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I did not read GP as saying it was a binary choice, but rather a prerequisite. That is to say, without transparency, there can be no trust, but you can also have no trust with transparency.

For someone like me, who is somewhat technically competent, but not a security expert, openness means that names and figures I do trust have the chance to examine whatever I intend to use and comment on it, observe it, and make assessments, including shaming poor implementations claiming traits they have no right to. Turns out there are plenty of people more competent than me that can catch these things.

Transparency also allows less hiding of incompetency in otherwise commercial and/or proprietary designs.
As though $BIGCOMPANY would approve of people tearing laptops open to tear out hardware. Or $JOEUSER could do without voiding the warranty, assuming he had a clue how.
Ah you're absolutely right, didn't see the "Didn't work? Try the next answer" button
Why Venture Debt and Why Now? Q&A with Alkarim Jivraj
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Just trying to learn more about a perspective that I don't have.
> Public transit, continued investment, world class museums, and honestly a pretty hip city with a lot of activity in the center, not unlike Seattle. Also lots of millennials moving there for its low cost of living and ample jobs.

Minus museums, this could be said of plenty of other cities that are in places with less wacky politics. Museums don't mean a thing. Low cost of living as a requirement means a relative low cost of living compared to the West Coast.

I'd prefer to see Denver as the location over Dallas. The State of Texas needs a swift kick in the ass regarding their state politics, specifically the war on women, and their continued absurd policies regarding weed. The last thing they need more of is to be rewarded for unsustainable tax policies.
More like I want you to pay for your fair share of having an educated workforce available made up of a generation that are contributors and not takers.
About the best commonly available setup is a carbon filter and reverse osmosis. Something like [1], but Some things are still going to get through though [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/HiKiNS-Filtration-RO-125G-Efficiency-...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-there-anything-that-a-reverse-osmos...
1. There's a difference between kicking the tyres and looking under the bonnet of a car, and taking the schematics and building your own. It's easier to show something is crap than convince people that it is good when you're outright hiding things. If the things you aren't hiding (well) are crap, then god only knows how terrible the things you are really hiding are.

2. Making claims based on the calibre of the companies and individuals involved doesn't work. People don't trust DJBs algorithms simply because of his personal track record. He also publishes whitepapers about their design, and demonstrates their advantages over the state of the art. That's hard science, not "it must be good because DJB is a rock star". The fact that people can then take his designs and implement them themselves, in the open, is also important.
Correct. That's why I mentioned the keylogger risk.
Long day pal? One part of the head quarter in one city, another part in a different city, that's what they mean.
Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpin to face trial next week
My favorite for Business : https://gladiacteur.com (French)
What Would a Cardi B vs. Nicki Minaj Diss Track Look Like?
Sources: Blizzard Pulled Diablo 4 Announcement from BlizzCon
And there is a large pool of young talent a couple of metro stops north in Arlington.
Why I (still) love the web
> It makes me wonder if this is another negotiation tatic by Amazon to get the final city to shell out more incentives.

Alternately, Amazon has liked pitting cities against each other so much, that they decided to keep doing it forever. "City A, we're looking to start a major new project up. City B is willing to offer X, Y, and Z if we launch it in the City B office, are you willing to beat that for us to open it in your office?"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/this
A lot of these folks won't take things easy just because the job is made easier. They're quite driven and focused on optimizing for overall pay. What matters is how dearly they can sell these tradeoffs.

If someone wants to work 60 hour weeks to make the most of things, forcing their job to be 40 hours just makes them pick up a less lucrative side hustle with their free time. Or if their risky job is made too safe, the risk premium disappears and in order to collect it they must retrain if able.
The million was a figure chosen to be eye-catching to funders and to force the initial design team to address scalability from the beginning, according to Steve Furber. So yes, it's a bit arbitrary.

The actual figure is (for technical reasons) a multiple of 2592. Those technical reasons? That's the topological tiling unit used in the overall toroidal mesh (48 chips per board, arranged to tile in groups of three boards, all times 18 which is the number of cores per chip; 1 OS core, 16 application cores, and 1 bonus that is sometimes available and sometimes not, in order to keep overall chip yields sufficiently high).
Consider e.g. the cryptography support in the .NET Standard. On Linux it is based on OpenSSL (AFAIR), on Windows based on the crypto library there, on MacOS on another one, on Android another one and let us not speak of iOS. All of them follow on the surface the same API spec. But behind the scenes all .NET implementations have different strategies to deal with. And for good reasons.

In this cases you need a standard but not a shared implementation.
How often do these kind of deals really work out well for the cities involved? Often them seem like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football.
Would setting up an LLC for yourself help protect some of those rights?
I got as far as the subtitle, "Using blockchain technology", and then I realized the author is from the "Blockchain Research Institute" and then closed the tab.

In an era where electronic voting is increasingly shown to be flawed, we are not nearly prepared to be able to vote online. And the blockchain is not going to fix it.
Humorous and insightful, the best kind of commentary.

For those who aren't familiar with the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Solomon
I'd place that bet on Northern Virginia as guaranteed and Chicago, Atlanta or Dallas as the other most plausible, with Toronto being a slight possibility since they're going with two.

Colorado is nice, but it's nothing compared to the Texas population and economic boom. 28m people in Texas, versus 5m in Colorado. Texas is also building high-speed rail, which will end up linking all of their major cities, an immense bonus. Denver / Colorado also sit in the middle of a dead zone in terms of major populations, along with being slightly too far west from any major ports (Dallas or Austin get you close to the Gulf).

Chicago is far larger than Denver to draw talent from (including more surrounding populations) and far larger to draw general labor for. All have relatively good real-estate prices (comparable to Denver), plenty of tech talent, and are large shipping hubs. All three also have slightly lower tech industry wages than Denver. Toronto's tech and non-tech wages are far lower than all of these. Toronto gets them out of the US, but still very nearby, as a talent immigration hedge (political insanity hedge).

Dallas / Texas gets an interesting nod, because Bezos has deep ties to Texas. He's putting one of them in Northern Virginia because of WaPo, his second home there, and the DC politics. It might make sense that he'd favor Texas for similar self-beneficial reasons.

Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago are more diverse versus Denver, which is likely an important consideration for a mega corporation like Amazon. Chicago and Dallas are dramatically more diverse.

Toronto's extreme real-estate prices, double that of Atlanta and Chicago, is likely a big negative.

I give Denver a zero shot at landing one of the HQ2 sites.
I wonder if it affects the flavor of the milk.
>> most places

> Wrong [...] 45 million [...] 28% of the U.S. population

I don't think it's fair to call the comment "Wrong". If anything, this supposed refutation is saying "Right".
Interesting, I haven't heard of any other apps having this issue.

Did Exist offer a way to sign up new accounts in their app? If yes, that may be it.

Slack doesn't have IAPs and yet, I can sign in with paid accounts just fine. There are other apps that were like this but they didn't have a way to sign up in-app IIRC.
It might be good for a red state to get an HQ, though, since educated people will for once migrate there instead of away from there.
I always thought that water was a dynamic equilibrium where H2O splits into H and OH, and vice versa.
Maps is hardly the next big thing. What you do with Maps is potentially the next big thing. Online video? They pretty much invented that with the iTunes Store on software and Apple TV on hardware. That the subscription business model isn’t a thing at Apple isn’t “missing” anything. The difference between the iTunes Store and Netflix isn’t one of technology but of business model. As we have learned time and time again, being first is no virtue. Through iTunes, I have access to almost every movie: through Netflix, I have a curated selection with a high proportion of low-quality filler. If Apple can take the next step with subscriptions, it could be curtains for Netflix.
A head eighth each.
Of course, the irony of all of this is that they end up discriminating against the very people they need: The different, the strange, the quirky, the innovative - everyone who doesn't perfectly fit the criteria of a safe hire where nobody can criticize the hiring decision (and impact your promotion prospects).

I work for Google as a software engineer and now also engineering manager.

There is no plausible mechanism by which a decision that anyone makes on whether to hire a candidate could affect that person's promotion prospects.

Interviewers don't make hiring decisions directly, they merely individually make recommendations to a committee that reviews these recommendations (along with other info like the candidate's resume). I have never heard of hiring committee "reporting" someone for recommending they hire someone "weird" or "bad" -- it would be kind of absurd. If you don't like the recommendation, don't take it! Similarly, hiring committee members are not going to be "written up" for making "weird", or "bad" recommendations. There isn't even a group of people who could plausibly do this.

There is plenty to criticize about how Google hires. But I disagree with what I read as the thesis of your post that we have to choose between a biased process and an effective one. Indeed the problem you identify is what I would describe as bias against people who don't fit a particular mold, people who are unusual or "weird", and so really what I think you're saying is that in trying to fight e.g. gender bias, we have introduced new biases.

I also don't think that's true. The counternarriative I'd propose is, we have always been biased against what we consider to be "weird" people, that's human nature. What we've been trying to do is change people's perception of what is weird, so that e.g. female or black coders aren't. That's what unbiasing is about.
This is, in fact, the first time I've heard of them, and we use AWS to host our production services!
the money that amazon would bring could shift politics in Texas alone.
>... covering Seattle (West Coast), DC/NoVa (East Coast), Texas (South) gives them nationwide influence.

It's a bit hurtful whenever the Midwest is left out like it's not part of the country.
Of all the things you can do or can't do on stackoverflow, "discussions" are probably the thing you are going to get doxxed the hardest for.
Berkey Filters : https://www.berkeyfilters.com/

https://theberkey.com/blogs/water-filter/the-best-water-filt...
I cooked it for dinner. We kept it cold in the snow outside the building all day while we worked. Tasted like regular salmon when we ate it.
The writing is on the wall — Texas will turn blue sooner than later.

Dallas is a liberal stronghold in Texas, and in absolute numbers turns out more for Democrats than any other city in the state, including Austin (percentage-wise Austin wins by +5%, I believe). Unlike Austin, which is gerrymandered in the state legislature, every single state/county/city official in Dallas is a Democrat.

Dallas is also a gay rights stronghold, representing the only county and city in Texas, again including Austin, with non-discrimination clauses in employment and housing for LGBTQ+ individuals.

Furthermore— Texas is considering bi-partisan legislation to legalize weed. Dallas has already decriminalized it, and the State, while backwards in other regards, hasn’t indicated it will force Dallas to back down on that measure. Dallas also has stricter gun laws than the state of Texas.

Texas has a long way to go, but I think if you would step in Dallas you would learn to leave your preconceived notions of it at the door.

I believe an HQ2 would speed up Texas’ change.
Nothing? What's the problem?

I have Windows running via Bootcamp on the same Mac and Windows feels much faster than macOS at opening stuff. Even faster than I disable animations.

Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean I don't. I know for sure I'm not the only one seeing it.
I suspect you are correct; this is a way to make the two cities compete to please / to accommodate / to benefit Amazon and get the headlines that they are Amazon's choice for X, Y, Z reason. Amazon's gravity is quite strong, and its tactics very honed.
It theoretically has 1036800 processors. It doesn't actually have that many because core-level manufacturing yields aren't 100%. The software architecture is designed to be resilient to this.
That's fair, my generalization was pejorative. I meant to say, in a glib way, that this is not a website frequented by 100% licensed physicians and clinical researchers, and is actually mostly not that.

The point is, the OP is essentially saying, "I wish to discard the notion that statistical research is valid and may make medical decisions based on a study with N=1 or 2". I was worried people would show up and offer magical cures as they always do, and lo and behold, there are threads suggesting hypnosis and turmeric.

My main concern with this is that the OP may use a completely arbitrary "cure" and avoid speaking further to doctors about it, so any actual treatments that are developed might be overlooked.
It's funny to me that you give such a strong opinion against this, but then end with a phrase of which could go either way.
Why Do All Websites Look the Same?
You can't talk about safe without a threat-model, especially distinguishing between whether you're trying to prevent offline attacks against stored data or brute-forcing a running login system. If you can rate-limit many things are fine, especially if you have some confirmations at key points (“Your account was just accessed from …”) with restrictions which make it hard for an attacker to permanently wrest control of the account or incur large costs immediately after gaining access — think about how Amazon.com doesn't require 30 character passwords because adding a new shipping address requires you to re-confirm the credit card information first.
I dont think you understand Dallas at all...
That might a lot to do with the highly available and relatively untapped resources and cheap land. Britain was more industrialized and progressing faster than the US at the time, but only received a fraction of the amount of immigration, but it was also highly settled with much more expensive land and most resources already claimed/owned and being tapped to fuel their industrialization.
True of course.

But Snowden was not the only person having this access. What about all of his colleagues? If a country manages to bribe or blackmail even one of these people to smuggle out an USB stick, you have exactly the same situation.

Given the resources available to China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc..., the sheer number of available targets, and the invisibility of the attack, what are the odds of this kind of theft not happening? And that's without all the other ways for them to get reasonable estimates of these things.
U.S. Supreme Court declines appeal against net neutrality laws
The majority of methane produced by ruminants exits via the mouth. This is because methane is produced by bacteria -- animal cells cannot perform methanogenesis. The big difference between ruminants and humans digestively is:

- in ruminants, bacteria-assisted "fiber digestion" happens before protease-mediated "protein digestion": the rumen precedes the abomasum. (The other two stomachs, the reticulum and omasum, have an unclear function, but appear to essentially be large filters.)

- in other mammals, including most herbivores, bacteria-assisted "fiber digestion" occurs after protease-mediated "protein digestion": the stomach precedes the colon.

So while a human or other primate -- including leaf-eating monkeys -- expels most fermented gas via the anus, a ruminant will expel most of it from its mouth (eructation):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumen#Stratification_and_mixin...
In my humble opinion, very few know how to use a password. Most of the people still believe that their cat name starting with a capital letter and with 1 in the end is a good password. Or that once you have a good password it is enough to use it everywhere. Same passwords everywhere is not a security, it's a vision of security. It may surprise author that main reason to provide authentication is to give some security, and in case of every single non-it person I know their passwords are just an illusion.

So, I would argue, while anyone can type in some staff, how to make it secure is rare knowledge almost no one has. So, is it, really "everyone knows how it works"? Or just everyone repeating their not quite secure passwords to make machine happy without any understanding of consequences
Uh, huh...

What he is talking about is the boom-bust cycle and not whatever you're claiming which, honestly, I have no clue.
Dallas may seem to be a liberal stronghold, but after living there for my entire life I can promise you it is anything but...
>Can we find meaning and purpose in our existence in a way that isn't so detrimental to quality of life, now and in our future?

Look for the meaning inherent in our existence as natural creatures, duh. Once you stop assuming, a priori, as an implicit part of the definition, that meaning must be supernatural, the lack of supernatural revelations stop posing any problem.
the primary thing about arbitration

- it prevents class-action lawsuits

- it is funded typically by the company, and is very likely to agree with the company

Maybe suing constantly is an american thing, but if that is to be addressed it should be by congress not by individual companies wanting to circumvent civil law.
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Advertisers definitely pay.
This drama is getting ridiculous. HQ2-1, and HQ2-2? What does HQ even mean then? Even if they are called HQ, it is hard for me to imagine they can function as one.
Childhood obesity linked to air pollution from vehicles
“Same Reference” vs. “Same Value”
You say pretty obviously as dangerous and then provide quotes about "potential hazardous effects", "can cause", "potential migration", "may carry", "could possibly", etc. That's quite different than being pretty obviously as dangerous as the other things mentioned.
They would make money by selling a product.
They have low taxes in comparison to other states, partially because they can rely on taxes and licensing fees on mineral extraction (oil) to fund things that other states would have to fund thru other taxes.
Like many excellent ideas, Simpsons did it:

http://www.simpsonsworld.com/video/302260803547
I disagree with this.

If someone has a broken arm it’s observable and it’s pretty clear what the next step is.

With mental health diagnosis it’s not clear what the underlying issue is and at best you’ll be given something to supress symptoms.

We are doing a bit better on this with things like Psychedelics and Open Dialogue, but mental health is more of a context than a condition.
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As the GP you're replying to: All of this is correct.

Commenting on this & the thread at large though there's a general confusion here between the narrow question of whether the right way to subsidize e.g. parental leave should be done at the employer level, and whether it's worthwhile to do so at all.

Many here are assuming that an objection to the former is equivalent to an objection to the latter.

That's not the case at all. It's possible to be a proponent of radically progressive social policies that would massively benefit parents raising children and be 100% against those policies having any negative downstream impact on companies trying to hire them as workers in the future.

E.g. one way to do that (just spitballing here) would be to recognize that a new individual in society is likely to have a long-term positive revenue impact for the government. Some percentage (e.g. 10%) of their taxes would be paid directly to their parents, and this amount could be paid on birth on the basis of median income in the country and adjusted past the age of 18 accordingly.

This would give parents a massive subsidy lifetime subsidy, and a huge incentive to steer their children towards lucrative careers which would have a positive impact on economic growth.
Ask HN: What's the best UI creation method of all time?
I'm doing some research on the various ways application UIs have been created ever since computers have been capable of displaying windows. What I would like to know is, what's your favorite and why? Feel free to name any UI creation method you personally enjoy, whether it be for mobile, desktop, the web or something else. It can also be from any time period. Were you a fan of NewS? Adobe Flash/Flex? Some obscure web framework nobody's ever heard of? Tell me why it tickles your fancy.
I'm going to assume you just don't get a lot of emails? For many people it is the primary form of communication across a company.
Some dangerous jobs pay more. Roofing and logging are incredibly dangerous, mostly male dominated, and still pay garbage. Oh sure you take home a decent amount of money, but most that is because they work a ton of overtime.
I wonder what this implies for SSDs that claim to support instantaneous ATA Secure Erase. Many SEDs, when issued this command, will simply discard their internal key and generate a new one, in theory rendering data irretrievable. I've encountered this method recommend over traditional wiping for reasons of security (you can't be sure all blocks are wiped when overwriting due to internal reservation), speed, and flash-longevity.
Different programming paradigms are not about what can be computed it is about what can be expressed in the syntax and semantics of the language. This is an important distinction. Brainfuck is capable, technically, of computing anything that Haskell can compute. However, it would be foolish to call it a functional (paradigm-sense) language. It lacks higher order functions and many other elements. You could construct a lambda calculus interpreter in brainfuck, but then that language would be functional, but not the underlying implementation language. By the same measure, Haskell implemented in C does not make C a functional (paradigm-sense) language.