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China is a developing country. If "a huge portion of the country is developed to first world standards" then 50% of developing countries would suddenly be classified as developed. One of the criteria for being a developed country is uniformity of development.

Saudi Arabia basically sells gold that springs out of the ground. Let's see how they fare when the price of their "gold" goes down to 1/100th.

Russia is not a developed country, it's a developing country.

And about Germany, we're talking about past 1945. Otherwise any comparison is useless since a relatively poor country in 2017 is richer than quite a few developed countries pre 1945 - progress does that to things :)
Specifically here, and it's an excellent comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13785435
Looking different and having a different accent can also be seen as attractive. But there are human biases ... I have a theory that if you get a lot of calls from "scammers" (for example Microsoft support, saying you got a PC virus), and they have a special accent, you will form a bias that someone with that accent is untrustworthy.
What is battery life like for you? I tried Ubuntu on an Asus laptop 4 years ago. Windows would get ~7 hours, while Ubuntu barely managed to get 3 hours.

I love using it on desktop, but it sucks (sucked) on laptop when I used it.
A common cause of this is 32-bit x86 builds that use x87, which uses 80-bit precision which sounds like a good thing except that it only does it while values are in registers, which from the programmer's viewpoint means the precision might as well be fluctuating at random. Solution: don't use x87. There are a few compiler options for this, but the most obvious one is to just always build 64-bit.
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It's an allegation base on evidence and report with no source.

The news article if you can call that, sources the Daily UK Mail as a source.

> Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus,

There is no smoking gun. It's a hear say from one person or two.
I mean correct, as in "Rust compile-time checks prohibit creating some compiled programs that would correctly produce the desired result". Rice's theorem means that rustc must fail programs that actually don't have memory errors.

The same is true of C; some ASM programs can't be transcribed in a way that pleases a C compiler.
> the macs are under powered and overpriced

How do you figure they are under-powered and overpriced? Compared to what?

They have some of the fasted SSDs on the market [1], their battery has been reported to go for 18 hours after they fixed the software issues [2], and how many laptops do you know that have high-DPI wide color gamut screens? The Touch Bar is also actually a very nice new class of input device with lots of potential, especially once you've tweaked it a little. [3]

Even without counting the value of macOS, how many competitors offer the same or better overall features, AND good build quality and customer support? (which Razer clearly doesn't as you can see from the comments on this very page.)

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/2016-macbook-pro-ssd/

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/13/macbook-pro-battery-issu...

[3] https://alexw.me/2017/01/what-if-you-could-customize-your-ne...
> "The Men Who Stare at Goats"

This is probably the weirdest film I've seen in my life. I still can't make heads or tails of it.
It is likely that they didn't catch the linked problem, and I didn't intend to suggest so. What the linked article shows is that the Red Cross isn't beyond the suspicion that something they did wasn't that clealy above board that an algorithm couldn't possibly have been triggered.
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Um, no. "most likely" != "apparently"

> There was no suggestion of any sexual harassment on his part and the encounter was apparently consensual.
"Greyball-as-a-service" would make for a startup with interesting applications (think protecting sex workers etc.)
I was initially going to skip the 2016 MacBook Pro myself, mostly because of their price, but I got one recently and it's actually a very solid and I would even say amazing machine. The need for dongles/adapters can be overlooked as a transitionary pain.
I had a very similar experience as you with interviewing and feedback. Some places I felt did genuinely find a better fit and would provide some specifics, others were oddly evasive when I tried to question them further.

I eventually figured out that in many cases they had an internal candidate that they were going to hire and they were interviewing you to satisfy some requirement.

At the onsite, when they ask if you have any questions at the end, I now always ask how I stack up to the other candidates and listen to that. If they don't mention anything, I will follow up with "Do you have any internal candidates?" and often they will just casually mention, "Oh yeah, Steve's great, he'd make a good PM."

Now when I follow up for feedback I would say 80-90% sound genuine about better fit and will usually explain why. Before I would say it was around 50/50. So it's possible in your 7 interviews, 3 or 4 of them weren't real, and they did find a better fit for the others which doesn't sound as abnormal.
The title should be "The Most Desirable Passports on Earth Don’t Include America’s", or if you must "The Most Desirable Passports on Earth Don’t Include America’s Passport". Visa doesn't make sense here.
In the context of today, yeah, there are tons of resources that we're quickly plundering our way through. The stories mentioned by Tom Scott and the parent article are tragic.

But, big picture, nothing on this planet is "non-renewable". Sand, for example, can be manufactured. As can petroleum, coal, clean water, etc. In fact all those products can be produced from the waste of the materials they are replacing. We can chuck a bunch of plastics into a pressure chamber and, with enough energy, regenerate the original petroleum products.

And that's the real crux: energy. We don't make our own sand and fossil fuels because it would cost too much in energy. But if we had more abundant sources of energy, the cost would go down, and more manufactured materials would become viable.

Our crisis is not that we'll run out of resources. We have plenty. Our predicament is a lack of energy sources. We make up for it by consuming energy our planet has stored, in the form of fossil fuels and other so-called "non-renewables". The solution is to transition ourselves away from this handicap. We need to have more sustainable and abundant sources of energy. That pretty much amounts to solar, as there are no other truly sustainable sources of energy.

So the real solution has not much to do with using less "non-renewables" and more to do with improving our abundance of solar energy.
Right. Banks can charge their customers whatever they want (as long as it's the same as for domestic transfers), but they can't charge other banks fees for accepting their wire transfers.

So an upstart bank can claim zero fees, still have access to other banks without them ruining it for them. But in the case of debit/credit cards, you couldn't start a card processor without being subject to fees.
Waterjet teardown.

https://youtu.be/qBVyF0I2Ruo?t=2m24s
I am not denying that discrimination is an issue in the US but I think in OP's case in doesn't look like this is his main problem.
Here is why not:

- OP is not hiding the fact that he his Indian. It probably shows in his name, on his CV and in his slight accent during phone interviews. Nevertheless, he has been invited for interviews and has even frequently made it to the final round. If being Indian was such an issue, he would not have made it so far so often.

- even in the final round when he didn't get the job, according to OP, he was sometimes offered another role instead. If the HR department was so very racist and didn't like Indians, then why would they do that?

Of course this is not a proof that there was no discrimination at all, but I would say the chances are greater that there is some other issue that is affecting his chances. Apparently an issue that becomes apparent only in the final rounds.

I would definitely not change his name to an americanized version! The problem is that there is something inconsistent between the impression given in his CV and phone interview and what comes out during the final round. Hiding the fact that you are Indian on your CV could only make this problem worse.
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Note to self, stop buying food and get that vasectomy.
It is not a context per resource. The context should group all resources and responsibilities that belong to that context. For example, if you are building Github, you could have an IssuesTracker context where you would find the issues, labels and other all issues tracker related resources in there.
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AKA Sand Mafia in India http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/08/06/why-india-has-...
Exactly, it is about not having to "paw". I own a 2016 MBP and even with the massive trackpad I end up having to swipe and reposition at least a couple times for big movements, unless I set the sensitivity to a level that makes precision movements impossible.
> Nor is it illegal to say "oh hi there officer" before your hooker friend propositions a cop. That's basically what Uber did.

Uber built an infrastructure to be able to systematically detect and obstruct officers in all locations they are operating.

Comparing this with saying "hi officer" is a slight understatement.
> I like to think i'd decline to work on that

Does it say something bad about me that I'd be the one jumping up and down to work on this?

It seems really interesting from an analytical perspective and the malicious side of it would leave me very satisfied if it worked. Morality be damned it'd be satisfying.
Bates is an insider source as is Roger Pielke. We'll find out more as the investigation unfolds. There's more to this lack of discipline to scientific methods as they push for policy changes and their own agenda.

> Another prominent climate scientist, the University of Colorado’s Roger A. Pielke Sr., said Mr. Bates‘ experience was “consistent with my experiences” with Mr. Karl on the Climate Change Science Program in 2005.
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Can I please see your burnout burn down chart? I'm not sure you're going fast enough. Maybe you need some growth hacks?
It's funny you mention Chrome, as they disable hardware based video decoding on Linux, but not on Chrome OS where they control the whole ecosystem.
Crash Bandicoot for PS1 was so revolutionary that most studios were never able to catch on. Naughty Dog improved even more with Crash Bandicoot 2 and Crash Bandicoot 3, but the first game was already at the top of what the PS1 could do.
Usually not in the millions, but occasionally they are. I've seen a few videos for Dyalog-APL & J, but nothing on GNU-APL. Even a blog post would be welcome on setup with emacs/vim...etc.
How have you learned a speaking language?
why not use the right tool for the job instead of doing Olympic-level gymnastics to use a hammer as a screwdriver?
Nope. It should be normally possible to disable Secure Boot.

In fact, many distributions don't support Secure Boot at all.
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I remember that several Xorg developers alleged that Paypal robbed Xorg. I think Xorg never got anything back. https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1417033.html

I recall reading a bible quote or might have been another religious book. It said, when a powerless man breaks the law, a crime has been committed, but when a powerful man breaks the law, the law was unclear.
Not just in Japan, plenty of countries in Asia have offline stored-value cards that started out as train cards but can be used in many shops [commonly in convenience stores] as well (see Octopus in Hong Kong, ez-link in Singapore, EasyCard in Taiwan, Touch 'n Go in Malaysia, etc)
Sure.

Doesn't seem necessary on any level, though. Nothing about hex editing needs to be an app instead of a web page. If that were true, my computer education would have been crippling--especially in high school. I think you're projecting on your students.
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Ask HN: Algorithms gone crazy
What are your favourite cases of algorithms/automation going wild? Cases like the the 23M algo pricing book on Amazon, racist MS chat bot, Knight capital trade matching...

I'm writing an article on the topic and looking for a few more pointers.
Why isn't it called interface then?
Naturally European countries will be the most open; the point of the EU is to provide a federalized government and reduce divisions.

It's not unlike the federalized state created by the American colonies in the 18th century: no taxes on inter-state trade, no inter-state immigration restrictions, standard docs, etc.
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When I lived in Europe it was really tempting to just completely scratch off the magstripe, as everyone used the chip. I was never sure if ATMs use the chip or not though.
This is like the old adage: if you have enough money to solve a problem then it's not a problem.

If you have enough energy to make X, then you'll always have X.

But usually you don't.
Doesn't look like a boot screen, looks like a copyright notice screen for all software used in the product - my Panasonic TV has one of those too (it uses a FreeBSD Kernel)
also how can the American NSA trust the manufacturing process? Couldn't the Chinese counterpart of the NSA possibly reprogram the code of this processor when it was manufactured? Reflections on trusting trust that is...
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I am from Kerala, in India. The amount of damage the illegal sand-mining done here in rivers is pretty alarming.

I think we should adopt living in smaller houses, which are built out of locally available materials, instead of cement concrete. As far as I know, concrete buildings do not have a lifetime exceeding 40 years, where as older construction techniques do give us longer lasting buildings.

Local concrete used in India include a mixture of slaked lime, honey, water chestnuts, rice husk etc. - e.g. [1] Seems to last a couple of centuries, at least.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_Imambara#Building_composi...
I scoped out my local Target at 1 am and there were 5 people in line and maybe a few more waiting in cars. Came back at 7:30am before the 8am opening and got a voucher for about 40 out of 60 Switches. I think it could just be a smaller thing because most people expect the midnight launches, and people have work at 8am. The midnight launch at my local Fry's sold out of their 90 Switches. Or maybe it is your location as I am in Los Angeles County.

>It very much feels like a mobile device you can dock versus a home console you can take with you.

I definitely agree that it feels like a 3DS successor rather than a Wii U successor. That wouldn't surprise me if you consider how well the 3DS does compared to the Wii U. I'm playing the Zelda on the portable more than on the TV.

>Just not sure how much headroom is in the hardware to make this last for three or four years without major compromises.

If you look at the 3DS which still has most games running on the same hardware from 2011, I can see the Switch lasting three years without requiring a refresh. Maybe a small one like the New 3DS is to the 3DS.
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It's self funded.
Yeah, it's an excellent abrasive for cleaning stainless steel. Sometimes works as a pumice-type scrub too. (Make sure your dirt is clean :)
For a site called technology _review_ you'd think they put in the effort to mention some limitations as well...

I guess one obvious one is that the correlations between cars and demographics change as cars get older and new cars appear, but I guess this can be useful for monitoring trends in years between censuses.
This.

The last company I worked for interviewed some founder of a Czech IT agency for a lead dev position and his resume seemed awesome.

He worked over 15 years in IT, founded a company that had 10 employees etc.

But the first thing he said in the interview was "What job do you have? I only accept CTO"

whelp.
This was true in Windows 8 times, but with Windows 10 the requirement to be able to turn off Secure Boot vanished: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windo...

The whole story around Secure Boot could be understood (even without a tinfoil hat) as a part of a slippery slope to lock out alternative OSes, highly recommended post: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/general-discu...
I've played Zelda on Switch docked for 10 hours and have not yet once experienced input lag. It occasionally hits seemingly 20-25fps with a lot of enemies and environmental grass and such for a few seconds but that has absolutely not sullied my experience of playing one of the most thoughtful and enjoyable games of all time.
> Obviously, Java has shown that you can survive without a macro pre-processor. That was even a point Gosling+Co made in a white paper I read way back in the day. But I do believe that if you are going to have a macro processor, it should be an expedient. Rust's macro processor is not expedient. It is its own impediment.

Annotation Processors (iirc Java 1.5) are clearly a form of a pre-processor. It's not macros / textual expansion, though.

Similarly C++ mostly gets along without macros since it contains a capable meta-programming system -- and I think this is the more important point here; for many tasks meta-programming is just a handy thing to have. Dynamic languages don't have that problem, since their runtime is their meta-programming system as well.
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I left the field of IT/startups to work with this specific issue. Not on the financing side, but on the solutions side. I have experienced just what you describe. There are ways around it, but the finances available are just not the same. It would be good with a group of people to work on the bigger underlying issue here.
I have a qweshtion how would i go about learning how to wright programs? I have an idea and want to wright it myself.
I never said it grants you magic power to understand machine learning. You're putting that in my mouth.

What I was putting forth was an understanding on why some techies may be skeptical of the computer modeling which is the evidence of AGW and the near immediate doom and gloom. Machine learning is not infallible. We're very much in the infancy. And all of a sudden scientists are experts at modeling the sun, earth, moon, currents, etc? This is not social network / ad network / ecommerce optimization we are talking about.

Of course the models account for random errors but they also include a lot of assumptions. You can doctor any model to fit your agenda.

Computer models and neural networks have incredible potential and application, but to suggest that everyone should accept these models of the universe from scientists as if they are infallible makes no sense.
I think Slack is focusing on code reuse, eg. using the same HTML/CSS/JS codebase across all platforms - hence it would be preferrable to avoid having to compile for every platform.
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A similar eye-opening for me was when I've learnt that Saudi Arabia is importing sand and camels from Australia. I couldn't find a reliable enough source now with a quick search, but here's a similar story on BBC: "Even desert city Dubai improts its sand. This is why." http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160502-even-desert-city-d...
There is a beach in south Sweden which was mined for sand, I think it was for biosand filters for water purification. The said they exported sand to Saudi from there. I presume different sands have different properties.
> one day when everything is destroyed and we're back to the stone ages how long would it take to get back to where we are now I wonder haha.

A long time. Technology level isn't just about know-how. You'd also need a global supply chain ensuring access to all the raw materials, subcomponents, sub-subcomponemts, etc. You need a civilized society and the rule of law so that people can specialize and still put food on the table.

> An offline version of wikipedia on how to turn ore into a generator.

That's the easy part. Some people are already working on it.
Is it really a problem a 100 year old structure of non historical significance is showing signs of age?
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I had similar thoughts. I realized that these are "get rich quick" thoughts and for most people that never ends well.
Once you give out its address for someone to send you what they owe you they will know, which is not the case with your physical wallet or your bank account.
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They don't seem to have taken into account the propensity of certain governments (mostly the US and UK) to undertake extreme measures to get their citizens out of trouble in foreign countries, up to and including mass evacuations and clandestine military operations. That's a feature Luxembourg doesn't offer.
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Like Peter Thiel has invested in an anti-ageing solution?

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No, it'll be the exact same binary polarization. One side keeps arguing "weed doesn't lead to violent crime" and the other side keeps arguing "but look at all the ways it does harm people", because that's the news stories they've each chosen to see, exactly the same as any discussion I've had on the subject to date.
I'm not sure about a bureaucratic approach, bureaucracy seems to be limited by a need to conserve the status quo. The more popular approach is a company like Tesla which seems to be on the verge achieving - or at least sparking - a huge victory over fossil fuels while realising investor returns.

The challenge is to identify a cleaner and cheaper way to do something and then disrupting the hell out of the existing field.

The guys attempting to grow meat in labs are set to disrupt things when their meat becomes cheaper than slash and burn burgers(it likely already is as the true cost of rainforest loss is externalised - rainforest loss to soya fields that is 70% fed to cattle amounts to the same thing: rainforest loss for meat).

Once they're done with meat maybe it is possible to culture high quality wood in a lab. They'd save the amazon rainforest and make themselves and their investors a ton of money.

But the patten is there, already laid out. The only role bureaucracy might play will be to get out of the way. To not impede.
> I simply don't see how Uber can be a monopoly. You need a critical mass of drivers, but nothing stops drivers from being on multiple networks. This isn't Microsoft doing per-CPU licensing.

They could force drivers to only work for Uber. "If you go to the competition, you can't work for us", they could try to lobby so that other networks can't legally operate, just like Taxi companies did... They just want to replace Taxi companies, that's why people who think they are the "hero of the libertarians" are misguided.
Immigrants don't get H1 visas. That's a non-immigrant visa. This conflating of 'immigrant' and 'temporary highly skilled worker' is concerning. The same incorrect rhetoric is used when discussing illegal immigrantion. People say 'anti-immigrant' when an illegal immigrant is a subset of 'immigrants,' thus being anti-illegal immigrant isn't the same as being anti-immigrant.

Terminology matters.