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My hope is that your mobile bedroom/living room/office drives around and plugs into shared, communal kitchen/laundry/exercise/living room areas. You do your work during the transit portion and spend your free time enjoying the destinations and other people.
> I would hate for Apple to allow downloading apps through websites

This is such an extreme stance compared to what you're allowed to do on the desktop. Regardless of what Apple allows or not, shouldn't the user, the owner of the device, be allowed to install applications as they see fit, and choose to bypass any centralized app store? A smarthphone is a computer, and it's arguably many peoples primary computing device, and so I see no valid reason for the future of such devices to be a locked-down walled garden under the guise of security.

More than anything and any security, Apple benefits directly from this, just like they do lobbying against right-to-repair legislation. Because God forbid an owner of a Apple device repairing it themselves instead of have to go through official, expensive channels. Likewise with a (legitimate) company or app maker saying "We'll just let the users install it outside of the app store" and choosing not to deal with Apple's ecosystem. For example, Wireguard for macOS cannot be distributed outside of the app store due to native integration requiring APIs that Apple restricts with such clauses [1]. This is in my opinion ridiculous.

[1] https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-February/00...
Facebook and Instagram stop some users around the world
I Was Already on Welfare When My Son Spent My Last $100
I remember reading 30 years ago that the F-16 has 3 computers that vote on how to respond to user input.
I guess you can think of it like so:

1. The confuser commands a nose down trim, this means that the leading edge of the tailplane is raised. In actuality, this represents a decreased angle of attack (think of tailplane as a upside-down wing).

2. Pilots haul back with all their might. This means that the elevators (the trailing control surfaces at the trailing end of the tailplane) deflect upwards in order to increase the angle of attack and create more "downforce" from the tail, raising the nose.

3. Think of the trimmable tailplane [1] as moving around a pivot. In reality it is a jackscrew/hinge combination.

4. The elevator deflections (the intuitive response) "creates a twisting force" the tailplane around the "pivot point" and against the desired direction that you want the trim to travel.

5. Unload the elevator pressure to make it easier to trim it. The key is that elevator deflections, despite intuitive are not sufficient. Luckily, it is a trained manoeuvre.

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/9RQY4.jpg

Note the UP and DOWN markings on the airplane's skin.
A succinct description of false equivalence. Quite nice.
It was pretty common! Check out this Onion parody (from 2002), which refers to a website prompting you to accept cookies:

>"She goes apeshit whenever a pop-up window comes up. And one time, she paged me because she got a message about accepting cookies. She was all freaked out because now she thought she was being charged for actual cookies."

https://local.theonion.com/getting-mom-onto-internet-a-sisyp...
I revamped my Vim setup
That was from yesterday. Running 65.0.1, Ubuntu 16.04, Cinnamon with a custom dark theme.
You can have a monolith that easily scales horizontally. See 12 factor/Heroku model. If you have a piece that requires more scalability you can run just that piece with a command flag/env var. You get the same effect with none of the overhead.
https://lobste.rs/s/isqott/how_i_revamped_my_vim_setup
How do you know which are the 90% it got wrong and which is the 10% it got right?
I misworded the first sentence confusingly. Here's what I meant:

>Say that all the other participants have revealed their pre-images, and you're the last one left to your reveal your pre-image.
Ask HN: Is it ethical to advertise pharmaceutical drugs?
Genuine question: Did customers ask you to make this? I ask because to me (and it appears others in this thread) Events is one of FB’s best features because they own the social graph and I have no interest in a competing product unless if you own a better or equivalent graph.
Its not that interesting to me to pick Steam and Itch since they have many more users than anything else including something that barely launched.
For others reading this comment: “recently” as in “several years ago”, i.e. not do recently, that rule was rather short-lived.
How Apple tries to prevent a unified phone charger (German Google Translation)
Do you honestly not understand the point I was making, or are you just taking issue with the exact phrase I used? And if the latter, state your preferred alternative and then pretend that's what I said. Maybe "consumer disobedience"? "Boycott"?
Zomato now openly allows restaurant to pay for biased reviews
In the latest iOS update of the app, Zomato writes “With this update, we will start displaying a warning banner and clearly indicate a restaurant which engages in monetary/material methods in exchange for biased reviews from Zomato.”

Link to the app: https://itunes.apple.com/al/app/zomato-food-restaurants/id434613896?mt=8
Until you hit your hand with the hammer, then you can't use either the hammer or your hand any more (pedantic, I know, but meant in good spirit)
It's not fair to blame the plane at all unless you're sure the crash was the plane's fault, but that isn't stopping most of the people in this thread from doing it.
What an odd moral thought experiment. I would guess this isn't exactly uncommon for a certain class of people and even though some people might feel revolted by it... If all goes to plan, I'm not sure that it's wrong?

My guess is that after his death it'll all just come undone with a discovery of his master digital calendar. So many birthdays!

A probable solution to the funeral thing is that the trust is set up to execute three funerals. Who care's what's in the urn, but it could deliver parts of him to all the places.
225e6 requests/month is about 80 requests/second. That's a very low rate for a gateway.
> Bournemouth incident

Here: https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aar-3-2009-boeing-737-3q8-g-...
Tracking is not necessary to make money online. It’s just helpful.

It’s more like the government saying, you can’t discriminate against people who demand that their food is cooked in a kitchen that isn’t filled with cockroaches. It’s going to hurt the bottom line, and might kill some businesses, but it doesn’t reduce to a prohibition on making money.
I don't think Martin Fowler realized when he wrote the first microservices article that he'd stumbled upon a technical solution to a political problem. He just saw it work and wanted to share.
The Bay Area Peninsula has been having strong winds and heavy rains for the past few months. The last 3 days, there have been major power outages across the area. Redwood City had power outages 2 days in a row and Pacifica lost power to a good chunk of the city for like 7 hours last night. It wouldn't surprise me if all these major tech outages that have been happening this week is all related to poor Bay Area infrastructure.
There's a really good documentary on Bill Watterson called "Dear Mr. Watterson". Until recently it was on Amazon Prime but you can still rent it at: https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Watterson-Joel-Allen-Schroeder/d...
Implementing a static stack usage analysis tool
Since they, as you say, "produce negative value", this means that there is enough value produced to sustain everyone already. It's just a matter of distribution. That's very briefly why Marx argued for communism.
Did we ever get a post mortem for the global Youtube outage from late last year?
HTTPS: //www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-gaming-industry-kyle-kling/
You are overstating the price differential.

I'm seeing $2182 Thinkpad vs $2599 MacBook Pro--choices driven by WQHD display, 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD. Processor on the Pro is significantly faster, the display on the Mac has slightly higher resolution. Maybe not $400 worth of difference, but certainly almost $200 or so.

And I still can't buy an i5 laptop with 32GB of RAM.
I don't use branches either, but what I do like to use every now and then is stash. Sometimes you program yourself into a corner, or you realize that you need to take a step back. Or to quickly check what caused that regression you just noticed.
> Why the hell should somebody else's effort be spent sustaining you when they could be following their own aspirations.

A modern economy in a democratic state is built by the collective will of the people. No entity at the top setting rules, no modern economy. So: why the hell should everyone else agree to create and maintain a system that doesn't serve their needs to a degree that, taking into account the constraints of reality and not killing the golden goose et c. et c., satisfies them, regardless how nice a place you've found for yourself in same system?
To me, the hardest part of software engineering is the domain understanding, not the engineering part.
We're up to around 7 hours of partial outage now. I have spoken to FB employees in the past, every hour they are even partially down they are loosing millions and millions in revenue.
Yes, there is a lot of nonsense talked about this. The GDPR makes it clear that sites don’t have to ask for permisssion to place session cookies and other cookies that are essential to the functioning of the site.
There should be an alternative App Store, plain and simple. As long as the sandbox for apps exist, users will be pretty safe. Apps should work the same way sandboxing works on PC browsers. Apple constricts Safari iOS because they don't want web apps to be fully competitive with native apps. E.g I prefer to use Overcast.fm over web than the native app, but most times, my podcast streams will stop abruptly in mobile safari, that i'm thinking of trading my privacy to Android for a pixel 1. Only thing that saves me, is I hardly use my phone, otherwise the limited functionality of iOS for devices you pay hundreds for is painful.
Oh. No you don't translate when you speak another language, you may be worse at speaking it than your native one, but speaking any language works the same way, you speak or write directly and don't translate.

It still could be a translation to keep the keys in English though.
Even think about distributed systems like databases. You absolutely should not call 2 db servers that are configured in a cluster as "redundant" You introduce things like split brain and broken quorum voting (not even possible without a third node) in the event a network connection is severed between them.
I'm interviewing for a Production Engineer role at Facebook on Monday, thanks for providing relevant "do you have any questions for us" content.
90% of web developers give the rest of you a bad name.
Interesting. I didn't know about scale. How would someone figure out that these tools are needed by so and so companies => let's provide APIs. I was of the idea that all the self driving startups have their own people solving these challenges. Why would anyone use scale?
That would not solve anything, it would create a problem.
There is definitely something here. It would be nice to have a service aggregate and split costs for the whole trip. And help planning it
Is there a way to form ice and reform polar ice caps? instead of spraying the stratosphere with Sulphur based aerosols to dim the sun which seems to be the current gates foundation strategy?
If an airplane crashes because it's hit by a missile, or because there's a bomb aboard, or because a suicidal pilot flies it into a mountain, that is no reason to ground it.

Thus, more evidence is required to ground an airplane (that has, after all, gone through the certification process), than two crashes.
Presumably the trim wheel spins/clicks when the mcas is doing its thing? Occasional weird electric stab trim behaviour has been a thing since the classic. I heard that 737 pilots are generally aware the electric trim can be switched off, or the trim wheel manually held for a more visceral solution. These things are not airbuses, the yoke is still connected to the elevators right?
IIRC, signature permission means that 3p apps can't request it at all. They have to be signed with the same key as the OS, so practically only your handset manufacturer can use it.
I'm more worried of all of it going down at the same time.
Where does the post tell you to do that? If anything it tells you a) spend a lot of time paying attention to what sounds like what you might call "the general security implications of containers" and b) it also tells you that systems like K8s mean that you may not need to run said container to your prod database.

Saying that one of the senior engineers at Gravitational "is unaware of the general security implications of containers" is a pretty bold claim.
> A country isn’t a company, nor is the executive branch.

It is an analogy, which is why I used the word analogous, and it still fits.

The power of the Executive Branch is vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. There isn't any framework to have a rebuttal to that, this is as succinct as it gets.

SOME agencies are independent of this structure. They are called independent agencies.

Other agencies are not.

The President's primary role in this capacity is to steer the executive branch, and this is done using rather mundane executive orders which are usually merely plans, again ANALOGOUS to a companies quarterly or annual goals. A CEO lays out the mission and the organization follows that.

The job title is a 3-part job. Head of executive branch, head of state, and commander-in-chief of armed forces. The celebrity status and reliance on The President's every move and stance on everything is merely happenstance, but a byproduct of the constitutional government becoming involved in every aspect of American society, having subsequently created all these "not-companies" with millions of employees, and perpetual armed conflicts around the world.

So finally, head of the executive branch, for agencies not independent of this structure, the President is ANALOGOUS to the Chairman/CEO and has ultimate say in steering them. There is no tradition that was violated.

Anyway, on the topic at hand, the FAA followed the order and indications from the President and issued their own.
The main problem here is that the GDPR is not enforced.

Those annoying cookie banners aren't actually GDPR compliant. GDPR mandates that consent should be freely given and should be opt-in, so forcing you to consent in order to view the site is illegal, and so is pre-checking the tick boxes or making it hard to opt-out (like having to explicitly visit the privacy policy, or uncheck hundreds of tick boxes).

If GDPR was actually enforced, fines would start flying out, and website operators will quickly start complying and cookie banners will become much less intrusive or annoying.
Industry first: Flow battery gets 10-year performance insurance
I’ve seen many systems go down over the last few days worldwide. Aside from the possibility of a mega-DDoS attack (which Facebook denies), all of these organizations have fairly diverse tech stacks to my knowledge. Google’s issue (supposedly) had to do with their Blobstore API, we don’t know what happened with Facebook, and many other, smaller services have had issues as well, including three intranet services at my workplace.

This leaves me wondering what software all these places have in common. The application layers are all different, the databases are all different, the containerization and provisioning systems are different, but I imagine that all these systems rely on two things: the global Internet backbone, and maybe the Linux kernel.

Have there been major security vulnerabilities patched lately in the Linux kernel that could have had unintended consequences?
This is great. Thank you for posting.

What humans do you have tagging the images, after the AI portion? Are they the 13 employees you have now?

Do you think that you will need to focus on a couple of verticals, so that your AI will have more of an impact?
If you don't like Dell, three options are Lenovo, Purism, and System76. I'm personally quite happy with my thinkpad.
As a layperson, can you explain what exactly we're looking at here?
Whatever the solution is, we need to get to it, and fast. I've been reading Andrew Yang's The War on Normal People (among other books), and it is terrifying. We are poised to shed tens of millions more jobs (in addition to the millions we've already lost) in the next decade or two, due to virtually every repetitive job (what he distinguishes as routine, rather than non-routine) being replaced by robots that do it faster and better for less money. And there is nothing on the horizon to replace them, to provide an alternative income for the millions of truck drivers, fast food workers, call center operators, retail clerks, insurance agents, paralegals, even doctors who are about to become obsolete.

And if the answer to this dilemma is to throw them out on the streets because they're obviously lazy and/or stupid, exploiting our hard-earned tax dollars with their immoral ways - or to just keep swelling the ranks of unemployment and disability and "retraining" programs that will never lead anywhere - then the people who are still able to make it are going to face some very nasty shocks.
There's no consensus as to the answer to that question. But even if we accept the genetic accounts offered, the explanation would be that certain Ethiopian and Kenyan tribes living in mountainous areas have adapted to living at high altitudes by adapting to increase the efficiency of their oxygen uptake, which, in turn, makes them better long-distance runners. That has nothing to do with melanin, or even with being Kenyan or Ethiopian, but with a localised adaptation to environment. But again - we can only speculate, no one know's the answer.
> It says nothing about the merit's of the clients case

Even if it doesn't say anything about the actual merit of the case, it probably says something about their chances of winning. (Since the client probably won't be able to stop their self-destructive behavior)
Compulsory education is not for that. They're not there to change your aesthetic, if they did then we'd lose a lot of good art IMO: people developing their own aesthetic are often considered to be "no good" because they disobey the conventions. When you've learnt all the tools, and different normative styles, read a reasonable body of work in different genre, that's when to develop your own style. Which corresponds with University/school leaving largely.

The sitcom course is almost certainly designed to help you write in a narrowly designed style that is commercially useful. But a sitcom that breaks many of the norms could do really well .. you're not going to learn to write opposing the established styles on a course like that, are you.

Writing crap is part of the journey.
I'm inclined to quibble mildly with 'monocasa's phrasing, but the ultimate point still obtains that the post-colonial conditions in those countries are, in no small part, rather direct consequences of the rapacity of their colonizers.

If the Dutch had left Rhodesia even marginally less resource-stripped, can you really assert that Zimbabwe would have played out like it did?

If the French hadn't treated the Cambodian and Vietnamese peoples like it did, would Pol Pot even have happened?

If we (the US) hadn't propped up puppet assholes around the world, would those countries and their regions have fallen into the states they did after?

The entirety of the current mess in Middle East can, in a very real way, be traced back to dividing up Kurdish territory into multiple countries, because the colonial powers recognized that the Kurds were the greatest real threat to the oil flowing. Literally drawing lines on maps right through the heart of their historical lands fixed that — temporarily. Now, though, we've got the House of Saud and Iran (another great example; the Shah much?) and Iraq (another!) and Syria, and, net, a death and misery toll we will never be able to fully reckon.

Consequences are a thing. Our system has a cost in other people's lives. Is that supposed to be better than having a cost in our own? I repudiate that notion. The GPS coordinates of your birth do not alter the intrinsic value of your life.
It took a bit for me to realize that we are talking of +C+PRG here :(
huh, I just noticed I wrote where instead of were.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861295
New accessibility service built by Google for the deaf and hard of hearing
It also doesn't help that when some people say restricted shell they mean "actually like bash, running on a real system", or more of a debugging console (a bespoke REPL a la Python's stdlib's cmd module). I'd happily believe you can secure something like the latter, and I don't think it's worth the expense of securing the former.

(But also, if you give people an anodyne shell like that, what's the point? If all you can do is peek and poke at metrics then maybe you just wanted better instrumentation?)
A combat aircraft can trade reliability for superiority, you increase one kind of risk to lower another. This trade-off simply does not exist in civilian aviation.
'Like a ghost town': how short-term rentals dim New Orleans’ legacy
Has anyone else noticed a reduction in New Tab icons? I used to have 10 defined, but now it will only show 8 of them. OSX 10.14.3, Chrome 73.0.3683.75.

It also seems to sometimes not want to display the text for the New Tab icons in white and picks a nearly-imperceptible slightly-darker grey.
two ideas:

- Take an instructor lead figure drawing class. This will teach you to see "line" which is the primary foundation of "form". I suggest this route because any class worth it's salt will give you tasks: 5 min pose/ 10 min pose/ 1 hr pose these will challenge you to think in different ways and get the skill of line down vs. working on aesthetics.

- As you start to master line, you then want to explore the "absence" of that, which is what impressionism is; "color as form." How do you take the essence of what you see, and capture that as color.

Impressionist art is a reaction to line, and if you start there (like a lot of them did) you may have better luck.

Have fun!
Isn't Chrome Sync opt-out at this point? I seem to recall some small controversy about that a while ago, and setting a passphrase seems like something that it's unlikely most people will do.

A default open browser history synced across devices seems like exactly the sort of thing that would show that DDG has increased its market share.
The $750/month is well worth it to organizations with billions in revenue, wishing to protect user data. Better to route all traffic through an API gateway, and exposing all of your micro services on the public internet.

Everyone has to communicate through the API gateway. Then, you get a single point where things are easily auditable.

It has a lot of benefits that apply to business use cases. Your free API may not have as strict requirements.
High performers always delegate or talk what they'll do and then after awhile stuff gets forgotten.
Another example, chatting using Skype for business on my MacBook is far less responsive than aim was in Windows 95.