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I'm not really sure there's a lot of evidence that either you or your professor are correct.

I don't believe there's much evidence that there was a permanent jump in the female labour force due to WWII.
Equally, I'm not sure that there is much correlation between workforce increase and the ownership of washing machines (and yes, I know that correlation != causation but not much correlation != causation either).

The hypothesis I've seen that seems to follow the evidence is for the number of women attending higher education but, my guess, is that there were a lot of competing factors rather than one outlier.

And no, it doesn't make you a bigot for proposing that any more than it makes your prof a warmonger for proposing that WWII was a good thing for women.
Doesn't this allow for any taximeter that farms the calculation to a server and gets the fare back?

In theory doesn't this open up a lot of competing taxi-meters which are effectively thin-client taximeters?
>> I'd argue that one area of invention that has continued is essentially outsourcing home tasks in areas like food prep rather than creating new appliances to do them in the house.

Actually if you do it right, it can take around 2-2.5 hours each week to freeze meals for the whole week

https://www.reddit.com/r/MealPrepSunday

https://mealprepsunday.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/hello-world/

On the other hand, while there are some tasty ,high quality frozen foods(like the french chain Picard) , they're more expensive , so people still make their own.
> Our entire ecosystem is built around the way people work and play today, allowing you the freedom and flexibility to get things done wherever you are, whenever you need them done.

Seriously, what does this even mean? It is absurdly blatant, generic, and cliche marketing-speak. It sounds like they just covered a raspberry-pi with pretty lights and connected it to facebook.
Err, you clearly didn't watch/read the report then, because the investigation wasn't "dutch", it was conducted by a large team if different nationalities, including Russians. Aside from that, the international team has the missile fragments and the airplane, the Russian team doesn't.
Thank you New York Times, the News Group that Snowden could not use to whistle blow because it is a direct branch of US government, for reminding us Western how free we are against propaganda.

We can really trust the 6 companies that own all media groups in the US, or the two news agencies that control all what we watch in the West.

Never believe that the Government of the US have ever thought about controlling these 6 groups. That in order to make a movie about the military you have to give your script to the US military for review.

Don't read Propaganda by EDWARD L. BERNAYS or any other book, just trust us, we are the good guys.
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So, the reviews never happen without the marketing push.

The interplay between the marketing and the reviews are to help consumers decide if the vendor fulfilled their promises to the public. Critics with prestige will only review films that they anticipate will have an audience. The audience will go to the critics to see if they verify the sizzly promise from the trailer.

There is no demand for critical evaluation of a product without trying to generate that demand first through marketing and advertising. Try launching a product without doing any marketing at all and see what happens (absolutely nobody will buy your thing).

Different consumers care differing degrees on how much they want to research before they make a purchase.

Ask an indie film director how unimportant promotion and hustling are to actually getting people to see a movie.

Yelp and all crowdsourced reviews that don't even try to verify purchasing are easily scammed and gamed at scale.

Similarly, reviewing on Youtube -- especially for things like games and children's toys -- is rife with concealed bribery for influence -- illegal in the US. This stuff is harder to 'disrupt' than it seems.

>But this doesn't scale to huge cities with tens, hundreds or thousands of choices. We can't know the reputation of such a wide array, and we can easily be fooled by advertising. Internet-based recommendation systems make the grapevine and reputation scalable. I hope we see more innovation. Yelp is a start, but it fails miserably because if I rate a place 5 because I love very authentic Thai food, and another person rates it a 1 because they are used to Americanized Thai, the restaurant gets a 3 (I'm simplifying for illustrative purposes). In other words, Yelp's rating is useless to both me and the other person.

What happens is that people in cities tend to pick a small number of vendors that they trust based on repeated positive trading interactions. They might decide to test out different vendors if they receive a sufficiently enticing offer.

Yelp is not terribly good and doesn't even make money. This is also kind of a non-problem in search of a solution: people will evaluate restaurants based on peer evaluations, their own experience, professional critics, and crowd reviews. The kind of people who make judgments based on crowd reviews might just want to be with the popular crowd rather than quality. What crowd reviews tell you is what's popular -- since you don't have a sense of the personality and knowledge level of each amateur critic, each individual review carries little weight.

So for example, most Yelpers would freak out at the 'slow service' of a super-high-end restaurant because they're tasteless scenesters. If you want to know what the herd of mindless scenesters think is hot right now, Yelp'll tell you. Or in your Thai example.
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Have you explored the similarity between users? Recommendations are based on similar people. I usually use the user comparison view to check if I can trust the other user.

The user comparison view also shows you what the other user has seen and you haven't. Great once you trust the user to discover new movies.
Would you say the same about Metasploit or Wireshark? If not, where do you suggest the line be drawn?
It seems to be working now.
I don't think the technology, and who sold it to whom, is the real story here. We all know that the NSA and GCHQ have similar capabilities. I imagine China, Russia and several other states do too. The point is, this power will corrupt.

Consider this quote:

> people deemed dangerous to state security like government officials and opposition politicians are being surveilled

What happens if Labour look likely to win the election and someone decides Jeremy Corbyn is "dangerous to state security" because he opposes renewing Trident. What institutions exist to ensure that he can't be surveilled?
Robotic vacuums save a lot of time for those with hard floors and children/pets. Soylent and other meal replacements save about an hour per day.
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Give me a break. Insane people are in positions of tented authority at universities and colleges and are allowed to run amok.

In a supposedly open discussion about a book that we were reading (the autobiography of a former gang member and rapist gone good) I said something that perturbed the professor.

That resulted in a big tirade of screaming at me, where I was assigned responsibility for the slaughter of her family in a war and rape of her ancestor by the US Cavalry. I responded that my ancestors were peasants on the other side of the world and had nothing to do with treatment of the Plains Indians, and I was kicked out of the class and given an F.

Ultimately it was overturned by an appeals process, but similar incidents happened in mandatory classes like that in my school, and the administration was unwilling to take any action behind the individual cases.
Oh wow, finally an opportunity to see the pot calling the kettle black. Nytimes readers should remember this article every time they see a casual line coming from "anonymous government officials" of the United States being printed as fact without question or scrutiny.
I don't think that majority of young Russians even watch TV. Most of young people getting information from Internet. And there are many different points of views in Russian media space. Though main news sources are heavily influenced by Kremlin, that's true. But those who want to find an alternative point of view, will do that without any problems.
There was good speach about the exact effect that modern propaganda has by Timothy Snyder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFObB6_naw

The whole point of this kind of propaganda is to make people go "meh, everybody's lying, so I just won't trust anybody".

You have police shooting black unarmed teen, and want people not to be angry about that - make a panel discussion with 12 people telling 12 versions of what happened, 11 of which blame the teenager. Accuse every other source of information of bias and lies. Many people will think "there's sth to this, I won't know the truth anyway, not my problem, let's ignore this issue".
Are there other tablets with external display + keyboard + mouse attachment possibilities where you can run bash and shell scripts (not cygwin)?
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Their subscription model is where they may make their money.
Can you elaborate on differences/similarities between that system being a "corrupt, inefficient pile of BS" driven by propaganda, vs the socialistic "government should take care of everyone, by redistributing wealth" prominently posted in HN discussions (a la "guaranteed basic income", "reduced work weeks", "free healthcare/education/etc", "everyone has a right to _____ which others earned", etc - all requiring a dominating government taking what isn't theirs to take, all sounding wonderful but crushingly impossible in implementation a la USSR)?

(Obviously I'm biased, but I am trying to make an earnest question. Russian communism sounded great too, even as you note: your parents still fall for the propaganda. Wish I could ask in a more neutral tone, but it's an inherently divisive subject.)
The fact that you are having this conversation is a good start.
Not really. The Nvidia Shield tablet[0] seems to come with comparable hardware (bigger screen, same Tegra K1 CPU/GPU, less memory). You can buy one for $200, today.

It doesn't come with wood trimmings, though.

[0] http://www.gsmarena.com/nvidia_shield-6601.php
Well, I live in (South) Eastern Europe. The whole region is awash with puppet political elites and western backed/owned media. The result of that propaganda (which doesn't negate the existence of Russian propaganda or the bad experiences of ex-soviet block countries) in the wake of a victory in the cold-war is a very big reason for the current situation.

Regarding wars and interventions, I'm not just talking about Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, (ex)Yugoslavia and Latin America. I'm also talking about the aggressive stance the US is taking in the south China sea as we speak. I'm also thinking about it's operations in Africa.

If the US has a right to a global military presence, then others have too. Or is American exceptionalism real?
"It was regular war zone with dozens other planes shoot down"

with dozens of Ukrainian planes shoot down. (who shot them? where did they got weapons for that? where did they got skills for that?)

"Ukraine army shoot down civil airliner with 90 people on board just a few years ago" How many planes (korean planes to be specific) were shot down by USSR (that includes Russia)
I don't trust the article, but I have at least read different sources on the information, including some of the Russian ones. And while I cant say 100% what is true or not, I generally distrust news when they are changing their stance way to often. Another reason is that Russia is the aggressor in this war, and that in itself is a very big red sign saying "watch out". I apply the same to the US, UK or any other country that is attacking another country to "save them" or whatever excuse they come up with. I'm not saying that we don't need to help out in certain situations, but the current situation is out of control.

As another example, I currently live in Spain, and the government here lie to our faces and then hide from reporters so they cant ask any important questions. Here in Cataluña the people where tricked again into voting for a guy who is "promising" independence, and people believe it and shut up about any corruption or other issues that related to what's going on. They just blame Madrid and Germany for those issues, as that's what the TV tells them to do.

Edit: Added missing last sentence...
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Assuming we're talking veni-puncture based measurements ,can you please expand about the current technical hurdles of microfluidics, and what prevents them from being solved , even after 20 years+ of effort by the research community ?

And all those interesting research paper ,we're seeing from the academic community, aren't they targeting the issue ? or are mostly resume fillers ?
Last time I visited there were two guys with jackhammers taking up half of the concrete stairway to a McDonald's while it was still packed and busy: no safety equipment or barriers. I lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years. Shenzhen is great, but the air pollution is a holdup for anyone looking to relocate there (or Hong Kong). Otherwise it's a maker's paradise.
Well gosh what a negative nancy you are, summarising things up like that!

Umair has, I feel, a completely valid point. Twitter is a big open service for snippets of comments. Anonymity is pretty good (excluding privileged access, e.g. law enforcement requests) so it positively encourages any and all participation, even absolute shit talking.

And sadly that kind of thing happens again and again, and twitter took so long to publically appear to address it that it certainly gives the impression it wasn't something they were either anticipating or didn't have a way to easily deal with.

I think his argument is fairly compelling. Unrestrained abuse of a social service will drive people away. The daily vitriol generated by gamergate (on both sides of the argument) is a pretty obvious point of reference. There are a lot of people out there that have zero interest in any sort of meaningful dialogue and why would anyone want to have to sit on the receiving end of that should they find themselves unlucky enough to be caught in those crosshairs?
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Throw away because my other account is quite active on here. I was diagnosed with depression a few years ago and since then have made peace with it. I am under medication, but it's barely helping. Recently I switched job to a very good tech company with good quality work and pay. The plan was to join a startup in a year or two and see where it takes me.

However, things have been going downhill. I have 10 years of programming experience and I would say I am above average at it. Since the past few weeks, I have grown anxious and fearful of anything that's remotely challenging. So much so that I have started lying to take leave from work. I like my work but cannot muster the courage to do it. I fear letting my team down. I am always afraid and anxious. It's horrible living in fear. Guilt has become a normal feeling. I cannot bear lying to my awesome colleagues.
I cannot decide what to study. My programming confidence is taking a hit. Everything looks bleak. I have even thought of giving up and taking a job where I don't have to think much, like an assistant or librarian or low level management associate. It's like I am just waiting to die...

Any advice will help. Thanks HN.
Looks like it's an Android derivative tablet with a Spotify-like subscription model for software including their own cloud services (which seems mandatory) and a custom UI optimized both for tablet and external screen usage.

Some of these things might be interesting, but I'm not sure how they'll manage to market it and who would be the target market.
Both at the beginning and at the end of the kickstarter video, the founder expressed how people don't think this sort of device can succeed.

Does this mean that there was a lot of resistance from investors and beta-testers?
My theory:

Her success was much more due to connections through her father than people acknowledge.

She grew up all over the world due to her father's government positions in international aid.

Her board is made up of prominent people involved in US foreign relations. Seemingly, these might be people her father dealt with working for the government in international aid.

If you go to raise money and you have prominent people already on your board, you're likely to find success.
It wasn't completely clear from his post but he was saying that Gravity shouldn't be in the same ranks as 2001, and that The Martian shouldn't be in the same ranks as Blade Runner.
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She should be a politician.
Please do not start your own startup
Maybe I'm getting old but are you really going to you choose your next job based only on the programming language used ?

Check the company, the salary, the benefits, the local environment (not the dev env, the geographic one ;-), the commuting, the crime rate, the restaurants around, even the "hotness" of your future colleagues but dude who cares about the programming language ?
I think you have to give the script to the military to get FREE access to the machines/ships/tanks. You get free access and they get free propaganda.
You're Croatian I guess, so your country was basically created with US/NATO assistance.
You might be interested in JSClipper [1]: "Clipper is a robust library for polygon boolean operations and offsetting". See the demo here [2].

[1] http://jsclipper.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://jsclipper.sourceforge.net/6.1.1.1/main_demo.html
Not to mention the mere act of transferring data as part of the migration from old to new can take hours on its own.
More like "Both companies didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Its 8:30PM and no one's taking my calls or responding to my emails, but we're an online publication and want our content to go viral and get maximum eyeballs, so we'll run this story anyway."
No, i was referring to plain old rsync, but this is quite nice!
I have an inverse story from yours.

I'm a citizen and former resident of the UK, the UK for many reasons has a very loving relationship to the US, our young people are fashioned by the image of Television, and more than half of all English speaking entertaining media is american.

We like America/Americans, by default before we learn politics.

I travelled to the US in 2013, and to Russia the same year.

What I saw was not "good" vs "evil" or, "propaganda" vs "truth".

What I saw was exactly the same shit, I spoke to natives in both places, I travelled around.

Russia has it's side of the story and America has theirs, America is good at spreading it's propaganda outside of it's borders and fostering the image of "the beacon of light and purity of the world" but those who actually take a sceptical or inquisitive eye to America see an insidious underbelly which is only parabled by that in Russia.

Russia is guilty of being no more evil than the US government, if anything they're more honest with their intentions.

The differing factor is that we bought the kool-aid.
I'm no particular fan of frozen and other supermarket-prepared food for the most part and I do make meals with the intent of having leftovers even if I don't do it systematically. I agree that a lot of people who say they don't have time to cook could do so with a little planning.

However, frozen food, ubiquitous takeout, etc. is certainly widely used and probably makes faster and less labor-intensive meal prep at home a less pressing concern for many.
They skipped over this one: Why the New York Times Matters
- It’s 20k vs 190k for the same results page (loads faster, especially useful when on throttled 3G),

- It’s non-personalized – meaning you get less filter-bubble effect, which is useful when researching topics where you want to see opinions that oppose your own

- It has less tracking applied.
Freddy Got Fingered is famously divisive, much like Napoleon Dynamite. Many people hate it, some people really like it. If you have to boil that down to a single number 11% is fair, but if throws away a lot of information. Does the site give you a graph of the rating distribution, or even just the quartiles? That might be more informative.
Do Uber drivers in Manchester have that car service sticker? because in London allot of them don't which means they didn't register and didn't went through the criminal backround check.
You missed the quoting mess, adding their own compact list and map grammar, the convention of having a comment on every line, and there's more I can't think of right now.

I hate ansible, it's just better than any of the alternatives for different reasons. Luckily we're moving away from needing any of them. Scripting an image build is a lot easier than updating a machine using CI: you start from a blank slate every time, and an out of date script isn't the catastrophe it is with CI since you have the images saved.
If you could hack this and run Linux on it and tinker, I'd buy it.

For the intended purpose, it seems like a terrible idea. An entirely new ecosystem bootstrapped by an unknown new player with very vague marketing-speak all over the site. A subscription based computer with no community, developer ecosystem or ability to anything people want to do that couldn't be done better on existing platforms.
You can just run portions of the playbooks, but then you lose the value of a descriptive infrastructure. What does X look like? Depends on when each tag was run.
Why would he want a legacy of pushing corrupted undemocratic agreements which are clearly against society? It's like having a legacy of the biggest crook.

And in general, if he is leaving, why is he pushing it so much? Those who stay in power might do it for corruption reasons (money and power they'll get from those who lobbied for this garbage). But pushing for it when leaving is simply weird.
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Wow, a few of those diagrams lock up the tab in Chromium when played with.
One side note:

The trouble, I see at least in my (Western) country: The main (public) TV programs are in the hand of the state (via regulatory control of the TV channels through political parties) or of two to three big corporations (many channels belong to one big corporation controlling them and also other news media).

From Italy, I heard, that many TV channels are controlled by one media mogul that also was the president. I guess, there are also other western countries, with similar situations.

At least in my country, I see clear evidence, that political unwanted news are at least suppressed or sometimes shown in a very distorted way. For example, when the software patent discussion came up some years ago in Europe, they brought news showing software patents in a shiny, only positive way. I would accept that from a purely private TV channel, but that was a "public TV channel" -- and many in my country still believe, that those public TV channels only tell the truth. But that is not so -- they tell, what our governments want us to know!

Also, at least one leading news reporter was dismissed (against protests from other reporters), he was inconvenient for one leading political party.

So, in the west, we don't have it as bad as in Russia -- but we should be very careful, the situation is far away from good.
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