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I agree.

I think it's a shame that governments (ours in Australia especially) play on xenophobia for political point scoring rather than encouraging the population to welcome new arrivals. We focus on differences like clothing, language and religion more than we emphasise common ground such as support for our children, love of food, sport, etc.

There's a food/cooking show in Australia called Food Safari in which each episode focuses on a different cuisine. It's a great insight into the food traditions each culture has brought with them. I often wish it was compulsory viewing or at least broadcast on a more mainstream channel as cooking and eating together is something we can all identify with.

I think we only increase the chances of ghettoes and other issues when we react negatively rather than welcoming people. We push people to wall themselves in, harden their cultural lines, we make it harder for them to get jobs, etc.
> And in the news reports I usually see people toying with iPhone 5/6 and wearing [designer] jeans/jackets.

Do luxury products somehow protect you from bullets, bombs and murderous barbarians?
Rounding error :)
Great advice - also, there are a few states that allow a one person business to qualify for group coverage.

I forget all of them, but I think the following states still allow "groups of one" with respect to a business acquiring health insurance:

Connecticut,
Delaware,
Mississippi,
North Carolina

My apologies if I'm wrong on any of these, it's just off the top of my head since the last time I looked into it.
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Well they make relatively decent "consumer" laptops, but their "corporate" ones are utter crap, made with cheap parts everywhere and breaking all the time.
I have a nice phone and clothes, but if my family were in danger, I would do whatever I could to get them to a safer place, including somewhere far from where they were currently in danger. I empathise with anyone fleeing danger, whatever model of phone they have.
a billionaire wants to buy an island to temporarily host refugees:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2015/09/04/egypti...
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I have very few anecdotes past that; very soon after that, I bought a Compaq pentium pro, a thinkpad and a volvo, used NT and became a boring enterprise monkey.

I bought a massive fully stacked Sun Enterprise 1000E and storage array in 2001 in a crazy nostalgia trip. £500,000 of kit and I got it off yahoo auctions for £350 and it was only 5 years old. That's depreciation for you. It was noisy, made the lights dim when you booted it up and wouldn't run anything other than old Solaris releases so it was used as a seat for a bit then sold.

I think I'm out of anecdotes now :)
I went to harvard. In freshman orientation, we were told that harvard doesn't "admit" mistakes. But obviously they do; a small percentage of students are mentally ill for example. My freshman roommate was one of them.

Another interesting orientation tip mentioned was that harvard accepts the top 10% of high school students but 90% of them won't be in the top 10% at harvard. The take away is that students need to stop their obsession with ranking and figure out how to be successful anyway.

They are definitely "Harvard Type" students (and not just in terms of wealth) but I think 30% or so of the Harvard students don't fit that stereotype and I don't see why Ma wouldn't have done well. Harvard classes aren't any different from classes at any other good school. I understand the obsession with going to Harvard (it is a fashion statement) but you aren't missing anything. Having Harvard on your resume will move it to the top of the pile but you still need to be impressive and few schools teach that or any of the things that Jack mentioned in the interview.
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As a brown person frankly this makes me want to RUN from maker events. Settlement? How how do you know aren't electrocuting a confession from him right now?
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Aren't they overlooking the fairly straightforward explanation that domesticated dogs were evolutionarily selected for looking at humans because they were rewarded with food? I note that most of the tests they are using involve food. But verifying that feral dogs behave in the same way is also a good idea (noted in the article). My guess is that they will - feral kittens seem to know to cozy up to humans when begging for food.

They should try tests involving something other than food that inspires dogs - like attempting to get access to a female in heat, and see if the dogs bother looking at humans in that scenario.
There was an article in the Houston paper a few weeks ago whose main theme was trying to explain to confused readers how Fiorina could possibly be running for president using her record as HP CEO as an actual positive. In Houston, formerly Compaq headquarters until HP bought and immediately dismantled it, she's not getting a lot of primary votes...
> buzzfeed

No thanks.
I have an HP11C too, and a LaserJet 5L printer. Both are over 15 years old, in regular use, and work fine. The printer has had two roller replacements, though.

That's HP's problem. Great gear, got the job done, didn't have an addictive replacement revenue model like Apple. People ran HP minicomputers for decades because they Just Worked.
Yeah, people end up hating Shakespeare and polynomials.
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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina#Resignation, Fiorina made over $100M in her time at HP. So she makes out like a bandit and leaves the company in a ditch, rattled, and struggling to regain composure. Do these people have any conscience?
Yes, stackexchange really got this right. Many times i've been searching for the answer to a question on google, even with site:stackoverflow.com. I don't find anything and eventually i give up and decide to post a question myself but after writing half of the question, stackoverflow finds a previous post about this very topic which answers my question.
The attack likely starts with a computer used by the network operations staff being compromised and a key logger or other credential theft tool being installed. It is much easier to own an admins laptop with a PDF exploit than to find a remotely exploitable Cisco vulnerability.

Routers usually sit outside the firewall in typical network designs. The backdoor listens to raw network traffic coming in for the trigger, before any firewall rules on the router itself are processed.

All in all, it is very well designed and part of an extremely advanced attack.
Impromptu meetings are clearly a sign of disrespect, you sure got him there!

Reducing human interaction to schedules and timetables is one of the worse social diseases of this profession and I am personally very much done with playing nice with the people who wish to coddle them. Your coworkers are no less important than you are, and sometimes they have the temerity to need you for a human interaction at a time not in your calendar. I am certain you and your precious, all-self-important flow can deal with it.
Yes, the disparity on home prices is what is referred to in economics as a "revealed preference"
"Banks do not create money out of thin air: central banks do."

I think that's not exactly true.
The reality is that banks make loans and then search for the reserves. So, in practice, are the credit departments in commercial bank who decide if new money is created. Central banks can influence this by making the creation of new money cheaper or expensive.

http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2013/08/15/banks-dont-len...

To anyone interested in these issues, I recommend Modern Money Theory ( http://neweconomicperspectives.org/modern-monetary-theory-pr... ).
Pretty much this. I'm fortunate to work at a place where I'm paid to get a job done, and how/where/when I do that is largely up to my discretion because they treat me like the responsible adult I am.

If I occasionally work some nights or over a weekend? I might take a day or two off to avoid burnout (while making sure there is appropriate coverage in place). Likewise, if I need to have a contractor come over or something, I'll just work from home for that period of time. If I need to take care of personal things during the week where I can't work during that time, I just take care of it after hours or on the weekend as needed.

That said, I've worked at places with strict 9-5:30 (but really it is 6:30+ because of the workload) and they seem to want to have their cake and eat it too in terms of getting you in at a strict start time, get lots of extra hours + weekend time when needed, and then hit you with limited vacation time and pushback when you want to take a comp day. Sorry--doesn't work that way. Maybe when I was young and stupid, but at this point in my career I've lost all tolerance for that. Fortunately it seems many companies are starting to wise up and be fair about it.
He deserves it and the school deserves to pay. I remember having to explain my fixations with technology to my schools principle. The mistreatment of "us"--being the IT crowd.
Getting started is one thing, completing a product is another. It's not an uncommon metric to apply a 1.5x or 2x multiplier to the development time of an iOS app to obtain the time to develop the Android one.
I would also argue that from the same starting point (no java experience and no Swift experience) the learning curve is way smoother on iOS, with more fine tuned APIs and better tools (interface builder can be picked up easily by a designer with no coding background).
Even the term "banknote" makes it explicit: a note (of credit) issued by the central bank.
Coins are not formally IOU's, because historically they had intrinsic value.
Slightly off topic but I had a friend who was scared of dogs because they looked at him. We had to cross the road if there was a dog coming.
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OTOH, HPQ has /8 netblocks, and they're adjacent, that's gotta be valuable!
I am all in favor of accomodating people, but this is some kind of bull, man. You agreed to do a job. The childless person did, too. Your kids aren't work, and they don't factor in, and I know you know that. Having additional work pushed on the childless person (and I've seen it happen, though never to me) because they don't have kids and "can handle it" is straight-up unfair, unless they're being properly compensated.
Would you like to see a kid wearing NASA t-shirt and handcuffs? Go ahead...
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http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21636046-italian-mobste...
>The walled gardens of app stores have also grown to the point where simply sharing an executable with someone has become an almost taboo act, with some central authority telling the users who to trust.

This is entirely because of malicious people ruining it for everyone though, not necessarily that the app stores just have the monopoly
The layoffs here are in their enterprise division, where I don't think quality is the main problem. Two problems instead: the market is generally moving away from high-end enterprise servers towards commodity x86 servers, and, possibly worse, they bet on Itanium as their flagship non-x86 architecture, succeeding PA-RISC. Even when you remove x86 from the picture and just stack it up against competitors like Oracle SPARC and IBM POWER8, HP's Itanium-based Integrity line is not doing well. To be fair, a lot of smart people at Intel bet big on Itanium too, so this wasn't simply a case of bad HP management.
Does having this in iOS9 mean that in the near future it will not be possible to use apps offline?
Ultimately a vendor needs deterministic builds too. Otherwise, it doesn't necessarily know what it's shipping!

I have an example of a binary where the difference between a remotely exploitable service and a fixed version of the same service is a single bit. That bit (or some other bit that also changes the code's functionality in an important way) can be changed by any person or (potentially compromised) computer in the chain of compilation, packaging, and distribution unless someone has a way to tell whether what those people and computers assert is "correct". If the binaries routinely change appreciably every time someone cuts a software release, it's going to be expensive to go back and check whether there's also a malicious change, bearing in mind that the person whose computer made the change doesn't have to have been malicious.
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Can anyone tell if he was porting an iOS or OS X game to tvOS?

This suggests it was an OS X app: "While I didn’t delve too deeply, I was able to copy over most of my code from the Invaders project verbatim, just making a few tweaks for places where the OSX APIs differed from iOS."
I can tell from experience that dogs also look at humans to get something they want that is not food.

When my 5 month old labrador rolls her ball under the couch (again), she tries for 5 seconds to get it herself, after that, she starts staring at me.

When she needs to "go", she will sit by the door and start staring at me.

Both of which are events that are not rewarded by food, but something she will enjoy by herself. (playing with a ball, and "relief"), even though in the latter case, I am very pleases she is going outside :).
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You can use them offline if your resources have already been downloaded. Otherwise, it will be like any existing app that requires downloadable content - you need to be online to download the additional content.
I meant more that moderation actions (upvotes, flags) after a time seem not to be enabled. Surfacing crap / spam with improved search seems highly likely. It's another thing that happened on Ello.

Actually, their fix was pretty slick: spamming profile posts don't show up in normal search.
> There's also the classic MBA mistake of seeing employees as expenses rather than assets.

Not to mention that more critical people will leave once they sniff layoffs coming.
Interrupting someone because you have a question is terrible for knowledge workers. If you can't wait long enough to ping them on IM or send an email, something is very wrong in your workflow.
Oh wow! My post made it on Hacker News!

Thanks so much for the nice comments. I'm glad my story inspired some of you :)

If you have specific questions about anything or would like some more details about any part of the story, please let me know. I'll happily answer them.
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What's challenging there, of course, is whether this is trained behavior or innate. I.E. Would a feral dog think to look at a human if it couldn't get a toy, or needed to go outside?
The Gay Science is another great Nietzsche book. Pick up The Birth of Tragedy if you get a chance though, Nietzche's early views on history and science are also worth reading and considering.
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If you strongly feel that affirmative action is wrong then the best way to end it is to end racial segregation in housing and K-12 education. When colleges see that all kids are getting the same opportunities they will end their programs to correct for that societal flaw. It seems very shortsighted to think that displacing affirmative action students is the best way to improve our society or that not getting into Harvard will take something from you that you deserve or need.
Send him a kick ass gyroscope! Let the cops noodle on that one.
No, but nobody cares about M0. It's M2 that creates demand in the marketplace. As soon as a bank fails, all that created M2 disappears from circulation and that's what crashes economies ("too big to fail"). In a full-reserve banking system (M0 = M2) nobody would care about crashing banks.

> Bottomline is, the loan is an asset and the deposit is a liability.

I used to be as skeptical as you about the full-reserve crowd but that point is actually what got me thinking: banks are the only players in the economy for whom giving out loans is a balance-sheet extension (what you're describing). They're worth more, the more loans they give out.

For everybody else, giving out a loan doesn't change their net worth! They're just exchanging one asset (money) against another asset (an IOU from someone). In other words: banks are special and are not allowed to fail, because we let them create money.
Irving; that's all you really need to know. In Plano or at the Dallas magnet school downtown he'd have been celebrated.
Wow. Rant incoming.
Im just aghast how shitty your country is.
I can understand living in fear of mortgages and the like, jak with at will nonsense and the like (gags)

But your employer having a gun to your beloved's head - that what it basically is - is just rotten.

I genuinely wish that any libertarians here (in Poland) move to USA or, Friedmans beloved, Chile. I hope they get to experience shit like that.
I guess im a filthy little commie for expexcting to be able to live my life without shit like that /s
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You are going to find always consumers of cheap money. That's a fact. Specially if you going searching for them actively as the banks did before the crisis.

There is a reason because controls have to be in the side of the lender.

Banks, and everyone else, are always going to be greedy. The source of the problem was not greed (that is a constant) but deregulation, that have not been properly corrected.
I never said it wasn't worth studying. Consider how arrogant it is to say that liberal arts are for teaching people how to think critically, implying that hard sciences, math, and engineering are just producing thoughtless drones for work.
You work remotely, life is pretty low stress. Live in a cheap cost of living place, take care of the kids while the spouse is out working on their other job. Never get a raise in 6 years. That is why they phone it in.
And whatever tasks he doesn't like, accounting, bookkeeping, etcetera. He can hire someone full time or even just part time to handle for him. That way he can focus on the things he does well, selling and doing the work.
"Play on X for a political point" carries no information as anything can be construable as a political point. One is just as liable to hear pro-refugee stances be used as a "political-point" for the sake of votes as anti-refugee stances.

All such policy decisions should be dissolved away from a political party's frame of reference, and what should remain are guesses as to what the consequences of a policy might be and whether or not it's good for the nation.
Good point. I have nothing against temporary accepting people coming from dangerous places, regardless of their financial status. However not all of them come from war zones. Some come from relatively safe places like Turkey (I do have friends in Turkey who chose to live there and while the average income there may be in fact lower than in EU, people do normally live there, have jobs, families, houses etc.). And many are not interested in staying in poorer European countries like Greece or Hungary but they say it openly: "we want to Germany". In these cases, standard immigration rules should apply.
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The "idea/market validation" landing page + $100 advertising budget is a key concept from the "Start Small, Stay Small" book the author mentioned. It's saved me from wasting time/money a few times so far, and I'm sure it will continue to do so in the future!
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I've said it before - eco-migrants should be taken care similarly to warzone migrants. I wouldn't say that dying slowly - "living" a low quality of life in poverty is much better than dying in a war...

It is a natural human behavior to seek a better life and it is a good thing. The movement/relocation is a basic human right.
Luxury products adds legitimacy to their claim to refugee status, if anything.
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I'm just worried that the kids are going to get arrested: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...
I understand the sentiment (and we'll be improving the overall contrast issue), but just saying the font should be black doesn't help anyone. White is still the overwhelmingly most popular background color for text online, and nobody is doing black text on white; this also becomes uncomfortable for many readers. We(I) made some guesses about what looked good on our test devices, and it turns out the general consensus is it should be a little heavier and a little darker. Certainly not black, though.
Totally understand on all points.

Caches on their own would be totally worthwhile, even without de-crufting. If IA are up for it, HN as signal for relevance would likely be worthwhile. Talk to Brewster.

As I said, decrufting/readability would be a really nice value-add!personally. Readability themselves have an API for this which might be one way to approach the concept, and they've done much of the heavy lifting in terms of sorting out sites' various CSS/HTML cruft and sanitizing it. I do my own pretty significant CSS restructuring locally (we've chatted about this before w/ HN), and with some 1800+ individual sites' CSS modified to some extent or anohter, I've got a really good idea of just how effed up the stuff can be.

I totally agree with Nic Bvacqua's "Stop Breaking the Web" posted yesterday.

But on an effort/reward basis as a greenfield project, likely not worth it. Going with Readability (or Instapaper, or Pocket) themselves could well be worth investigating.

As a suggestion: another consideration would be to simply reject submissions which aren't accessible via some putative minimal client. If enough aggregators started penalising sites for inaccessible content, they might start wising up.
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Irving, TX's Irving high school[1] has 34 athletic coaches[2], so you can see their priorities. I can't find any course descriptions on their site, other than a few online courses. ("Web design - Learn industry-standard software including Adobe Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash with helpful videos.")

[1] http://www.irvingisd.net/Domain/8
[2] http://www.irvingisd.net/Page/6032
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Not really i question i would think to ask as my instant thought was:

They have selfs learned that if i look at a human the human will eventually fix my problems for me.
I wrote the entire code base; I look at it, use it, and read posts every day.
As for perfect SAT test scores equating to a right to get into Harvard... It is pretty clear that SAT scores are not always indicative of merit. When I was a Harvard senior I tutored another Harvard senior in high school algebra. She mentioned she got a perfect SAT score because her elite high school had a really good test prep program. There are many stories of people paying others to take the test, or people taking the test and sharing the questions with others, or people spending a lot of money or time to get a good score. In a way, that high score doesn't show that some students are more worthy to get in as much as it shows that affirmative action students need more affirmative action if the cycle of poverty is to be broken.