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Looking at the links of the photos from other commenters, is the gun actually pointed at man being given water? There's 3 US soldiers in frame, the one holding the guy and the one giving him water are both next to the guy, and the 3rd seems a few feet away, and could easily be holding his gun in a neutral position, pointed at the ground, giving a optical illusion similar to what tourists try to do with the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Edit: Looked at it a bit more, the non-water giving adjacent US soldier is not holding the guy (I think his hands are bound behind his back by cuffs/rope/zip ties/whatever).
There are no “abstract ethical values”, and the reasoning why GMO-babies are considered unethical are well-documented in this threat, I’m not going to try to discuss the ethics of abortion from first principle here because it would just end in wasted time without barely scratching the surface of what you can easily find on Wikipedia.
Hopefully one of the (European) consumer protection agencies require them to reduce their misleading marketing soon.
For anyone who is managing multiple wordless sites and is scared of the amount of work it will take to update and check compatibility of each of them, I strongly recommend trying https://managewp.com, it made my life so much easier with managin our company blogs
I was about to criticize you for not strengthening your attention span, that maybe sometimes you really do need 39 points... but on closer reading, I agree this could have been trimmed down. At the very least, 34 - 36 are variations of the same theme, and I'd simplify the entire section on humor down to just point 25: "It's better to be clear than funny."

But it seems like this was written as 39 points that help the author when they write, and it just happens that many of the points that help them are also useful to others. There's a lot of really good stuff in here & I wouldn't dismiss it just on length.
As a nice twist on the rejection postings, while in college I visited a friend at Yale. He and his roommates had hung all three of their Harvard acceptance letters next to each other on the wall.
You’re ignoring the inevitability of a Phenotypic Revolution if we go down that path. Please read the book so you can get an understanding of what’s at stake.

It was just released a couple of days ago, but it’s an update to our understanding on the origins and evolution of life forms. If you read it now you can be on the leading edge of these conversations before it hits the mainstream.
This is an argument that negative mass cannot be contained, not that it does not exist.

(Though it escapes me why you would assume that I believe in theories about negative mass, which actually seem to me to be very speculative and not very likely.)
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Have you also noticed how companies ignore "unsubscription" requests for unwanted emails? How many times have I unsubscribed from mailing lists then month sometimes even years later new emails are coming with the option to unsubscribe, again.
That's right. If you disagree with it, the great thing is you're able to start your own business and run it the way you see fit.

It's a lot easier to point out what businesses are doing wrong than to start and run your own "the right way".
>> It isn't an accident that the historical center of tech is also the center of the drug

This assertion is ridiculous; it could most certainly be a coincidence. I'd suggest the numerous locations around the world known for a period of drug experimentation that are not technology hot beds suggests it is.
Have you tried managing it using https://managewp.com? I was in your shoes and it saved me a lot of headache
Airlines have also had to do special training courses to teach pilots not to get over-reliant on automation. Tesla's "autopilot" seems to fall in that category of being just enough automation that it gets people complacent, but not enough to actually let them safely be complacent.
yeah, that seems reasonable. and maybe the patient population in their area is covered almost exclusively by state and federal plans because of low income.
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Because the visibility of the Arc Welder extension (the one that lets you use Android apps on desktop chrome) is set to hidden, which hides it from both Web Store and Google Searches, there are malicious extensions that take advantage of this and will become the top search result for Arc Welder. And if you don't know where to look, it can be very hard to find the real link for Arc Welder. So as a result, these malicious Arc Welders often get many thousands of installs before being taken down. Very frustrating because even if you report them immediately after they are added, it takes a few days to take them down.
Perhaps in the highest level of chess, almost all games will be a draw. So there's not much progress left to be made other than playing a variation that has less draws, like Shogi?
Those are very good examples of how choosing from among(what must now with digital cameras tens or hundreds of ) images can result in very different perceptions of what an event truly was.
Handling of replication conflicts is configurable. You can tell the database engine to automatically merge documents if the conflict didn't impact the same field, or to automatically delete the older change.
Wouldn't that mean that ProtonVPN then has an end user in Aus, and would then be theoretically subject to all this nonsense?

A user would have to double-VPN for ProtonVPN to be the solution. Right?
"Franco also wasn't and isn't universally abhorred; many Spaniards still admire Franco for whatever reasons, and there are large monuments and contemporary political rallies by fairly ordinary people honoring his memory."

Many Germans still admire Hitler, many Russians still admire Stalin, and many Chinese still admire Mao.

In Mongolia, Ghenghis Khan is admired as a great leader of their nation, and the negative things said of him are considered to be exaggerations or lies made up the people he fought with.

It seems no matter what a dictator does, or how many atrocities he commits, there'll always be people that admire and defend him.
It’s legal because it’s not done, thankfully. The second it appears in birth gender statistics, it would become illegal, just as it is in, for example, India.
So what happened to intel that they’re now no longer way ahead in both performance and manufacturing technology? They’re being squeezed from all sides, and don’t seem to be pulling ahead...
Indeed. And on my NixOS machines I can even boot into any version of the OS that I haven't garbage collected.

Also, I have found it easier to make reproducible environments everywhere in Unices. Nowadays, I just check out a git repo, run home-manager switch and all my software and configuration is there.
This is about cars, in cars driving copilot means something different then airplanes.
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Aircraft autopilot can automatically avoid collisions based on TCAS data, for recent airplanes (https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2009/08/ea...)
That is the point of the site. Everybody gets rejected; here's a bunch of people that got rejected and went to get great jobs and you can to.
I still can't get over the fact that Google rejected mxcl, author of homebrew, possibly the most important piece of software on OSX, because he couldn't remember some useless piece of easily-googleable (ha) CS trivia on the spot. Even though they all run it internally. If that isn't the purest, most concentrated form of arbitrary, blind, own-goal beaureaucratic corporate idiocy I don't know what is.

And people actually try to emulate their interview practises.
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Seriously, I spend WAY more time fussing with Windows than Linux on my dual boot machines. Windows has also destroyed the usability of their settings screens to the point that I find configuring Linux far far easier than Windows.
> Personally, in that case I'd probably bet on AlphaZero to win. (that was a joke)

Then I would bet on a draw.
Sure, but that's a two way street. Companies disrespect candidates by making them jump through irrelevant hoops.

The job candidates didn't create this problem.
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That argument holds water the day Joe schmoe driver undergoes hundreds of hours of advanced training.
GraavlVM Seems like an incredibly useful tool for sandboxing non-java languages with java/jvm interoperability. LLVM really is enabling a renaissance of language interop. This is fantastic stuff.
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Since Jetpack code is also what we run on WP.com (tens of billions of pageviews) it goes through a huge amount of performance tuning and optimization. The way modules work when you turn them off they don't have any overhead, similar to turning off a plugin. If you were using literally one thing it might feel like a lot, but as soon as you use 2-3+ things Jetpack does it's a lot more efficient than separate individual plugins to accomplish the same task.
I'm not sure about that. When coding, like other comments about writing, I can feel much more relaxed and ultimately more creative when I have a couple of drinks during the process. That doesn't mean that I have "no plan, no structure, just throwing ideas willy-nilly.". Maybe that's what I would do if I was falling over, black out drunk - but I don't think that's the spirit of what we're talking about here - or at least it's not the way I take it. To the contrary, my plans and structures can often come together more easily in the relaxed, somewhat inebriated state that a little alcohol provides.
I quite liked notes, nice idea, did a few courses changed companies never looked at it again
Damn it ja, open source the thing to get some relevance
If you need that many cores why don't you get a dedicated server?
I'm missing the use case here or understanding webassembly wrong. What is the use of running a webserver inside your webbrowser?
To be honest, I find the privacy thing is a red herring here. Yes, your browsing habits can be tracked, but there are already dozens easier ways to do that.

What I see as more concerning is that this could hugely shift how the whole system of domains runs. In the worst case, if a single (or a small group of) DoH services turn out to be dominating, they will effectively have full control over all domains - even local ones.

If you want to make a domain inaccessible, no need to bother with the registrar, simply stop serving it.

Want to add a new top-level domain without handing the IANA billions of dollars? No problem, just start to serve it tomorrow - "technically", it won't be a valid domain, but who cares if all browsers resolve it?

Think another domain is rightfully yours? You can file a dispute with the registrar and "proactively" redirect it to your own servers while the dispute is processed.
> I’m always baffled as to why people think “autopilot” implies any sort of autonomy.

It is literally in the name.
I would be OK with regulations requiring them to call it "adaptive cruise control with lane assist" and forbidding automakers from coming up with their own names for it.
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Interesting that Chris Wanstrath, a newly minted billionaire and the counfounder & CEO of Github, just chimed in on the site and said he was rejected for an engineering job at Yahoo. If the standard Valley screening/interview process isn't able to pickup on the abilities of someone obviously very talented, self-motivated, and entrepreneurial, doesn't it call into question the efficacy of such procedures? It seems like existing hiring procedures might be very broken.
Then “security” is too vague and needs to be qualified.
Small addition to what everyone said - pick nice icons, a page with just text feels empty. A nice set of icons can change that. Many sites are made of just text and icons, and in such situation icons bear a huge importance.
Well, now I'm going to have to write something in PHP just to spite you. =P
I think parent typo'ed. Latest news is volume production for Intel 10nm (~ TSMC 7nm) in 2H19.
I really don’t like geofencing or aggressive human attention monitoring so the lack of both of those things are features. The steering wheel attention requests are pretty frequent anyway.

The other complaints are largely remedied by being a safe driver - the car says all over the place what the limitations of autopilot are when you go to use it.
I disagree with the idea that: 1)journalists were ever not politically aligned; 2) that it is possible to have unbiased reporting.

I think it is more honest to admit that we are all highly political... especially the people that claim that they are not, or that a particular question is not political. In fact the latter is one of my bug-bears about HN culture. Frequently it is claimed that discussing politics is divisive and/or uninformative. I consider this to be a veiled (possibly unconscious) desire to claim that there are objective realities about non-physical/mensurable observations.

All is politics.

The most honest journalism is that which admits its bias and makes its best explicit case for how well its model fits the world.
Yep, the aesthetics appear a bit dated and it looks like there are plenty of gaps for dust, dirt, etc to collect. For the price tag, the specs are fine, but the chassis is terrible. I'd much rather buy something like a Razer Blade 17" if I required something that packed a punch and looked great.
Next iteration is hard. Breakthroughs are even harder. When Intel (or whoever) does it, they will have years of advantage - unless the information leaks. (And it probably will. At the latest when the true next gen will hit the shelves.)

Other than that, it's business as usual. News are just shiny mirrors, spectacle. We still don't know how durable AMD's "luck" is, how sales and stock price and other relevant numbers will ebb and flow, and so on.
Can I have a source for the crash course? Asking for a friend!
I'm starting to think institutionalizing this kind of convoluted hiring/hazing ritual also keeps developer salaries down. Imagine if whenever you interviewed, instead of getting say 1 offer in 5 you got 4 out of 5. Now you'd be in a better bargaining position when considering offers.
Your point being? Point and sputter isn't much of an argument, even with great goblins like the ones you mention above.

Franco by any sane measure, was a much lesser goblin. As was his next door neighbor Salazar. For their times, and particularly considering their situations, they were fairly reasonable leaders. Which is probably why they were integrated into NATO.
> There‘s like a guaranteed influx of new clients downstream, who start small with a site builder, and get snatched up as clients as they grow.

I like your point here, can you elaborate?
“Auto” just means “self.” Do autobiographies write themselves? Does the word “automobile” imply no driver is needed?
This resonates.

I'm terrible at big tech company interviews--kind of a generalist, read Cicero rather than Knuth in college, tend to start out problems kind of muddled, etc. After a while I concluded the only way to get into large SV companies was to sell a company to them. It's easier to go through due diligence than the corporate interview process in a lot of places.

(That's how I got my current job.)
Ok, I don't really see why there should be a site for this, I mean it's like making a site of people saying they fell a couple of times when they learned to walk.
I've never worked in a Whitesmiths codebase, but I always thought it looked nice.

The one downside compared to what I mostly end up working in is that it wastes some vertical space because the opening brace is on a new line.
Multiple, full day interviews are horribly disrespectful.
I think it's just meant to serve as inspiration to folks going through the interview process.
I'd use Firefox if I didn't have to enter my master password on MacOS every time I start the program. It integrates with keyrings on Linux, is it that hard to get it to work on MacOS which has more users? Also, does it work on Windows?
We had it as an extension for a year and a half, and in that time it became the fastest growing plugin in WP's history. User tests also showed significant issues with our current editor approach and much better results with Gutenberg enabled, that's why some hosts have had it on by default since the summer.

I agree it's not for everyone, that's why there's an opt-out, but it is an improved experience for the vast majority of current and potential future users. It's shipped, and now we can continue to iterate on it.
I could write a short tutorial here how to do basic styling but I don't know will you gain anything from it. Having done HTML/CSS/SCSS in between my full-stack JS/TS work, instead I'll just list some of the things that I've learned from doing web UI/UX. Maybe you'll get some insight from it, people have mentioned other great tools like Sketch which are great but these are some practical tips.

* Space elements using flex-box. Use position attribute only when must.

* I've mostly ditched classes for Styled Components, but if you do use classes try to get most of the BEM-syntax and SCSS. Try to avoid id and element-wise selectors for styling.

* Use CSS preprocessor like SCSS. Makes your life easier. `&` especially.

* Use margins to position elements in relation to each other. Padding to maintain or inflate element's size. The difference between margin and padding isn't massive, but try to stay consistent in your styling.

* Use (as general advice) light background color with more distinctive primary colors, emulate your favourite sites' style to hone your visual skills.

* Don't overdo it even if the UI widget you found looks cool. For users the novelty will soon wear off and you'll be better off with something simpler and more functional.

* Also don't stress about styling, just maintain a distinct style that is simple and working and you'll be good until you can hire your own designer. Vast majority of start-ups with their fancy UIs are mostly just pretty balloons filled with air. Maybe it attracts some people, but most people (myself included) are happy with simpler layouts as long as they are easy to use. Sure if the site is indisputably ugly it can be jarring but you get the point :). Note that pretty visuals != good user experience.
Nice explanation, thanks.

"Trusting Trust" makes my head hurt.

Has anyone considered bootstrapping on completely different stacks and then diffing the results?

Maybe even using cross compilers.

I can imagine hostile actors compromising various Intel, AMD, ARM chips. But I can't imagine those compromised targets all behaving the same way. Or going back in time to port their compromises to obsolete architectures.
How is this different from the RC release a couple months ago?
Thanks, I just sent in the mail
as a Greek and Latin student, there are quite a lot of English words that don't quite mean what I would expect. if it's really important that I understand how a word is normally used in English (eg, some critical safety context), I look it up.
I just created this simple library for creating a RESTful API from a yaml file with just a few lines of text. As a full stack developer, I regularly need to build simple REST APIs quickly in order to build a web app prototype. This library allows me to do this with just a few lines of code, and I am sharing it here in case its of use to anybody else.

Effectively, this library turns a yaml file into a Flask RESTful API and implements documentation via swagger.

It's very basic right now, and still not yet documented, but I'm planning to add additional feature such as user management, permissions and the ability to insert your own code.

Thanks,
Chris
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Canada's oil interests are opposed to the US's. The whole Trans Mountain pipeline was intended to export Canadian tar-sands oil to the swelling Chinese economy before fossil fuel exports have to be stopped.
We all have different levels of resilience. This site isn't for you.
The goal of Wasmer is being able to run WebAssembly not just in the browser, but also in servers at native speed.
Suspect is highly depends on what you're doing. I used to run Linux for video editing with a Nvidia GPU. It was an extreme hassle anytime a new driver came out and blew away some config. Moving to Mac cleared all those issues up. I know this pain well when you have a deadline and are messing around with kernel configs and compiling. Many many hours wasted.

Docker with ffmpeg has solved most of those issues now since you can basically have a custom toolchain totally isolated from your core operating system. So, it would likely work knowing what I know now (or with modern tools).
The ability to customize the mail application was a blessing and a curse. Notes applications had no real "source code", it was just one big binary blob. So if you forked one of the built-in applications it was extremely difficult to merge your changes back in after IBM released upgrades.
No, because I have a job I like now. When I had a job I didn't like... Yeah, changing it was a pretty big priority. Why wouldn't it be?
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Having used it for about 24K miles, I think Tesla AutoPilot works incredibly well (using software 9.0 and AP2.0 hardware in my Model S).

And I'm really glad it isn't crippled with some geofencing that would limit it to where I could enable it.

Having said all that, the name is a terrible and implies something it isn't capable of yet. It's a dangerously bad marketing choice.
Not completely related, but I learned today that the official world's hottest pepper has approached the scoville level of low-level pepper spray at 2.2 million (Carolina Reaper). Bear spray is still higher at around 5 million though.
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All these hackerrank/leetcode tests + White board tests + all day interviews. How is it possible to work a full time job and dedicate enough time to get another job? Especially if you have been out of school for while. I got like 100 on my algorithms classes, but its been so long ago and its not like most developers write red black trees, suffix tree, heaps etc. I have started to review this stuff and it takes so much time.

Why can't we have some sort licensing board like a medical board so that you prove you can code, and then interviews aren't so time consuming.
WASM gets statically verified before it runs.
It is only bad fiction writing that attempts to be didactic or prophetic.
I remember a few years ago I shared a Google spreadsheet among a few coworkers so we could all see and edit the same thing.

The amazing utility of being able to see the location of everyone's active cell, and seeing each person as a different colour, was just wonderful. Combined with a voice channel and it was more useful than a face to face meeting in a conference room.

This inspires me to try to get the editor sharing running for my tiny DevOps team.
I've always assumed perhaps they just resell the numbers at some discount.