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Great article! CS Lewis always surprises me with his... "wise common sense". I'm constantly let down my modern books, some of them highly acclaimed. But the great filter explains it all perfectly. I'm going to take this into consideration when selecting my books from now on.
Partially Examined Life

It's hosted by former philosophy students who cover many dozens of philosphers relatively in depth. Their style is very approachable and conversational. They're not stuffy or boring, and often they're pretty funny. I've listened to a lot of philosophy podcasts and this is by far the best.

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Orange and Blue forever!
I had the same problem for about 20 years of my life until I decided being alone is actually ok if you're ok with it. Have realistic expectations of yourself. If you can't stand people, then just don't. This doesn't mean you have to isolate yourself. You can still work, and if you find the right person, you can have one or two friends.
For one guy? What about the people killed in China, Russia, etc? I mean, there's dozens of countries that hit certain political targets with either imprisonment or death. I don't think that's a sustainable diplomatic policy. And when do you lift it?
>Why are cars allowed to litter the public roads and park all over the place, taking up a massive amount of space with mostly empty seats and driven around less than 10% of the time?

Because car owners pay extra in taxes, specifically to cover the additional costs to society.
Wat. Kubernetes is not an OS. It’s an orchestration system. It orchestrates docker containers which run... Linux. This article was vomited out by someone without even the most basic understanding of what they are talking about.
Or maybe I am missing the joke? Is this a deliberately absurd article?
Why is lonely there?
No, but that system's intent was never to be horribly oppressive to minorities and so working within it was not contradictory to the system's values. Oppression was a byproduct of other factors (the racism and classism of individuals). Google's very existence relies on making profits, and its profits come from ads served in search (and adwords, mainly). Working to stop Google from expanding into as juicy a market as the chinese one is diametrically opposed to the goals of the system. That's why I don't find these things to be comparable.

Edit: though I do see how the "individuals" argument can be used in both directions - I'm essentially arguing that google and its ilk are fundamentally tainted by their business models, in a way that the US government never was.
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This article says these scooters make $16/day in revenue?! Where are they making that kind of money? The scooters in my city just sit in the same place for DAYS without moving... I don't buy those numbers at all...
NSO has a 0 interaction remote iphone 0day.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvakb3/inside-nso...

>The entrepreneur, who spoke to Motherboard on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the meeting, agreed, but said that NSO would have to target his other iPhone, which he brought with him and had a foreign phone number. He gave NSO that phone number and put the phone on the desk.

>After “five or seven minutes,” the contents of his phone’s screen appeared on a large display that was set up in the meeting room, all without him even clicking on a malicious link, he said.

>“I see clicking on all kinds of icons: email icon, SMS icon, and other icons,” he told Motherboard. “And suddenly I saw all my messages in there and I saw all the email in there and they were capable to open any information that was on my [iPhone].”
Core COM is basically predefined vtable layout and object reference comparison rules combined with IUnknown for lifetime and type queries. It can be verbose, but it's very simple.

Stuff like OLE Automation is very much not simple, but it's not a requisite part of it all.
It certainly happens: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britain-charges-...

We're hearing more about Khashoggi because he was a journalist, I suppose.
Scooters are definitively vehicles. What would governments do if people just started parking bikes and scooters in free full-size car parking spaces :)
This is hardly a'get off my lawn' comment. Because 'some' people 'derive value' doesn't mean they should be free of regulation.
I've found that this is easy to flip on its head, at least for yourself. Convincing the masses to treat errors differently is another problem altogether.

People tend to get defensive about being wrong for two reasons. Either because they fear being punished, or they have associated the thing they are wrong about with their identity.

People don't tend to make mistakes knowingly. Either they were tired, uninformed, inexperienced, or whatever. Most often these things are out of their control. To attack them and say "What are you? Some kind of idiot?" is unhelpful and leads to the sentiments described in the parent. Next time they screw up, they'll lie about it, deny it, or blame it on someone else. Accepting that mistakes happen, and they're rarely intended helps you to be more empathetic when other people mess up, and helps you disregard the insensitive reactions of other people whenever you mess up.

When people associate ideas with their identity, this makes any attack on the idea an attack on them personally. This seems to be fairly common nowadays on the political landscape, especially with all the labels that people give themselves and each other. The matter of the fact is that ideas are only concepts, and their only attachment to a person is whether they think they are valid or not. A person can very easily change their mind, however the moment an idea becomes associated with their identity it becomes much harder. Allow yourself to be wrong, allow yourself to be convinced, and change your mind, and you likely won't care nearly as much when it turns out you were wrong - you just didn't know better, and you can't know everything, but now you know more.
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If by 'The Saudis', you mean 'someone from Saudi Arabia', then sure. The Americans did it too. As did pretty much every other nation.
its a tradeoff from doing that or making 250k+ at the age of 27

You can also work on instagram, oculous, or just take the time to become a better engineer.
It's not a very well-formed idea, but it comes from the fact that I think that carefully-considered pragmatic exceptions to general rules can be valuable.

For a simple example, many people don't understand what it is about markets that make them powerful[1]. That doesn't preclude any economic role for government, since markets aren't perfect and there are cases where govt action is more suited to the situation.

Along the same lines, and taking a set of claims at face value: if there's an epidemic of rape and various institutions are systematically underserving victims, then it may make sense to shift that burden. I wouldn't say "forgoing" proof when proof is hard, but changing the standard of evidence. Proof isn't binary: for example, the "preponderance of evidence" and "beyond a reasonable doubt" standards for civil and criminal trials are pretty different. For a directly relevant example, I'm not very incensed by institutions cutting ties with Dr. Cosby and Harvey Weinstein despite the lack of a criminal conviction, and I don't think it's very controversial that decades of independent accusations may reasonably add up to a bit more than the initial presumed innocence. It's the formalization of this new standard (which many/most already agree to) that I'm open to.

Of course, this is all theoretical. I don't think most people are remotely capable of handling even the bare minimum of nuance we're talking about here, so it's much more likely that we end up overshooting the target and doing blind damage to the concept of due process. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] I've had conversations with people on HN itself about how Uber's pricing would be more just and just as effective if they did it manually instead of using the distributed pricing system we call supply and demand
and customer service is a talking snake.
Engineering Brain Parasites for Intracellular Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins
They already know what will happen if they will be caught doing this type of things.
This but unironically
It's unclear, but from the article it seems to suggest that his phone had bad software running on it and was recording keystrokes at the OS level.

Encryption wouldn't help you in this case since you can just record the strokes (maybe see the screen) like the regular user would see.

Not sure how they'd do this though, maybe he was using Android?
> Once they start taking orders from Beijing about what results to show in China, why shouldn't they take orders about what to show in the US?

At the end of the day, Google is an American company, and the US won't let that happen. Right now, Chinese companies are given a free monopoly in their home country, which gives them billions of dollars that they can use to purchase foreign companies. China would a much easier time pressuring Tencent and Baidu than Google or Microsoft. This is all implying that China cares about what foreigners think of them, which they don't.
Our use of Skycfg with Terraform is still very basic, using Terraform's JSON syntax[0] and the "external" data source[1] for particular configurations that are difficult to express in HCL. I personally would like to have most of our Terraform config in Skycfg format for testing/analysis purposes, but that's blocked on having some sort of schema for the providers we use.

[0] https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/syntax.html#json...

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In that case I would say the same recursively to all of the different vendors and contractors involved, but that quickly becomes a much more complicated problem than someone just dumping the source online.
There's a lot more to 4chan than /b/ (and the associated /pol/, /r9k/, /s4s/ crap). I haven't used /b/ in years (it stopped being funny around 100M get) but I still use some of the special-interest boards.
Cryptography is a solved problem. Ignore the crypto, attack the endpoints. I assure you there are many many attacks out there for compromising iOS and Android that do not require physical access.
Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18593453. Maybe a mod could combine the two?
Its been a while since I've gotten into the theory here. But ultimately an object is a set of data and mutators upon that data.

The Unix model does not link the two together - where for most hardware the two are inseparable. A sound card can only work on certain formats of data - it is more than mere bytes. It may have only limited processing ability (e.g. an EQ functionality or FM synthesizer). Ioctls are a hack around this - and of course they do "work" but they are not clean. They are also clearly not congruent with the Unix philosophy, you can't cleanly chain and pipe them or compose them into a larger whole.

NT did much better on this front, but much of the beauty is hidden by the horrid win32 layered on top. Cocoa is much nicer and probably the best real world example of how nice it can be when done right. You can use the UNIX APIs on a mac, but why would you want to?
Fenwick publishes a quarterly survey of market terms for VC rounds. Their Q3 2018 report suggests ~10% of rounds are being done with a liquid pref >1x, and those terms are almost always between 1-2x. Given that these stats are for series A-E rounds, I would expect the liquid pref in these mega rounds to be very close to 1x if not 1x exactly.
Source: https://www.fenwick.com/FenwickDocuments/Silicon-Valley-Vent...
pwn the endpoint devices' operating systems and bootloaders.
*Pedal.

Some EU countries have already announced that scooters will soon be treated similarly to e-bikes, i.e. max 250W and 25km/h for the ones that don't need registration and plates.

While more expensive and less portable, a bike is a lot safer and more versatile.
I don't believe that. There is research showing that online pornography distorts people's views of sex, making people less satisfied with their real life partners, and pushing their fetishes into more extreme territory.

This is sex negative, and harmful. And I believe we can see the results of this with all the headlines talking about how people are having less sex. A larger and larger percent of orgasms are happening online, to unrealistic scenarios.
Yes, this leads Firefox to be fairly conservative with its permissions.

In general, blocking userspace from installing extensions and otherwise running malicious code stops FF from being exploited. Blocking all of these options blocks the OS from bad behaviour, especially where the user may expect a new computer/phone to have the default behaviour.

The vendors of phones and personal computers seem to have an interest in interfering with users' internet access; perhaps it is a good decision that Firefox does not let them.
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"You're a rounding error as a voter."

While it may be very true that any one individual may create more positive impact by putting focus on something else, individual consumption is a part of the problem.

Go after your own low hanging fruit. But don't let it distract you if you think you can make a greater impact somehow.
I use CVS Superior Soft Foam Earplugs ~ https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-superior-soft-foam-earplugs-pro... .. nothing really fancy, though maybe the nicest ones that most CVS' sell.

Sometimes, I will experience minor discomfort if I've pushed them too far in my head, but pulling them out just a little usually relieves any problem.

I've had them in all day (again), only taking them out once for a long conversation I had .. and I sleep with them too.

Honestly, reality in a city, IMO, is by & far way too noisy. And I don't think from an evolutionary standpoint, we're super-well-suited for processing (consciously or not) all the different directions of noise washing across us ..

Or maybe I'm just too easily distracted/overwhelmed ;)
How Hackers Are Stealing Instagram-Influencer Accounts
> Most of the fragile insights that laid the foundation of a new vision emerged not when the whole group was together, and not when members worked alone, but when they collaborated and responded to one another in pairs

The article gives several examples of this dynamic, but one that came to mind for me was how Monty Python members created sketches for Flying Circus:

> Writing started at 9 am and finished at 5 pm. Typically, Cleese and Chapman worked as one pair isolated from the others, as did Jones and Palin, while Idle wrote alone. After a few days, they would join together with Gilliam, critique their scripts, and exchange ideas. Their approach to writing was democratic. If the majority found an idea humorous, it was included in the show.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python
This is something I've suspected for a while myself. A lot of the more menial diversity complaints (like pronouns and what not) do seem rather meaningless compared to things like wealth inequality and what not, and feel like a definite distraction after stuff like Occupy shook the 1% a bit.
Scooters occupy ~5% the space as a car. Dedicating 2-10% of the spots on each block/public lot to bikes/scooters should already be built in as a public service.

If you've ever biked as a mode of transport, even in most US 'bike-friendly' cities, you'll know how few bike racks are available.
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As a non-pinterest user, what does "without the Uggs" mean? Isn't Ugg a brand of shoes? Is that brand popular on pinterest?
And sometimes you need eagles
Serious question.
Why do you post WSJ articles? Either someone subscribes in which case they don’t need to discover content or they don’t in which case they haven’t discovered anything.
WSJ posts are literally just advertisements for a mediocre closed website.

Seriously why do you bother?
You forgot changing your Facebook profile picture
"working within the system to change it" when its barreling in the opposite direction from the one you desire seems a highly dubious choice at best.
This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

On HN a story counts as a dupe if it has had significant attention in the last year or so. If it hasn't, a small number of reposts is ok.
I don’t see that ever happening. China already makes up a substantial share of Microsoft's profits, yet any Chinese interference is extremely frowned upon in Bing and all other properties (even if it happens by accident, it would become a huge scandal).
Do you happen to remember some of the titles?
The textbook has not changed, geometry did. The modern notion of geometry encompasses so much more that it is hard to describe in a few words.
I think it is a bit of a stretch to say that selling ads inherently makes you 'tainted'... it seems that your argument would apply to every business? Are you arguing that every business is inherently bad and we should work for no business?

Every business exists to make money, and China is a huge market for all of them, so wouldn't they all have the same problem?

I know some people make that argument, but it is a pretty extreme view.
The taxes are a drop in the bucket compared to the wasted space, pollution, and clutter.
Can you define what is pervasive automatic differentiation please.
I live in Baltimore and these things have been awesome. Over the summer and early fall, I used them a lot for trips that were between 3-15 blocks. They were usually less than half the price of a Lyft, were fun to drive, don't directly use fossil fuels and were usually available (in one app or the other) within a block or two of my house. I used them to meet friends for brunch, to pick up my car from getting worked on, to go to bars near my house and to go vote in November.

Now that it's gotten colder, I think my range for using them will contract to something like 2-8 blocks, but I don't think I'll cut off using them entirely. I don't notice them being "piled up" anywhere (except for at a street festival, but lots of people were picking them up too), and I don't think I've ever run into a situation where my path was actively blocked by one.

Baltimore used to have a bike share, but I've heard it's being shut down and even when it was up they had a hard time keeping bikes in all the stalls.
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You can :) In reality, it really depends on how serious a team about karma. In some teams all requests must get an approval from the management (moderators), one can request karma for herself, no issues with that. It's a feature, not a bug! Thanks
Based on past patterns, we now have about 15 months before a formal recession is declared. This is rough and imperfect, but many other metrics are pointing to both the end of the bull market and a coming recession. I've been monitoring the econ because I plan to invest in real-estate and stocks during the next slump. [Corrected "bear" typo.]