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> Don't be annoyed at GDPR: be annoyed at all the companies who have spent the last decades building an entire web-infrastructure with zero respect for user privacy.

Actually, I think we should be annoyed at browser vendors for letting the problems with cookies get to this point. They're obsessed with backwards compatibility, but sometimes you need to break things to fix a problem.

This is one of those times. Consider, what is the greatest lever we have in this scenario? There are hundreds of thousands of companies and billions of users. Measures to change the behaviour of this huge set of people are futile.

However, there are only a handful of browsers, and the past few years they're somewhat responsive to user feedback. Browsers are our greatest lever, and the privacy solution will have to come from there. Remove cookies or neuter them significantly, like removing JS access to cookies and/or making cookies opt-in only for sites storing login info.

If necessary, add new types of concepts for gathering anonymous analytics data that's guaranteed to respect privacy, and new concepts to specifically store persistent credentials rather than general data and to which JS again has no access.
To make it clear, I'm not advocating against feminism and the debate of this topic in and on itself, but us technical people, men and women of enlightenment-era reason "Vernunft" need to consistently contest the growing conflation between debate and disagreement. It is wrong to automatically assume that when we consider something "debatable" we secretly believe it to be "irrefutably false". That is an uncultured and rather arrogant stance, because an actual debate we enter with the humility of the possiblity that we, all parties entering debates, any and all of us may be wrong.

To quote Stephen Fry, ''I would like this quotation from Bertrand Russell to hover over the evening. "One of the painful things of our time is that those feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and in decision. Let doubt prevail.''
When I read it at the time, I thought the techno-babble might as well have been called magic. It was OK, but masterpiece?
Wait. Apple is the most valuable company in the world, in the most economically successful region of the world. And you're saying they're doing it wrong and should be more like Europe? I think your biases are blinding your objectivity.
>$15/hour is still not much in the international market where Amazon sells its goods. In large parts of Europe it's less than what a warehouse worker makes.

i don't understand this comment. while i'm all for warehouse workers getting a fair wage i don't understand the point of comparing a us wage, being paid in the us, to us workers, to foreign workers in foreign economies? yes USD 15 is not enough to survive in Oslo but these people don't live in Oslo! $15USD is double the average us minimum wage! before taxes for a full working year that's 30k. again in many places in the us that's enough to get by and even probably save a little.

again i think everyone should be getting a fair wage and unskilled laborers should be treated with respect and dignity but that particular line is nonsensical.
You're usually valued and crucial at one. So try to fix it and give them the option of firing you if they don't like it.

Identifying it is when they say things are going to happen but they either don't get done or some shadow of that thing gets halfway done 6 months too late.

Also you may be in because it's a hot idea. If you see other companies pop up with the same idea and they are actually moving and yours isn't, then leave.

First to market is irrelevant if the first people are bozos who can't scale. Everyone will steal their idea and the original innovator will trip over their shoelaces.
He supervisor said something that sticks with me: “The person in the crows nest shouting “land ho!” Doesn’t get the credit, it’s the captain of the ship”.

While there’s some truth to that, it’s certainly the case that many people who work hard do not get their deserved recognition.
The math around e.g. bootstrapped companies is very unpromising though - at the end of the day there is still risk, though maybe a bit less (still unquantifiable), and the upside is near zero.

Working at a bootstrapped company is not going to earn you an exit worth more than a Ford Focus unless you have a non-trivial equity stake.
Here is a version you can play with online: https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=postgres_11&fiddle=71940aadda50f5...
Who says there are no viable alternatives?
is it just me or does the link to their website not work? Is a non-functional website a good or a bad indicator?

Edit: www works, https://thefamily.co doesn't...but the link in the post points to the second one.
Tangential anecdote:

At one company I worked for, the guy in charge of ops had put a whole lot of work into standardizing the production environment and tooling, and getting it all tuned just so.

A couple years later, he lamented that new hires were achieving deep competence more slowly, and weren't reaching the same level of competence that previous team members used to. It wasn't a big deal most the time, but they made a lot of mistakes when rolling out new components, and tended to get caught flat-footed whenever something went sideways. He suspected that the problem was that, in its current state, the new system worked so smoothly that they could get away with understanding things at a very superficial level, and that hindered their learning.
On a completely unrelated note, why does this website have to change the way my scroll works, making it unbearably slow? I wonder, what is the motivation behind this decision?
Worst case: it's a stressful waste of time that doesn't help your career.

Stressful because the company is already in distress. Maybe the employees aren't aware, and maybe even the founders themselves are too naive to be aware, but the founders will be heavily under the gun to find a path to satisfy the hype they've built up. Or they'll check out if they don't even care to get back on the path.

Waste of time because you won't learn anything in a flailing, failing company.

Doesn't help your career because of the lack of learning and growth opportunities within a distressed company. Nobody will be impressed by the entry on your resume. Will likely hurt because of the opportunity cost, even.

I disagree with the author that being an early employee is a solid path to make you wealthy — that only happens when a company experiences sharp growth after you join and finds liquidity at a much higher price than your option price. That happens but is rare. A better benefit is to jump-start your career and get experience you wouldn't be able to get at a BigCo. For that all you need is upward mobility in a well-performing startup. And you won't get that at a distressed company.
That’s what I said. Screenshots or it didn’t happen :)

(thanks $diety for the two hour edit window)
Everything should be open source.
The axioms of the higher order theory of the natural numbers are not countable and consequently not computationally enumerable. For example, there are uncountable many instances of the higher order induction axiom. Consequently, there are axioms that are not expressible as the abstractions of finite strings, just as there are real numbers that are not expressible as the abstractions of finite strings.

But proof checking is still computationally decidable by a provably total higher order procedure. See the following: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01566393
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A shout out to Organise[1], who have been creating lots of pressure on Amazon in the UK.

[1] https://www.organise.org.uk/
Got to give it to the guy. I bet that having his peers in court might have helped the decision (regardless).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Except we don't have bodies hanging off bridges and school buses full of dead children because the oil companies want to show who's boss.
I don't agree. I think satire, which this can be perceived as, is a means to achieve people to get to change their mind. Making fun of people on terms of race, age, gender, anything they cannot do anything about, is not something I agree with doing. But come on, this guy was squeezing out people who ended up in the situation where they had to work in warehouse packing boxes.
“Waymo's lidar firing circuit showed current passing along a wire between the circuit and the ground in two directions—something generally deemed impossible. ”

It’s almost as if science said, “Give me one free miracle, and from there the entire thing will proceed with a seamless, causal explanation.”’17 The one free miracle was the sudden appearance of all the matter and energy in the universe, with all the laws that govern it.
Rupert Sheldrake, The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
Allied in the sense that it was not at war with the US. You don't just invade countries you are not at war with.
Not really fair, I can walk into a dealer and buy any car from one of those other brands. The Tesla numbers are 1-2 years of built up demand being built/delivered in one quarter. These numbers will definitely not continue.
> A* over a Bayesian Network.

Can you elaborate? I’m familiar with both individually, but am not sure what you mean by doing pathfinding over a directed graphical model.
Then you just need to read the chip docs and initialize "everything" to a reasonable state. There's not much to it beyond that--there's no generic process for doing that.

Loading an app from an SD card is likely harder than you think: it needs to be compiled/assembled correctly, you need to define where it starts, how it's linked, etc.

"Parse over the app executable for validity" is super-broad, and could mean just about anything. If you're trying to validate compiled programs, this will be difficult. If you're trying to validate byte-code programs (or something similar) it's significantly easier (or even unnecessary).

It'd probably be helpful if you were able to define specifically what you're trying to accomplish, and why an existing system doesn't meet your needs. While writing a trivial execution environment is really easy, writing a general-purpose OS is significantly more difficult.
That's what happens when you say that "don't be evil" doesn't represent you anymore
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original link: https://technology.amis.nl/2009/10/13/oracle-rdbms-11gr2-sol...

Why are you linking it to a third party site.
There must be 30% of European content in video on demand platforms’ catalogues
We were directly employed by the company for whom we were providing service rather than being a third-party call center.
That was on my mind when I wrote that — it's not possible to merge data, and there's no point in not using the device while traveling and avoiding taking photos or sending messages (that aren't saved on some cloud platforms).

One alternate solution, if you feel safer after the border crossing event, could be to use the native cloud backup feature of the phone maker. Backup the phone on the cloud, wipe it, set it up with a new email address, and then once you cross the border safely, restore from the cloud and start using it. You wouldn't have to worry about merging data then. But the issue here, at least for me, is that I don't want to backup my data on the phone maker's cloud.
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> A great position in France as a software engineer would be advertised €54,000 per year ($67,660), whereas the same job would probably get you around $105,000 a year in Silicon Valley.

So a "great position" in France is equivalent to an internship in Silicon Valley?
When the individual is worth more than many nation states, I have no problem with singling them out.
Do you prefer people out of jobs without being able to sustain their self rather than people taking jobs that you judge yourself are bad for them ?
Most contractors to Amazon get paid set amounts for work. i.e 30p per parcel delivered.

Will this increase push Amazon to make more people contractors? Time will tell
You might appreciate this one: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6985668
It completely missed the point that allowing more people to live in the Bay Area will likely degrade the quality of life for the people that live there now. Sure you could turn Palo Alto into a Manhattan look alike - why would current residents want that?
People pretty regularly just told customers whatever they wanted to hear to get them off the phone. The more scrupulous among us wouldn't say anything false or break any rules but would deliberately upset customers to get them to ask for a supervisor (call length was a major metric which affected your pay substantially, so if you couldn't really do anything for them this was the best strategy).
I think this is a big step in the right direction. It'll help keep workers happy and reduce stress. It doesn't solve all of Amazon's problems, but it's an easy fix to something they often receive criticism about.
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Until we find any evidence that says there's something intrinsic in women that stops them from working and/or performing at the same level as men in physics research I think it's safe to assume the ratio will tend to that.
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Great talks, Open Spaces and for the first time this year, there will be Workshops to hone your skills.

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On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

> Following Google's corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took "Do the right thing" as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct. The original motto was retained in Google's code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. In April 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct's preface and retained in its last sentence.

"Do the right thing" maybe suits them better ;)
> The internet was doing fine for decades

Right, but then Eternal September happened.

Nowadays, the vast, vast, vast majority of Internet users don't have the necessary background knowledge to understand how to protect their privacy online, and the people who do have that knowledge tend to concentrate into organizations that have a lot of financial incentive not to respect others' privacy.
> turning your employees into welfare-dependent wage-slaves

I wasn't aware staying with a particular employer was compulsory.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Went through the passport routine, got approved, started mucking about. At one point, as part of experimenting, I deleted a VPS which happened to be the last one remaining. And bang! Account closed for lack of active instances. So I went elsewhere, and have been the ever since.

Elsewhere highly recommended, by the way:

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Actually, you're both incorrect.

It's "plata o plomo".

"Plata" can mean "silver" or "money". In this context they are referring to "money".

"Plato" is literally "plate" as in where you put your food on.
After seeing the recent Audi and Mercedes efforts, consensus seems to be that making EVs is not as easy as everyone thought and the big car companies still have a long way to go before they catch up

"UBS says Audi's new electric car shows industry has a long way to go to catch Tesla"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/18/ubs-says-audis-disappointing...
> The way GDPR works out it sort of expects us to care to follow this annoying process, and I don't think people do / want to and thus ultimately won't make good choices.

This is simply false. GDPR only allows opt-in for these choices, companies are just implementing GDPR incorrectly.
It depends really. It could cause an inflation in prices but not necessarily. It could come out of the profits a company makes as they try and compete by keeping their prices lower while still paying higher wages. This would have an effect on the share price of the company as their bottom line would decrease but could also increase share price if they make it up in volume due to being more competitive. It could also create efficiency in the company since they would incentivized to have fewer employees making more money while producing more efficiently.
I've been saying this for a decade. A statement contains an implicit statement of knowledge. But it's funny that this chap is lauded for it. I always get downvoted hard for it. Maybe because of who I'm saying it to in what context.
Stop spreading stupidities.
Why would they have more power ? Employees have the power to say no, shop somewhere else, to do a shitty job / not follow orders and let the employer figure it out, quit when they want, leave the employers without the job being done overnight. They also receive something very defined and predictable (money defined in the contract) in exchange for some vague objectives where the employers needs to constantly check if the company mission is being fulfilled, and constantly update this mission.

Workers need wages and money to survive in the economy

And employers don't need wages and money to "survive in the economy" ?
A reference is:

Ludwig Wittgenstein. 1956. Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Revised Edition Basil Blackwell. 1978.

There is a discussion here:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01566393
Now I feel silly dropping her course during my second year at Waterloo.

Well, to be fair I had a packed schedule that semester...
Same here. I think if you have less than 100 servers, then k8s is a real overkill.

Swarm is much easier to reason about and run. It's a godsend for startups without dedicated devops.
even in that case, companies are aware of the cost-increasing effect of unionisation so the action is the same, but via direct company action rather than market attrition.
Just a few hours ago there was an article on the front page about yet another tech giant getting hacked and losing contact info on hundreds of millions of users [1].

A GDPR in the US should have the power to audit companies and ensure compliance, just like the FDA does with health-tech companies.

On the user side you might only see the effects of GDPR in the form of cookies that were added as a quick-and-dirty solution for companies that have built an infrastructure whose revenue model requires collecting user information. On the other side, law also gives a vector for the government to step in and demand changes to companies that are fast and loose with user data.

If we'd had an effective GDPR in the US, the Equifax breach that lost everyone's social security number may have been prevented and they might have faced some kind of real repercussion when it did happen. Instead, data companies still get to privatize gains and externalize losses.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18117322
Isn't that due to their currently loss-making Amazon Studios though?
A detected photon is just a wavefunction that isn't there any more.
Highly unlikely. Minimum wage in India is 9,000 rupees a month which is about 0.75$ USD per hour. Even if they normally pay double the minimum wage which is effectively what they are doing in the US now with 15$ an hour minimum wage, paying 10 times that would easily make them un-competitive with every other company.
Well, this is trivia about our craft that we enjoy talking about and comparing. Consider that nobody is impressed by the TicTacToe DSL if it appeared among C, JS, and other languages we use. Not very cynical. It’d be a “heh” and move on.

If you want to be critical, it’s the stupid statements
and interpretations people make from the comparisons. Like the Perl guy coming out
of the woodwork to point out how we’re a bunch of idiots for not seeing the beauty of the Perl oneliner. Or how it demostates that Go doesn’t need generics and how JS web coders aren’t real developers.
"I'm not sure it is fully capitalism's fault..." I agree. The problem here isn't capitalism. I also don't think it's lack of laws, it might be the opposite. People being abused by corporations who have manipulated laws in order to favor the corporations. Things such as "forced arbitration clauses", "anti-union legislation", and "non-compete clauses" are meant to strip the power away from workers. That we blame any economic system ignores the fact that humans are the root cause of any and all injustices in the systems we implement.
> they'll get to look progressive for adopting this wage early, while mitigating their competitive disadvantage by forcing every other company to raise their wages too eventually.

That's deeply cynical. In the process, they're actually paying real people more money. Which is sort of critically important if you care about this issue and not just taking pot shots at Amazon on HN.
We're not yet a Soviet bloc country. Deciding who's to be allowed to live somewhere is not quite democratic? Nor free market, nor capitalist.

This idea is pernicious, that because I can think of a better way for things to work, there should be rules to make them work that way. Its not in alignment with US values, yet so many folks are on that bandwagon. Part of the great divide in US politics at the moment.
3-way mirrored spinning storage would cost roughly $100/TB. 12TB disks are about $350/ piece these days. There are a whole bunch of possible considerations and alternate scenarios, but this is probably the worst-case.

That does not factor in compression / dedup, which can gain you a substantial amount of savings depending on your work profile; I bet if Archive.org wanted to, they could slash their storage using block-level dedup. Of course that creates potential recoverability headaches, so it's possible they don't.
> If there exists people willing to voluntarily take a job given its wage/conditions,

Lot of those people are illegal immigrants as well. They cant job hop.
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Considering the population is not 50:50 on gender... ;)