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New Censorship Allegations: Again Sharp Criticism of Apple from US Politicians
> I wonder if there is a common
> mindset that the majority of
> web developers have which
> causes them to love
> overcomplexity so much

We don’t love complexity, we love ease. The complexity is a side affect of us trying to make our job easy by `npm install`ing various tools/libraries/frameworks :)

Another problem is the web is inherently complicated, and people expect more and more from the web. We’re still working out how to best manage the complexity and increased demands.
The microcorruption challenge is one of the best ways to learn about exploitation because it uses a simple CPU and easy to understand memory model. Implementing a z80-alike is like hello world if you are interested in learning lower level programming. Both of these examples share this: the obscuring parts of modern architecture are gone. And, personally, it is very rewarding to write your own emulator. It really sharpens skills for systems stuff.
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Any reason for the ip6 requirement? Can't imagine its technical.
One of my interview questions is "how do you organize logic and state in a react app?" and about 19/20 candidates put their business logic in their view components. I believe the root of the problem is the ecosystem of terrible react tutorials that are targeted at beginners so can't introduce complex architecture. If you spend some time reading react blogs you'll see that almost all of them put their API requests and business logic inside component lifecycle methods. The flood of bootcamp grads has made hiring competent front end devs nearly impossible (not to slander bootcamp grads; I've met a few that are brilliant).
The app typically shows 350k - 500k participants in their nightly shows. They're giving away usually $5000.

Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune have around 10 million viewers each with over 30 years of history. Jeopardy gives away around $23k each day, I believe WoF rings in a little higher. They air 5 days a week and clock in around 200-230 episodes per season. Back of the napkin math puts that at $0.53 per viewer per year.

HQ is still at $4.29 per viewer per year. At their current rate they still need about 10x growth to match J! or WoF. But HQ is also only 2 years old on a somewhat new media format (live interactive entertainment).

Those numbers are just for the prize money. Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek each earn north of $10 million per year (and Vanna White somewhat less, but still in the millions), and the shows almost certainly have larger staffs. The actual value difference is probably closer to a 3-4x multiplier rather than 10x.

That said, since HQ is phone based there's a good chance the viewers are more valuable to advertisers since they can collect more information than on broadcast television.

I don't think HQ would/could have a path to profitability (setting aside internal business politics), but it's a matter of 1) convincing businesses that a new media format is worth their advertising dollars, 2) keeping players long-term, 3) finding effective ways to advertise in the more limited format that the game affords.
I did and learned nothing other than MS Office doesn't have a patent infringement case against Google.
Ask HN: How do you pay your remote team?
What tools/services do you use your remote team? What does the process look like? Do the employees invoice you first and you make the payment?
You can argue it’s an explicit choice because you can often choose to structure your code in a way that doesn’t require Rc. Of course, it exists because sometimes, you do have to or want to, but those cases are pretty rare in my experience.
Bullseye - I was going to say the same thing. The imbalance and asymetry of information and investment is a huge problem.

Companies want information from you that they won't share. They have economies of scale with many employees, yet employees have one source of income. Employees might relocate while the company just readies a desk.

I would say that a company that wants a drug test should give me the results from the management chain as well as HR.
Of course not. But a good communicator can learn more from the communication than just what was said explicitly.
Yeah, he definitely should use a sous vide circulator the next time.
"Homo economicus, the economic optimizing agent, is a leaky abstraction on top of a killer ape."

Amazing phrase.
Are these run with all the available Spectre/Meltdown fixes or without?
They don't care about the reason it moves the market.

They just know people will feel compelled to read their publications if they're consistently affecting the market.
What you're describing is called market stability. The more stable a market is, the harder the momentum a brand has shifts towards competitors. It doesn't just take a single inferior generation of products to tank a brand/company and swing the whole market around, you need multiple sequential generations like that for that to happen.
I sort of wonder if using a heat gun in the area they thought was broken would have worked better. Then it would have been more localized and easier to control temperature-wise.
Impossible filters are no problem for Google. They already use them. Smaller companies and private sites will have problems, though.
Can Europeans avoid their content being ~~censored~~ filtered by using a VPN?

I suspect content hosting companies will let anyone upload anything but only make the content visible to people in countries that allow it. A VPN won't help. The directive isn't saying "An American uploaded this so it's fine for everyone to see." It's saying "The original version of this is owned by someone else so no one in the EU can watch this derivative work." Who uploaded it doesn't actually matter.
yeah...

just like the great firewall, isn't it?
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So you mean baked potato style? This whole thing is tickling me just the right way.
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Sorry sir, where are the "1 million US jobs" you promised?

But it shouldn't be surprising, since his company is so used to milking the "millions" of sellers.
Yea, the original run of the Xbox 360 had issues with the then-novel lead-free solder breaking down under high thermal loads.
YouTube will be fine IMHO. I think it makes it insanely hard for any new company to compete against them unless the technology to detect copyright materials suddenly becomes a commodity and/or becomes relatively inexpensive (which I don't believe).
There's a nice CLI tool that makes FarGate feel like a PAAS [0]. It configures ALB, ECR and your FarGate task definitions and services for you. All you need to deploy a FarGate service is a Dockerfile and some code. Hoping this project gets more love.

[0]: https://github.com/jpignata/fargate
It will be rather the opposite. Facebook will be able to comply or afford to pay for the damages, smaller networks can't afford the legal risks and will go offline.
Beware of the REST API of Cosmos. We fell into the trap of using it..

1) it is not covered by the latency SLA. This is buried pretty deep...

2) suddenly you get magical responses that are supposed to trigger the client to do something (e.g. sql qyeries with order by requires some algorithm client side). These things are not docoumented anywhere, you have to read the Node or Python client libs..

Using Cosmos mainly requires being on .NET and using the official driver that communicates over a closed undocumented binary protocol. (even the Java driver having the full SLAs and using the binary protocol was launched just weeks ago).

IMO it would have been less misleading if MS had just removed the docs for their REST API. Or at least put up a big warning about it being an undocumented afterthought.
Taking the buzz out of buzzwords: AI
You're confusing invention, innovation, and fundamental research.

An iPhone and an original IBM PC are essentially the same class of device. The iPhone is miniaturised, refined, and improved, but the principles of operation are recognisably similar. They both have similar technological roots.

You can have steady technological process without a revolution in the fundamentals - which was what Kuhn was interested in.

Fundamental research tends to become math before it becomes technology. Maxwell and Heaviside are more fundamental than the transistor amplifier, the dynamic memory cell, or the valve radio, and you don't get to have any of the latter without the former.

After an explosion of change in the late 19th and early 20th century, the pace of that kind of fundamental research has slowed right down. Existing models and techniques are being refined to create smaller and faster devices, but there have been no revolutions that could lead to new kinds of devices.

There are some prospects for invention - like quantum computing - but there doesn't seem to be any immediate likelihood of new insights on the scale of the revolutions created by electromagnetic theory, thermodynamics, evolution, the periodic table, relativity, quantum theory, and the standard model.
Ask HN: APIs for Data Lake
What kind of APIs we should build for a data lake for ingestion and egestion?

Planning to have REST, Bulk and Streaming APIs
> "If you love your job, 12 hours is not very long... Hit: If you don't work 12 hours a day, you don't love your job."

First up, I'm not arguing against the fact that there are many many managers, bosses, directors and CEOs that use emotional manipulation to blackmail employees to do their bidding even though on paper they claim differently. They give it all sorts of names to make you believe this behaviour is okay. The most damaging use of emotive language makes you feel crazy for feeling the way you feel. This invalidation of your experience, of your feelings, is pulled straight out of the narcissist's playbook and it has a name - it's called gaslighting. Making you feel crazy and invalidating you for feeling the way you do. "If you loved this job, you'd do this for me. If you don't do this for me, you can't possibly love this job." Anyone who has escaped an emotionally abusive relationship will attest to how damaging this one technique is. It's often the tool of choice for a narcissist to maintain emotional control of their target.

It's tough to spot because usually the people at the top got there by being charismatic and motivational. They're charming and make you want to follow them... the same way they treat their partners to get them into a relationship before they invalidate them and make them feel crazy to keep control of them and keep them from leaving. The language they're using to make you follow them is manipulation and is also another tool lifted directly from the narcissist's playbook. Beware of the way people make you feel to get you to play along. When you start to feel like your feelings are crazy and that you feel guilty for not wanting to play along, chances are you're being manipulated using these tools.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/here-there-and-every...

Secondly, the first part of the statement Ma made, given my own experience is, to an extent, true: "if you love your job, 12 hours is not very long."

I tend to agree that if you're occupied by something you love to do or are fascinated by, 12 hours doesn't seem very long. My experience has been that it tends to go by in the blink of an eye. This statement can stand alone without any implication. I frequently work for 12-18 hours straight without even realizing I've done it and then wonder how I didn't even notice it had got dark and I've missed dinner.

However, the opposing statement that if you don't work 12 hours, you don't love your job just isn't true in my experience. There are days, honestly, where I'm fairly apathetic towards work and I struggle to sit in front of my computer for even an hour. This doesn't mean I don't love my job. It just means I don't love what needs to be done right now.

Just because all cats are mammals does not mean that all mammals are cats.
I've seen the code 12 hour days makes. The only benefit Ma is getting is the feeling of power.
I'm an outsider to VC/Startup funding-- what's wrong with a company like this taking VC funding?
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> via operating system debugging facilities.

That's an interesting approach, let me know how it works out!

In my previous efforts, I just used a small HTTP server inside the target program. You can see it in action here, fine-tuning an iOS target:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArcClqt2vTc

Since it's HTTP, it also works on the device. You can obviously also access those facilities from within the process, at least for a macOS app.

Right now, I am focusing on a more image-like user-experience, but with individual (small-ish) documents instead of a huge monolithic image. The difference in trying out UI-oriented idea compared to having to create a separate Xcode project each time is huge, and of course jut doing it live without restarting.

My guess is that these documents will evolve to be a lot like .frameworks, so code + resources. Budding an app is then no more than just copying the app shell and filling it with the right frameworks. (See Xcode). Once budded, you might interact via the HTTP route. Or maybe via debugger?
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I heated a Nvidia 780 graphics card a few times using a heat gun and a laser thermometer (max 200 degree c). I did not want to use my oven as I don't want to risk it. That revived the gpu 2 times, going from vga quality and weird screen artifacts, to no issues at all, 2-3 months with each bake. In the end i bought a new one as it really is temporary.
This is only really accurate if you are fairly sedentary, and are trying to lose weight. If you are active, chances are you are not getting enough calories.
Queue a slew of off the shelf rights management systems start-ups can bolt into their platforms as they scale. VC uncertainty probably stems from unclear law, not from technical challenges.
That's quite an useful and very clean page.

Thank you :)
Unless the query is optimized?
A possible (probable?) issue is your oven. In my experience, they heat in cycles: if you set one to 180 it will heat to 240, then cool to 150, then .... Etc. Even a large electric range will cycle with a range of temperatures. In other words they are designed to maintain an average temperature rather than constant.

In addition there issue of calibration. Even expensive full size ovens can be significantly off.

How do I know this? I worked with Japanese laquer (Urushi) which was baked onto metal for bonding. But Urushi is the sap of a tree related to poison oak and over-heating leads to fumes that are not great. Experiments with small (toaster) ovens and large electric ranges produced bad results.

Most electric kilns for ceramics, especially those that are computer controlled, are highly recommended for sensitive work where temperature control is important.
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Gatwick drone attack could have been inside job, say police
This looks like playing time to me, yup
> I figured, if it’s good enough for those four people on the internet - it’s good enough for me.

Words to live by. :)
As cashless stores grow, so does the backlash
That depends on each individual benchmark (hover over/click on the bar to go to the source). I'd say: Most of the time the patches are applied.
This is much what Xamarin does, encouraging you to have a common core, and then implement the UI for each target platform separately to fit the platform’s style.
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https://www.dw.com/en/japan-slams-tepco-for-false-informatio...

it appears that there were three mainstream sources of radiation measurement at the time of the accident, and in the following days, each showed a very different set of readings. The subsequent panics, and scandals, are a convoluted mess of conflicting data. In fact, a non-profit sent individuals to the area in later months, buying them inexpensive radiation detectors, to get another set of readings. True to political form around the world, this article above seems to be "blasting" the Tokyo Power Company TEPCO for the opposite of what happened ? at which point ? opaque
I feel like legal threats / take downs that are baseless at face value .... should have consequences for the lawyer / organization making them. Perhaps some system like small claims court that could relatively efficiently deal with them.

I recently received a "cease and desist" from a company who competes with the company I work for with some subtle insinuations (without saying I personally would be in legal trouble... they imply it). It was sent to me via LinkedIn of all places. The company I work for has a valid mailing address that is easily googled, same thing with contact email address, phone numbers, etc. I suspect because I'm involved in web development they think I'll just take down the content they do not like / disable some things at their direction.

I ignored it, I had my employer contact them and respond as it's their deal. The issue the other company has is entirely BS. I am not a lawyer but I ran it by some lawyer friends who thought it was hilarious how misguided it was.

It seems like there should be some potential consequence to prevent threats that are that far off.
why do you italicize random words?
This immediately makes me think of Sabine Hossenfelder's book "Lost in Math".

Just because the math is pretty doesn't mean the universe actually works that way. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Sure seems like the universe doesn't seem to care much about our math.

I think the authors of the paper are being perfectly straightforward (e.g., they explicitly include the phrase "in a certain very limited sense" RE: time proceeding in discrete time steps), but the title of the article itself feels a bit misleading.
Sounds like a potential startup ... if you can do it right (how would you identity the "same event": algorithmically? Curated? Crowd-sourced (tags)?)
Thanks for posting those – I've never seen either of them before.
What is the point? either you construct it in secret and hope the secret is safe (no spys!), or you construct it in public so the enemy already knows where it is. In the first place you hope the enemy doesn't know. In the second place you know the enemy already knows so you mitigate that by either having so many that the enemy cannot deal with them all, and/or you mitigate by making the strong enough to withstand an attack.
It goes into why we need design systems, software architectures, libraries at all? Because of communication and managing complexity. You give 5 developers one single set of requirements, their approach to the problem likely to be drastically different. Could their solutions be effective? Very likely to be. But that's not large projects are about, they are about continuity of the projects without locking into developers.

For developers want to solve a problem quickly, you are correct - and more power to you because no one else (mostly) can understand your code. Job security FTW there. I think most of companies starting to realizing they can't keep people like you very long. You are both capable and stubborn (most likely). That's why job market is shifting towards mediumly skilled team and process oriented developers. Hope that makes sense.
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This is neither a crow nor a raven (not even a corvidae). A clever and very good singing bird in the family Artamidae
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We always have a choice.

It's just how easy the choice is that defines how good our conditions are.
For people running in non-default scaled resolutions. In the default configuration it's somewhere in between Safari (best) and Chrome (worst).
I'm very bullish on AMD continuing to make gains in server land and workstations but I do wonder what the laptop situation is going to be like in the next generation. Intel put a lot of work into power efficiency not just at a chip level but at the chipset and driver level too. This has brought large gains for battery life and while I expect AMD to catch up eventually I'm not sure that it'll happen in Ryzen 2.
It's not that there's no money, there's just not enough will.
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I think he could handle Jeopardy sure, but I'm not sure the venue gives his talent the place to truly shine. If he inserted the comedic portion of his talent then Jeopardy would kind of become a different show, while not doing so would lose the quality that make him such a compelling host.
After flickering unhappily for a while, part of the screen backlight on my trusty Lenovo laptop recently died, rendering screen usable but hightly annoying. Short of actually buying a spare part and swapping out, I did absolutely everything imaginable, including liberal amounts of percussive maintenance: Opened the thing up, had the whole screen out, checked connections as best I could, squeezed and flexed, had the screen out again, squeezed some more - you know how these things go.

So, the machine is stranded on my desk, hooked up to a stationary screen, lid kept slightly ajar. The most laidback member of the household comes by, a fully grown male of species felis catus. Apparently slams the lid shut and goes to sleep on laptop for the duration of the night.

Machine has been fine ever since.
I successfully fixed an Xbox 360 with the dreaded RROD with Percussive Maintenance: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PercussiveMainte...
More like "this value is empty text" and "this has no value/is unknown".

I agree though. Makes as much sense as treating 0 and NULL as the same.
Firefox may have had _similar_ features to Chrome, but they were poorly implemented and unpolished compared to what Chrome had from the beginning.

Here's a screenshot of Firefox 3.0.1, for example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Mozilla_...

By contrast, here's Chrome 1.0: http://img.brothersoft.com/top/screenshots/g/Google-Chrome-1...

Aside from the sheer cleanness of the UI (Wow, tabs on top?) Chrome's implementation of draggable tabs was better (the tab itself moved when dragged, not just an icon representing the tab), as was the Omnibox (it was way better at guessing when you wanted a search vs a URL; even to this day Chrome's site search features are better than Firefox).

Just looking at that old Firefox screenshot vs modern day FF it's obvious how many UI features were borrowed from Chrome.

I think the original comic that Google used to announce Chrome explains pretty well what made it different from other browsers of the day: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_00.html Just think about how many of those features eventually became standard in modern-day browsers and it becomes pretty clear how far Chrome was ahead of its time. (Skip to the section on "Search and User Experience" for the bit most relevant to this discussion thread.)
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There used to be some news outlets that were mostly even-keeled with their interpretation of facts. That's decreasingly the case.
Our CI is setup to merge into a local copy the source branch and then build. Devs are encouraged to regularly pull & the latest source branch changes to reduce the chance of their own integration failing.
Is this the kind of this you can complain to the lawyer's Bar Association about? A one-off bad cease and desist might not warrant any action but if it's a pattern of behavior they might be interested in having it documented. Am I being too optimistic?
I seem to remember an article (maybe TC?) citing low-dose LSD as a trendy drug in SV to spur on creativity etc.

Edit: couldn't find it on TC, but here's a link to the same think from HuffPo: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/microdosing-lsd-placebo-study...
Disappointed. Was expecting to learn more about Three Letter Acronyms. :)
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The really mind bending part of that is on a galactic scale the LMC is "close". :)