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The idea and the execution of it are why people enjoyed the video. He linked to a video by the guy that helped him build it that goes through some of the engineering of the device for those that are interested. He never took credit for doing the entire thing by himself.
Well, the people of Crimea wanted it, so there's that.
We’re started using Discord for remote employees and now use it for the whole engineering team. I can very much see discord introduce more business specific features and directly compete with slack.
Bad apologies make things worse, but good apologies don’t make things better.

Actions speak louder than words. Blocking people accounts was a management level decision that they are only regretting due to this coming to the public’s attention.
But there wasn't anything stopping early browsers from using a different scripting language. They stuck with javascript. Was that because it was a good language?

And what about Java, for example? And why don't people "flock" to LISP, say, or Haskell? Are those "bad" languages, now? And what about software, like windows- is windows widely used because it's a great operating system?

Adoption is a rotten bad measure of quality. Not just in programming languages- in everything.
Were there any drone reports after the army was deployed?

There was a 'suspected drone sighting' around 17:00 on Friday but flights resumed.

The oddity about the whole event was that there was no evidence presented at all other than phone-videos showing a variety of lights.
"Basically misunderstood REST and added back the discoverability that was there to begin with" approach.

You can see from his "proper" implementation of rest that his test understanding is partial at best, for example the user object doesn't return links to change his state (i.e. suspend, delete) not the users resource exposes an endpoint to add a user.

Then he added it in the "introspected" approach, but it's nothing novel.
Python 3 is worth it just for Unicode handling. As someone using a language that is uses non-ASCII characters, thank you if you're using Python 3 and made your software more internationally compatible.
FIFA almost certainly did 10 years ago. It’s been a massive franchise for decades. The others obviously couldn’t as they didn’t exist! But games generally were absolutely mainstream in 2008. So rather than there being different levels of mainstream I think we’re seeing new facets emerging from games and becoming mainstream themselves.

What we’re seeing that’s new is the confluence of a few things that have led to game playing becoming a mainstream career and the existence of game players that are celebrities as a result.

The other trend I see is that more ubiquitous access to the internet means more kids hang out with their friends in games as a means to socialise. But this was by no means a niche thing in 2008 there was just a higher barrier to entry. For example XBox Live debuted in 2002.
I cannot believe how popular TypeScript has become. Is Microsoft running a huge ad campaign?

I've used TypeScript for frontend work (Angular 2) for about 6 months. I did not renew my contract because I did not enjoy constantly fixing TypeScript configuration, versioning and source mapping issues.

My new company switched to TypeScript for backend work and development across all teams has slowed down noticeably. I spend a lot of my time just discussing with colleagues what types should be called and whether or not we should merge two types together into one or whether or not it makes sense to have two different types to represent essentially the same data in order to enforce different constraints on the user of the data depending on the kinds of functionality that we want to expose.

Then, as we build the project (in an agile way), we have to keep renaming and combining types ALL the time because otherwise we end up with too many different types that sound almost the same and have almost all the same properties but are slightly different semantically.

Also, we spend a lot of time just thinking about what the intention of the user should be and all the ways in which we can impose contraints on them instead of correctly acknowledging that the user will always find some way to do whatever the heck they want and that all this strict typing adds no real value once you introduce the human factor.

Ironically, the so called 'stupidity' which TypeScript aims to protect the code from will find even more compex, more creative and less obvious ways to express itself within that code.
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The decentralised alternative is to use something like SyncThing[0]. It's what I use and is only slightly more involved.

[0] https://syncthing.net
You were downvoted for saying it was an obvious fake while giving no justification for your conclusion.
In my experience Dostoevsky novels can be a bit of a slog at the beginning because nothing much happens and it’s lots of character analysis. Then about halfway through some significant event happens and the rest is absolutely fascinating because you’ve spent so much time getting into the characters’ heads.
It's sort of like those videos where they blur out eyes of the suspects. Friends and relatives can still recognize everything else.
China's goal is to own Indian Ocean trading route, and essentially own majority of Africa's Indian Ocean Coast (Including resources). The goal of US is to gain some foothole in becoming a major producer in manufacturing again. The end goal for both is to slow the other down, or reduce their military foot print by a major public/private deal.

On a separate note the US just recently starting to pay attention to Africa's resources and wealth and China's recent grasp on it (railroads, Somalia's coast, education systems, etc). India and many countries of Africa will play a big role in what happens to US and China in terms of trade and future sanctions is another guess.
No mention of enpass.io, i found their method to be completely safe. Encrypted sqlite files, shared across Dropbox/onedrive/Google-drive.

Apps used for Mac, Linux, windows, browser integration also works fine. All boxes are checked, don't know why isn't it popular among masses or nerd community.
They are prosecuting the company though, not the staff.

If GS refuses to pay, the best they can do is ban them from the country. What else can they do, seriously?
The guy was an idiot. No Chinese company would stick to such a deal. Promise the world, deliver nothing.
Mark is the kind of person who pays others to do parts of his projects that are dull or not good use of his time.

He might well contract someone to edit together his videos.
Human brains function on pattern recognition. Racism is a side effect of trying to force a pattern on everything.

Computer brains are entirely different. They suck at pattern recognition and excel with data. They can probably have other flawed correlations, but in different ways to humans.

Alexa is at the moment still a baby AI, and imo pretty cute as long as we don't give her anything dangerous.
Why even five years?

Let the airport,airlines and insurera sue any culprits for losses. Why should I pay for their incarceration? No harm was done to persons or property.
If five years won’t deter you I doubt ten would.
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I try to keep this long story very short. Note: I am right now living in Middle Europe and I am in my late 20s.

Basically I was gonna change job in these months and as soon as I wrote on Linkedin that I closed my position with my previous employer, the university Professor with which I made my dissertation for my bachelor degree some years ago informed me they want to offer me a position as Research Fellow.

It is well paid (not industry level "well paid" but it's good enough and it's 3 days a week remote work + flexible hours and I get _A_LOT_ of tax deductions that I usually would not get... basically I should not pay a single euro of taxes. Also they promise to improve it year over year) and they offered me to "sponsorize" my master degree + eventually a phd because they have a lot of research projects right now (especially related to blockchains projects + virtual reality + augmented reality) and not enough researchers.

Note that since some weeks ago I was working as web/mobile developer, so this is a very different skillset.

Now, I don't really know if I am interested in a phd, but the master degree seems a good opportunity.

What I don't know, at all, is: how well is seen in the eyes of the industry and HR-people a position as researcher in academy? I mean, do I risk to go back in a sw dev position in the next years and see my salary/perceived_value/expected_skill downgraded? Do you have any experience, stories, knowledge about this?

Thank you a lot.
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It could be anything, from sarcasm to listening to too much Netflix.
The CEO was Ron Johnson. Alex Blumberg did an interview with him on his Without Fail podcast where he briefly talks about his time at JC Penny (along with Target and Apple). The whole interview is good, but JCP starts around the 28-29 minutes.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/without-fail/the-man-behind-the-...
Bazel, from the outset, wasn't designed for open source projects that tend to have dependencies with incompatible build systems. It isn't flexible enough.
Such an inaccurate description of the situation that you’re doing damage to this position. Facebook didn’t have adequate privacy disclosure when users logged into apps like Spotify which could then pull conversations to display in their UI.
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> and solves most of the problems that held that back from wider popularity.

> …

> and is in JavaScript with a GPL license.

If you want them to be widely adopted outside of research circles, you should avoid the GPL. Many companies would be interested in a curve like this but would avoid GPL just avoid any possible litigation. It's not great, and it's probably not a popular opinion I have but it's what I've seen from experience.
> few are aware that their personal safety is in the hands of one of the world’s most globalized, legally complex, and opaque industries

I'm just having a really hard time following the moral logic here.. To me it's like saying your life is in the hands of the fed when you go into a national park. You get blasted on a bottle of tequila, climb Half Dome and fall, but your life was in the hands of the fed?

Most people I know would be cognizant that if you get super drunk on a cruise, site on the railing, and then fall from the railing with nobody around you may not be heard from again..

And ignoring the falling off the boat bit... Just _being_ on a boat in the middle of the ocean? Your not aware that your safety is pretty much in the hands of the cruise operator?
Mainland China gets along fine without Facebook and has a strong offering in WeChat, but then again maybe Facebook is the lesser of two evils here...
If that information damaged your livelihood, would you still want it to be free? Not advocating for anything here, just pointing out.
what would be most scary is if they for some reason pay the fine to continue to operate there.
Authoritarian, or totalitarian tendencies are often naturally produced by absolute conviction in "us being good, them being evil". Even when one's ideology in theory insists on democracy, and compromise, it's very easy to tell "ok, we just need to save democracy/planet/nature/humanity by crushing the evil people, and then there will be bright future". This is compatible with practically any ideology, because it calls just for one exception, sort of war to end all wars. Besides, it's always possible to re-define the very meaning of democracy, and compromise to suit an urge to get rid of opponents.

Btw, your use of left-wing term is the classical No true Scotsman fallacy.
Memphis was the murder capital of the United States for a few years, but it was almost entirely gang-on-gang killings. That said, the Mall of Memphis (Mall of Murder) had to shut down because they found too many bodies in the grass between the building and the 'creek' that runs by it.

There's a joke people from Memphis understand. If you go to St. Louis, you might get shot by a gang member for your shoes. If you go to Memphis, you might get shot by the cops for your shoes.
Wasn’t that what people said about MySpace? And business analysts see weakness in fb for that reason too, they’re vulnerable. Just look at snap’s users leaving to see, stickiness works both ways: as soon as something better exists, people switch quickly
By far better, with greater coverage.
In iOS I’ve been using Strongbox, which has been excellent for my needs so far (cloud sync and iOS integration). Also supports TouchID.
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Let’s not forget the context, too - Dostojewski was very worried about the individualistic and nihilistic trends he noticed in the Western world and which were slowly seeping through to Russia as well. He was worried they’ll lead to a collapse of civilization, and was looking for an answer on how to prevent that from happening. His books are an exploration of this subject.
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Don’t feed the trolls please.
Ah, thank you! You just unlocked a bunch of reading for me!
Yup, you’re overreacting, especially given I wrote that >4y ago when we hadn’t even started implementing E2E encryption. Nowadays it’s almost complete and as others have said we will be turning it on by default for private comms in the coming month(s). (There is little point in E2E for a conversation which is public and being indexed by Google etc). Some deployments already have E2E on by default in fact (eg the french government deployment).
Anyone can shed light on Goldman's chances to get fair trial from the Malaysian courts?

7.5b is more than 10 times the fee collected by Goldman, why stop there?
Take it up at a political level I expect
Absolutely. I always hold my breath and hit the brakes if a bus gets in front of me. Trucks aren't so bad as they have the exhaust pipe pointing right up in the air. Just the amount of traffic at the time makes a huge difference as well. At peak hour times I have breathing issues but other times its acceptable.
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I'm saddened by the balkanization of air monitoring space. This map shows few PurpleAir sensors in Poland, but there are in fact many more sensors like this in existence - some under a FOSS project Luftdaten[0], others operated by a particular local startup. I recently built a Luftdaten sensor myself (though I'm yet to connect it to the project map). I expect the situation in other countries to be similar.

I wish all those air monitoring organizations and companies cooperated on a single map. This data really needs to be aggregated together.

--

[0] - https://luftdaten.info/
How big is the area of a GPS jammer? Gatwick is 10km further out than London's biggest ring road and 45km from the centre.
no it's 10
There’s no one to go to, and as a user there’s nothing you can do without hassling your friends and family on their posting habits.
Indeed. For commercially useful applications, collecting the data, labeling it, etc, costs orders of magnitude more than a team of PhDs building the models.
Continuing the theme, are you also aware that on many cruises, sexually assaulting another passenger will be met by asking you to leave at the next port?

That's a specific example related to me by a chap I know; an ex-copper who now heads security on a cruise ship operating out of Southampton in the UK. I forget which nation the ship's flag is, but basically any and all crimes committed on board are met with a shrug and a suggestion to offload the offending passenger at the next stop. Actions that would lead to lengthy custodial sentences if committed in the passenger's own home are basically without consequence; he's had to deal with theft, assault, sexual assault, people getting drunk and smacking around their spouse and children. Flag state doesn't want to know. On merchant vessels that just have a small crew and no passengers (i.e. almost all of them), it's even more lawless.

In a U.S. national park, there is law. There is someone tasked with enforcing that law. At sea, at the level of individual interactions, not so much.
> build their dictatorship.

I highly doubt that this is what the motive is. But I agree that this decision is very irresponsible and can have a disastrous impact. It could surely help in detecting a pattern which may put the nation in some sort of risk, but there is a greater and inevitable chance that it can be easily misused by the granted authorities or some personnel working for those authorities.
This was a very sobering and well-presented perspective. You bring up some critical points I hadn't considered, and I'm very thankful for it.

I have quite a bit of emergency savings in cash, but you shone a light on the whole long-term vs. short-term, high-risk vs low-risk thing that I had previously understood on a mathematical level, but not how it would apply to, well, me.
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Sure burning oil is bad and not only because CO2, but also because of other more toxic gases it produces.

The comment i was replying to, says that US producing more oil doesn't mean that more oil will be burnt in total, because others have to produce less in response, and saving oil for later would be better for those who save it.

Even though i wish the second part was true, so that oil prices could go up reducing its usage, i have to admit that unfortunately, selling as much oil as possible while there is a demand for it, is the rational strategy for people who own the oil.
I use syncthing for some backups, no idea why I've never considered it for keepass. Probably cause I don't want to mix the two and clients don't offer it already integrated. Or are there any? It for sure wouldn't make building the project more easy, and the password manager is the one thing i still want to build form source to at least imagine I have full control over it.
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I believe my comment deserves respect.
But the airport was closed anyway. And there's some work by yours truly into targeted GPS spoofing, allowing not only to jam but also to take control of the device using GPS.
Your experience will vary, but perhaps:

4-5 bars => 98% likelihood that everything is great.

1-2 bars => 20% quite good, 50% pretty decent, 20% quite bad, 7% bad, 3% no service.

How is something like that meaningless? That is immensely useful. You can also reason about it depending on the context. Downtown but inside a bar in a cellar? Or out in the country far from civilization?

That it isn't perfect doesn't make it meaningless.
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Visually? I have yet to hear of a drone that can fly by camera instead of GPS.
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> I don't think Go should be used for larger projects. Apparently though the community disagrees because they're really adding generics.

Go is actually specifically built for large projects: the project was started because C++ has severe problems when used at the scale of Google.

The basic design of Go was intended to engineer out the issues that Google developers saw when using C++ at scale for long periods, such as circular references and problems with combining exceptions with concurrency.

What makes Go distinctive is that the team concluded that complexity inherantly does not scale, and designed for simplicity. Which enables Go to scale down in a way, even though it was originally intended as a "systems language".
First one sounds like fraud if premeditated but I don't know the details. 2nd one could work depending on the business but could also make future partnership impossible. Last one is just petty.
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How many accounts have you created?
"Mistakes were made" is a good apology, but with no personalization, no reparations for the people impacted, and no reflection on the process and context that allowed those mistakes to happen, it still leaves Slack in a lower place in my mind compared to where it was before this incident.

It may sound like there's no way to win for them, but well, mistakes have consequences. Time will heal the wounds.
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Question : is it still possible to raise without following the practices of the day ? Aka : no liquidation preferences, or shorter than average vesting period, etc.

Or is the trend to give more and more safety nets to VC at the expense of the people actually working in the company irreversible ?
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Tell me about that NNTP-Hackernews gateway you’re posting from...
I understand the necessity of embargoes, but I’m a little torn on this one, given the ubiquity of Slack, IP crackdown mistakes aside.

Hypothetical: If you build a product meant for use in other countries than (also as well as) the one it’s been built in, should you be allowed embargo its use based on the (possibly arbitrary) politics of a single one of those countries?

I suppose the makers can do as they please/are required to in their home country.

However, it opens another costly-to-startups hypothetical: If the politics of our home country swing to the (insert x-axis direction) and we decide (insert country Y) are baddies, do we have the resources to comply with an enforced embargo?
I second bnt's idea. I cannot sleep and would love to see this play out.
I was expecting some kind of stats and charts when I see "alarming Regularity". Nothing of the sort. Totally overblown headline compared the amount of accidents. Would you make a headline for "People Die in Car Crashes with Alarming Regularity" ? probably not, even though the problem it way more important and endemic.
They may sense that Tencent is there for pump and dump, or they may be simply in share.
That would be why you also unionize the nurses.

(And also not subject basic rights like healthcare to market forces, but that’s a bridge a little farther.)
Can you show screenshots of that? What do the prompts from https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1076221401353207808 look like for a verified publisher?
There are like 5 airports in London. You want to be pretty confident your jamming will be very local.
But they got ton of cash out of China, right?
Nice, accusing the people you disagree with of being bot accounts. That's quite classy.
> Usually when this happens, it results in substantial

> innovation around privacy, security and awareness [...]

... in the HN filter bubble. Not in the general public.

Consider yourself lucky to be knowledgeable about IT. Most people are not and they have plenty of other things to think about instead of their IT-education.
Why were they on the USB drive is what I’d like to know.
The perception of 5 or 10 years as a deterrent doesn't make a difference to the average person.