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> I wonder why there's so much anti-fb commentary on HN?

Well, for starters, the article posted went through many reasons why one might find Facebook hostile, and therefore be very much against it. Anyways, that's not really why I wanted to reply, so here:

> As for me, Facebook creates an emotional connection unlike
> any other service out there. I get to see my friends kids
> grow up, comfort lost friends when they lose a parent, share
> with my family when something great has happened. It's
> absolutely amazing and there's nothing out there that comes
> close to its reach.
>
> If Facebook were suddenly gone tomorrow, I would feel
> devastated (so many memories of my kids, deceased father, mom,
> all would be gone). The only other sites that would provoke
> a similar emotional response from me would probably be Google
> and maybe Github.

Now, this is HN so I imagine while I'll come off as very negative, this sentiment isn't all that strange. The problem I see here is that you seem to think you need Facebook to have these same connections. If you want to reminisce on old photos, you can just as easily save them locally. If you wanted to have conversations and save them later, you could use a messenger that isn't trying to mine your data while pulling your heart strings. And yeah, a lot of this type of advice comes off as "there's another product for everything," and "don't put your eggs in one basket," and all that, but there's actually a really strong point here that you're overlooking.

Facebook isn't necessary for any of those experiences. In fact, you state how you wouldn't be able to see your friend's kids grow up, or comfort your friends when they lose someone they love. But was Facebook really the only way for you to do that? It seems to me like you're attributing to Facebook quite a few characteristics that aren't really there. Ditching Facebook and actually meeting with people or staying in touch with the occasional phone call is a hell of a lot more personal. As for all of your memories, fortunately you still have those in your brain. They don't need to be in an advertising archive to be more real.
Can you team also work on a way to let people opt-out of Google AMP?
Author here, I spent this weekend making an implementation of a lesser known (to me at least) cellular automaton, Wireworld.

It was my first non-trivial project in Nim. I had a lot of fun. It uses SDL 2 as the graphics engine. Let me know if you have any little suggestions for it, or any questions about the development.
I convinced my family to install telegram and we set up a telegram group to share baby photos and news. It works very well for us
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Yea my university had people working in hallways.
There is a nerdy segment that loves tracking all of this health data forever and ever.

There is also the segment that just wants to lose weight, and that can apply at all ages. A continuous glucose monitor is also a great way to monitor keto diets or similar. Keep yourself under a certain glucose level continuously and your body will be forced to use fat sources!
This has been asked for a long time [1].

One view is that they wouldn't pass it, because, in their (lawyers') own words:

Although software applications for the Android platform may be written in the Java programming language, the Dalvik bytecode is distinct and different from Java bytecode. The Dalvik VM is not a Java VM. [2]

At various points in time, certain key Google employees contemplated whether they should or shouldn't [3].

[1] http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101028111354436
[2] http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101005114201136
[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/googler-who-said...
I'm the wrong person to answer that, perhaps, but with OTP you get a task broker / monitor for free. With Go we would be back to piecing together a system using other tools such as AMPQ or similar. It also isn't as easy to write it for high-concurrency monitored tasks. But I have little experience with Go, so correct me if I am wrong.
It's comments like this that make me thrilled I work from home.
Any specifics on why you choose this approach vs a framework?
Nilay Patel, who's the editor in chief at The Verge, in the comments:

I asked Nick to go write this piece myself, after realizing all my nerd friends all carried around Anker battery packs and charging blocks. "Where did this company come from?" is a pretty good tech story pitch, you know?
SSD price premium over disk falling
>or do they consider plants or fruits also flesh here?

Yes. The transition to flesh eating happened sometime near the evolution of eukaryotes. Back then the single celled organism would consume another organism by wrapping around the other cell and then breaking down the trapped cell inside. That's where eating comes from. When sufficiently complex multicellular organism evolved the process moved from within the cell to within an enclosed area of cells. Plant and animals have been eaten in a similar manner since they evolved.
I posit, without proof, that Algol has Algol syntax.

Where is Algol on TIOBE?
If you already know how and where to get those stuff that's great.
But for most people, they just want a quality product at a reasonable price with out much thinking or research.
Amazon is full of fake Apple/Samsung cables and chargers or no-name brands that might fry my phone or start a fire.
So I am paying for the convenience but it is at the price I'm willing to pay because I'v been burned (not literally yet) too many times trying to be cheap..
Wow, I can't imagine engaging in deep thought during a work set. I'm pretty much an unthinking fury machine at that point.
I guess it's become normalcy that the location where you are sued decides your fate, but it's so absurd.
> That's Taleb, trying to be an expert on everything.

It might be worth it to provide an overview of Taleb: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

While he's had some good ideas, such as black swan theory, he also has a long history of inadvertently having his theories contradict each other, promoting junk science, denying actual science, and calling his critics "retards" on Twitter.
> I'm not sure that using mmap(2) is enough. You're still writing pages, so you're writing more than you have to, so writes will not go as fast on NVM as they could.

If you're using the new fangled memory there's a few components in play.

First in Linux there's DAX. DAX lets you mmap in the devices pages directly without going through the page cache. And the processor can handle this like a memory mmaped device (without interactions from the OS) including subpage read/writes.

Second, Intel chose to reuse previously existing operations that you would normally use for flushing cache lines (to main memory). Previously there were going to use additional pcommit operation. https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/09/12/deprecate-...
Good work!
It kinda looks like DO hand-built some config for their droplets and made it easy to break, hopefully they'll fix that.
But wait... can they still identify you that way? I'm not on facebook, so maybe it's moot in my case. But are you saying that blocking third-party cookies is not enough to keep facebook from tracking your other browsing activity?
I'm in Vancouver as well. The transition to minimum wage from developer wage has been pretty difficult for me as I dove into my startup. It's far too expensive here to live on $11/hr without dealing a big shock to your lifestyle. Despite that, it's been incredibly fulfilling, in part because I've diversified my day to day activities into adjacent fields like marketing and sales (which many seem to suggest exploring, I agree).

Want to meet me downtown this afternoon for coffee/patio beer? If you want to explore adjacent fields and not unrelated fields, I've got tons of pending projects in marketing, sales, community building, even physical installation of smart home equipment. Maybe you could find a way to shape a project into something that helps you explore a new skill set. If not, it's always nice to chat to someone else questioning their life decisions. Let me know! (email in bio). I'll be available after 3PM today.
> Just like the cargo cult Agile pandemic peaked a few years ago

Part of that early agile movement was Extreme Programming, which I'm pretty sure advocated for office space per-team and a communal working area with private office space around it.
So did coal mines, baseball, and slavery. That doesn't mean they're inherently relevant or worthwhile constructs.
>didn't address any of the concerns that were listed in the article. ..

>The issue is what they do with our data and whether you'd be comfortable letting them use your data this way

I believe that I have addressed these issues by still utilizing the service.

They're well known to the HN community. They're not new. They just don't matter to me. Nor to most of the rest of the market, because billions still use it.
Which is somewhere between irrelevant and a good thing because of the way their products are sold. Namely, consumers search "power bank" on amazon and buy something in the top 5-10 results. The more positions on that list Anker can hold (by having slightly different products) the better position they're in.
GitLab 9.2 Released with Multiple Assignees for Issues and Pipeline Schedules
Anyone got a Lenovo Phab 2 Pro? Worth getting one or waiting for a WorldSense headset?
Sure. Cars kill about 40,000 people directly through collisions, and many more through the environmental toxicity of tailpipe emissions, before we even consider climate change. A built environment where cars are far and away the best option for getting around exacerbates these problems. More sprawl generates more traffic, meaning cars need to run and produce emissions for even longer to go the same distances.

Infrastructure like water and sewer is naturally cheaper at higher population densities. Low density municipalities are finding they don't have be tax revenue to maintain what they've built.

Then there's the environmental destruction inherent in clearing literal green fields for greenfield construction projects.

Then there's the social decay and public health crises like opiate addiction that come when a town built around a small collection of employers loses one or several of its major employers. People don't want to leave these places because they have family ties, so dysfunction festers and enters negative feedback loops. In cities, the same people could stand a chance of obtaining other jobs while still in proximity to their families, and benefit from government services will funded by the industries that didn't evaporate.
Hey, I'm pretty sure that the first real domain name hack was sex.net, which as the proud owner of ex.net [PS: or was it sexnet.com, as we also have exnet.com?] caused some upset for a while, though mainly to disappointed one-handed typists I believe... B^>

BTW, did I blink and miss the "It really is all faster over HTTP/2, even given TLS" bit? My testing for my tiny lightweight sites close to their users (the opposite of what you're dealing with) is that HTTP/2 is slightly slower overall. Even with Cloudflare's advantages such as good DNS. And with the pain of cert management...

http://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-carbon-cost-of-CDN.html

Anyhow, thanks for the warts-n-all.
Personal attacks will get your account banned. It's seriously not ok to comment like this here, and we've warned you repeatedly, so surely you know this?
She didn't make a mistake. This is entirely the guy's fault, not hers.
The article contends that this isn't actually true - or, more accurately, that Facebook's heavy instrumentation, both of the web and of its own properties including mobile apps, combine with some pretty sketchy behavior and ToS language to make "not put[ting] that information into Facebook" nearly impossible without stringent, conscientious, and perfectly applied opsec.
Deep Learning Software Helps You Colorize Black and White Photos in Seconds
Ask HN: In the past year, what was the most interesting project you've seen?
I think that this is not an argument pro Facebook but against Facebook.

It demonstrates that it is a bad idea to trust important information into the hands of a third party.

If Facebook offers you a way to make a backup of your account then you should seriously consider to use it to have an alternative copy of your important memories.
Personally I think JavaScript is already full of "smart" conversions and the trend now is to make new things simple instead of fueling XXI century's WTF.js (see http://brian.io/slides/dotjs-2012/ ).
If I am not mistaken, this is one of the rare Chinese (Designed in China, made in China and owned by a Chinese company) consumer electronics brands that is also a famous household brands in the U.S.
I have a proper keyboard[1], thank you very much. It also destroys a Microsoft Sculpt in terms of ergonomics.

1. https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/
I personally recommend physical boards when possible, especially for people just getting started. E.g., my startup-sized kanban board is here:

http://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/

You can happily use, e.g., sticky notes on a wall by your desk or inside a cabinet door. If you really can't do that, software can be ok, but it's easier to develop bad habits with software. With a physical system, certain things are usefully hard.

When I'm starting someone out, my standard columns and WIP limits are:

* to do
* soon - max 5
* on hold - max 3
* working - max 3
* done

The "to do" column is the backlog. "Soon" is the things that I'm doing next. When I start on something, it goes in "working". If I'm blocked on an external dependency, it goes to "on hold". Items never go back to "to do".

When I've finished an item and want to know what do to next, I'll first look in "working", then "on hold", then "soon". If all of those are empty, it's time to think about strategy for a few minutes; I'll look at everything in "to do" and promote a few to "soon".

Hopefully that's enough to get you started. The important to remember is that the board is supposed to mirror (and shape) how you think about the work. If somebody happened to randomly ask you "Hey, what are you working on now?" it should generally be what's in "working". If somebody asks what you're doing today, it should be the stuff that's in "working" and "soon".

If you have different categories or WIP limits in your head, that's fine, go ahead and represent that accurately on your board. But every month or so look at the board, think about how you work, and tinker. E.g., I might say something like, "Things felt really chaotic this month, so I'm going to try dropping the WIP limit on "working" next month.

Does that help?
There is a history here. The CAFC is (or was) staffed by a bunch of former patent attorneys who never met a patent they didn't like. They're also the bumbling fools who made the idiotic ruling in the Oracle v Google case.

They ignored supreme court precedent in a series of rulings that made patenting abstract concepts possible, something SCOTUS struck down recently. Those CAFC rulings were largely responsible for the "but do it on a computer" patents favored by patent trolls. See Alice/Banks, KSR v Teleflex, and several others.
- Hacker News

- Reddit

- The Verge

- YouTube
> 80% about sales, the other 20% is the thing you sell

uhm, well i would put it at more like 33% sales and marketing, 33% R&D&O, and 33% other stuff like HR/finance/administration/etc.

and 1% glamour and glory like going out to drinks to celebrate after a release/sale/hire/investment/acquisition.

sales should not be 80% of the effort, unless you are literally a reseller.
Yeah, i'm the same. Couple of observations:

1. Anker - started buying them for their HTC Sensation batteries, which were superb. Bought a load of multi USB ports for the home, last couple of years they've been flaky with ports dying. Customer service used to be superb, now not as mich.

2. Aukey - only bought a car multi USB charger, thing broke apart in a week. Like everything else, may just be Amazon comingling.

3. Ravpower - only bought one of their big battery packs, 28000mah or whatever. The thing is bulletproof, well made, and works. I need to test the capacity at some point, but it's not given me any surprises.

They're all examples of Chinese companies going direct and emulating the Western companies who used to rebrand their stuff. As long as they do it properly, I do not have a problem with this.
I've never used Facebook. But if I had, to the extent you have, it would horrify and frighten me to reflect upon the fact that so much of my emotional life were all but inextricably tied into one private company, such that staying in that company's good graces had become a necessary part of maintaining access to my own memories.
I'm afraid you've been mislead. The jury is in on this, AGW is not in dispute in the scientific community.

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

(The link goes to a page with further references and papers)
According to last year's stats, the tradeoff between Delaware and EDTX is that the patentee has a slightly lower chance of winning in Delaware (40%) than EDTX (54%), but when they do win, they get almost twice as much in damages ($17m vs. $9.4m). See https://www.pwc.com/us/en/forensic-services/publications/ass...
@dang Why remove the (2017 Update) from submitted title, yet not add (2015)?
The parent's central point isn't that the the victim is to blame here. It's that this sort of harassment is very much possible even without facebook existing.

Being a victim does not make one immune to criticism. Agreeing to produce material that you don't want to be publicized does carry a risk. Not talking about this risk and shoving it under the carpet isn't going to help solve the problem. It's very much relevant here, as that is one key reason that enabled this whole drama. It may be increasingly normal for people to produce such material, but as shown by the article it's also increasingly common that this material is abused. Being more careful with production and storage of such material is a perfectly valid strategy to avoid this type of abuse. It shouldn't be ignored just because it can also be viewed as a mistake by a victim.
For those interested in archiving their FB content, note that FB's download tool supplies only a subset of the content available in the activity log (namely only the content linked to your timeline). I've been working on a sustainable way to export all activity log content and will post updates here: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/reset-your-facebook-account/i...
Which survey platform is best for email campaign deliverability?
The people I'm surveying are long time clients for the company I work at. They have agreed to receive email surveys occasionally but in the past we have had major issues with SurveyMonkey email campaigns actually making it into people's inboxes. As I understand it, platforms like SurveyMonkey send email campaigns from their company server, which leads to their email address building up a reputation that reflects the average quality of surveys sent out by all previous users. Does anyone have information, or know where to look to find information on the likelihood of emails from different survey platforms being flagged as spam/the reputation their email addresses have built up?

Also, if anyone has info on a workaround (such as Survey Gizmo's SPF option at the bottom of its deliverability tips page: https://help.surveygizmo.com/help/email-deliverability) I'd be interested to hear how it worked out.
No offense intended, of course. In my mental picture of a Marketing department, there's lots of creative back and forth and sort of, "brainstorming all the time" which is probably about as accurate as any stereotype. Everyone needs a time and a place to go heads-down.
Team rooms are better than open plan, but 8 is enough for irrelevant discussions, mechanical keyboards, and crunchy snacks to reach critical mass.
How do you like this keyboard?
What's that supposed to mean?

RNs and Nurse Practioners make at least as much as the typical software engineers in SV. The $175-$250K+ that some of the senior guys at Google and FB make is not typical. Most of us in the rest of the country are probably making about $100K, and that's when we start becoming over-priced.

And teachers? I have respect for them, but I don't consider what they do necessarily difficult, especially in lower grades.

What people are complaining about is software engineering - which is supposedly in such high demand we need hundreds of thousands of foreigners to take up the lack of supply - being treated like blue collar labor, essentially another guy on the assembly line to be exchanged for another body if needed.

In contrast, lawyers, doctors, business execs, and most non-software engineers are treated as professionals. They have offices, expense accounts, professional dress codes, ability to attend conferences. Most professionals, after putting in their years, begin to partake in the company's profits, with access to the financials, hiring, and product strategy, and overall direction of the business.

Meanwhile, the typical developer, even at a company where software is the product, are never privy to the business. Instead, their access is limited strictly to a list of monkey-tasks or user stories on Jira. The MBAs, product managers, and execs keep all the interesting info to themselves. They're more likely to ask you for help resetting their password than they are in developing a sales pitch or project proposal.

Do you think a lawyer going to a job interview at some big firm gets to go through 2 days of quizzing over vague topics from 2nd year of law school? Instead, it is a professional discussion with peers about previous work.

Doctors, lawyers, and business people have a smooth, linear salary progression into their late 50s. A software engineer starts out well, but rapidly hits the glass ceiling at about 40. After that, you're an over-paid liability.
Exactly! I wonder the same thing. The counterfeit accessories are insane and most of those fake ones pose a fire/electric shock hazard. At least Anker products are thoroughly tested and designed.
They are in a risky business at this point. Finally after the users begged for years, new phones start to be a little more thick but with whole day battery life even with non trivial screen on time usage patterns. This will not make aux battery packs go away, but will reduce the use case from "almost everybody" to "people with special needs".
So the military uses the bathroom with the door open, but... we don't know what they're doing in there?
Enabling Profile Guided Optimizations for PyPy
Visualization of darknet market (Hansa) drug shipping
Are you going to fix this? https://amphtml.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/image1.png
We especially can't fault Victorians while our technology keeps the horrors of venereal disease at bay.
It very much depends on the complexity and scale of your site. StackOverflow is a bit of an extreme case.

For example, if instead of having hundreds of domains serving millions of users with tons of user-generated content you're just serving static content from a single server on a small site, the entire process for you might actually be as simple as just running `certbot-auto` on the production server.

I suspect the difficulty of switching for most sites will fall somewhere between these two extremes.
And indeed SCOTUS has smacked both the CAFC and the Eastern District over patent fees in the past 10 years. More than once.
it's also very randomly skewed in time depending on your town/city...chicagoland and just a few years older than you guys, but our school district had gotten a few computers and so we saw them and started monkeying with them...and there were Radio Shacks in the area, and Bell Labs a few miles away (in Illinois, secondary site), so lots of math-ish parents. Just random circumstance from the view of a kid.