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I mean even after you think you know somebody it’s useful to recognize they have good parts and bad, separately. Lasseter can still be a hero for his work as a director (writer? Creator? Honestly not sure about his title.) without looking up to his social behavior at all.

It would be weird in any case to assume that, erm, career people are just as heroic in other spheres of their life.
The thing that really amazes me is that these badass planes were designed with slide rules, drafting tables, and wind tunnels. No fluid-flow simulations; these things predate the CDC6600. The engineering was as badass as the product.
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Pretty easy, I think; there was a switch in the UI for a while, then hidden in about:config, then hard-coded into the browser.

I think that the issue was that they were worried about people who don't understand the security implications turning verification off and getting themselves into trouble.
I read both linked articles. Instead of asking me belittling questions why not describe Lasseter's crime, as it's not exactly obvious.
I have an Android phone, but I would never use it (or an iPhone for that matter) to log into my bank account.
Uh oh, this is HackerNews, you can't be anti-liberal here.
They stored AWS storage credentials in clear, in a (private) Github repo...

This is so baffling coming from one of the largest tech companies in the world.

Among other things, this shows that they do not have proper access policies to user data (e.g anybody working at Uber can get access to any user's data), which in my opinion is a larger issue than this individual hacking case.
You can scale the price to find a point where it's economical to offer to stay open while maintaining good relations and if the demand is consistent and heavy then scale that price appropriately or, alternatively, simply refuse to service repeat offenders if it's becoming a serious headache.

It's a bit of a hard question because the daycare may not have a legal way to stop holding the child, unlike fedex they can't simply return it to sender, so these sorts of contingencies might not be expected on opening your center, but you'll need to scale into them.
They agreed to pay and nobody heard about it for a long time. I'd say they asked for the right amount
Well look at this case as an individual circumstance:

The US federal government decided 30 years ago that it was going to attempt to prevent some kinds of transactions from being part of the global economic growth. Kinds of transactions that were always here, and always willing to be part of the global economic growth.

It decided to use other people's money to attempt to enforce this blockade, at great expense, for perpetuity.

It does this by creating onerous reporting requirements for companies and individuals worldwide, and onerous and expensive procedures for the individuals that fail to merely file the correct paperwork.

All the while, massive multinational banks have been letting the well funded organizations continue moving their money through them and contributing to the global economic growth, while citizens are being fined and imprisoned for paperwork problems.

And your go-to thought was a satire on anyone suggesting less regulation, implying the same or more regulation would be a BETTER use of public resources?

World economic growth has always been fueled by money whose source you don't agree with. Using everyone's money in a government to merely PRETEND like it can prevent illicit sourced money from being used seems irresponsible and unconscionable, looking at the track record.

Is it really so uncomfortable to admit that multinational "cartels" (organizations of people under a common charter) are pretty good at fueling economic growth globally? Because thats how its always been
I mean frankly who gives a damn what Lee thought; the issue is the same with feynman in theat it is their fans who romanticize them.

That said, it’s not exactly uncommon knowledge that Feynman was terrible to women, especially all the ones who followed his first wife, including his second. People aren’t exactly building statues to him so much as his lectures and story telling ability.
> There are no four classical states of matter.

Gas, liquid, solid, plasma. I don't think this is very controversial?..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_matter#Class...

The parallel is that each of the "elements" corresponds to a different state of matter.

Plasma would have been observable via fire.
No no. My point probably just wasn't properly conveyed. In the original post I replied to the person the person encouraged their friends to use Lyft after hearing about the terrible things over at Uber.

Presumably they want friends to switch over as to not support an organization they disagree with, but my point was that doing so is pretty much impossible to begin with. If the goal is to not support organizations that do things you disagree with it's futile.

Therefore, one should just decide arbitrarily. It really doesn't matter.
Just hugging?

Sources say some women at Pixar knew to turn their heads quickly when encountering him to avoid his kisses. Some used a move they called “the Lasseter” to prevent their boss from putting his hands on their legs. A longtime insider says he saw a woman seated next to Lasseter in a meeting that occurred more than 15 years ago.

“She was bent over and [had her arm] across her thigh,” he says. “The best I can describe it is as a defensive posture ... John had his hand on her knee, though, moving around.” After that encounter, this person asked the woman about what he had seen. “She said it was unfortunate for her to wear a skirt that day and if she didn’t have her hand on her own right leg, his hand would have travelled.”
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If Clinton's 9-figure campaign couldn't get a handle on what the average American voter wants from their government, it would be downright hilarious to watch someone from Silicon Valley try. The region is so far out of touch, they aren't even on the same planet.
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Alcohol itself is also ototoxic, damaging the cochlear hair cells.
Although it is quite effective, if people can condense their ideas into sentences like these and not use garbage content, I have to admit that I would follow along quite well and understand what they're trying to say.

In a way we do this in our code and functions and we call it best practices too in terms of structure, etc as theres always the articles about implementing a neural network in one line code.
as the size of the company grows past a certain size, especially these "move fast and break things" idiots, i feel like the likelihood of this goes up. there are more and more people, someone is bound to do something stupid.
Two observations: Impressive line spacing to content ratio + This is what you get when you use the lowest ranked writer on iWriter/similar
This is an easy trap to fall into. Try to think from the victim's perspective. Countless women had to suffer mental and emotional distress due to Lasseter. Who knows, without such stress, some of these women could have been even bigger than Lasseter himself.

The ends never justify the means.
Do you believe this kind of thing is simply unavoidable? I wonder if this could've been avoided by simply making it impossible to access data without being connected to a VPN in addition to having some sort of physical device connected to your computer.
Isn't that 0.881 billion? They're still off by 3 orders of magnitude
> [C++ is] made more horrible by the fact that a lot
of substandard programmers use it

Typical Linus rant. There's no substantive, logical, reasoned argument in there about why C++ would be inappropriate. The closest we get is that "You invariably start using
the "nice" library features of the language like STL" — God forbid the language provide a dynamically sized array, and not force you to implement it manually.

Not saying that Linux should switch from C to C++, nor that doing so wouldn't be a metric crap ton of work (it would be) and for benefits that might be hard to sell (e.g., at this point, we already have a decent vector implemented in C macros; what does switching actually gain us?) or that the kernel doesn't have special concerns (in a kernel, you have to implement malloc(), for example (and that's probably a gross simplification) and that could definitely affect a lot of things in the STL), etc. Just that the linked rant is not valid argument as to why C++ isn't a good fit.
So long Free Speech.
I also do this where possible, but Lyft doesn't operate outside the US. I wish they would launch in the UK, at least.
> What message does it send that vast success for huge numbers of employees counts for nothing when put against people who are offended by this?

“Don’t touch my fucking knee or you’ll get fired. It doesn’t matter that people like you. It doesn’t matter that you are in a position of power.”

Of course, he has to get fired to send this message. Soon, hopefully. Remember, rape culture isn’t just about raping.
Some drivers don't stop at stop signs.

Let's remove the stop signs so all drivers can be as cavalier.

It'd save a lot of drivers the headaches that go along with traffic laws.
This smacks of damage minimisation and failure to take responsibility. While we shouldn't be applauding these guys, I found that at least Louis C.K.'s confession seemed genuine (after the denials).
> Smoke and mirrors don't work when you know its smoke and mirrors.

Yes, they do. In many ways, Trump demonstrated this: smoke and mirrors still leaves people free to imagine what is behind the smoke and mirrors, and they can easily fall into the trap of filling it with what they want to be there. People of radically different preferences rationalized Trump's shifting and incoherent campaign message as smoke and mirrors hiding the policy positions they preferred; the same can (and does) happen in business.
Build your heroes out of pieces of many people.
Wouldn't the easy solution to this class of problems be to require some sort of physical device to be connected to your machine in order to access certain sets of data? Assuming the device itself couldn't be spoofed, wouldn't that solve this once and for all?
I like the simplicity of the UI, but I can't seem to make straight lines horizontal lines between components, and I wish there were more options for annotating things (text, short description of a relation, etc).

Also most importantly, where is the option to export to an image or some other format?
We already knew that -- viz Uber showing off their ability to track famous users at a party.

see

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/03/god-view...

https://www.cnet.com/news/god-view-under-spotlight-as-uber-i...

and

https://www.cnet.com/news/uber-lawsuit-alleges-startup-track...
A witch hunt is a definite possibility, but I haven't seen any evidence of it yet. I think we're seeing a lot of people who had to bottle up their experiences because the climate wasn't right for trying to bring them out in public. The climate has definitely shifted, so a lot of people who faced possible retaliation before can now safely air their grievances. This is a good thing. It will be overplayed when people start using it as an excuse to take down people they don't like or to make a quick buck. I don't think we're there yet, but if you have seen instances of that, please let me know.
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That's what we ended up with in New Zealand, the underlying infrastructure is owned by companies that lease it to the ISPs, so anyone with enough cash can rent some cabinet space and start an ISP.

Before the unbundling, Telecom NZ basically had a monopoly on ADSL connections, connections cost a lot of money and had comically small caps (like 10 GB, which even in 2006 was not a lot). Now, in straight dollar terms, plans are cheaper, and uncapped plans are standard.
> Framed less generously, you could be reading about a squatter on public land supported by bi-weekly food shipments.

You could, but that description sounds misleading enough to be verging on dishonest. He is not simply squatting, but has a role on the island - a role that he filled after the previous caretaker retired.
So a hand that might have travelled but didn't 15 years ago and the fact that he likes hugging is proof of what, exactly? Only the insanity of our era. Don't research how the Queen of England met her husband or your head might explode.
but is guaranteed to accomplish that
Tell them that the data security of US companies is a matter of national defense. The US military would not stand for foreign powers attacking US interests abroad (shipping ports, oil wells, fisheries, etc), and they should not stand for it here.

A reasonable amount of money should be dedicated to an intelligence service attempting to penetrate companies which are of significant national interest. Fines with increasing severity should be assessed to the responsible parties - and the vulnerabilities should be communicated in private.

For cases of the most persistent gross incompetence and negligence, companies should not be permitted to continue operation. Such powers exist in other agencies.
Without am "About" page on the website, I can't tell what this framework is for. I've looked over each of the six pages listed, can't tell what to do with this product or why my company may be interested in it.
Just use bend-insensitive fiber. It's not like copper cables like being kinked, either.
Triple the fines in the event of a coverup would probably help too.
Awesome stuff :D I'm founder of https://bitbank.nz

I would love to see someone build something based on the live crypto forecast data we have,

I'm happy for you to reverse engineer/use the same api that our frontend uses, we also have a firebase API so people can subscribe to live updates,

Let me know your email if your from HN and ill give you some free time to use the platform :)

We also have a referral program where you can make .003btc each paying user.

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Must be some complex of populist politics and regulatory disfunction involved.

Enforcement of a grease trap municipal code requirement would surely be more cost-effective than going down into the sewers to get the stuff out -- but require organization and up-front investment.
"No one ever got fired for buying IBM" probably pre-dates the creation of Microsoft.

The saying was based on the fact that IBM, like the 7th Cavalry, would ride in to rescue large accounts if they screwed up.

I never heard it said of Microsoft in the 90s because Microsoft was never a big proportion of anybody's spending. It sold to hundreds of millions of consumers and small companies, rather than Fortune 500 companies.

I did once discuss this with one of the Microsoft salesmen who handled giant corporations, and who had been hired from IBM. He said IBM tried to get 33% of a company's IT sending whereas Microsoft tried to get 3%.
This is just global load balancing (via reverse proxy vs other methods).

Actually architecting and running your app in multiple clouds is the hard part.
> Over 170,000 people waited in the game’s lobby to play the HQ on Sunday night.

It seems like no easy feat to build out an app that streams live video as well as trivia questions/answers to 170k concurrent users. Does anyone have a guess at how they went about architecting a product like this?
Language, please. Also consider the context: "I just bought a home, I don't know what I'm doing!"

That is _not_ the person I want working on a gas line (which is "plubming") on a house I'm going to buy in the future.

I'm sure you're a special little snowflake that's good at everything, but if you don't feel comfortable getting a permit for permit / license-required work, then... um... maybe you shouldn't be doing it? That's the context for the advice I gave to the parent poster.
Ask HN: Best way to continuously play audio when user navigates between pages?
In the same way as Soundcloud, what is the best way to have audio continuously playing while a user navigates between pages?

Previously this could be done by separating out the audio player from the rest of the site, and loading everything else via AJAX upon navigation, rather than refreshing the page.

Is this still the best way, or can React/Angular/<jsframework> provide more efficient ways of doing this? Is this a good use-case for building a Single Page App?
Github 2FA has been part of the first-day training/laptop setup for a while now (I joined in may) and there's security-related training in place as well. I was told there are also scanners in place now that check repos, gists, etc for secrets for exactly this type of mistake.

One snippet of the email the article didn't mention was that Sullivan's firing happened pretty much right after Dara learned of the breach and an investigation was conducted. It definitely inspires more confidence in leadership seeing that the CEO will not tolerate unethical behavior.
Andre Staltz has a pretty good article[0] about how that collapse is already happening with the likes of Facebook, Google, and Amazon taking over every other site.

[0]: https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
"It subjects the internet to content regulation at the whims of the FCC."

Explain, in detail, exactly how this is possible.
People keep bringing this link up every time, but obscure the actual reason that was done: it puts the developers depending on the library in legal jeopardy. Licenses like "Do Whatever The Fuck You Want To" [0] are in the same boat.

Redhat also stopped including JSMin for the same reason. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455507
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Companies have no inherent right to data collection, if your business is based off of information regarding other people then it's entirely on you if that information gets compromised. In the case of equifax et all, nobody ever walked out their door and asked some shadowy company to track various data points about them, equifax decided to do that of their own volition, thus all the damages related to this issue should be put entirely on their shoulders.

In addition, incentivized and high-pressure opt-in have the same issue, companies are stealing data about customers to improve their business without offering compensation in kind. The business should be liable for any mishandling of this information and any fallout from this mishandling, if a loan was taken out in your name falsely due to the equifax breech they should have full liability and, due to their voluntary role in this incident, they should be presumed guilty unless they are able to prove their innocence.
At what point can we just let a company die? Is there even such a line to be crossed anymore? Personal data leaks and illegal cover-ups, Greyball, utter disregard for regulations, IP theft, a culture systemic harassment and sexism, etc etc etc. Uber just needs to die so that the rest of us can have some semblance of faith in the system left.
I don't dispute your logic though I would prefer more traffic law enforcement.

But the uber situation would be closer to this - the parking meter costs $20/hr and a parking ticket costs $5. We're creating a situation where people who break the law get ahead of those who obey it. Either we can ramp up enforcement (good luck with that happening) or we can level the playing field.
Your PS is spot on.
Can you explain how his links in any way support his argument that D's implement policy specifically to avoid voting R? Seems like you just want to perpetuate a victim-hood narrative that doesn't exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(comics) apparently.
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Many, likely most, people of prior generations held views that would shock today's worshippers of the Blank Slate Religion.
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I really want to feel bad for Americans but I can't. This is democracy working as intended. You put bad people in charge and they are going to do bad things.
I'm sorry but this is hypocrisy at its worst.

You say that Apple is doing this for its own financial interest yet on the other hand Yandex, Baidu, Google, Facebook and all the other companies also have to obey local laws, and are just as bad if not worse since their system of persistent user tracking is far more insidious.

Don't like Apple? Don't buy their products. Your involvement with them ends there. Don't like Google? You can't avoid them no matter what OS you are using, no matter what browser you're using etc.
Indeed. It's impossible to analyze Colombia's macroeconomics without having into account drug dealing. At some point, I know that this activity represented 3% of the GDP.

However,

Lots of colombian corporate giants where founded in the '40s in Medellín. Today, out of the 10 most valuable colombian companies, 6 are headquartered in Medellín. These companies (not in order) are Éxito (retail), Argos (concrete), EEPM (utilities), Sura (insurance), Nutresa (food) and Isa (utilities).

In conclusion the city was heavily industrialized before the cartel, but the drug war did indeed bring some money that got managed for good in later decades.
> Apple provides a black box with iOS

And google does it with Google Play Services. All we have to go on is the historical record of the manufacturer, and apple’s is vastly better.

Obviously a high-quality open-source smartphone would be preferable, but I’m not aware of such a thing (Although I’m hopeful that purism’s phone will be good).
The iPhone wasn't invented by Apple, they just had a great combination of timing on manufacturing processes, great marketing and a decent UI to start with.

There is no doubt in my mind that we would've made the same progress with any other company, albeit perhaps cosmetic differences.

I think this is translatable to most other advancements. It's nearly always iterational, and either someone's first, different people discover something independently or it's a mashup of separate discoveries.

History makes geniuses, smart people exist everywhere.
Apple has allowed sideloading for a long time now. You just need to jump through more hoops. How do you think large MNCs like IBM deploy their apps?
> So 0.88 Tn.

You mean 0.00088 Tn.
What's insurance?
What about home page?
> brand new electronics

Why choose this example? Child labour is rife in many sectors, particularly textiles.

It's also rampant in electronics recycling[0]. So even if you never buy any new electronics, you're complicit when you dispose of your old electronics.

The point is you shouldn't allow an impossible quest for perfect ideological consistency and moral purity to prevent you from doing good on a imperfect, inconsistent scale.

[0] http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/india-rising-tide-e-wast...
I sincerely don’t understand the idea of having heros. What’s the point of bundling someone’s actions together in the person herself?
At the same time, we cannot excuse his behavior just because he does stuff we like.
The "success at any cost" mentality may have some costs, in retrospect
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I don't believe any mental or emotional distress was suffered. I also don't believe there were any "victims". Being hugged does not make you a victim, sorry. These people who are complaining need to toughen up.

I mean where does this end? Accidental contact in a corridor as two people pass each other ends careers? That sort of thing now seems entirely thinkable.

Who knows, without such stress, some of these women could have been even bigger than Lasseter himself.

Someone who can't tolerate the "stress" of being hugged is never going to be able to pull together Toy Story.
> I'm making a point that innocent until proven guilty does not hold true anymore. Once the media or social media writes a story, in the eyes of the "general" public... You're done.

You make it sound like this is a recent phenomenon. When, in history, has public opinion been subject to a legal standard like 'innocent until proven guilty'?