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> that could snowball into destroying more things in orbit

It even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
I generally agree with you here actually, I wouldn't want any of this to be used to completely suppress speech, but I don't think it's unreasonable to hide by default communities which are higher friction to some degree.

I can definitely see a completely open alternative viewpoint, but reddit has already gone in a very different direction.
This isn't a social network. Do you see me posting picture of my bathroom/kids/furniture/food?
I get it. And I wouldn't "risk" my money any differently.
~~How is it different from when Apple acquired the then-open-source FoundationDB (and shut down public access)? They could have just kept it open source back then.~~

EDIT: My bad, looks like FoundationDB wasn't fully open-source back then.
I'm not the main maintainer anymore (Jeff Reback has that honor), as I've moved on to work on the "greater pandas ecosystem" (of which my work on Apache Arrow is a part of this long development arc)
These are objective measures on a set of borderline "well known" problems

Risking downvotes is having to remind you to read TFA, where they address the "objetive measure". Hint: they're not.
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Hear hear! Is a mountain next to you occupied yet?
> It has to do with antisocial behavior. Antisocial behavior is inherently hostile and doesn't deserve a platform

Can you define "antisocial behaviour"?
And likewise, we get cliques of bullshit artists. Literally this guy just proposed "It's not what you know, its who you know" as the solution.
The definition of what something is worth is what the market will bear.
> hero worship

Perhaps part of what's happening is the word "hero" is picking up new roles, while retaining old associations.

One can have a hero without something heroic. "Oh, not me, it's Joe that's the hero - he spotted that the meeting munchies were delivered to the wrong room." One can be heroic without heroism. "Thank you for your heroic efforts this evening to get the server back up." One can have heroism without bravery. "Your dauntless heroism in being here every single day without fail, has been critical to our success".

We don't seem to have a very rich or nuanced active vocabulary for describing excellence, or contribution, or sacrifice, or adversity? Or exemplars, or recognition, or celebration.

So meaning blurs. Especially when there's an incentive for it to.
That's a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of people who work at Google.

And I agree with OP's statement.
Most of the issues I've had with VS Code were actually due to extensions and not VS Code itself. Like for example, we started getting issues with CPU's getting pegged to 100% and it seems it was a couple of linters that were running causing that.
"Sorry, we don't do that here."
The airplane in question is a Pipistrel Alpha Electro, which has been around since 2015.
I recently discovered that some password hashes take time proportional to the length of the password times the number of rounds. E.g. if bcrypt work factor is set to 16 and you have a 1M byte password then the time is proportional to `1000000 * 2^16`

Why it doesn't first hash the password so it's `1000000 + len(hash) * 2^16` is beyond me, and something a crypto expert will have to answer.

In practice this means that setting an arbitrarily high limit on password size would open you up to a DOS attack via (effectively) quadratic time password hashing.
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Let me draw an analogy that might be helpful.

Let's look at manufacturing yield.

It's easy to create a process that hits 99.99% yield when the absolute value of complex goods being produced is 10 items.

Can you maintain 99.99% yield when producing 100,000,000 of those items? Almost certainly not. Does hitting 80% yield mean you have lowered your standards when every other manufacturer of similar scale can only hit 60%? No it doesn't. It means you have maintained high standards, it's just the context around you has changed and so the measurement of high standards has changed along with it (as it should).

That's the core of what I was getting at.
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I would have stayed on iOS 10 on my 6s if it weren't for the KRACK Wi-Fi vulnerability.
Sure but then you're in the boat where you have some n finite period of time to slingshot from needing API Service to having a viable enough business to live without it.
Related to this story from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16853203
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The majority of people on either side also probably recognize that signing your name to an open letter opposing your employer’s policies and decisions is a career-limiting move.
They do label all the screws and small parts, which are easiest to confuse. It really isn’t necessary for the large pieces.
> A future regulatory regime for satellites could also conceivably see it as obvious that satellite design shouldn't be limited by the ability for them to be tracked by a common tracking system, but rather have a goal to avoid collisions through other means

This would require quantum leaps in our propulsion and energy storage capabilities. A plane changing course and a satellite changing plane take vastly different energies. Small satellites which can manage plane changes are many, many breakthroughs away.
I second Zoho, Zoho everything. I run a 1 person company and love Zoho. I think their mail is far superior to gmail, their office apps are superior to gsuite, invoicing is great too.
I don't use Desk or many of their other apps, but they have them, and are integrated with each other. In a way integration is better than automation. Because it is integrated in one platform it is available to all applications. I don't know if that counts as less automation or more automation but I know it means less time spent on it for me.
I have no affiliation with Zoho beyond being a happy customer.
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> They learned it of us.

from us, 50 Cent Army/Chinese Government AI who is imitating an American
Exploit = "make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)". Sounds like a very good thing for a company to do. No waste.
If you're on iOS, I recommend Apollo for reddit, I actually was using Alien Blue for the longest time because I also hated the official app, but I switched to Apollo a few months ago and it has been great.
Of course there was prior work, going back to 1903 at least, if not much further. The point is that the lag between the start of official F-14 procurement and planes flying was not terribly long. Just as today you don't have to start with a clean sheet design, there are already systems, engines, guidelines, missiles, etc. that you can borrow from other designs (including the F-35) to produce something better. The only reason F-35 isn't cancellable currently is political, not technical.
I also do this. In my case, since my mobile and desktop both run Windows, I use TheScientist's Windows 10 client: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRDMBN3
How about "Mind Makers". I think many people will have a natural resistance to joining a community named after how smart the members are. Imagine wearing a button that says "I'm the smartest".
basis is a whole different use case than eth or btc. It aims at providing a purely transactional currency that is stable and has no risk of losing value. Hence people should have no risk switching fiat into it and they still have the benefits of blockchain.
the money is available to the business imo.
Weather, distance, all the other cons of cycling (groceries, passengers, other large cargo).

Yes a bike is better in terms of absolute freedom but only in situations where the trade-offs are tolerable.

I can't go pick up a piece of furniture on my bike.
I've worked at a non-tech company as a software developer. At that place the department (we were rolled in with IT) was viewed as just another cost center. It's not great.
Would Reddit be more open to something like this as in could you create a subreddit and remind HN readers to check?

I see a few people seem interested in the idea of naming such companies. I have wasted a few weekends worth of my time (which at freelance rates is a decent amount of money) and have been ignored when I asked for feedback (sometimes just ignored completely). Its disrespectful and companies should be called out for it. I could name at least one one company that regularly posts in the hiring threads here.
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Great to hear that you like Mailparser and that you are using it since a couple of years already! I'm the founder of Mailparser and reading your comment made my day! :-)

I thought I should mention that we also launched a sister-product called https://docparser.com two years. Docparser is basically like Mailparser, but for documents (PDFs or scanned documents).
Maybe memes are trying to tell us something... but I'm not sure what.

Just spit balling here:

1. Exaggerations can be funny

2. We, as a society, have a general tendency to go with the flow when it comes to trivial overstatements, even if we don't agree with them ourselves (maybe in an effort to "fit in")

3. If you hear the same lie enough times, you might believe it

4. Picking on a particularly popular name brand makes a generalization stick in your mind better

5. Lazy writers rely on cliche to get their points across
I'm inclined to agree with those who think the FCC is overstepping it's boundaries, although I understand the logic of those who explain why they're not overstepping their boundaries.

To me it seems to be a question of capability. America in this situation sounds like a skrawny lifeguard yelling at big burly surfer dudes to stay out of the deep end. We want the authority to regulate across borders and to maintain our margin of superiority, but do we have that ability? If we don't have the ability to lead this industry, we shouldn't be granted the authority to regulate it either. At least not globally from within a vacuum.

If America wants to regulate what other countries put into space, maybe we should have enough of a presence in space to be an authority figure.

I haven't seen the U.S. government put a fair proportion of their effort into space technology in decades, yet we still expect to be the global harbinger of regulation. If a private company can make a 5cm X 5cm X 5cm satellite and we can't track it maybe the responsibility should be on us to improve our tracking abilities rather than sangbaggging everyone else to support our faux superiority.
Has anyone gotten farther than registration? I'm stuck in the 35.205.32.11 page and I don't know how to advance from there. Any help anyone?
Ubuntu / Firefox

My Firefox doesn't run JS though, so there's that.
"The only complaints I've seen about it are concerning people responsible for administrating data in companies": now that we're sure some people are annoyed... how many truly benefit from it? I do understand you think it's a good thing. How many in your FB friends share your point of view? How many even know? How many will benefit?

"GDPR represents an ideology": one point we agree on.... "at any human/social cost": what cost? Can't I sue Facebook in a civil court if I suffer any prejudice just like I can sue any company?

Is there any "data-rape": if your data is processed only to choose which ad you will see, does it count as a "data-rape" for you? The ad you're seeing is the only thing of value on Facebook: your data has no value except to show you this ad.

Can you tell me where I can buy data from Facebook? I'd love to buy the friend-list of influencers who have set their privacy settings so that data doesn't leak. What? I can't? Doesn't FB sell people's data? ;-) What about famous artists private pictures then?

That's what people think of when they hear "Facebook is selling your data". They don't hear "Facebook is using your data to show you better ads which pay for the whole service".

Informed consent isn't bad. Have you read FB Terms&Conditions? Have you read the paragraph that says you're OK that FB has the right to use and reproduce the content you're posting on FB? You have already given your informed consent. Now you're trying to take it back.
Although this is interesting and looks good, I don't think its going to be better than what I have now in Feedbin.
Nice, no RSS feed?
Agreed, but note that for a lot of people on Facebook, their primary audience are friends, family & acquaintances; people who will mostly tolerate your (contrarian) views, whether you display tact or otherwise. People are the center of conversations on FB.

This contrasts with a place like HN which has no concept of friends and family -- the center of everything here is the comment box. That's a great trade-off as it allows us to focus attention on debating contrarian ideas, and less on the one who is airing it.
Yeah, I had the exact same experience. It's cool conceptually but basically unusable at this point.
It doesn't need to reach that level of extreme immediately. Just follow what the Dutch did starting all the way back in the late '70s to address their road toll.

There are many many places that have far better driver safety records - start by learning from those. A lack of improvement isn't inevitable.
I will note that my very first comment was an incredibly prosaic "Ugh, taxes!" remark. Had multiple people not piled on to tell me I was not justified in being stressed out about the IRS outage occurring on the final filing day, a day when 5 million Americans file from what I gather, and I just need to be more responsible, etc, there would have been no so called histrionics.

The HN guidelines indicate personal attacks are out of line. Most of my "bad behavior" on HN occurs after being attacked, often repeatedly and by multiple people.

I do what I can to figure out how to handle such things better, but those attacks should not be occurring to begin with. If they stopped, it would be vastly easier for me to maintain my composure and not get bent out of shape.
Given that interviews now a days are not one way street.

Candidate is also evaluating whether company is worth working for.

if you give a take home assignment and don't give me a feedback on stuff I could do better, i would consider the whole thing a waste of time. So if you don't offer that's ok. But let the guy learn a thing or two.

Many people will agree that yc interview process is rigorous but it's also satisfying as you get to learn a lot through out.
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My complaint is that the entire concept on which LSPs are based today — each LSP reimplements all functionality itself, the editor is only a dumb textview — is wrong.

Language servers should expose an AST, not some actions. Language Servers shouldn't even know where the cursor is — or how many there are.

With a proper LSP, you can also write a linter just by using the protocol, you can call the same action on a thousand places at the same time, and the refactoring functionality is implemented only once, and reused everywhere.

The entire design of LSP is flawed.
I didn't voluntarily agree to respect other people's purported ownership of property. They have authority to keep me off of their property that I didn't agree to. That is a non-voluntary society. Property ownership is inherently non-voluntary, otherwise it isn't ownership.
Do apps really bring that much value to the social network experience? I know for myself I have not found a single Facebook app that brings any positive value to my life.
I was noodling around with a basic protocol design the other day, and it turns out it already exists.

I'll definitely look into contributing to Patchwork / Scuttlebutt. It's a great idea.
> So maybe the person shares actual code and walks us through it that they wrote, even if not open source? Again, we can't know for certain it is their own code and not some friend who wrote it for them 2 years ago that they claim is their own. Or was a teammate's, or what-have-you. So we can't count on that either.

Then you're not doing a very good walkthrough. I can generally spot someone who didn't write the code they are presenting almost immediately. Occasionally, someone might fool you, but it's pretty rare.

As one of my interviewers said many moons ago: "Yes, his claims and credentials sound overblown. But after reviewing his stuff and interviewing him, he either is exactly what he claims, or he's the best damn liar I've ever seen. Either way we should hire him--the only question is whether for engineering or marketing." :)
Whoa I didn't know about that functionality, thank you!
> We want the authority to regulate across borders

A U.S. regulator regulating an American satellite, made in America by American engineers working for an American company, whose orbital damages are the liability of the American taxpayer, is being too internationally ambitious?

> I haven't seen the U.S. government put a fair proportion of their effort into space technology in decades

We're the largest backers of the ISS, have the largest civil and military launch industries, have the largest concentration of private launch and satellite companies and are one of a handful of countries in the world with a civil space agency.

Literally yesterday, a reusable American rocket (the only of its kind on the planet) put a NASA exoplanet survey satellite into orbit [1].

[1] https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov
It's not like you forego the in-person interview and don't learn what you can from that. The point is, by including a take-home portion of the technical interview you can get a better sense of the individual's technical abilities.

If, in addition to what seems to be a technically competent individual, you find they don't perform well in-person, then you take that data and weigh it against where your priorities lie for the position.

There's a huge difference in knowing "technically great, performs poorly with an audience" vs. "technically poor, but we only tested them with an audience".

Furthermore, it's not uncommon for people who experience anxiety during the in-person to loosen up as they acclimate to the office environment and their peers. These people can actually be some of the best contributors, and it can be a very costly mistake to misjudge them. This personality type tends to be quite loyal and averse to changing positions, because the whole process of interviewing and acclimating to a new environment is so stressful to them.

You seem to have a chip on your shoulder in this discussion, are you having a bad day?
> The planes are zero emission aircraft running on lithium ion batteries

How heavy is that battery pack??
Thank you for an occupational health viewpoint and the citation.

Do you have a good recommendation for a recording dB meter and recording app suitable for graphing noise levels over a daylong period? Such a thing would be useful in proving the noise load of a busy open office and allow it to be compared to OSHA standards.
I always end up linking this piece in response to people like you, and here I am again.

These folks have real data on lots of interviews, and have done some analysis on them:

http://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-w...

The takeaway that's relevant to you is the section titled "Interview outcomes are kind of arbitrary". Specifically, things like:

As you can see, roughly 25% of interviewees are consistent in their performance, but the rest are all over the place. And over a third of people with a high mean (>=3) technical performance bombed at least one interview.

If you set up a typical tech-company interview process, and if you equate "didn't pass this" with "complete impostor and utterly incapable of coding in any capacity" (as most people with your approach do), well, congratulations. You're almost certainly rejecting a bunch of qualified people, simply because you're terrible at interviewing them and can't actually tell from your process whether or not they're qualified.

The most generous thing I can say is that it's not entirely your fault. You adopted ideas and approaches from people who seemed authoritative but turned out to be the actual impostors in this situation. But now you have a choice: you can reject that, now you know the problems, or you can double down. I suggest not doubling down.
Thanks for flagging! Embarrassingly I reread this stat and realized that (1) it's way out of date and the true number is higher, and (2) it refers to part-time work (20 hrs / week) but we don't actually say that anywhere.

We've never had a work term work out to less than $25 / hour, except possibly in geographies like India where cost of living in USD is very low. This is below market, but it's only for the work term before getting hired.

Will update this with the most recent stats and clarify part-time status. Thanks again for catching this!
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This is just a collection of stereotypes of journalism that are already commonly believed among the tech crowd.

Just one example: it’s insulting and hurtful to any quality journalist (ie at the NYT, WSJ, or Economist) to suggest that their reporting is motivated by personal financial incentives, or their employer’s.
If you're a left-wing moderator or a right-wing moderator, there is no way I should know that unless you tell me. Any moderator that is actively and purposely applying their political philosophy to a forum that reaches thousands of people is dangerous to society.
> I had conversations with Jason [Citron] a year ago about the problem of white supremacy on his site, and he said, “I don’t want to invade their privacy by going into their channels and reading what they’re doing.” And I said, “They’re gonna cause deaths because you’re not doing that.” And he said, “You really think so?” And I said, “Yeah.” And sure enough they didn’t do anything, and sure enough deaths were caused because of the shit going on in their channels.

I'm not sure I can agree with this kind of moralizing. It's the same argument that blames gun manufacturers for school shootings. Clearly the latter argument is absurd, and yet very intelligent people subscribe to the former argument. So either some step is missing here that differentiates these two arguments, or we should be focusing on the real problem.
Erm, the link in 3. leads to http://zoziapps.ch/web-subscriber/ -- which just seems like a bunch of body text with no links in it.
I really doubt that at google.
Somewhat related article (re: IoT platforms):
https://www.slideshare.net/kartben/iot-developer-survey-2018

Those of us at TimescaleDB hope to see PostgreSQL move up in the rankings (at least pass 'Don't Know', yikes!).
> "Web protocols, smartphones, personal computers, encryption etc., all of this came from the military into Silicon Valley"

Yes. That's factually correct. But at what cost? How many wars? How many lives lost due to our infatuation with the MIC?

The Pentagon does not have to be the only road to basic research, R&D, etc. What if there were other agencies with the budget (to burn) clout of the DoD?

Put another way:

What might the societal perks have been if the deep pockets' lens was not military-centric?

For example, is there an alt-earth in an alt-universe with no mobile phones, but also no poverty?

The things you've mentioned are nice. They certainly are shiny. But just because we made them doesn't mean we should have.