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explain why Google Maps really wants to stalk my location even when not using it actively

Turn by turn navigation. It's called out as a use-case for this on the Apple docs for this service. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...

(I don't need or use that; so I turned it off)
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Well yes. You might not know it but these days there is sugar (in any variation) in almost all our food. Increased blood sugar levels over long time lead to diabetes, tracking might help people to understand the risk their diets might impose.
I have brown keys and bottoming out is definitely the noisy part.
They are like Accelerationists, bringing about the end of an undesirable system by increasing the damage it causes until it cannot be ignored.
What if Tim Cook is a strategy genius? The health care market is gigantic, and if in the long-run, Apple can get a piece of that market, they'd be set for a long time...
unmanned choppers existed, iirc.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/30/black-hawk-d...

I think the answer is, lots of news coverage. Probably would have been the same amount if it were a manned one.
Sure, but there's no regional intermediary. Government scales from city, to county, to state... then straight to federal.
Or studio monitor headphones. I can wear mine for hours.
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This may be the case, and be a serious problem, while still coming nowhere close to validating the comparison made upthread to the third world, where toilets are effectively a luxury.
Of course, because doctors knew that patients couldn't see their records, they wrote stuff in them with the expectation that it would never be read by a patient. When the law changed, this was a major point of contention.
In the academia, where good communication and idea sharing are essential, there are no open offices.

Said communication happens where it ought to be: in rec room or cafeteria.
I'm also curious to know what you do.
I think it's clear they are more rational than efficient, and perfect at neither.
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Whoa there. I never said it was "environmentally friendly". That is indeed ridiculous. Just saying that for the amount of power it has, it gets better than expected gas mileage.

Also, it looks like a 1970s Datsun 240Z averages significantly worse: http://www.fuelly.com/car/datsun/240z/1973 - further proving my point, and the one of the article in question.
Loyal to Dexcom for the night and day changes their product made to the quality of life for my mother. But very glad to see Apple putting a foot into these waters.
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Exactly! Just like any other DAW you can draw loops with pencils. But with zenAud.io, rather than having one pencil, you have two: one for drawing loops you intend to perform live -- so-called record loops --, and the other type allows you to refer to the record loops.

The upshot is, quite simply, you don't have to operate the looper manually, meaning you can simply focus on playing your part.
I have never suffered the tyranny of an open office. I do use a loud keyboard and honestly can't imagine going without it.

I am easily distracted by sensory stimuli. It ruins my concentration. At home I have some nice in ear noise isolating ear buds and some of those ear muffs designed for yard work. My children can, and do, reenact world wars on the hard woods above me and I can't hear it.

If I ever were in an open office, when I do deep work, those things would stay on.

So I sympathize, but the open office puts knowledge workers who need to concentrate and type in a lose / lose environment.
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Indeed. PC 64k intros in the 90s were just as popular. Initially running on MS-DOS but later moving to Windows. Unless you have some memory-mapped interface to the underlying hardware (like the C64/Amiga) you'll always have device drivers, I don't see how that's "less impressive" at all.

It's not like a device driver has an undocumented "MakeAwesome()" call that modern 64k intros are abusing.
> The downside is that the amount of boilerplate is unbearable.

This is often a deal-breaker for smaller projects where the whole team is not used to all the tooling.
Sure. It's good to be courteous. But in the end it comes down to the fact that open offices are just plain stupid. I don't know what the motivation behind them is but it's certainly not to make a productive workplace.
Any links to your music?
Github's Marketplace would be much better to Github's bottom line long term if they expanded the free plan to include private repos. I can see this working more to bitbucket's benefit if Atlassian gets more aggressive with its own marketplace offering.
How would that help limit movement in my peripheral vision?
That's such BS. Have you actually lived in a developing country?

If you're American and you care about poverty -- as in relative poverty -- in your country and you want to do something about it, more power to you. It's not like someone being much poorer elsewhere prevents you from caring about a problem in your country. But please don't trivialize abject poverty by implying that the American working class have it as hard as the lower classes in the developing world.

It doesn't matter what some parts of the US anecdotally and subjectively "look like", they don't measure nowhere near as poor as rural Philippines or Vietnam. Or urban Philippines/Vietnam for that matter.

In those countries, the literacy rate is around 95%. Imagine 5% of people around you are illiterate. Even in Brazil, a so-called "emergent" country or "upper-middle income" country, the literacy rate is only 92%. So 8% are illiterate; not "functionally illiterate" as in unable to correctly interpret certain texts, mind you, but actually unable to read. You cannot get a fast-food job or work as a Walmart greeter if you're illiterate! In contrast, in developed countries the literacy rate is >99%.

In the Philippines, 1 in 3 children are malnourished.[0]
This isn't some vaguely defined "food insecurity" concept; it's actually malnourishment, kids being severely underweight and stunted.

In the US millions of people can take advantage of welfare benefits. So even the non-working poor in the US have much, much better living standards than the working poor in the developing world. Also, when exactly did the US bulldoze a shantytown? And so on.

[0] http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/hunger/141134-philippi...
I was dead wrong about the open office layout: I was an advocate, but I now see that over time, for any company larger than a garage startup, it ends becoming a way to cut costs and pack more employees per square foot. It isn't worse than cube-farms, but it isn't much better.

I wonder if per-team offices of 2-5 people around a central hub would actually hit the right balance between interaction and think time.
What was your role on the team?

Did your team-members enjoy you turning around and interrupting them?

Is it really that hard to get up and walk to another office so you don't disturb 8 other people with a question they don't care about? Walking around occasionally in the day is actually good for us.

And two person offices are a mild improvement over cubicles, which are a significant improvement over open offices. But neither is remotely as good as a one person office.
Can we be a little more charitable and stick to the topic?

De jure "Third World", would mean that the country is either poor, or developing, possibly industrialized[2], and rightfully such[1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=de+jure&oq=de+jure

de jure - denoting something or someone that is rightfully such.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

"Because many Third World countries were extremely poor, and non-industrialized, it became a stereotype to refer to poor countries as "third world countries", yet the "Third World" term is also often taken to include newly industrialized countries like Brazil, India and China now more commonly referred to as part of BRIC."

"Over the past few decades since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the term Third World has been used interchangeably with the least developed countries, the Global South, and developing countries, but the concept itself has become outdated in recent years as it no longer represents the current political or economic state of the world."
Is there any facility for altering the song structure during playback, so for example the performer can decide to keep on repeating section 1 for as long as they want, before somehow triggering the move into into section 2?

(I heard of a band years back, who after their drummer quit, got a drum machine and programmed it to play the drum parts of their songs. Trouble was, during a gig they might decide they wanted to jam for longer than normal. Their solution to this was that a member of the band would walk over and stop the drum machine right in the middle of the song, and they'd just carry on playing without it, until they were ready to return to the pre-defined song structure.)
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If people can even recognize "mind poisons" I would be impressed.

Only in the past 6 months, have I clearly heard for calls fighting against games which have in built casino simulators. (aka gamefied games, or everything on Facebook)

And thats OBVIOUS stuff, designed to be that way, and openly discussed in pitch decks.
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I think that's globally true: it's been known since the 1970s that open-plan offices aren't good for productivity but they're undeniably cheaper and, in many cases, also has the unstated advantage of making it clear where people rank on the status hierarchy in organizations where only management above a certain rank are allowed offices.
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Incidentally, Steelcase CEO Jim Hackett quoted in this article was just named CEO of Ford.
Also interesting, mentioned in this article but not fully explained are Bathing Machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathing_machine

Essentially a carriage that sat in the water that you changed clothes in, sometime is to a provider outfit.

You climb in on one side on the beach and out the other into the water.

Amazing that social etiquette was so strong nobody asked "hey why don't we go right into the water?"
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I just got an advertising email about this from GitHub, even though I've never subscribed to GitHub advertising mail. I just checked my email settings and it looks like GitHub has added a new option (defaulting to being "on" of course) that auto-subscribes you to spam.

Surely the unsubscription laws don't allow you to retroactively add more options that are defaulted to being on that subscribe you to things you were never subscribed to in the first place? Seems like an easy way to spam people without having any repercussions.

For those who want to disable this anti-feature, look at the bottom of https://github.com/settings/emails.
Not sure what you mean by "parallel flows of data", but Erlang/Elixir isn't particularly good at handling multiple streams of data between distributed nodes if you're relying on the built-in distribution subsystem (net_kernel).

Only a single TCP connection is opened between any two nodes and there's a head-of-line blocking issue with message delivery (intentionally for backward-compatibility reasons).

Certainly you can build your own multi-connection subsystem if you want to, but that's true of almost anything. I've had to do this for Erlang several times.
How about law schools forcing everyone to do massively expensive degrees to be allowed to take the bar?

Keep in mind, you can support some kind of exam and educational requirement while asserting that the scope and scale of ABA requirements represents regulatory capture.
Pretty much every mechanical keyboard will be loud. I use a board with Cherry Red switches at work, and while it's much quieter than my board with Cherry Blue switches that I use at home, it is still louder than the rubber dome keyboard it replaced.

It doesn't bother my coworkers, but I also have an actual cube, so there's at least a little bit of fabric-covered foam inbetween us.
In high-assurance systems, certification usually mandates that many forms of verification are used since one might catch problems others missed. Sometimes, the problems are in the verification tools themselves. The authors review tools that seem to have only used formal verification on select aspects of their distributed systems. The added techniques of code/doc review, observing things in debugger, component-based testing, and network/file fuzzing caught a bunch of problems.

Interestingly, the verified code did exactly what the spec said it would. Like with CompCert, the formal verification made the implementation flawless in terms of conforming to the spec. The spec errors were mostly at interfaces as the founders of software engineering found in the 1960’s. I always say to bulletproof those by throwing everything you can afford to at them. That numerous components didn’t work the way the authors guessed reinforces why high-assurance software always lists everything in the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) along with what was verified and how. If you don’t fully understand a 3rd-party component, then there’s no way you can say your own component correctly uses the other one. This is also why projects such as deepspec.org are going from hypervisor code all the way down to the hardware. An example of a lightweight method is to build monitors for 3rd-party components that watch traces of its execution to spot inconsistencies with specifications that reflect user’s expectations. This has been used in both embedded (Copilot) and enterprise (NonStop) systems.
I am surprised their system for catching bad content is only user reports/flags.

While revenge porn and stuff is bad, there are a number of known child related incidents.

So if a private group of scumbags, are posting stuff to a private group, noone will know unless someone within reports.

Who needs the darkweb when u can have a private Facebook group?

Edit: as per replies below, they do use image recognition aswell for I guess known content lists
My zsh is set up (don't know if this is a default or not; I'm using Oh My Zsh) to not run the command if you use any history expansions in a command, instead it'll give you a new prompt line with the substitutions already filled in. That way you can check that the command is correct before running it.
The only way around this is working for yourself. Then you don't have to explain to anyone.

I experienced the power of this when I was working for myself.

On some days I worked for 16 hours, other days only 3. Some of the best ideas I had was while lying down on the bed and staring point blank at the ceiling.

I'm no stranger to "getting in the zone" but this was some next level stuff.

I wish I could sustain myself that way. One day.
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At a previous job, I was sent to a partner company who was building a web site we'd take over. This company had a wide open floor plan (except for the execs). I remember one day our HR VP visiting and exclaiming how wonderful this is. She said she wanted to implement it where we worked. She asked me what I thought with this beatific smile, and I said I found the never ending movement and ad-hoc meetings around me to be distracting. The smile on her face dropped and she said, "You'll get used to it", as she walked away.
Another article on the same book, "Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong", https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economi...
Thank you for sleuthing it out :)
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The current US party system might be destructive, but am a believer in party politics - mainly because without it, to get anything done would take the form of voting blocs which can lead down the path to more backroom "scratch my back" deals.
Might as well slather banner ads all over this post at this point.
why would you, or I, or any other person creating substantial value for a company, ever in their right mind take a 10% pay cut

Because markets. In sales you learn fairly quickly that price isn't determined by cost or value added but exclusively by what the market will bear. Since US labour has little negotiating power even a programmer will have to buy quiet space.
Less than a decade ago, by my reckoning. Pretty sure there was a rash of ambiguous medications between 2007 and now. You're absolutely right about today's drug ads being too much information, of course.
Kotlin was an easy win for Google. They didn't really add support for it, but merely bless the support that already existed (and with that blessing comes some assurance that things won't break for Kotlin in future versions of Android).

JetBrains was already targeting Android as a big selling point for Kotlin because Android was still on Java 6 and lacked lambdas and streams and all cool new things Java has gained. Kotlin is also very close to Java. It adds some niceties for sure, but they worked hard to make Kotlin very close to Java. Data classes are great, but you could easily turn a data class into a POJO by generating the getters/setters/equals/hashCode/toString. The lambdas are great, but you could easily turn that into a Java 8 lambda or a Java 6 anonymous function. You might lose some elegance in the conversion to Java, but there isn't a lot of ambiguity in the conversion.

Kotlin support is relatively easy for Google. It already existed via the normal Java support. Supporting Go and Dart means supporting an entirely parallel set of things.
CFO's don't get bonuses for increasing productivity.

They get bonuses because they "saved" the companies millions by cramming more workers in a smaller space. Then they get another bonus to figure out how to cram more workers in, because for some weird reason productivity has gone downhill.
Ask HN: Gitlab, Atlassian, GitHub, etc – which one?
If you were starting a software company today, and had no technical debt from using legacy technologies in place, what software stack would you use to run the software development company?

Capabilties such as:

- VCS,
- Issue tracking,
- project management,
- CI/CD,
- chat,
- maybe even HelpDesk
- etc?

Gitlab & Atlassian seem interesting because they both have the full stack of capabilities (VCS, Issue Tracking, Project Boards, CI/CD, chat, etc).

Yet Atlassian is a bit "old" so don't know if that's good or bad.

Then there's Github, but it's lacking CI/CD and a number of other features.

If you had a clean slate, what vendor stack would you use and why to run the software development and deployment of your product?
My best work experience was when I had a job where a 35 hours week was mandatory and strictly enforced. I had time and energy for other things and was super motivated at work. Nobody wasted time with unproductive stuff like never ending meetings.
The problem is that our legal system almost certainly won't reach that decision quickly and at low cost. Even if she wins, she loses.
That is a culture issue. We are a remote heavy team. Like GitLab, we have made it a part of our company​ DNA to write everything down. It is just about the norms of the organization. Writing everything down takes disicpline, but pays off in the long run.
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Can anyone provide any example of what kind of models they build in all these hedge funds? Also what data their models are usually based on?
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Other than the difficulty they'll have in replacing you, what other factors are keeping you there?

It's nice that the business can stay afloat with its current revenue, as that gives you some stability while you are looking for another job. So, it seems like a good time to be interviewing for other positions. There's no guarantee things will stay that way - with no clear roadmap, more changes may be coming that might limit the company's ability to stay afloat.

I don't necessarily see the lack of VC funding as a red flag. Is VC funding necessary for this company to succeed? Are you only interested in staying if there is the type of massive scaling that a VC generally requires? Or are you happy working for more of a bootstrapped lifestyle company?

That aside, the picture you're painting is of a job that you are staying at because of some level of guilt. Please don't let that keep you somewhere you are unhappy. Life's too short for that. They will find someone or they won't. People leave jobs all the time. It's totally normal. A business that cannot survive that is a business that is not going to survive anyway.
I'd never thought of it that way. I still think it's odd because book ends aren't made of chapters of a book (and weekends are days like any other).

All-in-all it's arbitrary anyway. :P https://xkcd.com/1073/
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As you just pointed out, the latter thing is, in fact, exactly what prevents you from simply building your own system: The network effect. It's why it's very unlikely anything but large governments like the US and the EU are capable of restraining Google's behavior. (Smaller governments are not able to, as Google would simply refuse to operate in those localities until the government caved to public pressure to stop "banning Google".)

I'd also caution you from describing Google's services as "free". The cost is huge, it's just not a cost you pay in dollars.
I think its worse than cube farms, way worse. In a cube you have some modicum of isolation, even if its just a physical barrier to keep from seeing 100% of the movement/traffic around your workspace.

In an open environment, literally everything is a distraction. The only time I've been content-ish in an open environment is when I happened to be facing a corner.
Sorry, I didn't realize you were personally invested.
> "54,000 potential cases... and 33 of the cases reviewed involved children."

That's 0.06% of reviewed cases, which is frankly less than I would have thought. I suspect that child abusers are a more savvy lot than the average chucklehead who does something like this.
Oh really? How many hundred years will it take until they find out that "regular" workers also have declined performance in large offices? I find them a disgrace. I don't need a single office for me - but 3-6 People is enough.
Yes, you could. That would be easier to remember, but also easier to guess. If your phrase is long enough, and unique enough, that wouldn't matter. The mere threat that it could be any character is enough to discourage most attackers.

Probably the best argument against spaces is the attack that listens to the sounds of your keyboard with a microphone as you type. As the space bar is a larger key, it sounds a distinctively lower note as you type, and would give even an unsophisticated attacker the means to determine the word lengths in your passphrase, which might reduce its entropy to something guessable within the lifespan of the universe.

Probably not a concern unless you might be targeted by someone with government-level resources.
There's a surplus of lawyers, so they aren't doing a great job of abusing their capture.

There's also states that have an apprenticeship pathway to the bar, but people seem to think those are pretty onerous too.
Yep welcome back eugenics.
I was thinking along the lines of the machine being on the wrong side of a network partition and then disappearing entirely. Cloud services are supposed to survive the loss of any single machine.
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I suspect you'd still need a lot of safety/reliability/redundancy/failsafe type features, because if it crashes it could still kill people.
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