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Ask HN: Any remote company mainly based in Asia pacific
Ive found website like weworkremote etc mostly us based
Growing up and living in Eastern Europe and then the US I agree with the post above you. I've experienced actual corruption (corrupt cops, doctors, small time civil servants, what have you) and I can see actual corruption in the US also. But it's 'legal' and way less prevalent at the lower levels.
That’s a good point!

If you use Facebook they already know more about you than you do.

Might as well take $20 a month.

I’m still waiting for my kickback from the in-message advertising I get in Instagram.
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I’m against chrome taking always the URL. While they make points about security and dumb users, I don’t believe they have altruistic motives.

An issue with AMP is the terrible URLs- because they are hosted by google. Once Chrome no longer has URLs, then Chrome gets to decide what name to show you in the address bar - potentially a name that has very little to do with the actual location of the document. Maybe I’m being a bit extreme or pessimistic, but do not believe this is a good change for the web, and I don’t think Google can be trusted to be the stewards of the internet.
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now you can. ok, well soon :) but the theory is in place and works. Also stochastic Petri nets are actually equivalent to Feynman diagrams in a precise sense (https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/petri-net-pr...), they could be the Feynman diagrams of functional programming :)
You aren't wrong, but that's how 99.9% of innovation happens. And every now and then something useful comes of it.
There has been a no tipping movement in san francisco that has worked quite well. People don't tip anymore here and it is not socially accepted to do it.
He was the primary funding for the company throughout its early life and then personally saved the company from failure. Without Elon Musk the company would not exist at all.

The DOE loan probably did save the company, but before Telsa there was no electric car company worth giving a government loan to in the first place. And they paid it back 10 years early.

Fisker, a Tesla copycat, got ~$1.4 billion in DOE loans and failed completely. Tesla got a third of that and succeeded because they had Elon Musk.
Google doesn't reward white hat SEO but it does punish black hat SEO. I wish they would do it more often of course but they do totally wreck black hat SEO techniques a couple of times per year.
Explaining security vulnerabilities addressed in Rancher v2.1.6 and v2.0.11
As much as I love a good conspiracy theory, and yours is pretty damn good because this industry has colluded to keep wages down, I'm hard pressed to believe that this is the case. Interviewing is hard. Startups are led to believe they need to have a higher rate of false negatives over false positives to ensure they don't get a "bad hire". Most people in this industry just follow the trend they see. It's all they know. They have never seen another successful hiring strategy. So it persists.
very well put!
I once reported a security bug in MS XML Core Services. They responded very fast. I included a demo of the exploit, but I assume they would have answered in a similar way if I had less obvious proof. So I think it's more about how a company (its owners) cares about its brand/image.
24/7 Pizza called. They want their misleading hours of operation back.
Not certainly not. Hypothetical scenario: realise something in your infrastructure will have problems in a few days’ time, and so make changes, which accidentally break things.
In an odd twist, this is precisely what some tech critics have been pushing for—for consumers to be monetarily compensated for the data they're giving up to tech giants:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17595564
this is exactly where the statebox project comes from, there is updated syntax for mathematics in the form of diagrams. of course not for all of it, but certainly very applicable to CS stuff
You don't ban collusion. I mean, you can, but it's not going to be particularly effective.

What you do, to solve this problem, is empower the lower classes.

We've just observed how two unions - air traffic controllers, and flight attendants - have accomplished, with the threat of a work stoppage, something that both the Republican, and the Democratic party failed to achieve - a re-opening of the government.

The 99.5% have all the power. What they need to do, is to use it in solidarity.
“Root access” isn’t in the original article title.

Edit: HN title has changed to remove this part completely.
Hi Zuck.

But on a more serious note, children don't necessarily understand the consequence of their actions, especially at a technical level. Mind you, plenty of adults don't either, but their acceptance of the terms of conditions of something or other is contingent on their being responsible enough to accept any negative consequences that may come; children are not in that position.
Haha what the fuck? And who was the brilliant mind behind this thinking it would be okay to do this?
Jesus christ Facebook are scumbags. I hope they get hit with billions of dollars in fines in the EU and it bankrupts them.

Good riddance to this shitty ass company.
> No, it just needs to not treat workers that might receive tips differently: they should have he same minimum wages as other workers and tips should not count as compensation by the employer satisfying minimum wage mandates.

Now they're getting minimum wage and I still feel the need to tip. That doesn't fix the problem unless we also make major changes to the minimum wage.

> Private employers might then wish to prohibit employees accepting tips (since it no longer benefits the employer as it does now for the worker to be classes as “tipped”), for similar reasons to those for which public employers already do.

They wouldn't do that at minimum wage, and they get negative value out of a combined pay-more/anti-tip policy.

I don't think it's enough to fix the problems with tipping culture.
Reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex
Except the one you set up yourself... or rather, you can spy on yourself with that one, so your point still stands. ;-)
And the Postgres run was on 16GB of RAM and a rather slow SSD in a single drive configuration. Would have been interesting to see the results of either in memory or on a faster storage system.
Some of them seem to be limited to certain geographic regions. (UK/Europe)
So, the two wolves vote to make the sheep a non-citizen (Or, two centuries ago, a non-person), and the problem is solved.

This is, of course, happening right now.
That's funny, I thought it was because Elon Musk's ego and mouth were too big.
It is that easy if the site is worth the front page, which is the point of the doc.

I think everyone just assumes the front page is fair game for them. If there are ~10 better sites then yours (not out of the question unless your in a tiny niche or started the site long ago) then doing the work still won't reward you with the front page, and there isn't anything necessarily wrong with that.
> shannon doesn't get the recognition he deserves

> nobody outside of the computer science world has heard of him

Yeah! Nobody has heard of that guy. His Mathematical Theory of Communication only has 112 thousand (!!!) google scholar citations, apparently the #4 most cited paper of all time in any field (#1–3, 5–9 are biochem/chem papers, and #10 is clinical psych).

For comparison, Turing has 5 papers with 10–12k citations each.
way too many libertarians on HN, what is it with programmers who think they've conquered the world and their way is the best? I swear they'd all run away and go live in on a space station like in Elysium if they could
maybe - it's hard to tell, and I did bring up that other option as well. It's just that when a 1-1 call upgrades to a multiparty call, there should a be a lot of new stuff going on at signaling level to convert that 1-1 call to multiparty - and a chance is that it's a combination that leads to this bug - a call gets upgraded to a multiparty AND a number being added is already part of the call...
What the hell is wrong with you? Children don't know what they are doing.

That's why they aren't allowed to gamble among a multitude of other things that their developing brains can't handle.
This is 684 words that have nothing to do with my response to your comment.
Good point. This _should_ be illegal. And there is definitely a need for better data protection legislation, to protect consumers against exactly this power imbalance.
Ok, we changed the title to use representative language from the article, which is hopefully more accurate. (Submitted title was "Facebook pays teens to download research app with root access outside App Store".)
I don't mind the UI, I just wish they didn't hate their own website so much. It seems like they just want everyone to use the app, for some reason.
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> There are places in America where T-Mobile is streets ahead of Verizon.

Nonsense, it's not even a comparison. Tmobile is complete garbage coverage compared to Verizon or AT&T. I don't believe there is any place in the US where Tmobile has better coverage than Verizon.
I just ping a .com nameserver.

For me, these are the most important servers for the www. More important than Google's.

Never thought to use a "random website". Is that your idea?
Indeed, for a second I thought Facebook had figured out a jailbreak and were paying people to try it out. That would certainly be very interesting news (and provoke even more divisiveness in the comments.)

Fortunately, the title has been edited now to remove "root access".
What I'm trying to emphasize here is that sure, it can be fixed, but Thiel can't be the one to fix it. Any funding source is going to look bad if they start messing with editorial authority. It's not the funding source that is supposed to be maintaining that.
It leaves very little place for interpretation(works for me) when most of these reports have a kb/issue tracking# in microsoft dashboard - check the comments for issue numbers.
Yeah.. these are minors though. It may not be illegal explicitly but the fact that they are minors feels different than the perspective of an enlightened bargain.
Why should Zuckerberg care? You know on the plane ride home from his visit to Congress, he was laughing about the old people who are so out of date they just don't get it. You know he was... He got a finger-waggin' from people he doesn't respect. He's not going to change.
> literally is unscalable

Not everything needs to scale better than O(n).
You sound like you know more about this than I do. Are there any theories (not even with evidence) about how sex evolved? I can’t find a way two unrelated species (that did not have a “mother and father” of some sort) came together to produce the first ever offspring with two progenitors. In otherwords some creature was conceived (using the term lossely) and born in a way vastly different from it’s parent. All the “plumbing” (organs) needed for that first combination, which would have been an evolutionary anchor up to that point, is something I can’t see my way around.
Ask HN: Prioritizing interests
I find myself drawn to several things at the same time - Wanting to join a finance firm and be a quant, wanting to be a better software developer, wanting to go to grad school to get a PhD, or maybe become a PM and hopefully startup something soon. I'm not an incredibly talented guy, but I have decent logical abilities and I feel my hardworking nature would take care of the rest. However, given our limited lifetimes, you cannot do everything. How do you prioritize your interests/goals? I'm fairly confident that several other people feel drawn towards the things the same way as I am. How do you decide what to focus on at any point of life?
From the students’ perspective, the reward is greater than the obscure potential consequence. I have certainly noticed this with adults, as well, so it seems like fairly basic human behavior.
Left unsaid by the article is that the tax shelters the wealthy invested their money in, were less productive investments. When Reagan lowered the tax rates in exchange for eliminating the tax shelters, the wealthy then moved their investments to more economically productive endeavors.

This makes for a more productive economy overall.

I.e. the higher the tax rates, the more contortions people will engage in to avoid those taxes, and economic prosperity will correspondingly suffer.
I'm European, in my country if an employer only try to do something like that go strait to the jail. Now is in progress a process to guarantee to the guys employed in the delivery of food by bike a minimum wage because they was exploited by some companies, but that case isn't distantly comparable to this one. I can't believe this behavior it's tolerated in a civilized nation.
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We detached this generic ideological subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19030072 and marked it off-topic.
Ask HN: How can people trust smart contracts?
Interested in hearing answers to the following from the smart contract community:

- In light of terrible bugs by competent engineering companies (e.g. Apple and their Facetime bug), how can you justify immutable code? Philosophically, how can imperfect humans write perfect code?

- The beautiful thing about web 2.0 is the ability to iterate and learn from users and fix bugs later. How can doing that in a decentralized (=> slow) manner make sense for "decentralized" applications?

- Outside the hype / speculation usecases, what proof is there from the market that this is what real people want? (Projects like MakerDAO don't fit this since I consider it to be speculators further speculating on a market driven by speculators).

- If the goal right now isn't to build for real people, what validation is there that a smart contract version of something is better?
Well, I think it's not really possible to divide a concept from the way it is realized. Many implementations of visual languages were badly done, for sure. This doesn't mean we can go from "this implementation of a visual language is bad" to "for all implementations of visual languages it is that they are bad". :)
Ah tax avoidance. Richer you are, the better you get at it.
I wonder if someone should design a DPU for database workloads. I think the GPU is used because it's available not because it's optimize for the type of work people want to do with data.
The boycott of South African goods during apartheid, and that against Nestle because of them promoting formula over breast milk in the developing world beg to differ. Very significant numbers participating, to no noticeable effect. Nestle undoubtedly considers it an acceptable cost of doing business, cheap at ten times the price. Those who participate are likewise aware it means never buying anything Nestle ever again.

But it's a great way to put the onus on the consumer and not blame the cause - the government or multinational.

EU or US regulation on the other hand could probably have Nestle ceasing that practice in days.
> This is why I refuse to tip in restaurants. Most people in san francisco that I know don't tip and as a consequence most waiters here don't expect a tip.

This is absolutely fucking hilarious.

I swear someone who is not from the US is going to quote your throwaway account as being gospel about how things are changing in the US.

Thank your for making my day brighter with your humor.
Op really cool idea. One issue and two questions:
Issue:if someone got a password list, they clean it up by removing anything between the + and the @ so it dosent add too much protection
Question1:if I get an email from someone addressed to a hashed address, could I easily figure out who I gave that email to?
Question2: will you be porting to Firefox?
If someone is spying on you, they don't tend to identify themselves or get consent
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geo-special?
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I agree that the share of spending on each platform is the most important factor for developers. But if market share declines were beginning to affect Apple's share of mobile usage, then that would be a worrying trend for iOS developers.

Apple does have far wealthier customers than Android, but compensating for market share losses by moving ever further up-market would be a dangerous strategy in my view.

If middle class kids are priced out of iOS, they're unlikely to come back later when they make their own money. Same for people from less wealthy countries. I do not believe that this idea of being the "aspirational product" applies to computing platforms in the same way it may apply to expensive cars.

But I was just asking questions. I'm not making a claim that any of this is actually happening right now.
I've been running Ubuntu on a second hand ThinkPad for about four years, it just works.
You’re right, it’s a real shame they didn’t do that.
Is there a way to configure Firefox so that a single-use container gets created when certain sites get visited, and discarded when they're closed?

I don't want to delete cookies by default (since I don't like to lose my shopping cart due to accidentally closing a tab in a shop I haven't used before), but I certainly would like to be able to ban sites that use cookies in a user-hostile manner from storing cookies permanently.

It would be even better if Mozilla used the voluntary telemetry + manual user feedback to decide which sites benefit from cookies (e.g. web shops), and applied this to everything else (e.g. news sites).
I love how that small is the opposite of the new MacBooks.

- Keyboard vs touchpad

- Connectivity overload (inc 4 headphone jacks ;) vs you need a bag full of dongles

- thick and small vs thin and wide

- practically vs esthetics

I don't have high hopes of seeing it made as described but nice idea. I especially like the kvm mode. That's something I thought about long ago, it sounds like an obvious idea, easy to implement, but I've never seen it done.
> Your copy/paste doesn't apply to my comment, since I didn't assume you were incompetent, just that you'd made an overaggressive claim you didn't care to back up.

Sorry, I assumed you're competent enough to figure it out, or at least look at the original sources where authors of the change explicitly explain the reason why they do it. Of course, since you assumed that they are incompetent, you didn't bother to do so, instead, completely uncharitably assumed that there's zero benefit for that.
I guess the difference is that Zuck has over 60% voting control of Facebook so he can't be forced out.
The repo has a yarn.lock file, which contains the hashes of all of the dependencies, so yarn verifies the dependencies match that at least.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19030031 and marked it off-topic.
The argument goes as follows, if you're interested. In a capitalist society there exists wealth inequality, and with it a power inequality. Democracy is the belief that every citizen has an equal say in the decisions and affairs that concern him. Manifestly, however, in a system with such stark differences in power, this cannot be the case (just think of how a "commoner" and a billionaire cannot even be compared in terms of resources and power at their disposal). "True" democracy is impossible in capitalism, as it is in feudalism, or in a monarchy, or in any system with classes.
Tipping an EMT is an example of low level corruption - the kind that comes with inadequate pay for government workers, lack of opportunities, etc. This is frightenly common in a lot of countries and culturally accepted as a kind of nuisance and fact of life.

I can’t say why this kind of corruption isn’t prevalent in the west(yet), but I don’t think it’s a fair comparison to the kind of corruption OP was describing.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

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The cost of GPUs doesn't make sense for the compute they offer.

According the benchmark, the fastest 8 GPU node takes about 0.5 seconds. The cost of that node on AWS is about 24$/hour. The 21 node spark cluster takes 6 seconds. But, it only costs 4$/hour.

An additional benefit with Spark is that it can be used for a lot more variety of operations than a GPU.

This cost disadvantage restricts GPU processing to niche use cases.
> Hi, author here scanning through the comments.

Small note, there's a typo in the heading of "Google Cloud SQL for PosetgreSQL". ;)

PosetgreSQL -> PostgreSQL
That's pretty funny. Updated to geospatial, thanks.
> software powered by machine learning models leverages data to predict rider supply and driver demand; and data scientists use data to improve machine learning models for better forecasting.

Why does any of that require real-time analysis? What's the business need for this being instantaneous? Feels very NIH...
One issue with this is brought up in the article:

> “The fairly technical sounding ‘install our Root Certificate’ step is appalling,” Strafach tells us. “This hands Facebook continuous access to the most sensitive data about you, and most users are going to be unable to reasonably consent to this regardless of any agreement they sign, because there is no good way to articulate just how much power is handed to Facebook when you do this.”
Uber was great until they introduced tipping, and somehow now we are supposed to tip employees for delivering stuff when the entire business model of the company we are also paying is delivery?! Why are we supposed to tip door dash drivers, but not Amazon delivery drivers or FedEx/UPS/USPS? I refuse to use Door Dash due to the expectation of tipping their employees on top of the super high up-charges and service fee I'm paying FOR DELIVERY.

Tipping has ruined this whole new batch of convenience services for me.
There are too many state hands in the pockets; there is no way they allow it to go under.
What’s the context here? You mentioned lua, is it love2d (gfx or game oriented)? What’s a C to D example of what you’re talking about? Interested because I have an almost six year old, time to get going on this sort of thing myself!
> and the kids know all of their data is being tracked for money ( and presumably are happy with it).

Yeah, obviously, kids are very good at understanding the consequences of their actions. I mean, imagine if they didn't! We would need special rules in criminal law for dealing with young offenders or something!
So what. There’s tax avoidance and loopholes now too.

Whatever. The premise still holds fine, we could drastically increase marginal tax rates at the top end and the world wouldn’t blow up.

And to the extent we used that money to make the social contract more stable via health care and education or similar, there would almost certainly be net gains to national efficiency and income.
Sounds like actively used devices. Which means the number of users is lower as some/many people use more than one Apple device.
Mass distribution of press releases became an outdated, spammy technique about 5 years ago. Not considered white hat by any stretch of anyone's imagination.
They don't actually withhold the tip. The sentence you quoted is being sloppy. If the tip was $50, the worker would get the full $50.

The problem is that they use the tip as an excuse to pay basically nothing. It's not acting like a real tip.
How do you find users? Seems like the kind of thing people don't know they want until they see it i.e. they wouldn't be searching for it.