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> San Francisco is also somewhat unusual in that its metro area has a different name ("Bay Area").

I routinely use "San Franciso" to mean "the San Francisco Metropolitan Area." I assume "Bay Area" is more of a local thing.

There's nothing different about "how Australian's do cities" in the sense OP is talking about. You have a central "City of" and a lot of similar, or smaller sized "City of," "Town of," that compose the area we think of as "the city."
8 million units shipped in 4Q 2017. 57.5% year on year growth.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/01/idc-data-apple-watch-on-top-...
I remember when we made the transition in my country, about 35 years ago. My mother was pissed off that the government forced her to use the seatbelt. She got herself a doctor note stating she couldn't use it for medical reasons... And a little more recently, people were complaining when we had to wear it on the rear seats, or in buses.
So, we had this product (or the larger one anyway) demoed for my work and our takeaway was that only really large organisations could possibly use it. It needs to many human hands between writing an article and getting it published. We want to move to something more automated, and this system would have been a serious setback.
Just been through something very similar recently - it’s tough, but if your needs are not being met then you need to have that conversation - be as straight as possible and try to plan for an orderly transition.

Are you a founder or an employee?
You just described my previous workplace a little too well...
This is good insight, and I upvoted you for it, but it doesn't really answer his question. Validating your market is business speak for making sure that you won't lose a ton of money at launch, assuming your execution isn't horrible.

All you have to do is to collect some amount of interest through something like a landing page. It won't guarantee runaway success, but it won't break the bank either.
Assuming they set up signal protocol correctly, which I'm sure they did since Open Whisper Systems partnered with WA to set it up right, they're likely just sharing details on users' contact lists.

Considering Facebook owns WhatsApp this isn't surprising, they're definitely happy to share this information (ever seen someone in your FB "suggested friends" list after messaging them on WA?)

If they had pushed a different version of the app to Russia or there was a way of breaking message encryption I'm sure someone would have noticed by now.
These are common in China, too.

What does Greece has that I've never seen in China? T-shirts that have a seat-belt design printed on them, to fool police officers from afar.
You're right brew check out version 5.1. but in apt-get I use another ppa which brings version 5.9

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It's remarkably common in Greece - especially in the islands. My family lived there for 10 years, and I visited often. People would drive around with seatbelts left plugged in behind them, with the belt across their back. That included my parents, who would never dream of doing it in the UK (at least since the 80s).

It's a weird cultural thing
Why do you need so much permissions?

Do your app really needs:

run at startup

draw over other apps

read phone status and identity
?
Remember, the internet was a result of DARPA's work.
You can have a competitive environment without a profit motive. You judge on results, not profitability.
Shovels. The bicycle of the mind is selling people on something they want. The iPhone, aside from being a technological leap over other phones in the market, allowed people to feel better than others by the simple act of ownership. Everything in their repertoire revolves around selling more shovels. Remember the app store rush? What fueled it? The opportunity to make an app and get rich.
A large part of that I think is that Amazon got to the market first. That let them get into consumer hands earlier, and 3rd party Dev hands too. Thats given them an edge in support for most random home automation stuff and other services.
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I can’t speak for the other voice assistants but I use Siri purely for setting timers. If I try to ask anything remotely more adventurous it’s a crapshoot.

Something as simple as “Hey Siri turn the living room lights off” is often turned into a full discussion because it misheard “turn” and is too stupid to infer it from the rest of the sentence.
That sounds like a excuse to wave off government accountability.
> huge exception for the original iPhone

That was the case the original iPhone as well, I would say the iPhone really took-off on it's second version.
I just read that on iOS apps from the same developer can share sandbox data. That means the facebook app can read the whatsapp message history. [1]

[1] https://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Entwickler-Facebook-k...
Does a blockchain alternative to sci-hub exist yet?
That's my point. We've nornalized the abnormal. We've turned (potential) illness into a massive (pun intended) market for self help "gurus" (e.g., Oprah).

95% of the messages are: eat what you want, what matters is you still love yourself." Too few add that the extra weight is unhealthy.
Or maybe from someone who doesn’t like Russian twitter bot armies that try to destabilize the rest of the world? I’m pretty confident the Russian twitter users who provide meaningful content will manage to evade a block.
Melbourne's transport system is indeed largely built around getting everyone along spokes into the CBD.

Sydney is a slightly different beast though. Its transport problems stem from a mixture of geography, history and lack of/inept planning.

Its roads are generally thinner and crazier due to being a more "organic" in its early planning compared to melbourne (which is built in a planned grid). Sydney literally tore up and destroyed one of the biggest tram networks in the world and converted the roads to automobile.

Meanwhile the combination of the harbour, sea to the east, blue mountains to the west create an increasingly geographically constrained city. Transport options are severely limited out to the eastern suburbs (cynically, partly by desire, they are also the wealthiest suburbs in general). Contrasted with melbourne, which is built on a massive flat plain around a bay, Sydney terrain encompasses hills and valleys to a far greater extent further limiting the engineering options.

Finally, sydney's main airport is comparatively close to the main CBD (almost half as close as melbourne's) which is further limiting the available land within the central area, and resulting in requirements to build a second airport out west to try to increase air capacity to the city.

The result, along with australia's cultural and historical proclivities is a city almost in constant congestion, highest house prices, and with easily the longest commutes in the country. (keeping in mind when viewing comparable stats, that although sydney is out in front, I felt many sydney-siders will rationally try to compensate/substitute their travel times to avoid the congestion).

Lived in both myself. All major cities have congestion, but its at another level in Sydney compared to the other Australian cities. The culture in the office of "accepting crazy travel times to get into work" was insane.
They would just blacklist IPs or whole subnets. How would domain fronting help exactly if even US cloud providers surrender under Russian government threats?

Other service called Zello avoided blocks by changing IP addresses on AWS until Russian government gave command to block 13,5M of Amazon IPs [1]. On next day Amazon simply forbid them to change IPs.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/russia-asked-isps-to-block-13-5-mil...
> The core problem is Congress and the requirement they put is the USPS that they prefund 75 years of pensions. A requirement placed on no other institutions in the US.

Why is this? Did the USPS have some kind of retirement funding scandal, or was someone trying to smother it?
In the same article they say the market of wearables also has less choice and other makers are already pulling out.
So, in your opinion was it better than Facebook?
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Supper clubs are quite popular here in Europe. We have excellent sanitation and literacy, thank you.

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/germany/articles/discover-...

In addition to the fancy ones in the articles there are a lot that are cheap and emphasize dining together with strangers. I went to a Syrian refugee dinner in a cafe/film theater. The Syrians were all smart college grads with interesting stories.

There used to be a lot of squats in Berlin that were given legal status as long as they did a community dinner once a week. Punk bars and cafes would serve vegan chow for €2. It wasn't like a restaurant at all, more like visiting friends. Probably this still happens but I haven't gone in a long time.
It is a high end speaker. Audio testing has confirmed that.

But it isn't designed to be a replacement for a 5.2, 7.1.4 etc system. But a pair of them with an AppleTV could absolutely be your 2.1 system for watching Netflix and listening to Apple Music.
> Can you point to the source? I've been a SpaceX fan for a long time and never heard him say that.

Source is from the 2016 International Astronautical Congress talk in Mexico [1]:

> And I should say also that the main reason I'm personally accumulating assets is in order to fund this. So I really don't have any other motivation for personally accumulating assets, except to be able to make the biggest contribution I can to making life multiplanetary

[1] http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/making-humans-a-multiplan...
Well, I'd have nothing against links in comments either.

My issue is really the spreading of viral links, fun and memes, or inflammatory posts, all that have become so common with time at least in my feed.
I would question that. Rutracker is supposed to be blocked by order of Roskomnadzor, but many isps here still are able to reach it. This happened almost a year ago so it's not a matter of propagation, it's just poor or lack of enforcement.

Telegram is also exceptionally popular here, so I have trouble believing it will stick or do anything in the first place.
They aren’t going to iterate it into a $30-$50 product.

Amazon and Google are going to sell hundreds of millions of their devices, which will allow them to improve their AI globally.

Personally, I think the Dot is smarter than Siri. I still try to throw a few questions to my iPhone and Apple Watch, but like Apple Maps, it’s a less than satisfying experience.

I need to get my girlfriend the Echo so I can stop the “Hey Siri, ...Hey Siri, ...Hey Siri” moments.
Right - I think the money quote is this one:

""The idea that you can reverse the job centralization process by suggesting adding two new cities ... then (saying) it will happen, is somewhat fanciful, I think," says Searle."
I think Siri is better than Alexa, worse than Google. Apple’s lockdown on the api makes it less useful in some ways, but I think it handles queries better. Alexa seems formulaic to me.

Google is under appreciated — imo its way more capable.

HomePod Siri is dumber, which 10x the irritation.
That strikes two flies with one clap.
Why not use cameras?
I may be ignorant on this, but don't many of those countries benefit by the r&d funding happening in the US?
But that isn't a statement at all on the strength of the wearables market.

It is just as likely to be a repeat of the smartphone market where we saw that Apple's ability to take all of the margins from an industry caused competitors to exit.
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No. A seller is only responsible for what you can negotiate after inspection. Which is why it is critically important to have a good inspector.

The only homes to have any sort of clawback are new constructions. Which are warrantied for about a year.
I thought the reference was to The Pirate Bay.
I already know many people who simply plug a mouse/keyboard combo on their mobile device via USB/BT and it works like a charm.
Inner platform effect is different but often teams will do both.

The inner platform effect is usually data driven in a "we'll just code this once and generate dynamic code" sort of way. The dream of the inner platform effect is often to automate the production of these 23 useless layers.
I think both your viewpoint and the one you replied to are reasonable. One way to keep you both happy would be to make targeted advertising opt-in or -outable. This would be my preference.
They are users too, what's the surprise?
Would putting everything on sci-hub on IPFS help?
I'd prefer to see the HomePod compared to the speaker market. I would bet that it sells better than Sonos.
I suspect the magnetic field around a power line is thousands of times more powerful than earth's magnetic field.

It would likely overload the birds senses and not be a pleasant experience.
Looks interesting, I'm taking a look!
Well my friends who pirate just hoard the money they would otherwise be spending. If you're at the point where spending on entertainment would come out of money, that you would otherwise spend on something more worthwhile, you shouldn't be watching movies and listening to music in the first place! You should be working and bettering your economic position!

Not everyone can afford to have fun and that's ok. Some people's place in life is to be workers.
I'm using telegram and I have never encountered illegal content, I suppose you have to actively looking for it
> huge exception for the original iPhone

There's quite a lot of revisionism (completely understandable) that takes place about the original iPhone, but the iPhone only really got going with the second gen.

The iPhone is probably _the_ case study for not writing off Apple in the first gen of its product. Writing in 2006, many of the predictions why the iPhone would fail seemed perfectly reasonable (high cost, carrier subsidies, impossibility of simplifying the phone interface [1]), and it's only in retrospect that they seem ludicrous.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/iphone_will_fail/?p...
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Yes, I'm actually on Vero! I'm a bit concerned about the backing (the people behind it) and their ideas about funding but hey... It's at least something, it's a try to fix maybe especially Instagram. I'll never be all too hard on people trying to fix things.
This is the president who invited the FBI director to a private dinner and said “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.”

Mob boss seems right.
Even though most people won’t use everything, all c++ programmers will need to understand RAII, manual memory management, lifetimes, effects of inheritance and some* undefined behaviour. We’d probably take people with C experience, and maybe Some D or Rust, but really for a mid level C++ job we wouldn’t accept much less than C.

Funny that you mention linkers, as they’re a bit of a minefield. Lots of the behaviour of linkers is platform (and implementation) dependent, I.e. are you building a shared library or an exe on windows or linux, and there are different gotchas for all of them. We wouldn’t expect people to know al of those things, but it definitely helps when it comes up, and you don’t have the same problem (ODR violations come to mibd) in many other languages...
Europe proves you wrong.
Probably because it forces them to buy and hold long-term US debt.
I never stopped using RSS. Currently between theoldreader and feedbin.
Yes. The original iPhone was: Firs, a big wow. Then a longer series of disappointments over the next few months. I remember I didn't buy the first iPhone because you could not write apps for it for the first 9 months or so (Just with JavaScript or a hacked version of XCode). And it was slow and could not do many things that other phones could do at that time.

Bought an Android soon after and so far, I have stayed. But that might change, because of the different privacy policies of the two companies.
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Siri is available on Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS and Macs.

So Apple also will sell hundreds of millions of devices and allow them to improve their AI globally.
> If you can find a good tech job

Finding one job is easy. However what's the contingency if that job goes (bust, relocate, get fed up with the politics, etc)

People seem to flock to major tech hubs because they are more likely to be able to find a replacement job. There's less competition for jobs in Brisbane, but there's fewer jobs available, and it's harder to leave one job on Friday and start a new one on Monday.
Your heart is in the right place, but that idea will fall flat when compared to existing social networks.
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It likely depends on the size of the child, the type of seat and the type of car (how much space you can leave begind the seat as the child grows longer). With my second I got a better seat that probably added another 10cm.
It’s always the same issue when trying to compare Apple products vs others. Apple sell a lot directly to customers via their own on-line and physicals stores.

So before Quaterly results sales figures are pure speculation from analysts (and to be even worse Apple often don’t even reveal précises sales figures for new segments, melting number in the "others" category).

On the other hand competing manufacturer don’t do a lot of direct sales and communicate sales to resellers (so a sales don’t mean the product was actually bought and used by a real customer). Meanwhile Tim Cook was the architect of a zero stock policy so for Apple sale figures, every unit produced are put into a real customer hands.

So at the end of the day it’s usually only after one or two year after Apple entered a new market that you can really mesure success. In case of success Apple can’t hide benefits of the new line in the "other" category and you start to have real metrics. And if competitors stay on resellers inventory you start to see big discounts while their financials results decline.

In case of Apple faillure (like "fatboy" iPod or the "tin can" MacPro) Apple let the product slowly die and ultimately revamp it’s product line. Meanwhile competitor financial trajectory is unnafected.
Antivaccers here? I expected better, but I see you have been rightful down voted.
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I am not sure if I understand you correctly. I for sure am very uncomfortable about giving my email address and phone number together with my full name and address to third parties without my consent. I regularly get "invites" from LinkedIn. I don't like to be in their database and I never consented to that. LinkedIn surely will get some uncomfortable requests after May, 25th.
Where have they been shown to be useless?
Also fun idea, why should you have a cupboard to store your china and silverware etc in?

Why not just have the washer also be the storage, then you just walk up to it and select e.g. plate + fork on the frontend and it spits out a clean pair for you. When you're done you place them back in and they're washed and stored for later use.

Same for the clothing, although in that case one might argue that a lady might enjoy the display of the product and wants to physically see them.

Ideally in the (small) house of the future the tighter packing allowed by the machine might be a great advantage.
No, they sell shovels. Being a food delivery driver makes for some good quick cash in the form of tips (I used to deliver pizzas when I was young).
I should disclaim this with: I've only spoken to people who have looked into this. I can't guarantee it's correct, but it's the situation as I know it currently. It's also assuming cold backups that are not processed in any way that accesses the should-be-removed data

You don't need to remove data from backups in realtime but you do need a system in place to re-delete data after a backup restore that previously had a removal request made against it.

From what I've heard so far the best method is some form of GUID that means nothing when there's no data attached to it but can be used to identify user records that need removing if they re-appear during a backup restore

Naturally, you'll want to make the please-delete-these-GUIDs table more redundant than the rest of what you've backed up
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Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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I think all countries could learn from each other, and indeed will have to if humanity is to move forward as a whole, but people sadly seem to fixate on the bad points of “others” or are too arrogant to adopt the good points from others.
this is why can't have nice things.

why doesn't goldman sachs just grow humans and harvest their organs?
Australian cities do tend to have poor public transport, but I don't think the kind of issue you mention will go away, even as transport is improved.

In London you quite often have the same issue, and that's a city with excellent public transport coverage (albeit a much more populous city). I have a friend who lives only 5 miles from where I used to live, and transport between our places often involved 2-3 changes, and could easily take 1.5 hours.

It's interesting you cited Melbourne, as I think it's the Aussie city generally considered as having the best public transport.
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I just have come back from a two days conference with a decent program. It was about Javascript, APIs, ML. and although I was familiar with most of the stuff, I wanted to spot new trends, new technologies, etc.

But it was actually pretty disappointing. It was not a cheap conference at all. But I found a lot of bluff. A lot of twitter-"prima donna"-speakers talking more about themselves than the technologies, motivational talks ( I appreciate the value of motivational talks, but they were out of context as the conference was rather targeted to enterprise folks who could spend the money on it ), promotional talks ( i.e. the typical brands selling their clouds ), and very few stands...

Maybe I should have spent more time researching but this was a 1st event and the organisers are seasoned (devoxxx or NFJS like ). But I ended up with the feeling that the moneys could have been invested in something better.

So, I wanted to ask this community. What are the tech conferences that give the best value for money these days?

Edit: Changed the title. To be clear, because otherwise the scope would be too broad, I'm interested about software conferences spanning multiple days or multiple tracks. Not regular meetups, or hackahons or single day small events. Thanks!
What about something you just bite onto (a bit like a boxer's mouthguard) that cleans your teeth while you're doing something else?

Then it's down to effectively 15 seconds.