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The problem I find is that when these alternative services see how many people are leaving Google Maps and switching to them, those companies will then raise their prices to "remain competitive".

Business is business and if they can see an opportunity to make more revenue, they'll do it, whether it be Google or anyone else. It's just a matter of time.
How probable is it that it will support multiple memories one day?
That's no different than running programs in userspace on a PC- if you trust the app, it makes no sense to decline.

At least you can turn it off later.
Here in the UK you can port mortgages from one house to another...

(Or at current interest rates let out the old place)
Well, Wolf 359 is only 8 light years away and is cool enough that we could float carbon or tungsten thermal collection devices on the surface...
the best thing is no commute, the energy overhead of a long commute is terrible. The worst thing is missing out on conversations/decisions being made at the office. My corporate office is in San Diego while I'm in Dallas, even though I'm a director and the buck stops with me in engineering, lots of sidebar conversations and decisions get made in Sand Diego face-to-face and not on conference calls and slack channels.
The app still shouldn’t need access to the entire file system. The app should be able to launch a file browser, the user chooses a file and the OS gives it acccess to only that file or set of files.
I'd say if you're going with the second option, stop, think, then go with the first option. This would mean either limiting your supported systems to recent ones or limiting the features you use to those available in whatever "enterprisy" (i.e. RHEL / Debian stable / LTS) versions you want to support.

If it's a GUI app, there's a good chance you can ignore the enterprisy distributions.
Aha. This is a good one.
Fewer than 30% of people with MDD episodes have treatment resistance depression. The majority of people with depression respond to treatment. The efficacy of diet, exercise, and sleep are on par with drugs.
Didn't chroot() become secure / usable only late in the era of smartphones, way past creation of Android? Containers are a pretty new development, after all.
> Always do at least 1 full rehearsal with a timer, preferably two full rehearsals

Personally, for me to feel very comfortable in delivering the talk, I practice the whole presentation at least five, six times.

The first couple of those practice runs, I tend to adjust the slides and my talk, to iron out the wrinkles in either my slides, my words or the transitions/logic between the slides.

The latter practice runs are essentially to memorize the whole talk. I typically write out my whole speech in the speaker notes, but after two-three practice runs I don't need to look at them anymore.

The result is a presentation delivery that as an intronerd I'm very comfortable with -- even the jokes have been practiced and perfected -- and one that I could deliver practically verbatim the next day.
as long as it remains anonymized I see no problem with revealing the money. it is when it becomes public who donated that issues arise. at most I could see revealing country of origin
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I'm suggesting that we treat discrimination against remote workers the way we treated some other forms of harmful discrimination in hiring: stop doing it, stop accepting or repeating excuses for doing it, stop tolerating companies doing it, and ultimately make it illegal.
Probably! A generic fictional software product name is something like “Acme Flux,” which is analogous to John Smith for people. Given it’s common use as a placeholder, there must be a few, here is one from 1984: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0743731584....

It is difficult to search for though since it is such a widely used name, probably one of the most widely used one.
Maybe they don't want to advertise their favourite suppliers? :)
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Full paper: http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/images/DigIntel/IF...

Also a bunch of countries are missing. Like Ukraine, nowadays it follows Russia with trolling and uses volunteers and government trolls to spread war propaganda and other government propaganda. Xenophobia, demonization of, hate towards russians, patriotism, hate towards any dissent, etc.
I've never swam for exercise in lanes before, but I always assumed you'd only have one person in a lane at a time. How does it work to have two in one lane? If I'm swimming and someone wants to share my lane, do I swim out, wait for them to get to my side, then swim back when they reach my side? (And if I'm the slower person, I assume I start swimming behind them as soon as they launch off from the edge?)

It'd also be a shock to me to see a second person just simply joining me in my lane. Is there a protocol for joining a lane other than, I guess, flagging me down and asking? Do people normally know how to accept having a second person in their lane?

Funny thing to be asking so many questions about...
Have you tried taking an anti-histamine pill beforehand?
I try to think in terms of that which is not seen. What are the technologies that would be developed by the same minds, were they not directed toward military projects?

The same is true of the finance sector. How many brilliant minds are toiling away to generate alpha for the investors, when they could be unleashed in other more productive sectors of society?

It's invalid to claim that "X beneficial technology wouldn't have been invented if not for Y war or Z program." Rather, military spending might shift when a technology was demanded by the market. And again, it diverts brilliant minds to one thing, when they could have done something else (that which is not seen) for society.

The other angle is yes, this is awesome tech! But it could not compete in the market, since it is entirely impractical. It only exists because it serves the demands of a program manager at $AGENCY with tax money to spend.
That isn't really the way to think about it. Both bias and laziness affect what is written about, which pieces of information are selected, how well something is researched, and what kind of idea is forming in the reader's mind. State television in countries you would call dictatorships don't necessarily just make up stuff either, nor do they need to.
> if you have a dictatorship, you can require that your CA remains trusted

How?

I mean, I suppose you could mandate that all computers sold in your country come preinstalled with state-approved monitoring software. But barring that, what's going to stop users from downloading the latest version of Firefox which includes code marking your CA as untrusted?
Well, you could always hide there if you're charged with a crime, right? Even if it's white collar. Suddenly, that country is asked to extradite one of their own nationals rather than someone with a visa (and if they renew that visa when you're wanted it looks pretty bad diplomatically).
Go binaries not running any more on Windows < 7 is going to be a serious issue.
Is it the responsibility of the app to display the file browser? I’m not an app developer but I’d expected you could essentially call “osGiveMeAFile(constraints...)”, and it would pop up a native file picker dialog without your app ever having access to the full FS?

Then again I wouldn’t be surprised if google had botched this. They did it wrong for Google Drive apps, and as a result any app that wants to do something as outlandish as, say, opening a file requires read access to all files on your entire google drive, just to display a file picker.

Sometimes I wonder if anyone at Google actually thinks about these things, like, at all. How does this happen? What are those meetings like? Surely someone noticed? Ho do they think about “trust”? It never ceases to amaze me.
Your analogies make no sense.

We’re talking of Google Maps the platform and its B2B offering whereas Netflix, cable and phone companies are services for consumers with fixed and reasonable consumer-level monthly subscriptions.

If you haven’t built an app on top of Google Maps, then you pretty much have no idea how much it costs and have zero valuable input you can give.

Also, this isn’t the first time Google is doing this bait and switch. They did it before with App Engine as well, first fooling early adopters in order to gather popularity and then raising prices enough that it made plenty of startups to move off the platform.

Along with other blunders in their products, it makes one wonder how anyone can trust any of their offerings long term.

Too bad the US has lost its anti-trust teeth btw, because what Google is doing is to subsidize its offerings until they get popular, effectively using their monopoly to gain popularity in other markets, thus hurting their competition unfairly.
I you did the naive add two number example, you probably also included the whole standard library.

If you really want to go down in size, you either need to compile without the standard library and/or use wasm-gc and wasmopt to remove all the useless code that have been added to your wasm binary.

With this, you can generate wasm binary that weight only a few hundreds octets.
I mean, this is a limitation of Go. With JS, the "runtime" is in your browser, you've got a beautiful JS engine already. With Go, it would need that runtime bundled. Similar to shipping the JVM with your JAR.

This isn't a limitation we'd see with something like Rust.
It's the perfect doc to show my leadership team, who want to know what happened, but aren't very technical.
I’ve done that as a small woman living alone in an opposite-of-upscale neighborhood, across the street from a public housing project. Really not a big deal.

I don’t know what neighborhoods you were living in, but my experience is that for every dangerous urban neighborhood there’s an equally affordable one that isn’t dangerous if you know where to look.

And it’s not like everyone can afford the privilege of a car either.
Can we use XML with multiple namespaces now? I find it weird that 3 years later working with xml namespaces is still troublesome - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13400#issuecomment-16245...
Is it ? Google provides free functionality, like a (pretty nice) mail client in the cloud in trade for mail usage data.

Those things go, outside of Google, for 2$/month minimum, and more often 10$ per month ...

Similar things go for Google's index of the web, phone operating system, ...
If you want to make this thread objective and actionable, keep it realistic.

There are thriving mid-size cities and towns across the U.S where rent doesn't eat your total paycheck. I live in one of them. The data above supports this. 41% of consumption on total housing category has only moved down slightly, from 42% in 1987.

Remote work should be more encouraged, I agree.
I once worked with someone who did that. A colleague pointed out that it would be doubly unfortunate to get mugged for a fake Rolex watch. A discussion ensued over which would be the worse alternative.
Everything google does is to generate data points. Although the rest of the world raises prices to cover costs, increase profits, etc., Google plays with APIs, pricing, availability as a way to generate data to model the behavior of its customers. Simply raising prices to make more money is besides the point. Although the price hike may have been instigated by mundane factors, the way they do it is to understand who is using their product. They could have sneakily inched their way up. Like the frog in the water on the stove, it wont know its cooked until it's too late. Also Google could have (OMG) added ads to map tiles. Or they could have a price scale that changes as you engage more of their services (move your website to GCloud, get more map views for free). By making this most unlikely move ( a move that would alienate customers in most other markets) Google is implementing a limit theorem. It is trying to segregate its customers' behavior into different groups- groups that the customers themselves do not know exist or which they belong in. This kind of data is what they will use to inform their future investment.
The article wonders, why people got upset about Red Shell on Conan Exiles for example, but not on Civilization VI...

I think it is related to two very important details.

First, Red Shell purpose, as stated by Red Shell themselves, is to create a "fingerprint" of the computer, yes, each tidbit of info separately is not "identifiable" but the purpose of the software is build indentifiable information in first place.

And second... the game where people found Red Shell first, and went nuts about it, Conan Exiles, is a game that lots of people don't want anyone to know they play it, the game has lots of very politically incorrect themes (slavery for example), and is very popular to use for Erotic Roleplay... People of course get paranoid when there tracking software in their porn!
Money in politics actually does little for the candidates. Please review Freakanomics on this. As a recent example, Trump won with a great deal less money than what Hillary used. Had he used more, we would not hear the end of how money influences politics. But it doesn't. People have tastes, convictions, prejudices, etc that no amount of ads will change. Ads affect a small number of people and help to cement in the voting block, improve turnout, etc. Swaying votes is much harder. The media is in charge of that.
Yeah, I agree.

Really, the problem is that all of that gets ridiculously complicated for an average smartphone users, which makes it trivial for app developers to "bribe" users by having the app essentially tell "give us permissions or else it won't work".

I'm all for aggressively delisting applications that refuse to work when non-essential permissions were not given. Something like PlayStore GDPR, only for permissions.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend perusing new submissions?
I have been on hackernews for months and to be sincere I have not really been a benovelent citizen when it came to going through the new submissions segment not until I started really submitting posts and found myself relying on people who actually went through the new submissions segment to either upvote my submitted links or to answer my pertinent(to me) Ask Hn: questions in the new submissions segment ,and I will like to know how much time the average hackernewsers spends being a benovelent citizen perusing the new submissions segment of hackernews.
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As you said, the losers will always have an excuse for why they lost if they want one. This doesn't really do anything to impact that.

But targeted online advertising is a brand new thing in the political world. Data like this will be essential for academics to study the effect of this kind of advertising on an election.
It's likely there is no great filter; there exist reasonable claims that the Fermi Paradox has been "dissolved" [1] [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302924

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17560462
As crazy as this sounds, yes. Not the entire dataset of course, a selection of it and then tie things together on the fly.

I've seen a handful of systems (one of them I wrote myself :D) that did complex queries. In part and in certain situations this can be very efficient, no doubt. But what I observed is:

- dev-wise these systems become one-man-shows

- implementing feature over feature becomes exponentially slower with time

- initial performance is there but it turns into slow performance over time

I prefer to do things on the application side.
Seattle's bohemian culture struggles to survive as tech takes over
New York is notably less polluted than many European cities. For one thing, there are far less diesel vehicles. The US has long had stricter and more effective vehicle emissions rules than Europe.
I have never had the third one happen to me honestly. But really I just politely say "no" each time. It really hasn't been a big deal for me, but your experience my be different than mine.
This is just manufactured hysteria by the government and MSM to justify further attacks on privacy and regulating content on the internet. The masses will again be fear mongered into giving up their rights lest these shadowy foreign actors brainwash them into committing wrongthink. Just give it time, the goal is to kill anonymity on the internet.

Even if you assume the best case scenario and the government has good intentions, it still means our leaders think the people they represent are too stupid to filter info and form their own opinions.
Linux runs on millions of set-top boxes, TVs, DVRs, ...
I agree. IMO, what should happen is: the app request for file(s), an isolated (as in, separate sandbox) file picker is shown to select those files, and only stream handles + metadata (size, file name without path) is returned.
> Lastly relax. The audience [...] usually want you to succeed.

Great insight, and I've found that to be true. Most of the time, they selected your talk based on their interest in the contents (and less so on your delivery), and so they want to learn a thing or two. They will be graceful towards your presentation (style, delivery, slides) if at the end they got what they came for: you sharing data, knowledge, insights or wisdom. You don't want that too difficult for them, so you should work hard on improving your presentation delivery, but sharing knowledge is appreciated over sharing jokes or just well-designed slides.
Unfortunately, this live-and-let-live account of history simply isn’t true. The suburbs were made possible via massive government subsidies, both in infrastructure and incentives for suburban homeownership.

Also, exclusionary zoning played an enormous role in deciding what those places looked like and they did it in large part to control who got to live there.

Finally, your lifestyle choices have externalities, from the immediately obvious 30k deaths a year, to more dangerous streets for people who choose not to drive, to environmental damage, to cities clogged with the cars of suburban commuters twice a day.
I would have liked to hear about how they are now accounting for the inherent bias of our detection process to find large, close-to-star planets, because those are the ones that produce the best signals. I remember that that used to be a big issue in drawing any statistical conclusions about expolanet data. Has there just finally been enough data collected that we can model our own bias?
Remote workers are not a protected class, and there is no reason to make them a pretected class, considering the reality that lots of jobs require a physical presence. Calling it discrimination implies that there is a permanent population of people who are capable of working, but can only possibly work if they do not have to commute, and that they are being oppressed because of this. It is not discrimination so much as it's a case of society having a different set of preferences than you.
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Banning plastic straws puts a serious burden on people with disabilities
I think very few countries offer such a program
Turkey? Wondering why would someone want a Turkish passport, especially now?
ARPA was more innovative than DARPA was, not less.
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You could also just pay someone WAYYYYY less than 100k to marry you for citizenship no?
I wonder if there is any models exploring the possibility that our system is uncommon due to 2 systems merging? IOW, Sol ejected a companion star and assimilated the planets from the other.
'Get a horse!'
There are many such companies you can go to. For instance, go here: www.microsoft.com, but also www.apple.com, and so on.

Attempting to out-compete those companies has not historically been a very successful tactic. I think that's what's meant.
A modular, customisable build server that lets me set up my build system the way I want it without forcing some system on me. And it should have a nice, customisable UI & Dashboard built in.
I just keep one or two shells open all day.
So I'll ask the obvious question: Why does Austria ask for $24M for citizenship instead of just denying it?
Hah, yes, whoops. Hard to imagine blowing through 250GB of bandwidth via HN traffic in only a few hours.
That doesn't always work. Some places only care about parents or grandparents, others (like USA) require the person spend a number of contiguous years in the country in order to sponsor family. I have a grandparent who was born in the USA but never lived there long enough to sponsor family.
For instance, I should be able to send attachment by picking them through another (OS or third-party) file picker

The native file picker on iOS works with iCloud and third party storage providers like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and Box. Any storage provider can integrate with it including apps that store everything locally.
The Data Transfer Project
look how good it went for Microsoft's competitors trying to build a Win32-compatible OS....
Maybe one day it will be enough people that it's libre or GTFO for everything.
Once you are a high net worth individual, I don't think getting visas would be difficult. My best bet is still to get tax break.
Which wasn't a hostage situation or a hijacking to get elsewhere, and it has nothing to do with the passenger security theater which is what this thread is about...
I imagine it would be possible to do some dead code elimination in the future to get the size down. Still, 500KB is roughly the size of a lot of the real world apps[0]. I'd imagine an equivalent app, written in Go would be around double, given this baseline number. Double isn't soo bad, but it would be nice to get this number down.

[0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
Agreed! As I wrote to a comment elsewhere on this page: "Most of the time, they selected your talk based on their interest in the contents (and less so on your delivery), and so they want to learn a thing or two. They will be graceful towards your presentation (style, delivery, slides) if at the end they got what they came for: you sharing data, knowledge, insights or wisdom. You don't want [to make] that too difficult for them, so you should work hard on improving your presentation delivery, but sharing knowledge is appreciated over sharing jokes or just well-designed slides."
Among the people with the motivation to get a safe haven and the money to spend on it would be drug king pins and wealthy ISIL funders. I hope they at least perform lengthy background checks on these people.
The 2nd part is an interesting problem.

Print the barrel and drone casing together, so that you can eliminating syncing (/tying) the two together, which should enhance aiming significantly and allow you to link your software aiming to the hardware firing line a lot easier. Of course if the barrel can't turn, then the operator needs to select a body for the drone that matches its height to target, or that can accurately turn the drone body by a few degrees. Otherwise you need a bit of extra hardware that will be able to turn the barrel to a precise number of degrees.

After that use a very basic onboard camera to id the target by a human operator. The drone can find the center of mass of the target object (e.g. head sphere), the operator confirms and then the drone merely flies close enough to eliminate missing and fires. The only issue of course being if the target is moving too much or is occluded at any point, at which time you'd need more advanced image recognition, or further operator adjustments.
What's your definition of slow?

ConEmu takes about 1 full second to open a new window. Not too bad.

But oddly enough, opening a new split panel takes about 2 seconds, which IMO is starting to feel slow, but it's not too big of a deal.