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To say that we should leave everything to simple choice is ignoring the realities of what groupthink has on a broader society. I.e. everyone smokes so it's fine and I should do it too.

I'm not saying we should make these sorts of things illegal, but to require the industry to display proper warnings, to actively give money to organizations that work against them (such as how tobacco companies must pay for anti smoking commercials), seems like a logical step forward.
They emphasized on their earnings call that their biggest increase in spending is on the software side. They know they have a lot of work to do there and are investing in it, but that it will be a multi-year process.
only 51 existing cafeterias? wow.

stupid proposal, and will never pass.
> your vision inherently provides a better future

I didn't say that, I said that there are different visions of a better future.

I also didn't say that I have a problem here, only that I would prefer things going another way.

You are attacking a comment I didn't write and had no intention to write.
That's an interesting slide and I think that a lot of universities unknowingly put up a lot of barriers to entrepreneurship because they don't get the value of it, or they don't get how that value is created. Berkeley vs Stanford is a decent example of this contrast
Flat Earth [1] which gets funnier the more you research about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies
This argument proves too much. If some new actually-bad youth trend were to arise, e.g. the youths were to be convinced that lithium batteries are a better source of nutrients than real food, this logic would still ignore the problem, since "the old folks never understand". It's more illuminating to seriously consider the unforeseen effects of new things.
I am very clearly pro crypto, pro capitalism, pro china (and pro immigration, I almost forgot in my list of biases). I do not hide my thoughts. I do not mention my political opinions, because that has no place on HN.

I work on some complicated things, so in the daytime I enjoy breaks and I come here to discuss or share my thoughts.

I do not promote anything - no product, no company. I have raw opinions and I am not very PC. I do not mean to hurt anyone.

My reasoning for Huawei is that they make great products, but they are attacked left and right. I genuinely would have made the same choice- including limiting background applications.

I am almost certain that a lot of criticism is very misguided. If you need any proof, just read the comment where the demise of Nortel is blamed on Huawei. It is not me thinking that.
If you're into Historical novels, there are two books that take place during the Avignon papacy: The Dream of Scipio (Iain Pears) and the series The Accursed Kings (Maurice Druon). The first one is quite well written (being a Iain Pears novel), and both are fairly accurate with regard to the period, being written by historians.
Would you be able to link to a source about the UN weapons inspectors or something similar? All I have is pretty much hearsay and I was young enough when the towers fell that I understood "bad guys did it" but not much more.
Since GOOG had good earnings, safe to say this isn't reflective of broader market/economy?
U.S. Representative Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at Obama’s first state of the union address.

Seven months later, Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs to say Beyoncé had the best video of all time.

A few days later Obama calls West a jackass in an “accidentally” recorded interview.

The theory is that Kanye West and Obama were in on finding a very roundabout way to condemn Wilson.
Something worth mentioning as well is that in order to sustain that level of discipline a person needs to both be observant of their work/practice while also withholding judgment of their ability, otherwise they will wear themselves out fairly quickly.
Except Twitter has much higher quality content from original sources, experts, celebrities, etc.
Yes, Yes, Yes.
This is the first comment related to this issue that has made me stop for a second and consider the whole situation in a different dimension. Like a chess move...
It looks like they were going to and then backed off.
See here:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=163777&st...

You can add your voice to the comments there, but I don't think they plan to implement any time soon.
No, people were not saying the same thing about MTV a generation ago.
I think most people underestimate the amount of discipline that it takes to get good at something, and overestimate the amount of time it takes.

Truer words have never been spoken, across all kinds of domains. When I was a fat desk nerd and decided to become a Marine, I was surprised at how quickly I was able to transform my body and gain the required physical skills - once I found the motivation and discipline. Ditto for language study, programming, etc.
China has a huge staff of these people too. I think at last count they had 20,000 people employed doing content moderation for the country.
Now, what do you do when you want to return from that function after loadRealImage() finishes?

function loadImage(src) {
loadRealImage(src).then(img => /*... return img from loadImage ...?*/);
}

"Just make it an async function." Well yes, but then the async nature contaminates the rest of your code. You have to make sure to set up a toplevel try-catch for every one of your async chains, for example.

What do you do when you want to have an async generator? That is, you want to both await on something, and yield N values from the function. JS makes that difficult.

There are all kinds of limitations like this, and everyone has their own favorite hacks around them. But they're hacks, not unification. And yes, hacks can be effective, but a unified framework can be tactical.
I heard someone (jokingly) propose that we really did go to the Moon, but the public video footage was nevertheless faked, because the real footage was just too crappy. It's really too much to expect astronauts to be skilled videographers on top of everything else... Maybe not a "real" conspiracy theory, since no one believes it, but my favorite nonetheless.
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I've worked with both, and BigQuery is so much easier to work with. Redshift does give you more control (to a limited extent) but it takes a lot more work and specialized knowledge to perform simple tasks well.

In the article you linked, they gloss over the part that takes by far the longest when working with redshift: setting up "compression, distribution keys on large tables, and sort keys on commonly filtered columns". With BigQuery, you don't really worry about that crap, or about reloading your terabytes of data if you made a mistake somewhere in the schema. You also don't worry about vacuuming, or running out of space, or taking down the database from excessive CPU usage. Do you want to have a team of people at your company whose job is just to keep Redshift running smoothly? Or do you want another team of analysts or engineers?

I could see some companies being forced to use Redshift, especially if they're using S3 a lot, and I could see people saving money in some specialized use cases, but for most people BigQuery is almost certainly going to be cheaper and faster in almost every way.
>yield N values from the function

const { all, the, values, you, want } = await multiValuedReturn();

?
> Many functions such as closest() and remove() have no equivalents in IE11, and other things such as replaceWith() and before() are not available even in Edge.

Many of these can be polyfilled, Going the polyfill route IMHO is a bit better. I use this now : https://polyfill.io .
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Couldn't agree more. As someone who has his genetic profile with 23andme (as well as my kids, wife, parents, etc), I'm actually looking forward to someone like GSK to come in and use my genetic data to accelerate the discovery of new drugs.

It's shocking that so much genetic data is available, and we're barely scratching the surface, and using for fancy graphs and genealogy trees. We could be finding the cure for real diseases, and improving the lives of millions of people.

Yes, of course the pharma companies will milk the new drugs for the next couple of decades, until they lose the patent, yadda yadda, but at least we're making progress faster. Much better than the alternative - which is to wait decades for the discovery, AND wait more decades for the patents to expire...

Regarding privacy concerns, that's the least of my worries. The money available selling my genetic data (to, say, insurance companies), and the scrutiny and regulation they'd face (in many cases it'd be outright illegal - e.g., minors) is so massive that it'd be stupid to even try. There's a lot more money to be made from the exact same insurance companies by selling overpriced drugs to sick patients with health insurance.
> It's also my impression that the US intelligence community tried to warn the Bush administration about the 9/11 attackers, but that Condoleezza Rice blew them off.

Nah, the official report from the CIA was FOIAed. IMO this meme that the CIA saw it all right is just Washington internal politics leaking out.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/259216899/Iraq-October-2002-NIE-o...

Page 13

> High Confidence

> * Iraq is continuing, and in some cases expanding, its biological, nuclear and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions.

The report also spends a long time parroting that yellowcake BS too.
One group is leaving Facebook and another is staying on it? You may have the "winners" and "losers" mixed up...
Just because it's not a neural net doesn't make it not ML. Also, can echo the other folks here: linear models and basic logistic regression are still competitive.
How about huge non compliance fines for reasons that need to be debated in court.

Oh, did you interpret the law wrong? We'll take the greater of 20 million or 4% revenue kthanksbye.
I understand what you are saying and agree to a point. However, Mark Zuckerberg is effectively king of Facebook. So even if Facebook is a de facto common carrier, having a single person able to make whatever decision he so chooses for the platform complicates things.
But Hitler truly was great at building relationships with the German people. Depending on the context you can interpret that as spin but to me it is also a factual statement, to rise to power from relative obscurity at that level requires being excellent at the art of social skills / climbing, aka politics.
Even if you don't have a common root password, you can still have groups of people who are sudoers for different systems.
This is funny... if operators are crying now, I can just imagine what will happen with quantum based communications, where you can't even look at the data without corrupting it!
Or in O(1):

return min

Alternatively

return max
For what it's worth, https://caniuse.com/#feat=element-closest is supported by everyone except IE (and Opera Mini, I guess).
What's App, Instagram, Messenger, and VR all of which Facebook either own outright or are significantly invested in to win. IGTV is a shot across the bow at Youtube. Frankly I spoke with a VP at Facebook 3 years ago and he said they were looking away from "Big Blue" as the future then. This is a temporary at best setback. IMHO they're still the most dynamic tech company and they'll easily bounce back. I'm happy to buy some Facebook stock right now.
FYI the 24 GPS satellites are all in Low Earth Orbit. Well within the reach of missile technology today. These will be taken out within minutes of the next war. This is why the Naval Academy as of 2 years ago teaches navigation by sextant. Was in the Army as late as 2013, and they (at least that unit) almost never let us use GPS during training (only USGS maps, protractors and compass) for this reason.
eh? can you give a concrete example or two? there is a seeming innumerable number of new startups, solving very small niche problems. it is a given that very very many will fail. the funding continues.

my very small company uses maybe 15 saas vendors. maybe 10 of them are small guys that will be out of business in 3-5 years.

there’s tons of failure to go around!
I don't really believe in any conspiracy theories..... except to say that I get how all those Lee Harvey Oswald theories pop up because if you made up that guy's life story people would say you made it too absurd to be believed.....
That’s upside down, me thinks.

It would be difficult to incur a 50% increase in expenses without massive policy shift.
Absolutely, yes.
I have received many different training courses and I remember some and a few have changed my behavior.

Quality - be mindful and consistent about how dates, numbers are written and records are kept.

Bullying - behavior may make other people feel uncomfotable in way I cannot see.

Privacy - what PII data is and isn't.

Mental Health - don't joke about it, generally 10% of people are suffering. Look for signs, come from care.

Information security - don't share creds, don't leave machines unlocked, be mindful about what I click.
My starting point is this...

Take the minutes of the last business meeting you had.

Without even asking your boss, publish them on the open web.

Here on Hacker News for example.

After a day or so point this out to your CEO, telling him you will be doing this with _all_ future meetings.

Report back to us what was the result of your happy chat with your CEO.

I think you will find that, sadly, most of us do, indeed, conspire in secret against the interests of the general public at large.
Yep same here, using Google Cloud Build to generate the docker
Twitter is just a platform for idiots to yell at each other and marketers to sell their books/wares. However I haven't noticed people spend HOURS on twitter, like I have with facebook. Facebook is much much more insidious and poisonous.
I would love to see an example of this.
Reddit is committed to free speech and anonymity while Facebook is not.
> Wehner said a combination of currency headwinds, new privacy controls, and new experiences like Stories will contribute to the deceleration

I remember the day Chambers Saif Cisco hit an air pocket. Since then it has only been layoffs, cuts and austerity for Cisco. Never really recovered. Is it the same day for FB?

> Cisco on Wednesday reported healthy profit and sales gains for its fiscal first quarter, in line with Wall Street expectations. But a host of challenges -- including losses in public sector accounts and in specific product areas like set-top boxes -- coupled with a less-than-invigorating sales forecast for the current quarter, were enough to send Cisco's shares tumbling.

> Cisco CEO John Chambers, on Cisco's Q1 conference call, described the challenges as hitting an "air pocket," and was bullish on many of the areas in which Cisco excelled. But he set a subdued tone for the call, especially with the forecast that second quarter revenues would increase only about 3 to 5 percent, and a forecast that revenue growth for fiscal 2011 overall would be 9 to 12 percent, well below both the 13 percent for Q2 and the 13.1 percent for FY11 predicted by analysts.

> Specifically, said Chambers, orders came in over $500 million below Cisco's initial Q1 sales forecast.
AMD had always been an easy stock to bet on since short traders and Wall Street apparently hate them.
More than FP, the parent may have been referring to OTP and how Elixir (Erlang actually) deals with concurrency. It is indeed quite different from other popular languages.
Disagree with many things San Francisco does but this has some good things about it. FYI Marc Benioff at SalesForce has always done this for the same reason that the city is citing.

Of course, the traffic would probably get much worse.
I mean sure, but they can just re-aim that...
Uber does. They run an ATG division in Toronto.
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The thing that's truly bananas about this -- when I worked in SF and lunch was paid for, we always catered in from local businesses! This sort of benefit doesn't isolate you from the community, it invests in the community. More than once I went to a restaurant that had catered a meal at my job -- places I wouldn't have known existed had I not gotten a free lunch.
This is why government jobs are not the answer.
I there was a news story where a reporter recounted his time with flat earth people. It was interesting how there were distinct ties to Christian identity stuff, but most of all it seemed like many of those people just wanted to belong to something and at the same time these conspiracy theories make the madness of the world.... understandable.
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Here's a comment reply for your dopamine hit.

You are an addict, you just don't realize it.
Each computer executes it a limited number of times, with lightning speed. Differences are imperceptible. The cumulative effect you are speaking of is hypothetical.

Writing code which just works on multiple browsers results in faster development and easier to maintain code and frees dev cycles to focus on performance.
Honest question;
Why is _facebook_ the powerful tool, and not our populations inability to recognize the threat (misdirection, targeted messages, biased sources, etc) within it/think critically about it? To dismiss the nonsense like most people used to dismiss tabloids. Facebook obviously scales this up, but that is the nature of a modern connected world, whether we like it or not, and I'd rather give people the tools to navigate that than try to build a padded room, since there will _always_ be another Facebook. (And to fully undermine my own point, I _don't know if it's possible_ to give enough people these skills, but from a philosophy of personal empowerment and freedoms, the alternatives seem far less preferable)

It sounds a lot like the drug war. The approach that DRUGS are the problem, as opposed to situations that lead users to abuse them in destructive ways, has lead to a very demonstrable half-century of ineffectual policy and violent/sad outcomes.

I have not so entirely given up on ones ability to tread a path through this insanity, and am more worried of an escalating trend to put that responsibility in the hands of some gatekeeper as opposed to ones own agency as a sentient human. I don't even disagree with your final statement; I'd just want to see it come from rejection by the individual than mandate from on high.
Rather than "afraid", I'm mildly annoyed by the regular posting to HN of various error messages that Europeans get when visiting various sites that DGAFAGDPR. Why don't they send those errors to the European regulators instead? Those people seem better-placed to do something about the errors.
They seem to imply that he had buyers who would have sourced the book for him. I'm guessing that the buyers had contacts at the various publishers so they knew in advance when interesting new books were coming out.
Flying is not strictly necessary to live but is deeply ingrained into the "standard" lifestyle in the same way as, say, the internet or industrialized food products. In my opinion, such society-critical goods and services need to be legislated because it is nearly impossible to organize an effective mass boycott of them.
That's not what I mean. Options tell you something about what people expect to happen to prices in a given timeframe, but that's not the same as the uncertainty in the underlying value. For example, say I have an early stage biotech company that's losing money. The value is somewhere between zero (if they go out of business before becoming profitable) to a fairly large number if everything goes perfectly. Options have an expiration date, and probably the longest dated ones on a lot of stocks are under 2 years. That's a pretty short time period. I just looked at an example, and the at-the-money calls and puts were about 40% of the price of the stock with expiration around 1.5 years out. That's not at all where I would put an uncertainty range, because at any time the stock can suddenly reflect prospects beyond 1.5 years in the future.
US, Russia, and China all have intependant “Global Positioning” Systems, GPS, GLONASS and BDS.

All similar in function and implementation.

The coolest part about GPS is the fact that temporal relativity is employed to establish a 3D location from accurate flying clock radios, that’s rad.
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If the Google Titan Security Key is a rebadged Feitian key, why does it share a name with this piece of custom security silicon they announced a year ago? https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/Titan-in-depth-...
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Wouldn’t that violate HIPAA, or something?
I tried to use the script but it just searches over the file names.
Some day that will probably happen. Somebody will figure out how to make some cybernetic implant that will plug in and provide an alternative to eating. "old folks" will go about complaining about wholesome food and techies will ignore them.

Over time I have grown increasingly irritated by the talk about things being "bad for you". At this point if you don't have a decades long history of studies holding up to meta-analysis backed up by a philosophy of life and what is good and bad for it, I really think what is being said is nonsense. I'll believe hyper-specific cause-and-effect data, but I just don't care about the latest opinion about if something is bad for me.

Until you can show me a study proving that listening to that sort of constant what-I-call-nonsense leads to quantifiable improvements I can be convinced to care about, I'd rather people spend their energy doing something other than complaining about change and/or the status quo. It holds the same status, in me, as celebrity gossip.
Yeah it's most obvious that there is some natural/genetic talent at play in sports like swimming/track and field. I was pretty obsessed with running in high school - I trained damn hard, did 80 mile weeks in the offseasons, etc. I ended up being pretty good, but there were some guys who trained less hard and less smart than me that were just as good (or better), and I certainly was not capable of becoming an elite runner no matter how hard I trained. It is just not in my genes to run a sub-4:00 mile or whatever. While I think it's comforting to think that all natural talent is just hard work and we could all be geniuses and savants if we just put in the effort, I don't think it's true. That being said, I do think people overestimate the difficulty of picking up many skills to a proficient or superior level.
Huawei may make some decent products I don’t know, but the Nexus 6p was a complete piece of crap. Mine lasted barely a year and the service was abysmal. My reasoning for hating Huawei is because they suck shit, nothing to do with nationality.
If I understand your use cas properly, jQuery should be plenty; but if you only need to support modern browsers, you can do 98% of what JQuery does using vanilla JavaScript these days, and use lodash for the rest.

Consider using server-rendered partials for updating the display. That’s particularly compatible with Django’s templating language.
They should as it's a great tool to both guarantee accuracy, and ensure you're being fair. But, running an interview, getting people off their script, and still constantly checking and validating are all tough. I could see people forgetting it or just not being comfortable. I've also been interviewed by journalists so skilled I didn't realize they were doing it until later.
Not contesting the point, but shouldn't Martian rock be significantly less dense due to less gravitational compression?
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