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One thing the article describe is the problem when large company abuse DMCA take down notices, something which small business content creator has had the unfortunate to be on the receiving end. Musicians has have their own music being hijacked by false DMCA claims and the ad revenue diverted. Small business content creator that create critical videos on products are regularly becoming the target for such abuse, to the point where one critic found a loophole in the youtube implementation where if he taunted two different companies to file DMCA notices then neither gets the ad revenue, and in this way the content creator could protect his video from hostile DMCA abuse. This way at least no one else get to earn money on his work.

If this happen to you, then you will have to prove to the court that the large company subjectively knew the targeted use was actually lawful, and even if you manage that, the damages are very limited making the effort too costly to do. As a small business content creator your best choice is to give up on that content and just hope that you won't be the target next time.
> So I am wondering what led to the conclusion that this article blames stuff on the programmer?

I'm seeing the same problem over on Reddit [0], I think that the problem is that the article buries the lede.

The entire first section is consistent with "blaming the programmer", and the title of the next section is "Why are some programmers such jerks?". That's probably where a lot of people just stopped.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7gpt3n/how_you...
Would you mind sharing what would you use such a thing for? Counting events or timestamping them?
Interesting that it will run out of electricity before it will run out of Hydrazine.
> Other objections were particular to Berkeley — like a zoning board member’s complaint that shadows from the homes might hurt the supply of locally grown food.

Bay Area housing woes summed up in one sentence.
I don't see how this problem can be solved in the short-run with anything other than money. Just buy out the entire neighborhood, raze all the houses, put up huge complexes and bake in the price of the beforementioned behavior into the new rent.

Doing this a house at a time is a fruitless effort. The neighbors will crush you -- rightfully so (why shouldn't the people who own propery have a say?). It sucks, but it seems like that's how it is.

EDIT:

The only interesting thing here is that people are so fixated on just a few spots in this country. You'd think the natural conclusion of this would be employers going to the cheaper areas and this problem would solve itself.
"obvious" is not a property of a statement itself, it indicates a relationship between a piece of knowledge and a larger knowledge base, where one thing immediately follows from other things that are already known.

I don't think "obvious" in the conventional sense is a real category, because no two people would agree the same things are obvious.
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Data retention laws are well-established and every major company I've worked for required training on what communications we are legally required to retain, how it should be retain and for how long.
The code takes the CT hostname and tries to access a bunch of different buckets that might exist related to that hostname. So if you get a cert for foo.example.com it will ask s3 if foo.example.com.s3.amazonaws.com and www-foo.example.com.s3.amazonaws.com exist.
Pizza Rat is mentioned in the first paragraph, with a link to a Buzzfeed article on it.

"New York City is a place where rats climb out of toilets, bite babies in their cribs, crawl on sleeping commuters, take over a Taco Bell restaurant, and drag an entire slice of pizza down the subway stairs."
The thrusters use hydrazine. It reacts with a catalyst and decomposes into hydrogen and nitrogen. They are used to steer, so the fuel isn't used up.

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"Kurt Caudle, a neighbor of 1310 Haskell, grows tomatoes, squash and greens outside his back door. He worries that denser development on the adjoining lot could obstruct sunlight for his garden."

Oh, the horror!
If they raise prices by a dollar everyone will switch to
Lyft or one of the other dozen competitors in an instant.

I'm not sure this is true. I'd bet Uber has done significant sensitivity analysis, but speaking anecdotally:

- I wouldn't even know if Uber raised prices by a dollar.

- I don't price-shop between services.

- Uber is still regarded as "cheap", including vs. taxis.

- Uber's gotten people hooked on on-demand transportation: taxis are dead.

I think there's less price sensitivity than you think. Combine that with the obvious PR move to spin price increases as a way to pay drivers more, and competitors will (have to) follow suit.
I see two problems with the implied argument here. The first is that other industries would probably very much like to do these kinds of things, if it weren't impractical to do so. The relevant difference is in fact that these practices are practical for software whereas they aren't for civil engineering and law.

The second is that software development may be unusual in that it's very easy to phrase what are essentially IQ test questions as "coding" questions, even though the code part is secondary. Arguably, the smarter thing would just be to give an actual IQ test, but I think people are squeamish about that idea, so coding questions can be used as a proxy.
I think he's arguing that the average wage in our industry is low simply because the workforce leans so young, so a disproportionate number of software engineers are still junior—and making junior wages—compared to other industries where the age curve is more spread out.
> Right, American Sprawl has to be put out of its misery.

Don't want a single-family suburban home? Don't buy one.

Your tastes are not those of others, and you don't get to tell them how they should live.
It's not about the method (ICO), it's about the people and teams behind the ico's being 1) amateurs with no clue 2) very prepared scammers who have really nice fancy websites but no intention to at all to followup or honour the sale and 3) well meaning but totally immature ideas and teams who are doing a cash grab.

This case sounds like #3 - where they have an idea, but immature company structure, poor legal structure, and no governance that is supposed to bind a team together - in this case they are fighting about the money ...

As always - in the end it's all people. Public ICO is a tool, and it's really NOT the tool to use if you want to find a real base of support and well-intentioned stakeholders (who won't turn around and sue you the moment the ico completes :)
I recall a case where after a subpoena for records hard drives were wiped clean and mobile phones where smashed with a hammer. So what is it, OK to destroy or not as a legal precedent?
This is concerning b/c there have been a number of high profile data breaches that have occurred due to over reliance on S3 bucket obscurity. Where the buckets have been left with minimal or misconfigured permissions and GBs of data there for the downloading.
Excellent question. The 3 periodicals I mention above represent a more classical conservative viewpoint, i.e. Paul Ryan rather than Trump. But those two overlap at times so the distinction isn't clear.

What I like is that these sites help me understand the other side of questions like gun rights/control. I may not agree with it but I'm less belligerent about my views because I appreciate their sincere alternative viewpoints.
Those numbers can brutally spike too, more than doubling even for the high numbers; it’s basically like huffing hot soup through a car muffler.
Remember that time that guy walked into a church and killed a bunch of people with a semi-automatic gay marriage?

Neither do I.
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> Companies find it incredibly hard to reliably staff positions with hard-working generalists who operate autonomously and have high risk tolerances. This is not the modal employee, including at places which are justifiably proud of the skill/diligence/etc of their employees.

This one. Every job I see when I go looking is 40+ hrs a week, likely with plenty of idle time and projects I don't believe in. Part of this is regional... my area is packed full of marketing jobs that I'm actively uninterested in. Anyway, I'm starting to get the hang of selling myself to contract shops, and I think I've found some twinkles of hope.

But today I was told straight up that my resume wasn't conventional enough, that it was too well-rounded. After quite a few messages back and forth, I'm not even sure if they even looked at my portfolio. They told me there was no money for me, because their funders were looking for someone more professional. So I took this as a sign that maybe this wasn't the job for me. No need to go barking up the wrong tree.

In the game dev world, I'd probably be a "technical artist", but even that doesn't quite fit for me. I'm like a "fool of all trades, jack of some, maybe a master of one or two". But it's hard to find a job that motivates me and leaves me with adequate space/time/energy to keep myself sharp and alive.

If anyone knows of funding for a guy that makes creative, reusable web components, let me know... edit: I just saw that vue.js is primarily funded by patreon. that's awesome!
Advice is directional, not absolute. Someone isn’t going to divorce their wife just because someone on HN told them to. They’re going to second-guess whether she has BPD and go through mental gymnastics, possibly for years, to avoid doing that.

If I’m going to give someone a nudge, I don’t need to nudge them to do that second guessing. They’re going to do that anyway. I need to nudge them to take the situation seriously and follow the logical consequences that follow if they are married to a borderline. If the wife is the rare borderline who actually cares to get treatment and overcome her BPD, I know that this guy is going to give her that second or third or nth chance because that’s exactly what I would have done in his place.
It's not cargo-culting, it's not from github, and it's not even a workflow. If that was the point, it's a terrible one to make. I genuinely don't understand how people found that comment insightful, or anything short of trolling/hostile, but whatever.
Universities can study porn under the heading of the humanities or social science. The fact they don't have an explicit "Department of Pornography" is both an accident of our culture and a reflection of the fact our "top-level categories" for academics are more abstract than that.

My point is, libraries maintain a very curated collection, and choose their holdings and resources based on very restrictive criteria, including funding and shelf space, making them relatively poor at keeping broad and deep holdings. Until you give the library an Internet connection, which brings us back to the origin of this sub-thread.
I would care about this issue more if it wasn't just a handful of cities in the country experiencing economic growth. However, there are probably hundreds of cities in the midwest declining while the remaining jobs continue to be centralized.

Instead of finding ways to pack more people into those handful of cities, why not spread the economic development out a bit? That would improve quality of life for the people of an area while reducing regional inequality at the same time.
When a statement so stupid is argued, you know you have a major problem...
That sounds nice. I pay $75 a month for 10/1. LTE is higher speed, but significantly more expensive because of data caps.
Classic Berkeley.
> The chief products of the tech industry are (in B2C) developing new habits among consumers

This was a profound revelation I didn't realize until I read it just now. Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. have all done so well by starting a habit for their users. ("Check Facebook daily to see what your friends are up to." "Google it whenever you need info." "Buy your stuff conveniently on Amazon when you don't want to go to the store.")

I think this approach can work great for even non-tech industries. It definitely worked for Starbucks ("Gotta get my morning Starbucks").

I think lots of industries are ripe for "habit-ifying", and I'm going to pursue that further. Brilliant insight.
I completely trust Amazon with this product. They have shown the ability to run complex systems at a high quality. I think they can only improve the availability of medicine.

Just because counterfeits still happen doesnt mean they are not trying to stop nor does it mean they are doing a bad job.

And Im sure there will be further regulations around this then there is for nockoff plastic goods.
You're still mixing different time period sizes in 1. I think even size adjusted per ride, Lyft may still be in a better position. 6B vs 750M (more if using newer numbers) when the market ratio of Lyft is nearing a third means that unless their yearly losses are over 2B, they still have the edge.

Overall I agree somewhat, but when what matters is explicitly runway (who can survive the longest), scaling for size may not make sense. Lyft's smaller current size might actually advantage them in this marathon.
> for self-driving, to be delivered from 2019 to 2021

I've believed for years that Uber was effectively a self-driving car company which rolled the dice on building an international userbase ahead of time, hoping to be first to market when the tech finally reached market.

I can't even say if it's purposeful, but it's certainly true that recapturing half of their driver payments (the other half going to capital and maintenance costs) would drastically change their financial situation. But at this point, it doesn't look like they'll ever get to take a shot at that position; it'll go to Lyft, Fasten, or some other second-mover which spent less money and ran fewer risks.
> ethnicity choosing going on. Totally without scientific merit, yet the left behaves as if it's science.

Are you suggesting that "transracialism" is treated as science or supported by anything approaching the mainstream left?
Tech does not pay for experience.

A new grad's compensation is often equal and some times greater than someone who's been in the trenches for 20 years. I don't know any other profession with this absurd inversion. And with a few notable exceptions, the idea that someone with 5 years of experience is Senior-anything is ridiculous. I remember myself at 5 years out, I didn't know shit compared to today. Yet, adjusted for location-cost of living and inflation, I'm making today about what I made back then. The compensation plateau is very real, I assure you. You'll probably find out in 20 years or so.

EDIT: There also wouldn't be so much persistent discussion about ageism in tech either, if experience was valued/compensated.
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It's not about that fact. The author argues that programming schools should be vocational schools (while ostensibly presenting a list of objective facts).
I am not looking forward to the day when it somehow returns, starts blowing up star ships, ultimately taking over one of them, and tries to seduce the crew
If they're not getting better, they're not worth dealing with.

I've seen analogies with other medical disorders.

e.g. Incontinence.

It's sad that you're incontinent. I feel for you, I really do. But the last time you were in my house, you peed on my $4000 leather couch and destroyed it. So until such time as you can conduct yourself appropriately, you are no longer welcome in my house.

What I've seen is that borderlines know there's something wrong with them. But the disorder also prevents them from seeking help. Until they get better, they sow a path of destruction in peoples lives which is near-biblical in scope.
In my comment I am describing the culture at my former employer -- a culture that led to processes where you had to get your manager's permission to check out a file before you could modify it.
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Yes, exactly. That what we are working on. We call that the 'Energy Positive Worker'. The goal is to have a low power node (raspberry) powered by a solar panel, so that you could basically execute code and earn RLC at a very low cost (zero electricity cost). Eventually, the power that is not used for computation could be used for a LED light for instance. Hence the name.
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You're comparing apples and oranges. "Operating at a loss to drive competition out" is different from "operating at a loss".
> why not spread the economic development out a bit?

An interesting idea. Maybe this could be done by lottery -- choose 10% of people who live in the trendy coastal areas at random and force them to move to, say, Detroit, or Akron, Ohio.

(note: not a serious proposal)
Does anyone know why that is?
Ah. That makes more sense.
That sounds like a pretty cool project. Just a heads up, your lever links are broken. It looks like you've dropped the last few digits of your UUIDs.
If the policy is against the law, then yes.

Business records are legally required to be retained for a period of time (which varies depending on its content). Failure to do so is a violation of the law, and is evidence against you in the event of a lawsuit.
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Goodbye for now
>Randomise your bucket names! There is no need to use company-backup.s3.amazonaws.com

This is really poor advice. It offers no real benefit, especially since any asset you access will betray your bucket name because it's part of the DNS resolution. Bucket names are emphatically public as much as a DNS name is public.
I haven't observed it so it's probably a Bay Area/California thing. I'm in the south east and while it's slightly more liberal than the norm for the area most the people are still very capitalist, moderate right wing, and usually traditional social norms.

So yeah if you live in a super liberal place people are going to have a liberal bias. I was born and raised in the south, it has a conservative bias, and I don't pretend that it's magically going to go away. I think if you're aware that your political positions are a far deviation from the norm for your area it's probably wise to not be loud about it. Especially if your position is somewhere along the lines of "My coworker shouldn't be here for reasons that are a protected class". They'll fire you just to CYA, independent of whether they agree with you or not.
You're right, I wrote that in a selfish manner, sorry.
> It sucks, but it seems like that's how it is.

But maybe not how it should be? You own your plot of land... I don't see how it's reasonable for you to claim any control over how other owners use their plot(s) of land, within reason. If a building proposal fits within the current zoning, the default should be approval. I don't think it's reasonable for neighbors to be able to kill a project over shadows on their vegetables.
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