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My unboxing experience with Anker cables is always "oh they've sent me another pointless faux-suede pouch, I wonder how many tonnes of these have gone on landfill this year".

Good products though.
Hey, I'd love to connect on elearning a bit more, especially with your developer background. I have a similar background in content and learning platform dev.
If you're using mpv, do this instead:

mpv tvshow/season1

Now use Shift+Q to exit. The next time you run mpv tvshow/season1, it will resume from where you left.
Believe me I used to do lots of PHP+Postgres+jQuery but after experiencing React I just feel like shooting myself after writing some CSS selectors and binding event handlers.

It feels like trying to start a fire with a stick when you have a lighter in your pocket.

But as I said the boilerplate and friction is still unbearable.
No different than shopping on Amazon.
I've got nothing but praise for their battery packs.

EDIT: Previously linked to AUKEY cables that were defective, not ANKER. Sorry about that. Benson has only reviewed two ANKER USB-C cables, and both followed the spec, as far as I can tell:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R26RCODZS6VUEF?ref_=glimp_1...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R3DGG0QBAYCT1N?ref_=glimp_1...
if we want to survive longer term.

Pretty sure the population went from 1 billion to 9 billion in a short time.

Want to survive long term? Perhaps people having children later in life might just be the thing to do it.
The pros and cons are rarely made clear: imagine if removing cheap sources of energy makes our standard of living much worse.

This should be of interest: http://industrialprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MCF...

The unmet need for cheap, plentiful, reliable energy:

There are 7 billion people in the world who need cheap, plentiful, reliable energy to flourish. Some 3
billion have virtually no energy by our standards, which means we need vastly more energy.

It is extremely difficult to produce cheap, plentiful, reliable energy. In the entire history of humanity,
only three industries have achieved this on any scale: the hydrocarbon (fossil fuel) industry, the nuclear
industry, and the hydroelectric power industry.
It's somewhat similar when you search for their products on Amazon.

I can decide which product is best for me. My family and friends? Not so much.

(They may get "good enough" and put up with it, but e.g. not experience fast/fastest charging that their device can actually support. As one example.)

P.S. Even then, I'd prefer not to sort through so many products / product specs.

I assumed part of this was older product inventories staying up on Amazon. But apparently, the Anker product line is just confusingly diverse and overlapping.
idk, having 1k songs in my pocket makes me feel pretty badass...
No, the energy would be an exchange of mass, if I under stand it the right way
As many others have pointed out, it's sounds like "stopleaks" and this investigation team has the job of stopping employees leaking confidential information to the press- release dates, new product launches, or stealing thousands of internal files so you can start a competing start-up that you sell the a competitor almost immediately.

And those are good things to want to protect yourself against. But what the rest of us are worried about is where the line is drawn?

If a Googler believes that the company is doing something unethical, but gets told "don't worry, or lawyers says it's technically legal", will this team investigate the employees who leak that ethically dubious decision? It sounds as though their goal is to protect the company at all costs.

That's what worries people.
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What energy source is unsubsidized? It's definitely not fossil fuels.
How would you feel about larger offices that fit ~8, and housed your entire immediate team, but no one else? Your manager would go to another room for their meetings with other parts of the organization, and you all would be free to collaborate as needed, or shut up as needed?
I would bet he does know who is this guy and is trying "to make a point". Obviously do not have much to say.
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I have managed to do hour+ long midday walks pretty much all my working life. It's not something I pre-negotiate and the degree of said freedom varies from place to place. Nevertheless I rarely had any problems from this habit and the benefits for me hugely outweigh the occasional confrontation. I might be lucky but it seems these companies clearly care more about results than dogma.
I have a question regarding this: "tracking everything you read on the internet"

I recently disabled third party cookies in Chrome and it's had no negative effect. Can someone tell me if this will block the Facebook code that's embedded in nearly every web page from reading my Facebook cookie and identifying me?
They should have a verification process for accounts beyond verifying an email address. Verify identity, it's way too easy for people to be impersonated, there's a whole TV show dedicated to this...
> Just curious. How long has it been?

About four years now.
What's Facebook?
>Maybe I want to see something that allows me to tick boxes for the boilerplate I want?

Something like this perhaps? http://megaboilerplate.com/
I'm surprised how much love there is for Anker. The only product I have from them is a vertical mouse, which I'll admit looks nice and has a solid feel, but within a week the scroll wheel became nearly useless due to some hardware/software issue. The only reason I still have it is because I was too lazy to go to a USP store to mail the Amazon return.
I wonder how they could compete against Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia in the cloud space.

Seems getting involved in pure GPU/CPU cost war is not a wise choice for a small startup.
And yet, the sales person's paycheck for that hypothetical deal is still worth the same money.
It'll be a default on Firefox 55. Or you can try the current Nightly.
So here's my thing: Imagine a world where facebook didn't exist. Would it have been impossible for this guy to get their photos and videos, post them on the internet?

I guess facebook does make it easier to email things to family and friends - but it only does so with the user's consent - you have the option to make your friends list private.

It seems to me like this guy is a real creep, and he should certainly be punished to the full extent of the law. But your friend also seems to have made a poor decision in allowing someone who is a creep to take very personal photos and videos of herself which could cause enormous humiliation.

The law should certainly step in to prevent stuff like this. But I question how much private companies should have to step in to protect people from their own bad decisions.

Yes facebook should certainly take effort to protect it's community standards and prevent porn and revenge porn as a part of it's duty to the community - but does facebook also have an affirmative duty to protect people from outcomes that are a result of their own poor life decisions? Does it owe an affirmative duty to your friend specifically to get rid of all revenge photos about her no matter whom she
and how shares her nude or sexual photos? Or is there a duty on your friend to protect herself and exercise discretion in who she shares such content with?

Isn't there a duty on your friend to exercise discretion as to whom she sleeps with and whom she allows to take discreet photos and videos with. When she took these photos and videos, she knew there was a possibility that they may be used negatively, so does it negate her responsibility and become completely facebooks problem when those photos are abused by those who misuse their platform?

I mean imagine a case where this guy found her bosses and family's phone number and texted the image to her family? Does that then become AT&T's problem to go in there and clean up those images and moderate them?
Do you have any evidence of this?
There are two points you did not mention which make credit cards a more suitable medium:

1. Credit cards use a stable currency. Cryptocurrencies are not yet stable in price and are heavily impacted by speculation. If someone pays you in Bitcoin, you'll probably want to quickly convert that a conventional currency so you have a reliable store of value. You'll be doing a lot of de facto forex transactions as a result.

2. Credit card networks have far more transaction bandwidth capability than blockchains. Presently, there is no implemented cryptocurrency which can scale in the same way VISA and MasterCard have. This could change in the future, but I have doubts about it changing without trading off all or most of the "decentralized" component (at which point, why are we bothering?).

I think it's debatable that cryptocurrencies beat out credit cards in fees because they're fundamentally incomparable right now. Bitcoin is the most mature cryptocurrency, but it doesn't have anything resembling a mature ecosystem. It is not widely accepted, and you cannot directly use Bitcoin as credit. It doesn't have consumer protections like credit/debit systems do. There's really no telling if it would remain competitive with credit cards after it scaled up to real usability. You can abstract away transfer processing fees to a distributed consensus network, but you dramatically slow down the entire system in the process.
Maybe it's strictly associated with the address: every time UPS ships something to your address, it gets flagged for express treatment. Seller doesn't have to know about it at all.
Two things: (1) of course they don't manufacture their products. Neither does Apple. They use contract manufacturing. (2) if you mean they don't _design_ their products, you have cause and effect reversed.
Look at what Nixon's Aid (Ehrlichman) said about Nixon's drug policy. (Excerpt NY Daily News):

The “War on Drugs” was actually a political tool to crush leftist protesters and black people, a former Nixon White House adviser admitted in a decades-old interview published Tuesday.

John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief, laid bare the sinister use of his boss’ controversial policy in a 1994 interview with journalist Dan Baum that the writer revisited in a
> The water, sewer, and electricity work well enough to be relied upon even in the poorest most remote parts of the US

Flint would challenge that claim.
http://time.com/4634937/flint-water-crisis-criminal-charges-...
Of course its the Chinese.

"Delivery drones? Hah! Cute.."
I want to be listed on their site so people can find me (and don't think I'm a serial killer because I don't have an account), be able to SSO log in through Facebook when unavoidable, and be able to add people to my friends list if want to have them in my address book and reach out to them through Messenger.

Outside of that I actually never want to log into facebook or use any of its other functionality. How do I accomplish that?
That "desire to respect people's privacy" isn't just some form of benevolent corporate altruism though, it's also a legal agreement between Google and its users and something that's closely watched by regulators around the world.

It's hard to see because in America there are basically no laws regarding privacy but around Europe in particular, regulators have power and use it. See the "right to be forgotten" laws which were forced on Google as an example.

That's not to say that Google can't do things with your data later but it will need your consent and regulators will be paying close attention.
I'm not sure that's correct for primaries.

Primary elections are by party, so are by definition more extreme than general elections. A candidate must win over an average Democrat OR and average Republican, not an average across all voters.

Further compounding the problem, many states/districts hold closed primaries and/or caucuses, which limits participation to those with a strong interest in elections (either enough interest to join a party and/or enough interest to give up half a day or more of time to join a caucus).
Cutting the cord doesn't necessarily mean cutting the cost
>We're all adults in a capitalist economy; we know the score.

This is mostly false, and to the extent that it is true, it turns out that people much prefer to have the ability to retreat into ambiguity around management's thought process and incentives when it suits them, rather than for the executives to be explicit about it.

The most infamous example of an executive revealing something everyone already knew to be true is Gerald Ratner [0]. After jokingly stating that his company was able to sell things for such low prices because it was "total crap", they plummeted to the brink of collapse. The company was saved only after firing Ratner and changing its name.

Companies where ill-advised executive candor has turned fortunes downward are now said to be experiencing the "Ratner Effect".

Executives are, first and foremost, performers. Dropping the illusion is offensive to the audience. We like pretending.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
Please don't post unsubstantive inflammatory comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The root page is not making me optimistic about this organization's bias-checking capacity:

>> For the last 40 years, so-called environmentalists have held back industrial progress around the world. That's why we're helping industry fight for its freedom, with new ideas, arguments, and policies that will improve our economy and our environment.
That's because it works. There's a reason it's popular.

That said: a lot of places don't do it correctly and really do deserve being called cargo cults.

Still, some process is better than no process.
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Yes, I did, which helped with expenses. Funny thing is that once I got into the industry, I was the only engineer in my office who was an experienced programmer, so I ended up writing a decent amount of code for the job. It was a very satisfying way to rigorously learn methods of structural analysis, so I didn't feel like I was back to square one. And in the interviews for my subsequent jump back to the software business, when I got some questions about whether I felt rusty (they assumed I hadn't been writing software during school and aerospace), I could truthfully say that I'd programmed frequently enough that I wasn't out of practice.

This brings up a larger point I should have called out earlier: An experienced dev in a non-software field has a superpower. I'm no genius but because of my background, I was able to write software that made our engineering team more competitive, and I was able to negotiate good raises as a result. Everybody won.
First of all, I love that this prompted you to create an account.
The author of the parent comment might not care as much if it is on Instagram, because one doesn't give away just as much information there, compared to facebook; and there's no equivalent to the "Like" button that tracks you across third-party websites.
Interview – Steve Jobs (1985)
Related resource, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...
Where did you get the 'without gaining the requisite education' part? The OP is willing to learn whatever he/she needs to learn.
How to encrypt your devices
> but women don't particularly care for gay male porn

You are so very wrong about that. Though it is true that women generally prefer written porn to visual.
You made me think of something interesting. My 4 hours NEVER happens and I'm in a cube-farm/closed space. Interruptions happen all the damn time. Sure we don't like our focus interrupted, but that's what work is. It's dealing with the managers and leads that need to ask you something urgent while managing your deadlines and dealing with noise which is still very much present in a closed-office area unless you are the board members that get to work remote.

I have one cool little experience which was an open office that switched to a closed office space during my stay. Productivity went down regardless of the boundaries put in place because now the leads and managers have their offices closed for meetings and therefore engineering staff is next in line to handle emergencies/data requests. Granted this is due to our workflow as well, however the point I'm making isn't that one setup is always better than the other but that it probably depends on multiple things and if you think you're gonna get 4 hours of golden time in a real, moving business then that's very naive or you have been very lucky yourself.

I think the reason I liked open offices is because when I needed to rethink an algorithm and analyze it I had at least 3 people that could offer their commentary. And while study groups may not work for reading a book, they damn sure work on designing algorithms when you need to openly discuss the tradeoffs and goals. Just my 0.02 on the whole thing but TL;DR sounds like open offices don't work for some places, but work great for others.

EDIT:
to add to this, the open office we had was not noisey. There weren't massive conversations happening all the time and it was normally just inside voice levels of noise. I haven't experienced what I am imagining as the restaurant equivalent of an office.
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IIRC it's because the Ubuntu screen locking is tied to screensavers. I can't remember how I solved it for myself, but it involved invoking a much baser system to lock the screen.
Little Girl Savagely Trolls Her Dad Every Chance She Gets in Amusing Clip
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The maximum current penalty is 4% of worldwide turnover. I imagine that if it becomes clear that isn't enough to force compliance, legislation can be passed to raise the penalty.
Yes, private organizations shouldn't have special methods for placing names on ballots, the rules should be the same for everyone.

Groups can still endorse candidates in that world, it just doesn't impact the names that show up on the ballot.
Bitcoin-Inspired Computer Algorithms Could Help Save the Planet
Sex and power/status are inextricably linked for much of society.
Why do I but Anker over alternative? Reliability and predictability. I could save some money on a knockoff, but why suffer uncertainty for little in the way of price reward? Just not worth it, to me.
I'm a PhD student, and I am in an open office floor plan at the moment. Albeit smaller than I have seen at tech companies, offices in my program have 8-10 people in them.
Or people could just type with less force?

I'm not sure where the cultural norm of beating up a keyboard comes from but it's a very inefficient way to type.
In the other sciences, you strive to take the complexity of the world and to reduce it to underlying principles. In Computer Science, you start with very simple rules and strive to build as much complexity as possible. This is what I really like about demos: they represent what I think makes programming interesting.
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Do you mind if I word for word quote your above to see if I get downvoted too? I want to repost with just the last two paragraphs to see what happens. I'm curious how this post would have been received without the intro.
Yes down votes for positive MS, and bans for negative MS.
State officials reaffirm legality of California private-sector retirement plan
How do you get lunch in, in addition to your mid-day walk? Do you get more than an hour for lunch?
Yeah, I'm not a lawyer but a small set of judges hearing such a large number of a type of case seems to run counter to what they attempt to set the legal system up as. It runs counter to the geographically distributed system and it runs counter to some of the criticisms of how to split up the 9th circuit (e.g. giving California it's own circuit is looked at as a poor solution).

Given that I don't see how it's a positive thing at all.
Texan here. The Eastern District of Texas is a federal court and patents are federal law. The court is physically located in Texas but Texas state policy does not influence it.
That was an interesting read.
Creating that throwaway account was a genuinely good idea...
Copy/Paste away! :)
Actually the comment was first posted by a non-green account, then removed and the same comment was posted by this green account.
Seams a litle made! he he, but very funny!
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Cherry Reds are quiet for mechanical keyboards but they're still louder than most decent non-mechanical.

Also way louder than a MBP keyboard, for example.
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For me, these are the biggest concerns that motivate me to consider deleting my account (which I don't use actively, only occasionally):

- Facebooks creates false endorsements for products from you to your friends without revealing this to you.

- Facebook filters out your posts based on whether or not people will use Facebook more if they don’t see it.

I don't mind/can put up with the rest, but those two things really bug me.

But my concern is that there are some people I would lose the ability to contact if I delete my fb. Maybe I should ask those people for their email, etc., then proceed.
But, if you're in an open office, don't you think the decent thing to do is to not speak loudly (and therefore not use a loud mechanical keyboard)?

No, that just shows tacit acceptance of the situation and exacerbates the problem over time. If you work in an open plan environment, the best thing to do is use the noisiest keyboard you can find, wear headphones that intentionally leak noise and listen to your music loud, do as many personal phone calls as you can from your desk, etc. And then, when people complain, point out that you didn't ask for an open plan office, and ask them to go to their manager and explain how horrible open plan is.

Worst case, you get fired. Big deal, now you have a chance to look for a place to work that isn't brain dead.
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>That's because it works. There's a reason it's popular.

Versus:

>That said: a lot of places don't do it correctly and really do deserve being called cargo cults.

That's how it always goes, right? Company after company implements some kind of Scrum process, and when it doesn't work the problem is never Scrum itself.

I'd contend that the reason things like Scrum are popular is that it gives non-technical managers things to play with: things like burndown charts, that gives them metrics to measure and show to their own managers. Devs aren't measured by lines of code generated per day anymore. Now it is all about "velocity" and burndown. Old wine in new bottles.
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.
"with consulting if you are charging by the hour people demand value by the hour"

You don't have to charge by the hour. You could charge by the day, week, month, or project.
No it only blocks cookies, but not the javascript code from facebook that gets loaded on the pages you visit. If you want to get rid of that, install a browser plugin like Ghostery (0).

0: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghostery/mlomiejdf...
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