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Something done for the developers is not a feature. Features are things we build for our users.

It's not always wrong to do things that are self serving at the expense of our users. But we should never confuse ourselves into thinking of that as a feature. It's always important to keep in mind who we serve.
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USA recently allowed it for their citizens
While you're correct about the two or more unrelated exceptions, Java will happily infer Err to RuntimeException and so the no errors case works just fine there. It's only work in a case where the type is only needed by inference, though.
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I’m imagining a wave of fake accounts using people’s names and faces happening, maybe even fraudulent blog posts come next election with legal indemnity. They own the name and face after all, no? Same as putting you in a billboard
Maybe they were afraid of the climate in Washington and thought this was a better idea somehow? As a techie it honestly seemed more appealing to have the foundation etc. Instead of “FB money”
Comments like these make "fake news" make sense: two people perceiving the same things drastically differently.

It's one word: language. No other animals come close. Animals signal to each other all the time, and none of it is nearly as complex or beautiful as language. You could make an argument for oral language being essentially the same as signaling but writing really blows any other behavior of animals out of the park.

Whether or not you consider that to be "little" makes an insane amount of difference.
I think you're missing one important detail: the idea behind the green padlock is that the average end user isn't technically capable of (or shouldn't have to) monitor all the details of their internet connections to make sure they're secure.

If that basic intuition about users is correct, the solution is not to give up on this and force users to deal with the true complexity of the situation. The solution is for the browser to show a red blinking INSECURE instead of the green padlock when the cert it receives for a site doesn't have a valid chain to a root in the default key store shipped with the browser.

To be honest, I can't figure out why this isn't already the default behavior. It would solve a bunch of other problems as a side effect, including insecure crappy antivirus programs that MITM your internet connection.
I suppose that'd take something pike obfuscated paper mail password exchange before digital. Or rtty. Or 56k international calls for key setup?
I would think the interface/front-end would be the most obvious and important way to catch the attention of visitors when competing against any decent-sized online company; I have never heard of livevideo.com, but at very first glance, I am certain it was never a threat on google/youtube's radar even if you had the best backend system in the world.

No offense, but it looks like a 1990s yahoo.com version of youtube, and that introductory how-to video is already way more than enough to lose the attention of the majority viewers. A search engine landing page with more words/distractions from the search bar than google.com has (even a fraction of a second longer than what people expect) is already a red flag. Similarly, a streaming site must have extremely uniform, visually stimulating, well defined and relatable content for any hope of keeping visitors interested at a fraction of the rate youtube does. Consider how even the cheapest of porn websites (an industry with tens of millions of competing and ever-improving video streaming websites) know to float uniform rows of well tested, clickable video thumbnails as the first thing one sees, along with any and all instructions/options compressed onto a single dropdown button in the top corner— sometimes they don't even show the title unless you hover over it.

My point is you have to figure out a way to make it even more accessible to new visitors than google is to their non-new visitors; and the amount of front-end text, options, and non-uniform content on livevideo.com is several leagues behind where it would need to start to consider a plan of attack... even against YT or the googs 10 years ago, circa 2009
One of these three things is not like the other. Other people getting gay married or drinking milkshakes has never killed anybody else.
Eh, `git rebase -i master` (or some other branch) isn't so bad, or you can always rebase against origin/<your-branch>.

But yes, --autosquash looks nice.
You'd pay $500 for it. Let's round that up to $1000, double what you said you'd pay for it. And: I'll buy that you could get that much for it! Now, this researcher got a $30k bounty from Facebook, so, to beat that on the black market, he'd have to sell a tool --- knowing full well what it'd be used for, and facing the daunting task of trying to talk a jury out of that obvious fact --- to thirty one people who will then do god knows what the fuck with it, all of which he will be an accomplice to.

This is a bad business plan. To see why, just Google "Marcus Hutchins".
This is already a thing. Look up 'kit homes'. You can get the entire thing done, with an electrical hookup for ~30K here.
I don't name these things :-)
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The implementation needs to be maintained.
Because there is plenty of higher level systems interfaces that could be just as well written in C++, C# or Rust. Just because rust works on low-level problem spaces, doesn't mean it doesn't work higher up. Also, MS could very well create some of the applications in question with C# as well.
To me, the most interesting thing about this is that I was familiar with the implementation but never figured this was a thing on its own or even has a name. Makes sense that stuff like timing, scheduling etc. has a field of knowledge on its own. This makes me wonder what other unknowns in the area of commonly used processes I don't know about.
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That is an excellent policy, do you have any companies in your country where the company believes itself to be really really smart and also believes rules like this are just bureaucracies trying protect their own jobs?
One small data point - our small MongoDB cluster serves around 2gb/s traffic of times. Much more reliable than it was three years ago.
Agreed. Isn't this just showing that the larger Millennial generation has entered the cities but only just started having kids?
For that matter, wouldn't be too surprised to see MS publish crates that give nicer interfaces to Windows internals or even linux, sql, azure or other platforms access.
I did, and I also did a whois lookup on airbnb-mm.com, which is registered by Airbnb Inc. And if you go to the domain it redirects to airbnb.com.

*edit word and this, I did just check airbnb's site and it doesn't list that domain as one which would be a valid email domain for their consumer site information. But the whois and the redirect makes me think it is. However OP could forward the original message to report.phishing@airbnb.com and see what they say.
If there is demand for this, more power to them. However, I feel existential dread considering that demand for this exists (and is potentially growing).
You mean a couple years ago? There hasn't been a launchpad explosion since 2016. That was resolved a long time ago.
I think IBM is why my wife’s payroll is so messed up (Canadian government job).

$1B for that
In the bay, rent is so high this makes no sense. Why would I give away 50% of rent for something that can pay off my investment in one to two years? Even with the headaches 50% is not worth it. 20% maybe.
It’s hard to believe they felt like Grindr was “unsustainable”. It’s completely ubiquitous in the gay scene across every country I’ve ever been in. I mean there’s a lot more variety now, lots of competing apps, but for years Grindr ruled the day for tens of millions of people!

The stories about them sharing HIV data with the Chinese government is horrific. Pretty sure they could microtarget that into individuals.
That is still the "bait" - they can say anything they want at this point because they (and you) are still in "bait" mode. It isn't until you've bitten on the bait that the scam will unfold.

My prediction is one of three things will happen:

1) Once you are well hooked, they will need some money to cover some sort of fees involved in releasing the stocks. When you pay the fees, they disappear.

2) They will give you some really pretty "stock certificates" that look really official, collect their fees, and disappear before you figure out the pretty paper is a forgery.

3) A variant of the "Secret Shopper" scam where they give you a (forged) cashier's check, collect their "finders fee" (in your real money), and disappear before the bank notifies you that the cashier's check is a forgery.

Ref: https://wgntv.com/2017/03/23/new-scam-tricks-victims-out-of-...
If 95% of the applicants are going to wait that long then how is it not an accurate statement?
Depends on how your mind works really... I know a lot of devs that cannot break out of C# class and enterprise app thinking. I happen to like JS for a lot of workflows. It really depends on mindset.

Been learning rust for a few months now and really enjoying it so far... waiting on the new async stuff to firm up a little before continuing.
That only applies to approving their own excessive compensation..

It helps to read things before you link to then....
SoftBank is something in between a VC and the public market. Typical startup path: seed funding, a few VC rounds, SoftBank round, IPO.
It took me a bit of time to get used to them but I am really starting to love the vim docs - I love that I can :help split and then get loads of info of all the possible things I can do with a split for example
Interestingly, many pathologists have a policy of not signing out cases (do I commit this patient to a cancer-not-cancer diagnosis?) in the evenings. The move is generally more self-protective (tired minds make bad decisions), but certainly the 24-hour folks like hospitalists aren't looking for me to add more work to their nights and weekends either.
What if we look at this another way and ask why young people can't or won't start their careers in rural areas to begin with?
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I think of the long-term solar contracts that make it hard to sell a house.
I am raising a 2.5 year old in SF and my experience is very similar to yours. We're looking at moving out to the East Bay soon to be closer to my parents, but SF - outside of housing - is not a bad place to be raising a child.

So I have to tell my kid to ignore a syringe on the ground at a muni stop once in a while - like dangers don't also exist in suburban and rural areas - but poop barely phases us... it's like some of these folx have never woken up to their kid having taken a diaper off and smearing poop all over the crib
I’m not sure it’s an abdication - but rather the result of the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard being hard to overcome in a “he said she said” situation.
If this isn't reflective of an abject failure of local/state government and public policy to plan and manage the needs of housing and population growth, I don't know what is.

It's not a failure of local/state government. It's an encompassing failure of society at large. We keep passing NIMBY laws. Society becomes ossified. There's no longer anywhere for the next generation to settle down.

Tech companies now feed people, transport people, educate people, house people. Pretty soon we'll be voting for which tech company governs our society.

Aren't we already voting with our dollars? In a way, it's like our society is becoming the one described in Snow Crash, just with Silicon Valley aesthetics, as opposed to the cyberpunk take on 1990's strip malls. The US government is losing credibility. Everything is privatized and up for sale or lease. Want a better jail cell? Offer the jail franchise your credit card for an upgrade!

"What's it gonna be, the Hoosegow or The Clink?" the first MetaCop says. From the way he is talking, he must be talking to the other MetaCop.

"The Hoosegow, please," Y.T. says.

...

The Hoosegow looks like a nice new one. Y.T. has seen hotels that were worse places to sleep. Its logo sign, a saguaro cactus with a black cowboy hat resting on top of it at a jaunty angle, is brand-new and clean.

THE HOOSEGOW
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> They must be so bored…

Your preconceived notions of what suburban living is like are just as inaccurate as the perceptions of city life of the person you responded to.
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The fact that there are many players may indicate that none are good enough to be dominant. I added the "high quality" qualifier because I kind of assumed existing kits are not great, based on some previous searching.

What's the best kit home in the U.S.?
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”Going out of the track is a natural penalty”

No, it isn’t. If the track is concave, driving the convex closure of the track shortens the distance travelled, decreases the amount of turning to do, and no corner will become tighter. That must mean the convex closure is faster to ride.

I guess that’s why the red cones are there. Passing them on the wrong side must lead to a steep time penalty or immediate disqualification.

Also, I would think that, in a really tight turn, you would have to slow down so much to stay on the track that overshooting the turn without braking as much is faster (I think the video shows that in the last corner of the round, at the right edge of the video)
What prevents a homeowner to go directly to: https://node.eco/ or https://livemodal.com/ and do it themselves?
I haven't downed your post but wanted to reply to explain why I think it's not helpful to the discussion: You're moving the goalposts.

By your definition no American is a member of the global lower class, as defined purely on an income basis. That's a fine point to make if the discussion was about global poverty, but that's clearly not what this discussion is about. In effect, your comment amounts to whataboutism.
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The most common intersection, IMO, is inductive reasoning. If you can write a working recursive function, you are also writing an inductive proof. The only explanation I have for why people think there's either no link to math, or that they can program but can't do math, is a cultural sledgehammer smashed into our collective skulls while we're young that tells us we can't.

This is a shame, because we spend a lot of effort in deliberately avoiding common abstractions in case it scares programmers away, but really we're just making it harder for everyone to learn all these things. We either eventually recognise the underlying pattern through our brain's capacity to extrapolate from examples (hard, slow), or learn the pattern explicitly and recognise it, or often never learn the pattern and have to learn each new language's way of doing things one by one.

And of course when we either don't know or deliberately avoid effective abstractions we make or propagate mistakes. See Java's first crack at Future, for example, which was practically useless since the only thing you could do with a Future was wait for it to be the present.
While Frost is beautifully right here, of course,
there is a mild irony in that many of the rocks in
New England walls were brought there by repeated glaciation,
so cold both made the walls possible, and, as frost-heave,
both surfaces buried rocks, and breaks down dry walls
made with the generally rounded glacial rocks.

A secondary cause for spilling the upper boulders
is the behavior of herds of dairy cattle, with each
cow reaching over the wall to reach that one extra
blade of tasty grass, with eventual wall collapse.
You know, if craigslist charged for some of their ads, then actually had a tracking-free newsdesk...

You could recreate the newspaper.
I used it in the early '70s. A principal problem was that the language was so extensive ("kitchen sink") that some programmers could be using features that others were simply unaware of and which conflicted during integration.
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being overwhelmed and loosing motivation are good reasons to work with a mentor.

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i am looking forward to talk to you.
Of course not. They make tech choices for their CV.
Needle disposal boxes and injecting clinics are pretty good at cleaning that up. Not to mention modern needles that kids can't accidentally prick themselves on make it a much lesser issue than decades ago. Not to mention having a lot of other responsible adults around keeping an eye out for stuff like this.
Not sure why the article had to bend into politics. There was more than enough evidence to support their position without going into a Democrats versus Trump/DeVoss angle to make a claim that this was somehow Democrats doing. I think it's fair to say that any time you're having an adversarial process it's going to be difficult on both parties, there's clear cases of abuse that are missed, cases of poor/missed communications between people, cases of anger, cases where both parties were in a bad state to make adult decisions. College campuses in particular are, in America, the first time that real responsibilities of the world are levied at many young adults.

When it comes down to it, in cases of date rape, awkward sexual encounters, spousal/lover abuse, and all the messy areas of humanity in between, there's no way to get every bad actor, sometimes there's not enough evidence, and that's a terrible place to have to be. Sometimes the courts and tribunals are going to get it wrong, and that's another terrible place to be. That doesn't mean that we don't do everything within our power to make places of learning, both inside and outside the classroom, as safe as possible. That doesn't mean we ignore our responsibility to each other to attempt to make right cases of provable injustice. That also means that we don't destroy lives without evidence. Difficult decisions are the cornerstone of adult lives.
I agree, and I'd like to pile on with a more specific proposal.

The child tax credit is $2000/child in 2019, which is laughable. I spend more than $12,000/child/yr for childcare alone for two kids (ages 8mos and 3yrs). These early years are terrifying to potential parents - it's gauntlet to reach public school age where property taxes disproportionately taxes the childless.

I think that there should be a deduction for 100% of tuition for children under age 5 (not to exceed $20,000/yr/child). I.e., in the 24% tax bracket, $24,000 in tuition for two children would reduce my tax burden by $6,000. Those in higher brackets would receive a greater refund. In lower brackets, AGI would become negative and not function as a credit.

In effect, the more you make, the more you get back. I think this is an elegant incentive to encourage well-earning people to make babies and continue working. There's no risk of gaming the deduction either: money will by definition go toward childcare tuition. (If there's a risk, it's that childcare will go up. I assume it would, but not 24%.)

We want tax-paying parents to put more future taxpayers into the system so that we don't become Japan. The parents benefitting from a policy like this are making a significant contribution to the economy. Consider their earnings, their patronage of the childcare facility, and the promise of a preschool-educated person to become a future taxpayer.

If all that sounds too convoluted, it could be more straightforward. Let's extend public education down to 3-month-olds. Or we can give parents five years paid leave from work to raise their children to public school age.

Every idea I can imagine is polarizing.
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Distributed rate limiting is hard. He could hit multiple front ends simultaneously before they have a chance to catchup to the correct counts.
How did the author not quote the metaphor "tying two bricks together won't make them float"?
I agree that running the server on something like Linode can be simpler, I personally have a lot of experience with AWS and I like Elastic Beanstalk, so it would be my default choice.
So a bit of a strongly worded title. I'm going to nitpick for a second.

First you need the device-id, second you need the code that will be sent via text.

The code sent via text is 6 digits meaning 10^6 == 1MM permutations. He shows how he can enumerate these using 1K IP's ultimately bruteforcing the reset code.

The Device ID is still not captured although I'm guessing they allow handwaving via a malicious app or something of that nature.

Credit where credit is due, he cleverly enumerates them concurrently across 1K IP's and earned his bonus.

Interested how they fixed it...guessing adding a random session guid in the url and maybe increasing entropy && length of the secret.
I'd love to see this targeted towards PICs. Really I'd like to just see any modern language targeting low power microcontrollers allowing for optimization of code size or performance. 8-bit processors using a banked memory model are hard for languages with modern (flat) memory models to adapt to.
Noted, but I didn't feel my comment unsubstantive.

The OP comes to America as an immigrant (as did I), makes more money in one year than most American's make in 20. My comment simply put his "problem" into perspective.
Thanks, that was a rereshing read. So many companies do these, sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in tech who hates UI redesigns that don't add or fix any functionality. Moving around and changing the appearance of UI elements is worse than useless, it takes users longer to perform the actions that are the actual reason they use the site.
On the contrary, Common Lisp codebases nowadays are almost annoyingly replete with OOP.
even though I was downvoted to oblivion for my comment (I kind of expected that). I really appreciating someone to go out of their way to bring examples that break the stereotype that you can only be a successful programmer if you are a white male.

I have struggled with this for a large part of my life. Thank you!

I'm also super glad that we're having this conversation. I think it's important that people at-least talk about it and realize that not everyone has the same privilege. Thank you again!
One of the core problems in San Francisco and environs is that there's little room to expand. (In earlier boom times there was a fair bit of land created via fill [1], but that's over now.) So basically, we have to increase density.

One way to do that is to tear down small places and build bigger ones. That's definitely happening, but it's fraught. One less complicated solution is what's know as the in-law, in that maybe it's the kind of place you'd build if you wanted space for your mother-in-law that wasn't in the main house. [2] I've seen a number of these in SF; a lot of lots are relatively long and narrow, so people built a house in front with a back yard behind. Later, they replace some of the back yard with a small apartment.

The Bay Area's the right place to start because in-laws (known officially as ADUs, have recently been made legal. [3] I don't expect this company to make a huge difference, but it definitely looks like a way for everybody involved to make a little money while expanding housing stock, so I'm all for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_area_fill.jpg

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/little-...

[3] http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/AccessoryDwellingUnits...