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> This entire editorial is essentially content free. The only point it makes is to summarize Facebook's shortcomings

Nah. They made the point that dating apps in particular collect a lot of deeply personal info, that Facebook is using it as an opportunity to merge data from your Instagram and Facebook accounts, that dating profiles will be separate from Facebook profiles.

But most importantly, this is an opinion piece.

It logically points out that letting Facebook be your dating app is a bad idea if you value your privacy.

And how could you make that point more effectively than by listing Facebook's record on privacy?
Hmm, interesting concept. I’m curious about what led to creating this
hilarious :)
"unexpected bit of rationality" may be my favorite turn-of-phrase describing a government.
"I was thinking of quitting the software industry" ... I had this though several times the first 10 years of my career then I realized it's foolish and no other industry have the same benefits (salary, super easy to find a job anywhere in the world, be my own boss, start several businesses without money)
Also absolutely no one I know in the industry ever left it!
Sounds like he's way too considerate, polite or sensitive, trying his best to not disturb others.

Improving this style of interaction may be a matter of showing/proving that you really don't mind a more blunt approach, and in fact prefer it.
BART police hiring up, overtime down, as department tackles rising crime
cherry picked? yes and no.

These are both hugely influential policy think tanks which hire experts. They both have hugely differing views on the economy.

Or is providing evidence to support a claim now 'cherry picking' to be dismissed? And if so, aren't you proving my point?
My understanding is that getting rid of waste heat is one of the main factors that limits how much power you can get out of an electric motor for any length of time. Less heat means you can get up a long steep hill without overheating (or causing the electronics to back off on the motor amperage to avoid damage).
> that is fairly non-sensical on an electric car given that they don't have turbochargers

Lots of things have had "turbo" terminology over the years.

- PCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Boost

- Video games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_II_Turbo%3A_Hyp...

- Folk music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo-folk
I know that the apps in the Mac App Store are sandboxed. I trust Apple to handle my financial information. I know I can download the app on as many computers as I want, and share the purchase with my family. I can see reviews before I buy.

Unfortunately, most apps that I use aren't distributed through the Store, and I sympathize with developers who try to avoid it. Most of the apps that do get published tend to be really low quality, often repackaged open source software.

I don't think it's likely that an App Store-only future will come to pass. As Apple has locked down macOS over the past decade, they've always left an escape hatch for advanced users. And iOS has been loosening up little by little.
The room can be any polygon, including shapes where there are walls occluding other walls from the candle's light
You may be imagining a simple room. There are lots of polygonal rooms (with non mirror walls) where a candle in the center leaves dark areas.

It's not obvious (to me anyway) that it's impossible to construct a sufficiently pathological room of mirrors such that there is at least one dark corner.
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To help people understand why this theorem is surprising, first rephrase it from “the candle lights the entire room (bar a finite number of points)” to “the candle can be seen from any position in the room (bar a finite number of positions)”

Next, don’t think of “room”; that puts your mind too much towards simple, almost convex structures. Instead, think of the a floor of a building where all doors are removed.

For example, take the ground floor plan of the Pentagon, with its myriad of rooms and corridors, with all doors removed, and replace all walls by perfect mirrors. Is there a spot to place a candle so that it or it’s reflection, reflection of a reflection, etc. can be seen from all locations in the pentagon, bar a finite number? The theorem says there is.

Now, feel free to make it harder: add back the doors, but don’t completely close them, keeping a rational angle with the walls the door opening is in. Feel free to make the angles as small as you like.

Next, place room dividers wherever you want, as long as they are perfect mirrors, form rational angles with the walls, and don’t completely close of some room or corridor in the Pentagon.

Do you think you’ll be able to completely shield of at least one room, wherever that candle is placed? If so, you’re mistaken.
The us is still one of the most free countries in the world and people literally risk death to come here. Our government is not even close to the imperialist Roman empire.

A closer comparison would be the EU and the fall of it (Brexit).
This is a pattern with Google and they continue to get away with it. Just plain horrible
As programmer becomes more proficient at work in things like language syntax, api's, library and algorithms, the usage of googling will go down, as it becomes distraction, instead of helping in doing a programming task quicker.

Screening and interview selection is driven by need. If one needs a subject matter expert in specific area, it does make a sense to test the person's familiarity with subject without googling.

It also helps to test Duning-Kruger effect. [1]

But this is wrong to assume that googling is bad. Being able to search, assimilate and effectively use information (by book or Google), is also a very important skill in itself.

I feel doing a test to figure out if the person has understood some common data structures and algorithms is good to see how a person approach and solves the problems, since programming is still an inherently logical puzzle solving.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
The clue is the this thread title.
A space elevator needs to be anchored in geostationary orbit at about 36,000k altitude, which isn't possible with available materials.

This article talks about a cable from geostationary orbit to the moon.

That still leave the ground-to-geostationary part for conventional lifters.
Do you live in Oregon or NJ? Was wondering if your opinion applies to self serve gas stations also (it's ok if it does or doesn't, just more food for thought). This can also extend to changing your own oil, or doing your own landscape work, cleaning house, etc.

Personally I hate having to use the self checkout (typically stores lately have only had one cashier open, with 20 people in line). Especially if I have a larger cart of groceries. A handful of items is fine, as it strikes a balance of (in)convenience and speed of checkout.

In fact, there are many things I hate about shopping -- you have to first put items in your cart, then take them out of the cart and put them on a belt, then put the bags back in the cart, take them out again to put them in your car, then take them out again at home, and finally put everything away. This is why I now shop at a local grocery store that doesn't use the conveyor belt, instead the cart goes right up to the cashier and they take it directly out of the cart, then put bagged items directly in another cart lined up on the other side.
(as an aside, "that learn to code" jeer to journalists - without whom democracy can't exist - is disgusting)

Implying that journalism has no value and people should mechanically make.. accounting software apps for a large organisation instead of uncovering and presenting information about those in power is hideous.

It's no surprise that Trump supporters are all over it.
There are some unintended side effects of self checkout lines you’re not considering that in my experience make them considerably (>2x) faster. They self select for people who have fewer items, are competent at using the machine, and are incentivized to be quick. Check outs manned with people are always slammed with customers with piles of groceries and even the express lane is staffed with a person who has no incentive to scan quickly.
> If it was so trivial, why didn't anyone find it before? The source is open. PZ only found it after finding these sites exploiting it.

No; as the first sentence states, Project Zero found this independently:

> This exploit chain is a three way collision between this attacker group, Brandon Azad from Project Zero, and @S0rryMybad from 360 security.

(For what it's worth, this ended up in a jailbreak too, and has its own blog post: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/01/voucherswap-e...).

> Unused code is not uncommon. The point is, all software has bugs; but there's no way Google can no what QA iOS goes through, and to pretend it's nothing is ridiculous.

It isn't uncommon, but it is clear that the code was not QA'd, for the reasons given in the article: trying to call this method would instantly panic the kernel (which is easy to triage–you don't even have to have much knowledge of the iOS QA process to guess that).
All threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thetruesize.com
Additionally the MS and MX interiors are starting to get a bit dated compared to the ultra-sleek Model 3’s interior - the MS’s interior design is still fundamentally unchanged since 2012. They did upgrade the infotainment system in early 2018 though, but that’s invisible to users who don’t notice smoother framerates.
Make it open source and sell consulting / customizations around it :)
EBS. S3 is much better:

> Amazon S3 Standard, S3 Standard–IA, S3 One Zone-IA, and S3 Glacier are all designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of objects over a given year.
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> what's the advantage (to anyone) of hanging back?

It might just be me, but driving at night on rural roads is much more pleasant when you’re behind a car that’s travelling at the same speed and route. Having someone follow is much worse, with headlight glare being irritating.
I understand your sentiment. I'd like to add the fact that the original Tesla was a two-speed, or perhaps it was the original design for the Model S, but they scrapped it for simplicity IIRC.
Uber has long term aspirations, but it is barely a tween on the scale of long-term companies. It's still unproven in the long term to serve as a good example.
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I've often wondered about how to deal with a future where there is a lack of lower skilled work. After all, half the population is below the median when it comes to skill, IQ, or self motivation.

I'm thinking that future education will need to focus more on teaching kids self motivation skills, and coping skills for picking up whatever is needed for the future workplace. Some people have no problem with learning new things, but for others it is a major chore.
The first programming language I learned was BASIC, using the (quite obscure) Z-BASIC environment. I put a lot of wear on the reference manual, and had many page numbers memorized.
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Seems to me the organization is decentralized, but the CCC is centralized. Sounds military-esque, until you realize that in book "Team of Teams" General McChrystal makes a case of decentralized bottom up faster acting organizations.
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If it's _actually_ run by employees who volunteer that'd be cool, but my personal experience of service industry work is that you are are volunteered to do something or you are volunteered to be unemployed.

Impossible to know unless some WH employees actually weigh in.
You might ask why there is an anti-tech sentiment.

Most of the big tech companies are ruthless monopolies which are exploiting people with deeply addictive apps, hoovering up every tiny detail of their lives, and selling it to advertisers while also frequently losing that information to hackers, and being used by autocratic foreign governments to swing elections to candidates that suit their purposes.

So it's right that there's an anti-tech sentiment, and it's right that privacy concerns are reported on.
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I actually went and read part of there post history and

"My wife lost the diamond in her wedding ring and we were talking about getting it replaced. I have two daughters in their early 20s and they were aghast at the idea..."

So make that 8+!
I doubt anybody has ever issued a "real" (Web PKI) leaf certificate (leaves are the edge of the tree, the certificates presented by TLS servers this work connected to) for 21 years let alone 30.

Back in 2011 when the Baseline Requirements were first written, they set 60 months (5 years) as the upper limit, with the intent to further restrict to 39 months in a few years and that eventually happened in 2015 or so.

Last year 39 months went down to 825 days and there's currently pressure to reduce it further in 2020.

Note that it's not just self-signed certs you'd be considering, many of the certs in this dataset will be issued by a CA but not a public CA. Could be an internal CA (e.g. Windows Server provides software to run one, so does RHEL) or could even be one of the private-use-only CAs run by the same companies that operate public CAs.

There were about half a million certs in that dataset issued by SomeOrganization with email address root@localhost.localdomain. Not technically self-signed, but obviously that's not a public CA.
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> charging network

The charging network available to the Taycan is the combination of different CCS charging network providers. They've been doing roaming deals with each other to simplify charging for their users. For example, Electrify America has roaming agreements with EVgo and ChargePoint:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/evgo-electrify-america-ch...

Road trips don't seem to be a problem in the Taycan. 408 miles, one 24 minute stop for charging:

https://www.carscoops.com/2019/09/porsche-taycan-makes-408-m...
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The tire wear for repeated 3s 0-60 must be enormous.
It seems to me that the amount of lighting in the room will depend on (1) the luminosity of the candle, and (2) the interior volume of the room. Add all the mirrors you want, but you're not going to light a large area with one candle because you don't have enough light.
someone this close minded would likely not be considering electric in the first place (and would probably whine about porches being mostly v6 and not v8/10/12)
USCIS has quite a bit of information here: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...
> comes mated to a motor with a maximum power rating of 140 kW

Is that a typo? The Chevy Bolt and Hyundai Kona both have 150 kW motors, and Teslas start above 200 kW.
There’s almost no chance Tesla is going to get anywhere near the Taycan. There’s been a few professional drivers who’ve given it a shot and breaking 9 minutes has been a challenge. For context, that’s the same lap time as a Mazda MX-5.

There’s almost zero chance Elon is going to find another 1:20 with the existing Model S. Just not going to happen.

https://youtu.be/Dphw4km60m4
In this context I think they are the same.
How useful you find the ratings on sites like that really depends on how close your taste is to that of its reviewers on average.

In my own case the IMDB Top 250 list is about 50/50 hit or miss. I strongly disagree with many of the high ratings for "classic" and "great" movies on that site and many others. But apparently many other viewers love that stuff and hate many of the movies I love. So my taste is pretty different from theirs.

Even when I find people with tastes close to mine there are still movies we strongly disagree on. There used to be a website called YMDB which let you enter in your top 20 favorite movies and would match you with people who had similar lists. That was a very useful site for finding new movies to watch, but even when I'd find people with lots of my favorite movies on their lists, they'd still tend to have some movies which I absolutely hated on there too.

So it's very hard to find people who's tastes are absolutely identical and whose judgment in films, books, or whatever you can absolutely rely on. But if their tastes are close to yours then the likelihood of them recommending something you'd like increases compared to some random review site like IMDB, Amazon, Goodreads, Rotton Tomatoes, or whatever.

This is why I really pay absoultely no attention to the Oscars, Pulitzer Prizes, and other awards. They're popularity contests among people whose tastes I don't share or trust. The winners might as well be random.

I much more value of the opinion of a trusted friend whose tastes I share.

Something else that's useful is subreddits on small, obscure genres of literature I like and blogs on obscure authors I like. The more obscure the better, as the usefulness of such sites tend to decrease the more popular the subject matter is and the more people contribute to them. Then the law of averages kicks in and the odds of getting poor recommendations increases.
No offense but it seems like neither you nor the person you replied to actually know what the "learn to code" meme was about. It was a moment where the tables had turned on journalists who had told coal miners and the like to just learn to code after being put out of their jobs.

You have to remember, journalists aren't babies and you don't need to stand up for them as if they are, especially without knowing any context.
Please keep your conversations with imaginary people to yourself. There are actual comments here from actual people you can respond to if you’re interested in participating.
As a father, support of the mother takes lot more work when she's taking care of newborn than a 3 year old. As a mother, a newborn is certainly a lot more difficult, if not more physically taxing, than a 3 year old. Also, it takes months for the mother to recover from birth trauma.
My thinking was that it would be similar to a GPG trust network.
Close minded? Huh. You won’t find a CVT in anything but a budget economy vehicle. If you want performance, you don’t want a CVT. If you want to prioritize efficiency over everything else (including reliability), a CVT is fine.
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> As programmer becomes more proficient at work in things like language syntax, api's, library and algorithms, the usage of googling will go down, as it becomes distraction, instead of helping in doing a programming task quicker.

This has been the opposite of my experience. Earlier in my career there was a lot more "sit and think about how to assemble these basic building blocks." Now it's a lot more "man, it would be nice if complex object A could play well with complex object B, I wonder how to make that work and what the pitfalls are." I'm googling different things than I used to, sure, but pretty much any task I'm tackling at this point involves a fair amount of googling for docs, github issues, stack overflow, etc.
I worked in WSL for a week. Then Microsoft decided to automatically reboot my system while I was sleeping. I lost a weeks worth of work.

WSL is cute but it is a toy. Microsoft doesn't value your work. Stick with a real linux distro. My linux boxes all have uptimes of hundreds of days, since our last full day power outage.

Props to the WSL team. They made such a nice toy.
In the birding world there's a thing called pishing. If you get it right you're basically alerting them to predators in the area and they come by to see what's up (and potentially mob the predator if need be). Great for taking pics.

[1] https://www.thespruce.com/pishing-to-attract-birds-386698
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Thanks, although I must admit I'm having some trouble following your logic.

IIUC, you're pointing out that when examining the empirical data gathered during an experiment, it's often possible to find some identifiable subset of the data that are consistent with a refined version of the original hypothesis. E.g., maybe jellybeans in general don't correlate with acne, but green ones do.

Assuming that the experiment is part of a larger effort to build or refine some model, I don't see the problem.

Suppose that someone refrained from p-hacking during the first run of that experiment. IIUC, they'd look at the experimental results, and wonder if they had missed some "X" factor. So they might conject that jellybean color was relevant, and rerun the experiment with the hypothesis, "consumption of jellybeans, but only of a particular color, correlates with acne." And (assuming sample sizes were big enough), the data gathered during that second experiment would likely confirm that green jellybeans correlate with acne.

But what's the point of having run that second experiment, when they could have just reached the same conclusion by testing additional hypotheses from the first experiment's data?

It seems like regardless of whether you just ran one experiment and did "p-hacking", or instead ran a follow-on experiment, you end up with the same refinements to the model you're working on.
You have a good point that the standards could be different for individuals vs organizations.

My point is simply that Grandma shouldn’t go to jail or be punished because she got hacked and a hacker made her pay to get her grandkids photos back. If you’re saying we shouldn’t let state governments do the same I think that’s reasonable.
> Perhaps the Waffle House is just a well-run company?

Forgive me for sounding cynical but I'm going to play Devil' Advocate and ask: Are they well run, or opportunistic?

In an area hit by disaster any mom & pops are likely going to be slower to reopen. They have to wait for the insurance company. They have to worry about the homes and family. Etc.

WH on the other hand can finance themselves while they wait for the insurance cheque. The out of town employees don't have local home and local family worries. Etc.

WH might be well run. But they might also simply be in the best position to rise to the top in disaster areas.
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< I’ve built plenty of forms in React but couldn’t remember how onSubmit worked >

Amen.Been there done that.
> I've never understood the cynical way certain people view EA from the outside.

Then you haven't been paying attention. I'm a gamer, so I see the criticisms all over the place.

> EA is a large business (~30B market cap) and subject to the same sorts of challenges of any business at that scale.

There are plenty of entertainment companies with much larger market caps that have succeeded without relying on getting children to gamble.

> From my perspective EA is a federation of mostly autonomous studios trying to "find the fun" in an increasingly competitive entertainment landscape.

Replace "find the fun" with "find the money", and completely scratch out anything to do with autonomy, and you'd be correct.

> Even if you manage to create a compelling core experience, bringing that to market is a challenge even at EA's scale.

The vast number of successful indie developers would like a word with you.

Honestly, your comment just reeks of being out-dated. Everything you said may have been true 20 years ago. In the 90's, I would have considered EA to be a respectable studio. But today? They're the most anti-consumer company out there, even worse than Comcast.