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Like so many things Americana, it's about quantity over quality. Our bathrooms aren't as well engineered as European bathrooms, but they are plentiful and spacious. It's MUCH harder to find a public bathroom in Europe, and I am sure cost is an issue.

And I actually prefer the American bathrooms. I often refer to European toilet stalls as "fart coffins" given how claustrophobic and un-ventilated they are. If you can get over the idea that other people in the bathroom are pooping (gasp!), they are perfectly fine.
"It will also prevent apps from using Facebook Login to collect users' personal information, including details like their religious or political views, relationship status, education and work history, and more.

...

In an alarming revelation, he said that recent investigations into data privacy have revealed malicious actors cycling through hundreds of thousands of IP addresses in order to search for users by their phone numbers and scrape their public profile information.

Until now, users have had to opt out of making their profiles searchable by phone number. Most, Zuckerberg said, never opted out.

Though the CEO accepted blame for all of these data privacy and trust issues, saying, "It was my mistake," he also often put the onus on Facebook users to know better.

He mentioned, for instance, that the only information that bad actors would be able to scrape using a phone number was information that was public on Facebook user profiles.

Of the researcher who built the data-scraping app for Cambridge Analytica, Zuckerberg said, "Yes, he broke the policy, he broke people's expectations, but also, people chose to share that data with him."

And yet it was Zuckerberg and the company he built that made people's data privacy settings so open by default, and made it difficult to find, understand, and adjust those settings."

[ Poll: Is "open by default" congruent with "privacy by design"? ]

Source:

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-exposed-87-million-user...
> He's not telling people to not learn things or advocated changes to the language.

That's something he should be explaining himself instead of giving random advices about what he considers "good practices". Neither you or him did elaborate nor give justifications to your beliefs. And that's the biggest issues. According to my experience, there is nothing wrong with `class` and or `this`.

These are features a Javascript developer should be comfortable with or they are not Javascript developers, because they are used everywhere in the JS ecosystem, including DOM api.

It's very telling when you people never elaborate on what's wrong with `class` and `this` and just seem to repeat ready made talking points about what's `considered harmful`...
> It's bad enough that I have to disable tap-to-click

The crazy thing is that the "full" click is entirely simulated. I don't use MBPs anymore but the only place I had to turn off that feature was there as well.
A Module-System Discipline for Model-Driven Software Development
> Successful defensive gun use happens, but it's the exception to the rule

Reliable studies show defensive gun use in 100k-1 million incidents per year in the US.

https://fee.org/articles/defensive-gun-use-is-more-than-shoo...

That's not "exception to the rule".
They missed a much simpler solution that will solve the issue. A nice cheap roll of electrical tape. Cover that sucker up and never look back.
Yea, i found this pretty odd from the beginning. It's like allowing a business to operate and cracking down on accurate street signs.
Prima facie.
Finally, the truth of a fridge magnet I've had since last century makes itself apparent: I'M NOT MYSELF TODAY — MAYBE I'M YOU
Not if these people are terrorists or enemy combatants.
Oh, I misread it as a secret for Twitter (which, I guess, makes no sense, because tweets are generally public).. and I was wondering how the password got updated on the Twitter side. So I guess, naturally, secrets can only be rotated for AWS services that support it.
That's the thing that always bugs me, the vast majority of the items that I end up with on the todo list after a review would cost $0 or very little to get right.

Super frustrating. And you can't even rely on things staying fixed either, you have to review periodically or it will be back to square #1 within the year.
This is arguing dishonestly, as you presumably understand the difference between using examples to illustrate a principle, and a direct comparison. Why not just address the point, instead of being “outraged” by his presentation?
Books that I'm currently reading.
> In an interview in November, Mr. Schmidt acknowledged “a general concern in the tech community of somehow the military-industrial complex using their stuff to kill people incorrectly, if you will.” He said he served on the board in part “to at least allow for communications to occur” and suggested that the military would “use this technology to help keep the country safe.”

I have a sneaking suspicion that Mr. Schmidt's views on what constitutes "killing people incorrectly" and what is required to "keep this country safe" both differ fairly significantly from those of the signatories of the letter.
Thoughts 1) a lot of this sounds like a fishing expedition 2) Asian-Americans certainly face discrimination in other walks of life 3) “But what about Asians?” is pretty much like “But what about black-on-black crime?” of conservative talking points trying to deny the reality of race in America.

In short, this is a devious way of disrupting affirmative action and I’m simultaneously impressed and horrified.
it can be both
I'd like to use this thread to discuss ideas about web browsing using only a keyboard, no mouse.
Like the ability for citizens to effectively defend themselves as granted under the 2nd amendment? Or do you just mean the police, which attempts to protect people against crazy people of any sort.
The most important part:

> In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people — mostly in the US — may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
The "open" design makes sense in schools in my opinion, but not really in, e.g., a professional environment.
I mean... yes?

That is where the saying comes from.
Periscope the whole thing, no matter how long. I'm sure it will be insightful beginning to end. I will try to be there. I suggest reaching out to the Bitcoin Meetup guys. We meet up at El Rio once a month https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bitcoin-Social/
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Given more than 70% of ownership is by investors, I have to disagree. These aren't companies or people interested in Facebook's reputation among employees, they're interested in the stock price.

Yes, it's beneficial to have more talent and better PR if they were to do that - but I'd say it's much easier to spend 1B/yr on positive PR and influencing developers than it is to lose out on 10B in revenue and 4B in profit (based on their 2017 numbers).
This is the classic cycle, that happens for 'decentralized' services like email:

1) Design decentralized service, with low barriers to entry

2) Jerks start using the service for bad things that make life miserable for the rest of the users.

3) To combat the spam, some service providers start creating whitelists of which other service providers they will talk to

4) People flock to those service providers, because they are the only ones that aren't flooded with spam.

5) Holdouts end up HAVING to switch to one of those providers because they are the only ones anyone talks to.

6) The service is no longer decentralized in practice

I don't know how we get around this problem. These people complaining about not being able to send cryptocurrency emails through mailchimp are complaining about the centralization of the service, but most end users are thinking, "I am really glad I dont have to deal with the spam they are trying to send me."

Most people WANT some barriers to entry for services, because without them, spammers will always win.
Oh god, or the having to 'tip' (pay) to use the toilet. Like, dude, I don't need you to wipe everything inbetween every use, you're holding up the line, it's cool.
Does anyone have real world use cases for this? The ls example ends too early but I think I know what they're getting at.

wsh looks amazing for dynamic analysis though.
>"The most bloody and horrible ideology in the world – communism"

Please provide some support for that deeply subjective statement.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-com...
Oh definitely, we have a huge credibility grind to get through. We have the benefit of a successful exit doing hosted DBs at scale, at least, and I'm not sure I ever would have jumped into something like this otherwise. It's big hairy infrastructure, and really expensive to even get started.

For bigger companies, one of my pet theories is that they're going to want to run private edges. Shared infrastructure at every other level is passé, the trend is really to "own" the OS on up. This is part of why our runtime is open source, it's a reasonably good way to get into bigger companies thinking about these problems that don't want to be exposed in the next "bleed" event.

We're running in 15 datacenters at the moment which is (a) way more than most companies can manage and (b) not nearly as many as Fastly/Akamai/CloudFlare/*CDN. So I think we're in a good spot to win devs and startups over. And again, open source. We all love our OSS runtimes. :D

(note: I was a tremendous Etherpad fanboy)
Yea "devious" if you're not Asian. Affirmative action is a garbage policy. It should be predicated directly on financial means instead of race.
Yes, but pressurization adds cost and risk. There's also the issue of water outside the domicile; now we need pressurized water bottles (or whatever). We need pressure suits.

Think of that - in our Venus cloud city, humans can wander around outside without pressure suits (though they still need breathable air and protection from other environmental hazards). No pressurization is needed inside facilities. Machines designed to function in Earth's gravity and pressure will work on Venus (ignoring other significant environmental issues). Venus, in that regard, is more economical and safer than Mars. I don't know how that balances with other costs and risks of the two planets.
Cost, most likely
With all these lock downs, it looks like we are back to the great cat and mouse game of web scraping.
Sincere question: what do you mean by "other populations"?
Do bidets shoot soap up there? Should they? :D
Huh, I just assumed it was the same specs just without touchbar. That blows.
That is a fabulous analogy. I think we'll have something interesting in the next few months, maybe we'll even get the honor of popping up on HN again!
> Someday

My SO is a teacher, it's been going on for a long while now.
The french rights pronounced by the French Revolution had nothing to do with the idea of a Creator and were very similar in concept with many of the Founding Fathers'. So this does not seem like a reasonable argument to make.
I've been told retinal damage from exposure to IR usually is cumulative.
The most racially discriminatory policy at Harvard remains the alum/legacy system.
Embezzling is a poor comparison. This is Nestle getting legal permits to pull from a well.

A better comparison would be if you invoiced Michigan for 1/2000th of their GDP and the state and local governments paid it. In that case, I'm fine with it.
The second amendment is not there solely for self defense, its main reason is to be there to protect citizens from an overpowered government. The only people trying to pull the 2nd amendment are centrists/liberals (the corporate parties).

Gun rights are a popular idea on the right and the far left. I was surprised to learn Marx's positions on the removal of guns from the working class.
Seems like a situation where Harvard is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t.
Just like you don't need to spend hours trying to run Linux on a laptop. I'd say 20 minutes is enough in general, depending on how you install it. Quicker when using a fast network connection, slower when you first have to get a distribution.

But wait, this is not all you get, there is more. You can choose which desktop you want to run, you can install application software at the same moment, you can either start working or start tinkering, whatever fills your need or desire.

One thing you generally do not have to do: start tinkering around to get a working Escape key. OK, I said generally, those who bought a computer without one may have no other choice than to join the article writer in his quest for sanity.

Did I mention all this comes for free?
The whole point of it being E2E encrypted is that you don't need to audit the server. As long as it's implemented correctly on the client, both users verified the shared key out-of-band, and both users have enabled the option to warn when the shared key changes, the most the server can do is traffic analysis or denial of service.
not only that, but display a banner warning at the top of the page that tells the user the the page contains zero-width characters.
What's so wrong with pointing out someone else's absurdity?
Big fan of the show, I've watched four seasons in six months.

I like it for two reasons: 1) I do learn about business, retail, making deals and dealing with conflict. And 2) It's uplifting and inspiring to see how much people fuck up and still almost making it. Many of the business did quite good at some point.

Obviously it's TV and I don't expect it to be 100% real, fact based and neutral. But I do think it's better than most "reality" TV-shows.
agar said that not all gun control advocates want to repeal the second amendment, not that there aren't any gun control advocates who want to repeal the second amendment.
> Apple can add additional keys to iMessage messages and thus view them in transit - they say this themselves in their own security white paper

I just read the section on iMessage (from around page 49) and I can’t see where this is written. Can you point to the part where they say this?
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Usually it's not possible to close the door flush without locking it, so an open stall will have the door ajar. People only push on the door when they are all occupied.
If you want to die on a ship, it's simple: step over the side on a dark night. No one will ever know what happened. No need for complex plans involving weather, your crew, machinery failure, etc.
You all don't have 'trough' urinals either. The US and Australia both use them frequently in high traffic areas, but the Aussie floor-to-wall version is a lot 'easier' to use and clean.
I think it's a bad idea to self-experiment with electricity and the brain. See "Popular electric brain stimulation method used to boost brainpower is detrimental to IQ scores"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150505152140.h...
So maybe it should do the fair thing.
> Sincere question: what do you mean by "other populations"?

HN does not provide a representative view of any group other than "HN readers".

It doesn't even do a great job of representing programmers, or people who work in tech. So if you come to HN and expect the things you read to be representative of any group broader than that, you'll end up pretty far off the mark.
I wonder if there's a way to take over another VT so you don't have the console text over your images.
My sense would be they are just implying that HN is overwhelmingly white, which wouldn’t be surprising.
Facebook's new data-sharing policies are crashing Tinder
Although I expect you're presenting a contrived example, I find that syntax horrible. In your example it provides no additional value, and requires more typing. And more thinking to parse.
While I am not against the idea of Affirmative Action as a whole, some more thought needs to be put into fairly creating its classifications.

Discussions about breaking down ethnic data into more granular countries and incorporating more socioeconomic factors need to be more strongly considered before implementing something like this.

Eg. The median Indian American isn't the same as the median Vietnamese American. And neither are the opportunities for kids growing up in two different cities in America.
> it's just syntatic sugar around the prototype model.

No it allows "super" late binding, something you cannot do with functions and prototypes. It's not just "sugar".
That's amateur level stuff for modern marketing, have you seen this article back from 2012 on how Target can figure out that you're pregnant and send you ads for maternity stuff before you've told anyone at all, just by watching what you buy?

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

Given how Target shut that guy up, you have to figure they're doing even more along those lines nowadays.
Thanks for the review, I have my eyes set on The Reasoned Schemer(https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer-second-editi...) if I ever feel like learning more about logic programming, maybe after that I can give The Art of Prolog a go :)
> I think it's kind of hilarious that the users of HN are outraged that FB and Instagram are even a thing, while simultaneously outraged that they're taking steps to close potential leaks of the personal information of their users.

Yeah, it's almost as if HN was a plurality of diverse individuals with different needs and opinions and not a single entity with a single opinion on everything. Who would have thought?
> What did your country do to make others hate it?

You have a very simplistic view of geopolitics.

What did Poland do to Germany in 1939 to make Germany hate it? What did the Jews do to the Nazis to make them hate them so much?

Wars get started for all kinds of reasons, some predictable, others not. It's a simple matter of survival to equip yourself as best you can to defend yourself.
Three seashells?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7nFEnFtvCM
> Edit: as someone else noted, this is less than one swimming pool's worth of water per day.

We're talking an olympic size swimming pool @660k gals each day, not the backyard type which is probably 1/6 the size [1].

Also rates matter. It's not how much is there, it's the depletion rate - recharge rate (families probably don't use nearly that much per day, so over time it would be many many olympic sized swimming pools).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool
eh, in AI we called it 'overfitting', which means you optimize so much for one dimension/set of problems, that you end up with a one dimensional trait distribution.

Asian-Americans score great in standardized tests, (for both genetic and cultural reasons), but high SAT scores soon becomes a problem of 'overfitting', where SAT scores are a great indicator of success in life, they are still only one dimension of success indicator.

If you create a system where it accepts/rejects candidates only on one dimension (SAT scores), you will soon end up with a flawed system. Also, spending all your time in studying standardized tests, will make you overfitted in one dimension. Real life is not one giant standardized test.

AI 102

As for colleges they should have a transparent admission criteria, as right now it is very subjective and will be obviously been seen as flawed.

Eg.

30% is SAT Scores

30% is your high school gpa

20% is you curriculum and activities

20% is other shit we think is important, etc...

then you will know where you stand
Replace with:

(1) I am from $region_X and I went to $region_Y

(2) $region_Y'ers do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing

(3) The cause must be a character flaw shared by all $region_Y'ers (<insert stereotypes of choice here>).

and your statement is still valid about this formula.

I think we tend to preferentially notice them when we're in one of the two regions involved, but in general the world (and so the internet) is full of this sort of semantically null comparisons about culture and stereotypes. I've started seeing these as idle chatter akin to "Hey, look at that weirdly painted bus". At most I'd respond with "oh heh cool" but I'm not going to spend any more of my energy trying to explain choices of bus colors to anyone.
Is there one of those you’d recommend?
Hm, I wonder if this might possibly be related to an issue I've seen in production with docker - of a container being killed by the oom killer... But only on server boot.
Not OP, but I’ll just observe that HN does have a recognisable political slant. Not everyone on it shares the views of that slant, but if you haven’t noticed it’s presence, it’s probably because you do share those views.
Do eink displays have decent pixel density yet? The last time I used an eink was in 2012 and looked terrible by modern standards
Swimming pools are huge and not often emptied. Homes usually pay ~$6,000 to fill a pool. 576,000 gallons / day is ~6000 people's daily usage.

Wells have specific recovery rates. I don't know whether the amount they're pumping will exceed that rate-- environmental studies should include that information.
For new technologies, adoption curves can vary wildly, and for different reasons. When it comes to clean tech, PV and wind specifically, the adoption is dominated by sunsetting investments over a long horizon.

Other types of tech have much faster adoption cycles due to the lower cost of substitution. For each peak-hour kWh from PV comes at an increased cost of non-peak-hour kWh from non-PV (whether storage or generation).
Same, but I always remap Caps Lock to Control since I use the emacs keybindings. Using other people's laptops is really disorienting now, but worth it :)
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A quick and dirty hack for this in Chrome:

- Right-click > Inspect on the menu bar

- Move over the DOM nodes until the header is highlighted correctly

- Hit backspace

- Use delete if you were overzealous in your deleting
with lots of help from France...
> I realize every country does this but it is as much or more about projecting power all across the globe as it is defense.

I disagree that "every country" does this. Many countries in Europe and Asia do not use their defense forces as a tool for attacking other countries and getting involved in regional conflicts that were only affecting people in those countries. And countries that do it are usually just "helping" US-lead invasions of countries (an example would be Australia -- the single reason we were ever in the Vietnam War was because of the US).

(While I may be a biased given that America bombed my home country and engaged in a "peacekeeping mission" when I was a child, for a civil war that had been going on for many years and had nothing at all to do with the US, I never understood how Americans can see invasion of other countries as being anything other than that.)
That's what we end up getting when we fall for the fallacy of "diversity". It leads to unsolvable problems since there's an infinite series of variables necessary to enforce diversity, and no solution will ever be considered fair on all of those. So yeah, it's completely bullsh*t if anyone thinks hard about it for more than 2 minutes.
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