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> This "smart people creating for people less than them" problem is exacerbated with students.

This is a great observation of a problem that extends throughout silicon valley. There is a fundamental problem with the way we design products that enables this "condescension," as you aptly put it. The problem is that "product people" design an "experience" for the nebulous "user". Instead of realizing that each user is also a person, with real experiences and a brain outside of the app, the designers fall into the trap of only thinking of each user within the context of their own app. The product designers ignore any experience that the user has outside of their own product, resulting in design choices that convey a tone of condescension to the user.

As you observe, this problem is particularly evident in education. The top offenders:

- Coding bootcamps

- "Learn to code" websites like codecademy

These products are not much different from the "guru" industry that peddles real estate and affiliate marketing eBooks to the "get rich quick" crowd. Someone searching "how to make money fast" is engaged in a slightly less sophisticated mindset than someone searching "how to learn to code fast," but the same psychological impetus leads to both searches. As a result, an entire industry has emerged to prey on those learning to code.

Personally, I learned to code through a combination of online tutorials and rudimentary reverse engineering. How does this website work? What powers this website? How can I replicate this? Oh cool, a tutorial... let me finish this PHP membership system and then add my own features!

I maintain this is still the best way to learn to code. Taking things apart and building small projects is the fastest learning method. The tutorials were all free and very raw. They came from different sources that all presented different opinions and frameworks for thinking about programming. I had to read between the lines. I had to think critically. There was no mindless interactive IDE simulator to click through. I only had the real world: a text editor, a hosted server to FTP my PHP files to, and a web browser. It was trial by fire.

Sure, coding bootcamps and codecademy have taught lots of people to "code"... but at what cost? What experiences have these people missed by learning through a structured, opinionated curriculum filtered through a product team? Has this method of learning created irreconcilable gaps in their understanding of programming?
some discussion already here/still running: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065314
Thanks for the info! I appreciate it. Yeah finance ads seem to have higher payouts than most, you're in good shape. :)

I've heard Airpush is pretty good. Have you tried them?
It doesn't usually though. It only contributes when you're asked to enter house numbers. The usual CAPTCHAs I see from them are the ones coming from their book scanning project, which I see as a public good.

Are there any CAPTCHA providers out there who OSM could team up with to do the same?
>It's little things, like going through how the quadratic formula is derived instead of just telling someone to learn it by rote. Explaining differentiation with a bit of the logic behind it instead of just teaching rules.

Once you get in the mindset of deriving equations, rote memorization becomes insanely difficult, at least in my opinion.

During my last year as an undergrad majoring in physics I got a 4.0 in quantum mechanics, but very nearly failed introductory chemistry (which I was taking to fill a science distribution requirement at a liberal arts college), despite many of the chemistry concepts just being edge cases of applied quantum mechanics.

There was also the very embarrassing case of being called to the blackboard to complete a problem in an elective course on number theory only to draw a blank on what 9 times 7 was. I understood the solution to the problem itself, but when the professor started giving me hints I had to admit in front of the whole class that my issue wasn't with the number theory proof -- it was with the multiplication table we learn as children.
Holy cr*p! haha! first time I see your project, too.

I think both are a bit different. My project is based on SoftEther and using an external server as a pivotal point, so all the members of the network only need outbound 443/TCP access. It's not point to point unfortunately. The idea is to make sure it works on as many scenarios as possible.

I'm just adding all the server management and simplification layer, but both server and clients are 100% SoftEther.
Carry on then.
If confirmed, it should be virtually a guaranteed nobel.
If debunked, it will be this years BICEP/cosmic-dust.

I'm happy to see the LIGO team taking the time to really vet this thoroughly, despite the considerable rumors around it.
What if the system freezes between reading the current time from the hardware and the stead_time function returning?

In short, you CANNOT rely on time in any way shape or form for safety. You can only use it as advice & to get liveliness.

Martin's point is that Redlock pays the cost of other safe locking algorithms w/o the benefit of safety.
> Unfortunately, my founded belief is that if a Democrat gets elected president, the gang of Republicans that shut down government will also act to stop any action the D-President does.

Which is a good reason for people voting for a candidate for President not to ignore the other races on the ballot, and a good reason for people who care about the policies embraced by their favorite Presidential candidate to not only advocate for that candidate, but advocate for down-ballot races as well. (And this applies just as much to any other candidate, of either party, as it does to Sanders.)
Oh, you mean like all the personal information I had to submit to the Defense Investigative Service when they did my background check for a security clearance?

Why, it's funny you should ask! I just got a letter from the Office or Personnel Management about three months ago, proudly informing me that all that data is now in the hands of some foreign intelligence service.

Of course, they claimed it was the result of a "sophisticated" attack, which is government fail-speak for "We left your data on a bus, and a hobo took it".
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I'm pretty sure you implied that, but just to be sure, I'd like to point one thing out: Doing one thing well won't help your product if there is no way to use other "things" that do their thing well. It seems like products often suffer from feature creep when there is no common way of interfacing with external products. I haven't used Evernote, but maybe the lack of proper ways to interface with external software on each platform was the main reason for them becoming bloated. Android with the intends system seems like one way of doing that but I feel it might not be powerful enough for most problems. Also you have no good way of guaranteeing the user experience if your surroundings might change in unpredictable ways. So it's not that easy.
So now we have a CEO(zenefits), Head of Design(Uber), CTO(Paypal), CFO ( yelp) . They should start a new company
Garbage collection isn't a must for a modern init.

Memory safety may arguably be, but I see no reasonable argument that garbage collection (a particular strategy for memory management) is.
Ok, so that's a x4.2 difference. Of course, globally they face some stiffer competition.
I have only been using GNU Social for about 18 hours, but so far the decentralization does not seem to be a problem. When you have an account on one person's (or organization's) server, you can "remote follow" people elsewhere and that seems to work just fine.
> I don't disagree with the math, but wouldn't it be the case that it's easier to get a biased sample from 1000/100M people than 1000/1M people?

It's not the population size that matters; it's the variance in the underlying population.

Mathematically, the sample size needed to construct an n% confidence interval for a normal distribution is independent of the population size (the first derivative is zero).
It's not just about media queries... one also needs to understand the concept of "fluid layouts" -- that is, declaring your widths in percentages instead of pixels. Media queries can help tweak a design to change/respond to different screen widths, but the first step is making sure your widths are fluid and flexible (otherwise you'd basically need separate media queries for every single pixel from 300 to 1000).
Again that may just be the wrong paradigm. If you are especially concerned about disappearance of a server then just run your own installation. This is partially why I'm making debian packages for GNU Social, to make that process easy.

There isn't really any "different federation". You just follow whoever you want to follow, regardless of what server they're on.
Ok... I might be completely off base here, but why can't we increase taxes on mega-earnings, AND refactor tax laws such that startups are incentivized? Eg, you spend 4 years bootstrapping a business while taking a bare minimum salary and then, through whatever mechanism, are ready to 'cash out'. Why can't we look favorably upon people doing this and apply some kind of retroactive benefit to their earnings, taking those 4 years into account?

I don't understand why tax laws are applied evenly (in theory...) across industries. If you make a product that effectively poisons the masses (tobacco, prescribed opiates, watered sugar), resulting in huge negative health outcomes, why aren't those profits taxed unevenly? Do we not need to fix those problems then in the health sector? Humans are irrational, ads are made to take advantage of the bugs in our decision-making code, but it's all on the victims to take care of themselves? Something they've already demonstrated to be incapable of doing.

I'm sure there are intractable problems with this approach that I'm simply unaware of... but it seems better than what's on the table. We need taxation with an ethical component. Make unethical behavior un-profitable.
Here in North Carolina we have the Folk School for this sort of thing. I'd love to see them open a satellite campus in the Triangle.

https://www.folkschool.org/
Thanks for taking the time to respond, I appreciate it.
I don't see a really good point in the children of this sub-thread to post this, so I'll just go here and hope it gets attention.

I'm seeing a lot of contention over selling a license for a product. Would it be a viable workaround to sell installation media? I know OpenBSD sells CDs of its releases, though I am not sure I know the details of that (there seems to be a difference between the OpenBSD CDs and the OpenBSD Foundation).
Picking a fight with Bootstrap to switch from padding to margin grids
I think the crux of the question though is: how many more ads at the same site would you be willing to see that don't track you?

Given that a site's costs are fixed, but targeted ad's are worth more than untargeted.
Probably that logging in snip-snap, one-server-at-a-time, and click-clicking on various boxes in the (admittedly convenient) GUI leads to a bunch of unique snowflake[0] servers that are prone to drift. If each server is doing one thing, that's obviously ok, but if you have 1000 web servers then treating them as immutable (aka phoenixes[1]) is conventional devops wisdom[2].

[0] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/devops/en...

[1] https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/moving-to-phoenix...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226099
Not easily. This is a problem everywhere.

Capital is just more mobile than labour income. To take a big example, someone can just pick up and move somewhere for 180 days of the year. For more realistic examples, they just put their assets in a foreign corporation. The loopholes are sometimes intentional. But more often, they are just there because money is global and tax law is local.
Tax employers proportionally to population density of office location times employee number.

People flock to dense areas because that's where the money is. So incentivise the money to spread a bit.
In short, either the storage layer provides enough guarantees to ensure safety without redlock OR it is not possible to ensure safety.

I believe that antirez's proposal is the former, but if he has a safe algorithm that does not require a linearizable CAS operation in the storage layer and is safe w/ redlock, I would love to hear it.

I also provided an example of how to use Cassandra which is eventually consistent safely with a locking service that provides monotonic tokens.
Quite a frivolous case, nice to see the legal system working for once.

One interesting thing I've learned from the court rule though: apparently software delivered online and through downloads does not qualify as a good or service under the California's Consumer Legal Remedies Act, unlike boxed software delivered on physical media (pp.14-16)
Long story short, Climate Change exposes some sites only to turn around and wash them away later. And many coastal sites that were known are now threatened as well.
This. Fraud generally requires that the victim rely on the "fradulent" statement to decide to move forward (e.g. solving the captcha). So even if you assume that the terms "free" and "security" were intentionally meant to deceive, you'd have to prove that the user would not have otherwise signed up for Gmail if those labels had been different.

The fact that they didn't cover this important point is ridiculous.
> read Richard Feynman's bio and see how his parents inspired him to like math/science/world.

I noticed a perfect parallel between Feynman's relationship with his dad and Steve Wozniak's relationship with his, in his autobiography iWoz. It's all about encouraging and exploring curiosity, rather than trying to do well on tests.
I have mixed feelings about this.

> Not all affected email will necessarily be dangerous.

To me, it sounds like they're saying that most of the "affected email" WILL be dangerous -- just not ALL of it -- and that's highly misleading, of course.

Overall, though, I think this will be a good thing if it pushes more organizations ("mail senders") to implement opportunistic encryption for incoming mail and SPF/DKIM signing for outgoing mail.

That seems to be what they're referring to; that is, sending to an MX host that doesn't support opportunistic encryption) and/or receiving mail that doesn't have a valid DKIM signature. Did anyone else understand this differently?
Maybe they're coming out with a zombie game...?
It's so. GNU social is designed to be easily hostable on cheap server slices where ssh-ing in and running composer may not be easy.
The idea that someone working in a call center is able to download their own browser is laughable. Where are these call centers where the high-turnover-staff are able to install whatever software they want? I wouldn't be at all surprised if some call center operatives were forced to use IE6 and I wouldn't be surprised if some call centers effectively forbid their staff from using the internet for anything beyond checking customer information on their intranet.
References to what specifically?

Martin provided a number in his original blog post, I also elaborated a bit more on my various points in other comments.
I had the same problem with Family Guy.
Hi! Sorry for the late response.

You are mostly correct. However, per your links, using "HEPA" with any prefix or suffix is problematically allowed. The specifications laid out by the DOE are mostly for DOE facilities and so they have their own version. Everyone else is using their own brand of "-HEPA-" which can mean <0.003 pm or not and is therefore misleading.
I think you're looking at that very wrong. They want people to be able to decide what they do with their own bodies. That's leaves the maximum amount of room for everyone's opinion.

You don't want it? Don't do it.
>Legally not allowed? You can donate to anybody you please I would think.

Cooperations can probably only donate to 501(c)(3)s without it being considered paying someone off the books or, worse, money laundering by IRS standards.

If the project doesn't have any ability to send an invoice then they probably aren't formal enough for a 501(c)(3).

That being said, its only a few clicks to send someone an invoice in PayPal so its a little odd this is a difficult thing for an open source project to do.
There is a practical consideration worth keeping in mind with names: they distinguish characters from each other.

I found One Hundred Years of Solitude virtually incomprehensible because it features an enormous cast of characters whose names are all similar.

There is José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio, Arcadio, Aureliano José, 17 (!) other characters named Aureliano, José Arcadio Segundo and José Arcadio (II) (who is not Segundo).

Aureliano Buendía, Aureliano Segundo and Aureliano Babilonia (Aureliano II) (again, different dude from Segundo), and Aureliano (III).

Úrsula Iguarán, Amaranta Úrsula, and Amaranta.

Remedios Moscote, Remedios the Beauty, and Renata Remedios.
It does seem quite sizable to me, too.

Student apartments in Munich's student housing[1] are 14-16 m^2, each with it's own kitchenette and bathroom. They were built in the 1960s and 70s.
Those units are by far the most popular way to live for students there mostly because of the common areas, the student community, the wide range of sports and outdoor facilities and the access to public transportation.

[1] http://www.studentenwerk-muenchen.de/en/accommodation/munich...
Escape worked fine for me.
think you took a wrong turn somewhere..
I'm not american, so I may be missing the point. But isn't
ck2's point that this a President doesn't have the authority for this? Are't these supposed to be congressional authorities? IE, to get these policies people should elect legislators with these views.
One can make the case that, in California, the higher education system was purposefully, consciously stratified along career and status tiers, as you described.

Community college system = workers in the practical trades

Cal State system = office workers

UC system = technologists, scientists, managers

Big name, elite, private universities = executives and high level politicians, the people who actually run society and its institutions

And, if you look at the architecture on the various campuses, it more or less reflects that.

Also, all of the community colleges, and an awful lot of the Cal State schools are commuter campuses. You come and you go. It's not your home. You're a renter. The place shuts down around 10 pm. (Get out of here, kids.)

By contrast, the elite private schools have sufficient dorm/house space to allow most of the students to live on-site: the students have a lot more access to buildings and more or less "own" the place while they're there.
The point of that quote attributed to Steinbeck wasn't that it is bad to have personal dreams and goals. Nobody thinks that.

Whether you agree with it or not, the quote is saying that poor people aren't recognizing what is in their own interests and aren't sympathizing with poverty because they do not recognize their poverty as something real.

It is not making fun of the American Dream to point out that many people in the US are poor and will remain poor despite their hopes, dreams and efforts. Limitations on class mobility are real.
This is a lost battle, unfortunately.
You can use relation database but sane implementation is ugly and doesn't scale. There is little reason to choose bunch complexity and unpredictable behavior over dedicated queue dependency. Sorry, i don't have any good material on the topic. Maybe you can use this to see how RDBMS implementation looks and what are the consequences. https://brandur.org/postgres-queues
What is information?
> Why should I help Google make money, for free?

Not for free, that's the point. You get access to Gmail.
As a writer, I live and die by this site : http://www.behindthename.com/random/

Pick an ethnicity and just hit random until something fits the character.

I usually don't use the exact name, but it puts me in the right neighborhood of what I want. After that I can tweak it.
I guess the mentioned article is http://blog.markwatson.com/2014/07/practical-internet-privac...

Have you modified your approach since then?
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Generics are monomorphized, so this isn't an issue.
"Why try to start a business when if you succeed, you won't keep that much of the winnings?"

Some people start businesses to solve legitimate problems. I suspect that higher corporate tax rates would encourage the average Silicon Valley startup founder to seek more fruitful income streams, but people who are passionate about solving real-world problems would still attempt to do so. Furthermore there are people like me who don't work well outside of a startup environment who will pursue startups regardless of the tax rate. I doubt small businesses will be taxed at such a high rate anyway, given that they are the lifeblood of the American middle class. I'd rather have a thousand medium-sized businesses that suppress their growth to avoid higher taxes than ten massive businesses with low tax rates.
> Can the law not be modified to collect from corporations and trusts?

I would hope so too, but functionally the only way to do this efficiently would be to tax them all at the same rate (meaning no marginal brackets). Any time you introduce different brackets, you leave yourself open to gaming the system. People will gravitate towards solutions that maximize their wealth.

Flat rate tax systems are not politically popular, since everyone paying the same rate has been portrayed as regressive (and arguably so, given the reduced marginal value of more money), so I find it unlikely for a political solution to be tenable.

> Well, the rules can change at any time.

Yes, well, starting a business in such a climate is sketchy. Just look at countries like Venezuela. You don't want things to change, you want certainty and stability for long term economic growth.

> Trickle down has proven not to work.

Really? Are the middle class living in poorer conditions than they were 100 years ago?

Wealth inequality is obviously destabilizing over a long period, and I agree that it would be better to live in a system that is inherently more stable and equal. However, if you look at inflation adjusted income or purchasing power, it's been getting better and better for the middle class for most of our country's history (flat the last 5 years, though).
This is a bit off topic, but how exactly do you plan on moving to Canada?

My longterm girlfriend is Canadian and I am American. I'm a mechanical engineer with work experience. I have yet to find a realistic way for me to just "move to Canada".
When they discover teenagers smoke and drink - which also exposes them to ridicule, whether they do it or not - it's going to shock them. If federal law, physical ID verification, active law enforcement, massive fines to parents doesn't eliminate drinking and smoking, why would people expect simple age limits stop signing up online?

And yes, online activities open up an avenue for bullying. So does pretty much everything. We should work on that aspect, of preparing children for it and also cracking down on it.

Perhaps a good step for AI chat bots would be monitoring online chat services and learning to detect bullying and taking actions: block all communication, warn a guardian, etc. Detecting harassment could be achievable long before real intelligence is achieved. And detection lets the child, the parent, or the service take many actions in response.
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