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If there is anyone sticking up for sovereignty (aka borders) it's President Trump. Remember the TPP? How about his UN speech?
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Your comment strikes a chord with me. Similar to the saying that someone reminded me of the other day, we spend huge amounts of time working to afford a house and then we are hardly ever there.
I'm working on breaking out of it too - my idea is to move to somewhere with a much lower cost of living (im currently in one of the most expensive places) and then shifting to working 2-3 days per week, hopefully I can still do that for my current employer while in my spare time build up a few side gigs which I will eventually shift to.
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From the article: "according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation", "Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow".

IOW, they don't have jack shit, which is why the stuff I quoted above is buried towards the end of the article. How does one tie an IP address to a street address? Or to a specific person? And what does "working off" an IP address even mean? And why would he be running this from the GRU headquarters rather than from some obscure Russian bunker?

I smell massive quantities of clickbait manure.
That's assuming he even read the briefing on it.
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I make 110€ an Hour, so the agent gets around 1500€ from me each month.

However, a lot of the assignments are available ONLY through agents. So the alternative to 90% with an agent is not
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I think you overestimate the capabilities of a software engineer. I'm a backend developer. I can design and implement the backend of enterprise level systems (APIs, Service Bus, Scheduled Jobs, Automation of operations, etc).

But you still need a front end designer, a front end developer to write the clients users actually interact with and a domain expert who understands the needs of the people the software is being made for.

Sure, some people can probably do all of those things. But I haven't yet met someone who could do them all as well as a specialist.

Only opportunity I've had to work in startups, is when I'm working with a domain expert and a front end developer who happens to know enough about design to be the UX designer as well.

Best case scenario, that person is also a domain expert, or I am. Either way that still involves me finding someone else with the drive, passion, time and energy to pursue a startup.

Oh and that's ignoring all the legal crap you have to deal with in a startup.

Freelance = Let them deal with all the bullshit and take their money to solve a problem you can solve well.

Startup = You have a team of people with a common vision. Or one person with the capital to hire them all... which has been my most common experience (they usually are domain expert too). Maybe you get rich, maybe you lose all your invested time/money, maybe you get screwed due to not understanding the legal documents you signed.

Startups are hard. Hell I had a group of guys that each had complementary skillsets and we considered starting a company that consulted for startups (helping them understand what to do, and guiding them through the process). Unfortunately two of them passed away :(
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Awesome! C# love everywhere. Is Xamarin.Forms web using Blazor?
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Same here. However for me it's not only an annoyance, but since I'm on a metered connection (LTE with severe throttling after 50 GB only avoidable by buying extra volume), this is costing me real money. Opening a Bloomberg article in the background will happily autplay a series of videos I may not notice. And that's with uBlock Origin installed.

I just opened such an article and in the 5 minute window since I did so, the page consumed a cool 100 MB for a 2:20 video. It obviously gets worse with longer videos.
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I already go to that sub regularly, and a lot of the time, interview advice that I read or get is very company specific, or not applied in a very active, personalized way. For something involving soft skills like interviewing, I learn better by watching, or someone taking an active role in correcting my mistakes. A lot of interviewing advice is situation specific. It needs to be more personalized, more "you-specific".
WhatsApp is even better than Telegram.
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You are operating under the premise here that what youtube/reddit have banned is something illegal and immoral. Reddit literally banned forums for posting good deals they found for firearms and accessories online. And youtube is banning channels that feature people enjoying their completely legal hobby enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people.

No, the problem here is that governments and large institutions are using truly evil things to convince people to ban completely innocuous things for commercial reasons. This is online gentrification for the corps. And for government, using kids/terrorism/communists is the oldest trick in the book to violate the rights of their citizens.
Many, many years ago, a new product or service announcement from Google would leave me interested and excited. Now I just shrug and wonder when it will be abandoned.
If only NASA could say that they found on Mars a new substance that probably eliminates the desire to do drugs... We'd be having a golden age of space exploration now.
"With great power there must also come great responsibility, but I don't like it, so I'll just go on behaving like teenager bitten by a spider."

-- Tech industry leader (2018)

/S
The NSA and/or the CIA?
I’ll definitely subscribe and pay more attention to these issues. Thanks for the link!
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Have you not noticed that "move fast and break things" is essentially how the entire startup space functions? When a social media company does it, it's merely annoying. Do it with dangerous machines, and people die.
Yes, I would say the same for the democratic party. But in order for me to believe them, they have to ACTUALLY make a claim. They have to say "This email right here is false". If they do not say that, then I will assume that they believe all of them to be true.

And no, vague insinuations of "It could have been doctored!" do not count as a claim. I will believe them if they point to a specific email or fact that they believe to be untrue. But so far they have made so such claims, so there is nothing for me to believe them on.
I'm also a big fan of the bot API. I think it's very elegant in its approach to solving the problem of spam (bots can't really initiate chats, they can only respond to messages, or post to chats / groups where they were directly invited by a human).

The performance and convenience of their desktop app is also very good. As a "I'll use it if I have to" WhatsApp user, I find having to re-authenticate the web app basically every time I launch it, and it constantly complaining about me switching off WhatsApp on my phone is almost a dealbreaker.
This is key. I strongly believe that legalization is the only answer to the problem. Driving things underground is only going to cause more issues and abuse to the sex workers.

It's kind of ironic when in France, for example, a law gets passed criminalizing the customers while the sex workers go in the street to protest that law saying that it will create more abuse (and one year after, they were right).

Trying to stop behaviors that will always exist in human societies doesn't work, it just drives the demand underground and if things are illegal already, then other more illegal, more abusive behaviors start to surface.
It remains to be seen whether they'll hand over those keys, as of yet this is not the case as far as known. The consequence of not handing over the keys would be for Telegram to be banned in Russia so I assume the opposite to be true as well: if Telegram is not banned in Russia in about a week from now they will have complied with the FSB's directives. If that happens I'll be looking for an alternative, preferably something self-hosted. A self-hosted Telegram server would be the best solution here as it would make it possible to keep the best parts of Telegram - the client applications - and replace the somewhat dodgy bits - the centralised server. Add federation between servers and the end result would be more or less the same, the difference being that it would be possible to keep your data private.

So Pavel, if you're reading this, how 'bout it? Add an option for a private server for those who'd like to use Telegram in places where the powers that be are pulling tricks like in Russia. In that context it would be interesting to know how Telegram can survive in Iran, does the government there have access to anything they shouldn't?
Are you being sarcastic? The game industry is the hardest and most miserable. Surely you haven't missed that.
Any rigorous or semi-rigorous analysis to suggest AR glasses will hit 1b users by 2025?

Hint: Such analyses are usually done by looking at the adoption curves of similar technologies. E.g. smartphone, mobile phone, laptops, desktop computers etc.
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USA carries out mass surveillance (dragnet). It spies not on special foreign targets of interest but on every human being using electronic communications on this planet. Which means that only those who use smoke signals and pigeons have their privacy.

It is what Nazis did during WWII and what Stasi did in the ex DDR. Back then, the world - especially the so called "free world" - was appalled. And they did it "only" to their citizens.

It is not scary. I wanted to put it mildly. It is rogue!
I'm a (primarily backend/API) web developer, with 5 years of experience at this point, and I've been planning to apply to Georgia Tech OMSCS in order to branch out into different specializations like ML and data science. A better foundation in algorithms etc. wouldn't hurt either--my bachelor's is not CS-related.

This article gave me pause, since I've never heard much skepticism expressed about a Comp Sci MS before. Is it really so overrated?
> This could be an excellent use of the Presidential veto.

It would be insanity for the President to veto a spending bill needed to avert a shutdown because it included a provision the Administration has publicly supported and actively sought.

> Whatever your political leanings, omnibus bills are a terrible outcome

Omnibus spending bills are fine — the particular financial provisions of any one may be good or bad, but the concept is fine; they are a completely sensible way to set government finances rather than doing it piecemeal.

Non-germane law changes tacked on to an omnibus spending bill, especially one being passed shortly before the expiration of current spending authority, are, OTOH, a different issue.
One is mandated, other is voluntary, but they both reflect the same phenomenon happening in the society - that more and more topics are becoming "not acceptable" and thus get eliminated from popular areas on-line.
I think it depends on the specific set of government employees you know. My girlfriend works for the city government. The stories she tells me are insane. For example, the two branches of her group are forbidden from having in person meetings because when they had in person meetings between the two groups in the past physical fights would erupt.
I had the impression that they just had 50 and they lied about "every american" on the stage. Might be very wrong though.
Deep learning is easy and popular - it's just as good a starting point as anything else. No one would argue that linear regression isn't a good starting point, but only because it's not fashionable to dismiss linear regression.
The morality of it depends on what you believe owners owe employees. There's clearly no objective basis there, it's down to a given person's moral beliefs. In my observation, you'll get a very different response to that from one business owner to the next. Some owners/operators take it as an intense matter of morality to safeguard their employees, others could care less and believe they owe their employees between nothing and very little.

If you look at the top dozen economies in terms of prosperity or economic growth, you'll find a lot of different cultural approaches to that owner/operator-worker relationship, and they all have managed to generate rather spectacular results. France, US, Germany, South Korea, Japan, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark - all have between slightly and very different approaches.

It also takes you down a road of other similar questions.

Joe loads up on his credit cards and puts his family at risk. Should that be illegal? Is it immoral? (arguably it's immoral)

Social contracts are a fascinating thing and they're essentially all-pervasive across everything people do. We go out and drive on the roads with a sort of social contract, that properly we're not going to act like maniacs and endanger each other.
In defense of the "scorched earth approach or nothing" folks: from my perspective... it's a completely and totally human response to faceless, blameless, unapproachable (from their perspective) perpetrators and facilitators of systematic abuse and exploitation of innocent and vulnerable people.

If you've ever felt frustrated at an IVR system for routine tasks such as banking, restaurant reservations, canceling a gym membership, checking a gift card balance, etc. then you may understand where the "scorched earth" people are coming from when it comes to advocating for dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent victims who have been raped, exploited, and brutalized.

That said, I really wish that I could come forward with a solution to the online sex trafficking problem.
>The goal of the legislation

The goal isn't relevant. Nobody opposes the goal of ending sex trafficking. The issue is passing laws that restrict freedom and seek to regulate the interpersonal behavior of adults at the point of a gun. Laws should be judged and scrutinized based on their actual impact, not the goals and desires of the people who draft them.
>I had never heard of this bill before today.

Who was going to tell you about it? Time, NYT, CNN, WaPo? Nope.
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Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to output my screen as mp4 embedded?
I am using Linux.

After googling for a while, it seems there is no way to display your screen as an embedded video and send the link to the page to your friends.

Can anyone explain why it's technically not feasible?
Good question... almost like they might not be telling you the truth when the say they are riled up about X because of Y. The silence on Z is deafening.
Even that's idealized - it's not likely a production ready revolution in battery tech simply appears out of thin air. (In fact, there have been a number of revolutions that haven't managed to scale up to production quantity.)
That headline is terrible. The DNC emails were not "Clinton's". The emails we have from Hillary Clinton were not hacked, they were released by Congress or in response to FOIA requests. There were two separate hacks of the DNC (leaked in July 2016) and John Podesta's email (leaked in October 2016), but those are unrelated.
There’s more than one data point showing that Uber should not be allowed near anything as safety critical as self driving software

They let a car on the road that couldn’t even stop at a red light ffs

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/25/14737374/uber-self-drivin...

The fact that they were allowed to deploy in Arizona after this is really regrettable

And it’s totally unsurprising that Uber “got the first kill”
But what this really does is lets the US government work with a foreign government to bypass US laws and process to do whatever they want to US citizens. This feature is designed to be used creatively. Trump is thrilled about it.
What we don't look at is how prostitution is tied to the financialization of higher education. We could end a lot more prostitution by forgiving student loan debt rather than using the police to intercede in between sexual partners to try to deduce their motives. If we make higher education free and forgive student loans the motivation to get money no matter what it takes will go away. There are escorts who got into the business to pay for medical school. We have driven the cost of education so high that students are willing to take amazing risks to avoid lifelong debt.
What kind of behavior do you mean by "the type of behavior"?
You are not as anonymous as you think when you are online - An IP address can easily identify a particular office in a government building

There are many, many cases where a journalist has tracked down specific wikipedia edits to a particular office or intranet in a government building all from their IP address

You can find a ton of stories with a quick google search:
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The pharmaceutical industry tries to save lives, for money. They're driven by greed. They also have a long track record of fucking up big time and people dying because of it. Does this mean we should stop giving people medicine? Would letting people get sick and die be preferable than allowing imperfect industries with a profit motive try and save them?
You jest, but the comparison is that we do drug tests at all, which we of course do. It's the same calculus. The math works out more in favor of being more aggressive in our pursuit of driverless vehicles as they kill more prime-age, otherwise healthy people.
Reading your question makes me wonder if you're tackling the correct issue.

- Why do you feel the need to work on the side to "leverage your skills" ? Your fulltime job should give you this opportunity.

- Why do you want to work with computers on your spare time ? Spare time is also a way to broaden your horizon. Go try new things, meet new people from different fields, etc. The fact that you describe yourself as having poor networking skills makes me wonder if you haven't spent a bit too much time alone in a front of a computer already.
Other big players have taken great pains to ensure that it wouldn’t happen in the first place

Uber should be banned from doing AI research on public roads
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The Administration has backed the push for it (in part, to resolve an ongoing legal dispute with Microsoft, who also supports it), so it's pretty hard (though given Trump's other rapid reversals, not impossible) to see Trump causing a shutdown by vetoing the omnibus spending bill over it's inclusion.
The Kindle is merely decent as an eReader, now that the Paperwhite is available and only for Amazon's proprietary format books.

If one wants to do something fancier like reading PDFs or free-hand annotations it quickly becomes clear that the Kindle is just a vehicle for Amazon's book business and they developed it exactly as much as it was necessary for that purpose.

Large format eReaders like Sony's DigitalPaper or the reMarkable show a glimpse of what's possible. There's no reason why such a device wouldn't be able to show and edit spreadsheets and also sync with some enterprise server or cloud.

But there are few customers that would be interested in that. The eReader market is propped by the eBook ecosystems, it's not at all a market where the devices offer a competitive advantage.

So... completely wrong analogy IMO.
Is there any evidence that Mark Zuckerberg has any actual foresight or insight on privacy, security or Facebook as a product?

If so, it never seems to be evident from outside the company when he needs to present himself.

All televised interviews of him shows a person who seems to lack any deep knowledge of the issues, the long term consequences of his decisions or strategic planning.

Based upon this (lack of) evidence, I increasingly think he was simply in the right place at the right time and hired good people to steer the company to where it has succeeded. In the end, Facebook's success is probably more due to people like Sheryl Sandberg. There seems to be a long-term Facebook PR strategy of keeping Mark out of the limelight so his incompetence isn't on display.
"What is a "traditional" way of meeting someone? Through your parents?"

Through friends, hobbies, volunteering, bars, clubs, parties, and various other forms of group entertainment like concerts, plays, etc.

Pretty much anywhere people meet face to face counts.
It’s not misguided, it’s deliberate. Broad restrictions on prostitution and adult services were wanted by conservatives based on family values, liberals are favoring regulations on speech due to identity politics. I’m sure both groups honestly want to help the trafficked, and they came together to both get what they want, and pat themselves on the back at the same time.
True. That is also because digestion for them is wonky (IIRC).

However, they are a predator. Look at mice or other small creatures, and you realize their entire existence is the search for food.
While I do get the sentiment, I'm not sure what's the recommendation. I do think there's more to it than gatekeeping, but what does someone who's REALLY interested in the topic and wants to change fields do? Get a second BS? I'm not familiar enough with education, but I'm under the impression that (at least within STEM -> STEM) it doesn't seem popular.
Please point to a single leaked DNC email that suggests the existence of election fraud.
because the bill was introduced and passed in under 24 hours!
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Rather than stopping undesirable activity, this will merely push it to platforms and protocol that are out of the US government's control.
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The difference here is that it's the acquired company that owes the debt, as opposed to the acquiring company owing a debt with the acquired company as collateral.
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I don't know how to say it kindly but there is a difference between "what" type of people the car killed. If the fatality was another rule abiding driver on the road or a pedestrian crossing at a crosswalk that would be really bad. However if it was someone not following the safety rules by j walking, then that person accepted upon themselves a higher probability of being in an accident. When making laws, for the most part, they are for the benefit of law abiding people.
The hacked emails were from the DNC, dated 2015-2016.

The deleted emails were on Hillary Clinton's private server, which she used during her tenure as Secretary of State, 2009-2013.

There is no connection between the two sets of email whatsoever. Remember when Donald Trump responded to the DNC leaks by asking the Russians to leak Hillary's deleted emails? Yeah. That's because they're not the same thing.
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"It has become clear to be that the internet is naturally monopolistic in a way physical institutions are not. One simply cannot move their gun channel, or the cigar trading forum to other sites and have a decent chance of maintaining even 10% of their customers."

That's funny - I thought that exactly the opposite was true.

The Internet (not particular sites, not AOL or "the facebook", but The Internet) is naturally un-monopolistic because you can, in fact, just move your video channel to your own website and do whatever you'd like there.

In fact, it's trivially easy to do so - you can probably accomplish the entire task using only your telephone.

If you feel that this is not the case I think you've made yourself fragile to services and processes that have nothing to do with The Internet.
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