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What chance you think people like Musk should take really depends on whether you believe that our current President is willing to anyone other than his inner circle, or whether he cares about anyone outside of his base.

I tend to believe the answer to both questions is no, and that all the President's tech advisory council is accomplishing is giving him something to boast about. It may also be benefiting the individual companies that sit on it to the point that they are willing to play along with Trump's agenda.
https://halite.io is pretty similar if you'd like to play against bots only. Plus it has a great forum that has a few posts on creating a bot using ML.
Sure, you're free to offer your opinion on which factors tilted the election. But I would urge you to qualify that opinion with an introduction like "in my opinion..." I say this because, to me, it's not obvious at all that Thiel had a significant impact in the election and you stated it so matter-of-factly that I smiled to myself.

To me, claims like "X individual was crucial to Y historical event in some vague way that involves 'intellectual gravitas'" seem absurd. That doesn't square with my view on how humans make decisions. It's difficult for me to imagine a human whose decision to vote for Donald Trump hinged on Peter Thiel's endorsement of Donald Trump.

I'd also bet money that most Americans who know who Peter Thiel is, and have strong feelings about him, live in CA and voted for Clinton.
Nice! It'd be kind of cool if they where in a format easily machine parsable, so you could easily identify content from each character.

I guess it wouldn't be impossible though to take the pdfs and use information based on the text location on the page etc. to work out who the speech belongs to.
Does it say who's to play or is it always assumed white starts?
What university do you go to?
I am mainly saying that the laws are fundamentally flawed when applied to anything but manual labor and similar jobs. The key difference is whether the job is easily measurable. This does not imply that I approve of discrimination.
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I recently got the option to save post drafts, so I could type something, it would save it automatically, and I could continue that post in another browser if I wanted (similar to Gmail's compose window). But the option was very visible. I can't recall if I dismissed it forever or it disappeared by itself.

If they're malicious they could wait a few minutes before reporting what you were thinking of posting.. or they're using websockets, which you may have missed.
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This article started off interesting, but didn't really go anywhere IMHO. I don't think saying "thanks|thank you|awesome|:)" is a good metric for being "happy". It seems like a much better metric for "thankfulness". And "wrong|horrible|stupid|:(" seems like a better metric for lack of agreement than for angriness.
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It's not always true. In San Francisco the people I meet in meetups are often broken and puts little trust in strangers.

TBH, I never met so many lonely broken people in other parts of the world.
I work at an ad network and I've tried to push morals and ethics for 7 years now.

The problem is that the entire field is driven by sales people with very few exceptions. The only objective is to make more money tomorrow, so they only think about how they can squeeze the market just a bit more... Like "Oh there's an empty spot on that page, put an ad there now!", or "Hey did you see those ads that cover the entire page? Advertisers love those... I want you to implement it on all sites asap!".

Ethics, morality, user experience, security and privacy concerns are simply not a part of the equation.
Fascinating read! I am enlightened.
I love Xposed. I just wish using it didn't mean I couldn't get regular Android updates (I have a 5x).
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> The takeaway is that businesses don't just need people that have STEM degrees, they need people that will add value to their company. Just because you have a STEM degree does not mean that you'll be a net positive for the company.

I agree. I graduated a long time ago with a CS degree and almost a minor in business. The CS foundation helped with all the learning I have done since then, but if I think about the most valuable classes I had in college they were economics, accounting, finance and management. Of course some jobs need PhD level CS without any other skill, but the majority of positions need someone who knows how to program plus <insert skill here>.
A memory consumption thing that you have to be careful of when doing that that we ran into recently. When you call fork Linux doesn't actually have to copy any of the existing memory until it's changed thanks to the magic of copy-on-write. But often Python will quickly increment or decrement the reference counters on all those bits of memory forcing copies; increasing memory usage and slowing things down. So either being careful with that or turning off garbage collection for the process (if it's short lived) are things to consider there.
The content is great (caught a few errors such as an item from 4th century BC appearing in -8k-2k), the design too.

The UX could be a bit better: The hover states the title and the reference number. For most visitors, the reference number is meaningless. Instead, when filtering by period, the precise period could be shown and when filtering by region (e.g. Africa), the precise region (e.g. Egypt) could be shown.
I have a friend who graduated with a PhD in Chemistry a few years ago. He went down the research path, but eventually didn't like the pay. He had a good amount of programming experience and was primarily building simulation frameworks for chemical-environment interactions.

I told him he could triple his salary if he applied for non-research positions. He's now a research developer at a pharma company making three times as much.

Many hard science STEM graduates don't realize that their programming skills (even if they're not totally honed) will make them more valuable on the market. If you can find a position that uses both your degree skills and programming, then you'll be a unicorn to that company.
A lot of talk is about hiring practices (like blind assessments), or retention. But that ignores a question that should be easy to answer: are there a significant number of qualified "diverse" applicants that could be hired with the right approach?

I seriously doubt any qualified developer would have troubles landing a job, regardless of race. Therefore I think the talk about hiring practices and cultural exclusion are misguided. Looking at the pipeline might be more promising, but it seems even Google can not turn the lives of millions of people around single-handedly.
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted, and I largely agree with the position that in most cases an adblocker will stop most malware from reaching the user.

I suspect the remaining cases mostly come from email and social engineering, where most antivirus aren't likely to be meaningfully better than MSE/Defender/whatever the OS has built in.
They first outgrew git, then outgrew perforce and implemented a custom server on top of their usual storage/database stack.
> If I were an American, what would it take to work in London?

A good internet connection and some perseverance in getting remote jobs. Also strong work habits.

I have many friends back home in Slovenia who stay in Slovenia but work for San Francisco. Sure they don't make 100k, but they don't have to. At 80k they're socking away 40k+ per year. And the SF startup is super stoked because they get good engineers for peanuts.
Happens w/ Chromium and also Firefox on Debian.

In fact, I can't find a single browser/OS combo it doesn't happen on.
Let's say I'm living in, say, Russia and I use this distro. Let's say I want to say some nasty things about Putin. Let's say they are so nasty, that Putin may want to kill me as a result. If I use this OS, is it possible to post the content in a way people can find it and not be identified? If so, what other steps would I have to take to do?

Is this a crazy question?

Are there trusted resources that spell out how to do it?

Would you trust the answers with your life?
agreed, halite is a well run challenge. The site gives a shoutout to halite: http://dev.generals.io/faq
Right, but what independent developer is making money on the App Store these days?
So, faulty premise, faulty conclusion.
The point is whether the anti-discrimination laws are effective or not. And yes this is just a proposal and I'd welcome other suggestions.
Jet.com was faking it until they made it. They were basically dropshipping a ton of products.

I'm long on AMZN.
To be clear, I assumed everyone knew it was DuckDuckGo's blog because of the logo and everything. I didn't see it as safe to assume everyone knows what they do.

For what it's worth I applaud their efforts and their product. I just think this article is biased (and that's OK).
I agreed with this "unwritten pact" and felt it was unfair to browse with an ad blocker - however recently the performance impact on my 2016 flagship (Nexus 6P) was atrocious.

Once I installed an adblocker, I can't believe how much faster/less frustrating using my phone to find something on the web has been.
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Actual support for diversity from the very top since day 1 (I'm not sure if it isn't apocryphal, but the original logo of a bitten apple in rainbow colors is supposedly a reference to Alan Turing, who wasn't just the most influential computer scientist, significant figure in winning WW2, but also killed by the anti-gay inquisition of his time that drove him to kill himself with a poisoned apple).

Also: you are asking about Apple because it's one of the most prominent companies in the field. It's prominent because it's successful. It's successful because it creates excellent products. Excellent products are created by excellent people. Biases in hiring are detrimental to hiring, and a divers team will (all other things being equal) be better – especially in terms of creativity.
All I was thinking was "copper bowl" and somehow I am now queued up to watch a classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti western.

Damn you, HN.
And now the job they had is available for someone else?
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It is possible to permanently delete a Facebook account. It's not known whether this truly deletes it, but it's a more permanent measure than deactivation: https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=relate...

This is a nefarious dark pattern though - I don't think there's any way to find the delete option through menus, you have to search through Google or Facebook's help center.
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It looks like their hosted solution has a cost - but the software is open source.
That's a good point. But what happens to Amazon's stock when/if Walmart do decide to compete seriously ? it seems more riskier to Amazon.
What's the service?
Great news. The more rational and intelligent people stop boycotting and actually start debating and working to convince / give their good advice to the POTUS the better. At the end of the day, he and his team are making decisions for the whole country and that team should be as well informed as possible.
Most of the tech giants are right in the middle of California. California has almost a 50% Latino population, but tech giants have less than a 15% Latino employee base.

I'm always amazed that California's progressive political leadership isn't constantly hammering these companies to make their workforce look more like the California population.

I wonder what would happen if Jerry Brown and Kevin De Leon pulled a Trump on Google, Apple, Facebook and Uber.

"Hire California Latino workers or we will tax your ass out of existence!!!"

Instead, they turn a blind eye.
This works.

What I do is randomly give shit data to them, some of my real friends confirm it who are in on it. Sometimes I just copypaste whatever random shit I had in another tab - then delete it, sometimes Like things I dont like, but not too often. Ive even uploaded my own pictures (nobody actually visible) from years ago with modified Exif data - its for shits and giggles as they say. Accept those weird friends, but not all, send some friend-requests myself. Comments no, no real messages initiated by me, most of the times try responding with other methods. Facebook only in incognito mode on full screen at all times with windows user-agent.

Been doing this for 3-4 years already. Was fun but now I visit it every other month or so.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1744/
By mainly having the work windows in the center, and email/chat in peripheral vision. See my setup here: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/new-standing-desk-set-...
I don't own an Alexa but I can't stop myself from asking this, after reading this and the article.

Is there really no setting on this thing to make it shut down from 11PM to 6AM?
The Roku is probably subsidized by Amazon, to push their streaming service.
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MacOS Sierra 10.12.3/Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)

Don't have my Ubuntu machine to test it there though.
Right the "guess white" links are at the bottom. The full help link is http://ba.net/juegos/crazychess-guessposition/help.html
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Not as fast as malvertising, unfortunately:

‘Malvertising’ Increased By 132% In 2016 According To New Report:

https://www.scribblrs.com/malvertising-rises/
Changing your behaviour.

Ads are a hostile action.
"Ric Weiland, Bill Gates and Monte Davidoff at Microsoft wrote MOS 6502 BASIC" as copied from the source code for BASIC for a PDP-8 ..

http://www.voteview.com/gates.htm

http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/hasta-la-vista-p...
The cynic in me says "by getting people to report as 'other/unreported' the first year, then telling them to honestly report races in subsequent years". It's not a scalable strategy, but it makes you look good for the first year.
I've done the same. The problem isn't C#'s access to the APIs, the problem is the APIs are incomplete, especially as MS moved to the SDI interface since Office 2010. There are somethings you just can't do in an Add-In that are obviously possible due to built-in features. Things like have a text-box in a toolbar show the proper text in inactive windows.
White starts, unless Black mentioned in the title of the game
> I can order online and get free in-store pickup

this will be a game changer for me. Big time. The day when I order online, check-in on my mobile app in the parking lot, pull up to the delivery dock, Johnny comes out with a box of my stuff and puts it in my trunk, and I drive off. That will be my nirvana.

I have mild social anxiety, but walmart, for some reason, amplifies it considerably. Grocery stores too. Partly because I dont do proper meal planning/shopping planning, but partly because it just feels so inefficient to wade around the store and just feeling...handicapped ? Like, I just want to get my things and go, but ther'es always something impeding me: forgetting items, people in the way, employees restocking shelves during busy hours, long lines, bottlenecks at the one exit, etc.

Drive-thru supermarkets/walmarts/amazon pickup is going to change the world.
>Maybe, because it worked?...immigration is the core constitution of the USA.

Immigration from where in particular? US immigration law is vastly different now compared to before 1965.
Many developers with 10+ years of experience are married. Once you get to 15+ or 20+ most are married with children. An entry or mid-level salary does not cut it. There are mortgages to pay, braces to buy, schooling fees, nannies, the works.

I know hundreds of people in these categories. They go work on Wall Street or other industries where those with 10+yrs experience get paid commensurate to their experience.

I guarantee if tech jobs paid market wages for higher experience there would be no shortage.
Hmm, I wonder how long it will last... if they invest more in automation.
I think he/she meant that it was listed for a lower price on Walmart.com than in-store at Walmart, and that Walmart couldn't pricematch to Walmart.com...
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For some backround: This is the "Security gun rule". Under this regulation, the Social Security Administration will submit information on recipients of disability insurance to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System if they met certain “mental impairment” criteria[0].

As I understand it most of the peopled with disability insurance for mental impairment will be military veterans.

0: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/16/gun-rights-groups...
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My explanation was "we find the other's enjoyment intolerable", but I guess this one is better.
The "good" ads I've seen are mostly in conjunction with existing content.

A good example is subreddit-specific ads. For example, say that you have a woodworking subreddit. The ads would then sell wood, tools, maybe some instructional books, and so on. I don't have a problem with that. Another example is Amazon's "Buyers of this product also bought..." section. Oh hey, I need one of those as well.

What's frustrating are the general-audience advertisements that spam every medium. Coca-Cola, car ads, movie promotions, etc.

Of course, depending on the sector, even the niche ads can be just as shitty. I post a lot in /r/learnprogramming, and most of the ads on that subreddit are for get-rich-quick coding seminars that charge an enormous amount of money, promise the moon, and teach nothing that you can't learn from CS161 at your local community college.
Ghostery (they may be evil, it seems they've mutated into a company selling "insight" about 3rd party tracker blocking, insight they gather from their users usage of their browser extension!) blocks close to a thousand 3rd party trackers. Yes there are that many.

Even without an FB account, it's interesting how Fb probably has a profile of you from your friends. If you have 5 friends who use FB and they upload party pics of you 6, FB can probably nake a profile of that "ghost" through your friends' characters. E.g. All 5 like metal, all 5 checked-in to a metal concert/the FB app places them there, and there's a pre-concert photo of you 6, the machine can conclude the ghost (you) probably like metal too. And it already has your face in its face recognition database...
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Businesses who's revenue is mostly coming from ads are operating in a bubble that should have burst long ago. The sooner it ends the sooner we can get rid of all the click-bait blogs and BS websites that make money from uneducated users.
It goes without saying that there are many legitimate websites with great content that make money from ads - but if you have good content then users will be willing to pay for it.
>Enter STEM. Instead of assembly-line workers, customer service reps, and bank tellers, we will soon all be the scientists and engineers designing and servicing the grandiose machinery that now does most of the actual work.

With the problem that the "automated" infrastructure has incredibly high initial capital costs and incredibly specific skills requirements. Just think how many software frameworks are used for a typical complex product that really does something useful: call that N.

Now, where do you find 100 engineers trained and experienced in all of N different things?
At least you lose the weight?
EAD: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with AI and AS [pdf]
I tell my manager what I'm working on and how it's going. I ask him anything that needs asking relating to the work, that he can help with. He gives me feedback and advice on these topics, and also tells me what I need to do to get promoted. He's very straightforward, very blunt, but I appreciate that.
For log aggregation I use Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana. For statistics I use Influxdb + Telegraf + Grafana. For service alerts I use Consul + Consul Alerts. Notifications get sent to Pager Duty and/or Slack from one of Kibana, Grafana, or Consul.

The Grafana graphs are especially fun to watch and Kibana has a nice logentries-esque plugin for searching and tailing logs.

It's quite the system to setup but once it's running everything else (i.e. the rest of your app) is much more manageable.
Just wanted to leave a comment about the ChangeLog which is a list of commits. It would be nice if they sat down for a day (or two) to write down proper release notes that made reference to various commits and outlined exactly what is changing, like if there are backwards compatibility issues or if there are very important bugs solved.

The changelog here looks like a git log :/ I mean, I can do better on my own projects (and have been trying to do so with node-oauth-libre) but for a major project it would be nicer if it had nice release notes.
it means "i wouldve guessed (based on your username) you were smarter than i know believe you to be"

Its an insult, not really hackernews quality, as almost all of this users comments in this thread have been an attack on someone. I dont know if this person had a bad day, or if they are always so unbearable and condescending.

see also:

>all your friends and former classmates can't code even if their life depended on it

>Usually I don't give comments like yours the dignity of a reply

>I was saying they are incompetent programmers

>I have already explained this.

> The only reason I am replying is because ..
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its an SSL connection, doesn't that mean its encrypted in transit?
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Nope. OTOH, $2B is large enough that the Tier 1 transit rates are probably quite good, too.
Useful question: how many unfilled STEM jobs could be filled by hiring an available applicant and putting them through three months of training? If you want narrow expertise, create it. HR organizations need to be thinking that way.

"Lack of planning on your part does not constitute and emergency on my part."
Paying market wages to STEM workers may sway them away from going to work at hedge funds and other industries. Paying sub-market wages and expecting to find top talent will lead to shortages, much like trying to purchase a new BMW for $500.
> This does not imply that I approve of discrimination.

Yeah, it kinda does.

Keep in mind that the burden of proof is on the plaintiff in discrimination cases. If there are any problems with applying these laws to high-skilled work (I'm guessing you mean something like "it's too hard to compare people for this sort of work"), those problems would diminish the plaintiffs' cases more than anything.
From the PDF:

Ethically Aligned Design - Version One
Request For Input

The document’s purpose is to advance a public
discussion of how these intelligent and autonomous
technologies can be aligned to moral values and
ethical principles that prioritize human wellbeing.
Let's say Walmart's customer service does become great, and their site better than Amazon's.

Amazon's site quality seem to have gone down, according to many). How hard would it be for them to fix their brand? How long would that take ?
The no profit thing is one purpose. Basically what Amazon does is it takes all the money it made in profit and reinvests it in the company: buys new inventory, builds new warehouses, hires new developers, etc. It's actually a somewhat-common model to grow a company rapidly.

In fact, a few quarters ago, Amazon actually made a profit by accident, because they could not reinvest the money fast enough.
Uber continued to pick up people at JFK when taxi cab drivers were striking. As a response, Lyft donated $1 million to the ACLU, so everyone jumped on the delete Uber/use Lyft bandwagon. Disclaimer: I'm more of a subway kind of guy, I don't use either and don't necessarily think we should be focusing on Uber and Lyft to make our political views seen. There are probably better boycotts out there.