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I think this looks great. But do you know what I would really enjoy - and that's a psql on steroids. Basically what I mean by that is take a lot of features in TablePlus but make a console app of it. You'd be expected to run super wide windows but it would lend itself to being used very rapidly without ever using the mouse, and being able to retain the incredible usefulness of psql while still getting an overview of your queries, your result sets, different view formats, etc. Maybe it's just me, but I would buy such a console app.
Ask HN: What about short term contracts instead of FTE for non-entrepreneurs?
It seems that full time employment isn't for me, but I don't feel I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur: I don't seem to have a good idea, and I don't think I would be persistent enough if I did.

How about short term contracts? I see positions advertised for 3-6 months, after which the contract and employment ends.

Since I tend to get bored/leave my full time gigs after 6-12 months, why not get short term contracting positions instead? I'm assuming that because it is shorter term, there is a premium built into the compensation for these positions. It's win-win: I get paid more for the same tenure, and I don't get bored as easily.

Are my assumptions correct? Anyone with experience doing this? How did you like it vs FTE? How much more did you ask since you're probably not getting benefits, PTO, nor job stability? This is for Canada, not the US.
Because Linux has too many distros. We didn't decide to use Gnome or C/C++ to build the interface. Since the team is very small, we have to focus on our best.
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> S/MIME works just fine in Thunderbird

Mostly, yes, once you jump through the hoops of getting a personal certificate (let's encrypt style automation as plugin would be great!).

But there appears to be some issues with adding recipient certificates that are structured in a specific way. Something about the Subject format being valid for s/mime but not recognized by mozilla's cerfificate store as an other-people certificate and as a server cert instead.

This was a certificate used by a local government agency. That made it quite difficult to communicate with them securely. This is one of the few times where I really needed secure email and that's when it failed me.
I think it's clarifying to look at tablet manufacturers as a whole. The reflexive complaint of Apple is that their system is too locked-down and limited by their approach to software. However, at the same time, there were Android tablets being made in the same era, and it appears that they also suffer from some similar problems (being only limited to Jelly Bean). If so, perhaps the commonest complaints about Apple's approach to software is off the mark in this case.

All hardware products will suffer tradeoffs, and I don't necessarily find it reasonable to think that tablet computers should always be hardware-upgradeable, if it is at the expense of handle-ablity. The author's lament is that the iPad went obsolete before it broke. The PlayBook went obsolete nearly as soon as it was released. How did those Galaxy Tab 2s do? If the problem is that "it went obsolete before it broke", that's infinitely better than "it broke before it went obsolete".
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How fast is the data transfer?

Do you think one could hack it into a "screen" by streaming a black-and-white image data from a computer to it?

So the connected computer would do all the heavy lifting related to rendering, compress the result to something that is really easy to decompress, send it over, and tablet would just decompress a bitmap and blit it to the screen?
Maybe there was some small miscommunication here – we are indeed working on "one AD to rule them all" (Capstan, [1]), but it won't go in the standard library as such (there's no need as it will be just as good as a package).

That said, Capstan relies on very new compiler technology and still requires some deep changes there, so will only work on future Julia versions (which may be what he was referring to).

Until then, Flux [2] has an AD that's well-suited to ML and works on current Julia versions.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaDiff/Capstan.jl/
[2] https://fluxml.github.io/
"Business is business"

B.S.

A large reason for the success of Britain, America and the west was Protestant morality. Because one could reasonably expect fair dealing when conducting business with someone, even a stranger, there was no hesitancy conducting business rather than doing everything yourself or with your family.

The West was built on handshake deals. We've lost that, which is one reason for the rise of large firms and the rise of bureaucracy, rules & regulation.
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I'm not sure that list is a fair way to determine an industry's profit per employee.

Law firms aren't allowed to form C corps, which limits their size and would keep them off that list. I would expect top law firms to be in those ranges in for profit per employee, but they're much smaller so it isn't a fair comparison.

2 of the top 6 in that list are in medicine.
It would be interesting to see if compensation is bimodal within a market. There's clearly a bimodal distribution between the US and the rest of the world, and has been for a long time. I think we're also moving toward a bimodal distribution between the top five or ten unicorns and everyone else even in the US. Quite simply, the companies with billions to spend are bidding up the price of talent willing to work there, while growth for everyone else remains slow. While the same has happened with fintech for a while, that has remained too small to show up on graphs. MAGA/FAANG/whatever, on the other hand, are collectively large enough to create a very visible second peak.

There are effectively two markets now. People don't expect to carry their compensation packages from one side of that fence to the other. I should know, since I made such a transition myself within the past year. In terms of effect on personal income, it's not that different than changing careers.
But as a programmer wanting to getting into a management role of some sort. Lets be frank here, the true reason most people want to do is because, the pay as a manager is just way too good, the working hours are next to nothing. And there is a default master-slave relation ship between a manager and a programming, despite the skill, output and intellectual value of the programming being many orders of magnitude more superior.
> I used to think most DBA worked under Windows/Linux.

As as a SQL Server DBA I preferred to use OSX. Freed me from the tyranny of dogfood.
> my point being that I find it that they would just crawl everything they recorded instead of just crawling pages which are linked publicly or which are targeted in ad-campaigns

There's no way to know which pages are linked publicly without crawling every page for links. So you're right back at square one.

Ultimately if it's on a Internet-facing web server and not hidden behind an IP whitelist or secure login function then you have to assume it is public. All you are arguing is about different degrees of "public" which somewhat misses the real issue of website security.

Some crawlers do deliberately hit random URLs to check how you're handling 404s. Over crawlers are entirely dishonest and will try to find content that wasn't intended to be made public. How are you going to handle them if you're stumped with the Facebook crawlers that you invited onto your site?

> ...combined with the fact that they don't warn you about it

It's pretty obvious behavior in my opinion but maybe they could have been more explicit. However going back to my previous point, no other crawler advertises what it's going to crawl beforehand. So where do you draw the line? Ranting that Google indexed your site? What about visitors buying stuff on your ecommerce package without prior communication requesting access to the site?

You wouldn't ask customers in a bricks-and-mortar store to state their intentions the moment they walked through the shop door so why should every HTTP user agent have to do the same? While web security can be both complex and maddening, responsibility of hardening the site is still yours; not Facebook's.
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I've been thinking a lot lately that, given the general complexity of building software/hardware and our ambitions for what computers ought to be able to do, there should be a much larger percentage of the population working on building software.

I don't know whether that's possible given the difficulty of building software/hardware today and the general (lack of) interest of the general population but 3.6M software engineers in the U.S. (1% of the total) and 18M in the world[0] (0.2% of the total) seems way lower than optimal.

[0]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2483690/it-careers/ind...
Common Lisp. Why? [0]

[0]: http://p-cos.blogspot.in/2014/09/why-i-like-common-lisp.html

Common Lisp / Scheme are great to learn about programming languages themselves. think learning about closures in CL vs in ObjC and you will realize how simple concepts become awkward and secondarily builds your taste so you know engineer who prides in knowing C++ complexity is a fucking idiot.

Personally, CL has helped me quickly learn hard subjects (3D graphics), prototype software for open ended problems, etc etc.

And any given day, give me a language with live editing and updates, I hate the edit/compile/test cycle.
>Another possibility is that U.S. immigration laws act as a protectionist barrier to prop up programmer compensation. It seems impossible for this to last (why shouldn’t there by really valuable non-U.S. companies), but it does appear to be somewhat true for now.

I feel like this is the real issue here. The reason that the US has great companies is simply from the availability of large amounts of capital. And if the millions and millions of Indian, Chinese, and Eastern European programmers who are inifinitely more talented/driven/intelligent/educated than myself were able to simply move here and seek employment with no immigration restraints, I know that I would be out of a job instantly. In that sense it feels perversly exploitative and priveleged to make so much more money than practically anyone else on earth due to nothing but the physical location I was born.
That may have been a brief trend on domestic flights with older airframes, but that isn't the general aviation trend. The last thing you want is more lithium batteries charging and discharging on a long flight over the ocean.
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It's 'controversial' only in the sense that most people don't understand this. Many people seem to think that the only reason companies aren't giving great salaries to people, and 'letting' everybody earn a very good living doing most of anything, is greed. The person I was responding to went so far as to call these companies "villains." Or look at the other poster's response to this very topic. In reality, what people want is impossible, and but very few understand that. And I think the nature of this fact is often met with cognitive dissonance of some sort or another, which is sad. We are definitely becoming a nation that has an increasingly tenuous relationship with facts.
To be fair, the Pixel 1st Gen has a headphone jack. And the Pixel 2 has bluetooth 5.0 (compared to bluetooth 4.2 for the Pixel 1st Gen), which has significantly better range, reliability, speed, message capacity and data throughput. Google only dropped the jack for devices with bluetooth 5.0.

It's a weak defence, because multiple people had issues with bluetooth on the Pixel 2.
Or warn people that Amazon is adopting this poor practice, in a public, visible way, in order to put pressure on them to change?
It's great that hear that Bose has it sorted out, but it's usually not the case - all bluetooth headphones I tried so far can only stay connected to one device at the time, even if they can remember multiple pairings. So if I switch them on and both my phone and my laptop are nearby, it's a pure lottery which one is going to connect to them - and then I have to manually disable bluetooth on one device to make it connect to the other. It's just a massive pain in the ass to use.
I appreciate replaceable batteries, but they are generally not compatible with water resistance, which seems to be a more favored feature.
I agree with you except in interpersonal relationships people tend to confuse “punishment” with meanness or losing one’s temper. There’s never a good reason to not be patient or to lose your temper. Having room for negativity is important, but communicating negativity is much more difficult than praise on many levels.
Yeah, forgot about that. It's a new feature of 7.2 AFAIK.
The author thinks low-income people's incomes are rising and that is false. The rest of the article is fallacious because of this.
I realized why I had such a respect for Robin Williams: he suffered so much, but whilst suffering he thought of others. He did countless shows for the troops overseas. He brought them joy when they were at war. There’s also a video of him befriending a gorilla who could do sign language. He described how remarkable that experience was. It showed he cared for animals which resonated with me. And probably lastly are some selfish reasons: he made me laugh, and laugh a lot. But mostly he named his daughter Zelda — he was such a nerd and an avid gamer.
Strange, cause the QC30/35 is known to have pairing problems when pairing using bluetooth LE enabled.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/833322/pair-bose-quietcomfor...
Yes, this is true. At some point which I seem to be unable to identify in retrospect, I became too expensive for about 2/3 of the market. Ah well.
For the vast majority of people the supplied Apple ear phones are just fine and I don't see that as an issue. You don't have to be obsessed with music quality to enjoy reasonably sounding music. I don't not watch movies if I can't see them in theater.
Europe does not value software or developers anywhere near the levels the US does. Other developed economies e.g, Australia, Canada and Singapore are closer to the US but still trail behind.
>fundamentally the same closed model prevalent in tech

They're totally different. If tech were like academic publishing, software would be developed in publicly-subsidized studios and then given, for free, to for-profit distributors. These distributors would play no significant part in the development of the software, but would happily charge the public an arm and a leg for any usage of it.
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The question of his identity has been settled.

"In 1601, after his father’s death, Shakespeare the upstart returned to the college of arms to renew the family application for a coat of arms. He had made a small fortune in the theatre, and was buying property in and around Stratford. Now he set out to consolidate his reputation as a “Gentleman”. Under the rules that governed life at the court of Elizabeth I, only the Queen’s heralds could grant this wish.

"It’s at this point in the story that Wolfe discovered “the smoking gun”. In the Brooke-Dethick feud, it becomes clear that “Shakespeare, Gent. from Stratford” and “Shakespeare the Player” are the same man. In other words, “the man from Stratford” is indeed the playwright. Crucially, in the long-running “authorship” debate, this has been a fiercely contested point. But Wolfe’s research nails any lingering ambiguity in which the Shakespeare deniers can take refuge."

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jan/08/sherlock-hol...
Perhaps the better filter for those is “people who dont’t mind NOT going to the store”

Besides, somebody should eat the less pretty produce rather than having it go to waste.
Have you tried engaging with IETF-QUIC?
"I'm trying to choose right web framework for my startup."
"Previously I used Python/Django for all of my web projects"

Write your application in Python/Django. Your concern should be getting to market fast, not which tech should I choose.
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Page is working fine for me. Ho hum. And no, it's not awful, it's a pragmatic solution to not having to buy new headphones and not having to use a dongle - both of which were complained about :)
My issue was with you suggesting people abandon security if they don't want a public internet connection.

I think the global TLS system works great when you're in a global context. But now the internet has proliferated and it's infecting people's homes. It turns out people _don't want_ to be in that hostile global context when they're at home. They want a context that is private. They want to isolate their home from the firehouse of global bullshit out there.

I think we've passed an inflection point and we're seeing a revival of attention to home networking. Sure for the last 15 years all I connected to my wifi was my laptop and that's pretty useless without the global internet. But now people have IoT things. Door locks, ovens, toilet paper, you name it. Why the hell would anyone want those things phoning home to a remote server all the time? Why does it even need to be publicly routable? Maybe it does need limited connectivity so strong interactive controls allowing you to federate whatgoes in and out are necessary. More than ever the _integrity_ of your home is also the integrity of your network. Your network is an appliance now. It is the lifeblood of your home.

People deserve to be able to administrate their personal enclaves as they see fit and do it securely. The best way to prevent someone from remotely unlocking my doors is to eliminate the remote path to the door lock. Did you forget that we've come rather far in securing later 2? People _can_ and _should_ trust their home network. Not wrecklessly, but private networks are not a fairy tale.

Finally finally, don't patronize users. The users of today are tomorrow's grandmas. It's not unreasonable to expect we can slowly adapt user expectations and understanding surrounding the security of their software. I'm not saying you don't have a point, but I think it's a disservice to users to treat them all like idiots.
Build more houses first—reduce the ridiculous zoning laws and permitting processes, especially in California. Then we can talk.
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Regardless, who cares how many 'crooks' there are on Wall Street. If you want to get rich slow, you throw your money in a stable investment in stocks, the 401k has made lots of millionaires.
https stripped or doesn't work could be achieved.

Problem is that browser warnings are sometimes false. Self signed certificates are not unsecure, the underlying encryption is still the same. The "unsecure" only applies to the CA, but that is not clear in the warning.
It's on the roadmap and will be rolled out soon.
True, rent control needs retirement, but only with the retirement of restrictions on building of housing.
Damn, too late to see this. Dead already.
Is that really the perception in 2018? If we go back to the early 2010s, I would agree. That the message was spread frequently back then. I really haven't heard it recently. And it makes sense that the market over the last 5+ years should have started to close the gap. That is plenty of time to allow people to become able in development.
I don't think this will work for randomly sending over one or the other connection, but I will just have to test to be sure.
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Lovely, thanks!
This kills the S9 for me. I was hoping that they ditch the bixby button. I would rather deal with bluetooth headphones than having a useless button.
Make hay while the sun shines. At the moment, Amazon offers consumers a great deal. If and when that ceases to be the case, we can do something about it at that point.
Is there a reason you didn't stick with the SE? Appears to fulfil all your criteria, but I guess you might have experienced some problems...
The author is also responsible for an excellent graphic novel about science: https://thedialoguesbook.com/
Some Javascript, HTML or HTTP features are available on HTTPS only. Even things like Brotli stream compression which have no security implications. So some liberty is definitely taken from users who wish to use insecure connections for whatever reason.
Then you usually don't need a certificate from a CA. Just selfsign.
It works that way yes, especially for the flu that changes so fast that its vaccination is no immune guarantee but rather helps to have milder symptoms. I guess how it's promoted depends on where you live. Also don't forget that not everyone has good cognitive capacities and such probabilities (you might still get sick with the vaccine, but symptoms might be milder) are not easy to grasp for everyone. I guess they just wanna keep the public message straight and simple.
Can’t change the theme in the free version: fail.
>Serial experimentation with this policy has repeatedly shown the same result.

New York's two largest building booms took place during times of very strict rent controls - the 1920s and between 1947 and 1965.

>rent control looks like a victory for the poor over the landlord class. But the stifling of price signals leads to problems.

Except when it actually happened the price signals sent by the strictest rent controls still weren't enough to end the city's biggest housing booms.

Seriously, Megan McArdle telling you that price controls are "just going to hurt the poor" is a bit like Trump telling you that demolishing Mar a Lago will only hurt the immigrants.

Rent control is a dirty hack, for sure, but it's a dirty hack that shouldn't be removed until a proper fix is put in place - i.e. a land value tax.

I won't hold my breath for Megan McArdle to advocate for that.

Bloomberg should have her fired. She does absolutely no credit to their publication.
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> There are more crooks on wall Street (including the Banks) than in crypto.

This is a fun statement, because it's vague enough to be defended with "oh, but I meant <foo>".

Yeah, Wells Fargo got caught making accounts people didn't know about. There are cases like Enron. Financial crises, overdraft fees inflated by ordering transactions maliciously, etc.

In the grand scheme of things, though, Wall Street tends to work, and fairly well, and when it has an issue it winds up recovering eventually so you're fine if you're well diversified and don't need to retire next week. The various stocks in the DJIA and the NASDAQ are making real products, have real value, and will mostly still be here in a few years.

You can't say the same for the ICO world.
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> Why does everyone (including here on HN) focus on the darn headphone jack

Because it's been nearly universal for even longer than computers have existed, serves the purpose perfectly, and the alternative is hard pressed to be compelling in any way, whether on sound quality, convenience, device size, cost, robustness, complexity, usability, or versatility (it's really an analog port that turns out to be mostly used for audio signals). Previous removals (magnetic or optical disk drives, vga, serial, or ethernet ports) were dealt with when they were obsoleted by outperforming, or at the very least vastly more convenient alternatives.

> finally make the computer-in-your-pocket dream a reality

The dock is the easy part, the hard part is the OS/UI and making the thing super convenient.
Like it or not ads are necessary. So if there is AI that removes ads then there will not be content to consume.
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You are projecting human morality to natural processes.

Viruses and bacteria don't have feelings and the vast majority of the biomass on Earth is not even capable of suffering.
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