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> whose home projects miraculously gain WhatsApp-levels of traction

Surely there is some middle ground between a $22 billion dollar company and a lifestyle business that generates $500k-$1m a year in revenue. Also if your company is WhatsApp level pretty sure you can afford a team of $500 an hour lawyers.
As a subscriber to Debian Security mail list from 2013 I'd got 2 emails on vulnerabilities in dnsmasq.

I don't think anyone should trust cellular connections at all for many reasons. Especially because my country (Russia) is the only one in Europe which has an office of CEIEC (chinese surveillance gov company) which as of now makes Orwell's tales come true in Xinjang.
> Maybe you prove your algorithms and call it a day

You can do that, or check it with a model checker (which is much easier). Either way, you verify your algorithm rather than "run" it (although the model checker lets you simulate or "run" a random execution).
Why are people acting like this is a big deal? His net worth is $3.6B (not sure if that includes the $850M he walked away from).

Giving up $850M when you already have $2B doesn't seem like much of a sacrifice, and is unlikely to change his life at all.

Giving up $850K when you have $2M would be a bigger sacrifice than giving up $850M when you already have $2B.
I can confirm that. Two of the top 5 US tech companies told me to sign it as-is or GTFO.
What flamewar? I'm just mentioning the facts of the case. When ISIS was around this board lit up like a pinball machine about islam. Now that it's christianty suddenly it's hush hush. Haha what a bigoted shit hole
Interestingly, this isn't restricted to white people. I recently listened to an episode of a podcast (Planet Money, iirc), about housing prices and NIMBYism, and some pro-housing activists attended some council meetings in a largely Latino neighborhood in the Bay Area, and were met with lots of hostility as new developments were seen as leading to gentrification and destroying the Hispanic culture of the neighborhood.
Actually plenty of people who have been deep in the community have cheated. It happens. But given that this run was performed live during a stream where he is reacting to chat it is pretty unlikely that he was doing playbacks of the entire stream.
I suspect that the developers of the top 100 rift games (i.e. the games that are actually pretty good and have made some money) will be enormously incentivized to find ways to scale down the visuals a bit because of the easy money they would make. The important part is that no changes in the game mechanics are necessary, given the identical controllers and similar 6DOF capabilities.
This blog post has a decent explanation of the rationale for why they are written that way: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
If your standards of what is OK to keep away from people is "not essential to human life," you should join the CPC. Religion, freedom of the press, and privacy aren't essential to life either.
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Yep. I’m not using Google for anything anymore and have to say, the inconvenience is very minor. The rest of the web still syncs fine (IMAP, CalDAV etc.)

Only YouTube is irreplaceable, and you need an account to save videos and subscribe to channels. Luckily a throwaway Google account with BS info and a temporary backup e-mail address is easily created every 3 months.
TCAS uses active transponders, not radar reflection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
And exceptionally useful to put an unbreachable firewall between work and personal devices.
Fair! :) I see how you read it that way; to me perhaps is corporate speak for a noncommittal yes, and eventually is a way of making it even less committal by specifying a long timeline. I mean, anything could happen eventually, it just depends on when you mean.
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Look, my biases are much more in favor of the US govt than of China's, for all the obvious reasons. But we have to be able to see that this is opening a huge can of worms. For example, I think it's pretty troubling that the French government banned a bunch of Muslim religious garments. Does that mean I should advocate that various US companies need to stop doing business with France? Clearly there's _some_ level of abuse that would be too much. But I think setting objectively standards about these things is extremely difficult.
Well, I simply disagree that the fact that a word has another, unintended meaning has any bearing on its use. I don't really see why it should, or why that would be a productive or useful social rule to impose.
A "heart attack" is the common term for a condition where part of the heart isn't receiving blood flow, and the tissue there is starting to be starved of oxygen (an infarction). That will show up on an ECG as elevation of a certain part of the tracing (the "ST" segment, between when the main part of the heart contracts and when it "resets"). In order to be clinically significant, you need to see that elevation in at least two adjacent leads, and each lead is only looking at a narrow "slice" of the heart, so you need several of them to be sure you're seeing the part that's involved (it's not at all uncommon for a heart attack to only show up on 2-3 leads (out of 12 on a typical ECG)).

A watch cannot provide more than one lead (and the lead it does provide is really useless for detecting ST elevation, since it's a view across the "top" of the heart, which is not an area that will be involved in the infarction). It is not physically possible to detect a a heart attack from a watch.

If you had asked me six months ago if a watch could detect atrial fibrillation, my answer would have been "sure, why not?". Just because one thing is possible with the advancement of technology, it doesn't mean all things are possible...
Sure, they could, but they could do that whether or not there's verbiage about it in your contract. This is a problem with balance of power between large corporations and individuals, not with the contract conditions.
TCAS works via the transponders of other aircraft, which they actively transmit.
Do we have a name for tech that encourages compulsive use over any kind of deeper value? Candy tech? Sugar tech?
one more thing to go wrong in the field, one more cable to get unplugged. a key/gateway/24portPOEswitch would be a single device people can run ethernet to for APs, and plug their office pcs into. If you have a rack its irrelevant, but for some kind of trailer where its sitting on the floor... or mounted to a wall.
I closely follow about five podcasts, but in every case I already enjoyed a host's work in a different medium. That might be an artifact of the type of show I tend to enjoy - I like finding out more about people whose work I enjoy - but it would also explain why big media companies have a hard time getting into podcasting.
> you will see a metro area that was and still is being shaped by race.

In NYC, a major example is Robert Moses' Cross Bronx Expressway which "conveniently" cut through large swathes of minority neighborhoods. But it's not just the metro area. It's the entire country if you consider the extermination of the natives and the formation of the reservations ( easily the poorest regions of the western world today ).

> A poster has been down-voted to oblivion for pointing out the hypocrisy that the bluest states have the most un-affordable housing

Sad to say, that's to be expected. I had someone go through my history and downvote all of the comments. It's strange that people are so invested.
I know that at least with my Ubiquiti access points I simply set them to prefer 5G and they will move clients over to that. I have had limited issues with roaming and such with that enabled.
Not "caring about privacy"; having retarded notions that you can walk around with a tracking device like one might expect a criminal be forced to carry and somehow still have privacy by deleting this cookie or logging out of that service.
> The indignant tone of the comments here make me laugh.

Yeah, the level of indignation and self-righteousness in the comments on HN (and not just in this thread) seems to have gotten worse lately. Maybe time for me to take a break from HN for a bit...
Yep, this incident shows deeper problems. As an outsider, I now question their security team, their devops, their entire company and internal policies.

This is a huge oversight.
That's cool! Where do your source your images from?
How about the US Census? Jewish people generally answer “white” on it.
Until the facebook acquisition it cost about $1/year. IIRC it was even profitable.
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My ex-boss had an offer rescinded when he declared his personal IP on the form provided by the company. He had told interviewers about his significant IP/projects. Interviewers thought that was no problem.

On the first day of his job, he filled out a form declaring his current IP. Some HR/lawyer reviewed it and a week later he was let go. No real reason was given. But he spent his first week answering questions related to his projects, so it is pretty obvious they were worried about it.
False positives absolutely are an issue. To be sure, they aren't as inherently dangerous as false negatives, but false positives can still waste time and money. And depending on what the followup for a false positive is, they may carry actual health risks as well.
When you sell it. You take the money and it’s not yours anymore. Doesn’t matter what’s said, this is just how it is. This shouldn’t be confusing.
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It's mildly depressing and comforting at the same time to realize that none of the code I've written or am writing will even remotely have anything close to 'catastrophic consequences'.

At worst, the number of visitors will drop to 0 for a short while, or clients/internal users won't be able to do their job for said short while. This will quite possibly impact the bottom line of company that relies on that particular site/app/system, but any effect will be lost in the noise (and probably even underestimated, because that's how this happened in the first place!).

While it's sort of nice that there are real-world stakes to the worst-case scenario, it's also both comforting and depressing to contemplate how relatively meaningless these stakes really are, personally.
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A powerful smartphone costs twice that, though, and that's without the fancy hardware.
As a private pilot, small planes going down occasionally are just a fact of life. But this incident scares me. There were four planes lined up on the taxiway the Air Canada narrowly missed. The worst aviation accident ever was a collision of two 747s resulting in 583 deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster - this could have doubled that number.
You're still a C++ developer... A normal mom/dad who simply wants to share his/her latest cookie recipe isn't gonna want to deal with Jekyll.
Seems like a pretty cool app, but what's their business model? App is free, there are no IAP. My default assumption is either they're selling some kind of personal location data, even if it's not live or they are running on funding and this app will be either gone or infested with ads within a few years.
Would you say the same thing about rigid body physics simulations? There's no such thing as an idealized rigid body in reality but such simulations use lots of useful approximations the are also used in "real" physics.
SMB has a weird property that all levels are finished in exact multiples of 21 frames (except the last level). This makes it very easy to know precisely where you are in relation to the WR at any given moment. Kosmic knows that he is precisely 21 frames ahead of the WR going into the final level. He has also done 8-4 so many times that he has a very good idea of how many frames it took (maybe off by 1-5 frames at the end). Also, the bowser hammer pattern at the end depends on the frame so if you have the patterns memorized you can tell exactly how many frames it took.

All this together, Kosmic can be very sure that the run is below 4:56 without timing it down to the frame.
The completely different Google Sites that OP is referring to was released less than six months ago.
If those companies were making special tools to identify and remove said garments, then yes.
The mechanisms can differ as attention-driven businesses have to walk a fine line between revenue maximization and user discontent.

For example, Facebook could've over-induldged on overlay full-screen ads or "watch this video for 30 seconds before proceeding" ads, but they chose not to.
There is value attached to having a device that monitors over the long haul.

A tech journalist who was diagnosed with afib after taking part in the Apple Watch heart study reported that he had undergone traditional EKGs more than once without a problem being detected.

>It's not the kind of thing that comes up in an EKG unless it is actually happening when the test is occurring. I've had EKGs a number of times, and there was never any indication anything was wrong.

I've even had heart tests as a precondition for having bariatric surgery four years ago, and been under general anesthesia, with no adverse results of any kind.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-apple-watch-saved-my-life/
Paywalled article? No thanks.
Some valuation context, although I'm fully aware that Stripe is a private company and that many of its investors could have investing or striking privileges.

Stripe: 20 billion.
Adyen (stock symbol: ADYEN) 19 billion.
Shopify (stock symbol: SHOP) 17 billion.
Square (stock symbol: SQ) 39 billion.
Paypal (stock symbol: PYPL) 107 billion.

Paypal cofounders Elon Musk and Thiel are early Stripe investors.

Former Paypal EVP Keith Rabois is a Stripe investor and was COO of Square.
Are startups more likely to have successes writing these applications in modern architects than large corporations, and if so, is it perhaps because they are startup and thus don't have corporate culture and all that it entails?
don't know, but my point is that it took a rather serendipitous global animation to expose them. There are people who think speed runs should require footage of the controller for the sake of a consistent analysis medium, and I'm sympathetic to them for the sake of the legitimacy of the sport at the expense of accessibility.

And to respond to your question, you can livestream a pre-recorded video so it doesn't matter. Some guy livestreamed a record breaking run of Yoshi's island or something but got cocky and streamed his controller, and someone trivially discovered he was miming it, pressing or skipping inputs after they were seen in the video. The Super Meat Boy wasn't doing that.
I wonder when this picture was taken. The iPhone design in the simulator, the old Gmail favicon, the old OS X scrollbars all indicate this being several years old.

Wouldn't be surprised if this code has been rewritten multiple times since.
So I mention the Christian groups committing the atrocities and my post gets flagged because "religious flamewar" but here we see someone freely attributing Muslim to a group and it's all good. You people are vile bigoted hypocrites lol.

Btw recent released reports by Radio France International shows Christians now outnumber Muslims in Boko Haram making Boko Haram now a Christian group. Probably why no one talks about them anymore. You only like shrieking about one specific group of people and selective amnesia for others.
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I built stratascratch.com working a full-time job and teaching at a university 1-2x a week in the evenings. The idea came from the amount of headaches and inefficiencies I experienced trying to teach non-technical students how to code. I built a platform that made my life easier. It's fairly profitable but not at a scale where I can quit my day job. Since I don't have much free time, I have to hire several freelancers to help with product improvements and sales.

For the record, I don't charge my students to use the platform :P
> realized

Or, in a continued fit of misunderstanding, they came to that assumption and are shaping their narrative/attacks around it.
If you want to participate in a debate or discussion, then ddo so. Whataboutism, deflection, projection, etc., are not that.
Probably not, but there's nothing stopping me from changing banks if and when that happens. In the UK there's even a system that will automatically migrate all your direct debits.
I also fail to see how driving a minivan makes you a better person. I don't understand why we fetishize the rich who live like they aren't.

I get not overconsuming, but if you're gonna buy a car might as well make it a nice one - the impact is basically the same.
This would certainly seem to set the stage for VR’s mass-market inflection point. Current VR early adopters have been using Treos and Windows CE phones, so to speak, and this has the right positioning be the iPhone.

The deciding factor is naturally the same one any promising platform has: The question of a killer app. The iPhone shipped with its own killer app, Mobile Safari. Can Oculus or Facebook build the killer app for the Quest? Will a third party? What would a killer app for VR look like?
I don't understand it either.

Here in Seattle, SeaTac airport has a parallel taxiway (Taxiway Tango) with a long history of being mistaken for a runway. The list of things tried so far to resolve the issue is interesting:

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2015/12/31/tango-ta...
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> Ascribing ethics or lack of ethics to a business is like ascribing the same traits to a non sentient being

This is defeatist. Corporations can be sued in courts, just like people. Their obligations are binding, just like peoples'. There is a little more complexity to signing a deal with a corporation than a natural person because there are multiple sapient interests involved, but that's what lawyers are for.

Protecting users' privacy was never prioritized in the acquisition process. If it had been, the anti-monetization clause would have been stronger.

That's okay. We're talking about billions of dollars. But turning around and playing the good guy will take these men more than simply claiming ignorance.
(While I understand passion is important and you won't make it far in either without it) Which profession would you suggest just "for the money"? Doctor or Software Engineer? Taking into the account the time and loans it takes to come online as a doctor, and the assuming the person is good enough to become a surgeon or code at FAANG? Great website btw, and so inspiring.
Right.

It really depends what one means by "system programming". I would add Java/C# and many others to that list.
I agree so much.

Business use this sort of hand wavy excuse all the time “government shouldn’t be involved.” Truth is they don’t want the American people to have any say in the operation.

Sure, you could say we vote with out dollars but they keep as much info secret as humanly possible.

They need regulation for basic things like “users own their information” and “don’t corporate with foreign governments to censor or monitor citizens”.

How the US public bought this corporate lie so hard is beyond me, people are actively rooting for companies to get more and more power.
There was a post here recently that measured hardware latency of modern computers and 80s computers and found that, in a modern computer, in the time it takes for a keypress to leave the keyboard's circuits, an 80s computer has already drawn the letter on the screen.

A USB keyboard, incidentally, has more transistors than an Apple II.
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On iOS the app used to be $0.99 (one-off), which probably made them a couple millions. In 2013 they moved to a subscription model [1] but this was never implemented; I think nobody was ever charged.

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whatsapp-on-ios-now-free
I believe Instagram's founders just rode the train until it was not fun anymore.
which router is iffy for you, Edge or Unifi? The Auto VPN tunnel being right in all my other network and wireless settings is nice. its fairly obvious from my posts im awarding a lot of value to consolidated management.

If you buy the APs individually, they come with power injectors, if you buy a 5 pack, they dont and its easier to home run back to a single switch. Less things to get unplugged.
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A small company is also less likely to need a DPO.
I can understand if they're a cement company with a website. Zoho is in the business of email with @zoho.com emails. This is a huge oversight which makes me question their whole company and how things might be internally.
You're confusing JS with wasm and undefined behavior with confusing behavior. JS and wasm are strongly defined and the specifications consider undefined behavior a bug.
There's definitely value. I'm not disagreeing with that.

The tech journalist in question still underwent more testing after the watch alerted them to make the actual diagnosis. The watch is a great screening tool, but it's not a replacement for more complete diagnostic tests.
I switched from WhatsApp to Riot, connecting to the public matrix.org server, and it's working well for me. The app is pretty nice. It looks like any other modern chat app.

The end-to-end encryption had some issues earlier (last year?), losing my encryption keys and making all messages in the conversation unreadable, but it seems to be working well in the latest version. It still warns you that encryption is experimental when you enable it, though.
Government-led heavy-handed oversight is so terrible that it also gave us rivers free of coal sludge, products that work as advertised, drugs that have to be tested before they are sold, airplanes that usually don't crash, and cars that are safer, more fuel efficient, and cleaner then they were before mandated seat belts, air bags, emission limits, and mileage gains.

At this point, the nuclear option, like the GDPR, is the only way to align the interests of large data firms with the public.

If you think otherwise, consider how the market punished Equifax for their data breaches. Or Kaiser. Or Target. Or Facebook.

When given the choice between doing the right thing, and the expedient thing, this industry has a long, and shitty track record of always choosing the expedient thing.
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That’s the point. It’s very obviously a weak cover story. The message you are supposed to be receiving is “we are above the truth”.
I don't know what domain you work in. The modest 1986 editorial statement from the Journal of Fluids Engineering is still pretty much a gold standard for rigor in real-world applications and is exceedingly rarely achieved in domains where direct observational data is hard to come by (most of geophysics, much of biophysics, etc.). E.g., https://jedbrown.org/files/20160912-NumericalAccuracy.pdf
Last "day job" I had, I just negotiated and got it removed from the contract. (I argued I'd be sending them quite some literal kilograms of paperwork, and surely that wasn't to anyone's benefit) . I don't know how common it is, but even fairly large companies will often allow some negotiation here.

(I don't like the fact that people put these kinds of clauses in in the first place either, but at least you can often opt out, fwiw)