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Social media is really wild right now. Twitter verified symbols are almost exactly Dr. Seuss’s star belly sneetches. [1]

I’m sure with a bit more effort one could compile a long list of social behaviors warned against by literature that social media sites directly implement.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stor...
In the context of feminine hygiene products, or the black lives matter movements, yes. In the context of a high valued venture funded technology company, no.
No, as far as I can tell the outcome is that she is back in public and will continue making many millions of dollars a year as an actress. But I'd guess that she (and all other high flying Chinese actors/actresses) are going to be particularly scrupulous about their upcoming tax returns, and are much less likely to flagrantly misreport their earnings than they did in the past. I realize that it's close to praising the fascists for making the trains run on time, but I do find this to be a good outcome, even if the process is scary and subject to future misuse. It's hard for me to read the linked article about American tax evasion/avoidance and feel that our system is truly better. But perhaps there's somewhere else that does it even better than both?
This is only a problem is your using it to attract absentee buyers who are harming it as a store of value.
Boston Dynamics hands Atlas a parkour repertoire
> ...but they can query company databases...

my favorite example: a US person setting up their own personal account on the US Social Security Administration's website must provide sufficient authentication information.

and where Social Security get this authentication information about each person? Equifax!

[0] see https://www.ssa.gov/hlp/mySSA/df-idverification.html
okay i'm not a physicist myself, but this is how i understand it. sound (ie pressure) waves require a medium to propagate through. the wave itself can travel over a long distance, but the actual particles involved are displaced only locally. now if you have a light and point it in a particular direction, the EM waves will propagate even through a vacuum. rather than local displacement of a medium, the photons themselves actually travel.
Why, when we read articles about lab-grown human body parts, are we never given a single photo?
First sentence: "I took some time off to travel."

If they ask for details, then list all the places you went, and then if they're curious about any individual one give them more details about what you did there. If they don't ask for any details about travel, then they don't care, and you're not wasting time with irrelevant information by going into detail on travel from the beginning.
>The mortality rate for non-complication (elective) ceasarian is actually lower.

Lower than popping the kid out the pre-existing hole that is there specifically for that purpose under similiar conditions (i.e. in a hospital)?
Regarding @pkz comment about Swedish citizen numbers if you are in sweden and don't have one it is a nightmare getting anything accomplished - utilities, broadband etc, even if you are paying Swedish tax. Despite being EU members that federalization model fails if you don't have that number
Here is Google's information on the subject: https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/ (note that the Google Vision API is listed as a covered service, so it's approved for use under a BAA)

Obviously I don't have a copy of the contract between Google and Oscar, but I think it's profoundly unlikely that they would write a blog post about something that would be the end of their company without the "simple" (and industry standard) step of signing a BAA with a vendor.
Why are "open offices are bad" stories so popular on HN?

I've only ever worked in open plan offices, and can't say I've ever had a problem concentrating. I'm not sure what alternatives are popular, but if an employer forced me to work in a cubicle I'd immediately quit without hesitation. Having visited cubicle offices, they strike me as inhumane detention centres.
You can unlock a watch using touchID on your phone. It can also connect to iCloud through the phone.
I think this is true, but I would add that the challenge usually came from someone who was thoroughly familiar with the consensus of the time. I think it's important to distinguish between healthy scientific scepticism from well informed observers/participants and a general out of hand dismissiveness, an extreme example being climate change. It's very difficult to critically evaluate the claims in many fields without having a good handle on the literature. (To be clear I'm not saying this requires having a PhD in the subject.)
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> The official status page breaks down availability by-service

That’s part of the problem, actually. I’ve noticed for years that some Firebase service distruptions go unreported, and it was clear that reporting individual services was a way to avoid showing the end-to-end summary. It doesn’t matter that all of Firebase’s servers are up and running, if the end-to-end service they provide isn’t working.
> "A copy of the audio file was synced with Khashoggi's iPhone, which was in the possession of fiancee Hatice Cengiz. Cengiz was waiting outside the consulate during the alleged exchange, assumedly within Bluetooth range of the Apple Watch in question."
It's not like your body is going to eat its own muscle! It's not that stupid. The muscle loss is due to the normal wear and tear of daily activities. If you train hard during a prolonged fast, it's likely going to lead to more muscle breakdown. And autophagy is not that either. Also, it kicks in much sooner than 5 days.

As for fat reserves, even fairly lean individuals can probably go a week or two without food without breaking down much muscle. 14 days at 2500 calories is merely 10 pounds of fat. Unless you are morbidly skinny, you should have 10-15 pounds of fat ready.
These and some other trends are originated in Agile methodologies, are they not? Software engineering is being taken over by pseudo scientific ideology is what it is. Funny thing is, no proof/studies are needed to make sweeping changes like these.
Absolutely agree with that. I’ve also seen it cargo culted. It’s been implemented because, “well, if successful multibillion dollar companies are doing it, it must be good... it's probably part their success.”

Of course pointing out the negative aspects and asking questions automatically got you labeled as “not being a team player.”
Folks who practice pairing and mobbing would probably disagree about constant collaboration.
It's very likely that it was most of it. It's just how fasting works. Your body enters ketosis in a day or two and uses fat for fuel. Your body would have to be rather dumb to burn muscle at that point.
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It’s a HIPPA compliant cloud service. Google is orders of magnitude less scary than your average health insurer.
Yes there is, that is what package managers are for.

And if one gets a random .rpm/.deb package, then it should be installed only if the digital signature is valid.
> The whole purpose ...

Perhaps that is your purpose, but I agree with the GP. I'm interested in comments that add value and knowledge; each discussion has predictable sniping like the GGP that is just noise and I'm no wiser after reading it.
It's a risk. If a hiring company searches in your butthole for gaps in employment you're likely better off not working there anyway. There are plenty of other companies who won't do that...
Google researchers use AI to pick out voices in a crowd
DXRacer are actually pretty decent chairs for long periods at a desk. Pretty much the only (known) product between cheap but shitty office depot chairs and great but expensive aeon chairs. It’s not all marketing—mostly maybe but not all.
The CIA did a study on such "words of estimative probability" back in the 60's

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
This seems to come from a Turkish government paper - Sabah Daily

Here's another actual news source covering it, rather than the entertainment show the op linked to: https://uk.reuters.com/article/saudi-politics-dissident/turk...

They say that the watch was linked to a phone that he left outside (with his fiancee, who could easily have his unlock code)

I don't know the range of the apple watch - phone connection - is it bluetooth or wireless? It's feasible that wireless could have been synced at some point, perhaps when the watch was removed from the embassy.
The tower is not the only component of the Soyuz LES - after the extra thrust is needed, the tower is jettisoned and the LES relies on the engines in a "shroud" around the capsules.

See the first segment in this video for an explanation of the system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMUJ004Dr8Q
Evidence? Getting a BAA from Google or Amazon or Microsoft is trivial.
It's interesting to me how quickly this trend has evolved. 5-6 years ago, every recruiting email and startup job posting I saw advertised open floor plans as if they were a top benefit. Now, lots of enterprises have copied the trend (expectedly since it's cheaper) and I'm getting recruiting messages from startups on LinkedIn bragging about how their office has "lots of quiet space" or "private offices."
You can do this in regular .NET already using Costura Fody. It puts the DLLs (native or managed) as resources and load them at runtime.

https://github.com/Fody/Costura
The point is a common journalistic mechanism: throw in a controversial side note, and somewhere morons will make that an issue and drive readership of the article in outrage. You fell into this con...
Just the tower, not the whole LES. See this video for an illustration of this rather exotic system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMUJ004Dr8Q
I was under the impression that Bluetooth range was <100 feet, but apparently Bluetooth 4.0 can reach up to 100 meters?

https://bradymower.com/apple-watch-connection-distance-iphon...

If that's the case then yes, it's feasible the watch could still communicate with his iPhone, which was being held by his fiancee outside. In ideal conditions, of course.
Pure speculation: HNs perhaps more likely to have a personality type that values personal time and extreme concentration, which open plan might be less useful for. Also HNs perhaps have tendency towards being contrary or iconoclastic, so as open plan popular, articles decrying it popular here
He wasn't allowed to bring his phone inside.
Because open offices are fucking terrible if you are a programmer, with people moving around in your line of sight and yammering coming nonstop from everywhere. Concentration becomes far harder than it needs to be, and productivity plummets.

My boss occasionally brings up the idea of swapping out of having private offices and dumping everyone in a big bullpen. I have to keep reminding him that I'm either quitting or working 95% from home if that ever happens.
may I ask what your job involves ?
The issue behind this event is not tax evasion, which would not make headlines or HN, and we have no way of knowing if she indeed evaded taxes. All we know is that the Chinese government has the power to kidnap people and coerce them into saying whatever the government wants.
Neil Gaiman: Keynote Address 2012
Yes, whenever I've done 48 hour fasts, I've had the same experience. This is due to the depletion of glycogen in your liver and muscles. At that point your body doesn't have the fat-burning machinery quite going yet, so you are in a temporary dip in energy. You'd have to do another 24 hours or so, I believe, to fully enter into that state. At that point it's business as usual except that you do zero digestion. It's where all the good feelings are. At this point your body balances itself for the time being and produces exactly what it needs to in order to function. You actually get a boost of hormones and metabolism.
Apple Watch will switch between bluetooth and wifi automatically to connect to the paired iphone.
I have yet to see mobbing happen in our open-office plan whereas it was very common in our team-room setup before.
Don’t want to disturb the teams sitting right besides us.
Hello from Perth. Just recently had our daughter at SJOG Murdoch but was not a Caesar. However we went with our obstetrician partially because he was less likely to push towards Caesar and that ended up being our experience. He was happy to wait and deliver late.

We had some non trivial complications though from going natural.

There was however clearly a high rate of those around us but I think basically it’s one of the more well known private hospitals for people to visit where you get the choice so plenty of people are just choosing to go that way for various reasons. also we are 30 but most of the people in our prenatal class were older except one.
so bash self extracting tarball of the 2000s??

https://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818
It a mechanism for controversy, which drives readership.
I spent two summers of my PhD at research labs with private offices. It was awesome. At grad school, I work in an open plan lab. When reading or writing papers I find it very difficult to concentrate when people are having overlapping Skype calls on speaker phone or loud conversation near my desk. In a private office, I could take a paper and a whiteboard and really focus.

Also, interruptions become less jarring. If I'm focusing deeply in an open office, I have headphones on. That means if someone wants my attention, they have to come up close behind me and tap me on the shoulder, which is pretty intrusive of the personal space. In my private office, I wouldn't have to wear headphones in the first place, and if someone wanted to interrupt, they would knock on the door. Much less intrusive.

Interruptions also become less frequent. In an open office people seem to think that they can just come over to your desk and grab you to ask you, well, anything. The closed door has a good deterrent effect, people will interrupt you only for serious things, like lunch, "the building is on fire," and so on.
The primary motivator I think is just cost.

It costs probably less than 1/2 in terms of square footage and overhead.

Expenses are easy and tangible, the social stuff, not so much, so the 'hard data' of cost efficiency wins.

I've worked in open spaces and it drives me absolutely batty, I can't get anything done. I refuse to consider that mid-level business professionals should be resigned to wearing 'headphones' to have to keep the noise out, it's undignified.
This probably doesn't belong on HN, but it sure is outrageous. Our system is so messed up, we need federal guidelines and protections for prisoners.
There are working mechanisms: The rule of law, tax agencies, and courts. Plenty of people in Western countries go to jail or suffer significant financial penalties for tax evasion. In the U.S., I've even seen ads: 'In trouble with the IRS?'. You can find plenty of stories of famous people with tax problems. I would guess that compliance with tax law is higher in advanced, free societies than anywhere else.
friedcat is another interesting Chinese disappearance. He was the first person who brought bitcoin (sha256) mining ASICs to the world and did a huge amount of clever optimization [0]. There is a lot more to the story, just google for him, it is an interesting read.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3030169.0
I've worked in a high walled cube, a low walled cube, and an open office. The open office looked nicer and more modern, but the high walled cube was the most comfortable of the 3.

You could work in the high walled cube without feeling like someone was watching over your shoulder, and people were a little more respectful about interrupting you when they came by. Low walled cubes encouraged more conversation over the cube walls, but open office somehow encouraged it less than the cubes because everyone had headphones and earplugs in.
Impeaching Uhuru
Have you worked in an office building where individual developers have their own private offices to compare? From past experience, having a private office limits distractions and allows one to focus completely on the task at hand.

As for cubicles, they're significantly worse than private offices; you get the drawbacks of both open plan offices and private offices, without getting either the privacy or the noise isolation.
I feel the opposite. The open plan has parallels in communist/collectivist systems with all the negative aspects (surveillance, lack of privacy, etc.) but with none of the “positives” (not being able to get fired, ability to slack off, make up production goals, etc). It’s the worst of both worlds.
Do babies with too-big heads regularly die at birth if C-section isn't available?
I always thought of it like university, sure there's a few people who study in the cafeteria but most of us preferred the much more quiet areas of the library or own rooms to get hours of intensive work finished.

Perhaps you were the cafeteria guy or gal, but most of us do worse trying to abstract extremely complex data flows in visually and audially noisy environments.

Alternatively, maybe you worked in a quieter open office. A lot of mine have been inundated by chatter about Games of Thrones, uproarious laughter, and the smells and sounds of people masticating.

None of which I find particularly conducive to work.
I have to pay $10 to read that link.
Nobody gives a stuff about the cost, you'll get the same pressure if you plan to deliver privately.

There's fewer than 700,000 births a year. If every one was a c-section it would cost an extra £700m a year, less than 1% of the NHS budget.

NICE guidelines state that the woman should discuss the pros and cons and then it's her choice.
I read speculation in another article that the Turks do have a recording of his murder, but this Apple Watch stuff may just be a cover story to obscure the fact that the recording came from a bug in the consulate. Apparently some of the technical details don't add up, like Apple Watches don't have working LTE in Turkey, and he was too far from his phone for bluetooth.
Can someone that knows a bit more about this explain why we believe that this dark matter substance must exist and not simply that we have an incorrect model of gravitation?
Smallest TTL homebrew CPU in the world
$10k is not even very expensive yet. It's approximately just a camera body and a few lenses.

Regardless, paying extra $50-$100 on every flight sounds unreasonably high. $10-20 would be more reasonable.
Depends on the workplace. My last one was open office, but people were mostly on their headphones, so I never had a problem concentrating there. My current one has me seated near people who, apparently, have quite a bit of free time on their hands, so they spend most of the day talking to each other about nothing in particular. It's extremely difficult to think if you're not piping white noise into your ears.
I just do not understand why American prisons have to be so harsh on the prisoners. These people are already being punished by having their freedom taken away, where's the sense in torturing them further?
> seems to have used similar illegal

If it really was illegal, the IRS would prosecute him, but they didn't. Why not?

And if loopholes are so bad, why were they not closed and persisted through both GOP and Democrat leadership? It is the system that made tax evasion possible that's at fault, not the people that are able to and do take advantage of loopholes.
You might appreciate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
I'm trying to understand what you mean. Can you give us some specific examples of information that is public about people in your country? I mean, are any of these things actually public in a government database about an individual:

* a history of their past addresses?
* the types and dates of medical treatment or surgery?
* their grades in high school?
* the number of times the person has reported a crime to police?
* the cars they have owned?
* the items they have purchased from a drug store?
* their favorite type of restaurant?
* etc
Did you find that obstetricians encouraged inducing labor as a way to avoid spending time waiting for deliver?
Why shouldn't you?
Maybe if there is a medium between the emitter and receiver that scatters light, like an atmosphere.

Or if you don't have line of sight because there is an occluding object like a planet or star in the way.

Or you have line of sight but it's really close to a super bright object so you can't see anything.
:D

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Exactly! In team rooms you can actually be loud and energetic whereas in open space everything needs to be hushed.
One of my favorte films of all time. Practically nobody has seen it, and for many that do they fixate on trivial points. The film and book are monumental intellectual works, and are being missed by many who would dearly love them.
It's the intersection of (mis) applied Technology, and incarceration. Monetization and Control of what prisoners read, through restriction to digital print. I think thats fascinating, chilling, evil. I bet what you read is re-read by the controller.

I wonder how long before people work out point-to-point covert channels using primitive cipher systems inside shared text corpus?
The problem with that theory is I read a good portion of that article before I found out I was out of touch with (virtual) reality...
Wasn’t he only visiting though and primarily living in the us working for the Post?
Being outraged about this one policy in one state is like focusing on a paper cut when the patient is a bloated corpse. Prison systems across the country are focused almost exclusively on exploitation of inmates and taxpayers for profit or political gain, making our world less safe. Rehabilitation is given lip service but is actually actively discouraged, because recidivism means more money.[0]

If the article gets people more outraged about the system as a whole, fantastic. If it just gets this one policy reversed, that's a positive, I guess, but it means people get to feel good about that and pretend or forget about all the other problems with these systems.

[0] - I am aware of many of the programs which are exceptions to this rule.
Or even more so: the Panopticon (in its original sense)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
"FTP -> SSH -> proprietary console" does not look like evolution over a gradient of control to me. I don't understand why you're comparing FTP to SSH when SSH is lower level than FTP. FTP "throw it on the server and let mod_php deal with it" deployments were decidedly higher level than SSH-based ones. FTP deployments were often coupled with GUI-based steps, for instance database migrations run from Drupal web app.
because its as bad as talking about the stereotypical black man in the same context

people are more complicated than race and gender
French bulldogs mostly can't have natural births. 80%+ of the births are c-sections.
This assumes that we are 100% certain that our understanding of gravitational lensing is accurate _AND_ that only mass affects gravitational lensing.
Is the paywall not bypassable by using a different browser or even going into incognito mode? I now subscribe, but I had been able to get past the paywall by disabling all cookies from the washingtonpost.com domain (which had the added benefit of disabling the comments section too).
Theft is wrong in the same way copying a file as theft is wrong.

I just realized that upon reading your comment.

From the old world, the word infringement was used. People do or have a thing they are not supposed to, basically.

No theft occurred because no loss of property happened. Thus, the other word.

I would wonder about examples of infringement back when information was much less fluid. Identities are one such example.

This could be infringment of the person, again setting modern language and examples aside.
Had anyone clinically proven any medical benefits yet?
The love of money. It's legal slavery and the market masters have always loved that