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Your end criticism of Zuckerberg has a very big problem: he's going to give away his fortune, the ~$69 billion, like Gates and Buffett before him.

Here's what would have to really scare you, if I'm gauging your views correctly: Zuckerberg actually believes in what he's doing and based on his behavior the last 14 years he isn't very interested in the money.

He has never acted like a Saudi prince or gilded age tycoon. He never hoarded Facebook equity, he took vast perpetual dilution (despite entirely controlling the Facebook corporation), and produced thousands of millionaires. He spread the wealth around, that's why he only owns ~14% of a company that went public less than six years ago. Larry Ellison by contrast, still owns 27% of Oracle after 40 years.

How about all of those millionaires that got rich on Facebook stock? All those teacher pensions that got massive returns on it? The thousands of Facebook employees that have yielded 1%er salaries and wealth. The tens of thousands of average investors that rode the Facebook giant and made most of the money on it.

Zuckerberg made a lot of money. Everybody else combined made more by a factor of ~8x or more. What's their guilt in having profited on all of this?

Hitting someone with the wealth seeker tag, is the easy way out. The easiest, cheapest negative label there is: the profit motive. Unfortunately for your premise, criticizing him about money, makes very little sense.
> Anecdotally I can say that there are certainly far fewer insects here than there were in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up, and also that there seem to be far fewer birds.

Could some of that be due to you paying more attention to insects and birds when you were growing up? Kids tend to spend more time outdoors than adults, especially more unstructured time, and so might be expected to have more time to notice things like insects and birds, and more time to indulge curiosity about them.
>nor am I interested in attacking them.

Why not?
Serious question... do you understand the issues with “the bubble”?

Because you are proudly explaining you’ve made one.
If you don't think that's twitch stream material, you haven't seen nothin yet.
In this case, people have, both publicly and privately, warned Facebook about this issue for years. At some point, after having been warned about the situation, inaction is in fact a conscious decision.
Idiosyncratic means unique. There are more countries with litter than without.
I actually had this discussion with someone who is very pro-gun earlier. To me the reasonable position is it's absurd when people can buy weapons made to kill (the AR-15, for example) for funzies. The Parkland shooter was 19, clearly off his rocker, and had multiple semi auto rifles. If you listen to the shooting, you're talking weapons that can fire killing/maiming shots every second. These are essentially the same assault weapons (trivially modified) that were designed by the Germans in WW2 to assault positions. They aren't toys. The only reason they aren't full on assault rifles is because of law, but that didn't stop the NRA from crying like the Constitution was getting pissed on.

That you can't ask "why does someone need to own 3 semi auto rifles?" without the NRA freaking out or unwilling to even discuss it over some absurd slippery slope like "if the government tries to attack its own people and they are dying in the streets, we need our weapons" is absurd. That doesn't give me any comfort. How about you not let your country turn into a hellhole and then you don't need that. But right now people are dying, why do people need those guns again?

Anyway, while I'm inclined to agree with what you are saying, you also gotta be realistic in that nobody is shooting up schools with 100 year old weapons and people discussing that isn't the same thing. That's an extreme position. Practice what you preach.

I can't tell who I pissed off, but based on you getting downvoted as well, I'm guessing it's the pro gun people. You're right, you can't discuss this reasonably... It's behavior like that which makes it hard to give the pro gun people the benefit of the doubt. People are more important than guns, that should be obvious.

My family is a victim of gun violence. You never get the victims back.
"They had no vision of the M-16, AK-47, etc. "

They also had no vision of the Internet.

So, obviously, the First Amendment only applies to quill pens and manually-operated printing presses. Right?

"The statement of the 2nd Amendment begins with, "A well regulated militia...""

If the First Amendment had read "A well-educated legislature being essential to the governance of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed" you would argue, what? That only well-educated people should have books? That only the legislature should have books?

No, you wouldn't. Neither would anyone else, because that would be a contrived and nonsensical interpretation of the language.
Tesla does automatic lane-change and automatic braking.
Americans hate small streets. It's a dumb opinion, but it's widely held.
Fewer than 3% of his announced and ongoing sales plan over the past 3 months. The timeline for that is 18 months

It's a large amount relative to other ongoing insider sales, across all US stockss, but not a deviation from ongoing activities.

Though by September, concerns over privacy and propaganda were well established.
There's also Secret Conversations[1] which can be used in the Messenger app, that implements the Signal Protocol.

Ideally people should move off Facebook, but I don't think most of people's friends (including mine) care about this event that much.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/1084673321594605
>> As impressive as your achievement is, I'm equally impressed that Google finally started addressing their perceived ageism problem.

>>> Yeah one anecdote, ageism must be solved! Good job Google, we did it!

It's posters like you that turn people off HN.
This is about the macro-effects of Japanese housing customs, not the optimization aspect you asked about, but it's an interesting and relevant article.

https://www.nri.com/global/opinion/papers/2008/pdf/np2008137... [PDF]
I don't really know how it works in the US or in this state, but in my country, you simply can't drive when it's as dark as the video appears. Either you're not in a city and you can turn your mainbeam headlights on (the blinding ones), or you're in a city and the road is much more lit and the speed limit is 50kph.

With those, the driver would've seen her from a mile away.
Sorry but even the lightning network leads to more centralization. You still have to open and close each end and not every individual can do that because that’s already 2 on chain transactions.
Then perhaps dial back the anti-Apple rhetoric, or at least post something more substantial and thoughtful when you do. You’ve seen enough responses from people to anticipate objections. It’s tedious and boring to see the same arguments again and again.

Mail is a mail client: if you use an Apple domain, you’ll use their servers. If not, then not. And you don’t need to use the built-in mail client. If you use Apple Maps, yeah, you’re using their service. You can use Google Maps or Waze or other alternatives if you choose. GPS is a radio: it doesn’t involve any service provider other than the satellites it receives information from, same as any other GPS radio.
Incorrect. You can use apps which have other synchronization mechanisms, including competitors to iCloud. With "document provider" apps, you can use SSH as a transport mechanism for files.
And to deliver greater engagement, Facebook must collect and sell more personal data
http://www.launchday.io works fine for me right now.
What do you mean by "not sure how true is that"? From the article:
"Traditionally, Japanese homes were demolished and rebuilt every 20 to 30 years, to implement improved earthquake-safety technology, to provide jobs for government-favored construction companies or simply because Japanese people demanded nice new houses. As a result, there are relatively few Japanese homeowners trying to prop up the value of their houses by lobbying the government to restrict supply."

Did you read the article?
Your link says that 2.5 is to allow for worst case situation and below average drivers.

If all but the slowest 10% can react in 2.5 seconds than I would think many would do a fair bit better.

Edit: Apparently the average person is closer to 1.1 seconds.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.372...
Men reading rape comics while keeping to themselves is still less of a nuisance than all the musicians, panhandlers, and people talking to themselves on the NYC subway.

Those who litter when there's a trash can nearby are not demonstrating individualism. They are demonstrating a profound LACK OF CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.

These same people vote too, you know. The nuts have taken over the nuthouse.
Here's what the video helps understand. The pedestrian wasn't hiding behind, say, a bush and leaped out. It seems like the pedestrian was unoccluded for the whole time they were on the street.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16641637
Indeed, it's hard to find pedals without them. Even ones that cost $10 a pair have reflectors. Unfortunately, pedal reflectors are ineffective when the bicycle's path of travel is perpendicular to the light source. The video doesn't reveal evidence of other reflectors, such as the common spoke-mounted ones whose purpose it is to highlight a bicycle traveling crosswise. For a moment, the bicycle is clearly illuminated by the headlights; I don't see any spots of light on the wheels or elsewhere.
Yep. I live half a mile away and just drove the same path tonight around 10pm, it's nothing like the video. There are spots that are darker than others, but they don't look nearly as dark. Nowhere on the street looks pitch black, there's ambient light everywhere.

For anyone who's interested, try taking your phone with the camera app open into a dark room and comparing what you see to what's on the screen. Which shows more detail?
If you want to block all connections to Apple, configure an always-on VPN to intercept all network traffic, then use a firewall to stop all Apple connections.

If you want to minimize connections to Apple, don't use Apple apps or services. Wire replaces iMessage. 2doapp replaces Notes.
While the military arms at the time were muskets and bayonets, that was not the only technology available. Many colonial troops had rifles of their own that they used. These rifles were superior to the British musket in many regards and helped the colonial troops win.

Surely the founding fathers were aware of this and knew that the second amendment would allow citizens to have weapons that were more deadly than the standard military firearm at the time. In fact, this trend even continued well into the Vietnam war. It was really only in the past 50 or so years that the military has eclipsed the citizens in terms of standard issue firepower.

So no, the founding fathers were not aware of the M-16 and AK-47[0], but they also had more than muskets and bayonets, and were perfectly content to have a citizenry that outgunned the military.

[0] - I should note that the M-16 and AK-47 are essentially illegal in the US at this point, along with any weapons of similar firepower, so that point seems moot anyway. The only people able to acquire them are incredibly rich collectors.
People shouldn't be "on the roads" (outside of intersections) anymore than cars should be "on the sidewalks".
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PostgreSQL is hands down the way to go when you need a relational DB (which is 99% of the time).

Some features to read up on:

* COALESCE, CASE
* Aggregate functions + GROUP BY + HAVING
* Subqueries
* The LEFT/RIGHT/INNER JOINs, and things you can achieve with JOIN conditions
* Different index types and how to use them
* Different constraint types and how they will save your ass
* Using temporary tables
* Views + Materialized Views
* CTEs, including recursive
* Full text search
* Trigger functions
* Window function
* DISTINCT ON vs DISTINCT & GROUP BY (a PG extension - why it's useful)
* Partial/functional indexes
* Schemas - especially useful for multi-tenancy
* COPY to load in datasets fast
* Transaction isolation levels
* Manual locking
* EXPLAIN + EXPLAIN ANALYZE

The above is just scratching the surface, but it's what I've found most useful doing web dev. The PG manual covers all these things well, along with supplemental stuff that can be googled. If you read the PG manual cover to cover, your mind you be blown by what the DB can accomplish.

For learning about performance and what's going on under the hood, check out "PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance".

Most of the really complex queries I've written consist of writing several CTEs/sub-queries/views/temp tables which create a number of intermediate tables containing transformed data, which in turn are available to the final top level query. There's a lot of overlap with functional programming here: build small queries, and use them as reusable building blocks.

If you find yourself needing to dynamically generate complicated queries, instead of trying to construct them w/ string concatenation in your app, try building temporary views, and then referencing those views in later queries, as opposed to doing it all in one go. I usually have one function/method per view in the app, and I can call the needed functions to create the foundation for a later query.
I'd like to have an interior view of what driver was actually looking at. It couldn't have been a FLIR monitor, for sure.. it seems more likely to be a phone held in the right hand? Bit hard to tell with the quality of the footage, but driver looked rather tired to boot.

If so (a hand held phone), in Australia that driver would be going to jail for culpable driving causing loss of life.
ahem https://desertbus.org/
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Obviously passive users are important for FB's bottom line, but I think what GP is saying is that if all the active users leave (even if media companies/pages don't, just the friends who post), it will cause an exodus of passive users.
How did you develop the skills to spot these issues yourself? Just time living and investing in various places?
Bike-sharing boom in Japan a prelude to online payment war?
Only if that bookstore is the world's only reasonable choice to buy books.
It’s a loan by a firm that invests in distressed assets contingent on meeting performance goals with the kicker to be able to buy 4% or equity. Sounds like a killer deal for the investors. They get something be it patents, interest payments. I think they’re all but guaranteed to make out like bandits.
The Second Amendment did not limit the type of arms it applied to, and the reason that it's preamble referred to the dependency of the security of a free state on a well-regulated militia was because it was in the context of the best universal opinion at the time that large standing professional armed forces for either internal security or international conflict were a mechanism of tyranny, and that having a free country absolutely required a dependency on avoiding those and instead relying on mobilizing the armed populace (with all the weapons of war) to deal with internal and external threats.

Leaving aside gun laws, we've long since completely abandoned the premise of the second amendment on a far more fundamental level with our professional militaries and paramilitary police forces.
I can think of no reasonable justification for that comment.
>Doesn't that imply that there is a shortage?

A shortage of housing? A shortage of ways to launder money? A shortage of safe assets that beat inflation? A shortage of network connected land?

Emulate Tokyo is good advice, but not easy. There's a reason Tokyo is Tokyo and everywhere else looks nothing like Tokyo.
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Not to mention most of my non-tech friends have no idea something even just happened with Facebook.
Oil prices permanently sagging?

WTI futures are at $65 and heading north. Most oil production in the US is now solidly profitable at those levels. Some of that production is extremely profitable there, which is why US oil production has been soaring. The dollar, which heavily dictates the price of oil, is heading south with the vast endless sea of budget deficits inbound over the next ten years.

Higher commodities prices due to a debased dollar, is an easy bet for the next decade. The trade wars will likely make the dollar damage worse.
also just FB Messenger. I use Messenger almost exclusively to talk to friends in my area. We have other IM options in theory, but end up reaching for Messenger because of how well it works.
> Doesn't that imply that there is a shortage?

Initially it probably did, but once the ball get's rolling it just implies that there are people willing to buy. That can be other investors in a bubble.
Our "corrupt government" would crush us with jets, tanks, nukes, laser weapons, missiles, helicopters, drones, ships, chemical weapons, smallpox, and probably many more things regardless of whether we had AR-15s or not.
Maybe not. Perfectly within their wheelhouse to provide the one video or version of video that makes them look best.
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If you sent me a file and then insisted I delete it, how exactly would you expect me to prove that I had?
Is this purely a symbolic move?

Do you think other people will follow or is this a statement of position?
"Seems like", that is, because the pedestrian is not actually visible! This is the irrationality part. You are literally saying that she must have been visible because you can't see her on camera.

I give up.
> This is not a pedestrian friendly crosswalk,

Indeed.

So, IYTM "why was there no stoplight to provide a safe crossing?"
Sure, if all will. But most won't, and that won't change things. The 'enough' in GP's comment should pretty much be 80%+, which we all know won't happen.

It's still a great communication tool without the users who post though.
HDR can help with that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gtTdiqDqHc8
> Seriously, what else can you expect.

I see waymo drivers all the time actively paying attention to the road.
Maybe I misread the parent. It sounded like parent was very "dismayed" at youtube's effort to ban videos about exactly the kind of horrifying weapons you mention, just because the ban also happens to impact his hobby with 100yo rifles. To me, banning some videos isn't extreme, even if it does have some overreach in some cases. It's just an oversight that could be fixed.

Can't we all agree to get the extreme videos off youtube, before we worry about some corner cases with niche communities? Because if some random guy's fascination with 100yo rifles means kids in my son's classmates are more likely to shoot the place up, then screw that.

I was trying to specifically call out the parent's reaction. Not "youtube is part of the problem and yes we should do something about and yes banning most of this stuff is reasonable but but maybe youtube could carve out some careful exemptions for my harmless hobby". It seemed dismayed at even the concept of any limitations whatsoever.
There is an interesting section that goes into the scholarly interpretation of the 2nd amendment in the Wikipedia article on it, and it's only been in the 20th century and after that we have gotten into what militia, well regulated and whether or not the people have the right or militias.

The main point the founding fathers had for the militias was to defend the country from foreign invaders and from a tyrannical government. I know people think we don't need to worry about tyrannical governments these days, but what if what happened in Libya, Syria and Egypt started happening here? How would we fix that kind of a situation?
And here I am like: "If the taste makers leave, I will leave."

jk I've never Facebooked.
Wrong question. This is always going to be possible on preprogrammed cars. Even if they pretend that feature is "locked out".
Google has been experimenting with and deploying blockchain technology since before 2013. Certificate Transparency[0], designed at Google, stores certificates in a distributed merkle tree. Any certificate that Chrome accepts as valid is stored in the certificate transparency merkle tree.

[0]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962
Excellent points and a shame you’re being downvotes.
I don't think he is arguing for more or less outrage, he just wants it directed better. I'd argue that picking out one offender and focusing on them is in some ways worse then focusing on the entire issue.

Facebook being slapped with a massive fine/being broken up might not do a lot to stop the general trading and exchange of users data online, but its enough to get the politicians to say "job done" and move onto the next issue. We need to focus on fixing the issues that allowed the FB/CA scandal to occur, instead of just focusing on the symptom.
One of the first things you see on that page (on mobile), even above the headline of the article, is a Facebook share button.

Facebook has its claws in deep. De-Facebooking the Web isn't going to be a simple task.

Bit of hypocrisy to say 'we're not advertising on Facebook anymore' while leaving those buttons in place. Would be ironic if people shared this article on Facebook.
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Pedestrians do not always have the right of way.

However, drivers must avoid collisions with pedestrians, even when the vehicle has right of way.

Here's the relevant vehicle code in Arizona:
https://www.azleg.gov/ars/28/00793.htm
https://www.azleg.gov/ars/28/00794.htm
I actually have been ironically sharing many of these posts on Facebook, along with the #deletefacebook tag.
At least in the UK you can’t sign away your health and safety rights. Even if the job is dangerous the employer still has a duty of care.

Having said this there are some job roles that are excluded from specific parts of the legislation due to their unique nature (e.g. the Army)
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They didn’t need everything to be good business if they could build an ecosystem, as others have demonstrated. Google has done this well.
Delayed Gratification does this - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/delayed-gratificat...
Is there a way to put a "Follow us on Facebook" button without a FB tracker script?
Even worse, she was crossing at a crosswalk, but the city/state DOT "cancelled" the crosswalk. but left a paved walkway leading up to the "not"-crosswlak
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> Please weigh your own personal hobby against our society's clear dysfunction when it comes to gun violence. Does the pleasure you get from learning about "reloading ammo for 100+ year old rifles" does not outweigh my desire for my son to not be shot at school?

You're presenting a false dichotomy. I have seen no proven link between YouTube videos showing proper gun handling and gun violence. I say this as someone who hates guns, but most of the points you raise are not logically sound.
I have started posting 1 pic every day on facebook (hadn't posted anything for a year) as soon as I saw the #delete fb propaganda going on.
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You can just put a regular link to your fb page.
Now would be a good time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign
LA is more densely populated than people give it credit for. https://la.curbed.com/2012/3/26/10385086/los-angeles-is-the-...
Mozilla is funded by Google, who desperately wants to dethrone fb. So it's not surprising.
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