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My current job is to basically do this professionally. Some problem arises that I have no familiarity with, and I'm tasked to listen to what the experts are saying and ask questions until a solution presents itself. Then the experts go and implement the solution.

Often times people with no expertise can offer a helpful outside perspective. This is particularly true in cases where an exception to policy or historical process is what is holding things back. Because the ignorant person is not biased by current policies and processes. Now I'm wondering if everyone at work hates me for having this role.
Have you had a look through the tutorial? Which parts of the tutorial made you feel as if you needed to be a genius to understand it?
Just prior to your mentioned timeline Hotmail was vulnerable via query string params. A rather non-technical friend of mine brought this up in conversation and I didn't believe him, so he told me to log in to my account. He took a quick look at the URL and wrote down a param, then logged into my account on his machine. IIRC it was patched about month later but still, those early days of the web were pretty wild.
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It has been useful for in the past to get out of a parking spot that in my absence has become too small to open the doors adequately.
These measures are being proposed because by law in the UK, under 18s cannot have their data used for commercial targetting.

The obvious solution is for the companies to ensure that under 18s data isn't used this way. I will certainly start signing up to all services as a 16 year old.
Now there's something you don't hear everyday -- "would'ya turn down the audio? I can barely hear the HEAVY LIFT ROCKET ENGINE blasting off in front of me!"

How loud must the speakers be to drown out a rocket engine firing which, outside of nuclear blasts, meteorites and volcanoes, are among the loudest possible sounds?
The president's team would surely have been aware of such things before encouraging them to act fast.
> that's on the order of a bonus

It's likely far less, considering the fees paid to the law firm(s).

...and it's probably denominated in gift cards to the various companies' stores.
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Serfdom doesn't pay that well.

Note well: I'm not saying that this is OK, either legally or morally. I'm just saying that the parent is way overhyping the problem.
Ask HN: How does one simplify UI design of a complex web form?
I am working on a project that requires a web form with about 40 fields of various types e.g. calendar, dropdown list, radio buttons, text fields, numerical fields, file dialog etc. Unfortunately I am not able to share the exact details of the actual form due to confidentiality. Hence I am seeking general advice on designing complex web forms.

I am looking for some inputs on how to start thinking on managing the complexity of UI design with lots of data entry fields. As I am not a UI designer I am bit overwhelmed by the size of the web form. What approach would a UI designer take when starting the design process of a complex form from both aesthetics and usability point of view?

I was thinking of grouping related fields together and revealing each group in an accordion style of design so that the user is not overwhelmed when entering the data. Is this a sound idea in general or are there better way to present complex web forms?
I'm comparing strong rain to water plane spray. Maybe the output of some would be too severe, but clearly some are suitable.

Got it. I learned something new today.
Now I'm really curious what is unscientific about my little explanation?
Paris firefighters are part of the French Army [1], so they are used to being commanded.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Fire_Brigade
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By comparison, I wrote some code in the early 2000s that is still the basis for a profitable SAAS product. It uses old frameworks that no one wants to use because it doesn't help their resume today. Multiple attempts at rewrites have failed, and they keep going back to what I wrote because it "just works." I think it's amazing that a thing I built lasted almost 20 years. Thousand+ year old buildings blow my mind.
He could evoke places, moods, and the vastness of time. He seamlessly blended fantasy and far-future science fiction into something with the weight and texture of mythology. He is gone, but his writing will endure.
A reasonable person might also think that the man put in charge of the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, that could literally end the world, would have already considered that and knew air tankers were the most viable option, so long as they acted fast after his communication.
All those job categories existed before.
It's quite weird, I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. I appreciated your sentiment.
German regulators are ALL IN on cracking down diesel gate once for all. It hurts the German auto manufacturing reputation big time. And we now know it's probably an industry wide practice extends beyond VW[1].

[1]: https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/14/mercedes-diesel-emission...
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Don't they have one already!
It was not "much more difficult." They didn't have recruiters calling them, which I guess is market information of a sort.
This has worked well for me and is what converted me to being a crypto-vangelist. Anyone who's tried to pay a team in india in USD and had it often take well over a week will appreciate when you can get it done in under 45 min using crypto.
"Art and culture connects us to the people came before us."

I think that's the best explanation I've ever heard for why art and culture are so important.
When people are Outraged(TM) and they want someone's (metaphorical) head on a platter Now(TM), not after going through all those boring technicalities that come with the outdated concept known as due process.

(in case it's not, the /s should be obvious)
I've been cooking for 30 years, I've made a living out of it, and no it's not that simple. You talk like someone who has never cooked anything outside of a microwave.

But using "I don't know how to cook" as an excuse is more of a sign of raw ignorance to me.

That wasn't what was said, and misrepresenting the content of other people's posts is a sign of raw trolling to me.
In some regards, yes, certainly it is. In other regards, not so much.

We have a cold war going on between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers, still, that involves nations housing 1.5 billion people combined.

We have a more and more polarized West that's basically fighting a bit of a civil cold war right now, "populism" against "progressivism" or whatever you'd like to call it.

Putin is the oldnew Enemy of every Western politician and pundit (exceptions prove the rule).

And we have a China that looks at all that and mostly quietly builds up their influence in the world, that one could consider a bit of an economic cold war.

Oh, and China is literally doing moonshots, too [1]. And so is India[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Prog...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Prog...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2
> the government seemed eager to believe the obviously bogus claim that it was just a few rogue engineers perpetrating this crime.

The legislative is not the executive is not the judicial. Don't throw the whole government into one basket.

Don't even throw the whole of a single branch of government into one basket.

There's a lot of independent actors and parties involved.
How you drive your car is your responsibility. Navigation or not. If you kill someone or get them handicapped it's on you. Be considerate. Safety over everything else man.
A twitter thread with technical information (in French, would someone be able to translate?) with why it's not happening: https://twitter.com/FranckMee/status/1117862376047382528
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That seems like a feel-good post-hoc euphemism (but ok, I accept that language evolves).

Either way: how did France (the nation) make any of these artworks? You could argue it was made by anyone in the spectrum ranging from "the artist" to "the humanity". Stopping at France seems arbitrary and a bit... nationalistic.

If any institution "made" them, it's the Catholic Church, not France.
Modern meanings of nationalism are synonymous with jingoism. It was once in the definition list on Wiktionary, but was conveniently removed late last year.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Extortion+cases+in+the+U.S.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_in_the_United_Sta...

A majority of non-vice organized crime prosecutions in the u.s. are extortion, followed by wire fraud.
This is the most probable cause: dozen of churchs degradation have been done since the beginning of the year. Two days ago a pakistani destroyed things at Saint Denis, and last month there was a fire at Saint Sulpice. Everyone knows who can have done that but will the government will have the balls to say the truth? This is our 09/11.
There's significant history of the building being in disrepair and being restored. Cathedrals are living buildings in constant flux. I sound crass and insensitive, but that's the nature of these cathedrals. Restoration started on Notre Dame before it was ever, "finished". The building has, at times, been completely abandoned.

Am I shocked and saddened for this fire? Yes of course, I lived on the Rue de Roi de Sicile - a few minutes walk. I've drawn it many times.

Do I have hope for the future of the installation? It's France: of course I do.
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It scares me that Trump may perform his daily tasks with the same amount of thought he applied to this recommendation or when he talked about the CA fires. Can't the guy either shut up or at least think for a second before he puts something on Twitter?
Checks are a holdover from the 1800s. They don't have a place in modern banking.

If the US were willing to put tighter rules around bank transfer fees, it would be possible to create a European style system where bank to bank transfers are free, regardless of which bank you're with.
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu. Just finished it; great read.
Depends as well on centralization of wealth. Maybe well see somebody like Bezos will build a pyramid in orbit to be his or her tomb
Watch some senseless American preacher come out to say that this happened because God hates the French or some other senseless thing like this.
Archivebox.io output saved to a zpool with raidz2 where I rotate out bad drives as they fail over the years. Every 6 months I dump the whole folder to Amazon Glacier, and I have an off-site back up in another city that’s also updated less frequently.
Also, even if you had a pump by the river, hand-jacking that length of LDH requires a huge amount of physical effort, and would tie up a lot of manpower during a critical phase of the operation.
I assure you, bothering someone like this when they are trying to get through their day is not hilarious to that person. Not only did your friend act like an ass and part illegally or over the time limit, but they then risked possibly running over a person's foot or something while fucking around.
and if you follow that link, it refers to the 3rd definition of patriotism:

"The desire to compete with other nations; nationalism."

Patriotism is a better fit for this use, as there's the first definition:

"Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country."

Generally, if we're not using literal dictionary definitions, in a political context, nationalism is overpowering patriotism where you want your country to be better than others at all costs. Patriotism is a love for you country and your people.
Even if they were the best, most careful contractors, all of us make mistakes in our jobs. The main difference is that some of these guys are often working with things that are on fire or nearly on fire to begin with. It doesn't take much of an accident to start a structure fire in those scenarios.
same mistakes, over and over and over and over
> China has a limited overseas power projection

For a limited definition of 'power projection'.

I am of the opinion that we are in the midst of a paradigm shift from overt physical power to weaponized and atomized informational power.

That is to say, the use of information technology and very fine-grained details about individuals to achieve ends that suit those projecting power.
A bidding war is precisely what should have happened. It's called competition and is the number one way capitalism is supposed to end up serving the public interest.

And reading your comments on this page, I have to ask: are you representing nobody's opinion but your own, on your own terms?
Yes. They'll get a "harder" slap if they do it in the next five years (if caught), but after that are free to do so with baseline "penalties" (again, if caught).
This is why the first thing Tesla service does is disable mobile access while the car's in the shop.
Fire retardant doesn't put out a fire. It just prevents a fire from spreading. And even that only to some degree.
> Call us if you want a church bombed.

Makes sense. French fire departments are branches of the military.

Edit: just the Parisian and one other fire service are set up this way.
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Or just sunk.
I’m not claiming the French people don’t care about Notre Dame. I’m merely observing that the analogy to the Declaration of Independence is significantly flawed. Notre Dame embodied ideas that modern France has repudiated rather than upheld.
Wow. He’s not trying to give anyone advice. He only wants people to talk about him while they’re talking about this news piece.
per user if you want to defend against targeted attacks. per IP if you want to prevent untarged attacks. so, both.

add an email-reset for the limit so users can't be locked out of their accounts by a DoS.
When you're looking for getting the most out of your system, then yes. The JVM has reasonable defaults, and has recently switched its default GC to lower latency numbers at the expense of throughput (which golang already does, but it only has a single GC). The JVMs newer GCs also have fewer parameters to tune, by nature of what they do.

The JVM already runs on systems with 100s of GB and more (even TBs). golang will have issues running on such systems.
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Heard someone saying "What took so long?" in my office.

I pointed out that the Enron scandal events started in the 90s, started making news in 2001, and Skilling was sentenced in 2006.

The wheels of justice grind slowly.
Functional programming also emphasizes function composition. Especially anything that takes its intellectual heritage from John Backus. (viz, not lisp.) His seminal paper on the subject emphasized that, in well-designed functional languages, functions take only a single argument, because that's necessary to support a good composition-oriented programming style.

I think the root of the distinction is more about how you achieve that composition: Does it smell more like Alonzo Church or Alan Turing?
«I know this doesn't help, but we have exquisite 3D laser maps of every detail of Notre Dame, thanks to the incredible work of @Vassar art historian Andrew Tallon. Prof Tallon passed away last November, but his work will be absolutely crucial»

https://twitter.com/grouchybagels/status/1117852841530368000...
This is equivalent to saying you don't have to tell the IRS you paid someone in USD or gum.
People often forget how good life is in America. Up until recently, I don't think I had ever gone 24 hours without food. (I recently tried intermittent fasting as it's supposed to be good for your health.)

When the national news is focused on the crisis of someone making a boorish remark, you know life is good in America.
I think it’s pretty clear that no one other than Trump vets his Twitter account.
Quite the romantic notion of wildflowers spontaneously blooming in your unkempt yard when the best you're likely to get is crabgrass.
If your problem fits it you can solve it with a fraction of code. It also runs extremely fast and apart from licencing it's trivial to deploy.
https://www.apple.com/support/exchange_repair/ - looks like a battery and SSD program currently on that laptop. Maybe check in?
The title makes it sound like they want to use whatsapp, not that they want encrypted chat.
should be good in version 2.0.1 (demo page is updated)
Trust us, this totally isn't another Dual_EC_DRBG
There was a lot of bad blood over the US studio's reedit of Brazil to give it a happy ending (which was atrocious). Following that Baron Munchausen was a flop (and while I like it, def not his best work to be fair). After that he was sort of written off from the establishment as it were (including the critics who know to pay the piper). But while that would have killed off the careers of most directors, Terry Gilliam has this ineffable quality about him that's allowed him to keep getting independent funding, keep getting very good actors, and keep making great movies. It's one thing if your independent and the system hasn't noticed you yet, but the system turned it's back on him and somehow he's still out there killing it. The system out of spite acts out against him wherever it can.

You can see this most clearly in the Metacritic for Tideland which is pretty positive as far as user submitted reviews go, but is one of the worst movies ever if you were to go off the critics reviews.
Zune was a good example of too little too late. It would have had to be extraordinary to have made a big impact that late in the game. Instead, it was perfectly serviceable.
People don't usually put electrical outlet covers and foam edge bumpers on their cubes.
How much electricity do you use in a month for that £16?

By contrast, my apartment was empty last month with only zombie loads, the fridge, 2 routers, a set top box, and two Nest thermostats left on. My electric bill was $46 for about 150kWh. This is with no lights, heating, cooling, or hot water heater running. (Hot water is demand provided by the building and billed per gallon so not even a tank being kept warm)

150kWh in a month is about 200 watt continuous which seems a bit high but not double what I would expect.

And you’re saying you heat your water in that £16...?
I don't think the age verification systems used online will accept a debit card though and I don't think you can get a real credit card under 18 even with a parent authorizing or co-signing.

Even though a debit card acts like a credit card under most circumstances where your available balance is effectively your "credit" limit but there are ways of telling the difference between a debit/check card and a real credit card.
This is my hope and belief as well. Without the fire, much of it was going to have to be replaced/reconstructed at some point in the future anyway. It's an 850 year old building. In order to maintain it, we have to face the Ship of Theseus problem [0] and accept that it is a dynamic building, not a perfectly preserved snapshot of 1345 or whenever you consider it "done being built". The reconstruction of the spire in the 1800s shows that this has already been happening.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
In some cases there's nothing to lose. Got an old HP LaserJet free that had a similar issue and wouldn't boot. Used the oven to 'reflow', now have a working printer.
Some amazing reporting listed here, including the runners-up.
In the battle against climate change, nuclear = clean. I care about climate change an order of magnitude more than I do about nuclear waste disposal. Given this headline, as far as I’m concerned the ideal amount of nuclear in 2025 is 50%.
Isn't that called Signal? Maybe just put the funding into extending that?
Should the title be changed to "I think you should stop using poison on your lawn" then?
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Literal moonshots or monumental efforts?
That's not a fair comparison because some people want to smoke. No one wants to be the victim of dark UI patterns. No one wants "share all my data by default please." No one wants to click on a deceptive ad that looks like the download button.
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They (AI) promised us flying cars, instead we got Dog Breed apps.
Apple is a proto-fascist company and need to be labeled as such.
For those that don't know, Louis Brandeis is also the father of modern privacy rights in the western world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article)
Thanks for sharing the photos. It's an incredible tragedy. I had the privilege of visiting Notre Dame twice, but I'm deeply saddened for all those who will not have the opportunity to see it in its former magnificent form, including my own young children. I only hope that some of it will remain and be a foundation for rebuilding.
Can someone compare this to Dyalog APL?
The NY Times published an article[1] in 2015 that asked a few public health experts to estimate the loss of life in the US due to the fraud.

An MIT study claims over 1,200 premature deaths in Europe due to the fraud. [2][3]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/upshot/how-many-deaths-di...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/volkswagen-emissi...

[3] https://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-dea...
It's a approximately a zero sum game in the cartel. That was my point. If the price goes down the demand goes up. So the total demand for programmers increase (the demand for the other companies programmers decrease, of-course).

It's a subjective matter of semantics, though.
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Yep, that's it! I'm just blown away by this book (and The Three Body Problem), and really looking forward to the next one in the trilogy.

Along the same technical lines, have you read A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge? I love the idea of "programmer-archeologist" on a 5000 year old spaceship.
Can you please explain in details?
A lot of the structure is wood.
It's mildly entertaining that we have calls for a more secure and trust-able version of an encrypted chat service, but other agencies in the executive branch are calling for loopholes and vulnerabilities for the same encrypted channels.
> I used to say the same about the NFL vs cancer research.

As someone who works in a cancer research-related role, it's nice to not think about work when I leave the office. I would also hazard to guess that many cancer patients enjoy the distraction of various types of entertainment.

Now we can certainly do some refocusing, but I would generally hope that as a civilization and species we can talk and chew gum at the same time.
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i grew up in Daytona Beach and my father would take me to see shuttle launches all the time. The sound is what i remember, you feel it as much as you see it. It's sort of like seeing a top fuel dragster in person, you get a whole new sense of the power unleashed when the peddle is put to the metal.
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It's great. It's semi-adaptation of 1984 without directly taking the story it feels very similar in spirit. The soul crushing effects of malicious beurcracy, someone seeing past the facade and going though a lot of pain while trying to escape it. The movie equivalent of calling to cancel Comcast, where the feeling of knowing the experience is going to be so bad it puts you off doing it.
I would hope VW puts into production some of their claimed Year 2020 EV models, if so, they will have restored my faith in the company.

Are the other car manufacturers going to be held to account as well?