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I don't get the thought that additional unauthorised propaganda somehow changes the outcome of a voting in a negative way.

In other words who says the authorised propaganda is better or more true. The are doing the exact same and the deeper the pockets the deeper their social media influence is.

Why is it Suddenly ok that propaganda has to be authorised to be 'valid'

It's all just additional information. Isn't it the peoples job to build their own image? Do we really want to regulate what perception people get of 'things'?

I hope someone can follow what I am trying to say...
It's better than nothing (I've been using it for a while), but it has trouble handling confirmation dialogs unless you keep the browser window in the foreground. Also it seems to miss quite a lot of posts.

It would really be so much better if Facebook was forced to implement batch delete in their API and/or in their UI.
> In Windows, if a NIC goes down, all the TCP connections that use the NIC get closed immediately.

Yes, that seems more likely.

I think Windows can be a decent platform for light industrial applications - which this system in particular was. The problem is all of the partners and suppliers were either stuck in the past, or had weird ideas.

The parent system was *nix based, but there was a flaw in a communications protocol that lead to the channel bouncing between two boxes, and eventually bringing down the parent system.

My lesson from that was that you can have flaws on any system, no matter how solid the OS.
Openshift from redhat is built on kubernetes. Openshift offers a free tier to try out their cloud services. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to try it out.

I'm not affiliated with redhat in any way but I have enjoyed using the openshift platform.

Here's the link for anyone interested:
https://www.openshift.com/pricing/index.html
That is a terrible idea. Period.

If its one thing that I've consistently found among my American friends, its a shocking lack of any kind of long-term financial saving/thinking (note that I say most, not all. And people in the tech industry are generally better about this but not always). Any time they come across some sort of financial windfall, its all spent in vacations, car or a new house. The house at least is a financial investment so I will give you that.
Does the word "long term" have no meaning, then?

I agree it would be better to say "within the few 2 decades" or slap a timeframe on it. But this characterization is silly.
It is different, because they are testing untested algorithms that have unknown risks and failure modes.
There's a lot of evidence that the current regulation of medicine and medical devices is net negative, i.e. it effectively causes more deaths than were regulation lessened.
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Or mirroring, shiney tanks....
Seems like there are even worse limitations when pooling together everyone's assets and putting a lien on future taxpayer's funds.

The best retirement plan is to raise a family and have successful children that you can depend on (and vice versa).
One generation promised itself the next generation will pay them massive, undeserved pensions

Defined-benefit pensions are a form of deferred compensation. State employees in the past accepted lower salaries in exchange for this future benefit. Taking away that pension now would be theft from these people.
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Does HN count as social media?

Aren't fora the original social media platforms?
Interestingly, it is always assumed that problems with capitalism are systemic, but communism... they just didn't try quite right.
I was just in the Chicago area, drove down through Wisconsin. When I left, I had to run a gauntlet of state troopers. What do I mean by that? I mean, starting about 10 miles from the Wisconsin border, every single turnaround in the interstate had a state trooper SUV sitting in it shooting radar down the highway. There were 5-6 units plus a car on the south side. This was yesterday, 3/28 in the afternoon around 4pm.

So my question to Illinois is, if you're so deep in the hole, why do you have so many cops on the payroll in the first place? Each one of those guys is another pension you have to eventually pay (but can't). And while I'm all for public safety, especially on the highways, I know blatant revenue enhancement when I see it and it pisses me the hell off!
I wasn't expecting to be blown away by what they could do with the SID chip last time let alone now. Could you use the C64 as a hi-fi sampler with an analog filter or it's not possible anymore to use the LPF?
That's kind of a silly comment when we have proof that Facebook's poor design lead to abuse.
Illinois is unique, though.

The thing is: part of a person's paycheck goes into a fund that is supposed to support their pension. So they're not really passing the buck to the next generation, the money they contribute is supposed to be there for them when they retire.

The PROBLEM is that corrupt politicians in the 90s used the pension money and basically lost all of it. So we're in a situation where the money that should have been sitting around for people with pensions to draw from is GONE, and all we can do is scoop and throw until a miracle happens.

edit: I shouldn't editorialize and say "corrupt politicians", please mentally replace that phrase with "The money was badly mishandled"
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>Somewhat pointlessly, they also store all the stickers you’ve ever sent on Facebook (I have no idea why they do this. It’s just a joke at this stage).

It's pretty obvious Facebook needs to store the stickers you sent if they store your chat history. They come in their own directory in the bundle so they can be shown in the chat HTML pages.
Thanks! Interesting project, may come handy in the future...

For reference: http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/legacyos
You bring some good information into this, which also gets more to the point I was trying to make, specific math aside - though I am comforted your math shows my flights are probably safer! Given that neither airplane journeys & miles nor automobile journeys & miles are created equally, per-mile statistics aren't particularly meaningful to an individual traveler.
Ask HN: Is there a council that handles spam domains and gets them deleted?
I was wondering if there is a council that acts on user-reported spam emails and contacts the domain owner and then the domain provider for further strict action, might even be the complete deletion of the domain. If not, why is no-one forming such an organisation?
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Today Facebook is more similar to GoldMan Sachs. Companies like that only die once in a decade.
I think the idea that we need to replace Facebook is wrong to begin with.

I want to believe that more and more people value privacy and social networks will more and more be like private chat rooms again. Slack/Discord/Wechat/Telegram and soon Hangout again are the best examples.
Red Hat's open source OpenShift PaaS[1] is amazing. It has all the missing pieces you need for a production Kubernetes cluster: documentation and playbooks on how to run a production cluster[2], a build system, a container registry with fine-grained permissions, application templates, a logging framework...

Red Hat is a major contributor to Kubernetes and continually upstreams OpenShift features (like RBAC - they implemented it in OpenShift first, then upstreamed it, and then rebased OpenShift on top of it, removing the custom implementation).

I'm currently looking at migrating a large enterprise setup to Kubernetes/OpenShift.

[1]: https://github.com/openshift/origin

[2]: https://docs.openshift.org/latest/welcome/index.html
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Hope they read this: they have a typo: provides -> provide.
Well all I can say is check my source, which covers all of this, with extensive references on efficiency, cost, and lots of other practical concerns. Some of the key research was done by NASA in the past decade.

The cost of a 2GW ground station is $700M, which is pretty decent for a peaking plant that doesn't require fuel.

The idea isn't so much that you have to minimize solar panel size, as that you can entirely eliminate the need for storage, which is a big deal once we try to get past fossil backup. To see the scale of that problem, read A Nation-Sized Battery, by Berkeley physics prof Tom Murphy. Even if he's too pessimistic by a factor of ten, storage looks like a daunting problem.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/08/nation-sized-battery/
Now that most people have been taught to use their real identity on social media how can you meaningfully separate these things? The lines are even more blurred if you're applying for some social/RH position. Even for a coder you might want to google a bit to look for contributions to open source projects or mailing list posts since that can be a very good way to see how the person actually works and communicates.

While I believe that the big data giants like FB and Google ought to be better regulated I also think that you have to make the users aware of their responsibility. Don't put anything publicly online that you wouldn't be comfortable seeing in the front page of a newspaper. And do the same thing when posting pictures and videos of your friends and family. If you don't value your own privacy Facebook won't do it for you.
"Ask Onychomys the secret to getting hot singles in your area to date you!"
And you get a big "VPN" status icon that's at the top of the screen the entire time it's running.
That's still around?
Volvo has publicly said that their objective is always years ahead from the testing bodies, so they have done (and designed for) the small overlap scenario for years.
How safe are the materials for 3D printing wrt contact with human skin these days? I recall earlier versions of resin being a bit dodgy back in the day.
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Government granted pensions work well in other places, like Sweden for example.

I'm sincerely wondering why they aren't working in the US?
The issue for me is that it was personalized propaganda and that there is no record of who was shown what message.
> After all, there is a reason why thousands and thousands of people go to the gym only to lose weight.

There are multiple reasons for that, but none of them are because it's the best way to lose weight. I used to think it was, and I've been going to the gym religiously for a couple of decades. I was always fit, but never lost the weight I wanted until recently when I discovered that eating less is the best way to lose weight. When I would go to the gym, I would compensate by eating more, which is why I never lost weight.

The high level bit, the primary action is exercise makes you stronger. Not exercising makes you weaker. Eating adds mass, not eating removes mass. It's so simple and symmetric, it just astounds me how long I believed that the primary way to get skinnier was to exercise.

I was afraid to eat less, and extremely resistant to counting calories (and I believe many many people are in the same boat). How many diets advertise being able to eat as much as you want of certain kinds of food and still lose weight? How many gym commericials advertise gyms for weight loss? Most gym ads sell gyms as a way to lose weight, most of society talks about gyms as a way to lose weight, it's no surprise that people think of the gym as a weight loss tool and as a way to avoid counting calories, or worse: being hungry.

The replacement technique in the article is exactly what I had to use to get over the fear of hunger. I had to figure out a way to mentally realize that my hunger meter was mis-calibrated, and that if I didn't feel a little bit hungry, then I was eating too much. I had to re-adjust to realize that not being hungry was a bad thing. This is opposite of feeling like I need willpower to overcome hunger.

> I cannot neglect the fact that after 3-4 months of gym I get in a perfect shape and lose 8 lbs minimum.

You're lucky; your eating is under control and you don't over-compensate when you work out. But many people do if they're not careful, which is why advising gym use for weight loss is usually ineffective (and can even damage some people's will and/or self image). Advising gym for getting stronger is great.
Interesting. Thanks. I never thought about perl.
Really? Why do you think it's not creepy?
Yep KKW, kinetic kill weapons, basicaly large cannon balls moving at close to light speed.

What about the devastation a couple of buckets of playpen sand would cause when accelerated to relativistic speeds, hypervelocity buckshot gun..
Viewing a house, assuming you only have one, as a financial investment is not a good idea. The focus should be on educating students on taking care of themselves.

I'm also not sold on subsidizing financial firms with the tax benefits of 401Ks and IRAs, but it's better than nothing. But it's obvious that giving politicians a big pot of money to throw around and a lien on future taxpayers is also terrible.
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I agree with you on the technical merit (or lack thereof) of illustrating the magnitude with colorful metaphors.

However, a counter point: I feel it is useful and helpful to our cause to have authors such as this creating those colorful metaphors. We have tried in vain to communicate to laypeople the importance of data safety, self-ownership of data, being mindful of one's privacy, and being suspicious of the data collected by third-parties. I believe laypeople remain disinterested because the way we raise these concerns is abstract.

In order to convince laypeople that control of one's data is important, those of us who are matter-of-fact on the matter will convey the facts and try to construct fairly mild-tempered plausible threat scenarios that are, frankly, unconvincing to the majority of people we are trying to convince.

For a good chunk of those we're trying to convince, vibrant and (to our minds, exaggerated) illustrations of the magnitude of the threat are what is necessary to tip the scale. The recent twitter thread that showed a map of Ireland with every point the user had been in the past several years was a poignant visual representation of our argument. It made the argument way better than repeatedly saying, "Google tracks your location, always!" When we've presented that abstract point previously, we've heard "I don't care, that's fine" as a response every time.

And then someone shows them this map and suddenly: "Whoa, that is creepy!" Yes!

I for one welcome a bit of colorful language, as long as we don't get totally carried away. I don't really dig the "Well, duh!" attitude if we convey that to the people we're trying to convince. We're trying to make laypeople value their own privacy and feel good doing so. Not judged for having been ignorant of or disinterested in our previous arguments. Be welcoming of this good favor in the fight for data privacy.
After Android was released. And after the IP assets had been laying around on the market more than two years.

Sun buying SavaJe was pretty clearly a response to Android, so it's pretty disingenuous to say that Android killed SavaJe.
In most cases. However, some changes, such as adding the column and needing to manipulate data (populate nulls, transforms, etc.) could still cause locking.

This really comes down to knowing the boundaries of what changes could cause timeouts and working around them as best you can. However, some edge cases could cause downtime.
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totally agree. lowering that "activation energy" is one of the main focuses of our UX design team, and making sure that the machine doesn't break at the smallest bump is a core part of our hardware engineering philosophy. thanks for the input, very validating for us :)
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Is targeted drone warfare still a tinfoil hat topic? I read I don’t know how many articles about Bush and Obama expanding a targeted drone program and the public seems to have just kinda shrugged.

Edit: dead comment below points out I might be missing a joke: tinfoil is for blocking the lasers. D’oh
Great work by Lin Clark, as usual!
Even if the money was there, all the projections when they created the pension benefits assumed unrealistic rates of return.
> Career growth is rarely based on job performance.

I hear what you’re saying about credit checks. But I think the sentence I quoted is a little too extreme. Performance usually plays a significant role. It’s just not the only factor.

Otherwise, (for example,) why is the careless, checked out teenager at a fast food joint not promoted to manager?
I think the important take-away here should be that Facebook has tremendous (nondemocratic) power to sway elections. Sometimes that power can be used for good, and sometimes that power can be used for bad.

But the fact that it's controlled by a small number of people (who've made it clear that they aren't afraid of using their power to sway political opinion) AND that its very business model means it's always powered by the richest & most strategic advertiser should be alarming to any citizen of any country.
Under GDPR, that would be a yes if the key is truly lost, and the personal data is not recoverable by anyone.

If it is recoverable, then it falls into the ominous term: Pseudonymous : https://www.wsgrdataadvisor.com/2015/09/personal-data-anonym...
Whether or not it's worse... ehh... a lot of room for personal judgment in there.

What it definitely does is take a lot of little problems (at least at government scale) and aggregate it into one whopping big problem bigger than all the little problems combined (because basically we're paying interest on the deferral of those small problems), thus trading a whole bunch of small problems that at least sometimes someone could have fixed or mitigated, into one huge problem that is too large for even the government to fix and for which the individuals involved have no optionality.

It would be nice if there was some way to figure out how to stop governments from "solving" problems that way, as for some of those problems we're already arguably at the end of the road, and we're certainly staring down the barrel of a lot more of them that are no longer so much "decades" in our future as "years" in our future.
I disagree that glue is expensive and complex. When you build a ply-wood tower in school to see who's holds up the most to compression, you don't douse your entire structure in glue. You get points off, because it adds so much to weight!

People are the plywood, fragile, finicky, and useless if left to their own devices. Management is the middle school kid who needs to take the wood he's been given and make something that will hold up to all the weight that'll be put on top it. In order to do this, he's been given a hot glue gun and enough glue to mummify the entire thing if he so chooses. Most of the kids will rush bullheadedly (or should I say uncaringly) into gluing the sticks together into something that "looks like it should work." They use too much glue, the structure isn't optimized for load handling, and when the day of truth comes, it crumbles down when the bucket that's supposed to hold the weight, destroys it!

What is glue? Whatever management wants it to be. It can be a team leader or a hastily configured IRC channel. In my experience (this includes organizing, delegating, and making sure that 40 devs-et-al get what's needed done), if you choose your sticks right, taking the time to make sure they're not hiding any structural faults, you can make the job 65% easier. If you lament that choosing sticks if difficult, I reply with "it's just practice."

The main issue I've seen, has been the all too common "there are no good managers." Especially in technology. The remedies for this? There's no bandaid. Each manager has to realize his personal shortcomings and fix them. But, to throw up his hands and say "the more people working on a project, the slower it'll get done," is a nice way to say "I can't handle all these people, but I'll excuse that away by saying it's inevitable. It's even industry 'common sense!'"
I think it's OK to the check Facebook profiles and look for stupidly shared information around drugs or something like this.

I wouldn't want to hire a specialist who is publicly promoting drug usage.

On the other hand if you Google me you find something related to me liking ganja. Which imo helps future bosses to filter me if they aren't OK with that.
This sounds pretty far outside the realm of what Charles does (it's a web dev tool, not a system scrubber).

But something like "Little Snitch for iOS" would fit the bill.
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Ask HN: Family link API?
I am develping an app for parents and kids implemented in schools. I would love to have complementary data based on family link. https://families.google.com/familylink/faq/

Any ideas if there is an API coming? How can I get that data if not?

Thanks lot
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Ah you're right, updated. But whatever, point still stands, haha.
There weren't "IBM PC cases". All of that work was based on Apple v. Franklin, a 9th circuit case that held that APIs aren't protected by copyright.
The specific problem in this case is the massive corruption through all levels of government and politics in Illinois.

http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8973798/
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The dash cam doesn't show a figure appearing out of nowhere. It shows a person crossing the street in a slow and predictable manner as if she has no concern that the car speeding toward her will fail to see her and slow down. Her white shoes and blue jeans stand out in the video.
This is a American only thing isn't it? Anyone knows of this in Europe?
We recently left Chicago after living there for 11 years, and this was one of the ~dozen reasons why. We had a kid, started looking at buying a place, and couldn't justify making a long bet on the city given its financial situation.

Chicago has lost population for three years in a row.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chi...
I use Atom, so I definitely recommend that. You can install all sorts of plugins to help you out with different things. For example you can install an Eslint extension that will show you all the errors depending on your eslint configuration. I'm sure others have similar support, but haven't really used them.
> Every two hours he would check his HN profile, just to see if his karma had increased or not.

This seems highly inefficient. he should have spent that time writing a script to do it for him...
Is LinkedIn considered social media ? I don't use it much but I consider it as an address book of past colleagues that updates itself.