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I think it's okay for him to be frank about things. We all don't like when he bites someone's head off; fine, that's not what he's doing here.

We're really at a point where people would prefer to discuss his tone rather than the content of what he says, even here.
The assertion seems to be that US actions served to keep prices down (subsidized the market). It isn't clear to me what line of reasoning gets to that conclusion though with respect to military actions in the Middle East.

Markets like stability, doesn't much matter to the market if that stability comes from an authoritarian or a liberal democracy or something in-between so the claim that US military actions were some sort of stealthy, planned effort to subsidize the price of oil doesn't make sense to me.

The instability and the associated price increases in the oil market could be interpreted as a subsidy to other parts of the energy market by making it easier for them to compete against oil. Most businesses are pretty happy when something causes their competitor's production costs or selling price to increase.
I disagree those two are decoupled. The DIY project has a much lower risk of getting sued, true. But lower of risk of death is highly dependent on edge cases and corner cases, and I'd challenge you to produce evidence that there is an overall lower risk of death.

None of this is to say I'm against any effort to develop an artificial pancreas. I used to work at Medtronic Diabetes. The slothful pace with which this endeavor is proceeding, despite the mountains of money behind it and the obvious and profound unmet clinical need, pains all of us. But "why was it taken so long?" is a question to which there is no simple answer. And though FDA is very much in the corner of "let's get it done" now, that was not always so.

For instance, the quote from the director at FDA re: "you can do everything but manage diabetes on your phone, you should be able to do that as well" masks the history of the med device industry for years trying to get applications on the iPhone approved by FDA and not being able to do so because you couldn't lock the iPhone down (i.e. prevent programmatically anyone from running any other program).
Maybe I was just lucky, but I interviewed with google and dropbox recently and both companies gave me laptops to type in, did not ask me once about if my code compiled, didn't comment on my style, nor did I have to perfectly know the standard library (for google, they told me to just guess at the random library functions and I also forgot some of the functions names for a set. For dropbox, one of the guys re-explained to me semaphore functions and how they worked since I forgot since it had been so long since I used them in college). I passed both.

Granted, I will give you that optimized code has definitely been important. One of those interviews even had me use a bit array (at least I think it was that) to efficiently a store a list of booleans but at least they gave me the relevant function calls to use an already implemented one.
>Scientists are not totally sure if sleeping too much is a risk to health itself, or if it is simply a marker of increased risk, she tells Inverse.

More breaking news: people suffering from depression also often suffer from sleeping disorders, including sleeping too much.

But please, don't tell that to the journalist who wrote this article, lest we see titles like "Researches Warn That Snoozing Your Alarm Has a Depressing Downside".

Thanks for summarizing this article in one sentence.
You seem to be suggesting that more words and pretty pictures make an argument at least more compelling if not more substantive. I disagree with that idea because it has nothing to do with the facts.
"Inaccurate" is definitely an incorrect way to describe the colors. The colors are correct from relative colorimetric perspective, you're just changing the white point.
Most of the time their technology stack with be vastly different than anything else you've worked with. There will be other people you will need to discuss and coordinate with. Articulating your thoughts and expressing yourself clearly and concisely is more important.

Vast majority of the technical problems have been solved and its delivery a solution to a business problem that is the most important aspect.
The people harassing Sandy Hook victims should be arrested for stalking and assault or sued for libel and slander. Letting them talk about it on the Internet just helps the idiots incriminate themselves.
Holy crap, I was envisioning all loose graphene floating to the top of our atmosphere, eventually surrounding the planet with a diffuse, fuzzy silver plating. That would be one way to take care of global warming :D

Maybe a better title would be "Graphene shot into the stratosphere"
> talk about strange bedfellows

I get what you're saying but ... two aristocrat families? Not strange at all.
I'm trying to be very careful ;)
Did you mean to say "NP-Complete" where you said "Turing-complete"?
It's the double standard/selective enforcement by these corporations that most people have the biggest problem with.

There are high profile "violence-inciting" people[0] that are still on Facebook et al.

Those classified by SPLC as hate groups. Google is known to use SPLC's assistance in policing Youtube.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan#Allegations_of...

This man sounds much worse than whatever bullshit Alex Jones was peddling.

They have the right to run their businesses in any legal way they see fit, but they most definitely should not be doing any grandstanding like the Cloudflare CEO did, acting as the holier-than-thou defenders of the public, while plenty of even worse actors are still cozy on their platforms.
There are nation-state attackers and nation-state attackers. Most oppressive regimes don't have the technological resources to perform complex attacks on relatively tough systems, but they can perform pervasive monitoring on layer 1, use dodgy certificates to undermine TLS and bribe or coerce corporate actors. Most people in functioning democracies aren't particularly worried about becoming the target of the full might of a three-letter agency, but they might be worried about bulk collection via L1 or PRISM intercepts.

Signal is a vast improvement over SMS, plaintext email or any commercial messaging application, but it's no more difficult to use. It's relatively foolproof, in that user error can't fatally undermine the security model in most cases. It's not perfect, but it's easily the most secure chat app that I could confidently persuade non-techies to actually use. A highly secure app that you don't know how to use offers you no security at all.
In Saudi Arabia letting women drive was/is deemed a bad idea. Some cultures think it is a bad idea to not cut off the clit of girls. There are Islamic scholars that will go at length on how you should discipline physically your wife, for her own good. In those places/societies opinions against all of it would be considered wrong ideas. If you stiffen speech, you don't just stop the society from regressing, you also rob it from progress.
The original story, is apparently not available at this link, but the footer, also written by Andrew Torba, owner of Gab.ai , is available: https://medium.com/@Torbahax/this-is-a-joke-and-it-is-fake-n...

partial quote:

" Gab is absolutely not a “white nationalist social media platform.” We are a free speech social media platform. We welcome everyone and have since the day we launched. My co-founder Ekrem is a Muslim Kurd in Turkey. Our Chief Communications Officer Utsav is an Indian and a practicing Hindu. Our “frog logo” that the media wants so desperately to tie to “pepe,” was inspired by Exodus 8:2–7 and was designed by our Creative Director Brandon, who is Jewish."
Using :erlang.trace/3 to listen to garbage collection events
Most employees who are granted equity have no desire to be an investor in their company. They view their equity as a potential bonus somewhere down the line. Sure, many employees will hold some of their company stock for a while after going public, but for most employees, they'd be financially irresponsible to tie up most or all of their net worth in a single company.
This belongs in your HN profile rather than in a comment thread.
This is the road to rule by men and not laws, since at that point any politician can make up whatever "context" they like to interpret the law any way they see fit.

Be careful about the precedent your setting and think about who may wield these powers in the future. I'm sure President Alex Jones will think it quite necessary to make exceptions to ordinary laws and rules when taking down the global pedophile cabal is at stake.
Did you really just repost my thread, with exactly the same title, only two hours after I posted it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17728515

Pretty shameless.
So? Only an incredibly tiny population of android users aren't running play services. If your goal is to get as many people as possible to use e2e messaging, why spend time designing for the 0.001% of people who aren't running play services?
Not an ornithologist, but the sea birds I've observed seem to ride close to the water, within ground-effect it seems. As you say then these elevated wind turbines are unlikely to have a significant impact on birds.
Did you read any headlines in the last couple days?
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You can get Signal from the developers, Play Store or Apple App Store. No where else is genuine, all possibly backdoored. Why dilute that message for the 0.01% of users who would use F-Droid?
Right. So basically v2 of the Zinc patchset will address the nice points brought up on the list, and I think things should proceed nicely.
And what about when it isn't sunny?

As an extreme example the impact of last year's eclipse on power generation was significant:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/8/9/16089636...

Not suggesting that eclipses are the biggest concern with solar power and base loads but it does illustrate the complexity of matching supply and demand with renewables.
It helps to define the types of possible attacks, there are thee generally;

1. Accessing and exploiting system resources like file system, network stack etc. Generally this can be mitigated by providing a method to whitelist api calls. Jvm security manager has this capability.

2. Exhaust memory by abusing heap allocation. Some os have the capability to limit memory usage per process. Some language run times can like jvm maxheap flag. Note this is per process, not per user request/script.

3. Hog the cpu, starving other process/requests/scripts. Again there are os level abilities to limit cpu per process, again not for individual request/script.

I don’t know of any language/runtime that covers these three areas, if you do, or if I missed anything, please share!
I think this is a bit of apples and oranges. There are vast differences between pretty much any two cultures.

I spent three years living and working in a third world county where I “stuck out like a sore thumb”. Most people I met assumed I was rich, despite living and working on the equivalent of a local secondary school teacher’s salary. And this was still a hell of a lot more than most people in the country were making, but my local counterparts did not have to constantly deny requests for money and things from strangers.

Perhaps a more apt comparison to racism in the US would be sexism in the country I worked in. Men would cat call women constantly to ask for (or demand) sex and marriage. This was just an accepted and normal part of the culture there. It was crazy.
Do you think that this special value of 12 years will be the proper amount of public education forever? It seems to me that as robots and software take more of the lower valued jobs, we will need to expect more education for a citizen to be able to contribute. Institutions will have to adapt.
"Don't use smartphones" is not an effective method of getting people to communicate securely. We've had GPG forever. How many people used it?

Also, for the large majority of people their smartphone is going to be more secure than their laptop.
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Your response demonstrates your ignorance of psychology if you’re not even aware of how results often vary across cultures. One area to start educating yourself in is looking into the discussion in the last decade or so of how psychological research has been skewed by over-reliance on “WEIRD” (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Democratic) test subjects, and that studies with subjects from places without these attributes often produce different results.

You don’t seem to understand what you’re talking about in the slightest.
What's the connection to the first amendment? Did the government dictate bans? I saw very little concern from the "free speech" crowd about the government's ability to censor US publishers from publishing content by foreign authors.
Yep. I slept 7-8 hours all my life, until sleep apnea started to rear it's ugly head last year. Now, I consistently sleep 10-11. It's the only way I've found to not feel miserable and fatigued all day.
Just finished spinning up streisand to run Wireguard on my home network. This is my second time around with this set up, and it works great for me.

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
When I got my first LCD monitor, the first thing I did was turn the brightness down to 0 and the contrast to slightly above; at that point it was already plenty bright enough, and after a few years when I noticed the brightness begin to fade I increased it 2-3 notches.

I suspect part of it is also planned obolescence --- when the backlight is running at full brightness, its lifespan is greatly decreased. Now the aforementioned monitor is approaching 15 years of age and brightness has reached 20/100, so there's still plenty of life left in it.
In as much as they are often in windy areas (surprise) I tend only to hear the sound of wind in my ears — which would be there whether there were wind turbines or not.
> It's too easy to come up with, spam and spread bad ideas, but actual work to refute them.

That makes sense for shared forums. But not in the case of someone like Alex Jones, where he has his own media platform on his own site and various channels, and not in the case of Gab where they're hosting their own forum.
>don't tell that to the journalist who wrote this article

To be fair, headlines are often written by sub-editors rather than the article author. Journalists are often unfairly blamed for sensationalist headlines that they had no part in writing. The buried lede may be the journalist's fault, or it could also be the work of a sub-editor.
Great. Nobody cares.

There are way more android users than iphone users. If your goal is to improve the security for the most people possible, you make an android app.
> It's good that they're not just going to plop the thing in there in a degraded state (with probably worse performance [and DoS resistance] than the current out of tree/dkms distributions of wireguard).

Yea, indeed, I'm really trying to get the mainline version to have the same performance and security characteristics as the out-of-tree module version.

(And after it's mainlined, the out-of-tree module will only exist as compatibility for older kernels, and I'll have some scripts to automatically extract a mainline kernel into a backport.)
Carbon taxes change the profit math for companies, which affects their decisions, that's the biggest change. They have to be high enough to change the decision though.
Can't think of a better explanation than this video by CGP Grey, titled "This Video Will Make You Angry", [7:26].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
I feel like there's an elephant in the living room nobody is seeing, and that's general loss of trust in our institutions. These kinds of ideas have more traction today than they did 20, 50, or 100 years ago because people trust their government and their public institutions less today than they did back then.

IMHO a certain amount of this calling for censorship is people from those self-same institutions refusing to look at their own role in undermining the trust basis of our society. How many mainstream journalists bothered to check on those Iraq WMD claims or investigate the realities behind the 2008 financial collapse? How many politicians?

Trust is hard to earn and easy to squander. When it is lost it leaves a vacuum. If nobody is trusted the vacuum gets filled by whatever random nonsense sounds superficially good to someone.

To me the popularity of crazy populist demagogues is entirely explainable as a response to several large scale and very notable cases where our institutions have burned their credibility. If something isn't done to correct this and start re-earning trust I predict that this situation will only worsen and we'll be facing full-blown fascism shortly.

Censorship does not re-earn trust. In fact it does the opposite. Right now hordes of people out there are saying "see! Alex Jones must be onto something or why would they go to the trouble of banning him?!?" Microsoft's threat to ban Gab is the kind of PR money can't buy. I bet their traffic numbers will skyrocket.
Relocation for new hires isn't rare. What are you talking about?
As someone else pointed out, what if they go after your DNS registrar? Your SSL certificate provider? Where will it end? De platforming people who spew vile (but legal) speech isn't good for society and it's contrary to the spirit of the first amendment.
At least a test of triage skills would be a real world skills test. The equivalent for most whiteboard software engineer interviews would be a quiz on cellular biology.
I tend to agree with Mark Kelly that the added bureaucratic overhead would be unnecessary. The Space Force and Air Force would have to have all sorts of complex channels to work together where they overlap or hand over jurisdictions, share facilities etc. There would be a whole new set of top level leaders, uniforms, all that.

The one thing it has going for it though, is that in the Air Force space is going to forever compete with its other missions. Cyber security, air dominance, air transport. It will always be up for cuts to support those missions, it would be hard to earmark money to just go to support space capabilities. Plus the Air Force would need to fight with the Army and Navy for funding for space related things. Whereas a Space Force would just take all three branches funding and just do space.

I don't know what would be best.
That's an interesting thing for him to say, because Gab is absolutely and obviously a white nationalist social media platform.

Want another example? Arguing with Ken White (Popehat) on Twitter, the official Gab account RT'd a white nationalist mocking Ken for having adopted Asian children.

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1026849669425520640
Yeah, that's very cheap for keeping the light turned on a vital system running the police department of a big city.
I'm curious why wind power is in vogue now and wasn't, say, two decades ago.

Solar-electric I assume required some sort of scale or manufacturing advances to be competitive. But modern wind turbines seem to have been do-able decades ago.

Was coal just so damn cheap until recently?
The phone company would be a better analogy, and they absolutely can cut off your service if you’re being a nuisance. The first ammendment says your government won’t pass laws against you saying stuff, it stops you from going to jail for the things you say, and it’s there to protect the people’s right to criticise the government.

It is not there to force companies to serve you if they don’t want to.
> Is there a reason the programmers couldn't just implement the design as given? They added a bunch of useless borders and gradients, and removed all the labels.

Pretty sure they just used the existing GTK theme, the didn't add anything. If you're worried about how it looks you can install you're own theme and have it apply in every app.
Tell that to the soldiers spreading democracy.
We know the naming conventions and can consult the nomenclature as needed, this is more tongue-in-cheek.
Isn't this very similar to what Tipper Gore's group tried in the 80s to censor rap and "hard rock" artists ?

"Oh! We need to block this harmful speech. Think of the children! "
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I gave some narrative regarding the 'big deal' in the original thread, and OP shamelessly reposted it just two hours after, so you're missing that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17728515

Check the 0.51-macos branch if you missed it; it's got ~350 changed files specifically to support macOS.

HN title lengths are very restrictive, so perhaps it was unclear, but what I was trying to say was that this repo is likely receiving merges of the very same codebase that Microsoft is using to build their RN Mac apps. This is the first indication of which fork they're using for it (and it's surprisingly not derived from the fork that has 14k+ stars!).
MuskMania has reached information heat death

The term is actually 'muskellunge', originally coined by Dumas père.
If someone gets hired, and on the job in the next year, they do not implement/discuss the interview questions in any non-interview situations, then drop those interview questions. When a candidate fails to answer a question/task, ask the co-worker who asked the question/task to complete it (and be just as strict with them).
If there is a large enough group of people that's effectively banned from mainstream social media, it's entirely natural that they will be over-represented within the largest platform that doesn't ban them. This doesn't mean the platform in question is designed specifically to cater to those groups.
Yes and I think we both knew I was referring more to the big three but thanks for being pedantic.
'allow third party code' means code which is not signed. Once you tick that any unsigned code can run, not only the app you downloaded. Makes exploitation significantly easier. It would be better if Android forced you to explicitly select which code could run, but too hard for most users.
Apologies for the brain fart, it's not the rebound effect, it's the backfire effect[0]. I can't edit my post anymore.

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect
How do you interview candidates for your company?
That would be nice, but I'm more hopeful in the immediate for openpower to gain widespread usage on the desktop. Google seems to be banking on it for servers, at the very least.
Patriotism? You couldn't be further from the truth.

I'm Russian. My country's rating is in the gutter and rightly so.

It also regularly imprisons people for social media likes/reposts. You know who else does? The UK.
Sorry, but I don't believe that's accurate[1]. Being able to manage your own Roth and Traditional IRAs does not a "self-directed IRA" make.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-Fidelity-self-directed-IRA
Really? I have multiple in person discussions per week about how we are going to tackle some problem where everyone chips in and those are just the weekly problems we are working towards. There are also the much larger design docs and while some of the feedback on those happens asynchronously, a lot also happens in real time during meeting reviews. Oh, and both of those problems are decently well covered by your standard interviews (the former generally being data structure/algorithm design, the latter generally being system design).
Anecdotally, most people I know who suffer from depression have insomnia.
Please get a CPAP machine. They do wonders for people with even mild forms of sleep apnea.
And because the link was posted here there's no reason for me to look at the blog post.