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I can relate to the parent comment and there are differences between doing an IT project for money and PhD.

I think, you rather meant poorly defined requirements for an IT project. The goals of the project do not matter for you, you get the requirements from a paid project and the one responsible of the project has to think about the goals. While during PhD you have to define your own goals.

Also, as on the picture in the post, you have to push from the circle, you have to find it where you want to push and you have to define how much should you push. While doing an IT project, you are usually moving inside the circle, i.e. you are usually combining working concepts.
Chelsea Manning may not be reading HN, but other trans people are. Misgendering one of them is misgendering all of them by proxy.
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I understand, but don't you think people should have option to opt-out from archive team archiving their stuff, or google indexing their site?
He probably meant GATech's online MS done together with Udacity:
https://www.udacity.com/georgia-tech
I moved to OSX after a 15 month period on Linux after years on windows. I moved because of stability, and because of software like office, and at the time, iTunes for updating my shiny new iPhone. Despite the pain, I'm looking at moving back, because I'm fed up. I want to work and be productive. I'm looking at a Dell laptop with 64gb and escape key.
I dunno... maybe saving a whole worlds worth of lives...
I remain unconvinced that journalism has reached a new low, rather than our ability to detect its shoddiness has reached a new high.

The only two things I could identify as uniquely a problem today that weren't problems in the past are A: the money is coming out of journalism faster than it can adapt to it and B: the incredibly immediate pressures to be first and get the most clicks. The latter being a thing that has always been present to some degree, since journalists have always made money by attracting eyeballs in one form or another, but the immediacy of the pressure today I'd say is a quantitative change that becomes a qualitative change by sheer size.

But I'm still unconvinced this is a new low, rather than one that we're detecting. Journalism has some nasty stuff in its history. It certainly hasn't reached a new low if you step outside of the United States. The press still hasn't quite reached Pravda lows, but I will conceded it is currently engaged in a full burn towards it.
The key thing I learned was that you're done when you decide you're done. From what I've seen, if you sit down and write a dissertation, it's a rare committee that will stand in your way. This even includes a friend whose advisor refused to read his dissertation -- the rest of his committee approved it and the advisor was pressured into compliance. (In this case the advisor wasn't adversarial, just always "too busy" and didn't want to lose my friend's almost-free labor.)

In my own experience, I had a year that was almost completely wasted. I almost gave up, but instead I decided to stop trying to do work that other people wanted. I wrote the two chapters I wanted to write, because it was the only way they were going to get written, and in the end the committee was fine with them.
Right, well as you point out, nowadays Wayland is default on major distributions like Rebecca Black OS and some minor players like Fedora.

In any event, when a user is compromised, it's lol Windows. But when Yahoo is compromised, is anyone opining security in Linux? Or are these social engineering hacks?
Tried it out, app stopped responding within two minutes of use. Had to force quit. I think I'll wait for it to mature a bit before trying again.
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The idiots of the world fight ferociously to spread their "100 percent correct" views, while the smart (HackerNews) remain relatively silent in fear against the masses of idiots flooding all mediums. Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West had the courage to scream loudly back, speaking smarts to stupid. Better marketing for good ideas! Bravo!

Marketing opinion. This page: http://callingbullshit.org/case_studies.html should be made homepage content, for it is their most compelling and clear value statement and takes little space. It took me too long to find naturally, and I didn't feel fulfilled on the bullshit pitch till I did. If you don't want to move it, perhaps call them examples instead of case studies, if you want to reach a general audience.

Serendipity. These professors made a course/website "bullshit" the title. Which I think's funny because I just uploaded a youtube video in a tophat/leopard print about how smart people should be more aggressive spreading their ideas.
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"Capitalism" is just a way of the powerful to manipulate the powerless in the US.

To give a specific example, residential waste collection used to be public, meaning you'd pay a tax and your garbage would be taken away. Then, in the name of "capitalism," the business was sold to a private company who could jack up the prices, lower the qualty, and make profit for itself.

But "wait!" I hear you yell. Capitalism is at its core about competition! If we take a public service and privatise it shouldn't private citizens have a choice? You'd think. But in the US that isn't how it works. They will happily take a public service, privatise it, consumer costs skyrocket, and you have no competitive choice still.

This kind of thing is then protected via regulation so that even if competition did want to compete with an entity that was just handed tons of formerly public business, they wouldn't be able to. Naturally there's often rumours or proven kickbacks to the politicians from the private entities who received the public business...

Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism, it is fascism.
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No, just that they were more or less a third world country with extremely cheap and hard working labor, I'm under the impression that American (and European, etc) companies went over there and provided equipment and expertise to set up fully functioning manufacturing plants, China had to provide the labor.

It seems fairly unlikely to me that China turned into the manufacturer of the world in such a short period of time without being gifted the skills and technology to do so. And now, companies like Xiamoi can now challenge (or, at least run with) the tech leaders.

Pretty impressive transformation in < 20 years.
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Nothing would happen, as long as they have UX professional on the team, who won't let them do stupid things like removing a backspace keyboard shortcut and not leaving options for those who got used to them.
This sounds interesting but I don't think I'm catching the full meaning....
I moved from the bay to NYC last year and thought that there is enough tech here for it to not hurt my career. I wasn't wrong, but as I decided to make a career change to become an ML engineer, I found that there was noticeably less opportunity here than in the bay. I still found a good job in the end, but there were just so many more interesting jobs back there.

I don't know if it's worthwhile to go to the bay for purely financial reasons, but it definitely still seems like a good place to go for career reasons.

I'm sort of expecting to move back to the bay eventually, I'm just hoping that they get their head out of their ass and build some more housing.
> I've never had a desktop Linux experience work "out of the box".

I keep saying that I have, and its way better now. But, I'm slowly realizing that I haven't done a bare metal install in probably 6 years. I suspect that a lot of people are in the same boat.
There almost certainly already are boarded up or burnt out homes in the area before you buy. That's why they are giving these away. It probably only makes sense if you can handle the renovations mostly yourself.

You can make a decent profit on these, but not in a home flipping sense. You have to become a landlord. You are in it for the cash flow from renting it out.

My father in law does this in Baltimore. He'd make a lot of money if he wasn't so bad at rehabbing the places. He spends too much, makes them too nice, and can't rent them out for any more than the going market rate. Best house in the ghetto isn't worth shit. If he just did the bare minimum he'd be doing pretty well. And if the area ever gentrifies, he'll make a fortune.

One trick is to get Section 8 housing vouchers. That makes sure you are always getting at least some of the rent.

The downside is that you are basically a slum lord. He has to go and knock on doors for rent.

It's definitely not passive income--like renting a condo to working professionals can be.
These are indeed all things that have had great impacts on the respective browsers' marketshare. /s
"Dialed in to"? Are you from the past?
On the hobgoblin one it makes fun of how deleting a branch vs a remote use inconsistent syntax.

I would add a third example, deleting a remote branch, which (at least as of 2013) is

git push <remote name> :<branch name>

Neither `-d` nor `rm`!
Chromecast 1? I had that too, try disabling encryption in Plex.
In my case it wasnt the wifi signal quality, but rather all the decrypting the Chromecast had to do. And i found that using Ethernet also helps.

I've seen Wifi AP's act up when using TKIP vs AES when streaming a video. Conclusion was it could not handle that load.
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Pseudo TV, an add-on for Kodi, does exactly this.

http://pseudotvlive.com
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At $199 a year it is extremely expensive. I remember I was paying close to $1,000 a year for the journal my 1,000 student college I work for.

Not including JSTOR and other subscriptions for these Journals. The bill 10 years ago was about $70,000 for journal access on computers where I had the print copies in boxes behind the journals or in the storage area collecting dust.
This article has a few details that are very different than the way I heard it. What follows are rumors, but I work in this industry so I have a few sources that I trust.

Google did not win the bidding over Facebook. Facebook actually won the bidding with a bid of about 60 million dollars. Facebook pulled out during the due diligence phase. Google swooped in and picked it up for about 20 million after Facebook pulled out. (Rumors remember, I can't find sources for these numbers right now)

Internally, Google was very quickly disappointed in their purchase. They found out that they had pretty much bought a nice PowerPoint slide deck and not much else. Titan still had a long way to go before they had a viable drone.

Anyway, that is the rumor that I heard.

I'm only somewhat envious of the drone companies that are selling out for tens of millions of dollars, while I sit here and work my butt off to keep making a product.
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Yes, I've heard and read about that a few times, too.

Good pattern recognition skills (as in the general meaning of the word 'patterns', not necessarily design patterns), may be part of the reason, since patterns occur in both code and math.
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It's not about size, it's about quantity. Big box stores are warehouses and that allow for pallets of product to easily be moved around and put on the floor for consumption.

It has nothing to do with the size of the product being sold.
We're discussing two very differents topics. I'm trying to explain why the chinese or the vietnamese situation is quite different from e.g. the south korean or the japanese situation, which makes it hard to compare them. You on the other hand, are discussing about the fairness, or moral justification of the events I talk about.

These two discussions are completely orthogonal.
Isn't there a legal name for this (i.e. company name/product becoming a common word)?

I think it has legal implication for a trademark, but in the case of Alphabet it was already a common word so it probably has no meaning.
Anyone have experience with FT online college courses? Would it be possible to both work FT and complete the courses? Or would it best to work PT for a year?
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Top 80% of the page is just black for me. I hit the spacebar 7 times until I saw "Built-in handle" ?
Is there anything similar to the Online Masters but a Bachelor's degree? Most of the online universities like WGU seem like a get a bunch of certificates then you graduate.
When I first started doing Udacity they used Piazza which was okay. I believe OMSCS is going through Udacity also. We eventually switched over to Discourse I believe and it addresses most of your concerns. The search and duplicate checking before posting is great.
So you are claiming that no one cared about the Clinton scandal in the 90s?

Because no one sure didn't seem to care about the numerous Trump ones.
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Cloudflare just launched its own AMP viewer and cache: https://blog.cloudflare.com/accelerated-mobile/
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Frankly, I'd rather have it one product not ship at all than have it prevent other people from working in the area.
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Reaktor | New York City | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer| https://www.reaktor.com/careers/senior-software-engineer/

Reaktor is a strategy, design, and engineering company based in NYC, Helsinki, Tokyo and Amsterdam. Our New York office is growing fast and we’re always on the look-out for the most talented software engineers to make sure our teams are filled with best in class individuals. We might all have climbed far up the career ladder in our past lives, but here we leave our titles at the door and work together to get shit done with clients like HBO, Michael Kors, Nasdaq, Samsung, Supercell, and Finnair.

Here’s what we can offer you:
- Teams that are totally autonomous and cross-functional.
- A community of amazing people who will both teach you and learn from you.
- Experimentation and continuous improvement of our skills and ways of working.
- A commitment to constant evolution (and the occasional revolution).
- A world without hierarchy—big ideas can come from anyone and anywhere.
- A ton of fun!

What We’ll Expect From You:
- A ton of skills and wisdom in working with tech that you consider useful. In no particular order, here are some things many of us like: functional programming, Node.js, Clojure, React, Swift, SQL, NoSQL, general bleeding edge stuff.
- Passion for:
- Agile and lean principles that actually work – not rituals for rituals’ sake.
- Solving really hard problems (and doing it with clean code).
- Learning, growing, and embiggening your mind!
- Willingness to be responsible for your work, development and career path. Don’t worry: we’ll have your back in whatever you want to achieve, but it’s up to you to have the end goal in mind.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
"You are right in that either one can win, but only one can be true."

Of course both sides can put forth true arguments in a political debate. I'm having a hard time coming up with a real world example, both because I don't want to push buttons that force you down a knee-jerk path on the button I push when I don't really care about it, and because we're really not used to seeing honest debates in the political arena.

But when society faces a decision A or B, each side can completely honestly tout the benefits of their decision and the costs of the other decision, both of which will exist. And God Almighty could come down from on high and hand us the exact, true, and full consequences of each decision, and those who benefit from one decision can completely honestly argue in its favor while those who may not benefit could completely honestly argue against it, which could be completely different sets of people for each decision. (There's almost never a decision that benefits everybody, even before we get into questions like relative amounts of benefit, or how society as a whole benefits.)

An argument containing elements of truth, or even somehow consisting entirely of truth, does not make it correct, because it still won't be the complete truth, which may well contain a superior argument for a different decision in it. But we don't have access to complete truth.
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I read /r/programming and /r/golang and have found some really nice gems over the years.

What are your favorite subreddits that you have gained some really valuable insights from?
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I used VIM on my Amiga. Today I am mostly using VS Code on my 8 year old Dell at work. For coding there is no performance issues.

My Point: VS Code is a great electron application. Works great.
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No I am claiming the opposite. That people care as much today as they did back in the 90s.
One thing I wonder about ACA: it seems like the young/healthy who bought their own insurance have had their premiums go way up compared to before (and also they are penalized if they don't buy insurance, so presumably more of them buy it now), and I haven't heard about any large groups of people whose premiums went down.

So, more money is going into the system than before. Where is the extra money going? Here are the possibilities I can think of:

- Better health outcomes for the previously uninsured or uninsurable. This would be the case if the previously uninsured just didn't get useful medical care before ACA, and now they do. In this case we might see longer life expectancy, increased happiness, or some other improved health care outcome.

- Less money out of the pockets of the previously uninsured. This would be the case if the previously uninsured used to get the medical care they needed anyway, but had to pay a lot for it. In this case we might see, for example, fewer medical bankruptcies.

- More profits for insurance companies or medical service providers. This could be the case if providers were directly or indirectly subsidizing the previously uninsured when they couldn't pay their bills. (If this is true I'm assuming they didn't simply pass the costs on to the previously insured, because that should have resulted in a lot of people's premiums going down after ACA, and apparently that didn't happen.)

Do you have a sense of whether these things have happened, or do you expect them to happen in the future? Or maybe I missed some other possibility.
Think it is bad for you, think what it is like for people to know less about computers.
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I'm one of the people who really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the hassle-free nature of it, and it basically did what I expected to in a decent interface.

Most other solutions that I've found make some assumptions about what I'll be reading or how I'll read it and try to force me into that, claiming it's for my own benefit.

In the end, I ended up self-hosting "Selfoss". I have to keep it up to date and occasionally fix a bug when it won't read a stream properly, but it basically does what I want otherwise.
I got the idea of what .NET standar is, the confusing part is the versioning, they have version of .NET standar, version of .NET Framework, version for Mono, version for .NET Core, version for the tooling, version for the libraries in project.json (now extint) etc, and all with different release schedules, that is the most confusing part and I stil not getting it.
They uh, are already doing an LLVM backend for a software simulator? The FPGA work is its own project.
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They're surely among those that I'm going to contact. Just a curiosity: I have read about some laptop robustness and touchpad / build quality issues here on HN - I just don't remember the thread. Though honestly, I have read similar things about MBP (or was it MBA) too... Did you buy from them? What's your experience?
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...
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The actual code in ExecuteDatabaseQueryAsync will differ depending on what data access technology you use. Often, the method is called something like ExecuteScalarAsync.
"We remove image data that is invisible to users, such as thumbnail and geolocation metadata. For JPEG images, we also reduce quality and color samples if they are higher than necessary."

Great.
Except that that information might be deliberately a part of the image.

These things should be opt-in.
16 TB ports is probably because they are also USB C ports and figuring out which ports support TB and which don't may become a hassle.
Yeah, because Apple designers are too daft to come up with something this derivative on their own.
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I think they are more important in the US than they are in europe, for example. Because foreign movies in the US are not being dubbed into english. In most european countries the movies are dubbed into the language where they are shown.
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It doesn't in Slack and some other Electron apps. You just get generic "copy" popup and bunch of functionality is awkwardly bunched into hidden click menus which make me think there's an issue with creating these menus.
This "bullshit" meme is getting tired. It seems like a cutesy way to say something like "not rigorous" or "deceptive". Which a good introductory course in logic (informal and formal) will help in spotting.