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It puzzles me how many people here on HN claim to "trust" a company with which they have no human contact with (i.e. Google, Apple, Facebook), implying that their data is safe with them.

"There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don't know they have been hacked."
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On my iPhone it does. It goes from a light grey (normal keyboard) to a dark grey (system password entry keyboard).
Nothing that guy said was a fact, I am specifically questioning the facts as stated. Wrapping a chain around the neighboring building sounds crazy but if it happened at all there is definitely a story that involves more than a few sentences of detail. Like ... seriously, that is wild. He might have had an agreement with someone about using chain and a come-along to fix his foundation and it went sour. It might have been all legit and a neighbor just talked shit about something they didn't understand. There is no proof. You don't just freestyle chain moving of a building to sit on a foundation and expect it to work. If you did and it physically helped, like in a way that made your building uncondemned or something, you are either extremely lucky or a god damned wizard or probably fucking both.

I've had landlords that I sort of liked do unpermitted shitty work to fix electrical in my house that I had to argue with them about and get resolved, but it's not a reason to crucify them. Some cities and I think Portland is in this group only have like 3 inspection officers sometimes less for commercial and the wait list can
be astronomical and unavoidable. People still need stuff, sometimes with hard deadlines to make the property generate income. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it happens... constantly, in almost every building you go in. Sometimes the work is completely up to code or better, sometimes it's all a gnarly fire hazards. If homie up here is gonna call shit out and smear a man, he really should be more specific. If he can't be, then it's really rude to just call the guy an asshole because he failed to pull a sticker for having posts put in for a deck.

He also might be Dick Dastardly roping up his own fiefdom with a network of chains to all surrounding office parks while building a tesla coil out of garbage in the attic next to a putrid leaking grey water line that dumps into the women's restroom sink sending random heart stopping voltage through a soap dispenser.

I'm still not sure he is UNIQUELY that dick so much so that it cost chef his golden ticket. I'm pretty sure chef's uninspired menu, inexperience, and refusal to adapt from his vision to appropriately match the costs he was not measuring vaporized the dream many months before chef woke up. If the landlord hung him so bad, then he really should have negotiated harder for an improvements clause that made sense for his budget and found middle ground to grow. Either that or open up somewhere that... you know... he can afford?

You can't just offhandedly condemn the other business party because some other dude you don't know says he saw him using a chain in his neighborhood once. Dude is basically already doxxed it's all so specific. Maybe landlord was trying to save the next house from a landslide or pull out a tree stump with a chevy nova you couldn't see. All I'm saying is I really want to see pictures of this chain operation.
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Most of them had reviews about how hard it is to make them stay in place with heavier monitors. I can't even imagine what happens if I forget to fix them very carefully before moving and break hard while moving.

But then, of course, I am half-joking. I actually did find myself doing that research but after realizing the sitcom scene I put myself in, I gave up quickly: I don't even have a driver's license, and I'm researching the monitor-mount situation for a caravan-life?!
Perfect example. Somehow we see it as a people who "choose to act stupid," as if they can just will their brains into being more capable than they are.
FYI—Snopes claims this is false: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/cakemix.asp
They are also driving a lot of crappy contributions.

They have huge power to push their own vision in terms of data and tags based on their money.

There are many other commercial providers based on OSM's many possibilities. Mapbox have great marketing.
It is crazy to me that this is an issue on iOS or Android, there is so much they can do to actually make it secure.

For one, on iOS, just "fading out" the app view over the users homescreen wallpaper. There is no way an app can do this, and it is a simple visual indication that the request is coming from the OS. Problem solved.

Also something I don't understand - the OS knows where the request is coming from, yet they don't show an app icon in that view? Why not?

This has been a problem for years with such simple solutions, yet nobody has touched it.
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This is just about the only professional career I've heard of where people talk this way. Who goes into accounting because of their passion for bookkeeping and tax compliance?
I could understand disabling UAC on Vista, but I find it perfectly sensible since Win7. Also blame ancient programs which request administrator access without reason.
or maybe police are under funded for the circumstances?

note I have no idea. just guessing at possibilities

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/police-offi...
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> or that feudal autocracy is a superior system of government.

The thing to ask is, as always, cui bono? Perhaps he sees it as superior because he believes that he would have a better place in it than he does in the current system.
So how will Mapbox fill the $164M dept of required "growth".
Starting a restaurant is a bad business idea. Most fail. The exceptions are pizza joints and franchises.
This is actually what I think will happen when I die, I will cease to exist. It is much better than being told that I will be tortured in hell forever :)
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A neural net for what could be a simple string comparison?
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Your comment would have been more credible if you had spelled 'Asimov' correctly.
That's only if you're using a third-party keyboard, I think.
So are you arguing that very well-defined and carefully thought-out requirements are, in practice, essential to the development of high-quality software?
This an interesting article about medical processes: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist

The gist of it is that introducing a checklist for bloodline infection prevention had an enormous impact on survival. It was still difficult to introduce the process.
As the only experts on the code, Programmers need to learn to say 'no' when appropriate. When they stay silent like code monkeys, they deserve all the blame Uncle Bob and I can heap on them.
Sounds cool, main concerns are bathroom and internet connection. What about security and parking?

The photo of laptop side of caravan in front of the beach looks nice though unsure in practice (smell) can you focus sort of thing, regardless cool, like the mobility idea it's what I strive for some day.
I understand that the transient ischemic attacks can just happen anytime, but what caused his nine (!) concussions? Was it his career as a race car driver?
Let's see...thugs=wall street(white). real Americans=cherokee(brown). hard-working american=Hispanic(brown). Welfare queen=goldman sacks(gold). Illegal immigrant=columbus(white).
Wow that's insane!
The median across countries is probably quite high. E.g. Japan is 98.5% ethnically Japanese. The US is an extreme outlier. No single ethnic group makes up more than about 20% of the population.
Looks great (if it is real) but for me I guess it is not about laying down but freedom to work from anywhere.

Sometimes, I work from patio while smoking a cigar. Other times, I just need to try out a new coffeeshop on other side of town.
Child care at least has an intrinsic value that will create wage equilibrium because it directly frees up someone else's time for high value labor. It should track closely to the income of the people you are serving, and it mostly does even in the US. This is ignoring the educational and social benefits that good childcare services can create which act as a future labor multiplier.
"Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud)"

-- From "Real Programmers Don't use Pascal", a classic in programmer's humor.
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There's nothing insidious about unions protecting workers that are members -- that's explicitly their whole purpose. More fields should adopt strong unions.

The problem is that education reform is an common empty promise in politics. Education is underfunded in most countries, and better funding (and then more education for teachers) would be very helpful.
I did this for one week last year. I was in the alps, doing some snowboarding, some work and some reading. It was great. Especially being alone in a country where I didn't speak the language well enough to hold casual conversation for too long.

Was still happy when my girlfriend arrived after a week though. But that one week was indeed 'bliss'.
I disagree. I think what can make a dent is something that's significantly faster than all we have today.
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> I wouldn't connect [bee troubles] to climate change necessarily.

Oh, no, sorry, I wasn't - I was just saying that it was already quite wobbly and even a small push from something like climate change could topple it.
The single biggest point of confusion for newcomers to iOS in my experience is the dichotomy between the iTunes password and the device pass code and internalizing which is needed when.

The iTunes password is needed so rarely these days that most people really struggle to even remember setting it.

IMO, the iTunes password should be eliminated entirely. But I have no idea how to handle the activation lock situation if no authenticated device is on hand.
I live in China and am starting a food venture - http://infinite-food.com/

If I'm not mistaken the most recent annual general report from Yum! China who manage KFC and Pizza Hut show a significant slowdown in KFC business.

This may be the end of the novelty binge and the beginnings of health consciousness in the Chinese middle class.
I'd say that the spreadsheet model is long in the tooth, but there has been a failure of will in the industry to kill it.

People use Excel when they should really use a database, they use it because they want to format something on a 2-d grid, edit tabular data, make plots, do calculations, make projections, etc.

The problems go down to the data structures in use.

For instance there is nothing 2-dimensional about financial reports (and projections), really financial reports are hyperdimensional. Proper handling of dates and times is absolutely critical. Also the use of floating point with a binary exponent is a huge distraction in any kind of math tools aimed at ordinary people. (Mainframes got that right in the 1960s!)

Google Sheets is just a stripped down version of Excel and other than the ability for multiple people to work on it simultaneously, is really no better.
I still would argue that medical is moving much slower than software. I work in medical devices and simple experiments can take years to get done once humans are involved. In software we would get the result in a few days or weeks. I am not advocating easing the restrictions in human experimentation but these rules definitely slow down progress.
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Yes, but Pete Rock sampled it - he produced the track.
If you're using the tablet for terminal stuff (log tailing etc), I've found just sshing into your laptop from the tablet using juice ssh or similar to be more stable as well as your laptop graphics card doesn't need to be rendering two screens
A long time ago I did the same work with banks. The effect was the same. It was amazing to me how bank employees could somehow find a way to regularly insert ASCII control characters into a CSV value.
"They" haha :P

I was surprised to read that IKEA had 70 employees working on their ARKit app! (https://twitter.com/DanielZarick/status/917472837295837185)

This whole thing (including the backend tools) took me about the equivalent of 1 month of full-time work (I was doing it mostly nights & weekends though since our games are what pay the bills).

I brought in one of my (excellent) designers from Hatchlings a couple days before launch to make the cool grid "scanning" animation and to do our branding and logo.
Thos[e] are not 'profit margins'

It's still Income minus Expense, right? For a single founder, it's exactly as though the $25 book costs $1 to make, because you are the printing press, binder, paper supplier, ink supplier, distributor and author.

Yes, you can arbitrarily drop that number by having the business pay you a "salary". But the end result is the same. The money going out the door (to people other than you) is a tiny fraction of that going in.
I'm danish, I'm also a manager who's interviewed and hired 31 people.

I network quite a bit with other digitizing managers in the public sector, and oversee around 350 contracts for different systems. So I guess you can say I get around our tech scene.

I can't think of a single reputable company which hires non-educated tech staff these days unless they have a really solid record somewhere and a good excuse for not taking a diploma degree while working.

10-15 years ago it was a completely different story, but these days it's hard to get hired without an education.

We do have targeted programming/operations/support academy degrees that are 1-2.5 years though, and those are typically enough unless the company is extremely elitist.
Where in the cave do your work in? Every single employer of mine in last 12 years (insurance, telco, army, car industry, finance etc) this would be a complete showstopper for any utilization, not even for tiny little dev server.

Losing vast amounts of potential wealthy customers for gaining some already highly controversial and at the end mostly useless data gathering is plain stupid. No nicer way around it.

And vocal minorities are devs here who often decide which stack to use on new projects. Don't underestimate power of internet in this, not in 2017.
I'm a OP3 owner and I love my phone. I don't mind that they do this -- especially if it means that they can use the data to improve the OS/fix bugs but they should clearly notify users that they do this kind of logging/data gathering so that people can make an informed decision about the device they are buying.
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> But I do believe that you are giving your own region a pass and the south a diss if you believe that they are more racist than you.

This was definitely a lesson I learned. I grew up in the midwest, and because racism of the Jim Crow sort was more blatant in the south, I thought we were relatively innocent. But I no longer think that.

As an example, I got a reproduction of the Negro Motorist Green Book. [1] It was a good exercise trying to imagine planning one of the road trips I've been on, but only staying at the small number of places that would accept black people.

I also learned from that book that there was one town in Michigan where well-off black people went to vacation: Idlewild. [2] It was created because black people in Chicago and Detroit were excluded from other vacation spots. I grew up not far from this place and nobody ever mentioned the history to me. Not accidental, I'm sure, that white people forgot all about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlewild,_Michigan
uhm, a lot of people do. some people love numbers.

also, medicine, law, automotive engineers, pilots, merchant marine, musicians, actors... people are passionate about different things.

maybe you haven't heard people talk about their passions in those industries because you aren't in those industries?

what a bizarre thing to have to explain to someone.
From http://people.com/tv/frankie-muniz-secret-health-battle/

> “Since 2006, I’ve broken 38 bones,” says Muniz, who has also endured nine concussions since the age of 7. “As a kid I did everything. I played ice hockey, soccer, basketball, soccer. But a year ago I went roller skating, and I was literally the dad holding onto the rail. I realized I have to take care of myself.”
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> In 2009, Muniz had a serious accident on the race track: “My car flipped a bunch and I crashed into a wall. In the end, I broke my back, ankle, four ribs and my hand. My thumb was dangling by the skin.”

So, it sounds like a combination of multiple things.
Even better, add an indicator light to the hardware that shows the OS is asking and not an app (although this suffers from the same problem that users need to notice something is absent).
> But persistently low achievement rates of African-American, Latino, poor, English-learner and disabled students, who together make up a majority of the state’s public-school students, fuel criticism of the educational status quo.

Perhaps repealing the English only teaching requirement via prop 58 last year had something to do with harming English proficiency in underserved populations. Prop 227, which established the English only requirement (parents could opt out) seemed successful.

> "Hispanic test scores on a range of subjects have risen since Proposition 227 became law."

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I would guess that the answer is that not all anti-racists know all the code-words. Thug, urban, inner-city and so on are all known because they're the most used.

To contrast, I used to have a couple of friends who would use the term "friend" as a stand in for n* when talking about people in public. I figured it out from being around them and hearing how they stressed it differently than normal, but any random stranger wouldn't have picked up on it.
This is just about the only professional career I've heard of where people talk this way...

In my experience: Nearly all doctors will at least claim it as part of the reason. Many (most?) lawyers. Most teachers. Most academics. All social workers. The list goes on and on.

In fact my first choice for counterexample would be your example - accountants. But in my experience they are often passionate about proving a helpful and necessary service, eve if they aren't passionate about the work itself.
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For me software dev is the perfect mixture of money and freedom. In fact, I am hard pressed to think of a profession that offers more personal freedom.

I don't make as much as my finance bro buddies, but they work A LOT. And they work year round. I work six-nine months at a time (maybe a year if the contract is right) then I take at least a couple months off.

If I was a career/full time guy, finance would probably be the better choice, but as someone who spends his life trying to maximize the life part: software really does it for me. It helps that I love doing it, for sure, but tbh finance is a complex, challenging field that's quite technical and mathy so it would likely be fun as well. Except for the people, many of the people are, uh, tough to be around. Not all, but many--still, tech bros aren't exactly the easiest either. Glass houses.
It seems nearly impossible to do this study ethically and also remove all confounding variables. The best way I could think of would be to compare the results of sentences given by different judges or jurisdictions who have different tendencies to imprison for the same exact offense.

The problem is that there’s not really any such thing as “the same offense.”

If you talk directly to people who work in law enforcement they indicate sentencing is much less about the precise crime and much more about whether all involved perceive the offender as a “bad guy.”

If the people involved (da, police, judge, jury) are in any way accurate in that assessment, it will stand to reason a person incarcerated will be more likely to reoffend. That’s what everyone was perceiving which is why they incarcerated the person in the first place.
Those aren't drug dealers (I've met a few, they didn't act like that...either that or I only met the really boring drug dealers). The only place you see "drug dealers" acting like that is tv/movies.

"Suspicious" is walking up to the front door of your house and checking if it's locked. It's walking into your backyard without permission. It's looking in the windows of your house without permission. It's checking the doors on your car to see if they're unlocked. I'll even grant you that suspicious could be hanging out in a running car in front of an empty house for 30 minutes or so. However, it's not dressing flashy and being loud. (Though feel free to call the cops if they're being super-loud at 1am in a residential area. That's just rude.)

If your definition of "suspicious" includes "this person doesn't act like me" with a dollop of "this person acts like the cartoon black people I see in movies", then you should absolutely be prepared to be called out.
It's also hard for me to see where our experiences diverge so much that we can't understand each other. Maybe you don't know that billionaires are not having this billion dollars on their bank account, but instead it's a calculation of assumed ownership of stock, houses, derivates etc?

If you have a billion dollar on a bank account with a bank that would cash that amount of money, then I'd say yes you are rich. But the Forbes list is mostly guessed values that are used in calculations, based on real but unknown values that may change a lot between one day and another.

I hope that was the point. If not give me some hints or explain your point of view more detailed. I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that we actually share the same view but express it differently.
On ios, you can get to the calculator while the system is still locked.
With the hundreds of password dialogs that you get in iOS for various reasons, I think people would catch on pretty quickly to a new secure variant.

Yeah, some people wouldn't, but that isn't a reason to leave it with the terrible implementation they have now. This has annoyed me since forever on iOS.
Creative professions usually are like this. Also (more anecdotally) I find that quite a few researchers like doing some research during their free time (usually far less serious research of the form "applying techniques used in research on toy problems"). It's not uncommon, but then again, not all programmers spend their free time on more programming.