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No. It is a closed secure box with ssl backhaul to the provider.

I was involved in the chip architecture for the silicon that is used in the box as well as the software engineer involved in the secure boot path for the cellular modems. It is one large chip with all the modems and application processors in one chunk of silicon. No unencrypted data, air link or Ethernet back haul, ever leaves the die.

From that, I am familiar with the physical design that the manufacturer implemented. (We did a lot of support work to get the manufacturer up and running)

They even go so far as to have a physical 'self destruct' button within the box. If you try to physically open it, it will never boot again.

The service provider states in the documentation (when you get the box) that if you tamper with the device such that the self-defeat gets activated, you have to pay full retail for the now dead box (they provided the femtocell for free if you live in a dead zone).

I laughed when I opened the retail box and that was the first thing in the document stack. Basically a large font "you have been warned"
Why wouldn't their be licensing? Insurance maybe. Maintenance is a requirement - the tires will wear out if nothing else. Fuel is still a factor - it might not be liquid, but you need some sort of energy.

The advantage of a personal vehicle is 0 wait time. If you are willing to wait the bus is cheaper because you can share the ride with so many other people.

Sure we have parking everywhere. However at that point there is essentially one car per person anyway, so it may as well be your personal car so you can leave the golf clubs in the trunk.
True, but it's more important since XHR/Fetch can be used for real-time data!
reddit was once a small business in 2016 that turned plenty profit. Then someone got it into their head to turn it into a VC company, quintupled the headcount, took $150M investment from China, you know how it goes.

So now you have a whole bunch of people doing a reenactment of Silicon Valley, only the actual site experience for users has basically not changed since 10 years now (except
"corporate innovations" like nagging you to install their app so people playing startup have their hockeystick curve).

It's a common phenomena. Look to Strava or Patreon, perfectly successful businesses that are instead exploding headcount and spending like a cancer, while never actually changing the core experience (except for worse).
What Should Digital Agencies Offer Law Firms?
I only glanced through the article and wonder if it would be easier to use deterministic grid or adaptive grid?
That's a legitimate tradeoff, which may or may not be worth it to everyone.

But that's not even close to the situation most developers are in. Most are getting paid somewhere around an average salary, maybe with a few probably-worthless stock options, and they're getting asked to sacrifice their personal time working for free to make founders rich. Working extra hard isn't likely to advance their career at all; it just gives them a reputation as somebody who is willing to take abuse.

If you're in a situation to make a crazy good salary by working hard, by all means, do that if you want. But understand that situation is very rare. And even if you're getting that deal, the person sitting next to you might not be in the same boat.

Working hard to make other people rich is a sucker's bet, akin to playing a slot machine. For a rare few, it pays off big. For a somewhat larger cohort, there's a modest payoff. For the large majority, it's just wasting their career and their time.
I have a PhD too, and I felt I was expected to join academia after finishing my PhD. My supervisor treats me a bit like a "wasted talent" for getting a job in industry. Professors get reputation points when students become professors, in addition to expanding their influence in the field, as junior professors will still seek them for advice and will occupy strategic positions in academia. Some of my friends have told me they feel the same, and know a PhD student who is being discouraged from applying to teaching positions when she finishes, even though she feels that's her calling. There's a sense that teaching positions in academia are even lesser than a research position in industry.
The difference with this app compared to some of the alternatives, is this shows you what color specific elements should be. This solves one of my pain points and I'll try this out in my project
Splitting of water at the heterogeneous interface of nickel and iron oxide
What makes a business standout ? among the millions of startups, created by people just as smart as you with more/less capital than you. Well let us start from the word “NICHE”, which is a process of picking an industry and focusing all your genius to make yourself the first name they think of when they need a particular “Service”.I won’t dive so much on the benefits of niching down , but i will talk about an industry that has caught my attention lately and which most people might ignore which is “Law/law firms/lawyers”. I will talk about possible ways to get the attention of people in this niche and I am continuously going to keep updating

1) Create a demo site:

Why do you need to go out of your way to create a demo site ?

Law firms need a good website, with pixel perfect visuals and good conversion rate optimisation. The truth is most law firms don’t have a standard website and you should help them redesign/build their website.

The client(law firms) should already trust you know what you are saying and maybe a good slide or UI mockup should do the job, in some cases yes , but there is nothing better than giving your client a clue of how their website will not only look but how it will interact with customers, this way you are not just part of a long list of people dropping pitches with no strong visual representation of what you can truly offer. After convincing the client you outsource the website redesign and development to capable developers (https://gidistack.com/) that would do a world class job.

(P.S the aim of a demo site is to showcase just certain things not all)
Leaving while making it clear to your higher ups and coworkers that it's due to the dying work culture is not leaving without anything.

Individual employees shouldn't have to make personal sacrifices, especially for a megacorp, beyond what they contribute each day as an employee. Unless they are an executive or management and get paid (and mandated) sufficiently to do culture stuff.

There are people at Google who have this responsibility and are either failing, or possibly it's not really that bad and the news is overhyping a bunch of highly vocal individuals/small groups, while most Googlers are apolitical and happy with the group of people they work with. It's always hard to tell but most companies aren't getting multiple articles a year written about their culture.
The Cynic’s Guide to Reading Business Books
Cannot edit that comment any more, but it's driver version 430, CUDA 10.1, CuDNN 7.5.
> I don't wish death, which is why I walked to the bus stop

I live in NY. About 40 miles as the crow flies from NYC. Public transportation is unusable in my town... buses run about once an hour, give or take an hour on weekdays--forget about Sundays. How would you like trying get a sick child to a doctors appointment then going to a pharmacy? Need milk before a snow storm.. good luck. My point is the Vast majority of the USA is not geographically located in metropolitan areas.

As a side: Metro North which I used when I worked in queens... is fricken expensive as hell and slow as molasses.
Well, there is voat, but not many people can endure the culture over there.
That's the real issue here: prominent, established projects recommending other projects that are not remotely as well-established as the big projects, whereas such a recommendation may suggest that it is.

Big, high exposure projects should probably wait to recommend interesting new projects for actual use until they are sure that the management of that project is in reliable hands with enough backup to continue it if the original creator vanishes.
one of my more sarcastic personalities derives great pleasure in comparing what's happening in the workplace with what's described as effective sabotage in the CIA's field manual.

https://corporate-rebels.com/cia-field-manual/

tip for pro's : you can play the bingo version too!
Have you tried Conan[1] by chance? I've only used it for small projects, but it was pretty nice.

https://conan.io/
I didn't say beds, I said mattresses. I don't think people steal beds.

As for mattresses now, with bulk buying it can be even less.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21758814
This isn’t much different from how startups/FAANG have huge programs and incentives exclusive to new collage grads, is it?
(Psst, come try the Something Awful Forums :-) )
if I flip a coin, I know exactly the odds of getting heads, but I don't know whether I will get heads unless I can exactly predict the future state of the world. if I had this magical ability, it would still be worth paying me a premium to tell you so you would know how much to save.
In this case, the code is still maintained and at least some pull requests are being processed (I haven't checked in detail). The only thing is that there hasn't been an official release for some time.
Replying to myself again: So you will NOT get two physical cores, both HyperThreads will be on the same physical core so no real benefits to having these smaller shared instances give you "2 cores"?

See my comments for feedback from AWS engineer. I'm guessing since both AWS and GCE run the same hypervisor now that GCE will have the same "feature"?
83% of Google ad revenue is from ads on Google sites, and only 17% is from ads on someone else’s properties. If you also consider traffic acquisition costs, ads on someone else’s properties are very small part of Google profit.

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q1_alphabet_earnings...
I agree, making laws about it shouldn't be necessary. The context of this discussion is that applications should not flatly refuse to service UA clients who are not the biggest 3 or 4 players. A better solution would be to require servers to service all clients, but if an unknown or unexpected client is detected, the server's response should include a compatibility warning. Server-side software makers are simply trying to limit the amount of testing they need to do to provide a reliable system. Client-side software makers, by lying about who they are, are trying to do the exact same thing. The problem is that these two actions result in an outcome that achieves neither server nor client's goals, and there's the rub.

You are arguing that it should be ok for your software to lie about who/what it is. If we go down that road, we end up with chaos. Software misreporting who/what it is so a server that will think it is a compatible system and agree respond, when it might otherwise refuse.

fraud
n. A deception practiced in order to induce another to give up possession of property or surrender a right.
n. A piece of trickery; a trick.

Personally, despite the obviously good intention to provide a reliably working software system, I think building a software system that systematically lies when reporting who/what it is is worse than a one-off lie to a customer support person on a phone call.

Surely there is a solution that does not involve deception.
Pinterest needs to be blacklisted from search engines. I'm never signing up for an account there, period.
Technology solves a problem that the old ways could not, or they were inferior.

I recall as a kid my parents driving to the park where we were because a family emergency meant we unexpectedly had to leave now - they would have preferred we walk home while they pack the car (the park was the opposite direction we had to go).

I can say be home at 6, but it is easy to lose track of time. Or say 6 and then realize supper will be ready at 5:30 not 6.
Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
It isn't a great analogy. Pinterest still provides the content people were after on Image Search (the image). The only thing you cannot do is click it and see related images.

A better analogy might be Expert Exchange. A site that put answers behind a paywall, and fell hard out of Google's search results. Then Stackoverflow came along and took whatever remained.
I don't think a connection is implied. The previous poster is simply expressing his approval of Germany's decision in this particular case, as opposed to their recent attitude and legislation in free speech matters, which it seems he is not a fan of.
The thing about Google's culture is that it was always dishonest from the start. And it was dishonest because they were deeply ashamed of how they made money. So from the very beginning the culture was built around being "Googley". It put the engineer on the pedestal. 20% time. Moonshots. Infantilizing the workplace (are there still ball pits and slides?). "Don't be evil".

All of that was to paper over the fact that fundamentally this was an ad-tech company and it's hard to get people to go work for one if that's what your brand is (Yahoo is a good example). They did 20 years of recruitment on this lie, and it's finally coming home to roost. The idealists that got brainwashed by this are understandably chafing at the changes happening as Google transitions into a typical big company with a McKinsey alum CEO.
> Are there any other programming languages whose package-management comes close to this level of intricacy and complexity?

I think many do. Ruby, Node, Erlang/Elixir, Java, Go, Rust, dotnet, C... I’m having trouble thinking of a modern language that doesn’t have such package management mechanisms.

For many people doing anything more than writing one-off scripts, and especially for anyone who collaborates with others or shares their code, package management is so much more than just “this project needs package X”.
I think you'll find that your opinion is rather hard line on this... compared to the vast majority of actual racist type behavior, and actual putdowns based on <ethnicity>, this is mildly amusing and speaks to a general behavior.

You're of course entirely welcome to keep your speech pure, but know that there's a full grayscale here and we all have different tolerances.
I work with Vue more than React, and am biased to the title. Other than that, this is on target :)
Just fishing for a response wouldn't be very meaningful anyway. A far better metric would be the time it takes for a maintainer to respond to pull requests and other issues.
no, insurance is great. it's just not a good match for healthcare.

someone who can't afford their sky high car insurance premiums isn't someone who "needs it the most". they are someone who should be priced out of driving.
I've tried telling all my friends to "duck duck go it" when they are stuck.

IMO, it needs a far better name if it is going to spread.
Sounds ass backwards, and I've been signing up for newsletters in addition to a little more HN to ween off of Reddit. Read some curated headlines in the morning, sure there's usually a "word from our sponsers", but it's a better experience overall than social media imo.
> The training approaches that are used by McDonalds do not suit individual traits and talents of each employee.

That would require a leadership mindset shift -- thinking of employees as human beings. Their products as edible, prepared, nutritious food.
You have succeeded, you are on HackerNews. Isn't this why we are all here? HackerNews is kind of like what Slashdot,Digg and Reddit were originally; that is "news for nerds".
You need to explore the landscape to come to understand what a great solution to some problem could be. You might think of being "T" shaped in your knowledge and dive deep into a subject that interests you.

Note that most things that would benefit society require a behavioral change. Whether the product is good enough to inspire this change, or even can, is another can of worms
Small part of me agrees with you, but then again I see fortune 100 companies, banks and government getting away with similar or worse on regular.

A few weeks ago, I pointed out to one of our clients that they are using vulnerable TLS library (with know exploits) on internet facing service.

They scheduled upgrade for service in august next year.

So honestly op running obsolete version of osx is really drop in the bucket.
I have a trite observation, but I think it has merit: Minecraft shows that the cheapest building material will always be that which is nearby.

For this solution to scale, it has to be really good at dealing with whatever's available. This seems exactly the kind of "making square pegs fit round holes" problem that is suited far more to localized human ingenuity than automation.
I do believe Reddit admins heavily influence the culture of the hyper-modding but at the same time tons of subreddits go way beyond just moderating out the bad stuff and act like full blown newspaper editors who delete 75%+ of organically upvoted submitted content because it doesn't fit their view of what the subreddit should be.

They really aren't legitimately user-generated subreddits anymore and there's always this constant tension between users and what gets allowed to be 'frontpaged' or commented about.

I know people can create spin-off subs but when it starts happening everywhere it becomes a serious problem.
>> I’m always surprised by the level of employee activism at Google. I mean, it’s a job. You don’t like it, or the company, then the default thing people do is leave. But based on my experience Google is different because they brainwash you into thinking that Google is the second coming of Christ and you don’t want to lose your front seat by just leaving. So instead of moving on, lots of frustrated employees burn out trying to change the company from within.

How much of that is simply due to vesting schedules?

Not just for Google, but broadly in tech, that doesn't quite work. If you jet, you lose un-vested equity. Oh, and you are also forced, in many cases, to spend a boatload of current cash to exercise vested options and get stuck with illiquid holdings for 5 or more years.
Are you saying that fist fights in the office are ok, then? Or you mean something else?
what? they seem noticeably different to me.
I think that's the default for most high exposure projects. Unless, of course, both projects have the same author, and that author's primary concern is increasing their own exposure.
There is also a bug that is keeping me from switching, and also the handling of that bug has not been great, otherwise I would do so in a heartbeat.
A person who made pics on Twitter a thing talks learning to code
Tangentially related I hope developers will realize that the current stack inherited from them is basically enterprise software made for large teams of interchangeable developers, just with better marketing than J2EE 15 years ago.

For reference: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2008/05/11/ruby-on-rails-vs-jav...

> I believe that if there was a full standard distribution for Java EE (e.g. Icefaces+JSF+Seam+EJB3+JPA+Hibernate+Glassfish, to name just one possible API stack out of thousands of different combinations), people would write a lot more good documentation for that particular stack, and it would become a lot easier for more developers to start using it effectively. With the right tools and good documentation, productivity could potentially be about the same for Rails and Java, but at the moment Java is shooting itself in the foot in this regard.
McCarran taxi lines in Vegas can be pretty awful. However, ride-share pickup also doesn't really work well at airports where personal pickup/dropoff is already a total mess. One of the things you see happening is rideshare pickup being pushed out to locations away from the terminals.

I'm mostly at the point where I do whatever is most convenient and don't worry too much about the cost. At home, I usually just reserve a car.
Isn't it also true that a huge % of people don't realize or understand what data they're giving away, because the specifics have never been articulated by the people selling the information?

It seems to always be buried in the fine print. Which no one really ever reads.

So, most of the public are party to a contract they don't understand nor really ever truly agreed to.

How is any of this in any way acceptable? How is such a contract even remotely valid?
Profits pay for owners (not just investors). If my company made $0 profit I’d be better off working at McDonald’s.
Write Dumb Code – Advice from Four Leading Java Developers
Check out this piece https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/technology/google-fires-w...

The excuse is that those for abusing that freedom to gather information outside the scope of their jobs (no details given though).

Plus I think they recently cancelled the Friday meetings because information was being leaked to the media. Inevitable at a large corporation but when a few people act this way, if ruins it for everyone
Why not replace the User-Agent with nothing?

I’ve been a full-time web dev since 2005, and I have never needed to sniff around in the User-Agent string. Having the server care about what browser is on the other end is an anti-pattern, makes life difficult for browser-developers (and caching systems), and helps creepy tracking software fingerprint people.

So instead of weighing down HTTP requests with a bunch of new headers next to no one will need, I think we should instead move to end browser-sniffing. Fix the User-Agent string like OP proposes, but add nothing to replace it.
Made a virtual office space for my team for just these reasons! https://www.mydigitaloffice.io/

With over 40% of companies allowing some weekdays to be at home, this is the future!
This. I think the belief that Google wasn't evil and is losing its way come from people not wanting to accept they'd been duped. The company was always evil. It was always built around selling your attention to advertisers who want you to buy things. And ad clicks have always been more important than quality search results.

As ad blockers have become popular and the demand for continual growth has remained steady, the costs they accepted to hide their evil were the first expense to get cut.
The modern word "Machiavellian" has had a life of its own and doesn't correlate directly to what is actually in The Prince, though. When we (in 2019) describe someone as machiavellian, we tend to imagine some sort of mustache-twirling evil mastermind. The book itself is more like a dispassionate, semi-scientific textbook on how to be a ruler.

The quote I listed above is a good example. M. is essentially just saying that, "if you have to do bad things, do them quickly and all at once." Generally good advice, I'd say.

A modern analog would be firing employees - avoid it if possible, but once it's determined to be absolutely necessary, just do it. Don't waffle, give conflicting messages, or build an atmosphere of dread. Make the tough decision, execute it quickly, and then move on. Of course, one could argue that the manager should have made better decisions to avoid the need to fire people in the first place, but that's a deeper discussion.
How McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health
Hope you don't mind if this part-Scot American envies you that just a little.
New Anti-Aging Clinical Trial Begins. For a $1M, You Can Be a Participant
???

Then which one? Pratt and top down by hand?
So there isn’t a phonon field?

The concept of phonons is confusing because unlike other particles, phonons don’t have an accompanying fundamental field. They seem more like an emergent phenomenon. Why should phonons be considered particles?