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> We need an 'Expect-EV' header, just like 'Expect-CT'.

What good would that header do? A phishing site (say, "paypaaaaal.com") would simply not set it.

> Or maybe all websites that request certain info (like SSN or credit card) should be required to have EV.

EV certificates are not available to everyone. In particular, they're only available to users in certain countries, and even then only to registered businesses.

Besides, how do you enforce a requirement like that, short of barring users from submitting data that looks like a credit card to a site without an EV certificate? (Which would cause massive and entirely justified outrage, and would be quickly bypassed by phishing sites regardless.)
Safe Browsing and Crash Reporting can be turned off with no repercussions. You can turn off location altogether, though I'm not sure if you can turn off aGPS only.

That leaves app installs (Android allows side loading) and push messaging (I'm not sure about this one) as the ones that you can't disable on iOS.
TLDR: less rigor, more dogma
> a superior driving experience most of the time.

I think that objectively that is still some time off, however I am not disagreeing that modern EV's are a "good" experience at any stretch.

Once they work out how to lessen the weight behind the batteries, you'll get the driving experience comparable and beyond modern performance cars - but while the EV's have huge torque etc they still feel quite heavy in the corners, and don't deliver the same kind of driving experience for someone who values handling dynamics. I mean, a P100D can slaughter most factory cars off the line, but my mx5 (miata) track car still eats them on a technical circuit.
Yet this "fundamental difference" does not change the fact that both companies' devices provide exactly the same amount of privacy out of the box, while only the Google device is truly yours to put whatever software you want on it, down to the OS.
Interesting you ask.... Emacs Calc was inspired by the HP-28.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.htm...

It's not the same, but having used both, they are very similar in overall feel.

> Are calc and emacs missing something that made HP great?

A couple things:

First, having specific hardware is (was?) a nice thing.

Secondly, the HP28/48 programming model was very, very orthogonal. It was a more impoverished Lisp than even elisp is today, but it pervaded the entire software stack. While people referred to 'RPL' and 'System RPL' with two different names, the truth is that there was no real distinction between the programming language you used as a user and the programming language used by HP to build the machine in the first place. This kind of solidity and general 'gestalt' pervaded the operation of the machine and made them joys to use.
> the sales person knows exactly how much money they bring in

I agree this is the key factor. Any job where a person can argue a clear, direct, measurable link between their work and profit is a job that can be paid based on financial results. Other jobs where you see this: financial traders, consultants with direct client contact.

To take the other extreme, look at teachers. They have the potential to generate huge value based on how effectively they develop society's human capital. Unfortunately the effects of a single teacher are so noisy and indirect that it's basically impossible to measure their performance. The lack of firm data is why the debate about teacher compensation is so fraught.
Supposedly a honeypot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6573338

Also appears they block archive.is outright (which ignores robots.txt).
I imagine anxiety and paranoia such as going through statements to ensure no unauthorized purchases, but that's only for credit card. Identity stolen is far more scary and will never be resolved in life time. Your social security number can be changed, but that doesn't guarantee free from all identity frauds.

I'd like lawyers to have inputs on this.
Sorry, I completely misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying!
thanks dsnuh!
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well, yeah, it wouldn't otherwise be necessary for the writes to be fully serialized (because blocks and the cache traditionally, but really anything)

edit: its also worth noting that even in the traditional implementation since the block interface doesn't provide atomicity on faults this is kinda probabilistic anyways
Damn, so does this mean I need to actually take off my VR apparatus to receive delivery of my dank legal weed?

I can still pay with Bitcoin, right? Sorry I mean Bitcash. Wait no, Dogecoin? Or was it Litecoin?

For real though, 2017 produces the best ever news headlines.
Is the wireless network less secure on a phone or tablet than on a computer?
I am guessing that this is going to end up be a PR nightmare for Yelp once Google let's the hounds loose. They have been such an easy target in the past.
You misunderstand. The vector is: I take random persons phone, compel them to provide me their finger print, and now when I plug the phone in to a computer, I can unlock the device and then tap "trust" in order to back up the phone to the computer. If the iPhone was already powered on and the user had entered their passcode after it turned on, even if it was two weeks ago (there may be a time out I'm not aware of, but you get the point), I'd be able to backup their device to my computer.
The version I heard was "I would gladly give up my life for two brothers or eight cousins.". I much prefer it.
The myth that great developers aren't interested in compensation is terrible for our collective pay.

It really does not matter what people think. Set your price, hustle and be patient. The price for engineers is set by other engineers who are willing to work for less.
Up vote for that video on wired. Really interesting.
We don't have these things in our Brave New World.
When I was still in the humanities (German Literature Major), my program was making a MAJOR push for all graduates of the major to be able to articulate to others and interviewers the skillset they'd gained during their time at university, and I found it quite useful and helpful, even though I can't remember too much about the specifics.

I even talked to one of my professors personally about the push, in which I mentioned how the humanities in general are not amazing at 'selling' their contribution to human progress (she enthusiastically agreed - this was a sign that some of us were 'getting it') - part of that deficiency shows is via the incredible antipathy the internet holds towards the Literature major who then becomes a starbucks barista.

I don't always love salespeople, and I often chafe at the thought of having to emphasize my own efforts in an attempt to gain leverage with those of higher status than myself (a situation known to some as 'playing politics') - yet salesmanship is literally universal to the human condition (really want yammer more and explain what I mean by that, but it is time to shutdown for the day. :) )
> You don't see CEO's being CEO's in their free time.

Of, say, nonprofit labor-of-love side projects, which they sometimes end up leaving their for-profit CEO gig for, sure I do.
Thanks for the positive feedback! It's really encouraging.

I've opened elinks here and there in the past, but have never really given it a fair chance. You've motivated me. At the moment I run almost completely in a browser called UZBL and have javascript and cookies disable. The web, or at least the part I intersect with, is surprisingly useful like this.

Assuming we could move to elinks, then the question becomes one of supporting minimal tooling for the various mimetypes, like video. The main annoyance I would expect is from bank websites, which tend to have really narrow browser requirements.
I'm sorry. I really think we're talking past each other. At this point I'm having a really hard time figuring out what you're trying to say.

I see you equating Struts and software practices with the businesses that use software. I see those as two separate things.

> Nobody MADE Equifax use Struts.

Yup.

> The source is open to inspection.

Yup.

> Let's see how many audits Equifax did on the source code with no warranty.

I'm not sure why you're including this. I think they should have done source code audits in accordance with how they weighed the costs/revenues. Do you disagree? I personally tend to lean towards more tests and code analysis, but I understand others weigh this differently.

> If the costs were higher, the one poor guy working on Struts would do a better job? No, I think that guy would probably not write the software.

I place the responsibly with the company using Struts in their product, not the Struts dev. I'm not sure how you're getting the impression I (or Zufrekci, for that matter) place this on the Struts dev. I'm responsible for the results of the applications I put into production, including the libraries I choose to use in that application. I don't hold generally hold the devs who wrote those libraries responsible.

Like I said, I think we're talking past each other. I still think you're reading too much into (and too little close reading of) Zufrekci, but I'm not sure how better to express what I'm trying to say. I've now read the piece through 3 times fully and I really don't see her making any of the points you're arguing against.

If you've got specific questions about what I've written, please ask. Otherwise, I'll sign off. Have a good evening!
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It's interesting; in the past companies were afraid of open source because some of it had no direct support, you couldn't yell at someone if something goes wrong, and "how can you trust something you just downloaded from the internet?"

Now I see private and government organizations mandating the use of open source because it's mostly functional and most importantly, it's free (as in beer).
Don't you think controls can be forced upon ISPs?
OP made accurate statements and expressed a sentiment that's typical at Cruise. Your "alternate opinion" is not widely shared.
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How often do you run into a situation where you're forced to enter a phone number? Do you enter a non-existent one or do you use your POTS number? Do you run into situations/signups where you need to verify a number, and if so what do you do for that?

The idea is very attractive, but it seems like the rest of the world is stuck with the mindset that you have to have a phone number, email address, and even a physical address.
>You don't see CEO's being CEO's in their free time.

Every single successful business leader I know[1] is a leader at more than just their business. They also sit on charity boards, sit near the top of their social circles etc.

We as devs have to get over this adversarial relationship with other departments. Sales people, business people, accounting, etc. aren't really that different than engineering.

[1]: It's frustrating to me that "CEO" seems to have morphed into a generic term that means "business leader".
Presumably they're talking about the App Store walled garden.
>I wouldn't do it via a form letter, because that smacks of abuse of the legal process and judges will not be neutral about that

Which is a problem. If that form were legally sound and the case solid, then there shouldn't be an issue...but, you're correct that there might well be. The legal system is somewhat deficient for the ordinary citizen. Or maybe I should say that the other way around.

From a practical perspective, though, there's just no way to litigate 100MM+ individual cases, which is why this will be a class action that will be settled. Lawyers will win and claimaints will see very little per.

The thing is that the potential damages could, in theory, far exceed the total value of Equifax or their ability to remunerate. True justice, then could never be fully served. That brings up an interesting point about the outsized risk some companies represent, with very little attendant oversight or regulation.

In general we seem to be asleep at the wheel. Whether it's Russian hacking, recent revelations about powergrid infiltration, data breaches, or all manner of online and technology-based fraud, there seems to be a vast under-appreciation for the stakes. There's talk about it, but relatively little progress is being made.
It's a very persuasive idea. I also wonder whether Atlantis's stripped-down API could enable a lighter alternative to Electron.
> I honestly think open source has depressed the wages of programmers.

I strongly disagree. Linux and many other amazing open source projects have helped build a tremendous amount of software products leading to the incredibly high demand for tech workers we see today. Good open source software lets smaller players enter the game, standing on the shoulders of giants. See: Rails
The purpose is "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts", the method is "by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries".

In this case, the Work was created by the monkey. Yes, the camera owner helped, but he doesn't meet the established criteria of the Author in existing copyright law. Nor does the monkey (works of nature are not copyrightable).

You can disagree with the law as it exists (I think terms should be drastically shorter, and in no case should copyright be extended retroactively), but it takes an act of Congress or the courts to change it.
And this is supposed to be a revelation? Question to all the engineers reading this: how do you think the money that goes to your bank account gets to your employer first? And what do you think would happen to your job if money stopped flowing from customers to your company?
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Thoughtworks doesn't pay commissions, and I think that's highly unusual in that space.

No idea if that will change now that a PE firm bought them.
Ask HN: Thoughts on this fact-checking platform concept
I got some interesting feedback about a year and a half ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12113677

It seems like there's still need for a platform to challenge the veracity of information on the web. I'm curious if other platforms have popped up.

It would be similar to snopes except targeting individual content at a much more granular level, and requiring citations.

It's a relatively simple project, but I wanted to gauge interest before doing much with it.
You've illustrated the circle nicely. Salespeople are paid on commission because salespeople are paid on commission.

What if there was no commission job available as an alternative?
Checking up on your friends and family once a week is good enough for most people, Facebook will try to lure you to check it every 4 hours.
thanks for this. very interesting!
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If there was an easy way to automatically process email address changes in your address book and have links to people photoblogs (like RSS) it seems like all the key features would be there. A decentralized email based event manager would be nice. Does Lightning do that, I wonder?
I had no idea this tag existed so I looked it up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/no...

Turns out it's a non-standard tag. FireFox supports it though and the Red Star OS uses a browser that is a fork of Firefox[0].

My understanding is that the Red Star OS is the only OS used in North Korea. So I guess that means in North Korea, `nobr` _is_ in the standard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
The natural reaction to that is that at least you didn't actually lose any money. If you were carrying around cash then that cash would be gone forever.

It may be the case that people need to carry around cards like they are cash. That is, to keep a card at home or in a bank box that's tied to some other account with emergency funds.

It does say something terrible about our current bank system that nearly everything takes a least day if not a week to process, but keeping around cash won't change that.
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As much as I like to harp on Bitcoin, this really is its primary market. Most of these things are grey or black market to begin with.
> You are also much more aware of what you're spending

I disagree that you are more aware of what you're spending with cash.

I am more aware of how much I'm spending on what when I use my card, since I now have a list of transactions and locations. With cash, unless I keep receipts, or write down what I bought, I don't know what I spend my money on or where I spent it. I only know how much I spent.
No it isn't. prosperity theology is most popular among evangelical whites, social gospel is generally what is considered theologially sound among mainline protestants in America, regardless of race.
Can anyone guess how this happened? A static generator going haywire maybe?
What does that have to do with the article or my comment? I write software in my limited spare time for fun, too and I have even had a PR or two accepted by an open source project in my time!

I just don't think that means I should be compensated less well, or told that it means I should appreciate being paid (for my job, obviously) while doing something I love, etc.
> issues like inequality, globalization, and the most efficient ways to tackle climate change...

> groups of students demanded an overhaul in how economics was taught, with less emphasis on free-market doctrines and more emphasis on real-world problems.

> in many cases this material comes after lengthy explanations of more traditional topics: supply-and-demand curves, consumer preferences, the theory of the firm, gains from trade, and the efficiency properties of atomized, competitive markets

This is very concerning. If you don't understand things like supply and demand curves and relative advantage, you can't understand economics. There's very good reason Mankiw starts with these basics.

If the math gets thrown out for ideological reasons, then economics will become the next sociology.
Both, and smartphone based payment (edi mostly).

Also my subway card is linked to my ID (I case I lose or break it).
Which sadly makes it a very short list of people they actually have to compensate for their troubles.
In Finland it's the same thing if not even further already. Using cash is considered to be really weird these days.

Right now I live in China and it's really interesting what happened here. Everything was done with cash 5 years ago and you couldn't use international cards anywhere, but now everything is paid with (apps) alipay/wechat. Even beggars use them.
And to those of you whiners who are jealous: become a consultant and get paid by the hour instead of getting paid on a salary. Better yet: become open source developers beholden to none.
The only thing I use cash for here in New Zealand is the bus (I don't use it often enough to bother getting a card), and the farmers market, where half the stands actually take card anyway.
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In Sweden we have a new verb - 'to swish'. I will 'swish' you 50 kronor later. Swish is an app for micropayments. Everybody (except a few old people) uses it. It is even on windows phone!
I was at a 2 km long yard sale at the weekend. Everybody took swish and almost everybody paid by swish.
Swish is coming - and it's not back by Nike, but by the banks (Swish is owned by all the banks here).
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Philosophy is useless (theology is worse).
True. The saying goes that in sales, you get 1 yes out 20 sales contacts and it is usually the 20th contact that gives you the sale.
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Interesting last comment (from November 2016) to the original article:

"Important Update *

I am currently employed at Pluralsight, and I feel obligated to point out that the author of this article, our CEO, no longer believes or stands behind any of the content in this article. Pluralsight does not operate under the Deming philosophy. As of January 2017, Pluralsight will be implementing sales commissions again. We have reverted to the typical high-pressure, high-stress quota models found in most companies.

I'm sharing this because I don't want anybody to read this article and follow the bad advice found here. Maybe commissionless sales organizations can work, but apparently not at Pluralsight."
That used to be true but the permissions model changed to just-in-time a couple versions ago.
Even if a judge decided your lawsuit was completely frivolous, I'm pretty sure most would just throw it out -- not throw you in jail for contempt. Now, if you filed dozens of similar frivolous lawsuits in the same court...
The fact that it’s easy to measure sales is part of it, but it’s really about creating the right incentives for the business to succeed. When you pay comissions the sales people will chase big sales for their own self interest — the more they sell, the more they make. Engineers are similarly incentived through stock options to design products and features that will help the company make more money.
Yep, and Equifax will hire some local firm for a small amount to take care of all of them that day.
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I thought they did that, but my experience has been quick, so I cannot imagine anyone got asked. I suspect it was either an automated process, or some human looked at my photos and decide whether I am that person. I believe it would be both, so facial recognition can be trained and perfected. I'd lean to say if this was all automated, they probably did a "Google image" search and came to the conclusion it could not have been the user.
I believe they are very dedicated to nuclear as well. However, the entire point of my comment was that they are having a difficult time constructing nuclear reactors, just like everybody else in the Western world. Without new construction, their existing nuclear fleet (median age >30 years) will eventually need to be decommissioned just due to time.
That's a very small bit of the population, but you are right. Nearly everyone gets health care, minus some classes of immigrants. I knew there were taxes on unemployment benefits (and i'm not opposed to that). But even the folks not paying employment taxes generally pay tax through food, transportation, entertainment, and other things.
Yeah, "a lot more complex" is pretty sloppy. "A lot more annoying", perhaps. It's doable. The complexity comes when you aggregate tuples of (row number, value) instead of just aggregating value.

To fit in the redash model, you need a single expression that returns a string of HTML. So the example you cite isn't quite there, as I don't think it's valid SQL (or is it? I'm mainly familiar with Postgres--perhaps that example is valid in some other DB?)

So you need something like:

SELECT
'preamble' ||
(SELECT string_agg(ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Date Desc), ...) ||
'postamble'

Except aggregate functions can't contain window functions, so something like:

WITH windowed as (SELECT ROW_NUMBER(), ...)
SELECT 'preamble' ||
(SELECT string_agg(row_number || ',' value, ',') FROM windowed) ||
'postamble'

is needed. Which isn't a big deal, but since you don't really care about the row number, it's nice to be able to skip the CTE and just directly smash the values into a string_agg.

It's a minor thing, but I'm lazy.
I still use FB a lot, but I did disable a lot of notifications, especially those "X page is on live."
I really like how they've tried to come up with a consistent design for each product logo.

Unfortunately, I feel the 'A' isn't as unique as the original Atlas holding the world The 'A' is much more generic. The curve, fairly subtle at small sizes.

I'm not a designer, how do designers feel about this? Am I looking at it wrong?
Peta were surely way off. But photographer himself also incorrectly claimed copyright on the photo, which is wrong, since he didn't take it. In short, the photo is in public domain.