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I was very upset when I saw this. It took me forever to find the right "keyboard" for my phone, and now Microsoft owns it.
I hope they do avoid native mobile!

The government should be making services that work with every kind of device, out of the box.

Given the kind of services the government is likely to build, a website is way, way more cost effective. And Googleable!

Plus, accessibility requirements mandate services that can be read by the blind, hearing impaired, etc, all of which is possible with the web and much harder with native mobile.
All points offered with no supporting evidence. Might as well have said "I read on some website".
I'm very interested in seeing how this case pans out, seeing that he cited "favoring women" as a criteria.

In many courts, similar cases like this have been laughed off. In today's world, in many established companies the gender bias (female given priority) is a real form of discrimination. At my University (a top 10), the average female graduates where picked off by Google, MS and the likes - the extremely hard working, talented and passionate grads (male) couldn't even get interviews at big G half the time.

It's an interesting world we live in, where discrimination is now being fought with discrimination.
That was my thought too - with all of the implied harassment, offline bullying, sleuthing and shaming going on perhaps there are grander issues than Facebook launching a corporate product.
Right. And the choice could now be upgrading to a smartwatch from Casio as opposed to a higher end Swatch. Check out Swatch's share price since 2013.

No clue why Europe is the only relevant market you're referencing here. Either way no clue what the market size for town clocks was.
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I"ll have to admit that I had my doubts before following the link...no more...

A very pleasant read with great insight, especially given that it was written back in 1992...

Thanks for posting!
Google's defense is probably algorithmic.
I would definitely take that bet. Startup founders for the most part, even ones accepting 9-figure acquisitions, don't tend to have people ghost-writing their blog posts. (Dedicated writers on their team maybe, but not authoring blog posts with the founders' by-line.) I agree with your parent though.
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Wow, reading this... I've had the exact same experience last year with something I was told was LSD, but later I found out it was 25I. Either way, the similarities are uncanny, except I didn't get specifics like "I think I burst a vessel" or something like that. Instead it was directly tunnel vision, avoiding talking, felt like I was passing out and for a good while afterwards I avoided some thoughts thinking I could "flashback" to that "almost-dying" moment.

The way I was freed from that prison, however was spiritual and it wouldn't add much to share it here. It did show me that even though some psychoactives can guide you, others come without a teacher and anything can happen to you.

Disclaimer: regular ayahuasca user
Not all watchmakers make expensive fashion statements. Market is segmented. Guys beyond Casio (Swatch et al) will/have been affected
> Not judging the merit of the complaints, but...

And the rest of your comment is just grinding your axe with the biases your brought into the discussion. Now, I could add to that by arguing with you using the biases I brought into the discussion.

And neither of us would be talking about this one specific company and one specific employee at that company who had one specific problem, and has chosen to accuse the company of discrimination.

This is how “linkbait” works: People are already heavily biased to believe something-or-other, and they charge in and read the post through the lens of whatever they want to believe, and to argue whatever they wanted to argue.

If we don’t actually judge this case and this post by the specific merits of a specific claim by a specific person about a specific circumstance in a specific company, we might as well just spin a wheel every morning, read off whatever hot-button topic comes up, and just start commenting.
Your quickness to retaliate in anger, instead of correcting your mathematical oversight, undermines your reader's confidence in your ability to judge the merits of your coworkers.
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Company sinks. Problem solved.
Harvard's CS50 begins with C and it's quite successful. Well, technically they begin with Scratch, but the course quickly moves into C. They get around certain barriers (you mention user input) by providing helpers/abstractions, which are gradually torn down as the course progresses.
As stated above, I think it's not so much a lack of trust but a lack of confidence in a company that can't give you a straight-up pricing structure on their web page.

It screams "we'll charge you as much as we think you can afford", kinda like those domain squatters. Oh you're a big company and want this random domain name? $40,000 please.
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Affirmative action is discrimination, and has strong negative effects on local economies.

Consider a firm which operates at equilibrium (where peak profit is achieved), with a ratio of 80% male, 20% female. Artificially capping the number of males allowed in the corporation, or artificially increasing the number of females pushes the corporation out of equilibrium thus reducing profits in the long term.

On the flip side of the coin, if the firm discriminates (equilibrium 50% male, 50% female but it chooses 80/20) - the economy punishes the firm by reducing its potential profits.

Companies should be hiring on skill, and culture fit. Not to fill a quota or someone's agenda.

It's true that there is a gap within genders in tech - but the answer isn't reducing another equally skilled person's chances of getting the job - this is bad for everyone (except the person who got the job). Instead, we need to look at the root cause and try to learn why the gap is so obvious. Fix the issue at the source, rather than using affirmative action as a bandaid. Maybe it even turns out not to be an issue. Who knows.
Does messenger also consider all this stuff? I could imagine it somewhat well in that case (well, so long as you're not pasting huge code blocks)
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We're never going to stop using petroleum (for fertilizer, plastics, other chemicals, etc.), but hopefully we'll stop burning it for fuel. While marginal sources like tar sands could likely never be used, the rest will most likely be used for something. Unless there's some revolution in Genetic engineering that lets us make all of these useful products from microbes.
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Amen. We can build powerful, stable applications for the web that work across all browsers and operating systems. It has never been easier to pass data around and tap into 3rd party services to compose platforms that weren't possible a decade ago.

I'm hardly 'old' in IRL terms but I remember back before we had really good version control, commmunication, data synchronization, deployment, testing, etc... tools.

The state of things nowadays is just nice. Just watch out for the hype landmines and life is good.
Pejman is a good dude with an amazing history.
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Trance party. Psytrance, not Armin van Buuren trance. :)
This made me chuckle. I've been doing this type of stream editing for years, on the client side. Of course I strip out Javascript. In addition to blocking google-analytics, doubleclick, etc. client-side, via DNS. Google reminds me of Goldman Sachs: trying to take both sides of a bet. But Google can never deliver the best experience for the user, because the best experience does not include redirects to set cookies, tracking, ads and other nonsense that serves no benefit to the user. Either Google is for advertisers or it is for users. Users do not pay Google. Draw your own conclusions.
I have tried to use Yammer at work, but found the apps and web interface quite poor. It didn't seem reconnect properly after being offline, mobile app didn't always notify me, also the chatwindows on the webclient where quite annoying to use.
Hugues Hoppe, unless he has changed his name.
Officially mass surveillance isn't admitted by the NSA and other government bodies. They suggest they only do legal surveillance that has to be approved by the fisa court. Of course everything that I just said is pure bs.
If you "make him disclose any contacts requesting that information," you've waded pretty heavily into the 1st Amendment. Should all journalists be obligated to discuss their past reporting with the government? Should only those journalists whose reporting meets government standards be eligible for a government job? Why not just go all the way and license journalists? Some countries have done so. Then you could take away his license for looking at the Snowden material.
My understanding is that for both the Mac and iOS app stores, the Purchases tab has all the apps you've bought, whether they're currently available on the store or not. This is how I re-download older operating systems or previous releases of apps. That said, I can imagine Apple also having a parallel system that takes the app away from there too -- but I don't think this is the default.
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I agree with your sentiments.

In our company, communication is already highly splintered. We have so many ways of communicating, posting, sharing and chatting that nobody knows what is going on. It is also very distracting and time consuming. It is nearly impossible to do a conference over chat protocols now. Everyone wants to use "their own thing". It has become far worse than a TED talk I saw on meetings.
You're completely not getting why technology is different from luxury. Wagon wheels are not and never were a luxury product. People bought them for completely different reasons.
They're worried for several reasons. The biggest is, what if it isn't dropping because of the Saudis, but because of a weak economy in China? And what if that spreads to the rest of the world?

Additionally, the lower oil prices wrecked the income of a number of state and national governments that just assumed the price would stay that way for the foreseeable future.
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> To tell if something is wrong, we cannot just look at
> statistics.

So IT field can be dominated by white males without anything being wrong. Which I am OK with.
They do support Google Authenticator and Yubikeys, though.
I do something similar, but instead of 8 groups of 2 I have 4 groups of 4: 00xx 01xx 10xx and 11xx.

I also have some freebie groups that I just know, like 0001 0011 0111 1111, the powers of two, 5 and 6 from working with chmod, etc.

A B D E still give me trouble, but that's what a tool like this hex quiz is good for!
Also... Github: https://github.com/adamst85
Indeed. This reminds me of Louis CK - Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LaT5Iiwo4
AFAIK updating server firmware under Linux has been possible for years, so I'm curious why this required a kernel update, a bunch of new packages, and fixing hundreds of bugs. Is this a case of the standard way being 10x more complex than the proprietary way?
Presumably, if you're browsing a list of services and whether or not they support 2FA, you already know what 2FA is and why it's important.
I don't know if it could be blamed on an algorithm. Some of the companies (MS was one) even hosted parties for the female members of IEEE and ACM. Took them out to their campus, free meals, mock interviews, free swag, networking events. But they where female only events.
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What about for entry-level candidates?
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Isn't a handgun just a gun made to make assaulting another human easier?
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm fairly certain you can't blame an algorithm for your hiring practices being discriminatory. Ultimately humans decide to use an algorithm or not.
Yeah, it's a pity that the system we put in place to make victims whole first asks us to say the worst about everybody involved, victim included. Not that I have a better idea, but I think there's a cruel irony to it.
This is exactly where my job is headed. We hired a project manager who frankly knows nothing about tech. Suddenly, we the developers are no longer able to file tickets ourselves and the tickets themselves need to be blessed and have specs the higher ups can approve. One liner for a hot fix that's filling the error logs? Needs a ticket - a ticket we can't file. All pull requests need one or more associated tickets. I've done my best to actively ignore/subvert it, but it's coming up more and more.

It's incredibly stifling and frustrating and I'm really peeved. It's hard to leave a job I love and have been at for almost 5 years, but we're on a road to hell.

All that said, if anyone needs a Go dev ;)
excellent read.. i found it especially interesting how you broke it down by fundamentals to quantitatively compare the two, with the stadium capex as a baseline.

Your thesis makes perfect sense, and in a perfect world governments, and corporate America for that matter, would follow your thesis and invest in job creation through startups. However, human nature has the habit of seeing their name up in lights as 10s of thousands pour into the stadium to watch football.

I think what your article really is getting to the bottom of, and by using football as the foil, is that to drive the US economy as the largest generation on the planet - the millenials - takes the reins. Where the focus needs to be is on empowering the entrepreneur, which in turn will empower the people through employment and wealth creation.

Kudos for your company, iSelectFund, for helping to make that vision a reality.
This is very true. My experience has always been that my team performed better when there were /less/ controls on their time, rather than more. I also found it was important to explain the reasons /why/ a particular thing needed to be done by a certain date, on the occasions that some external pressure needed it to be done.

People don't mind pulling out the stops and working extra hard, as long as it's occasional and /necessary/. It's absolutely morale-killing to do so for an arbitrary deadline, however. Nothing burns out a team faster than death-marches to deadlines pulled from thin air.
Ask HN: Why is the Hacker News API broken frequently?
I'm developing an app that uses this API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API in the back-end to fetch stories, links and comments. When using my app, I find that either the connection fails, times out or I get 'unauthorized' when retrieving comments. All of this happens while the website is perfectly fine.

Is the API not being actively supported?

Is there someone who knows about what's maintaining the API back-end?

Example API URL you can try that's supposed to return a JSON of all topstories (doesn't return anything last I checked): https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty
> Frankly, when someone tells me they work in a tech place where women are successful, I'm jealous.

I think the key there is "where women are successful *at mens expense" (feel free to swap the genders as well).
People upgrading from Casio to Apple are of no concern to higher-end makers like Patek Philippe. Swatch is not a premium watch maker. What Patek and the like might be worried about is people moving from Patek to Apple.

But when you start to think more carefully about that scenario, it's rather ridiculous. People into watches don't just buy one. You don't "switch" brands, you just select a different one for your next purchase. It could be another Patek, perhaps an Audemars Piguet, or even an Apple Watch.

The idea that someone buying these watches would sell them all and buy an Apple Watch, never to own another high-end watch again, is simply absurd.
"The pot calling the kettle black" is only meant to argue against a defensive counter-accusation. It is same idea as "two wrongs don't make a right"

The pot can legitimately call the kettle black and vice versa. They both have the problem.
Interesting how the industry has come full circle. Static linking and dead code elimination is a problem we solved in the 1970s for compiled languages. Has the time come to adopt a proper linker for the web?

Google's Closure Compiler has supported dead code elimination [1] since 2009, but the feature imposes some unpalatable restrictions. It never supported popular libraries like jQuery. The process is also rather slow, as Closure Compiler must analyze all code in the bundle at once.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/compilat...
Probably more doomed to succeed. Scope creep is one of the biggest things that kills startups. KISS and get the MVP out. If users like it, move forwards - otherwise pivot.
nice. the theme looks good too. i think will fork it to rebuild my site.
Yeah. I wouldn't ever single out a particular setting as good or bad. Everyone is different, and you want to be firmly in your comfort zone, around a small number of people who you trust a lot and around very few people who you don't trust. And somewhere where you can chiiillllllll.

The setting that matches that description is different for each person. If you trust yourself, you'll do just fine at picking the right time and place.
I think most of it is actually from the early sixties
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Not sure why this touched a nerve enough to be downvoted into oblivion. If it was the cheeky tl;dr I guess I can make a point to avoid any and all attempts at sarcasm in my future posts.

As for the rest, I genuinely think it's a useful approach to consider

1. it's relies on future web standards not tools

Tools come and go. Web standards never go. If the goal is to avoid technical debt, then don't write code in a way that will eventually be obsolete.

2. 'Abstractions are the solution to every problem, except the problem of too many abstractions'

Except, when there's a viable strategy to provide access at multiple layers of abstraction. If we're finally getting a truly universal module standard, why not leverage it to improve our library APIs?

It's not like we have to waste the time/energy/effort supporting multiple module non-standards anymore. The approach I outlined above provides much better usability with very little effort on the part of the dev implementing an API.

3. It doesn't rely on approaches that will eventually be obsolete

Namely bundling. Tree shaking is great if the end goal is to analyze all dependencies and create an optimized bundle.

Except for the fact that bundling will become an anti-pattern when HTTPv2 reaches widespread adoption.
I wonder how this compares to Google+ for work?

https://support.google.com/a/answer/1631858?hl=en
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It's only asynchronous is you have willpower, which is finite and easily exhausted, and if there's no expectation of realtime response on the other end, which there nearly always is these days. Whoever comes out with a viable system that is explicitly async (like mailman, or a good secretary) will really benefit humanity.
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We've used "Facebook for Work" at work. It is highly distracting in IMO.

One of the best productivity hacks is to never log into Facebook or any social accounts when at work. Now, we are working on it which keeps sending you notifications all day long and especially over the weekend.

You like or comment saying - "Awesome, well deserved." The 100 people are going to do the same too. It's super annoying.

This and the fact that you move on to your feed and then shitty videos, pics, buzzfeed and boom ! your whole afternoon is gone !
Your story has the same ring to it as David Baasov, Canadian guy who took over PokerStars. Story here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2014/12/01/the-king-...

Homeless, inspiring, success, ticks all the same boxes.

Pejman - Great history man, and even better story.
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This, good or bad, suffers from exactly the same problem other large internet companies "feature": What i like to call "Customer-No-Service".

This is a feature whereby they get you to rely on their platform for various services and, when you need support, well, there ain't none. No email, phone, fax, telegram, hell not even smoke signals.

And, of course, the added bonus is the traditionally unannounced account shutdown or suspension for no apparent fucking reason at all or some bullshit unpublished reason. What's best is that these are often followed by cryptic emails informing you of the account suspension. To make things even better, these emails are crafted to actually provide negative information and send you to the imsane asylum if you dare try to make any sense out of them. And, of course, no recourse whatsoever.

Yeah, no, thanks. I like to sleep at night.
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Obligatory erowid.org plug... if you're curious, no better place to start.

ITT: a lot of 100% accurate suggestion that understanding the concept of 'set and setting' is invaluable when experimenting with altered states...!
Oh man, that was a good one! Do kids these days even know about that book?
And so do I, along with Reddit and a few other sites. Should probably add HN to the list as well.
Personally, I would say that "One of the best productivity hacks is to never log into Facebook" -- EVER!

:-D
Same here. The visual pattern created by 0-15 in binary is forever be etched into my memory.
> it was becoming clear that logic-based AI had hit a wall... Then came machine learning.

In that context, this advance is a sign that there's still momentum going in the current ML paradigm - the hardest board game was at last solved! But as many have pointed out, there's a time in the near future where this approach too will stall short of ambitions. Will this lead to another winter?

For the algorithm ideologues probably yes. The key to current interest was that NN do vision extremely well, which can be built into image search, etc, which can be commercialized. So I think you are right that R&D for self-driving cars will be the sustaining investment in this field for the future, and this will drag AI research towards "animal common sense" as a goal. If they build a hell of safe car and the people buy into it, there could a Cambrian explosion in AI. But its failure or rejection could break the field too.