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I have views on both sides of this:

* On one side, I bounced between school districts as a military brat and was often labelled "gifted". Usually this resulted in me getting extra education. When it didn't, I was often bored, sometimes to the detriment of my education.

* On the other side, in one district you had the lower math class, and the higher math class, and within the higher class each section would start with a pre-test to see what you already knew, and then split the class into two for that section. Once I slipped into this lesser "higher" class, I felt I could never move up to the higher/higher class because I never learned ahead enough to meet the needs of the next pre-test. (It never occurred to younger me to read ahead in the book. So much for being gifted.)

So I think the arguments you list ALL have validity and should absolutely be taken seriously. OTOH, I think current schools do a poor job of keeping talented or more educated students engaged, which can drag down things for everyone. I don't know what the answer is - you've done a good job of talking about why separate schooling is a bad solution - but I think the status quo is also a bad solution.

(that said, I'm in favor of raising educational opportunities for the poor and disadvantaged first, because I'd rather have talented-but-only-adequately-taught people in a world of adequately taught people than I would have a world of poorly taught people save for a few bright stars)
> In an ideal world, the fix would be to not give half your players an aimbot, but you just know the product manager wouldn't go for that. Looks like they ended up adding a patch that tries to figure out whether you're actually using the controller.

No, this is the ideal world. Mouse users have more manual accuracy, couch gamers can still have fun vs. mouse users. Combating fringe cases (how many people actually plug in a controller and a mouse at the same time..?) makes no sense. This 'divide' worked like a charm on Titanfall.
Probably means that upgrades are done in-place. They don't move the VM between machines, but they do something like move it from the old process to and upgraded version (or in some other way upgrade the software underneath).
> That works out to a hourly rate of $240/hour.

That is a horrible for a VC, especially for one as successful as Ben.
No matter how good your JIRA-alternative is, persuading people to manage a project in a different way is exceptionally hard, and has very little to do with your tech. Project Management is seen as a science, and people don't like to deviate from known methodologies. My startup was in this space (managing projects, with a focus on requirements and change), and we failed because we underestimated how hard it would be to get customers to even try a different approach.
It got converted into white money by getting deposited into banks through other (mostly poor) people's accounts. Hence, a sum of 5 million rupees was distributed among 20 people (mostly domestic helps, gardeners, chauffeurs, etc). Each account's deposit is small enough to not raise suspicion. These amounts will slowly be withdrawn.

In addition, bank managers also acted in complicity with rich black money holders by documenting that their currency bills were actually exchanged by multiple ordinary folk, whose IDs' copies (necessary proof for exchanging) exist in large numbers at any bank.
You can use SSH keys for VNC, too. Would be neat to see a PoC that allowed you to invite someone to remote control your computer temporarily via their github handle. https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=383053
And what exactly about them isn't functional or reasonable? I was at the DMV the other day; there were people from all walks of life and they all looked functional and reasonable.
I really wish people would stop abusing the term "disruptive innovation" in ways it was never meant to be used. Making a product that's overly complicated, beyond what the market is demanding, is just bad management. It doesn't require any disruptive innovation to correct for this - making something that better matches your customers' needs is bread-and-butter business management, which every competent company is already doing.

The whole point of disruptive innovation is to build something which most customers do not want, with the bet that due to technology/market trends, market demand will grow exponentially in the future. Unlike the above, this is a real dilemma because if you're an established successful company, it's hard to justify pouring energy and resources into something for which the demand doesn't exist. If you're building something to meet a market demand that already exists, that's not disruptive innovation, that's just innovation, period. It's something people have been doing for millennia, and there's no dilemma here.

Sorry for sounding like an angry old man. It just annoys me when I see specific terms with specific meanings get bastardized into meaningless buzz words.
Unless I misunderstood their description, they can man-in-the-middle for the disposable keys use-case anyway. If you don't trust them, don't use the software. I don't really mind having curl|sh installation instructions as long as they use https and the script is written so that truncated downloads don't cause any harm. If you know that this is a risky way of installing software, nothing prevents you from manually verifying the installation script or following the manual installation instructions. Everyone else probably doesn't have the means to properly evaluate the downloaded software anyways.
Despite the scary pictures on the Play store and name of the app (I expect to see dongs), I tried to install it but the fields for the username, password, etc were unreadable (Nexus 6).
It also said "With recent updates to our build/ci process" but there is more to testing than continuous integration, especially for something as complex as Kubernetes.

In particular, continuous integration can run regression tests but how many bugs will it find due to interactions between features?
My goodness, I just started trying to use MyFitnessPal to track my food intake and was wishing that something like this existed.

Is there a way to save prior entries as meals? I am a boring person and I eat the same thing for breakfast 7 days a week. I would like to just add this with one click instead of selecting: Eggs... Spinach... Oatmeal... etc. MyFitnessPal has this and it is a great time saver.
Based on my experience, the world service and some other BBC programs seem to be managed differently than some of their online news, which far too often has basic typographical errors, and especially their social media accounts, which often post Reddit-style clickbait articles. Nothing wrong with that, but I would limit myself to the world service (though I have grown to enjoy NPR as well).
I think kaoD's point is that more code will always produce more errors, and more code (in the name of "readability") can give more surface area for bugs.
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uhh yes,
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for one, Chromium has a little less spyware as opposed to Google Chrome :-)
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just google "chrome vs chromium", here's the first hit:
http://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2%80%99s-the-differenc...
why so defensive about being privileged? it almost illustrates the concept for us... you claim to be privileged but also claim to not understand how it might make you different.
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but it should (unless the medical / insurance industry pulls their shenanigans - which is a real risk) be a lot cheaper to have a machine examine you. just like we have blood pressure machines at the drugstore. we could have checkup-supplement kiosks that could check your vitals cheap/free and tell you the same thing.

what I'm excited for with AI + medicine is how many poor people will be able to get _some_ level of healthcare where they were previously getting none. These programs aren't free, but once they exist they are cheap to run. so people in 3rd world countries can get their films read, or have an AI dematology program look at their skin.

cynically though, I worry that once these AI programs get perfected they will only exist behind the worlds toughest paywall and insurance will just charge you the same fee to see a real doctor. they'll not let it run films on poor african villagers because they have to "protect their IP" or some bs.
Duktape is nice, and I've mentioned it in the article. However it's quite fat, and can't be used on some boards like ESP8266. It's flash footprint is Megabytes, whereas mJS flash footprint is ~25k.
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It may help gain perspective if you imagine yourself as an uninvolved third party hired to consult for a contracting agency: "C".

Let's say this contracting agency has an established contract with a weekly renewal clause, either party can nullify their relationship at the end of any given week. C has been working with company "A" for a while now, originally company "A" represented itself/the work it was asking as something slightly different but C went along for various reasons that made sense at the time.

After a while, "C" starts becoming a more desirable firm but (for whatever reason) it cannot expand. A new company, "B", approaches "C" with a contract that isn't just more lucrative than the existing contract with "A" but has work that will raise the overall morale of the employees of company "C" in intangible ways that money can't buy.

So, "C" looks at the roadmap for work with "A" and picks a good date for both of them for "C" to begin it's contract with "B". "A", doing one of the things that motivated "C" to leave in the first place, has let deadlines slip in a way that makes the planned departure timing horrible.

Would you tell company "C" to deprive it's employees for a few more weeks, or more, because "A" can't manage things properly? Or do you think "C" should respectfully follow-through with their original plan?

If you weren't emotionally involved I think the answer would be a lot clearer to you.
> It really does taking meeting someone face-to-face to realize that they're not so different from you

Idk, from my Ivy league experience many of them are in fact completely different from you. Many of them are not, but many are. "Oh we're all the same" is too much of a generalization. I'll jog my memory a bit, although many are extreme data points that still come to mind years after...

I had a friend (guy) who would enjoy sitting and making fun of people for the way they dressed, which was usually just them looking poor or working class. To me that was new, the idea that some guys at 18, 19, 20 spend a lot on clothes and snark at the way other guys dress.

I had another friend who would invite a huge group of us to VIP bottle service at a club every so often, dropping maybe 4, 5, 6 thousand on a Saturday, but then would occasionally point at someone, usually someone he didn't like, and say "Hey - why don't you chip in" and put them on the hook for 800 dollars.

I remember staring in disbelief when I learned some guy in my building would order in sushi in the mornings to his room instead of going to the dining hall. (Of course, dropping $35 on a Postmates delivery for one is not unusual for tech workers in SF today, but at 18/19, and many years before Postmates, it felt like they were living on another planet). Another would just take off to Tokyo for a weekend if he felt like he 'needed a break', and other students, usually rich girls, would fawn over how "deep" he must be, his feeling the need to fly off to Tokyo, etc.. Someone else in that building also installed a stripper pole in his room, and not surprisingly a lot of girls who were attracted to his levels of "richness" and "lifestyle" actually went over to indulge him.

They formed their own "fraternities" although some were kicked off campus because, of course, cocaine. (Cocaine and richness is another topic). Additionally one of the super rich guy frats was one that had the roofie reputation. Another had the asshole reputation. I just remember going to one of their parties for 'rush' freshmen year and basically getting laughed at for the cheap suit I was wearing.

That all said, of course there were many jovial, standup guys from rich families who try to relate to everyone, who maintain an ironic distance from their "richness"... but my Ivy experience (which was maybe more unique to this particular Ivy), which I enjoyed very much, still exposed me to a lot of guys I could never relate to nor would want to.
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I've tried turning it on via https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Force_Enable, but it still doens't seem to be on per about:support unfortunately.

If you have any other suggestions for getting it going, I'd appreciate it.

One additional complaint I have about FF: It's hard to find out where to change the setting that I want. I constantly have to ddg for "How do I change $x" and I end up with 3 different answers for 3 different revisions. If anyone knows of a good resource for me to find this out, I would appreciate it.
I never bought into idea of the Webby OS, that Mozilla were pushing for. But at the same time, no one stopped Mozilla from allowing transforming Firefox OS into normal Linux, with Web runtime as one of the options, rather than a strict requirement. It didn't evolve far to judge really, what it could have been.
The point is that the robots can build things that would otherwise be too time consuming to build, on site, with higher precision than previously possible, and with a feedback mechanism that can adapt to the environment. So yeah, surely the robot can build a rectangular rebar structure. But, it can also make other shapes which could be structurally interesting in addition to aesthetic.
I don't think anyone is eagerly awaiting it (unless they were horribly misdiagnosed which is sad reality), but there is an inevitability to it.

It's not a matter of if, its a matter of when. Greed will be the impetus, and eventually quality catching up will be the nail in the coffin for traditional medicine.
Calling medical education and licensing a monopoly is pretty intellectually dishonest. To borrow the OP's analogy, that is like saying drivers with licenses have a monopoly on driving. Seems like a pretty strange argument.

Certainly, the medical industry does not face the same competitive pressure from outside, but that is the nature of industry in general.

Rather than calling medicine a monopoly, it is more accurate to accuse heal care providers and practitioners of colluding to ensure prices are high. Monopolies by definition cannot collude since there would be nobody to collude with.

In the grand scheme of things, I believe medical costs are accurately priced and it is people's wages that are not adjusting correctly.
What value does expressing your surprise add, here?
disable obsolete devices

Highly recommended!

Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive code (~2 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9538437
1TB/s is pretty nuts by today's standards but I bet it'll elicit a yawn in ten years time. Amazing indeed.
This article is making the obvious comparison, but it falls down on the slightest inspection because Trello and JIRA aren't really even in the same space. Yes, Trello can substitute for JIRA if your needs are simple, and yes JIRA has boards to meet different kinds of planning workflows, but the actual overlap of usages is pretty small.

What made Trello successful is that it is an incredibly simple SPA that never wavered in its vision. The minute Trello designers try to go down the road of meeting the needs of a ticketing system then the magic and broad utility of Trello will be poisoned.

There's probably some truth to the claim that Trello was eating some of the low-end of JIRA's market, but it would never credibly kill Atlassian, at least not without branching out into a lot of other products first.

The acquisition makes a lot more sense to me in the portfolio building aspect, Trello can satisfy a very wide array of business needs that go well beyond traditional dev tools. I put it more in the category of Dropbox Paper—simple, modern, real-time-collaboration-based, mobile-friendly tools with a very strong essential vision leading to extremely broad utility.
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>When enforcing the access to scarce natural resources

We could require all owners of property to pay rent for their use of natural resources, at a rate commensurate with the value of said natural resources, and there would still be trillions of dollars worth of private property, and socialists claiming a right to an equal share of it based on some contrived justification.

>or paying someone only part of what their labor is worth, you're enjoying more than just the value of your own efforts.

If someone voluntarily gives you more labour than what you pay them for, that's still a voluntary transaction, and anything you earn from that labour is legitimately yours. If you build me a shed in exchange for $1, because you're such a generous guy, I still have full rights to that shed. Of course in most cases people do not accept a job that pays them below market rates.

I assume you're implying that profits are the surplus value of labour that is unfairly provided to employers, which is simple Marxist ignorance.

Profits are the compensation the employer earns for the organisation and capital they provide. Labour is worth whatever its market price is, not whatever revenues are generated in enterprises where it's employed.

It's sad that I have to debunk 150 year old Marxist fairy tales on hackernews.
for the fact that it syncs with my google everything, across all devices, google accounts, etc.

Shudders My god that's the last thing I'd ever want and exactly why I avoid Chrome and Android devices.
You still have not got it right. This is an old class of problem, documented since the 1960s. It's nothing to do with types. It's nothing to do with what language one uses (since it has been documented in languages as diverse as RPG and Pascal). It's the use of unexplained constant literals.

M. Poettering was in fact doing the right thing and correcting the problem, replacing the unexplained constant literals written by M. Sievers ("mode > 0") with named constants ("mode != MODE_INVALID"). It is an example of the problem, one of whose symptoms is the question "Well which of these is the specific constant and which just happens to also be that number?", that M. Poettering missed a "mode > 0" that also needed replacing.

Make no mistake. M. Poettering was actually applying the long-time well-understood fix for this.

Here's Ted Holt talking about unexplained constant literals in RPG 4:

* https://www.itjungle.com/2004/08/18/fhg081804-story01/

This same problem, and the approach of turning unexplained literals into named constants to improve maintainability, is explained all over the place, from William Allan Wulf's Fundamental structures of computer science published in 1983, through Niklaus Wirth in the 1975 Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Reliable Software and Clark and Horning in a SIGPLAN paper in September 1973, to several of Gary Cornell's books on QuickBASIC and Visual BASIC in the 1990s.

This is not a new thing, not language-specific, (clearly!) not addressed by changing language, nor addressed by types.
That sounds like a great idea at first but if you think about it for a bit you realise it would just increase the digital divide dramatically.
> Project Management is seen as a science, and people don't like to deviate from known methodologies.

It's treated more as a set of religious rituals justified by received wisdom (which, to be fair, gives even less flexibility for change than if it were viewed as a science, in which case practices would be based on systematically gathered evidence and change in response to new evidence, rather than changing mostly when people indoctrinated in a different tradition come to power in an organization.)
Why not just place a product manager above each product (Gmail, YouTube, Play Music, etc. etc.) that each report to the master manager who's only job is basically to unify all the services and make them work together in a nice way. He would be the one to force everyone to use the same animations, same icons, same conventions etc.. honestly I never understand how companies with millions of dollars can't come up with the simple fix of 'give an experienced person total authority'.
People are disregarding three points:

1. gifted education is a difference in kind, not degree. Gifted kids need different things from their teachers to succeed, not just "more." I don't see anyone asking to devote significantly more resources to gifted students, what they are asking for is to educate them in ways that give them the best chance of success.

2. It's a fallacy to think that giftedness means that students will just do fine in regular courses, and may be just a little bored. Many gifted children (and some of them have posted to this list) will fail completely in a regular class setting, because they are unable to engage with the material or their peers. A significant number of gifted kids end up dropping out or under-achieving because they aren't being served.

3. Gifted kids are often born to gifted parents, but that does not mean rich or successful parents. There are a huge number of gifted kids in minority communities who are living in poverty.

Want to learn more? Documentary filmmaker Marc Smolowitz is working on a feature-length film on giftedness. http://documentaries.org/cid-films/the-g-word/
My child's daycare charges $1 a minute for being late. But there is a bit of a grace period. When we are three minutes late they don't even bother to record it.
I just launched a Facebook messenger chatbot today. The bot integrates AI into a conversational platform and allows you to sync all of your social media platforms into one electronic, digital business card. The company called digi, aims to relieve the clutter of all the different social media channels we have available. You can access it by going to your Facebook messenger app and searching for digi. Would love any and all feedback.
Typically a table with (optional) sorting, filtering, re-ordering, and/or drag-n-drop.
"make it clear what issue you are going to discuss next"

Please don't. Just get on with it. I routinely skip over anything that does this. Sometimes I have to flip through an entire opening chapter or introduction of a book to get past it.

At least I can skip over it in the written word. When someone is delivering a presentation in the format of "tell them what you're going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what you told them", it's excruciating.
India just banned all forms of disposable plastic in its capital
Just wondering: is that total commute as in home -> London -> office?

Up here in sunny Brum: you could be back up from London in 1h30 on a Pendolino and still live in a leafy suburb (15 min local train from New St gets you to the half acre garden territory).
I flagged the post. Hiding the post is good for the user, but not good for the community. Political posts on HN are fine, but should be relatively limited--otherwise they would begin to dominate and ruin HN--and avoid alarmism (which this article did not). In most cases, when politics is encouraged as a topic, it becomes an echo-chamber as the winning partisans downvote the minority until the minority is completely gone (see /r/politics).