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it's for consuming 360-ish video experiences, which i think is less gimmicky than you're implying. good 360 videos are fun and immersive and let you explore visually in a way that flat film doesn't. i actually think this kind of passive engagement with "VR" will be more common (because it's easier) than highly interactive video games.
What difference does it make? They wouldn't lower their rates and a zillion people are still on FB so advertisers are going to buy the slots regardless. "Ad targeting" is not something that people outside of the niche of advertising economics care about.
Even worse than this, people start optimizing their life to be lifefaker worthy.

My wife and I bought a drone for, honestly, just this purpose, and as has been repeatedly mentioned, more and more restaurants plate their food to look good photo'd and posted online.

The local cherry blossom season is over crowded with people taking pictures, some of them bring out DSLRs just for the occasion. There is a local tulip festival that has changed over the years from admiring nature to being a great photo op.

The world is becoming optimizing for photo ops, it is now pretty easy to get in more than 2-3 photo-perfect days a year.
Paternity leave policies are rare or only just becoming popular benefits differentiators in the US.
I just use Usenet. I tend to purchase media, or use a streaming service but I no longer pay attention to copyright. I have legal and non legal options. Whatever is easiest is all I care about. Drm/copyright has tilted so far I simply don't care anymore.
> The survey also found that working too little or too much is also associated with the experience of loneliness, suggesting that our workplaces are an important source of our social relationships and also that work-life balance is important for avoiding loneliness.

This paragraph hints at what might be a significant factor in increased loneliness: A lack of community. Community can be a workplace or it could be a neighborhood, but in both it's a place where you feel like you and your colleagues/neighbors "have each-others' back". It's not even important that you are all best friends, just that you trust each-other enough.

These two, work and home, are of particular importance vs the other venues that we inhabit, because for most people, our time is spent either working, or in the neighborhood in which we live. If neither provides a trusting-enough sense of community, you don't have much time left in your life to find that elsewhere.

But for many people a trusted community is inaccessible for a variety of social, cultural, and economic reasons. Many (most?) workplaces don't offer a sense of community (which is fine, they shouldn't have to if that's not what their workers are seeking), and many people - especially younger adults - live in neighborhoods where they don't know many people around them.
This is a cost they should be bearing.
This just means facebook will no longer show you or your friends what was in the history. Facebook will still sell advertising based on your private data. It won't be cleared, just hidden from your view.
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This is excellent advice. Its really just about trying to spend time doing what you enjoy with other people who enjoy it too. Can be biking, running, video games, dancing, hiking or some sport. The activity makes it enjoyable, sharing with others even more so.
> I'm guessing the target of this kind of service are large classes where the professor can't practically get to examine each person's essays and internalize that unique voice.

They say they can write your PhD thesis for you. How on earth can that work? You'll have years of intense one-on-one tuition with an expert in the field and they're not going to notice someone wrote the thesis? How are you going to withstand several hours of viva for something you didn't write? How can the EduBird author make an original contribution to the field on demand?
HTTPS does work for my site now, but I get this warning:

Your connection is not secure / Your connection is not private

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN (Firefox)

NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID (Chrome)

Trying adding the A records as described here:

https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-an-apex-domain/

Will update if that works..
It helped a little that .com executables were pretty much obsolete by the time the web became common, but that was still a pretty nice gift to early malware authors.
Is Facebook ever going to let us unsend messages? I think that is what most people wanted. Delete posts, messages and other things from the past.
I see, the downvote confirms the truth.
Playing a game of chance with C++ inline keyword
> The deal’s opponents were led by Ted Frank, director of litigation for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based conservative think tank. They said the deal violated procedural rules in U.S. law requiring settlements to be fair, reasonable and adequate.

What's the Competitive Enterprise Institute's goal in this lawsuit? I once read an editorial once by a CEI guy that was very pro-forced-arbitration, a view which often goes hand-in-hand with an opposition to class action lawsuits.

Is this lawsuit part of the legal campaign to to neuter class actions?
What new "information" can Hollywood put to film that will also make them their money back?

Gen pop doesn't care about arty movies, hard SF, 3D, etc., at the scale they want to operate at.

Skip Hollywood and back indie makers that publish online?
from what my friends who work for dating sites tell me, they basically are flickr for nude photos.

So we can't trust Facebook with our data but they want to store our nude photos.

That's some professional level doubling down for you:)

On a serious note, RIP Match.com/IAC. They are getting blown up in the past 30 minutes.

Facebook should treat carefully, when you can just walk in and start owning an entire category, that starts to get government attention for no other reason that the failed companies complain....loudly.

I don't think FB wants more government attention at this point.

I always assumed that someone like Linked In, or even, Bloomberg would start a dating app.
Oh, really? By that logic, since you're eventually going to die, probably horribly, then you'll be ok with me coming by and taking out one of your kidneys. Or, as in The Big Lebowski, lopping off a toe. Those are as nothing to a death from a brain tumor, after all.
This is a great way for facebook to get more information about their users.
20 years too late.
True, but one of the points the article makes is that in practice, there's a vast gulf of distance (person-years of C compiler development) between the C code one writes and the resulting assembly code output (and this is ignoring the fact that x86 assembly is, itself a co-evolved abstraction with C-like languages that is basically emulated on modern massively-parallel CPU architectures).

In that regard, a case can be made that when you're writing in C, you're writing exactly as close to the bare metal as if you're writing in, say, Go or Haskell.
Cue the cynics on HN, but I think this is a very natural step for FB to take and I think the product will do very very well.

Even if you're on a separate dating service like Tinder, you look up your matches on FB anyway as a sanity test. FB already plays a large role in dating and the signaling involved. It just makes sense for FB to own the process from start to finish when they have the ability to do it better than any existing dating app today.

FYI: Shares of Match Group (they are a public holdings company for many of the popular dating sites out there) plunged after FB announced this.
> There are many, many examples of poor design choices or imperfect implementations.

I'm thinking this isn't a contradiction: that the designers are striving for user-centered design. But many Apple apps aren't allocated a dedicated team. New apps are given birth but then not recognized as a new "thing" that will require continuous maintenance and care.

And then I also imagine that many UX decisions are made by just one or two people, and fairly quickly. They're not taking the time to think about the app, and whether the interaction makes sense to someone not intimately involved.

At least - these are my guesses as someone not inside Apple.
It is only enforced by the browser. So curl and similar stuff still works.
But on a sidenote: Why shouldn't it. It is just a domain, whatever is running on the resolving IP address is up to the server administrator.
> Mar 29 - May 1: Trademark holders can register .app domains (known as the "Sunrise" period).
50M looks an awful like the total tourist numbers reported in this article[0]. I still hold the view that less than half of registered voters have been to time square.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/nyregion/record-number-of...
Really depends on interpretation, of which there can be quite a few different ones:
Even with a king riding on it, subdued and enduring abuse, it's still the elephant who's best (mightiest) among men exactly because of how it is patiently enduring.
Says something about power being independent of social status? How the strong keep enduring to preserve harmony?

If the elephant wanted, it could easily squash the king, regardless of him being a king or not.
Too me it's all about bundling. You need to take a lot of crap offerings because they've bundled it together with the one or two things they're really good at. To the point where it's take it or leave it proposition.

I don't propose to have an answer. But, bundling products, services and contract clauses into "take it or leave it" propositions make competition difficult.
Do you want to be able to identify the best of the best? That's the fundamental question here - if that's a useful thing for society, to have credentials that distinguish beyond "did well in high school," then you don't want grade inflation.

And if you don't - you could make a solid case that the extreme ends of those skills may not be that useful in general outside of academia - than do Harvard et al need nearly as much money as we throw at them today?
I see crap like:

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constantly in real life in 2018
So someone is going to commit a crime, then clears history, asks FB to delete account. Police knocks at FB doors - FB is like "We don't have any information". How is that going to work with GDPR?
Honestly if it just had a real off switch I would forgive just about anything else.

The number of times my kindle has died because it was displaying an ad forever because it takes 4seconds to turn off... pretty much makes the long battery life feature useless.
I get a feeling this will be pretty bad for people that don't already (or start to) use facebook regularly.

And I'd hate to create yet another facebook account for this. So, yeah, as shitty as the dating scene is I'd prefer a 3rd party so that I can attempt at compartmentalize my accounts.
This is a pretty difficult problem to solve. Facebook would need to delete your data from production databases, database backups that were made while you had an account, caches and CDNs, etc. But even if they managed to delete the data in every possible place they could find it, a third party might have made copies of your data via Facebook's APIs some time in the past, and they might still have it.

So, even if Facebook offered such a feature, I wouldn't have much faith that it actually worked.
And here's the DHH post: https://m.signalvnoise.com/highrise-is-back-with-basecamp-c5...
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On a related theme - does anyone know how many people cheat on the initial round hiring tests? Seems pretty easy to outsource, but I'm not sure how common it is. I've always assumed our applicants did the work themselves but maybe I'm naieve.

TBH if I was applying myself I'd be pretty tempted as usually its just a time suck.
The more i read about it the more it seems like gdpr will either

- cause an uproar from small and middle-size businesses in europe

- not become enforced

the facebooks and amazons of the world are already fine so they won't complain.
Wow, that webpage sucks. What are the specs?
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Wouldn't GDPR say that user experience shouldn't be dependent on the consent given by the user?
TFA is about attackers using Base64 encoding.
I recognize that my first instinct, solving cheating via firing squad, is probably too extreme. But perhaps we could at least try it out and see how it works?
Weren't they going to roll this out for Messenger at some point? They did it for Zuckerberg, and then mentioned that they were just "testing" it and were going to roll it out generally some time in the future.
They are loosing market share more and more and yet they go on with this stupidity.

Part of the market share loss is average users switching to Chrome - they can't do much about that, but the power users group is (or was) Mozilla's best asset, and yet they're pissing off that group with pretty much every release.
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Hillis gives a written account of it. He wanted to do stuff that actually needed to get done; not BS.

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I think you're being terribly US-centric here - iphone use there is far higher than the rest of the world

I also think the locked-in thing is strong - people use iphones/android because they've always used iphones/android not many people have done the switch and comparison to actually have the experience this person has had
I think they’d like to possibly but there are concerns. I have had trouble with vanity tlds and I can imagine with google being so ubiquitous, there could be so many issues.

And also security. I know there’s an implicit trust of .com and so I wonder if seeing just google will lead to people thinking it’s safer. I have Metcalfe.rocks and more than once I’ve had people try Metcalfe.rocks.com
If I do not have a facebook account, does this change anything?

There are facebook pixels all over the web. Do I need to continue deleting cookies to stop the tracking?
A way to get young people to use FB more? I know they literally know who's best for a user based on the ton of data we feed, but I'm wondering the privacy conscious folks would be hesitant to create a dating profile on FB.
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I'm curious also if you have any evidence (empirically or otherwise) for why your choices lead to high productivity, reduced eye strain, or any other improvement in a metric you think is important.
You're wildly underestimating how difficult it is to roll out such a change in a backwards-compatible way. It's not like Github did this today after neglecting the feature request for years; they've been on public record at least many months ago saying that they were working on it.

Even if only 1% of users were unable to access a site after the switch to HTTPS, the amount of calls to Github support would be massive.
Curious if this deleting all old posts is related to everything you published - including publicly - or only private posts?

Likewise, if people were friends/connections on Facebook when you posted something to them, would you care if they were findable by them (they presumably could save a record of everything their friends published privately), and new friends/connections are prevented from seeing that past content?

I agree there's value in separating what people in new chapters of your life see vs. the old chapters in your life where you weren't as evolved or nuanced (potentially known as inane crap). Just trying to get an understanding of nuances if you're willing to share your take.
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Ooh thanks!
This list is useful, but the early access domains are mostly unfamiliar to me. Does anyone have any recommendations?
>that starts to get government attention

I appreciate your optimism.
I pay plenty of taxes. The amount of willingness I have to pay more represented as an integer is a very large negative one until capital gains, corporate profits, etc. are taxed at a rate similar to the money I make.

This all assumes that pumping money into the problem will solve it. In my estimation there will be more ~100k middle management positions and boondoggle infrastructure projects in government (which are really just middle class welfare programs depending on how you think about it) and poor people will be just as poor.
Your comment would be more useful if it shared any hands-on experience with Operators instead of the usual ranting. I think you've made your general opinion on containers and Kubernetes pretty clear already.
Looks like the ML position needs a quick edit "Must be eligible to ... start full time by no later than April 30th"

Very cool position!
GDPR gives them 3 months to delete anything, so you better plan your coverup well in advance of a knock on the door [1].

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-12-gdpr/
I think that lying is wrong (immoral), even if your assessment of the externalities of it aren't that bad. Here you're not the one lying, you're selling the mechanism of another's dishonesty. It's interesting to think about where that fits, but I can't see it in a favourable light.

When you're profiting from it, it makes it hard to fairly assess those externalities. The rationalizing in your post is pretty apparent.

I think there are a lot of legitimate concerns about the idea of class grading and hiring metrics etc., but "I might as well profit from others' dishonesty" is maybe not the right way to respond to that.
Surely there is going to be plenty of other leads they can look to for evidence?

Don't see how this edge case is worth permanent surveillance of everyone.
Possibly the same way. Both countries have the same common law traditions.

But I'm surprised that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds did not come into play. This was a well-documented verbal contract, but still it was a verbal contract for 24 months. Which is more than a year, and therefore is more than a verbal contract should be able to cover.
> there is a very straightforward correspondence between the model-machine and assembly/C

I believe one of the points the article is making is that, no, there is not. Pin down a C developer's actual understanding of how C is converted into x86 or x86-64 assembly, and you find that nobody actually has that abstraction riding around in their heads, because the abstraction they do have riding around in their heads would make for some unacceptably non-performant code. Even if we disregard the fact that x86 is emulated on modern hardware, the C -> (Clang + LLVM / gcc) -> assembly path is deeply complicated.