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The idea of circles in Google+ is pure genius.

It was shoddily implemented though. IIRC even the academic that had the circle idea ranted about how badly plus had implemented it.

On one hand, I would rather have somebody else than Google handling the next social network, on the other, plus had some great idea and shined for a time in some areas like photography.

I used to frequent it a couple of times a week several years ago.

Nowadays, each time I open it by mistake I am taken aback by how extremist lunatics are everywhere in my feed (ymmv)
> The chain also had stopped the common practice of adding salt to the water in which it cooked its pasta in order to secure longer warranties on the pots, which had Smith incredulous

Oh boy.
Na, screw Rudy G.
I'm a "millennial", so I think I speak millennial pretty well. Twitch is a very niche product: THE go-to place for the gaming community, it's also trying to break into mainstream live-streaming but that's Instagram's territory.
When implemented correctly, GDPR notices also give you an option to opt out of targeted ads, something many websites didn't have before, so yeah.
what about pre-teens or even younger ones, there are a lot video content at youtube that are not kids-friendly, try to search for some sex/violent videos you will be surprised.

I have a friend working at youtube, she said so far the only safe way to "filter" video for kids is with human eyes.
Live in Eastern Europe, work for American or Western European customer.
I don't think this will be a problem. A classic gas laser can have variations of more than 1 wavelength in its cavity without any issues. I believe this was one reason for the relatively short coherence length of HeNe lasers, but I could be wrong.
You can also have multiple accounts and pseudonymous accounts on FB. Sure, I think it's against their TOS (unlike Reddit) but I see people doing it.
Thanks for the link. Mods can close/delete this thread.
I would argue that just means we've particularly customized the driving UX [1] to humans, not that other species lack some fundamental capacity for it.

It has saddened me that we've traditionally started from a position of human exceptionalism when studying other animals and, to a large extent, still do so today, despite discoveries such as tool manufacture by the New Caledonian crow and dolphin whistles following Zipf's law. I can only imagine how shocked (shocked!) we would be by cephalopod capabilities compared to humans if we were to, say, genetically modify them to live as long as a macaw.

All that said, my point is that I don't think there's anything particularly special in human evolution to suggest that we would have more skill at lookahead. One might even speculate that we would have less than an animal that has to chase at relatively high speed in order to survive, such as a cheetah or wolf [2].

As for tool use, I do admit that, though we're not unique in that regard, it's probably still safe to say it's rare enough to be remarkable. Perhaps if we hadn't been running around for so long assuming our uniqueness, someone might have tried teaching a corvid or octopus to drive by now.

[1] including such things as engineering trade-offs in areas like suspension where one might sacrifice pure performance (and therefore, arguably, control and subsequently safety) for comfort

[2] which are, of course, not domestic dogs. Thousands of years of human breeding may well have removed any evolutionary advantage related to driving.
Nodding in agreement. Though I feel lately there's segments of all political stripes that don't care about making good points and just want to win, and be seen winning.

Reminds me of a Hunter S Thompson quote about a high water line of political fervor, where people thought they were winning, that they were right simply because they had done nothing more than show people how angry they could be.
San Francisco is unequal. It is also driving away all its poor people, because they can't afford to live there. (The homeless, clearly, are the exception.)
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Can you help me understand why she changed her position on SB827 and held rallies opposing 827? She says she is "not against housing & this is not the right way to build". Her actions prove different. I have not seen any solutions from her. She is not building enough to compensate for the growing economy.

Like @raldi notes any apartments -- of any height ! -- are illegal to build in 78.6% of SF: http://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/ . what are her solutions to fix this then?
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students [pdf]
That is not surprising to me at all. I'm in my 30s and have been using Youtube, Instagram and Snapchat to follow internet personas and keep in touch with family much more than Facebook. So if I am doing it then I am sure teens are well past that point haha.
I did not realize that 'crazy' is considered Ableist language:

Not recommended: There are some crazy outliers in the data.

Recommended: There are some baffling outliers in the data.

https://developers.google.com/style/inclusive-documentation#...
While Clang is definitely good, GCC is quickly developing last years. Since they want to move everything into Rust, why they care about C++ parts right now?
Glad that decisions such as this get questioned, even if they seem like the inevitably correct decision. Sometimes engineering choices require uneasy decisions; ideally you can move forward with those decisions while keeping the code base cross compiler safe enough to switch to another compiler if needed in the future.
You aren't growing food in deserts, Arctic tundra and don't want to cut down rainforests.

Even now there are people who can't afford food, the more efficiently farming is done, the cheaper food will be for them.
I hear what you are saying, but feel like it also requires the caveat of "for in-demand roles where one has leverage in the negotiation."

At this point, a junior engineer may have some of that, but I'm not sure you can really apply that to all levels of experience across all functions. I agree with the sentiment and logic behind it, I just am not sure that is actually something most people could consider.
Monocultures like this interest me. We spent a ton of time in grade school learning about how monocultures were terrible long term strategies. And yet, it seems they are actively pursued everywhere. It is easy to see why this is a problem for biological things. Just look at how close we are to losing the current bananas most in the US know. I'm pretty sure avocados are the same.

In technology, though, we seem to embrace the monoculture for things. Languages, implementations, everything. They all seem to converge to a single one.

I think I understand why this happens in many cases, but I can't help but shake a feeling that it is off. Indeed, I agree with this blog post, but I still feel that something is off. Am I alone in that?
One does not need to apologize for having raw nerves in this political climate. That's understandable. It's hair trigger word association and bad faith presumptions of complicity with "the other" for reasons as shallow as expressing dissent without real substance or political vigor that some seem to be growing fatigued with.

I won't sit here and promulgate respectability politics just say that when one ignores their own political baggage and hubris it passively signals to everyone watching it's fair game for them to do so as well.

And the noise just gets louder as a result.
Crime is very much concentrated; if you live in an area where a software engineer is likely to live, it is perfectly fine. IMO, much better quality of life than SFBA. If anything, you are not likely to step into human excrement...
I think multiple implementations is more or less a C/C++ thing. If you look at other platforms (Ruby, Python, PHP, Haskell, Java, Go, Rust, Scala, Lua, Perl) there's basically _the_ version and maybe some ancillary implementations.

In fairness, it's hard enough to build a language people use that solves real problems. Asking someone to do it more than once, or to do it once but create specific enough documentation and tests so someone else can also do it -- and then get someone else to do it -- is practically impossible.
Kinda. I receive a lot of voice messages from my android wielding parents, and they're always in a format that necessitates opening them in a separate app to listen to them.

It's a small bit of friction, but it is friction.
Not clear how this couldn't inadvertently fry my eyeballs. Even very low-powered IR lasers are regulated because there is no blink-reflex.
> Whereas Firefox engineering is the only “consumer” of the compiler(s), and so we should optimize for that single consumer

Seems really shortsighted view. What about distro package maintainers? Downstream derivatives? Porters to obscure platforms? Random developers/potential contributors?
Just curious why doesn't your company upgrade to RHEL 7?
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I repeat: you’re misleading women by telling them you can tell them ‘how many eggs they have.’ (These are the words you use on your website)

There is no way to count the number of eggs exactly but your statements seem to suggest you do this. This is just wrong - the best you can do is give a very wide range.

Also you say AMH levels are well validated as a proxy for ovarian reserve - the science on this is far from what I’d describe as ‘well validated’. Please speak to 5 gynaecologists and let me know if all 5 agree with your assertion. (That it is the best measure available is not the same as saying it’s wdlk validated, please be clear on this).
This isn't proof, but food for speculation: Given that you have to disable the iCloud "Find My Device" feature on an iPhone as part of the steps Apple requires to be willing to take a device for recycling, I would assume that that setting being on prevents them from doing any automatic wiping/updating of your phone without your passcode, even in DFU mode. (For, surely, if they had the capability, they'd simply use it at the recycling centre, and thereby streamline the recycling workflow.)
Using PostgreSql, I tend now to directly generate query result in json.

It implies an architecture model where you put the business logic and type safety in the RDBMS.

It reduces the number of layers for a lot of functionalities.
> I'm pretty sure the real reason why teenagers are leaving FB is because their parents are joining.

This doesn't make sense as a reason in 2018, does it? Everyone's parents and grandparents joined a decade ago - they're not joining now in significant numbers in the West.
My 13 year old uses mostly YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Twitch, and Reddit, no FB.

I have nieces and nephews on FB, but they never post much, they hide most of their real content on anonymous Instagram accounts.
Not all land is the same. But I don't think it's about land use. It's about water usage, soil and water contamination, deforestation, greenhouse gas emission and the inefficient conversion of plant calories to animal calories.

Oh and of course the tiny little detail that applying the efficiency optimizer that is capitalism results in atrocious treatment of sentient beings (pardon the pathos, feel free to substitute with emotionless words if you can think of any).
Yeah, I went mirrorless. Loving it so far. Definitely the future here, I love the ability to modify my settings and it shows on the LCD, instead of having to chimp like I did with my old 1200D.

Picked up a NEX 5N, 18-55, 55-210, and 16mm for $200AU (~$160US).

Next stop: A6000.
On-premise deployment might be one goal.
> To buy a company with the pure goal of extracting any short term value with the intent of destroying it seems to be a long term societal ill that should be regulated out of existence.

If a company is on its last legs, what is wrong with extracting money from it before killing it? Trying to keep dead-companies-walking afloat would be even worse.
Perhaps you can skyrocket your career rapidly, at least in terms of tax bracket, but is that what you want your life to be about?

My coworkers and I are doing all sorts of things that seem unlikely in the Bay Area. I have 11 kids. I once lived in San Jose, where that would not come cheap. The person in the office next to me has sheep on 11 acres, and he can shoot an AR-15 in his yard. He grew up in San Francisco, where that would be... difficult. Other people live in beach condos.

If you aren't careful, you can let the years pass by while hoping that just a bit more will get you financially secure enough to do something you really want to do in your life. One day you notice that the years are just gone.
> what would you filter out for teenagers?

Most societies have an expectation that some content isn't shown to, for example a 13 year old person. In the US you have content ratings like NC-17, don't you? In the UK we have 15 and 18 rated content. So I guess content like that, some people would filter for teenagers.
I used elixir at work for a few projects, and we will use it in more projects. We rewrote a rails app using the Phoenix framework and now we are using elixir in services.

From my anecdotal experience functional programming leads to code that is easier to understand and test. You can make quality code in OOP, but I think functional programming makes it easier.

We also used Elm for a few prototypes and we're immensely pleased. We do not use it in production because static typing + purity is not something you can do easily find devs for.

Also, Erlang's OTP and BEAM are a pleasure to use.
The difficulty, huge though it is, is secondary to the lack of utility. Even with C, for a long time there was only a single viable, mainstream compiler on any given platform. Clang being the main exception today.
Japan sets goals for companies to prevent deaths from overwork
> What if hedge funds just happen to get larger than anyone else in the spaces they operate in, precisely by executing this technique, such that there's no "someone else" who would offer more money?

Companies buy companies all the time. Hedge funds, in the grand scheme of things, are not that incredibly large compared to other companies. Also, companies making acquisitions have effectively unlimited funds to do so by taking out loans in order to buy companies. They can also buy companies without even exchanging money by converting stock in a larger ratio, effectively inflating the company's value in order to buy it. So what you're saying doesn't make sense.

> An analogy: you're essentially saying that it's "the best thing to do" to date a vampire and let them suck out all your blood, because if there were a better partner for you to date than a vampire, surely such a partner would be more attractive than the vampire is, and would try harder to date you than the vampire is.

Companies aren't people. If the board of investors wants to sell to a vampire it means that they're actually gaining the most value by selling to that vampire themselves. People need to stop looking at companies as monolithic wholes and actually as the sum intentions of the owners of the companies, the investors.
What's sad is, at this point in my life, I accept that politicians are psychologically unstable just as a matter of course. Politics has a very natural selection bias. Philosophically, I'm of the opinion that the best leaders tend to not want to be leaders.

With that in mind, perhaps the only thing that's redeeming about Giuliani is that he was remarkably successful in cleaning up NYC.
Although I agree that the comment to which you're replying deserves a bit of dismissiveness, I can't help but think that your response is overly colored by the "speed kills" rhetoric we often hear.

I'm pretty sure, though, that the autonomous vehicle collisions that have made the news lately haven't been at "highway" speed and that that's true of most fatalities (possibly because most vehicle miles traveled are in dense cities?).

Now, that isn't to say that we've ever had 45mph or even 25mph heavy objects constantly moving around us in our evolutonary past, either, but the occasional fast predator wasn't unheard-of and a particularly fast one survives today.

Moreover, the typical difference in speed between (unpredictable) objects in traffic is much closer to human walking or running speeds.

We get into trouble when there's simply too many of them or the difference in speed gets too high.
Sorry, I wasn't intending on using IPA. I've been teaching my kids using Logic of English, which is how that sound is represented.
My biggest takeaway from the past few weeks is that POW based distributed cryptocurrency is a bit like communism; it only works on paper.

The reality is that, even with Bitcoin, the power to stave off attacks has consolidated to a few big players. The massively distributed protocol and massive power usage is a huge wast at this point. If your gonna need a few big players anyway, might as well build a trusted circle from the start and eliminate the rest of the waste.

The coins that can actually be used for day-to-day transactions are vulnerable to attacks. The largest and most secure player, Bitcoin, has reached the point where transaction fees are too high and speeds to slow; nobody takes it anymore.

Where does it go from here? I predict governments are gonna crack the whip and altcoins, along with ICOs, will be a footnote in history.
Lists on mastodon aren’t too bad, I don’t know if circles have some features lists don’t though.
I mean, the vampire is paying you...so it's really more like selling plasma or organs or something.
Rather than assuming that choices were made to confirm your biases, you might want to take a look at what the engineering realities were when the choices were made.

For example, you write as though there was a standard for low-level formatting of 3.5in floppy disks when Apple made the switch from Twiggy to Sony drives for Macintosh, and as though Apple intentionally chose not to use it.

Furthermore, Apple’s choice of GCR encoding probably had to do with not changing the hardware design too much as part of the switch; using MFM would’ve required a different floppy controller and therefore also different signaling, etc. Engineering trade-offs, not some sort of “Let’s be different!” aspiration.

When Apple adopted high density floppies, there a standard, so Apple used it and the low-level format used (MFM) was in fact compatible across vendors. That’s why you can still read and write such disks in a USB floppy drive today.
> It seems like it would be an all around benefit to the economy to disrupt the model that hedge funds use to invest in companies

I think you maybe don't quite know exactly what a hedge fund is and what purpose it serves. Moreover, leveraged buyouts are more a tool of private equity firms.

There's some overlap, but you should probably get your basic terms right before you start suggesting new regulation.
> There's nothing to stop any VPN from scary levels of metadata collection, but Apple did close the door to one way of promoting or selling these services.

What I do now -though on Android- is using WireGuard as VPN to my home router which runs basically a Pi-Hole (and WireGuard).

The benefits:

1) I get a system-wide adblocker on top of uBlock Origin.

2) My mobile provider cannot perform DPI (Though its owned by same company as my cable company. YMMV, plus it will work when you roam internationally. Heck, I can perform DPI on it via my router.)

3) When on a public WiFi (e.g. railway station) all my data is encrypted.

4) When I switch networks it automatically swaps connection.

5) Far less performance hit and battery usage than traditional VPNs such as OpenVPN. Home router also barely uses any Watt.

Brilliant software, I can highly recommend. My only beef with it is that a full blown SDN such as ZeroTier is a lot easier to set up.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines. Could you please (re-)read them and post civilly and substantively, or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I kind of don't understand this. Nobody is forcing anyone to use sideloading. Heck, Android phones by default have sideloading turned off in the settings so you can't even accidentally do it without going through a bunch of warnings.

Unless Android phones have an extra side-channel I don't know about, I just can't imagine someone sideloading an app on one of them unless they explicitly have decided the benefits outweigh the risks.

And if an average consumer is going into their settings and explicitly turning off a security measure, then at what point does it become reasonable to say that they're doing it because the official app store is not good enough on its own for the average consumer?

I get the whole "consumers are too stupid to know what's good for them" argument that people make sometimes, but I think that's a very tricky line to walk - especially when a company has a huge amount of profit tied up in deciding that individual freedom is a net negative.
That's such a broad generalization about Snapchat. Ephemeral messaging isn't just used for 'trading nudes and general subterfuge', it's the only social network I use to share updates about my day and what I've been up to - because I like how it is in the moment.
That's a great map.

That could be taken and with the method in this paper:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w8835

The added cost by zoning in area could be calculated. It'd be absolutely massive.

Perhaps someone already has.
> I opt out of the body scanner, and often experience extreme levels of hostility due to this. (Or related issues, such as keeping my items in my view during the screening process.)

How strange that I have the opposite experience.

I do this too, dozens of flights per year in some years, opting for a pat-down and holding my items with me until they have someone ready, every time, and I've never once experienced rudeness or hostility from a TSA employee.
Installing apps from third-party sources is trivial on most Android phones. It only requires turning on a setting that's off by default and exposed in the regular settings app.
The limiting resource with large numbers of idle sockets on the server side is memory, not processing power.
Or maybe they're tired of being force-fed their crazy Aunt/Uncle's political memes
No, but a non-zero proportion of them contribute to the death of the company (for example by saddling struggling companies with debt in LBO deals).
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Jessica Smith, a 21-year-old in England, said she had put $28,000 into Envion — almost all of the money she had made over the last two years of trading cryptocurrencies nearly full time. She said she was now looking for new work.

Put it all on red!
You were just complaining in another comment about vegans being painted as unreasonable and proselytizing, and then immediately posted this comment comparing non-vegans to slave owners. I can't tell if you're trolling or if you honestly can't see what's wrong with this picture.
I know how obvious this connection probably seems to everyone, but I find it so fascinating that birthrates can be such a good indicator of economic health. Hopefully Millenial birthrates are only delayed, not completely reduced by the economic challenges they face.
> absolutely no idea what you are doing.

Isn't that sort of the idea of a textbook? The authors emphasize how poor of a model the normal distribution is in that case less than a full page after introducing it as a "simple hypothesis."
Hauling trailers around isn't lossless either.
I’d love to be selling exploits to the highest bidder for a living. I have little to no ethics.
It's interesting to hear that. Out of curiosity: have you implemented an invalid curve attack, or an attack against a GCM nonce repeat? Did you feel like that was instructive?
This article is about teens

Millennials aren't teens anymore