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>Telephone communication is also a big problem. No matter how often I tell people about my disability or how quickly I respond to e-mails/chats, they will still insist on calling me for "urgent" things. My theory is that because I'm largely functional in person, they still subconsciously expect me to be able to use a phone normally.

Yeah, I'm with you on this. People forget! We also get so good at lip-reading and making the right faces at the right moments that people think it's not as bad as it is. FWIW I did start just ignoring the phone, and then when the peevish emails come in saying "I'm trying to phone you!" I remind them that I'm deaf, and they're gonna have to outline the problem in writing.

I said this in the article, and it bears saying again: adjustments can always be made. If somebody needs to get hold of me quickly, they can ping me on Slack. They can send me a message on Google Hangouts. They can Skype me! There's lots of options. They go for the phone because that's what they're used to, but it's totally possible to train people out of this. It's not just for your comfort, it's to make it possible for you to do your job effectively.

I've had to be kinda pushy about this sometimes, but I don't regret sticking to my guns. I used to just roll over and it made everything more difficult and unpleasant as a result.

Edit: just saw your post below about big businesses refusing to allow IM. That would make things... awkward. Here in the UK employers are required by law to make "reasonable adjustments" for disabled employees ("reasonable" meaning reasonable to the employee and to the employer), and a big company would struggle to get away with that over here. I think it's called "reasonable accommodations" in the US? My first port of call would definitely be to go and see HR and wave the relevant legislation under their noses, if it exists in Japan.
Thanks for the feedback, I also believe that this approach has a lot of potential, especially after the work of Stephen Bax, a few word translations can help us to figure out transformations that could allow translation in vector space.
I don't believe that you would need Strong AI to automate away dangerous parts of jobs. Or the monotonous parts.
> We're moving past the days of the static web.

As much as I like site generators and I'd find this a good idea for some purposes I wouldn't state it is a replacement for static sites generators.
Apple, as other companies of such huge size with extremely complex supply chain, don't go too deep to inspect what their contractors do. They turn a blind eye, because it's all down to the matter if you can come up with an excuse and remain clean: "we don't know and physically can't check what all our sub-sub-contractors do, but we will no longer deal with them until they fix it" etc. Unless we have laws that hold all involved parties accountable, such practice will prevail.
> For example, every company with 50 or more employees needs to establish a works council (Comité d’Entreprise). This costs money and time.

Actually, not that much. You have one year to install it, and it mainly consists of an election you have to organize. If you can't organize that kind of stuff once every two year or so, I don't understand how you can face other business challenges.

> It is also one of many examples of regulation that brings about the culture of hostility between employees and employers.

In most of the companies, it only consists of giving money to employees and managers picked charities and giving perks like theaters tickets.

All of this is really manageable for startups with more than 50 employees, and most of the time, it is already done by them to attract employees.
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I first came into contact with this article via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP9AIUT9nos, which is a pretty decent analysis on how people misinterpreted the original concept.
- It would be good to document the entropy evaluation for readers to check if the assumptions are correct.

- Which random number generator is involved? Optimally, the user should be able to put his plain entropy in the locally run "nice password" maker for which he also checked the source code. Anything else, IMHO, isn't more than the game inspired by the real problem.

Edit:
itcrowd clears it up: it's made for April 1st, that explains the problems.

- Worth knowing, a simple solution to real user-generated entropy:

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

The page could be actually useful if it would run fully locally (e.g. on an air gaped computer) and take the input of the values of the user thrown dices.
No idea about AU, but £600/d ($200K ~= £140K / 46 / 5) is not the standard rate in London let alone the UK.
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That's a valid problem.
If you look beyond startups, the french economy is mostly benemoth (think Total, Bouygues, etc) and small shops (your local boulangerie). There aren't that many mid-size successful companies - even less so in the software space where a big part of the enterprise market is dominated by services led companies.
I personally think it has less to do with regulation, and more with the way credit and the banking system works for these kinds of companies - once you're no longer interesting for VCs, the ability to get investments or loan goes down. It may also have to do with the size of the french market overall.
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Hat off to you, very interesting. Keep up the great work.
Cost is going to be taken care of by let's encrypt.

I am surprised complexity of setting up SSL isn't mentioned in the article.

First the tools are complex to use, use various formats for storing keys that are incompatible. In Linux you pretty much have to rely on cryptic command lines. Windows is slightly simpler. And you need more tools to convert certificates between the different formats (for instance using an IIS certificate with FileZilla).

Then you have to deal with the complexity of the algorithms used, the fact that chrome won't accept sha1 anymore, the fact that http2 is very picky in the cryptographic methods used.

What is a best practice today breaks tomorrow. For instance the following script written only a couple of years ago shows how to set up windows to get an A on SSLLabs:

https://www.hass.de/content/setup-your-iis-ssl-perfect-forwa...

But with IIS10 / http2, this list of ciphers is incompatible with chrome. I found a list that works here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=529994

but I am sure it will break older browsers.

Etc, etc, etc. This is hard work. Until setting up SSL will be a simple box to tick in IIS or a single setting to change in apache, only developers who really care about security and are really motivated will deal with this shit.
It is more burdenful than costly though - compared to the costs of hiring and keeping employees in the US, I think the costs are competitive.
"chain of digital signatures" was referring to the method of assigning value between owners via transactions (s2). That's not the blockchain, nor was it a new concept -- see bmoney, Wei Dai, 1998.

They described the blockchain as an "ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work"
What I don't inderstand about this outrage is, will the Apple declining go buy from this supplier actually change these children lives for the better or not?

This child labour happens not because of particular supplier, but because of economic situation in the whole country. If Apple switches from Congo mines to cobalt from more developed places, won't it just make Congo even more pure? Right now, these children work in mines because they need to survive; but if the mines close, doesn't it mean that these children will just loose the means to survive an end up being hungry instead?

(Please notice: I'm not making statements, I only ask questions. I don't know enough about this to assume anything.)
Can you recommend related reading in the ASIC tooling literature?
I don't believe consumer choice is the only agency we have. Can you imagine any others?
I totally agree that time to market is hugely important.

The dynamics of getting to market are complicated and I don't agree that tech folk undermine them to any special degree. If you're an engineer with a few years experience, chances are you've been smacked by being too conservative or too loose with tech debt. Good contextual use of debt is a key part of the "senior" in any senior engineer. I'm happy to be "sloppy" and fast at the right moments.

My experience has been that business people value time to market, but only if they can offload the costs to engineering by taking on tech debt. When asked to put their money where their mouth is and pay for more engineers or cut scope, often the business side will balk. It's an annoyance when non-technical leadership perennially sees tech debt as a way to get a free lunch. Ain't no free lunches.
RPi2 has a lot of promise in this regard, IMNSHO :)
Nope. It's me and you who actually give money for gadgets manufactured on far-east, exploiting the hell out of ppl.
It is also almost unusable on chrome/windows. 3d-view just freezes entire browser for 10-15 seconds.
How did you end up in Japan, if I may ask?

I would assume daily life could be a little more complicated because of the foreign language. But thinking about it a bit maybe that helps when deaf. The local population I guess automatically make allowances assuming you don't know the language. I have deaf family members, and I constantly see them getting frustrated by people who assume the deaf person understands every thing they are saying, if that makes any sense.
Totally agree with this. It's usually the second or third thing that I say in an interview after "hello", so I can get them to arrange where everyone sits in a favourable way. If they're dicks about it then you're not going to want to work with them. It is scary, though - nobody wants to feel like somebody hates them because of a disability that can't be helped, so I get why it's a preoccupation, and most of us will have had the same worry.

Regarding standups, I agree that they're a PITA. Talk to your scrum master about it if you have one - it's their job to facilitate communication. My past scrum masters have used the Wooden Spoon method (you only get to talk if you're holding the spoon) or they've stood beside me and taken brief notes for me throughout. We also experimented with doing our standups over Slack, which was FANTASTIC.
How long can the circus keep going? It might collapse at any moment yet I don't think anyone knows for sure.

This statement is fundamental. It is very very hard to time the market. In fact there is a famous saying by John M Keynes "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".
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Can this blockchain technology really leverage the big data prospects of the cloud?
Whatspp charges $1/year, right?

The announcement said handling payment was a big problem. Well, a support call costs $20 or so. If 5% of customers have a payment problem (don't have credit card any more etc) and 50% of those incidents require human attention, that's half of Whatsapp's revenue and a serious reason for churn and user dissatisfaction. 5% and 50% are random numbers, but you see the point, right?
Disclosing which packages you download might tell an attacker something about your configuration. Of course, the tradeoff with download throughput might not be valuable for most users.
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The Freddie Mac style of development. Awesome!
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You're looking at things only in terms of purely economic transactions. The reality is that plenty of kids "working" in dangerous mines are not there because they made some rational choice to accept the risk in exchange for enough money to buy food[1] but because of threats of physical violence. To put it another way they are slaves.

[1] why would we even expect children to have the capability to make those kinds of decisions rationally anyway?
Thanks for the correction re: terminology used, it's been years since I read the paper.
There's another element to this too which multiplies the problem: whether the competition is on a local or a global scale.

Consider being a chef vs being a filmmaker. If you're the best chef in a city, you'll be in considerable demand. See, for example, Tom Kitchin in Edinburgh, who is justifiably rather famous and whose restaurant is booked out months in advance.

If you're the best filmmaker in a city, by contrast, no-one really cares. What matters there is if you're the best - or one of the best 10 or so - in the world.

(Or at least, within a specific language.)

Why? Because you can copy films and sell them all over the world without additional labour. You can do neither with food.

So whilst the two are "creative" jobs, the output's transportability and replicability make a huge difference in just how good you have to be to be the best.

(Not that I'm saying being a chef or running a restaurant isn't competitive. It's very competitive. And bloody hard work in other ways. Say what you like about being a filmmaker, it doesn't involve 14-hour days 360 days of the year to stay afloat.)
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I wouldn't mind if a company monitored my home heating system or refrigerator and notified me if they were about to fail, as these failures can be expensive

I'd be worried that the pre-emptive maintenance would be far more expensive. You can already get heating system insurance, but I wouldn't trust the IoT system to not over-order maintenance in order to maintain the company's profits.

I saw an advert for HP's printer ink subscription service: http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/ads/instant-ink/overview.html and recoiled in horror. It's already the most expensive liquid most people will buy, and you want to let the printer order it for you?

We're back to the door in Ubik that asked the user for a nickel before it would open every time.
How far removed from the purchasing chain is someone/organization deemed "morally clean"?
Best I could find is a shady Wikipedia article referencing a controversial study, not exactly compelling evidence... Nevermind that scientists cannot even agree on a standard valid unit of measurement for "intelligence".

edit: Just google "white men can't jump", i think it's pretty obvious
well, I care. But what if I don't have choice? simple don't use it?
Unless the test will be performed using dictionary words only. Starting with 1 word 1st capital letter followed by 1st lower case. I think the calculation time would drop significantly.
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The Wolfram language has been promoted a lot recently. They're moving from a computer algebra system to a more general purpose programming environment for scientific applications. There's neat new things like easier GUI features.
It's the same in all industries.

Look at airlines. People aren't willing to spend $x to have actual legroom. Everyone only every buys the lowest cost.

Or clothing.

And modern supply chains are so complex thats its impossible to ensure that 100% of the time policies are complied with.

And are the people in these places better off with that job, then without? (i honestly don't know, but surely this is a factor)
Yes, these children are integrated into a system where we benefit from their child slavery. And our economic theology keeps many of us from seeing the situation simply. ("They're better off as child slaves! They should probably thank us!")
Market failure calls for regulation. There is a way to prevent such behavior from being acceptable or lawful.
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> How did you end up in Japan, if I may ask?

Majored in Japanese in college, but I couldn't speak it worth a damn. I figured that if I really wanted to be able to use Japanese in a reasonable way, I should just move here, so I got a job assisting with English education in public schools as an ALT.

> The local population I guess automatically make allowances assuming you don't know the language.

I look more or less Japanese, so they actually assume I do know the language -- it's a bit of a shock when they find that not only do I not know the language, I'm also handicapped. (Deaf people in Japan don't have very much exposure; the few that I've met have tended to keep very strongly to their own Deaf communities.)

It's actually worse in some ways; in America, if I don't hear something, I can say that and the other person understands that. Here, if I don't hear something, it's a 50/50 chance whether the other person believes me or simply thinks my Japanese isn't up to snuff (which I can tell because they resort to much, much simpler language to describe the word they thought I didn't "hear").
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Judging others is an impossible task. We use the word "unlucky" because we do not truly know that person. Yes, they could be lazy, but they could also have mental or physical problems that are beyond their control.

So, we say "unlucky" because it hints at the fact that many of the gifts that we humans have were not individually earned (intelligence, will-power, mental sanity, life, general health, your parents, etc). Nobody is in full control of their life, so we cannot judge them with impunity for the way their life worked out.
That mostly sounds like your typical marketing statement to me though, which is of course the best available move in their situation.

Sourcing every component for a manufacturing company's supply chain in a responsible way is hard. Especially because tracking these components is made hard by shady providers who know or - for those higher in the chain - suspect that the components they provide are produced/extracted by children and/or exploited workers. But it's basically a "don't ask don't tell" situation where investigating what happens further down the chain can only cost you money or stir up shit, so as long as consumers don't complain there's no business incentive to do that.

Obviously Apple is not the only company involved in this, but contrarily to their claim they don't lead the industry at all on this matter.
If we had to elect a leader I'd argue it would rather be Intel, see this entry from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10874850
You just agreed that a situation which increases inequality (rich person gaining 3x, poor person 2x) helps the poorer person more.

How do you reconcile this with the claim that inequality is the problem?
As someone who is interested in tractors, this article was a total letdown.
As long as these "exploited children" have no BETTER options, the cycle will continue.
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google indexes dynamic content no problem
> And modern supply chains are so complex thats its impossible to ensure that 100% of the time policies are complied with.

That might be true but it's still only an excuse at the end of the day.
I also interested in new ways for minimal coding & debugging.

I'm working on Animation CPU platform, ACPUL declarative algorithmic language for same purposes.

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

http://acpul.org/

Also LiveComment information tool:

http://acpul.org/livecomment
Go mine some cobalt yourself?
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Ask yourself if you really need it. There was a life before cellphones and it did work very well.
i've also tested it, it indexes dynamic content just fine, even complex angular sites
Well, it's the same when there's a terrorist attack that kills 30 people but wait... the victims don't share our skin tone and also it is in country which name we'll forget in a week.

If it doesn't affect us directly or our money, we don't give a crap... except for keeping a nice social facade sharing the outrage as you said.

In a historic/anthropologic way maybe a big part of human progress is based on dehumanizing people and exploting them or the resources they have. Seems like as a society all is well if it affects "them" and not "us".
From the source it looks like the "feature" isn't implemented yet. Only image reference is:

$('#xkcd-image-'+(index)).html("&nbsp;");

This should be a "Show HN"
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Not just America, America is just leading the pack. And from an English perspective I certainly wouldn't eulogise the Unions in the way this article does either. My father (now retired) was a member of the EETPU (Electrician's Union). It was seen as a "right-wing" Union because its constitution banned communists from holding any positions within the Union - but that was because communist activists and their aggressive confrontational policies had almost wrecked the Union. The EETPU dealt with the problem, other Unions, the NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) did not. It was their aggressive confrontational policies that wrecked worker solidarity in private industry.

The article touches on the breakdown of other social support as well. Marriage for example. And yet doesn't touch on why this might be. I have a son and two daughters. I have told my daughters that they must get married, and my son that he should definitely not. Why? Because divorce laws are so anti-male that nowadays it makes no sense for a man to marry. (And yes, I cynically want my daughters to gain this protection).

In the UK there used to be a massive culture of socialising in "pubs" (public houses, or "bars"). Legislative changes ranging from allowing the 24 hour sale of cheap alcohol in supermarkets coupled with anti-smoking legislation that makes it illegal to smoke inside pubs have driven away a large chunk of that trade. I am a non-smoker but would prefer an open pub that allows smoking than no pub at all. This is important because pubs are also traditionally where different social classes meet and mingle as equals as well as where young people used to learn to drink responsibly under the watchful eye of the landlord and older drinkers - now they are likely to get totally smashed on alco-pops out of sight.

Then there's the impact of mass immigration on social housing and the resultant disruption of traditional communities.

The traditional working classes (my background) are already under assault even before we add in the coming tide of job losses through automation. These are all good reasons for supporting a move to a Basic Citizen's Income as soon as possible.
Mum bought an apple Tv and I winced at the wasted money. Then as I was watching Esports on twitch on my iphone I noticed a new icon. Press button, select apple TV, suddenly I'm watching on the big screen.

For all it's flaws (and there are many) that kind of integration is really really neat.
A guy I used to work with classified these as "white man problems". IE, we have the luxury of choice.
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I think Apple has a reasonable approach: if a child is discovered working where they shouldn't be the supplier is required to: pay for the kid's education, continue paying kid's salary during education, offer a job after graduation. If they don't do this, the supplier's contract is terminated.