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"Please don't take my argument as..."

Ok. Peace.

"...average condition of people is better than it was."

My generation (X) griped about student load debt, which seemed crippling at the time.

No comparison with today's kids. Then pile on housing costs, rising insurance premiums, day care & pre school (for anyone choosing to have kids), ...

I despair for the millennials.
I don't think it's disingenuous of the media. I just think it exposes their ignorance and inability to imagine the negative consequences of such data analysis. It took something bad, i.e. Trump winning, for them to wake up to the dangers that they cared about.
The question is how to solve this problem. I don't think governmental regulations will do it, through they may help. That's because data collection and sharing is Facebook's whole business model, and ditto thousands of other companies, large and small. So they will all just figure out ways of skirting around the law and continuing what they have been doing.

The only solution that could work is a new financial model that combines decentralization with some way of paying content producers and other expenses. Fortunately there is a lot of tech for that in development, though I don't know if anything is fully ready yet.
The major problem I have with the proxy is that now I have yet another system to keep track of, update, secure, backup and maintain.

At least with vendoring I keep all of my code pinned in one portable repo and all I really need is dep and git. If I clone or backup the repo I don't have to think about cloning the state of the proxy also to get my code to compile.

I don't see that any serious business would be very enthusiastic about adding a code proxy as yet another cog in their development pipeline. One of the main appeals of Go is that it reduces many pain points of a development environment As a counterexample see e.g. the insane requirements of the Javascript web development ecosystem.

I also have some reservations about getting developers to adhere to a versioning repo layout standard - that /path/to/v2/ proposal and semantic versioning - absent any automated tools to enforce it (see cats, herding of). How many of the many Go github repos follow the recommended cmd/pkg code layout [0]? Not many. My cynical notion is that anything that's not automated out of the box is going to quickly run into the inevitable proclivity of humans to be messy.

Having said all this, I do think the discussion is worthwhile. My hope is that rather then completely switching dependency management systems the discussion identifies the things which are still painful with dep and fixes them. Let's face it, the vast majority of projects out there really don't need anything more complicated then dep, so I would hate to see it abandoned.

[0] https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout
I would qualify: people aren't just dissatisfied because of the "unfairness" of growing inequality. The growth of the wealth gap has some very real ramifications, ie: on the distribution of power in politics.
What's the trade balance with IP between the US and the EU? Whichever side is benefiting from that the most, also has the most to lose
History is being written right now and people are rightly seeing a case of selective memory by the media.

Most people agree that social media surveillance is bad. The majority of the HN comments that bring up Obama 2008/2012 are not trying to justify the CA/Facebook incident, rather they're pointing out a hypocritical double-standard.

I want the surveillance to stop and the record to be set straight. We're dangerously close to public sentiment solidifying around the idea that the CA/Facebook incident was unprecedented and arguably stole an election in 2016. I don't think the truth supports that at all and am trying to use comments like this to keep such false narratives out of textbooks 10 years from now.
Mid-Late 30's, before that it used gasoline or naphtha to do the cleaning.
You don't have to "construct an image" to use LIDAR returns. Minimal processing on the point cloud will tell you that there's an obstacle, and you don't need more than that to start trying to avoid hitting it. A simple occupancy grid map, for instance, would suffice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupancy_grid_mapping
Amazon doesn't want their tablets to have the Play Store (they don't come with it pre-installed), I don't really get your point.
Support businesses where workers are in unions or, better yet, support worker-owned co-operatives. Get involved in grassroots organisations in your community that are working on solutions to fight homelessness, poverty, gentrification, etc. and putting pressure on local government and businesses.
For any company that is compliant with GDPR (after 25th May 2018), the answers your 4 questions (2 on data collection, other 2 on data subject rights) must already be in their privacy notice on their website, with instructions for how to contact their data protection officer.
> even the very poor likely have a mobile phone, the internet, a games console,

This isn't true for a lot of impoverished areas. Most of the students my wife works with at her elementary school do not have any of these.
It's not like I disagree, but the first point is the same god damn pedantic point that gets hit over and over again, that Google's customers are advertisers rather than users. We get it already, and it ignores Yegge's actual point to say the same thing we've heard a million times before.

If I never have to read "Unless you're paying, you're not the customer you're the product" again, that shit will be too soon. If they don't make something that people actually want to use, there will be no audience for advertisers. Come on.

Lastly, I thought it was funny that both Yegge and Bray can agree to take shots at JavaScript. There's another thing you'd think nerds would get tired of already.
Plus I bet Amazon would welcome this if they did. Just more users for Amazon's own app store and ecosystem.
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> If fewer guns is really not the answer, then how many guns do you think you'll need to eradicate gun violence?

Even Europe with its in my humble opinion draconian gun control has not eradicated gun violence.

If gun control is the answer, why is it failing Brazil? They are actually considering making their gun laws more in line with ours. [1] They have a violence problem that is very likely a glimpse into the future of an America with European or Australian-style gun control.

The guns are not committing acts of violence, the people pulling their triggers are. To solve the gun violence problem, we need to understand why people desire to commit an act of violence.

[1] http://time.com/4108421/brazil-u-s-gun-culture/
> Oh, and Android already has this feature. But as with ChromeOS you can disable the warning if you re-lock the bootloader.

Ah, I was basically imagining that there was some separate "bootloader" stage sitting on a chip that can't be user-flashed (and is hopefully even fully WORM, like old school OTP-NVM PROMs) which would handle the secure-boot logic.

So I guess I should rephrase my hypothetical technology as "like Secure Boot in x64-platform PCs—where the CPU checks the BIOS signature and then the BIOS checks the boot loader signature and then the boot loader checks the OS signature—and where the CPU and BIOS can't be tampered with after the factory, thus guaranteeing the sanctity of the bootloader—but where a failure of the boot loader to verify the OS just results in a click-through boot warning."
The motivation is that both kinds of "on-premise" create roughly similar engineering challenges. (Your app has to be adaptable to heterogenous execution environments, all your code changes will be in a partially released state for indefinite periods of time, it's hard to immediately diagnose whether a reported problem is your fault or user error...)
Hang on. That argument makes no sense. We've had subsumption architecture for a long time now( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture ). Subsumption architecture puts some of the intelligence in the lower level systems. While the higher level controls can tell the lower level systems what it wants, it can't do things that the lower system determines is dangerous.

So if a normal Mercedez has a collision avoidance system that automatically brakes, there is no reason why an AI based system can't be built on top of that and the collision avoidance system automatically braking without intervention from the higher AI systems. A subsumption system prevents higher level controls from doing something catastrophic like hitting a pedestrian or, in biology, a person holding their breath until they die.
More entertainment, maybe, but "more" overall?

Would you rather live in a world with no smartphones where you afford a house/apartment, or one with smartphones where you can't?
In all fairness, a lot of other disciplines of engineering could be described the same way. My SO for instance is a civil engineer at a construction company. The company works on multi million dollar projects building airports, hotels, schools, etc. These are massive projects meant to service thousands of individuals and if they make a mistake people can die. She describes her job as "a whole lot of babysitting adults (sub-contractors), and duct taping bad designs to worse material".

Are there safety concerns that a lot of engineering doesn't have? Sure. But it goes both ways. In her field of engineering there are limited impactees and mistakes while potentially fatal have minimum monetary value. I can fuck up and cost my company millions in an instant. Or expose millions of user's personal information. Different risks, and I'd still probably take the a stolen identity over death, but at the end of the day it's a similar job.
I don't see what that has to do with what I said but sure, the poor shouldn't start families.
Chatting up a stranger is not 'borderline harassment'. Harassment is harassment. There's a correct way to approach someone in a non-threatening manner, and more men should take the time to learn how to respectfully strike up conversation with strangers (in both romantic and non-romantic contexts)

Given the cultural norms around dating require men to initiate the conversation 95%+ of the time, there's a real risk of demonizing men's efforts to initiate conversation. If nobody approaches, then a lot of great connections never get formed.
Since this has been promised many times in the past 40 years it would be nice if more proof was offered instead of buzzwords and marketing babble.
Title seems to be "Mark Zuckerberg Thinks We’re Idiots"..?
Perhaps you are thinking of the I2C clock stretching bug[1]?

Bugs like these are not unusual in embedded systems. It is often difficult to fix the hardware and the software will implement some kind of workaround. The web page lists several possible workarounds for this bug.

1: http://www.advamation.com/knowhow/raspberrypi/rpi-i2c-bug.ht...
This happens in the US with state regulations already. The federal government creates floors on behavior, the states can add regulations on top of those.

The real difference is that the EU and it's member nations actually enforce their regulations and don't let situations happen like Uber/ISPS/AirBnB just ignoring laws until they had enough money/influence to force changes to the regulations
> It would make the most sense that diversity by social class and diversity by subcultural group would make much more sense than, say, having approximately equally privileged people with different skin colors all coming from the same schools.

I would expect that it makes more sense the other way 'round if the correlation has reversed causation. Bigger companies that do better can afford to move past having boards that are as effective as possible, to boards that also optimize for other factors like virtue-signalling "diversity" to shareholders.

They do this by bringing on "diverse" board members. But, since they are still also optimizing for the particular mindset that executes the company's existing strategy well, those board-members' diversity is as skin-deep as possible, because they don't actually want to change any of the board's dynamics.

By analogy: a board is a very naive hill-climbing algorithm. It really doesn't want (and its shareholders don't want!) it to climb down from a local maxima in search of a global maxima. The local maxima is achieved by everyone on the board being a certain way, thinking a certain way. So, despite whatever pandering they might give to "diversity", true diversity of viewpoint won't happen as long as the company is still beholden to short-term profit optimization.
If Facebook does a background news feed update on your iPhone and notices that your iPhone wifi is on the same IP address as another phone (Android or otherwise) with location enabled, then it can record a correlation.

There's probably even better ways of doing it.
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Enpass is great. The desktop and mobile apps are both very clean and easy to use. I tried a few and settled with enpass.
Personal attacks will get you banned on Hacker News. Please do not do this again, regardless of how annoyed you are by another comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is libreoffice online a viable alternative to gdocs?
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/

The only thing keeping me with google is gdocs. But I'd rather not keep my private data with them. Libre office online does not appear in google search an an alternative and hn has mostly ignored it. Is it not ready for prime time?
Not rude, just French? Fired B.C. waiter files human rights complaint
How about something like HIPPA (in the US)? There are strict penalties for violations, but it hasn't prevented small companies from thriving, provided they comply with the act..
Genuine question, do people realise Facebook Europe (among others) is headquartered in Ireland, and has to abide by fairly strict rules already?
Eg. I can write them and they have to provide me with any personal information they have on me at the moment, for a nominal fee. I could probably get most of the questions on the nightmare letter above answered!
Habits based on what was fastest on slow machines where every cycle mattered and compilers weren’t as good at optimizing, I’d bet.
What do you think Buffett is doing with his wealth, keeping it in a money bin like Scrooge McDuck?
NYC does have something like that now. Both homeowners and renters are eligible for a property tax credit. But the rent credit is only available if rent is less than $450/mo, which is... impossibly low.
> Dep was released in January 2017.

I know, Go is not a very old language, but all the Go projects I was involved in were started before that and I haven't written any Go in like 5 months, but still - this is too new for all the Go developers to have looked at it in depth (I certainly didn't come around to try it) and yet there's something new here.

We're all joking about a new JavaScript framework being released every week, but dependency management in Go feels a little alike.

I'm not a huge fan of Go anymore after my last experience (writing some web stuff, with CRUD) after having been a huge fan (writing monitoring checks and non-HTTP daemons), and I have no immediate plans - so I've no stake here, but I can really only hope this annoying part (which least-bad dependency management system will I use?) is finally over.
China is building a rain making network through size of Spain
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry
EDIT: Poor decisions are poor decisions and it's much easier to be productive today than ever before, if that's what you choose to be. There's no reason you can't "afford" a house, everything is relative.
Your primary complaint could have all the wind taken out of its sails if we just magically took all the money away from wealthy people and burned it. Because wealth inequality would go down. It wouldn't actually help anyone, but wealth inequality would go down.

Affordable housing is a problem best addressed by the people who live in the areas that have a lack of affordable housing. It's not something that needs addressing on the national scale.
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Your plan is the first I've seen with a higher upstream than downstream rate.
It's terrible to be reachable 18h/day. It's like those poor Amazon employees that are forced to have pager all the time with them because Bezos likes it that way. What kind of life do you have when you can't even make a trip to forest without thinking about not being reachable? No hour awake without being completely off... How is your health? How long do you think you can handle it? Any hobbies where you can make your own mark? Or just survival?
This is a key reason why there are data protection officers under GDPR. They report to the highest level of management (mostly the board) and are independent. They are also called mini-regulators. They ensure the company is compliant.

If they are not doing their job, (and you are not content with their reply), you then appeal to the Data Protection Authority (DPA, Privacy Regulator in the country). The DPA has full powers of subpoena (and a whole lot more), and are not to be trifled with.
They'll be around for a while. They can lose half of all of their users and that would only reset them to like 2008 in terms of social networks--they'll still be the biggest. That's without counting Instagram and other user bases too.
I think they mean that it isn't baked in to Firefox. But I agree that that's a weird choice of wording.
I'm sure there are people who would say that European regulators are being permissive to the point that they're harming the health of patients. A lot of women in the US could have benefited from thalidomide while it was being used in Europe, but the FDA was too cautious to allow it.

People will benefit from those extra 11 hours, but they'll also be hurt by the lower accuracy. It's completely reasonable for different people to weigh these costs and benefits differently.
Are they? I was under the impression that they mostly work on referral fees/commission. They get paid by the hotels, airlines, cruise companies, etc instead of booking.com or wherever you would look things up yourself

With that, I thought people stopped using them because most find some value in planning their vacations themselves, and the barrier to doing so got easy enough for them to do it. There's a huge subjective component to a lot of choices involved in a holiday. A travel agent seems ideal for someone willing to give up control of those specifics, that just wants to be able to send an email that reads something like "15-28th August. Portugal. I'm thinking something involving forests" and be done with planning.
It would be way more persuasive if they didn't fall back to panic/recover semantics that are exceptions.
What end user do you feel is being blocked from using what software? I have a feeling you misunderstand what's actually happening here.
> How many iterations of this do we have to go through?

Many, I think, based on what the author of dep says (https://sdboyer.io/blog/vgo-and-dep/). I don't get why rsc would just throw away the code and work that was the culmination of years of community work. Isn't rsc largely responsible for creating this problem in the first place? I'm doubtful he's going to fix the dependency problem from scratch. There's a certain pigheadedness to a lot of golang decisions, and I'm afraid this is another one of them...
Weird. I'm a 6 foot tall male, and I also get asked for directions a lot. The most recent absurdity was in Paris Now, I have spent a total of maybe two weeks in Paris in twenty years, I can get by in french, but it must sound like nails on a chalkboard to a native speaker, and I'm pretty obviously american once I open my mouth. Even so, the lady who asked my advice stayed right there while I looked up the address on my phone and attempted (with limited success) to work it out.

I wonder if it really is the height.
I love how the USA is completely freaking out about Russia yet has become totally silent on Citizens United. Gee, I wonder which is the bigger source of propaganda...
I can see how that would break linkage, but if you're re-compiling everything that changed how is this actually an issue?

Or is the issue that the broken code didn't depend on a publicly exposed part of the library's interface but instead copied something it shouldn't have?
These Spanish laws AFAIK are from the time where you would copy casettes and give them to your friends. The lawmakers recognized that spreading the culture in this way among your friends was more important than making this a crime. With internet there has been a lot of debate, but it is still pretty much the same. Though Spaniards are quite unhappy with American corporations trying to force their American laws on us and making us criminals while we do something perfectly legal stuff! (And also internally with the SGAE, but that is another topic).
We’re in agreement. The psychological basis of gun fantasy-security is an important issue, since it has put hundreds of thousands of assault rifles in the hands of Americans. The vast majority are responsible users. Just like the vast majority of us don’t get the flu. The minority in each case constitutes a public health risk, which I think, in the case of firearms, is driven in part by fantasy among gun owners.
What resources or "connections" do you need? Thinking you need all these things before you can start is the biggest obstacle to actually starting.
These articles again throw around and conflate the words “illegal” and “violation of TOS” which are two vastly different things. I’m not an expert in EU privacy law, but under US law, nothing that has occurred here (that has been publicly disclosed) was “illegal”. There are certainly potential civil lawsuits here, but nothing “illegal”.
You guys just made me feel better about myself! Thanks, HackerNews.
State income tax is not generally the important part. From a quick search, the highest rate in the nation is 13.3% in California. The Federal income tax rate tops out at 37%, and there's also 7.65% Federal payroll tax.
I just started using gpg-agent recently [1] when I had to figure out how to store secrets in Ansible's Vault without entering the vault passphrase every time. Here's the guide I used:

https://blog.erincall.com/p/using-pgp-to-encrypt-the-ansible...

It works really well! I open a terminal, use ssh-agent to get access to the master SSH key, and do my Ansible stuff, which then uses gpg-agent to access the Vault. I basically end up with a terminal session with elevated privileges.

[1] other than Emacs's built-in support for working with encrypted files, I guess
This is the feeling I'm getting recently too - as I grow older time seems to be getting a lot more valuable. I'm fine now but in a decade I might try something else.
Figure 3: "When it comes to the pace of annual [real wage] increases, the top 1% wage grew 138% since 1979, while [real] wages for the bottom 90% grew 15%"

Figure 4: "Middle-class wages are stagnant—Middle-wage workers’ hourly [real] wage is up 6% since 1979, low-wage workers’ [real] wages are down 5%, while those with very high wages saw a 41% increase"

I wouldn't exactly describe those figures as "misleading". In fact, they're pretty clear: one group is benefiting much more than the others.

As for the second one, is it really saying that real new-car prices have declined by ~50%?