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Anecdotally: I've found that I now reach for documentation first, coworkers second and stack overflow only as a last resort, where as in past years it used to be the first place I looked. I also find myself more often disappointed with what I do find and leaving the site with the same unanswered question I started out with.
The developer at timestamp "10/21/2019 10:24:14" with 10 years of experience making $85,000 in the US with 0 equity, can you please explain yours situation? ;)
Glad to see the word “meritocracy” used for what it was coined for[1]: a dystopia, while almost everyone nowadays seems to use the word positively.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
If you get the language and intonation right, any message will feel convincing. Even when you know it's fake. Sure, you'd call fake easily enough if the bot suggested voting Democrat, but there's plenty of fun (or serious trouble for democracy) to be had away from the margins. If his new view is only surprising, well, he changes his mind a fair bit.

Now think of it with a politician you know, but not nearly as well as the President.
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It's not. Most people in this thread mistakenly believe that computer science means programming. Wikipedia has a good list of topics that are actually computer science [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
I conjecture specifically that presenceless messaging systems are more dangerous this way, both because of random reward and because of social risks surrounding attention allocation (engendering the default expectation of always-on). If you don't know when the other party is online, you send messages whenever, and sometimes you get rewarded with immediate feedback. Conversely, if you don't know when they're going to message you, then when they do, you might feel like responding right away is “supposed to be” no big deal for you even if it turns out to crowd out other things. IM where people are visibly only signed in when they're probably ready to chat, or telephone calls where both parties are expected to pay attention or hang up, allow conversations to have more explicit closure that releases attention for other activities.
Can only answer for Germany, but yes, here the employer is required to provide for the initial meeting where the first employee committee (Betriebsrat) is elected. This includes rooms, paper etc but in particular informing all employees about the initiative as well as freeing people up during their paid work time so they can attend.
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you're gonna die, bucko! of A,B,..Z., sooner or later. Make it past Y,and Z's gonna get ya. Change my mind!
> but they're absolutely entitled

No, they are not entitled to that. No player broke any laws when they did that. It is fully within anyone's legal right to make political statements, and it is fully within consumers legal right to be upset about whatever they want.
My quip about QR codes was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but any step that can be eliminated should be and there are just better ways to do it. QR codes can also fail in interesting ways, e.g. bright sunlight or cracked screens.

Most QR code based setups were just transmitting wifi credentials in plain text. That's insecure, and it doesn't solve the pairing problem, only the wifi connection. There's actually a fair bit of 2-way data that needs to be exchanged to provide the best experience. And sure, you could start streaming encrypted setup information through animated QR codes, but there's better ways to do it.

Not to mention that we're talking about Wyze cam, which has been filled with hilarious(ly scary) security flaws since day one. Be careful with those things...
I wish we lived in Banks' Culture, where this sort of thing was possible. I'd love to see what it's like to be on the spectrum, or what it's like to be gay, or what it's like to have a body of a different gender, or what it's like to be a bat.
An even more basic point is that most people don't like sourcing, including recruiters. If you try to outsource and/or throw money at a problem to make it someone else's problem, you'll never get close enough to the actual pain points to be aware of them. And when a sourcing superstar does rise above the rest, they will find no one cares to learn what they've learned, let along practice it.
VPNs are advertised a lot on all kinds of YouTube channels. It is reasonable to believe that they have a bunch of customers who know almost nothing about VPNs or the Internet in general.
>Um... yea it does. Elm makes functional composition very easy which which means it's very easy to compose "components" (which are just functions anyway).

It's actually not that easy to write composable components in Elm, and attempting to do this has always been officially discouraged.
Well they must have been hidden from the mapbook and Google maps too, because couldn't find them there either.
As an American I can say that we value human character over wealth. Most true wealthy Americans, those who have more than what they owe and still have a lot left over to to live comfortably are not enamored by money. They are enamored with survival, leaving money behind to their family, and philanthropy. And of course nice experiences (like a good meal and at good restaurant) and a few toys (typically centered around one or two hobbies, way of life). I might be way biased though with my assessment.
>Questions could be moved to the appropiate site, the same way you'd move issues between GitHub repositories.

That is already a thing the sites do.
It's silly to call that a minimal requirement. There's nothing simple about local pairing especially when you need to be concerned about your entire market, what phones they're using, what devices they're using, and how much funding your call center has. Yours seems like a very naive, hindsight is 20/20, comment.
The Vatican made an 'eRosary' to get young Catholics to pray
Genetics actually pass significant personality traits down.

https://www.verywellmind.com/are-personality-traits-caused-b...

Genetics is suddenly very unpopular as it can predict negative traits. Imagine that.
> Yes you can, whether should, is a different question. You can have a ton of mini TEA components.

But can you make parent-child communication with these mini TEA components like in React or Vue? It seems to me that we can't.
The local IP for the OpenVPN endpoint (185.212.149.9 listed in the gist) belongs to creanova.org since 2017.
I work for banks, and I can tell you that when you are doing devops with their "own cloud", you are miles away from a real cloud experience : no os choice, no hardware choice, slow provisioning, no access to repo, low and inconstant virtual disk (EBS) speed... I guess that you get what your paied for, and maybe the 2B saved on cloud are spend on IT service that suffer from such a poor own cloud experience. If they have 50 000 IT employees payed 100k, that's 5b a year. Including professional services and you are maybe at 10b. Just increase the productivity of this 10b by 20% and the money "saved" is not such a good deal...
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This seems to assume that the only goal here is to piss off Blizzard.

Doesn't it seem likely that GP is also trying to support the hong kong protestors...
1. Interestingly enough, Richard Feldman's elm-spa example is composed of a lot of different TEA components.

2. I think the boilerplate is good in making things explicit.
Looks like the site fell over.

Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20191021142028/www.nikobell.ca/t...
All of them (AWS, GCP, Azure) are priced outrageously compared to high quality, well peered, bandwidth.
The problems of shared mutable state and how to avoid them
Use keepass. It's an encrypted db with great mobile and desktop clients. Problem solved.
Sounds exactly what is Tahoe-LAFS for.
Bank of America should really not brag about the quality of the software it makes based on its consumer website. Maybe they should consider spending more.
Samsung Scraps Linux on DeX (No Linux on Samsung Phones Running Android 10)
Evasive bosses: mining their language
Not an app, but Chromecasts have 8.8.8.8 hard coded.
Also, if you haven't noticed, the Aztecs were historically very violent people. If you look at the people of middle america, it's no surprise they are still violent today.

This happens when you have societies that do not adequately punish violence. Societies that reward violence will most certainly produce more violence.
Language changes. Hackers generally aren't "people who use things in unintended ways" anymore either, but evil criminals on computers.
Redesigning Yelp for Apple Watch with SwiftUI
We'll have to let god balance that out on the scales of morality when I reach the pearly gates someday.

There's a lot of good and bad that came out of Dropcam but I think it's been mostly good. Lives saved, murderers in jail, happy moments captured that would otherwise have been lost.

Plus, we had every intention of improving this aspect, and I'm even commenting unpaid on the internet to put as much pressure as I can on Google to follow through on that!

nest created a great ux helping expand use to unsophisticated consumers

Thanks for the compliment though. Maybe god will pardon those who create good UX. :)
My biggest inspiration was https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/

I just started my own Gitbook wiki https://wiki.emadkhan.net/ and whenever I synthesize all this raw data with some insights I want to share, I'll blog about it at http://www.emadkhan.net/
> amazing achievement.

Don't give me too much credit - it took me a little over three years to get through all three of them.
How do you spend that much on software and have such an abysmal usability and security story? I don't think there is anything technically difficult about the consumer software they offer, namely https://www.bankofamerica.com/.
How about just sending Freedom Of Information Act request to the NSA asking them for a copy of your data. I think this is a joke...
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We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamebait. If you haven't yet, would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking in the spirit of this site? It's definitely not for comments like this, or your other most recent ones.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow those rules in the future.
This doesn't seem like a "dumb tv", but instead the next level of "smart tv" - needs an app and other bs- and then only has ONE video input.

How is any of this a good thing?
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One reason to have a camera would be to provide access to a parent or family member who is far away, perhaps even in another country.
Vulnerability Found in Proftpd
The last two years, all of my hard questions have been about AWS or an AWS manager service. Luckily, I can take advantage of our business support contract and just open a ticket and start a live chat.

If I didn’t have that available, I would probably use Reddit or the local tech Slack group.
> Yes, by my direct observation, it’s mostly chance.

Wait, what? Are you sure you're reaching the right conclusion? It sounds like your anecdote supports the opposite once you stop looking inter-your-small-group, and start comparing groups. Have you compared median wage data for your elite university versus median wage data for the country you are in? I suspect the difference is noticeable.

It appears you are making the mistake of comparing a group of successful entrepreneurs, failed entrepreneurs, and people who went to work at Goog and McKinsey with each-other, but you really need to compare that group to people who couldn't get a job at Google or McKinsey at all. Obviously life is not nearly that uni-dimensional, but I'd wager your median "all really smart" colleague is wildly beating the median person, even if some of them are broke.
Yeah, one of the biggest problems with Stack Overflow is it has a fairly narrow definition of what's on-topic and really awful tools for shifting things to better forums.

Quora, by way of example, does not have the fragmentation issue Stack Exchange with its myriad of sites has.
Snowball still charges ~3 cents/GB to get it out of S3 and into Snowball.
We did a genetic test for small number of well known genetic disabilities when she was younger that did not yield a result. Our neurologist then recommended a "whole exome sequencing" a few years later. This is where we found a result.

Insurance is often reluctant to cover this but it's SOMEWHAT affordable (want to say 2-3k with some hospital magic discounts). I can't say it has affected our course of treatment but we were concerned about what other health related issues may be associated with the diagnosis. And it is somewhat promising that a treatment may someday be available.

I would highly recommend pushing for testing. I am told they continually with run your results against know mutations as they find more. So even if you don't get a result today you may someday.
Ask HN: Networking RFCs?
What networking-related RFCs (TCP, IP, NAT, Internet history) have you found helpful or interesting?

Thanks!
They commingle reviews for multiple "related" products too.
Does anyone know how these statistics were generated? I am curious if the data takes in to count traffic generated by bots. It is cool to see growth from a search engine other then Google. It would be nice to see more diverse options like in the past.
Oh man this sounds like my experience at google. The unlimited stream of money on our project meant avoiding risk was too easy. I feel like I could have done a lot of good for way less money but nobody was interested in new ideas from folks in the trenches.
Right now it dominates and prevents other similar forums and QA sites from starting up. People who have had issues with SO/SE sites have moved to things like Gitter. This sucks for long term archiving. But that's the state of things on the internet right now.

(Also, my rant form a long time ago was mentioned! That was a pleasant surprise)
Probably more than half of the engineers writing the code for their cloud are either based out of india, making 40k a year, or in the USA, making 50% of the market rate.
Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech
Thanks for explaining! It's infuriating to craft a search query containing all the keywords/operators needed to return relevant results - a search query that would return relevant results 24 months ago - only to see Google ignore 75% of keywords completely, extract some commonly-used pair of words from the query, and return 5 pages of results based exclusively on said pair.

What was the motive behind this change? Was the previous algorithm really giving people results so bad that Google felt they had to hamstring their flagship product? It seemed to be getting better and better until this...
Is it really that different(energy-wise) than heating the outdoors in winter? Like when restaurants have gas heaters next to tables so you can comfortably sit outside even in freezing temperatures - how is this different?
Just use firefox on mobile it has extension support
This is an awful article..

> Females are auditory learners, he tells me, whereas boys are “more visual.”
Samsung Kills 'Linux on DeX' with Android 10 Rollout
"hard GPA" assumes uniformity of high school academic programs.I watched numerous kids in college that came from elite prep-schools who had 3.0-3.5 GPAs in high school do less work than they did in high school and get better grades, while watching former high school valedictorians with perfect grades grind it out in the library and struggle to get B's...
Part of the reason things are slow to change is because people like that are in charge. It's a forest for the trees thing.
DDG is an entirely different search engine, they don't use Google.

If you want to build your own engine, go ahead :)
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> In the email, Google said it was canceling the meeting because the company prefers to only host events on the topic organized in partnership with Google’s site leadership team.

So this was a meeting organized solely by employees, using company property, on the company campus, on a workday, with the only speakers allowed being the union reps?

I’m not surprised management would try to cancel that, it sounds like a pro-union propaganda party at Google’s expense.
At the price of being fundamentally unable to deal with variable-length arrays? That seems like taking away a rather fundamental ability.
> why should you be rewarded for

It's not that you 'should'. It's that other people will more likely give you their money because you're more likely to create value for them.
> I haven't met any Americans in favor of the detention camps at the border.

What is the alternative? It's not like I'm in favor of keeping people locked up, but what is the actual alternative? People are voluntarily and illegally coming to this country when there is a giant line of people waiting to enter legally.

I've also lived in several parts of latin america, and can say with confidence the majority of illegal immigrants aren't in any kind of danger where they're from. They really just want a better life, but in my opinion the legal immigrants are in line for this and it makes no sense to allow them to cut in line. So then what alternative is there but to detain them and then send them back?
Memex was Bush's term. The project's name is an obvious nod, directly referenced in the README.
I want the most talented and skilled people performing their best at what they are most talented and skilled at. That's how you make progress. I fail to see how that harms anyone, and certainly not everyone.
A fascinating insiders view, thank you for taking the time to post it.
I don't, sorry. I'd be interested in such results as well, mostly because I'm curious about what sort of metrics the studies would be using for productivity.
They would have to be sure that no private data leaked though, right?
1. coffee a few times a week

2. alcohol occasionally
The usual luddite/neoDruid garbage, all of it. The market for FUD is always a bull market, you might say.
This was what I meant although my comment was socially awkward! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The „Linux glue” in FreeBSD is just for closed source applications that can’t be rebuilt. Pretty much all the software written for Linux can be easily ported to other Unix systems, since most of the APIs are portable, and the ones that are Linux-specific are usually either useful only for system software (eg netlink) or are broken but design and nobody uses them anyway (eg signalfd(3)).
Ubuntu uses snaps heavily bringing cgroups to play.
How many unionized companies pay higher salaries than Google?
>Tracking with IP is honestly hardly tracking at all.

There are many, many cases where this is patently false.

For example, correlating different devices by IP is a very common technique advertisers use for establishing cross-device tracking profiles.
That makes sense, although it's not a subpoena in that case. It's just Amazon voluntarily cooperating. However, I'm not a fan of such voluntary cooperation. I think a company's default response should be, "We'll help you in every way possible once there is a warrant."

I mean, something like this should be viewed in the context of comparable IRL vendors. If I rent a 3rd-party storage unit from U-Haul or similar, a warrant is generally required.

(one exception I found was a case where police, on-site, witnessed a drug deal. They then used the defendant's key to open their unit without a warrant. It was judged lawful, that finding drugs and keycard on the defendant was sufficient probably cause. That makes sense, given that if police witness you in front of your house, or car, etc selling drugs, that would be sufficient as well to search.) [0]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ilnd-1_14-cr-00...
I grew up on a farm. We lived in a barn at first. I know this stuff.

I hope you helped your mom set up 2FA after that.

Would basic checks would you recommend that Google on top of offering a robust 2FA solution?
> Chinese don't see their government as an institution as much as an extension of their own identity

An interesting hypothesis, specific to a group of states under the China umbrella. It'd be worth exploring more, maybe.

Of course what you actually said was "brainless sheeple asian values", which is very different in ways that I'm not particularly keen to get into.
It sounds like what people do (or did a could years ago) in Cuba [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/07/inside-cubas-diy-internet-revo...
That's great! I thought their issue was that questions are marked off-topic without further handling, requiring users to ask again on a different site.
The problem with most bad questions is it's hard to explain why they're bad in a gentle way when there's a fire-hose of bad questions pouring in and you can only spend so much time with each one.

The experience from someone new can suck because someone was terse or dismissive, but they don't understand they were one of fifty people that day to make exactly the same mistake.
This is the issue with science journalism: this should not be news - not yet. They should keep working with colleagues and report when the human trials are underway. It doesnt help the general public that these preliminary data are out , and in fact it erodes trust and creates complications. I know scientists are hard pressed to publicise their work for funding, but it should stay within the SFN conference for now
take your holier than thou attitude out the door. it's so easy to play an arm chair quarter back and not know the struggles people in the tranches have to go through to get features and improvements through management.
No, they are not.

I am not sure why everyone keeps believing this lie.

There was no rule that banned political statements.

Instead the rule was something like "we can ban anyone for doing anything that might make blizzard look bad".

It was absolutely not some specific rule about banning political statements.
Do you have any evidence (anecdotal or empirical) that people actually hire based on StackOverflow rankings? I'm sure it's happened in a few cases, but it seems backwards to me. If somebody came into an interview talking about their high SO rank or Reddit karma, I'd wonder if they would actually be focused on their work.

To me, hobbies and online activity aren't really credentials unless you've really built a strong personal brand that directly relates to your job.
Why I Stopped Eating Cereal
I don't like the Cascadia Code font! It feels difficult to read, full of fluffs and blings.

Cascadia Code looks like the Comic Sans of programming fonts.
Exactly my thought. All this anger is so weird to me.

I think the super angry response we are seeing is a result of the authoritarian lean of our current times.

It's like the concept of freedom IMPLYING responsibility has been completely done away with. The operating concept is: adult consumers are children, and need to be protected.