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Or the law is being strictly applied as it's written. If people don't like it, it can be changed through the legislative processes.

You're using the word "bypass" as though it means to break the law. He's using it to mean that he's following the law strictly in order to pay less taxes.
Those two interpretations are not compatible.
This is fing crazy youtube is allowing this behavior. We all know that the youtube copyright strikes is bs, but this goes to a whole new level of insanity!
The article is a bit ambiguous to me about whether it was 40 minutes after landing or 40 minutes after they failed to restart the engines. The former is sensible to me since it'd take time for them to try to restart the engines and make sure the plane is otherwise safe (probably some kind of checklist to do as well). Some other articles on this explicitly say it was 40 minutes after landing.
Also a significant proportion of searches are being addressed by Apple's Search service.

And Apple has shown with Maps that they are capable of building a decent competitor to Google.
A few years ago I'd have told you "Surely Microsoft won't start automatically installing Candy Crush games on my licensed copy of Windows Professional" but here we are.

A few years from now, some brilliant manager realizes they can "add value for customers" by helpfully including third party software offers with github release downloads, just like Sourceforge did. Who knows?
> I can't think of a great solution to this problem.

There's really only one "final solution" to the problem in the purely technical realm. That would be to make provable security (in the theorem-proving sense) a non-negotiable requirement to all digital logic (both hardware and software) running on networked devices. I don't know if there's even a workable definition that would rigorously describe the goal of such an effort.

... But I believe that if provable security was important enough to everyone (just like "winning the war" in the 1940s or "getting to the moon" in the 1960's), we might possibly achieve it -- at least below the OS syscall level in a few major OSs and in several important userland libraries.

However, that ignores the human element of security, which can't ever be completely solved via mere human effort. People will always be vulnerable to social engineering, for example.
Excellent. Full marks to Apple on this. Those could be anyone's kids being taken advantage of.

Apple can't risk their integrity being associated with what Facebook are pulling.
The "pardon the interruption" modal is the only one that I have ever seen.

And it's not immediate, there's time enough for your eyes to adjust to the content of interest before that modal pops up. It's as if it's designed for maximum obtrusiveness.

The experience is further degraded by a header and footer that not only take up significant screen real estate but also only seem to exist to also prompt me to sign up.

So that's three obtrusive prompts asking me to sign up - the modal, the header and the footer. This is unique in that the annoyance has a depth of redundancy.
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You know, there are illegal cell phones in prisons. If the prison folks have the ability to determine whose voice is speaking, then they can related an outgoing cell signal at the prison to a particular incarcerated person.

It would be like a wire-tap without a warrant. Do they need a warrant for someone already in prison?

It is going to be funny/ironic when the "Social Credit" system in China has voice-fingerprints of nearly every person under surveillance, so that words heard by any listening device would be admissible to analysis. They could then detect someone saying things of folks in power, both in adherence to political norms, and also in detection of fraud.

Thought-crimes, coming soon.
Ok. Thanks for the reply. I’ll try to come up with some problems for myself
Large govt. contractors and sub companies run this and all the other programs like this. There is tacit approval for these ops. I'd even imagine there's a bit of intel being fed back to them from the new employees.
Isn't that what rooting is for?

I don't think it's controversial to say opening up ways to load apps outside of the app store will make it far, far harder for Apple to make any performance, security and stability guarantees about their devices. So if you choose to bypass Apple's ecosystem, you are on your own and can't blame Apple for anything that goes wrong.
From what I gather, some were old employees near retirement and really did not want to pick up and move to Texas, leaving family/friends/CA behind.

And then there were those who really really did not generate output at work and apparently management hoped(?) they would do the same in their personal life and not bother moving to another state.
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It’s half the mass ;)
This. GraphQL is agnostic to the application layer, whereas REST is tied to HTTP.

For instance, we have various REST-style endpoints that execute GQL queries directly on the backend.
Here's hoping for an undiscovered bassoon concerto!

On a more serious note, I really hope "made public" means making the digitized copies available to anyone on the web, without restriction. There is an enormous amount of music that has lapsed into the public domain (most of it long out of print) that remains inaccessible because the parts can only be found in a handful of libraries. Even worse, many libraries restrict borrowers from making digital copies of public-domain works. Regardless of what Verdi intended for his drafts, I can't help thinking that most deceased composers would have been dismayed that their works remained obscure in an era where they could be instantaneously disseminated across the world for anyone to enjoy. (Time to donate to IMSLP again...)
I don't see the need for anyone to shove themselves with trash meat daily. Organic quality meat maybe once a week is definitely affordable.
"Interesting"

Well yes, that's all I claimed it to be.
With all my frustrations with medium, I decided to build a desktop app--for myself, and maybe to monetize later. It's basically the medium WSYWYG editor combined with a static site generator that automatically hosts on S3. Out of curiosity, is that something that anyone else would be interested in?

EDIT: Here's a google form for anyone who wants to keep in touch
https://goo.gl/forms/liv1JpAdKOjc4wJ23
Not really, no. There is a difference between conquering a country and forging an agreement to build a base. The U.S. form of influence, while still questionable in its morality, is a lot less intrusive. For all that America gets a bad rap for subverting world culture, it’s largly the case that it’s the result of selling people things they want, including movies, music, food, etc. for all that the French rant about American Imperialism, they still like McDonald’s fries.

The Brits tried to crush the cultures of their conquered nations through violence and forced indoctrination. If you want to compare that to something in American history, see the treatment of natives. Today there is no real comparison. That’s not to excuse the many downsides of the current U.S. system, but comparing it to the British empire is facetious.
app.get('/users', (req, res) => {

app.get('/user', (req, res) => {

app.post('/createUser', (req, res) => {

These aren't what I'd consider to be RESTful... these seem more like traditional RPC calls.
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Thanks for the ideas
Well, for one, Google pays Apple a ridiculous $12 billion a year for having Google search by default in Safari:

http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...

I'm guessing Tim Cook is not ready to give that up in the name of "fighting for privacy." Otherwise he'd have already made DuckDuckGo the default search engine.

There's no doubt in my mind Steve Jobs would've kicked Google out, but Tim Cook is much more of a bean counter to make such a move.
The vegetable lobby needs to step its game up. When a small batch of Romain lettuce was contaminated, the nation was advised to throw it all away. Somehow chicken nuggets escaped the same fate.
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> Even on a desktop PC with a fast connection, I spend so much time staring at progress bars and loading spinners as all the various bits and bobs of the interface get pulled down and rendered.

This means whoever wrote the app wrote it slow. React rendering performance is fantastic but that doesn't stop devs from abusing AJAX.
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At this point, its more like - what will China not steal? They seem to be willing to do literally anything to get a leg up over the West.

Any Western corporations should be extremely, extremely careful when working with them. And unfortunately, I think greater scrutiny of individual migrants including international students is going to become necessary as well.
The military buys you political influence.

Economic power (and that also buys you political influence) comes from the size of the economy. The size of the economy enables military power.

China (and India) have 4x the US' population. China's land area is the same as the US'. It's simply a matter of time for them to be more powerful economically than the US, and then it's really up to them to also topple the US militarily.
Post trackers, I've been using Cubase since it was delivered on a single Floppy disk. Had about 13 years of silence (sold my gear, had kids) and then got back to it a couple years ago (shameless plug: https://soundcloud.com/earlofwoffington).
> So the venture funding is just giving them more rope to hang themselves with? It's letting them make bigger, more costly mistakes?

Think of it more as forcing them to make a high variance bet.

The VC business model assumes that about 1/3 of the companies invested in will go to zero, and another 1/3 will make a below market return on investment. They need the Googles and Microsofts to pay for everyone else, so they just push all of their portfolio into trying to become billion dollar businesses.
Nope, not on safety critical software, the norms tells you that you need independence between the development team and the validation team.
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> nickel is toxic as hell, and many people are allergic to it

Unfortunately that doesn't stop companies from making loads of cheap jewelry and eyeglasses out of nickel alloys. And there are lots of applications where a nickel allergy doesn't matter. Golf clubs have rubber grips. Airplanes have walls, carpets and seats between people and the structure.

A quick google search puts the price of nickel at $5.39/lb and titanium at $25.68/lb, so it would be a huge reduction in material costs if they can keep the manufacturing costs relatively similar.
If you haven't given write.as or WriteFreely a look recently, do make a point to. Great folks working on that project and a great platform. I happily donated in the form of a pro account to help their efforts.
True! That's why there's enterprise certificates to make the process easier. Facebook just shouldn't have abused theirs for nefarious purposes!
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Now I'm from Sweden but I do you really need $1000+ to be able to buy food you make yourself? We never buy chicken nuggets or similar and we're far from $1000.
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I suspect it has to do with connotations.

When you hear "heavy" as used to describe something, you automatically assume it to mean negative. "Half is heavy" has a more negative connotative meaning than "Twice as light", even though they have the same denotative meaning. In other words, they effectively mean the same thing, but represent that thing differently.

I also suspect it has to do with the positive/negative framing. Ideally, you want to leave a positive impression on your audience. If you're talking about scientific discoveries – especially something as cool as a material that's comparable to titanium in terms of strength, yet is much lighter – I reckon you want your audience to feel excited and inspired. In this case, using positive framing is reasonable and conducive to the goal.

I'm not sure how appropriate it is for a popular-science publication to refer to framing when talking about new discoveries, and am not offering support for or against such usage in this context. The decision to put the phrase in such a way, however, may well be an informed choice that makes sense from the perspective of the goal of such a publication.
I'm not sure what you imagine that 10% to be but this has not been my experience at all.
It falls under "Tools, Techniques, and Procedures". It's the same reason anything published or shared is supposed to go through pre-pub even well after you've left one of the three letters.
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Is the issue the content itself, or an expectation that any given human writing any given article should be considered an absolute source of truth?

Again, I think it would be really valuable to point out the facts or "spin" that the author got wrong here. Please do this if you have an issue with the article not being impartial or getting facts wrong.
No I don't think canvas itself is overly complex and slow. Canvas is fine when you need to go beyond what is possible with HTML and CSS.

I'm saying your proposal to perform rendering on the server and just stream pixels to the client is going to be overly complex and slow. Just imagine how you would implement a hover effect using this scheme. Or screen resizing. Or scrolling...

> But PDF's do control text position far better than HTML/CSS can or does.

You can place text precisely using absolute positioning in CSS. It is just rarely a desirable approach since the layout will not adapt to screen size.
Not sure what you want Apple to do here.

They have no visibility into what companies are doing with enterprise certificates. The whole point of which was to allow internal apps to be built that Apple should have no knowledge of.

They did the best they could which is to revoke the certificate once they learnt of egregious behaviour.
Very true, I think that even if Fb and G were to start charging it wouldn't work since people are so used to them being free
I didn't mean to imply that group 3 includes kids. The targeting to kids I consider unethical. I agree with you that a monitored VPN is not something someone under legal adult age should be considered capable of consenting to. In fact I would say it's one of those cases that even the parents can't consent to. It might be comparable to a parent consenting to their child's phone line being tapped by a third party for a monthly payment. Clearly unethical, and probably illegal in a lot of places.
Remember when people were outraged when Apple decided to give in to the demands of the Chinese government rather than shut shop. They complained about Apple not taking the high road. Now people are complaining about Apple taking the high road? Funnny how times change! Make up your mind people — you can’t have it both ways! Cheers!
That's not neutral enough. If we used that title, we'd get equally many complaints about it being biased, plus new complaints that the mods are taking a side.
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To add an anecdote to the pile, I went to school in the US and had to pass an ethics in engineering course to complete degree requirements for Computer Science in the late 90s.
Yes! This is something I've wanted for a while. Simple, easy writing experience with a button-push deploy to s3 — that would be out of this world!

Also, image uploads baked in would be a huge plus (but totally not necessary out of the gate).
I often think that "programmers that can't code" is an euphemism for "programmer why won't do unpaid overtime to catch up on the code base" or "programmer who has no experience".

The industry is not expecting mechanical engineers to actually do advanced work fresh of university but somehow in some places programmers are thought of as a ready worker package for the sewing machines.

I'm also yet to meet these programmers who can't code. There are plenty of engineers that barely can code though, but they don't call themselves programmers. And there are plenty of inexperienced programmers that can't code and if they won't learn they will drop out for other positions.
I have an amusing anecdote about the military and password security. I worked with some folks on a base once and everyone used the same keyboard pattern such that if I knew the first character of a password, I knew the whole password. This pattern was openly shared as a way to "remember" otherwise impossible to remember complex passwords.
The timing of this is superb - I literally just ordered an IceStick FPGA with the intention of recreating an 8-bit gaming platform, and I was wondering if I could somehow start playing in a virtual environment first! Can't wait to try this out...
Interesting paper. I'd like to know how this compares with even more naive methods like simple summation. If this method is an application of Cover's theorem it should handily beat summation or any other simple method that places the sentence embedding in the same dimension as the word embeddings.
It seems Apple have been trying to occupy the moral high ground on privacy for quite a long time now

It's easy to occupy the high ground when everyone else is in the gutter.
I've read one of these articles and bookmarked the other. They give some introduction to the problem space, with pictures. I'm no expert though and can't rate their accuracy; Just know they helped me feel a little more confident about the basics.

https://preshing.com/20120612/an-introduction-to-lock-free-p...

http://lucteo.ro/2018/11/18/look-ma-no-locks/
You'd be surprised.

Apple has $245 billion cash on hand. That's enough to build their own feature equivalent social network and give $20 to anyone who signs up.
Mark Z: why did Facebook target teenagers for spying upon?
Looks like they edited their comment. They were railing on git.sr.ht's design.
So make iPhones like Pixels. If I want to root the device, make it simple, make it factory wipe the device, and flip a bit that opts me out of software support. (I know Google doesn't do this last one, but I'm not opposed, I know what I'm doing.)

But no. I have to buy a $1200 mini-computer and then accept the arbitrary whims of Apple on what code I can run when.
"final solution" is generally a poor phrase to use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution
Good question, you could theoretically throttle a runaway engine by reducing fuel flow (unlike a piston engine where you can limit air intake). But in 9 out of 10 cases you've already done that by pulling back the power levers. The next step is to cut off the fuel, because the throttles didn't get it under control.
Is there any software to help me manage my CV?
I'm actively searching for a job. The problem is, I worked (and still working) in multi-disciplined roles.

The work I do can be titled as a data scientist, AI engineer, ML engineer, and backend engineer. So naturally, when I tailor my CV to apply for a new job, I want to include only the relevant skills and projects, and describe the relevant work I did in my previous roles.

It became very tedious to manage my 10+ CV templates!

So my question is: is there any software or website that helps me manage many versions of my CV easily?
Ideally it will help me easily add/remove skills, projects and certificates. It will also be useful if it can handle multi descriptions of previous roles!

P.S. if such a thing doesn't exist, I'm gonna create it. I'm THAT fed up with this problem.
My experience is about 50/50, both with my own mistakes and with others.

Generally when one is very close to the problem, one sees the environment as immutable. Because, well you spent very many hours building that environment, for very good reasons. And your complex solution "has to" work within the constraints of that complex environment.

Whereas, the "mind of a child" that doesn't grok the environment, also doesn't have a fixed notion of it. This is anecdotal of course, but maybe half the time what I see happen is that it's easier/better to change the environment and this can only be seen with fresh eyes.

It's not the spoon that bends, and it's not you that bends around the spoon. There is no spoon.
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OP mentions 'factory farms', which are where most of the affordable meat in the US (and probably the world as well) comes from. Most people can't afford to buy free-range chicken, and are left with stuff like factory-farmed producers like Tyson and Purdue.
It is worthwhile noting that people are sensitive to titles like this, and "chinese spy" is probably an unwarranted term. It does seem true that the Apple employee was taking all kinds of IP with him to a competitor. That's illegal, and theft.

When Levandowski was caught apparently taking files from Waymo (allegedly to give to Uber) he wasn't characterized as an "american spy".

[edit] When you say "American spy" there is the implication of a professional connection to the US govt apparatus. So we don't use this term for private American industrial espionage, it's sloppy, and deliberately misleading at worst. I think this is probably a privately motivated deal to make some money, as in my Levandowski example.
>Mass surveillance is not going to go away without huge cultural reform of the security services. They don't take concessions.

FakeComments was mostly talking about targeted surveillance, but I agree with him/her in spirit, since I believe that mass surveillance is not going to go away. Ever. So you can either yell futilely into the wind as it happens over your objections, up to, including, and perhaps going beyond a swarm of camera-bearing networked nanodrones coating the planet, or you can try to nudge it towards happening on slightly preferable terms.
The analogy here, though, would be more like if the door manufacturer accidentally installed a cat flap overnight in every customer's door, including the doors into courtrooms.
Why is this downvoted?! What's here to disagree with?!
I know there's an awful lot of legacy hatred for Microsoft around HN, and I'm not claiming they'll never be a bad actor in any regard ever again -- but I'd expect if that happens for it to be a lot more subtle than "hey, let's make desperate deals with sleazy third-party companies to stuff shady crap in your downloads until we're inevitably caught at it."
> The biggest change was that they manually review all articles before allowing an article to get promoted by their algorithm.

I wasn't aware of that. Maybe I'll start clicking on Medium links again (on purpose). "Trash articles" is a good description of the most recent content I read on there before giving up on Medium.
Enterprise certificates are needed for internal apps.

And you can't have Apple knowing too much about internal apps since they could reveal trade secrets or other confidential information.

It's not a simple situation to fix.
This is an excellent article.

The only thing I'd want to see added to it is a section on gradual typing, a la Perl 6.
Netflix seems to be on a campaign via documentaries to educate people about the food industry in America and how efficiency and margins are driving some of the practices around raising cows, chickens, pigs. these are really really biased documentaries, but scared me enough to not eat meat anymore. My anecdote is that since i've stopped eating meat, my skin has a lot less breakouts.
Is there still a concern about the profit? I'm assuming you're working for a for-profit company, where one of the goals – if not the goal, ultimately – is to make cash. (I don't mean to insinuate any sharply-materialistic outlook on your company: I sincerely don't know how a company thinks about money.)