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Christ. Sorry for continuing to belabour this, but that's another tired old cliche of iPhones being somehow "simpler". The settings menu of an iPhone is idiotic, the API is more restrictive, meaning that there are things you can do on Android that are impossible on an iPhone, and the asinine arrangement of back buttons/hamburger menus being stacked on the top left of the screen is such poor UI design. On the other hand, the Android of 2017 is crisp, modern and just as capable of handling things stored on it. What exactly is _simpler_ about iPhones specifically?

I also really disagree with iPhones somehow having fewer issues than Android phones. You're never just "holding it wrong"? Or being unable to even Copy and Paste? Or having to lug around dongles? Of course, Android has it's own share of stupidities, but to argue that iPhone is vastly superior is being less than accurate.

Edit: to add, the bottomline I'm suggesting is that the differences are minor enough that, if an iphone from a couple generations ago is costing you the same as an Android from the same time, it's not clear that an iphone is better. I have an ipad that has aged just as horribly as older androids.
According to Mark Reinhold, Sun designed JNI to be hard on purpose, to discourage developers to write native code.

He has repeated this a few times at his JavaONE presentations, a bit hard to track down which ones.

Thanks to the work of Charles Nutter on adding FFI to JRuby, and the pressure from FinTech to improve Java's mechanical sympathy, a new project was started, project Panama, where binding to native code from Java should be something like P/Invoke on the CLR. Similarly calling into Java APIs from native side should have less ceremony setting up what to call.

Additionally there should be a standard support for integrating GPGPU into Java.

As it was deemed too complex to be ready by Java 9 timeframe, it ended up being scheduled for 10+ roadmap.

For the latest status check "Going Native" at JVM Language Summit 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR1zI5gLhRM&index=13&list=PL...
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From what I have observed low income people have ObamaPhones. So perhaps that is how they are affording them. But then again the people I observed lived in a ghetto and were signing up for cable and seemed to have more disposable income than they let on... A bit like your father I am confused how they afford a bunch of stuff they appeared to own.
Well the recent passed executive rules are about "legal immigrants" not the un-documented immigrants. That yet to come, "officially".
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Not much to do in Waterloo. It's good if you're introverted and just want to game/do projects/self-improvement after work, though. Which isn't that bad thinking about it.
Yes, used iPhones are a lot cheaper, and since half the phones in America are iPhones it's very easy to find a used one.
I actually like tech interviews specifically because it's hard to BS your way through them.

I've definitely seen smooth talkers with great resumes get through any other filter, but I've never seen a false positive with the technical interview.
"Better" means nothing in this context anyway. Domestic breeds do not "do better" in some global sense either... often they do much worse on their own. You need to trim a horse or sheep's hooves. You need to check them for parasites. They need vaccines and antibiotics, and a tailored diet.

They're great for what we bred them for... live fat, die young... they're terrible in the wild. When you see pigs in the wild, they rapidly return to "boar" states, and lose those lovely "piggy" qualities you see on a small farm. Corn is great... for us. Without us, it all dies and can't reproduce alone.

A garden isn't our creation, it's our specific modification to suit our specific needs. It serves only us, and those forms of life which can adapt to us. It's also wildly artificial, requiring chemicals, or constant attention to achieve the "garden" state. A tulip is only "better" in a garden because it's one of the organisms we permit to live in the garden. Obviously the dandelions are much "better" overall though, because given a month alone it will be their garden, and not the tulips'.
Or even simpler: why do people whose net worth is likely >> $100K begrudge someone whose net worth is < $1000 their only expensive item?
The worst part is it doesn't even matter if it's an 'essential tool for living' or not. People who say stuff like your father have obviously never been the crippling, soul destroying, kind of poor.

When your life is filled with stress (because you have to work two jobs) and you are constantly on the verge of being homeless/going hungry (despite working 50-80 hours a week), the choice is simple. Choosing between some brief happiness and luxury given by an iPhone, satellite TV, tasty junk food,a nice pair of sneakers, or even a hit of heroin versus more AGONY, STRESS and PAIN provided by real life is a no brainer.

It's hard to fault someone for choosing to take a slice of happiness for themselves in between long stretches of crappy existence. Is it not obvious that one should think twice about judging someone else's motivation and behavior without context? What do you know about their life and why they do the things they do?

There is even related research that has repeatedly demonstrated[1] that being poor is /not/ due to laziness or being a lesser human. When poor/disadvantaged people are provided funds (with no strings attached!) they do the right thing and improve their own lives. They don't just "spend it all" on "booze and drugs". With the money their lives improve significantly and permanently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_cash_transfer , https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2013/05/28/why-goog... , etc
You wouldn't if you had compassion. Holding compassion and objectivity in your head simultaneously would enable you to both help the person and acknowledge that the person may have made poor choices and decisions to get them to where they are. If you ignore that people make poor choices, you are doing a disservice to the poor, since you won't then be able to address this cause/aspect of poverty.
Or deploy directly to GCE: https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/gce/
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Work in the Language Service Industry. Google translate for a few languages is decent at best for social conversations. It is never used in serious business translations. The technology still has a long way to go.
This comes to mind: http://www.bonkersworld.net/confusement/
So the US poached Einstein from Germany?
Randomly grabbing people at border entry and dumping their whole device contents? Or demanding their Facebook passwords? Yes, this is unusual.

But, I have to admit, Germany is planning something similar in even more sinister form: our government plans to buy forensic imagers for all immigration officers... to mirror and scan phones of applying refugees, to determine if they really come from where they claim. Of course, you won't get much resistance from refugees, much less from the general public... but who knows, in two years this "test balloon" can easily be extended to every immigrant.
Way I got into it was video games, and having to pick up computers and hardware to actually play anything (along with having my parents generally against it, so if I wanted to upgrade my pc for new games, I had to be careful aka research)

So following that idea; don't teach them CS, give them something that'll force them to pick up CS along the way; and don't let them access the easy route to victory

IE if he wants to play games, don't let him use anything but windows 7 and ban any modern video game. Give him a few copies of good older titles, and no additional instruction; like civ 3, sim city 1, star control 2, etc; by not giving him modern games, he'll be stuck playing alone with no one his age to talk to about it; no one, that is, but the internet. And if he can only play older works, then he'll inevitably read into the history, and select from the older games, and eventually you can let him upgrade his hardware at his own risk, and so it goes on.

Essentially, don't let him get trapped in minecraft; a healthy start, and a tough environment, and he'll come out tough is my belief
Google announced yesterday a partnership with Rackspace where they will be supporting GCP. https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/08/rackspace-now-offers-manag...
I've often about some sort of app that uses Org as a design basis, but stores data in a way that makes it easy to access remotely without having an Org parser, to be easy to sync and query programmatically, and is designed for the modern world in terms of connectivity and interface.

I think that could absolutely kill it.

Imagine writing extensions in js or lua or whatever, and having those extensions have clear DOM-like access to the outline, have full access to their stdlib, have access to built in services like notifications, etc.

Imagine being able to programmatically access and manipulate the outline from wherever: webhook to add an outline node from IFTTT, twilio access your notes? etc. Yes you _could_ do that with Emacs, but IMHO it would take an incredible amount of work to not suck, partly because all the various pieces necessary feel like hacks on top of hacks.

Sort of how Atom and VSCode provide _much_ better interfaces (both code and UI) to your source code, and are starting to make honest inroads against the established players (like Emacs and Vim).
I guess you missed the part of the article where it explained that the largest group of poor people are children. Do you think they made poor financial choices?

And you also missed "Rates of intergenerational income mobility are, in fact, higher in France, Spain, Germany, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and other countries in the world than they are here in the United States."

Governments can do a lot to help people get out of poverty. Blaming them isn't one of them.
They're playing catch-up in some areas, but in others (networking, containers, pub/sub, BigQuery, authentication, CLI tools), they're ahead (and AWS is far behind).

Whereas AWS aggressively targets the more traditional enterprise stacks (like running a big single-node RDBMS in the cloud), Google seems to give priority to more modern, decentralized tech.
This is the same for GCP. Unless you pay for gold support it's essentially useless.
This is fear-mongering. The Trump administration has said nothing to indicate it will seek to cut research funding, and much to suggest that it seeks to increase it (e.g. a Mars program).
Some European prisons are way better than the best America's pay fof jail schemes.

America's jails are places where people got to get abused rather than get rehabilitated, so what is the big deal about some people paying for a better environment?
Well it is a bad thing if you are an American student and have to compete with cheaper foreign students (Universities recruit foreign students because they pay more money). There are winners and losers in immigration.
I wish they expand the process to recruit remote and outside of the USA.
It's very difficult to find a job and a home if you have no way for people to consistently contact you.
People with little internet access don't have the tools to properly comparison shop, they're going to walk into an AT&T or Boost store and probably leave with what the salesperson is able to push on them. iPhones have always been available for around $200 with carrier subsidies, if I'm not forgetting an early period when it cost more.

Then there's the issue of older people using the term "iPhone" generically. Poor people overwhelmingly have Android phones (as evidenced by the massive disparity between the perceived iPhone market share in the tech bubble and reality), but it's all the same to Republicans.
If you want to hire the best person for the job, why wouldn't you want to do what you can to avoid discouraging good candidates from even applying in the first place?
Doesn't work, though. An iPhone is not an "occasional indulgence".

Fancy chocolates, or a meal at a mid-tier restaurant are an "occasional indulgence".

An iPhone is a massive class-signaling purchase that requires expensive ongoing payments to use.
Yes Google's chat strategy is a mess, but this part is great news:

> It’s a full rewrite of the Hangouts meeting experience and will work without any plug-ins (and Google also promises that it will be lighter on the processor, too, and won’t eat into your battery life or make your laptop’s fans spin at full speed). The team also cut down on the code size and promises that meetings will load “instantly.”

Our team spans macOS, Windows, and Linux and each one of us has our own unique bugs with Hangouts ranging from robotic voices to not being able to join existing Hangouts. In short it's a giant mess. I'm glad to see they're starting from scratch, hopefully this time around will be more reliable.
We work less well with very specialized positions. However, the approach of identifying strong general programmers, and then matching the ones who want to work on compilers with compiler jobs works surprisingly well (still often results in higher offer rates than the approach that companies themselves take of filtering first on compiler experience, and then checking technical strength)
Google+ Communities overlap with group chat in some ways.
As a man who struggles with low confidence and self-esteem, I hate the way women are given special attention over this stuff.

I frequently don't apply for jobs I see that I could probably do, for all of the reasons listed in the article. A couple of times I have even pulled out after a successful first round interview due to anxiety about continuing.

This is an example of how the "women in tech" movement alienates men who would otherwise be potential allies.

Instead of focussing on women, why not leave gender out of it and focus on "low-confidence candidates" (or whatever you want to call this cohort of people). That way if it's true that women are more likely to be "low-confidence" then you'll end up helping more women anyway, but you'll do it without alienating men.

Ignoring the root cause and jumping straight to helping women is exactly what what makes feminists look like man-haters.

I'm sick of the stereotype that because I'm an oh-so-privileged white male I must have had a ridiculously easy life and be full of confidence.
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Strongly agree. The headline appears to me to be borderline deceptive. It strongly implies Airbnb commissioned a formal assessment, not that the authors participated in a bug bounty.

Also agreed re: vulnerability numbers. As a rule I typically report multiple vulnerabilities in one endpoint that require chaining or which are all exploited using the same failure as one coherent finding.
What? My redneck cousin who lives out in the woods in western Idaho somehow figured out there are alternatives to iPhones. He's about as non-technical as they come. Before I became a "techie" I never had an iPhone. My mom non-technical mom always had an Android. I could go on.

Lots of people in my generation have purchased iPhones because they're en vogue and easy to use.

I'm not necessarily begrudging somebody who does purchase an iPhone, but non-technical people aren't always as dumb as we make them out to be.
> And a system that can be "sucked dry" has a design flaw which should be rectified anyway.

This is politics not engineering. Flaws are part of the design. Every flaw is designed to appease one group or another. Restricting access on any arbitrary basis would lead to calls of racism, xenophobia, class warfare, etc.

> Interview farmers in the south and ask them how many American born workers are willing to even take many farm jobs.

Working hard is not the issue. Working in the heat is not the issue. Plenty of American citizens do that. The issue is of pay. Southern farmers can not afford to pay above minimum wage which is why they sometimes resort to hiring illegal immigrants or prisoners.

Why can't they pay more than minimum? Because they're competing against border states, like California, who have: illegal immigrants working below minimum wage, large economies with well developed public infrastructure, and the greater take of federal and state subsidies.
We pitched to Justin Kan on his snapchat story, and got an interview for the YC Fellowship. If you're interested, you can read the whole story here: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-make-20-000-on-snapchat-and-ge...
I was once in an interview for a $180-$250+ (cash, no fancy stocks) job and was first (compared to 100 remote devs from around the world) on the tech-interview with 3 simulatenous people ( had a headache after the ~90 minute interview, and today i've been programming for 11 hours and feel fine) and failed spectacularly at the next stage. So it can happen.

I've also failed most of those online tests.
This is a really interesting topic that I know little about. This paper was published 36 years ago—is it still current with modern understanding of sailing? Or has anything changed or been refined significantly since?
> For entrepreneurs who don’t pitch well — or who don’t fit investors’ mental image of a successful entrepreneur — Demo Days may hurt more than they help.

How does this prepare founders for the eventuality of needing to sell their protect in a similar way that they are pitching their demo?
I heard a closed beta for managed postgres on Azure is currently running
Source for this textile patent claim? I want to read more on it :)
The guys/gals that can express themselves without anxiety are, more generally, going to make a better impression. Those with social anxiety or those with less social skills than those "extroverts" will, more generally, make worse impressions.

Any interview/test/discussion without overwhelming objectivity will be subjective by nature and therefore subject to emotional bias.
This comment prompted me to read TFA, thanks! Viscosity! That's why my wing paddle feels and functions so much better than the old plop-and-tug paddles I used to use...
OneDrive comes with Office365 which is 90 bucks a year when found on sale.. You get 1TB of cloud storage for up to 5 family members and you get Office Pro for up to 5 PCs as well.. not a bad deal in the end.
I think the main criterion for selection for this article was perhaps ones that were covered previously by Quanta Magazine. For physics any such list that doesn't include the physicist Lisa Randall is not well-done. A few more that can be included in physics: Amy Mainzer and Alessandra Lanzara.

For math Maryam Mirzakhani (first woman Fields Medal winner in 2014) is included in the photos but not in the list.
The fact that lots of day-to-day life has moved online.

Try finding a job through a news-paper ad, try making a doctors appointment by phone, try reaching the authorities without having to go through email. Try buying a regular map of any city and try staying in touch with your family without facebook or email.

Without a home-address email/phone is suddenly the only way authorities can reach you or vv.

(Smart)Phones are safety devices. And I'm saying that as a 'dumb' phone user, but I can only afford that because I also have a laptop and a desktop machine and don't care one bit about facebook.
That is how most investors cash out and turn a theoretical return into an actual one.

It also makes the value of your corporate equity much clearer which can enable acquisitions.
By leaking a ton of CIA stuff and talking about how bad their practices are?
This was a tough call for the team: ship now for the folks that are okay with that, or wait until it's fully baked. They chose the former, which certainly means it's not a great idea for serious production load, but that's also true of it simply being in Beta. You won't see it go GA before it's really ready for production work (including replication, backups and so on) but I think it was a reasonable choice to get people started.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not Cloud SQL).
Well, it worked for pre-revolutionary France! What could possibly go wrong?
> I have no problem with them optimizing for impact. But they refuse to admit that is what they are doing. It disingenuous at the very least.

They've stated that's exactly what they're doing in several pieces.

> It's not "mistake" if PII is revealed in every single release. There are dozens of other organizations that have strong records on this. wikileaks is not one of them.

Likely because those "dozens of other organizations" don't publish many leaks and especially not in anything approaching raw form - every single leak I've seen in a major paper has been heavily filtered down and distilled into a specific narrative. WikiLeaks just publishes with minimal editing - any narrative from them is completely separated from the leaks. That rawness is what makes them better than other approaches for getting real information out, but it's also what makes them worse at censoring that information.
They didn't just report them though, they also declined the interview.
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Other theory: having a family is a choice. Being of X nationality is not.
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I agree with your final point and the general assertion that situations can drive behavior just as behavior can drive situations- but I think giving Chaffetz credit for a more reasonable point of view than expressed is unwarranted.

Even if you (very reasonably) want to resist demonizing folks who disagree with you, it's important to not overcorrect.

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
I agree. I know someone who was arrested for being drunk in public (very, very drunk and belligerent). Once at the jail I guess she continued being belligerent.

At this point she was restrained on a gurney, surrounded by no less than 4 guards. She said something rude and as a result was tazed not once but 3 times.

After I bailed her out we went to the sherrifs office and requested an investigation. After a few days they claimed to not be able to find any video of this happening. They conceded that there are multiple areas where the cameras can't see.

I also found out that the guards at the jail are not sheriff deputies, but employed by a private corporation. But they wear the same uniform as the deputies, sans badge.

The criminal justice system in this country is disgusting. Truly disgusting. If I'm ever fortunate enough to be financially secure (long term) I plan to dedicate my time to induce change in this area of our society.

One interest effect this had on me was respect for local law enforcement. I used to have some level of respect for them and what I had observed as professionalism. That's all out the window now, and I have 0 respect for them. Instead of being polite and reasonable I am now combative and uncooperative in any encounter. They can taser me all they want, Ill just use it as a public campaign against them.