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I would say that most of America does not care for the vigorous defense of the second amendment but there is one very vocal organization and subgroup that does. It attempts to defend it against any abridgment no matter how minor or what others cite as "reasonable".

The problem isn't the NRA's and gun owners staunch defense of the second amendment it's wondering why people aren't more inclined to defend the fourth amendment. Too many people accept the incremental abridgment of our constitutional protections because they seem "reasonable". Never looking forward to what the long term outcome will be.

Instead of being critical of the tenacity of how the second is defended, tenaciously defending the others would be a good use of energy. Every protection should be fought like the NRA fights gun control, but it's easier point and blame than build up.

NRA expenses $423 million
ACLU budget $235 million

Considering only 43% of US households own guns, and 100% use the 4th amendment we can that there's a huge number of apathetic people for you to motivate instead of tearing down something else.

Go ahead and down vote because it's easier than reading the numbers and doing something. This is why we are in this problem.
The Soviets will walk on Mars within 20 years.
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If you're not used to him, and are coming in 'cold' to watch one of his interviews, then it can be a bit distracting. After a few I think it goes into the background more.
I personally have a set of documents in Google docs that contain snippits and short command line fragments.
Because most of what I like to retain are bookmarks I build my own bookmark application. I have something like 3000 to 4000 bookmarks in there. The application is open source and located on github.
I imported all my Firefox and Chrome bookmarks into it and all github stars, I am planning to add more import abilities at some point... when I have more time...
CBP has been infamous for asserting that the Constitution doesn't apply at all in these border areas. I wouldn't put it past the government to harass this person further, so I don't blame the person for not wanting their name in the public sphere (even still, they might harass him, I'm sure there are enough details in the story for them to identify him).
One shouldn't jump to conclusions and assume the security function is being eliminated.

Positions can be eliminated for a number of reasons. Reorgs, personnel issues, and redundancies are just a few possibilities.

Putting your former employer on blast publicly is a good way to show future employers you might lack judgment.
Thanks, it would be great to cover all these types with common scenarios (like using a hash function, storing something in a database or things that are the most common in programming). If it is a good idea to hide those things then we need a library that does exactly that for Rust. Don't you think?
I've heard this story before, but it sounds absolutely insane and I can't begin to imagine (let alone expect!) that such a thing occurs. Is it really true?
A better marketed PDA with phone capabilities?
My business is in my bio, don't want to link it here. Pays about the same as my previous job at Microsoft did, but with a lot less involvement — I haven't touched the main code in about a year now. I probably spend about two or three hours a week on customer support, that's it, really. No marketing spend, all word-of-mouth and Google.

The idea came about when I wanted to post to Instagram, but the API didn't allow it. So I spent about a week trying to automate the process using a phone, with screenshot OCR and a state machine. After a lot of messing around with it, I had a working prototype. Made a website, added a $5/month Stripe plan to see if people were willing to pay for it, sent it to a few friends, posted it on Twitter, and eventually, people signed up and tried it out. It worked, then it didn't work, then I fixed it, then it worked again, this went on and on for a few weeks until it became quite useable.

About two months in, local offices of Toyota and Samsung signed up, and they loved it, money wasn't an issue. That was the moment I realized it may be worth doing it properly.

It grew organically, and I bought lots and lots of Android phones, which are simple workers getting jobs off a queue, and host them in two locations roughly. Phones last for about two years, then I buy new ones (<$100 a phone). Each phone pays for itself in less than a month, server costs are less than $200 a month.

Facebook tried to sue me after I filed for a trademark, we figured it out (I rebranded). Been going steady ever since, but I consider it to be shut down by yet another Instagram move sooner or later. But I said that after 3 weeks of running it, and it's been almost five years I think.

I made it a point to not use any private Instagram APIs, like all my competitors did — instead, I don't emulate the Instagram app, I emulate the person tapping the phone, and use only the official app for it. I think that let me survive this long.
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Interesting. Looks like the reimplementation followed a different strategy. Makes me wonder if a C rewrite of the Python script would be even faster.
How many copies do you own?
> Browsers are already doing too much (see Chrome's built-in malware scanner), and with complexity come additional security issues.

That does seem like a common feeling people have. Do you feel your OS is also doing too much as well?

> what are the chance that this won't be used for tracking somehow?

Are you referring to Browser vendors tracking people or Websites? Surely there will be Websites using this for tracking, they use everything they can. The same is true for apps in App Stores, such a shame.
A E/A-18G has a unit cost of $68M, so if they bought one for every pilot of one, and it saved 1 plane, they are ahead just on cost of equipment.
People typically write NES emulators in their spare time, not on a job where others will be expected to maintain their science project.
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Nokia and Sony failure to make an impact on US while the rest of the world was enjoying their Symbian and J2ME handsets.
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Well in the article it clearly states that the age rating discrepancy between Gboard and Fleksy is due to the middle finger emoji.
> Is HN getting product placement rev?

I submitted the story, and I'm certainly not.
I use BookStack that I self host. I use Linuxserver.io's docker image.
I made a dropmark.com account and use it like a private pinterest board. Applies more to my non-web interests though.
I don't believe many of the things the border patrol does is actually intended in law. They like to claim it is, even bring out all sorts of papers, but in reality its stretching the whole idea so far it wraps around space-time. Border inspections were written in the constitution to support finding people who are avoiding duties and tariffs.
There are specific legal exemptions to the 4th amendment for the CBP, allowing them to do searches when crossing the border. The question here is if these exemptions apply, as the person in question was not crossing the border.
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This style of illustration (pastel colors, abstract shapes, etc) has been quite popular lately. Anyone know which designer originally came up with this? Also is there a term for this style of illustration?
That might be a pretty expensive run on a supercomputer
$2k backup instrumentation sounds inexpensive when weighed against the potential loss of personnel, logistics, flight-training hours, airframe, and mission-effectiveness.
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/startups-swarm-to-build-bee...

You could see what this group did / talk to them?
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Who is "We" clickbait man
Not everyone on the internet is American. "Lead" is perfectly decent British English for the beginning of an article and always has been. (Source: I'm a former UK magazine editor.)
Which is funny since they only exist because of the Constitution. So where does it says it doesn't apply to them?
Tell HN: PG&E – Just got a notification in Paradise about another PSPS
9:27 AM PST text message today 10/23/2019

PG&E Safety Alert: To protect public safety, PG&E has turned off or will soon turn off power. More info: pge.com/pspsupdates. Text UNENROLL to unsubscribe.

Previously (repeated 3x)

PG&E Safety Alert: Due to weather forecast, PG&E may turn off power in a portion of our service area. More info: pge.com/pspsupdates. Text UNENROLL to unsubscribe.
Again, I'd have more sympathy if I hadn't been called a cheater myself so many times for shooting the other dude before they shot me.

I don't think most people know how to evaluate who is cheating and who is not, and it's taken as fact that cheaters are rampant so claims of cheating are believed by default.

I'm definitely not saying that cheats don't exist, or that people don't use them. I'm saying the community at large appears to have jumped on the problem as a way to save face. "Oh he beat me, but it's only because he's wallhacking!"
The procedure is mechanical, but understanding why it works is quite a bit harder.
I got this error when running it :

File "fetch.py", line 25
place_raw = requests.get(f'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?plac...)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Alternatively, Target decided to hike wages because they were already planning to cut insurance benefit outlays, softening the blow.
If you don't mind having source or phoning home, SwiftKey.

If you're a CLI poweruser Hacker's Keyboard (FOSS) [1]. There is also Simple Keyboard (FOSS) [2] and there's a bunch of others available on F-Droid.

I do wonder what we should switch to from Qwerty, on mobile specifically. There is, for example, Keybee [3].

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyb...

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmeth...

[3] http://keybee.it/
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I understand it’s a difficult choice to leave the play store, but you’re playing by their rules, their game and in their own field. They can do whatever they want because they’re google.
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I am not making a judgement on if this was good or bad, either way, as we do not have all the facts (especially as the border patrol declined to comment, so we only have one side).

On the other hand, I think the headline and the tone of the article definitely want me to judge this as "bad" on the part of the border patrol.
Indeed, I strongly believe in personal privacy and due process.

However, there is a fact buried in the article that makes this a non-routine pickup indeed:

"""He was asked for his identification in order to pay the small duty fee for his daughter’s gifts, and only then realized that he’d left his wallet at home. When he explained this, that he’d made an honest mistake and wanted only to pay the routine duty owed and depart, he was told that in fact he wasn’t permitted to leave."""

So again, I agree in general that the privacy protections afforded to U.S. citizens are very important; but, I am not so surprised after reading this that things went sideways.

It seems to me, many government agencies and employees are used to things going a certain way, and as soon as something unexpected happens, they clamp down and things can get a lot more serious.

A few years ago I was flying domestically between two states, and the fancy bomb detection thing flagged me. Of course, I wasn't carrying anything remotely explosive. Nonetheless, I was taken to a back room with a supervisor and two regular homeland security agents. I was told this time they would search my bag and scan me again. If it came back negative, I would be free to go. If it came back positive, they would conduct a strip search. Thankfully, it came back negative.

I nearly missed my flight, it was incredibly terrifying in the moment, but I didn't feel like my rights were violated. According to the agents, the most likely cause was that I had used hand sanitizer prior to getting in the security line.

Back to the article -- personally, I'm very interested in the results of the court proceedings, but unclear how to keep track of them.
How well do these LCDs operate in the cold?
Facebook is fighting for its user's privacy in India at its top court
Yes I think the snarky 'bad way Java does this' (ie implement the base interface entirely and call into HTTPClient from the outside) is actually a lot safer.
Try the archive.is one I just added. Those usually work.
Fun game! I found it seems to be the best tactic to not shoot at all and just observe the bots from the side lines, they kill themself most of the time by bounching into the wall. And they seem to learn from the winner/player that means if you do not shoot them, the newer versions do shoot you either, or is that just me? Additionally I played around by teaching them useless actions like just playing sitting duck and randomly bumping into each other.
You are the one making those claims as otherwise it weakens the iOS über all assertion.

N95 was just one example of the millions of Symbian, J2ME and PocketPC/WindowsCE smartphones being shipped before iOS became reality.

Nokia's revenue only collapsed due to the way Elop drove the company to the ground as means to get the bonus on his contract. As the Finn press later discovered.
Keyboard shortcuts are completely configurable in many Linux desktop environments. I use XFCE, where I simply open up Keyboard settings to edit them.

On my laptop that has a Synaptics touchpad that supports advanced gestures in Windows (with 2, 3 and 4 fingers), I was also able to get them to work under Linux with very little trouble and with complete configurability - I can assign any gesture to any action.
In recent PSPSes, they didn't send notifications about the possibilities of or the imminence of the power shutoff. They were turning off the power here during the night/early morning between around 11 pm - 3 am.
The fact that CBP can do whatever they want without a need to produce any justification is a red-flag already. I wonder if there are precedents of successfully suing them for something like this.
Yeah, I also agree that databases are a lot more about database internals (or DBMSs).

Not sure if I would agree with splitting databases into separate courses. I think it's a lot more useful to learn about general concepts like concurrency and memory/storage management by understanding how other systems (like OSs) handle it. For concurrency, systems courses should give students a taste of the various concurrency techniques. Then the more theoretical courses like parallel computing can give a more unified and mathematical view.

I think the current state of courses already meshes pretty well:

Real Systems| Theory of Computer Systems

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Networks ⇘

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Operating Systems ⇒ Concurrency/Parallel/Distributed Computing

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Databases ⇗⇘

-------------- Programming Languages

Compilers ⇒⇗

My main gripe about databases courses is that they are often way too out-of-date:

* No mention of LSM trees, which are probably a bit more important than ISAM.

* Tons of time spent on 2PL, deadlocks, and strict serializability, without any mention that mainstream database systems generally default to Read Committed and use MVCC.

* ARIES - At least the course I took spent so much time on outdated cost optimization, concurrency control techniques and then just mention a single, very complicated yet important durability technique at the end. This isn't even that young of a technique anymore (1992) and there are tons of variants which are probably a bit more important to understand than all of the 2PL variants.
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Something like this would be the right way to do social media and networks, and it would never be allowed to work.

Ideally, I would own my data and I could just bid the social media providers I want to host my data. I could pick one, or several, and I could pick free providers with ads or pay for a premium provider with no ads and other benefits. I could also host the data myself, and messages, posts, friend requests, and updates would travel from service to service via standard protocols. Each user would have a cryptographical identity that would be unalterable across different services; of course you could create many of them, such as one for your work-self, one for your personal self, and one for your hobby/forum discussion/spare time self.

This would reduce social media companies into mere infrastructure carriers. Even telcos talked themselves out of it, I can't imagine social media companies to want anything except own us.
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They may want to quit, but feel they can't because their spouse, parent or someone else wouldn't approve. They may want to do something else, but not have the energy and mental focus after working all day to successfully start something else.

I spent years trying to figure out how to make money in an entrepreneurial fashion. As long as it was a side gig while I was a homemaker or corporate employee, I couldn't figure it out. It was a different mental model from what was paying my bills and I couldn't figure out what on Earth I was doing wrong.

I figured it out once I quit and needed the money to literally eat. I still don't make tons, but it's no longer just completely mystifying and unsolvable.

Jeph Jacques, author of Questionable Content, was fired and had a part-time web comic. He began selling tshirts via his web comic to help make ends meet while job hunting. A year later, he was being supported full-time by his comic and had stopped job hunting.

Years ago, one article claimed that he was the highest paid web comic artist in the world.

It's good to be sensitive to the fact that being fired can be devastating. But it isn't always.

You need to find objective performance metrics for when it makes sense to let them go. You can't give them endless second chances.

That doesn't actually work for either party. It convinces bad actors that their current performance and behavior is acceptable.

That actively makes their future worse by denying them information concerning what it takes to meet the standard. Not firing them because you feel sorry for them implicitly says "Your performance is sufficient."

If the truth is that they are only keeping the job because you feel sorry for them, you aren't doing them any favors. You are lying to them about what adequate performance involves.

Coddling people actively cripples their professional and personal development. If they are "a charity case" that you are helping because you feel sorry for them, it's better to literally give them charity rather than give them the message that their shitty performance constitutes adequate job performance.

That just creates monsters with an excess sense of entitlement who believe they are better than they really are. It doesn't foster excellence.

It's hard enough to see yourself clearly without being de facto lied to in that manner.

It's also a huge disservice to those people who are actually earning their way. It will not be lost on them that they get less for more virtue. This is a recipe for mutiny.
HSAC!WDTK?DTKT??LFO! perhaps?
Almost nobody is hiring rust devs right now.
I find that it's not actual rain that's the problem, but the risk of rain. I hardly every get wet on my commute, but if it says 60-70% chance of precipitation, then that may prevent some people.

I find it handy to simply have a pannier with my rain gear:

* https://www.rei.com/c/cycling-jackets

* https://www.rei.com/c/cycling-tights-and-pants

It's not heavy, though a bit bulky, and if it does actually start coming down, one can just pull over and put it over one's regular clothes. If you can, try to ensure that whatever over-gear you get says "breathable": wearing the equivalent of a garbage bag reduces comfort.

I personally wear the funny-looking cycle attire as well, but that's because I like to pedal hard to get some cardio (instead of going to the gym). If you pedal at a slower pace then you may not work up a sweat--at least not after ~2 weeks once you're in better shape.
> The fog inside the aircraft iced over the instrument panel, forcing the pilot and electronic warfare officer to use a Garmin watch to keep track of their heading and altitude […]

The obvious question is: Why does the instrument panel have this failure mode, and is issuing Garmin watches really the best fix?
What if you don't need generic images?

If you want illustrations that add value to your business, how can you hire the illustrator or designer to do a custom job? It is not clear if the site lets you do this—which would be great.
> same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity.

Currently at a much greater cost in time and space, which is why they are saying "can be performed" not "has been performed".

> we expect that with additional refinements the classical cost of the simulation can be further reduced

Any such refinements would be certainly interesting to see, as they would probably be very hard won.
> Intellectual property is no different than any other sort of property.

Is this rhetorical or literal?
testosterone is highly variable even at the individual level to the point that I think this particular metric would difficult to implement.

Before the higher level of testing, there were plenty of rumors that fighters would overtrain (or cycle on steroids) to the point of plummeting their testosterone levels to be given a TRT exemption. By the time their baseline levels recovered by fight day, they could still be on TRT
A question: why does a keyboard need a PEGI rating?

Should python 3.5 have a PEGI rating? How about vim?
Keep it stupid, keep it simple.

I use Markdown + KaTeX to render math and code. I keep everything in files.
I came to say something similar, but targeted at the quoted paragraph below.

> If Kafka isn’t going to be a universal format for queries, what is it? I think it makes more sense to think of your datacenter as a giant database, in that database Kafka is the commit log, and these various storage systems are kinds of derived indexes or views. It’s true that a log like Kafka can be fantastic primitive for building a database, but the queries are still served out of indexes that were built for the appropriate access pattern.

A wonderful insight!
My wife updated her macbook to Catalina the other day and suddenly has low disk space errors popping up all the time. She stores no big files and does nothing on the laptop but school work. Turns out it created a new encrypted disk partition containing all of her personal data, and somehow it kept adding disk snapshots multiple times per day. After some research, it seems that this is a known problem! I had to disable Time Machine and do some kind of tmutil command, then delete the recent snapshots. All that and she still has very little disk space. These are the kind of shenanigans I’d expect from Microsoft, not Apple, where everything is supposed to “just work”. I’m disappointed that Apple has released such a buggy OS update. Not even the Linux distros I use have been this buggy.
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True, though I do think it's worth looking for connections between the two. A rail trail running through an area could form a good route for many different short commutes all along its length. If it's all rural, then sure - there's unlikely to be any overlap. If it connects populated areas, then subsections are likely to be multi-purpose.

That's the case for a lot of the trails in my state - there are big, rural, rail trail loops, but the suburban/urban connections to the routes are excellent commuting corridors.