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I have an answer to that question : ) In 5 years, I want to save up and retire from the goddamn rat race, like Mr Money Mustache. It's probably not what every hiring manager wants to hear, but it's the truth!
> I can't recall ever seeing code like this in the wild, and if I ever saw it in a code review, I would certainly tell the author to rename the local variable.

This is somewhat common in Go, specially when capturing a for-loop-scoped variable in a closure. It's even recommended in the official FAQ [1].

1. https://golang.org/doc/faq#closures_and_goroutines
> Since most of them were triggered by mistakes in code I wrote myself, I can be certain that none of those problems were introduced on purpose

Definitely.

The issue here is now, how can we be collectively sure that the code is safe...
No idea about the app, but the service itself is hugely popular. From what I can tell, there's a huge iceberg of hidden group activity that we don't see.
As others write, this is not specific to curl and strict explicit egress filtering, the best (and imho only) safety, pain in the ass initially but avoid connections to any non whitelisted destination.
You can not make cell phone calls during flight.
> It's because the most efficient thing for a company to do is pay someone their precise marginal value, not more or less [...]

But if they did so there would be no surplus value left for shareholders. Paying for labor less than its contribution to the value of the product is the basis of capitalism.
Mark was written and distributed within living memory of the event, in a culture where dissenters commonly destroyed incorrect texts.

The eyewitness accounts are more likely to be reliable than the other historical documents of that age we have.
On electric vehicle you can have on-board charger. There's no need to connect the gasoline (or other fuel) unit to the traditional power train (if it exists at all). The charger can run on only one optimal power setting and that's it. Therefore there's no need or reason to run the engine on wide range of engine speed at all. Either the charger is on, or off. That's it. It's only used if the battery is low and extra power is required. And of course it's possible heat emissions can be used for extra heating power.
I disagree but even leaving that comment aside, the OP is saying you aren't allowed to talk about it openly. "Allowed" does not imply a government here, but society/employers/etc. If your employer fires you for saying "fuck", clearly you aren't allowed to say "fuck" at work.
So it appears masses of shoppers went into Wholefoods to take advantage of price cuts, but couldn't because those items had sold out. But since they were there anyway....

Great way to draw in the crowds without actually losing all that much from the price cuts.
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> People usually move off AWS first when if it gets to be enough of a cost pain-point to make higher ups take notice.

Isn't that the point of cloud computing? So you don't have to worry about datacenter capacity until it becomes a major cost center?
The Dutch National Reserve is independent nor civilian but comes close. These units train every so often in first aid and military skills. They are tasked with:

1) Security of evacuated areas and vital objects

2) Assisting

- during calamities such as flooding and disease

- authorities in maintaining public order

- with large military transports or exercises ('Host Nation Support')

- civilian authorities other military units during large events

3) Ceremonial activities

Notably absent: fighting wars on foreign soil. And while training attendance is required, all work is voluntary.

The National Reserve is part of the regional emergency plans so there's a real opportunity there to be part of the organised relief efforts right from the start.
I don't get why this leak is a big deal, was there something new in the leak beside the design of the iPhone X and the "Face Unlock" sensors? These facts were known for at least a month. Maybe the fact that there will be an LTE Apple watch? That doesn't seem too much damaging to me.
It's trivially easy: link to the page. Put up or shut up. If what you're saying is true, it will be obvious.

These stories are always about "friends" or "relatives", but nobody ever provides the link to the evidence, despite that being the easiest thing in the world to provide.
You're being down voted for being snarky about someone's post without adding any value and then just re-treading the OP's point. If it goes without saying, there's not point just saying it again, and again even if it's correct.
The job description states "Please send your CV, together with your Github account to hello at count.ly and we’ll reply in 1 business day". I sent mine last Thursday so almost 3 business days and haven't had a reply.
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Another potential problem for people who pinned certs.

There should be a standard to pin EV-ness. That way you know all certificates for your site have been issued by an audited process and not by dns hijacking.
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In that case though, you would know that the "No" friends are definitely not dogs, and the "Yes" friends are possibly a dog, so it seems like the dogs would still not be completely anonymous. Wouldn't the dogs be better off not partaking in the survey and being narrowed down into a group of possible dogs?
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Interesting. My hometown in Austria recently installed new lampposts; and all of them are downward-facing. I don't know if this was a conscious decision to reduce light pollution, but it worked wonders. The roads are better lit than before, while there is almost no glare from afar and the night sky is much more visible.
Poor man's version of this: set your ringtone to a silent MP3, then apply custom tones to those people you actually want to hear.
Have you thought about getting into consulting? A lot of companies, to me, have the kinds of problems you describe. Being an employee at one of them is a no-win situation.
Yelp is a Rival to Google...? This claim surprises me.
Do you know for sure it was Yelp calling and not some third-party scammer? I have heard there are companies that pull this, and some might pretend to be Yelp but in fact they just create fake reviews and them delete/change them later. (I presume this only works if the target pays "Yelp" over the phone). I am not sure what to believe but like your parent xommentor I am skeptical.
I'm reading a book called 'Nexus' at the moment. Last night I read a part where they are deliberately installing a backdoor in their own system. They do it by modifying the compiler itself to inject malicious machine code into the binary. It's hands down the best technical description of hacking I've ever read in a work of fiction - highly recommended.
> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/10/evil_maid_att...

The following part of this classic (2009) article caught my eye:

> Symantec’s CTO Mark Bregman was recently advised by "three-letter agencies in the US Government" to use separate laptop and mobile device when traveling to China, citing potential hardware-based compromise.

It is strange how much this changed after the Snowden relevations. In Europe, now you get that same advice when travelling to the US.
This is exactly my prove my with Facebook and the thing that's making it downright close to unusable now -- the crap that you see that nobody intended to share. My feed is a literally endless stream of awful memes because someone I went to high school with ten years ago tagged their friend in a comment and now I have to see that.

I want something that shows only what my friends explicitly posted, in chronological order, and without a tiny character limit.
> Most unixes (including Linux) always report files to be readable under select()/poll()/epoll()

There is no other choice really. Let's say you want to read a specific page from a file. No page is currently in the kernel buffers. If poll where to return non-ready (and remember that poll has no idea which pages you are interested in), what action, within posix, would you take to change it?

poll and friends just do not make sense for plain file descriptors. In linux, splice add an interesting twist, but it is still awkward to use.
Sibling comment has the context and, really, these are two different things. Letting a nasty forum stay open is not at all the same as protesting segregation.
In my opinion, I think it is a bit of a stretch to equate aborting a fetus to taking a human life.
A brief go-logging
Is there a name for this algorithm?
import "github.com/vlinx-io/go-logging"

logger := logging.New("info.log", "error.log")
logger.Debug("it's a debug msg")
logger.Info("it's an info msg")
logger.Error("it's an error msg")
Ask HN: Should I close SaaS product after 10 years of development?
I am a Product Owner (and a founder) of a quite large product that is used by 800+ companies around the world from small to large (largest installation is 1500 users).

Here is the context:

- It is a very competitive market with a very clear market leader (CRM -> Salesforce)

- We've bootstrapped and had organic growth (~20-30% per year till this year) and now close to 100 people in size

- This year we'll have 0% growth == stagnation.

- We are loosing more and more customers to Salesforce and annual churn rate is above 20%

- New sales are slowing down as well

- Customers complain about complexity and lack of integrations in general, but technologically the product is quite hard to change, so development speed is not great and we can't iterate fast enough.

The questions are:

#1 Is it time to sunset the product and focus on something else?

#2 Did you experience similar situations with mature product by yourself? What decisions you've made and what results you've got?
You can choose non-US companies. OnePlus, Samsung, etc. I don't think China or S.Korea is less inclined to spy on you, but I suspect they are less competent at it.
I wonder where are the star trails. Wouldn't 30s exposure make earth movement noticeable?
Sales is also a rather short-term, target-oriented activity. If you would incentivise developers on those same short-term goals, this would have a negative impact on the quality and innovation of your product, since they'd also start chasing the quick wins. This is not to say that developers do not deserve a bonus when performing well, I just don't think it should be tied to Sales.
And people ask me why I read HN comments. Thank you for that explanations!
The article literally says "300 electric vehicle models".
That article is from April before new season Apples became available, so the ones on sale then were from the previous year. Now that fresh apples are available there's no point using ones from expensive long term storage, meanwhile some of the current crop are going into the vaults now for sale later in the year, and early next year.
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Proprietary push notifications on mobile devices are what really killed open IM protocols. What good is an open protocol, if the client app can't wake up to process it without a proprietary channel? We need to fix that mess first, somehow.
an afterthought: and make Equifax pay for it.
The proper way is: you flip a coin, if it comes up heads, you say the truth, otherwise you say whatever you want.

Then you infer an estimate using Bayes' theorem.

Otherwise it is not private, as a reply has pointed out.
> Are you telling me that everyone in Sweden is a 100% law abiding, obedient 'good' citizen and hence they don't have a need to be able to transact from time to time using a relatively discreet currency = cash ?

Utopia - a fictional concept where, yes, you can have 100% law abiding citizens.
I also enjoy Stripe. When we did our website, we generally took Slack & Stripe as examples.
Let say you unintentionally put it in the tumble dryer. Would there be an artistic expression in the picture, or would it merely be functional?

Threshold of originality is a complex gray zone.
Google is so big it's basically a rival to any company that sells computer software or services.
There is also the flight certificate of one of the hijackers found in a Saudi embassy envelope (among other Saudi government connections withheld from the public): https://harpers.org/blog/2017/09/crime-and-punishment/

And Mueller's odd behaviour: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/09/10/robert-mueller...
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Specifically, Internet Archive links that show the before/after situation, with reviews appearing that were made before "before" but only appear in "after".
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But then you end up with Google. It doesn't matter who builds the hardware, if it runs Google's system.

Is Apple good? Probably not. Is it less of a threat to your privacy and freedom than Google? Probably.
Check this article out. Cites a study that puts the estimated annual value of Facebook to study participants @ $750!

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172707...
Or... maybe they just need to get laid? ~/s

I suspect if there is high overlap between the involuntarily celibate sub and the fat shaming sub, there is perhaps something deeper going on in the psyche of these people related to their own body-related issues.
I've done it. It's possible. Why do you think it's not?
This solution is still being used all the time. But they've outsourced the sending. They ask you to provide your utility bill, proving that it's you. Therefore there's no need to send a new document, if we already know that you already got existing document.
Every house with an adult male Swiss citizen living there has a gun.

Not true. First of all it's voluntary to keep your gun after military service, and even if you do choose to keep your weapon it's illegal to have ammunition for that gun at home (with a couple of very small exceptions).

All of the Nordic countries have large national gun clubs

No they don't. They have local gun clubs for recreational target shooting and hunting practice, but I wouldn't call them particularly popular. I don't know anybody who shoots outside of hunting, which admittedly is relatively popular. And basically everybody still thinks that the US notion of people just carrying pistols around with them is batshit insane.

I think the Norwegian one has over 10% of the population as members, to dissuade Soviet and now Russian aggression.

What??? I grew up in Norway and lived almost 20 years there and never heard anyone claim anything even close to that.
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Small nickpick:

The tinfoil hats would have loved to say "told you so", but even they had not predicted the true scale of things.

Intel ME is not just some BIOS code, but a separate hardware component that is deeply connected with all CPU actions.
I have not witnessed much of that, although the couple of cases that I know about were bad for a time.
the beauty is that one day you'll be able to sell electricity from your EV during peak hours, and recharge it when it's cheap.
Nitpick to your nitpick:

Real tinfoilers have been warning about this since the 80's
Btw, wxWidgets uses native controls for each platform. You can even get to underlying native control and use platform specific APIs.
You don't get 'hellbanned' for dumb jokes.
When I owe my friends money I either have cash or I just get their bank details and put money into their account. I really don't need a third party to hold money in escrow to then move between people, banks already exist for that and it takes like 2 hours to show up in their account.

Sure an account number + sort code is slightly less easy to input than an email address but it's hardly difficult and after the first time my bank will remember it anyway.
I assume it's written in C#.
I'm going to work on a writeup and start a repo for the project - this will make the vision a bit more clear.

I'll contact you through your website form in the next few days and if you're still liking it, we can take it from there. I'm glad you expressed some interest, that's enough to make me want to explore the idea further.
To get the picture he had to buy the camera, configure it's settings, select a lens, build trust with the monkeys, create an environment in which the picture could happen, examine all the pictures in the camera, curate those pictures and select ones worth publishing, apply filters, sharpening, etc to the image and then publish it.

Basically, there are very good reasons involving a lot of skill and hard work as to why he had that image in his possession and you didn't, and he deserves compensation for those reasons.
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I just respond because in 1 sentence people could thinks bad thing against me.
My post is very sarcastic but the message is not racist at all. We are ok that we all big person and that racial consideration are dead, and should be totally vanish from our educated point of view.
Now I know that it's not politicly correct but here are the idea that I defended in my previous sentence:

All nationalism are dangerous, and if in Europe nationalism and racism died in the WW2, the current nationalism and arab pride is a total mess for the vulnerable people of these countries.
Count how many jew lived in arabs country. Millions? How many now? Question why? You have the response.
When the educated and elite of these arab countries will lower the nationalism expectations of the people, their current bad governments will have less power, there will be more peace.
Palestinian and all other, that is the same problem.
I born in Europe and I clearly don't care from which country I'm from. I'm a post-natiaolism person. There should be the same, not literally raising their flag everything and every where, for anyreason.
Good call, I think that's exactly what I'll do
Yeah, this XKCD never been so true as it is now. https://xkcd.com/538/
Not the grandparent, but I used to use 1000 kWh per year, which is about the same as 85 kWh per month. (It's more since I built a desktop PC.)

> What do you do for heating / cool? [...] or a water heater?

ACs are not typical in Germany in private apartments, only in public and office buildings. My apartment is connected to district heating (which also supplies hot water), so this does not contribute to the electricity bill, either.

> Do you not have a fridge, or an always-on computer [...]?

I have a fridge (fairly energy-efficent and modestly-sized). I have an always-on homeserver, but it too is designed for small power draw.

The biggest chunk of these 1000 kWh per year (about half of it) is actually my terrarium, i.e. its heating and lighting, and the secondary fridge where the tortoises stay in the winter. I could have easily lived on 500 kWh per year if it weren't for that. (It should be noted that I don't have a large house, just a 50 sqm = 530 sqft apartment.)

During this time, my electricity bill was about 30 € per month, at 0.26 €/kWh. I currently pay 40€ per month since my desktop PC joined the consumers, at 0.27 €/kWh. I could pay slightly less (one or two cents per kWh), but I pay extra for a renewables-only power mix.
Plus for every main model they have half a dozen variations (at least), I wonder if those are added to that count.
Yes, but I find I disable it in my car every so often, so as to not loose air conditioning. Even on not especially warm days, the more humid air when the AC is off, feels uncomfortable.
I edited it. Is this better?

I honestly don't see why the concept of "This site claims to be WorldBank.com, but we can't verify this. Whom do you trust enough to ask?" requires technical knowledge of any kind. People already understand this is why they have ID cards and background checks -- "I don't know if I can trust this guy; do you trust X to run a background check (or ask him to show an ID card issued by Y)?" is the same exact concept. Why do you think ordinary people fundamentally cannot understand this on the computer when they already understand it (and much more difficult things) just fine in real life?

Also, don't forget that none of this applies to when you choose the default settings. This is only if you choose to distrust some organizations.
You are assuming that there is a question to legitimize. If you have someone convinced of the issue then there is no question. By engaging in discussion you are simplying providing an alternative view point. You don't have to present yourself as opponent, you can present yourself as member of the ingroup with a slightly more moderate position that might also be more palatable to the public. There are many strategies.
It is also important to realize that there are many passive readers of such discussions. I recall moot (rip) saying something along the lines that there is a 1:10 ratio of posters to lurkers. So by presenting a more moderate position you're also showing people who might not like the left that there are alternatives to the most radical voices.

In the past, even in many brutal wars, belligerents generally recognized the need for parley. This is not even a war, it is a disagreement about social norms and laws. If villainize the other side to the extent where it would be immoral to even speak to them you're only fueling the polarization instead of creating a continuum. Look at europe. The extreme right exist too, but between the left and the right there are many different currents represented in parties, which lowers the activation potential for people gradually switch camps.
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You're not really saying "yes", you're saying "I either visited this site or my coin came up heads.". Of course this only works if the other person believes that you flipped a coin beforehand, but in this case it's part of the data-collection procedure, so not much trust is necessary.