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Even if 238 does not hold, of which I'm doubtful, you still indirectly exposed another human to potentially deadly harm. I will not condone such immoral and unethical actions.

I simply do not care if you believe they are the next Gestapo. If you want to be better than Gestapo, don't expose them other people, who are potentially innocent, to harm. End of story.

Mob rule always leads to bad outcomes and this is encouraging mob rule.
It's not better.
Laravel's cashier does a pretty good job at it. I think it hardly takes 5 to 10 minutes to integrate and you can have multiple integrations like Stripe, Braintree, etc with Access control, coupons, etc..
I don't see anywhere in the article where it says it's s/w engineers that are doing that - or even how representative is this group among Amazon workers and whether there are other opinions. So far the press seems to be controlling the conversation by choosing one voice and presenting it as the only opinion inside Amazon. Or at least the only worth reporting about.
I'm not sure I understand how you can draw a comparison between LN2 and small magnets.

An adult could quite easily harm themselves or others when playing with LN2, in a lot of ways that aren't inherently intuitive, or just because they are a bit lax with precautions.

An adult is very unlikely to just swallow a magnet for no reason, much less multiple.

> The CPSC appeared to have been fine with that too; its problem wasn't with you owning little magnets

This isn't true. https://www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-Laws--Standards/Rulemaking/...

"objects that are marketed or commonly used as a manipulative or construction item for entertainment, such as puzzle working, sculpture building, mental stimulation, or stress relief."

Even if they were not marketed as such in any way, any magnet set that was commonly used for this would have to have flux index of 50 kG2 mm2 or less.

The CPSC's ruling basically banned the sale of spherical strong magnets to consumers.
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You're right, it's not simple. I still believe most people can understand all thee things you mention if they.put the time and energy in. Most of the things are complex, not complicated.
I don’t really mind these buildings - juxtaposition is always a legitimate form of artistic expression, I don’t think that goes away in architecture. Would it perhaps be better to commit one way or the other? Maybe, but it makes sense for a country with as much history as England (while wanting to be progressive as well) to make trade offs, and seeing how styles change is kind of interesting.
The cookie wall won't let me continue without agreeing to cookies. I can reject them in the Cookie Policy, but that too is protected behind the cookie wall.

Obviously, this doesn't comply with the GDPR, and makes the site unreadable for some.
Why are all these stories flagged? Can't we discuss the issue in a civilized way? There are quite a few developers on the list of signees, and this socio-technological issue is definitely pertinent to HN. Can we please stop with this childish "I don't like it so I flag it" attitude?
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If you can afford to cut multi-million dollar checks for a fraud/abuse prevention service, then you can also afford to retain a legal team who will recoup your losses and then some when those contracts are broken.

A temporary production outage due to a rare situation is far preferable to being at the perpetual mercy of hackers constantly pwning whatever half-baked homegrown security system you forced your engineers to implement with inadequate support & resources. Real businesses don't operate on "I guess" solutions and they don't just fork over huge chunks of cash willy-nilly without doing at least some cost-benefit analysis and making sure they're protected in case of contract breach.
One thing I find strange about this is why Google is so keen to get this government business in the first place. They’re amazingly profitable already, one of the most successful companies of all time; is defense work really something that could become another major revenue stream? Given the obvious conflicts with their company culture (obvious to rank and file employees, anyway) it doesn’t seem like a very appealing trade-off. Or is the leadership looking to other potential benefits, like increased leverage for lobbying?
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That's a pretty shitty thing to do. I would call such behavior immoral even consider it's all about not honoring contracts with customers.
Thanks, but I do like it to be easily switchable. Some pages expect certain background colors and changing them makes embedded svgs hard or impossible to see.

Maybe you can get away with using the solarized theme, but I prefer having a black background...

Thanks for this suggestions anyway
You missed the point.

Almost everyone lets toddlers play with toys that say "Choking hazard: Ages 3+", because that warning comes on basically all toys, including stuff like Jenga blocks, sidewalk chalk, ....

Any parent who disallows their child from playing with any “age 3+” labeled toys/objects before age 3 is going to be significantly delaying their child’s development of basic fine motor skills.

Some parents might become desensitized to the labels since the warning is used over-broadly, and might not realize that tiny magnets are something you have to be extra careful about, because the effects of swallowing magnets are generally worse than the effects of swallowing some little piece of plastic.
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Wow, even Smyte's website was gutted. Bold move, to say the least.
I'm not sure that's a reply to something I said. The poster thinks a crappy thing happening to someone is good for the web because, I dunno, it's some sort of teachable moment. That's pretty silly, to put it politely. I'm not wishing you an earthquake so that you'll learn basic disaster preparedness. And if you did, fates forbid, end up in an earthquake and were short on water, I don't think I or any sane person is going to be happy about it.
Ah, but you're assuming the 2U device is a server. More likely JBOF that can be connected to multiple servers.
Sexism exists. This article is a great example of it in the way it implies it's only a problem for women.

Asking sexually reproducing mammals to treat each other as equals just isn't going to work. There are many other animal instincts which people have tried to suppress over the years, like greed. It doesn't usually work. Instead you have to learn how to live with it. But first you have to accept it. We'll start to see more acceptance in the coming decades.
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I want them to have these contracts because I want the smartest people on the planet working to defend our country. This is such a weird and controversial concept to so many people here.
If you contribute to open source software then you’re contributing to military projects.
https://historicdb.fia.com/sites/default/files/car_attachmen...

There is the paperwork for you from the FIA database. If you like your cars then you could be there for a while.

https://historicdb.fia.com/
"Really well" strikes me as a remarkably high standard.

If the focus is primarily on early employees, then I can see how that makes sense.

For later stage startups, wouldn't YC be concerned with encouraging or supporting monocultures, or otherwise tipping the scales in favor of more software expertise, even if the company is more hardware (or ops or biotech or whatever) heavy?
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It may never cost lower to produce in the environment in which both are massively available as manufacturing. But it may happen that manufacturers concentrate on flash storage (could be better profit margins, could be bigger demand from corporations or IAAS operators, could be many other things) and thus, in a cascading way make prices of disks higher for manufacturing, due to limited supply of materials, machines, trained workers for manufacturing of disks.

The only way I see the current status quo to be static by definition is if there is indeed a (above-mentioned) shortage of some raw material that would prevent the switch. Can someone comment on what exactly that shortage would be? Edit: I read the linked post (didn't see this before, sorry). TL;DR - it's just lack of enough manufacturing and issues with building more fabs.
Doubtful. For most long-term corporate contracts there is no "we might cease operations at any point and leave you hanging before end of the contract".

No company lawyer I know would willingly put their signature on such a contract unless the other side is using a free tier. If someone actually signed 3 year contract with such a clause, congrats, you managed to throw a lot of money into a black hole.
Maybe "many people here" feel that what our military does has little to nothing to do with defending our country, and often puts us at more risk and/or makes the world a worse place.

This is such a weird and controversial concept to so many people here.
It can be not to leave all of that cake to its main competitors: if Google takes a slice from Amazon and Microsoft, they will grow a little less faster. This applies to every sector, not only government and military.

If you ever played boardgames (especially German style) maybe you'll remember some games when only one player developed some resource unchecked by the other ones. This usually leads to an easy win for that player. Not easy to notice it in the earlier turns but then the differential in income (whatever it is in that game) is so obvious that everybody understands the game is over well before the end.
These wall designs are really surprising; I would expect bad designs to come from difficulty of implementing data collection management, not the wall UX. Just imagine you're a user seeing this, do you not feel antagonized?
Microsoft had a blog post bragging about their work with ICE. But only 300 employees have signed a petition to denounce it.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/21/17488328/microsoft-ice-em...
> [the CPSC's] problem wasn't with you owning little magnets, but with companies selling them as novelty stress relieving desk devices to rekindle your sense of childlike wonder and also make excellent refrigerator art (all things on Zen Magnets current page).

One could sum up your use of liquid nitrogen similarly. What something is ultimately used for (play, in both cases), is orthogonal with how hard it is to get. In fact, relying on something being a bit of a hassle to get is probably the wrong idea, as that setup is easily invalidated by someone going through the hassle and then eg giving away the proceeds as party favors.

What we really need is a clear label that points out warning, you're now straying from the herd immunity and now dealing with a novel type of danger. But the problem is we're already drowning in warning labels, as there's no downside on spuriously including them - eg how many times do I have to skim over an admonishment to not use an electrical appliance in the rain? Heck, I've seen a bunch of products lately that don't even come with an instructive manual, just pages and pages of common sense and cya-to-be-ignored warnings. So this hypothetical label would have to be distinctive to stand above the useless chaff and also restricted to only referencing novel dangers, not reiterating basic sense that one should have learned by elementary school.

Unfortunately, under our entrepreneurial form of government the CPSC won't just come up with such an "opt out of us" label standard on their own, as it would diminish their own scope. So a private company has to spend a fortune working to legally define a narrow exception from an adversarial regulator rather than just both working together to solve the problem.
Perhaps if enough people become unemployed, they could force some changes in society. Right now they are busy flipping burgers and cleaning toilets.
The main services she mentions aren't accounting. They're more financial advisor/personal assistant/psychologist/business manager/property manager.
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> Unemployment numbers also aren’t low because the economy is producing tons of new jobs

In fact the unemployment rate is low because the economy has produced an extraordinarily vast number of jobs. In May alone the US economy nearly produced a million new full-time jobs (solidly contracting the part-time count). The full-time job count is at an all-time record high. The US economy has produced 14 million full-time jobs in just the last six years. [1] And the median full-time income in the US is about $50,000, among the highest on earth.

> notice the record numbers of homeless on the streets?

The US homeless rate per capita has plunged dramatically and is at an all-time record low. [2] You're entirely fabricating your claims, both about jobs and homelessness.

The total homeless count has declined by roughly 27% in just 13 years. From ~760,000 in 2005, to less than 550,000 for 2018. The US added about 10% to its population over that time simultaneously.

How is that possible? Everyone knows the US sucks and has no safety net or support systems. Except, that's a lie. The US welfare state is now more generous than either the Canadian or Australian welfare states. [3]

[1] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12500000

[2] https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-16/the-u-s-s...
It's a little sad when you have to divert your best and brightest away from advancing the state of civilization, to merely defending what you already have.

Obviously that will still advance the state of the art in some areas.
Humanist mythological lore that was propagated heavily in mid to late 20th century.

See antihumanism.
If the "smartest people on the planet" decide they'd rather not work for the military, maybe there's a good reason.
My personal hunch is Google will still work on ‘air-gapped’ technology as this is critical for many non military applications as well. Google is eyeing to catch up with AWS in its cloud business and will take a leaf out of AWS’s GovCloud service and the money spinner it is for Amazon.
That’s the standard argument, and yes, it’s true. There’s a difference between actively working on a defined project and putting some stuff out into the open though, and that at least for me is a reasonable border.
Or, they were (softly) forced.
To be fair, then the problem here are parents not the adult toys. And if you start banning things for the general population, with which negligent parents could kill their kids, there is an extremely long list to go.

My magnets wont get eaten by anyone and suprise neither will my cleaning supplies. There is also no one touching my knifes and no one is putting flatware in my toaster or wall socket. There is also no one drowning in my make belief pool.

If you really belief, that protecting children from their parents miss judgment, than banning people with children in their household from buying and owning every last of those items. Which obviously would be extremely discriminating towards adult humans with offsprings.
The military has been behind most of the technological advances in society, and is directly behind the birth of Silicon Valley itself.
I wonder if this flies with a judge.

Otherwise it would be a good way of making debts disappear.
> All you have to do is know how to drive a car

Don't you need to own a decent car too?
I've used it to transfer money between an account in the UK (GBP) and my account in the Netherlands (EUR). It took less than 24 hours from signing up to Transferwise to having the money in my Dutch bank account and I got a good rate on it. No complaints from me whatsoever.
A side-effect, rather than the primary goal. There is a not-so-subtle difference.
Ask HN: Changing careers, from teaching to development?
I currently teach Computer Science (CS1 & CS2, Data Structures, Computer Architecture) at a Community College in a tenure track position, but I've finally realized that my true calling is development. In these last 5 years, as side projects, I've developed two big Rails apps for a local company, along with iOS and Android apps.

I've been programming since I was 12, but after I finished my Masters I wanted to try teaching, and because of family medical issues I've stayed at my teaching job for five years.

I have a Master's degree in CS from a state school, teaching experience, but I have never held a full-time programming job. I am in my mid 30s.

Ideally, I would like to be at a Big 5 company, but I feel like I would be both under-qualified for a Senior position and a bit old for an entry-level position (but I would be perfectly OK with it).

Has anyone made a similar transition? Any suggestions?
So this person shouldn't have any quandaries working on military projects, because they might have contributed a bugfix to some code in libcurl or some other library that is used somewhere in the vast US military? Seems like an awfully weak argument.
I think this needs to be upvoted more. The 200 transaction threshold is very low for low priced products - I sell a $20 Photoshop plugin, and $4000 is not much revenue to suddenly have to register for & remit South Dakota taxes. Apparently Vermont will have the same 200 transaction threshold [1].

In practice though, indie retailers will use reseller services that collect & remit the taxes on their behalf, in return for a ~10% cut. I use FastSpring for my shopping cart, others use Paddle or Gumroad. The EU has had similar tax laws on internet sales since the mid 2000s, and Australia will enforce their own 10% internet tax on non-Australian internet businesses from July 1st.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/amicus-brief-south-dakota-v-wayfai...
If you're paying taxes you're also contributing to military projects. There is a difference between working on a weapons system and working on an operating system that can also be used in weapons.
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Yeah apparently from people familiar with the deep black hole that is Radar you're supposed to keep submitting bugs, dupes count as a vote or something.

It sounds absolutely horrendous.
I think it's obvious to anyone with experience in the field that Deep Learning etc. isn't a path to AGI nor an emulation of biological intelligence.

But it is one thing to know that the current path isn't leading us there and another thing entirely to know which path will.

After all it isn't even clear that emulating biological intelligence would be a wise approach - we didn't build the jumbo jet by copying the birds.
Just a guess, but perhaps being extremely rich and extremely powerful gives you a relatively small social circle, considering the grand scheme of humanity at almost 7.5 billion people. Consider also the allegations of Google being a de facto branch of the state department in When Google Met Wikileaks (2011).

It may be the case these people are all friends or acquaintances and enjoy the opportunity to work with each other.
What kind of guarantee would be satisfying?
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Basically, don't do business with Twitter.

Don't give them your data, don't sell your ads on twitter, don't develop for Twitter.

There are alternatives.
They’re amazingly profitable already

That isn't enough. Due to the frankly idiotic way corporate investors think 'any company that isn't growing must be dying'. Google will need to continue to demonstrate growth forever despite that being impossible. Growing in the ad market is hard because they're already the biggest player, so Google are looking at new things to do. This is just one of them.
> Anyone have examples where the acquired company goes on to be really amazing,

Instagram is a fairly high-profile example.
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> Okay, then can you put me in contact with an Apple developer to discuss their software

Yes, if you use one of the two "Technical Support Incidents" per year you get as part of the standard (paid) developer program:

https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/

There's also Radar (which despite its reputation as a black hole does reach engineers), and WWDC.
Yeah - I remember reading about memristor based technology that aimed to better emulate neurons in the hardware back when I was in Uni.

That was almost 10 years ago though and I haven't heard much of it since.
> And I was defending the existence of such rules, so I have no idea why you are criticizing my remark.

I wish you had followed the guidelines and taken the most charitable reading of what I said.

I, too, defended the existence of the rules. Not only was I not criticizing your remark, but I was supporting the existence of the remark, as it's a form of discussion that helps raise awareness of the necessity of the rules.
The problem here for many is a perceived disconnect between "defend our country", the actual actions of the DoD, and making MY life safer.
This is a very tricky issue. I’m certainly no anti-government Libertarian or Tea Partier. But I think there’s a lot of value in keeping institutions separate, so they can act as checks and balances on each other. Just as the different branches of government are separate, and news organizations are independent, corporations should be independent (including from each other -- competition, not cosy cartels).

Google already does a fantastic job protecting their users from hackers, including those from nation states like China and Russia. Rather than cosying up to the US government, they should keep a wary eye on whether to protect their users from US government hackers too.

Also, I’m pretty sure there are already plenty of exceptionally smart people working at the NSA.

I’ll freely admit I’m not totally consistent on this, as I strongly support some big government-run organizations like the NHS (I’m from the UK).
To be honest, this machine looks mostly like a gimmick. I wonder how version optimized for speed (but still from fresh ingridients) would look like.
The answer to that’s isn’t more shitty jobs though. It’s adjustments to our system of capital distribution and ultimately what the minimum standards of living we are prepared to accept is as a society.
These employees are free to exercise their right to (not) work for whomever they want, but the certainty they express (as well as most commenters here) in their own self-righteousness seems misplaced to me. There's certainly a case to be made that a strong US military is in the world's best interest. In fact, I would wager that a majority of Americans (and a majority of citizens of democratic countries across the world) hold the belief expressed in the previous statement.

Given that society created the environment for these tech companies (and their employees) to acquire their skills and thrive, does not society have some moral/ethical lien on how those skills are applied?

Granted, as stated in the first sentence, I'm not in favor of compelling anyone to work for any purpose, let alone military ones. But to pretend such a lien doesn't exist strikes me as somewhat selfish/narrow-minded in its own right. For that reason, I think the ostensible certainty that these employees (and their abundant proponents here) have in their convictions seems a little naive to me.

There's also a real chance (though perhaps small) that an industry-wide refusal to cooperate with the US military could have disastrous consequences for the world, and that alone should give one pause before being so self-assured about such a decision. I agree that there is also a real chance (also perhaps small) that the US military could use the technology with disastrous consequences for the world, but--again--that makes this a difficult ethical conundrum, not the clear right/wrong moral issue as I often see it portrayed as in the industry.
I don't mean the string mixins, I mean more the template metaprogramming.