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Restricting what users can do for their own "safety" is what gives us walled gardens such as iOS.

I use Firefox precisely because I can (or, rather, could) override basically all browser functionality with addons, without having to set up a custom build server and apt repo myself.
I'm also running a server on a Comcast business service with a static IP. My service has been really stable. This must vary on area. Also it seems if you're on business class, the techs take you more seriously. When I did have some stability problems the tech they sent out did a few tests, then went to the entire first floor (5 units) of the condo building with big sticky notes telling them to schedule a service appointment or have their service blocked.

Getting reverse DNS was easy. Following the directions I found via Google I went into the Comcast business service forums, read their pinned posts and sent a PM to the current service guy. He set the reverse DNS for me. It took about a day.
Hi there,

Unfortunately I have quite a backlog of other projects that I need to clear out, though Simple is AGPL so anyone is free to fork it. However I am also looking for employment opportunities.

Simple is already highly parallelizeable due to the fact that it relies on dynamic programming. Adding more threads of execution is just a matter of popping off another candidate test point from the priority queue while the objective function is already being evaluated at another point. I was planning to include this feature in a more mature release.
I had to do this exact thing with Spotify. I have a fake Facebook account solely to login :-/
Citing Deaths of Lab Monkeys, F.D.A. Ends an Addiction Study
Tesla appears to be making steady progress in Model 3 production
If they are motivated enough to bypass it they are probably motivated enough to ignore any symbol even if they understand 100% what it means ("oh they put a radiation symbol here? I don't believe it, its just scaremongering, this cave must be hiding a treasure")
I really love it. Lightweight, fast, fully-featured.
Does that count national holidays as well? I get three weeks of paid vacation, but I also 10 national holidays (two for Thanksgiving, two for Christmas, 4th of July, etc..).
One of the other replies to my comments appears to have converted it to Fish!
Does it take 1 hour to charge from 0%?
There are other options that requires no config.
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I had to compile quite a big amount of stuff that was not in the repo. But yeah it was not that bad all things considered.
Close:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#/media/Fi...
Thank you very much for writing this!
Does it ever find an audience?
You probably should. Unless you manage to find some other, more modern, MUA that you can programmatically integrate with your development workflow and that handles large volumes of mail without slowing to a crawl. Then use that, and please tell me about it.
Strongly disagree. Every time I look into building anything with bluetooth I come to the same conclusion that the protocol is irredeemably awful.

The fact that the massive pile of profiles essentially all need to be supported inside the chipset is what makes their firmware so buggy and unreliable. Software written by semiconductor manufacturers is famously bad, and the approach that bluetooth has taken basically asks them to do more of the firmware work, keep track of more application state, and never get their wires crossed. And because the chipset firmware is almost always a binary blob, system designers have no way to fix anything. Of course it's going to be a massive failure.

What they should have done was built a dumb, encrypted pipe, and let downstream driver and application developers deal with the application-layer logic. Then the semiconductor manufacturers would only be responsible for a basic bulk transfer interface that's a lot harder to screw up. This is why wifi and ethernet and usb drivers tend to work reasonably well, and bluetooth drivers are an unreliable mess.

I get why they did it... in the early days, prices for bluetooth chipsets varied depending on which profiles they supported. This was supposed to be a way for semiconductor companies to differentiate themselves in a world where they were increasingly viewed as commodity suppliers. But because they never bothered to invest in their firmware development (these companies have like 20 people working on chip design and verification and like 3 on firmware), they ended up making everything worse rather than adding value.
Can you share any examples of what type of data they shared that is going to cause problems? Seems like a very non-revealing post to me.
Any human sacrifice in there?

Probably not until the next recession.
That is very cool. I'll be looking for it in 39 days apparently.
I heard the stories from my brother, who taught at inner-city schools in Charlotte for a while. He stayed longer than almost anyone else his age at the job, but eventually he couldn't bear it anymore.

He's a much stronger man than I. I wouldn't have lasted a week.
Everything went downhill after the Lisa.
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Just take it to an independent third party repair shop.
Yes, thanks! missed that...
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"Do technologies drive our values, or do our values drive our technologies?"
This depends on the kind of values, IMO. Some values can be created when we find something new that we want. Many values are subject to change. However, some are not. The unchanging value in human community has driven the success of Facebook. The desire for new frontiers has driven the creation and progress of SpaceX. Tech usually evolves because we want it. Want to be defended? Make something to defend yourself. Want to see if you can track a million bacteria? Make a bacteria examiner.

People keep saying the advance of tech is inevitable. That's a bit of a hyperbole. Humanity could stop at any time, but enough people see something they want in new tech such that it won't stop. Still, whenever you think, "Gee, maybe I should make a nano-battle-bot or a mega-laser" consider this: Someone else might be making that too, but YOU don't have to be the one.

When the US built airplanes, everyone else invested in missile defenses.[1] The lesson here is that, rather than trying to race your opponent to have the tech first (thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy scenario, esp. if they get ahold of it (e.g. atom bomb[2])), it might be better to start looking for the antidote instead.

[1] Noted from an old PopSci article. Sorry, I can't recall which one.

[2] One could argue about the need for the bomb, but you're missing the point of my analogy. Pick another example if you prefer.
^H comes from ASCII.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242891

"inconsistent GPS service" for 3 hour late-night windows each day during the exercise does not justify the clickbaity title.
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I guess you learned that valuable lesson that it is never too early to fire. It is not that people don’t want to change, it is they can’t. Trying to change causes such cognitive dissonance that it can only be resolved by blaming others, normally the person trying to help them change.

Can I ask why you hired him in the first place?
I am an “Ocean Engineer” by degree but I was strictly a robotics and embedded systems guy in college. I have been a software engineer since graduation though and now I just market myself as a software engineer and get plenty of job offers. No one cares what your degree is as long you know how to code at a professional level.
Those pages have some interesting observations - for example, it begins with an action-at-a-distance model, but then it goes on to say that this is inconsistent with Newton's third law in a universe in which information cannot propagate instantaneously. This is presumably implicit in the math, but does making the point in natural language go beyond that?

More generally and abstractly, does the math have anything to say about causes, and if not, is that a limitation or a profound insight?
Where by "safety" you mean "the most secure mainstream computing platform currently available, setting a standard to which other platforms approach only asymptotically and with significant end-user effort".

Obviously, I can't end decide this debate, such as it is, in a single comment (or, likely at all, with an acolyte!). But someone should get the message into the tech message board bubble that in the modern software security world, the controversial argument to make would be that iOS isn't the most secure OS out-of-the-box.
expanding on your line of thought...

why bother doing anything, ever, at all, anywhere?

it's all pointless anyway due to the impending heat death of the universe.
Thank you, I will add some ambiguity.
If we're talking macOS, I agree - my initial comment was specifically re: iOS. :)

Could talk at length about what macOS needs better... although I still don't think it's worse than Windows or Linux/BSD, like some might.
Thank you for the detailed reply! I want to try my hand at this at some point. Living in a city, I miss the stars.
The soulhackers are amongst us!
yeah imagine not having to get on a pre-approved list before you can do things, would be game changing now that extensions are finally allowed to do that. /s
Google Home couldn't tell users who Jesus Christ is – here's why it matters
I haven't had this problem so bad it needed a repair. When stuff gets stuck under a key, I just mash it a few times and it fixes itself. I should probably used canned air, but I don't have any at the moment, and the mashing trick works.
> Imagine the total dissolution

Even that doesn't have to happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
I'll bet you are right. That video is exactly what it looked like.
I don't know. Egyptian pyramids are a source of endless fascination for modern scientists and laypeople alike. Corpses add to the intrigue, don't they?
Please excuse the inappropriate question, but this one has been bugging me for many years: will there ever be some kind of session manager on Firefox Mobile that can save and recall your browsing session (a group of tabs) to/from a local file, similar to how OneTab or MySessions are working?
I feel badly for all of the people who named their kids Isis! Lots of people probsbly switched to “Izzy” or something. The really clever ones probably switched over to Inanna, Ashera, or Astarte.
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That was the most remarkable thing to me - that's just one pixel moving around. Imagine if we had two, or four, or eight? Pretty quickly we get amazing and complex results.
Harder and harder to do as these social networks require a phone number to create an account.
Really? You aren’t able to determine out of the people you work with if they are performing or not? Sure you might not be able to determine who the bottom 10% is in the company, but you know who is pulling their weight and who is not of the people you work with.
ugh, america really needs to copy this
> I'm not implying whether Soros had insider information, but the timing & circumstances will certainly raise questions.

You're explicitly implying that he had knowledge of an impending mass shooting. "I'm just asking questions" is a coward's defense.

The 13F is filed after the quarter in which the trades are made, so this one covered the 2nd Quarter of 2017. This means that the trade was entered sometime between April and June of last year.

So the timeline of your conspiracy theory:

* May-June 2017 - Soros learns that there's going to be a mass shooting at an MGM property and takes out a moderate short position while the stock trades between $27-$34. He does this under his own name at a fund with mandatory disclosure requirements.

* September 8th - The shooter books his room at the MGM after examining several other properties, including so called "Dry Runs" at a festival in Chicago at non-MGM properties.

* October 1st - Shooting occurs.

* October 2nd - MGM trading resumes and the stock is down sharply .... to $31/share. It briefly dips below $30/share a few weeks later but eventually climbs back to $36/share.

So Soros is this evil genius that knows when mass shootings will occur and decides to profit instead of alerting the authorities, but he's so incompetent that he doesn't make any money via these suspicious short positions.

Cool.
You're describing Tumblr.
They don't even try to monetize certain things. Google Reader should have been a goldmine of data to throw at some evil AI dedicated to figuring out what I'm likely to buy based on what RSS feeds I read.

I think it's as simple as internal politics being shitty, and certain projects having managers who don't win the battle to keep their project going.

Trying to figure out what will or won't stay is as lucrative as reading tea leaves.
Indeed, it's not. In the case of what we'd usually call stack-allocated variables, the C standard just uses the phrase "automatic storage duration", and defines their lifetime without explicitly referencing a stack:

> For such an object that does not have a variable length array type, its lifetime extends from entry into the block with which it is associated until execution of that block ends in any way. (Entering an enclosed block or calling a function suspends, but does not end, execution of the current block.) If the block is entered recursively, a new instance of the object is created each time. The initial value of the object is indeterminate.
Yes, but from the exchange's perspective: How do they know?

I'm presuming that in this case (given the amount) that this was not a typical user. But is there some framework of dispute for lesser amounts?
libel protects against untrue information. there's nothing protecting private information that you willingly gave up.
Agree, the MBP keyboard is holding me back from buying a new MacBook. Unacceptable for a $$$$ device to have unreliable basics.
udevadm is a better help. I use `udevadm monitor` to see what's happening when I'm plugging something in.
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What practical benefit would that really have over just using your choice of SQL engine with wasm, though?
> As much as anyone here might hate Google, they are one of the few entities with deep pockets who have a real stake in the open web.

Is that why they killed Google Reader, and tried to build their own walled Facebook equivalent and forced every Google user to partake in?
I’m able to determine when someone is struggling with a task or succeeding at it, but I’ve never seen a measure that would allow me to holistically rank them across the many & varied things we ask our colleagues to contribute to.
Hi there,

Very loosely, but not particularly. Simple makes an effort to interpolate between points rather than using the Lipschitz constant to estimate an upper bound. This is important for regions of the search space which are "objective deserts." LIPO would continue to sample a large but poorly performing region of the search space even after it had been demonstrated to not contain good candidates, simply because its estimated upper bound varies linearly with distance from a sample. Simple combines a separate measure of how much it has already explored a region of space with the interpolated objective value to handle these cases better.
I Agree. However, I'm not the average American male. It seems to me like 'he' is getting a bit of a raw deal while simultaneously being blamed for everything these days.
Isn't "local news, the web-app" the impossible dream? So many have tried, and so many have failed. Google is building a business on a graveyard there, but I guess they've got the money to prop it up for awhile.
They're so devious that they publicly list every grant that they make.
The majority of the people in San Francisco just don't see auto break-ins as a priority. In fact, they sympathize with the people who break into cars, as they seem them as an underclass that is forced to do this to survive.
At my company "senior" engineers can expect to start at around $160k/yr plus RSUs (worth about 10%-20% of base per year at current market rates) and an 8%-12% bonus target. Leads start at around $190k/yr.
As of C11, the C machine model does (finally) include threads and memory ordering, so at least you can say it says something about multi-core…
I assumed HN would guess this, whereas Twitter wouldn't:

Wasn't this most likely a simple technical implementation shortcut/limitation? (Which they're now having to defend as a "policy" decision against the tweetrage?)

In other words, I assume it's an organization with a limited technical staff and budget who just followed a means--social login--to an end (since everybody has one of those, right?).
Exactly. The people in San Francisco see this as a legitimate way to redistribute income to homeless people.
> but any faster and it's you do the opposite to initiate a lean and the lean does the turning.

> This goes unnoticed on bicycles, but on a heavy motorcycle the it becomes important.

I don't have motorcycle riding experience, but I have noticed the same thing on a bicycle at higher speeds (25 to 35 mph going downhill). On a bicycle, you have to shift yourself a little bit to initiate a turn at those speeds. I guess you have to put more effort into the weight shift on a heavier two wheeled vehicle?
Ask HN: How does your organization document experiences?
I am in a volunteer-based organization and we are doing a lot of things, but as you can imagine because of all the volunteering, people constantly join and leave. Right now, when someone leaves, unfortunately they take what they have learned with them. They may leave a document behind, but we have found it cumbersome and unscalable to go through all of them. So far, for repetitive tasks we have found checklists to be useful, but for other things I am looking for some system that:

* can be used to record variety of validated experiences (example: unsuccessful projects)

* does not take a lot of time from the newcomers and the rest of us to grasp them

* are organizable/filterable based on the activity, keywords, or dates

I am not necessarily looking to add another software to our stack, ideas about how we can use the typical tools (docs,sheets,trello,etc.) would be preferred.

I would appreciate any comments you may have, it may save a lot of volunteers' time. Thanks
They’re out there.

“Arguably Australia's most famous soldier is neither a general nor a Victoria Cross recipient, but a stretcher bearer who served briefly in the nation's first major campaign”

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART40993
Yes that is the problem. Everyone in the company knows collectively who the performers and non-performers are, but there is no way for that information to be captured in a useful form by management. Attempting to do so ends up with disasters like rank and yank.
Could Swift be the reason why Apple software post 2010ish has been so buggy? I'm just trying to put 2 and 2 together here because Swift was released with iOS7 circa 2010.
A company based around the mission of extracting wealth through exacerbating negotiating power imbalance is already just about the worst hands possible!

Even though USG's surveillance databases have steep outcomes (eg prison/murder), they're at least targeted at an idea of discrete criminals. Commercial surveillance is an attack against literally everybody.
How about a cryptographer who works at the FBI?
So, I've read that. I have never read anything that caused my heart to race like that. Scary. Thank you for posting this.
Facebook's osquery could help here.

You just(1) have to implement update functions as well.

(1) that's the "just" that doesn't mean "just" :-)
I mean really as in that's batty. Probably should have put in a few more words. I can't give the written word a tonal inflection to add context. I could say "Really! How laughable is that."
On the flip side, if I weren't able to type "hom" and have it autocomplete to my home address I would be pretty pissed.
We're hiring. We're a chip company, not exactly robotics, but your role would be embedded systems on a board. I couldn't find your email, so if this sounds interesting, email me.
Unfortunately, mail and mail-related services are being deprecated in macOS Server:

Prepare for changes to macOS Server
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312

The services deprecated include davmail, dovecot and postfix. They say the changes are "to focus more on management of computers, devices, and storage."
It’s not really considered a lot for many corporations in America. Not to mention government workers, who often get even more. All military personnel get 30 days (6 weeks), for example.

What’s mind-boggling to me is that Europeans can’t help but continue to make these smug comments, when your minimums are usually either 4 or 5 weeks, and the average isn’t much more.

Yes, Americans work too much and don’t get enough vacation. But for software developers in particular, the overall comp in America is WAY better than for Europe. I’ll happily trade a week or two off (if I even have to) for double the salary.
> Ansible will happily take in JSON

Yes, JSON is very close to a proper subset of Yaml.
That isn’t possible for Teslas – Tesla does not offer manuals or replacement parts, and if a third-party is found to have modified the car, Tesla reserves the right to remotely disable it.
It’s pretty unusual for a private university library to accommodate visitors at all. This isn’t your right to vote.
We won't go poking through waste disposal sites for no good reason

We do just that, for the good reason that archaeology thrives on the study of garbage. Middens are invaluable resources, but historically there was no danger that would last through the ages. Now future archaeologists will have to worry about radioactive hazard, chemical hazards, and god knows what else. The real horror might be coming across some black site storing or studying NBC agents.

We’re a messy species, and a lucky one so far, but luck never lasts.
Car makers had self-driving research labs long before Titan leaked out.
Outlook.com/Microsoft blacklists entire subnets because there are spammers in the same IP range. It's ridiculously lazy practice. They should just block IP addresses that are actually sending SPAM. It's not like that's a problem technically. You can fit all IPv4 addresses into a 512MB database.

I'm thinking of solving it by blacklisting outlook.com domain, so that senders at least know that I can't respond to them. I can put a message in the error response, that will be reliably relayed to the sender by the sending system.

Google's slightly better. Recently I did an experiment and created a few gmail accounts and sent some riduculously spammy messages full of typical keywords in between those gmail accounts, and they were all successfully delivered. Always.

Then I sent e-mail from new gmail account to my email server and simply responded and it went to spam. It's ridiculous that such a simple heuristic like someone responding to a message gmail user sends doesn't get the message through spam filters, even though the system can clearly determine taht the message is legit based on many variables (References field referencing message-id of the original message (noone else than the recipient should know this), reply being from a correct source (DKIM/SPF), message having normal looking business content, etc.).

There's way too heavy a weight on sending server IP range reputation.