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I really like this guy's articles. If you look in the archives [1], he's been writing prolifically for at least 15 years.

Let's zoom on 2018: [2] * 3 summaries of reading for at least 40 books read in a number of miscellaneous subjects (some of them re-reads) * Articles on type theory * Some articles centered around specific programming languages like python, Haskell, and Go * Articles on concurrency * And much more! :-)

I think he has "seasons" of learning particular languages. I think I've read some of his articles on Clojure, but he stopped writing about it eventually. According to StackOverflow [3], he appears to be an expert in Python.

In his Github account [4], I see a bunch of repos including one for code on his blog, but I don't think there's any particular repo he focuses on (maybe pycparser?).

Apart from making me feel inadequate about my own year accomplishments (how many books have I read this year?), I'm curious what one would do after such sizable knowledge ingestion. I'm surprised this guy doesn't attempt to come up with his own programming language. Maybe he knows is not worth it? Maybe he knows that is better to know the nooks and crannies of existing languages than trying to come up with a new one?

Maybe he just reads books instead of going dancing, watching a movie, socializing in a bar, listening music, browsing the web, playing the piano, or what not. Maybe he does all this things and still has time for reading and learning and writing his blog.

Sometimes I wish/hope/expect that everything I've learnt will sometime in the future allow me to create something, anything, where I can mix and match pieces of everything I've taken in. For sure this guy already benefits from all his knowledge on his day job, his side projects and maybe on his everyday life and interactions. I don't know, but I'm curious.

I mostly punish myself, all the time, for not being more productive, all the time.

1: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/all

2: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/2018

3: https://stackoverflow.com/users/8206/eli-bendersky?tab=profi...

4: https://github.com/eliben?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tab=repositories&q=...
So the government can now ask you to do specialised software development to retardify your own systems and if you refuse then they can fine you?

I didn’t think there was any basis whatsoever to be able to make a law that assumes a company is capable of maintaining or modifying their systems or infrastructure. That seems too generalised.. what if they’re running on a system that they don’t have the source code for?
I would say that would not be done by "an app", nor "a service with an API exposed", but by "a protocol" that other/most/all apps follow. Jabber/XMPP comes to mind, so does Matrix.
> Introducing a lockfile is a big step forward for Python dependency management

Huh? I'm not really familiar with the state of dependency management for Python/dynamic languages but... there's much more out there beyond just lockfiles. I'm a bit appalled Python is so far behind.
I mentioned in another comment, but I filtered recruiters based on their ability to filter resumes. If they couldn't use their own time efficiently, I was gonna have a hard time. And yes, recruiters can be trained, and yes it is expensive training.
Scrubs?
Is there any credible source the other way around?

How many foreign nationals own property in Vancouver? How many of those properties are unoccupied? I can't remember where I spotted reporting on those two questions, but I wouldn't be surprised if the city publishes real estate transaction data such that the number of foreign purchases can be gathered. I remember a very small portion reported.
> 60%? Forget that. Why should anyone give up their right to work for a little over half of their market value?

Well, you could take the American option where you're not allowed to work in that field, so you get 0% of your salary... (California excluded, if I understand correctly)
This makes no sense to me - why not integrate texts into Google Sheets or Google Maps? This feels like pushing unrelated projects to boost engagement. iMessage does not invade my email.

Didn't Google get badly burned integrating chat into gmail (Google buzz)?
I would say XML vs JSON makes little difference to the complexity of an application (e.g., an editor) using it.
I was thinking something like it spins along a dimension so small it can't be detected without a particle collider the size of the solar system.
Principal number one; don’t overcomplicate yourself. Keep it simple, stupid
Sadly, one big barrier to this is that a lot of regulations prevent them from charging more money for this than for a regular ride in many jurisdictions. It’s obviously more expensive to provide so many companies don’t bother. An Uber is almost never accessible for a wheelchair van.
You're expected to do your best at your next job—but because it's not the most appropriate job for you, you're actual performance is probably some percentage less than what it could be elsewhere. This can in turn be an opportunity to diversify your overall skillset.

(I was of course being a bit facetious with the 40% metric—real life isn't quite so simple—but saying the noncompete should have 100% compensation is silly. That would only make sense if your ability to work was being completely taken away)
> Regean had sovereign immunity, so he could not be personally tried.
Sounds fair. Arrest businessmen because it's practical, don't arrest Regean because it won't look good
I think that's where Google Messages is headed unless they somehow decide to put it on other app stores.
I have read a little bit about this topic at https://www.lemberglaw.com/self-driving-autonomous-car-accid.... I think it's interesting to talk about this future tech. However, I personally won't risk myself to ride inside one of these prototype. It needs to be 99% safe before I would by one of it.
> When you recruit for a sexy company, it's probably really easy to build teams cause good talent seeks you out

Bingo. If you have to go out and find people, you're gonna have a hard time.
If you like a sport, don't wish the olympics on it.
Google Meet is the new thing.
Blogspam of

https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/researchers-classify-alzheimers...
More than. 70% of French citizens sympathize with the yellow jackets, so no one is really gonna go out and oppose them. Unfortunately I think that unless you have a completely authoritarian government, it will be hard to convince your citizens to accept short term loss for long term benefits such as preserving the environment.
I should take my timeline of Google's chat fumbles [1] and keep it updated. A lot has happened since. But Allo's stagnation has been known since April 2018 [2], and "classic" Hangouts' decline has long been suspected in light of the new services also prefixed by the same name.

This post seemed like it might cut the BS and explain what's going on, but it's tinged with PR platitudes and is unacceptably unclear and nonchalant about "classic" Hangouts' fate. They're basically saying they'll shut it down soon but not quite yet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465483 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16886921
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I mention this in my comment, the problem is precisely that it is so easy to invalidate protections in common law -- a new law can easily invalidate an old freedom. And yes, "the right to bear arms" being restricted in Australia is an example where this was a net positive.

But invalidating habeas corpus, privacy, and free speech are all things that have been done by our government in the past decade. The ability for fundamental rights to be invalidated that easily should be seen as a much bigger problem than people seem to view it as.

I used to be in the "we don't need a constitutional bill of rights, we have common law protections" camp as well. But the slow march to remove many of our rights has drastically changed my viewpoint on this topic.

[+]: And while it might be inflammatory, it is entirely correct to refer to detention centers as "concentration camps" because they concentrate a section of the population -- in this case possible asylum seekers -- into a single place.
So what's new?
NPR's "Planet Money: The Indicator" Just did two episodes on this:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/11/16/668745229/rece...
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/11/19/669368782/rece...
Tim Cook for president of the USA.
The part that makes me recoil in horror is the potential damage wrought by one failure - at what point does the rebuild time for your RAID Array start to collide with the MTBF for the drives? ;-)
There was also that time a 61 year old farmer beat world class athletes in a 543 mile race: https://elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young

Efficiency is the most important factor.
I kind of think OTA updates are a double-edged sword. It could also introduce partially tested software, or malicious code.
"What price X?" is a common expression, e.g., [1].

This happens to be a particularly awkward example, and I'm not sure if they're trying to use a figurative expression as a literal one, or if the confusion is intentional. I would say it's a valid sentence, but a bad one, both on its own and as an opening for this article.

[1]: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/what-pr...
Google has been testing the market since gchat. Doesnt mean it is working out.
Turboprops are usually sub 2-hour flights; 400 miles would be 80 minutes, which covers most of the passenger flights a turboprop might do.

Another question might be whether or not the range can be extended when there are no passengers; a turboprop can be loaded with extra fuel when only the plane needs to be moved; the beechcraft super king (10 pax turboprop) has nearly a 2000 mile range with no passengers.

It was also slightly shady to specify the range in miles, when nautical miles are more typically used.
What is the corporate interest that you think is served by mandating encryption backdoors?
If US and China both produce 1000 tons of CO2 per capita per year, then China is twice as bad as the US, not twice as good.

The measure you're looking for is carbon intensity of economy. How many tons of CO2 are produced per, say $1000 of economic output.

> But if you break out population statistics and 500 million of them live in mud huts and produce almost no CO2, then the other half that have moved to US like living conditions produce US like carbon.

That's not really indicative of anything other than a wealth disparity, which I'm sure can happen both in high and low per capita polluters.
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Gmail has chat. It is gchat->hangouts. I love it.

What you said doesnt make sense is actually easy to get hooked up onto. I get a phone call, and i can answer it from my laptop, or it goes to voice mail and i get a transcript. It is amazing.
I mentioned some in this comment...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18615490

But also, you gotta people what you really want, starting with the job description. In my personal experience, 75% of unqualified applicants apply because they thought they were a fit when they never had a chance. Saying "seeking high energy team player who likes coding" is gonna attract everyone you didn't ever want to apply to do just that.
The problem is right here, it's just gonna end up with 5 different apps.

Related xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
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"white" people aren't actually white-colored, and "black" people aren't actually black-colored. The real problem is that we don't say "fair" and "dark" skinned.
TFA claims electric planes are quieter, but I thought the majority of the noise from a turboprop was caused by the propeller. Does anyone have actual knowledge of the noise difference?
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Like with anything to do with security and convenience, there is always a trade off (longer passwords are more secure but harder to type, etc...). I don’t think this is a big enough security issue right now for car manufacturers and insurance companies to really do too much about.

I used to have a car without this feature and it was sort of annoying for 5 seconds each time I have to unlock the car. I do get annoyed when I get a rental without this feature too.

Additionally, this also helps when I am carrying bags or other large items with two hands. I can simply make a kicking motion at the bottom bumper of my car and the trunk will open automatically instead of me having to put the bags down and fish for my keys.

I agree that it is minor and not a real deal-breaker, but it is a nice to have.
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> abuses of sex

I think that's where the breakdown is occurring here: this is ultimately a values-based judgment. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, but I think both sides of this debate would do well to recognize that this will ultimately come down to one's own personal beliefs on the subject matter.

Put more explicitly: there are those who will consider pornography and prostitution immoral regardless of the specifics, and there are those who have no issues with it assuming it's regulated (and such regulations are strictly enforced/policed) so that only informed, consenting adults can take part. Convincing either of these individuals of the other's position is likely futile.
My takeaway from this post was google saying : We acknowledge that Hangouts, Duo, Allo exist and we think they were orphaned for too long and we are adopting them back. Hangouts to me is like Flash, useful but so out of touch with everyday needs of an ever evolving world and sadly forgotten. I love Google Photos, Duo as well as Messenger (SMS App) and i hope they don't end up in Google's Graveyard sometime soon.
As an Australian, I'm quite concerned that software I've written and is free software will be asked to be backdoored by the Australian government.

I don't believe this is a significant risk, at least for the case of source code. The proposed legislation doesn't allow them to ask for "systemic weaknesses" - so a sneaky change in the source that leaks few bits of key material or something should be out. And a big part of this is secrecy - they don't want those targeted to know they're under surveillance - so it would be self-defeating to ask you to put an "if (user == osama_bin_laden) { send_to_ausgov(msg); }" line in the public source.

If you distribute your free software through an app store or something there could be more risk, in that you might be asked to distribute a binary with code to target certain users - but even there I'd say there's still too much chance that people analysing the binary would discover the backdoor code, so it's doubtful they'd go that way either.

It seems to me that the most likely use of the TCN power would be to ask the OS vendor to deploy some Game Over malware to a targeted endpoint (using their existing update or app store mechanism). We already know what that malware looks like, the hardest part is getting it onto the device.

I find it hard to credit that Apple would stomach this, after they were seemingly prepared to go to the mat with the FBI in the All Writs Act case over a very similar issue. Would they withdraw entirely from the Australian market? You'd have to think that is a live possibility.
Try https://preview.web.skype.com/

It is the universal Skype written in React (works natively on windows and electroned on other Desktop OSes)
You should add that no product from anyone else has this capability, even on iPhone.
I was part of the Kubernetes v1.13 release team, though not part of the team that produced this fix.

The project's Product Security Team adhered to the timeline indicated in the project's security release process: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/securi...

tl;dr a fix is (edit: optionally) sent out to a private distributors list under embargo within 2 weeks of disclosure, and public disclosure (with new releases) happens within 3 weeks of disclosure (with some discretion for timing to make sure it's not buried in a weekend or off-hours)

I can't speak to who knew about it when outside of the project, but I know the project acted expediently once the vulnerability was disclosed.
While I'm sympathetic to the claim that foreign buyers didn't influence the price significantly, the ~5% ownership figure is surprisingly high. I wonder what portion it is in other cities, ones that aren't complaining.
You suspect that the average person is going to give up a convenience that benefits them multiple times daily to ever so slightly mitigate the risk of an incredibly rare problem? I do not agree.
I have it plugged into SMS so for me it also works for people who haven't upgraded from SMS yet
What value would Apple add to Tesla? Apple CarPlay is available from most manufacturers already. Maybe they could negotiate better with suppliers?

If Netflix takes a hit like is predicted in the article maybe Apple should buy that? They already have a streaming music offering and negotiate with studios for music rights. They could bundle their media rights negotiations and secure access to streaming video content for their devices. They might even shift some of the streaming burden to Apple’s own data centers to save costs.

DuckDuckGo is arguably a potential Apple acquisition. The company is small and easy to integrate. The privacy focus aligns with Apple’s messaging. Just give it an Apple skin, rebrand it as Siri Search, and integrate with Apple’s search ads. I just wonder if DDG’s search partnerships are sustainable once it starts taking away meaningful traffic from companies doing the “real work.”
When in doubt, use the desktop version. To be honest, its a very simple decision in the windows world, and I'm not sure what tripped you unless you're nee to windows.
Why? Virtually all sports (including this one - see the comment from travisoneill1) have gender-related biological differences one way or the other. Why try to minimize this fact?
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You could look at how India fixed such a loophole in its constitution based on the common law: This is of interest to any person interested in law, or mathematical logic. The rub of the whole thing is: define something called "the basic nature of the constitution", which is not part of the text of the constitution, and then mandate that no constitutional reform can violate the basic nature of the constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesavananda_Bharati_v._State_o...

There is a famous anecdote of Godel's Citizeship test where he claimed to have detected a loophole in the USA constitution whereby you can install a dictatorship through legal constitutional reform. He was famously shushed by Einstein. See the following article, for example (footnote 115 mentions the Indian Constitutional case).

http://law.capital.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=32584
It is telling that Chinese-US relations are at stake when a "private" citizen is arrested for a crime. Beijing was quick to say there was no wrong-doing before formal charges were even made.

China wonders why we distrust their businesses, and this is the reason. They all seem to be heavily politically supported by the Chinese government.

We're all discussing it with the presumption that, of course, it would. When we indicted half of FIFA everyone in the EU loved us for it, and certainly no political establishments condemned it.
It also describes RADAR, or even LIDAR for that matter. It doesn't seem like one should be able to patent something that is merely an application of a well known physical principal. Maybe I misunderstand what "novel" means.
Hopping from text to video in a single click is cool...

But the #1 thing that stops me from even considering buying an Android device is "it's not iMessage".

iMessage doesn't have single click to video, but it's also automatic. No hassle at all and I can blue bubble send perfection to any other iPhone-r. It's also synced to all my devices flawlessly.

I think that's what is really missing. People don't mind opening another app to place call / facetime / hangout video. They want simple, clear phone messaging that isn't an "app"
It seems like Duo is working out. It has more than 500m installs, and isn't installed by default, so it's numbers aren't padded the same way Hangouts' are.

Allo, despite being shut down got to about the same size as Signal.
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Read it to find out :)
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The question was for kyrra specifically. I have Google Fi and I really enjoy hangouts. The "... something special" was what I was interested in, specifically I was interested in an insider's POV.
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> Do you have evidence for the "because"? I agree that erasure is a sound approach for type system representation when designing a language, but I thought that backwards compatibility was explicitly a concern in the case of Java.

When the debate was raging around 2004 when generics were being discussed, Neal Gafter offered a proposal of a reified JVM that would maintain backward compatibility.

Erasure was ultimately chosen over that proposal.

Backward compatibility was not the issue: technical soundness was.
Did you read the entirety of this report? Can you share any more interesting quotes/bits?

If you did read, would you suggest other HN users read it?
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/bin/maybe,/dev/notrandom and the ishadm(information super highway admin) come to mind :)
I am scared thinking about the implications of this if true. Normal reaction?

edit: I had a really high dose of LSD about ten years ago and it really changed my perspective of what reality is made of. I feel like the filter of ego on the true reality of the universe is just a tiny slice of the full spectrum of what is possible/actually happening.
Well, TIL that the ACLU was in YC W17 thanks to the "top 100 tweet count" page. I was kind of surprised by that, are there other well-established organizations that have joined YC at a (very) late stage or are they unique?
>>Google feels like a company that's run by a bunch of engineers/product managers instead of a product leader with a cohesive vision.

Google is a company that follows a model called OKR. Here, in this model, the company is always supposed to be chasing moonshots.

There fore all incentives, pay, raise, promotions, stock grants etc etc are all attached to such moonshots.

There is zero incentive for anyone for to maintain anything.

The system is working perfectly as designed.
Duo has replaced Hangouts in the GMS bundle of apps that vendors should ship preloaded [1][2][3][4], while Allo isn't in the list.

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/07/google-is-demoting-... [2] https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/7/13202866/google-hangouts-... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/72lpsk/how_come_go... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_mobile_services
This was really good, but you missed talking about how Leannart (systemd author) likes to eat babies and thinks kittens are ugly.
You may love it. Many, many other loved Gchat and abandoned hangouts immediately after the forced downgrade as an unbearable trash fire.
Is hangouts installed by default (i don't know), seem to have a billion installs, which looked a bit too high for both default-install, and non-default install.