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Someone that apparently works on Safari at Apple, posted some interesting comments about progressive web app features on Jan 24.

https://twitter.com/rmondello/status/956256845311590400

"iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4 include Service Workers — a powerful specification that allows background scripts to power offline web applications. iOS 11.3 also consults Web App Manifest when adding web apps to the home screen."

"Web apps saved to the home screen and web pages in SFSafariViewController can now use the camera to capture images!"

I'm hoping Apple finds that PWAs can actually start replacing native apps in 2018. Now that smartphones have so much extra processing and memory capacity. There doesn't appear to be any technical reason PWAs couldn't become the primary way that users install apps, with native apps being a rare necessity.
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Corporate tax exists in Germany,which is what I was inferring to - although I did use unfortunate wording. I'll edit that a bit.
Some companies may not accept the two week notice, and may ask you to leave immediately. This may be true even if you have a good manager or relationship with the company.

When I quit my job, I intended to give four weeks notice, and to offer to work part time for a month later if they wanted it. Manager took the offer to their upper-management, upper-management came back and said, "nope, two weeks max."

I had prepared for that, but did not expect it, at all. Generally speaking you should only give notice if you're also willing to leave that day.
The GrillFloss works pretty well:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PAV28E/
I'm not comparing it as an "actor thing", I'm comparing it as a server-side HTTP framework; the part I care about is not whether the implementation uses actors underneath, but whether the routing and logic can be expressed in plain old code that can be refactored according to the normal rules of the language, with full type safety, with the ability to handle effect-like types...

(I hate akka and actors, but as a user of akka-http you don't have to touch them.)
The "great disease swap" is a myth. By far the greatest cause of the destruction of indigenous American cultures was intentional actions by European settlers: massacres, war, starvation, displacement, kidnappings, alcoholism, and economic dependency.

Disease also played a role (although in many cases it was spread intentionally to accelerate depopulation or help win a war), but in modern narratives that role has been enormously emphasized, allowing us descendants of settlers to conveniently avoid taking responsibility for the institutionalized genocide that is at the heart of our culture.
Waiting a month is normal in some countries, like mine - Uruguay - if you want a particular make, color or optionals it's worse (they ship it via container from wherever it's produced and takes months).

In Argentina there was a time where slightly used cars sold for more than retail price simply because you had same-day availability instead of waiting for months.
Do so at your own peril. Google is approaching 100,000 employees. The vast majority do boring data pipelines for CRUD apps.

Top-tier company != top-tier employees.
What you describe here is the core essence of the Montessori teaching method: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

Very interesting to see this applied at a university level!
I wonder if it fixes the issue in iMessage where messages that have similar time stamps can get displayed in the wrong order.
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SAFECode updates its guide on secure software development practices
> Only if there was an HBO for sports too.

There are several. HBO itself is one of them. The sports on them are fairly limited, most notably boxing, however.
Why would you give companies this kind of consideration? Most will not certainly hesitate to walk you out the door when times are bad.

I have some friends who have told bosses they and leaving. By the end of the day they are told to pack their personal belongings and leave.

Two weeks is the law for an employee giving notice. There aren’t many laws protecting employees especially in Work at will states.
IDK, I think most of the people who invest heavily in building online personas in high school and college would make for pretty compelling entry level marketing folks.
Those types of statements are usually made by people who have never had to scrape by to survive for any major time period.

Work 6 months for minimum wage in a major city and you'll find what most people consider 'low wages' to be laughable.

Of course, you should do everything your power to have and maintain an emergency fund, but two years of savings is insane. Don't waste two years of life if you are unhappy in your job just because you're afraid of not finding new work. 6 months is a good target to shoot for.
I'm not patching up the definition -- I'm refusing to give a definition. As a consolation prize, I'm giving examples and discussing the degree to which they fit the central concept.

My stance is that "AI or not" is not an inherent way of dividing up systems in the universe. The best attempt to answer will provide a degree, rather than a binary yes/no. Further, the degree is based on utility to humans to think about the system that way. Thus no bright line, and a multitude of context-dependent factors that weigh towards or against it. If you must force a cut-off somewhere, then that threshold is context-dependent too.
Exactly. And also the mantra "electricity takes the path of least resistance". While that is true, some people seem to interpret it as "electricity only takes the path of least resistance" which is very wrong. Electricity takes all paths!
Considering this article is about the switch not being compliant, yes. Nintendo has quite a lot of experience making hardware, and they didn't get it right. Right now USB-c is a mess, and I'm not aware of any controllers on the market that are compliant and easy to use.
I think this magazine is quite bizarre, but on the other hand I think entrepreneurship starts young. My first 'business' was selling coke at my school. The coke machine cost $0.50 and I saw at Sam's Club you could get some massive box dozens of offbrand cola for ~$10. Keep them in a cooler, sell them at breaks for $0.25 - that was a ton of money for a middle school kid. Always wondered why more people don't take advantage of little market openings like this. Maybe a silly magazine can inspire people to think outside the box a bit more.
Hard Questions: What Is Facebook Doing to Protect Election Security?
Elon Musk may be a good visionary but it's astounding how bad he is at operational elements.

Steve Jobs was just as awful at this, the Macintosh project was nearly killed by his ridiculous manufacturing efforts. The resurgence of Apple was only possible with someone like Tim Cook who knew how to build a reliable manufacturing supply chain.

Elon should be focusing on finding his Tim.
I think he means that it's going so poorly that even a fanboy sub can't do anything but complain, which would be a pretty bad sign
Only for a smaller niche of commercial photography - the one that sells large fine art prints. You don't really need high resolution for billboards or posters - they are viewed from large distances. Magazines are not printed with that great quality. Even high quality photo books are more than fine with 20-30 megapixel shots.
You are aware Facebook pays well right?

Unless what you're saying is "Only 2 years?"
Same here, left same company, for similar reasons. It was also about advancement though. Once you’re at level 4 it takes god like technical skills and a lot of political showing-off to get promoted to level 5 or move into management. If you’re an “up or out” kind of person you’re going to be frustrated there!

Do you remember hearing the saying: “It’s easier to get hired at [other very selective tech company] than to move internally at Apple”? So true!
Strictly speaking, if they did that then making more money would make you poorer, because of progressive income taxes.
It seems to me that porcelain-enameled grates are becoming more common, even on cheaper grills. And yeah, that style of grate cleans a lot easier than the straight metal wire grate I've seen on older grills.
What real world are you referring to? Non-techies are not blown away by people who work at Google/Facebook/Apple. In my experience they are just always interested in the perks, etc.
How about we stick to the claim at hand instead of trying to spin the topic into more favorable avenues. The quote was:

> > Tesla has accomplished something no other automaker can claim: It's made a relatively affordable electric car.

Nobody is arguing that Tesla's vehicles have no merit, we're picking apart that absurd claim.
Checks out in my case. I can probably train a horse to do my job and yet they require 2+ years of experience with a B.S. degree for it.
You're forgetting they all read all the way through cracking the code interview, the most difficult math book in history.
According to EverythingApplePro's review of the final beta version [1] it is enabled in 11.3 (haven't checked that yet for myself, my device is still updating).

Edit: Unfortunately it seems that while it was present in the betas, they've removed it from the final build [2]. Pity.

[1] https://youtu.be/h2_zIoBvCRI?t=3m45s

[2] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-releases-ios-11-3...
The Bloomberg article is written in a very confusing manner (journalists these days) but I understood it means they are asking people to volunteer to switch from the S and X production lines to the Model 3 production line. Not to volunteer to work without salary. Perhaps I understood the article wrong?
I wonder if Netflix or Amazon prime will try to introduce advertising. I notice that they are sometimes inserting ads in the beginning of a movie/episode, but so far only to promote their new show offerings.
I'd kinda see it as a semi-red flag. Why would they leave a top-tier company to work for me? Why did they quit? Etc.
> Hosting from home is more than enough for a personal website. It cuts the gordian knot of deciding what types of speech and content will be allowed on any given service.

Cool, and then when I post something to my self-hosted blog that pisses someone off, my home internet gets DDoS'd and I lose my Internet access. It has happened before on IRC. I banned a user because they were spamming racial slurs, and they responded with a DDoS. I was offline for an hour while struggling to get someone on my ISP's support line that understood what it meant to force my IP address to change. Now I use an IRC bouncer in AWS to hide my home IP address.

> It allows you to add things to your site on a whim just by copying a file to your web directory or opening an text editor. All the tools of your operating system, this refined and extremely usable software is now just there. Now you don't need a database. No need for a CMS. No need for scaling or containers or 99.9999% uptime.

I think you misunderstand the reasons people use CMS. It makes it so I can just fill out a single text box and click "Post" and have all the indexes and links on the entire web site update automatically to include that post. I can allow people to write comments. I can create the ability for users of my site to search it.

And maximum uptime is still important. My home internet died shortly after I got to work a couple days ago, and I wasn't able to fix it until I got home. 10 hours of straight unplanned downtime is unacceptable for any server, even a personal website, IMO.

> And since you don't need all that abstraction, dynamic content, and CMS (your OS is the CMS!) the security problems everyone loves to jump on simply vanish.

The truth is quite literally the opposite. If I'm hosting it myself, and my server gets hacked, my entire home network becomes at risk.

> Say you want to monitor your logs, well, you don't need to go install some dynamic language parser and prettifier full of attack surfaces. You just tail the log and grep.

Uh...people can tail and grep logs from any server. You misunderstand there's a reason people use dynamic language parsers and prettifiers. Look at raw logs is awful. It's far easier to fire up a log analyzer and see "Oh, there are a lot of people making requests to X resource and it's creating a bottleneck."

> It's a beautiful thing and it solves so many problems that can't even be approached when you're using someone elses computer and someone else's connection.

It creates more problems than it solves. It puts my home network at risk. It makes me in charge of dealing with hardware failures. If whatever I'm hosting gets popular, and I can't scale.

> I just don't get the hostility to the concept I see on HN.

Because what you're proposing shows extreme naivete.
I was wondering where one can get such supplement... Here is the press release from the company that makes NIAGEN, the one that may have been used in the linked study: a "member of the vitamin B3 family. The body converts NR into Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD) which is an essential molecule found in every living cell." [1]

My usual question: how can a hacker produce that supplement on their own (for use by immediate family)?

[1] https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/03/29/1455390/0/...
People get a weird sentimental attachment to stuff. I used to have a lot of books, and looking through them would give me a good feeling, though I rarely read them. Got rid of most of them and haven't noticed their absence. But it feel bad getting rid of them. I can see why people accumulate a lot of things they never use, and why it looks weird from the outside. But, I don't want to end up on that 'Hoarders' show.
Outside of a life-altering sickness I see no way for someone who had worked for a top-tier tech company to go without employment opportunities for half a year, let alone two years.
> Only if there was an HBO for sports too. I hate watching those stupid ads when I watch live sports!

Funny, I came here to comment on my distaste for services, such as hbonow, that throw ads in front of paid content. They place ads for their other shows in front of the thing I’m trying to watch (at least, the web service does). I hate it and I am considering dropping my subscription as a result.
If the op is anything like those at bbqs I go to, chasing the kids around with a disgustingly dirty paddle while they scream with terror is part of the bbq.
As I read it, that post was a joke.
Click around that sub...
Why would you quit before finding a job? I work on a relatively mundane but desirable platform at a boring megacorp and get hit up by recruiters on LinkedIn weekly.
>Top-tier company != top-tier employees.

True, but it typically means top-tier interviewer...which would make it more difficult to discover areas where they are lacking.
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How dare they think of their own country! Those are trully irresponsible national leaders.
As I understood it, the author didn't really claim that working at such a company makes you a god or super hacker, just that it might give you such a reputation among certain circles (not you, but others perhaps) - which many people will derive confidence from. Seems like a reasonable statement.

The article seems to be less about what some objective truth about good jobs is but more about how people perceive themselves, others and their goals in life.
Then there's the part where Jerry asks "what are you gonna do?" And you tell Jerry "Go travel or maybe "do nothing but relax for a bit." And then you see the look of envy register in Jerry's eyes.

It's not hard at all. The author turned this into a slow dance of neurosis. A job at a big SV company is still a job that eats up the majority of your waking hours. Nobody find's themselves on their death bed wishing they had worked more.
> It absolutely does no such thing. Trust has nothing to do with technology and you'll never escape the need to trust real world, meatspace based institutions and humans. At the end of the day you are arguing "code is law", which is a pile of fresh horse manure, clear to anybody who saw what happened to The DAO.

Anecdotes are not arguments. You keep making statements, but providing no justification for them. You could say all of the things you just said about the internet in the mid 90s. And people did. And then in 2001, those people felt vindicated. But today, they look like the fools that they were.
Thanks. I'll wait till 11.3.3 :)
Wouldn't that be a nice universe to live in...
I hate that his self-driving vaporware/scam is more than a year late. Please prove me wrong too ASAP.
Flashes, and external lights are not really realistic in a busy restaurant environment. Majority of my shots are using natural light. I usually scope out places ahead of time, find the best seating by time of day, near windows.
What actually still constantly boggles me is the tooling for Windows.

There are so many things that would just need a better tool shipping with the OS to be fine, but are neglected (say: the event log (slow as hell and not nearly as comfortable as `less`. 'nuff said), the services dialog (still looks like in Win95, still can't auto-refresh, still has no useful search), notepad, PS ISE, the `scheduled tasks` dialog (still confusing as hell), even the effing task manager). Then there are tools MS actually owns (cf. Sysinternals) but refuses to distribute with Windows. And then, there are the new shiny things that get implemented to the point where they just barely work, and are never touched again (like the new terminal windows and workspaces in Win10).

I mean - especially the workspaces! Just give them to an intern and tell them to do the obvious improvements. They could be great, but they are still cumbersome.
I sure hope it does, because it was driving me crazy :). According to this review [1] it is fixed, but we'll see I guess.

[1] https://youtu.be/h2_zIoBvCRI?t=4m1s
Keeping an eye on your exposure to cooties, huh?

You're being downvoted because your reference to "girly things" makes you sound like an insecure child.
Only really cheap zoom lenses would max out at 24MP. Most lenses will have no problem with 100MP.

I'd say even 24MP is an enthusiast resolution. Most people are now fine with their smartphones, and the most they do is share their photos on social media sites in very low resolution.
um, cough .... Alex Keaton ...
You're not going to get better performance for OLAP than MemSQL's columnstore and in-memory rowstore for reference tables to join.

Citus is great if you want the Postgres interface but is still using standard rowstore tables. CockroachDB is similar with rowstore performance but with added distributed consensus overhead. They are both much better for OLTP and sharding. CockroachDB also provides easy high-availability and replication.
You'd be surprised, because a lot of Windows software developers do unholy things like plugging into undocumented APIs or modifying parts of the OS that should not be modified.

Previous leaks of Windows source have indicated Microsoft ends up putting in a lot of workarounds to give specific third party apps old functionality just because some app is popular and badly written and a fix for something else broke it.
I think many in this forum are at it to make money. So I sincerely doubt they'd have a problem with it. To me it's an emblem or icon if you will of what's going on in today's world. Value purely is existentially equated to money. To me that's bad. However is it as bad as everything else? No. Is it better than most everything else. Yes very much yes. Sucks to say because it makes me see the ugly realization of the actual capitalistic world we live in.
I'm not clear from the article that this is "random amounts" or even "of random cryptocurrencies." They just said "random wallets", which could mean a lot of different things.

Even if it is random cryptocurrencies, though, if they're smart, the amounts of each of said currencies should add up—at moment of sale, when converted to USD—to a constant amount. In that case, it'd be random ratios of each currency, to fill in a crypto "instrument." (Actually, I would expect this to be true if they have any business sense at all, since the only way to be able to do their books is if they can track their costs, which is only feasible if they have a fixed per-unit cost.)

Or, to put that another way, rather than a lottery per se, this might be more of a crypto-backed Collateralized Debt Obligation issuance where people don't get to know which tranch they're buying. (Which is legal, AFAIK; if it wasn't, the 2007 mortgage bubble couldn't have happened.)
2 weeks is the norm for regular jobs, but top tech companies are really struggling to fill top talent spots these days. While it is perfectly legal to give only 2 weeks notice, it's normally better to ask your manager how much time they'd reasonably need to fill your position, then have a conversation.

So, I'd re-phrase the original conversation as

"Hey Jerry, got a minute? Look, I don't think this is working out. I intend to give you a letter of resignation by the end of the day, but I want to discuss how much time you'd need to reasonably fill my position before I give my notice."

Then again, if you

1. hate your job, or

2. your manager is being unreasonable about how much time they need to fill that position, or

3. don't care about burning your bridges

Then go right ahead and give 2 weeks notice. It's up to you to decide how you want to frame the conversation.
> Did they pay taxes on the products they sold in Germany?

Almost not.

> If so, I'm not sure what your problem is with them?

Apple is probably the company paying fewest taxes of all companies in Germany. Normal mortals pay much much more taxes.

There is a difference between paying almost no taxes, and paying the same tax as everyone else. In the end small businesses can't move their money to Cayman islands or wherever and factually circumvent the law. We have a lot of old infrastructure which needs some money, like schools: http://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/schule/lehrerverband-fo... -> such buildings are not uncommon in certain areas.

One of the biggest newspapers and one of the most prestigious in Germany (Zeit) estimated that Europe lost alone over iPhone sales in the last five years 8 billion euro taxes.
The article uses the word "volunteer", but then it does not provide any evidence that the workers are not being paid. So I would use the word "employee"...
Obviously they can offer to pay their workers more for longer hours what's wrong with that??
Selective compression does seem like a pretty optimal approach.

> We found that in most cases a secret within a webpage can be described in terms of a classical regular expression.

Not sure I'd want to rely on a regex that identifies the right chunk most of the time..... that sounds fragile, easy to accidentally break with a routine update of the page. Explicitly tagging the secret portion seems like a more robust approach.
If you get the individual league streaming services, they often show "Commercial Break In Progress" across a semi-static image with no audio during ad breaks.
It depends on the security of supplier X's private keys.
I think there's a general conflation of the security of the cryptography with the security of the system overall.
My mother has an online business that has grown far beyond the capacity of her house / garage (which now includes 5 sheds in the yard for storage). She does the same, as storage facilities are still cheaper than a warehouse. She keeps an eye on commercial real estate as her business continues to grow, but in the interim, the storage facilities are as essential as they are affordable.
Not sure because I'm running 11.3 beta on my device and iMessage/iCloud integration is there working ok. It didn't make it into 11.3 release cut though.
I would leave, if someone made me do pair programming.