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The essential problem is that most people can't accumulate, synthesize, and understand the requisite knowledge to appreciate that fact. We're strongly limited by our perspectives, which tend to become more rigid with time, just as we're having maximal influence on the lives of others. We're tribal, we're competitive, and we find it difficult to relate to distant strangers in vast numbers.

As a result people eschew the attempt to gain a broad view of the world, and its history, and instead decide to trust an ideologue, ideology, religion, or just as likely these days, invent their own bullshit and find others with similar flavors of crap. "Oh you think the universe is crystals and orgone? Me too!" "Oh you think that black people smell funny? Me too!" "Oh you think the moon is an illusion created by God?..."

You get. At the top you have people with enough money and time, power and education to appreciate these factors. Most of them seem to be in it largely for themselves, and even those who later come to some kind of humanitarian spirit do so in a fractional way compared to their total wealth. Exceptions exist, but they are so rare we all know the names.

Is it any wonder that in a world of such massively "Haves" and brutally "Have-Nots", that each group invents a largely specious narrative to explain the actions of the other?
It's a generational thing, especially. iPhones are seen as glamorous luxury items, not as an essential tool for living.

What planet do you live on?

An iphone is not an essential tool for living. I was without a smartphone while I was looking for a job last year, and used an old monochrome cellular device. I managed to keep on living without much difficulty. And yes - I travelled.

An iphone is a flagship smartphone, there are much cheaper devices you can use to browse the net.
Gotcha, but I think that was my poor choice of soft language rather than losing the sarcasm. How about this:

"This company is funded by an authoritarian regime that tortures and murders people on a regular basis. Remember that when you're staring into the banality of their app."

Don't you think irony ends up sabotaging some of the gravity?

What do you think about "New Sincerity"?
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/13/david_foster_wallace_was_rig...

I enjoy our exchange, thanks again
> the truth of Trump's TSA,

The agency that people are dealing with in this case is CBP, not TSA. TSA has no border search authority.

We put out the first version of this guide in 2011. So far we don't know for sure if border searches have gotten more prevalent or more intrusive under the Trump administration. It's very possible, but may not be clear from statistics for about a year. They've definitely been getting more press and public attention.
I interviewed and was rejected from Triplebyte. It was pretty miserable. Compared to real recruiters, I feel more comfortable talking to recruiters since they care about my background and won't ask me to program an hour's worth of code on the spot or ask me several questions about redis and webscale technologies. They're kind of just filtering through candidates looking for people who they think could work at Google instead of looking for hard-working people.

With that said, do you accept new candidates for the NYC area?
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Previous work and achievements definitely carry valuable signal - we don't disagree with that. And relying on them makes sense for companies where the time of hiring managers is constrained and you need a quick way to identify the (likely) best people within a population.

Relying solely on those signals though acts to the detriment of skilled people whose best work hasn't been done at prestigious, name brand companies.

Our approach to removing credentials from our screening process is to prevent ourselves being biased by them and forcing ourselves to build a process that can find strong engineers who don't look good on paper. This is a win for the companies we work with as it expands the pool of talent they can hire from.
You guys have inundated us with emails, comments, and reposts before we've even had a chance to consider this properly. That slows us down—I can't think when I'm not breathing!
We've asked you before—this account and previous ones—to please comment civilly and substantively or not at all. We have to ban this account if you continue to violate the guidelines this way.
Hey, I'm with Hyper. Also at Google Next.

GKE is obviously backed by a company that isn't going away anytime soon.

Other than that, I'd be curious to understand your use of the word "lesser" in this context. Have you tried Hyper?
Having boobs and running a business is exactly the same as having a penis and running a business, except boobs are more aesthetically pleasing. I hope, at minimum, we can all agree on that.

At a minimum, yes, but that's an apple to oranges comparison. A boob is not equivalent to a penis.
Really depends. How big is the once CSS file you're loading and how much of the CSS is common from page to page? If 20kb is for a specific component on one or two, less-visited pages, then it probably doesn't make sense to lump everything together.

A fairly safe default starting point would be:

1. Tiny subset of inlined critical CSS (See https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/08/understanding-criti...)
2. Asynchronous + rel=preload loading of the main CSS of your site
3. Then, if there are hefty chunks of CSS for specific pages only, bring those in on those pages.

This changes a bit if you're using HTTP/2. Then the multiplexing makes it beneficial to break the CSS into a few smaller files instead of one big one.

In the end, you probably just have to experiment and test. :) No guaranteed "this is best" approach here.
Your and GP's inability to articulate libertarian philosophy does not constitute a reasoned critique of said philosophy. If you want people to be convinced, learn the actual arguments of the other side, and explain why you disagree.
This is a pretty ignorant comment. Not surprised to see this libertarian, blame the poor for being poor, mindset here on HN.
A few months ago I would've agreed with you. After trying out GCP, interacting with support twice and speaking with a few other companies using the platform I've changed my tune.
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> It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry, not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

So let's therefore demonize the majority smart diligent legitimate immigrants by lumping them in with the less than stellar ones!

That's the sentiment that is persisting with this trumpkin mess of epic proportions.
Huh. Colour me controversial, but I always thought it had to do with low IQ, traumatic childhoods, and not being able to defer gratification, etc.
Misleading implies falsehood of some sort, but they're releasing the actual paperwork absent anything other than an introductory statement about the collection of as a whole, which does not equate to "framing, analysis, or editorial content" in my mind.

Negligence counts as wrong-doing to me. The leaks prove that the CIA has lost control of their malware cache. And on the positive side, it gives the affected parties the means to patch their code.
So what are you implying with that ambigous and opaque statement ?

Some possible reasons:
* They comparmentalise information better?
* They don't use private contractors ?
* It's more dangerous to leak material in those countries ?
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The move from calling illegal aliens to illegal immigrants (or undocumented workers, or whatever) creates so much confusion.

I don't know a single person, and I know a good number of Trump voters, who is opposed to legal immigration. What many people, myself included, are opposed to is the illegal part.

Yet I consistently see this stance twisted to mean opposition to all immigration. This conflation is patently ridiculous but it makes for a nice straw man.

(edited for clarity)
If you want to go to America you have to comply. If you are stupid enough to have incriminating information on devices you are carrying across the border then you obviously refuse.

The choice is just whether that privacy is more important than getting into America to you.
>It's the smartphone equivalent of getting chrome rims on your car wheels.

which people in poverty do all the time. even on shitty cars.

what is your point?
Trump2Cash: invest whenever Trump mentions a publicly-traded company
Not sure, but I think the NSFW tag was from the poster.
Who do you mean by "people" in this context? Because if you're generalizing across the whole population of the earth, a significant portion of those people are doomed to suboptimal outcomes due to factors outside of their control. Future generations will be worse off because prior generations destroyed the environment and the economy for their own benefit.
You misunderstand his comment. He is saying that "wealthy libertarians with vast amounts of political power" are exceedingly short-sighted, arrogant, or just plain uneducated
You make an interesting appeal. I am not sure what you are trying to prove by saying that the poster will "get" it if they just talk to cops, ambulance drivers, and immigration officers. I would assume that you are trying to say they will find that immigrants commit crime (the original poster is speaking to a cop), they get hurt more often (the original poster is speaking to an ambulance driver), and they, now I am really stretching, deal with immigration officers more (the original poster is speaking to an immigration officer?). These will all be true regardless of the immigrants status and background. You haven't made any point at all.

The original poster said that immigrants pay taxes. Do you not agree? He said they contribute to US companies. Do you not agree? He said they make the US more powerful. Do you not agree? He said they don't contribute these same things to their home country. Do you not agree?

If you are going to make an argument, make one.
It's a shame American primary education can't turn out enough educated Americans to fill the gap.
You make it sound like "iPhone" must mean "Brand new, cutting edge iPhone!" It could also be... old, refurbished, or "The iPhone I won" or "the iPhone I got on the best sale, " or "The iPhone I still have from when I had a home, and stuff. It's my connection to the world so I can't sell it off."

It isn't just a failure of empathy, but creativity, to miss these points.
The Trump administration has stated it might cap H1B visas further. This move will directly impact academia and the Tech industry and the influx of top talent. By combining the issue of illegal immigration with legal high value H1B visas, the Trump administration and its supporters are not helping their own argument. There is a nuance there which the parent comment was correctly mentioning. You want the best of another country to come to the US as they have been or risk the slow spiral of insignificance that Germany faced.
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Finish the thought. Or start it with 'Given that Wikileaks released identifying info on every voter in Turkey...'.
Yes. If you ignored that many external variables in a scientific study you'd quickly wind up not getting to do research anymore.
Only if there's no mechanism for bad governments to be replaced, peacefully.

We'll see if we still have that mechanism in 4 or 8 years, but in the meantime, I'll remain cautiously optimistic. The U.S. has had terrible presidents & strong political leaders before, ones who drove the country down a terrible path, and they've usually been forced out of power and their policies reversed within a decade. That's the great strength of democracy: it's not that it governs efficiently (it doesn't), but it provides an escape hatch so if a government is seriously going down the wrong path and everyone realizes it, the government doesn't last long.
Thats the problem I had with the concept when I saw the movie. Is a "moment" a unit of measurement, a unit of change, what is it? How is that purely continuous?
I obviously think that Chaffetz's comment was roughly as idiotic as you'd expect from Jason Chaffetz (the high end of Healthcare costs are so exorbitant that any common luxury purchase you can think of completely pales in comparison).

But your comment conflates "one of the most expensive smartphones" with "having any connection to the digital world". No disagreement that connectivity is critical and that mobile devices are an efficient way to get there on a low income, but iPhones are definitely not. My mom doesn't have a working computer in her house atm, and her phone cost 200 dollars (or free with carrier subsidy). There's pretty much no reason to get an iPhone on purely functional grounds, just as there would be no reason to get a $700 Galaxy S7.

Though I should note that ios has moved downmarket when they started selling older models, which filled some of this gap.
It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry, not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

That sounds like a grossly inaccurate generalization to me. A lot of "illegal immigrants" are an absolutely essential part of the economy, performing jobs like picking oranges in the Florida heat/humidity, doing roofing work, washing dishes, etc. Interview farmers in the south and ask them how many American born workers are willing to even take many farm jobs.

These people most definitely are not "sucking the system dry". And a system that can be "sucked dry" has a design flaw which should be rectified anyway.
I'll give you one: this won't work in China.

I'm in the process of migrating a few GAE services to AppScale on AWS (Beijing) to set up a separate backend for the China-localized version of a mobile app. AppScale supports a lot of App Engine functionality, but not other Google services. No Firebase or GCM for me.
Much of what determines outcomes is socioeconomic or race based, much less is determined by hard work or agency.

This honestly is the fundamental difference between conservative and liberal political ideologies; conservatives feel that they earned their place in society based on hard work, liberals understand more often than not, that place was the result of something akin to a lottery, and many people are less fortunate by no fault of their own.
Yep, I perused it after reading the linked post. Really solid stuff, thanks again.
I would imagine this is a legacy from the Good Old Days when every Asian locale had its own encoding. Unicode imported the Hangul block from ISO-2022-KR/Windows-949 (different encodings of the same charset), which has only Hangul syllables.
Came here to say this. An argument could be made several years ago that an iPhone was a savvy purchase as they truely worked significantly both better and for longer, than the competition.

Now it is quite possible to get a quality smartphone for $200 ( http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-budget-android-phone/ ) instead of almost 1k.

Agree to grandparent's points about smartphones being almost indispensable tools for those without computers and landlines.
As JayZ once explained...

Rap critics that say he's "Money Cash Hoes"
I'm from the hood, stupid? What type of facts are those?
If you grew up with holes in your zapatos
You'd celebrate the minute you was having dough.
Not a secret. There's a feature called Smart Photos that you can toggle on and off which basically A/B tests your photos and displays the best performing one first.
Humans have also created a lot. Domestic animal breeds for example. Nature left to it's own devices does not always do better than it does under the stewardship of humans. A garden is a simple example.
Huh? By then same logic, you can get a used Android phone for cheap as chips too. I'm not entirely sure if he's the one bullshitting or if it's you. Lost time? What does that even mean? An iphone makes you more productive? THAT much more?

And the "all androids are cheap and useless" trope is so trite at this point.
Try giving a $50 android phone to your grandma (or your mother, for that matter) and see how many complaints and questions you get.

I gave up on giving Android devices to my family. They always replaced them with iPhones (used, typically).
For a homeless person a phone is a first degree necessity.
So the big news is that the Realm Node.js module is now available for Windows. Does this work in Electron apps?
That's why. 64-bit touch multiprocess isn't ready until v54.
I was starting to wonder if they were even going to launch a new messaging product this week.
Dude, come to Silicon Valley. Whatever kind of development style, methodology, personality type, will make you happy, you'll find it here.
beware the green commenters. it usually means they were banned before and created a new account.
I'm sorry that the interview went poorly! I'm especially sorry about the lateness. I just pulled up our notes from your interview, and I was your interviewer! So that makes it especially bad :(

I'm not an expert in all areas. At the end of the interview we have a section where we let the discussion go into whatever technical area the engineer wants to talk about. It sounds like you're an expert in an area where I am not. In those cases I try to ask questions and push deep, but (depending on the topic) that can be hard.

edit: removed discussion of the specific topic discussed. Sorry, folks below are right

Expertise is something our model handles less well (it's much harder to standardize). This certainly results in us failing some great people (and it sounds like that may have happened here). I'm happy to talk about this more. Give me an email at ammon@triplebyte.com.
It takes a technical person to know there are alternatives.
They haven't really pulled the rug out for anything on Google Cloud (there've been a few things replaced, e.g., the old Master/Slave datastore on App Engine.)

And while this doesn't have an deprecation policy applicable as a Beta feature, most GA Google Cloud features have a one-year deprecation policy, so even if they were retired, no one would have the rug pulled out.)
> Unicode is fucked. All these bullshit emojis

Ah yes, all those bloody emoji taking the place of better worthier characters, those dastardly pictures taking up all of one half of one 16th of one Unicode plane (which has only 16 of those, and only 14 public).

And the gall they have, actually being used and lighting up their section of plane 1 like a christmas tree while the rest of the plane lies in the darkness: http://reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/heatma... what a disgrace, not only existing but being found useful, what has the world come to.

And then of course there's the technical side of things: emoji actually forced western developers — and especially anglo ones — to stop fucking up non-ASCII let alone non-BMP codepoints. I don't think it's a coincidence that MySQL finally added support for astral characters once emoji started getting prominent.

In fact, I have a pet theory that the rash of combining emoji in the latest revisions is in part a vehicle to teach developers to finally stop fucking up text segmentation and stop assuming every codepoint is a grapheme cluster.
I'll add that the article doesn't seem to add the monthly cell phone costs (minutes, text and data -- especially data) into their calculation. Dependending on how much data you are using, that could be significant. Also, I imagine most phone are bought using installment plans, which increases the monthly costs, and makes it hard to save and make better investments in your future. (What you think you can afford today, may not be what you can afford tomorrow).
America is the land of opportunity; rich people in America took advantage of the opportunity. Therefore taking advantage of this opportunity can make you rich. Says nothing about the arguments for the causes of poverty. Also valid modus ponens but unsound. Also potentially suffering from Hume's "problem with induction".
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-has-a-messaging-app-prob...
Did anyone see a measurement on just how radioactive the boars are?
In most contexts the courts have been quite content with the formula that searches "are reasonable simply by virtue of the fact that they occur at the border" and it seems like customs agents have exercised some form of this power for hundreds of years. As the guide said, the Riley case did suggest a new basis for treating electronic devices differently from other objects in the domestic law enforcement context, so maybe we will eventually be able to do the same in the border context too.
Many large companies — including some that you wouldn't think of as "tech companies" — have changed or are in the process of changing their corporate cultures to be more "startup" like. So I don't think culture is a useful discriminator any more.

It might be more useful to differentiate based on target or expected future growth. Real startups are intended to be scalable. A company can only reasonably be described as a startup if it expects to grow >10× in revenue or employee count over the next few years.
Their messaging strategy was lumbering worryingly towards being comprehensible. I'm glad they corrected that.
Slack vs. Microsoft Teams vs. Google Hangouts
I don't believe it's a philosophy, it's just a convenient collection of delusions held by people convinced that if the law of the jungle were the rule, they'd somehow not be a greasy smear on the pavement. If you feel there's a subtler philosophy to articulate, by all means, articulate.
Or the iphone that was handed down to me by someone else.
Nope, not at all. ToS terms and EULA terms are basically null and void for such things under EU law.

You actually have to make a separate, opt-in checkbox, directly informing the user what will happen.
Definitely a coincidence that it was within a week of Sessions being taken to task over his involvement with Russia and a Trump adviser being told by the SSCI to retain information about contact with Russia.

We all know there's no chance this is smearing US intel agencies during an investigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method

This isn't at the textual level, and the components are not strictly radicals, but this may interest you.
> But the fact that we need special libraries to answer fairly basic queries about unicode text doesn't bode well.

That's always been needed to actually properly work with unicode, what do you think ICU is? Few if any languages have complete native Unicode support. And it's hardly new, Unicode has an annex (#29) dedicated to text segmentation: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/
Oh good we've gone full circle, back to Google Chat.