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Every time I ask for help on the forums, I get this same kind of response. Their forum responders always arguing with me or trying to place blame on the customer -- not just me but in responses I've read for other customers as well.

At least they're quick at responding and seem to respond to everything...
Opera had something like that built-in years ago. I don't remember if it made it out of the preview feature.
I'm sure there are people who haven't been on HN for ten years who haven't seen it. There's no Hacker Canon to discuss this stuff so people repost it here.
More evidence that social media drives people to be cruel, stupid, and callow. How is it possible so many people post publicly, or semi-publicly, content which would be considered crass, childish, and un-professional at best and fireable at worst.
Introversion/extraversion is a spectrum. It's about recharging batteries and having a balance between a social life and a solitary life. You seem to get a good share of social life, so obviously you need to seek solitary experiences.

The problem is that for many, there is a trend where social life is hard to obtain for several reasons.
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It had its problems, but Apple's Numbers product got this right I feel - it was a kind of blend between desktop publishing and spreadsheets, where you could scatter arbitrary tables of data around a page and then have them refer to each other. I suspect a lot of people who are throwing multiple tables of data in the same sheet are doing so because they want both of them to be visible at once.
It’s a consequence of our inability to predict the future and measure certain gains and losses. It’s easy to measure safety, comfort, convenience of single family detached homes with garages. It’s difficult to measure benefits of community and family, except perhaps the cost of babysitting versus leaving with grandparents. Not only is it hard to measure, but the trade offs are hard to compare and so we end up going with the easy, obvious choices.
>except for maybe CCTV

Ah, great.
It actually might be worse. I hypothesize that the kinds of interactions we have online are the social equivalent of "empty calories". They tweak the brain's reward mechanism for socializing without actually getting any of the real benefits.
> The folks the NYT is visiting are all nervous; they’re waiting for necks to be on the chopping block

It's like someone flipped a switch in the 1980s. It shouldn't be this way.
>First off, do you think Agile is better than Waterfall?

Agile does not mean "not-waterfall." Using the not-waterfall definition when convenient to the conversation is the reason "Agile" is a plague on our line of work.
Ubuntu Mate has an image that works on the Pi3.
Have you ever looked into Pratt parsing? That was the “aha” moment for me, as everything prior to learning those was so incredibly opaque (especially the yacc/lex awkward DSLs and precedence stuff).

Good intro: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-e...

Project I made using a Pratt parser, effectively 0 dependencies (for the interesting bits at least): https://github.com/JacksonKearl/RollDice-Discord

Check the “parse.ts” for how simple the Pratt implementation is, “calculator-bot.ts” for how easy it is to define a simple language with infix operators and precedence and etc, and “dice-bot.ts” and “dice-expression.ts” for a complete implementation of an actually “interesting” language. The “tokenize.ts” file has the tokenizer, but it’s incredibly sketchy. Enter at your own risk. ;)

Edit: the Readme is a bit outdated. Proper order of operations is implemented
"On dozens of occasions, Huawei engineers disguised known unsafe functions (such as memcpy) as the “safe” version (memcpy_s) by creating wrapper functions with the “safe”
name but none of the safety checks. This leads to thousands of vulnerable conditions in their code."

Things like this everywhere. Just stupid programmers or method?
If I'm around people after work I generally feel more positive and have less anxiety, but left alone for too long and my anxiety will start to take over.

Interesting. I'm the exact opposite. When I have to do things like hang around with people from work for too long, my anxiety increases until I can get away and be alone. I'm not a social recluse, I have a wife and kid, and I enjoy spending time with them, I try to make time for my parents at least weekly, and I enjoy hanging out with my friends. But definitely anxiety builds as my time in contact with other people increases. Alone is often my "happy place".
Thinking about using vision technology for small scale aquaculture stock management. Sorting the fishes by weight while eliminating the scale. Probably a conventional camera might suffice with a little bit of ML training. Length does not correlate well with weight in the fish species we are using, but a 2D picture of the fish body might do it. A 3D picture with the new kinect will do the job for sure.
So you're a Tesla/Musk fan, but you acknowledge

> phantom braking and unexpected steering inputs. These require instant correction, are completely unpredictable and have the ability to scare other drivers or even cause crashes.

That sounds kinda scary to me. I'd rather drive a car that doesn't try to do anything smart than one with these issues.

> Also, they happen a lot.

Wow. If that's your perception as a Tesla fan, it doesn't exactly inspire me with fresh confidence.
A big obstacle to having extended families under one roof is that often the children don't want to live where the parents' home is located. I am certain I could move in with my mom tomorrow if I wanted--but it would mean leaving a city I've come to love and the career I've built here to live in a small town with little culture and zero opportunities.

I think this is what you see in many rural American towns where only a small elderly population remains, while the young people all moved to cities for economic opportunity.
Washington Can’t Solve a Housing Crisis That Doesn’t Exist
I totally see crossfit as filling that gap that churches and religion left behind.
Negligent or malicious, no matter which, I would not want to deploy devices that had hardcoded ssh private keys.

Default passwords can be dealt with.
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Teams is such a step up from Lync/Skype For Business. The screen sharing and conference features are so much better and work well. I just wish my organization used it for more than IMing each other and actually messages in threads in teams.
Usually declarations need to come before usages. (Like happens with C headers.) Or else, you need to be able to generate the output for a usage without seeing the declaration.
At what point does this go from partnering in tech development to anti-trust collusion?
Iconic brands lose their luster
Tech is a tool, not a one size fits all solution.
They’re rebranding Skype for business as teams meetings, and pretty soon anyone who uses Office 365 for video calls for meetings will end up being counted as a teams user (even if they don’t sign in to teams or ever look at chat).

This isn’t too far off, although it’s new enough I doubt it has a massive impact on the 13m number.
Which seem to include Juniper and Arista and not the other base station providers listed in the review such as Nokia, Ericsson, ZTE, or Samsung.
It's shockingly difficult to convert work people from "work friends" into real friends. The only success I had was when one of my startups got bought in a way where we all left on the same date because we fully vested. Then everyone was nostalgic and wanted to stay together. Even then only 1/2 of the group still meets :/
Oh I know, I’ve watched all of those twice. I adore those lectures. It’s what converted me from a frontend dev dabbling in backend programming into a dedicated programmer ~10yrs ago.

They way they approach programming using Scheme, building complex concepts from nothing like Lego blocks. Plus it contains one of the best explanations of abstraction which is probably the most important and powerful part of programming, that really blew my mind back then. Choosing when and how to balance abstraction in your code is still a daily challenge, even as I’ve matured as a developer, which makes me think back to these lectures often.
I'm skeptical of this because the elderly are one of the most vulnerable populations out there, and it's hard enough to prevent elder abuse even on vetted, professional platforms.

Outsourcing elderly care to the gig economy (intentionally to college students) sounds like a step in the wrong direction for providing reliable, safe elderly care. I hope they're able to overcome that challenge.
> I may be in the minority, but the older I get the more I want to be alone. I love my wife and kids, but there is almost too much pressure anymore to do this, do that. There are too many hands on my time.

Do you think that could at all be attributed that you are actually more alone now?

What I mean is, most families aren't interacting much with people outside their immediate family, whereas in the past the extended family was around and built a support system for those immediate families. If you had your parents, siblings, cousins, etc... around, you might actually have more time to recharge because child rearing wouldn't exclusively be put on the shoulders of the parents.

The way that our kids are raised now is incredibly different than the way I was raised. Although predominately raised by my parents, my grandparents, aunts, great aunts, etc... all had an influence and played a part in that upbringing due to the geographics of where everyone lived.
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I think Japan has issues of isolation more than loneliness (basically the inverse issue: people shutting down social interactions as flight mechanism)
*At the cost of catastrophic ecological destruction.

This specific strawman comes up so often that it ought to have its own name. Just because one guy underestimated the carrying capacity of the Earth a long time ago, and failed to predict farming practices that would eventually wreak havoc on the environment, doesn't make the population variable off-limits for discussion. Is it any more realistic to expect billions of people to voluntarily revert to an ascetic lifestyle?
This is a very good point and im gonna update my comment. The distance between people physically is just something that really sticks out to me having lived in tokyo and manhattan. My party trick degree is in japanese lit and oh the giant book i could write on this topic. It's complex and yea they have a big loneliness problem.
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No. I’m saying a social network is worthless that people aren’t on. Whether you are on it are not doesn’t matter. Nor does a few anecdotes on HN when the numbers show something different.
I'd pretty much agree. Technology should be a tool to make our lives better, and when it is obvious it is not doing that we should get rid of it.
What if 40% was with coworkers you didn't like? Then you're around people you enjoy for 0% of your waking hours.
Anyone can read in the developer blog’s last entry (2 clicks away from blender’s homepage) that the final 2.8 version was scheduled in only 5 days, but OP seemingly wanted the karma points. Otherwise there isn’t any real reason for sharing a RC of a project you are not working with without checking what is the release plan.
As long as they don't mind fighting with the SEC, sure.
Guys, you need to move the frick out of the suburbs. They're soul-killing.

Cities are also atomized, but not to this extent. They're vibrant, booming, the schools are fine/good, and in my opinion, far worth the cut to house size.
> even though right now I work somewhere you've likely never heard of.

I'm with you on that. I'm working at a place that, prior to the interview, I had never heard of. It turned out I and much of my family had DTE Energy Bridges, which they were responsible for, had watched a cable news network who featured their Surface Table app for the 2008 elections and a number of other things that I'm not actually sure I'm allowed to mention.

Some of the best companies are hidden gems like this and almost all of the people I've interviewed have started out not knowing who we were before the interview and being very excited to work for us by the end (the others were already excited). Even though we tend to attract great talent -- it's difficult. Frankly, lately, I'd like it if my thinking was "I need fewer people who are ~qualified~ somewhere-in-the-same-time-zone-as-qualified for this position[0]" that would require a trap to weed some out.

[0] And we've paired down our job requirements -- these are also common positions: C# Backend Web / JS Front-end React (with TypeScript as a bonus!)

edit: the year was 2008, President Obama, not 2018 mid-terms (the network was MSNBC)
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Technology is only a tool; it won't "fix" loneliness by itself any more than changing your keyboard will make you a better typist or speller. That said, it could be a highly effective tool as part of a concerted community effort, but it is only a tool.
There is no way I want to take care of anyone other than my own children, which is enough. I have three children in my house, which is more than enough.

Caregivers also spend tons of their own money on care giving, plus trips to the doctor, dentist, etc. I already don't get enough down time. I also want to actually retire on time and do what I want to do, not babysit the elderly. I don't want or need the hassle of being a care giver. It's not in my makeup to do that kind of thing. In addition, my children WILL NOT be living at home until they are 30. I will have earned my peace and quiet by then and I want to get it. MY job now is to make my children as independent as possible: learning to cook, mow, change a tire, be literate, good with math, critical thinking, and not rely on others for things that should be done alone. And most importantly, avoid debt like the plague. A man should owe no one if possible. My daughter already plans to pay for her own university by dint of military service. We explained to her that we made it on our own, she will have to do likewise. No parent should go into debt for their child's education. It prolongs the parents ability to retire and enjoy their own golden years.
Isn't moral beauty kind of a natural job requirement for positions of power, whether you're Chinese or American?
Our open office isn't for fostering communication or anything, we don't need to communicate, if you have time to communicate you aren't working. Our open office is so the team lead at the back of each row can watch everyone. :/
Yeah, nothing trickled down.
Searching rooms by name & sharing files should be coming very shortly. VoIP will be a bit longer, as we want to improve the stability relative to the old app rather than blindly porting it over. Glad it feels like an impovement! :D
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The report says that Huawei devices have unsafe functions like “memcpy” and "strcpy". Is this a coding preference or dangerous practice? To what extent can these examples reflect on code quality?
What’s specifically super evil about humans transcribing random and anonymous commands to the google assistant? They’re hired and expected to be professional with their own contractual agreements around their own behavior and ethical standing.

Literally all the major companies in speech rec (aka assistants) do exactly this. The accuracy of the speech models would be extremely poor otherwise.
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What motivates extremely talented tech workers to devote their limited working years to making the world a worse place to live in?
> (Americans fetishize a sort of "rugged individualism" where you alone can solve every problem you're faced with or else it's not a real problem)

Nearly any attempt paint American Culture with broad strokes is going to fail.. but using absolute terms like you're doing here A) is wildly inaccurate, and B) negatively portrays a pretty neutral personal ideology. I value individualism for the same reasons I devalue conformity -- I generally want to be left to my own devices to do pretty much whatever I want.

This trope about detrementally fetishizing rugged individualism, which is unbelievably common and doesn't seem to ever be subject to a skeptical eye, is a subtle dig at people who want what I want: To be left alone and to be free.
Well that's a very good design.
As a former MSFT employee (on Azure), Teams daily active users are counted even when someone on Outlook hosts a meeting, which is automatically converted into a Teams meeting link. Therefore, unless an enterprise is still sticking with Skype, Teams users will automatically get trickled in from Outlook.
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I agree it's a wonderful resource. Which is exactly why I disagree with your suggestion. The book is uncommonly clear in how it explains fundamentals and bringing in such a powerful library ends up moving quite a bit away from that. It will no longer be just about the fundamentals of Julia on one hand and on the other, the algorithms will no longer be implementing language invariant. Losing that invariance IMO makes it less of a text on fundamentals.
Ok, but how are they gonna get their data back? Just sacrifice it and lose all digital public records?
History is complicated, I know. And I've never claimed that Alexander didn't abolish serfdom, or even that he was a bad ruler. All I'm trying to say is nobody should be surprised that his accomplishments are not part of the school curriculum as he was simply an occupier.
I worked there for a bit. Sometime around 2014 I dropped a production DB table (via a fat finger, shouldn’t have even been possible in hindsight). It wasn’t consumer facing but the internal effect made it look like all of Twitter was simultaneously down. Mass hysteria there for 20 min or so.
A thing to remember, which psychology will remind you, is that there is a balance between having social experiences and having solitary experiences. Introversion/extraversion is a spectrum.

The problem is that modern, sedentary, good-living-standard, individualistic life tend to isolate people. That's the current model.

In more ancient times we were all living in communities because the infrastructure forced us to do so. Now the standard is individual housing, kitchen, toilets, bathroom, etc.

I'm okay to have a solitary bedroom for myself, but I wish activities like cooking and food were shared in neighborhoods. Similarly, fences exist for security but they also damage socialization.
> There are certainly much better commercial HEVC encoder out there.

The x265 team has repeatedly attempted to refute this claim, but it’s a lot of throwing numbers and lots of mud back and forth between the different implementors. Do you have anything solid to back that statement?
You probably know which comic this is without clicking on it

https://xkcd.com/1053/
> The crypto community continues to speed-run the history of finance.

I think it is making it better than your classist dystopia.

In the same day:
The US Treasury just talked about returning to a period of private currencies, but global this time, in response to proliferation of crypto assets being used as stores of value, currency and collateral. Central banks can still provide liquidity to the market. The unbanked have access to a global economy.

The US President gave an advertisement to bitcoin and Libra.

The SEC approved a digital Reg A+ offering, which is a rubric for all other ones.

US Congress members actively talking about the Token Taxonomy Act together to help all branches of the government adapt faster.
Can you still use the body tracking from previous kinects?
The point is that neither local vs. national, government vs. business, market vs. nonmarket, nor majority vs. minority strictly deliver a fail treatment to all. Power and discrimination will out.

Moral and equitable comportment is not neatly slotted into any ideological political-economy pigeonhole.
No true Scotsman detected.

By extension of that argument you could argue that no server is a true server:

The fact that it's not a server in the _X_, but a client to a [_Y_ in [Database, DNS, Router, Caching Server, Search Server, REST API, etc]]_ on the _Z_ makes it less of a server in the _X_.

Maybe we should stop using the word "server" and use "client graph", or just continue accepting that there are different layers in a system.
Microsoft Office 365: Banned in German schools over privacy fears
If you need to buy new hardware to run Blender,

1) You probably need just a budget but contemporary graphics card, under $100, to improve your computer from implausibly old (and therefore unsupported) to very cheap (but good enough for Blender), raising the question of what light computer usage has allowed you to postpone this and other upgrades for years.

2) You want to use vintage equipment lying around, not a "normal" computer, raising the question of whether you are interested in practical use or in attempting stunts.
"access control" by definition means "make things not work some of the time"

Excel has change tracking, but like Jupyter notebooks and similar products it doesn't make the clean distinction between code and data that is necessary for it to be useful. (e.g. if I develop an analysis pipeline and use it for May 2019 it should be as easy as falling off a log to run it for June 2019)
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I imagine that's the idea.
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For better or worse, most commercial embedded development is done in C/C++. If you are already familiar with these, start with Atmel Studio and an AVR 8 bit processor (easier to learn the hardware side, simpler processor) or mbed.org and one of the supported boards (STM32 Nucleos are cheap and have built-in JTAG programmer/debugger with a wide range of processors).

Pay could be higher or lower, you will almost certainly take a cut initially but there are plenty of high paying embedded development jobs.
Mayors will pay "cyber-security" consulting firm. The firm will pay the hackers.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/georgia-county-pays-a-whopping...
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Last Time National Debt Was This High the Fed Pegged Interest Rates for a Decade
$, like someone else has said, but I also would guess that many of the engineers do not have a clear idea of the overarching functionality of the application.

I'm sure internal communication about the product is extremely positive, with phrases like "improved law enforcement accuracy by XX%, decreased customer costs and time by YY," so some may truly believe they are doing something that everyone would agree is good.
You are not in the minority. Everyone needs time to be alone. You will start feeling alone when you get back from hunting and nobody is waiting for you.
"Patent issues may prevent JPEG replacement by BPG despite BPG's better technical performance.[6]"

BPG meet GIF, GIF meet BPG. The most annoying thing about GIF in the early days were the damn Compuserve patents that they would go out of their way to hassle you with if they thought they could.
Yes, and this is exactly why they should be keeping both digital (online and offline) as well as paper copies of their records.

If they can't afford to have good backups of their data, they can't afford to have digital records in the first place. This is the equivalent of a community saying they can't afford filing cabinets so they just stack paper on the floor in the boiler room. Nobody would find that acceptable, and they shouldn't find this acceptable either.
Believe it or not, contrary to judeo-christian Western ideals, not everything is morally black and white.