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Perhaps this is why the Rolling Stone is for sale then?

Author and Editor fail to validate highly sensitive claims in an incredibly amateur fashion. * they did not even ask the accused for comment*.

Rather than separate from the author and Editor, and help them find a career elsewhere, the publication gives a pretty weak apology and doubles down on two individuals who obviously failed to follow basic journalism standards.

They don't need to be "parriahs", but I do think it rubbed readers the wrong way when RS continued to defend their work and ultimately gave a sour retraction ('we were hoodwinked!') and weak "sorry!".
>My understanding is that trading on non-public info isn't a crime unless both parties benefit.

Trading on non public information for a gain is going to land you in hot water with the SEC.

These two lines on the SEC site [1] define this.

>Corporate officers, directors, and employees who traded the corporation's securities after learning of significant, confidential corporate developments;

>Friends, business associates, family members, and other "tippees" of such officers, directors, and employees, who traded the securities after receiving such information

1. https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersinsiderhtm.html
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Sounds pretty. but i dont really buy it. Maybe SOME of their ideas have been absorbed into western cultures, but many have not, many continue to be anti-establishment ideas today.
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The Macbook chiclet keyboards are bad, but the new Thinkpad keyboard are great (at least on the X- and T-series).

Yes, I know the layout has changes and seems weird at first, but I honestly think it works great, after having used it for a while. And I have a T420 as my personal laptop, the last T-series with the original 7-row keyboard.
Rsjs looks pretty great, thanks.
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Try an X220! I regularly use mine on the balcony in bright sunlight and even with bad vision the screen is a pleasure to read. Plus, the keyboard is fantastic, but I guess that's the same as on the X200.
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I can't speak for the whole company, but I've done 5 peaks (holiday seasons) as an SDE in the Warehouse/Delivery orgs.

The key to remember about Amazon DevOps is that Developers are also DevOps. My team would usually share a dedicated DevOps team with 3 to 6 other teams- usually rotating front-line on-call duty between 2 or 3 people in the US and 2-3 in India. That DevOps person has the job of: what is the problem? Do my teams own this problem (if not, redirect to the right place)? Do I know how to immediately fix this? If not, for which of my teams do I page the on-call SDE?"

When you have a great DevOps team, SDE oncall duty is a walk in the park. But DevOps people take time to become great- and many of them are also applying for transfers to SDE roles.

Overall, each org decides how on-call/DevOps is. If time and effort and spent investing in stable software, it's easy. If other priorities get in the way, things can get bad.
Sounds like a pretty good job.
Thank you! The thought did cross my mind but I wanted to start with a simple version first to test the waters.
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Define terrible. If terrible means trying something for a few seconds and hating it then sure, that's terrible. But by that definition coffee is terrible. When I first tried coffee I hated it within a few seconds. Of course I love it now and have for 2 decades.

I had the same kind of reaction to the new keyboard (albeit nowhere near as strongly). It's great now though. The small travel, the sound of it, it's quite effortless for typing. It's definitely an improvement over the old one, in my experience.
I was shocked that they seem to have got away with bundling a video service almost nobody wanted with a loyalty program for their near monopoly on online goods.
Surprised no one here has mentioned Twist. https://twistapp.com/ We're currently evaluating it in lieu of Slack on our team of ~10 people because of the vast array of issues Slack has. I don't know if it's something that could be considered for larger organizations, but the way it puts together channels and threads is very intuitive, and cuts out a lot of noise for individuals.

In terms of Slack's misgivings, I don't think I've used a more incredibly bloated, buggy, slow electron app. Multiple team logins with no centralized account is _insane_ to mange across teams, this single point frustrates me and most people I talk to a lot. Not to mention the more teams you have, the more your electron app slows to an absolute crawl. The notifications leave a lot to be desired in terms of granularity per channel. They've done a really terrible job on "threads", the UI around it is messy and confusing, and the concept doesn't inline well. Those are just the most apparent daily gripes.
No, he did not spend 13 months in prison. For 13 months he was required to sleep in a special cell, weeknights only. He was free to leave during the day and weekends.
If you think there's no lock-in I don't know if you understand what's going on here fully. Slack has lock-in from day one: as soon as people use it, it's hard to move away. We're an organization of 50 people and ripping out Slack, changing user habits and even getting all of our data out of there would be a _massive_ pain – so we'll never do it. This absolutely discounts how high the cost to your employees of continually switching tools is.
There was an incident in 1979 where a US military center thought Russia was firing.
>You specifically chose a large dependency with many sub-dependencies, so yes, that will happen.

You're too kind.

JavaScript is outright unusable without pulling in hundreds of dependencies. NPM's ecosystem is 80% band-aids over terrible language design, which in turn leads to things like this: https://github.com/stevemao/left-pad/issues/4

NPM is the symptom. JS is the problem.
Because with Mattermost or Discord you have to maintain it yourself, and their tooling isn't very good?
I didn't understand the segue from author's meeting with Vitra to the main story about Amazon.
Ask HN: Outlook down, but the status page is reporting everything OK
Receiving and sending of E-Mails does not work. But if i look at the status page it says everything ok.

https://imgur.com/a/3I9e2
https://imgur.com/a/NN6YX
How does this compare to the upcoming Payment Request API?
> What the hell is a chinese person going to do coming to australia and farming

Met 2 Chinese guys from China in a hostel in Melbourne who could speak little, they said there going to work on a farm somewhere in rural Aus and lot of other other people from their village where working there.

I didnt ask if they were working legally or not.
What do they receive in this case?
This should save me some time :)
Why doesn't MS Windows do the maintenance - CCleaner does things like clean up ancient cache files, remove Windows update files, remove registry entries for software that's no longer installed.

That sort of maintenance seems like it's the result of poor design in an OS that has the hood welded shut.

I actually used ccleaner on Win 10 recently, an MS update had associated loads of files with TWINUI which wasn't installed making things like viewing images impossible. Ccleaner found of the order of thousands of stale entries, removed them and made a backup. It also let me simply check and disable startup programs - I don't think Win 10 has a way to do that in the user UI?
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The whole bit about New Republic's reorg seems really strangely out of place to me
That's a great idea, awareness needs to be spread about how lucky we are.
https://www.sococo.com/blog/webrtc-signaling-here-be-dragons is a good write up of the complexities here. And even with all this work, Sococo is far from perfect - we use it many times a day at my startup, and connections fail to establish all the time. Not an easy task.
Yeah, I meant switching to PoS (damn tired parent brain)
How's the heat? Reviews say it gets hot and throttles immediately, with the fan being noisy.

But Lenovo won't let you get a high res screen on the thicker models.

It's like they take pride in making their loyal customers being forced to decide which pointless compromises they're going to take this generation.
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I downloaded a GTA 5 mod that had malware bundled and Windows Defender didn't catch it. I run Malwarebytes as well these days, but that's it.
I've used the keyboard for months now and it's still the worst keyboard I've ever used. Am I allowed to call it terrible now? :)
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Ask HN: Does classic Thinkpad like keyboard portable come as bluetooth keyboard
I just come across a [bluetooth keyboard](https://www.amazon.com/1byone-Foldable-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Smartphone/dp/B00VRCKK1Y). It looks nice. But chiclet keyboard is an issue.

Is a [classic Thinkpad like keyboard](http://www.thinkwiki.org/w/images/2/20/T430newkeyboard.jpg) available?

I am looking for a bluetooth keyboard to be used with my mobile devices.
Totally agree. A few pages of good spec / design docs can save so much wasted effort. Indeed I'd struggle to think of many non-trivial past projects where committing the design to paper hasn't revealed some hidden flaw that would've bitten hard later on.

> Seth Brundle after his teleportation mishap in The Fly

For anyone who didn't get this reference like me ...
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are they going for a worst website prize or something?
"productivity chat market" <-- whats that?
> He really likes doing it and is excited when new birds come to visit

But will he feel the same about flipping burgers? I agree - it's a dangerous thing to teach work is it's own reward. Work can be enjoyable, but not always.
ACH is quicker but much less secure, because the initiator has to have the recipient's account number and bank routing number, which also suffice to initiate wire withdrawals that do not require confirmation to complete and can't easily (if at all) be clawed back.
Indeed: although it's part of his upcoming book, they could have excerpted better so as to integrate or give structure to that unfinished part of the story.
A year ago I was doing a very similar analysis using both the 2011 and 2014 leaked databases. They are publicly available (won't post a link, but I'm sure you can find it). My interest was in the privacy aspects of bitcoin.

Besides recovering user wallets using the exact same procedure as mentioned there, it was also possible to connect wallets to user email addresses. It only works for accounts in the 2011 leak, as the latter doesn't contain email addresses.

So if you were using Mt. Gox at some point, especially before 2012, you should assume your Bitcoin addresses can be linked back to your identity. Assume this includes all your addresses, not just the Mt. Gox one, as it is often possible to link addresses from the same user together.

In another experiment, I did a simple clustering on WikiLeak's public donation address. There's a button there to generate a 'unique anonymous donation address'. The clustering found about 200 of these supposedly anonymous donation addresses. At this point I had email addresses linked to 'anonymous' Wikileaks donations — Bitcoin doesn't offer privacy.

These are just two examples out of a list of discoveries. I decided not to commercialize this work on moral grounds, but other companies do offer 'blockchain intelligence' services.
His previous boss Chris Hughes (the owner) wanted to turn a profit -- but didn't have expertise to do it.

Therefore, CH brought in Guy Vidra with a directive to make profits.

Criticizing Amazon about the Hachette negotiations triggers Amazon to pull advertising dollars. This conflicts with making profits. (Which points back to why Vidra was brought in: make the magazine profitable.)
Why someone is mining there in the first place:

- A website author can include a script for their _users_ to mine coins for the website author, which effectively distributes work across many machines you don't own.

- This means, instead of mining on just your own machine, you're effectively mining across N machines (however many users you have) as long as they have your website open (at a ~60% efficiency rate according to other comments).

- This is great for the website author, as it's very little effort on their behalf for a small profit, and affects each individual user less than the whole.

Why someone would want to block coin miners:

- Mining is very CPU intensive, which can slow down the browser for users.

- Increased CPU usage can also lead to higher electricity bills

- Increased CPU usage can also lead to lower battery life

- Someone might also not want to benefit the owner of a website they're visiting, especially if it's at any cost to them (electricity bills, battery, cpu, etc)
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I love OneNote on Windows. I think Microsoft turned everybody off from it by stuffing OneNote buttons all over the place, making it the default printer, etc. But it is really good.

I think piling too many features onto an app like that may make it too cumbersome to use.
Anyone is free to call it whatever they want.

I've been using my 2016 MBP TB since near its release and it's my favorite laptop keyboard I've ever used.
What are the cases where the command you typed are lost from the history?
The big difference is that jpeg creation with default parameters works fine for probably > 99.9% of use cases. A jpeg encoding the picture of a car will be just as fine as that of a cat. This is not at all the case with the current state of ML, as the originator of this thread has also pointed out with their example.

But there is actually one more problematic area for jpeg: encoding of graphs, drawings etc. with a limited color palette and straight lines. Here, jpeg artifacts become more visible, and to reduce them, you can either turn up the quality, or use a better approach like svg or png. For this, at least a bit of more technical knowledge is required. How many non tech-savy people do even know about svg or png?

But an even more appropriate comparison with ML would be to ask how to improve jpeg to better deal with straight lines. For this, you clearly need to understand the maths.
KDE has that modern look, so install Kububtu, then figure out how to set up multiple monitors through kde
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It may have been a "crusade", but it does not seem to me it was personal.
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I think the underlying wisdom is "don't create frameworks for your solution before you have it" not "don't anticipate your first and second degree direction changes".
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What is the use of UPI now that Indians have so many different types of denominations for transactions.
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Seems just intended to show that the politics at his work place weren't likely to support his crusade against Amazon. Basically that he picked the worst moment to do it.

But, he appears to still have his job. So perhaps that part was a bit exaggerated?

Edit: Apparently, he was fired, but didn't change his LinkedIn profile to note that. That's odd, especially since your current job shows up in the byline on these posts.
And in the world that's in a desperate need of both rethinking its energy usage and overhauling the energy sources, in a world in which everyone is politely asked to reduce their carbon footprint, this is the last thing we need - a platform for pure energy waste tied to unadulterated human greed. If I were an evil mastermind, worried that the world is escaping its doom by adopting clean energy too fast, this is what I would do.
Other possible titles:

"I didn't understand that the world's second richest person and publicly the world's most powerful person, who is extremely competitive, quick, intelligent, with little patience, who also controls the majority of the world's publication/data/hosting/streaming (BTW- Netflix and Hulu run on Amazon, so don't give me that Prime ain't everything argument) could affect me."

"I significantly underestimated the heat of the sun when I touched it."

"I've basically been a hermit for the past 20 years."
I write daily to-do lists either in the morning or the night before, on a small post-it note sized stack of paper. Throw it away at the end of the day, whether or not I finished everything. I try and be realistic and still usually end up with 1 or 2 tasks not done.

It's nice crossing things off, it also never gets out of control.

Of all the things I tried in my personal life to get more things done, this is the one that's generally worked. I still go through phases of not doing it but it's really easy to start doing it again as the stack is always on my desk.

The other thing that works very effectively for me, much like this article says, is occasionally when feeling overwhelmed I write down everything that's stressing me out in a temporary text editor (an unsaved notepad++ note, which remains between computer restarts). I include things like "I'm pissed off with Bob because he did X" or "I'm worried about client Y not being able to pay their bill" or "I feel like I'm not putting enough time into doing Z".

I almost immediately stop stressing about it, and generally end up closing the unsaved note after a week or two, usually without reading it again. When I do, most of the stuff I was worrying about turned out fine.
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The configuration files are just for working on the source. The final file looks like this: https://github.com/charlestati/amplify/blob/master/docs/ampl...
Oh, new medium for quality shitposts - linkedin.
For everyone criticizing this because there's not much actual substance, I'm fairly certain this piece wasn't aimed at you - it was aimed at people that get taken by this kind of rhetoric over actual technology. If it comes down to the usual players in enterprise software or CoreOS / Tectonic, I'd be perfectly happy to see that stack as an option in the F500. I'm sure there's a lot of reservations we all have about the tone and content, but as long as the fundamental goal isn't just selling I can let it slide.
It includes our programmers who are some of the most productive workers. A couple of them are task focused almost the entire time they are at work.

Of course we include things like getting stuck, or brainstorming solutions as productive activities.
Really respectful to take away his heroic act and give credit to a fantasy-figure. /s
There are a lot of international cooperators, ESA, JAXA etc. For example, the JWST is a joint project between NASA, ESA and CSA. So it's would be remiss of them not to publish publicly (and perhaps break agreements)
The OS does it by itself. It even includes an application so you can do it yourself if you want which is called "Disk Cleanup".
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> How would that work beyond Firefox if it wasn't a standard?

Done properly, it hopefully would've been. (There was even some branding around the vague hope that it would eventually be a standard - "BrowserID"). As it stands... the Persona devs never even tried to create an extension for Firefox to show what they were trying to do (there's some early mockups that explain some of it), nor did they attempt to standardise it. The project was mismanaged to failure.

> has Mozilla done anything commercially successful?

Mozilla is primarily a non-profit organisation, "commercially successful" is not the goal. Mozilla Corp, the wholly owned tax-paying subsidiary, is simply a legal tool to make it less difficult to sell things like search integration, not to be a commercial success.

The question is whether much of their work successfully furthers their goals as outlined in their mission statement and manifesto.[0]

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/mission/
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I seem to remember that the Cannabis industry in the US was having difficulty establishing banking relations with reputable firms. They could be a good start for this project to see usage given the open source philosophy that might resonate with some dispensaries and the friction with traditional payment processors.

Users of those commerces wouldn't be too hostile to the alternative payment option I'd imagine, and maybe with the combination of INRIA & GNU pedigree, backend relations would be less risky for the "real finance" interface.
You're right, many laws were (and still are) couched in the language of morality. I'm not disputing the historical facts! But why should I care how they are couched? People can couch anything in any damn language they want, and the couchings are often misleading.
"Unfortunately, I had already forwarded Amazon’s note to a friend"

Dude ... really?
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Edit: I point out Apple failing to write drivers FOR THEIR OWN LAPTOPS and I get downvotes? :/

Apple just doesn't seem to care about build quality beyond the cosmetics of their Mac lineup. A great example of this is how they have dual connections from the keyboard & trackpad to the mainboard (USB and SPI), while the UEFI and Linux have drivers to support the keyboard fully, macOS has no driver for the built-in USB connection.

What this means is when your coffee spills on your Mac, the keyboard won't work in macOS.

Louis Rossman did a video demonstrating Apple's lack of drivers for their own hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geGmC1xI4zo
non smoker do break too, most of the time even bigger than smoker. Yes, I have proof.
Ask HN: Tool/service for monitoring websites for search terms
Do you know any tools/services that monitor websites and send an alert when specific search terms are found?
Jann Wenner was on a recent How I Built This podcast [1]: which was very interesting. He was very adamant there that his son was being prepped to take over. So this is a bit surprising.
[1] http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this
Indeed.

I work at a public institution. Our department is paid by many other institutions around the country (networks). Our code is scary and terrifying. It's 95% perl5. We run bare metal on nearly everything. We have only the barest notions of a testbed.

Put it this way: if we were required to release our code, nobody would use our services. Frankly, I'm surprised it runs at all.

(BTW, other horror stories.. $DB_password in line 200 or so. No primary keys in our DB - or foreign for that matter. We have no idea of a schema... And on and on and on.)
Care to elaborate on reasoning? National taxes IMO should be used to (produce code that) benefit citizens of that nation. Who else benefits as a consequence is irrelevant.

Doing this efficiently, especially in software with its low replication costs, often means opening your systems for the world to use (fix, improve, buy), but even if not, considering the benefit of others as a detriment to you is almost never optimal -- SW engineering is not a zero sum game.
I've tried it myself and it does feel weird, but I know a couple of people who have those that absolutely swear by them. My wife is a nurse and one of the consultants at a party a few weeks ago was raving about how much he loves his MacBook. Even within the Apple user community there's a bit of a divide.

But isn't that a good thing? Why would you expect every single Apple product to suite you personally, to the point where if just one device isn't right for you, you won't even look at any of the others?
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