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Whether it has been known or not is not relevant. The right thing is long over due. Engineers build stuff for income. More than a few actions in tech sector appear as theft to me. When I shared my data with google and Facebook, I trusted them same way I trust my cell phone company to not record all my calls. The sector should've been regulated much sooner.
Teenagers already abandoned Facebook long time ago and switched over to Instagram. Same company, but less privacy problems for them.
If you enjoy computer science, keep taking the classes. Work can be fun if it’s something you enjoy. You can get through the math.
Reserved capacity as in `sudo tune2fs <volume> | grep Reserved block count`? Those should already be excluded from available diskspace, so that is kind of interesting.
Dealing with deadlines
> so long as the majority of tax dollars goes to perpetrate violence

The overwhelming majority of tax dollars go into social security, healthcare, welfare/assistance programs, education, general government operational costs, debt interest, science/research, and infrastructure.
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Same as Googlers...they're ramble some nonsense about caring to keep families connected while waiting for their stock options to vest.
Is VR going through its Web 1.0 stage?
Definition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Use_in_wider_society_1990s_to_early_2000s_(Web_1.0)

I feel like VR is going through a stage similar to Web 1.0 simply based on the applications that are becoming popular resembling the graphics/games of that time and apps like VRChat strangely similar to something like Club Penguin where it was sort of at the beginning of the Web 2.0 stage. As well, a swift browse through https://www.roadtovr.com/ seems to display this too where most VR is just displaying static content similar to the old HTML.

Thoughts? And any expert opinions?
I honestly miss MSN Messenger. Fond memories.
Reboot into single user mode, reset root password, and done.
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you need -n, otherwise it's trying to RDNS the IP's. It's a dumb default... chatting on the network without you asking while at the same time censoring the data the kernal was using... similarly "ls" might take forever (which matters if it's a big folder and you are piping it's output or just want |head) because it wants to sort (use -f to fix). The ls is a sensible default, often it's for human consumption, and the sort is way faster than a bunch of DNS lookups that could take an arb long time.

lsof has a good case to join coreutils.
> there won't be 2 breaking systems competing with one-another. Different systems controlling the same end-points is never a good idea.

Aerospace engineer here. Different systems controlling the same end-points is literally a basic engineering safety technique. Not only you have the human pilot as a competing system controlling the same end-points as the autopilot, you may have even different competing autopilots.

I had a professor at the Uni who was part of the engineering team of the flight computer of a certain jet fighter. Two engineering teams were given the specs of the system and told to produce a flight computer. The two teams weren't allowed to talk to each other to prevent bugs cross-pollinating the two systems. After all, what good is to have two identical system for redundancy if they can be affected by the same bug? (That's also why pilots eat different meals in-flight!)

Then, the two completely different systems are installed, duplicated, into the plane and put to the test. The four computers must perform equally as per the specs. If the recommended output of a single computer diverges from the other three, that computer is faulty and disregarded. If two computers of the same design have a bug and start giving out-of-envelope readings but the other two are consistent, control is handled to them.

I'm certainly very appalled to see in this thread how safety engineering techniques that every engineer learns in University is completely disregarded or even reversed. At least in the aerospace community, development and implementation of these safety techniques has been paid in blood. These are lessons that shouldn't be forgotten when developing other transport technologies IMHO.
I guess it depends on what you consider relevant. If being relevant is to continue to exist as a large company then yes Microsoft is relevant, as is IBM, Oracle or SAP. If being relevant means to shape the future of tech then I think the jury is still out.

Microsoft certainly has potential. Their AI research and offerings are right up there next to Google's. Combining AI with SQL and Office could enable some real productivity advances. Microsoft is also top notch at PC gaming, a significant consumer niche.

But I think Microsoft also has one rather big problem that is currently masked by their Azure growth rates. That problem is Windows. I think Windows may be in permanent decline.

I know this sounds far fetched given the seemingly unassailable dominance of Windows on corporate desktops. It's indispensible for a very wide array of tasks right now. No need to reiterate all of them.

But Windows has largely lost personal computing to Android and iOS (as well as some Mac and Chrome OS in the US). Where it's still being used for personal computing it's often as a mere host for a web browser with the added benefit of a physical keyboard.

Windows has effectively lost the generation that will shape corporate environments in the years and decades to come, and that has the potential to erode both Office and their server-side offerings. Windows is losing share everywhere, even on Azure.

It's one thing to talk an entreched Windows shop into using Azure. They certainly get some impressive growth numbers out of it. But it's quite a different challenge for Microsoft to sell to people who went from school through university using iOS or Android, collaborating via Google Docs and Google Drive for free. It's going to be a very hard sell for Microsoft.

There is an avalanche of these folks that's going to hit corporate environments in the coming years. They have no attachment to Microsoft and they have zero tolerance for Microsoft's obscure sales language and licensing terms.
> [...] some people did reach out and most congratulated me. Which means a lot of people want it, they get its bad for them but "everybody is there" is the main argument.

I wouldn't give much weight to those congratulations. When I went vegetarian a lot of people did the same. Most new acquaintances that discover my vegetarianism respond very positively, specially left-leaning people. Although I try not to preach, I'm too often the only one that orders a salad. But they always follow it with "I see that it's wrong, but I could never stop eating burgers/cheese/jamón". I'm not even sure they truly think it's wrong, but feel a need to say it.

It's one of those things that many people associate with positive traits or stories. We've all seen the inspiring posts or youtube videos of the people who refuse to use a car because of pollution, or stop eating meat because of animal suffering, or will never use a device that runs proprietary software...

We seem to like these stories, and sometimes even admire the commitment, while having no intention of doing anything like. We feel good for congratulating them of tweeting our support.

(For example, many here admire Richard Stallman's commitment and honesty, and agree with a lot of what he says, but read him froma Mac. We are never going to switch to an old libreboot-able PC with gNewSense, but we sympathize with his cause.)

Many people love Facebook, and many others hate it but can't be weaned off it. We won't get very far by abandoning Facebook and prompting others to do the same. We'll a alternative, and/or very strong positive and negative reinforcement to do so.

> The difference is these few days blew off the periphery of uncertain users. It won't hurt them now, but in the long run - it may be like tobacco.

Your comparison with tobacco is very apt. People stopped smoking when a) leaving it was applauded, and b) people still smoking were starting to be seen with some contempt. It took a long time to build those up though. We are very far away from that with Facebook, and even if us leaving is the beginning, I don't think we want to wait 10 or 15 years. Tobacco damaged lungs, Facebook damage could be much more insidious.
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>> Their self-driving technology seems far more advanced, I think it would be unfair to punish all the players for the bad actions of a few.

It's very unlikely that Uber and Waymo have radically different technology. The two companies probably differe only in business and testing practices- i.e. the environments and the conditions in which they are willing to test their cars.

Waymo simply seems to be more conscious about safety and therefore use its systems well within the safety limits of the technology. But, both companies have access to the state of the art (in the form of highly paid specialists) and you can't really expect one to be too far ahead of the other in terms of capabilities.

Edit: I'm guessing all this by comparison with results generally in machine learning and machine vision. With the exception of a big leap forward with CNNs in 2014, most improvements you ever see in the literature are in the order of a couple of percentile points at most so most systems differe by a very small margin. The same should go for industry entities using this technology in self-driving cars.
Related talk by Bryan Cantrill (Principles of Technology Leadership) Watch the whole video, it's good!

https://youtu.be/9QMGAtxUlAc?t=43m46s
I'm guessing you've turned the collection off. They'll be at least smart enough not to show you if they still collect it.
Drug trials are done on volunteers with informed consent.

Testing on public roads is like kidnapping random people and forcing them to take the drug.
What about Ada?
I'd assume that most employees don't have anything to do with dodgy stuff. Interested in knowing if I'm right or not.
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Google, founded 1998.

Gmail, first release 2004.

Google docs, first release 2006.

Not too bad?
Can they post an honest answer here, and be confident that it couldn't be traced back to them?
I'll look out for the HN submission.
i just tried but sadly it did not finish without allowing js on their site and for both of the thirdparty tests. It might would have finished if i would not have enabled this test though.

However, even if it would show better results then my user agent and accept header is apprently pretty unique anyhow. But why bother.. My ip addresses do not change that often.
This incident brings to light the fact that this Uber car is blind, the person did not jumped in front of the car from behind some obstacle.

I can't drive a car because of my bad eyes so it makes sense that when we see that blind cars( or with blind spots) drive on roads we don't like it.
Because swooping up all mobile audio and transmit it over would be a management decision, certainly not engineering.
This is what most likely drains the battery and your data plan.
You cannot explain this amount of drainage with CPU only.

Also swooping all kind of privacy data, like call logs, messages, contacts, calendar info is from management. Engineers really know better that this will be found out sooner and later, and then it's the end.
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If you run the ps command you can see all processes with all the command line arguments. They’re not secret, which is why you shouldn’t put passwords there.

Now typically these processes only run for a short time so it’s difficult to catch passwords manually but it’s predictable so a script can.
Pinches whole-words (by regex usually, e.g. '[A-Z][A-Za-z]*Exception') out of files recursively. Then throw in sort and uniq -c.
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Not only the "infinite" part in that statement is indeed bogus - but the immense neutron flux makes me skeptical of the "clean" part as well.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal_Richelieu

You need to ask yourself "what about..." and make sure your target truly is the worst offender and not just the most publicized offender, or you become the attack dog of the media.
Fusion reactors also consume a lot of energy. ITER plans to have a gain factor of 10, making 500MW of heat -- not electricity -- out of 50MW. According to wikipedia, a gain factor of 22 would be needed for commercial operation. The record is a gain factor of 0.67..

If fusion will ever become economically viable is an open question.
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They'd only be making bank on wall street, if they knew the reasons before hand. Not after it happened.
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Hope they think what they want.
This was my first question at job interview to Facebook. Luckily i got an indian developer and i knew about how aggressive facebook in his home country (does everybody remembers free basics?) and i asked about what he thinks. Answer was simple - this is a form of a competition. I think "competition" can easily justify doing shady things - any of your competitors eventually will do the same and because of this there are no reason to not to implement something like phone book scraping.
I don't think that is feasible, because you don't know if this data could be easily decrypted in the future. What do you do with existing data written to persistent media?
Writer fails to understand basic concepts like "uncanny valley"...
Maybe that's what happened here. The LIDAR would be visible from afar and that lady just watched the car run into her without flinching.

In all seriousness, what you're describing happens on college campuses across the country today, where students are conditioned to drivers yielding right of way.
Who said anything about disabling… some actors spoof information all the time to appear as if they are somewhere/someone else or even a someone (bots) in the first place.

On the topic of disabling, if one disabled javascript by default, one would get the immediate effect of not seeing most of the advertising on the web (outside of submarine articles).

I bet people telling others that they "need" this shit to use the web probably has significant overlap with those who say they "need" Facebook (or any other random app) or else there would be no other way to find events or things to do. Like without facebook groups, one would die! lol
Facebook employees and tech workers in general have a much wider spectrum of opinions that what echo chambers like HN allow. I personally know a lot of Facebook, Apple and Microsoft employees who voted Trump. Palantir employees who are very proud about their jobs and believe that they're making a positive impact on the world. Uber employees who believe that they're engaged in a good fight against regulation and bureaucracy. What's common for all of them, though, is that they generally keep these opinions to themselves and know better than venting them on HN, Techcrunch and social media.
> That has nothing to do with Android, but with the hardware (ARM, SoCs, ...).

Google has way enough power to dictate standards, for most companies, not having access to the Play Store is assured death.

> There are also laptops where you can't install Ubuntu btw

There's very few then, I don't know any personally.
Gdocs also slows down massively when opening something past a dozen MB.
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Regarding the stock price -exactly just because I am 'shorting 'it- (betting that it will drop for the non-traders), it is now a good 'BUY' opportunity. If FB gets serious about putting their ducks in order, they will end up even better than before.

And I hope they do so, so that others can also learn that honesty and ethics DO pay in life.
The solution is not to have more articles that break the rules; the solution is to tell us, by flagging or emailing hn@ycombinator.com, when there's a case we haven't seen. We change all the ones we see, or at least post an explanation like I did this time.
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Isn't heat a current major concern with LEDs? If so wouldn't this have to be hooked up to a heatsink in practice making the transparency irrelevant?
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I think he means that Apple sells premium hardware. There will always be huge group that cannot afford that.
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Ah, the dodgy salesman approach: "If they don't buy our useless thing, they will buy the same useless thing from one of our competitors anyway!"
Do you think this function is impossible to achieve without marketing?

Do you think marketing is the most effective way of achieving it?

And do you think the trillion dollar marketing industry that exists is really creating trillions of dollars of value for consumers?
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Disabling a backup system like that strikes me as very negligent from an engineering perspective. They had reason to expect their system to fail because it's a prototype, but then they go and disable another system that is actively marketed and that could have prevented this death.

I'm so glad they're not testing their cars in my state. This makes me wonder if they even do basic safety engineering like FMEA or if they just wing it.
Late to the party as usual, I think this speech underestimates the will of companies to do what’s described. Most cynical actions are powered by money and harm anonymized/faceless groups that “hey, they were suicidal anyway”. The simple fact is: you cannot dislike, remove or train networks to get what you want – you eat what is served instead, liked or disliked. Your opinion is not an argument of targeting function, only attention is. My youtube feed was full of crap until I removed all suggestions. (Did you know you have to remove it 3-5 times for it to not show up again?) And still, it presents that toxic whatnext thing, which my inner self often treats no less than disgusting. I CANNOT find the content I really like with all the searches and smart ordering. I only get it from random articles by pure chance.

The only way to take control of it is to make modern tech available to wide public as in next-next-done, not as a github-link. The internet and all its power is still here for us from the start, but heck most turn into companyname zombies because everyone already is and that’s the easiest way to communicate. Instead of spending time on ultra-asynchronous scalable tech, could we stop and think of small businesses and just people who want to publish and exchange content in their small volumes?

The Web Suite consists of a simple but overcomplicated browser app, instead of a full platform to create, publish and manage the content with few design hints to not turn it into myspace. Until that changes, we all, no matter #deleted or not, will swim in crap that is pushed by so-called media giants (media jerks in my view). Removing yourself from everywhere doesn’t help, as it doesn’t help to be healthy in mental asylum.
Yup. But I was pointing more at the fact that the notion of "price" is not very useful here. If we're talking about mankind's future, money should be brought back to the level of "minor technical detail".
> you're always one ! ! press away from entering a manual command

Huh, I didn't know this. I'll probably live in Magit from now on.
I'm interested in the answers. I'm having upcoming interviews with Facebook, and I wonder if the recent events should be addressed in the "culture fit" interview.

My personal opinion is that the problem is not so much with Facebook but with the legislation. Corporations like Facebook are there to make profit within the rules defined by society. I hope there will be stronger laws to protect our privacy and data, and generally more awareness on the issue.
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>> And why is no one acknowledging that a homeless person walked out into the middle of the street at night in a black sweatshirt.

I'm guessing, because a lot of people wear black clothes and self-driving cars must be able to deal with that, too. If safety-critical systems can't react to a common real-world situation then they 're just not safe enough to operate in the real world.

You might as well ask what was this woman doing crossing a road at night where even human drivers have reduced visibility. Well- people might cross roads at any time of day (legal issues aside- jaywalking is a very US-centric thing btw). Roads and cars must be designed so as to be safe under this assumption and drivers must be trained enough to deal with the situation.

What is the alternative? Make everyone wear high-visibility vests, or carry special self-driving car beacons when they go outside? I've actually heard both of those ideas since Elen Herzberg was killed and they're both on the near side of the absurd (so I'm sure someone will come up with something even more out there).

But, if tech that is supposed to make our lives easier is too dangerous, the answer is not to make our lives harder to accommodate it. That would defeate the purpose of the technology in the first place.
The less code there is, there less opportunity there is for bugs.
It is not 1 data pint though, say you shot at a target 100 times and hit only 1 time , is this 1 data point only and I can't make any conclusion?

Similar if you drive 1 million km and kill 1 person,
if I drive 10 km and kill 1 person is still 1 data point and I can make no conclusion? I think it would have been 1 data point if this was the first km a Uber self driving car has driven.
Generally speaking, I agree that a web server shouldn't be running as root. But when the sole purpose of that web server is to provide root-level control over the system, is there really much security to be gained by running that process as a different user? That "unprivileged" process is still going to have some mechanism for causing arbitrary commands to run as root.

I can imagine that you might have an unprivileged server presenting just the log-in page, then proxying to a privileged server that is started once the administrator is authenticated. But that doesn't get you much more security, and it probably does strain the resources of low-end routers. A small, auditable server may be better than a more complicated system, especially since it is trivial for more paranoid users to disable/uninstall the web server and just use SSH (which nobody seems to mind running as root).
I think(read: am guessing, smartly) when you factor the entire cost of fossil fuels (environmental damage to harvest, subsidies, tax breaks, etc) fusion will be cheaper.

Fossil fuels have a number of intentionally "hidden" costs.
Heat is entirely dependent on brightness. It's only really an issue when using LEDs for illumination at multi-watt levels.

Tiny thin LEDs are necessarily not going to have a huge power output. If the substrate is glass it will have decent thermal conductivity.
If you mean things you can build to trickle in money, indiehackers.com covers a lot of them.
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Money is what we currently have as a means of getting a consensus about what is important for mankind's future and how to allocate resources based on importance and expected payoff. It's not the best system, but it's hard to introduce alternatives.
Maybe, maybe not. Flat flexible circuits are established technology. LG already have a flexible display, although apparently it has a dead pixel problem. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35230043