skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google are a deeply, deeply unethical company and all of their employees are complicit.

On a more practical note, I live in apartment above a restaurant. My phone now asks me to review this restaurant every time I come home and wants me to post photos I take in my apartment to the restaurant's map page.

Now that OSM data is as good as Google and Maps.Me is a good enough client, my next phone will be completely de-Googled.
It feels like Google has a team dedicated to finding new and idiotic ways to make Android more annoying.

The most recent annoyance I experienced was the "Welcome to [State]" announcement every time you're using Google Maps navigation and you cross a state line. Really, Google? You had to interrupt my music for that?
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You can have dense towns that feel spacious and verdant as well. Downtown Savannah, Charleston, many streetcar suburbs in older cities, many small college towns, ... USA has phenomenally good examples of dense but pleasant urban environments.

NYC is an extreme. It's actually pretty awful in the ways you describe. Now image you keep the city but subtract all the cars for personal transportation. It'd feel so much more open, quiet, airy, accomodating.
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Yes, CloudFlare even provides official lists for this purpose.

https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/

IPv4 space is far too small not to use this. Often times if an attacker has determined your provider in the past, they may be able to leverage that information and scan only nearby ranges.

Other common anti-DDoS proxy bypass tactics:

- direct.* subdomain used to be used by default on CloudFlare for a direct route to the server

- Check headers in outgoing emails for an origin IP (this one gets way too many sites)

- CloudFlare only recently got websocket support - check if their websocket servers are secured or not

- Check for an MX record

- Use DNS bruteforcing tools to attempt to find other services
It depends. It would be a beacon for all software developers from the midwest. Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana all have solid state schools with some of the better CS programs (top 25) in the nation.

For all the home-grown developers, many would prefer to stay close to home than have to move to the mad-house of the coasts. In other words, I question that most developers would think the same way you do.
not only that, they have approved and are planning a multi-billion dollar gate expansion project so direct asia flights aren't out of the picture.
Venezuela is so poorly managed they were losing money at $150/barrel of crude oil.

Last year, oil has been $30 to $50 per barrel. `nuff said. Its an issue of poor governance. Venezuela was heavily dependent on high-priced oil to keep their finances together, and it all collapsed as oil prices dropped.
You can turn off these notifications in the Maps app. It's annoying they're on by default though.
Yeah. It seems like just a clever mitigation technique, which could prove useful in the fields he mentioned (military, industrial, etc.), but it's far from the wholesale solution he claims.
I theorize that Bezos is using this as a way to make cities compete on infrastructure and states to not pass "religious liberty" bills.
You can, but that magic wand is enforcing a culture of collectivism. If, from early age on, children learn to take on responsibility for society, this is possible.

The US culture of individualism at any price, not giving a single fuck about any other human being, is a significant factor in this.
Of course it's all just going to depend on your situation:

* How often you travel

* How much you will be able to take advantage of perks

* How close you are to various terminals/airports

* How far you regularly need to go

* How you like to travel (fast & cramped, slow & spacious)

etc.
So like a mall, but bigger?
Venezuela is a democracy.
Its illegal to do commercial operations in foreign currency here.

People still do it privately, but you can't openly accept them in your business anywhere.
Time after time socialism has brought nothing but catastrophe, genocide and hunger. Venezuela is just the latest example in a very long line of examples.

I live in Miami and have so many Venezuelan neighbors escaping that country because of socialism.

Here's a very interesting first-hand account of what it's like to live in a socialist country like Venezuela: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7l5n7n/i_live_i...

>My food situation... well, i used to eat 3 times a day, pizza, nutella Grilled meat idk anything that i wanted to eat, now sometimes i eat twice or once a day, and sometimes i have the bad luck of having nothing to eat for the whole day ;( it gives headache...

>i used to work in a office editing videos in sony vegas, making around 2-4 videos per day.

>Everytime i steps the streets, i see starving people with not too bad clothes, makes me think about how people that used to be like me is now looking for food at gargabe... sometimes i am afraid of end up there too....

---

I can imagine myself in his shoes so easily! I used to live in Bolivia and lived the same way he used to live. Churrasco, pizza, shopping whenever - now Venezuela is in a really bad place.
All calendar calculation is done with techniques and/or memorization. All pi memorization is done with mnemonic techniques. I've been in that scene for 7+ years and have never seen a credible exception.
Zimbabwe effectively just abandoned their currency and let people use other currencies.
You don't patent things so that no one can use them. You patent things so that others have to pay you for using them. Patent holders often want others to use their inventions, and pay them money.
That's what corruption will do to you.
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Brazil had an interesting take on conquering hyperinflation that might apply to Venezuela too (although their current situation is much worse):

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...
I'm having trouble, can you provide some links? The only thing I've found is this:

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-...

Which isn't really supporting the argument. He praised Venezuela for relatively low inequality in the very last line, but that's not the thrust of the argument.
"I think the sensorial and perceptual presence of the learning materials is very important -- apps are not a sufficient substitute."

I have wondered if a custom touchscreen setup could be designed to make this easier. The problem seems to me not to be something intrinsically "wrong" with screens, but that the touchscreens are too smooth if you use them with some sort of stylus, and to have too much difference between static and dynamic friction if you use your finger directly on the screen. As an adult, my handwriting gets noticeably worse on a touchscreen with a stylus, and only marginally better than my third-grader's writing when using my finger. It seems like if someone put their mind to it, a touchscreen+stylus combo could be created that would be very similar to pencil-on-paper in feel. It's even possible this could be done with a stylus and a generic overlay that could be put on any existing touchscreen (albeit possibly limited to higher quality capacitive screens).

The disadvantage is that this overlay will probably render the underlying touch screen no longer pleasant to use with a finger, and you probably want a semi-permanent adhesion so it's not going to be a thing you can easily take on and put off. (It could be experimented with but I bet it doesn't work out very well.) But still, an off-the-shelf tablet + $20 (at scale) in stylus + overlay might be able to mitigate and/or eliminate the sensory issues, while retaining the advantages that an app can bring, instant feedback primarily.

(In my opinion, the biggest thing that computers can bring to education is instant feedback, which can be mathematically shown to improve the maximum possible learning rate, and any attempt to bring computers into education that don't involve harnessing this are starting at a severe disadvantage.)
Just turn off location services on the phone unless you really need them.
Seems like the bolivar's and wow gold's value were on par around june/july 2017 (provided that these tweets are accurate):

https://twitter.com/KalebPrime/status/877070731942789121
https://twitter.com/KalebPrime/status/885997066140475395
> Or did OP hand over the data and not bother to go through the settings to turn off things they didn't like

OP is making the case that they shouldn't have to. That a personal device they purchased outright should be secure by default.
Contrarian anecdote.

I've had no issues with Origin.

It downloads/updates the games and launches them, and hasn't failed at that yet. I don't much care for any other feature.
In NYC you certainly could. It takes banning cars for personal transport and expand the subway. The city would improve tremendously. Not quite like waving a wand, but doesn't require tearing down and rebuilding either.
Does it include patches from wine-staging (CSMT)?
#1 is so obnoxious. No Google, I won't do free work for you. At least offer me some store credit.
Not involved in the project but certainly support the premise:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/290746744/eelo-a-mobile...
2020 is still the goal for geofenced city taxi autonomy for Uber and Cruise.
His complaint seems to be directed more to the interface than the infrastructure. IIRC you have to do a fair bit of signing up for things to get these creepy messages. My question would be, if the invasive interruptions sounded less creepy would he still have a problem with them?
How does Uber 'oppress the underclass'? Puhlease.
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It's secure. The data is only going to Google. OP agreed to that when he logged into the device with their Google account not when they bought the device.

Also: security != privacy
Not the case here. Industry was simply destroyed by expropiations and price controls. Add forex ban to that and we get our current lovely situation.
I'm pretty sure this process was something like 'hey Alexa, what are the 20 largest metropolitan areas more then 500 miles from Seattle.' followed by an email to each one asking how much they would pay for Amazon to come to town.

But that's why I'm not in public relations. :-)
i went through a number (again i am refraining to be specific in order to mask my identity) of interviews, let's just say between 2-10 interviews. The rudeness I experienced was 10X worse than your situation, so I really feel for you.
Waiting for the first person to post something along the lines of: 'And why shouldn't Google do $x? It's part of their fiduciary duty to their shareholders, and anyone who doesn't like it can opt to exercise their rights as a consumer and use another product. I personally love having $x as part of my life and feel it is indispensable. Haters gonna hate.

(where $x could be 'bashing babies in the head with a clawhammer' or anything else under the sun)

edit: Taking the down votes as a badge of honor by those who, perhaps, identify too strongly as proponents of such sentiments. :-)
As an N.B. - developing and using for iPhone/iPad, hell even Apple TV has become so much nicer in the past 5 years. I can't remember the last time I've used DFU mode. Signing Certs are still annoying in XCode, but day-to-day it's a lot better than what it once was.
I don't think that is all there is to it. What about a generally more homogeneous population (not just ethnically but also in terms of income) and essentially single-party rule? A greater acceptance of deficit spending? A much smaller land mass in the first place? The age of the infrastructure? Plenty of other questions.
My mobile carrier is a local server hoster that also happens to operate a fiber and DSL network in the city, and a small 3G network. They don’t track – I’ve talked with them, personally.

And in the future, with the Librem phones, we’ll also be able to ensure there is no tracking on the device side.
But it's not, though, at least not to this extent. I've never had my iPhone survey me about the world around me.

I suppose it's theoretically possible that an app like Yelp could do that, but iOS pops up a "Do you want to allow this app to track your location when you're not using it?" notification whenever an app wants to do so, and of course that's always an instant push of the "hell naw" button for me.
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It amuses me to think of what will happen to Amazon’s neurotic overworking culture if their other HQ in Miami or Denver.

I can’t see amazon casting a big enough cultural shadow to change those cities instead of those cities changing them.
"""""democracy""""" just like Bolivia is a democracy. In reality it's not.
I'm sorry, what makes Google so "deeply unethical?"
If it's not known where your servers are (because you got new IPs in a new hosting facility and never allowed them to communicate with the outside world directly), it's true that a packet flood would affect you, but it you would be awful hard to target.
How far is Newark from the old Bell labs. Didn't that building just undergo renovations and is starting to house some tech companies?

As much as I'd like to see Toronto happen, if I was being on the decision panel for that, the old Bell labs building would be mighty tempting for completely selfish reasons.
Including the shebang and encoding at the top, using stdout for some reason, handling all the color formatting in one dense string...

This smacks of the writers trying to intentionally make their comparison language look obtuse. A pattern I've seen elsewhere and am never a fan of.
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Peacetime doesn’t necessarily mean not being competitive. Uber is at a stage where it doesn’t need to bend the rules anymore. Read up on how Dara handled the Brazil legislation for example. Rather than fighting any regulation as TK may have, he effectively worked with the government to legalize and legitimize Uber. I expect him to do the same in London.
The PLSS grid favors doing this in chunks of exactly 40, 160, or 640 acres.

That sort of thing has happened before, as a "planned community" or "company town". Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. It really depends on the folks running the show, and their goals in doing it.

I think the usual failure mode is when the interests of the residents and the corporate founders diverge. The founders then shut down and move out the major employer business, and the town fails because almost everything in it was predicated on that economic support pillar being there. It's like they built shopping malls with only one anchor store.
How is that designing around people?

First you are going to make all the people in the cars nuts because they can't find parking, so they won't come.

Next all the people who find public transport tedious and slow won't come. (Yes, even the best public transport is not anywhere near as a good as a car that goes direct, and where you can actually leave your stuff in the car.)

Next all the people who hate living in dense places will leave because everything is all squished together, so you are again not designing for people.

How is that designing for people? It sounds more like you are designing for livestock.

Livestock who don't mind, or have no choice, about living in cramped quarters, and who don't mind wasting a lot of time.

No thank you, this is not the kind of city I want.
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Adding an additional floor to a multi-story building during construction is not overly expensive (helped a friend with a building project in Lincoln Park).

EDIT: Caveat is once you go from mid-rise to high-rise; price jumps, but your per sq ft costs will continue to decline from ~$200/sq ft to $175/sq ft (Chicago market).
My favorite part of the Miami story is the argument that Miami has affordable housing. Amazon is pretty much infamous for sending rents near their offices soaring through the roof.

Got affordable housing in your metro? Amazon can fix that!
Not really sure what’s wrong with it in the first place. There’s traffic but it’s nothing like other major cities.
The quick fix is pointer poisoning and sanitizing pointers before access.

For example, if the code of a JS array does p%arraylength before using p, it makes the spectre 1 vulnerability impossible to exploit. Browsers with JIT engines are also very quickly patched software, and afaict all the major browsers have fast-tracked changes to prevent spectre 1. At this point, spectre 1 is no longer a major threat.

In any case, many people are misinformed that disabling speculation is a viable fix. It really isn't -- completely disabling speculation means that every branch has a cost of ~20 cycles and serializes execution around it. Current normal x86 code executes a branch every 5-10 instructions (generally, more when using dynamic languages, less when using static compiled-to-metal languages). Executing branches so often doesn't ruin performance because branch predictor hit rates are >95%, as most of those branches are basically guards, type checks and the like which are almost never taken. Disabling speculation would make modern high-end CPUs spend the vast majority of their time just waiting for the branches to resolve.

There is no, and can be no hardware fix to this. The only solution is just to accept that you cannot use a branch alone to protect secret data.
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Yep. No thanks.
If you try to disable many Google-provided apps on Android, you're presented with a scary-looking screen warning you about system instability, and it's legit. If I attempt to disable Chrome on my phone, for instance, it causes every single app on my phone to crash upon any interaction whatsoever, including third-party apps like Signal. Funny how Chrome is more inseparable from Android than Internet Explorer was from Windows.
> Singapore Air returning this plane already (and there's a second as well) means that the plane simply isn't profitable (or profitable enough) for them to keep flying.

They were leasing that A380, and now they'll lease a newer and more efficient A380. The new one will be for sure more profitable for them, but you can't deduce the old one wasn't profitable.
Completely false statement.

The oil industry is the majority chunk of our economy. In other industries, the government has expropiated most of the main players (and subsequently driven them to bankrupcy). Forex is banned and most goods are price controlled, from vegetables to healthcare. These controls do not reflect reality.

Source: I live here
Ask HN: Become first time CTO, how to start what to do?
Become CTO at small startup after our CTO left company.

- What to do?
- How to begin with?
- What things you would start changing?
- How do you manage technical team?
- Do you use methodologies, if so what are some of them?

I am first time CTO, do not know about methodologies, managing technical team, even though I am also technical guy.

Hope to get support from you.
When people start talking about ideal and better-than-idea worlds and voluntary payments or government disbursements, my mind goes to communism. While communism sounds like it provides a better outcome on paper, capitalism (with constraints) has shown it's a much better system for raising the living standard of everyone, even if there is quite a disparity between the lowest and the highest.

Would some ideal-world type situation for patents work? I doubt it. We have patents, and there are some upsides to that system, even if it has been abused recently. I think people have transferred a lot of their anger at the abuses to the concept of patents themselves. Here we have someone that patented something, and people are upset that he did that before knowing how he intends to use the patent. The patent could be free for non-commercial use. It could be free for many things. Or it could be that it's most likely to be used in hardware by a large corporation that prints chips and not individuals, and he'll license it to them and the most anyone will see of it is a few cents added to the production cost of each chip (not that anyone even knows what that is, since retail chip pricing is so crazy).

How we measure a system shouldn't be based on just the biggest successes and biggest problems (but those should be looked at), but on the long track record of what it does and how it performs. In that light, I think capitalism has shown itself a better system in the long run, and I think patents have shown their merit in the long run as well.
Japan doesn't ban cars in its cities. Why would doing so reproduce their results?
Clicked expecting some bug, just found a person who doesn't know how to turn location off. Meh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela

The state run oil company makes up about half of their GDP, which is why the economy collapsed when oil prices fell.

People are pointing to socialism and saying that it caused this hardship, but the same would have happened under a privately run oil company as well. It's the danger any economy heavily dependent on a single commodity faces.

Venezuela is a larger example of what happens to a company town when the company shuts down or moves the factory somewhere else.
Unable to connect to the server (and got a 500 error minutes ago) as of 12:17PM EST. Anybody else seeing this?

Edit: Now it’s working. 12:20
Thanks! I saw the title and the source of the post and thought "I'll bet someone has a way better link in the comments" and came straight here.
Meh, words change and words mean what we want them to mean.

Many people believe solitary confinement does as much harm or more than physical violence.

By coining terms such as structural violence, we can attempt to disable the tactic of those who support supposedly "non violent" or "lawful" actions that are nonetheless immoral.