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I'm familiar with all of these, I think.

Maybe I'm nostalgic, maybe I'm stuck viewing "my" technologies through rose-tinted goggles. Maybe I'm just naive. Maybe I'm just old. It may be that "the kids" are just in to a way of communication that doesn't "feel" right to me and that I'll never understand, and which leads itself to apps like Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc... being _genuinely_ superior to what I once experienced, even when I personally view them as being woefully inadequate compared to something as simple as AIM.

It strikes me as being some sort of Socratic expression that I don't want to delve in to. I just hope that technology is serving "kids" today as well as it served me in the past, and I guess that I have to accept that what _they_ accept is performing that job satisfactorily. Maybe when I have children and they are pre-teen / teen then I will be able to understand their needs again.
I recently tried the Beyond Burger at Veggie Grill and was downright shocked by how good it tasted. More of that and people might be a lot happier to go vegan!
Understandable outage. I switched back to cloudflare when it came back up, but this did prompt me to drop 8.8.8.8 in as a 3rd fallback.
It is really amazing, when you get into it, how many people with excellent-looking CV and experience just can't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

They don't know what cache is or how to tell when you've run out of it; can't use pointers, can't write a loop; don't understand object lifetime or that objects have one; or think a null pointer is, or should be, the same as an empty string. (This last is most amazing because it seems to be official policy at Google!)

The elementary coding and debugging exercises that are so annoying are necessary because most candidates, by far, can't begin to do them -- MS:CS, real-time OS thesis project, and N years experience notwithstanding. What have these people been doing?

I have seen brainteasers used well, but only as a jumping-off point for a conversation that tends well away from the puzzle.

I used to use a design problem (no coding) that bright undergrads solved in two minutes, BSes in five, MSes in 20, and PhDs either never, or as fast as an undergrad. Everyone who solved it used identically the same hand gesture when describing the solution.

ITA Software used to publish great programming puzzles that you were invited to solve and send with a CV. (Google bought them out and eventually took down the puzzles, back in 2010, but they might still be in wayback). To learn how your solution compared to theirs, you had to send it! It might not work so well anymore, since everything gets posted nowadays.
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Good thing they removed all mentions of that from their workers' code of conduct then, no? They really dodged a bullet there (get it?)

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-dont-be-evil/

Moral compass out of sight, out of mind, is probably what the leadership must have been thinking, especially after the recent protest against Maven from a few thousand employees (which seems to have resulted only in the leadership trying to appease them by promising some secret bullshit "ethics rules")
Yeah, the descriptions in Stephenson's Baroque Cycle are mind boggling.
It says the processor is built for efficient convolutions. While that would be great for CNNs, could the same be used to make RNNs more efficient? I.e. can the problem of solving RNNs be reduced to solving CNNs?
It wasn’t removed. It was moved towards the end. You’re welcome to have an opinion on that if you want, but let’s be accurate and honest about it and stop spreading the incorrect claim it was removed.
How the hell are you supposed to gain abilities in math or thinking critically without the ability to sit down and read?

I'm genuinely confused as to the worldview that says that the earlier doesn't come with the later as a necessary cause, unless we're talking absolutely trivial levels of math/critical thinking...
The Soviets could just tell people where to live. In the US, persuading teachers, chefs, and actors to move is fairly difficult.
"Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct": https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...

"“Don’t be evil” has been part of the company’s corporate code of conduct since 2000. When Google was reorganized under a new parent company, Alphabet, in 2015, Alphabet assumed a slightly adjusted version of the motto, “do the right thing.” However, Google retained its original “don’t be evil” language until [late April or early May 2018]. [...] The updated version of Google’s code of conduct still retains one reference to the company’s unofficial motto—the final line of the document is still: “And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”"
I tried Comodo too, but they wanted to have a legal person to sign some document (proof of existence?). Eventually, DigiCert was pretty fast in giving out a cert. Two legal documents scanned in, a copy of a passport/id and a face to face (skype) was about enough to validate that I really exist.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because, as parent noted, making it possible makes your secure enclave more complex (which is the same as less secure).

Furthermore, as parent also noted, if your encryption is solid, wiping the keys is identical to wiping the data.
But what if the US military wants to minimize civilian casualties and collateral damage as much as possible and wants technology developed to do so?
Regarding energy production and climate in general, the sheer abundance of data and articles has, overall, left me feeling less informed than when I started. However, another HNer introduced me to this amazing site:

https://ourworldindata.org/

and so far I've found it to walk a great balance between accessible and rigorous. The articles seem to be well and reliable sourced, which provides good launching points for further investigation.

Anyway, just wanted to pass it forward, per se.
That's exactly what I thought when the point was brought up that the contract between Google and the DoD "was only for $9,000,000."

That's called getting your foot in the door.
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Amazon and some of the other firms have enough data to know a subset of their users are real people without any additional effort. I have years of order history, with changing credit cards and addresses tied to my name, plus books and movie viewing over a long period. It'd never be worth the effort to fake that.
Cosina was the company licensed to make the Nikon FM10 and produced rangefinders under the Voigtländer name. All of those products were discontinued last year, sadly.

As far as I know, the F6 is the last one still in production.
> except if the plural form always matches the singular one

Hungarian has plural forms which are distinct from the singular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_noun_phrase

Otherwise, yeah, they'd be in group 0.
I think that’s a very oversimplified opinion. Depending on the alternative, war can certainly be the moral decision. I don’t think you’d find many would who would describe The Unions war on slavery as Evil.
Was IBM's providing of tech to the Nazis to kill Jewish people more effectively neutral or intrinsically evil?

I try to avoid comparisons to the Nazis (even though many more people seem to be doing it these days with Trump in power), but isn't Google basically providing the government the technology to more effectively kill people in the Middle East, too? That's what it is at the end of the day, isn't it?

History will remember Google for this - especially when its technology will be used for some horrifying stuff in the future (and it will be). Right now we haven't even seen its true consequences yet, so it's easy for some to dismiss it as no big deal.
Who is using CRTs? Mobiles have incredible pixel density, high-pixel-density displays and TVs are becoming the norm, etc. Is this even an issue? Who only has 7 pixels for their text?
Yes fully.

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You are talking besides the point. War != "War Profiteering". You can believe war is unavoidable and still find excess profiting from war morally repugnant
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If you're trying to make a point, it is entirely lost in the rambling.
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This reads like the historical analysis of a thirteen year-old.

OP, your moral compass is pointing due North.
This is a great write up. It's also why the DNS root servers have a policy of surviving DDoS through massively over-provisioned, multi-org, anycasted redundancy rather this sort of smart DDoS mitigation that drops traffic: DNS is so critical that any risk of dropping real traffic is unacceptable. (obviously, such a scale is impractical for 99% of services)

A good takeaway from this outage for the average user would be to make sure that your fallback DNS resolvers are operated by totally separate providers. (eg, configure 1.1.1.1 with 8.8.8.8 as a fallback, rather than 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1) (Edit: fixed cloudflare's secondary address)
For me HN is more valuable than FB. Value of HN has stayed the same for me over the years while the value/utility of FB has gradually eroded and I hardly ever use Facebook now.
I think that the leaked emails show that one or two execs within Google expressed the optimistic case for the eventual revenue leading from the project. That's how projects happen in companies. Some employee gets excited about the potential of the project and writes emails talking about all the huge numbers that project will post.

Most of those emails are wrong.

Maven may be wrong at any price or size. But Google's characterization of it as a minor project doesn't seem contradicted by these emails.
Duuuude, just get a Nintendo Switch. Fuel up on some soylent. Watch an inspirational TED Talk, and you'll feel great in no time.

I used to think I'd be alone forever, then my old high school sweetheart got divorced from her terrible [broke] first husband and got with me. I'm teaching her son how to program. Life has never been better.
The company with the single best resources to execute on this mission is trying to help make sure the kinetic energy doesn't get off target. How is that evil, exactly?
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It would show up in all. I won't no part of the hyper-liberal echo chamber or the national-populist cesspool.
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3blue1brown is a popular one I see referenced on here. Any others? Clips from popular TV shows are probably popular as well.
Do not sign anything, do not pay anything.

I recommend writing up a detailed account of your interactions with the academic and just stashing it away somewhere so that you have a record of known facts for future reference.
Except they didn't, it's still in the code of conduct ;)
But you’re describing some commercial inventive to go to war, which is very different from selling goods and services to the military.
Read The Dictator's Handbook. Then come back and tell me if I'm rambling.

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...
That last sentence directly contradicts the title...
We don't know that Google will accomplish those goals.
r/politics is MSNBC off the rails, but r/the_donald is completely bonkers. Those are some of the worst circle-jerking echo chamber subs on reddit. It's really sad.
No, your moral compass is off. The US has toppled a large number of sovereign states that were not acting violently toward other nations, and installed dictators and monarchs. The US supports Saudi Arabia, one of the most authoritarian nations on earth, who backed an actual attack on US soil, and yet they invade nations with false claims of WMD and kill hundreds of thousands. To claim that the US is the police and not the thugs is to completely ignore reality.
To any Google Employees reading this. Don't worry! There are SEVERAL ways you can reduce any cognitive dissonance you might be experiencing as you read more about the evils your company is committing :

+ rationalization of your own behavior : "I'm not doing this work...I'm working on projects that help people. And ads. But ads are pretty neutral compared to bombing people."

+ rationalization of others' behavior : "Bombing people isn't evil, since it's helping the military kill MORE _bad guys_ and LESS good guys. And gals. and children."

+ change your thoughts about yourself : "Maybe I'm not as good of a person as I thought I was..." [note : this one might be hardest to do!]

+ change your own behavior : Quit Google, or even better organize your fellow workers into some form of collective action (strike!) to remake the company into something that better fits your values and ethics.
The rest of the world vehemently disagrees. Which should be more than enough to know it's not good.
Are you truly implying I have no right to control what my eyes and ears and brain experiences? That I have to be literally forced to view and remember every single piece of content --- ads or otherwise --- on a site that I visit, just because the "content author" wills it!?

It is very rare that I will use such strong language, but to anyone who truly believes such things: fuck you, and I very much hope you will be the one someday tied into a chair and unable to escape with your eyelids forced open to watch and listen to a barrage of unescapable ads and answer questions correctly about everything you were forced to consume before being allowed to consume the actual content itself in the same way. Because that's what you're implying the world should become --- literally a form of torture and mind-control.
It is better to stick to your personal account instead of creating bogus organizations. You can start an org once you gathered dedicated contributors to the project.

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It's actually a little less involved than B&W. You don't have to look up developer/film times and there are no agitation timing techniques to worry about, because the process is exactly the same for every roll. The only annoying part is getting the chemicals up to 100 degrees rather than getting room temperature water straight from the tap.
Facebook has a very Uber-like mentality in regards to breaking the laws to make a profit. In the EU it was opting people in by default for its automatic facial recognition feature only weeks before the GDPR.
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Google is failing big in SMS. I have a Google Voice number that I've used since it was announced as Grand Central. Do you know what happens when someone sends a vcard? Nothing good - it just says it isn't supported. There isn't a way on the phone or even from a computer to SEE the vcard. I don't care if you support it, show me the blob of text and I'll read it myself!
Your comment wobbles and stumbles into a large number of complicated and nuanced subject areas with the grace of a headless bird:

war vs. war profiteering

the notion of voting as a proxy for consent

anything is worth it

bad people in the world, and they aren't here. they're there.

kinetic energy? targets? condescendence?
> To me, the most puzzling thing about programming is that there is no real place to actually discuss programming.

There totally are. Forums, chatrooms, mailing lists - they tend to be more niche than simply "programming", because that's simply such a huge topic... you can find better, if more niche, common ground. You don't have "the drinking" community - you have coffee lovers, the wine testers, microbrewers, etc.

I spent long enough on gamedev.net and it's associated chat channels (first IRC, now Discord too) for my relationships with people online to bleed out into the real world. It taught me a ton about programming. It got me my first industry job offer, from someone who I helped teach. In passing, I've seen various FOSS communities, programming languages, etc. - often focused strictly on shop talk, but not always.

There's a lot of pseudonymity to be sure, and you'll get pushback if the first thing out of your mouth is "hey check out my game/project/community, email me because I'm not sticking around long enough to hear any feedback here" - which happens surprisingly often - but there's plenty people can share relating to their projects, the tech they're using, or having trouble with, or finding new and interesting ways to (ab)use - even from the get go, that can be well received.

It's the difference between finding a topic of shared interest to discuss, vs broadcasting a topic of just your interest to talk at people with. The latter isn't a discussion.
It wasn't a war on Slavery though, as Lincoln only took the extraordinary step of releasing the Emancipation Proclamation late in the war.
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Technically, it is ISO/IEC C++17 (14882) with no ANSI counterpart.
I know but for iPhone users it's more or less seamless other than that they know they have fewer features if the bubbles are green.
It is evil when the target choice is immoral. Simple as that.
It's in the details :

- wamp is a language neutral spec and an open standard registered at iana.

- implementations not only exist in many languages but they are all interroperable transparently despite all feeling very native to their own language. A failing rpc in js will see the error propagated as a python exception on the other side.

- it works in the browser, yes, but it's also very usable as a way to implement micro services or iot clusters. You are not tied to a particular use case or framework.

- not not simple rpc but routed rpc, so the clients don't need to know each others and you can implement fallback, hot reload or load balancing

- security and authentigication are first class citizen

- wamp comes with a lot of goodies like meta events for introspection or wildcards
I think introducing HN to the soy boy meme is a huge contribution to the community to be honest. I'm not even joking.
This isn’t a well reasoned position at all. You can’t summarily declare that all wars or actions taken by the military are morally equivalent to an ethnoreligios genocide.
The US has a long tradition of tacitly supporting genocide, slaughter of civilians, collective punishment, torture and assassination or other extrajudicial murder of journalists and dissidents and labor leaders, mass surveillance, etc. etc. in places where “our dictator” happened to be in charge.

More directly, the US has directly toppled many democratically elected governments, undermined sovereign political processes via propaganda and support for anti-democratic political groups and targeted economic pressure, supported American and multinational corporations in their unethical and often criminal behavior around the world, given money and weapons and training to armed opponents of various democratic governments (who then used those for slaughtering civilians) ...

Not to mention being one of the world’s foremost producers and distributors of small arms (that end up in the hands of local gangsters, child soldiers, ...).

As a particularly tragic example, look to the case of Guatemala. The democratically elected president of Guatemala demanded that the United Fruit Company – who owned an incredibly high proportion of all arable land in the (starving) country – sell back some portion of the land which they were not currently using at the price it had been assessed to be worth for tax purposes. Unfortunately for Guatemala, the Dulles brothers (CIA director and Secretary of State), as well as various other members of the Eisenhower administration, had a direct business interest in United Fruit. The US toppled the government, installed a friendly dictator, and kicked off 2 generations of civil war in which a shockingly high proportion (5% or something?) of all Guatemalans were killed, including the mass-murder of many villages by thugs with machetes.

It is true that the presence of nuclear weapons has prevented for the past ~70 years the break-out of another “hot” war directly between nuclear-armed states. On the other hand, if someone slips up when nuclear weapons are involved, we’ll all be screwed.
Gee, if only Google was part of a larger umbrella organization they could have just transferred the project to a separate company and been done with it.
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It used to be a central piece. Now it barely gets a "Oh, and don't be evil guys, k?" mention in the very last line.
Doc have improved a lot since the last time i used it in prod, but yeah this is not vuejs doc quality level. I mostly use the demo and example codes to get by.
> Beijing has signaled to investors like Alibaba that it has chosen a winner, and that it will never let SenseTime fail.

Chinese government invested in many startups, the best example is probably Deng Yaping's search engine company around 8 years ago. Such partnership/investment doesn't guarantee anything, Deng's search engine company died in a pretty normal way.
None of these (maaaaaybe with the exception of the JS engines) are the same as clang vs. GCC (vs. MSVC), which are mostly equivalent. There are significant compatibility differences between, for example, JRuby and YARV, or Python and PyPy. You can argue compiler extensions and so on, but I think that's out of scope. As far as spec'd C/C++, it's hard to find significant incompatibilities... actually are there any?
That’s a semantic argument. The point is that any of us could come up with an example where the decision to go to war, either offensively or defensively, is clearly not evil.
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> the world has been a safer place over the last 70 years because there's a global cop who's willing to use force to keep the peace.

No, the world has become a safer place for us because we live in nations with nuclear weapons, and they're a pretty good deterrent for attacks by other nations. The world is still a very unsafe place for many people, partly because of this self-proclaimed 'cop'. If you think the US has this military might for any other reason than ensuring it's own political and economical wellbeing, I'd like to know what it is. It sure isn't to "keep the peace" - they're selling a bit too many weapons to questionable figures for that.
Do you think anyone in a position of political power truly thinks of themselves as a "thug"? I imagine, in their own ways, they think they are doing a "just" and noble deed. Much like the way you characterize America's perpetual war machine, that has destabilized the world in direct ways that supposedly require us to go BACK and "steer them...in the direction our fellow citizens desire." See : Iran, ISIS, several Latin American countries, etc.
> These patterns (RPC, pubsub) have been around for a while now, and are fairly well understood. Formalizing them into a common, agnostic protocol that everyone can use is a huge win for all parties

You could have gotten that same passage out of a needlessly thick CORBA book a quarter century ago. (Unless you did, if this is sarcasm then I salute you).

The problem with adoption of "standard" RPC mechanisms has never been with the underlying transport layer. It's that an interface designed to "look like code" has exactly the property of code, which is that it's fragile in the face of evolution and tends to need to be rewritten every few years when the new generation of hackers gets bored with maintaining the crufty old junk.