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gaahrdner··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
> I think you can shoot someone if you have reason to believe that somebody has a gun

I need you to read this and really think about the words.

gaahrdner··on Ask HN: What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?
Your question seems to be mostly concerned about the human body, so you probably know the answer; eat healthily most of the time, exercise regularly, make sure you regularly get good sleep.

Oh, and wear sunscreen.

gaahrdner··on Ask HN: What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?
As an American, this is a very American answer, and I wish I could disagree.
gaahrdner··on Ask HN: What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?
Software development is only a well paid profession fairly recently, and only a very well paid profession if you are lucky.
gaahrdner··on The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications
Reminds me of the impact of lunch, on parole judgements: https://www.wired.com/2011/04/judges-mental-fatigue/
gaahrdner··on A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast to Be Watching Within Two Years
Nobody can watch all these, I don't get it.
gaahrdner··on A lattice-based cryptographic library in Go
> The Lattigo library unleashes the potential of lattice-based cryptography in secure multiparty computation for modern software stacks.

To a layman like myself, what does this mean?

gaahrdner··on DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer
Get 'em! Pretty sure it's just called "teamwork!"
gaahrdner··on DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer
It didn't exist when I started either, but talk about a let-down of an article conclusion!
gaahrdner··on Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?
Golang and security. Golang is super weird to me compared with Ruby and/or Python. However, I can buy into its benefits.
gaahrdner··on Time Series Databases to Watch
Cloudflare[0] uses ClickHouse extensively, might want to reach out to them.

[0]https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p...

gaahrdner··on Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye
A.K.A. "ghosting" in online dating parlance
gaahrdner··on “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
Is there a middleground?

Perhaps standardizing on something like Terraform allows you to reduce the risk of going all-in on one vendor.

Similarly with Kubernetes; if you go all in on k8S, do you care where it's hosted or can you maneuver quick enough to the best provider?

gaahrdner··on Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles
Get it to a chop shop for parts and/or get it out of the country and I can imagine it's pretty high.
gaahrdner··on Asana raises $50M at a $1.5B valuation
Sounds like the exact narrative from my time at Atlassian; I often wonder if these types of ideas are a natural byproduct of companies working in the same space.
gaahrdner··on Improving Ourselves to Death
The vast majority of our lives will be boring and unexceptional. That is not a bad thing.
gaahrdner··on His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Discovered
Please don't. I have to believe there is always a way.
gaahrdner··on Atlassian debuts new Jira Software Cloud with timeline view, configuration flow
I wonder which (and when), if any, of these improvements will trickle into their on-premise offerings, given Cloud and Server have diverged quite a bit.
gaahrdner··on GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool
This looks great, reminds me of a concourse.ci pipeline, but prettier.
gaahrdner··on Children poisoned by lead on U.S. Army bases
Well, it is a huge base! Hey, at least the VA can cover my out-of-pocket cancer expenses?
gaahrdner··on Children poisoned by lead on U.S. Army bases
Yes, sadly this is not an anomaly: https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/camp-lejeune/
gaahrdner··on Coders Automating Their Own Job
Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
gaahrdner··on Silicon Valley's Keystone Problem: A Monoculture of Thought
The first time I visited Mountain View, I was absolutely blown away by the "sameness" of the people living there. Racially, it is much more diverse than my hometown of Austin, but I could never escape the feeling, after talking to random people, that I was stuck in a scene from "The Stepford Wives."
gaahrdner··on Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
Is Facebook now considered critical infrastructure?
gaahrdner··on Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wild West
Long gone are the days of needing only a Technician class radio license to operate FCC uncertified radio and video transmission gear, strapped onto a cheap foam RC plane from China, piloted by a human with nothing more than a controller, video goggles, and an antenna to achieve mile-long distances and thousand foot heights.

THAT was the wild west.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfzBiZUPSo0

gaahrdner··on WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
The guy is worth $6 billion according to Wikipedia, he and his cofounder will probably be ok. Maybe we'll see something good come out of this with his involvement in Signal?
gaahrdner··on Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
I didn't say addiction is the problem, I said it was a major cause of homelessness, so I don't really understand the downvotes.

The National Coalition on Homelessness seems to agree, citing "A 2008 survey by the United States Conference of Mayors asked 25 cities for their top three causes of homelessness. Substance abuse was the single largest cause of homelessness for single adults (reported by 68% of cities). Substance abuse was also mentioned by 12% of cities as one of the top three causes of homelessness for families. According to Didenko and Pankratz (2007), two-thirds of homeless people report that drugs and/or alcohol were a major reason for their becoming homeless."

The American Public Health Association as well states, "On an individual level, persons who have a problem with alcohol and/or other drugs, and who are in marginal economic circumstances, are at especially high risk for homelessness."[1]

The road to addiction is complex, and yes mental health treatment should absolutely be better in the United States, but to claim that addiction is not a risk factor to homelessness is disingenuous.

[0] http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/addiction.pdf [1] https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-pol...

gaahrdner··on Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
Addiction is absolutely a major cause of homelessness.
gaahrdner··on Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
Well sure, but that's why I prefaced with "downtown." The five-county Greater Austin metro area has its own transportation issues that need solving as well, like much of the country.
gaahrdner··on Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
No they aren't, they're probably saving downtown Austin's transportation woes. Decades of failed resolutions by the city council to provide expanded public transportations for an extremely high growth city have brought us to this point, one where the market had to come up with a solution. I'd imagine more regulations are probably due in the near future.
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