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Nokia 3410 was a J2ME Series 30 phone.
You are mistaken if you think these things are not being done. The only difference is that people with different ideology than yours are doing it.
I have a dumbfone, in addition to an iphone. Bought it because I needed a secondary phone number and Iphone does not support dual sim. Did not see much point getting another smartphone
You chose to do this. You are accepting money in exchange for a service that potentially harms other people and democratic society. Nobody is under the gun to provide you with another job in order for you to make more ethical choices.

Show concern about the data that is collected, how it is collected, how it benefits others, how it is safeguarded.
Offer operational alternatives that have a lesser negative impact with comparable benefit.
Challenge people to show how that their algorithms treat people equitably and don't exacerbate existing disparities.
Get a job somewhere else in an industry that helps people or positively impacts society in some way.
Quit and quietly wage cyber-war against your former employer from an abandoned missile silo? Just spitballing here.
You are correct that zoomed all the way into single packet RTT you could split the difference with servers in texas. And if your shopping cart experience was somehow single http request-response steps with everything else async/lazy-loaded in a way that had no impact on the experience.

But in real world scenarios, open up the the chrome devtools network tab and click your way through a checkout process on any given ecom site. You'll probably make well north of 1000 requests overall, and even if a ton of it is fluff there's a solid 5 - 10 requests that are the blocking core of any page.

And thats just a single-user best case scenario example. When you zoom out a bit to the aggregate user base, a 5-hop/<100km-away network connection is going to have much less packetloss, jitter and latency than a 15-hop/>2000km one, such that the 95th percentile experience will be much better for the former.
I love recruiters. One of the things I find myself missing when I conduct job searches without their help is that they manage the process so that I don't have to. The big thing that I don't do myself that they do, is collect feedback. I'm not all that great at interviewing so it takes me a little while to ramp up so I can make a really good impression.

Feedback allows me to look in the mirror and analyze my flaws. I don't begrudge them their fees.
Nevertheless, what he said was completely correct.

"National security advisor" in an American context is apparently not just someone who gives advise on national security, but a specific high ranking post. Nils Bildt however is an independent analyst from Sweden who is based in the US. If the Swedish government considers him an "expert" or not seems irrelevant.

While the presentation of who he is was misleading, it doesn't seem like a huge conspiracy and could simply be a mistake. The reaction to it looks like a case of killing the messenger when you don't like the message.
I'm very excited about the promise of security updates for Android.
I would use it as a backup phone but never as my primary device, and I did use the original back in the day. Sure, it is indestructible. But it is not applicable in the modern world.
> has nothing to do with "meritocracy".

My point exactly. This is very common in hiring practices where "culture" fit is most important.
It's useful to some things, esp. when there is a high value potential click conversion, i.e. amazon and ebay items.

Some ads are bought by brand advertiser with little understanding of the impact because a) it's 'brand' and hard to measure in the first place, and b) they have a huge budget, need to spread it across channels, so they just 'buy X$' of 'social ads' on the 'trusted networks' because that's the marketing mix required of their bosses or client. To be fair - print and TV ads have the same problem. Marketing is not a hard science in many places, and they have big budgets :).

But it clearly works for some folks.

There should be no surprise at in-links from reddit: theres usually a degree of clear interest in the first place, and second, there is a 'voting' structure that naturally moves better quality stuff to the top of the pile.
This is excellent, thank you! I think one thing that would make it better is a reset button for each visualization. It's always nice to go back to the default without having to reload.
If the advertiser used the same bids on different properties, the campaign wasn't yet set up well. Also the device (mobile/desktop/tablet), query, language and many other features of the user session change the conversion rate, which means the bid should be different.
The fact that the ads were useless meant that either there is too much auction pressure and the advertiser wasn't able to compete, or he just didn't set up the campaign well (which is of course a hard task).

It would be good to know if the advertiser was using Enhanced CPC or not, which can increase the effectiveness of the ads, but even then it takes money to set up the bids correctly.

Disclaimer: I'm working on a relevant product
First party recruiters are fine, if incompetent in technical matters.

Third party recruiters are usually scummy salesmen types.
I agree with you but also think there's a lot to that article and it shouldn't be casually dismissed. It's a genuine perspective that exists regardless of whether it's fully justified and the author addresses that. I think you'll find it in many Western countries as globalisation starts to normalise incomes - the rural areas with the kind of employers that are first to go to Asia are the least insulated and at the sharp end. Whether global incomes rise sufficiently for some kind of Western comfort level by the time that hits white collar city jobs remains to be seen.
The full specs page for the 3310 says it's a 2G phone. That must be an error? Verizon and AT&T have both started the shutdown of their 2G networks.
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Once we have AIs as smart as humans, they can do AI research as good or better than human researchers. And they can make AIs that are even better, which in turn can make even better AIs, and so on.

Dumb evolution was able to create human-level intelligence with just random mutations and natural selection. Surely human engineers can do better. But in the worst case, we could reverse engineer the human brain.
Tbh most recruiters (from startups to large software companies) I engaged with so far have been attentive and respectful, sometimes even very nice on a personal level.
I find it quite hard to judge them professionaly as I do not know what they know.
So what do you dislike about recruiters?
I don't understand how you got the "6 mod 7" in the two examples above. Everything else makes sense, though. Thanks.
It's taboo because no one cares about your startup and trying to sell things to people is annoying.
A house isn't an investment either though. An investment is an asset which is expected to go up in value faster than inflation. Housing prices track inflation. This is, on average, generally true; I'm not talking about a specific local market here. In order for something to be an investment, it must generate a return. After transaction costs, property taxes and other upkeep expense, the RoI of real estate is not great. Real estate has low liquidity, low diversification and high leverage requirements.

Shelter is an expense. Like many things, you can own it or you can rent it. Owning it means you're holding an asset that (hopefully) won't depreciate but it is also unlikely to meaningfully appreciate (outside of certain local market conditions that are the exception rather than the rule).

Back to the original point: in order for an education to be an investment, the degree - the asset - must have a reasonable expectation of going up in value over time. The value of your degree goes down over time as you gain work experience; its peak value is right after you graduate. An argument could be made that the return on investment is a rise in earning potential but that too is a one time boost. A degree also shares all the bad qualities of housing as an investment: high leverage, even worse - zero! - liquidity, and low diversification.

It might make financial sense to borrow money in order to fund a degree, but that by no means makes education an investment.
Maybe it's meant for emerging markets.
That seems to be basically it.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Soviet-affiliated communist parties were triumphant in large parts of Europe. In countries like Hungary and Czhechoslovakia, they came to power through elections and rapidly seized absolute government control. Many communists in Western European countries were expecting France, West Germany and others to soon follow suit. After all, the "scientific" theory of Marxism-Leninism explained this would happen, and enough cherry-picked facts were available to support the inevitability of the capitalist governments' collapse.

Today's right-wingers look a lot like those 1948 communists. Plenty of things are going their way, but that is not good enough in itself -- the Bannon-style ideological framework makes fatalist predictions that must be validated, by adapting facts if necessary.
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Slightly OT, but, from a quick glance at the post, it looks like the postgres data is persisted on a network file system.

Does anybody have any experience with a big enough and this kind of configuration, and what is the performance compared with SSD local disks? Intuitively I wouldn't expect a networked disk to be a viable solution for postgres, but seeing it proposed like this makes me think that maybe my intuition was wrong...
I didn't read that at all in that statement. Where did you get everything about the special snowflake?
> It's a philosophy of inaction and accommodation to injustice and oppression.

This is not what I got out of reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and articles on Stoicism. In common English use, "stoic" sometimes implies what you said, but that's not the same as Stoicism-the-philosophy.

"The Stoics held that virtue is the only real good and so is both necessary and, contrary to Aristotle, sufficient for happiness; it in no way depends on luck."[0]

It's also true that Stoicism encourages acceptance of all outcomes, whatever they are, which people misconstrue to imply it's not worth doing your best. Here's a quote by Cicero on doing your best but not letting the outcome influence your emotions:

"Take the case of one whose task it is to shoot a spear or arrow straight at some target. One’s ultimate aim is to do all in one’s power to shoot straight, and the same applies with our ultimate goal. In this kind of example, it is to shoot straight that one must do all one can; none the less, it is to do all one can to accomplish the task that is really the ultimate aim. It is just the same with what we call the supreme good in life. To actually hit the target is, as we say, to be selected but not sought."

[0] http://www.iep.utm.edu/stoiceth/
In what way is the term "defense and national security advisor" used in the US? Does this necessitate being an advisor to the military or the ministry for foreign affairs?

Because this article to me, as a swede, seems to contain very little substance, and given that DN for no apparent reasons lists this guys whole criminal records makes you wonder what the purpose really is here. For comparison I'm not aware of ever having seen this detailed of a listing of someone's criminal record. There is no mention of any inaccuracies in what this person has said, only that the title chosen by Fox News is incorrect.

It's also somewhat ironic that they quote Nils Bildt as complaining of the way media behave, when this whole article, and publication of his criminal record in particular, in many ways seems like a way to "punish" him for criticizing the politically correct image championed by the media over here.

Finally, it might be worth pointing out that the surname Bildt is in Sweden strongly associated with the politician Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden and former minister for foreign affairs.
skynet has become self-aware
Having read "Colossus" by DF Jones as a teen, I know how this will end. It doesn't end well for humans.
All you can edge cache, though, is static content. Once the end user makes a product comparison, puts something in the cart, etc, it's no longer cacheable. That page-blocking stuff in the checkout path isn't usually able to be served by the CDN.

And, for content like javascript and css, that will be cached in the browser after the first request. Shopping cart software tends to use the same js/css on every page, with a few exceptions. The CDN, then, tends to serve up mostly product images. Lazy loading on category pages fixes the most pathologic problem there, if you don't have a CDN.

Just my real world experience that solely for this restricted use case, a CDN doesn't add much. Other optimizations matter more.

Edit: Not saying a CDN wouldn't be useful at all. But, if you're starting with typical cart software, like Magento, there are probably 100 other things that you should optimize before you worry about a CDN. We're able to get our ecom pages down to an average of 14 requests/page, many of those 14 being cachable at the browser and shared across pages. If you have customers more broadly spread, a CDN would move up the list quickly.
I don't even want to know :)
You may be interested in patchwork:

https://github.com/mmckegg/patchwork-next/blob/master/README...
Could you point to some, of any ideology?

I agree that people of multiple political camps are using technology, but my experience has been that all camps are exploiting rather than empowering people. You seem to be of the opinion that Im advancing a particular political agenda here. This is actually a policy neutral concern -- Im worried about how we're having the debate, not the outcome.

(And there are some I know of, like CBT apps and productivity timers, but I don't think they're that effective as engineered. They also don't cover, eg, meta-analysis.)
Indeed. It would have been perfect with an easily replaceable battery.

Either way, I look forward to the real world reviews, I hope they live up to all the expectations.
FD =\= data

Get the data from the FD and then let the application decide the best dispatch policy.
"In a world that is more disconnected than ever"

How is this in any possible way true?
- They tend to be genuinely nice people.

- They usually make hiring managers lives easier for finding candidates.

Those are the only two things I can think of.
Yes. This meritocracy smells religious in some ways. It speaks to the elite technologist. They begin to value merit, but it gets warped into "merit that is important to me". Smart people are great at biasing themselves into their own strange worlds of monocultute.
How so? You think early access half-baked games sell? Or you think few hundred sales is a good number?

People making these games are not in the games industry because they are not professionals (they don't live off these games). Also, it's curious how people who have not even shipped a prototype game down-vote opinions from the insiders. Good reminder when reading comments on something outside of my expertise here.
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Yes, it was going on before Trump, but now they feel empowered with free reign to mess with whomever they want.

US citizens: don't cower to the bullies. No reason not to be polite, but in the face of aggression, remember you have the right to enter the US at all times by showing your passport. It's not their business what you were doing overseas, don't incriminate yourself and give them reasons to accuse you of lying to them (a crime). Do not answer questions if taken for further screening. Do understand they may seize your phone and laptop if you don't unlock for them.
They were a late and poor response to the surprisingly effective Kremlin troll factories that have been astroturfing wildly for Trump (and Brexit and Ukraine and across Europe)
Hi,

I built a plugin for webpack [0] which can produce a GraphML file of your module dependencies. It will also annotate each graph node with the module size, so that with a suitable viewer application (such as [1]) you can scale/colour your nodes by size.

On the bitbucket repo [2] I've provided some formatted graphs that I've produced for a personal React project: [3].

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/module-graph-webpack-plugin

[1] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

[2] https://bitbucket.org/doughammond/module-graph-webpack-plugi...

[3] https://bitbucket.org/doughammond/module-graph-webpack-plugi...
I assume they are made for Europe and emerging markets. Note that it only works on 900/1800 MHz as well and not on the US frequencies, so even without sunsetting it would not work in the US.
You can tell there are always a bunch of shill posts on HN.
Here's a good compare-and-contrast: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/wiki/faq#wiki_what_are_sim...
There is nothing that could do so for that poster.

He has an unfalsifiable belief.

He asks for evidence, someone gives him clear evidence, well the evidence must be fake.
And first past the post ensures that only 2 parties are ever heard and all the rest utterly ignored, just as you just did.

Why do other parties not get a say?
Yes, there are a lot of things that I think good, solid recruiters bring to the table.

Here's why: I have a great relationship with a couple recruiters that have a) introduced me to opportunities, and b) helped me fill roles as I was hiring. In my past four roles I've worked with a small number of recruiters to place engineers with my team — they know I'm respectful of their time, clear about my expectations, etc. and therefore they work hard to deliver good candidates, filter out the resume "chaff", and communicate realistically about what candidates they see being available. And when it was time for me to move on, besides my own meeting people and talking with different companies, this same set of recruiters supported me through introductions and potential roles. They've helped me as much as I've helped them. Mutual respect is abundantly required when working with recruiters.

I think, though, this requires a willingness to ignore the recruiters that tend towards being ambulance chasers (your cybercoders level), and not-insignificant amount of time "interviewing" and building up relationship with any recruiter I work with (on both sides of the table.)
> Rather, machine-learning algorithms are trained on a diet of human-derived data that is simply a reflection of existing human biases.

Maybe we shouldn't call Supervised learning techniques "Artificial Intelligence", but instead "Memoized Intelligence"?

Then again, it's probably a spectrum from memoized intelligence to "true" intelligence.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions...will check these books out
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PG tweeted last year, "Focus on minutiae that aren't."

What are some of the best examples you know of minutiae that aren't?

I'm particularly interested in "minutiae" as it relates to making better, more usable software.

Thanks!
There would no doubt be some performance differences between local and networked but it is very normal in enterprises to deploy databases on a SAN to take advantage of the array's data services. On the NAS side I believe Oracle also are often deployed on NetApp arrays, they use their own NFS client to ensure the DB isn't compromised by bad NFS client implementations.
There has been no evidence of any secret donations but who knows there could have been but they probably didn't need the resources as much as the leave campaign so less likely.

Giving advice as a foreign leader to other countries is what politicians do and besides it usually has the opposite intended effect which was why every European leader had their mouths tightly clamped during the campaign with a few minor slips from memory.

Finally, the state was against brexit, that was their stated position they were never neutral except they promised to keep quiet during the official campaign as per normal election rules

Secondly, they merely stated the facts as the civil service saw it regarding exit providing the frank and fearless advice that is their job.
If I was a federal prosecutor, I'd go after Cambridge Analytica for computer mediated election fraud. Effectively, it is using AI to run a dynamic con job.

Map out exactly what the voter wants to hear, bury your message inside a wrapper of fake news that speaks directly to them.

The part that makes it so insidious, is that ad targeting is so fine grained, that only the victim will be able to see the ads, it is an imperceptible enemy. Literally zero rebuttals given.
No bluetooth?
Windows 10 shows me this: http://imgur.com/vKDZU24
Sure, "on average" our prosperity is at its peak; but the problem is that it's only on average. I moved from the midwest to the coast because of the economic disparity that is causing so much trouble. Have you been to Indiana? Large parts of it have transformed into a meth-addled, jobless, wasteland. There is "carnage" in the formerly agricultural and manufacturing states and that's a large part of what Trump tapped into.
This seems like the same issue faced by someone who is assembling a warhead; I think all they really need to say is "Today I will [do] something that will benefit myself, at the expense of someone else." Specifically, in the sense that they retain their employment and means of income, and (optionally) justify their exclusion from the subset of affected persons.

I think the best we can hope for is to design systems that are difficult to undermine or subvert. Distributed/mesh systems, encryption, and so on - things which at least delay the onset of corruption, centralization, and control. This is obviously a big ask, but it's also something that can be worked on by a few, instead of requiring that the many don't work towards the reverse.
I find it interesting and telling that you don't present any sources for your argument. Which paper in Sweden does the "Swedish intellectuals" read now? I think it is still DN, but would be interested to hear your sourced argument why this isn't true.
QQ - how do you deal with the situation where a node goes away?

GCP offers networked SSD, and performance is fairly good, but, as always, YMMV.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes
We avoid redundancy to speed up communication, but some redundancies can greatly speed up communication by removing perceived ambiguities that stall comprehension. These are good. Avoiding redundancy isn't a goal in itself, and hasn't always been an explicit goal at all. Who would understand "V" standing by itself, instantly, without pausing? Nobody. (In fact, I'm still thinking about whether venture money - which could include self-issued digital coin? - is the same thing as Venture Capital.)

In the middle ages, when literacy (and therefore large vocabularies) were uncommon, it was considered good form to include three redundant synonyms or phrases all in a row, creating emphasis, giving the reader the best chance of understanding the writer correctly, and demonstrating that the author understood his language well and probably meant what he was saying. (Not "she" so much, then.)

It's now considered good form in technical writing to start with examples or present them as soon as possible, but examples are, by definition, semantically redundant. Should we axe them all? Absolutely not, since that would greatly slow, and sometimes prevent, comprehension.
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Europe is not emerging.
Anyone who wants more revenue can get it. Just sell something at a loss.

It happens more often than you think! That's why - in the long run - profits matters more than revenue.

Of course in a land-grab situation the normal rules of gravity may not apply, but most businesses are not operating in a land-grab.