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> From Sept. 12 to Oct. 14, 2018, we’re inviting you to submit your idea to win a share of $750,000, which we’ll award in February 2019 to the most compelling teams and projects.

It’s a bit late.
You won't have any trouble finding IT jobs in the big cities. But ironically enough, the difficulty of getting a visa in Australia has also been ratcheted up recently, meaning that many employers who would love to hire can't sponsor the visa...
Disagree strongly. Lots of categories are a fundamental part of the human experience. No one company can or should try and compete in all of them.

I really admire Apple here a lot more than Google. They seem to have a stronger sense of who they are and who they are not.
Since we're nitpicking, ATC also provides separation of all aircraft in Class B airspace. In Class C, they provide separation of IFR aircraft from all other aircraft (VFR-VFR gets advisories).
We don't want to censor the whole internet, just the parts we don't like. Adblockers do this well.
And I am sure the 20 users who manage to get it working correctly will be really happy that they can talk to each other.

Of course, Social only works if a critical mass of users start actively using the network...achieving that number, no matter what the underlying tech is, is a very hard nut to crack.
I agree. I'm not saying that the police who did this were right or that they shouldn't be punished. I'm saying that with better training the kid might not have died. The idea that police could be trained to kill fewer people doesn't mean that they're currently not at fault when they do kill people.

Note that the police didn't inject the drugs. The paramedics did that. The police just held him down for that part.
This was, in fact, the dominant narrative at the time. Niche search products like Amazon (products), Facebook (social), and Twitter (news) were going to be the end of Google if they didn't get their act together. It's the same reason they're so obsessed with becoming the destination or broker (ads) for search queries instead of sending people on to organic results.
Escapism is a big part of it, and also the heightened level of stimulation (immersion) you get from games. Overall games fulfill our emotional needs (to escape, to socialize, to see measurable progress, and to feel a sense of purpose) much better (seamlessly) and easier than 'real life', which is why you can find yourself gaming more and more and more. The level of safety and control is also a big part of it.

Anyways if you're looking for help we have a ton of support for you on the site. Happy to answer any questions you have.
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I guess it's interesting if it makes the programming model easier, but with similar or better performance than normal threads.
Hopefully they can fix their shitty unreliable and buggy app, but I don't think there is any hope for their non existent customer service, beyond repair. Grab bought out Uber in SE Asia and literally no one is happy about it. #bringBackUber
Then you must have very limited experience.

Most of the time "regulators" like the FAA are mainly there to limit the liability of commercial industries, as well as raise barriers to entry ensuring limited competition for those corporations

Why do you think major corporations advocate FOR government regulations of their industries

Why do you think Facebook WANTS the government to regulate them

Why do you think Amazon now WANTS the government to raise minimum wage

Government works for Large Corporations it does not work for the People. People like me, hobbyist that just want to be left in peace to enjoy our lives have are freedom oppressed under the thin guise of "safety" when in reality it is about money...

People like you are naive enough to believe the rhetoric, it is sad people are so willing to give up liberty for the promise safety never understanding that doing so means they lose both
Casino dApps would be illegal to use in certain jurisdictions.
just out of curiosity, when was the last time google shut down a product that you were actively using?

For me it was Reader, and that was the only time. and yeah, i'm still a little salty about it. But every company shuts things down - google can't keep all their dead and unused failures running forever, and Google+ was obviously deserving of a shutdown.

"i don't trust google because they shut down things nobody uses" isn't really a rational complaint.
I don't understand what they are looking for.

What kind of year-long project can say a journalist, designer, or lawyer run for $75k - $200k to address those problems?

It's too much time and money to simply write an article about it, but not enough money to build say a software solution.
Any plans to borrow code from gVisor to attain full Linux compatibility?
You're essentially giving us a tautology -- the claim is true because it's true -- about something non-obvious (based on what you say is an opinion) and not evidence-based. Plus you give us a tangent about what happens to those who don't do work they were hired to do which was never the point. You should be more careful about accepting opinion without evidence. There's nothing in "Paid security auditors must deliver vulnerability findings." that means auditors will go no further or are somehow structurally restricted from doing no more than you believe they do. Hence the need for evidence to back and clarify the assertion claimed.

People have been known to make serious errors in judgment before examining evidence because they felt so sure about their widely-shared opinion. Glenn Greenwald pointed this out in regards to Omar Mateen's killings in the Orlando, Florida nightclub ("Pulse") in https://theintercept.com/2018/03/05/as-the-trial-of-omar-mat...

"Mateen’s alleged motive in choosing Pulse — that he wanted to target and kill LGBTs due to some toxic mix of self-hatred over his own sexual orientation and his fealty to Islam — has been treated as unquestionably true in countless media accounts, statements from public officials, and ultimately in the public mind. But ample evidence now affirmatively casts serious doubt about whether there is any truth to this widely accepted belief about Mateen’s motives in attacking Pulse. While some of this conflicting evidence has been reported in the same media outlets that originally disseminated the narrative that Mateen sought to target the LGBT community, it has been downplayed to the point where few in the public are even aware that the original theories about Mateen’s motives have been undermined."

The point being that people formed their view before the evidence was in. After the evidence was examined people learned that their view was nowhere near as justified as they initially believed and told others. They should learn that it's not helpful to guess about why something happened without the evidence. Although what we're talking about in this thread could theoretically involve life and death matters (whereas the Pulse murders objectively do), I think there's something to learn in calling for evidence before formulating one's opinion. Something that blog post doesn't do and we'd be wise to not join the author in that framing of the issue.
I’m writing from the same perspective as the author as I have have had a big loss
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Wada basins exist for any number of open sets. As you could probably guess from the article, the Newton method applied to x^n - 1 gives a Wada basin of n sets. These are fun counterexamples to the claim "given three nontrivial disjoint sets on a plane, their boundaries are not mutally equal."
> Which shops have a Z pattern? Which shops move products around?

In the US, Trader Joe's does this.
I unfollow (in contrast to unfriending) people who post things that I'm not interested in. I "hard follow" friends that post really cool stuff. By "hard following" I mean "See First" functionality of the the Newsfeed algorithm. It helps to keep my newsfeed more or less under control. I also try to teach the newsfeed to only show relevant ads by hiding those that I don't care about and clicking the ones I find interesting.
Yes, let’s wait until an idiot with a drone brings down an airliner killing hundreds of people before even considering common sense regulations.
no, the issue is that part of the team ends up in one conference room with 1 shitty conference phone. people don't speak up loud enough, don't speak into the mic, etc.. look up cisco ix5000 which is what I'm talking about. it's a whole 'nother beast.

yeah when everyone is on a headset it's fine as long as people mute themselves but when it's a few people on a headset and most in a conference room it's terrible.
>your favorite Uncle has a probably lethal opiate addiction.

are you talking about the crack smoking mayor?
The person who stands in and does the exercise also does the follow up call.
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> During assembly the dimension of a particular beam don't matter that much. The fact that this beam has to moved through an assembly line does.

You're right, I'm not an ME. I'm a controls engineer...and it's the same software, controls, and 90% of the machine that run your different tools for different years.

But the quoted sentence is the important one. You can change the shape of a beam...but that beam is there in your process because you assume that there's no structural battery pack to take the load instead, or that there is a huge, heavy, rigid engine block under the hood that needs to be accomodated. If you changes those assumptions you would need more than new tools to go on the current presses and robots and conveyors, you'd need a whole new process.

I have installed brand new machines less than a mile south of Greenfield Village at the Ford Product Development Center, where they're willing to spend millions on new equipment to develop new products but not really thinking about building new processes.
That the server only sent e-mail but did not receive it isn't exculpatory by itself. Most receivers will do a reverse DNS query (PTR); some will even do queries by walking the Received: header chain as part of anti-spam measures. And if the server was indeed sending e-mail (or similar activity) through a relay, that makes the peculiar Alfa and DeVos activity even more suspect.
Imho, with Google's raft of products, I think they used it wrong. Google didn't really need a Facebook. However, it did have room for a Disqus. They shouldve started with an improved system for comment pages on Blogger and YouTube (and heck, other products like Google News) and built out a social network from there, not the other way around.
Because they didn't find the bug. Why would they report it?

They've reported plenty of Google/Chrome bugs in the past. Your claims of hypocrisy are very off base.
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You're making too many assumptions in almost every statement here. If you're going to continue with this line of thinking then please back it up with evidence.
Not totally the same, but Blazor[1] is a similar framework powered by dotnet on wasm. As a React dev, looking at a Blazor component feels very familiar. I'd love to see something implemented in Go or another language without all the extra baggage dotnet comes with currently.

[1] https://blazor.net
Perhaps backdooring by the Chinese government?
I live right on the coast, a stone's throw away from NYC. People here are racist as fuck. And my girlfriend was harassed in Germany and Austria for the color of her skin to such a degree that she had to cut her trip short. If the coastal US and Europe are your barometers, then Canada has a racism problem too.

I really despise this kind of regionalism because it allows real problems to be smugly swept under the rug. I don't know where you live exactly, but people there most likely aren't inherently any more righteous than people elsewhere.
It’s not like there are no rules to follow: http://www.faa-aircraft-certification.com/amateur-built-oper...
> Otherwise, Alan is just for disposable apps / throw-away apps / Excel-replacement apps, and for any serious work, I'm eventually going to have to rewrite the whole app in something else anyway so I might as well start there first.

There's no reason to be so elitist. Disposable applications can become important in business, they're often the duct tape that holds a small or medium sized company together. If they can be written more quickly and with more functionality than in MS Office apps, there's a very legitimate and actually very large use case for Alan.
Really cool!

I've noticed that when pointing it towards an overexposed light source (like my phone screen or a lamp) it's "overflowing" and rendering pure white regions as black.
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Maybe 20 actual users but google+ is filled with accounts from google users and automatically posted with content from other sites like comments on youtube.
I'm getting the feeling that this thing is for developing form-and-table based UI, which is pretty damned utilitarian and arguably hit its design peak in the 90s, with only slight spins from then onward.
I didn't mean they originated the type of environment, but that they are the most influential at creating a real widespread culture and propagating that culture to the wider internet. Goons tended to just be total assholes to specific targets, or organizing things within some videogames (Eve Online, etc.)
I'm not sure that's true. Availability of VC capital is a tricky thing. There's some in Canada but only seems to be in small pockets. The startup scene in Vancouver is so small that basically everyone knows everyone else, for example. Vancouver is also suffering a real estate crisis that is worse than Silicon Valley's. I think it really takes large institutional draws to make a serious dent in the size of a talent pool that would ultimately draw larger VCs.
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Wirth made one of the greatest computer science puns ever.

His name should be pronounced something like "veert", but universally in the US he is called "worth".

Wirth said something like: In Europe, I am called by name, but in the US I am called by value.
A lot of the time I feel Google gets a bad rep on HN as the comments are so often filled with hyperbole. In this case however Google did a very poor job of disclosing this leak in their sunsetting Google+ announcement post. I would have much preferred an incident report explaining what really happened, even if they couldn't find any examples of abuse.
But, zis is so stupide!
Ah yes, the perennial story of the lone inventor or two, with a world changing invention, who has their idea stolen by a big company.

Did it ever occur to you that the idea of syncing video or audio playback across devices or people is not a new idea and is continually reinvented?

I've been on the net since '86, and every brilliant idea I had in secret, I was surprised to learn had been thought of by others too.

The currency of the startup economy isn't ideas, it's execution. If a big company really valued a startup's tech, they'd acqui-hire for the inventors or the patents. Big companies generally want to hire people, not ideas.
Or you can directly the fine the company very large sums of money.
Ultralights have very strict restrictions and rules where they can be operated, to limit the risk to others.

14 CFR 103.15: "No person may operate an ultralight vehicle over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons."

Also, you don’t need a license, but trying to fly without sufficient and proper training is likely to get you killed. These aren’t bicycles.
This is why I love HN. This random WikiPedia article is great, and the flow on affects of this one quirk of history are really fascinating.

I remember an article in the WSJ by a Pakistani man ~2006, saying "the entire history of my country is a footnote in the history of US foreign policy", and it always stuck with me how much some events can have wide reaching and odd effects, disproportionately felt by specific groups.
> buy up the local infrastructure (housing, office space, coffee shops, etc), and turn around and rent / sell to the startups that you just funded. This would pad the ROI, so even a company that crashes and burns after 5 years would still be profitable on the basis of the rents paid.

You can never turn a profit on rent paid out of money you gave to someone, just like it's impossible to turn a profit on purchases your employees make from you with the wages you pay them. You're always better off just keeping the money.
Does anyone know where I could get more information on Tools?
I wish I could trust the WSJ's coverage, but I have to agree that they do seem to have an odd tendency to go off the rails on certain issues. A recent example that comes to mind is their Gmail API article, which at best badly misrepresented the situation:

- https://www.wsj.com/articles/techs-dirty-secret-the-app-deve...

- https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/09/21/opinion-no-one-get-...

Given that, and the articles you pointed out regarding Murdoch's history (coupled with his unusual willingness to compromise the editorial independence of his media properties), I'm not sure the WSJ is a reliable source in this case. Not that I expect them to blatantly lie, but half-truths and misdirection can go a long way (cf. comments in this discussion that question whether the WSJ is making a mountain out of a molehill here).
Interest in offshore talent will go up. The US is lagging in education and can't fulfill the need for cost effective talent. The benefit of developers being in the US is not much of a benefit globally.
I've been a long-time critic of G+.

But it's because I've also been a long-time user of the service, signing on in July of 2011, and continuing to use it, often through gritted teeth, and desperately hoping something better would come along, and yet ... nothing really has, at least not that I've been aware.

There's a long litany of mistakes and errors (and many successes) in the service, and I might eventually sit down and write my own post mortem of what I thought went right and wrong -- I've written a few, most of which still stand, though the cooption of media, social and otherwise, for propaganda and disinformation purposes could be expanded on.

There are several groups formed to look at exodus options, presuming people want to go to any one platform (something I'd actually somewhat discourage). It may be that the age of centralised social networks is over, though self-hosting and federation also have considerable challenges. Or, maybe, we go back to other models. Hacker News is an exemplar I've referenced more than a few times. It's not a personal network the way G+, FB, Twitter, or a personal blog are, but it has a (usually) high level of discussion of an interesting array of topics. Thanks in large part to active moderation and flying slightly under the radar.

If you're on G+ and want to discuss next steps, stop by Google+ Mass Migration:

https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772/
I believe Western imperialism has something to do with it... While it's true that capitalism has improved outcomes for some nations, it's also true that capitalist exploitation in Africa and South America really messed up the way their world works. It's made it so that free markets had something to fix later on, not fixed a pre-existing problem with these countries.

People can choose what to believe and all, but it's pretty hard to look at things like the African slave trade or Diamond mining in Zimbabwe or Sierra Leone and find anything but capitalism and imperialism run amok.
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Here we observe the not-so-subtle attempt to shift the debate from "social democracy" to "collectivism", as if the two terms are synonyms.

Exactly what is the difference between "social democracy" and "socialism?"

In particular, how is there a system of checks and balances to keep the voters from appropriating everything, thus handing all of the power to the central government and thus initiating totalitarianism?

We also see a denial that mixed economies with strong social safety nets can ever work on, say, the scale of a nation. Despite plenty of evidence available, in the real world, that they can.

It can be argued that all existing economies are mixed economies.
What if you clean up after your guests leave instead of cleaning it yourself? Or do the work of renting it out yourself instead of hiring a property manager Or renovate your home to create room(s) to rent out?

What if the renter plugs a toilet and you unplug it yourself instead of hiring a plumber?
Yep, that was exactly why (or at least, very strong circumstantial evidence):

https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/websearch/H4XbbwWmtAY...

I don't think it was ever officially announced/admitted anywhere, though. But it was exactly around the time that Google+ was rolled out.
At Mozilla we do have offices. I don't know what the exact office vs home based worker breakdown is, but I think the majority work from home. It's certainly true on my team, which is spread across three countries and nine cities.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/
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Did Chinese hackers really plant spy chips in Apple and Amazon servers?
How is crypto mining anything different than gold mining? If I invest in $$$ equipment and land to mine gold, do I only pay capital gains taxes for the value of the gold mined? Of course not.
Real statement of the times that I had a tough time finding 128 gig ram sets (on a short search - this should be easy).
Yeah, I don't understand that new settings panel.

People who use VS Code know and are familiar with JSON and don't need a friendly preference panel, imho.

The only reason i can think of to do it would be accessibility, and I am unsure about JSON accessibility.
It's hard to ignore the trolls. The phrase "simply move back" is always a clear flag that someone has no idea what they're talking about.
Yours is a really beautiful gesture. It is rather remarkable how fragile we widowed people are around the birthdays and death anniversaries. I lost my wife 4 years ago at 37 years old to a rare cancer. Even though I plunge myself into work and have a deep, meaningful relationship with another young lady, I feel like hell a few days prior to the big events. Sometimes I have to "check in" with myself on why I feel so poorly since I didn't even realize certain days have crept up on me. Freud was right when he said the first year of widowhood is temporary insanity and I would venture we get a couple of minor echos of it around these difficult times.
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By HQ3 do you mean HQ2 (the one Amazon is currently in the process for selecting a city for), or are you talking about a theoretical far future new new HQ?
I think with 7 billion people on the planet, the world has gotten too complex and games are much less crazy making. You can figure out what you actually need to do and not spend all your time wondering "Did I actually do something wrong? Or was I doomed before I began because of my gender, skin color, some decision my parents made before I was born or a million other ridiculous and unknowable details?"

You aren't going to do everything right in a game according to what everyone keeps telling you, fail anyway and wonder what the hell happened. You won't wonder does the AI just hate short people, people who dress like me, or people of my religion while claiming to be fair and objective.
I'll just leave this one here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen