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> but in the long run the ex-farm workers will move to urban areas where they'll get jobs, rent houses, buy clothing for their kids...

Let's take Washington state as an example. Where are the workers going to move? Seattle? Where rent is ridiculously high? What jobs will they get when more and more jobs these days require college degrees and manufacturing is going away?

The job and housing market today is distinctly different from 100 years ago—we place higher emphasis on schooling and training and many jobs that do not require some form of schooling don't pay enough to support a family (mostly because they're not designed to).

Please don't construe my comment as endorsing some sort of populist revolution. I just find it very hard to believe hordes of migrant workers (many of which are here illegally, don't speak much English, perhaps have little schooling, etc.) will just waltz on into cities and out of thin air procure jobs that pay enough to cover rent, food, and clothing—especially when they only reason they can support a family on an apple picker's salary of a couple hundred bucks a day is because they live in the cheapest part of the state.

I mean, if it was that easy why wouldn't they do it already? Cities offer vastly more resources for poor folk than central Washington orchards do, so all they gain from picking apples is familiarity and perhaps the support network of working with similar people.
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What the world needs is the Wonkavator.
Some say that the IPCC is an unreliable source, considering the former IPCC scientists who have whistleblown about their political bias and manipulation of results. How would you answer that concern?
It is, the information density is annoyingly low.
Isn't admittance to these schools largely oriented towards wealth/past wealth, and the preference in those "prestigious" schools just to make sure that only wealthy families get those jobs?

In that case, if it's a meaningful amount of money to you, it's probably not worth the investment because those firms will still look at you poorly
Seems very premature to be using kotlin. To say the least.
I believe having employees who understand the cultural norms, beliefs, psychology and expectations of different ethnic/gender groups will definitely get you much farther with expansion and acceptance as opposed to simply having all of your employees in one gender/ethnic group. It's not an issue to start out with all team members in one category, but eventually hiring a diverse group may very well be in your best interest.
Yeah, just posted. My point still stands, there was a lot of hate being spewed at legitimate attendees. It figures that I choose to single out one that turns out to be an authentic looking troll that reveals it just after I mention it, but that's just my bad luck.
That burger to me looks like it's actually a 肉夹馍 (rou jia mo) - which is often mistranslated as a burger or a "Chinese Burger" if done right they are really tasty... unfortunately this particular example looks a little stomach churning

Edit: wife has corrected me, it's a 馅饼 (xian bing) - roughly translated as a minced meat pancake/pie!
In my country they solve this, by requiring your sub-contracting meets certain criteria before it will be taxed as a corporation, rather than as an individual simply using this as a way to disguise salaried income. Did you receive income from more than 1 client, was more than 80 percent of the income from 1 customer. Do you employ less than 3 people? Does thr nature of the work require fixed hours or do you set your own. I'm simplifying because I am not a tax accountant, but it is basically a combination od these criteria that determine whether your one person service "business" is taxed like a business.
Man, I look back with the exact opposite sentiment. I went to a four year school (Cal Poly) which effectively forbade changing majors* - and forced you to pick a major upon entering. As a result, I spent far too many years getting a physics degree I regret every day of my life. AFTER getting the degree, I spent an extensive amount of time taking CS night classes at Santa Monica College, as well as some fun ones (including German, incidentally). I can't recommend it enough. Everyone who was there went because they WANTED to be there. You got to study the things you wanted to study (Assembly Language for the hell of it; why not??), and not whatever some damn curriculum decided was good for you. The professors weren't primarily frustrated would-be researchers who resented their students. You didn't have to take the one class which is offered once every two years to graduate, and oh it's full this time so I guess you'll be in college another two years! And it was so cheap as to be nearly free.

Mostly, it's weird to be in the position to tell young people that university is an enormous scam meant to sucker people who don't know any better into a gigantic mountain of debt that can never get discharged so you can learn a hell of a lot less than you would in the real world. Not only that, this debt is incurred to pay for football coaches, dorms fancier than any apartment you'll ever have, and administrators whose purpose seems to be introducing systems that necessitate more administrators. Exception for medical school, I suppose, since you can't really learn on your own when it comes to surgery.

* You could change to a non-impacted major - one with more spots open than students. If memory serves, this was none of them.
> It's not change that is alarming, it's the rate of change.

This is the new line, parroted by the faux scientist-turned-political celebrity Bill Nye in response to the reasonable arguments against alarmism.

The worst part is how the parrots aren't even well coordinated. There are plenty of people still claiming that the change itself is alarming. In fact, Bill Nye himself said in an interview with Tucker Carlson, one in which he said exactly your "it's the rate of change" line, that, if not for humans, the climate today would be as it was 150 years ago--necessarily implying that the climate does not change but for human activity, a claim that even skeptics don't believe. In other words, an egregious strawman.

When their claim is essentially, "1 + 1 = 3!", you should be very skeptical.
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At this point I cannot hold any sympathy for people in tech getting screwed over by PayPal.

We have all read the horror stories and, if you're still using them, you've got no one else to blame but yourself. At which point you will write your own horror story with the faint hope that it goes viral and forces PayPal to make things right.

This is specially true for someone who, like OP, immediately liquidises the asset. Pick a digital currency, any currency.
If you're saying that that's not their intention, you're probably right. But there's bad, and then there's worse.

The masses are too ignorant to understand this ? Well, yes. The masses, of course, never try to understand anything at all.

But therefore my question : what will climate activists do when their policies have destroyed the planet (while "trying to save the planet" - heh) ? Will they go live somewhere else ?
I think you were making a very valid point, having faith and following your dream far more often leads down a blind alley than to fortune and success. But at the level Must operates at, it's the only way to do the things he does. Dedication isn't enough though, it has to be well judged dedication to viable goals backed with the right skills and talent.

I think Linux on the desktop would have been a better example though. Millions of hours of dev time have been spent on it and it's no closer to providing any competition to Apple or Microsoft now than it did in the 90s. I think there was a complacency in the Linux desktop world that success was inevitable given enough effort. I don't think Musk has ever been complacent about the success of his businesses. I don't think Jobs was either.
> The reliance on OCB is unfortunate. I wish the Mosh developers would introduce multiple cipher schemes so that people can move away from OCB.

Isn't OCB an open standard? https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7253.txt
The ability to study in Germany is not a welfare program.
In my country, mobile service providers (Vodafone, Digicel, Connect) all have very popular packages like "Sign up for this data plan for $6 and get free unlimited access to Facebook and Instagram.

Anyone trying to push net neutrality here would have a hard time getting the masses on board once told they'd have to give up "free" social media.
How will you tell where to ship them if they've discarded their passports?
You could take this guy's stories and insert them into Surely You're Joking... and hardly notice honestly. Totally the same style and outlook.
You're getting downvoted here, but what you seem to be trying to refer to here is more commonly known as the Gell-Man Amnesia Effect. [1]

It states that whenever the press writes about something we know well, we scoff at how wrong they get it. Then we turn the page to a new story about something in which we lack expertise and believe every word of it.

[1] https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect
Basically yes. They're here to make a buck, not to do haute cuisine, and it's much safer to serve food that your customers already know rather than something totally foreign.

Restaurants change hands frequently in cities. Actual family owned restaurants that have passed through generations are a small minority.
Very limited exposure if you're converting to cash on the same day. But you could also pick another digital currency.
There's plenty of great authentic Chinese food in the U.S. (and China) that has nothing to do with tendons or organs.

I have nothing against those cuts, Chinese food just really doesn't need to be exoticized any more than it already is.

For that matter, there's plenty of great authentic Chinese restaurants with marked doorways, at ground level and with english menus.
> I suspect they won't even be able to name a single German university, let alone consider studying at one.

You are wrong. In 2015, 30.000 Chinese students were studying at German higher education institutions [1]. That would obviously not be the case if they would never consider studying at a German university. It is true that the US (about 300.000 students [2]) and the UK (about 90.000 students [3]) are more popular.

[1] https://thepienews.com/news/germany-intl-students-up-7-chine...

[2] http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/16/china-us-colleges-educat...

[3] https://institutions.ukcisa.org.uk/Info-for-universities-col...
> The first version of this document was drafted by my students: Hossein Falaki, Earl Oliver, and Sumair Ur Rahman.

The paper is two pages. Why aren't these people included as authors then...?
As the diplomas in Germany count more or less as the same, you are free to choose a university at a place with lower renting costs like Leipzip, Koblenz or Greifswald. Your relatives may have to look on the map, but in everyday professional life (especially IT) it does not matter much. There are some preferred places for every field (KIT for IT in Karlsruhe, Business, Management in Mannheim, Engineering in Darmstadt...), but if you don't have or earn a lot of money, you have tons of good possibilities.
You are against wearing helmets?

Plus some children need assistance because of cranial deformation issues so your statement isn't really true either unless you think the doctors are wrong.
> It makes absolute sense to go $250k in debt for an MIT or Harvard degree

Can you explain why?
I'm interested in what you used to host the RDP sessions? Windows Server? A separate VM for each user? Something else? I'd like to apply that approach for my own personal uses and cloud computing but am having difficulties learning about the proper way to setup a thin-client architecture with RDP.
Engineers often get a job offer before they even graduate...
Scotland and free tuition? I was thinking about a MSc in computer science at the University of Edinburgh, and it's definitely not free, even for EU citizens: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/fees?programme_cod....
Find some activity you're interested in and go do stuff. Attend a convention, go to a concert, take a class, join a club, volunteer for an event or a cause. Meeting people who share one or more of your interests or passions is an excellent way to grow your friend group. It's actually shockingly easy to meet people if you're even a little active and willing to put forth some effort.
The DAO wasn't a test, or at least the people involved in it didn't realize it at the time.

And once again: the "AI middleman" mentioned above had very strong human opinions during "The DAO" debacle.
elm is a good example here - there is no ffi for somewhat similar reasons (specifically, that it can make safety guarantees about not crashing at run-time if you don't allow arbitrary javascript code to be called), and that has both helped write reliable code, and hindered it's usefulness in larger applications that have to play with the existing world of js libraries and components
Don't forget to add to the list:

- NATO
- NAFTA
- Chinese / Korean relations
- Department of Energy
Wow, I did not know about these two. I'll note it for later.
I had a mean garlic milkshake in Gilroy once, not bad at all but easily generates looks of horror on others' faces.
Greetings from a fellow KIT CS alumnus.
Matching based on keywords is already common.

Success in a job is determined far more by interpersonal dynamics and history than a list of buzzwords or "skill sets" that match. Hard to express those things in a resume or CV, harder to detect and measure them because they are human qualities. That's what's supposed to happen in interviews and internships.
That's interesting. Are there options for the 73% that don't go to Uni? Trade schools?

What about at lower levels (ages 5-12)... do kids get to progress to the next level regardless of performance in an annual exam (like the US "no child left behind" policy), or do they have to have to repeat a year/level if they fail?
Yeesh, this is a comment graveyard here. If this is what the HN community has to offer these days it's just downright shameful.
You can find an American-Chinese restaurant everywhere, but I was very surprised to find a Chinese-Mexican restaurant in Florida (Indiantown, Florida to be precise): https://www.google.com/maps/@27.024428,-80.4724516,3a,75y,21...

Haven't eaten there, but have passed the place plenty of times (girlfriend's Mom used to live in Indiantown).
I use cron + curl. Maybe not super simple but not hard.
Ah. During the war this type of hysteria makes sense.
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People consider today that Fisher was wrong in his criticism. It's my own opinion that his feud was aggravated by the fact that Mendel was an outsider.
I find this holds for music as well. From Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to Vivaldi's Summer to Nine Inch Nail's The Downward Spiral, one simply cannot grasp all the concepts, ideas, conflicts, and motifs in a single listening. In fact, even after listening to them for _decades_ I still find nuances and expressions that I've never noticed before.

Another interesting thing about classical music in particular is that different conductors will emphasize different motifs. Listen to Furtwrangler vs Bernstein conducting the fore-mentioned Ninth, for example. It is like seeing two photographs of the same person: obviously the same body but completely different representations. And each teaches us something different about the Beethoven's intentions and inspiration.
I'll not defend the structuration of the argument. This a small medium post only intended to put a few ideas together. As it's supposed part of a more complete book, I'll keep your critics in mind though, and try formulate things more completely and clearly then - I'll have more space and more time.

Also, I think I'll add new posts on this topic in the future.
They're not much use in China and that's the direction the net is heading.
> and be able to borrow EUR 9,000 to apply for the student visa
As far as I know there is not need of EUR 9,000 to apply for a student Visa, I studied in a german university as an international student, hence I know you do not need such amount of money to apply for Visa. In the other hand in many cases you can get scholarships which compensate for these expenses.
How would that work when containers make kernel calls?
This sounds incredibly insecure, is it exploited much?
When was MappedByteBuffer introduced in Java?

Furthermore, in what situations is mmap() (or MappedByteBuffer, if the situation is Java-specific) worse than read() et al?

I ask because Java is on my "I should probably know at least a little bit" list and I'm interested to pick up all the tidbits and tricks that I can - and this article screams "just use MappedByteBuffer everywhere you need I/O!", so I want to know if there are any exceptions.
We lost the key for the bedroom window the GF seemed positively shocked when I took a small flat-headed screwdriver and 'picked' (I use quotes because it wasn't really picking since I only had to push in two places and the lock popped) it in under 90s.

A lot of security is visual deterrent and to make legal clarity in the instance of "Did you enter the room or break the lock then enter the room?" since former doesn't imply criminal intent, the latter does.
Too bad it does not have a "stories" feature yet.
someone who asks you for that $5 back, is always that person that will borrow $500 from you and never pay back, why spend a dollar for such a small amount.
Not really a surprise. It's the same story elsewhere around the world. They had to adapt to survive. They firstly adapted local ingredients with techniques and flavours of home to cater to their fellow migrants, then they'd start adding some new dishes based on what they perceived as local tastes to try to attract the "native" population when just catering to their fellow migrants wasn't enough to survive.

How close a restaurants' dishes are to "authentic" ones depends largely on how many generations removed the chef is from their homeland.

Anyway, I'm of Chinese descent. First generation in my family born in Australia, but several more removed from China. So while the food that my family cooks retains Chineseness it also contains influences from the countries that my parents grew up in mixed in with ingredients that were sourceble in Melbourne, Australia in the 80s. That said, due to the relative distance of Australia to Asia during the mid to late 90s, more ingredients came in as the post-Vietnam war migrants settled here and had become further established in the community (so had capital to spend on luxuries like imported ingredients).

Some links that may be of interest:
- http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-21/humble-chinese-diner-m...
- http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au/biogs/CH01148b.htm
- Chifa (Chinese Peruvian Cuisine) https://immigrationtalk.org/2013/07/17/chifa-the-story-behin...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Chinese_cuisine
To be fair, you can break down 絵文字 as:

e = 絵 = Picture
moji = 文字 = Characters

...so you could interpret "emojielog" as "Picture-Character Picture Log".

(...the "Select a Emojie for today" text kinda disproves that this was the intention, though...)
Not saying that you should, but it's possible to get information from the FBI:

http://m.wikihow.com/Obtain-Your-FBI-File

It's also possible you could file an FOIA with the DoD, Army, DHS, etc.:

https://www.foia.gov/report-makerequest.html
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Better at running Javascript "Apps" than rendering HTML.
Bachelor's level courses are in Norwegian.
> Phoronix is just Larabel banging out short blogspam around 3rd party sources and very dubious benchmarks.

It's clear that you have an axe to grind with Phoronix and you are very vocal with your strong personal opinion, but your comments also don't strike me as reasonable.

For instance, Phoronix does distribute its phoronix test suite, and anyone (including you) is free to test and validate their claims. Yet, from all benchmark sites on earth, somehow you single out Phoronix as a site whose benchmarks somehow are "dubious".

Phoronix is also the first site that systematically tested hardware on linux and released benchmarks covering interesting linux-related issues, such as the performance gap in graphics cards resulting from the use of proprietary and FLOSS drivers.

Do you actually have any basis to substantiate your personal assertions, or are you just dedicated to slander Phoronix with baseless assertions?
Don't discount FHs, especially for engineering. With the right niche you can out-earn almost every other graduate - say in chemical engineering, in some EE niches or with economics degrees that focus on a particular industry.

Also, rents in Jena, Tübingen or Ilmenau are often on a Munich level, but you can always find a few shortcuts (like living in Weimar and taking the train to Jena).

Lastly, if the bachelor isn't meant to be your final degree it doesn't matter as much where you got it.
If you have the confidence to exercise in public, then it's probably already less of a problem for you.
Don't see why this blog link to the original blog?

Direct link: http://www.techiedelight.com

For the largest Swift Algorithm: https://github.com/raywenderlich/swift-algorithm-club
During college, I was hired by a small company that specialized in QNX based software to port several Unix utilities (I remember porting finger and at least one other program---I don't recall). It wasn't that bad as its POSIX support (even in the mid-90s) was pretty good.

What really blew me away about QNX though, was that the network was invisible. You could construct a command line on machine A, to run a program on B with a file on C, redirect the output to a program on D with that output going back to A. My boss, sitting in the office next to mine, would run a communications program on his system while using the modem connected to my computer. Wild stuff.

I also had a friend that owned a software company selling commerical X Window servers for a variety of systems. Their fastest version ran on QNX.
There would be several options I think.

- translate MoarVM bytecode to WASM
- add WASM as a Rakudo target
- write yet another Perl6 compiler that targets the WASM just as niecza targets the CLR

Perl5 will probably end up as a Perl6 slang.
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"At the end of my break I look forward to work in developing solutions that involve distributed systems or work in setup, management, and monitoring of complex distributed systems (dev OPS role)."

I think a far better way of getting into a new field of software engineering (like distributed systems) would be to apply for a job in that field, let them know you've been studying it in your spare time but are an experienced software dev with ~15 years under your belt. I think that would be a pretty good offer for an employer (at least a good one). At worst you may have to take a small pay cut but that should certainly be a lot less money lost than if you took a 6 months sabbatical.

If you can afford a 6 months sabbatical then I say take it, but try spending the whole 6 months without touching a computer, or at least not coding. It will help you grow as a person and make you a better software engineer when you come back to it after the 6 months.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Netflix release it this week (it was supposed to be June), but you're right, piracy is about access not price, and it's still easier to access OINTB via a Netflix app than it is to torrent it
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> vast majority of the modern web

Must've hit a sore spot or something...

Even without a degree in design one can see that this page is nearly unreadable. The easiest (but not the only) thing to fix is to limit the width of the column of text.
This seems to be just running anything between double curly braces through $()