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I think your definition of lieing allows for an unlimited amount of misdirection based on a literal interpretation of lieing.

If you are a manager, you heard the CEO say they are going to lay off the bottom 20% of the engineers next month, you know you rated employee A as your worst employee during evaluations, and you then assign Employee A to a new project that's estimated to be 8 months of work, you have not lied by your definition because your CEO didn't say explicitly that they were firing employee A.

If you were a manager and a bank called to confirm an employee worked there so that they could be approved for a home loan, which you know they check to make sure that the employee has a salary that will pay the loan for the near future, you are going to fire the employee next week, and you just tell the bank, "yes he is employeed here" you have not lied by your definition because they didn't explicitly ask if the employee was going to be employed for the duration of that loan.

If you put out a job posting for a set of skills + salary that you know no one will ever take, and then apply for an h1b slot because you couldn't get any candidates, you haven't lied by your definition.

You've made the point that I am trying to win an argument by changing the definition of what words mean, but from my view point that is what you are doing. Human communication is not run through a compiler. There are explicit definitions, implicit definitions, connotations, and even social expectations that all add meaning to our communications, and by saying that you never lied because you are following the exact definition of the words you are being disingenuous
That's mostly true - JR develops the land above and around the stations, but not huge tracts like you'd think of an American subdivision. The MTR in Hong Kong has a similar grant of rights, but invests mainly in shopping malls rather than residential or office developments.
Google has ~always had chat, email, and phone support for most of their paid-for B2C products. For products like Pixel it's even integrated in the settings UI for example. https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7109524?hl=en&r...
The sheer amount of tax here in Australia means price does scale nearly linearly with alcohol content, up to a ceiling anyway. Our laws are weird.
> too many engineers and designers for the amount of actual work there is to go around

Paging the gang over at Twitter.
The data reported in the article shows 0 incidents of wrongful arrest due to false positives. It also implies several hundred cases where the correct people were properly identified by the technology. There is plenty of room for debate about this technology, but so far, just saying "ask the data" doesn't seem to make the point you might have intended.
Thanks for that clarification. I wish the popular literature on the topic took similar pains to point this out. I can’t help but wonder if this is the root of much of the misguided interest in epigenetics.
Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k still a good description of how things mess up?
This contractor is working onsite during normal working hours. I am not even judging the situation but from what I can see he is not doing anything himself. He also got hired with the assumption that he would do the work.
> One thing I'd be interested to do is run some sort of duplicate text detecter over my candidate database.

You'll probably get a double-digit percentage of hits. I google parts from every resume I receive when I'm hiring for a position. About half have bits and pieces copied from somewhere else.
Can you tell the difference between someone saying 'faa' and 'baa'?

I feel like that study is probably an example of the McGurk effect.
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They also have Android One. Guess soon they will release Android Drive.
Can do the job != Can convince company to hire you
Ah well if you ever get the itch and do it, please post the results. I would be interested in seeing the data
As someone who has used the fanless 12" Retina MacBook, I can't put in words how nice of a feeling it is to have a fully silent computer. It's hard to understand why without actually experiencing it yourself, but it was a really big deal. If not for the awful keyboard ruining the experience, I wouldn't ever give it up.

It may sound (no pun intended) like an exaggeration, but I think more powerful computers going completely silent (fanless) will be the next most noticeable breakthrough since we got Retina displays on computers in 2012.
Police add yet another massively inaccurate tool to their arsenal which they can easily put innocent people behind bars.

In what way can this possibly put innocent people behind bars, never mind easily? The article specifically notes that any hits on the system are then checked by real police officers before any further action is taken, and from that point surely the same processes and controls will apply as if an officer thought they'd recognised a person of interest as part of their normal activity.
If I am not mistaken, Pattern matching will be included on Java 11, please correct me if I am wrong.
Think of it as "Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon" vs. "the rest of us". There's no problem with asking other members of the community for help on self-hosting.
You ever politely laugh at something you really didn't find all that funny?

Human social interactions are built on small deceptions. Some amount of dishonesty is required if you want to avoid being an awkward social pariah. If you are incapable of any social dishonesty whatsoever, you will quickly be labeled an inappropriate, self righteous asshole.

Of course there is a limit to those social norms. Dishonesty that exceeds those limits moves from being polite to what most of us consider lying.
Are you for real? That is the most /r/iamverysmart thing I've ever read.
Might have something to do with the whole Condoleeza Rice kerfuffle that happened years ago. People swore against Dropbox ever since and for some reason feel the need to continue swearing against it today.
can you tell more about this? What exactly do you mean by "brokers"?
Aah, makes. I'm not a huge fan of it for similar reasons, but the appeal of a language that's quick, dirty, and relatively acceptable by coworkers is strong.
I don’t lie either, but rarely get job offers, so I should probably start.
Please look past the name of the Agency to understand its mission. If you think the security of US citizens' communications should be a mission of the NSA, go advocate with your representatives to make it so.

As it currently stands, the IA mission of the NSA is solely to secure National Security Systems, which are systems that handle classified information or are critical to military or intelligence activities.

"National Security Directive (NSD) 42 authorizes NSA to secure National Security Systems, which includes systems that handle classified information or are otherwise critical to military or intelligence activities." https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/information-assurance/
Skype is the one that blows my mind. You had another product that doesn't work with Skype, so you renamed it Skype. WAT?
Sunlight, gas exchange, weather and lighting might be very important, but it's hard to know. There are many theories regarding which types of abiogenesis are possible so the required circumstances are unknown.
my kid is almost finished with school, I might move to seattle after that.
In general it's the eigenvectors of the positive-semidefinite (hence symmetric) part of the left polar decomposition.
Clickbaiting at it's best or perhaps worst
Anything a company does, in private or in public, is legitimately subject to criticism.
Thanks, that is a great link. Here's his summary:

"The facts are clear. Chuck Yeager proved incapable of doing the job. He was totally outside his element. He was a natural pilot who had learned by experience and feel, but never really understood stability, just ‘sensed’ how airplanes would act, but aerodynamics and space dynamics are night and day. If he was to fail, I expected it to be outside the aerodynamics region.

But not even that can excuse his accident, which was his fault, alone and was an error of bad pilot technique during normal, aerodynamic flight. His shortcoming was inability to gain and maintain the 70 degree climb angle. That required strict and delicate airplane control. No more and no less."
WRT modules, that seems like very confusing terminology. It seems to me that vgo calls what all others call packages moduels, and the fact that module is a really overloaded term does not help.
Please do a major rehaul of your crappy user interface instead of that stuff
Weirdly long gap in the visual story between 1996 & 2004
"Necessary evil" is the exact phrase I've used to describe LinkedIn for many years now; it's really sad.
Not true with a revocable trust, which costs under $1000 to establish and provides all the same benefits of owning the real estate directly without disclosing ownership.

Disclaimer: Applies primarily to IL and FL, not an attorney, nor your attorney.
Not portable enough. The point of bash (well, really sh if we want to be pedantic) is that it's a stitching tool available on just about every conceivable platform.
Above the fold will give you a snapshot of news across multiple outlets http://www.abovethefold.io/
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> And you think the algorithms made by racists aren't racist?

I'd hedge that a little. Because I think there are a lot of people who are just naive and think that using data that is historically racist will result in racist outcomes.

Not saying that the person creating the algo is racist, but for such a harsh accusation you need enough substantial evidence. That, or we dilute the term.
Yeah, and just because many people are happy to trade it away doesn't mean everyone is. (And of course many don't realize just how much they're trading away...)
Hear ye, hear ye! Junior developers you should listen to joenathanone and never ask more senior people! You should make us watch over your back everyday because of your silly hubris and for our fear of you delaying our project! Asking questions is stupid and for the feeble minded! Google is your only friend!
In the US, we have different sites where you can look up patent information.

In fact, IBM and Microsoft run this one, which is a global database.
Article: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-ibm-arm-back-open-pa...
Site: http://oropo.net/

So my question, is if Whois had to take their site offline due to GDPR, then will things like this go offline?

My concern is that GDPR will have a chilling effect not just on free speech, but on open information of many kinds.

PS - for reference, here is a good overview of the issues that an open patent database helps solve: http://oropo.net/oropo_report_20150615.pdf
3 or 4 pages should be about right IMHO, most tech hiring managers don't want to read your complete life story, just figure out if you look like you have the right skill sets and experience.

At a quick glance your current CV is light on specific technologies and languages. i.e. are you an embedded C programmer? Ruby? PHP? Net? Can you use Github, docker, whatever. most of this is just to get past the "HR filter".
Please explain to me how "this person worked here" compares to "I never inhaled". These two statements do not equalize for me.
Every single news website is talking about 'Wisconsin Police praise best senior prank' or something of that order.
I'm a little appalled by the magnitude of click baiting going on here.
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So often the only way to get a pay promotion in development is to quit and go somewhere else for more money. Take the counter offer and your boss is now resentful.

Developer pay is terrible. Compare the pay of people who are really, really good to a mid-range tax accountant at a large firm to see just how bad it is.
> Yes, the law

thanks, but i'm hoping for something more specific. like a us code or something. i'm skeptical that you're speaking to something that actually exists, but i'm happy to see evidence of what you're talking about.

> You don’t get to enforce when and where a contractor works.

i'm not sure what you mean by "enforce" exactly, other than perhaps you mean to say a contract is not allowed to stipulate that, for example, a contractor work during the day to coordinate with others, or work on-site to handle materials in a secure location, or not hand privileged or sensitive data over to unknown random people.

> Where do you work?

at a large company that has both employees and contractors.
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I’m interested in the time frame some YIMBY supporters expect radical new housing laws to be passed in California? It’s obvious locals don’t want things to change, especially for tech workers.
Real late to this thread, but for the last ~10 years I've run my desktop in the adjacent room's closet. My desk has the monitors, speakers, USB hub for peripherals, with cables running through the wall to the actual tower/UPS/etc. It's a great setup if your living space can accommodate it (the adjacent room is my bedroom, but I shut this computer down at night).

I started doing this because quiet computers just weren't available at decent horsepower. Rad to see a build like this!
Indian government mandates original information to be filled in RABT else the domain registrar can cancel your account.

And since GST, if you register a domain you are supposedly a business owner and need to provide a GST number mandatorily. Check these out with Net4.

Indian govt sucks big time when it comes to privacy.
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The lurking issue here is Prop 13. It forces cities into a tragedy of the commons type scenario where it's not rational for any individual city to build new housing, as property taxes are limited, while they can more easily raise revenue by bringing in jobs and retail.

>...we should pass more laws mandating that the housing we can't build should be built anyhow, apparently by magic?

Unfortunately, it seems like Prop 13 is not going to get repealed anytime soon. Given that, then in this case, yes, more regulations could help.

It's called a Pigouvian tax [1]. Whenever a city like Menlo Park brings in 2,000 more Facebook employees while allowing for zero new housing, they impose a negative externality on their neighbors, who suffer in the form of higher housing costs. To counter that, cities should be made to bear the social cost of exacerbating the housing crisis. If every time a city like Menlo Park adds thousands of new employees without any new housing, they had to pay large fees into a state affordable housing fund, they'd have less incentive to contribute such a large housing imbalance in the first place, and everyone would be better off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
They are blocking hotlinking on that image, do you have the page link?
Must be a Gandi thing. My .io domain from Gandi only shows my name but a .me domain from another registrar still shows home address, phone number, etc.…
What do you want to use it for? Can you not using something like Google Authenticator for 2-factor auth?
>> LSM-trees are great, but better stuff exists.

Sure. My knowledge is pretty much limited to what this articles talks about, so interested to know what else is out there.
Jr does the same thing in Japan. Its mostly malls and shopping venues, not residential areas and rarely offices.
Go already has "packages", so it's not something that can be used for what vgo calls modules.

A Go package is similar to a Java or Python package; it's just a namespace. A vgo module can be thought of as a collection of packages that have a version number and a single canonical name.

I don't find the terms particularly confusing, given that Go doesn't already have anything called a module. It would really only be confusing if you're deep into another language that has "packages" and "modules". I personally don't find it difficult to context switch like that.
What is something cool/useful that you did on it that's not available from other internet sources?
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>That's not lying; that's just normal social etiquette.

That's the argument. Some amount of dishonesty is required to follow normal social etiquette. Saying I'm fine is expected even if you're not actually fine. We have cultural norms for what kind of dishonesty is acceptable. When you exceed those norms, you're lying.

Politely laughing at an unfunny joke, and telling someone that their food is "interesting", fall well within the realm of socially acceptable polite dishonesty. But skipping work to see a ballgame by inventing a fake funeral is considered lying by many (most?) people.

Like most things in life there is a gray area along that spectrum.

I also second what my sibling comment says about lying by omission. I think morally, both are equal.
as an aside to the conversation. I am continuing to get up an down votes on this comment, long after the comment I replied to was flagged. 'dang, are votes queued up in the hacker news system or is there another reason for this behavior?
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They are in different directions:

Via => proxy/organization name chain where the response came from

X-Forwarded-For => ip address chain where the request came from
Or, we could just build more houses.
There's a lot of principles I agree with you here, but I'd still rather not have the surveillance, and here's why

> (a) the technology is being deployed in specific environments where there really is a credible threat of criminal behaviour,

You need to define what credible threat is, pretty exactly. Just a thief? A terrorist? I think we all agree that this would be nice if there was foreknowledge of an imminent attack. BUT I think there still is a danger in setting them up for only that kind of use. We know that if we give police (or anyone really) tools, they will use them (why wouldn't they?). So having the ability uses to more abuse of use. But also as time goes on and people get used to it, the regulations relax.

So in this terrorist scenario I would be okay with bringing in cameras, or hooking into the already existing system, but it would need to tear down and be required to only come out when time is of the essence.

As we say in America, I'd rather a hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be stripped of their freedom.
This is more or less what the existing RHNA laws try to do, though they don't have enough teeth. SB 828 is designed to improve the situation a bit.
Building housing near transit isn't nearly as important as building offices near transit, if you want to make transit (more) viable.

I can easily drive to caltrain and walk to work from the station, if my office is walkable from the station, and my house is drivable from a station with sufficient parking. It's much harder to walk to caltrain and then drive from the station to the office.
Rather: "Human society unprepared for the misuse of ML by other humans". Fear other humans, not machines (yet).
Thanks for the interesting statistics! Could you share what the source of your data was?

> "All I have to do is buy the S&P 500 and sit back and reap the benefits."

My biggest investment is an S&P 500 index fund, but as all the disclaimers say: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." One has to be aware that investing in stocks does have a risk of prolonged bear markets and loss of capital.
If a new account signs up and makes 10,000 posts in a minute, and the first 10 are flagged, then you can probably delete the remaining ones with high confidence.

I also imagine that they have sanity checks for their systems. Either running classifiers again previously identified spam, or running manual sanity checks against deleted items.
How about police, firefighters, teachers, and construction workers building these homes. I’m assuming they would get the same treatment and residences as these Facebook workers.
Maybe truth in the end doesn't really matter? Only actions taken from perceived truth that increase the fitness for a moral, rule, opinion or belief. Debate and arguing maybe are just entropy like random mutations in DNA that drive cultures to differences where some are benign, some fatal, and everything in between. Morals or rules you see universally across cultures may have been highly selected due to their necessity. Culture and morals change over time because our environment changes, the context differs. Maybe that could be called truth?
> Clearly policing in the [country] has some problems, and I'm not sure technology can fix them.

FTFY
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Is your astigmatism uncorrected? I can make the characters out just fine, but I wear contacts for astigmatism.
Just to throw in my own anecdote, I took linear algebra twice (in high school with no college credit, and in college) and I still couldn't ever remember afterwards what an eigenvector was until I watched that series. Now I'll probably never forget. He is an astonishing educator.
I’m a guy who battle tests old IBM PC tank keyboards and wore out a 2014 mbp keyboard 2x over three years and had a glitchy 2016 mbp when they came out, returned it.

I’m on a current model 2017 15” mbp pounding the keyboard and no problems thus far. Why are the arrow keys are for child size hands?
I agree it should, but realistically does any IoT device actually worry about such a thing?
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Actually, this makes me think of the giant software corporation CA.

Larry Ellison of Oracle referred to CA as "where software goes to die" because of this business practice. When Oracle says that, you know it's bad.

Every time I'm at some company where an entrenched piece of software that has a declining user base (Erwin data modeling software, Rally for Agile, etc) I discover that CA has bought it, put it on life support, and let it just slowly rot.
> If you think your boss is lying to you, go find a new boss.

That statement seems completely disconnected from reality. Not the part about going to find something better, because that is (usually) possible. But managers regularly and transparently lie.

It sounds like you’re a boss, so I think you haven’t had to experience this for too long and have probably forgotten it.

Also, try not to be so gung ho on declaring who you fire and how little remorse you have / whatever the situation. It does not come off well.
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Since I've started applying FP (I'm not very strict about it) I've been finding ways to reuse code more which lets me reduce my test footprint and increase the reliability of my code. I've also found it's easier to isolate my business logic without scoping it too strictly to an object or implementation, allowing me to think largely in coding to interfaces or contacts. This is totally doable with strict OO, but honestly I'm pretty lousy at that in practice. So FP has helped me with that too.

I lean towards organizing my applications into very dumb objects which are supported by FP-style business logic. At a glance you can infer what's going on quite easily due to the idiomatic use of the objects, but the object orientation mostly ends there. My business logic is organized into isolated modules that are as pure as I can manage without being a nut about it. The objects recruit or are operated on by that logic, so their implementation is very light and clean as a result. Like I mentioned, tests for this kind of code are really nice. They tend to be concise.

It's not perfect, but I feel like it's a way FP has greatly improved my code and what I deliver to my team in general. It's an attempt to merge the benefits of two paradigms, I suppose.