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>they just think that reddit banning a pro-racism community or a internet infra company refusing to serve a neo-nazi website basically means that we live in an authoritarian society.

No, I think it's unhealthy and may lead to such a society, not that we live in such. Do not confuse a fear of a possible future with an irrational fear of a present that isn't.

>Never mind that the slippery slope argument is a known logical fallacy,

I hope you're aware of the fallacy fallacy, yes? I think that might clear things atleast partially up.

The problem I see here is that this is a slippery slope that my country has gone down in the past already and it pains me to see tendencies of this happening in the us.

>never mind that these companies are private entities and can do what they like

An argument can be made that sufficiently large social networks (2 million users or more, for example) should be held to the same standard as a government by the nature of exerting a real power over the people in the network.

>never mind that if Nazis ever gain power they will literally, physically exterminate people they don't like

I think you misinterprete the argument. My worry is not Nazis. Not that I would consider the US citizens who claim to be Nazis to be real Nazis (they're more like kids playing lets-pretend in comparison).

My actual worry is people who will be hurt by this that you don't see because you and people who want to silence Nazis are wearing blinders on each side of your head.

If you want to prevent Nazis from taking power, the easiest solution is to find out why these people are doing the things they are doing and going against the root cause. Nazi-ism is merely a symptom.

>never mind all of that

First they came... I think you know how the rest goes. I forgot.

>and that this will continue to happen, no matter what HN libertarians say

The daily stormer is on Tor now, no? Can you censor Tor?

All the pitchforks do is to drive these people into places where they are safe from them and where the most dedicated of their followers can fester and boil the ideology.

>We are moving forward, and what you're seeing is a last-ditch reaction to pro-racism, neo-nazi communities being marginalized.

Maybe. Maybe people are reacting to things you don't want to acknlowedge and not to actual neo-nazi communities being banned.

There are risks there and I do hope you recognize that people who say this is bad are not automatically defending Neo-Nazis. As that too would be a fallacy.
Usually the bigger problem there isn't as much the individuals, but why the startup needed that role to begin with.

A lot of times early companies will go through the motions of, "needing" a VP of Engineering, or CTO, or whatever. In reality their process does not need that, and those roles are either meaningless titles at best or cause unnecessary process to crop up and hinder productivity.
Drop in is an optional feature that needs to be explicitly enabled for a list of contacts. It’s not covert if you have to turn it on.
I can't help thinking, there is more to this than is discussed in the article. This tech can also be used to give developers selective access to a git repo. It lets Microsoft and other commercial software vendors get on the git bandwagon with out actually sharing all the code with all the developers. Each git repo is a complete copy because git was designed to support Open-Source. In Open-Source there are no hidden parts. But that's a hard pill for corps like Microsoft to swallow. This looks more like a solution to meet developer demands to use git and also satisfy the demands of management to maintain control of their team's code based.
Dart's strong mode is different (it's about using a sound type system) and with 2.0 (or if you're using Flutter), it's mandatory.

https://www.dartlang.org/guides/language/sound-dart
Why would JS be less long-term-valuable? It's only 4 years younger than linux, it's more common than linux and has a much larger community (especially compared to the linux kernel driver one). I don't see either going anywhere in the next 20 years.
nah, it wasn’t missing nuance — this idea, as you expressed it, is considered unacceptable by many people right now.
I think the point is that bitcoin is very fragile and any powerful enough state-actor can bash it to the ground. There are various ways to achieve this, from shorting to propaganda, to attacking (hacking) large exchanges or miner networks and so on. Only time will tell of course, maybe that is already priced in.
If only they had done the same thing around headphones that weren't uncomfortable and sound like garbage.
I'll add it to my reading list, thanks. Although this is the most overused fucking trope in digital media:

> “The idea of publications totally based on advertising is, I think, an illusion. Some can do it, but I don’t think it’s ever going to be a sustainable model for most publications.”

Like TV and radio never even existed.
You can keep your moniker, but we ban accounts that use Hacker News primarily for ideological and political battle—regardless of which ideology. Please change this now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you want some sort of idea about how little UBS understands modern banking and wealth management, take a look at UBS Smart Wealth.
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I'm 50 and I've been a freelancer since 2006. I position myself either as developer (Rails and jQuery back then, still Ruby and Python and Elixir now, I'm starting to code with React) or architect and coordinator of developers. That works well with small companies. I attend to tech events in my city (Milan, Italy) and I organize an event myself. It's a good way to keep the word of mounth going on. I don't know if this is a feasible strategy for the next 10 years, but who knows what's going to happen by then anyway. I'll adapt.
Yeah, I think we need to flatten them a different way: tax corporations and individuals on a percentage of revenue (income) they earn.

Then it becomes very expensive to create a shell company to launder money through and games like paying oneself through a corporation lose their appeal.
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Similar anecdotal experience here. Owned my AirPods for about a year now - about a month in I was shaving and the right one fell into the sink full of water.

Pulled it out pretty quick, rinsed it off, dried it with a towel, and it's worked without issues.

I honestly feel like the AirPods are the most delightful product Apple has put out in a long time. They're great.
> and all electric cars pretty much do awesome there

The Chevy Bolt with its 6.5 sec 0-60 begs to differ.
I don't know about that. Essentially there's this range from "use a lot of storage" to "use a lot of computing power". Most traditional file systems use a lot of storage and that's that. ZFS let's you pick a point on the scale it will operate at.
7. You need to find time to use it. (Pairs nicely with reason 3.)
Currently, VR is a separate activity which doesn't fit into one's existing activities. It's a nice experience the first time, but what's the compelling reason to turn it into a habit?
This project looks really interesting - it seems to take a lot of the biggest headaches out of training DL models, yet they missed their funding goal by a wide margin. I'm interested whether this shows a product/market mismatch, because it seems like an obvious win to me - bridging the new technology of DL to practical business contexts. What am I missing here?
They will stop you and wait for you to take it off.

I haven't had them make me do it, but I wouldn't be surprised if you put up a fight.
I thought skin color didn't matter and it's what inside that matters? So skin color is the most important factor when determining diversity?
i don't have airpods, but i've heard it mentioned that the weight of the wire holds the wired style earpods down in the cradle of your ear more so than airpods.
> If you can't trust your kids to be out of your sight without tracking them, you don't trust them.

It's not always about trusting the kid. It's about trusting the rest of the world.
Sick joke, but a suggested preview of the Beverly Hills and Hamptons crowd 30 years down the pike:

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Interesting list of people on the about page. Marshall Rose for example.
>News

This isn't news, so it doesn't belong here.
This was a terrific read , informative and concise without getting too technical. Would love recommendations on similar articles which are in different areas but well written.
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I find them very comfortable. I couldn’t wear the previous ear pods at all, but AirPods fit me great. YMMV of course.

They sound fine to me, I’m no audiophile.
It bothers me that I have Ph.D. yet I understand only about every third word in your comment and nothing of the whole thing.
Their EV certs are coming from a 'partner' (that i'm not entirely certain is a partner) - camerfirma, not startcom, iirc.
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Ageism is more than hiring young. It's letting people go or burning them out as they age too. These companies expect excessive overtime until people burn out. As developers and IT staff age, they self select out of it, because it isn't healthy.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-a-week-does-a-typical-G...

"10am to 8pm on weekdays, no work on weekends? That's not a lot, not by a long shot."

See, they have such stockholm syndrome, they can't even accept that they are being overworked. How are you supposed to challenge such unhealthy company policy when "It's not a lot, not by a long shot."
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I agree with you. Young developers also don't have a family they want to get home to. They stay late, are often willing to work on the weekend, party with their company friends, and thus never really leave work.
Wow. I don't know whether to classify this as beaurocratic incompetence, bloat, or malice.
There's no real answer to this question. Use a stack a few times in a row from scratch and it's now the most prudent stack for you to use on your next project hands down.

Also, focusing on "rapidly building" possibly over-fixates on Day 1 when it's Day 60+ where your stack choice is really going to matter once you need to respond to changes in business requirements.

However, there are a few high level decisions I'd consider pretty uncontroversial:

1. Relational databases like Postgres tend to be ideal for fast development since you can respond to requirement changes by atomically migrating your entire data layer to a different schema. This is pretty hard in NoSQL databases for example. You can also encode constraints in the data layer and then the application layer can just depend on them always being true instead of trying to encode them into the application layer.

2. Keep the application server as stateless as possible. For example, use something like S3 instead of going the tempting route of saving to the filesystem. A filesystem dependency is convenient on Day 1 but now you cannot spin up more than one server nor launch an application off of that machine. For similar reasons, it's also nice to host your database in the cloud like on RDS.
This perfectly articulates something I tried to get across to upper management last time we hired a manager for our team. It seems so obvious and reasonable, but they wouldn't hear it. So, we ended up hiring someone who not only had no real management experience but who also didn't particularly _want_ to be a manager, instead preferring to write code.

This created conflict exactly as you'd expect and team morale fell apart, projects slipped, etc. Of course, management takes no responsibility for this, instead diffusing blame to employees via suck-it-up type platitudes (couched in "nicer" language but with that essential meaning).
So instead you substitute "The state is somehow a wise elder who knows what the best thing is for its child citizens"?

Clearly, both the parents and the state have an interest in ensuring the health and safety of children, and when the parents fail in that responsibility, there comes a time when the state must step in.

But let's not kid ourselves. Both parents and the state can make bad choices on behalf of children.
I don't understand what you think any of this has to do with the topic of unpaid wages owed to workers.

Do you think a critical part of the American success story is the ability of these workers-turned-entrepreneurs to skimp out on paying them the wages they owe?
This is a topic that we're continuing to iterate on between EBS, CloudWatch, and the AWS console team for metrics. When a newly introduced behavior makes step function changes in graphs displayed in the AWS console it doesn't meet the principle of least astonishment.

We're also continuing to investigate the reported latency in the console. Because this is a derived metric from VolumeTotal{Read,Write}Time and Volume{Read,Write}Ops, there may be a miscalculation happening due to the change in dimensions.
People can learn on the job and can become not 'bad', right? Or is it the case that some set of people have some innate quality that makes them always be bad at a job?
My set is still pretty new (~2wks), but so far I have been able to use public transit, mountain bike (though generally I don't wear them here so I can disconnect and hear others on the trail), and work out with them never falling out. The only cases I have come close is like most others mentioned here, wearing them when changing shirts or my toddler grabbing them.
I had always wondered why there hadn't been a push for virtual credit card numbers. This will be a great boost for consumer confidence when using credit cards online.
He sang the US national anthem while a group of white nationalists gave a Nazi salute in front of him, then claimed his myopia prevented him seeing it. It’s a bad comedy at that point.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yianno...
As an older programmer I'd recommend getting into a more specialized area that isn't so faddish: systems programming, machine learning, high performance compute, networking, crypto, really advanced devops, computer vision, etc.

Take the time to massively level up in some high end niche and you can do really well. It's also a better place to leverage the experience that comes with age. Some 20 year old out of college might not have the experience to code extremely high performance bare metal algorithms that work across architectures. Those areas take skill and a deep understanding of how computers work throughout the entire stack from hardware up to UI/UX.
Got vfs is more motivated by Microsoft wanting to use git as a monorepo. I think they have around 2k windows devs on one git tree with this vfs.
They are definitely not all taken
Does 'simple' mean 'you can buy it in Amazon and perform it in the privacy of your own home'? Because needing to book an office visit with someone who has had about a decade of medical training just to get the test done is not exactly 'simple' in my book. And sharing those results with the increasingly invasive systems of insurance and government and otherwise doesn't fill me with anticipation.

Overall I definitely do want to know, though. If I know that I am highly likely to contract dementia I can start doing things to attempt to combat it, or at least plan 5 or so years before that point to begin using hard drugs. You don't get any money back if you leave your body in good shape. I'd prefer to slide it smoking and smouldering across the finish line, missing both bumpers and with only one headlight hanging out. Then explode.
It's worth asking: how many Github users are actually using git as a fully distributed version control system? The typical Github workflow is to treat the Github repo as a preferred upstream--which sort of centralizes things.
Why don't we get some side-by-sides between renders and real photos of people?
"I don't think torque is constant."

The torque is constant for the first 40% of the RPM, something like this:

http://image.motorcyclistonline.com/f/30634938/122_0910_03_z...
http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/images/TeslaTorqueg...

The horse power increases gradually as RPM increases.
Confirmed. I was born in 1977 and learned to program on a pocket TRS-80 at age 4 (no joke).
Meh. The only entity this is worth USD 30k to is DJI, really. The issues found were an exposure of personal information on their servers, not s backdoor into the drone firmware or anything exciting like that, it seems. So no TLA employees with briefcases of money ;( I guess criminals looking for identity theft targets might have found it useful, too?
On the contrary, the wires seemed to pull them out more than anything else. AirPods stay in my ears way better, with no discomfort.
Is FUSE itself really not fast enough? Referencing Dropbox/Project Infinite seems to suggest this is a network latency issue.
Aw, you don't like the LLV[1]?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV

A hybrid would well-suit the replacement of these. Something like the Chevy Volt that relies more on electricity for heavy stop/start type driving. It would also address your concerns. The engine could just run when needed to charge, and not be a constant oscillation through the RPM range through the neighborhood.
One company wants to sell me a camel that's going to try and get its nose under the tent to sell me other stuff. The other company wants to sell me a speaker with voice commands to play music and turn my lights on and off, and is willing to take my $350 call it a day. I'm going to purchase the latter when it's released.

Put another way, I'll happily pay Apple $350, but Amazon literally could not give me an Echo.
Curiously, I think the DADA is probably a safer job consider you survive most of a year on average.
Reliable bluetooth may be finally hitting its stride (don't want to jinx anything!).

A mono alternative (Rowkin Mini) currently $40: https://amzn.com/dp/B01IU5ZTKC (here's a referral, if you're feeling overly generous: http://amzn.to/2irAi7v)

HN anecdatum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15722049

> That link is the exact model I have, though, and it's been awesome; I might pick up a couple of spares just to have them against need.
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I've worn them mountain biking without a problem. I've even crashed hard off my bike and they stayed in just fine.
The ban puts manufacturers on notice, but in reality, devices are becoming so ambiguously advanced from a technical perspective, that "smart" is not an adequate adjective to describe all that myriad use-cases and features that represent a hazard to any naive user (whether they are children or not).

Such a premise is also inadequate to address the reality that an adult parent or guardian might let their child handle sufficiently advanced devices, unwittingly harming their children and themselves by failing to understand the product they employ. What about placing a child in a "smart" car? How do you anticipate protecting the safety and privacy of anyone under such circumstances?
That seems to be what it's already requiring:

"Under IFRS 16, a lessee is required to recognize an asset for the right to use the leased item and a liability for the present value of its future lease payments." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFRS_16
A niche doesn't necessarily have to be a specific technology. Why not become an expert in micro services instead of Kubernetes or an expert in message processing instead of Kafka?
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This quote from the article really stands out and may become my 'go-to' analogy for explaining being a software engineer:

If you know a programming language, then
are you an engineer? No. Knowing a language
does not make you an engineer. The same as
knowing how to speak elementary Spanish
does not automatically make you a good
Spanish teacher.
He said if you are going to count the monthly rent against a renter, you have to count the value of the place to live too.
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Exactly, and the reason is the implied risk of unchecked "diversity" leading to hiring underqualified people just for the sake of boosting quotas.
Man, I get sick of the incessant title criticism on HN. I wish the quality of the title wasn't such a go to topic. Unless the title is grievously misrepresenting, let's just discuss the topic.
Yup, and thanks for this; this helps me understand what I was missing, specifically "applications often put a secondary stack inside their heap".
Android permissions don't distinguish between foreground and background audio capture, so every messenger app installed could be used to listen in.
There are studies (ref?) that around 10% people start thinking seriously about avoidance. Western historical religious tithing is at this level. State sales taxes rarely go above this level. When you go higher the tax is generally somewhat hidden from the person in the form of withholding the tax by the employer or included it the price and collecting at every level of production, not just at the end sale, as with a VAT.
Oh, I have read emails promising me free money before! Are you saying those might have actually been legit, and that they should not have automatically gone to my spam bucket?
I've heard this as an open secret for years.
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What if one evolved into another career?
>Donald Trump, fortunately, has not suffered a crisis such as 9/11, his strategic judgment and understanding seem as

>poor as or even worse than his predecessors’.

Here is how he can win. Just don't engage at all.
Unfortunately his speech on Afghanistan was not reassuring. Just more of the same.
Yes, it's the more tribally motivated who take more simplistic views. Your comment actually highlights my point by adding another dimension to the example.

Also, I should admit it's difficult to tell who is further left than whom these days. The political spectrum itself is very multi-dimensional once one abandons the lens of a specific tribe. One must look no further than the reactions to Maajid Nawaz to see a prime example.
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I don't feel like the AirPods are that secure when I run with them, so I use some medical tape [1] to secure them to my ears. This is kind of weird, but I've done it since March and really like not worrying about them falling out. I cut off a small 5mm strip of tape, make a loop, and stick it right below the black sensors on each AirPod. They stay firmly attached even when my ears are sweaty and I'm shaking my head.

[1] http://www.amzn.com/B000C4RRQE
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