

https://www.amazon.com/Atlanta-Nights-Travis-Tea/dp/14116229...
I wish more people thought like that. with everything being free it's really hard to actually charge people for something.
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It's more interesting and probably more usable than Urbit.
At least this one

Interestingly, the build host architecture does not matter.
In other words, builds are reproducible across cross-
compiling.

Is there a list of what compilers embed what identifier to binaries? Thinking about it compiler could embed CPU ID, MAC address, etc to make you traceable - but do they? (like color printer/photocopier embed almost invisible code on every age, to make you traceable).
> That’s correct for AAA titles. Casual gamers however often play on PCs without a dedicated GPU.

Even in such case, they wouldn't commonly use Sandy Bridge generation GPU. And those who use it, aren't expecting recent games to support it (whether they are demanding or not). Increasing number of games already require OpenGL 4.x, even if they are not very demanding in practice. And now with Vulkan, older Intel GPUs simply won't cut it anymore.
Yeah, that Shakespeare guy screwed up everything when he used "they" as a singular pronoun.
I've spent basically zero time in academia. I've heard the phrase 'publish or perish', and I know the evils of Elsevier, and the popularity of sci-hub - but that's about it.

How are these guys making money? Is it just the 'editing fees' for people trying to publish? Presumably advertisers are savvy enough to not throw money at these types of journals? Proper scientists / researchers are (hopefully) also not easily fooled - and whoever peer reviewed this article (assuming it actually was peer reviewed, as claimed) won't want their name attached to the publication.

These stories come up often enough to suggest it's a well known problem, and the culprits are easy enough to identify. But that these stories do keep coming up suggests there's good money being made somehow, and attempts to thwart these publications are failing.
I've driven 4wd manual, as well as front- and rear-wheel drive manuals and automatics in ice and snow. I have no idea why anyone would find an automatic more difficult to deal with in the snow?
I worked there for a couple years, and I still live in Seattle.

If possible, I will not work there again.

It was not a bad place, but it was also not a good place. It took leaving (which I almost didn't do) to realize that second part. That's largely why I won't go back. There's a strong commitment within the company to the idea that you're part of something bigger, and that being part of that makes sacrificing comp, nights, weekends, and innumerable other things worth it. It was deeply satisfying in a local extrema sort of way.
Pretty aweful UX. No way to filter only videos. Seems like an app released for someone to get a promo.

Also no android version seems quality folks just seems like another app that won't survive till the next year
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I have a couple of Firebase hosted sites that I wish to monetize. All major payment sites (Stripe, Braintree, PayPal) require some api because you have to generate a client token. I really can't believe that they don't offer some hosted solution for this or am I wrong?
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As a former Amazon intern, the impression I got is that "every" role is supposed to be a "leadership" role. It makes sense when you realize that they are hiring/growing so fast, they need to (a) transmit culture quickly & efficiently and (b) be able to arbitrarily put people in "management" positions org-chart-wise.

For intern/new grads, Amazon is less competitive than similar sized companies (Google/Facebook/Microsoft). Microsoft is also based in Seattle so this isn't just about differences in taxes/cost of living.

The vesting is also backweighted so that they don't lose too much stock from people who leave after less than a couple years.
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The main reason they don't allow WebM is because only H.264/H.265 are hardware accelerated on iOS devices.
This has got to be how anti-vaxers obtain their "peer reviewed", "scientific" studies...
No, that’s exactly the parent’s point. Date always refers to a single concrete point in time, a time zone is only needed when parsing the date or formatting it for output.
I don't know about that. There's a long history of bloodshed between India and Pakistan, and between Germany and France.

Australia and New Zealand have always been close allies. We only complain about each other in jest.
Real publishers make a good chunk of their profits from selling subscriptions of their journals to libraries. These allow anyone at a university to read the journal, but the fee can be many thousands per year (per university). These are legitimate businesses, problems aside.

Fake ones like this make it off the $800 publishing fee. Since it's "open access" they just put the PDF online and call it a day. $800 isn't bad for a few hours of proofreading and updating one web page.
If a Nobel prize equivalent existed for software developers to recognize their immense contribution to the field, Tatu Ylonen would deserve it for sure. It's great to know stories like this one.
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He's talking about about a car that's just setup differently with the manual transmission. It doesn't matter if you're the sort of person who reads car magazines and says stuff like "double clutching," if the gear ratios and final drive are different, you won't realize the same efficiency.
Yes, it is the editing fees. Nth-tier universities in many countries are pushing faculty members to publish more. This is all done with the best intentions -- we all want faculty at the cutting edge of research. So many of these universities offer financial incentives of various sorts to faculty who publish more. For instance, they may tie pay hikes or promotions to the number of publications. There's often grant money available for research (and publication) to support these activities.

This has led to the inevitable unintended consequences. Most of these faculty members do not have the resources or the ability to publish in "real" journals, nor do they even understand what a good journal is. So they publish in whatever venue that accepts their paper. If it requires them to pay, then so be it. And thanks to the beauty of capitalism, a bunch of predator journals have emerged to lighten the purses of these poor folks.
That's all well and good - and many people realise and accept this - but the degree to which you're the product can clearly vary wildly. That's the real issue.
Unless you want to process the payments yourself, you have to use an API. The API is how you interact with those payment processors.
Having worked in AWS DCO- there's a lot of factors.

You were under a shit manager. APAC Regions manager is inept. Dublin was also filled with fucking idiots.

DCO's upper management in general is a fuckfest of people who want to play big man but have no idea what metrics ARE. They have no basic grasp of math nor do they know how to find what they need. I'd be shocked if they could tell you what an average value is from a set of numbers.

That said- there was a huge fucking technical gulf between the average DT and an engineer. So many DTs wanted to be SDEs or Sysengs, but their real world technical competency is that of a junior sysadmin at best so they saw no real room for promotion.

These days, automation removes the learning part of it. AWS back in the day- you could have techs that would qualify as mid level sysadmins at other companies. Today- the scale is so huge and the fleet so automated that it's mostly just throwing motherboards at problems and swapping harddrives. They want to turn the datacenter work into the equivalent of warehouse work so that they can hire any body off the street can do the job. The hilarious irony is that you now get former aws datatechs with it on their resume entering the technical market who have no business doing so.

Finally- I think it's an issue of just large companies in general. As the group grows, you inevitably hire assholes who make asshole moves and poison the corporate environment. Amazon grew so fast and hired so fast- there's no way that this could be avoided.

DCO just kinda sucked if you were less than a level5.
> Leaders are willing to take a 100x salary compared to their line employees because they know they can hustle hard enough to live up to the expectations.

> I'm very excited to see the helmet cam video of Jeff Bezos serving a customary 8-10-12-14 hour shift at the Dallas Amazon Fulfillment Center and walk out with a smile. Can you do what you ask of others? That's leadership.

Sometimes I just have to sit and marvel at how many layers of ideology some of you folks are on.
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The newer eight and ten speed automatics are pretty insanely efficient as well.
That's true, for bitflag-like things OR does make sense.
> What good would open-sourcing DirectX be without the Windows Display Driver Model? And how easy would it be to get that working without the NT kernel?

Shouldn't be harder than what Wine is already doing. Open sourcing can surely help in some ways. MS for example already open sourced HLSL parser, so translation tools can benefit from it.

DX11 support in Wine is progressing quite well.
> data recovery companies would make a mint recovering overwritten files

Data companies make mint recovering deleted files and hard drives that have been disabled by the motor or control board just failing but recovering a full file from a hard drive with a microscope would be ridiculous.
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This is clearly and explicitly content marketing that attempts to fill YCombinator's venture capital deal funnel.
In addition to the more well-known

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

although that had different goals.
we're definitely being watched and analyzed :)