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>I think the happy medium here, where you can still keep in touch with people but not get sucked into checking it all the time, is deleting the app from your phone. It used to be habit for me to unlock my phone and if I didn't have anything to do, just open the app and begin scrolling. Once that wasn't easily accessible I stopped completely. Now I only go on Facebook if I have a reason to, like looking someone up or checking the only group (fantasy sports) that is active. I also can still use messenger for those few people that prefer it.

The service goes out of its way to make you install the app too, which I find annoying. The mobile site doesn't actually allow you to check your private messages without installing Messenger.

Really the only thing I use it for at this point is for invitations to events, notices when bands I like are performing, and the like. But every day it seems like they make it harder to just be an intermittent user of the site.
That's very cool, I had no idea.
If posting murder vids and torture photos is an effective recruiting tool in your country, you country has problems it needs to address. Banning the tweets is attaching the symptom, not the cancer.
Can you elaborate why you think that is the case? This is a well-established security practice. I don't see much upside to having code or binaries around that are not needed but can be potentially exploited. One of the first things I did when I used to manage servers was shutdown and remove any services not needed, disable all Apache modules not in use, etc.
I hear stuff like this a lot, which seems to rely on whiteboard interviews expecting people to know method names. Do anyone but the worst interviewers actually _do_ this? That's a serious question, since my experience in this regard is pretty skewed. I've been doing whiteboard interviews for years now, including for a couple of years at Google, and the notion of ever expecting a candidate to remember a method name perfectly is beyond insane to me. I'm not OCRing their code and dumping it directly into a compiler: why the fuck would I care if they used size() or length() when checking how long a string is[1]?

[1] Yes yes, I'm aware that this example isn't perfect because it could mean different things depending on the language
I'm curious what "freedom" you miss on the iPhone. I'm assuming it's something more important than "I can change my icons and fonts"?
I've seen some of Bret Victor's talks but your description made it click!

> the source code is not technically stored with the class object

This is more of an optimization choice, perhaps? Given the link is maintained, it might be OK to say the source code and the bytecode form are two forms representing the same object?
I've not personally used Vault, but Hashicorp's other products like Consul and Nomad are solid pieces of technology, so I would guess Vault is too.
I don't have any backing data, but I think vscode with the go extension is pretty popular.
Two things: 1) Google shouldn't have free speech since it is not a person. 2) The reason things get enshrined in the Constitution is to limit the ability of the government to get rid of it. The UK's non-constitutional, constitutional monarchy is a rather problematic thing if the monarchy ever wanted to exercise itself.
This is absolutely useful. I keep a bunch of half-assed modules in a repo that I find common across projects. Love the idea of being able to find modules to kickstart common infrastructure.

Also Terraform is a great tool and the maintainers and contributors have done a fantastic job putting in useful features in the last few versions.

Thanks!
At uni, that was what we were taught. On FreeBSD desktop-machines no less.

But that was 15 years ago. I have no idea what they teach now.
Oh sure, I see what you are saying now. If it's inconvenient the most reasonable course of action is to shoot the inspector.
Perhaps there is potential in Seasteading.
You think that if they can tweet they won't have to go out and murder. Let off a little steam on facebook??? Really???
Really??? Obviously they are doing both and by 'shitposting' you mean posting videos glorifying their victims being beheaded and burnt alive. I suppose you think pedophiles should be able to publish their rape vids too? Anything goes right? No rights more important than the precious!
The last three companies I've worked for didn't offer Linux as a choice, so I would say it is going to be underrepresented. The choice was always MacBook or some laptop running Windows, and between those, I'll take the *nix-like OS. But it isn't my preference, and I'd be a lot happier on a Linux laptop. (For potentially more reasons than just the OS, too.)

(Now, I'm not entirely clear on how Triplebyte is getting their data. Do they ask explicitly, or pull it from the UA header? People could, I suppose, be doing it from their work laptop. Or, most people just don't care to customize that much, and just use macOS because it is good enough for them.)
Yeah, BuckleScript (and ReasonML if you prefer your OCaml with a JavaScript-like syntax). OCaml's type system is sound, unlike TypeScript's. This means you have a guarantee that (with a couple of known exceptions), typechecked code will not give you runtime type errors.
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No because such devices are non-biological mechanical aids. PEDs and genetic engineering are purely biological means. I would say that it's fair to ban synthetic oxygen carriers and things like that.
There's very little signal on Tinder apart from image, as I understand it (I've never used it). If all you have is one signal, it'll naturally acquire lots of importance. Similarly people who want more information will be less inclined to use the platform.
Still tied to Amazon's lesser app store which is severely lacking compared to Google Play. Yes, you can get Play Service and apps onto it, but it's annoying and unsupported, so not something you'd want to give to your parents.
Not OP, but UC San Diego taught both Vim and Emacs when I was there 5 years ago
I am thinking more along the line of Hedge Funds and angle investing in startups than lottery which is not an investment!
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” - Keynes
I had no idea they made a 10" tablet...it's on my wishlist now.
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Are there any other interesting insights? Like Java vs. Python? Do the less popular choices (e.g. Ruby/JS) do worse than the average Java/C++/Python interviewers?
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It's not "Tinfoilism" in a post-Snowden world, okay?

The reason we can't have nice has much more to do with naivete than paranoia when the paranoics are right.
Why would I care about that if I don't use the product? How would anything that Facebook does affect someone who does not use it?
The worst is if you turn off notifications from Messenger, it flashes up the red number to tell you you need to turn them back on.

I found it very, very annoying at first... now it's just taught me to ignore the red numbers entirely.
I know many high productivity Vim, Emacs and IDE users - but in terms of low productivity people, IDEs definitely dominate.

Really, not a jab at anyone, just that Vim and Emacs are more advanced tools and it takes more advanced users to use them with any gain. More advanced users also use IDEs for some of their nicer tooling - personally I'd kill without Resharper at work.
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> ~99%. Critically, prices change as a result of any imbalance in supply and demand for stocks.

> If company A is worth 1 billion and company B is worth 2 billion yet they have equal investments in both, then they sell some of A to buy some of B.

This is a paradox -- both of these are examples of market movements which require the percentage of stocks held outside of index funds be equal to or greater than the volume required for the price movement. The critical point is much lower, and as more people buy into index funds, the active traders make more money rebalancing and therefore are able to increase their own positions, providing negative feedback and preventing the index fund ownership from rising more. I don't know what the asymptote is, but I suspect it's closer to or equal to 50%.

Another way to think of it is that markets would be incredibly illiquid with 99% index fund ownership -- that's not much ownership for market makers, but their profits would be tremendous due to the thin order books, driving in more market makers and thereby increasing their market share until it's no longer easy money.
And yet, it's still all just plain text editing. Clearly, one kind of answer is more fashionable than the other.
Out of curiosity, how come Redis uses Lua instead of TCL?

They're both neat, small, fast little languages, and they're both based around a powerful primitive used everywhere (tables in Lua, strings in TCL). I think TCL is a bit more elegant, while Lua is a bit more familiar.
Launches in 2018, it'll be exciting to see the content!
Bitcoin is not the only game in town, there would be a mad scramble to Ethereum et al.
This is a fun discussion because you're both right and tomes have been written about the definition of terrorism. Some of the actions of the IRA or the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 82 are interesting events to consider in the civilian/military distinction.

It's also worth noting that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of terror under most definitions.

This is a good definition, which IIRC was compiled from a lot of other academic sources:

Alex Schmid and Albert Jongman: “Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-)clandestine individual, group, or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal, or political reasons, whereby—in contrast to assassination—the direct targets of violence are not the main targets. The immediate human victims of violence are generally chosen randomly (targets of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic targets) from a target population, and serve as message generators.”

https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/511...
This is not unique to Facebook; Amazon, Google, Equifax and many other businesses build a profile on you regardless of whether you want them to or not.
> terrorism describes the infliction of civilian casualties meant to create a disproportionate climate of fear. By this definition, drones used in warfare are a form of terrorism.

It's hard to read the rest of your post with that opener.

You may believe that drones are used poorly, and you may believe they naturally result in higher civilian casualties, but there is absolutely nothing that implies that "by definition". Drones are simply another weapon that happens to have human operators located elsewhere.
I'm glad my current place offers Linux as an option.
> alone and in solitude

two-factor solitude.
It's not just the games. I've paid some 45 USD for a dictionary which won't work on iOS 11 on the same phone where it worked three years.

The developer however wasn't able to renew the license, so he can't make a new version even if he would like to do it.
Alexa Hands-Free seems to be the big new feature. Even with the screen off, you can use it as an Echo device just by calling out the Alexa wake word. That might make this like a cheaper, more portable Echo Show device... and with more functionality, since it's also a tablet.

Unfortunately Alexa Hands-Free is only on the HD 10 unit for now, not the smaller tablets.
You hint at it, but a big question is how does the Tinder ecosystem/economy differ from the general population. Could it be that people on tinder make decisions on more superficial factors than people not on tinder? Does Tinder itself as an interface encourage those kind of selection factors?
#NotAllTweeters
I used TextMate and then Sublime for the first half of my 10 year career. It took seeing a coworker use vim to sell me on it, and within two weeks I was a better text editor than ever before.

You all know the rest of the story, but I'm one counterexample to the "how long have you been coding?" angle. I was meant to discover these editors even though I'm relatively young. (31 heh)
Seconded, probably the _best_ git UI there is, in terms of feature coverage and productivity.

Coincidentally, it's currently on Kickstarter[0]. Mind you, this is a fully functional, mature and free product - the author is just trying to fund next few years of development.

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[0] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681258897/its-magit-th...
It would be impossible to remove the `lisp!` on every form, as you have to actually invoke the macro.

You could make a build script that would read in lisp files, and then run them through a pre-processor of sorts before compiling. That's the closest thing, and it'd still require setting up that build.rs.
How are you going to sustain this? It is fairly fast and slick (I am a daily RSS reader who follow hundred of sources).
For the record, many Asian countries such as India and Thailand do this, and I understand that some European countries such as Spain have very liberal OTC policies.

There are a few drugs like opioids that are controlled substances, but everything else is OTC.
I think there has been a trend of recent parents being less violent towards their children. Using less spanking and other forms of punishment.
We have a monthly subscription revenue model based on volume of tickets analyzed (different tiers for different ranges of ticket volume).
There is no argument, it's a fact. There is capital flight out of China. Their FX reserves have plummeted because they are trying to support the Yuan from dropping off the side of a cliff.
> Otherwise next you'll see things like "Researchers find most animals kill each other mercilessly, so we should decriminalize murder."

Yeah, a naturalistic fallacy will take something good (e.g. a firm and objective grasp of biology) and turn it into a crime against humanity (e.g. negative/mortal eugenics campaigns).
They don't restrict payments to locals. Usually if you don't have a zip code the machine accepts 00000. I've been to a couple gas stations that explained how to enter your postal code if you are Canadian (with letters substitution, I think I've only seen 0s for letters. So if your Canadian postal cost is ABC 123 then you enter 000123). If the machine is set to deny all cards without a zip code you can always pay for your gas INSIDE as the card terminals inside are "normal."
So it's PWA? So you must be able to send Push Notifications to Android devices? I'd be happy about it.

Ability to swipe out cards?

Nevertheless, A very clean minimalistic design choice.
Really? Which industries? Who, other than Apple, uses HEVC?

HEVC is a standard produced by industry, sure but it's not an industry standard as no industry that I'm aware of actually uses it. You can't put it on a Blu-Ray, you can't broadcast it and you can't stream it over the internet so that's pretty much the entire consumer content industry for one.

The HEVC patent holders _want_ it to be an industry standard but it's not yet and I hope it never is. I really want AOM to kick its ass with AV1 so we don't have to deal with patent encumbered video codecs again.
It just saves top 5-6MB over Debian slim version of images.
It's not worth my time to use this instead of officially debian supplied images.

Edit: I would like to know where exactly this 5-6MB is saved.
I thought I'd seen everything now that Republicans all started to love Putin. But this sort of alliance between the r/fatpeoplehate-crowd and ISIS is yet another mind-blowing milestone.

Now I finally know how my dog feels when he looks at me with his head tilted to one side, his eyes betraying his lack of understanding.
Someone was/is tracking "zombie apps"; the percentage of iOS apps that aren't/can't be found is huge, like well over 70%.

It's a longstanding practice at Apple. At some point hardware & software are old enough that not only are they not supported, they're pointedly ignored when some appropriate new development "breaks" them.

Other platforms garner some favor by supporting ancient software, but I've long seen the subtly crippling consequences of preserving such backwards compatibility.
I think the thing I'm most excited about is Multipath TCP. I can't even count the times my cell signal has been strong and my phone favors some crappy wifi and it seems like I've been time traveled back to a 28k modem.
You don't know what you're missing. Want to be a real beast? Learn vim and emacs, both. You want an editor where "literally all the hotkeys" is literally meaningless.
Installing third-party software without an intermediary's approval?
>better to debate them in an open forum, even if they are evil.

this implies they actually want to have a discussion and not just spew bile everywhere, dox innocent people, and vote brigade racist bullshit.
Maybe the subscriber model would rear it's ugly head again and people would pay to consume content that's worth reading. Instead of being dragged into click-bait.
Also when looking for information these days I usually only find annoying "these N things are the best" sites where you have to browse through N+1 pages of ads. The ad industry has seriously damaged the information content of the web.
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Well, someone could certainly take your photo and post it on Facebook without your knowledge and that could lead to serious consequences, however, one's photo could just as easily end up on reddit, imgur, HN or any other internet community. Incidentally, the photo posted on Facebook would at least not be indexed by google.
I'm not. I am not a fan of apple at all (for various arbitrary reasons, and a couple reasons I think I could make a valiant argument about), but I have to admit a macbook pro out of the box does "just work." I throw on chrome and my editor of choice, maybe xcode or whatever if I need it, set up my ssh keys, install git, swap ctrl/cmd, done. I can plug it into an external monitor and unplug it without is losing workspace/desktop context, I know I'm getting the best battery life, the resolution is working straight out of the box in all applications, no random slowdowns, etc.

Meanwhile every time I try to put Linux of any flavor onto a macbook or a lenovo carbon or whatever, something gets fucky. Video drivers don't work, no webcam driver exists, the mouse glitches, the tilde key doesn't work, plugging into/out of an external monitor crashes it or causes all my windows to collapse into a single workspace, same issue for if the computer goes to sleep while connected to an external monitor, all sorts of weird things causes it to not sleep on laptop lid close and nukes my battery, battery life will drain excessively, arbitrarily, chrome will randomly cause the computer to slow WAY down, etc.

Ok, that was a rant, but TLDR - I hate macs but coding on one just removes all the distractions from programming and let me "just do my job."

(I am experimenting with windows as well right now because I love the Surface platform as a whiteboard and prototyper, so far WSL is great and I actually prefer it over linux because all the OS stuff "just works." Lots of weirdness around WSL still though)
I agree that centralization is antithetical to Bitcoin, game theory says that it is to China's advantage to mine for profit. I believe they will want to mine and hodl, vs sell immediately to cover costs. Think of it as their strategic crypto reserve... how much is enough to float an e-yuan?
No dice.There's no long-press on that button for me.
Reminds me of MTR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_(software)

A super useful tool for debugging why a client has trouble accessing a website.
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>The only way to counter bad ideas is with good ones.

Absolute rubbish; bad ideas spread through people, thus you need to be able to reach people when you counter bad ideas, but people generally aren't controlled by their rationality, they are attached to ideas and stick with them. The idea that if only for example Jewish interest groups had debated the Nazis more, then the Nazis would have been shown to have bad ideas is ridiculous.

Some ideas, as Marcuse put it, block the democratic process and this blockage may require apparently undemocratic means to remove.
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But Facebook is more internationally widespread and free of charge. And in the pre-internet age I assume that attention span was at least a bit longer than today.

Also then it was the authority of press that supposed to do the thinking, but now I feel it's echo chamber and social pressure.
'App mapping' gives enterprises improved visibility into systems
I would not extrapolate too much from our broken system of technical interviews.
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is there any big difference with the Debian image provided by Google ?

launcher.gcr.io/google/debian8

(besides debian version)
Sample size is never directly mentioned, but:

> At Triplebyte we evaluate hundreds of engineers every week.

> I pulled the editor / language data for every Triplebyte interview over the last year.

Based on that, if we suppose "hundreds" means "low hundreds," this suggests a sample size of 5K-15K.

That's not a bad sample size for the total population.

But if 35% use Python and only 5% use Ruby, then you're comparing a sample of 1,750 (on the low end) to a sample of 250. It wouldn't surprise me if the Ruby data is more shaky than the Python data, and thus it's not a fair comparison.

Same goes for a lot of the other metrics where the sample sizes vary.

~ Disclaimer: I'm no statistician (but I play one on Correlated.org).
I'd suggest that your sentiments map very nicely onto a rationalist view of the world but poorly onto reality. I think this more generally falls into a bias some hyper-logical people propagate, that since they assume they make decisions primarily with logic, that others must do the same as well.

It inherently assumes that A) people vulnerable to being recruited into a suicidal death cult are thinking logically, and B) such people can be logically talked out of their ideology.

If instead one assumes that emotional connection is the primary driver of the recruiting success in question, it follows that disrupting this pipeline would yield more success than attempting to reason with talented recruiters who aren't trying to have a fair and logical debate.
Perhaps it is not, but I'm thinking about using this same phone and battery for at least couple more years (had it over a year now) so I like to conserve power where I can.
Seems really dangerous to have things like PCP and Heroin available
Twitch and YouTube streamers - sure. I see a lot of them. But, software projects? Or so you mean these streamers are streaming while they code or whatever?
As so many Hacker News posters are fond of saying, correlation isn't sufficient to imply causation. Or perhaps their interview questions are designed in a way that biases a particular development environment (positively or negatively).
Where is the source code of the DRM module that shows that the only thing the code do to the stream is decode audio and video?

Oh, that part is not part of the open part of the standard. The super cookies, the administrative hooks into the operative system, the access to everything from the webcam to the hard drive, all that is what the EME is talking to through an interface labeled audio and video stream. A perfectly sand boxed interface. The buss transporting data from the browser to the module is not very useful as an attack surface when you full control of the module itself.
Correct, no force-touch on the SE.
There's a big difference between a standard produced by industry (like HEVC) and an industry standard (like ProRes).

HEVC is the former but it is not yet the latter. You can't call a standard nobody uses an "industry standard".