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Always been a huge fan of Segment. At one point I think I had a tiny little mention on the Readme of their Ruby client for fixing an issue w/ Unicorn. I jumped head first into event sourcing after their blog post demonstrating how overkill websockets are most of the time. I consider them to have their shit together.

Then I applied to become an engineer there and had one of the worst experiences of my life with a project. The project involved building a clone of their realtime event debugger with React. I really felt as though I had knocked it out of the park... I even used their Evergreen UI framework. All I got was a very brief thanks but no thanks kind of reply that left a very bitter taste in my mouth.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

> COINTELPRO (1956–1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal,[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...

> The letter does not specify precisely what action it is urging King to undertake; King understood the letter as advocating that he commit suicide, ...
EME is part of web standards. So for some value of standards compliant web browser google can block you from implementing it.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-encrypted-media-20170918/
> You're unfortunate if you don't have a choice of where you get your power - we do in the UK - and can readily take action, eg at the ballot box, to change that situation.

I live in a representative democracy with extremely limited and polarized choice of politicians, ALL of whom are taking money from big oil. Unfortunate, indeed -- my lack of choice harms the entire world.

And no, meth is a great analogy: sure increases productivity, damn the consequences
Sadly, when I see libraries in other languages I think "oh, nice! Well done!", but when I see JavaScript stuff I cringe, "oh no, are they reinventing the wheel again?" as my first reaction.
Sensationalism how? The article reports what happened in real life (except for the "787 MAX" error): 2 (maybe more?) 787-10s were checked, they deemed the fan blades too cracked, the 2 planes are now grounded.
'Additionally, former Boeing CFO James Bell said during the company's second quarter 2011 earnings call, the research and development cost to Boeing to re-engine would be 10%-15% of the cost of a new airplane, which was at the time widely estimated by aerospace analysts to be $10-$12 billion'

A factor of 10 cost difference 'if they had only done x' isn't realistic.

Completely agree with your additional point though, the competition was the A320neo and the us vs them economics look better if you don't have to pay pilots to sit in a simulator and re cert.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing-disputes-7...
Aside from my other answer, the local library has internet access, so I'm able to use AWS as needed.
I never meant to suggest that this wasn't a big deal, just that the title was intentionally dramatic to get more views.
The core functionality of Metastream (his browser), the ability to sync videos and watch them as a group is very cool and super useful in a classroom or study group environment.

Does anyone know if there is another way of going about doing this?
Very inspiring, thanks for sharing!
Evernote had (has?) five different client implementations:

1. Windows desktop

2. Mac desktop

3. iPhone

4. Android

5. Web

5 and 1/2. Mobile web

While I haven't worked there, I feel this must have created a huge burden on development. Any client feature has to be re-implemented 5 times! This must have made it very difficult to keep up with competitors that supported just 2-3 platforms.
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Something like a recent episode of The Orville perhaps? Where they find someones phone from the 21st, download all the messages, calls, etc and uses the holodeck to recreate what it might be like.
Every person can decide for themselves what story they want to tell. Chef has been declared dead/dumb/irrelevant from the beginning. It’s doing great as a business, and as software. You play your game - y’all can think it’s irrelevant, and it’ll just keep on focusing on solving people’s problems. Turns out it works.
tl;dr, "Silicon Valley company with strong vision and passionate founders takes too much VC funding and loses its direction under the pressure to grow at all costs."
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I'm less worried about the curiosity of people decades or centuries in the future than I am in the privacy interests of former Google+ users right now. Many of them chose that social network specifically because it was supposed to offer them better privacy protections. Which isn't a litmus test for whether or not they'd be OK with having their profile scraped and archived, but it is at least suggestive.

It would be polite if ArchiveTeam were to now contact everyone whose profile they have scraped, and ask for permission to retain that data. And then delete all the profiles for which they didn't get affirmative consent.
This pretty much sums it up.

As always, just replace <insert behavioral or mental issue> with "cancer" and see if you sound dismissive or callous. "How does being diagnosed help the cancer patient?"
Ironic considering you comment here and HN does not allow editing or deleting comments after a two hour window to protect discussion integrity.
> (I'm not a lawyer, just reading some of the more technical law articles)

I'd advise not giving out bad advice then stating absolutes about the legal situation that are wrong.
The seasonality of solar is reasonably well matched to Idaho's consumption patterns. The 3 months with the highest demand for fossil generated electricity in Idaho are July, August, and September. This is in contrast to e.g. Germany where wintertime demand is highest.

Source: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/

Awkwardly, this excellent data is all in Excel files. I got the numbers from Monthly data from Electric Power Monthly - Fossil Fuel Consumption for Electricity Generation by Year, Industry Type and State, using sheet 2018_Preliminary inside the spreadsheet.
I did say my history lesson was oversimplified. The question of _how_ Americans avoided paying taxes is always interesting, not just during this time period.
If I have to pay $2 more for a fake burger, I'm basically never going to buy it.
My point was that, for movies and TV shows at least, this simply doesn't work. The delay is small enough that it's usually negligible (a few hours in my experience). For live events (especially sporting events) of course that's enough to make pirating impractical, but for the new episode of Game of Thrones it's really not much.

Furthermore I assume that most of that latency is not due to the time required for pirates to break the DRM but rather the time for the original riper to encode the file and share it through the pirate food chain until it reaches the public trackers that I use. You'd still have to wait a little while to get your pirate file if you don't have a subscription to the official streaming service.
> why pay and be limited in the way you can watch the thing you paid for when unlimited access exists for free?

Oh I dunno... have you tried asking one of Netflix's 140M subscribers? Or the 26M people who use Amazon prime video?

The point of DRM isn't to make it impossible to pirate things -- it's to make it difficult enough to get pirated content that most people would prefer to pay a few bucks a month to watch things via a channel where rights holders are compensated. And by that measure, it seems to be working pretty well.
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The comparison was with the holocaust, and what China does, which you clearly don't know, has also nothing to do with the Nuremberg Laws.

This is getting beyond ridiculous.
I was super pleased the other day when I needed to fall back on a personal device to join a meeting via GSuite and realized that because it was a meetup my hangouts app didn't work for it.

I also enjoy that calendar is also a separate and distinct thing so it's possible for me to get three notifications for a single meeting.

Now that's what I call usability and a solid product! If only they could improve this experience by raising the price of their business suite by 20% then I'd be really tickled!
Do you know if Boeing sent new training material for the pilots? If not how would non american pilots get new training ? I assume not by browsing the web. Also consider the fact that a pilot that never pilot a MAX could be asked from nowhere to fly this new plane since it is supposed to be no difference from the regular plane and they were never trained for it and maybe did not expected to fly it.
Several sites ingest and store Reddit comments forever. Scripts that overwrite old comments are ceremony for the user, nothing more.
You’ve got it confused.

Boeing did not want to sell the training as an add on package, they didn’t want more training at all. This reduces the cost to purchase the 737 Max, because existing 737 pilots can fly the max without recertification.

What was sold as an add on was the system to detect the two AoA indicators disagreeing. This would help, but it probably would have been less effective than MCAS training would have been.

Better still would have MCAS read both sensors and disengage when they disagree, with an alarm.
That's what prompted my response to someone thinking we'd see the before or the after.
:-) Although I was no longer a teenager and don't think I ever used chat, it's hard for me to imagine just about anything in my early online presence that would cause me more than very mild embarrassment today.

Yeah, someone should have scrubbed these. But it's hard for me to get too worked up.
> I can't imagine Google gave the OK to Kodi to use widevine so maybe you can see what they did?

Kodi uses the OS native implementation of the DRM, or Chromium with Widevine.
I don't know of any service that was dropped on either of AWS or GCP. Features are dropped though, they can't be ordered from new accounts then they disappear eventually.

I don't think that you can order older instances, or run instances outside of a VPC, not sure if non-HVM AMI are still supported.

AWS has a strategy of leaving offerings to rot and making a new thing that you have to migrate to yourself. For example, the 3 different types of reserved instances or ELB vs ALB. It has its pros and cons. Google has less products that are more capable and feature complete.

They are both rather new and creating new products instead of removing products, it will take one more decade to see how they handle depreciation of core products, when any actually gets retired.
You might have to use the big platforms to gain traction initially but as soon as you get a decent following and a customer base you should start hedging your risks. Any of these companies can pull the rug from underneath you. Especially critical if the business is your livelihood and not just a side project.
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> depends on your usage of variant, does that include strict supersets?

In my rulebook, the answer’s no. When you say “X is a variant of Y” I assume it means Liskov substitution principle must be true for them.

You can’t compile C++ with C compiler, therefore C++ is not a variant of C.
I agree with hluska. I also found numbsafari's comment unnecessarily rude and flippant. I'm sure Bainbridge Health would not appreciate being represented like that in a public forum.
It's a strange system.

Many of us self-censor because we know there are certain things you don't really want to talk about.

I was talking about a nuclear physicist, for instance, who told me privately he was concerned for years that Np237 would be the ideal material for nuclear terrorism, and I told him, yeah, I saw a paper about that from LANL, they measured the critical mass of a bare sphere, there is nothing secret about it.

As for getting a security clearance (or not getting it) many of the reasons aren't so good. For instance they may or may not have had a good reason not to give Kushner a security clearance. Many people fail to get clearance because they smoke pot or they are trans or other things that have nothing to do with "are you loyal to your country."
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I wonder about the causal link/s. Speculating, maybe less stressed/anxious/depressed and healthier people have more fun, better genes or have more resources to have better healthcare? Also, less stressed mothers seem inherently more likely to bring a child to term than a stressed mom-to-be because IIRC stress induces both labor or spontaneous abortion. Maybe there's a MHC or other immune component that leads to stronger attraction and/or healthier babies? There was a dating startup in the late 90's that promised to match people on MHC, but I'm not sure how far they got on that.... maybe AI/deep learning trained on a big enough SNPs samples and qualitative mutual attractiveness rating could tackle it these days.
I don't think the air-frame for the 737 MAX is broken, though.

I definitely agree that the MCAS system should have required two AOA sensors, and been automatically disabled when there was a disagree. I agree that Boeing should have briefed airlines and pilots about the MCAS system, the AOA disagree indicator, and potentially required new training.
Source code is open. Anyone can deploy Mprove to his server and use it for free.
Oof, rereading this article in the present just hurts.

To be fair, the 2013 ecosystem was a lot more Google friendly than the 2019 ecosystem is. I'm sure the average non-HN reader still wouldn't care today, but I would at least hope HN itself would have a different reaction.
The desktop requires Python. To uninstall a package you must uninstall its dependencies.

It's been a long time since I used apt, but you were almost certainly warned.

Consider using ASDF for userland Python version management in the future on both MacOS and Linux.
MACS is safe but its not zero delta training as Boeing advertised. Pilots who were trained on it properly are able to recognize the problem and fix it when it occurs.
Considering that Apple is a US company, and that millions of US citizens use Apple products, US intelligence agencies should be securing these devices. Not compromising them.

The US has such an overwhelming military advantage over North Korea or Russia that it doesn't have to gain a leg up in infosec. All it has to do is level the playing field by making sure that everyone's running as securely as possible.

I'll rely on the one dozen Naval Carrier Strike Groups to keep me safe. Really doubt that reading Kim Jong Un's email is going to make a difference.
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Come on, that can't possibly be right. If they can get shows sold "exclusively" to them, why can't they get shows sold to them without DRM requirements?

(The closest I can get to an explanation is that the "exclusivity" deal might be limited to online streaming platforms only, and whoever is selling the content still worries about everything else. But streaming is a significant and growing portion of all media consumption (and could be even more so, were it not for that pesky DRM), so I'm extremely skeptical that this would be a real issue.)
How does that match the use case here, with billing per minute? If the user has to confirm each subscription, you can't efficiently create new subscriptions for e.g. each call. You also can't know beforehand how much you'll need to bill. If you're at the end of the month sending a single "here's everything" request, I fail to see how that's different from what's described in the article.
When you "bet the company", you are committing to making it your business. It's a plan to pivot to that being the most important thing you do.
It's arguably unethical.

It's also arguably unethical for you not to host a number of poor people in your house or apartment.

And more fundamentally, it's arguably unethical for your not to spend most of your money trying to support the world's poorest.

Few people manage much in this regard, but that's our situation.

For a detailed explanation, start here: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-solut...
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Intrigued, I checked again. It's at 21.5 MB now. I wonder to what extent is the difference caused by platform implementation (Mac vs. Win), and to what extent by the content (admittedly my notes aren't media-heavy).
I had room fulls of boxes of things that I thought might one day be important, or significant to someone. Then I realized, when I die, all those things are just going to be thrown away or donated to a thrift store, and it's highly unlikely that anyone who buys any of that will find the same value in it that I thought it had. If I have created anything truly timeless and worthwhile, then it had better be something I created for a client and got paid for making, otherwise it's just going to probably end up in a garbage heap. So I made a decision to get rid of all of it. Time is too short to be held down by the (truly) endless possibilities of "what if" this or that thing ends up being useful to someone in the future.
> ...but unfortunately they're so weighted toward the "owner" of the IP that they do (IMHO serious) harm to regular users and consumers.

To the established owners of IP. If you're not an established creator, you're going to be on the side that gets hurt by the IP. Some IP claims are gonna hit you sooner or later, and even if they're complete bullshit, you won't be able to do anything about them.

Established owners can generate enough of a fuss that they could cause an outrage big enough for some actual human to look into your issues, but if you're not big enough for that... tough luck. Try again from scratch once Google cuts you out. This happens regularly across their products, be it Google Play, YouTube, or Chrome's extensions store.
Uh, but Microsoft is more conservative in both launching and canceling products. If MSFT said "Access can now do all the things that spreadsheets were used for so we're dropping Excel" the streets would be aflame with the protests of millions.

I also think this is a place where MSFT's application first (not app) development strategy shines. There are still folks out there running Excel98 and you can feel free to try and pry it out of their cold uncaring hands, they will fight you for it.

Don't launch and offer BS you're not going to support!
(Screen-comparable resolution) XR relaxes the tight constraints of screen real-estate, and enriches representation with 3D. And encourages richer human interface devices. All reducing visualization cost and increasing payoff.

Beyond J, similar visualizations help with "just what is happening here?!?" issues with macros, multiple dispatch, inline caching and code, optimization, collaborative compilation, and so on.

Javascript has a trend towards fully-deterministic checked styles, supporting the dream of ASTs being the canonical representation, and making it easier to do representational editing.

When onboarding someone to a program in a J-like language, eyeball abstractions (phrases and patterns repeatedly used, but not named) will get described. What if an IDE can capture those, without compromising the clarity of code brevity?

> I wonder if it would be possible to just code in a gui like this directly.

So I hope and expect to see much more of this in the years ahead. Yay.
That makes a lot of sense actually, I guess my take was a bit naive. I hadn't considered that it wasn't just about preventing piracy, it's about controlling how the content is consumed. Thank you for this insight.
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Luckily, there's open-source tools for Google Drive, such as "grive".
> If a single company can effectively decide whether a bunch of 3rd party sites that they don't control work on your browser, how is that any different?

Because those third party sites choose to utilise closed software from that company. And Netflix doesn't only utilise Widevine as a DRM, it uses several different DRM systems, so Google don't have control over anything.
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> The regular harvesting and clearing of plantations releases stored CO2 back into the atmosphere every 10–20 years. By contrast, natural forests continue to sequester carbon for many decades4.

I'm not sure I understand... To me, the only question is, how much CO2 we store per km2 (which might be a higher number for a natural forest). The plantation being cut down and then regrown has 0 net impact, just like trees dying and new trees growing in a forest. The plantation being cut down and not regrown has the same negative (+CO2) impact as the forest eventually being burned/cut down.
> Google and Amazon both have paid customer facing products

And this ain't really one of 'em, last I checked. It's freeware.
I noticed that some video streaming services are using HTS, some weird tech that is not file based, which makes it quite difficult to download those files, even downloadvideohelper won't do it directly, you need some third party executable.

The web is mostly open, but there are still things out there built to explicitely prevent users from doing what they want, and it seems that even firefox supports this tech.
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I know it is on a log scale. This shouldn't change whether it goes up or not, it should just change how much it goes up (or down), visually.
It’s odd that Google/Alphabet doesn’t understand this basic negative feedback loop.

It has become apparent to me, even if you ignore the rot that has pervaded throughout the organization, which is manifesting itself in Search results.
What about the Sahara? Is that too time / labor / cost intensive to adapt?

An aggressive reclamation project of desert could both work towards progress in carbon recapture and add valuable natural resources to poor countries.
From a quick look at both planes it might be that going into deep stall in the 727 might be easier because the AOA needed is smaller, but that's just my quick guess

(For those who don't know, a Deep Stall happens when the horizontal stabilizer gets in the "air shadow" of the wings, hence you can't get airflow there to move the plane)

Some interesting discussion on t-tails and deep stalls http://www.rbogash.com/Safety/deep_stall.html
>You keep insisting that we don’t know if this airplane is unstable.

Because we don't. You've only corrected a strawman, that we know this plane isn't a fully aerodynamic unstable design like an F-16. No one thought that.

I never even specifically said aerodynamically unstable, just that we don't know the level of instability MCAS is correcting for to know if it is unusual for an airliner design. From what I had read I had assumed it was actually a power-on issue and not aerodynamic. But as it turns out the issue is indeed apparently aerodynamic from the engine shape generating more lift at higher angle of attack and thus leading to pitch up.

And no, we don't know. We the public at least. We don't know how big the flight envelope is where MCAS is needed or how much of an issue it would be if MCAS didn't exist. From public information we don't know if without MCAS the plane wouldn't enter an unrecoverable pitch up attitude in normal flying conditions. That's not knowing if the plane isn't inherently unstable.
YOLO stands for "You Only Look Once" so I don't think this will ever become "continuous"