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You've got the right idea behind your assessment, but the pieces in play are a little off.

Federal laws (Obamacare/ACA) and federal entities (EPA) are created by Congress.

The executive branch (President), can issue executive orders, but they are limited to authority granted by Congress and the constitution.

The judicial branch is there to verify that the other two branches are staying within their constitutional authority.

Constitutional Amendments are difficult to enact, but that is intentional. Amendments limit government at all levels. Congress can't make any law, and the executive branch can't issue any order that conflicts with the constitution. The only thing you can do is amend the constitution again.

The problem is that Congress has become a gridlocked mess while also offloading a lot of it's authority to government agencies acting on it's behalf under the executive branch. Effectively increasing the scope and power of the presidency and by extension the reach of executive orders. This has also pushed the judicial branch into a much more active role than it was designed for.

Edit: It's also one of the contributing factors in the heated elections in the USA. As the power of the presidency grows, people become more invested in seeing their person in charge.
I don’t understand this.

Software is always complex, it’s just that the complexity is gradually hidden from the developer by the use of libraries.

Until those libraries get baked into the standard library of whatever you’re using, you’re going to have to implement complexity yourself, or use a dependencies.

Unless you’re scripting, doing something entirely within your languages or OS framework, or implementing everything yourself (hello complexity), you’re going to hit complexity and dependencies very vey early.

The only time I’ve seen this avoided is in the embedded space where you physically don’t have enough bits to get complex.
I didn't think there was a controversy until people started telling me there was one today.

I get it, I simply don't understand the topic well enough to discuss it. My original post was in retrospect a mistake. I don't agree with conspiracy nuts, I just thought something was odd and decided to question it.

I have read a few articles on this today, and it just raised more questions, and after learning some things, I see that some other comments are actually wrong, yet still happy to vilify me.

I understand there is a social dynamic on HN at play here, just need to learn the rules better.
I enjoy forcing myself to hear one of the other.
I think human perception of technology is often dominated by annoyance. From a little bit of research I did years ago, 99% accuracy was nowhere near good enough to satisfy customers of handwriting recognition--that's about one word mistake per paragraph.

Consider the new Apple keyboards, which attract hundreds of intense complaints every time they come up here on HN. Apple Insider [1] estimated the percentage of service tickets that were attributed to keyboards:

2014 - 5.6%

2015 - 6%

2016 - 11.8% (first year of new keyboard)

2017 so far - 8.1%

So, an approximate doubling of the prevalence of keyboard problems in the first year has been enough to convince a lot of people that the entire product is an unmitigated disaster.

One of the very interesting facts in that Apple Insider study is that the total number of tickets actually decreased from 2015 to 2016. If the keyboard was actually a design disaster, you would expect the total number of warranty service tickets to climb, but they didn't.

2014 - 2,120

2015 - 1,904

2016 - 1,402

2017 - (incomplete)

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/30/2016-macbook-pro-...
Nice analogy. We want tech to help us only when we need them, not to tell us how to live our lives.
Signal runs just fine on an iPod Touch (after a little fussing around getting it set up with a phone number...)

If you're paranoid enough, it's easy enough to avoid installing things that're likely to be crapware on your secure comms device.

Apart from Signal, the only other non iOS supplied apps I have installed on mu iPod are a bitcoin wallet and Onion Browser - both of which I angst a little about, since they're both in the first category of app I'd attempt to subvert if I were a nation state actor, or a blackhat looking to steal bitcoin from people least likely to report it to authorities...
US public and private health spending vs. the world (graph)
It sounds more like Yaw Yee to me.
You don’t need to hash a password over the client so long as it’s sent over an encrypted network. The goal of submitting a password is that it’s not sent in open plaintext. Otherwise even if you hash it on the client, the plaintext hash can still be intercepted and used, exactly as-is, as the plaintext password.
Push it all the way to the left, listen to the Laural, then slam it all the way to the right during a silence.

I find that if I move the slider while the sound is playing, or if I move the slider really slowly, my ears stick to the last word I heard.

Another thing is that the speakers matter. I can't hear Laural on my laptop, but I can hear it on my phone.
Doesn't work on Firefox, Error! n.XMLHttpRequest is not a constructor.

Please be considerate, the web is more than just Chrome
There is often discussions of US health policy on HN, and this is the most important chart to have in mind when discussing it. Right now, the US spends more public money per capita on healthcare than all countries which have universal public healthcare except Norway.
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Honestly, most small USA businesses take one look at "Up to €20 million, or 4% annual global turnover – whichever is higher." and just run. There's no point in even trying to salvage the situation.

> For the 3.7 million small businesses with 1 to 4 employees, the Census Bureau figures show average annual sales in 2007 were $387,200.

Given that, who wants to risk a 20M fine? All this advice in this thread to do this, run it through a lawyer (lawyers are expensive especially international ones), makes no sense to the majority of the businesses in the USA: there are less than 8M employers in the USA and a very small percentage has a yearly turnover of even a mil not to mention the ~600M USD where the fine changes from a constant to a percentage.

To give you another idea of how much money this is, about a quarter of public companies have less than 25M USD market cap.

As a dual Canadian-EU citizen I am stupefied by this law.
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Network disks really are terrible in comparison, even the super charged expensive ones (io volumes).

Local SSD is just orders of magnitude faster if you need a fast place to put temporary (or replicated) data.
A reason you are getting downvotes is that it’s not true that closed source software is unauditable.

This is a common but untrue belief. It’s a fundamental axciom of software security that you can’t trust source, so you must diagnose the binary.

Source may be helpful, but in the grand scheme of things lots of other properties are more important.
Other platforms have good DB abstractions (ADO.net, JDBC) though so it doesn't have to be ORM.
Here's a quick question for you: by default, without changing the out-of-the-box configuration, what is the weakest supported set of crypto primitives OpenBSD IPSEC will negotiate?

(I don't know the answer.)
To be fair there is a long and storied history of tech companies juicing their demos in various ways. IIRC correctly the original demo of Microsoft's OLE technology was a carefully constructed simulation, as were parts of the iPhone's demo at its unveiling in 2007.

As long as the final product works as advertised, no one seems to much care.
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Are there tools available to monitor if I receive a silent SMS?

I think it's safe to assume that all popular brands of phone are compromised and exploitable with these SMS PDUs. If I buy a Seeed Rephone open-source DIY kit and use it as a GSM-to-WiFi modem, will that be any more secure? I guess that reverse triangulation from cell towers is still possible to determine my location.
Aside, this whole Yanny vs Laurel quarrel exposes a good example of how humans seem to approach opposing views in general.

The video sparks thousands of comments on Reddit and Facebook, many of them amounting to "I hear <X> and the rest of you are wrong!" -- surely in jest most of the time.

You have to wonder what fraction of people have the healthy response of "I hear <X> but I want to try to hear <Y> like other people, interesting."

Imagine if this was human nature, instead: "I hate Javascript, but I'd like to understand why someone would choose it on the server instead of assuming they are an amateur." HN would be much more relaxed. :)

Same with that blue vs gold dress "debate." -- Why is it a debate?

I don't mean to suck the fun out of it, though. But I do think it's a caricature of human nature in general.
Not an astronomer, but let's try going by Wikipedia: Neptune has apparent magnitude of about 8. If you displaced it to twice as far, it'd become 16 times as dim (twice the distance, squared). The scale of apparent magnitude is a factor of 2.512 per step, so that'd be a change of about 3, to magnitude 11. The biggest ground-based telescopes can go up to around 24-26, if you dedicate significant observing time. So (26-8)/3=6 doublings: they could detect Neptune at 64 times as far out as it is, if they knew where to look. That's ~1900 AU.

But of course Neptune is bigger and likely more reflective than the target. I guess you could expect a brightness about one more magnitude lower. A quick skim of https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05438 (the paper proposing the new planet) is difficult for me, but one concrete number they mention as a possibility is 700 AU. So, apparently, that'd be within reach of a ground-based telescope but it'd have to be a darned big state-of-the-art one.
Business people doesn’t mean customers however. Which was my point.

In fact the only time the customer is mentioned is in principle one: “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.”

Business people absolutely should be involved - product owners & stakeholders (or a proxy for them).

That’s fundamental but again: business people != customers.

You seem to think stakeholders/product owners are devs direct managers too. That’s rarely the case, if ever, on any functioning agile team I’ve seen. They’re orthogonal to each other.
We should perhaps stop using Weev as an example of an innocent victimized by overzealous prosecutors. His actual conviction was trumped-up, but he'd likely have been in prison already if all the people he harassed and abused had pressed charges instead of trying to get on with their lives.
America has the Patriot act. It isn't used to detain many people, but the government definitely has the ability to do it if they want.
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It's good that there's starting to be more focus on whether partially autonomous vehicles are actually safer, but what about other aspects?

We have social networks now that have "terms of service" and who are kicking out people they disagree with. Is it too far out there to suppose that an autonomous vehicle will come with similar "terms of service"? What if the vehicle refuses to drive you to a competitor's store? Or to a political rally that the car company doesn't like? Or to a gun store? Or to a religious gathering?

Since most drivers control and own their cars, these are not concerns today, but they likely will be. It seems like these are bigger decisions to hash out than whether a car is merely safe. It doesn't matter if the car is safe, if it safely takes away your freedoms.
The internet is hear now, I don't even want to search out this as a conspiracy theory, I don't have the energy or the time to care.

I am fascinated by changes in science. Like how no one knew how fermentation existed, and that the word yeast, fermentation and leaven all have the same root meanings. Louis Pasteur came along and went to France to study the grapes and vines to find how yeast was produced.

And how his discoveries helped lead us out of dark age of zymotic disease theory. And how doctors at one time didn't wash their hands, yet deny today that their practice was once monstrous and bestial, yet chiropractors are the new "evil".

The thread of logic and evidence is incredibly fascinating. And so I had similar questions arise with the ozone layer. Some things didn't seem to add up, so I asked about them here.
Apart from no overdose danger, demand for computation is economically like drug addicts'. So vendors call their clientele users.

> It turns out that human intelligence is not just one trick or technique — it is many.

Disagree. Though humans have many varied talents, some inherited from mammals like walking and seeing, some developed culturally and practiced like go and chess, I think strong intelligence is just one trick. It might need quite a lot of background processing and memory in order to do anything useful or even vaguely "intelligent", but the key trick itself might not need much processing power, and could be quite simple.

> people who can push forward the boundary of computationally hard problems need never fear for lack of work

So, full employment!
I don't like folksy remedies but I have anecdotal evidence that headaches/migraines may be caused by a lack of salt. Here is some research to back that idea up[0][1].

[0]: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/head.12792
[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101015-does-eating-mor...
That is because the exec runs in the global scope. When Python sees a variable that is not assigned to in the local scope, it is assumed to be a global variable, so when exec creates a new local variable, the load still fails because it looks into the globals dictionary.

But you can do this:

def foo():
exec("a = 1")
return locals()['a']
FWIW, the sort of people with access/leverage to be able to compromise a device through the baseband probably don't leave behind traces revealing it happened. They just drop hints to the local cops that they ought to find a reason to pull you over for a traffic stop and coincidentally smell pot smoke to give them probably cause to search your car...

(waves at the NSA guys...)

I _hope_ that sort of capability is still a year or two away from guys with an Ettus USPR and a bunch of open source software and hacking tools glued together with Python... But keep your eyes on DefCon and CCC to be sure...
We called it that way in React in order to call out attention to the fact that it was actually dangerous. React also properly escapes everything else it prints.

The app isn't using React but jQuery, which doesn't have those protections.
Baby and vacation pictures are now shown & consumed on Instagram. It’s basically the new Facebook without the political debates.
Elsevier is a criminal enterprise, nothing more, nothing less...
I really appreciate this detailed response!
> Do you know a good GDPR consultant?

>> Yes.

> Can you tell me their email address?

>> No.
Many years ago, I applied for a position with a local organisation. I contacted the manager in question about a week later. As he was not available, I left a message with his staff indicating that I was wanting feedback as to how successful or not my application was in relation to the position.

I called back a number of times and left messages with his staff as he was quite often at meetings elsewhere in the region.

After some time, I managed to actually speak to the manager in question and during our conversation, he stated that I should have known that I was unsuccessful due to getting no feedback or calls or letters from him.

I made it quite clear to him that I had, in the past, been in the position of interviewer and that it was considered highly unprofessional for applicants to not be notified that they were unsuccessful. If they had put in the effort to apply then it was appropriate to put in the effort to respond to those applications.

What was funny was finding a rejection letter hand delivered to my mail box a couple of hours later. As I had other contacts within the organisation, which he didn't know about, I made enquires as to his general level of competence. He was not a people person and in that regard I was happy not to have been successful. If I got the story right, the successful applicant didn't last much over a year under his gentle management style anyway.

As has been noted elsewhere in these comments, the way a company responds or doesn't respond affects how they are viewed by applicants and it does affect their reputation.
Absolutely! But there’s a reason a lot of professionals avoid here and call it The Orange Website in a derogatory fashion...

... and it’s not because it’s overfloeing with kindness & tact.
I really value Mark and love his writing, but this article seems a bit one-sided. He's essentially telling founders that if they are not publicly sharing their traction, acquisition channels, unit economics and market insights, that they are doing it wrong. Couple of reasons why I disagree:

- You lose control of your messaging from the PR point of view. Perhaps you said in your deck you'll expand to XYZ by a certain date, and now that you're 6 months late and want to get some PR, why open up yourself to people putting a negative spin on your story?

- You expose yourself to risk of getting copied by well-funded startups looking to pivot. Will you manage to win anyway? Perhaps. But if you could choose, do you really want expose yourself to all that risk?

- Last but not least, here's an investor essentially confirming that investors cannot be trusted to keep your deck confidential. Just in case you ever wondered...

For everyone who disagrees with these points, please share your deck in your comments :)
After playing with this, I can make my brain hear either — and even in rhythmic patterns (Yanny, Laurel, Yanny, Laurel, Yanny, Yanny, Yanny, Laurel). It’s a neat reminder of how much “preprocessing” our brains do before we experience a sound (filtering out what are perceived to be the irrelevant frequencies).
He broke no policy here. He made the claim that it was real (the same as Google's public stance as evidenced by Pichai's statements at Google IO) and that he's seen the code (if you've seen enough publicly available Google talks you'd know all code is public for whoever wants to view it internally).
I've definitely been guilty of #4 even recently (I'm not sure if they made anyone feel awkward, though; those that did probably just ignored it), but there are 2 reasons I don't mind it from the poster's point of view.

1. If it makes you feel awkward that I'm honest about who I am in writing, then yeah, our friendship is probably superficial at best, and in those cases, I'm not really concerned on your feelings about my feelings. Feel free to unfollow (I know I unfollow certain friends posts).

2. Blogs have been used for this sort of thing for a MUCH wider audience than a group of friends behind a gated digital community, and I've personally never had any kind of issue with reading people's personal struggles, even other devs, and in fact it makes them far more human to me.

Then again, the type of vulnerability you're thinking of may be different than mine, but either way, to each his own. :)

The rest of the behaviors you mentioned are pretty much why I generally don't use Instagram or Twitter more than once every few months. Those formats, even when following devs, seem to encourage the types of activity you're discussing at least in my feeds. But FB is probably the platform I curate the most, simply because most of the people I care about use it to share about their life, from milestones to quick takes, for the most part, without excessive narcissistic self aggrandizing posts (some do, but most are fairly harmless, otherwise after a while, I just choose not to follow).

But I've noticed that there are definitely preferences across the board, which is mainly why they all seem to stick around. I doubt there will be one social media platform to rule them all, the same way there's no one amusement park or one kind of gym. There are behemoths, but there's always a long tail, especially in socializing.
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Thanks, for the first time I figured it's ok to get downvoted into oblivion and just follow through with some of the reading without concern for voicing things the way required to get upvotes.

I did learn quite a bit, but also I found that some comments were wrong on the facts they were throwing in my face. I value learning more than social points, but I do appreciate the nod.
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I'm actually exploring this idea right now. It's been an issue I've been facing in my day job and think it is only going to become more pervasive as more teams start to work remotely.

If anyone is currently experiencing this issue, I would absolutely love to talk to you! I only have a really rudimentary site up right now at http://hallwayapp.com if anyone is even remotely curious (no pun intended).
That makes this a perfect fit
"but the CPU can still generate the other kind?"

I think the point is you can't get the silent bit turned off except by the extreme method of casting arbitrary non-float data. If you deal with floats in the normal way, they are never signalling.

"My understanding is that this is happening from a floating point number being converted to an integer, back to floating point, then back to an integer again?"

The example seems to be integer -> float. The integer is just a bit pattern that happens to mean "signalling NaN" and the author is trying to convert it to a float and unhappy with the "silent" bit/flag changing. I come back to my other comment, that the bit is not really part of the value, so I feel like the concept of equality for the test is what should be fixed.
As the founder of the patent troll Intellectual Ventures the author (Nathan Myhrvold) has hurt our community deeply and I'm surprised how willing we are to give him a platform.
> interpreting body language

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05521
Not true. I have Signal running in an iPod Touch.

I needed to give them a phone number I could read SMS from to set it up, but there's no need for that to be "the mobile number of the actual terminal being used".
Amazing! I hope they adopt this for RDS.

EBS volumes are great and all but not for database where the dataset is many multiples of the working set.
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>MacOS also freezes a lot if your computer is about 3 years old.

On my 2011 Mac mini, I've experienced less than one event that deserves the description "freeze" per 1000 hours of use.
Ha! Brings back memories. When I was an engineering student at UIUC, I was taking a physics class where the Prof graded crazy hard, even by the standards of the department.

His response was "one day you might build a bridge and can kill someone."
> I have been avoiding a lot of sites since the election, largely because they can't seem to let the 2016 election go

Could you elaborate on this a bit? What type of behavior would fit the description of "letting the election go"?
I really don't know the best way to get a 4 pane setup (like a cross +) without having a :terminal in slot 1-4.

I like this workflow sometimes.

I'm working on a bash script and yeah I :!bash % a lot, but sometimes I want a REPL too, with visible history

For those wanting to build this, here's how I do it on Ubuntu: https://github.com/shmup/vimmies/wiki/Installing-vim8
My understanding is there needs to be a reasonable expectation the child would be raised to be Catholic. A typical heuristic is at least one Catholic parent. I guess "be Catholic" in this context means "will go through confirmation" or something to that effect.