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I'm not sure that the "US politicians play checkers."

I don't think it is a coincidence that both Russia and the US are intervening in Syria, and causing problems for the EU. US currency hegemony benefits from a week EURO and Eurasian Economic Union. The complete and total dominance in so many metrics by the USA leads me to think that something better than checkers might be happening behind the scenes.

I think it would be much easier to pick on the coutries with vastly worse citizen outcomes such as China and Russia, than it would be to pick on the USA.

That being said, I think reduction in military spending and retasking soldiers into say, home building, is ok with me. If you can fire an automatic rifle, you can use a nailgun. The concept that no highschool graduate can afford a home is less than optimal.
Wear them in the head. That'll confuse them.
Theoretically 6 & 7 should be a big red flag (the biggest possible UX red flag) to Google regarding the specific Quora page visited - I know that I almost never see Quora results in search, for example.

Following Bartosz Goralewicz's post about how well botting works to manipulate Google in...2014 I think? there's a small black hat industry that's sprung up around imitating this kind of user reaction, and it does reportedly work to remove pages from Google. I've had my suspicions that it's been used against sites I've worked on a few times (2 or 3).

TL:DR; Quora should generally not be ranking so well (but Google's complex enough to be unpredictable on a page-by-page basis these days).
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The post I was replying to is something I'd expect to hear about from tumblr rather than HN.
Exactly. The operative part of "workaround" is "work".
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Have you considered using AngelList?
I could make lots of guesses why you don't experience Quora the same way I do. None of that would change the fact that I can't see the information I am being promised to see on Google.

Here is a screenshot of the page I am being forwarded to automatically: http://pho.to/Aatuj

It is a disguised register page because after you make 10 selections, you are forced to sign up.
Do righties use the joystick in the right hand? Or is it British/Aus/Japanese/etc pilots using the shifter in the left hand (taken from right hand drive cars)
I think the idea is that at Level 4, the car can drive the way humans drive. If it's unsafe for the car to drive autonomously, it's unsafe for humans, too.
Ask HN: Opinions on Selling SaaS on AWS Marketplace?
I do think this is mainly aimed at developers used to more basic SaaS/PaaS services (like Heroku, which was mentioned a few times). Coming from that angle it really doesn't matter that S3 is not technically FTP, since it's more about "What do I use this for?". Using this list these users can quickly see that if they want to host files they should use S3 and not EC2.

You are right that this simplification is not technically correct anymore.
What's wrong with actually charging money for what you make? I think the over open sourcing of things leads to a tragedy of the commons whereby no one can profit enough to afford a marketing budget. Or if they can afford one, its 100x smaller than anyone else in the space that "charges" and is closed not open.
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Ask HN: Leaving my job to boostrap my projects. Advice?
Hello HN! I've decided to quit my job to boostrap my projects à la IndieHackers. I don't want to raise money and I only have a few $k. My plan is to build everything myself, using a stack such as Python/Django + HTML/CSS/JavaScript + eventually iOS, and the initial goal after validating my MVPs is to become "ramen profitable."

Levels has been greatly inspiring to me and I've read most of his blog and work about NomadList. https://twitter.com/levelsio

I'm going to go with the flow and figure out and learn things as I go, so my question is whether there are any advice you can think of (release on Tuesday?) that could possibly save me time, money, and mistakes.

Let me know if knowing what the projects are about, but they're basically simple services with niche userbases (e.g: Squarespace for photographers and Slack for gyms)

Thank you HN!
I've thought about deleting as well, but then I realised that it can't hurt to just have it sitting there so people can connect if they feel the need.

I update mine every so often, never reply to any recruiters and connect with a few colleagues I know who use it religiously. Best way to use it in my opinion.
My heart can only take so much.
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Is there an estimate as to how much of Amazon is owned by the Chinese?
I'm primarily looking for positions in France where AngelList does not seem to be that popular. *

* Citation needed
FlyInside https://flyinside-fsx.com/ is a very good VR mod for both FSX and Prepar3d (I haven't had the chance to use it myself, but all indications are that it's an outstanding VR app).
Seen it a few times, although not so much recently... An app would pop up a rating dialog, asking you to give it 1-5 stars. If you chose 5 stars, it would send you on to the Play Store to leave your rating - if you chose 1-4, it would instead give you an in-app feedback form. They couldn't force you to actually leave a 5 star rating, but it was pretty dodgy anyway.
(I work on Docker for Mac.)

Apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.

There was a race condition in a previous release which could allow multiple hypervisor instances to open the Docker.qcow2 simultaneously. Unfortunately this can corrupt the file by allocating the same physical block (cluster) twice, resulting in bad things happening. When this file-locking bug was fixed we also added an integrity check which checks the structure of the Docker.qcow2 on every application launch. For safety the app refuses to start if corruption is detected.

I believe that in these cases, the corruption happened in the past and is now being detected since the upgrade. Unfortunately if the app refuses to start it makes it difficult to reach the "Reset to Factory defaults" menu option. The workaround described here https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1159#issuecomment-2... is to remove the qcow2 and restart the app. Unfortunately containers and images will need to be rebuilt.

For what it's worth after the integrity check and the locking fix went in, I've not seen any recurrence of this error. Please open an issue if you see any other problems!
Nice and catchy headline but I was hoping to be able to read how she does that, perhaps I'd need to read her other blog posts.
Yes X-Plane 11 is demanding in terms of CPU but as per comment above, parent is getting a new PC, so I assume the CPU will be at least on par with mine (I have an i5 6500, which is pretty much the minimum for a current gaming PC) and on my machine the game runs smoothly. I agree with you that on slightly older CPUs it might be a bit heavy to run.
Full stops are allowed in schemes, so technically "www.moz" is a valid scheme name...
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This is yet another comment claiming that Thompson sampling is the answer to all of our statistical problems!

Naive Thompson sampling (like the code you linked to) will result in problems equally disastrous to those I wrote about in the Qubit whitepaper. Other comments have highlighted a key problem with simple bandit algorithms - reward distributions which change over time will render their results worthless. You can model these dynamics but not in 'a few lines of very simple code'. It is verging on the irresponsible to suggest otherwise.

I personally favour a bayesian state-space model to elegantly take care of these things - but that's outside the remit of the whitepaper and outside the skill set of most non-statisticians. Frequentist testing, when done properly, is simple to implement and has statistical guarantees that are very attractive in practice.
Google is supposed to be penalizing sites that aren't mobile-friendly.

So why aren't they burying sites that DISABLE ZOOMING?

There's no excuse for disabling crucial browser functionality that has been standard for almost a decade.

Oh wait: That's because Google is a bunch of hypocrites. They disable zooming on THEIR OWN MOBILE SITES, making them distinctly mobile-UNFRIENDLY.
Hi, I had a look to the website to see if it's something I can recommend to beginners but I'd need to know the table of contents and the methodology and perhaps what technologies do you use. Does it cover only technical aspects, or also how to prepare for your first job or where to find freelance gigs, etc.
It never gets out of sync, until somebody gets tripped up by some idiosyncracy of running the server directly on their machine instead of through Docker.

One of the original benefits of containers is in its potential to reduce the disparity between dev and prod. If you're running containers based on the exact same image as dev and prod, then there are fewer reasons why something would only work on a dev machine.

If your devs are using containers correctly, and building candidate images on their own machines, then there's no need for separate bin scripts. If your devs need separate bin scripts so that they can avoid installing and using Docker on their own workstations, then you're throwing out a lot of the benefit which containers give you.
On some level, this starts to look like a really silly one-up/who-can-violate-the-spirit-of-uris-the-most contest.

So Google got its own TLD just for marketing purposes?

Well, Mozilla got its own scheme for marketing purposes only!
This isn't learning an instrument. This is making your own catgut strings.
This probably highly varies by country/region, but here (Central/Northern Europe) using the title "Engineer" usually implies having an engineer's degree, which here is basically M.Sc. in a technical university.
From 2010 - it was a good read back then, probably still is. Michael Lewis did a similar article on Iceland as well.
Things like the indiscreet way certain material was released (I agree, some of the cables embarrassed the US, but with no clear reason for WL to release them), and some of the politics around its personnel (Assange should never have pledged to submit to the US, them seemingly tack on more conditions).
It is still a valid comment. "If working at Apple is as bad as working at Palm .... "
If you're willing to learn some things and jump through some hoops to get the ultimate Linux setup on your desktop/laptop, you should check out NixOS. It's fundamentally designed to solve some of the problems I think the author of this post aimed to solve, and you can set it up without forking other operating systems.

The main downside for NixOS from my perspective is that its configuration language is just a small jump away from being trivial, and some things don't feel very polished. That said I do run it on my desktop, and setting it up was less work than for example setting up an ArchLinux machine (although setting up an ArchLinux machine is a bit more fun as you get to learn all these low level things)
OK, how is this ultimate? Did I miss something?
Voice activation is the default of all popular VOIP products. You have to specifically join a voice channel, and it will display that on the bottom left if you're in one. Mumble, TS, Skype especially, all of those use voice activation in setup first. Its the norm, and people expect it, and moreso, want it. I hate voice activation, personally, but with how Discord is used as a group chat in replacement of Skype, it makes sense to default it.
The idea was that the syntax for declaring a data type mirrors the syntax for using that datatype. See https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.pdf for Ritchie's own comments.

It was not a successful idea, but there was a method to the madness.
Athelas (YC S16) hiring hardware hackers and fullstacks for blood diagnostics
Athelas (http://athelas.com) is a low-cost blood diagnostic device that is already shipping.

We're looking for hardware hackers (microcontrollers, firmware, imaging, optics, product design experience), and fullstack developers.

Stack: Python, C, Javascript, frontend; but above all, a good hacking sense.

You'll get to work on interfaces and technology that have helped doctors identify Leukemia, Infections, and Inflammations early. We're aiming to make preventative healthcare a reality.

We're venture backed by a top firm and growing quick.

Shoot projects/backgrounds to tanay [at] getathelas.com

Looking forward to chatting!
What about this study mentioned in Kahneman's Thinking fast and thinking slow according to which there was only a very slight correlation between the success of a company and the qualifications of a CEO?

Don't get me wrong, CEOs have my uttermost respect and I don't claim that it's an easy job. I just wanted to point out that there are reasons for believing (at least the possibility) that from the point of view of a realistic assessment the choice of a leader and his or her personality, qualifications and ambitions do not have much to do with the performance of a company and that the many apparent examples to the contrary are mostly based on selection bias and some biases towards oneself such as regarding one's own success more as an achievement rather than chance as those of others, estimating your own social status higher than those of others, believing your less biased than others, etc.

Maybe the best qualification for leadership is being at the right place at the right time, and nobody else really wants to do it?

If that sounds too negative, let me stress again that I think CEOs and people in certain kinds of leadership positions often (though not always) do some difficult work that I generally respect. I just don't buy the claim that the successful ones are little geniuses. A decent amount of intelligence (smartness), some generic business knowledge and being good with social relations seem to suffice.
Two words that weren't repeated enough in this essay, especially one with a focus on trust.

1. EMPATHY

Great leaders have empathy towards their customers, their employees, and above all, to their cause, which is what is contagious.

This is an emotional connection that garners an emotional response. The person that initiates the connection is leading. The person responding is following. When this pattern repeats itself, it strengthens the form and function of the relationship.

2. RESPONSIBILITY

Taking responsibility is not to be confused with taking blame, because they are opposites.

Responsibility is taken before the mistake, and doesn't go away after the mistake. When the mistake happens, you apologize, then fix it, because you're still responsible. Blame is only taken after the mistake. It ends with an apology or a legal defense, possibly an acceptance of punishment, and afterwards we forget it all happened. One is progressive. The other is regressive.

There was also one word that wasn't even mentioned.

3. PROMISES

A leader makes promises, and delivers on them, until everyone succeeds. They make promises to clients, to customers, to partners, to investors, and to employees.

You cannot be a liar and keep promises. You cannot be incompetent and keep promises. You cannot make excuses and keep promises. You have to be aware, proactive, and capable to even know which promises to make.

And with every promise you keep, you've just given everyone another excuse to trust you, depend on you, and follow you.

In a nutshell, if they can promise to be responsible for delivering on a cause they deeply believe in, they're a leader.
Unless..... "As you type in your program, the verifier constantly looks over your shoulders and flags any errors." .... it's a feature being highlighted =)
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>I agree, but testing for understanding is more time consuming, complex, and difficult than just testing for correct answers.

You get 1 mark for the right answer and 2 marks for working. Problem solved. The question doesn't have to change at all. This is how I remember mark schemes working in the general case
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This thread is very important to the discussion, because it highlights an apparent opposite mindset of the article.

As I posted elsewhere in this thread already, I think the real issue is that the ideas of Robert Frank are not about these "regular" cases in the middle income range at all. (At most, I'd conclude that the interviewer asked questions that would touch persons in that range, too, and who likely form the majority of the site's readers.)

If you are doing OK-ish on the upper end or OK-ish on the lower end of the middle income strata of a Western (!) society, your "lot" should be quite tolerable. And nobody would deny that with extremely hard work and discipline you can move from the lower end of middle income to the upper end of middle income. However, if you are doing really bad and are below the poverty line or really well and are in the top 1% range, that certainly requires a good portion of (possibly: bad) luck. It already starts at conception, with your "birth rights". And the aim of the article (or rather, of Mr. Frank's theories), as I interpret it (them), is pointing that out that we need to find measures how to smooth those extremes, not about figuring out if some middle income person had a bit more or less luck, or if it even mattered.
This makes Docker for Mac unusable for rails development (without 3rd party work arounds). The issue and the radio silence has burned a lot of goodwill I and I'm sure others had for the Docker project. It's made worse by the constant stream of "production ready" announcements, while this product is crippled for most common use cases.

Here's the related thread on the docker forums. https://forums.docker.com/t/file-access-in-mounted-volumes-e...
Was the software you worked on a general numerics platform, or something more specialised? I'm trying to learn more about the topic myself, from a finance perspective.
There's all sorts of cases in real life now when defining fault is not at all easy. Children and animals are two examples of 'autonomous' individuals who's liability may lie with another party (parent/owner), buy also may not, depending on the circumstances.

Additionally, who's at 'fault' really doesn't matter when in most cases the damages are fully outsourced to insurance providers. In the case of autonomous driving, this insurance burden is shifted up a level to the automaker, but this cost will be passed on to the car's owner in some way, either in the cost of the car or a subscription to autonomous driving.

However if autonomous driving is safer than non-autonomous driving, premiums will go down, probably dramatically. Insurance companies can much more easily monitor the quality of autonomous driving for various automakers / cars either by the testing specification that they meet or the real-world statistics. Are autonomous Tesla's in less accidents than autonomous Volvo's? Cheaper premiums for Tesla.

This is exactly the situation you want to be in. Premiums for individuals are blunt instrument... it's hard to change many individuals behavior, the rewards may be low for the individual (save $3 on your premium!), and the penalties can be pretty random (you sped that one time so you're a high risk driver... or are there just more police in your city?). It's way better to incentivize at a higher level, like the automaker.

The only case where automakers would truly be at risk is something they should control, and that is if they pulled a VW and committed fraud on their autonomous driving tests, or were negligent in overlooking scenarios or providing updates.
Hey the new windows are better than the old windows...
I'm not convinced the memory usage would be very high.. but doing some measurements would be interesting.

Avoiding network namespace and by using --net=host should allow dbus to run.

Allowing updatedb to look in /var/lib/docker/ (and any attached volumes) should mean that the host mlocate can see all the files within the container.
The list of just "big data" projects is somewhat smaller

https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data
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You can set up questions in AngelList I believe, so that applicants have to answer them instead of just saying "I'm interested."
I've had this thought myself. I've also considered that perhaps it might be useful to push some of those containers off the desktop system to some other box on the local network.

I use an old workstation and having too many apps running at once does cause problems. Perhaps running some of the worst offenders (Browsers, Word Processors, CAD) on some other CPU, which isn't driving my desktop experience, would work out well.

I already do most of my software development tasks in containers and just not having their environmental requirements conflict with each other was well worth the effort of setup.
The Peter Dinklage bit annoys me, as this is precisely the issue - survivorship bias.

I happen to have a few actor friends. All talented, harder working than me, and dedicated to their craft. And no-one is interviewing them because they haven't made it.The talent and hard work pays off because you also get the lucky break.
The Origin header is not as good to prevent CSRF since it's a known value. A CSRF token is a one-time value generated in the server, it's impossible to guess or get a valid one from the outside.
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I'm not seeing that behaviour at all direct from Google. I do get the registration overlay if I subsequently click another Quora article page from the original Quora article. The behaviour I'm seeing is reasonable, if slightly annoying.
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But wouldn't it be much more cumbersome to check correctness using a type-system?
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Surprised that a thread about CSP in Lisp doesn't mention Clojure's core.async. CSP in Clojure is implemented as just another library and it's rock solid. While I don't claim to understand the implementation in detail, it's one of the more interesting and high leverage uses of macros I've seen in Clojure. It makes concurrent programming a breeze in Clojurescript as well, despite JS being single-threaded.

As someone who programs in both Clojure and Go there's absolutely nothing I miss from CSP in Go, and I would much rather do concurrent programming in Clojure.

Rationale: http://clojure.com/blog/2013/06/28/clojure-core-async-channe...

Code: https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/examples/w...

Presentations: https://github.com/clojure/core.async#presentations
Yes it does here too, but for some reason in IT it doesn't matter. I don't know why this is, but there are many titles like Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, Database Engineer, Network Engineer, etc. These titles are not uncommon and they usually don't have hard requirements on degrees or group membership like "real" engineering fields such as Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering does. I know this is true in Canada, and have heard this is also true in the US, but I'm not sure about other countries. They're all skilled nonetheless.
I started to make a witty post implying that you just signalled for some sort of terrorist attack using an encoded message, then I checked the calendar and posted this instead.
I couldn't disagree more, i'm based in the UK.. but I've worked internationally with engineers varying from without college education to people with PhD's... both are competent in their area of expertise and are right in calling themselves engineers.
For Europe, at least where I am, it goes both way, in some parts the women are on equal footing to men, but in other parts it's the opposite, with women seen as inferior to men.
I like Lua more than I like Python and all of this makes me sad. I wished more people were putting their hearts into getting the Lua's ecosystem going instead of into things like this.