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I think you're letting your desire, your "belief" in a market economy, dictate your interpretations. Belief is a key term here: if it were observation, we wouldn't need to believe; we would point out how the theory functions in _this_ case just like we can demonstrate the function of an internal combustion engine. Nobody talks about "believing" in PV=NRT. :)

I have a suggestion: Every time you start talking, to yourself or others, about what a market economy does by definition, add to your statement the concept of perfect information. That's a cornerstone of market theory. So if we just stipulate the theoretical function of a market economy is everything you believe, we are left with concrete implementations which will vary from that perfection by the degree to which information is imperfect.

How do you measure that imperfection? That's a doozy. But if someone managing a $1T company has information imperfect by a percent... wouldn't that leave room for $10B of bullshit? Even if every actor in the company was operating in good faith?

How completely do you think your nearest C-level executive understands the function of their organization? 99%? 80%?

So... I think "By definition bullshit jobs would be removed" is treating economics with a precision that would make physics blush, and is usually only attempted by philosophers.
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There is a lot you can criticize Trump about but what he has done with the economy deserves a lot of credit. Just 3 or 4 years ago, economists were saying that we would never see 4% growth ever again and that 1 to 2% growth was the new normal.
Maybe in the past, but these days, it would require unprecedented (in western democracies) levels of direct influence.

On the other hand, the market is itself extremely good at keeping people occupied, chasing ever diminishing salaries.
No pipes or queues are used as part of the example code above. It transfers the large piece of data without serialization.

The point of the original post is that MP lets you do more than just serialize/ship data around after pool start time; there are substantial optimizations you can do if you know lots of the data you need to process early on.
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>you can't just go hog wild and worry about the budget later.

Thank you for proving my point. A perfect example of why Europe is lagging in tech.

>Spotify, Skype, Sitecore, Endomondo, Just-Eat, Unity, Tradeshift, Trustpilot, GoMore, Zendesk, TC Electronic, Soundboks, Navision, Vivino

Leaving aside those that have already been bought out by a US-based corp, pray tell me: where in that list are the European Google, FB, Amazon, Apple, NVidia, Intel, TripAdvisor, etc... ?

Where are the European cell phone, CPU, memory, or for that matter computer manufacturers?

Of the list above, only - maybe - Spotify comes close to being able to play in the big boy's club.

Given the size of the European population, the amazing level of education of the population and the concentration of potential, the state of European innovation is nothing short of pitiful.

The root cause is Europeans live and a deeply arthritic societies where change is very rarely welcome.
Boston, NYC, and DC are all similarly fucked. Not as bad, but not good...

Part of the problem is that a lot of wage growth is concentrated in areas that are experiencing a housing crunch.
I doubt that you can make batteries with a higher engergy density, otherwise they are quite explosive.

How do you make them much lighter? Lithium is a pretty light material.

Petrol is so energy dense because you are storing that energy in chemical bonds. Electrical energy is not as "dense". I think we are close to "optimal" batteries.
This is why you should not use Slack. Open protocols with open servers/clients is what we need such as IRC, Matrix or XMPP. Slack removed the IRC gateway just so they can stop people from using the service as they see fit and instead force on the users what they think it should be.
38 here. I was learning Turbo Pascal in around 96. I'm sure there was a lively community around it, but it would have been on IRC and usenet, which was still a little daunting to me. My primary resource was the SWAG archives, and I honestly can't remember if it was a bunch of floppy disks or a website. Either way, I remember many hours lost to running various random bits of Pascal and hacking them together to make what I wanted. Which is pretty much the same way I code today.
Take a note people - they are not dreaming of electric airlines, but thing more close to an air taxi with <200km range.
When a company grows in number of employees the owners and CEO go from having economical power to having both economical and political power.

As the company grows "too big to fail" it acquires power over society in general (and bailout money when needed).

That's a pretty good deal, and it can be the lifesaver when a company is struggling to be competitive.
Here's a wayback machine link: http://web.archive.org/web/20180830111650/https://store.goog...
Recommend Marp if you would like to make presentations using markdown.

https://yhatt.github.io/marp/
Interesting. It doesn't use any framework like for web. Running on a raw Hunchentoot. Uses Parenscript to generate JS.
you have to understand how difficult it is for the Border Patrol to determine that a birth cert is not fraud...

We have 50 states, sever US non states and on top of that the numerous Native American Reseverations and every one of them issues a birth cert...
GDPR restrictions do not apply to government activity, only to private non-personal ones.
I wondered how they can tell that there is a leak while also knowing that it small enough to not pose a problem until the next day.
Another example: if somebody asks you to do a random task (which is essential, very important, top priority), then a tiny amount of push back - e.g. sending an email asking for clarification of what is needed and why - often makes the task suddenly become unnecessary.

The broader principle is that if a request for expenditure of time/effort/money has minimal cost or risk to the requester, they are incentivized to request unlimited expenditure if it has any potential to benefit to them.
I’ve been at offices that require notes like this. (The company paid for special chairs) The reason listed was “we want to introduce some friction - enough that we are not using VC money to buy special equipment for everyone”
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> Almost all the important technical inventions of the 20th century happened outside Europe.

Evidence please?
> If you can figure out how to achieve the same results with fewer layers of management, or have your management act more efficiently, you'll reap the rewards. So any bullshit managerial position is inherently unstable: as soon as one company figures out they can do without it, it'll vanish from the industry.

If you can implement it. Building a large company, or redoing management structure in such, is a very long process requiring buy-in from many people. People, whose personal interests may oppose your goal of eliminating inefficiencies.

My guess is that most "low-hanging fruits" in management styles already got picked, and what remains are the cases where it's actually very hard to build (and maintain) a bullshit-free system.

> We're at pretty close to full employment, which suggests there's plenty of genuine work to be done.

Not if some significant chunk of those jobs are bullshit. Just because a job is bullshit, doesn't mean it won't make you - and your employer - money.
I used to work for a public school district and it too was extremely top-heavy with administrators. I worked in a building dedicated to administrators with not a single teacher or student.
it seems like it.

In the "Steps to take" section they write
> 2) Identify/review your legal basis for processing, ideally with a legal professional.

where legal professional links to the author companie's info email, and linking to their own site about 30 times in the article.

This looks like "you're violating the law, but we'll help you fix it" kind of deal.
Similar use case (2FA), but different implementation.

Instead of typing in a code, you press a button. It also protects against phishing by validating the URL of the site you're authenticating on (with a code-based 2FA you can still enter your code on a phishing site, which then forwards it to the real one).
This is so great and I am really impressed, and even a little inspired! When I was 12 there was no internet and learning programming was really hard, but it was more fun for me than anything else. Your project has reminded me how I felt so many years ago when I was 12 and I would sneak out of bed to program QBASIC on my APPLE 2C. Thanks for the inspiration and keep up the great work! Keep working hard like this and you will become a master programmer of the first rank.
Because setting up an environment where you can compile LaTeX - including common packages/classes - can be difficult.
No that's an asshole/racist thing.
OpenLDAP will not go away, see https://lwn.net/Articles/755207/ for a current road map. Only RedHat doesn't support it any longer, that's all, no worries.
We pretty much all agree after the age of 30, Europe is the place to be! Nothing compares to it, especially the financial and health security.
“Hi mom can you authorize my logon request?”

“Sure honey.”

“200 OK. Eh I mean, thanks.”
It’s also a direct translation of the words book and worm. Which indicates it’s not an indigenous phrase.
Ask HN: Sites that show “tasteful” ads?
What sites have ads that enhance the overall site? Or that at least don't detract from the site, get in the way of the content, feel creepy, or otherwise suck?

(Fwiw, I don't love the word "tasteful" in this context but that seems to be the word people use when talking about ads that don't suck.)
Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers (at Lanetix) Who Were Fired for Unionizing
The wireless key is the "Feitian MultiPass FIDO Security Key" I'd caution people to read the Amazon reviews (specifically people found it unreliable and it would break if dropped/roughly handled).

They both seem to be re-branded Feitian, which cost less ($25 + $17 = $42) when purchased under that brand from Amazon than the Google Titan moniker.
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As a daily user of ZenHub for over a year, I would strongly disagree that GitHub projects offers the same feature set. A Kanban view, yes.
Oracle will charge for Java8 Updates
No language can become an alternative to C in the context of UNIX like OS because no one is going to re-write them from scratch, given their symbiotic nature.

Even if the complete userspace of Aix, HP-UX, *BSD, GNU/Linux, OS X, iOS, Solaris,.... gets re-writen in something else, there will always be the kernel written in C.

Hence why improving C's lack of safety is so important to get a proper IT stack.
Microsoft-Software: Safe for Europe?
https://pastmap.org.uk/ has the same maps in a (to my mind) better interface.
While that’s a decent starting point, the larger reason is the App Store. Apple sees the value in being the interface for your daily computer interaction.

Imagine being the interface to your world. You are the gatekeeper to everything a person sees. There is exponentially more value possible than the App Store and the App Store made them the largest company in the world.

Everything that video says is why they can succeed but the driving force is selling more software.
Crashes half of the time, I guess it did not scale enough to handle Hacker News
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Legal and tax systems could do with this, force politicians to decide what is really important.
Also not visible in Germany.
Same here.

Use this link to force-redirect to the US product page: https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit?h...

(mods, can we please change the story URL to the above one? It should show the correct item globally and thus leaving less people confused.)
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So does every VC out there and they're doing this as a fulltime job and they still suck at it :)
The efficient frontier is large, but a lot of the things we do are just dead-weight losses. There are cases of incompatible values where we have to make trade-offs, sure, but there are also cases where we're being irrational under any value system.
AUO to unveil 12.1-inch full-color TFT-driven micro LED display
Good reasons, thanks!
Is that a dongle to use it on the surface-style-thing? Whyyyyyyy
Dump Ahead? Almost $1B Worth of Bitcoin on the Move – CryptoPotato
Yeah it's rare. My friends are still bewildered upon seeing I type with it. I've managed to convince 2 other people to use it though!
People who like to take risks very rarely enjoy the kind of straight-jacket social environment you find in Western European societies. Therefore, they leave for greener pastures.

Government mandated social security is an extremely inefficient way of managing health care. As an added evil it puts a giant drag on how fast companies can move.

But in Europe, try to dare to even mention the idea that centralized government mandated social security is terrible and you're immediately ignored because people think you're an immoral person. And social metrics be damned.

Just another example of Europeans living withing the confines of carefully built and maintained mental prisons.
An app has a much larger attack surface (for instance from malware on the phone).
TOTP has to use short easy to enter codes (six digit numbers), Titan is doing a full handshake using modern cryptography with sensable key lengths.
In many use cases pushing the button on the key is quicker/easier then using the app.
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It'a cultural thing to judge pople based on their origin and/or nationality?
Interesting question. I never have. I just search for it if I need it. Usually on the web, but sometimes in the codebase.

I find the idea of a personal library of code snippets quite weird. The thought never crossed my mind and I know nobody who uses something like that.
> If that is true, then your researchers are effectively managers here. The real workers are lab techs, programmers etc.

That's often how it works these days. Means the university can keep most of the workers on lower pay scales and avoid having to grant them tenure.
Your PhD will cost you the life of your firstborn:

http://www.johnskylar.com/post/107416685924/a-career-in-scie...

Postdocs definitely deserve be paid (and treated) better.
1. why not going from usb-c to usb A with adapter than the other way round (this laptop photo looks so ugly with the usb-c->usb A adapter).

2. this link does not work outside US
- I don't have the funds to hire a DPO.

Just appoint yourself as DPO. It's a role, not a qualification.

> - I don't have the funds to hire out an expensive company to go through the platform in minute details and prepare it for GDPR.

Just go through your database and work out what data can be associated with an individual. Do you have a good reason to keep that data? If yes, cool, you're golden. If not, delete it and you're golden. The only thing that GDPR changes about data is (rightly) turning it from an asset into a liability.

> - I don't have the resources to deal with inquiries to that nightmare letter or any questions for that matter.

These are your customers. If you don't have the time or resources to talk to your customers, then your business is going to fail anyway.

> - I don't have the resources to monitor the 3rd parties privacy policies that I send data to use their service and constantly update my own.

You don't have to monitor them, you just need to read them. If you don't have time to read contracts that you're singing, then your business is going to fail anyway.

Pretty much everything in GDPR was already covered by existing UK Data Protection legislation. Under UK law you already had to appoint someone in your organisation to deal with Data Privacy, you already needed to have a good reason to collect personally identifiable information, and an obligation to ensure it wasn't disclosed to third parties.

I suggest you start taking all of this a bit more seriously than your comment suggests, not because of the legal implications, but the moral ones. Your customers are trusting you with their personal information. It's a serious responsibility that you need to take seriously. If you can't be bothered making sure that your customer's data is safe, then you shouldn't be trusted with it.
This is really not a big deal. As has been mentioned you most likely don't need a DPO. Just sign up to Iubenda, it'll help you manage the compliance and make it as easy as humanly possible.
I am using DDG exclusively for over a year now. It works realy fine.
Also, deciding when to switch jobs base you decission on what you have, not what you were promised or what you think you might get at your current job.
>>Meanwhile, somewhere upstairs in the boardroom, people in grey suits are patting themselves on the back as operating costs have fallen, profits are up, and incidents are down.

That's the key to win in this game.

You define the rules, and the conditions that qualify as success. Once you've done that you make the remainder of the story opaque.

One more thing is to talk in vague terms of percentages and averages. Most people won't understand a word of what you are saying and will still look a good story.
Are both keys configured with the same underlying keys?

Each key bundle comes with a physical USB security key and a Bluetooth security key—one for your primary use and one for safe keeping.
> 5 or more weeks of mandatory holidays.

Impossible. Our handsomest politicians assure us that even 2 weeks vacation is pushing the bounds of outright societal collapse!
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You are saying that USA will always be perceived as a superior place to live because of the better pay; the guy is saying that it's not always true because some people value other things (family time, housing affordability, social security network etc), so some talent will prefer to remain/move to europe/canada etc. While I generally tend to agree with you more (unfortunately people go for the money), he has a good point. The U.S isn't for everyone.
What is the best way to connect with other users of hackerNews?
I've been searching for a way to connect with other users of hacker news.

thank you
You actually can't appoint yourself as DPO since it would be a conflict of interest. But you only need a DPO if your core business is large scale user tracking, which it probably isn't (especially if you're a small startup).

https://www.pensar.co.uk/blog/data-protection-officer

> The following companies need to appoint a data protection officer under Article 37:

* Public authorities or bodies, except for courts acting in their judicial capacity.

* Companies who process data requiring ‘regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale.’

* Companies who process, on a large scale, any special category of personal data. This includes data which reveals racial or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs and other such information.

* Companies who process, on a large scale, personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences
What can recruiters do with Recooty?
Can't see the page, but that there is not a USB C variant is bonkers. All Google engineers I know use mac devices.
It's a USB C Adapter
To name a few minor ones:

- The transistor

- The computer

- Atomic energy

- The search engine

- The internet

Shall I go on?
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Thanks for checking up on this. I hope newer models won't have this issue.
The description doesn't say if the keys are compatible with FIDO2 / Webauthn, which seem to be the new standard superseding FIDO (namely with password-less and multi-factor auth).
It would be disappointing if not...
Additionally, adding an enum value cannot be run in a transaction.

And I use dbmate which puts all migrations in transactions.
Such broad generalizations, its quite lacking in awareness for you to be from a country where Trump is president and still be condescending to Europeans about their nationalism/racism.
Why does working a Bullshit Job have to be about ritual or tribal identity or anything else, when the most important thing in that person's life is putting food on the table? Even if a job is bullshit, there isn't enough of a social safety net in most/all of the world to provide for one's needs without taking a job. For an employee with no financial cushion and trying to avoid homelessness/starvation, what the job does or its contribution to society is secondary to the income it provides that allows that person their basic necessities.

Similarly, if those basic needs were met a la Universal Basic Income or a Star Trek society, there'd probably be less bullshit jobs of people doing something, ANYTHING, just to earn enough to live and provide for their family.
I don't understand why you conflate keeping speed with being aggressive. I can drive perfectly safely at 50mph just as I can at 45, with the added benefit of not creating a bottleneck.
I totally agree you should conform to their request - remove the extension from the store(s?) and remove Slack from the name.

That said, if you can keep the code on GitHub, then everyone can download the zip and load the unpacked extension - you could even go one up and create a (shell?) script with a cron job that checks the diff e.g. once per day and updates the unpacked extension. With our without the script, there's a slight overhead for the end user, but as long as benefits outweigh the overhead, people will use it and everyone will be happy (or at least, not be able to do anything about it :D )
Seems like this dropped the ball on also asking for help on open source projects too.

I get that you charge when people make money. You're trying to carve a niche out for yourself. But open up the floodgates to the nonprofits, and you would have easy had masses of people.

But you still end up with a specific problem - once I know the contact, you provide no value added service.

Good luck.
$50 seems very expensive. The actual hardware probably does not cost more than $10 and I can't see adoption of FIDO keys becoming widespread unless companies are willing to sell keys at or below cost.
There's a well-known reason for these requirements: they are an attrition tactic. It erects barriers to obtaining insurance benefits. Many give up, reducing the costs to the insurance company. It happens with WAY more than chairs, and is fundamentally unethical.
IIRC, the creator of the Palm Pilot carried a block of wood around in his back pocket, pulling it out and imagining going through steps with it to work out the form factor and design of the applications.

Also, I knew someone who continued to use Palm's Windows software as her primary calendar and organization software years after Palm had begun fading away, and despite having never owned a Palm device! It was hard to fault her for it, since it was fast and robust.
"Firmware for Titan Security Keys is engineered by Google, to verify the key’s integrity."
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Hmmm, I mean, on Wikipedia, does anyone want to see user names that aren’t pseudonymous?

I think the policy is more likely to favor names that are not identifiable in the real world.

So nonsense like “Snarf_Yorble” is preferred to “Danny_DeVito” even if Danny DeVito himself is trying to help write an article about the TV show, Taxi, by citing some good sources to fill in blanks and rectify some subtle errors via the talk page.

Favoring handles and nicknames keeps attention focused on the content or data, and not the authors, to retain a degree of objectivity. Merit badges are there, not to promote credit, but credible accuracy and reliable behavior.