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Tangentially related: Holvi [1], a digital banking service, just froze the account of a Finnish BDSM association without warning, referring to a clause in their terms of use that forbids "items that are considered obscene, or sexually oriented materials or services". The phrasing, especially the word "obscene" makes me suspect that the policy is dictated by big payment service providers (that is, credit card companies and PayPal) and Holvi is just covering its bases here; I doubt the company itself cares very much at all.

[1] https://about.holvi.com/
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I worked with these folks for a while. I also work with the deaf community.

Sign Language gloves are an interesting idea, but they don't work. Sign language relies heavily on facial expressions and body language beyond the hands.

This was also tried here before: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/navid-azodi-and-thomas-...

But deaf people aren't actually that keen on these solutions, as I found out when I proposed this to some of them myself.
I'd say Google is showing signs of too many captains on the ship when it comes to tech. I'm not going to bore you with all the examples that are being cited elsewhere in this thread but there are plenty of things where people are raising eyebrows lately.

A CTO's role is to provide clarity internally and externally on what a company is doing technically. In absence of a CTO, that role is for the CEO. Pichar is not enough of a credible leader on this front.

E.g. Steve Jobs was a clear visionary leader. Bill Gates was a clear technical founder CEO. They did not need CTOs. Amazon has an effective business oriented CEO that defers to a very strong CTO (Werner Vogels) for technical things.

AWS is no accident; that requires technical leadership (Vogels) and long term strategic thinking (Bezos). Google just got leapfrogged by MS in the same space. I'd argue lack of leadership is a big reason.
Depends on the host OS.

On Windows 10, PWAs are just another way of doing UWP native apps, as they replaced the former JavaScript language projection (WinJS) introduced in Windows 8.
Ask HN: Who are the most influential thinkers of this century (so far)?
List whoever comes to mind. I've got a few in mind already but just curious to see who I've left out or who I haven't discovered yet.

Hope this list serves this community well.
When doing anything concurrently and/or in parallel, it is always good to have an input queue and an upper bound on the number of tasks (/threads/processes/...). Also an asynchronous flow.

You need to handle other problems (back-pressure, priorities, timeouts, ...) but if you need it you need it.
> If a better search engine comes along and people switch over

People are lazy. It's hard to deny that Bing and DDG are "better" in many ways, but how often does that matter? Most searches are simple and mindless - where any search provider will give you good results. Google has optimized for this use case.

> how would you like to pay $10 a month for a GMail and Google Maps combo access package?

Isn't $10/mo slightly above what Google Suite costs, per individual user? I would argue that it's already happening - if Google services are important enough to you that them denying you service would bring serious trouble, you need either Google Suite or to pay for a competitor - either way, providing them a meaningful incentive to keep you around. "Free" services are just not something you should ever rely on.

Same goes for other big service providers like Facebook, Twitter or Amazon's retail service, of course - if you can't even pay for meaningful support, you must have some sort of contingency plan and diversify the stuff you rely on. It didn't used to be like that, but Google and other big Internet properties have matured and lost a lot of their inherent "slack", even as our reliance on them may have increased - and that loss of slack could come back to bite you in the ass.
I only mostly agree. The soft skills are crucial. The other critical part of a good leader is vision. Engineering skills are helpful, but only so much as they help eliminate distractions from the vision. Junior engineers bring in all kinds of distractions to make things supposedly easier.
That's right. Bring on those radioactive underwear.
We cannot solve your insecurities using gene editing, but we can definitely destroy the lives on millions. Those "Luddites" made sure that your current genes aren't edited by a dumb PhD student in the 80s, and you're not permanently crippled as a result of that.

Gene editing should stay exactly where it is, in the dystopic dreams of uneducated eugenics supporters.
in a few years every phone will have a DNA sequencer included
Maybe instead of trying to develop some laws that may or may not help to solve the issue, we will simply stop buying Apple products?
This sounds like you haven't had a competent manager before (nothing to be ashamed of, I was there once!)

Meetings like weekly 1:1s are supposed to be helpful for you as the engineer. They're a safe space for you to complain, and share what sucks about your job, and brag about what's going well. It's like work therapy, but a lot of the things that you complain about can actually become things your manager can fix over time.

Things like help in goal setting might not seem strictly necessary if you're self-driven enough. But doing good work doesn't help your career if nobody notices, and spending your time focused on Doing The Thing is time you're not spending playing a game of politics to make sure upper management is hearing your name all the time. Having a manager to establish a paper trail of what you claim your goals are, and then doing them, makes it easier for everybody above you in the organization to justify giving you a raise/promotion/etc.

I agree that, in a lot of situations, poorly-trained managers do more harm than good. But I promise it's theoretically possible for good managers to provide value!
Hope it goes well and looking forward to the 366 day report on that. :)
I agree with others - mission critical systems (nuclear plants, aviation, medical software etc) have quite different standard for quality.
You are right in your views of them having enough technical leadership.

The main difference I can assume is when you look to 1 or 2 (founders)equal leaders to set vision it’s easier to get behind than however many VPs they have(today).
forgive me for asking, but why not hire a caretaker/nurse?
Thanks for sharing your experience - what a lesson!
I couldn't figure out how to mute voice directions during navigation
It's actually even weirder. If Janet Jackson shows a bit of a tit on US television, it's a national scandal for a week (same in the UK). In France or in Italy, you regularly have full frontal nudity of both sex in movies or even in some commercials!

But go to a gym. In the US or the UK, people will happily wander around naked and shower together without thinking anything about it. In France and Italy, there are cabins everywhere to enforce the most strict prudery.
America's attitude towards sex is more nuianced than just being prudish. On some fronts it's also hyper sexual: Music videos, advetisments, going-out fashion, tons of the world's porn is made in the US, etc.

My theory is that these two attitudes, the surface level prudishness and the hyper sexuality are actually a reaction to each other, pushing them both to become more extreme as time goes by.
This has to be one of the strangest replies I’ve ever read on HN.

Off to google the term “meatspace” now.
G Suite is all fine for internal communications, but grossly incompetent for making a presentation for anything where aesthetics is for concern. Same for text documents.
There's also a huge reinsurance market that insurers use to mitigate local risk, and arbitrage. It's how they can survive during the exceptional cases like a major flood where everyone is claiming.
It highlights how bad Google as become. An increasing number of my google Google searches point me to paywalls or content farms, and end up wasting my time. Google can stop this (esp. links to paywalls), but for one reason or another they don't want to.
Not losing, but commoditized - in those fields, there are now perfectly good open-source alternatives.

I was at Google from 2009-2014. When I joined, Google was literally the only place you could work if you wanted to do data science on web-scale data sets. Nobody else had the infrastructure or the data. Now if you want to do Search, ElasticSearch has basically the same algorithms & data structures as Google's search server, with Dremel + some extra features thrown in. (The default ranking algorithm continues to suck, though.) If you want to do deep learning, you reach for Keras, and it'll use TensorFlow behind the scenes but with a much more fluent API. Hadoop was a major PITA to use when I joined Google; now in many ways it's easier & more robust than MapReduce, and the ecosystem has many more tools. Spark compares well with Flume. Zookeeper over Chubby. There are a number of NoSQL databases that operate on the same principle as BigTable, though I'd pick BigTable over them for robustness. Take your pick of HTML5 parsers (I even wrote and open-sourced one while I was at Google). Google was struggling mightily with headless WebKit for JS execution when I left, now you can stand up a Splash proxy in minutes or use one of the many SaaS versions. Protobufs, Bazel, gRPC, LevelDB have all been open-sourced, as have many other projects.
and you need to spit saliva to unlock?
Ballmer was employee #30 at microsoft.
While not technically a founder, he had been with the company 20 years out its 25 years of existence before becoming MSFT's CEO.
Why does this scream Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to me?
In the UK driver+car is insured
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Some might but many wouldn't though, because the risk of a problem occurring is still relatively low. No insurance just means it's worse if it does happen. The company would fail, resulting in a loss of service for their customers and a loss of jobs for all the staff.

To use a good old car analogy, if car insurance stopped paying out people wouldn't all immediately become better drivers.
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An eye-opening moment for me was when the game 'Bulletstorm' released in 2011. It was heavily criticized when it launched (and even before) but for vastly different reasons.

Germany had a HUGE problem with the violence (even the 18+ version has blood and dismemberment removed), US criticized the sexuality (two achievements were called 'topless' and 'gang bang'), and in Japan it was about the promotion of drugs (you could get drunk to perform extra skill shots) and to a lesser extent about the violence.

So every cultural region has its own ideas of what their children need to be shielded from (and what to blame social misconduct on). But they all fail to realize that the children of the others, who get exposed to the 'bad stuff', still turn out fine by some miracle.
It uses Openstreetmap and can work offline.
you should meet some real life sex workers
Hmm, I would have guessed differently but I was also an undergrad biology dropout :/ wasn’t concrete enough for me.

FWIW I can see where he was coming from.
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Opposite for me. I use Chromium on Desktop and Firefox on mobile. Firefox Focus for everyday's browsing, and Firefox Mobile for long term sessions (I have 200 opened tabs of hacker new on Firefox Mobile, it's ridiculous)

Plus, Adblock extensions on Firefox Mobile work great.
It's "$190M" in crypto currency, but I wonder how many dollars he's escaping with.
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In general automated tests are used mostly to save time as the earlier you find the bug the more savings you have when fixing it. When your testers find it, they need to create and fill the ticket, assign it to developer, then developer needs to reproduce, fix it and assign it back and tester needs to retest it. And it's much more expensive if it happens in production! Integration/unit tests can catch a lot of those. There are some diminishing returns so 100% coverage is not needed and integration tests are more effective in catching bugs so I agree with the article's idea. Use unit tests for some real units - algorithms, calculations etc, and don't just test mocking framework. With additional layer of end to end tests and manual testing system should be able to achieve pretty good quality without spending unreasonable amount of time for it.
Also, setting all projects' output folders to the same directory is a pretty bad idea. You're presumably doing parallel builds (/m). If so, and two projects depend on the same library but at different versions, which version will go into your output folder? Depends which project happens to finish building last. That's non-deterministic. Boo. What if the versions aren't even API-compatible? (e.g. Some of your test projects are still on NUnit 2?)

Using hard links gives you most of the speed up, but without the attendant issues.
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Many plants in nature will kill you if you eat them, but can you say that "Plants are deadly to humans"?

It's a bit like money. Money itself isn't bad, but people do incredibly bad things to get money. Likewise, crypto isn't "a scam". People make a lot of scams related to cryptocurrency, but that doesn't mean many of the concepts of cryptocurrency are bad or a scam.

Bitcoin may be quite imperfect, but it's also quite useful for exchanging value quickly and cheaply, and without banks getting to decide if you can or cannot.
Fail to be convinced, rather?
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That name is familiar... google finds this old HN threadlet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163841
The internet you love you mean. I am not a pornography addict, so those things you mention have not affected me at all. Maybe your problem is within yourself.
Ask HN: Cannot find an article about how new hardware keeps render times
I cannot find for my life that article that stated something like: as new hardware keeps improving the speed renders times keep being the same as X years.
Thanks in advance.
Surely that would make the problem worse? Flash storage wears, and is inescapable with current tech. Building it into the device is the worst of both worlds.
> Epub and PDF are almost the same price than the hardcover versions !

That's atrocious and something I really dislike. I personally believe that ebooks should be cheaper - by subtracting the cost it takes to print the paper books (and that should be the maximum price).
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One could also argue that prostitutes are routinely destroyed by the legal system. Prostitution always has and always will exist in one form or another regardless of law. Making it illegal only forces it underground, causing more harm and creating more opportunity for organized crime.
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You'll find American cheese in ham sandwiches on white bread sold in the 7-Elevens everywhere in Japan. And 7-Eleven food in Japan, as well as other Asian countries, is actually quite good. True story bro.
There is. The new compute module has up to 32GB
I think OP was trying to come up with realistic solutions, not platitudes like "vote with your feet".

Laws have been really effective in the past at putting Apple's "heart" in the right place.
They kicked off the deep learning trend when they bought deep mind I guess. Otherwise what innovation are you talking about?

Switching from KNN to DL in machine translations is impressive as a technical achievement ... but not really an innovation, and I doubt all this "innovation" impacts their bottom line in any way.
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On the eMMC side the RPI compute models do support it.

Though they come with a different set of tradeoffs the devkit is reasonably priced.
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Sushi rolls are not traditionally Japanese. You will typically see sashimi, not sushi rolls, in Japan. The type of sushi Americans eat is not at all like what is eaten in Japan, and is frankly pretty terrible in comparison.

And you will never, ever, see cream cheese on sushi in Japan.
we shouldn't hardcode the path but I would assume that most unixes with a C compiler will have a cc symlinked somewhere in the $PATH
Same issue with the Command key on mine!
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Reddit used to be a lot more open. I can't help but think that since a few years ago there are more rules than ever, more mods, and more pressure to fit into an echo chamber of who the average redditor should be.
Not only on the back burner, but as some kind of weird, separate thing. No one is connecting the dots to the puritans.

History is taught like the news is reported, disconnected incidents. I am reminded of the children in Mad Max reciting how they crashed on their airplane.
Won't that kill nav bars?
> I haven't read the Microsoft edition yet but I know Ted hates what they did with his book.

Here is a review of the book that describes the problem:
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200301/computer_libdream_mach...

> The 1987 revised edition is classic ‘80 laser-printer chaos, and is not nearly as nice to read: the dimensions have been scaled down resulting in text narrowly wrapped, and awkwardly flowed from page to page.
> my perception is that the vast majority of sex workers are not doing it because of free choice, but rather because of exploitation and pressure.

Your perception would be wrong. The vast majority of sex workers are doing it for the money, same as any job.

> The illegality of prostitution

Prostitution is not illegal in many parts of the world, and even decriminalised is some parts.

> I hear of no stories where people have found happy and fulfilled lives as prostitutes.

That's because you aren't listening. There's plenty of sex workers who blog or who are on twitter that you can ask. Just follow some and see.

> prostitutes are routinely destroyed by their work.

The biggest risk to sex workers in parts of the world where it is illegal is rape and murder by law enforcement.
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No need to, really. Just prepend "outline.com/" to the full url.

outline.com/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/streetwise/article-quadriga-cant-access-190-million-following-ceos-death-court/
Any 1000€+ laptop should last at least 3 years. In the EU 2 years warranty against manufacturing defects is standard, in some countries it's even more. This POS breaks after 1 year, and thanks to videos like the one from iFixit it should be easy to prove a manufacturing defect.

Apple got sued by several governments for trying to get out of their obligations under this warranty and instead manipulating customers into buying AppleCare.
that's the most frustrating thing about being an european in a internet dominated by American "puritan" tech giants...

Linguistic and cultural imperialism are a thing. I don't know how to fight back. Those companies have a lot of money.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/meatspace.html

Goes back to the earliest days of online existence, to distinguish the two.
> I am still a customer, even an advocate, because all the competitors produce mostly crap, insecure, poorly-made and/or invade your privacy

Not true. There is hardware that is better made and more reliable than Apple (e.g. ThinkPad) and operating systems that are far more secure (e.g. Qubes).
Extensive discussion a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953647
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Keeping in mind what the Pi is aimed at, including the price point, it actually has more features and power that one could have dreamt of.

When people say it is "lacking" something it should really be interpreted as them saying that it is not a good match for their project.
All sorts of *pi's exist and have better hardware for a lesser price. rpi only excels on OS packaging and a sort of early mover advantage.
He could perhaps have been having trouble with his Chrones disease, so he got his affairs in order and went to India for potentially risky and expensive treatment, which didn't go well.
Depends. Libertarians believe in free individuals making contracts. So unless the right to strike is somewhere included (here in germany it is through laws on a higher level) they would not, as strike is a breach of contract otherwise.
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For anything more serious I drop down into Office.
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