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The cloud providers have enough resources to provide APIs that are compatible with the popular ones. They won't be selling you Mongo but a Mongo-compatible replacement built in house.
Behold, the airpods internals. A marvel of incredibly small scale engineering and manufacturing. It's simply stunning, and to think that this is a consumer device that you can buy and pop into your ear.... And lose just as easily :)

https://fccid.io/BCG-A1722/Internal-Photos/A1722-Internal-Ph...
Actually just yesterday China announced the plan to build 4 more reactors: https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3002379/nucl...
What worries me is that we are in a period of relative peace in the developed world, and yet there seems to be an attempt to create instability in society via this culture. I don't believe that it has just organically emerged from nowhere nor that it would persist unless it served the interests of power in some way, yet the useful idiots that support it are unable to recognise themselves as such.
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> Another city agency, which is responsible for the tank, has certified year after year that the entire structure, including the roof, is sound and that the tank has no sanitary defects, dismissing its own 2015 report of E. coli in the water as a “clerical error.”

Would this be considered a criminal offence? Even if so, unlikely that they would be charged I'm guessing.
If you cloned every single detail, I suppose you'd have an exact clone, including all the people. But cloning the main features is cloning the service, from a user perspective.

I think you're vastly underestimating how much scale they already had, before all these people. When FB IPOed (just 6 years ago) FB were operatating with 1/10 the current resources. ATT, they were already generating revenue and private investors were falling overthemselves to invest.. so it's not like times were leane then.

Since, revenue, expenses & headcount has grown 10X. FB is still basically FB. If their ad business had capped off at $8bn instead of $80bn, my guess is that almost nothing a user notices would be different. It's not proveable. You can always counter that FB does 10X more than they did 6 years ago. We can't count the number of cars leaving a factory.
I can't disagree with you on that, the German education and integration with industry is a well-oiled machine. my point is they have too many factors some even geopolitical to keep making ice cars and my personal opinion is we won't see real competition from German carmakers for another decade in the electric car space.
Where is the value in this article? It is just gossip.

OK, I have aspergers and I have kids with aspergers, all professionally diagnosed. And I have read the history of Dr Asperger multiple times already, it really is not that hard to find. So with that I try to read this article...and I can't. I reads too much like gossip magazine.

The entire purpose, whether the author wants to admit it or not, is to create a negative association between Asperger's syndrome and Dr. Asperger. So now, if you find out someone has Aspergers your thought process will start with "oh, that is horrible". This creates a new wave of idiots who start conversations with "Did you know Dr Asperger was a bad man?"...Yes, and he is dead now, so how is that relevant to anything?

So, if you like reading gossip, I'm sure this is a fun read for you. But there it contains nothing of value.
Mike Row built a new one from wood relatively recently on Dirty Jobs. IIRC, only the bands holding it together were metal.
Being GDPR compliant right from the start should be seen as an advantage over competitors.

GDPR can really be reduced to "privacy by design" and "privacy by default". If your business struggles with those two principles it's a business you'll probably not need.
Inductive Programming as approach to comprehensible machine learning [pdf]
Thankyou, then that is one useful test project. I hold doubts towards what seems to be mostly oil company sponsored research. It is one thing to have estimates for massive geological capacity for CO2 storage, a different thing to claim that capacity exists and that an environmentally sound industry could be developed to fill those, seismically sensed, deep subterranean environments.
What's going on with Apple releasing so many updates without holding a press event? (It's not like they have always announced significant updates at their keynotes.)
It's not insurance fraud (or fraud of any kind). Fraud is theft by deception. Your car fire example is fraud because to get the payout you have to lie to the insurance company about why the car caught on fire. Car insurance contracts quite explicitly exclude coverage for intentional damage, so if you tell them you set it on fire on purpose, they won't pay you.

In this instance, the "insurance" is actually a credit default swap (CDS). CDS contracts do not exclude "coverage" in cases where the "insured" provokes the company into default. There's no need for deception to make the scheme work, meaning it's not fraud.

The CDS contracts are put together by an industry association called ISDA, with a lot of input from very sophisticated market participants and their very expensive lawyers. It was most likely a conscious decision to make the contract work that way. Anybody who got burned by this directly either knew it was possible or should have known it.
Bose QC35
> In Europe the culture you're describing is pretty much non-existent

It's all over the media in the UK
Ayurveda hasn't been shown to work better than placebo as far as I know.
Try Bose soundsports. They’re $200 as well but battery life is great and they tend to really stay in your ear canal.
Worthless from a security standpoint, because the screenshots can still be taken from a desktop or laptop device.
As long as it doesn't leave Gmail.
Cost effective and comes with a few benefits such as: natural material which won't taint water, and it has good insulating effects in winter.

There was a Dirty Jobs episode which featured Mike accompanying a water tank crew doing a roof top replacement. They shape the boards of wood at the shop, truck it in, and use manual labor to schlep the boards up to the roof. Old boards come back down the same way. No extremely expensive crane service or metal working necessary. So it is quite cost effective.
There's a who's hiring on the first of the month. That might be an appropriate or optimal time to post this.

That being said, it's unlikely that anyone wants part time given the difficulty people have finding, attracting, and retaining developers.
Nothing to do with right or wrong. Like with any other law, That law exist because the people who oppose either didn't do anything or didn't fight hard enough to oppose it.
Why swap between devices AT ALL? What's with the "concern" that your music is playing from a single device?

I don't quite understand, is there some mental gymnastics being done to figure out the device you're using isn't the device playing music? Shouldn't matter anyway, since you have completely playback control either from your Apple Watch or the AirPods themselves.
Yeah, just had an amazing two years of trouble-free wireless audio conference calls. Never again!
You can use Shift+Delete on an entry to remove it from the autocomplete list.
I imagine they will show confidential emails to other gmail users inline, but make a link for non gmail users.

It is in Google's interest to make GMail less and less the same as "plain mail", until you are forced (for practical reasons) to create a Gmail account to interact with other Gmail users.

Together with Amp and Chrome, eventually we will be at a point where the decentralized internet is replaced by Google's servers and software.
Thanks, it's very disappointing when a comment describes the product better than the official webpage.
Is it possible that the people criticizing them are not the people buying them?
I don't understand the distinction you are trying to make. You are expressing shock at "[p]rivately hosted rooftop water tanks", then talking about privately-hosted hydrofoors instead. The rooftop tanks are supposed to be inspected annually by the city as well, but the inspections aren't happening. I don't see how the situation would be any better with this hydrofoor.

Just as note as well, in US cities the government generally is the water company, so we don't have the multiple layers you describe. There is some oversight of lower levels of government by higher levels, but that tends to be more auditory than inspectitory.
Oh, they’re real features all right, I live right underneath one... but I had no idea they were functional! I thought they were just odd holdovers from a hundred years ago that landlords were too cheap or lazy to tear down...
Every time I hit a severe bump on the road that is supposed to be a repaired pothole, I think of the workers who were assigned to that particular pothole. I think of all the times I've heard workers say "That's good enough, I'm ready to go to lunch early." Because of a few people's low standard of perfection, now tens and thousands of people must experience a slight turmoil in that spot over the next decade, slightly increasing wear/tear on their car.

Apply this attitude to storage of a fundamental resource: safe drinking water. There is negligence because people are in a hurry, or because things become so routine that the sanitation workers don't even pay attention anymore.

Personally, I drink all my water exclusively from a well. Untouched by human "sanitation" efforts. A few weeks ago I forgot to drive out to the country to refill my container with this well water, and had to drink from a city tap for about a week. I started getting ulcers all over my mouth. Perhaps this was coincidental, but it is the only time in the past few years that I have consistently drank city water over a sustained period. Chlorine, fluoride, who knows what else.

I will say that NYC is supposed to have some of the best water in the nation because their reservoir is fresh snow melt. But any water kept in one place too long will be contaminated.

“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.” -Bruce Lee
It's all about conspicuous consumption. AirPods are not a lot less conspicuous than the long earlobes of the Dayaks[0] (nor in my opinion a lot less ugly), but in order for them to fulfill their signalling function they must be consumed.

I really, honestly believe that in a decade we're going to look back at AirPods as our generation's bell-bottoms. Only bell-bottomed trousers at least have some function: AirPods are a style & sustainability own goal.

0: https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/borneo_for...
> Western society has a serious issue with nuance

Why present this as a "western" thing? Where exactly is there more nuance? More willingness to admit exceptions to a general rule, law, or social norm? It rather seems that people have a serious issue with nuance. A tendency to see (or portray) everything in terms of pure black or white is one of the most universal of human traits.
Unique sentinel values and identity checks in Python
Why should it be the goal of the law to hinder prosperous but ethnically homogenous areas? Personally I like my diverse neighborhood, but I also like that Chinatown is just down the street.
A lot of their backend stuff is open source too:

https://github.com/guardian
I'm pointing out that immigration helped rather than hurt the US. The claim that it makes countries poor or underdeveloped is wrong.
Alarm over leaked US database targeting journalists and immigration activists
Love seeing that folks are using the nomenclature from my book and creating new things from it!
You know what makes adult life harder? Being surrounded by close-minded, uneducated people who lack perspective and critical thinking skills.

I'm not here to defend useless humanities classes taught in high schools and colleges. Many of them are quite bad, but we need to raise the bar, not eliminate it.
Cardano Price Surges 7% Following Milestone 1.5 Mainnet Update Release
Well put, it's really shocking to read some of those wild corporation-worshiping views on HN.
This feature only works for users of Gmail and specifically web mail. All the users I would want to have an extra layer around 'shoot themselves in the foot' usually also insist on using Outlook to access their email.

This is simply a superficial UI that gives a false sense of doing anything for most of the cases.
That is absolutely disgusting, but given the horrible state the system is in, why have we not heard of larger, more widespread disease outbreaks? You would think it would be happening all the time with the system in such horrible shape.
>It's easy to develop the habit to put the case on the charger when not on the go and to put the headphones in the case when not listening.

Except the original post said to "count the time you spend untangling the cord" (which, for most good, flat-wire headphones is almost zero). Habit or not, charging takes more time than properly rolling the cord on wired buds.
That only works for internal communications. Once it leaves Google's servers, you lose all control. I don't know the specifics here, but the only ways to guarantee that an email server somewhere isn't caching your emails (and I don't trust Google to not cache them either) is to either encrypt them (GPG) or require hitting your server to read the email (potentially what Google is doing), and that doesn't prevent the user from copying it (but at least you can know _who _ copied it or let it be copied).

I don't know how external access works, so maybe they're doing more than they say they are, but I don't trust my coworkers, I shouldn't trust Google either. Client-side encryption is the only acceptable solution IMO.
This video is FANTASTIC. Thank you so much. First time I've ever see someone draw what the imaginary number is conceptually! Also seeing a 4 dime sional vector space defined in R2 blew my mind. Thankyou.

Students these days are very lucky.
I will never run with anything wired. It is too dangerous for someone as clumsy as me. I will keep using the AirPods and replace them annually if necessary.
Same way they used to afford the Mercedeses they had before, I suppose.
First of all, I didn't assume they didn't, not sure how you came up with that. And I asked because I remember that they appealed a fine like this in the past, and I do not know how it was resolved.
Pesticide residues found in 70% of produce sold in US even after washing
I don't think any of these points are particularly strong, and yet any bet against a new venture is a safe bet, because failure is the overwhelmingly likely outcome.
I think it's ~6 month cycles so it might end up lining up with an annual event for a while. But soon enough they'll probably be out of phase.
I guess your browser enforces https? It seems the page only works on http.
> Trotsky pushed for a communist, soviet united states of Europe in 1923.

Right, but what does this have to do with anything? The only thing in common is that both have “Europe” in the name (and I’m not even sure that was part of Trotsky’s vision). If a union of states scares you, the USA must be your waking nightmare. If you’ve indeed read 1984 you’ll notice that there are literally no parallels between that scenario and the history of the EEC and EU.
> The trades are hard on the body

We should be working on perfecting AI so that humans don't have to do this stuff.
Fully budgeted cost of doing business.
I must add that I live in a lower cost-of-living area. However, it works for me and I travel frequently.

Unless you're on a SFBay salary, most developers could replace their salary by doing contracting for 3 to 6 months a year. That's how I started, building my first product (an app) on the side.

I don't like developing enough anymore to do it full time. I however do have some specialised skills and will from time to time supplement my product income with some consulting or contracting if something cool crosses my path.

There are usually also some smaller tax advantages. Being able to tax deduct your computer, mobile phone, home office, etc, some office furniture helps with keeping as much of the money you are making.
Rethinking Serotonin's Role in Depression
> blaming Google for it /existing/ is just disingenuous scapegoating

I never said they created it; Google, FB, etc, are the "leading forces pushing the world" into a new type of economy. It almost certainly wo9uld exist without Google involvement, but the are involved and the damage from their business model is real.

> literally nothing to do with industrial outsourcing.

I don't see how this is in any way related to surveillance capitalism.

> counting cars in factory lots from public spaces to analyse worker demand and thus production

You're talking about specific examples of surveillance, which are only tangentially related to surveillance capitalism. As the article linked above explains, surveillance capitalism is an economic system with a new form of market. Capitalism has had many forms: mercantilism, factory and mass-production capitalism, financialization, etc. Each of these created unique types of market that incentivized different types of business practices.

An example of the problem from the previous [1] that illustrates the kind of economic change that Google/etc are causing:

>> Three or four months ago, the CEO of Ford says there’s a global auto slump, it’s really hard to sell cars, but we’re getting downgraded in the markets. He says, we want price-to-earnings ratios like Google and Facebook. How do we do that? We’re going to become a data company. We got 100 million people driving around in Ford vehicles. And what we’re gonna do is, we’re gonna now figure out how to get all the data out of this driving experience.

The problem isn't minutia like counting cars in a factory lot or a business trying to advertise to their customers; this is about creating an economic system that gives the most profit to whoever creates the most invasive surveillance so they can sell your pattern-of-life.
I'm not up on NYC code, since I don't live in the city, but I wonder if it was a rebuild of an existing wooden tank under a "repair in kind" exemption. I have seen shit like that before, such as codes that allow knocking down all but one wall of a building and still calling it a "remodel" (and thus preserving grandfathered code exemptions).
I found about it after naming. It was named EasyQ first, but there's already another project named like that. :( Maybe we'll change the name later on.
Afaik autopilot has always played a large role, I used to have a few beers, amoungst company, with a retired SA first officer or engineer - someone in the cockpit anyway, they basically mastered sleeping upright once they reached desired altitude, helpful as they were all hungover as fuck. I'm sure they were all capable though. Autopilot handled 95% of flight even back then - 20 years ago I'd gather given his age. Wasn't a bullshiter about anything else so I'd (I at least) take his account as accurate, esp when hearing about the arms cargo etc.. and meeting other pilots that would visit
This only works inside Gmail and specifically only within the web interface. It does not protect emails accessed / forwarded / stored from IMAP and POP clients (though if the messages are only stored server side the IMAP one will still get deleted).
I beta tested the Assassin's Creed demo they had a few months ago, and it worked really well, but the last thing I want is to depend on Comcast to be able to play a single player game.
Or they like good science that doesn't attribute causality without evidence? "Cannabis use increases the chance of psychosis" is just one of the three potential relationships. The other two are "The chance of psychosis increases cannabis use" and "A third factor increases both the use of cannabis and the chance of psychosis".

In reality, the effect is probably not just one, but some mixture of all three. It is extremely likely that people are self-medicating against psychosis with cannabis, that cannabis can increase the risk of psychosis in some people, and that the risk of psychosis is usually co-morbid with other mental health issues for which people also self medicating.

A study like this does nothing to help us understand the link, but yet the Authors seem willing to make strong claims about that link:

> The researchers suggested that if high potency cannabis was no longer available, the incidence of psychosis in Amsterdam would be expected to halve from 37.9 to 18.8 per 100,000 people per year, while in London, it would fall from 45.7 to 31.9 per 100,000 people per year.

That is irresponsible and bad science. It should be called out as such.
We need collective solutions, not individual displays of wealth and awareness like a 40k tesla you take from home to work with 3 empty seats. I saw elsewhere in the thread that 1 bus = 33 cars in terms of congestion savings. Projects like the hyperloop seem vain and childish in comparison. It would be trivial for tesla to design a bus and they already have the ear of LA city hall to dig a half assed tunnel. Musk could make a real name for himself if he helps to convert the second largest bus fleet in North America into EVs.
On that note, I wonder if Firefox's new screenshot utility has an API for extensions...
The Strangest Ways We’ve Said Hello to the Universe
This, thousand times this. Google is trying to remake the internet so that only Google's browser works with Google's version of the internet that operates entirely on Google servers.
> I think they are only focused on the future where almost everyone has fast internet.

I don't think that future exists, and I don't think Google thinks it does either considering they abandoned the effort to make it happen.
> That's quite hard to measure, how do you measure expressiveness?

How much code it takes to express a given idea. I was just talking about my subjective impressions, but I'm sure one could count lines of code.

> That to me will say a lot about a stack's productivity - because quality of documentation, community, stackoverflow questions, 3rd party libraries, general framework architecture etc etc etc..all those things are crucial for productivity.

Depends on what kind of organisation you're in; in the kind of environment I'm working in, how easy it is to get up and running for a quick prototype has surprisingly little to do with longer-term productivity. To the extent that you're actually doing novel programming work, how familiar the syntax is and how available libraries are is actually much less important than how clearly you can think about the problem you're actually solving, and I'd far rather be using a cleaner language with fewer frameworks available. Of course in other cases you're doing things that can mostly be solved by frameworks (indeed that's the original idea behind Rails - it started out as a tool to make stamping out repetitive crud apps easier, and it's very good at that) and in that case the availability of those frameworks is the higher priority.
Don’t use any words/phrases like “rockstar”, “disrupting the market”, or “changing the world” unless you are indeed looking for a guitar player for your communist geoengineering startup.
> aside from things like job or housing opportunities

That's what this was about. The ProPublica article explains it better than Axios: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-ads-discriminati...
Best in class not for the sound quality (which is just a little better than Apple's wired earbuds).

For the "lightweight, minimum BT-connectivity fuss, no wires, BT earbuds" category, which they basically kick-started and dominate.