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Retirement? The guy visited china and met with the leader of china to calm relations after trump got elected.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/205...
A german born professor with a thick accent to National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State overnight ( the third most powerful position in government )? How does that happen?
The guy is a war criminal but the media is in love with him.
I'm not sure how this is relevant.
It's relevant because you want to limit the number of people who have access to your proprietary software. It's pretty straightforward.
the more likely they will be able to make nefarious use of the stolen code.
The point is to limit the "surface area". There is absolutely no reason for QA to have access to the source code. Giving them access is simply opening up another security vulnerability. It's not even using the code for nefarious purposes. People can sell the code for money.
and I've personally seen people who have never written production code review someone else's code and find where it didn't match their idea of what it should do.
What? That makes absolutely no sense. Are you talking about tech leads or managers? Who reviews code who has never written code? That's like saying someone who never learned chinese critiquing chinese literature. Makes absolutely no sense.
I wish it were more common, but it requires both motivation (on the part of domain experts / non-SWEs) and trust (on the part of the tech folks).
It makes no sense to do so. Especially in terms of security. Especially when proprietary software is involved.
Do not write scripts with bash.
It's a bit too late for that. Bash is pretty much the de facto default shell for linux. Telling people not to use bash scripts is like telling web devs not to use javascript or OS devs not to use C.
It may change in the future, but bash is so entrenched, it's going to take an extraordinary use case for people to move from bash.
Of course. Especially when proprietary software/intellectual property is involved.
I don't know of any tech shop that makes the source code available to the QA. QA is normally a "black box" operation. It exists to test/use the software as your client/user would. So QA just tests the software/app and then signs off on it or if there is an error, they update the bug tracker and assign it to the relevant dev.
I feel like the decline of traditional television is behind a lot of the push to destroy net neutrality.
It's the decline of TV, news and traditional media in general. Look at what the news industry has been able to do against social media/tech companies. Brow beat them into serving as spammers for their own news content so that news companies can make more money. The same thing is happening with TV. Youtube is now spamming traditional tv content at the expense of regular youtube content. I used to get variety of recommendations from programming to sports to "trending comedy". Now I get recommendations for things I've never watched on youtube - John Oliver, Late Night Shows, Saturday Night Live, CNN, etc.
They couldn't compete in the new internet/social media environment, so traditional media is forcing the environment to change for them. It's been working for them in the short term, but will it work in the long term? I hope not, but who knows.
The changes have been incremental, but people truly don't understand how much google search, youtube, reddit, facebook, etc has changed in the last 4 years.
The internet/social media has gone from local/non-traditional media content to predominantly corporate content. And it's a trend that's going to accelerate as tech/social media is pushed to favor corporate content over ordinary user content.
the paper has been in circulation for close to a 175 years
The NY Post has been in circulation for over 200 years. Not sure what your point is.
is ranked as the most trusted journalistic publication
That isn't a good thing. Think about it.
do yourself a favor, get the print edition convince yourself. I've been a reader for years and highly recommend it.
Does it seem like I've never read the economist to you? It's information pollution. You are dumber and more misinformed for having read it. The economist along with every other media publication should come with a warning like cigarettes.
I am inherently suspicious of these types of nanny-tech initiatives.
As you should be. It just gives google more excuse to monitor you. They have justification for monitoring you more closely. To "help" you.
It's so funny to me how the HN crowd who attacked google,facebook, etc relentlessly for monitoring their users are now demanding google,facebook,etc monitor their users even more to manipulate their behavior.
What happened to individual responsibility? And why the focus solely on social media? Should ISPs do the same thing? What about 24/7 stores? What about TV? What about news organizations? Should we only allow news organizations to print on odd numbered days to help news junkies?
I know most of the anti-social media rhetoric is just paid propaganda funded by the elites who want control over social media. But I just don't understand the supposedly "independent minded free thinking" liberals on hacker news advocating for nanny-state and nanny-corporations.
Is this hacker news or geriatric news. It seems like most posters on here are bitter 50+ year olds who rail against technology. There is something so eerie and strange about the HN crowd lately. Is it that most HN are just old now?
I would never expected this type of thinking from developers, let alone "hackers" on "hacker" news.
the economist publishes articles of extraordinary quality
No they don't. They offer fluff. This article is just fluff and years old news. Maybe because I work in the tech industry, but this article didn't offer anything of value. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that $100 billion dollar fund dedicated to tech investing ( especially in developing nations ) is going to have an impact.
Frankly that's luck. No doubt he is smart and has smart people working for him but that's pure luck.
All investment is "luck" if you put it that way.
All but one gone and that tiny $20 mil investment saves it all.
That investment didn't save it all. Softbank was a multibillion dollar company before and after their investment in alibaba. With or without alibaba, they would still be around.
Not sure where you are getting the idea that alibaba saved softbank. Softbank's Alibaba stake makes softbank very valuable, but it would be around without alibaba.
Because the guy was justifying taking and keeping the DNA material for perpetuity with his anecdote.
It's the quintessential example of authoritarianism defense. One instance of good justifies authoritarianism and violation of individual liberties and freedom.
I was told that I could not opt out and that the sample becomes the property of the State and there is nothing I could do about it.
That is so disgusting. For all the talk about individuality and liberalism, it's amazing how liberal societies are so authoritarian and controlling.
If you don't own your DNA, then what do you own? But I guess big brother knows what's best for us.
Both nationalism nor patriotism barely make sense any more. Time are changing.
People said the same thing in the late and early 20th century before ww1 and ww2. They were wrong.
If you read it, you will realize that all of civilization is fundamentally based on global markets and the global shipping of crude oil and other resources.
Modern nations are dependent on oil for sure. That's what ww1 and ww2 was fought over.
In the long run, all countries have to work together or modern society will fail.
That's fundamentally not true. Certain nations, like the US, don't have to work with anyone. We are one of the few nations who have enough resources ( including oil ) to keep our civilization running. If you expand the US to include the anglo-nations ( Canada, Australia, etc ), then we are more than able to keep our society running without the rest of the world.
In a nutshell, we live in an essentially transnational society and this cannot change unless you're willing to give up almost all of modern technology.
What? Maybe if you are denmark or iceland, but that doesn't hold true for the US.
Also, your entire argument is about international trade, not transnationalism. You need nations to have international trade.
And as I said, your argument isn't new. It's been long debunked. The same argument was made in the midst of pax britannica before ww1 and ww2. People argued that nations were too dependent on each other for wars to break out. Hell, people argued that germany would never attack the soviet union since most of germany's oil/resources came from the soviet union.
The current international system will continue as long as nations deem it beneficial to themselves. If it ceases to be, then it will end.
There is nothing inherently good or bad about any system. And I highly doubt china, russia and much of the world will adhere to the US/European led international system for much longer.
Pax americana will come to an end like all "pax" in the past. Instead of clinging to silly utopian transnationalism, we should be preparing ourselves for a multipolar nationalistic world.
The post ww2 era is an anomaly in human history where one nation ruled the world. The only comparable situation in human history was the mongol empire where mongol's established direct or indirect control over pretty much all of eurasia. That system crumbled also.
Leverage the type system? Type systems exists to allow you catch errors at compile time. That is what it's there to do. It's like saying leveraging the compiler to compile or leveraging the cup to drink water.
Absolutely. Don't know anyone who had anything good to say about klout, don't know any value klout provided.
It feels natural to anyone who understands binary numbers. Every odd number in binary will have the last bit as 1. Just like in the decimal system, every number that is a multiple of 10 will has the last digit as 0. If you want to see if a number is a multiple of ten, I guess you could do a mod 10 of the number and see if the remainder is 0. But if you understand the decimal system, you would just naturally check if the last digit is 0.
How are these hack? This is standard bit masking/manipulation? Every CS student learns it and the C Programming Language has examples of it.
Sisper's Introduction to the Theory of Computation.
Bible.
Wheelock's Latin.
Why don't we teach the bible and latin from kindegarten through college to our kids? I'm an atheist but I would have benefited from reading the bible and learning latin in elementary/high school. And I think intro to computation should be the first CS class taught in college.
I recently did a social media purge
Then why are you on hacker news?
It's this one network that still seems to be a marker of influence in the tech community and yet seems like a complete torrent of information and not very useful.
Social media is just a tool like any other. It is what you make of it.
Is the regret justified?
I don't know? Did you just jump on the bandwagon because the media and others ( many of them paid operatives ) told you to #deletefacebook?
Did you get swayed by others and are you now asking us to sway you back to social media?
How can anyone else tell you whether your own personal regret is justified?
How about stop looking to others and learn to think for yourself? Grow up.
YT and FB could fix these social issues overnight
What social issues? I remember old conservatives railing about gansta rap and south park causing social issues back i the day. Now it's old people whining about YT and FB. They aren't cause of social issues and they aren't the solution either. No more than smartphones or flat screen TVs.
if they wanted to: turn off autoplay, turn off recommendations,
Why should they?
But they won't because that is the core of their business model.
Sure. But what about the people who want recommendations or autoplay?
What's with select group of people on HN and their totalitarian mindset? Just because you don't have impulse control doesn't mean others don't have it.
I like recommendations because it helps me find relevant videos. For example, if I search for C# or Haskell tutorials, it's great to see other C# or haskell videos. Same thing for recipes or how-to videos or nature videos or anything else. Why should I and others be denied something because you don't like it?
It's crazy that some of the people on "hacker" news are so dedicated on censorship. Somehow hacker news turned from a very programmer/tech/free speech forum to old people whining about their lives and society.
How about personal responsibility? How about not blaming others for your own short coming?
Instead they offer bullshit mind-repair services to fix the damage they continue to do.
I agree, they shouldn't give in. Instead they should tell advertisers and people who whine to simply stop using youtube.
I don't understand why youtube and the rest of social media/tech industry simply put their foot down and say enough is enough.
What about hacker news? Do you think hacker news should be shut down? Is hacker news responsible for social issues?
I thought the story would be about an actual billion dollar bank job, not a potential billion dollar bank job.
I wish HN would ban all betteridge's style headlines.
How much did newton or einstein's father exercise? Were they body builders?
Even over 40? I am genuinely curious.
It'll be tougher, especially if you are a white or asian male, but there are plenty of software jobs out there. You are less likely to be getting choice projects, raises, promotions, etc. And you are on the top of the list come lay off time, but you won't be on bread lines anytime soon as a software developer. But you will be marginalized as you get older and even more so if you are part of the overrepresented group in the industry.
does the US really try to enforce its export controls not just on our own country, but on foreign countries?
Yes. We run the international world order. Our sanctions are pretty much an international edict that all nations/companies have to adhere to. It's a perk of being the sole economic and military superpower and being the leader of the international world order since ww2.
do we really expect to keep all our goods from making it there by way of third-parties?
Yes. Not only that, our national interests trump foreign countries'/companies' interests. We blocked a german company from selling itself to a chinese company.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2051421/obama...
Fake news is what got Hitler into power.
No. It was called an election. Hitler and the nazis were banned in germany for a while. So banning "fake news" didn't keep hitler from power.
The fake news Hitler banned was the “fake” according to the same standard as Trump: news he didn’t like.
That's the point. Do you want trump to be allowed to ban news he doesn't like? I don't. And what turn hitler from an elected official to a dictator was the german governments ability to ban "fake news". If hitler never had the ability to ban "fake news", then he would never have been able to cause the destruction he did because people would have been allowed to challenge, criticize and intellectually attack him.
This issue is not as cut and dry as you think.
It is cut and dry. It's the foundational principle of all free society. It's why we never had a hitler, stalin or mao in the US and it's why we never will as long as free speech is guarded. Free speech is the only antidote to totalitarianism.
a tolerant society can not be tolertant towards the intolerant.
That's an absurd contradictory logic fallacy. Think about it logically. If you are intolerant of the intolerant then you are the intolerant. Also, the US has 250 years track record debunking that logical fallacy. Besides, that's exactly what hitler said. That's exactly what stalin said. That's mao said. It's what all totalitarians say to justify stifling speech.
Is it practical to bill myself out at $500/hr at some point being a front-end dev?
I doubt it. Maybe if you are a rockstar dev in a highly specialized field with highly specialized domain knowledge and the employer is time constrained and desperate for a hire.
The median front-end dev salary is around $75K. Generally contractors can bill 1.5 to 2X what the salaried folks make. But I guess it varies with location. Also, keep in mind that unless you have contacts, you will have to go through recruiters who will take a portion of billing rate.
What? This is certainly not my experience.
Your comment describes the experience to the tee.
The top source is indeed Washington post but the same card also contains coverage from Mehr News Agency (which it highlights as "From Iran"),
Where are you from? In the NY area, all I see is US related. A couple of washingtonpost, a couple of nytimes, rolling stone, cnn, etc. Even in the expanded "view full coverage", I don't see mehr news.
Reuters, The Hill, RollingStone.com, NYT (highlighted as "Opinion"), NEWS.com.au, and Associated Press.
So, no diversity? They all are essential one news agency masquerading as different news. Yes, even the australian source.
How about this, I wish I had better access to different echo chambers.
Reuters, The Hill, RollingStone.com, NYT (highlighted as "Opinion"), NEWS.com.au, and Associated Press along with the nytimes and washingtonpost are part of the same echo chamber. They all push the same message. I want to see what the other nations/regions are saying. I want different opinions/perspectives/news.
I can't tell you how excited I am about this announcement.
You are excited that google is going to continue to monitor and spy on their users?
Edit: I should add that while my hope is that ultimately Google's 'wellbeing' algorithm will align with my own internal one
Why should everyone adhere to your "wellbeing"?
For example, I have a cronjob on my laptop that shuts it down every day at midnight.
Are you incapable of just going to sleep? Do you really need a cronjob to shutdown your laptop? Why do you assume that your lack of self control projects to everyone else?
Instead of looking to google or tech companies, why don't you develop self-control? Do you leave your TV on and then complain that broadcasters aren't coming to your home and turning it off for you? People like you scare me because you have a tyrannical mindset. The "everyone must be like me or they should all be forced to be like me" mindset.
I love the cognitive dissonance here. The same people attacking google for monitoring/storing private information and manipulating users are celebrating google for monitoring/storing private information and manipulating users.
They don't want "daddy google" but yet they want "daddy google" to tell them how much youtube to watch, what to search, when to go to bed, etc.
When google starts talking in a paternalistic manner, I worry. And my skeptical side just sees this as google's ploy to justify monitoring people. "Hey, we keep your private information and monitor you for your benefit.". Yeah right.
that they've been indoctrinated to accept without questioning.
Which is made easier when governments define and outlaw "fake" news. What separated us from totalitarian governments in the 20th century was we protected speech while hitler/stalin/mao/etc outlawed "fake news".
Do you really want Trump or Obama or Hillary or George Bush to have the power to limit speech? Do you really want either the republican or democratic party to define and outlaw "fake news"? Do you want corporate interests to ban "fake news"? Oil companies bribing politicians to label climate change as fake news? Drug companies bribing politicians to label the drug epidemic as fake news? I certainly don't.
I don't want personalized news, I use Google News for the exact opposite reason.
That's what I used to use google news for too. Then a few years ago, google "personalized" and "localize"d news to your area and it became pointless. Google news was especially great for international events in the early 2010s because you'd get international sources listed back then. So you could see the difference in coverage between our media and china's media and europe's media and middle east's media of the same event.
Now, google news is just mostly NYTimes and Washingtonpost stories. And considering they espouse the same message on pretty much everything, I stopped using google news.
I understand that google was heavily pressured by the news industry to push traffic to major US news sites, but I wish they would have given us the option to opt out of personalization and localization.
What's even more disappointing is that google search was updated to heavily favor local news. So if I search for "North korea news" or "syria news", the search result is ridiculously skewed to US news' perspective. They used to list forums, messageboards, etc on search for international events, but they scrubbed those from the search results.
Social media used to have alternate/external/foreign sources but after US media pressure, they've also "personalized" and localized.
It's amazing how easily the news industry has pressured tech companies into limiting what the public sees and hears.
I wish there was a news aggregate site which had a page per news event where it listed international coverage of the event.