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> absolute outrage seems ridiculous

Well, absolute outrage is not absolute. This isn't something that's accurately metered. As with everything in outrage culture, the media tells us the outrage is palpable and we simply accept it. Users voicing their displeasure on reddit / twitter / youtube in any capacity is all it takes for the rags to twist this into an apocalyptic, mouth-frothing rage machine. It's a complete joke. The barrier to typing a few words for the world to see is paper thin. Displeasure isn't rage.

It's easy to manipulate discourse this way because anything can be construed as utter outrage.
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Here is a business I'd like to see exist, but I currently don't have the expertise or time to make it happen:

We launch people's whole dead bodies into space in specially crafted capsules. First we flash freeze the body here on Earth. Then we put it in the capsule and launch it towards a star that we think has earth-like exoplanets.

The capsule itself has a small nuclear power supply, a cryogenic system, a few astronomy instruments and a little bit of AI. The idea would be that in the cold of space, the cryo-system would need almost no energy to keep the body frozen, and otherwise it would be like a mini-Voyager with some AI in it. As it travels, it would send back science data, and use the AI to make minor adjustments to its orbit as it got closer to that other solar system in millions of years, to attempt to put itself into orbit around an Earth-like exoplanet.

Why do this?

1. The customer gets to have their body float through space for millennia. Cool!

2. Humanity gets the benefit of all the science data that would come back from all these mini-Voyagers going in all different directions.

3. In the incredibly off-chance that any of this works as intended, your body ends up in orbit around an exoplanet.

4. There is a very very very tiny chance that you end up in orbit around a civilization that has the ability to retrieve your body and reanimate it.
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If you can run code with the same privileges as Chrome (under an authenticated user account), then on most desktop OSes, you can do whatever Chrome can do, including access the password
store.

This may be a more convenient way to do so, but ultimately it's an attack that's rather hard to defend against under the usual desktop user-based access control model.
The article seemed mostly concerned with the breakdown products of corpses sealed coffins, the coffins themselves, our implants and jewellery, and infection disease.

At a glance most of these seem like relatively easy problems to solve.
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That's the only time it's happened to me. It's fun to think that it was a tactic and I was supposed to either leave or do that one magic trick to wow them and change their mind :) but more likely I think the second guy just decided it was a no but was too awkward to say, so panicked and went to find the first guy to ask him to tell me.
Or sign up for cryonics and try not dying in the first place.
I'll be discussing the Zinc library at the conference in Vancouver soon with other developers, and hopefully we'll get to a good place for the next cycle. This sort of thing is, evidently, a process of sorts.
Most desktop OSes aren't designed to defend applications run by the same user from one another. As a consequence an attacker running unsandboxed code with your user privileges is an attack that's very difficult to defend against.
I tried to email you but the email bounced. If you're still looking for a developer please drop me a line jcieslik_at_whiteboarddynamics_dot_co .
> It's a hobby like any other such as repairing old cars, painting, craft beer, etc.

And yet you don't see people who follow those hobbies throwing an absolute fit like gamers are now doing continuously.
Why are bills like these always drafted after the fact? E.g. Equifax, Google+, Facebook hack, etc.

It would be common sense to pass laws before it happened and would of incentivize companies to beef up security.
Ah, made me realize, if the network is meant to promote connection, it shouldn't strongly delete them, but perhaps move them to a "stale" / "inactive" list. Thanks!
So your claim that "you clearly in no way value the skills any of these people bring to the business, otherwise you'd be inclined to offer more in the first place" is true whenever you're paying (the minumum wage that is) less than market rates.

That's seems quite uncontroversial. If you pay less than market rates you may have a problem (in a perfect market, at least).
A little off-topic, but really wondering; am i the only one annoyed by the fact that 9 out of 10 apps these days are:

1. cloud based/harvesting as much data as possible
and/or
2. subscriptions

I prefer apps like for example Omnifocus [1], that give you:

1. the ability to client-side encrypt your data so your data won't be sold/misused, and
2. instead of making profit of selling your data, simply let you pay a larger amount upfront for it instead. Thus, you also know exactly what features you're paying for - as opposed to subscriptions...

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omnifocus-3/id1346190318?mt=...
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> I mean, so long as the person didn’t die of infectious disease their remains could probably be recycled in to the biosphere?

Human bodies are full of parasites and pathogens that are dangerous to humans: just because someone got hit by a car doesn't make their body sterile. That's one reason the BSE (mad cow disease) spread, feeding cows to other cows. It's also a reason we don't generally fertilize crops with human waste, although horse or cow manure works very well.

So we probably can recycle human bodies, but there are extra genuine health concerns. One pretty safe way is to bury them in the ground and let them get eaten by worms - but as the article points out, even that comes with health risks.
This is one of those cases where applying some kind of additional dictionary algorithms to "autocorrect" OCR (which may have been what actually happened) won't help, since the wrong reading is an actual dictionary word while the correct one is a name.
Obviously forced child prostitution and trafficking happens, nobody is denying that or defending such a repulsive practice, just like nobody denies or defends slavery or forced labor. If you actually read the comment I was responding to you'd see that we were talking about sex work in general.

Why the hell can we not have a real conversation about sex work among consenting adults without somebody conflating it with slavery and child prostitution?
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Usually, they want a substitute because they like foods that taste roughly like milk but they can’t drink milk. Is that too much to ask?
I corrected my And to an OR so yes, good point but overall, it still doesn't impact "entire startup community". There are plenty of tech. businesses that don't hit 50 Million in revenue AND don't have a million users. I am talking about those.
Except I'd be fired if I decided I didn't feel like working 40 hours a week every single week without taking paid time off. Hours are tracked for full time salaried employees, of course, that's been the case for literally every single job I worked. (And I'm no spring chicken)

If it worked the way you claim, then what would prevent me from working 2 hours a week and be like "lol, I'm salaried, pay me a full time salary for those two hours?"

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...

>The Department of Labor (DOL) states in the 2004 overtime exemptions preamble to the final regulations that employers may require exempt employees to record and track hours and to work a specified schedule: “We agree that employers, without affecting their employees’ exempt status, may take deductions from accrued leave accounts; may require exempt employees to record and track hours; may require exempt employees to work a specified schedule; and may implement across-the-board changes in schedule under certain circumstances.”

"Exempt" employment status largely works against the employee in practice.
$50bn/year would be more revenue than fb had in 2017, though of course the majority of their 2.23bn monthly users would disappear if asked for $.01/mo.

It is an interesting thought experiment, though, to consider what facebook would look like if its revenue was derived from convincing users that it was worth a monthly subscription.
You can also purchase practically the same exact phone for $159. It's an Android One phone as well. Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite.

Snapdragon 625 w/4000mAh battery and a higher resolution screen, dual SIM, expandable SD to 256GB, smaller notch, same chin, full metal body except for the parts where RF needs to escape. The Motorola also doesn't have Band 12 LTE like the Xiaomi. The Motorola is extremely overpriced at $400.

This is priced even higher than the Nokia 7.1 which is significantly higher spec'd and comes from a reputable high quality manufacturer! What is Motorola thinking?
This * 1000. There’s a reason why even though Seattle has a big boom the house prices are not SF crazy.

The more your house increases in value, the more tax you pay.

I love Seattle for its shitty weather and somewhat affordable housing for how much companies are willing to pay.
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> The soyuz strap-on boosters are constructed primarily of steel, as opposed to aluminum

I don't think it's the case. AFAIK, standard material for tanks construction - and tanks in R-7 are load-bearing, unlike those in V-2 - is AMg-6, aluminum alloy with magnesium as main addition. This alloy is chosen to keep construction operations simple - using riveting - without too much risk of fracturing the sheets of metal.

Engine is second biggest piece by mass in the booster. The chamber is made from copper alloy - practically pure copper, with some small additions of chromium (bronze BrH-08). Gas generator (which uses high test peroxide, 82%) could be from steel (or some other high temperature resistant alloy), yes, but it's a relatively small device. Same is for turbopumps.

For second stage it's often the case that it falls laying horizontally - caused by aerodynamics. First stage boosters aren't that lengthy, comparing to their width, but they can also fall sideways. This kind of landing is less destructive, so some parts could survive the landing. First stage boosters have the advantage of falling from lesser heights and having smaller initial speed, so they have little problems with aerodynamic drag - way less heat to survive.
Or make the bill retroactive ... ?
> gets more than 1 million installs, or a website with more than 1 million users,

Incorrect, that would only be true if they collected and stored personal info on their users. Hopefully we see more apps and websites stop collecting this info, or a minimum started purging the data (i.e if you visited a site 1 time 5 years go they should not still have your data but many do)
Their statements don't make a good case for them doing more than following the money, and part of the reason for the outrage. The outrage is itself a move played to signal this. People talk about how capitalism is driven by signals from the demand side, and this kind of outrage is integral to forming boycott factions large enough to oppose the advertising and noise produced by the marketing-industrial complex.

As corporations become ever larger, it becomes harder to make demand-side opinions observable, and so it becomes necessary to employ more extreme forms of protest to avoid being overpowered by the sell-side attempts at influence. If that influence is not opposed, the market will become entirely dominated by the sell-side and will allow trust-like abuse of power, destroying the equilibrium pressure by which markets are allegedly regulated. This kind of market abuse does not require monopolies, and appears to be a blind spot for many proponents of market economies.

This is not just a problem with gaming, and one could reasonably argue that there are more important battles to fight. That said, this is probably one of the few markets where that kind of demand-side mobilization is still possible, as many others have already been neutralized by divide-and-conquer tactics.
So the app developer has to be able to demonstrate they followed some form of best practice with regard to user data.

I’m having trouble thinking of any other type of work that manages to escape all liability.
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Why do graveyards exist? Do they provide any value? Do they generate profit at least?

I'm trying to grasp how society continues having them aside from a religious standpoint.
“Go down that road until you get blown up, then report back” I’ve read that attributed to Patton, but haven’t found a source.
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Seems it had more than one type of actor. Some proponents wanted to naively believe the movement didn't represent misogyny if they themselves weren't, but so much of that was perpetrated on behalf of GG. The right thing to do would have had to been splintering and loudly decrying the death threats and misogyny, but of course, the mob didn't do that and they've themselves to blame. Mind you I haven't read much about that nonsense. It was so mundane.
The company should be training employees to use their process, not expecting to hire people who already prefer their process. TDD is not some magical thing that requires years of study and practice and apprenticeship to do correctly. It's an approach, you apply it, it might be a little weird for a few weeks if you're not used to it, and then it's fine. What next, will they reject people for preferring trunk-based development over git-flow?
Well, I happen to think an anthropologist would be just fine. They'd say, “Oh! They cremated themselves then.”
California has about 12% of America's population. Given how amenable the weather is for living outside of a house (little snow, rain, or cold weather in most population centers), I don't think a rate 2x the national average is unexpected. Regardless of the state's housing crunch.
> But imagine yourself up on stage in front of thousands of people, with 2 or 3 seconds to come up with an answer while you are not allowed to mention any unannounced games.

I'm almost certain it was partially rehearsed.
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Phew! That would be a net positive for the world, long term, to bear less of a greasy footprint from american startup antics.
Implicit in that article is the idea that if as a chef you're not working at a top 20 restaurant, you don't even count. That seems questionable. I could see someone who enjoys cooking liking the work in a decent but not famous restaurant, just as there are those who enjoy teaching high school rather than being Ivy League professors or being nurse practitioners rather than surgeons. And in each case there are many such lower-tier opportunities.
So Facebook, google, Microsoft, et al, will continue to sell my attention, and now pass the insurance bill onto me. Lol. I know, it’s for my security.
Second degree murder from one jurisdiction to another. In California I stand mostly corrected: The penalty is: 15-years to Life. At the 15-year mark they are eligible for parole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)#Cal...
What's it good at? What is this the right tool for?
So the app developer has to be able to demonstrate they followed some form of best practice with regard to user data.

I think you're downplaying the requirements of this law. You should read it, it's pretty onerous and carries decades in prison with it - even GDPR didn't go that far.

One interesting caveat, however, is that at least as written, I can't find anything imposing penalties for simply not filing the reports this law claims to require after all of the expensive audits etc it wants. It only imposes penalties for lying on the reports. I'm not sure if that was an oversight on the author's part or if that's intentional though. Any final version would likely "fix" that issue.
Or indeed `(map :name foo)` instead of the suggested (and redundant, linenoisy) `(map #(:name %) foo)`.
On one hand, I think this is a good thing. That is, I certainly would like to have more control over who uses my own data.

But, on the other hand, the scope of this bill has some risk of bringing about a technology winter. Most people outside of tech don't realize how much of the software they use has been indirectly subsidized by the ad and data brokering industries.
I still find it to be an interesting intellectual challenge, even though it has no commercial use that I know of.

The huge volume of embedded cores based on a 6502 would disagree strongly --- I'm sure everyone has at one point used a 6502-based embedded system. They're everywhere in things like keyboards and mouses, LCD monitors (the MCU responsible for generating the OSD and such), and toys like the famous Tamagotchi and Furby, as well as keychain picture frames:

https://hackaday.com/2013/05/24/tamagotchi-rom-dump-and-reve...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17751599

http://spritesmods.com/?art=picframe

Also popular "not very good for HLL" architectures that yet have (subset of) C compilers for them include the 8051 and the Microchip PIC series.
The mobile game itself is not the problem - for all we know it might be the best mobile game ever invented. The problem is the context in which it was presented.

The one big new game announcement at Blizzcon is an important event for all those people watching - the actual people in the audience for example pay a lot of money to go there partially for that experience.

You watch Blizzcon expecting an announcement of a big game of one of their major existing franchise or a new one. So you wait until the end for that hype reveal, you wait for the next entry in one of your favorite games, be it Diablo 4, Warcraft 4, Starcraft 3, something Overwatch related or whatever it is.

And then it turns out it's a mobile game that certainly does not speak to the majority audience actually watching, in fact quite the opposite, and it's not even an inhouse developed one but one outsourced to a chinese pay to win clone developer.

And then the presentation ends. Everyone is left disappointed and Blizzard eventually showed the finger to most people watching because they gave the most important spot in their presentation to that, showing a complete misunderstanding of what their actual fans are after.

It doesn't help that Diablo Immortal is a literal reskin of Netease's other game 'Endless of God' which in turn is a clear copy of Diablo 3.

Regarding your overall point of the reaction being some sign of bratty and self centered behaviour - that's honestly quite silly. The game developer puts a game product out there in a huge showing clearly wanting a reaction. Not for no reason either, they want money for this thing, they want to get rich off of it. Then when the reaction is an exceptionally negative one it makes people self centered and bratty? Your view on the matter makes no sense.
The world does not run on MUDs. The world does run on 30 year old OSes.
I used a Pascal on a BBC Micro which consisted of 2 16KB ROMS: one for the editor and one for the compiler. It would have maybe 32KB of RAM minus the screen memory (1KB to 20KB).
Why do you find it incredible? It really depends on many features you want to implement. I had LISP in ROM on my BBC Micro. That was about 5.5K of code (6502) on the ROM plus some data. The machine had 32KB of RAM.
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And one solution is enforcing consequences for incompetence.

If a construction company sends a bunch of untrained yahoos out with explosives, well, maybe the yahoos should have known better, but the company absolutely should have known better and I have no problem holding them liable.
> Do you think PoW is more harmful than PoS or not?

I've no idea.

My point was that if enough big states decided that PoW cryptocurrencies were undesirable, they would not find it enormously difficult to prevent much electricity being used on PoW mining, worldwide.
Looks interesting. It's good to see another note app that also has an open source backend.

I'm personally using StandardNotes (https://standardnotes.org) for note taking, which has been great. If you don't need the collaborative functionality of MonoCorpus, it's worth checking out.
That is why the Hindu ritual of cremeating a body after death is so scientific.
I know that's just supposed to be a complement, but sometimes that kind of a comment contributes to people thinking there's such a thing as a "math person" (or a "non math person"). Having comments like that thrown around in the aether makes it seem like technical subjects have "you either have it or you don't" characteristics, which I think most people on HN know is BS. I prefer to emphasize hard work over any kind of genetic advantage.
> best sociological guess for why recommendation systems are still pretty crappy

That what we like can't be boiled down to an optimization function over a sparse matrix.
As you mentioned Facebook, Google, & in large part Microsoft sell your attention. How do you propose that they are going to pass the insurance tab onto you?
Don't think of it as "free-riders". I had a person who would idle in my service for free. They had a small bankroll and my system required $30K and my service is rather expensive compared to my competitors, which would have eaten up all their money.

The person would initiate discussions with new people and helped foster a healthy discussion in our chatroom just by asking questions which were of importance to them. Further, they would ask me more questions about my system, which I never thought about because my account size was significantly larger and it never dawned on me. I was able to create a Discord channel with all the answers to the questions they asked and that helped convert new users who joined the channel at a faster rate.

Some people have capital to spend, some have time to spend. Oddly enough this person was so encouraged they posted about my service on their own social media accounts without me asking and it helped grow my community of followers much faster. However, I don't have a "free" tier only a trial tier, so maybe that is what allowed me to not spend too much time on catering to people without the required capital to spend. In fact, many people don't sign up for the trial and are waiting to grow their accounts before they exhaust the free trial. So maybe, you can do the same, allow the "free" features as a trial. I do post some plans in the #general channel for free for stocks that someone with a small bankroll can get in on, but that's on a random basis.

I am curious to hear what people's opinion is of the evangelist perspective.
> My employer hasn't gotten more and better work out of me as a result

s/hasn't/has/

I can't edit this post anymore, but I need to correct this huge typo as it greatly affects the meaning of the post.
That is why follow the tradition of Hinduism and cremate the dead body after donating the valid organs.
With the right optimization function and the feature extractors, of course it could. I don't buy that at all.
The industry will probably still be using C#, Java and JavaScript in the future - but those languages and environments evolve over time. Teaching the languages as it is used in the industry today is not preparing the students for the future. C# 3.0 is in many ways closer to ML than it is to C# 1.0.

I have seen developers complain they had to learn an unpractical "ivory tower" language like Haskell - and then the same developers get totally lost when C# introduced type inference and closures and deferred evaluation of queries.
Yeah, that's the original article and has a lot more detail.
Fine fine. I get it.
Let's just limit my comment to genetic anthropologists and those who like to study bones.