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I'm an advocate of change. However, you are not a free man. No one forced this situation on you but that is another story.

Here is what I'll do to regain my freedom.

- Figure out the cheapest/best (aka best quality/price) location in your country. There is certainly a place with low taxes, low cost of living, good schools and cheap housing.

- Figure out the dollar amount to survive on that location without you working a single hour. (ie: $50k)

- Figure out how much you can make, passively, on investments in the stock market or otherwise. (ie: 15% of your capital)

- Figure out how much capital you need. Put 1/1.5 years costs ahead.

Have the capital? Move and never look back. Life is short, don't waste it chasing expensive doors and meter squares. If you are spending your hours doing a job you don't like to overspend on a hot real estate market; then you can do better.

You have a family. You got the social part figured out already.
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Craig Wright would be correct if not for the information that the dishonest miners found the "next" block. If anyone could have found the next block and the dishonest miners simply found a block at t=0 then the expected time for the honest miners to find a block would be at t=5 minutes.
>The advantages C++ has for application-level programming are useless in this domain.

ESR was recently making some generalized observations in this direction: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804
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The existence of phenomena like this and the demoscene made me realize that there are levels of programming skill that I will never be able to reach. Kind of disheartening, but still neat to watch other people do it.
>Even in this very late stage of autonomous vehicle development, it is still very unclear who the winners are.

IMO, one of the reasons it's unclear is that we're in fact in a pretty early stage of development at least relative to an end-game of widespread door-to-door without a human present. I do expect there are probably going to be a lot of different systems out there.
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I'm not sure I understand: do you sign a contract for when you finish your studies?

Or do you do unpaid work in the hope that when you finish you'll get a job?
I find it quite scary that whether you can get employed or not is decided on the whim of some company.

What if your record is wrong, and they won't fix it? And what value do you get of the screening? What can you find, that really would matter to a hiring decision, other than extreme cases?
> I can't imagine the developers are going to enjoy low-level mapping of 64-bit x86 instructions to 64-bit ARM though...

Why would the average developer even have to care?
> Using data about a user with their consent seems perfectly fine. The fiction where this consent can be granted in perpetuity is not.

Not only that, but I think there is considerable trouble in interpreting consent when users cannot demonstrate or articulate a thorough understanding of exactly what such consent and data usage entails.
Not true. I own and run a cash only doctor's office. Coming to us is cheaper than most insurance co-pays.
So this is lawfare between a company that makes something and a company purported to have stolen their design. I guess the question that really would make it interesting is what country is the purported design thief in?
My team and I run Snapzu (http://www.snapzu.com), a which we started several years ago.

First off, the main reason there's no de facto "Reddit alternative" (Like Reddit was to Digg) is because it's nearly impossible to grow a community based around thousands of topics from scratch.

It's a massive "chicken or egg" dilemma where you need a steady flow of users (1000's per day or more) to provide the necessary community "value" to other users. And even then, the users are scattered all over the place with all kinds of different interests, making it hard to keep them around and coming back for more.

I've kept an eye out on all the competition that has come and gone (hundreds of them at this point), and most of them don't make it even one year before throwing in the towel.

Building a link-sharing/discussion platform is one thing (anyone can do it), but populating it with active people is a whole other beast and probably 100x harder, requiring routinely time consuming tasks such as blogging, promoting the blogging, and trying anything and everything to get the word out. This is where most people fail, and the saying "build it and they will come" is utter BS.

It also doesn't help that Reddit has copied (probably unintentionally) many of the things we added over the years to try and differentiate from them. We had their new "cross-posting" feature many years ago, but ours is named "mirroring" where you can add an existing post into other tribes (our version of sub-reddits). We also had the ability to add "related links" for years now, and I've noticed they added that feature to their "mega-thread" topics, and I'm sure they will make it a site wide feature soon enough.

Reddit gets millions of daily visitors from SEO alone, and all of that SEO is dependent on their user-generated content. For MANY search terms, you can find a Reddit link on the first page of the Google results.

At this point we've had to pivot (focusing on bloggers/creators and their audiences) because we understand that we can't directly compete with them.
How would the Chinese subsidiary get the info about the US citizen?
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Have you looked at that information. Here, I'll get it for you from https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week%E2%80%99s-accide...

> Over a year ago, our first iteration of Autopilot was found by the U.S. government to reduce crash rates by as much as 40%.

Why don't they talk only about Autosteer instead of Autosteer+AEB (and other features combined). Why not discuss how many accidents could have been caused by Autopilot if the driver did not correct it. Why is there no commentary on if whether their active driving system would be better run as a passive driver error correction system, as other manufacturers do.

> In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known pedestrian fatalities, every 320 million miles in vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware. If you are driving a Tesla equipped with Autopilot hardware, you are 3.7 times less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.

Ahh, so a Tesla is safer than a 10 year old beaten down car with no airbags driven on country roads, I never expected that. Tesla is safer than even a motorbike, what a surprise. And just having Autopilot in your car (even disabled), makes you 3.7 times less likely to die. Does that say anything about Autopilot, or are they just touting non-Autopilot premium safety features?

> There are about 1.25 million automotive deaths worldwide. If the current safety level of a Tesla vehicle were to be applied, it would mean about 900,000 lives saved per year.

So, motorbikes driving in Himalyas are more deadly than a Tesla on California highways, who would have guessed. What does this say about Autopilot again?

> We expect the safety level of autonomous cars to be 10 times safer than non-autonomous cars.

Elon musk also expected driverless cars to be everywhere in 2017. And autonomous doesn't need to mean hands off driverless cars, they keep conflating assistive feature benefits with their hands-off technology.
Logically, for China Google to sell your data to Chinese Buyer, then US Google must have sold your data to China Google. If it is illegal for US Google to sell data to third parties, then US Google could be sued for selling that data to China Google. However, since the USA is all about "Freedom meaning we can do what the fuck we like with your data", and not "Freedom from persecution", there's no reason that US Google couldn't do what you describe. If you were a European citizen, and it was German Google selling your data to China Google (or US Google), then that'd be a very different story.

It seems odd that you're worried about China, when you live in a nation that has been proven to wiretap you by the government, and where private transactions are authorized based on information which three credit score companies store completely insecurely.
The how-to page is pretty good at showing what their NN can do: http://paintschainer.preferred.tech/webui/howto/
Thanks, always room for improvement!
It looks like Internations locks up basic functionality rather than bonus features. You can't have much of a social network if you can't "join groups and attend their activities"
I really don't see how this is different than other features of a car like cruise control. It is up to the driver to educate themselves about cruise control. I was not part of my driver education class. There were no questions about it during the tests to get my license. I didn't learn how it worked until I was in my 20s when I first owned a car that had cruise control and I learned by reading that car's manual. I don't think anyone would have blamed the manufacturer if I killed myself because I didn't understand how cruise control worked or if I used it improperly.
The US has strongarmed other countries into helping enforce US tax law.

It's crazy to see American's pretend the US isn't a massive offender when it comes to pushing their laws well outside their borders.
Linkedin is worse than Facebook in terms of privacy. So many dark patterns on their site - someday their reckoning will come just as facebooks. Easier target too since it could hurt people’s jobs and careers.
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Sure, if a terrorist organization is the only outfit nearby which offers an outlet promising deeper meaning or empowerment.

But if people are given more than the empty prospect of future penury and distress, wouldn't they find values of discovery and creativity to be much more appealing?

Who picks up an AK-47 and joins a terrorist organization just because they have nothing better to do? I think that sort of thing probably comes from a deeper malaise of the soul, and an environment devoid of hope is probably a big ingredient there.
> Support for Universal binaries was dropped silently.

Since when? I have universal binaries that run fine on my computer.
The HN headline should be updated too.
I will say that my professor Axel Schreiner at RIT offered one of the two first Golang classes at a collegiate level back in... 2009? and he reached out to Google and said, "send us some Android phones so that we can develop Go on ARM"

They obliged with a full crate of first generation Motorola phones, each one preloaded with a 30 day free Verizon plan. Every person who took that class got one, and surely all of them made it back into the school's hands at the end of the quarter.

(I'm not sure how many people actually ever compiled and executed any go binaries on arm that year; we all learned Go, and it was a great class! But as far as the class, the phones were completely unnecessary. I think that they did make a more relevant class where the phones were able to be used again the year after that.)
Google might not sell data wholesale, but they do sell it retail, so to speak. If I make an ad targeting gay dog owners in NYC, and someone clicks that ad, I know that Google knows they're a gay dog owner in NYC. Google sold me that person's data.
I think it's actually quite common for a country to dictate what it's citizens and companies can do outside of its borders.

For example,

* A US company can be prosecuted on corruption charges if it bribes an official out of its borders. This is even if what they do is not considered bribery in the country itself; you are bound to the US law even when you are doing business outside of it. The US has used this approach to clamp down corruption cases of companies in developing countries.

* Trade embargos work this way. We have an embargo on Iran and ban US based companies from doing business with them, even if its through a subsidiary that operates outside our borders

* US citizens are required to pay taxes when they live in another country (we are the only country to tax globally)

* As a US traveler, you have to follow some US laws even when you are in other countries. The US has used this to combat sex tourism. So while it may be easy to go around the country's age of consent laws while you are visting, you can still be prosecuted in the US. This is to prevent child sex trafficking etc.

Nomentatus has listed other examples in this thread.

Enforcement, on the other hand is pretty difficult. I don't see how Canada force Google to do things outside of it's borders - the worst they can do is kick Youtube out their country.
I know a Psych professor who will always open her first lecture with a statement about the 'obvious,' i.e. "How many here know that babies have no gauge of attractiveness towards people, and thus don't prefer to be around attractive people?". After half the class has raised their hands, she'll then inform the class how the opposite is true, and studies have shown that babies actually prefer to be around more conventionally attractive people.

What I mean to explain with this anecdote is that it's very common to dismiss correlations as common sense, when one could just as easily make a 'common sense' assertion about the opposite.

That's often a good test, in fact -- try to develop a 'common sense' assertion for an opposing side, such as "Why would waking up earlier be correlated to healthier eating?". If it's possible to do so, then the common sense probably isn't so common after all.
> threatens free speech on the global internet," wrote Judge Edward Davila of the US District Court for Northern California.
Really, pulling listings for a counterfeit product is a free speech issue?

That's dumb.
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it" -- Andrew Jackson (apocryphal)
Those studies don't say what you're claiming.

I meant the pricing was post-hoc in the sense that they came up with a story like yours for why it was worth $84,000 when they were bringing it to market. There was no precedent for a pill that costly when the research was undertaken. Even in the case of HCV--the best case to be discussing if you're an advocate of for-profit medicine--it's not a good example of an incentive structure.
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Burnaby heights has a real nice resident/commerce mix (but very poor transit and developers are forcing a lot of the commerce out). Metrotown is a good area, around the station the commerce is developed and there is plenty of density but going in any direction from it brings you through strip malls. Brentwood is weird... It is a new artificial neighborhood with plenty of Cactus Clubs and Starbucks but it doesn't have much natural commerce and there is very little in the area in terms of employment, I am afraid that neighborhood might suddenly collapse if the developers stop pouring money into it.

Lougheed is fair, I would generally consider that part of the Burquitlam span. It's awkwardly spread out with the mall itself sitting in a sea of parking lots, that doesn't tend to help build a good neighborhood but it is thriving, possibly due to being within short reach of the box stores out United/Woolridge.

Sorry, I was incorrect about Metrotown, it is a pretty nice city center but the rest of Burnaby suffers from west-coast suburb development, areas are either residential, res+light commerce or res+employers, it's hard to find a neighborhood where you can live, work and shop unless you're working in retail, and IMO a neighborhood that can't supply all three is going to fade away to pure residential in time due to NIMBYism.
Tesla's PR handling of it hasn't really turned me off the idea, nor has the car's action of veering off the correct course (because that's occasionally expected), but the collision itself is disconcerting to me. I would have expected the technology to be sufficient to brake to avoid/reduce the severity of the collision.

The horror stories about defects and lengthy repair times haven't exactly helped.

It's a bit of a moot issue for me though, as I probably won't be in the market for a new car for the next two or three years.
>The social network had even kept a permanent record of the roughly 100 people I had deleted from my friends list over the last 14 years, including my exes.

How useful is the info one can even get from this?

I mean even if you interpret unfriending as enemying (which is a leap), possibly revealing interests you don't have, associations you don't have.... it's a lot weaker (to advertisers) than positive information.
No-one claimed it's only about C#.
Google is allowed to host or not whatever they want. They can do it wherever they want. They are not a government.

A government somewhere telling Google what they have to do globally? That's scary/stupid.
Not to mention 3 offices with a good number of employees between them. Some very high profile (e.g. Geoffrey Hinton).
Nope. In some states it is illegal for your employer or a potential employer to make decisions based on your social media history.
> Given how Tesla has handled this fatality, how has your opinion of Tesla changed.

Just one data point here, but it absolutely has tanked Tesla's reputation in my mind. Even though I was always skeptical of them from a business perspective, I thought they were basically well-meaning and their only crime was being too enthusiastic. These last few months have convinced me that they're no better than Uber: they're being reckless with unproven and inferior technology (Elon's spin notwithstanding, there are good reasons why every other autonomous car program is using LIDAR), and they're trying to use disingenuous PR to pass off the inevitable deaths as someone else's problem.

I was vaguely considering getting a Model 3 when the waitlist eased up a little, but now that's definitely not going to happen.
Thanks for taking the time to respond, it's helpful.

I do tend to self-deprecate. I'm really working on not doing that anymore. I've come a long way but the past few weeks have been really discouraging. I interviewed for some jobs and got turned down. The sad thing is, after talking to the devs that interviewed me, I was pretty certain that I'm more competent than they are. I was turned away because I'm "obviously not passionate about front-end", whatever that means... Interview process was long and I wasted a lot of time.

Then I came to this place where I realized I'm writing lots of framework code, and not really understanding Javascript as well as I thought. Heck, I've forgotten more about Javascript than I can remember.

Anyway the most discouraging thing is that I can become as competent as I have, and still have a very difficult time getting work. The people I am contracting for are very, very happy with my work (probably because they're getting a good deal).

EDIT: I'm really good at cranking out work. I'm a workhorse. Some days I can put in 8 - 10 hours of solid coding if I need to, and my bug count is pretty low...really low. But I'm terrible at remembering specific technical knowledge. A lot of things, I internalize and practice intuitively. I get in interviews and they start asking "gotcha" language questions and I just choke. Then I leave and kick myself because I knew the answer all along, but I couldn't remember it during the conversation. So I need to get better at interviewing, build a better portfolio, learn new frameworks, keep working so I can eat... Sorry for the sob story, it's just rather daunting at the moment.
> Or does this your idea only work for US cultural norms?

Always these false equivalences, every time. I can count on it. In this case, I'm sure GP thinks as I do, that no US court should be able to tell a company what to take down elsewhere in the world. That Google chooses to is another matter. Please please, can we stop trying to deflect the real issue with these whataboutisms?
> Nostalgia: a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

Nothing about what I did, nor wrote was driven by a longing for the days of yore, mine or otherwise. I enjoyed learning to write software for the 6502, it was a simple instruction set, fairly clear, concise, and simple.

I haven't written 6502 in a number of years, and gave my NES collection to a friend last year. That I have an old PCB on my desk, yes, is nostalgia.
NTSB does an excellent job in its investigations in getting to the root cause of accidents. The only way they can do that is in a depoliticized atmosphere where they can focus on getting to the truth of something, not worrying about one of the parties to the accident spinning things for their commercial advantage. Tesla trying to corrupt an NTSB investigation like this is the worst kind of bad faith. Particularly for a technology as important as self-driving cars.
You could set up a Mastodon instance to do exactly this. Why not try and see if there are others who like the model?
How about data collection free? I don't care about ads, those are easily taken care of.
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Hey Andrem,

Thanks for the feedback. 2fa is definitely on our agenda to implement in the following weeks, we do check if the device has been verified or not, so if a new device tries to enter your account you need to verify it in your email.

The logo is used on the checkout pages you create, the plugin can be downloaded from the homepage for now.
It's true insofar you also count in the evolutionary, worse-is-better nature of software development. I.e. there's lots more of complexity than it's necessary for the level of abstraction and capabilities you want, but that complexity was accrued as people developed and iterated on every layer, mostly leaving it be as it got good enough, and moving on to something else.
looks pretty cool. Can you deploy the code to a third party host?
A bit confusing how to parse the audit. For example the output of this contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0xb6ed7644c69416d67b522e20bc294...

it's a bit opaque what lines of code you are warning of
It's both.

Humams look around (subconsciously) and think "what's the norm?" Excess weight has become the norm. What's +40 lbs when 100 is so common? On top of that it's not PC to say anything on the subject.

Put another way, look at smoking. As it decreased, it decreased more. And so on. Individuals shifted the broader norm.

What made smoking different is it was so closely tied to causing cancer. But mention the ills of obesity and you're accused of fat shaming. We have cultural leaders (e.g., Oprah) saying "Love and accept yourself no matter what" but forgetting to add "even it leads to premature death."

Long to short, we've normalized the abnormal, the unhealthy. I personally don't see an end to this trend any time soon. I hope I'm wrong.
Torque is the correct measure to be used. If the person is touching the wheel but not applying torque how do I know it's actually not resting his hand at the bottom?

I wanna know that the person is there and moving the steering wheel. Since in case of anything happening I need them to move the wheel not rest their hand somewhere.
I thought it was embarrassing, poorly done, and not fun at all. And I love first person shooters.
Is this company revenue tied to the amount of denials they do, as in, they charge per check and if the hire is made they stop making money? Halon's razor and all.