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Option seems simple, don't give them a choice in the matter. Say we're building X, it will be done to improve public transit.
You'd think that with all his billions, Zuckerberg would buy himself a spine and tell the AG to fuck off. We keep having this debate because law-enforcement types won't be happy until they can monitor your thoughts in real time. You expand their powers even a little, and the next day they're clamoring for more. And it's always the same excuses: preventing terrorism or protecting children.

Well, I don't see the Feds cracking down hard enough on homegrown fascist groups, and I would be happy if Bob Barr's kids or grandkids were locked in a dungeon and made to sit in their own filth Omelas-style if it meant we'd have strong crypto for everyone.
Those are other people's children.

The reptilian brain will respond differently to children from different cultures on the other side of the world. I understand the logic behind your argument but policy isn't driven by logic.
> - Play politics. A lot. Especially throwing other people under the bus.

That's a gun with one bullet. If you use it, you better use it wisely, cause there are no takebacks if you miss.
Do they? Shit, I thought that they’d set things up that sharing the key was extremely difficult if not impossible without access to the device? That’s disappointing if true, is there a good article on this?
I'd like to contrast with the other responses here by offering my suspicion that Apple is cooperating with governments to quietly swap out keys for users upon receiving a court order. It would explain why Skype was banned by China and iMessage was not.
> When companies advertise these systems, I wonder how many people feel they can pay less attention while driving.

> I also wonder what's up with their QA testing. This stuff could use some chaos engineering thrown at it.

When you're improving on nothing, everything is an improvement. That is, until marketing hears about it and starts hyping the hell out of it, and then then it's worse than nothing. This is true for all features, not just safety features.

I doubt QA was asked to evaluate how the technology compared to the marketing.
I've stayed in them several times, they're great. They're incredibly warm in winter and central heated, they're in park like areas with playgrounds and schools in between them.

For the climate of Russia apartments are good solutions, and having them set in clusters with excellent public transport links and their own set of services it's actually superior to a lot of western suburbs where kids can no longer walk to school because of the distances and dangers and have no playgrounds or limited family facilities.
What is systemd being replaced by?
Why HDCP support in Weston is a good thing
Exactly. We would be better off disrupting the BS of air travel then building out train networks. I've often dreamed of a world that comes to its senses and realizes that adding all the extra bull to flying hasn't done any good and there was a consistent effort to eliminate it all.

Imagine if flying was as easy as getting on a train or bus. Buy a pass. Sign up for a slot on a flight online. Show up DIRECTLY to the gate (your are pre-cleared by TSA and AI verified your face on exit of the vehicle). Someone else or some automated car mover parks your car, drop your bag off IMMEDIATELY on a conveyor belt and forget about it (let some AI system handle its tracking and tagging), then just board with a valid pass. No lines, no checkin process, no bag tagging, per-screened, no fuss. In your seat within 5 minutes of exiting your car. Similar experience on the backend. You exit, grab your bag quickly (not sure how this would work, mass bag pile or some tech to quickly exfiltrate your bag from the plane), then get on a shuttle to a rental car center or bus/taxi/uber center to wherever you are going. Or some automated car mover retrieves your car from a parking garage and has it ready for you outside. Maybe even has your bags carried by drone to it quickly.
Not really sure how pointing out that Hollywood accounting exists relates at all to my noting that some bonuses are contractually guaranteed. Such as mine, which guarantees an X-Y% of base salary bonus based on my performance.
I'm pretty sure he was already a billionaire when that was taken.
My SQL queries generally start with WITH.

Or they did when I was using Oracle.
I’m really struggling to see how this is counter intuitive? You pick one of the numbers, and if it’s positive you say “this is likely the largest” and if negative “this is likely the smallest”. Since there’s a 50/50 chance for each sign, and all positive numbers are larger than all negative numbers. That already gives you the minimum 1/2 probability they are asking for. But you’ve got an improvement because not only does the other number have to match the sign for you to lose, it also has to be larger in magnitude, and that happens in half the cases where they have the same sign, so that gives you 1/4 extra. You end up being correct 75% of the time.
The thing with a random number in between is just an odd way of reducing your probability of winning by adding randomness to the split, what that’s supposed to show I’m really confused by.

It feels like the “puzzlement” you are supposed to feel that you can beat 50% comes from people ignoring the fact that you can look at the number before making your call.
That is a fascinating question. Mostly because I wasn't around for SOAP. I started my development career kind of with the rise of REST. I've only ever used REST personally, so I couldn't really tell you. Looking up WSDL, I can tell you one thing I've noticed with OpenAPI is that it is both incredibly descriptive, and yet not in the way. I can look at an OpenAPI file, figure out what is going really quickly and get working. With WSDL/XML you have to parse the whole XML schema to really understand what is going on.
Adderall prescriptions are perfectly fine if you need them to treat ADHD or narcolepsy, but it is an amphetamine and should be treated soberly as such. Though addiction with proper medical supervision is known to be low, in recreational and non-therapeutic usage, addiction is significant [0]. Amphetamine addiction is known to not be the most pleasant experience. Withdrawal and relapse cycles are also not very pleasant.

I'd not advise lying to your MDs in order to try to get Adderall. If you feel that your job requires you to fake ADHD or narcolepsy in order to do good work, it's time to find another job. Money will not buy your health back, it will not buy years of your life back, and is not worth a chance (small as it is) at an amphetamine addiction.

Honestly, good sleep, exercise, and eating right are the ways to help you get an edge on the competition. Mostly because no one ever does it. Granted, I take a few cups of coffee in the morning to get going too, so I suppose I am a bit of a hypocrite here. :P

It's not rocket science, faking a disease to score amphetamines is a poor decision.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

https://www.addictions.com/meth/
Yes, I use Git mainly from the command line and I've used it on Linux, OSX and Windows. I've also used quite a few GUIs including SourceTree, Github Desktop and GitKraken. I've been using it for a while now!

In the end it really boils down to a few commands that you use often, checkout/push/pull/commit/clone/branch/diff/status etc. It can definitely get confusing at times when you get merge conflicts and want to start playing with rebasing and stuff like that.

I've used it with teams with no experience with Git whatsoever and they're usually fluent at the basics within a week or so.

If you get stuck the command you need is usually a 2 minute Google away.

There's also this which is fantastically named! https://ohshitgit.com
I agree. I don't care if a company does something directly or outsources the work to someone else, ultimately the company is still responsible for making sure the work is done correctly and ethically.
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> I suppose everyone is partially responsible for understanding the viability of his company and taking that risk in an informed fashion

Nah, I'd say leadership is clearly at fault. Layoffs are pretty much always failures of leadership.
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> - Loyalty is for chumps.

That's simply not true, but ...

- Be loyal to people not things.

- Loyalty is earned, not given out freely.
Care to explain more about the "women are dead weight part"?
A train at M0.8 near ground level? The very first derailing/crash/etc will demonstrate quite well why this is a poor idea. Planes are quite far from anything easily damageable when they go this fast.
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Was gonna say, my Forrester has probably the best visibility of any car I've driven.
I think your point is very important. Forbidding e2e encryption only enables mass surveillance. It does not affect traditional investigative work. There are other existing tools for the job.

Anyone remember the FBI and Apple case a few years back? How quickly the FBI hacked the phone after Apple wouldn't cave? Other tools exist to do targeted surveillance and targeted attacks. Only authoritarians want mass surveillance.
To be even more pedantic, Java's primitive types (int instead of Integer etc.) have this feature. They can't be null.
That's a good point, after WW2 the Soviet Union had the double problem of a rapidly urbanising population and having to rebuild all the destruction. They needed a quick solution and what they chose worked.
No true Scotsman isn't even remotely relevant.

>that doesn’t mean there isn’t a big difference between living on your own or living in your mom’s basement.

Where you live really says nothing about your level of responsibility or self-reliance. I know people who moved out when they were 18, but still depend on their parents for financial support, and I know people living at home who's parents depend on them for financial support.

I know people who live with their families who can grow a significant portion of their own food, and people who live alone who would starve if DoorDash shut down.

And I know people who live with their parents who have children of their own to care for, and people who live alone who have carefully orchestrated their lives to avoid any kind of responsibility to other people.

>And yes, multi-generational living was very common in the past, but so was having 5+ children. That doesn’t necessarily make it a better choice.

Not necessarily, but the converse is also true.

You move out because you desire freedom. You wanted something, so you bought it. Don't frame it as something noble, or inherently superior.
I agree, but many will not. So I figured we should address the central problem: increasing privacy automatically means increasing the ability for people to do whatever they want (that's the whole point). We'd be stupid not to anticipate bad consequences. It's just that the benefits are much greater, and we should be able to argue as much, even on TV in front of a potentially hostile journalist.
Why was it hard to buy desks? Herman Miller is top of the line, but even today at any big box office supply store you can find ~5 ft desk for ~$150. And there's always IKEA for even less.
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> Do you really think it's better to give a kid a good life and then off them at age 10 because something else thinks they taste good? Seems like a pretty simple ethical question: no.

A more appropriate question would be, would you rather live a life in the wild and die from starvation, from a simple infection, or from being mauled to death? Or, would you rather have full accommodation for your entire life, but you get killed at age 35? Or, would you rather not exist at all?

I don't think that question is as simple as you make it sound.

> We could keep some women around and give them great lives as sex slaves.

"Great lives as sex slaves" sounds a bit oxymoronic, doesn't it?

> I could even give my harem a much better life than any animal can experience.

If you can afford it, you can have a harem right now without enslaving anybody, because some women would rather be a prostitute than whatever the alternative is.
The in-car distractions that come factory standard are absolutely ridiculous at this point.

Everyone is such a lazy asshole now that you probably couldn't hope to start moving the needle back in the other direction though. The consequences of ripping out all of these driver 'assist' technologies at this point would probably cause a Mad Max episode to unfold on our roadways every morning.

It's also really sad the impact this has all had on the car market as a whole. The diversity of options has radically diminished in my opinion. Look at 2007 lineups and compare to 2019 lineups. Every car today is just the same goddamn turbocharged V6/I4 with whatever arbitrary body tacked on top. Everything. Ford has what? Like 4 unique chassis now for the consumer market? I think BMW finally got down to monochassis. I bet that higher degree of coupling makes their lives a lot easier, but it makes my experience as a driving enthusiast dull.
Because communism accelerated development and living standards. A lot of the infrastructure is a legacy of this.
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The thing is that LINQ's purpose is not to reinvent SQL. While EF has an adapter which converts LINQ expressions to SQL, you can use LINQ against objects and other sources for which it is incredibly useful. In fact, it's better suited to those tasks as it doesn't map 1:1 with SQL. But as someone who uses EF and LINQ on a daily basis, it is possible to learn how the mapping is performed and get the results you want consistently even in some pretty advanced scenarios.
Who do you think built the roads you drive on?
Energy is usually the way local government raise revenue in argentina. Like exempting Salesforce employees from paying sales taxes. Usually about half the energy cost is taxes.
Yeah, sorry, was over generalizing it. They did make that first-party exclusion for SSO thankfully.
That's the whole point of leadership according to Simon Sinek. Leaders are granted privileges and power and in return must stand by the decisions they have made. Without that they aren't leaders but merely authorities.
Yes, a Code of Conduct can be a good thing. A good CoC is about the outcome, not the action. For instance, a good CoC in software development has things like:

* Write your code for other people who may be up at 3am trying to figure out what's wrong with the logic.

* Be considerate of other ideas, smart people who disagree are usually both correct but differ in benefits and consequences.

* Consider if you are writing beyond the scope of the ticket, no code is easier/faster to debug/understand than no code.

Notice, there are no rules of what to do, but what is attempting to be avoided. Unfortunately, the Western Thinking (TM) (as opposed to Eastern Thinking) asks the question "What is...?" Like:

* What is the correct way to address someone?

* What is the acceptable code style?

* What are the maximum number of lines in a function?

The problem with this thinking is that it ignores outcome and enforces concrete thinking. The irony here being that the goal is to be considerate of people and they are being utterly inconsiderate to the moderator.
I learned Haskell and it's a giant waste of time. I'm not the only one who regrets functional programming either. Since then I vowed never to take things seriously that have zero connection to real world results. It's not possible to regret mastering x86 assembly for example, because even if that skill is relatively useless, it makes you better at many tangential things which can be decidedly useful; C and OS programming for example. Functional programming doesn't have this potential because it (proudly) exists as an abstract model with no connection to the machine or any physical processes for that matter. It's the string theory of computer science.

If you like math/category theory, go deep on the math itself. Your knowledge will be transferable to more than just some man-made story (like a programming language).
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I first heard of WeWork a few months ago. Seemed like just another company (admittedly I did very little to look into it). How is it that this company went from filing for public offering to laying off up to 25% of it's work force (along with a ton of other things I can't think of specifically at the moment) in just a few short weeks?
The headline should point out the train is in a vacuum tunnel.

It’s the same fundamental idea behind Hyperloop One and some of the other Hyperloop-related efforts, although of course the vacuum train concept has been around for a lot longer than since Elon Musk popularized it (And got a bunch of flak for doing so...).
If the CEO is just a glorified salesperson, you definitely want to rethink those stock options.

*cough* Adam Neumann *cough*
None of those other people are operating a machine capable of killing someone.
Right, because the alternative of having a broken user experience for a monotonically increasing set of your users isn’t terrible.
I also think that the people with influence, money and power have created a parallel world that almost has no overlap with the world most other people live in. They live in different areas, go to different schools, have different doctors or can afford the billing insanity in health care, have different career opportunities, don’t use the same air travel, have their incomes rise all the time. They probably really think that things are going great so why invest in or improve infrastructure and pay taxes?
You haven't seen anything yet. Argentina will have another hyperinflation in the next 12 months.
Rode it last year and it was fine. But i’m used to rail high-speed trains, so maybe that’s why i found it perfectly quiet and safe.

Another reason could be that it wasn’t the time of the day when it goes up to max speed ( it only reaches 400km/h on certain time of the day, some days only. other time it’s just 350 or something like that)
systemd vs initd vs upstart. I am pretty sure systemd will be gone soon too as well. Syntax is harder than upstart for example.
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Ask HN: Why do I not read the books I buy?
I have quite a bit of books in my shelf , for eg. 'jquery programming' which I don't need anymore. On the other end I have books like 'art of computer programming' and 'feynman lectures' that are more fundamental and has more life.
I keep buying books, though lesser these days. I am aware that our daily lives and the time we get is becoming lesser to seriously spend on reading.
But I wonder why books exist in their current form? Should they all be in some way connected and presented in a more usable, digestible way that they are our constant guide of knowledge ? May be I am unable to express myself exactly, but feel that knowledge from books should be presented to us or made available more consistently and easily.
Not sure if this is trolling or what, but either way, can someone with more karma please flag this?
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AFAIK large companies have deals with the government and have special units that deal with that type of content (nobody survives longer than 12 months there).

You can get legal datasets for sick pr0n or warzone stuff you would like to keep off-platform that might have the same psychological effect on you.
And likewise, other factors that can be associated with a short lifespan (hunger, disease, violence, etc.) also tend to disrupt sleep.
It’s in a vacuum tunnel. Basically like the Hyperloop One idea.
It's absolutely political. Automated traffic enforcement remains extremely unpopular among Americans, because there's still a cultural expectation that driving should be a relatively unrestricted activity. Until that perception changes, driving and alternate methods of transportation in America are just a form of prisoner's dilemma, where it always makes sense to choose a car.
Disclaimer: current amazon sde

I was shocked at the end of your story that it was Amazon you were talking about, but I'm assuming this story happened at least a few years ago. I know of one friend who was put on a PIP around 2013 or 2014 - he is still with the company, has been trusted to be the technical lead for several large and important projects, and the only thing standing between him and a promotion to L6 is laziness in preparing the paperwork.

Amazon seems to have changed the process to what they call the "pivot program" - when previously you would have been put on a PIP (and given severance if you accepted it and failed it), you are now given the choice of

1) take severance

2) appeal (you will almost certainly lose, I don't have data for this but have heard about many of these appeals and exactly zero have gone in favor of the employee)

3) do the PIP, and if you fail it you are fired with no severance

Given that you are now offered severance as an alternative to a PIP and don't get a penny if you fail it, being put in the pivot program is unambiguously a pink slip. Sad to be reminded that Amazon used to be good at this, I don't think they are anymore
Interesting side note, if the concern is that this end-to-end messaging is being made available through the same service that hosts social profiles - instead of asking the company to please-please-please include backdoors thank-you... maybe, just maybe, it's time to break up a vertically integrated monopoly - when your argument is that their vertical integration is literally a threat to public safety.

This will, of course, never happen because breaking up businesses and consumer protection is verboten and anti-american, but I really wish someone with a big voice could stand up and make this point because it makes them look silly.
Further there are almost no regulations in the US that would prevent the end user from removing or negating the manufacturer supplied pedestrian safety features. People routinely drive massively lifted trucks that would be deadly. Just like tampering with the emissions systems is illegal in some areas so should removing or negating pedestrian safety features.