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Has this been used in Europe, as well? If yes, can someone affected please excercise their GDPR rights and ask for information and access to personal data?
And the government would never use its power to design laws against its enemies in a Democratic society.

A Democratic society ruled by the majority never passes laws that discriminate against minorities and is never hostile against minorities....
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This thread on Twitter brought up some thoughts: https://mobile.twitter.com/DelilahSDawson/status/1090607202371600385

If someone gets a million-dollar funding or buyout offer for their company or product, who do they send the "OFFER IN HAND" email to when seeking someone to look out for them?

What does that person do, and what will they expect of you?
I wonder how easy this code will be to maintain? If the person leaves and a new developer is needed to come in and add new features?
Leetcode is something you can study for a couple of months and use fly through the technical portion of an interview. It is also something that good engineers with a decade of experience can totally fail at if unprepared to the same degree.

Leetcode questions measure interview study and how far removed you are from college classes, not how competent you are at your job.
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The ones courts which governed the relevant company were willing to issue warrants on behalf of — that is, those our regular legal and political systems decide on.

For a big multinational like Apple, that’s probably a fair number. But it’s also harder to hide they’re doing that, and let’s us bring pressure on them politically for their political misdeeds. In the end, it’ll be major powers who can — US, Europe, China, etc.

My point is that it’s never going to be the case that technologists get to unilaterally decide that for all of society.

My proposal is just to bring phones into line with existing warrants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19036408

But by doing so, technologists have the political cover to push back on spy agency excesses and abuses.
One day you're working for a plucky start up. The next you're working for a big name that's stealing tip money.

There's a reason that these companies do what they do. Fraud, breaking the law, and dark patterns are way easier ways to make money than doing so do ethically and legally. Companies either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.

I'm exaggerating a bit, but realistically the list of ethical tech companies is a lot shorter than the list of unethical ones.
Eh, I think Facebook would lose more money each day that conflict dragged on until they complied with apple’s policies.

Users can always access Facebook through safari.
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He's not saying break the law.

Throwing waste in the countryside is both legally and morally indefensible. Lowering one's taxable income using legal means is neither.
How would that cripple the monopoly model?
The counterargument here is empirical: there are companies that manage to do fine at Amazon's scale without forced attrition. Google is one of the most notable examples.
Worth reading in this regard: Shoshana Zubhoff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Fr...
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Oh wow. Better presentation too.
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Such a service already exists. I'm not able to find the name right now.
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This is having a real effect internally at Facebook.

In many ways this is a good punishment, disruptive to the bad actor and minimally disruptive/invasive to the consumer.

>Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation
gut feelings have a huge place in discovery science (what these scientists are doing). It can lead you in directions that rational cannot. For example, Kekule's dream of ouroborus: " He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail (this is an ancient symbol known as the ouroboros).[14]"

I've been privileged to know a lot of world-class scientists, and many of them have told me their careers and their best ideas came from gut feelings. Of course, they had to apply skepticism to the experimental results of their gut feeling experiments.
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Which courts? Which legal systems? Legal systems and courts of nations who believe political speech is a crime and that alternative lifestyles are capital offenses?
In practice, it means that when a company gets in bed with that hardware / software ecosystem, Apple is always going to be in that bed with them.

Different companies will risk-assess that differently.
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Your paying customers are still going to have to post their articles to different sites regardless of whether you support it or not. But you could make it easier for them. I would tell them:

"Medium cut off access so you have to go there directly to post. We've formatted your post for Medium - cut this and paste it to Medium here: [link_to_create_new_post_on_medium]."

Publishing to multiple platforms via a single click is nice, but the most painful part about publishing to multiple platforms is formatting the posts so they look good everywhere you post.
You're missing the point. "Car deaths happen constantly" isn't a good enough rebut. People will always think they would have been able to avoid the accident if they were in control.

It's worse because so far the few really bad accidents caused by "self driving" cars would have been stopped if a human was in control (see: Tesla + truck accident).
Not OP but worked in one of top 10 companies for a senior role and was also involved in hiring tech team.

There was no explicit "We need to get rid of x people" but there were performance reviews every year and getting the lowest performance mean being reassigned to another team and 3 consecutive lowest performance means forced attrition.

I don't even know why it's controversial (unless its a botched up execution). Most companies have dead weights that got in somehow and are toxic to the culture and a burden to the team.
Their decision to host a quiz about that topic on a nonstandard Google domain is just too ironic.
Oh, the sorted array-backed "map" isn't using B-trees because I wanted it as a comparison point (to see how the LLVM containers fare against the old "just use a vector" advice). So the ArrayMap isn't production-ready or anything... it's intended to give a baseline against which to compare what would happen if you wrote your own dead-simple map replacement with the hope of improving perf.
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Because "easing out less competent people" a fool's errand.

There will always be high performers and low performers on a team, both in a relative and absolute sense. Good managers don't make it their responsibility to close that gap; they just make it clear what the goals are, fill the team with self-motivated people, and provide the tools and environment to get the work done. And yes, you fire people if they don't meet a clear minimum level of performance, but don't make that an expectation out of the gate. Even if you cut all the "low performers" and double the "high performers'" pay, those people can burn out or get sick and suddenly turn into low performers. "First, Break All the Rules" is a great book on this topic.
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Another big technology corporation has forced attrition rates because their previous CTO came from Wal-Mart (yeah, that works-out well). Managers are told that, even if everyone on the team does the same amount of work, they either have to pick someone to lose or find themselves "lost", instead.

Forced attrition is bad for morale but it's an especially shit situation every review-cycle, when people are on edge because someone has to go, no matter what, and it's either going to be themselves or someone that they work with.
I was looking past the headline to the actual content of the article, which was much less click-bait-y: "rework how browsers convey what website you're looking at, so that you don't have to contend with increasingly long and unintelligible URLs".

The article never once says "hide the URL". We have no idea what form their solution will take (and they probably don't, either, yet) but they make it clear that they know the URL itself does have value and they're not going to just hide it.
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> The average internet user is unlikely to be able to detect a malicious URL. Do you think the average person can tell which of these URLs is legitimate, and owned by Example inc.?

I think you are missing my point of that statement, which is that this is not a problem with the type of the URI, and that there is no basis for the idea that "If you advocate for type safety within software, you should also advocate for a better system than URIs."

Either way, to answer your question, no one can tell which of those URLs are legitimate without Example Inc. first communicating their official address to them.

> Safari already only shows the hostname to help with visual identification - this doesn't help with different-but-similar hosts, but it does help regular users to see what website they're on, if they are unfamiliar with the protocol/host/path structure of URLs. Which they shouldn't have to be.

I'm against the idea that a user shouldn't need to know what they are doing on such a fundamental level. This is an attitude that people tend to have towards software and computers in general that doesn't really exist for other useful-but-dangerous technology with mass appeal like cars. It promotes magical thinking which I think may leave the users even less aware of the risks than they already are. Risks that don't somehow stop existing because you hide trivial information from the user. If properly educating people in using these systems is not an option, maybe letting them touch the hot stove isn't such a bad thing.

When you try to water some information embedded in an URI down for the dumbest user, you invariably hide or even misrepresent information. Safari only displaying host names is a great example of this, but another favorite of mine is how Chrome displays "Secure" in the address bar to indicate HTTPS with a verified certificate. In reality, it is of course only a very limited sense in which anything I do at that address is secure. A sense which the user that this was watered down for most likely won't recognize, instead being instilled with a false sense of security. By all means, color code the different parts of the URI, add tool tips or whatever, but don't hide what's actually there from someone that has every reason to care.

When some user on example.com starts impersonating Al, how does Safari hiding everything but the domain help the user differentiate "example.com/profiles/al" from "example.com/profiles/fakeal"?
I was on a previous version of Chrome when it was failing. I restarted to get 72.0.3626.81 and now it works. Could be related to that. Also, yes I use Ghostery, but that doesn't appear to causing an issue in the latest version of Chrome.
To take that to an extreme, I just stopped using PERL to make everything I needed in 2018.
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Obviously topics on race need to be covered carefully and sensitively given the destructive history of race, science and politics. However, it still should be covered, investigated and the facts accepted.

Sadly, in today's environment, science that conflicts with certain agenda have become blasphemy. It's reminiscent of the anti-science and anti-intellectual days of geocentrism and the catholic church. It's amazing how one of the great scientists of our time has been "excommunicated" and attacked mercilessly for his blashphemy.
The strange thing is that the media is using racism themselves to attack the guy.
An acceptable variant that I've seen implemented well is "the pass". Where a competent leader, decides to "pass" (one or many rotations) because of hiring rates or current team excellence. Just my experience.
> "That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."

I wonder if that maxim is still generally approved. It seems like some authoritarians would prefer that 100 innocents would suffer than one guilty person should escape.

I suppose it depends how you define "innocent" and "suffer". Under modern law, everyone is guilty of something. And while we might not require suffering in prison, a little suffering of expensive legal fees, invasions of privacy of your digital data/at the border/in the airport, or searches and seizures of property by police in your car are commonplace.
My first reaction was: "Wow, FB finally went over the line and is actually an evil spyware distributor."

Then I started thinking about what this app really is. At $20/month per user, it's clearly impossible to recoup that money on a per-user basis via better ad targeting. This app is a market research app with a very small opt-in panel, just like having a Nielsen box on your TV.

I've never felt like Nielsen's data collection is evil, so it makes me wonder if my reaction is rational.

Also, looks like Nielsen has a similar program: https://computermobilepanel.nielsen.com/
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But if you were one of the people in charge of the data tracking app, wouldn't you at least know that apple revoking the licence could be a possibility since you are explicitly breaching the agreement?

"Cleared by Legal" is (and has to be) a basic assumption when working on directed projects at real companies.
I absolutely love programming and I enjoy my job, but after spending 1/3 of my day on work, I am really not in the mood to do even more work.

As for 2018, I wrote a backup script. It works really well.
This is amusing to type, I guess, but not really true. Apple spent a huge amount last year: on stock buybacks (sigh), on building an enormous TV/film production studio from scratch, on a huge effort to develop self-driving cars, etc., etc.

If Apple were doing anything remotely similar to "hoarding", they'd have more like $700 billion in cash right now.
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I think that's a good argument. Although, React is much lighter on the DOM than Angular 1 was, so you could say there is improvement to some degree.

But still, that's a completely fair point.
I don't deny that they make things easier. But there's a cost to that, sometimes a significant cost. In my experience (and confirmed by others I know--including the author of the post), frameworks get you to 80% of where you need to go in a project _really_ fast. The next 10% takes a little effort but it's not impossible. But that last 10% is like pulling teeth from a lion. That's because inevitably the project has requirements that the framework designers didn't and couldn't think of.

I submit that that last 10% is the reason why OP got more done faster with Vanilla than he could with React.
I feel like this is an issue to address when you hire your first employee/hand off the project to another team, not when you're trying to get started.
> it's hard to pick a side but imagine what chances a startup has in this environment.

Facebook is constantly paranoid about new social media networks taking away their advertising space. This is them admitting a startup has a chance in the environment. Social media platforms gain huge traction and lose favor every year. Facebook sticking is an unnatural position and they know it.

Apple's flagship product, the iPhone is suffering from longer and longer upgrade cycles as the category matures. Many people are starting to ask if a new product category can replace smartphones. This is coming at a time when Apple doesn't have Jobs, and it's possible they won't be in the early wave of innovators on the next tech wave. A small innovative team could outperform Apple on this front.
> Not hiring idiots in the first place is IMO the proper solution to this problem,

If you hire all rockstars and you have to let go of 10%, then how does this help?
The ones who are capable of compelling the phone company to obey over political pressure from other sources.

This is a strict improvement over the current situation, where the answer is “anyone who has money”.
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This really isn't true. The vast majority of tech companies are ethical, at least a far sight more so than Facebook. They don't make headlines so you have a bais.
> (I've literally heard, "you can build anything with [FRAMEWORK]. You don't need anything else!")

That's always a lie. Take a logarithm of the number of subdirectories in node_modules, and subtract the logarithm of subdir count of node_modules for framework's hello world, to get an estimate of how much other stuff you're using.
If you go to support and search for how to cancel your account, they tell you to file a support request asking for your account to be closed. So you did the right thing.

I wish I had thought to ask for a refund of tips too, but I already sent my support request.
Well, I can fill you in on the fact that a fair bit of the contents described how useless my front-end coding skills are! Also, the whole blog section, with comments etc, was done in the past couple of days so I haven't tried to fix responsiveness there....will get on it!
but google has an insane hiring bar meaning that they rarely have false positives. amazons philosophy is hire fast fire fast. it’s too late for them to raise their bar considering a lot of their employees wouldn’t reach it
Yes, they were risky, but the risks were understood (and the technical people certainly were not giving any inaccurate information to managers about them). Not the same situation as the shuttle SRB O-rings, where at the time of the Challenger launch nobody understood exactly what was causing the failures; the engineers had suspicions but no definite knowledge (and their efforts to get NASA and their managers to give them more data to help them better understand the failures had been mostly unsuccessful).
Forced attrition messed up Microsoft pretty hard before they stopped the practice. Getting rid of mediocrities is a good thing, but if you mandate getting rid of X% per year, people stop cooperating with their coworkers, because those coworkers are also competitors.

Could Amazon really be falling into the same trap so soon?
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CEO: What happens if we don’t and they stay?
First, if you're going to call them black you might as well call them niggers. Call them Africans. They come from Africa. Or better yet, call them Americans. I rather like calling them Brotha's and Sista's, not to be racist, but because Africans tend to be quite an intimate people if you let them.

Second, you take a group of people and put them into one of the most technologically advanced cultures the world had known at the time which, we know technology changes culture. Then you strip them of their culture, emaciate their history and take away their self respect and dignity, and breed them to get the traits wanted by slavers. And as a final insult, we publish historically that you sign a piece of paper and emancipated them, they earned their freedom.

What isn't said was Sharecropping, for the crime it was, was necissary for society to remain orderly. You can't take illiterate 25 year old Tyrone to the city and expect people not to screw him over, and not expect him to exact justice on his own terms. And then after a few generations segregation well. The lady yelling out during Obama's Election "I don' gotta worry about rent no mor', I don' gotta worry about puttin' food on the table, obama gonna' take care of me" was talking about sharecropping, not welfare. If you want to know if you're being taken advantage of, or you want to have someone lead a union, find an American African Lawyer. It's in their blood far deeper than ours.

Took 300 years for the situation to get totally fucked up, it's going to take at least 300 to unfuck it, and the shit, today, is only halfway through the goose.

As far as the African Continent, their minds work contextually. Ask Europeans how they are today 10 times, you get the same answer. Ask an african, you get a different answer every time; their minds are constantly shifting everything around contextually. Another difference; a European women is capible of having 3 or 4 conversations at once, a European man on a good day is capible if having 2. An african man on a good day is capible of having maybe 3, but an African Women has, minimum, 50 at once. They are very, very effective communicators.

You can observe yourself there's a difference and I don't think the dichotomy of inferior\superior relations between behaivours and concepts works to describe or appreciate the differences. I think we're comparing apples and oranges and for the apples to get the oranges and vice versa will take some significant degree of study. I also think our culture has been altered in subtle yet very powerful ways by having them involved in our society.

We've managed to confuse hard science and the sometimes flawed decision making that results from it with this mess as you always do when you take away any cultures concept of self respect and dignity.
Ah yes Google, the place where as possibly the world's first or second (full-time) CUDA programmer, with 14 filed patents, and the world's fastest implementations of molecular Dynamics (CUDA ports of Folding@Home and AMBER), I was thrown into blind allocation by Amit Singhal and I was told point-blank by Jeff Dean that GPUs would never serve a role at Google because the Intel processor roadmap was just about to steamroll them out of existence. Yep that's exactly how it played out, right?

Anyway, they have PIPs too. My slapstick comedy of 4 months there was nothing compared to the horror shows others endured there. That's how I ended up at Amazon in the first place and my first four years there were actually pretty good. It wasn't until the New York times article that things started going downhill there in my opinion.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or short-term memories. Facebook did try to create its own phone and it flopped.
I agree; I am sure I was off with those two but I had to research those conditions in order to see my experience at least a bit rationally. I surely can't extrapolate it over a whole organization, but can use it as an indicator that inner "defense systems" were already "hacked" in my view.

Sorry to hear you had to go through something similar! :( On the other hand I see that experience likely helped you to move towards entrepreneurship - it had a similar effect on me as well.
> Why are companies so bad at coming up with a system that keeps more competent people and eases out less competent people but that also doesn't hurt morale by being a dystopian nightmare?

Dan Pink wrote a book and gave a took about this: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation?language=en

I think the issue systemic and might need an overhaul.
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