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Anthony is overrated and a complete psychopath. He doesn't understand it's basic right from wrong. In his mind IP is boundless and his, not Googles. This comes from 5 years of working in fairly close contact. Zero morals. He is what's wrong with Silicon Valley - on equal grounds to Travis from Uber. I can completely see this all being planned for years just like circumventing the iPhone App Store rules. As a Google shareholder I demand they litigate until Uber and Anthony are where they deserve to be; jail.
I feel like in the future the Internet, at some lower layer, will become very much boiled down to primarily a system that has a very standard way of flexibly and automatically connecting, mapping and transforming data.

Alot of the programming work done today to achieve this will go away.

We are on the way there now clearly.
It may very well be that I'm biased since it's my field.

But what looks like the exception in other areas seems to be the rule in IT.
BS. Trump and Republicans just want to screw everybody. Whatever rules/bills they call 'freedom' are all actually anti-freedom.
Fired can also be because of culture fit issues; it just means the employee had discipline/performance issues within that company's culture.
Like I said, I'm fairly sure the sending is all done by you. It's an API that receives audio data, and sends back text + audio data. You're in full control of what happens on your end.
As someone who has quoted it on HN recently, I don't think that misattributing it is going to get anyone into trouble. What's going to get them into trouble is not having any life experience that validates the sentiment.
If you check in as soon as you can (within about 5 mins or so), you get either the end of A or the very beginning of B. I've always been able to get a row to myself as long as you check in early.

Also, early bird check in is $15. Only one of you would need it (no one will fight you for a center)... So $30 for a round trip if you don't want to have to check in on time.
That doesn't seem to be the case. I find that the therapeutic index is ~270, vs ~70 for morphine and ~25 for heroin. The potency, however, is dramatically greater. So I would expect that dealers would cut it enough that easily measurable dosages would be required. It is notoriously hard to uniformly cut drugs as potent as fentanyl or LSD, I admit.
> You didn't make an argument.

I did make an argument, you just missed it. In most subcultures the thing your doing is the goal, therefor the actions themselves are meaningful (at least according to the participant). Since this isn't the case here, but more of a "the ends justify the means" situation, you have to argue that it actually does. The point isn't that there are other ways, which you incorrectly choose to focus on, but that you have to justify how these actions are appropriate both in themselves and relative to other actions.

> You made a false claim that there were other methods that work and/or an implication that there wasn't much effort on doing that.

As far as I know there isn't much effort going on. This is of course subjective, yet you haven't provided a real example of what you think is a substantial effort that should have lead to results.

> Programmers, support people, architects, tech managers, security experts, and so on have failed to do what you suggested because of greed and apathy of manufacturers.

Plenty of manufacturers make secure or at least not obviously insecure devices.

> They write about it all the time on blogs, esp basic QA. They write about it here, too.

The embedded ecosystem, especially in other countries, aren't going to see those blogs nor be able to act on it. They aren't ignored so much as not considered.

> People in the military invented computer security. They taught me.

I bet I have more military experience than you. The military operates in a different environment and different considerations than civilian infrastructure or products. Most civilian security researcher don't have formal training, yet frequently use terms like OPSEC without actually having an understanding what it means. Because if they did they would know that it to a large degree isn't transferable.

> Meanwhile, nobody is doing anything at any level, you can't convince businesses to do anything in general case, and so a vigilante breaching defective, damaging stuff might be only progress we can get in meanwhile. Reduces risk and decreases demand for garbage products. Vendors might get message like Microsoft did leading to their 180 in security.

This is just your opinion. If this how you do security work I'm not surprised you feel ignored.

The thing is I do have a number of suggestions on "other ways" to improve and/or promote IoT security. I see no point whatsoever mentioning them here though.
Has there ever been speculation as to who the richest person in the world is when taking into account private funds instead of just public? Would the list be any different?
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On Delta the Basic Economy (E) basically are standby since you can't select your seat and are only assigned one at check in (or at gate? can't remember). It's not even that much cheaper than regular main cabin.
> This was somewhat legally questionable on Google's part

If it was as you describe it is at least despicable, whether it is legal or not is another matter but that's very very nasty.
There are subfields of infosec where organizational understanding and savvy is important. But if you're a technologist, most of the real action in the field is in appsec and, at it's most specialized, high-status end, vulnerability research. Appsec doesn't much care where you're located, or really even how well you understand the org chart of your target.
The only reason fentanyl ever got made and sold illicitly is that prohibition creates an extremely strong incentive for everyone in the supply chain to avoid detection (if you get caught, you spend a few decades locked inside a cage, no fun) -- and increasing potency/volume is an excellent way to do so. This is known as the "iron law of prohibition": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition

The drug war is the reason opioid use has shifted from opium smoking and laudanum-eating to injectable heroin to fentanyl and to literal carfentanil (which is so potent it's been used as a chemical weapon). Indeed, you remove prohibition altogether, fentanyl will disappear from the market, because there won't be any incentive to minimise volume of product to avoid surveillance/arrest/imprisonment.

DEA doorkicking is the only reason illicit fentanyl ever became a thing and it's absurd to suggest that more doorkicking and arrests are going to solve this problem. Don't like fentanyl being sold? Cool. Take it up with those who are to blame -- the creators and enforcers of these laws.
I switched from ag to rg a while ago. The speed benefits are noticeable.
Seattle has a unique topography and is hemmed in even more than San Francisco is. Ya, you can save money by living in federal way, Everette or, in the past at least issaquah, but that means commuting.
> In short, probably don't use PICO-8

Whyever not? It sounds like a great playground for a kid who might be interested in art, music, programming, or any combination of the above. (Or he won't bother with it for long.)

The kid's eight, for pity's sake. Give him a chance to find his interests.
I'm guessing it depends on your age whether you find the joke funny. I got one for free from Microsoft one year and initially, it wasn't actually a bad product-it had quite a few DJ fans (interoperatibility)--and they spent tons of money & (badly) marketing on it.

But there is no way Microsoft paid to put any failed product in a film.
Paying 2% more and getting bumped off your flight is a false dichotomy. United's approach of offering $10k avoids both.

I don't see a reason to waste seats if it can be avoided without hurting consumers. Wasting seats is inefficient economically and bad for the environment.
They recently added quite a few international flights [1]. They now offer service to Aruba, Belize, Cabo San Lucas/Los Cabos, Cancun, Cuba (not sure if it has started yet), Grand Cayman Island, Liberia, Costa Rica, Mexico City, Montego Bay, Nassau, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, San Jose, and Costa Rica.

[1] https://www.southwest.com/international/
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Kind of similar here. My parents were in tech and engineering before USSR collapsed, and then moved on to other fields. I never made any permanent friends during school or university, and in the end the only tech people i know were the ones i worked with, and usually the "know" kind of ended with the job.

I am somewhat confused by what do you mean by "feeling connected", however. What do you expect to give or receive from that connection?

Personally, i struggle to imagine a meaningful "shop talk" between two programmers that isn't job related. There is just literally nothing to talk about.
Last year when I was flying back from LIH this happened but on a very small scale. These two guys both were joking about just driving the price up and so they did, all the way to the max Guy got a free hotel stay and food as well since there was only one flight per day to LAX.
His company's profits are minuscule by any historical valuation but Amazon stock is at an insane valuation. For this value to be justified he would have to become the world's only distributor of everything.
Both Forbes and Bloomberg attempt to track private funds. If you look through their profiles for example, they list estimated private funds (non public stock holdings, such as cash, real estate, private business ownership, etc).

They generally leave royalty, dictators, and similar abnormal situations off the lists.
Navicat https://www.navicat.com/products/navicat-for-mysql while expensive allows for saving of queries and forward and reverse model engineering
I'd defend the sale of anything which doesn't inherently infringe on the rights of others. A couple of the items on your list fit that category, others don't. The issue here is what reasoning we use to prohibit a thing, and when those reasons extend to attempting to prevent harms we tend to have problems.
Fast boarding speeds lowers their cost. That's one of the reasons Southwest can often be much cheaper than other airlines.
https://www.kayak.com/explore/ is good for this. It will tell you where you can go for any given budget and dates.
I think it's self promotion in both cases. A lot of people who put out these articles on how bad their working conditions were seem to be trying to turn their woes into a z-list internet celebrity lifestyle. They want to turn the controversy from these 'leaving' articles and videos into a larger social media presence and montly Patreon bucks.

Look at that woman who got fired after complaining about the conditions at Yelp for example. She tried to turn the situation into a personal brand.

It's the internet version of people that try and become Z-list celebrities through reality TV shows.
that's like saying people die from car accidents and coal power so why not legalize assassinations. Just because there are drugs with potential negative effects being sold legally for medicinal purposes is not a good argument for legalizing the recreational use of hard drugs.
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> there's no way to receive a GraphQL response without the ability to dynamically allocate memory

You can allocate a fixed amount of memory for a particular GraphQL response.

You can allocate a fixed amount of memory for a particular REST resource.

You cannot allocate a fixed amount of memory for an arbitrary GraphQL query.

You cannot allocate a fixed amount of memory for an arbitrary set of REST resources.

So...I agree with what you are saying. At the the level of a single HTTP request, there is more dynamism in GraphQL. But that's not a deep distinction; REST just presents that dynamism at a level above a single HTTP request.

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Note: it is common for people to define sets of REST requests with function calls, but write GraphQL queries in a string. If you defined your set of REST requests in a string and wrote your GraphQL queries with function calls, you'd see many observations reversed.
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How many uses can you find for Fortran 77 besides legacy systems?
Credit Unions work for their members. My experiences are constantly positive, and the complete opposite of banks.
The simplest thing would be to just give people that list of tips from the beginning of the article. That would help them find the best photo a lot easier than this. There's also a lot of studies from ok cupid on profile picture optimization.

Second, how many people get enough matches to get any statistically useful information? The people that need this the most are the least likely to benefit.

Third, epsilon greedy isn't the best algorithm to use. Thompson sampling is theoretically optimal, and pretty simple. Here is a cool simulation of it in your browser. I find it fun to play with (sadly the graphs no longer render properly on this archived version. I have no idea why. But it used to display a beta distribution for each bandit, and you could see it shrink over time.): http://web.archive.org/web/20160310000407/https://e76d6ebf22...

Lastly it would be interesting to train a neural network to predict how good a profile picture is. This has sort of been done by Karpathy here: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/ Tindr has an enormous amount of data that could be used.
That's an extreme exaggeration.

Amazon's market cap at close today was $438 billion.

To match Google's earnings multiple, Amazon would need something in the ballpark of $14 billion in net income.

They're chugging toward $200 billion in sales. $14b in net income off of that is very reachable. Even if we apply a much more conservative premise to it, they're still growing above 20% - maybe it takes them $280b in sales to get to $14b in net income; they're going to get to that sales level within six or seven years plausibly. AWS alone is all but guaranteed to generate $5+ billion in operating income within a few years. The issue isn't whether Amazon will one day justify ~$400 billion, as that's very likely, it's how far from the future are the gains being pulled. 3 years? 5 years? 10 years?
One thing is interesting is that Google Fiber rollout slowed down with the Net Neutrality rules. Maybe they did not see it as quite as vital to their business. Now with Net Neutrality gone, given they view an open Internet as vital to their business, they actually may give more priority to Google Fiber.
I really don't understand how people get greedy after earning that much money. Is it just the high/excitement the comes from it? Seems like money would no longer be motivating.
It also would seem to mean they can either schedule flights closer together or have additional buffer to prevent cascading flight delays, either of which is a win.
Some people speculate Vladimir Putin.

http://time.com/money/4641093/vladimir-putin-net-worth/
you sound jealous :)
> HAI GOVT CAN YOU HELP ME BUILD THIS INFRASTRUCTURE LOL

> OK, BUT BE SURE TO...

> OMG STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO ON MY OWN INFRASTRUCTURE!!!11 #FREEDOM
An iOS engineer would look at things like CoreData or Sqlite :) certainly not a binary search tree.
Sorry, I was too harsh.

I felt it was outrageous to inject a pro-Capitalist treatise with regards to government contracting, which for me fits in two buckets:

1. Government needs some hardware (e.g. radar, missile, aircraft, watercraft). Some preapproved vendors who have already developed relationships and comply with extensive contracting requirements bid on a project. One or more win. Some vendors that win are wildly underqualified and, especially in the realm of IT, make an inferior product at 10x the price. One of the government stakeholders works for that contractor after a few years.

2. Government for political reasons can't hire or pay enough employees, so they pay a consultancy to provide employees for them.

Neither seems like an efficient capitalist action. The first due to its significant barriers to entry that forms oligopoly, and the second because it's just hiding government employment within a contract.

I don't know of a good way to improve #1, but for it to be considered a testament to the efficiency of capitalism is absurd to me.
Firstly - not always. Voluntary taxation is a thing (although that's perhaps a poor name for it, although charity doesn't work either).

Secondly, there absolutely are opposed viewpoints on the matter, and the use of euphemisms is partly responsible for the vast majority of the population not even considering alternatives.
If I may ask, what was your working relationship with him?
"Paid protesters march for internet socialism. Sad!"
How about when they were buying those DCs?
Even though this is better than the lack of it, I find it weird that they're not using Contextual MAB and instead just went with the MAB. You've got the preference of your users anyhow, why not show the picture first that will perform best according to that specific user?
None, right, but tptacek -- it's time to give this one up... I stopped getting annoyed a while ago about this stuff and I'm happier for it..

I mean.. Look. The difference between someone who, to us, just "threw up some crap php cms over tor then ended up having to outsource most of the technical 'tasks' involved in running said site to people who were barely better than he was, who then ended up blackmailing him while he was over his head" and ... say, the majority of us who could actually make such a site in a weekend completely anonymously (tech wise anyway, marketing/ad is a diff game I guess and today the competition has guns) is only even barely understood by most of the 'technical community' even.

What do you expect journos respewing AP, making clickbaity titles will people such as Ulbricht other than 'genius' or whatever? This guy installed a browser plugin and ran mod_php on a VPS, d00d. To the dailymail or vanityfair, the difference between that and say, what the GPU compiler opti dudes at intel do is zero and we will NEVER be able to explain to difference to those people.

All I'm saying is; give up -- it won't stop being annoying, next year another 19 year old will bruteforce "administrator/password" and get into a receptionist's email at NASA and then be jailed for 20 years as the 'hacker of the century'; desktop support will still wear 'genius' t-shirts and you'll still be expected to fix some 2000's printer for an aunt, and when you can't you will lose respect from your non-technical family even if your dayjob is programming distributed systems for 6 figures...
> I would like to point out that if you write code like this (that is, creating a temporary object only to have it instantly deleted), your code smells.

Not necessarily. What if all you want are the side effects of the object?

In particular I/O. Either disk or network.

Creating the object opens the connection, destroying it closes the connection. And you use the object in between to write data.

Or, don't assign the new object to anything, and simply write the data you pass in to it, and close the stream.

It's a perfectly reasonable use case.
Schneier reminds me of this article where a smart man analyses his own ability to convince himself that the disappeared MH370 airplane was hidden somewhere in Baikonur: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370...

Intelligent people are very good at constructing internally consistent theories, but quite bad at questioning their own assumptions when beliefs are at stake. Schneier believes the big bad bear had something to do with it, so he looks for elements that fit this scenario.

He has his own little thought experiment with rational agents that obey game theory mechanisms and he plays it out using logic. What can possibly go wrong? Only the connection between the simulation and reality.
Restoring corporate tyranny.
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The problem is that if this is proven against him then this is all people will remember of him. It is a real fall from his accomplishments.
You will rarely get bashed in HN, and those cases will be either when you are disrespectful or when you make a joke a la reddit. Otherwise, people are more than happy to help, at least in my experience over the past four or five years or so.
Canned friendliness is, IMO, worse than brusque professionalism.
And that is when you configure an unused set-top box to stream new releases 24/7 to /dev/null.
Yea, I agree the problem is not auctioning seats high enough. But the proximate issue is that United didn't offer cash, but $800 in United Fun Bux that are worthless for most people. The vouchers they were offering were only valid at dates United decided. The vouchers expired after a year. And they are offered in coupons for which you can only use one coupon per flight, and the excess value is lost.

Practically all news outlets are reporting that "United offered $800 in compensation", but the reality is that it's closer to $0 in compensation. It's disingenuous to call it "compensation".

A better move on the airline's part would be to offer some amount of airline credit, and then half that in cold, hard cash, at least up to $2,700 credit / $1,350 cash, which is what they have to give you for an involuntary bump.
Especially on the load balancer side...
I used to do a lot of searching the Internet for a solution to a problem I ran into while coding and then I ended up having a bunch of web-links to fixes I didn't write. I got annoyed with myself about this.

Instead of searching the Internet I started really get to know the API and libraries of the languages I used and I got good books on the topics of software I develop. I slowly moved away from searching the Internet for a solution to using the books and delved into the language API. I now feel I've a deeper knowledge of the languages I work with and the techniques used to solve problems in my field.

Now when time is against me and I need a quick answer to a problem I search the Internet for an existing answer.
I really like the concept of Composer's Sketchpad. I like to play around with FL Studio piano rolls, but it is a little overwhelming. Too bad I don't have any iOS devices because I'd love to mess with your app.
I think you're talking about different things; the idea is not that you can multiplex the requests coming in, but also the requests going out to the database and etc for each web request handling function.
But he must be good. $120M+ in compensation.
The guy built a self-driving motorcycle. I laughed at the first DARPA Grand Challenge when it travelled 30cm before falling over. I ate my words the next year when it made it most of the way.

By comparison, after a year of learning to ride a motorbike I barely make it to work each day without shitting myself.
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You speak in broad generalizations that miss many points and make many faulty assumptions. One example:

> govt is not a productive enterprise and so nothing it does can help businesses produce things of value

Governments can offer loans for small business, or work with banks to provide security to banks so that banks can issues loans to small business even though this might not be as lucrative as only focusing on large business.

Governments provide grants for research or results for research directly. Nasa has ton of stuff than just be used directly. There are also programs were an inventor can get money to do research and invent things. There are also government grants for research institutions that do research.

> but you also have abundant choice of street food

Without those government inspectors good luck knowing if that vendor that showed up yesterday is actually serving chicken and not something that tastes like chicken. Also good luck having that meal without a side of cholera. Being healthy enough to work is might not be a government service, but a good government certainly encourages it.