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> In using the device with the GPS enabled, you are agreeing that the device can know and use this data.

Why am I agreeing to that? For what purposes can they use the data?

As in your example - it's not about whether they know the data, it's about what they do with the data and whether they have my permission to do things with it. It is obvious to me that a website has permission to send reply packets to my IP. It's somewhat obvious that it has permission to keep short-term logs for technical debugging, with strict access controls and audits (stricter if it's something like an adult site that would be embarrassing/sensitive if it leaked). It's definitely not obvious that they have permission to share the IP internally for the employees' amusement, even leaving aside external sharing.

It's the same with location services on my phone - it's obvious that if I have GPS on, and I open the map app of my choice, and it says "This app would like your location" and I say yes, I want that app to have my location. It's also obvious that I want the cell phone towers to be able to route calls to me. It's not obvious that I want the company that happens to write my phone's OS to use my data for marketing / profit purposes.
Well, unless you really really enjoy watching loading bars and reaching your data limit with ease, Chase's website and mobile app are a dumpster fire.

So you won't have a problem finding something better.

USAA is probably the best your going to get but they aren't open to everyone.

I've had accounts at probably 20 different banks due to churning bank account bonuses. I never had PNC before but I did have a TD account. Wouldn't recommend that one because when I signed up online it only made a shadow account and I had to go to a branch to "really" open the account to be able to use it. Of course, they didn't tell me this I had to call and be like wtf?
The client seems to be open source but their site doesn't. https://github.com/itchio/itch.io is just an issue tracker.
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Nokia's had one.

https://www.slashgear.com/nokia-curse-of-silence-sms-bug-pre...
> a position that assumes that the federal government has a right to Apple's money

I'm starting from a position that assumes the government is entitled to the prevailing tax rate that was law at the time the income was earned.

A tax rate that existed during a time when Apple became the world's most valuable company. It wasn't a colony with no representation suffering under a tyrannical monarchy that was leeching it like a parasite for the enrichment of an elite class. They ARE the elite class.

In fact the opposite is true. Apple benefited from all the services paid for by other tax payers (security and military, infrastructure, legal system, etc) and avoided paying their fair share using legal tricks and loopholes.

The result wasn't "fix the loopholes" it was "give the finger to the American people and government until we get someone elected that will change the rules in our favor"

I'm not saying government is the answer to all problems. Far from it. But there's no question Apple exists and is as successful as it is in large part due to the favorable environment America provides to business...and part of that environment exists due to things paid for with taxes. Never mind the ridiculous wealth inequality that is only continuing to grow in the U.S...this road leads to oligarchy.
This is meant to be implemented in a processor. I'm not sure how you would keep it secret from end users, much less from the company tasked with implementing it at the chip level, and their engineers, which might find employment at different companies in the future. This seems like a very poor for for a trade secret if you ask me.
She is leading online courses for all Uber employees about business strategy and culture from real Harvard professors

Harvard only?
I don't know my exact position on the curve, but I can relate.
I find it ironic that many of the folks who score pretty high on general intelligence, often have an issue with social intelligence. I spend a lot of time now trying to study human nature in a game of catch-up. What most people seem to learn instinctively, I need to study.
I'm still very new into my research but I have a link to my current research platform in my profile.
Ironically, these curb cuts break the street into small sections of curb that are too small for a legal parking spot, so there isn't really even much of a net gain in overall parking. The estimate I read was that each curb cut removes 2/3 of a street parking space.

The curb cuts create situations, where a legendary SF restaurant in a residential neighborhood becomes an "adventure" to drive to, because residential parking is so scarce. So a lot of its business comes from Tour Busses bringing in people from out of town to eat there.
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> In all fairness, how many incidents will it take before boarding a train means 30 minutes of security theater?

If aircraft are any guide, until someone on the train drives a high-speed train off of a track into a skyscraper, national defense headquarters, and/or something similar causing massive non-passenger casualties and economic damages, it won't happen, even with lots of incidents, some of which result in complete loss of passengers.
My first exposure to programming was basic for the TI calculators. Didn’t even really realize I was programming. The second was Visual Basic. The third was C, and that’s when I really took off, got interested in programming and enjoyed it since.

My experience may nor count for much, as I didn’t dive too deep to either of the first two basics. But I’ve read far too many stories of good programmers getting started on BASIC from code samples they read on books and magazines. So I would say it’s fine.

Also, for all the great things that can be said if Dijkstra, he wasn’t exactly known as a positive motivator, so I’d take his statement with huge grains of salt.
What you are describing is a problem in all representative democracies.
Bezos sponsors research for the "10k year clock". Also, this HQ2 is going to be used for many years.

I doubt a 4 year administration worries them as much as you think.
The SMS app is itself "data", and it is probably the most sensitive data on my phone other than my keychain. You don't have to take a step back and say "Google": ignore you have a way to DoS someone's usage of Gmail, you can still note that "this can't be used to access data from Gmail".
If you submit a report on bugreport.apple.com, it will be triaged and (if necessary) passed on to the appropriate team to asses. I fixed several external user reported bugs when I worked at apple. You have to have a developer account to use bugreport. Now that I have retired, I use it. The people triaging do not know I used to be at apple. Not all the issues I report get resolved, just because they are probably low priority. But the important ones are dealt with, usually quite quickly.
> Approximately half of Wine's source code is written by volunteers, with the remaining effort sponsored by commercial interests, especially CodeWeavers, which sells a supported version of Wine.
Unless the article is missing some important nuances, this is just "range arithmetic" or "interval arithmetic"from the 1950's. Here's a wikipedia page explaining how it works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
The A318 is officially not available anymore. There is no NEO version and they are not even selling the CEO.
Quite right. Both can be true - it's not either-or.

I encourage you to watch the talk, if you're willing to stomach his gen-x sensibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O_fxmrP_Q

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> that means entrepreneurs can't make money selling things to people unless they're luxury goods

"[Moore's law] is ending. It hasn't quite ended yet, but in ten years it'll be obvious that it's over.

Apple is selling jewelry. That's what they sell.

And there is no singularity of California. There is.. I mean Intel could not make it pay. I mean I saw them struggle to keep Moore's law alive.. they were heroes about it - it didn't work."

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> The ultimate blame for this situation goes to Washington for pushing supply side economics in a demand constrained economy

"The mausoleum for Moore's law. They couldn't make it pay under the Washington Consensus, and their version of global neo-liberalism. They just couldn't make it pay.

So now Silicon Valley is becoming Detroit, because that's the logic of American industrial development. Tech has lost its charmed life. Even the Apple AppStore has died.

It's quite like the space race after the American moon landing, or it's quite like the end of a Californian Gold Rush. This is California's DNA, and time passes for everyone, and consequences always arise.

Stuff that seems revolutionary and disruptive in 2017 is mostly frills for rich people."
Yes, they're not afraid of "flavor" in general (at least the ones I've encountered call for plenty of chiles, herbs, etc.) but the perceived harms of salt in particular.
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I'm also on 9.69.1 but I think my problem is that I'm running Android 5.0.1... Not sure why the options would differ between OS versions though.
keeping changing the lists

We don't change the IPs often and we always update the list well before they are ever used (typically months before). The last update was two years ago. I'm sorry if you had a problem.

https://www.changedetection.com/log/cloudflare/ips-v4_log.ht...

EDIT: I was rude in the previous version of this comment. Sorry for being a jerk. And thanks to dang for letting me edit.
There may be some chances for an improvement at Pittsburgh airport with the announcement of $1.1bn in major renovations being funded: http://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2017/09/12/...

I could see Southwest adding a PIT -> Seattle non-stop in a hurry if needed.
> Are billboards or radio stations or television channels unethical to you? Because they are also trying to "manipulate" you into buying things.

For the most part, yes. Most of the products people are trying to sell you are bad for you, wasteful, and generally corrosive to the fabric of society, because most of us just don't need it.

You don't need potato chips, soft drinks, plastic shoes, a new game app, furniture, a new car, a new movie, makeup, a new credit card, a new mobile phone, a new tv/internet/mobile plan, or over the counter drugs. If you did, you'd just go and find it. Advertisers push you to buy the things you don't need, and similar to taking medicine you don't need, this can hurt you. It hurts your health, it hurts your wallet, and it pushes unreasonable expectations on you by convincing society to expect them.

Advertising and marketing are not always bad for you. But for the most part, they are. Irregardless, we live in a consumer society. If we didn't constantly buy cheap shit, our economy would probably tank, and China wouldn't be the new biggest global power. It's kind of ironic that some day we will be making tennis shoes for them, whereupon money spent on advertising in the US will actually lower.
What's an official security audit ? You mean pay a 3rd party to do it / sell off the liability.
Some markets do. There are many examples of markets that don't -- enough that there's a recognized term for it ("Natural Monopoly").

I would argue that the level of knowledge, talent, and engineering and scientific resources required to do what Google does forms a pretty effective natural barrier to a bunch of small players being able to compete.
Much of it is real, China's growth has been outstanding! Then you encounter the occasional ghost mall or notice that many of the apartments in your complex are empty and wonder a bit about how much of it is real (probably a lot) and how much of it is just a bubble (probably a significant portion also).

A lot of China's GDP growth is tied up in asset growth (e.g. appreciated real estate). So if/when that bubble pops, they will take a hit. Accordingly, in the Chinese news, they talk about supporting and nurturing what they call the "real economy" as a counter to that danger.
I was there recently, I don't think it hits the mark. Way too corporate, too expensive, something about it is fake or trying too hard or something. It's also just a few islands of walkable spots interspersed with 4 lane divided roads. I felt like it was Exxon trying to impress business travelers, not something we can really replicate everywhere.
> Ultimately if Amazon adds 25-50K population to the front range

I think that if Amazon moved out here, the ultimate increase in population would be a lot more than the 50k potential hires that Amazon is advertising on the tin. That also creates a ton of jobs in the surrounding areas for the various amenities that people working at Amazon can afford, and you need people to work those jobs.
They won't do this after getting bids from numerous American cities. To choose a city in Canada would piss off too much of their customer base, including the president of the country, and would have a long term material impact on sales.
and yet again they don't care about older iOS versions for people who don't want to brick their phones with updates
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Take something you can read there, something not directly related to the
interview. If you happen to have a little break, it's a good way to refresh
your energy.

Take a notebook to make notes during the interview. Make a TODO list for
your own questions, things you'd like to know about the company and the team.
Update the list during the interview every time something interesting shows
up; you can go back to this thing and ask about it.

You can also prepare a set of answers for those unrelated and/or unnecessary
questions like "what was your worst conflict in the career" or "what's your
weakest point", especially if you have a list of the ones you hate. Note that
it's more important to have prepared the list than to have it.

On a similar note, list your own projects and tasks you were most proud of or
that were especially challenging. It's a handy thing to have in case your mind
suddenly goes blank.
How is notification spam a "privacy issue"? Can we call this by what it is, a "notification issue"? Yes, you can turn it off, but by default, it's slightly too aggressive. If it could be a bit less spammy, I'm sure people wouldn't get frustrated and turn it off entirely.
>I struggle to see why, a generation later, people look back at it with anything but disdain.

Because your frame of reference of musical merit is at best subjective and at worst, built upon nothing but raw prejudice.

Attacking that fact is what punk did. That's a freedom, and some people insist on freedom in art.
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> That’s basically like excluding people because of the city they grew up in, the school they went to, or the football teams that they support.

Obviously it isn't. You don't choose the city you grow up in, and you have a limited choice over the school you go to. Football team is perhaps the closest in your list - if you support a team that has repeatedly cheated to win games then perhaps it's not unreasonable to judge a person based on their loyalty to that team.

To be clear, I'm not actually that convinced in the argument to not hire Uber employees based on their employment record. But we should at least represent the argument correctly.
The current USA is definitely far away from civilized indeed.

You can’t have the president of a civilized nation threatening nuclear war because he woke up on the wrong side of bed.

I can’t believe you got solidarity for marijuana. How do you feel that now it’s legal in so many states?
Yes but I believe that figure is revenue before paying their drivers, so it would be 30% of that, or $3B.

Still nothing to scoff at.
As the Venezuelan economy is currently a basket case, surely this is evidence that the currency is doing an excellent job of representing reality.
Both options should be very fast, but Wine will generally have lower overhead (no hypervisor) and in some cases the app will run faster in Wine than it does on Windows. In VirtualBox the app will always run slower than it does on just Windows.

Wine also gives programs much better access to the GPU.
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First, we teach people variables, loops and conditions. Then we teach them procedures. Then we are horrified that newly minted "programmers" write code that is a giant mess of nested loops and conditionals, split across arbitrarily created procedures that manage bloated and fully mutable program state.

Mental models are important. Life would be better for everyone if people started learning programming with LISP, Smalltalk, or at least C#'s LINQ in LINQPad.
We just moved out of a ranch style 980 sq. ft. house that we sold for $45,000. My wife's friend and her family just moved to a house that's about the same size, built around the same time (maybe a little smaller because it has a garage), and it cost $150,000 in a nicer neighborhood.

I will say we really tried to give the old neighorhood a chance, most of our neighbors were great, but there was one family of renters that consistently was outside shouting and getting hauled away by the police, eventually culminating in a teen shooting off a gun (that looked like an assault rifle, we later found out it was 'only' a .22 rifle) into the air and screaming as another car peeled out and drove away, while my wife was talking to her mother on the phone on Mother's day. My two year old daughter was playing in the front yard, and it was right then we decided we had to move.

So after that we moved to a $250,000 house in a much more affluent part of town, the most expensive we could afford, because what else were we supposed to do? Before we had our daughter, we didn't really mind, but once you put kids into the equation you become substantially more risk averse.
Yeah, it would be like having an article titled "The Trail of Tears in Silicon Valley Investment Failures" or something.
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> So what's left?

Putting someone economically competent in charge?
How do you balance a desire to do both technical and nontechnical work?
I am a product manager at a good company at the moment and love this job - I get to have a say in what we build, how we build it, and interact with customers.

On the other hand, I don't do any technical work these days and I miss using that part of my brain.

How do you bridge this gap? In a professional capacity I wouldn't want to be an engineer - I enjoy working horizontally and having my eye on the larger picture. As an engineer, you get to dive deep into technical problems, but are often working with schmucks like me to decide what to build.

On HN, I would imagine the answer would be to either start your own company, or work on technical projects in your spare time.

Is there a way to bridge this gap without committing your nights and weekends to side projects or becoming an engineer?

Are there roles where you get to do both?

Or, at this point should I just resign myself to the fact that I will no longer be in technical positions?
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Why does amazon want to escape from the US govt?
Transistor radios are receivers only. Cell phones are transmitters that move between various fixed receiver cells. At the very least the phone company knows what cell any given phone is currently connected to. In practice they know the locations and signal strengths of all the cells in range of the phone, which allows triangulation to within a few dozen meters, at worst.
Tell this to all the people in the US who can't even afford renting a home. At this point I use that at the main source of computing inflation, as it's the most important cost for most people.
I wonder how the study was conducted. Was it only iq they tested? Did they test the social abilities of the leaders? It may have more to do with higher iq people generally having less good social skills than people with lower iq's than anything to do with the actual intelligence of the person.
I pay a pretty hefty premium to live in the only walkable neighborhood in Atlanta, Midtown, and even then I'd only call it "barely walkable." There's still not nearly enough density for me to spend a whole lot of time walking around.

Still, you can't put a price on having a grocery store, train station, liquor store, neighborhood bar, and cheap Mediterranean restaurant all within a 5 minute walk. As much as I'm paying, it's worth it.

Now if only I could convince my favorite coffee shop proprietor to open up a shop nearby...
> Looking forward to version 3.11

heh, nice
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I remember the initial thread[1] with the announcement had many good things to say about Atlanta too.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15192930
Also, since they only go on tracks, if you want to blow one up, you can do an attack on any piece of the rail infrastructure, rather than getting on the train.
From the first line:
> Researchers have uncovered four malicious extensions with more than 500,000 combined downloads from the Google Chrome Web Store...

The word "combined" vs. the article title creates a perceived difference in severity, thinking there are multiple popular extensions with 500k downloads, when in reality 4 extensions total to 500k (so 125k downloads average each). The title makes it sound like millions of downloads are potentially infected, when it's actually a factor of 10 fewer. A bit misleading...

Still, grateful for the work of the security researchers who found the malicious extensions.
Boulder's a great place in many ways, but it's also what got me really interested in urbanism, and getting involved at a local level, because it is an abject failure in terms of being affordable to even middle-class people who didn't buy in 30 years ago, with average house prices somewhere around 700K or north of that.

This is, in part, because they refuse to add denser areas like the downtown in more parts of the city, despite there being ample room to build 'in and up'.

I mean... if Aspen or something like that is expensive, it is what it is, but a larger town with ample space like Boulder or Bend (where I ended up) or Palo Alto should not have these crazy prices.
It would be an incredible advantage. Salaries are already lower when compared with the other major North American tech centers. Add the exchange rate into the mix and Amazon's money will go a long way.
The pipeline is pretty much bespoke, but they could move machine tools, people and buildings over to a different project if this project ends. I suspect that's why they are pressuring Emirates into committing to furter orders several years out. Had those orders not materialized, Airbus would probably have planned other uses for their existing resources. They are increasing production of all of their other products after all.
They know what to build (vague concept, at least), but no idea how. They’ll massively underestimate the effort required to do it.