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Microsoft can be bad, but I think Oracle is run on pure spite.

According to legend (I wasn't actually there - this is secondhand, so do take with a grain of salt), they tried to convince a company I worked with previously that they needed an additional license for the server that processed backups. No Oracle client or server installed; the logs were pushed via ssh. When they balked, Oracle tried to increase the price two more times. It was apparently great motivation to move to MySQL.

Maybe that was just one particularly bad rep, but I don't think I've gone through a single year of my career without hearing something absurd about them.
If it weren’t being pumped I don’t see this being a real issue. With fiat money has some smallest division possible (aka the penny).

When there is more money needed the banks print more money and so everyone’s money becomes worth less so we see inflation.

With a limited digital currency like BTC you would expect to see deflation and so over time transactions would require a smaller fraction of a coin as payment.
I'm not saying that it wouldn't work for anyone. I'm just saying that is a general display tool for office work, it's clearly inferior for most common use cases. I mean shit, if it becomes a thing, I'd try it. I'm happy to be proven wrong, but this sounds like the promise of serious productivity on tablets it was great for a narrow slice of use cases and crap for everything else.
These Are Not Your Father's GMOs
I got a kick from reading this comment! Some googling found this reference to a interview with Gorbachev (discussing conversations with Reagan) that claims it’s true:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/reagan-and-gorbach...
From experience, companies won't hire you if you express a strong distaste for their software stack.

I learned this after I told the interviewer that I thought that PHP was a crap language, when interviewing for a PHP developer position.
Except that they can't without using proxies on the outside. Instead, we decide that they no longer have a right to communicate or express themselves to anyone outside the prison.

It seems like a more effective and humane method is to allow them free telephone usage, with the complete disclosure and knowledge that their conversations are being listened to/recorded. If crimes being driven by their command are executed on the outside, it can be found out how they communicated that command, and the people responsible for committing that outside crime also punished.
Using tube stoned or hungover can be very very very difficult.

Also, mornings in London tube are unbearable.
That's sad, but also a political issue. You fix it by running for election.

I'm happy to avoid workarounds.. like an EU court redefining what a transportation service is.
I want to believe these companies don't know it's illegal to discriminate based on age.

Are you serious? This is HR 101. There is no manager in the US that works for a company with an HR department (1 person is fine, that's all we have, and she's part time) could ever NOT know this.
You may also like https://cointracker.cash It's simpler to use than lots of apps available to track altcoins. Free version is available to test all the functionality and with a one off payment you can unlock the full cryptocurrency set of over 1000+.
In my experience that kind of pay differential exists in two places: Pakistan - US or Intern - Not intern.

All other roles for different ages I've ever seen has been based on experience and not age, and at the companies I've been that experience is only about 30-50% higher at the worst.
This seems like a problem with how Facebook sells ads, not a problem with the companies in question. I get weekly offers for interviews from most of these companies on LinkedIn and I’m pushing 50.
That's a false equivalency. They're more likely discriminating between a 25 year old with 3 years of experience, and a 50 year old with 20 years of experience.
Yes, mind controlling masses.. violating privacy rights .. what give facebook right to use and abuse people like this ?

People please look Chamath Palihapitiya and listen he's interviews. I can't anymore trust anything that facebook says or does.

Absolutely everything is lie from them.
That's the main factor then.

If you're relying on sight to find it, then it's irrelevant whether it makes a sound.

If you're relying on sound, you're impeded by the infrequent occurrence. That's would still be the case if the chirping went on with the lights on.

If the chirping requires near total darkness, because then to search by sound you have to go through the trouble of covering the windows (with something more than the blinds or curtains, if there are any) or else you're restricted too searching by sound only in the night hours, and doing a visual sweep by day or lamplight.

(But then the device only chirps in near total darkness, it may be defeated by a relatively dim night light.)
Thanks! I really should have thought of that. :)
> I'm no stock expert but isn't the majority of a stock's value due to speculation on what it will be worth one day in the future?

That's true, but stock can represent a portion of an asset with production potential. A factory or a mine or a dot-com. Bitcoin is pure fiat money.

If I owned all stock in AAPL, I would own one of the most valuable companies in the world which would yield me several billion USD in profits every year. If I owned all bitcoins my asset would be completely worthless because there would be no market for it.

I defer to Warren Buffett's quote [1] on Gold - an asset similar in it's uselessness:

> Today the world's gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce -- gold's price as I write this -- its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.

> Let's now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400 million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world's most profitable company, one earning more than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would have about $1 trillion left over for walking-aroundmoney (no sense feeling strapped after this buying binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?

[1] http://www.nasdaq.com/article/why-warren-buffett-hates-gold-...
Good point, seems like a failure to decouple independent concepts. Bad design, bad implementation.
Printing money would be de facto tax-by-inflation.
Do we know if the iTunes store is an Apple maintained fork of WebObjects or if it is using Wonder?

(Also, hi Matt!)
I’d type out an answer but I just saw Sandi Metz’ amazing talk on influence in the context of software teams.

Highly recommended.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VzWLGMtXflg

As for the rest, I’d take a step back and check if it is possible that the “old, unmotivated, change-resisting” could be possibly judgments (hint: they are) and what did they result from.

Example: I requested that we make changes X, Y and Z, and Peter refused on the premise that ... (to replace “change-resistant”)

Also, Peter is 45. (To replace “Old”)

Working with judgments is difficult because they close the possibility for dialogue. Working with observations opens possibilities for inquiry.

Also, even programmers can feel when they’re being judged, so there’s that.
>Pretty sure these things will escape from the lab at some point.

Yes. That should be the assumption. No matter how good the safety procedures are, they are implemented by people. People not only make mistakes, they can be subborned, become suicidally depressed, resentful against the world in general, all sorts of things.

It seems to me that the most important thing is to learn defence against the dark arts, not the dark arts themselves. i.e. vaccines/countermeasures, not bioweapons.

Saying 'there must be no safer way to do the research' is begging the question, since research is about finding new ways of doing things and looking at things.
It's kind of funny to ban an item that's already being smuggled in through a ban. Seems like it might just add another layer to the smuggling scheme. We'll eventually get to a point where the phone travels from assembly line to prison cell entirely within people's butts.
Because it was written by their social media team - a hired 20-25yo and not a 40-60yo.
This is the crux of the matter - the lack of transparency may have earned them millions (billions?) in additional sales. It remains to be seen how this news affects their goodwill but I suspect not much.
The topic of your rant is something that it took me forever to accept as a software engineer. Nobody cares about quality.

Your method is refactored to be super-fast and have no branches? Nobody cares.

Elegant, re-usable architecture? Nobody cares.

You've optimized an inner loop in assembly and increased speed by 30%? Nobody cares.

Made it to zero compiler warnings? Nobody cares.

No known crashers left in the bug tracker? Nobody cares.

Fixed that bug that's been in the code for two years? Nobody cares.

Patched a security hole that could allow a crazy bad attack? Nobody cares.

The vast majority of software shops out there care only that something--anything--ships as fast as remotely possible, and as long as it does not kill the customer, it's a success. Nobody in leadership gives a single fuck about anything else. There are a few places where this is not true, and good software people tend to collect there, but it's true for the vast majority of places where you will work. The sooner you accept this, the less likely you'll burn out.
Oh it was well deserved.

The previous prank was to pull the engineer into his office and proceed to tell him(with us all there) that they were going to have to let him(along with a few others) go due to a non-poaching clause from the previous employer that they had worked for. It was pretty elaborate and only came out at the end that it was a late April fool's joke(this was on the 2nd).
The only argument I've heard for licensing is coverage of rural service area.

Most of the others can be fixed by regulation of ride-sharing services.
As has been pointed out in multiple other comments here and elsewhere and in other articles, you can actually get the battery replaced as opposed to buying a new phone, which would be bringing your car into service.

I had a phone which was exhibiting poor performance. I called up support, and they were able to run diagnostics remotely, and determine the battery needed to be replaced, which I was able to have done the following day.

There are plenty of people who would rather Apple made a different tradeoff with respect to batteries in general, which is fine, and people are free to buy a different phone. My comment was trying to answer the question posed to my parent as to why someone might have downvoted their parent. Let's not continue to abuse this already poor metaphor.
Facebook was already in trouble for allowing people to place ads to whites only for housing - that is against the law in the USA. And after being informed of it - despites thousands of software engineers - Facebook was not capable or not willing to change it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-disc...
Could you define “manage” in more detail and possibly provide an example?

Right now this is very vague and it sounds like you’re facing an immovable obstacle.
I'm not sure where you're seeing a "somewhat sticky # of jobs": https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-ti... , https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-persons

As for "a brief search": I literally went to Google, typed "number of jobs" with the first suggestion being "number of jobs in us by year". The very first link has the answer.

May I suggest that when you ask inflammatory question, you invest a tiny bit more in research? Otherwise, one could come to the conclusion that maybe you're more interested in the inflammatory than in the thought part.

I'm sure that's not what you intend. But if you care about "togetherness" in political discourse, it's imperative to temper inflammatory requests with more than an absolutely cursory search for facts.
google support ad-bloking ?? against they own advertisements ?? WHAT A JOKE!
So, cell towers?
carousel of sadness
Couldn't the filesystem be mounted as read-only during normal operation, and only remounted temporarily as rw when necessary? Tools that write to this filesystem tend to have the necessary privileges to do so.

Leaving efi writable like this by default strikes me as a very poor and unsubstantiated design decision.
Well "cant" v. "wont" is sometimes hard to distinguish. There's little practical differences here though.
I'd imagine it's because older people wield more political power. Also more at risk.
It seems less reasonable when you compare the safety of train travel to the safety of automobile travel, and when you consider that every time a new passenger route is opened it takes cars off the road. Yes there are train wrecks, and yes, PTC would have prevented this specific wreck, but trains remain one of the safest modes of transit.
I came in here to vent about how unsafe our rail systems are. However, our deaths per passenger-mile are well below the EU average, and we're safer than all except UK, Denmark, and Netherlands: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-sa...

Still, this wreck is sad, and also embarrassing. Our rail system is just not a meaningful transportation network, and is such a missed opportunity. Even small efforts at improving it seem to end in failure, or even disaster.
Sure. A mass extinction event which will take humans with it. Then a few million years down the line new speciation will fill all of the ecological niches in whatever equilibrium arises. The planet and life themselves are unlikely to be completely wiped out, absent some future technology we can’t yet imagine.

As long as you don’t have any attachment to anything more narrow than “all life on earth” (e.g. your family, language, city, country, culture, species, ...) thriving for a long time into the future, there’s no reason not to just shrug at whatever impending apocalypse.
Old age is not something to be managed. People are old, not by choice, but by natural processes that no one can control. You will be old one day and hopefully no one will see that as something that has to be managed, but if we feed into this negative trend then it is likely you will be seen in that same light. In the meantime, make a positive move away from ageism and remove that attribute from your mental profile of employees who requirement more management than others.
> But it's better to ship garbage than nothing

Yup, this is the software industry boiled down to the basics.
Here's my take: in the world of software products speed of delivery trumps quality almost every time. Customers seem to be happy with a flaky, feature-lite products and pay for it. They'll pay to have something that kinda-sorta works now and pay to improve it on an extended basis in the B2B space. Development companies recognize this and structure themselves accordingly.
Thanks! It was fun tinkering.

For the regex problem, because of the required backtracking, data usage is definitely not O(1), so the continuation data will not be storable on the stack for an O(1) stack tail-call-only CPS version of regex. That context data for the continuations will need to go to the heap, and so we are basically back to how you'd avoid recursion to avoid unbounded stack: by using some data structures on the heap. And at that point, you could just use more straight-forward data structures than those needed for CPS here.

Anyway, the one-phase parsing+matching is still interesting, I think, and it is worth a try to get it to work in O(1) stack by storing the continuation data on the heap. So after fixing SIGSEGVs for infinite recursions, I will go back to fixing memory leaks. :-)
I guess I have two takes on this:

1) Does this mean my local strip club will now have to hire 90 year olds?
2) Ignoring that joke for now - if pro-publica released this information we now have information that harm has been caused. And actually couldn't this be an indication that possibly billions of dollars of damage has been done... what's next?
It looks from the other side of the story (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s3ymjWo7lQJxsrf0uDEurJZ3FBe...) you were totally right and really do not deserve those downvotes. But the mob has spoken.
It is smart to research before you get into it.

I am a long time .NET developer and think it is a great platform. It is probably the best mainstream language for general purpose development (your standard business web sites, desktop apps etc.).

Having said that you should pick something that is likely to get you a job. If you are based in India check out your local job market, plus jobs you can do remotely for US companies. You will probably find .NET doesn't feature much, but I would guess JS and front end skills do.

So for bread and butter to earn money I'd consider JS in your position. Even though it isn't my favourite language it would keep you in work for some time to come, and as you get more advanced you might switch to a compile-to-js language of which there are many.
I'd like to think that the reason we're so lousy at railroads these days is that our best engineers have moved on to aviation and astronautics.
I hope they install a lot of showers...
It's probably one of those cases where less efficient node in the system makes entire system more efficient overall. Perhaps we need to reduce car use by 20% to make transport 300% more comfortable, practical, attractive.

I remember seeing pics of a concept bus Tesla was rumoured to manufacture, where every seat has it's own doors and personal area. So maybe it's capacity is half normal bus, but 20x a car. Even if it works like Uber Pool, overall it's a net win.

Finally, I don't think he's trying to disrupt public transport entirely, rather to introduce better options.
Yes. The obvious universal API that targets big screens and small, touch or mouse is Qt. It started as a desktop framework, was made touch-aware to be used Nokia and BB10 for phones, powers KDE 5 and I'm hopeful Ollie Paranoid will provide an update in a few weeks re: Plasma on postmarketOS.

Now a company with Apple's resources should surely be able to reintegrate the Cocoa Touch hard-fork back into a common modernised Cocoa, which by now has a 30 year legacy from NeXTSTEP.

Naturally you'll still need to customize a UI for Mac or iPhone but a unified toolkit is entirely possible.
New link: https://medium.com/@jeff_52578/how-a-failed-kickstarter-camp...

Not sure if anything changed from the original post or it was deleted by mistake.
Some college students are senior citizens.
I'd guess that until PTC becomes standard across the country, new lines may be deployed with out it. The lack of PTC certainly doesn't stop them from running trains on pre-existing lines today.

I've spent almost the last decade involved with designing and implementing the messaging system behind PTC. Every one of these disasters makes me wish it was deployed everywhere. But for better or worse, railroads are incredibly change and risk intolerant. Everything goes through extensive testing before being rolled out into the field, which can add several years to any rollout plan.
Ask HN: If you had less than a year to live what would you do?
I heard some people like CEO of Dropbox started counting approximately how many days they had left on Earth to make the most out of it.

I'm curious to know what most of you would do.
Have you tried out HoloLens, Oculus etc? Technology is simply not there yet. Field of view is very limiting. Resolution is very low. Hardware is highly optimized for graphics, not high performance computation. None of the devices I have tried could be worn for more than 30-45 mins before you start having headache (because your brain is seeing depth but your eyes are on different focus plane). VR/AR tech probably needs 5 more years of advancements (if not more) before your scenario becomes reality - but even then there are significant physics barriers to cross.
That doesn't sound so dramatic unless you're talking about pre-split prices :)

AAPL split in 2 in 2005 and had a big 7:1 split in 2014. Pre-2005 unadjusted prices are 14x!

I do remember the days of $10-20 AAPL in 2003/4 when I first started using Macs. Personally, I got out during the 2008 3Q crash and missed out on the huge recovery, somewhere in the 9x range on those shares from when I sold to what they're worth today :(
Not that I like these laws anyway. they were really designed for manual labor and the like.
Is there reason for censoring?

Most criminals don't have an empire to run from prison.
I suspect there's very few prisoners where censoring makes any sense.

Consider the cost and benefit, and the value of maintaining contact with friends and family.

What exactly is the reasonable censorship role?
I'm honestly curious..
Wow, that takes me back many years. My school in 1996 had a bunch of those as a trial. I had one for a while, it was quite fun to hack around with (even if my teachers didn't agree!).

Alas I moved to the other side of the world so I doubt I'll be able to get my hands on one again.
Wreck of HMAS AE1, Australia's first submarine, found off PNG after 103 years
Genuine question: is it explicitly illegal to discriminate in your outreach for job applications? Surely similar behavior happens all the time without as much outcry, like recruiting at college career fairs.
If you are creating FB ads, you target by the segment which gives you the most leads. I imagine age is just one parameter of those segments.

Personally, I would never think to find a job through FB. IF someone wanted to target me, being outside that age group, it would need to be a different platform.
Ads in print have a fixed cost, based on the size of the ad. But even printed ads target specific demographics. How many over 40 brides are there compared to 20-30 years old, that would read a wedding magazine is an extreme example of it.

Ads on TV have fixed cost, depending on the length of the commercial and the time it is aired. But even on TV you would target the show based on the demographics you prefer.

Ads on Facebook are pay per impression, so how can you make companies pay to show those ads to people who they know will probably not respond anyway?
I believe the NS prefix dated from NeXTSTEP 3.0 (1992), well before Sun was ever involved with NeXT.

So far as I know, NS stands for NextStep.
The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation
Craigslist routinely takes down discriminatory housing and job ads and have been doing that at least since I started using it around 2005.
This effect may not be helpful to us.

Humans can suffer very high death rates due to diseases for which we aren't a host. See the Black Death [1]. The host was fleas, riding rodent vectors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
I could use a clarification about expected driver behavior when turning right in the presence of a bike lane.

And I need to acknowledge my internal reaction of judging this as one more “Uber-villain” style rule. Uner-corrupted, Uber-unscrupulous, uber-villainous to be more precise.

Their brand image is firmly established for me.
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Less than $2, just get one some of these...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-1pcs-Digispark...

Wack a buzzer on them, add some code and then leave them in a usb port near your victim. Easy.