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> I'd always hoped there would be a sensible way to incorporate other languages into the browser natively, like Python

The funny thing is, I support the crap out of that. I'm really excited about Web Assembly, which seems like the path to that.

See, that's a perfect example of how the web platform is supposed to evolve: It's a genuinely new feature that allows you to do things in the browser you couldn't do before.

Shadow DOM is another example of a new tech that allows basic access to a fundamentally new power. It can't come soon enough.

I'm not saying the web shouldn't evolve. I just think people who are trying to turn it into Ruby are not helping.
We do know that heredity/genetics plays a major role in your physical structure - giving you everything from having two arms and two legs, to making you susceptible to some types of cancer.

And there have been many many studies, using millions of subjects, twins, various racial groups, etc, that show the same correlation on your non-physical aptitudes (and their ranges).

The fact is if you sample the different racial groups, it will not even matter where they are and what the history of that location is [1], nor what social-economic class they fall into, the aptitude result will be the same.

The environment does play a role, but the range of that role is already predetermined.

Even the studies that dispute this in their summaries, show this in their data.

So lets not bring political speak into machine learning.

[1] Checking on this factor would be the best way to make sure that discrimination is not playing a role - in influencing the output of machine learning.
That isn't making me feel any better! Nor is your username spiderfarmer.
One solution is to just send all the linked pages on first load (all the markdown content, so when transitioning they only load images, or of seen before get them "from cache").
Key points:

Asks to provide scanned id and cc info to restore account access. But google fails to reinstate account.

This user was actually able to get hold of google customer reps who told him only way is to start afresh, talks to supervisor and supervisor "assures" that everyone there in his department absolutely cannot help and that my only hope is to reply to the emails and try to appeal to them.

All purchases made with old account will not be moved into new account if user opens new google account, which by the way requires a new credit card too as old cc info is associated with blocked google account!

What!! Does google even read their own stupid resolution process??

He was able to contact google customer care but they couldn't fix it until the user got some love on reddit and twitter.

I have nothing to say, really
> So maybe people that will be dead in five years shouldn't be deciding social issues for the next sixty.

You say it as if you know for sure you won't be dead in five years. It's nice to be a prophet.

> The silent generation had their lifetime "where men were MEN, women stayed in the kitchen, and gays didn't exist!"

Sorry, it's a load of hateful baloney. That generation fought for real civil rights. This generation fights for right not to be served sushi because it's cultural appropriation, not to be subjected to a words of a slightly controversial speaker, because it's "unsafe", and needs coloring books and play-dough to cope with losing an election. That's the generation that seriously claims they feel physically unsafe when somebody challanges their beliefs to the point of being unable to function and needing to be sequestered in a specially designated space, or they will break down completely. Not that's not I am saying about them, that's what they say about themselves. And that's the people claiming to have superior role? Puh-lease. You wanted play-dough, you get play-dough.

> It's not 100% certain, but the odds are very good if any of Ginsberg, Breyer, or Kennedy are replaced.

Keep talking about disenfranchising your opponents, and 4 years of Trump become 8, and you get it for sure.

> Is Trump going to nominate himself for the Supreme Court, then?

Nope, but it is reasonable to think the will nominate somebody who thinks like him. Otherwise all talk about who he's going to nominate is pointless.

> You're deluding yourself if you think the USSC in its current state is anything but extremely hyper-partisan.

And by "extremely hyper-partisan" you mean "not always deciding how I like it."

> But Trump voters made the gamble with my marriage, not theirs.

Votes for Trump had literally nothing to do with gay marriage question. It wasn't an issue in the campaign, and Trump himself is on record saying it's settled. That's what his voters voted for. So really there's no gamble, there's no there there. It's done, it's ok to move on. Using this question in order to criticize Trump could lead to only one outcome - when someone other than Trump arises who thinks it's not settled, he'd look like someone discussing legitimate current issue of the day, not something that was decided and agreed on years ago. Do you really want to fight for that?

> I'll respond with an equally compelling counter to your argument here -- "yeah huh, it does so!"

Except you started with such argument. If you claim you proved Fermat theorem, it's on you to provide the proof. If you claim equal vote is unfair, it's on you to prove so. So far your proof was mostly whining about how old folks ruined everything. That's not a proof, it's just bellyaching.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_point_(climatology)

Nice story. Except nobody knows where it is, what it means and how it works. It's basically a fairy tale. Nobody ever demonstrated any scientific proof of existence of it.
There is a certain straightforwardness about the second format, because it is general and plain. But at the same time, it could be anything -- it's much harder to tell at a glance that a for loop is a filter than it is to tell that `filter` is a filter.
They are trying to be de facto utilities without being de jure utilities.

All the money and control, none of the responsibilities or regulation.
+1 - We actually do that automatically for you when you signup for Cloudflare.
That's what they said about IPv4!

But seriously, there's an astronomical # of addresses in IPv6. You're probably right that if we ever exhaust that space, we'll probably be communicating between planets by then.
Coinbase is welcome to fight the breadth of the request, but they will lose -- if not this time, then the next. The government has every interest in regulating BTC out of existence: the ability to transact value with no government intermediation cuts to the core of what it means to be a nation state, and no state is ever going to renounce that monopoly.
RIP the term "Object Oriented" as Alan Kay defined it.
It's still end-to-end encrypted though. Going through their servers it is in case peer-to-peer isn't possible to setup, otherwise it's a direct encrypted link between you and your camera (with client+server certificate validation) without any mediator servers.

Regarding servers vs cameras: To oversimplify; servers can have exponentially more capacity. Either how, in this case, the traffic is encrypted in each end so there's nothing to be done by "the middle man servers", they can't decrypt anything cause they don't possess the keys.
Its interesting that my concerns were very specifically in defense of walmart owned property, but you describe them very specifically as security of their employees. And then wander off in customer land.

Perhaps giving away large amounts of PII in this app or getting into the habit of giving away PII for the asking puts the employees at risk, but my theoretical examples only put walmart owned property at risk. Well, any employee involved would probably get fired as the fall guy or there's some obscure binder miles away with a written policy forbidding my scenarios, but ...

"sudden concern" Is it a sudden concern? I work at a very large corporation and every six months or so we get a refresher course in not being social engineered etc. Its a sudden concern of us, of some news organizations. Opposition to social engineering attacks is probably not a recent sudden concern of walmart infosec department, they've been around the block a bit and a company doesn't get that big entirely staffed by noobs.
That's the smart attitude to hold today.

But 100 years from now, when kids are playing with blockchains in the sandbox, and they have never seen a paper form, they will have the opposite gut reaction.
Wow, that Post-Gazette article is illuminating. I knew Carter was a nuclear engineer, but I wasn't aware of how well-positioned he was to argue against people like Jane Fonda and Ralph Nader, and how ineffective he was at doing so. What an unfortunate lost opportunity.

I wonder if Nader's work fighting against nuclear power has ultimately cost more lives than he saved through auto safety advocacy.
If you call it out to me during your interview during my standard warm-up question of "what have you done that you are particularly proud of it was challenging" and you don't bomb the rest of the interview then I WILL go look it up. I use things like this to remove any coding skills doubts during a debrief. Just putting it on the resume means there's maybe a 20% chance I'll see it.

I'm usually giving the holistic system design question which the interviewee can take any direction they like they just have to go all the way down in one area.

Jr devs on my team give the algorithms question much of the time and I make sure they're looking for the right things. Problem solving not memorization... Comfort in a language not trivial knowledge or formatting issues... Etc. They get sent to the interview class if they ask anything that is a named algorithm... Like three sum, tortoise and hare, etc and expect a candidate to derive it in a 30 minute coding section of an interview. T&H for example took 10 years for industry to derive.

On a side note don't use a language you're not familiar with in an interview because you heard the company likes it. Use what you are solid in. Python and ruby and the like make most interview questions trivial. I cringe on the inside when people jump for c/cpp in an interview esp college hires as it seems to take longer to get fluent in these languages.
I totally agree. Make it worth the extra layers of junk.
It may well have been a village as recently as 20 years ago. Shenzhen is a huge conurbation that has swallowed countless towns and villages.
I'm not so sure it is. Just because steps of the process are "industrialized" doesn't necessarily mean something isn't fine art anymore.

Fine art photography nowadays often involves an industrial inkjet printer.

Assistants painting dots after dots still makes a Damien Hirst for some reason.

There probably is a line somewhere, but it's far from clear where, and highly depends on your definition of "fine art". That the service discussed here is not "fine art" IMHO is easier to argue, but depends a lot on how much leeway the artists actually are given, less so on how many there are or how much they paint.
It's easier to list some of the SF standards that haven't happened (yet):

* Cure for cancer (getting closer...)

* Cure for AIDS (close?)

* Cure for colds, flu, and other viruses (unknown)

* Limb and organ regeneration

* Human genome hacking

* Offline memory (in the direct physical sense)

* Implant VR

* Cheap abundant energy (some movement, some way to go)

* Metamaterials and reality hacking

* Teleportation

* Hard general AI

* SETI confirmation

* FTL
So they are 100% sure that even placebo effect doesn't help the patients ?
Thanks for the link(s)!

Awesome stuff
I do, but I'm interested in hearing about anything anybody thinks made an impact, not in arguing about what the rules are for making impact.
If it is my responsibility to pay for something, then just say so. Happy to fix my own messes. But don't tell me it's fixed 12 times over the course of a year and then complain when I demand it be fixed for real.

Even though the people on the other end of that line aren't always technically savvy individuals or generally in a good mood, they are adults and should be told the truth so they have a fair shot at solving their problem and moving on with their lives.
They sometimes do work, because of the placebo effect.
I think it's a combination of two factors:

1. Programmers have lower status in the UK relative to the US - UK is more status/class conscious in general whereas US is more about money/productivity/impact.

2. Due to a bigger entrepreneurship culture in the US the opportunity cost for programmers is higher and that drives salaries higher across the board.
Minimum Viable Technology: Move fast and keep shipping
There are cheaper means of achieving the placebo effect, if that's what people desire
Deep-Pwning – Metasploit for Machine Learning
Show HN: A chrome bug makes it hard to leave page
I'm not too surprised either, but I marvel at the amount of time wasted preparing and asking all the stupid questions when they could just look at my code for 5 minutes. Like, the main file in one of my libraries clearly uses concurrent locking, it even says so in readme.md . These were all last round on site interviews and we spent maybe 30 minutes of 2 devs time going over pointless stuff when they could just skim 200 lines of code.

I think it's just that they have a process built up over time like "interview process.doc" and the devs don't want to make any waves going off script
Feature engineering is just easier
While Jottit is great and representative of yet another cool thing Aaron contributed to the world, it occasionally goes down for days, or even weeks at a time.
There's an extra tax paid by the employer, technically "employer's National Insurance contributions", which is about 10% (up to a limit). So that's comparable to US payroll taxes.

Because the National Health Service is generally considered to offer a decent-enough level of care, there's normally no private health insurance in most tech jobs -- so no extra costs there.
Advice I give at all levels is if you're getting bored at your job start interviewing again even if you're not going to take it because: you never know && you need the practice.
> If its going out when it rains, its likely wiring on your house, not plant

Ya, it wasn't and they knew it wasn't, they had already admitted that point. The phone company can actually tell when there is an issue on their end you know.

The issue was some of there equipment was missing a lid. So when it rained, it filled up faster than it drained and shorted the circuit. The solution was put the lid on that should be there.

But please, don't let facts (that you didn't know) get in the way of you continuing to rant as a previous field tech get in the way of telling people to suck things up because for some reason you still don't feel like doing that job.

Oh and I am fully aware of the difference in responsibility at the NID.
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It seems like a reasonable compromise would be to allow domain names in non-Latin languages as long as the entire name is in the character set of a specific language. So, if your name is in English, that's fine. If it's in, say, Cyrillic, that's fine too. But if you mix English and Cyrillic characters, that's not allowed. It wouldn't necessarily eliminate all name look-alikes, but it would get rid of most of them.
Is an FOIA request useful?
Do you have something to say about computer science, or is your sole comment in a thread about machine learning research going to be first-principles race trolling? Comments like these appear literally to be the only kind you write on HN. There must be a better place for you to talk politics than here.
> You're going to have to install Linux yourself.

I would'nt have it any other way, as long as video and network driver support is part of the common and current distros.
This years holiday advert from Apple has everything to say
This is totally in accordance with: "Work expands so as to fill the time avaible for its completion." - which I found to be very true. I'm so much more productive, when time restricted. And even more so when schedule restricted, because you can't just say you take a short break which then extends for hours.
Interesting to compare this with the current political story of fake news (or climate change denial, holocaust denial, conspiracy theories etc.)

It seems we're just generally very bad at this stuff as a species.
The web browser or DNS?
I haven't used slack, but I think both are doing the best practices around there: Chrome copies the punycoded URL to clipboard, Slack will decode pasted punycode-URLs into a nicer presentation.
yep, i completely agree. The only reason it's JS heavy is because it's a MVP. If this project turns out well it will end up being a simple HTML with bare-minimum javascript.
Cheaper than water? =]
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Must Defend the Truth
When the standard operating procedure for companies is to post fake job ads with the sole purpose of not hiring an American, in order to get around the law, you know it's not working as intended.

Watch lawyers (criminals) teach companies how to break the law:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

Any tech CEO talking about "we're lacking skilled workers" or "we need more STEM workers" is deliberately perpetuating a system that is objectively defrauding Americans out of jobs. The companies are doing it for no other reason than to reduce labor costs, and they are using shady loopholes that should be enforced, but are not.

The very first thing Trump could do is actually enforce the current laws, including increasing penalties, such as massive personal liability for management and investors of guilty companies.
And from riseup.net @riseupnet

listen to the hummingbird, whose wings you cannot see,
listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me. #LeonardCohen

https://twitter.com/riseupnet/status/797142735283257345
The author of this article did reference a classic treatment, though: John Backus's lecture.

A compact definition of functional programming is using only expressions, never statements. This leads to the idea that the effect or meaning of every computation must be encoded in its return value.
Foldscope – The Origami Paper Microscope
It's interesting you'd use jekyll server rather than just to generating static pages. If I wasn't just using an engine server anyway I could see the appeal of hugo.
I think that the root of the problem is that most of Google's core services developer are Americans, with American cultural peculiarities.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that for an average American, moving to another country is something that less than 1% of population does, and it is like once a lifetime event.

Here in Europe, on the contrary, it is relatively common to stumble upon a German guy living in France, or a Brit living in Germany, or any combination whatsoever, and many are changing their place of living more than once, especially in the academic environment (I have 5 residence cards of different European countries).

The same goes with the localization approach. Google or Apple always want to give me services in the language of the country I currently live in, instead of remembering my priority language (English, even if I am not a native speaker), and sticking with it, even if I am now in Spain or Italy.

Changing countries is really common in Europe. Probably we need more European companies in the Internet space to adapt to our way of living.
Canadian govt apparently treats bitcoin as an asset. I wonder how that affects your taxes if the price goes lower than you bought it for; do you treat it as a depreciation in assets and are allowed to pay less tax?
So he basically followed it's the future story? (https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/)
If something works as well as plain water, then it doesn't work.
Yeah that is total BS. I don't deny YCs success in business, but I wish They would leave politics culture wars to the politicians and culture warriors.

Best of luck with gab.
> I am most times under an insecure WIFI so no VPN is not an option for security.

Maybe apply some netfilter or proxy magic to push traffic to port 443 over the wifi and everything else through the vpn?
You'll get 4K Netflix eventually. Plus, theoretical speeds, not actual. Plus you'd want to buffer quickly…
I doubt the placebo effect is present in teething babies.
Perhaps there are other ways of making money for the university, which are better aligned with the purpose of academia? One such example is cooperation on research projects with the industry (which actually works pretty well), but I am sure there are other ideas.
Truth, earned credibility, and a publisher‘s responsibility
Disclaimer : I am a self educated programmer with $0 in debt.

You say this with 20/20 hindsight and a unique perspective on supply and demand. You say this with what sounds anger and resentment towards successful people. I hope you view success and upperclass as a goal, or areat least a believer in independence and hardwork

The mass majority of americans are sheep that are expecting the gov and society to guide them towards a better future. These individuals worked hard for 4, sometimes more, years. What these people are lacking is an understabding of tge employment economy abd supply/demand. Since they dont have mbas its quite understandable to be this naive.

So now we have thousands of intelligent hardworking people who were led to the cloffside to jump. Arguably that is an example of survival of the fittest. Theres only room for cockroaches doing the dirty jobs and allstars doing the big ones. But considering our future depends on the survival and success on understanding the universe, it is in our best interest to ensure these hardworking individuals can be rewarded somehow and that future sheep understand how the world works so that their cliff is one of choice not of ignorance or force.

So your telling me

- tough luck, let them die

Im telling you

- these sheep were simply going down the path they were told

- they were ambitious, smart and hardworking enough to survive 4 years and graduate

- the economy only selects the best and the rest are left to compete in the same income bracket as the lazy, stupid, young, immigrant, unskilled etc.

Is it on the best interest of the united states as a nation to punish ambition? How do we guide people from here?
> (Sole purpose of the folding feature? Saving your car's wing mirrors from getting hit when you park on a narrow street.)

Sure, because you folded them in after you parked.

My car has crumple zones and airbags, too, but that doesn't mean I want to use them. If you've struck something, then while some mitigation of the damage is great, well.. you struck something.

Where I currently live, in the US, if you hit something with your car, you've had a car accident. Avoiding accidents is a very high priority for most people, even if they're low-damage, survivable accidents. If I tap someone's bumper or mirror, even if there's no visible mark at all, I have to be prepared to furnish my insurance information and get theirs, and even if there are no monetary costs to my insurance company, my rates are probably going to rise.

In places where lane widths are very low, hitting things or people with your car can turn into something that's a regular occurrence, such that if a year went by without any bump or scrape you'd find it remarkable.

In any case, my original point was that an environment in which cars, trucks, and vans are passing with an average foot clearance is going to be an environment in which collisions happen frequently. A related point made elsewhere in this thread is that a follow-on problem to additional collisions will be that narrower lanes will no longer allow traffic to proceed around the scene of some minor collision where the parties are arguing over whose fault it was and waiting for the police to sort it out.