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My first job as a junior. I worked with really smart coworkers. I got to build things that were used, and things that made money.

Most other jobs after that I ended up building things that were never used, or used to get some kind of grant or impress investors, and wasn't even what the user wanted.

A lot of the more senior jobs I get, I end up doing a lot of management and getting little work done. Sometimes when someone else does the hiring, I get complete idiots in my team, the kind who typo variable names, spend 3 days discussing specifications, but don't do them, refuse to use source control.

I would really love to get back into a job where I can just build things that people use, with smart people.
You are in luck!

At one point in time, text messages were extremely expensive (several cents per message, depending on the plan you had). At that time, laws were passed (in many countries, I don't know where you are) that made it illegal to send unsolicited text messages.

You should see if you can scare Facebook.
This is simple, then. If it's not a disaster, it doesn't need federal relief funds. Let Texas pay for this damage through their own taxes.
What's an example of a common use case in which Apple is anti-freedom in your opinion?
One way or another, I think that consumers are bound to shoulder those costs.
Every time I'm on FB. It's pleasant, really pleasant. But, every single time I'll go on the site and to do a thing like, check on the plans for my friend's birthday party. I end up spending like 30min or so more time than I expected to just browsing aimlessly.

It's not like they are putting a gun to my head but, they are using a billion dollars of research and my friends' faces to entice me into doing something I don't want. I'm more or less a monkey and my social circuitry just is so super-stimulated that it's annoying.

And all of that is before the FOMO kicks in and I start feeling bad that my life isn't as nice as my friends even though among my friends, I have a very enviable life (my friends have confided in me as much). But, my every day life cannot compete with the highlight reel of all the best moments of all my friends' lives.

Even though I know all of this stuff consiously, it still affects me because keeping guard and watch over everything constantly is hard. Falling into how it's designed to make you feel is easy.

Deleting FB off your phone is the best thing.

This overwhelming feeling, I'm convinced, is one of the driving factors that created Instagram and Snapchat because it was smaller and less invasive. Ironically, they became just like FB or in some ways (to some people) worse as they grew.

We are social animals and FB weaponizes the faces of all of your friends to suck as much attention from you as possible. It's as unfair a fight as there ever has been in the history of commerce.
Now would be a great time to go long EFX in my opinion.

The stock has been slammed while Equifax is being flogged in the court of public opinion, but I doubt this leak will have any lasting financial impact.

Look at the result of the Target and Home Depot breaches: whether you like it or not, the companies are still technically the victims here and no court is going to bankrupt them for data breaches that are more and more becoming the norm.
You are forgetting Star Simpson 5 years earlier. MIT was always like that.
While funny, that's actually an interesting point. If the main spread of the ideology is through viral memetics to the point that spread through cultural familial indoctrination is very low, quarantining the the practitioners in some manner is double effective. This works even without them having problems procreating, as the same outcome would be observed if offspring are less likely to have similar beliefs (which I'm not sure is true).
Yep, you are only a few steps away from deactivating your account completely.
This. I went through the same process - Facebook rejected a photo from a really obscure magazine, so I asked one of my friends to send me an image they already uploaded to Facebook. FB quickly accepted that one.
The bus schedule is available on the bus company website. The only thing that app gives over that is what the schedule is now.
And third: "Will electrify" will most likely mean "will also offer at least one electrified version of each model", and not to get rid of the gasoline variants immediatly.
Ohhhh gotcha, seems legit. I thought the certs in step 3 were individual site certs, not the roots. Thought he was going for some site-level pinning or something.
It becomes unlawful when there is credible threat explicitly stated, then there are libel and slander laws. Death threats, when credible, are illegal and justifiably so. See my first post.

And yes, really. See the replies to my post. Note, specifically, the comment regarding votes. I stand by my assertion. The evidence supports it.
Thank you! I never heard of this before. Messenger even seems to work!
No. They had plenty more. Approximately 100 cases over 600k miles last year (their own data from California) which would have lead to a dangerous situation, and 9 cases which by their own admission would have resulted with a collision. Now it is hard to compare crashes of different magnitude, people often are engaged in fender benders, but only on average after 100 million miles driven there is a fatal accident, who knows how many of these 9 cases would have ended up in a fatality. But nevertheless, this is only 600k miles not 100m. Stop spreading misinformation.
Up until last year, I chalked up the "I deleted my Facebook" phenomenon to hipsterdom or some pathology where people think the can "cure" "addiction" by quitting whatever unhealthy behavior pattern they exhibit for a week or month and then coming back.

Last month I deactivated my Facebook and have yet to turn it back on. In the months prior I started finding alternative sources of news: NYT, Pitchfork, HN, various sub-reddits, Bandcamp, what have you. I outsourced social media to Twitter and Instagram. I outsourced messaging to text/Slack. A bunch of my friends have done the similar things in the last few years.

The lower levels of cognitive dissonance are noticeable. It's not like Facebook has a monopoly on the things I hate: notification spam, stupid arguments, unfulfilling articles, and vacuous political rants all exist elsewhere. Maybe it's the dissociation between who a person is and what is posted. On Reddit you don't know the person and they don't get a big platform to express themselves outside of the comments. On Twitter you can't go on these huge rants and following/unfollowing people is fairly impersonal. On Instagram, you never get "why haven't you posted?? come back!!" notifications. And news sites do what they do best - deliver the news without some other third party getting to give their doctoral thesis on what they think it means.
You quoted me but I actually didn't say anything about race or genetics. My original response was to the parent which was claiming that "tribalism is avoidable" and I was arguing against that saying that humans will always self-segregate into tribes so it's unavoidable.

Examples:

- I had a friendship which originally started over shared nostalgia for a cantonese children show

- I was excluded from a group because I didn't know enough american pop culture references to get their jokes

- I stopped eating dinner with another group because I felt awkward being the only one not praying before the meal

- In another group, we only ever talked about programming puzzles and non-programmer friends (such as their girlfriends) learned quickly to leave us alone

All of these groups came together and/or left each other due to unwritten emergent social dynamics. You can never stop these clusters from forming. As long as you have groups/tribes, there will be people excluded based on the that tribe's values. Is that really so bad?
The problem is incompetence in our industry. Anyone who has worked long enough knows that technical competency is not rewarded (outside a few rare firms) in software engineering.
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Doubtful. Consider how condemned gladiators were treated:

The body of a gladiator who had died well was placed on a couch of Libitina and removed with dignity to the arena morgue, where the corpse was stripped of armour, and probably had its throat cut to prove that dead was dead. The Christian author Tertullian, commenting on ludi meridiani in Roman Carthage during the peak era of the games, describes a more humiliating method of removal. One arena official, dressed as the "brother of Jove", Dis Pater (god of the underworld) strikes the corpse with a mallet. Another, dressed as Mercury, tests for life-signs with a heated "wand"; once confirmed as dead, the body is dragged from the arena.[108]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator#Death_and_disposal
I don't have a phone at all. I am thinking about getting a prepaid phone at some point in the future (I did this at one point - you can get a $5 phone and pay under $100 for minutes that will last a year).

It doesn't even feel weird for me now. I have POTS copper line going to my house but no phone plugged into it at this point.

It probably wouldn't work for most people, but I'm the type who just wants to work on my projects alone and be at a computer most of the day. I do think most people could get away with the prepaid phone and spend under $100 a year on phone service.

I'm a linux user - I'm pretty sure I'd go crazy on macOS without a phone. Giving up iMessages and thousands of dollars of phone/mac apps was tough but now I'd never go back.
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> This is a managed by your OS.

It depends on the browser -- e.g. Chrome uses the system's CA certs, but Mozilla ships with its own.
You can redistribute your modified source code without sending a pull request.
Americans woke up to news of yet another mass breach of their personal data.

Americans woke up to news of yet another mass breach of data about them.

FTFY
Back in high school I had an idea for a video game that I really wanted to make, but didn't because I was focusing on learning to program instead. That was probably the right decision, because that time investment I made during those years has really paid off for me.

The game was a two-genre mashup between two very different genres, that I thought I could pull off blending together. (I still kind of think it could be done, whether or not I still think I could do it alone is a different story...)

A few years ago, someone came up with exactly the same genre mashup, and in fact the main character looked extremely close to what I had in my notes.

I was thrilled about it because I didn't just want to make it, I wanted to play it. Someone else did the work and took the risk of making it for me, and I get to fork over a few dollars and play it myself! Sure I wanted to be the one to make it, but if it existed at all that was huge.

I'm a millennial, so the first thing I did was go look it up on YouTube. And what I saw was incredibly disappointing, didn't do any of the things I was hoping it would, and frankly I didn't even bother to go buy it and play for myself. It didn't look like it had that fun factor, and it didn't do either genre justice.

Still makes me sad, and if I were to go into game development as more than a hobby, doing that game right is top of my list.
In the first part, you're setting up a premise that nobody here can or will answer publicly even if they have the knowledge of the exact information collected by either company. That gives you a free run at the second part without anything supporting it.
Actually you don't even need to pay for it these days. Free Apple Developer accounts can side load apps through Xcode
I know of a few people who worked on maps in Houston (and helped some out in minor ways), but AFAIK there wasn't one single map that "won out".

I was the one who created the Cajun Navy's crowd-sourced rescue mapping strategy, though, while helping out with the 2016 Louisiana floods, so I can give a little insight.

At first, I just saw that people were posting requests for rescue in various Facebook groups and becoming quickly buried under requests by others. So I spent a lot of time combing through the posts and adding the details to a spreadsheet, which I then posted on Batchgeo for rescuers to use.

After that, I started working with the people from one of the Facebook groups who had set up a Google Form for submitting rescue requests, and ended up periodically copying requests over from there.

We also had another form for updates regarding a specific request, and were fielding phone calls from people about it as well.

The original map is actually still up here if interested: https://batchgeo.com/map/984218ef8a04f3587f6e723561501e89
I've always wondered about this logic... Seems like the greenest thing a human could do would be to decompose underground.
> money goes directly between checking accounts

Some see this as a disadvantage of Square Cash--they say individual transactions clog their checking account statements, they prefer to withdraw a consolidated amount from their Venmo balance.
Let's Encrypt is pretty good about checking CAA records. At work I built a system that allows our customers to order certs from LE and we see lots of failures for CAA query timeout (customer using a DNS provider that doesn't support CAA queries).
They could add a "duress passcode", with an alternate reality of data. I don't expect them to, but it's possible. Bitcoin hardware wallets have this kind of feature to help avoid wrench attacks.
Once there is an 'Nordic' edition able to navigate winters, I'll be even more impressed. Snow, Ice and low visibility are not yet tackled as it seems.

Or we could all move to SF ... and live inside our cars?
Until there is a proven 450 mile range on 5 year old batteries, in the middle of the winter, I would not consider an EV. Oh, and this should be after 5 minutes of charging.

Any old gas powered car will do at least this on a 5 minute fill up.
Thanks James! Mike from CertSimple here. HN folk can give me a shout anytime (mike@certsimple.com) or ask here - it's midnight in the UK but I'll be back up in the morn!
> most people don't have the full skillset required to own a business

i agree with your post but i never miss an opportunity to be pedantic -- reality is nobody has the full skillset to run a business -- in my mind it's really just a bunch of intangibles like vision (goal setting), determination, ability to take staggering amounts of abuse, ability to work insanely hard when it's necessary, and ability to know how to hire an expert in matters you are not skilled or experienced in, which means the ability to clearly communicate and know what to ask for through deductive reasoning.

most people have NONE of those skills, because working a normal job doesn't require any of them. zero, zip, nada, zilch. a high functioning professional has like 2 or 3 of those things. i would guess less than 5% of the general US population has those characteristics in the large amounts required to start a business from scratch, and most of the time that talent is channeled into something like e.g. investment banking or corporate law or being a surgeon.

on top of all that, the ability to take a financial and social risk is just too much to handle for most people. they just won't do it. period. you might as well ask them to sprout wings and fly.

but that's why starting a business has the potential to be so god damn lucrative -- basically, nobody else is doing it relative to the demand the overall economy generates.

i also agree that the only way you're really going to get anywhere is if you quit your job, or were fired. the slow drip of a paycheck is the biggest obstacle.
There probably should be a robot that responds about Facebook posts "you aren't the customer, you are the product."

The article is pretty careful to use the term user - undoubtedly we are users.

But here is the problematic statement:

"This is what happens when the metric of how much time users spend using your thing supersedes the goal of providing legitimate value to your users."

The thing is - sure, the user time spent is measured, and "providing legitimate value" is not. How would one measure that, exactly?

But - more importantly - the metric, the ONLY metric, that really really matters is revenue. From real paying customers - ie: advertisers, some alluded to in the article.

So that is the one for which all optimizations are directed - via the indirect metric of "user engagement" where "user engagement is a pretty good proxy for "users see ads" and perhaps "users click on ads."

It does not appear that "providing legitimate value" is part of any of that, nor is there any reason that it ever would be.

IFF sufficient value could be provided that people would actually pay money just to use Facebook, so much money that it dwarfs all other forms of revenue (and perhaps even anti-correlates with ad revenue).... THEN we'll see Facebook focussed on user value. But not until then.
This comment is way outside the standards of civility and substantiveness here. We ban accounts that continue to post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I dunno, how do you recommend we treat other people with socially undesirable behavior like neo-Nazis? Is public shaming acceptable in that case? If we ban neo-Nazi speech because it's dangerous, how can we not ban fat acceptance which is demonstrably deadly?
> I wish Google Fi would support iOS devices.

I'm curious - how can a carrier support and not support certain networks? Isn't that like saying I wish my ISP supported Linux?
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Apple does, as a counterpoint.

I'm interested in the Amazon study if you have a link, I haven't seen that before.

(Note, I run CertSimple and we specialise in making the verification process for EV faster and much less painful, so I'm biased)
>He implied real hackers like things ugly.

Maybe be likes things ugly, and believes real hackers should be like him. Either way, I think he's incorrect.

Or else the people who have been complaining about the design and layout here for years aren't "real hackers."
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Complete newbie good at maths with some programming experience looking to get my hands dirty and transition completely.
> I do concede that it might make it more appealing to those with anti-semitic sentiments.

That is what I meant to say.

That said, both /pol/ and the israeli government tend¹ to lump anti-zionism and anti-semitism together. In the former case due to the purported¹ global jewish conspiracy, in the latter case because it makes a cheap knockout argument against anyone questioning their treatment of palestine.

So I phrased it through that lens.

¹ do I really have to pepper those qualifier words everywhere?
> By displaying false information, they are point-blank lying. That's misinformation.

As a devil's advocate, despite the presentation being scummy, there's definite consumer value to seeing tickets that sold. It helps correct an information imbalance between sellers and buyers. If all you saw were available tickets, you'd have no way of knowing whether they were being priced above market or not. By showing you two sales, provided they're actually real sales and picked arbitrarily (i.e. not picking the most expensive sales), they're giving you information about what other buyers are willing to pay for tickets. It's like seeing real estate comps...sure the houses have already been sold, but it helps you get a feel for whether the one you're looking at is being sold for a fair price.
Define "complex data layouts"? One reason that tools like Futhark often don't is that complex data structures don't provide good performance on GPUs.

If, however, you mean complicated compositions of arrays, then that is something we support, as well as efficient ways for describing (e.g.) coalesced accesses or stencil operations.
If you are realistically in a situation where that would happen, and you would be harmed, they may just decide to kill you as you're no longer of any value.

In this case, a blank phone probably means no entry and not actually harming you. So, there's that, I guess.
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The SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) does not think it's a violation. The SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy) does. It's easy to get the two mixed up. IIRC it was the SFLC's judgement that it wasn't a violation that made Canonical confident in shipping OpenZFS with Ubuntu.
Expecting perfection is wrong.

There's 120 millions of lines of code in an A380, and planes don't crash due to software bugs. Why is it wrong to expect perfection in critical infrastructure?

Something went wrong somewhere in software engineering. My HP42s calculator has about 6 insignificant bugs that you need to get out of your way to trigger. Your new cellphone on the other hand, when you turn it on it downloads a gigabyte of updates! That's an outrage.
Blizzard. Heavy rainfall or wind. Sudden crowd / riot / chaotic event.

Pretty sure you can't legislate those out of existence. And sadly I think the fact that these vehicles are being developed and tested in Silicon Valley is either a cause or an symptom of their probably inability to deal with those kinds of conditions.
To answer your first question: a lot. Apple makes all your data locally encrypted by default, in Messages, Siri, iCloud, Maps, etc - they don't have the key to access it. See more at https://www.apple.com/lae/privacy/approach-to-privacy/
Please don't use facebook. it is bad for you.
No economical product manufacturing process can be free from defects. And yet we enforce strict liability for defects leading to injury.
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It's proof of identity, matching a pubkey to a legal name. Debian does it, Windows does it, your university does it, keybase does it. HTTPS is one of the few areas where it (since DV was invented) no longer the common practice.

Note: I'm biased. See bio.
From europe > many people have iphone. The iphone 7 plus costs around 1000usd here already. Amazingly many poeple have it including people i know that are making around 1000usd month. It is amazing, they dont even use apps, just for calling and facebook.

I dont get it its like somebody in US buying it for 5000 usd.

But it is changing. With companies like xiaomi putting up phones for 100usd that do the same for those people and look nice... I believe apple is going to be going down if they increase prices even more. These people dont want second class iphone. They want THE iphone. If they cant afford THE iphone they wont buy the shitty 500usd one. They might aswell buy the 100usd xaomi then.

I think aple is not going right way with this.
Apple and Microsoft are actually dragging their feet to embrace PWA's until they can be regulated by their app stores and monetized. It's actually really annoying if you're interested in developing PWAs, because one of the nicest features is that it's a pseudo-native app that is cross compatible and doesn't have to be registered in any app stores.
Affiliate marketing, done right, is where the money is at.

The indiehacker post says

> Today I run Site Builder Report, a one-person niche business that makes ~$40,000 / month

Is that accurate? Or is it combined income from all your 7 different "report" / "review" sites, as listed on your other site - https://www.wisebuyer.com/

Not trolling, genuinely curious. I dabbled with amazon affiliate marketing a few years ago, and didn't see anything close to even 1000$ a month after a year.

Nice work also on the UI design and on adopting 1 model that works -- in-depth review with affiliate links - on 7 different niches.
One person (or a small group of people) wanting something very, very badly does not necessarily mean it's the right thing to do for the product. It's an interesting data point, but far from definitive and taking it as such would be terrible product management. We have no way to know whether they "wonder why it's not directly included" or have considered doing it and decided not to.