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That means absolutely NOTHING in this context. I can base my product on some Linux distro and add just about the right tracking libraries. It is closed source proprietary software, period.

Also, this [1]. They definitely do have tracking. Please point me to the source code for this.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/apple-nsa/
If you're economically trapped in a precarious position, shouting about immigration and terrorism (by the Other) is far more effective at scaring people into falling in line.

It is lifeboat "reasoning" at the tribe level.
Yup. That's a lot of the growth between 2000 and 2010. I guess a better indicator would be the growth between 2013 (post Obamacare boom) and today. That has gone from 56,533,472 to 73,355,220.
If you're curious about the reality of what actual privacy and/or security you are offered by Apple's products, you might be interested in Apple's guidelines for law enforcement requests. There's lots of info at https://www.apple.com/ca/privacy/government-information-requ... and there are two PDFs at the bottom outlining their ability to provide user data in different situations.

They also summarize the security of iCloud services, delineated by "in transit" and "on server", here: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202303

I wanted to actually call out one important detail in the latter link above:
"iCloud secures your information by encrypting it when it's in transit, storing it in iCloud in an encrypted format, and using secure tokens for authentication. For certain sensitive information, Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This means that only you can access your information, and only on devices where you’re signed into iCloud. No one else, not even Apple, can access end-to-end encrypted information."

So, we can discern that anything you store on iCloud that isn't using end-to-end encryption can be accessed by Apple. This includes (but is not limited to) Contacts, Photos, Notes, device Backups, and everything you're storing on iCloud Drive.
> because it shouldn't matter.

It absolutely, 100% does matter, because Native American reservations[0] receive their healthcare exclusively through the IHS. The IHS is a completely separate system that is exclusively used by Native Americans, and it has massive documented logistical and ethical problems going back all the way to its founding.

It's downright deceptive not to mention that the data is so heavily shaped by this structural problem, because it completely changes the message people take away from it.

[0] including Oglala Lakota County
> Why advertise Pepsi as tasting just like Coke? Why not advertise it as tasting _better?_

That's exactly what they did. Remember the Pepsi Challenge?
The "X" icon in the "Switch to Qwant" popup on the right side doesn't work, meaning I can't close that box. (desktop Chrome 68.0.3)
Out of interest have they got their own crawler, or is this a new one? I've not seen anything notably new in my logs recently.
As Tesla struggles to exit 'production hell,' buyers complain of delivery limbo
I want to second about the "Code Complete" book. IMO, it provides a much more practical and hands on approach than most of the other books, and does this to a great depth. In my view, if I'd recommend only one book on good software engineering practice, it would probably be that one.

On a related note, I just this week stumbled upon a post / essay, which was probably the best piece of writing I've read in computer-aided engineering, and working in a disciplined manner. I'd recommend reading it right now, as the very first thing you do: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520
The leaks 'lit' the Arab Spring which had a lot of momentum, and ISIL is an artifact of the Arab Spring. Obviously conditions were there. The later is not in much dispute, the former just not more widely known.

https://psmag.com/news/tunisian-activist-describes-mannings-...

https://medium.com/@ifikra/chelsea-manning-and-the-arab-spri...

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-l...
I've traveled through pretty much all of Europe and seen many of those "suburbs" you talk about.

You exaggerate the shit out of this and you have no idea what you're talking about. Stop consuming garbage right wing propaganda.
Were you able to suss the definitions or do you still need clarity?
It's often not the cold, but the riding surface. Ice, snow, and water really change the dynamics of riding a bike.
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I'm confused by how your desired situation is compatible with a capitalist market. If everyone is rich, prices just rise to the point where everyone isn't rich anymore. Unless we're talking about a post-scarcity or post-labor economy, which isn't really useful to guiding economic policy today.
What about access to network traffic?
That's alright, I've had to relearn my technique after a coma. It's easier the second time around. I really recommend doing legato exercises to strengthen the fretting-hand. Look up any neoclassical shred guitar book and they should have some guitar acrobatic exercise on legato. A good one is the Frank Gambale warmup instructoinal video. Another is a Paganini for guitar book put out by Greg Howe in the 90s if I recall correctly. I had a lot of fun learning the 24 caprices from that book.

Definitely agree about the guitar practice being better than PT part. :)
If you can't make it up the hill then you need a lower gear. Utility bikes are easily controllable even at walking pace. The bigger problem is wind. Headwinds can easily slow you down as much as hills, and crosswinds make the bike harder to control. Amsterdam has higher average wind speeds than Denver.
Ask HN: College vs. Industry candidates – do you interview them differently?
I'm going to do some college campus interviews soon, and it's been about ten years, so I was wondering what distinctions people make in their interview techniques when talking to potential college hires vs. people with industry experience. (Extra credit: What's your favorite college hire interview question, either given or received?)
Why should there be? Complex numbers are pairs of real numbers with a particular multiplicative structure. Do you have any reason to expect this structure to be relevant for currency?
I’m the same. I find office great for planning things out with others but when it’s time to focus and implement things, I find it easier at home. Everyone had to find their own sweet spot and hopefully their employer will allow them to do that.
What are you proposing as the real-world alternative?
I found emotional wellbeing and mental state to be significant factors when dealing with procrastination.

Of course our emotional state is a derivative of our daily experiences, so we cannot always affect it directly.

Regular exercise, good sleep, healthy diet and taking a break every now and then go a long way however.
Make that an anecdote of 4 - you, I, and 2 neighbors. Also, better school quality compared to the urban core.
It doesn't have to totally replace cars. The ideal is to drop down from a 2 car household to a 1 car household and only use it for bigger errands and trips, or you drop down to a 0 car household and use the money you save on car payments, gas, and insurance to occasionally rent or carshare. The best is for biking/walking/transit to replace daily trips to/from places like work, dinner, downtown, the movies, the park, etc.
Sitting in miles of traffic for hours a day then worrying about parking is just not a life I'd want to live.
Or set up a proxy server and count the thousands of https calls home (per minute). At least on mac startup.
https://rwtxt.com/public/list

I love that feeling when something collaborative is brand new and everyone is testing the waters.
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This is why I now start every git problem-solving session with "Do you want me to fix it or do you want me to help you fix it?"
I mean, I agree with a kernel of what you're saying, particularly about encouraging people to leave their comfort zones. And frankly I think Taiwan is actually a pretty friendly place, and I am genuinely happy that aspects of the overall Chinese civilization were able to separate from what happened on the mainland. But the author is clearly not shitting on anyone by describing his experience- he was a young man who learned some important lessons about his personal needs, which didn't line up with his initial expectations. Where he learned that lesson is really orthogonal to the point.
> I know so many technical folks who just shrug when privacy comes up.

Or as many in this thread do, preach complicated (and often broken in practice) processes and tooling that might theoretically protect ones data, but require Stallman's PC levels of configuration and not actually get anything done while Apple's UX does.

The fact that (for the moment) the top comments are all software engineers giving up and advocating for dumbphones is a laughable abdication of responsibility/competence/design.
There is a concept in economic theory for what you're discussing, the concept of "externalities". There are definitely ways of measuring these things. But you are right, measures of externalities aren't really considered when people in government / business / the press talk about the economy

I think that's a shame, because externalities can be measured (not perfectly, probably much less accurately than current economic measures -- but something is probably better than nothing). And people care about them -- arguably, today people are more concerned politically with externalities than traditional economic growth. But the dialogue regarding these externalities is generally driven by emotion rather than facts, because no one is really incentivized to do thorough objective research on them at a really large scale (tragedy of the commons)
I didn't think we were speaking of millions of topics here; only millions of logs. You can certainly have logs numbering in the millions using a single topic. Mux/demux would have to happen at the producer/consumer side, of course.
It's true for smartphones. If you choose privacy AND open source then you're either making sacrifices or doing something "hacky". Most people want to have their mainstream apps available and don't want to learn how to install a new OS on an Android phone.
No clue. As I understand it, the author destroyed the signing keys, so updates aren't even possible. A fresh build with new signing keys would need to be flashed out of band.
I didn't think we were speaking of millions of topics or partitions here; only millions of logs. You can certainly have logs numbering in the millions using a single topic. Mux/demux would have to happen at the producer/consumer side, of course.
I never understood why I am I crammed into the same room with social media/sales/business planner/project management and whatnot people when they don't do any productive work (or any work for that matter) instead they just keep yelling nonsense the whole day over my head. Sometimes they are so loud that even when I turn up the volume in my earphones painfully loud, I can still hear them.

And why would I have to listen to any music to begin with just to get my work done??? I am so pissed each and every day when I clock out and through no fault of my own I can't finish my work. Infuriating situation. Seriously.
I don't think working class people actually care that much about income inequality. But I do think they care about competing for jobs with people who don't even speak the native language. And I do think they care when they see things on the shelves at Walmart which are now made in China, but which used to be made at the local factory.

FWIW. Just my read on the situation.
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I've worked remotely for almost 7 years, for a few companies. Loneliness is a real thing, especially for people who are more outgoing/social.

Here's what I've found works for me:

1. work at a coworking space/coffee shop. Be around people. Get out of the house some.

2. Watercooler conversations don't happen automatically. I try to schedule a coffee meeting 1x/week with someone.

3. If you manage a team, you need to understand what's going on with each person. For the past 3 years I've been building a tool for distributed teams (https://www.fridayfeedback.com) that people have referred to as "therapy for remote teams". It's shocking what you can discover if you ask people, "what's going on" on a regular basis.

4. Quarterly or semi-annual meetups can help significantly. I want to get to know the people I work with. It's super important to be reminded that these are REAL people, not avatars on a screen.
>To play devil's advocate: is the fact that 16-24 year olds hold drastically fewer jobs than in the past really something that can be brushed off?

Or perhaps their parents are better off, more people are going to college, so fewer of them are forced to work menial jobs to pay the bills. I have no idea if that's true, but that's kind of the point; you have to dig deeper.
Seems shortsighted to imply these are all metrics related to lingering effects of the financial crisis and not the actively intended results of corporate decision making post crisis. People are rich enough to buy $1000 phones every year and CRVs instead of sedans. That's all that matters.
There's the difference between the possibility of a software update changing settings and "Google has a whole configuration management infrastructure deployed and active and phones polling for new settings so that one slip of a finger can change the settings on millions of phone by mistake"
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I think there is another issue at stake, which is failure to report on the ground level. For many crime statistics, local precinct data is likely used. And this is also anecdote, but having lived in a transitional neighborhood, where police-community relationships have not improved, underreporting is rampant, and everyone is complicit. Criminals/low income folks don't want the hassle of police intervention. Police precincts want low numbers so that they can prove they are working effectively. Residents who might actually be interested in police intervention have the competing incentive that lower crime rates positively impact housing values. All that to say "objective measures" are hard in the cases where they are possible.
I've been remote for almost 8 years now. I love it and dread ever having to go back into an office. Faking productivity for show when the workload is low was the worst feeling, as if I was wasting my time and life. Plus I have social anxiety and the pressure to 'fit in' was overwhelming.

Now I work from home where my wife and toddler are. Being home to educate her is worth more than just about anything. I don't have to drive 2 hours every day just to be an ass in a seat. Two hours where all I do is sit in a car and wish to be home.

My productivity has remained high. I take on additional duties happily. I can chat with friends online if lonely. For me there are no cons to working remote. If I did go into an office I would be the only person from my division there, my next closest team mate is a state away, which would make socializing even more awkward for me.

My goal is to never have to go into an office ever again.
don't they provide (pre)trained models? someone on github does.
My kids roam freely every day in our suburb. They are 6 and 3 years old. Suburbs like mine are awesome: most residential streets here have no outlets and don't have a lot of car traffic as a result. My boys have friends up and down the block and we know everybody in every house on the street. It's a fantastic way for kids to grow up.
I hadn't heard about searx before. It's great. I've been a long time startpage user. Searx is built in a similar spirit, but better in all aspects, or at least those I care about.
car analogy. imagine one car maker sells 80% of the cars. tomorrow they change how the gas pump works to only fuel their cars, but it fills a tank 5s faster! and they use the fact that they got 80% of the market already to force all gas stations to change to their pumps or lose their customers. now everyone buys their car because they can't even find a gas station with the universal pump anymore.

companies that move "faster than the standards" always do so under the guise of offering better products faster, but with the actual goal of locking in consumers to later enjoy a monopoly. see sony trying to always come up with a new media device, minidisc, memorystick, etc.
Somehow Americans managed to have large families 100 years ago without the palatial McMansions. You don't need a large home unless you're running on the real estate investment treadmill.
Charisma by Marcia Grad - helped me become less shy as a teenager

How to Win Friends and Influence People

The Keill Randor books got me influenced in martial arts.
sonarQube (for Java)

The bug and fatal errors should cover most low hanging potential bugs.

Every other type (code smell/code style) should be taken with a grain of salt and configured in such a way that it suits your teams need.

SonarQube is executing static analysis on pushes to each branch.

Currently only used as a guide, not as a gate.

During the first few weeks of using it i found it to be obnoxious, until certain rules were adjusted/removed

Now i find it being more on the helpful side of things
Obviously, but when new parts get flooded and the flooding becomes ever more frequent, it is.

Or you can stubbornly deny this.
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In fairness, you're a Hacker News reader. I don't think we should be making regulations and defending them with "sure only experts really know what these things are, but that's fine". Regulations shouldn't rely on people being experts, they should keep people secure even when they're not experts. Regulations more in this vein are things like building regulations, electrical standards, hospital regulations, etc. I know basically nothing about this stuff, and if I get shocked because of bad wiring no electrician anywhere will say, "well you should've been an expert electrician, your fault buddy". But that's exactly what happens in the non-security dev community right now. "Well you should've been an expert in public key cryptography, your fault buddy". It's just not realistic.
In some sense that's kind of the point right? If Qwant isn't tracking user information than we _expect_ the results to be different, since the engine doesn't have a chance to build up an information bubble about its users.
To each their own. I found that working remotely pigeonholes you into your role; its much harder to network in a remote org, to find other opportunities within the org when you're ready to explore a new role. My current org has offices around the world; I can work from any of them, or from home. I can apply for other internal roles, and keep my benefits and salary while changing up the work I'm working on.

Working from home exclusively does not appeal to me. I also don't want to have superficial conversations with coworkers in other parts of the world on a video chat client; that has no value for anyone. I would love to grab a pint with you though and chat about who you are as a person outside of work. Otherwise, you're just a resource I need to interact with to get my job done.

Luckily, the job market is large enough that everyone can have the sort of job they desire (fully remote, mostly remote, full time in office).
Very primitive. Does not work with most high frequency n-grams, and I tried a bunch from the top 5K. "Best hacker fare website" does not highlight "fares" in titles, "hacker fare" is not detected as a phase, so I get basically gibberish.
The author finds privacy to be worth a price premium.

The author argues Apple's making the right privacy decisions, and as such they don't mind Apple's price premium.
I've cycled through winters with wind chill in the -15F range and up to a half foot of snow on the ground. So, it is more than doable to do in both those cities.
In 2019: Google decides to focus on Google Analytics and shuts down Firebase
It may sound like a good idea at first but it really isn't.

Switching jobs is much easier if you can essentially keep the same commute. Companies are more efficient if their employees can easily meet with clients, potential recruits, attend conferences or just have coffee with their peers. All the positive spillover effects would go away if each company had its office in some random suburb.
Levine is a great resource, but music theory, and jazz theory in particular, is a super dense subject. Having an experienced teacher to guide you through and help you internalize it is very valuable, even if it's only for the occasional lesson.
There are problems with cars, but returning to the bicycle, an 18th century city technology, is regressive, not the way forward. The car was a great liberator from the congested and dirty density of the city which was once the luxury of only the rich to escape with their estates and private coaches. Make the suburbs more energy efficient, and figuring out an innovative and fairer way of financing roads is the progressive path.
yup. i used to work at an open plan office. it was absolutely impossible to focus on anything.

even with noise-cancelling headsets, people would still talk to me. or people would do impromptu meetings on a desk by my side.
The appendix (Converting Stack-Based OpCodes into Register Operations) is the most interesting part to me. Targeting a stack machine is much easier when writing a compiler for the first time, but real-world machines are generally register based.

I couldn't find the authors' logic in a cursory look at the source code. Does anyone know where it actually is?
The issues the working class has with large scale immigration are legitimate. Econ 101: adding more supply of some thing (labor) will reduce the price of that thing (wages).
The data they link to is pretty interesting[0]. In [1] there is an interesting chart. On page 578 (next page has the chart the article refers to, this is the table for it) it shows that from 1980-2014 the top 0.001%'s post-tax income growth grew 616%, the top 1%'s grew 194%, top 10%'s 113%, and the middle 40% grew 49% (full population grew 61%). They also compare this to the growth from 1946-1980, where the growth was more evenly spread out. The top 10% had growth rates that were multiples of their pre 1980 growth rates, while everyone below the 10% had fractions.

[0] http://gabriel-zucman.eu/usdina/

[1] http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2018QJE.pdf
Thanks, I should look into that. Hands getting cold is really the biggest problem for me. Those same gloves work fine for warmth when I'm walking, but it's the holding onto handlebars that restricts circulation to the point where they get too cold.

Note that this is only really a problem below -5C or so; at "merely" freezing I can manage.
Could it also be that programs are in place to help students so that they don't have to work while attending school?
Sounds like it might have been influenced by the MSR CORFU project (separate sequencer, write striping). Can anyone confirm?
What a crappy article and an equally crappy title.

> Some days I would go to bed 3am, others I would sleep until 2pm.

There is your problem. Don't blame it on being remote. If you don't have the discipline, you will find that you ll hard time making a lot of things in life work..
Some of the firebase apis have c++ implementations: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cpp/setup
You can? Just monitor the network traffic. Should be very easy on Wifi. Might not work if they’re using HSTS for iCloud.

That said there’s still blackbox hardware when it comes to the baseband. All devices which I’m aware of come with binary blobs for the baseband. So in that sense there’s no truly open mobile device.
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