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Everybody at Google, for anything they do, should ask a simple question on any proposal ... how does this impact user privacy for those that care?

Given Google's size and power it's irresponsible for them to not do so.

And given that there are really smart people working for Google, including a whole department working on analyzing the threats and preserving user privacy, I won't believe for a second that nobody thought of this. Which may mean that they don't care, even if they did once. And again, given their size, their power, their potential for harm, that's not OK. With great power comes great responsibility, bla, bla.

So I'm not buying that.

Also, now that the shit has hit the fan, lets see what they do in response. Probably nothing ;-)
It eats it's own poop and then licks your mouth, or your fingers which you then eat with.
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I think it's important to take time and think about some of the potential outcomes of bulk data collection.

Take this for example: there is currently a trend in the insurance industry to require an activity tracking device in order to activate certain life insurance plan discounts and other benefits. The data pulled from the activity trackers is almost certainly going to be used to enhance profitability for insurance providers, which is something that eventually will have a negative impact on some portion of people who buy life insurance.

This data might not affect first generation subscribers, so many people are comfortable to surrender it. Somewhere down the line people are going to have increased premiums or will be denied insurance altogether based on what is currently being collected. There is also the chance that the children of the people who are willingly providing this data will have higher insurance costs based on data collected from their parents, or grandparents.

The bottom line is that every company that is engaging in data collection is, or soon will be, using it to gain an unfair advantage against consumers. The consequences may seem abstract or far off, but every data point surrendered is a will have a cost at some point in the future. I'd rather not help large corporations take advantage of me.
I think the use of Humble was definitely about the episodic nature of the product, but I'm not sure it worked very well. Humble buyers were presumably a bit less excited for the games than others, and I seriously doubt it was enough extra headcount to overcome the fact that Telltale basically sold games to shrinking funnels.

Everyone I know who enjoyed the first GoT Telltale game had quit by the third, but apparently there were six in total? That hardly looks like a sustainable technique.
>Every decision you think you make is actually just a bunch of neurons firing

That's like saying "matter is just a bunch of atoms". The reality is not so certain. Our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality (physics) and consciousness (neuroscience/psychology) is still highly theoretical.
You should appear to work hard to get ahead. You shouldn't actually be working hard - if possible - work smarter, if not, make the appearance of working hard.
Alt Onion Title: "City not protecting coroners from seeing dead bodies: lawsuit"
Here's some code that strips down a song to its Shazam-able fingerprint:

https://github.com/jvbalen/soundofshazam/blob/master/sound_o...

And an example output (try Shazam-ing it!):

https://soundcloud.com/sample_noise/shazuffle-ii-shazam-me
I understand what you mean about making the move to manager. As a french dev now living and working in UK I don't feel this social/professional pressure any more. It's also a shame that salaries are kept so low, but it kind of reflects the lack of consideration companies there have for devs.
That being said, I know a lot of very good software engineers that will never make the move from France to a foreign country because they are happy at what they are doing and the salary is not their first priority, very good for them and for french companies who'd like to hire them.
> When I buy music, I want it to be mine.

For me, Bandcamp has been the best site that holds true to this idea. My favorite band started releasing all of their music through Bandcamp because the pricing is fair for artists. And as a listener, I can download the music to my machine or stream it from the app after I have purchased it.
This would all be much more useful if the salaries were stated in some form that's normalized for COL. Maybe it could be factors, like earning "2" means you earn 2 times your COL. Or at least just earnings minus COL.
This new tech makes it harder for ISPs to spy on you
I prefer Go to chess, so I'm eagerly awaiting a version of https://github.com/maackle/ssb-igo that I can just install via Flatpak and use.
Callous in that my comment might be read as “the people who got fired with no severance deserved it.”

I’m closer to “The people who got fired with no severance knew what they were getting into with this industry, and if they didn’t that ignorance is their own fault,” which might also be read as callous.
I keep saying it, but the first full-frame mirrorless camera with a fully-updated Android install (even if it is significantly modified to guarantee reliability/performance of the basic camera app) will absolutely dominate. Sony was half way there, but decided to ship Android 2.3 the whole time, and in their most recent α3-series cameras, it is no longer even part of the system (neither their locked down version, nor the jailbreak/third party app ecosystem).

I'll keep sending the pitches to Sony folks until it's a thing, but sadly it seems that they're likely to wait until somebody else comes to market with it first.
The Stockholm Syndrome is strong with this person
I believe that the vast majority of people are effectively mechanical. Very few people notice and remember themselves. Maybe one in 10^6 or fewer.

There's a old Buddhist story, you're in a small boat on a lake in a thick fog, you can barely see beyond your boat. Out of the fog comes another boat that crashes into yours, and you start to yell at the other boater to be careful, but a break in the fog reveals that no one is in the boat. You've been yelling at nothing.

For me, either the other person is present, and therefore harmless, or they are absent, and therefore blameless. In any event, it's wrong to get upset or angry. However, one should take steps to prevent damage to boats.

Two things: it's been shown that, by the time you consciously decide to act, your neurons have already been increasing in activity for ~100ms. In other words, it's been scientifically shown that our conscious experience of "free will" is preceded by unconscious nervous activity. Make of that what you will. ;-) Pun intended.

Second, when you observe a person while remembering yourself it affects them. I've seen burly lads transform into scared little boys under a mindful gaze. When you're present people don't punch you.
UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International
If you happen to have a psychologist who is trivializing trauma or PTSD type symptoms in these terms I'd say I think you need to find a different psychologist.
as long as it also pushes dubious health supplmenets
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Yeah maybe I should have made my position more explicit regarding these downsides. I think they're real and annoying; but all cities have their downsides (eg Paris is gloomy all the time and people are insanely grumpy), and that getting a 100-200% salary increase is worth suffering the dirty streets and dysfunctional public infrastructure.
Most people dont get ticketed until they are around 15 over.

Thats the “unspoken” general expectation. Even some fine schedules, have 1-10 over as a $0 fine. See pennsylvania:

https://www.penndot.gov/TravelInPA/Safety/TrafficSafetyAndDr...

However, some draconian towns like Collegedale, TN which advertise no crime statistic in 20-30 years feed off the college kids and give them 5mph over tickets all day long.

Its not necessarily about changing behavior, but there is a balance to be striken between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
> still blows my mind in it's capabilities.

Just to jog people's memory, patent threats were sent to others doing similar things [0]. Not sure if that represents Shazam or not, but if so, they'll fit in perfectly with Apple.

0 - http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/07/patent-infringement/
I understand your logic and I fully agree because I was on your side. If there really is a choice nobody would want it to be this way. Unfortunately our current world is not a utopia.

Let me give an example, suppose no countries on earth had nuclear weapons. We all know how deadly and devastating its effects can be to humankind. Let's say initially all nations agreed that it's bad for all of us and nobody should pursue it. However, if ONE country broke the contract and started developing nuclear weapons on their own. Do you think the remaining countries can afford to stay at their same positions and not start developing it too? Once someone starts doing it, all bets are off! You can apply the same logic to any unethical technological experiment, such as cloning human. Google really had no choice, if they don't adapt they will be out of the game within the next 10 years.
I evaluated a few things at the beginning. I was previously using Ruby/Rails and Node.js, and Rails was my go-to for full-stack webdev.

There was some interest in building a headless WordPress site, but the limitations on database design and performance led me back to a monolith. I have a general preference for monoliths when time is tight (time is always tight) -- the things you get for free are very helpful: deploy/rollback, DB migrations, API versioning, local dev workflow, CI, among others.

I'd deployed a couple small Elixir apps at my previous job, as well as some toy projects in Elixir/Phoenix. I've played with JVM languages like Scala and Clojure, I've tried to learn Haskell about five times. Elixir had a great developer experience story (a couple people can build a nontrivial app in ~weeks). It's on par with Ruby/Rails. We went all-in around September 2016, launching in early December of 2016.

Edit: I should have mentioned, I'm the CTO of The Outline.
I've found there's a bit of a cycle to how this is handled.

We had some resource related issues and for a time we were required to write a system impact doc (describing in detail any new resources used) with every change. Even, say, fixing some copy.

We've backed off from that now, thankfully, but informally. The next time somebody puts a bunch of additional load on a cache server without telling anyone, and it falls over, that requirement will return.

"You should take time to think about the resource implications of your change and inform the appropriate teams" is of course a good idea. But it's not easily fixed with process; no amount of process will prevent somebody from calling the fast_get_the_thing function without realizing it's a terrible hack somebody had hoped would never see the light of day and attempts to use it will open database connections like crazy because of the weird implications of the obsolete driver it - and your system - rely on.
Can't believe I'm being drawn into this, but in my view knowing an outcome doesn't mean controlling it. It simply means knowing it. In the case of your proposed definition of God's omniscience, it helps to picture God existing outside of our timeline. If God can see the entirety of history and the future as if it were a long thread, then it's more like he's watching a video of something that already happened. To Him, in many ways, it already has. So just because you're watching a replay of a football game doesn't mean the outcome was already decided from the beginning. It just means you know the story already because you're operating from a more privileged position in the timeline from which knowing the outcome becomes natural to you.

The fallacy here is in assuming the time perspective of God to be equivalent to our own.
> I know these sort of situations are rare for the average HN user.

A generalization if I ever saw one.
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Yeah it's on-brand with Apple's approach for privacy and the like. Plus, the end-game to me seems like tighter integration with Siri and the AI ecosystem they're building.
Thanks—that's crazy awesome :-)
Absolutely fascinating, it covers so much breadth too!
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It's not. There's tons of ISA improvements in AArch64 beyond simple 64b registers/address space that help out, particularly for wide, complex, OoO cores like Apple's.
This is one thing that I genuinely have never understood: if it's this challenging (and effectively impossible for non tech savvy users) to make android devices safe / private / secure and also feature-complete - why, oh why are so many people still using them? This is not me fanboying Apple, it's just sort of mind boggling to me.

This is from someone who used a nexus 6p for two years, and some older stuff before that - but who has recently switched back to iPhone for its ease of use and privacy stance.
There aren’t many cities with good jobs for the games industry. People don’t just uproot because they’re hopeless but also for the opposite, because they’re hopeful that the increased opportunities are worth it.
France has plenty of early stage startups, in fact the increase in size and quality in their ecosystem in just a few years has been very impressive.

What’s missing in France right now is an ecosystem of fast-growing mid-stage startups - series B and above. I think that’s caused by a combination of:

1) mindset (thinking globally from say one is easier said than done when nobody around you has done it before)

2) lack of late-stage funding. The seed money scene is not as bad as it used to be, and is in a virtuous cycle of early exits / successful entrepreneurs who want to give back. That is looking very good. However, the VCs still suck, with a few exceptions. They’re mostlt bankers, they’re risk-averse, ownership-greedy, and intrusive. Good luck growing a world-class business with them on your board and in your cap table.

3) The EU market is just weak conpared to US and China. So every european startup has to start outside their confort zone and attack foreign markets from day one... Which creates friction compared to growing at home for the first few years.

Here are factors that in my opinion are NOT to blame: taxes (comparable to California), salaries (yes they’re lower than in SV; that’s a good thing for startups), bureaucratic red tape (that’s what lawyers and accountabts are for, it’s not rocket science), lack of work ethic (in my experience French employees work very hard and are very loyal - although they do complain a lot), brain drain (sure French people leave the country. Plenty stay, or come back. It’s nothing like what third world countries have to deal with).

What I’m seeing more and more is French founders moving to SV, raising money there and keeping their engineers in France. Other international founders are doing the same. I think it’s the best available move at the moment.
> Is the Glassdoor data bad

it is, use https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html instead
Sorry for being flippant. I knew what you meant, and I do agree with you.
The part I love about Soundhound is that I can basically hum something to it and expect a good result within a few attempts. Shazam can't do anything like that.
I personally know people with < 3 years experience making $300k+. I know others with 0 years experience getting $210k+.

This is in Boston, Seattle and Chicago, not SF.
Ask HN: Best skills to land a job at Big 5
Coming from a mediocre no-name university but decent programming skills, what would be some of the good ways to land a job in any of the Big 5 companies? I understand coding test skills are essential for the interview, but this question also refers to the pre-interview skills. For example: Open source project contributions, e.t.c.

I have 6 months to rigorously prepare, enhance my CV (work on projects, e.t.c) and wish to optimise my learning path. Would having a personal machine learning research project be of any help>
Why can't I delete comments in HN? If from the responses to my comment I learned that I add nothing to do conversation, I want to be able to delete my comments. Am I missing something?
Those 300 people also share similar culture, likely speeding up adoption through word of mouth.

Since I mostly consume english, US-centric media, I wonder how high the marketing effect even outside the US is for services that launch in the US first.
How to actually start (and stick with) the tasks you've been putting off
It’s common for engineers here to get a significant portion of their pay in stock. Stock, of course has a tendency to change value, and in a historic bull run if you count stock growth you can get to some very high numbers for total comp.
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I've had way more luck with Soundhound, so I'm not very bothered by this news.
aww, thanks :)
The need for ptrace is soon going to change with the new seccomp userspace notification API (still undergoing review) which allows a userspace process to get notifications when seccomp is tripped and decide what the return code of the syscall is (you can also give it an fd which is copied to the process unix socket style). This would allow you to use process_vm_{read,write}v without the need to mess around with PTRACE_SEIZE.

The main usecase for this is container runtimes (emulating privileged operations like auto-loading of kernel modules), but it could also be used for this an a whole host of other really neat features.

(Huge shout-outs to Tycho Anderson for working on this for quite a while!)
Is there a practical distinction between agreeing to arbitration and agreeing in advance to lose? Compared to court cases, how many arbitration cases are actually decided in favor of the petitioner?
It's fascinating how you can fully spell out that Uber is giving people in a shitty situation a better life, and still have no doubt they're doing something bad!
This is most accurate for mid-band TC specifically.
I know the feeling. I remember countless instances where I wanted to watch a new episode, but couldn't muster the courage to do so.
Scaling from maker to manager
The bigger the sensor, the more out of focus background (aka "bokeh") for any given aperture. Blurry background can sometimes be useful if you need to isolate a subject, bot often you want less of it, not more.
If the English your kids speak at school is rhothic, then including saw/sore as a pair of homophones is a mistake anyway, since the whole point of homophones is that they sound the same, which is always dependent on accent. Teaching homophones as a list to be practiced reminds me of not being allowed to calculate 4-7 because negative numbers hadn't been taught yet. It essentially removes the actual understanding from the learning process.
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I can't help to think that the new Google's CEO is not setting the right standards and values for the company. Google's been on a roll recently with privacy violations and related "doing evil" news. Someone on top must be encouraging it, or at least not hold people accountable.
From the past accounts of top-level management, I'm not convinced this information would have been accurate and forthcoming. Which is information in its own right, but it means that instead of saying "is this company solvent", you have to say "do I feel like my question was deflected heavily enough to turn down the offer?"

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-d...
That's a bit circular...I may choose to breed with someone, but i do that because I find them attractive (because DNA tells me what is attractive), because my (known in humans to be inaccurate) risk assessment says it is worth it, etc.

Plus, of the countless decisions I make every day, almost none of them are conscious. I can retroactively justify them as if they had been, but studies show we are far less conscious thinkers than we think we are.

Ultimately, until we resolve the mind-body problem, we cant say that our decisions are based on more than a chaotic soup of interacting proteins and electrical sparks that are only marginally distinct from our environment.
Ben also said in today's update that the "relative importance decreases over time as things like network effects and business models come to bear". This is another way of putting Marc Andreesen and Steven Sinofski's point that if you have product / market fit, then you can do almost everything wrong and it won't matter. I think Ben gets that the tech and product are the only thing that matters pre-PMF, but post-PMF, all the grungy business stuff becomes the high order bit in order to build a business.
You seek to add those non-friends who aren't. :-)
I grew up in Raleigh..I love it but the weather is anything but good IMO. Too cold in the winters and too hot in the summers.

I did an internship in Seattle and enjoyed the weather there more myself.
> a Polish movie about that story, Sekret Enigmy (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_X4DmxCWTc
There are fundraising advice videos from top VCs.
IMHO, this tool will help many startup founders
Minus makes more sense to me, because you can save up and then move.
And you're going to the "OMG regulatory hell" argument. Its only been the last 10 years since we've had idiotic "smart features".

I'm proposing excising these "smart" features out of devices that don't need it. A TV/Monitor is and will be useful for the foreseeable future. A TV/MOnitor with bit-rotted 'smart features' will turn the device into a disposable device when the maintainer/owner finally wants to get rid of it.
"In 1983, Steinberg and Zangwill provided, under reasonable assumptions, the necessary and sufficient conditions for Braess' paradox to occur in a general transportation network when a new route is added."

Anyone know what those conditions are, offhand?
>Consumers obtain relief regarding their claims in only 9 percent of disputes. On the other hand, when companies make claims or counterclaims, arbitrators grant them relief 93 percent of the time—meaning they order the consumer to pay. If you consider both sides of this equation, in arbitration, the average consumer is ordered to pay $7,725 to the bank or lender.

https://www.epi.org/publication/correcting-the-record-consum...

Note that it's limited to arbitration involving financial companies though. Absolutely terrible to see what happens to normal people when companies can privatize justice.
This is not true for most SF neighborhoods, and not true for basically any east bay neighborhoods.
So you are implicitly presuming free will, based on your behavior.
What are some solutions to posting something that you later regret? Pretty much nothing is my guess since it's like sending an email and regretting it later.

Does the sync allow for deletion too?
Not quite. She realised I could be tricked, but only if she thorougly covered her traces. I watched the thing. It was so clearly reasoned behavior.
Normal food can be even cheaper. You could probably indefinitely avoid starvation with dried rice and beans, oil, and a vitamin supplement for $2/day (in NA), without a big upfront cost. Poverty is complicated.