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> For casual users, those provide enough that you might abandon iTunes.

I abandoned iTunes for Google Play Music (for my ripped-from-purchased CDs library and new purchases) long before Alexa or Home (and even before GPM All Access) existed; unless you are already heavily invested in the Apple hardware ecosystem, iTunes was never really all that compelling after the period of iPod as dominant music player (when being an iPod user without any other Apple investment was enough to make iTuned compelling.)
No, that is pretty much how they and other large tech companies hire.

You apply as a SWE or SRE. Then you basically either pass their hiring bar or not. If you pass, they find out what you are interested in, what you would be a good fit for, and what team is interested in having you.

There are exceptions of course, for specialized positions or knowledge. Or if they have big gaps to fill they might do targeted recruiting for them.

I don't see why it would run awful of labor laws. They have a very structured hiring process, it doesn't allow much room for "picking anyone you want". If you pass they find a job for you.
Yeah, because some of the best concurrency primitives in the world aren't quite "what teh cool kids are doin'"
I was surprised to learn Disney is doing this, too. It almost seems like a "Get their biometrics while they're young" type of indoctrination program.

I also don't think 3 years will pass until their whole fingerprint database will be hacked (in a way we'd find out about, it may have already been hacked).

It just seems like both a terrible as well as a completely unnecessary idea.
Spotify has (or had, I haven't used it in years) a similar feature called Local Files. You have to be on the same network as the computer to sync the files, and there's little metadata on them, but you should still be able to comingle local and Spotify music. It's not quite the same, but it's something.
While this is true. Name one mainstream app that actually does this or at least doesn't replace it with the (way worse) phone number option?
Check the link on the second page of the article about what kinds of jobs are open in the Alexa division. Pretty solidly development/technical/product/research jobs
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The X220 works great with Coreboot.
I entirely see where you're coming from, and this has completely changed in the last 2-3 years. SiliconBlue/Lattice used to be a niche-market low-power also ran in the FPGA world. Documentation was sparse and most examples from academia targeted Altera or Xilinx parts.

The open-source toolchain flipped this and allowed Lattice FPGAs to become the tool of choice for beginners and small-application hobbyists. There's now a tremendous wealth of resource available around getting started with Lattice FPGAs. And as the cherry on top, you don't have to wrangle the gigantic Vivado/Quartus/ISE suites to do so.
It was cool to see him use a few concepts that I've used when trying to explain cryptocurrencies to friends: Chuck E Cheese tokens and Beanie Babies. (The other is Easter Egg hunts). Overall, I'm glad that John Oliver's done a piece on this because he's previously been successful at bringing once niche topics to popular culture (net neutrality and sport stadium financing).

I think blockchain (and to a lesser extent ICOs) does have long-term utility. However, the current lack of oversight combined with hype/FOMO for cryptocurrencies and ICOs is the perfect recipe for those "in the know" to rip off the less knowledgeable.
That is not what the studies actually show.
I don’t understand why your question is phrased that way.

I’ve met as many (if not more) liberals who expressed racist ideas as I have conservatives.
How should I properly revere the plant that was killed for me to enjoy, if I followed the plant-based diet?
I worked at Wendy's during the 1980's (high school) and it wasn't bad. Minimum wage and all, but any problems you encountered started and ended on the same day, so stress wasn't really an issue.

What seems different these days is that most of the workers aren't high school kids. That was the case in the 80's. Something about the job market where people are trying to use entry level fast food jobs to support an adult life.
You are not harmed by someone discovering a vulnerability and telling you about it. Obviously that benefits you rather than harming you.

You are harmed by them discovering a vulnerability and telling the world about it.

And if they discover a vulnerability and tell both you and the rest of the world, the harm may easily outweigh the benefit.

Suppose I go wandering around the city where you live, checking for unlocked house doors. I find that you've left your front door unlocked and gone on holiday. I then wander the streets shouting "Thomas's house is unlocked and no one's at home!". I also phone you up to let you know your house is unlocked.

It was your fault, not mine, that the house was unlocked and no one at home to deter burglars. In principle, anyone else could have come along and burgled your house, if they'd found it before I did. None the less, I think that in this scenario I have done you wrong.
How does the FPGA “non-code” get around the same problems?
Mindset is more like a digital smart drug not a mental virus hahaha
This is not exactly how it works. Managers at Amazon can request headcount all they want, but the request bubbles up and needs to be approved. Sometimes, there are top-level hiring freezes as well. The planning and hiring process is more complicated than that though.
At first thought I'd say "no" because it's often written directly in the contract. IANAL so I can't tell you if the FTE contracts as they're written now are enforcable/invalid/afoul of labor laws, but that would probably vary by state and by country anway.

IMO it's just that us (tech workers/software engineers/whatever) are so dumb that when companies started putting these kinds of clauses, we didn't act for raises or unionize, we just took it as part of the job, and that became the status quo.

Do the 70K-200K salaries (which is the vast majority of where I see most software developers) that software developers make have round-the-clock (on certain days) maintenance priced in? I don't think so. I think companies are just running away with that additional value because there's no way for a single worker to effectively push back. If you decide to not work outside of working hours (which is absolutely reasonable), all the other lemmings on your team/in your company would probably resent you for increasing their workload (rather than realizing maybe it shouldn't be theirs at all, or that they should be getting paid more to do it), and tbh you probalby wouldn't have gotten hired in the first place.
I lol'ed at this in the "whitepaper" for a potential impact of a claimed vulnerability:

Physical damage to hardware (SPI flash wear-out, etc.)

Reminds me of little kids trying to fill out their 200-word essays.
What's angry about /r/blackpeopletwitter? I don't think I've ever even seen a negative post there. It's mostly just funny.
Certainly. But I wouldn’t pay 5% of my net worth for a 0.0000000001% chance of recovery. As it is now, the chance of recovery is approaching 1 ininfinity.

You’re just as likely to be “recovered” from a photograph. Or from your Facebook profile. Or by tracing neutrinos that passed through you during your lifetime. Or a rock with your name written on it with a sharpie.

All of these things have the same evidenced probability of assisting with your recovery.
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Every single browser had to disable that feature because of those flaws.
Agreed, this seems to turn a simple database lookup into a ml classification problem.. presumably this only happens for people who don’t provide a phone number or name?
Racists are saying they're being silenced just because they are conservative.

That's incorrect. They're being silenced because they're racist.

Conservatives should be annoyed about the coopting of the word "conservative" by racists. As you say, many conservatives are not racist (nor sexist; nor homophobic; etc.)
this isn’t an explanation. this is a very poor woman’s hypothesis. If you were to provide verifiable relationships between chemical imbalances and whatever relevant physical abnormalities in a brain and a person’s mental state, you’d be up for a nobel prize.

to achieve this relationship, you’d first need to develop a quantifiable way to represent a person’s mental state. for which, you’d be up for another nobel prize.
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I would be curious what issues you have with C#/.net
That's what "Roko's basilisk" mentioned upthread is. An AI cyberpunk version of evangelical Christianity.
Ahh, so there are more serious music afficiciandos abandoning iTunes also.
There needs to be a way for false positive victims of AI or otherwise automated decision-making to appeal/challenge the decision and have an actual human review. Otherwise the future will be full of dystopian “Sorry, you cannot (or must) do XYZ because the computer said so!”

Unfortunately this is likely to require legislation, so we won’t see the problem addressed (at least in the USA) until it has become nearly irreversibly oppressive.
What about client side state? Form validations? Any sort of user input before it's being sent to the server. You also may need ways to handle persistence or offline use.

There are some new features in Apollo for handling client side state but I'm sticking to Redux for now (for client side state, I am using Apollo for some data fetching).
> Wouldn't a company have to post every single position because of labor laws, etc

No, labor laws in most of the US do not require posting any positions, much less every individual position. (Civil service may require posting civil service positions individually, or at least explicitly identifying the individual positions being hired under a combined posting, and labor agreements may specify requirements for how and where union-represented positions are posted.

> They can't just have one generic position to cover many

Yes, they can.

> That would open the doors for bad hiring practices and just picking anyone you want (without proper due diligence) rather then the best candidate possible.

Bad hiring practices are not generally illegal; those that are (racial discrimination, for instance) are prohibited directly rather than by prohibiting things that might open the door for them.
The words about how to design icons are very good. But the execution of how to show them wasn't nearly as good. I think it had an overall consistency, but unfortunately it worked against the intent of the 1->2 reveal because it was hard to get a stable view of the icon images before/after.

Hows that?
Apparently all these can only be exploited if you already have administrator privileges. Raymond Chen calls that "being on the other side of the airtight hatchway" and has written about it numerous times.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=...
Whether a condition is labeled a disease is less important than whether it affects your ability to function and be happy, so definitely should be evaluated on a case by case basis.
Please do, that would be an enlightening read!
The difference between T540 vs T540p doesn't really change anything. What did matter to 'chx' is that you said it had a Bay Trail processor, and strongly implied that the problems you had with running Linux on the machine was due to your machine having this Bay Trail processor. To those who are intimately familiar with these ThinkPad's (not me) this is an egregious error.

I'd guess that if you came up with a link[1] showing that the T540p was indeed sold with a Bay Trail processor, 'chx' would apologize profusely, publicly eat his hat, and probably come over to mow your lawn. Alternatively, if for some reason you misspoke as to which processor generation it had, you might consider making the world a slightly better place by correcting your error and apologizing for the apparently trivial bit of misinformation.

[1] Like this one, but with Bay Trail than Haswell: https://www.cnet.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-t540p-15-6-cor...
Not to detract from your overall point, but electrical tape isn't transparent to IR. Quite the opposite, in fact.

It doesn't matter though, because the scanners don't use IR. They use a red laser which is in the visible spectrum. Any tape that visibly blocks the barcode will work.
It's never been "entirely" dependent of one person, although the majority control seems to be the Governor. Either through his direct 5 seat appointments or indirectly through the 7 other non-NYC seats.

I don't believe it was ever under Mayoral control. The current governance structure came under then Gvernor Nelson Rockefeller.

But anyway Nassau, Suffolk, Westcheste, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, and Putnam counties each get to appoint a board member. That's nearly a third of the 17 total seats. Beside Wescheter and Nassau counties none of those counties even border any one of the 5 boroughs.

That's 5 votes by people who most assuredly do not ride the subway to work and maybe not at all. As such it's hard to believe they would ever have NYC residents best interests at heart.
I think the "dreaded" category is quite complex and hard to interpret. People can dread a language for a bunch different reasons that aren't necessarily related to the attributes of the language, or even how much it is intrinsically liked. One is a class of language where people run into it incidentally without having any deep experience, but are forced to interact with it, and find it very unpleasant. Groovy, for example, is as popular as Scala or Kotlin, but also one of the most dreaded languages, I think because there's a large number of people whose only encounter with it ever is when there's something wrong with their Gradle script that they can't figure out. Coffeescript could be a similar kind of case.
My experience with .NET was quite frankly awful (and very dated so it might've gotten better). C# on the other hand I always found to be a joy to use, and always equated it to "better Java". Though most of my college courses used C# so I might just be partial to it.
Not whether it is a terrible thing to say. But whether saying it should be banned.

Here’s a super simple example.

Jerk: “I think we should shoot immigrants”
Non-jerk: “that’s a bad idea because immigrants have souls”
Former-jerk: “good point. I changed my mind and no longer think shooting immigrants is a good idea. In fact, I will now dedicate my life to helping the needy and everyone who reads this thread should as well.”

It would be bad to ban a thread such as the one above.
Plaintext HTTP being fine for delivering public documents might have been true 10 or 20 years ago. Sadly, attacks on and uninvited mutation/corruption of plaintext content has become that super-common (at least in some parts of the world) that you can be almost certain that one or more of your users will be affected by it if you're not taking precautions.

It sucks badly. I'd prefer a less hostile network myself. Even back then there were bad actors but at least you could somewhat count on well-meaning network operators and ISPs. Nowadays it's ISPs themselves that forge DNS replies and willfully corrupt your plaintext traffic to inject garbage ads and tracking crap into it. And whole nation states that do the same but for censoring instead of ad delivery.
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Do they have good machine learning like Discover Weekly on Spotify yet? I tried Apple Music and discovered I can't live without those features on Spotify. I hurriedly scurried back.
Please spend the time to read the link before spreading FUD.

“In order to use Ticket Tag, you simply place your finger on a reader. The system, which utilizes the technology of biometrics, takes an image of your finger, converts the image into a unique numerical value and immediately discards the image. The numerical value is recalled when you use Ticket Tag with the same ticket to re-enter or visit another Park. Ticket Tag does not store fingerprints.”
I wish that was still the case.
I’m not a designer but I’ve thought a lot about this just cuz I find it interesting from a data organization POV and I like music. I think Apple deserves some credit in terms of this. Music.app is no iTunes but ask Siri who plays the drums and her answer is great. It’s bad at the difference between Studio Album and album of 1 song/remixes etc. if you have an idea how you’d like it laid out I would be interested to see.
Users flagged it, presumably because they don't think it fits the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The screen from the Lenovo Twist is a drop-in IPS upgrade and entirely shielded by a protective touchscreen that's removable. I have a slide deck that explains the procedure in detail: https://anddevw.com/gdgsf-chromepad-chromium-for-thinkpad/
Track record of research/publications in the field?

https://www.trailofbits.com/research-and-development/publish...

Ian Cutress of Anandtech appears to be quasi-vouching for Dan Guido. Ian is also interviewing CTS Labs tomorrow morning, and looking for questions.

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/973678700687450113

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/973697525071994880
I still don't know, I'm sorry.
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> second me isn't actually me

Then who is it?

It remembers being you.
Ask HN: Reconversion as a veterinary
I'm thinking of quitting my job as a veterinary to get in tech (design/development to start). Anyone here has been through this (or similar)? Any advice? I'm a complete beginner.
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He is solving problems. What an inane comment. Almost every hugely innovative technology started as a "toy for rich people."
Macro is a Chrome extension that makes users more productive on the web through keyboard shortcuts.

Macro offers powerful website-specific shortcuts and instant keyboard shortcut discovery across many websites. Think Vimium and Reddit Enhancement Suite in one. Learning one website's shortcuts means you won’t have to learn it again for a new website.

Let me know your thoughts or comments!
This is pretty light on details. How is the "misery index" calculated?
We aren't in the same universe as 80% of the Sun's energy that hits Earth being used.

The numbers I'm seeing are 174 petawatts hits Earth and the world uses 18 terawatts of energy.
I would reject that PR.

Something like that change should have a message explaining why that change is proposed.

Unfortunate that the blogpost itself can't be forked :p
You're missing the point. The point is to get money and brains for imaging and drug research, not really to clone people.
can try r/meditation for suggestions as well

it can be very frustrating at first. one of the first things to "learn" is that its totally normal and ok to be frustrated, to feel like you can't do it, that it is hard. getting to the point where you are ok with it being hard, even if you still cant really pay attention to the object of meditation for any length of time, is progress. when you start getting frustrated, try to remind yourself that its ok to be frustrated, and that all you are trying to do is pay attention to your breath (or whatever), it is as simple (and hard!) as that

if it still isnt working, try a different kind of meditation, like mindful yoga or a walking meditation

i did headspace at first but didnt want to pay for it, and found a really good free mindfulness based stress reduction program. it does not have the same soothing voice and nice graphics of headspace, but the content is better and it is more of an established (and somewhat clinically validated) program: https://palousemindfulness.com/
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Not routinely; occasionally, when an article clearly fits the site guidelines and the site mandate as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That's not clear with this story. Indeed one can make a somewhat stronger argument that it doesn't: would they cover it on TV news? (yes) — is it evidence of a new phenomenon? (no, unfortunately) — is it likely to turn into a flamewar? (highly). We'd need stronger answers to those questions in order to turn off the flags.

What does seem clear is that most of the community doesn't consider this a good story for HN. If they did, the upvotes would have outweighed the flags, and the opposite was the case. I know a smaller set of users feels passionately the other way, but that's not enough for us to override community opinion. In fact, that would be a strategy for turning HN into a mostly-political site.
Sure. If you make Cloudflare your hosting provider, yes, then you're down one exposure point.

However, the risk I was talking about was not things like CVEs that random people are scanning for, but the spectre of state actors (or similar) compromising an entire provider. That applies to both AWS and Cloudflare, so if you use both, your risk is higher. (Or perhaps more importantly, the risk for your users is higher.)
For a better introduction on how Apollo v2 (the graphql client) could replace redux, read this: https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/the-future-of-state-manageme...

I’ve personally tried it (with special attention on its capability to manage local state) and it did work out pretty well, with a lot of redux boilerplate code eliminated and a more effecient workflow, better yet, now you just need to learn one graphql syntax to rule them all.
Umm, duh? This is a press release.
I have a racially ambiguous look and jarringly foreign name, and haven't experienced much other than innocent "what [race] are you" and "what country are you from" questions. The biggest issues I had when moving to the country were cultural.

I grew up in Texas, then Mississippi, for reference.
This must be a new record for the New York Times. The first sentence in that article highlights a fundamental misunderstanding that should put anyone's guard up:

> For nearly three decades, since a Soviet whistle-blower told the world of its existence, the nerve agent Novichok has scared American weapons experts.

Cursory research would reveal that Novichok is a family of nerve agents, connected by the fact that they were likely to be unknown to NATO.

More generally, it seems a strange claim for the UK government to make that the nerve agent was definitely a Novichok. This admits a level of knowledge of the substances that leads to serious questions, that nobody is asking, about whether this knowledge comes from having synthesised it. In order to study the effects and the time it takes for effectiveness, both details which the UK appears to have, synthesis would be very useful.

If this is the case then Russia is not the only party capable of synthesis and this partly explains what the mysterious Porton Down facility has been working on since the Chemical Weapons Convention came into force in 97.
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While I agree that there are better and worse places in the bay area, they mostly self-partition based on the pain of transportation to tech centers. Sure, you can always choose a more painful commute to escape tech, but that's implicit. You can commute from Fresno or Marin, too.

East bay neighborhoods that have "easy" access to SF/Facebook/Google are just as clogged with tech people as anywhere else, modulo the pain of a daily BART commute.

(Also, arguing about exact percentages isn't relevant. It doesn't matter if it's 12% or 30%, if the group overlaps substantially in lifestyle and interests. If I have to change my entire lifestyle to avoid being surrounded by tech bros, I'd rather just move somewhere where I can go out and not be surrounded.)