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Ask HN: What expert domain to focus on?
I'm an almost-40 software engineer, I am doing consulting work for various companies - sometimes I help them shape the product, sometimes I just code. One person software house.

The problem is that it's hard to compete with real software houses who have teams, managers, sales people etc.

I came to a conclusion that I need to specialize in terms of domain knowledge and offer expert knowledge + solutions.

Any ideas what could be profitable now and in +5 years? I need to be able to do this alone, or maybe in some cooperation, and plan to eventually end up with a product.

Any consultants have been through this?

Thanks
With the iPhone X they'll even know the details for your face, besides knowing your voice and finger print.

People are submitting all the biometric data.
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Most in the tech professions are progressive and liberal, is that so... Just because people might work in Silicon Valley doesn't mean they automatically align with that "way of thinking".
Same reason given in the bluebird library documentation:

> Promise.reduce will start calling the reducer as soon as possible, this is why you might want to use it over Promise.all (which awaits for the entire array before you can call Array#reduce on it).

Whether this is ever necessary is another matter :)
C and C++ don't have a culture of safety, they have one of performance.

C++ code could be written significantly safer with a performance loss, e.g: index checking at run-time, iterator validity checking, exclusive smart ptr usage with null checking, etc. That, together with code reviews, static & dynamic analysis should IMO lead to comparable safety. That's what I'd do.

However, there doesn't seem to be a rush in that direction. My guess is that there won't be a rush to switch to Rust either.

Is the security angle that important that it's handled through education and better tooling? Or only important enough to do some code audits and pen testing?
https://www.hashcollision.org/whalesong/

it's a little stale, though. This is the latest repo: https://github.com/soegaard/whalesong
All the parties who agreed to the contract are responsible for enforcing it.
I'll be a happy man when the code and specs for this little guy become public:

https://firefly.city

("Airgap" ETH wallet for $5)
Google's fundamental need is a coherent and competitive OEM ecosystem. It so happens that making hardware, like Microsoft makes Surface products, is one way to help that along. It used to be accepted wisdom that when a platform provider competes with their ecosystem partners, that's a bad thing. Now it's "complicated."

For example, let's suppose Android One takes off and all the cheaper-tier OEMs let Google handle the OS updates, and let's suppose that lights a fire under Samsung and other upper-tier OEMs to provide more-timely updates for longer. Does Google still need to make 3% of the hardware market share?
$50M is a very reasonable budget for an AI chip. If they can take advantage of AMD engineers instead of hiring their own they can probably even get away with a smaller budget.

http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/semiconductor-economics...
Same here - but I would like more info on the subject to allow for a qualified decision. iPhones are very expensive.

Isn't basically all your data, everything you type being sent to Apple?
Yeah, this needs to be marked NSFW. ;)

But, yes, I too am a little thrown off by it.
That code does the same thing as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302465 but not the same thing as the code in the article.
I don't disagree, but there was a definite tonal shift in how it was handled shortly after Cook took over. Jobs seemed to recognize that the Mac was a tool used by their pro/developer userbase that helped make not only the App Store the envy of Google and Microsoft in terms of the variety and quality of the software available, but as a big draw for the deep-pocketed developer community as a whole. Cook doesn't seem to get that, a problem that was on flagrant display when they unveiled the Macbook Pro last year, with a gimmicky input mechanism no one wanted, and no first-party displays to go with it.

In other words: It was a niche product and always has been, but that niche has played a large role in the success of iOS. It should be one of Apple's primary concerns to keep them happy.
I’d argue it doesn’t do much of that either. No-one reads error messages, and certainly no-one ready cookie notices.
Wire Server open sourced
I'm an apple user, perhaps even a fan. I don't have a clue why your comment was downvoted. Is it a lot? Maybe it's a misclick.
I hope it is for some OCR/machine learning work and not just for fun.

Hard to pick up chicks when you say you collect unsolvable captcha images.
Regulating a casino is relatively straightforward. You demand their games actually pay out on the odds they're required to publish and periodically check they actually do so, and prohibit them from claiming that they are an investment at all.

Regulating a company that may or may not believe their pitch about making their investors rich and whose probable failure may or may not be the result of them failing to even attempt to execute on it and/or their pitch deck being a pack of lies is incredibly complicated.

So it's left to investors that have the resources to do what would otherwise be the extremely laborious regulator's job of doing due diligence, sitting on boards to see what's going on and litigating malfeasance. Who also happen to have sufficient funds not to suffer if they don't.

Prohibition isn't really an appropriate comparison since there's an abundance of alternative places for the general public to speculate, and no reason to assume that the investment opportunities investment professionals won't touch would start offering consumers better returns than a casino if everyone could advertise an SEC stamp on their ICO after filling in a few forms.
>"what it matters for me it's that in the last 10 years they've always been reliable (as in 100% reliable) and on point with their descriptions and ratings, no matter the destination (from a 2-star hotel in the middle of the Carpathian mountains to a 5-star hotel in Istanbul).

I would say you have been unusually lucky then. The practice of fake reviews from booking.com are pretty well documented[1][2]. And 5 star hotels are generally a pretty safe bet just about anywhere in the world, you pretty much know exactly what the experience will be. Accuracy of a 5 star hotel says very little about booking.com.

>"In other words they really do provide value, the same way as Ryanair provides value (it doesn't matter that everybody likes to hate on Ryanair, everybody is still flying with them)."

You mean like suddenly grounding 50 flights a day for the next six weeks and giving customers no shortage of grief:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/ryanair-...

>"I also spend more than 5 minutes reading through the actual reviews before making a reservation ..."

That doesn't really mean much when the reviews are gamed does it?

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/06/bookingcom-invest...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonha-revesencio/the-truth-abo...
What are the differences between public and private security guard services?
For all the reasons: Did not double Google's headcount, did not cost over $10B, did not distract management, did not make Samsung queasy...
That’s why he said “most” and not “all”.
It is a war of escalation though. You can be tracked via 304 responses and etags, for example. Fixing those client side isn't really practical.
Is it ice-cream? Dance Dance Gelato?
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Ultimately it creates terrible trust signals. Users learn that 'professionally made sites have those cookie banner things. It's something to do with security or something', they assume that sites without them are more likely to be dodgy, and place false trust in sites which do implement a cookie warning.
Yeah, the Pixels are priced as flagship phones but IMO are not flagship quality.

The sweet spot for Android was when Google had the ~$400 Nexus line.
Isn't that what Stephen Wolfram talks about in his "New Kind of Science" book.
the proposal is cute and funny, basically the author argues that to make the contribution and governance process more open, everything has to be done on github to be more closely aligned with what project X,Y,Z are doing.

that is not open or free, that is the exact opposite of being free and open.
They did break out of a jail, the vulnerability was used to gain arbitrary code execution in kernel mode, which was used to modify the cr_prison structure, thus performing a jailbreak.
Backpack, for example, was _literally_ only released in the latest version of GHC. Do you just glance over the subreddit occasionally or something? That would explain your list.

You list things that aren't part of the Haskell standard and just claim that they are "core" while not even listing all of the _actually core_ features of OCaml -- all of its OO parts.
React lifecycle simulators
iOS 11's Control Center buttons don't fully turn off Bluetooth or WiFi
> When males outperform females, everyone concludes the system is biased and we should remove the bias.

> When females outperform males, they say things like "This is baffling on the most obvious levels."

You point out hypocrisy, but follow it up with an equal but opposite?

> Maybe the educational system is biased, favoring how girls learn and behave. Is it hard for people to imagine that systems can benefit girls at the expense of boys, or can they only see the opposite?

> If there are biases favoring how girls learn, then they are disadvantaging boys and might consider removing the bias.

Are you saying that these schools unfairly favors girls, but not so when it's the other way around?

Can it not be that this instead proves that systems can be and are biased, in both directions?
The TV is also criticised for low quality content but still it is a fundamental medium and the way it is managed is regarded as a basic benchmark for democracies.
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I think the difference here is that the sorts of things that article mentions that are thought to favor boys in other countries (role models, more men than women on boards etc.) are also evident in Jordan, but the girls are still doing better.

Another way of looking at it might be ‘why are Jordan’s girls able to do so well where girls in similar situations in other countries do not’.
Dynamic dispatch is available for functions: https://docs.racket-lang.org/multimethod/index.html

Since Racket methods are just functions around a class context, it seems like it should be possible to make these into methods.
> I think it's kinda interesting that the HN takeaway is that Eastman was killed by its unions: if it had just treated its employees as disposable it'd still be the juggernaut today that it was in the 20th century.

Is it possible the employees could be treated reasonably well without the unions? Is it possible that unions have downsides that might affect a company's health?

If either of those are true, it doesn't seem fair to frame "the HN takeaway" like this.
Hasn’t this been in preorder for years?
Monitoring Cloudflare's Planet-Scale Edge Network
Just like the guy pulling the lever in the gas chamber.
> “One of the trends that bothers me about Silicon Valley,” he continued, is that “more and more of the wealth creation here is not available to most people, and I think that’s very bad in a society with already so much wealth inequality. If there’s a way that new technology can make it practical and possible to democratize this, I think that’d be great.”

Wow. Just wow. Looks like 2017 is the year when VCs publicly started adopting the pump-and-dump positions.
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I don’t mean to say it was OP’s fault but you shouldn’t really use your primary phone number for 2FA anyways. Using a burner dumb phone dedicated only for 2FA should be standard, right?
It's totally fine to think of taxation as theft, so long as you think of using public roads as trespassing.
Nah. That's one of the major reasons. Others being - working with a diverse culture, working on a big scale such as theirs, and building things based on data rather than opinions.
I've been there more than once. Interviewed for a "CTO" position at a startup that had made national news with an "automated trading platform" for a high end, niche product. Turned out it was just a WordPress site and the owner was manually moving numbers around in the admin section.

I said that we had to build the thing for real, and he replied, "I'm just looking for someone to take over the WordPress work."
> he will not stop until he will put you in the new position for free

Let me tell you about my first experience with a recruiter. I realise this is only one anecdote, but it sums up their usefulness.

As a fresh graduate I sent a recruiter my CV and he sent me two job specs. I applied for one and the company ended up making an offer. The salary was well below normal, the company's office was in the middle of nowhere in another part of the country, and I'd had to have moved out there and bought a car in order to do the commute. The deal was not a good one, but through the recruiter I negotiated higher pay. During this process I was warned about coming across as 'mercenary', and he made real efforts to get me to take the job quickly ('stop delaying', 'this kind of job won't come up again').

At the same time as having this offer on the table, I received a separate offer from a company I'd applied to independently, with a salary ~25% higher, great benefits etc, which I accepted, to the annoyance of my recruiter.

Once you get talking to a recruiter, they really do put you through the booking.com experience.

I accept their value. But it is limited.
> ? You don't give your biometrics data to anyone when you use touch or faceId. Are you sure you know what you're talking about?

That data is stored in your phone - when the FBI has to ask permission to Apple to have access to a phone, that phone doesn't belong to you - it belongs to Apple. They can blast through your door and get through everything you have - phone records, phones, laptops, photos, documents, even your bank account. But not your Apple smartphone - that's some fucked up shit going right there.

> Apple doesn't track you around the web and is (and has, they stopped apps from tracking users in particular ways in the past) actively making it harder for entities to follow you around the web.

Apple doesn't need to track you around the web - Apple knows who you are. They just don't want everyone else to know who you are - keep you locked up.
In children, reading fiction is supposed to be one thing that helps empathy.

There's also something called 'decompression therapy' that supposedly helped youths with psychopathy become less psychopathic.

The theory as I understand it goes like this: Everyone has a 'sphere of empathy', they empathize with those inside it but not outside. To a psychopath that boundary is their own skin, to a vegetarian it includes all animals, to a pescatarian all land animals... you get the idea. What makes people's sphere of empathy expand is feeling safe and empathized with, it allows them to risk the vulnerability of empathizing with someone who might betray them. But it's like voluntarily relaxing a muscle - the process is slow, and while the right pressure can help the problem point relax, too much pressure will make it tense up more.
Yeah. Just like in the US they don't show taxes (which vary!) on products in retail shops. It's obnoxious, and I don't understand how this is legal, even in the US.
The typical complaint is that you're at home, waiting for a package. You check the tracking all day "on the truck". Then at one point, it says "no one home".

Uh... I've been at fucking home all day.

Or worse, see the truck drive by your house, followed by the tracking updated to "no one home".

That's a fake delivery attempt.
You mean the platform where iOS development happens? I beg to differ. Just because iPhone, maybe the biggest consumer phenomenon the world has ever known, is bigger than the Mac, does not mean the Mac is not one of their "main products".

10 years ago is when Apple started to neglect the Mac Pro, and the Mac Mini is embarrassing, but the rest of the line has been doing great in sales and attention from Apple save a few missteps here and there.
Related: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_m...
Biometric payment system trialled in supermarket
> Was all of the effort worth it? We certainly think it was! The car was deemed road worthy and even has functioning Super Charging capabilities which according to [Rich] are disabled by Tesla if such a Frankenstein build is detected.

Isn't that inevitable?

And then what recourse will/should be available?
An American friend of mine worked at a private school there. She said that boys are being raised to be pampered with the expectation in life that they will not need to provide for their family through work and that women are basically slaves.

This was a school of upper class kids and, to me, the attitude I would expect for children of tyrants.
For a long time BitBucket was the only one with the protected branch feature that could prevent history rewrites on a branch by branch basis. Github finally added it after the force push that blew away so many critical repositories.

BitBucket also has free private repos.

I only use GH for projects that are open source because that's where people expect OSS to be.
So he bought a water damaged Tesla, deemed the electronics as being unreliable. But, then managed to sell the unreliable water damaged electronics for the original price of the Tesla?
If you want to look at the nitty gritty we have a very simple and straight forward privacy policy:

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

We do not collect or share any information that can be used to personally identify you.
This is a great piece of feedback, thank you so much!

We do utilize a login shell for executing commands, but we only support Bash and ZSH. So, it's a real Bash. However, there are some complications with environment interpolation and built-in commands; it's a known bug and we're working on it.

Unfortunately, I don't see how to allow using custom shells while providing a better command entering experience (i.e. zle or readline replacement). The core issue is that shells' interface is too primitive: it only consists of three streams with no per-job separation or anything; I wish Bash had a programmatic or REST-like interface.
Fake website fools Equifax staff
US airlines reap $7B in baggage and change fees last year
I can find no reference to this, and I've not heard anything about this happening in the past.

Issues with iOS include:

* iCloud not encrypting data securely serverside (i.e. they can potentially get at the data). You can avoid this by not using iCloud.
* They have Ads in app, and now in the Appstore directly. Potentially this changes the dynamic, between user/advertiser in a negative way.

There are probably other issues... but I'm not currently aware of them. Overall it still seems like the best option from a privacy perspective.
There's a big difference though. A country without a solid defence sector is not really sovereign - it has to buy its weapons from other countries, which can cut the supply at any time, or just refuse to sell you current-gen tech altogether.

There simply would be no USA without its defense sector - it is essential to its existence. Citizens of other countries (France, UK, Sweden etc.) understand that and you don't hear them dumping on their defense companies. It's pretty much only Americans who are so out of touch with the realities of the world that they think weapons are evil and rest of the world will just leave them be (even if they can't defend themselves).
Y Combinator to give people varied amounts of cash in latest basic income trial
Ask HN: If you could reset internet and its services, etc. What would you do?
As of history and failed commands, it should work as you describe, it must be a bug. https://imgur.com/a/BKz5O
Actually you can have a place like that. There are places where you cannot enter unless dressed in a way, but there is no specific guest list.
I use Gitlab and just have it push to Github, then disable issues/wiki/whatever else I can there, and add a link to the Gitlab repo in the description.
Waves MaxxAudio Service Application Consuming 30% of CPU
Recent intel Cpus are designed in a country with a rich history of using and spreading exploits. I think it's a coincidence.
The answer seems to be "toxic masculinity".

(Since I had to clarify this last time: the term refers to expressions or expectations of masculinity and masculine behaviour that are toxic, not a claim that masculinity is toxic in and of itself.)

> For one thing, boys’ schools are more violent places, concluded the study

> Boys also reported worse relationships with their male teachers

> male teachers were three times as likely as female teachers to say they were dissatisfied with teaching

> "Most of the problems I face with male teachers is that they want to yell at kids, to humiliate them.”

> The separation of students, teachers, and administrators into single-sex public schools may serve cultural and religious purposes, but it seems to create an unintentional ghetto for boys

> “Boys don’t feel that school can necessarily help them reach manhood.”

> In order to avoid all-female cohorts of students, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman’s only public university, now has two sets of admission criteria: one lower bar for men and one higher bar for women.

(affirmitive action!)

While I've been quote-picking I've noticed that this article is really nicely structured. The first sentence of each paragraph makes a point, then the rest of the paragraph introduces supporting statements.
Two things:

1. Methinks the advertisers doth complain too much. iOS devices have essentially no way to block advertising. Not in the browsers, not by configuring certain settings. Advertisers should count their lucky stars over this.

2. Don't assume altruism here. Apple is a gatekeeper of very valuable data for advertisers. Afaik they don't have an ad tech arm, but they're sitting on an inordinately large amount of strong signal. They could sell it, and sell advertisers into their own ecosystem.

Edit: I'm told by several commenters that I'm wrong. And I'm happy to be. I'd like to move my goalposts and say that native apps do not have those capabilities :)
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I would place my bet on that. That would be a query they need to work on.
The far right says "taxation is theft" and the far left says "capitalism is theft" or "property is theft".

They're both about equally correct -- there's a core nugget in the argument that's somewhat logical, but as a bald statement they're a massive over generalization and patently ridiculous.
> And that it’s not about being smart but how well do you listen and follow orders.

Do you realise that not all people are smart, and for those who aren't - this is the way to go.
Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight
The article points out that there are effectively two school systems - it's entirely gender-segregated - and the boy's system is disadvantaging them.
Why not? They can be used legitimately, even if the majority of the use cases at the moment are cash grabs.
Android was an underdog for years as iPhones rewrote the industry from top to bottom, killing Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Phone. It took years of intense focus to bring Android to parity, and lucky for Google, there are a few areas where Apple is weak...

Apple is underdog in services. To this day Apple Maps is a pale shadow of Google Maps. They're getting better to be sure, but still an underdog.
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