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> Nowhere in the post does it suggest that the author has contacted them to find out why their account is banned

Which, to be fair, is by design. The article admits straight up that it's an attempt to get publicity and embarrass Google into reinstating the account. Giving a complete and forthright accounting cuts against that goal, they want to seem as sympathetic and innocent as possible.

And, to be fair, the iPhone set around here is eating it up. Pitchforks are sharpened, torches are lit and the march to the castle is underway.

As to the truth? We really have no idea. I think your theory sounds most plausible -- they hired someone scammy to write the app and Google happened to bring the banhammer down on them while this app was being launched.
It is all well and good for Ireland, or whoever, to try to attract companies to move jobs there. But that is not what is happening. One Infinite Loop isn't in Dublin. What Ireland is doing is allowing companies that have a purely administrative presence in Ireland to claim tax residency in spite of having far more operations and employees in London, Paris, NYC, San Francisco, Hong Kong and numerous other high-tax places.

This allows tech companies to have their cake and eat it too by enjoying low tax rates on their entire European income without actually moving their operations to that country. If Google had 50,000 software engineers in Dublin, that would be one thing. But no one can seriously claim that any significant part of the work that produces Google Search goes on in Ireland, yet that is exactly what happens on their financial statements while they open a billion-dollar new engineering office in London.

Companies are free to move wherever they wish. They should not be free to claim they are domiciled somewhere that they plainly are not.
Actually SPIR and PTX, eventually OpenCL as well.
"The consortium" is not a monolith. Some of them probably did expect that, but such expectation seems to conflict with the "学"/"學" distinction mentioned above and for that matter with similar distinctions for other scripts e.g. "a"/"α" and "A"/"Α".
I believe you, but I have little expertise. Could you explain or give examples why?
I dont know the exact time but it wont let you if it has not been long enough. And it is tradition for someone to post links to previous discussion.
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How would it remain impartial/objective/effective? How is it different from a real call center support that you have to pay to access?
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> Something doesn't have to be necessarily expressible into a single, unambiguous universal formula to be made illegal.

It doesn't have to be expressed with a precise mathematical formula, but it does need to be expressed with a clear legal formula.

Otherwise, people cannot know whether or not their actions are legal, and the law becomes a fearsome weapon in the hands of its interpreters.

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EDIT: I'm not claiming it's impossible for such a rule to be formulated in this case; I merely point out that clarity is absolutely necessary.
Still it is worth thinking the effects of disclosing meta-data that a legal entity has collected about another entity (here an individual). Is it not abetting to disclose when you are away from your house and what alarm system you have to a burglar? What if you do that via wikipedia?

I think even if you have no ownership of the data and stealing is not involved, that does not give the collecting or managing party the right to sell or publicize or share that data, necessarily.

There have been studies about the value (and impact) of inferences from metadata e.g. https://www.pnas.org/content/113/20/5536.short .

((Edit) Agreeing with you, steal is incorrect term in a lot of cases, however I am not sure if we can say it is not applicable in general.)
But I think everyone understands that it's shitty to be on the receiving end of gossip, especially if the rumors are untrue or can be used against you.
Herd immunity is immensely important and an underrated benefity in modern society.

We lived near a large religious community in Ohio that does not practice vaccination while my children were too small to be fully vaccinated. Whenever measles or other outbreaks would occur, we had legitimate fears for our children's health.

I wonder if the benefits of non-compliance were offset with more certain negative impacts if more people would be vaccinated. Something like a tax levied for not being vaccinated set at compensating the ongoing care for people who can't (rather than choose to not) be vaccinated and get sick with things herd immunity would prevent.
I've got a pihole running at one of my family members' houses and am seeing ~20% caching.. at my place I'm seeing about 35%.
As a Midwesterner, I feel attacked.

EDIT: in all seriousness, I appreciate your anecdote. This thread is convincing me of how little I know.
People always complain when they get kicked out of these walled gardens. Of course it's the same people who have dedicated significant effort and resources into making these walled gardens attractive enough to out compete general purpose computing, so I can't feel that sorry for them.
Having taken schedules of medicine myself, what resonates with me is the balance between strength and consistency of whatever the medicine is supposed to do. Think about alleviating pain. You want to take as much pain reliever as you can to take effect but not too much at once to overdo it, but you should continue over period of hours to sustain its fever / pain reducing effect.
i didnt say anything about mexico. im replying to someone who says there arent parts of canada or sweden comparable to mexico. well this is ignorant. look up missing and murdered aboriginal women. does that count as violence to you? because aboriginal women make up like 1% of the canadian population, but something like 25% of murdered women. of course in broad strokes canada and mexico are very different (canada is wealthy, has no cartel, etc) but that doesnt mean there arent little bits of bad there and doesnt mean there arent bits of good in mexico (remember this reply traces to a parent comment praising a notewrothy academic study coming out of a country generally only mentioned in mainstream news for its problems). thats all.
Not working for me either, Chrome works great though.
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FWIW, I've seen a police technical with machine gun in Los Cabos, of all places (almost no cartel activity), so I suspect they may correlate more closely to police morale than to operational necessity.
Perhaps some of us browsing HN, a site by a venture capital firm in the bay area, might want to consider the effects of legislation on tech startups.
I'm unsure why you're responding to this. There is no planet where 12 seconds latency is appropriate or a consequence of a "noisy neighbor" or not "predictable" or whatever you want to use to rationalise it.

I don't believe your reasons because I had two Azure Database for PostgreSQL instances in two different locations (yes, I moved it across as part of troubleshooting) yet experienced the same levels of performance.

The product that you charge ~$60 a month for is fundamentally broken. It is unusable for any application.

If you are genuinely sorry, I'm happy to give you my company's contact details so you can refund or credit the last few months of what we paid for your service. Otherwise it's this type of empty response and lack of responsibility (or desire to correct the problems, or even correct your marketing material to emphasize what kinds of latency to expect) that led me to instruct my management and ultimately lead the move over to AWS.
BTW, nowadays it seems the power is held at least by some degree by the nukenets
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Certainly! But when you abstract it away as "personal information" then you also abstract away why sharing it is sometimes harmful.
Because on a fundamental level bits are bits are bits, regardless of who made them or through what purpose.
One of the things you could do to avoid this kind of abuse by quasi-monopolies would be to not post on Medium. But that's just me I guess and that guy:
https://brooksreview.net/2018/05/medium-keeps-killing-off-bl...
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Article explains it all
Factorio was able to put 400 people into one game, where the server was a Youtube streamer's home computer, a full year before Fortnite Battle Royale came out.
In my country, its not illegal to film people in public. Using this film for anything but personal use w/o the explicit consent of every identifiable person on it is illegal and can be charged with jail time (its usually just a fee + public excuses though). I can easily see a similar legislation/formulation for personal data.
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Personally I love a little Ruby after dark...
> "God knows how I'm still alive," Lindenberger wrote on Reddit last November.

Seems a bit over-dramatic. "Thank God" for the good luck would make more sense if he wants to say something along these lines; it's not like he defied astronomical odds. Millions of people in poor countries are still surviving without vaccination. Living in Ohio, he also benefits from sanitation and the majority of the community being vaccinated. That last bit is part of the problem -- people see "nobody" is sick anymore and think vaccines aren't needed.
Can this be easily tweaked to preload images as well, if desired? Or is their exclusion inherent in the method used?
> your approach gives a non uniform distribution

Unless I made some significant error, it is a uniform distribution over multiples of 2^-52. It's also a discrete approximation of the real uniform distribution in that for any subdivision of [0,1) into N equal (half-open) intervals, the most-populated interval has at most one more inhabitant the least populated one.

It is however strictly inferior to rand53()*2^-53 (NextDoubleInner at your github link) unless your int64->double or float-multiply operations are quite bad.
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Wow, I thought Ruby was supposed to be an elegant and simple language for developers but now I realize why it's dying off. It looks like it's trying to cater to newbies and not real developers with all the syntax changes and odd paradigms. I'll stick with Python.
I wonder - how big does a company have to become before a society steps in and says "you have enough power to control and affect the lives of X% of our citizens. Therefore, we must have a say in how you conduct your affairs." I mean, this is for all intents and purposes what regulation is - and the reason for it. Otherwise, set aside the very idea of government as a farce, and populate the world with a dystopian patchwork of private corporations that behave like nations.

This of course can never be true for mom-and-pop. But hell yes it is true for Google.
LaTeX and git are great for people who have invested the time to learn it. Any platform that will be successful for research collaboration could include these, but has to make the entry costs absolutely nil.
> Of HPV‐infected patients without evidence of CIN I, 80% cleared the infection,

Over 50 percent of new HPV infections are cleared in 6 to 18 months, and 80 to 90 percent will have resolved within two to five years.

> while HPV associated with CIN I was eliminated in 83% of patients (P < 0.05). At 12 months, CIN I had regressed in 57% of patients, although this response was not statistically significant.

CIN 1 lesions will regress in most women. As an example, a retrospective study of 680 women with biopsy-proven CIN 1 found the following cytology and/or histology results: (1) at six months, 49 percent regressed to negative, 35 percent had persistent CIN 1, and 7 percent had high-grade lesions; (2) at 12 months, among the patients with negative results at six months: 80 percent were negative, 17 percent had low-grade lesions, and 4 percent had high-grade lesions; and (3) at 12 months, among patients with persistent CIN 1 at six months: 50 percent were negative, 46 percent had low-grade lesions, and 4 percent had high-grade lesions (Bansal 2008.)

> PDT using 6% 5‐ALA is concluded to be effective in eliminating HPV infection associated or not with CIN I.

Doesn’t seem to be much better than the natural course of the untreated disease.
Clojure was designed to be a hosted language from the start, and it embraces the underlying ecosystem. There are plenty of Clojure libraries that use Java libraries internally and provide an idiomatic API. Having a mature ecosystem to lean on is just practical. For example, take a look at Apache MX Net bindings, HTTP Kit, clj-http, clj-pdf, and so on. All these libraries leverage the host ecosystem. There's absolutely no value in reinventing the wheel here. And the interop nightmare you're imagining simply doesn't exist in practice.

>My point is that the clojure ecosystem is weak in comparison to other more popular languages because experience in absolute quantities matter far more than percentages.

And yet in 8 years of working with Clojure I have yet to run into a situation where the ecosystem failed me.

>But compared to Javascript, Java, Python, C++, C, Javascript, Swift, Ruby, etc., it's not even close.

And Clojure leverages both Java and Javascript ecosystems directly. The whole ClojureScript ecosystem is based around React. When you write web apps you build them on top of React components, and other Js libraries. And this is how seamless interop is:

https://github.com/yogthos/semantic-ui-example/blob/master/s...

The ecosystem is not an interesting problem to solve. Interesting things are happening in the code you write. The business logic of your application is where the language matters. Even when interop is unsafe you're doing it at the edges of the application, and you treat it the same way as you would any side effect.
Ruby is going the way of Perl, same as the Dodo. I wouldn't recommend anyone learn Ruby over Typescript, JS, Python, C#, or Java.

There's too much magic and Ruby is seriously sllllooowww. Slower than PHP, Perl, and Python. The main draw of Ruby was rails, which is functionally obsolete for modern front end frameworks like React and Angular. It's the OSS version of Asp.Net WebForms
I see some people didn't get the (self-contradicting) joke. I probably should have put it in quotation marks, or appended a smiley-face.
Well, Rails is still the fastest way to build and iterate a web app that I know of... BY FAR.

I volunteer to teach an intro to Rails class to folks getting ready to graduate a local code school and always enjoy watching their facial expressions as I live demo in about 15 min what they just spend the last couple months learning how to implement in the node/JS stack.

Plus, Ruby is just a joy to work with. Hard to put a price on enjoying the language and framework you work with.
They could believe that the meaning of the different signs changes as the corresponding constellations change.

For an entertaining science fiction look at that possibility, see season 2 episode 5 of "The Orville". Briefly, they encounter a civilization that believes strongly in astrology, to the point of using it as the basis of a very rigid caste system that pretty much determines at birth what jobs are open to you and what your place will be in society.

I don't want to give any spoilers, but I will say that the question of what happens when a constellation changes is an important one in this episode.
> someone right next to you hovering while you are trying to develop

The pair is a collaboration. They develop together.

> Do you really need someone over your shoulder to make sure you can turn requirements into code?

I listed numerous advantages (and some disadvantages), none of which implied pairing was necessary. I'm merely answering OP's question on which environment has enabled my best work.

I'm not advocating pairing (I'm no longer in a pairing team), not even saying it's the environment that will enable the best work for other people. Our hiring process included a pair programming task to try to gauge how well that person would work in a pairing team, though it's also something you get better with in time.
Does he or his company had other clients? Could he be charged if he was working in Trader A's company?

> perhaps supported by other platforms

I which other platforms is this legal, it looks very shady.

> Does it seem odd that the identity of "Trader A" is shielded

My guess is that "Trader A" snitched the dev in exchange of a reduction of the sentence.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I think that's a good call - I've removed that promotion. Cheers!
Which Bitcoin with or without segwit and small or big blocks?
Dear lord that is a shitshow of a videoplayer, not to mention the entire website and pitch.
I remember applets as often being fun but also a huge source of instability. On my family’s Mac in the mid-late 90s, any time we started playing Java applet games, Netscape and/or System 7.5 would inevitably seize up and we’d have to reboot. Applets and “Sorry, a system error has occurred” were almost synonymous.
> A bare bones HTML page still looks like a physics website from the 90s.

No it doesn't. "Bare bones" is a benchmark that has shifted due to easy CSS that can be applied to elements. Beginners are using CSS to make their first pages look nice, from drop shadows to rounded corners. I think you may be out of touch.

> No person who is taking their first steps in computing is going to look at that and think...

If we want to understand what beginners and students are thinking, we should avoid consulting senior software engineers for insight.

> how do people get into making software as easily as possible

Yes, and it's not by giving them a baked cake and the task of icing it. All under the watchful gaze of Uncle Google or Aunty Wordpress.

We're talking about industry entry points, not child learning activities. It's better to reach the point of nice looking page without sign-up to Wordpress-World or "install this collection of mysterious files". The idea with learning is to allow students to get as far as possible ON THEIR OWN, until they naturally or logically hit a wall that requires help from broader tools and services.
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I see this all the time. Legit mail from Google gets stopped by Googles own spam filters on our Corp google apps account. But clearly forged phishing emails purporting to be from our CEO (sent “from” their email address but not from Googles own servers when we use Google apps and have DKIM/SPF setup) gets through to the inboxes.
Educating users? Users follow the path of least resistance. Make anything more complicated, and they will switch to something more convenient. Do you expect users to really be sensitive to the plight of devs?
"overwhelmingly positive"

While I don't doubt there's been many good things coming out of the release and growth of Facebook, if only for their contribution to the ecosystem, I think you might be hyping it quite a bit there.

Care to elaborate on your thought?
What's wrong with catering to "newbies"? How do you define "real developers" vs. a newbie?

One of my previous teams at one of the big tech companies who's products or services you likely use every day had an entire suite of tests for data pipelines that were quickly implemented in Ruby. That system is still in production today.

I guess none of the folks on that team were "real developers", huh?
From GP's link: I find that her email addresses have been included in that recent dump of 770 million accounts called "Collection#1".

For background, see Troy Hunt's explanation for this data [0]. He certainly didn't add Ms. Sanchez's passwords to this. The MEGA uploader could have, one supposes, but that pushes the timeline back to early January. The idea that someone was sitting on all these creds (140M email addresses in this breach that HIBP has never seen before.), and then released them as a smokescreen for Ms. Sanchez's would be, let's say, conspiratorial.

[0] https://www.troyhunt.com/the-773-million-record-collection-1...
> "Western PA in general seems to be slipping back into (as I've been told it was like) the pollution of the 70's."

that is incorrect. air quality levels have improved significantly, just at a slower rate than the rest of the nation.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/environment/2018/04/18/Pit...

> "Last time I was home I saw my neighbor mowing his yard with a white surgical mask on."

Maybe they have hey fever.

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area, I enjoyed breathing the air a lot more than in Philadelphia. I recently moved to Seattle, and I recently experienced worse air quality than any other place I have been with its 'summer smoke' days. Another thing mentioning about those bad 'air quality days' in the Pittsburgh area, they count pollen, and I am sure the farms in the region add to the air woes. In any event, jobs/work or the lack there of is a major concern for the area.
I think the only way to fix this is to create a counter-conspiracy theory. Maybe something like "the anti-vax movement was started by the lizard people to weed out the weakest people so they'd only have the healthiest slaves in their salt mines"

The CDC putting out notices isn't going to help. That just feeds into the rejection of authority at the heart of it. The only hope is to out-crazy them.
Indeed. And we know from the previous lawsuits there was definite employer based collusion between FAANG to artificially keep engineers' wages low.

How do you deal with the digital mafia? RICO act.
As far as I can tell it just downloads the page. Nothing is parsed until you click the link, so there really isn't a reliable way of telling which images to load until then.

You could write something to parse the page and download images, but I don't recommend it. You risk a significant performance hit for the client, and a lot of wasted bandwidth for both client and server.
Presumably they eradicated the lesions, which were potentially precancerous.
Sounds like general doctor's resistance against picking another schedule, even if it can't be articulated well. See [1] for considerations among pediatricians.

Insurance companies may indeed pay more or less for 'well designed' vaccinations programs, and may incentivize vaccination in general in some locales as a long-term cost reduction program [2].

[1] https://seattlemamadoc.seattlechildrens.org/pediatricians-co...

[2] https://vaxopedia.org/2017/09/24/that-3-million-vaccine-bonu...
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The notes section of the page I linked addresses this - it'll only be paged in a hibernate state where memory is powered down. It won't be paged without that.
Have those TOS been validated through the courts?
I recently made a joke about Geocities to a class full of graduate students. None of them had heard of it.

It's my first year as faculty and I already make cultural references that go over their heads. Not a good sign...
It depends on the use case? Are you assuming everything is a web front-end?
OK, in that case we've updated the link from https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/mexican-scientist-cur.... If someone can suggest a better article we could use that.
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What does "you generate the metadata" mean? If an app on my phone "generates metadata" I own it under this principle. Likewise for code running on my computer.