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I don't understand why your interlocutor has dignified this comment, because it's not responsive to their point. Since this (still unnamed) documentary has not, in your estimation, suggested that the ADL suppresses the non-Jewish victims of the Third Reich --- how could it? They certainly do not. --- you're simply perpetuating the anti-Semitic subtext that commenter was complaining about: that any recognition of the magnitude of the suffering endured by Jewish people during the Holocaust must in some zero-sum way take away from the suffering of others, and thus it's once again the acquisitiveness of Jewish people distorting global politics.

That commenter is right to have none of this.
Neal Stephenson writes about this in my favorite "the diamond age," he calls it honer and forger. The type of engineer that is better at improving an existing thing vs. creating something new.

There's a need for all types.
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I wonder why whenever such a discussion pops up, almost nobody mentions the stacktrace. I've seen so many CS students, who fail at reading that first representation of a problem, I really wonder why that is.

Also I like debugging via print much better than with a debugger, because it's easier for me to spot the problem. Breakpoints are great though.
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your landing page needs some work.. you're overflowing and the viewport isn't set correctly for mobile.

your buttons also need some left and right padding. my company would love to help put your best face forward..
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How about the fact that Polish Jews were Polish citizens. Why are people keep separating these people from their country? If something similar were to happen in the US, would we be talking about Jews, or Jewish Americans?

These Polish Jews were as much citizens of the country are all other minorities. They were part of Poland for close to 600 years. Poland lost 20% of population during WW2. The fact that half of the lost population were of a different religion does not make them any less Polish.
Precisely, one should quit all excuses!

My father was prescribed to storvas (for cholesterol) over a decade ago... luckily he is an avid reader and soon found out what road the permanent meds lead to.

He quit the meds and started working out consistently (never mind spondylitis which he combatted with bed rest) for 10 years (and still continuing).

Today, he's over 50 and is killing it in every aspect in life. His mind is sharp, business is good and best of all he can run over 6kms in 30 minutes (plus all the weights and stuff)! He's now reducing running for his knees and cycles out youngsters half his age 3 times a week (with 3 times weight training).

This could've been a very different picture if he continued with prescribed meds. After experiencing this, he's purchased workout plans for everyone in the family for 9 years straight and wants us to treat workouts like we brush our teeth (nevermind if we don't get competitive).

I work way better if I exercise, it's like the clock for my life even in my 20s. Never want to lose the habit.
It seems to work fine at the moment: https://i.imgur.com/WSCMaxC.png
I think the problem is more general than debugging and is really just about troubleshooting in general.

How do you abstract away a problem so you can individually identify and isolate the parts and test them individually? The same general techniques apply whether you're debugging a c program or repairing a car.

Just on the basis of interacting with coworkers, when I see people fumbling around in the dark, it's usually just because they're not using basic troubleshooting, they're just googling (at best!) and trying random fixes in a scattershot approach.

Quite a few times, I've helped people who were far more knowledgeable than me about, for example, Linux, by just asking them questions and trying different experiments to see if we could eliminate possibilities and so on. At the end of it, the problem is fixed and they thank me for the help, even though they knew everything they needed to know to fix the problem to begin with.
Servo is out of the question because it's still very much a tech preview and a lot of sites are broken in it.

I don't have any insights re: Gecko vs Blink.
There's been a lot of stories lately putting Uber in a bad light. It makes me wonder if it's not their competition who is behind it. Taxi industry lobby perhaps?
Thanks for the very informative comment!

I must ask, as a non-lawyer, how did you learn so much about these things?
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How is a 28 year old fashion model exactly going to advise them on anything related to journalism?
Each man, and woman, should have a line in the sand that they wouldnt cross. Some call this honor, I like to call this behavior integrity.
It's Google. They hired a PR firm to attack them when they sued them over stolen autonomous vehicle tech.
Since when was the independent not a credible news source? Genuine question.
The ADL is not a Holocaust remembrance group! They're a group chartered to combat anti-Semitism. You know some other groups that doesn't spend a lot of time talking about the Romani exterminated by the Third Reich? Partners In Health, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the NRA.

But once again the subtext: if a Jewish organization mentions the Holocaust, they have a special responsibility not borne by other organizations to ensure they don't take too much credit for their suffering, in which the majority of their population were swept from the continent of Europe.
My first customers came from emailing a discussion list for Photoshop plug-in developers (since I also make Photoshop plug-ins). I didn't get sales from that email, but one of those developers mentioned my product in their own email newsletter to 10,000+ subscribers, and that is where my first sales came from.

The beta testing strategy others have mentioned also worked for me. But instead of recruiting from beta directories, I asked people in my target market (so, asking for beta testers on Photoshop user forums). I put a long beta signup form/survey on my website, partly to learn about my potential customers, but also to weed out people who wouldn't give detailed feedback.

My best growth hack was giving those beta testers a discount code / link to share with their friends at launch. That encouraged them to talk about my software (and talk about the secret project they'd been helping with!) with their own communities. My beta testers also got a credit in the About box. I wish I could claim it was a carefully constructed marketing strategy, but I'd just thought it was a nice way to thank testers, and it turned out to also gain traction.

I wrote about my experiences running an early beta test, but it's from 2004 so it's highly embarrassing and from a pre-Facebook pre-Reddit era:

https://www.namesuppressed.com/syneryder/2004/betapostmortem...
That's not quite the sort or debugging being discussed here though - they're talking general theory of how to think through a problem to locate the issue, which applies to more things than just software including computer hardware, cars, circuit boards, just about any large system really - you do common things like replacing or disabling parts of the system, probing values at certain points, logging values, etc. For the most part, these things have a lot in common, but few people know how to approach such problems.

It's interesting that I see them saying "the more talented the engineer, the more likely they are to hit a debugging wall outside of school". I was only ever a good engineer in school because I was able to debug. You don't understand something til you tear it apart.
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... and live long after that in good health, to support your offsprings and help them succeed in their reproduction.
Little-time-for-charity-consider-contributing-to-open-source
thats the one i remember; worked well enough. not a big flora person but was curious and wanted to try out the image rec.
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Yep, my dad was a mechanic when he was younger and worked on cars for fun, and he taught me troubleshooting before we even had a computer.
They did not move their fingers to stop this madness - they are as responsible as the people that people who did the actual killing.
This is the root question. The discussion around fake news often touches the subject of press neutrality. Some will say mainstream press is biased and has an agenda, so-called mainstream will answer by proposing more fact-checking. However, truth and neutrality are situated in different dimensions. It seems to be relatively easy to avoid spreading lies for those who want to. Providing neutral news is an entirely different type of problem. Addressing the critics made to the press by promising fact-checked news might be perceived as only one more manifestation of unjust discretionary power of the press to determine what can be said.

Is striving for neutrality something the press should do? Or should it work on clarifying how biased it is, and why?
This fact underpins so much inanity fundamental to modern life nowadays D:
To my mind, the concept of upāya (skillful means) is essential. A particular teaching might not be literally true, but it's not necessarily false either. It might not make sense to you, but that might simply be because it's meant for someone else. There are core truths in Buddhist thought, but the route to understanding and internalising those truths is not necessarily straightforward or logical.

I also dislike Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but I can see that many other people found value in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upaya
Laziness would be not bothering to comment
Just out of curiosity, did you have the same sentiment after the DNC leaks?
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You have to be busy at the Kryspy Kreme. Get a laptop that you can throw int he dishwasher and do work at a doughnut shoppe. Also .. get married.
Quote from him ca 2006 - we haven't seen a nationwide housing bubble. Predicting is hard, even if you have tons of data. Greenspan used to take long hot baths (according to his book I read) to finalize the estimates. Guess what, he was really good at it.
A machine with that level of quality has a lot of appeal for me. Something generally useful like a blender or stand mixer, that might be kept visible on the counter and used often, I could see dropping $400 or even $700 on.

But this thing doesn't appear “generally useful” based on what I've seen about this story. It seems to want to lock you into using food from a particular vendor.

How much less appealing would my stand mixer have been as a purchase if it were outfitted with a QR reader looking to make sure that the KitchenAid™ cookie dough I was giving it was fresh? That would be a deal breaker.
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> They didn't suppress it, they just didn't make as big of a media circus out of it as of other stories.

Except for it being on the front pages for days, unlike the vast majority of paedophiles who weren't celebrities in their own right (and Stuart Hall, for that matter). I know there were a number of failings related to council staff being overly conscious of accusations of racism (not to mention the actual far-right groups targeting the town), I read it in the wall to wall media coverage you deny exists. But yeah, you keep trying to tell me how stuff's reported on channels I watch and in media I read from deliberate misinterpretation of Google fucking trends.

Obviously that wasn't a stupid enough position for you to argue so you're now pretending that media narratives around the Holocaust versus the Holodomor[1] are driven by Jewish conspiracies rather than because a World War against a glamorous symbol-of-evil leader that ended in the liberation of death camps understandably would get more attention than poorly-understood atrocities committed within the Soviet Union even without the former's geopolitical consequences, a large diaspora and dedicated remembrance organizations based in English-speaking Western countries. Of course, the genocide of the Congoese by the Belgians gets even less attention, but that won't fit your media manipulation highlights oppression of selected minorities by Caucasians and suppresses the reverse bullshit narrative

Fuck off to back to Stormfront you pathetic little troll.

[1]a word which, incidentally, wasn't even used to refer to the events until decades later and didn't make Ukranian dictionaries until this century
I am in Canada and the prices seemed a bit high on this website. Here is the math for my situation:

I use Freedom Mobile, an urban focused discount mobile service, formerly known as Wind Mobile: http://www.freedommobile.ca/plans-and-devices/plans

I get 9GB for $60/month, so that works out to 150MB/$ if I am at full usage.

Realistically I am average about 2GB/month so my real costs are 33MB/$.

The average website is 2.552MB according to this website.

Thus at full usage (9GB/month) my costs are 1.7 cents CAD (1.25 cents USD) per average website (2.5MB).

At average usage (2GB/month) I am hitting 7.7 cents CAD (5.6 cents USD) per average website (2.5MB).

I may be getting a better than average deal in Canada.
Here's a trick: find a friend who you feel you can't bail on and who won't bail on you. Pick a regular time you can both attend. Find some exercise/sport you both enjoy. Now, if it's just your one friend, you'll feel bad bailing, and so will they. Additionally, if it's a reasonably social activity, you'll combine socialising and exercise.

Alternatively, do this with the gf. As long as you won't let each other off the hook, that is..

Something else that worked really well for me for a while was a small running/dinner club. We'd all get together one evening and go for a fairly social, chatty run, followed by dinner at one attendee's place. Burgers, pizza, whatever, something that's pretty quick and easy to toss together. Again, mixing socialising and exercise. The only reason this has stopped happening is because I've temporarily stopped running due to injury.

One more thing: I suspect anything less than 30 minutes a day of exercise is sort of "free" time. Many people report feeling more alert and getting better sleep with regular exercise. So you may regain that 30 minutes per day with increased productivity, or possibly even less time sleeping due to better sleep. (Citation needed!).
Good, now do that on a deadline, with python.
Social media gives the partisan political operatives you start off with a platform to gain an audience. Then they can confuse themselves with journalists and entertainers.

But sure, let's talk about social media as another place where news orgs post things.
I experience a unique German deference to rules and authority working in multinational engineering teams e.g. the Chinese engineer won't own a rule book, the Brits will ignore rules they deem irrelevant/unhelpful, the Germans will follow every rule precisely and cannot comprehend anyone not doing the same. This trait is sometimes the invaluable discipline that leads to an exceptional level of trust and quality... and sometimes infuriating when the rules they follow unquestioningly are idiotic.
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Debugging is useful even from a merely academic perspective if engineering is an academic discipline (I think it is). Reality pushes up against you, so you figure out what it's doing by looking at what happens and guessing at what might have caused it. You aren't circumscribed by your model (as you are in a purely mathematical simplification; consider the inutility of Navier-Stokes for many engineering applications) when the 'bug' is smacking you in the face. This isn't just Popperian falsifiability; it's also just (more fundamentally) abduction.

The article doesn't press this point very hard, but I take the central argument to be in favor of 'systematically approach[ing] problems [of the sort that debugging instantiates]' which is just as much 'academy' as 'industry'.
Did we crash the site?
What kind of middle school did you go to????
I nearly failed out of intro Computer Science class since I didn't allow for 90% debugging time. Also I wish I could save some of my errors since they are coming from my own fingers -- they are the most instructive.
I find that if I walk 30 minutes, 3 days a week, I feel significantly better. I've been going to the gym lately and feel even better than that. The point being, is we've become so lethargic that 30 minute walk, 3 days a week is a great start and easy to accomplish.
If you're stuck at the side of a road, miles from anywhere, without a cellphone, a broken motorcycle has a value that's very close to zero. It might have a great deal of value in a workshop or a breaker's yard, but at that precise point in spacetime it's just a funny-shaped rock.
At my previous startup which was a home scrap pickup service in India, we acquired our first few hundred users with word of mouth, offline event participation (in an exhibition) and getting an article in a local newspaper.

The exact path to getting the users will differ based on what you're attempting to do. In an awesome HN comment for business advice (a few days ago) I came across this awesome book called Traction; which is like a cookbook for user acquisition. I'm reading the book right now and it should give you a lot of ideas!
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> I am just wondering if anyone will disclose their current killer acquisition hacks.

I see this attitude all the time. Why are people so worried? The fear is this weird chain of reasoning: As soon as you say it tons of people will automatically conclude it is a good idea -> tons of them will be in a position to execute it -> people will flood to the strategy and somehow take away the returns because it is a zero-sum game.

But I find that for every person on HN who automatically concludes something is a good idea, there is another one who disagrees. Second, not everyone is in a position where someone's genius growth hack is even applicable. Third, some of these strategies would still work even if tons of people used them, such as "do things that don't scale." The point is that they are localized.

I guess you can't rule it out, but the chances seem smaller than the number of worriers suggests.
In 2013 Amazon (I think) estimated that 1 second delay would cost you 7% of your sales.

And while most developers know this there are still developers creating slow and bloated sites.

So this site is also nice, but I don't think it will change anything. Unless the loss would be cut from the developers paycheck.
Or, in continuous terms, marginal X is simply the first derivative of X with respect to some other variable.
Given the headline mentions a 2020 election, I think it's fair to question the reliability of the article itself.
> It's not a novel concept. Bitcoin is a linear web of trust, applied to transactions instead of identities. Webs of trust are as old as PGP. Block C is valid against Block B is valid against Block A, which we both trust.

It's more than just a basic "web of trust". It wouldn't work if it was. Primarily, Bitcoin was the first system to implement proof-of-work to prevent double spending, establish consensus, and distribute the units of account fairly.

EDIT: PGP's web of trust is kind of a poor comparison here, because it requires trusting people, whereas blockchains require trusting math/algos.

> Believing that people only criticize bitcoin because their minds are too small to accept the concept of decentralized money is blatantly closed-minded.

I'm just trying to understand the reasons behind HN's vitriol, always open to hearing other suggestions. (Though there seems to be far less vitriol lately.)
Most servers don't need to handle anywhere close to Google traffic and some downtime is acceptable -- the network is more unreliable. Sacrificing 0.001% uptime and "scalability" (whatever that means) is worth it.
Thanks.

I dont think it's a problem. Otherwise I think it would be protected by authentication methods.
Alan Greenspan, you mean?
Update: did a new data dump with a broader range of job boards, data is almost same but some tiny differences:

Top remote jobs (last 30 days)

- JavaScript
- Full Stack
- React
- Ruby
- Support
- PHP
- Marketing
- Product Manager
- WordPress
- Dev Ops
- Backend
- Meteor JS

Top remote jobs (last 90 days)

- JavaScript
- Ruby
- Full Stack
- Support
- React
- Product Manager
- Meteor JS
- Backend
- PHP
- Dev Ops
- Marketing
- WordPress

Fastest growing remote jobs (last 30 days)

- Bootstrap
- Machine Learning
- Redux
- Linux
- Copywriting
- Laravel
- Admin
- Customer Support
- Node
- Python
- React Native
- AWS

Fastest dropping remote jobs (last 30 days)

- Rails
- Mobile
- Ruby on Rails
- Postgres
- CSS
- Video
- Social Media
- iOS
- Remote
- MongoDB
- Android
- Ecommerce

(Source: Remote OK, https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics)
If anyone hasn't heard this(hour long):
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2623057085

An interview with someone who interviewed Pirsig. With clips from that original interview.

Very, very good radio.

From personal relation to the book. When I was young I went on a motorcycle trip on the back of my father's motorcycle, with his friend and son.

We pulled into a small rural gas station, and there was a younger guy filling up a small foreign car. And he just started laughing upon talking to us. He had just taken time off his undergrad after reading a book about man and his son on a motorcycle trip. And wrote the name down on the back of our map.

While I was far to young to understand the book at first, reading it over again and again as I got older it was a different learning experience each time as I grew.
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Completely agree with you. What I particularly despise is the absurd lack of discussion on the amount of packaging waste. Why doesn't that make these piece of shit things non-starters?

Excuse the vitriol, but it absolutely makes my blood boil, the fucking Keurigs, these idiot juicers, Blue Apron, and that one company that even delivers a box of clothes each month? WTF?! I buy clothes every two years, and even I could do better.

Also, even if they offered to collect the packaging, and recycle/reuse it, it's a needless complication to an issue that shouldn't exist to begin with.

Why isn't a low-tech, low-carbon footprint life celebrated more? A french press/moka pot coffee, a mixer to make your juice (because, you know, you take the time to peel the motherfucking fruit beforehand), and cooking your own god damned food on a frying pan.
You mean college students?
exactly. something like not resposible for what you do with this information where the info is correct or not.
With a 15A, 330V motor. That's almost 5KW, or 6.6 HP, for those of you who don't use SI units.
I'm not sure I understand the argument here. I agree: Polish Jews were Poles. It's possible we don't disagree at all.

If you ask me why, at least in the US, there's so much attention paid to Jewish victims of the Holocaust, then the answer I'll give is that the Germans killed far more Jews, but also did so more deliberately and carefully, thus supporting that narrative.

I didn't go to US public school --- I went to Catholic school --- but we were always taught about the other victims of the Holocaust. At 12 I'd have told you the Nazis targeted not just Jewish people but also "gypsies", gay people, and communists.
We were, for instance, taught about Maximilian Kolbe, a name I remember principally from the story I was taught in grade school.
We crashed it... apparently the performance cost is the greatest of all...