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He/she can start publishing papers. Basically that's the only important thing to become a researcher/scholar. (You can be an independent scholar, so not associated with any research institute/university/group. But of course being in a group helps a lot.)

And then various universities and doctorate schools have various requirements for a PhD.

There are doctorate schools that don't require undergrad degrees or anything. And some don't require completing courses if you have enough publications. So in theory it's possible to just do a couple exams and a thesis (which can - and usually is - just a bit more in depth aggregation and exposition of your previous research).

Is it worth it? Well, sure, if you want to have a PhD, but that part is much easier than producing great scientific papers, so if the person in question has good ideas and a sort of constant "scientific output", then why not?
"demystify blockchain technology" is a perfect description for our intention! thanks!
Quite. The US government employs contractors more or less on the Charlie Sheen principle: it pays them to go away. There are some really sharp people employed by contractors, and some others that are just billed as if they were.
Back to the topic, prisons are just another haven for contract robbing. The prison contracts everything from security to mopping. Everything is 3x more expensive. Prison costs are a sink to our society.

Except taxpayers foot the bill. Theres an economic incentive to keeping crime low and right now were all being robbed blind, in this area as well (because yes there are too many to count)

The amount who are released within 5 years with little to no recovery or are going to end up in an even worse state, with even less of an ability to get a job, are more likely to continue to commit crime to make ends meet.

Before we talk about Harvard grads destroying the eocnomy, lets talk about making it less and less likely for 75% of the people imprisoned to ever be able to contribute to society once they are released.

We have a very protestant implementation of prison, they exist to punish people, not to reabilitate people or address the issues, and everyone ends up paying a higher cost with more damage in the end.

Yes people who are doing serious crimes should be put away, but we know that most of the time thats not the case, and furthemore, we know that alot of serious crimes including rape, have men released within 5 years, while a first time offender selling green could land 15 in prison.

Maybe..
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I guess it is a progression where people learn from the problems they had before.

Step 1: It is too hot/cold here

Step 2: Lets put in heating/AC

Step 3: Damn, the electric costs are getting too high. Lets put in insulation and double-pane windows (well, actually three-pane is standard here in Sweden) to keep down the costs.

The further you live to extreme heat or cold the faster a society progress down the ladder. Which is also a reason the death rates during winter is a lot higher (per capita) in central Europe than it is in northern Europe - people in the northern parts have long since been forced to learn to build better houses whereas people in mild climates can afford to fail as it isn't that many days a year that it is a problem.

Have any part of Texas considered central cooling? It should be even more effective than having units in every house as long as it isn't too damp and the water needs to be removed as well. But perhaps that kind of solution would be too socialistic for you :P
> arguably easier to understand than their text-based counterparts, but large programs quickly become a complete and utter mess of tangled wires and hierarchical blocks.

Or the other way around: When you write a tangled mess of code you can still navigate it with /bin/grep, this gets much harder when your code is a picture (though, when stored in SVG, it should be trivial to write a /bin/svg-code-grep). BUT: If you follow pure functional design principles, you rarely have to keep more than one screenful of diagrams in your head.

I think we have to differentiate between "general purpose visual programming languages" and "visual programming languages actually used".

Drakon, respectively its visual aspect, for example was, afaik, developed initially to allow physicists and chemists to model their domain specific knowledge in a much more intuitive way and I think it overall succeeded there. The few snippets I saw were very convincing demos[1].

Of all the attempts at purely visual, general purpose programming languages I cannot remember one that did not fall into any of these 2 camps:

* academic exploration of visual programming languages - nobody expected tangible results but we got squeak, etoys and drakon

* attempts to make programming easier by people who know just enough of programming to understand it is hard[2] - they usually promise tangible results by yesterday but never deliver anything that could count as a practically usable language

[1] http://drakon-practic.ru/

[2] Excluding all environments created specifically to teach children to code - they might be turing complete but I'd not call them "general purpose".
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The title is click-bait and over-dramatises the issue.

The choice of APFS is that a filename is a sequence of bytes. Nothing more, nothing less (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here).

If you want to see the kind of issues that path normalisation brings, check out this: https://github.com/thibaudgg/rb-fsevent/blob/master/ext/fsev...

I'd like to believe that most developer would prefer the current behaviour over that proposed by the article (normalisation).

If there are issues in Apple's Finder or other high level APIs, I'd like to believe they will be fixed before the final release. These are fixable bugs, IMHO.
Latvia is staking its place as a hub for autonomous car testing in Europe
We don't necessarily need to teach more-advanced math, but rather more proofs.
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Philip Wadler on talking to aliens (lambda calculus)
https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/
Should I fund improvements to Signal instead?
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Many —I'd perhaps even stretch to "most"— processors have at least the basic functionality like email receipts and, to at least some degree, recurring payments. They're staples of e-commerce.

But yes, there is work involved in implementing each provider. Stripe has some but it is generally nicer to use. £100k of volume and you'll probably pay for that additional development time in Y1.

But also consider that you shouldn't irrevocably tie yourself to a single processor. Don't rely on them to do your business for you. Sometimes they're dicks. I know that applies more when we talk about PayPal and much less in the "real" merchant processing world, but it still happens. Having the ability to switch out processors is objectively useful so (eg) tying your basket UI into Stripe's checkout js lib looks nice, is super easy... But what happens if they start withholding funds? If all your emails are tied into their system, it's weeks of development to stop using them. Do business-critical stuff yourself and you're much more flexible to do sensible things in the future.

Regarding international rates, these are hard to compare because their claims are apples to oranges. Stripe say they go off their "banking partners'" daily rates and that those are approximately 2% above mid-market levels. Paydoo says they're 2.49% fixed above market levels. I suspect they're pretty close in practice. Stripe does let you accept multiple currencies (for free) if you have the bank accounts for it though. Not sure if Paydoo allow the same. Their wording suggests not... But if that's the deal-breaker, talk to them about it.
No, it's like 10-15% at the state level. It's higher at the federal level but those guys are in there for distribution not getting caught with a joint.
The way this reads implies that Stripe was the problem when the article explains that initially going with Braintree without understanding your internal payment model completely and whether Braintree supported that model was the failure and that switching to Stripe fixed that issue. It's not so much a criticism of the services, just not doing enough requirements analysis before choosing a payment provider.
The problem seems to come from the high-level APIs doing normalization. So if you have two files in a directory, one normalized and one not-normalized and open the non-normalized file, the high-level API will then normalize that filename and you open the wrong file.

I've always disliked the practice of messing around with file paths (storing them, concatenating them, etc). I preferred the way that the Classic MacOS typically dealt with filesystem references and aliases instead of file paths. This also meant users can rename or move files and references still work.
This is related to your local network. You will only be able to use Websockets for connections (which most nodes do not support) and not WebRTC. Go and fix your network, you likely have some UDP or NAT configuration issue (or a terrible ISP).
After moving from Phoenix to the Seattle area, I've noticed the 'feels like' temperature is about 11C difference. 30C in Phoenix feels like 19C in Seattle.
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Looks great, maybe even too good.

> Highest level of processing uptime (99.9%)

It's not that high...

Also, it says about 10 years of experience, but site is seems to be really working only since 2016. And SSL certificate is just "let's encrypt", which is fine for most, but for payment processor I'd expect something more serious.
I was wondering, how do they sustain such an effort ? I mean, working on GunPG is not exactly a simple task (I guess), so how do they fund themselves ? I understand the donations campaigns, but when that money dries off ? I read that the main dev had to work on other things not related to GunPG. Does it mean that we do have somebody working on GunPG with a sheer level of pragmatic altruism (i.e. working for close to nothing as long as he can feed its family) ? I'd like to know what it feels like to work on GnuPG from the inside...
Every time I see the word Funciton, it makes want to swap the letters t and i!
There are both left-leaning and right-leaning sources that (more or less) apply critical thinking to issues, and then there are sources that attempt to persuade by provoking antagonism. While it is an unpleasant job, it is important to be aware of what is going on in this last category.
Much as I miss the Beeb, this is completely irrelevant.
* Udemy
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Why not? She's some 25 year old kid. There's no real indication (aside from having linguistic talent) that she's especially smart.
Now go on Google Images and search for pictures of a German prison, and compare that to the situation in California.
I'm happy that the filesystem treats name as sequences of bytes. Normalization should happen at a higher level.
I'd like to second this. The "crack team" was the company that won the contract. I've seen first hand of companies hiring just about anyone as a contractor before a contract was even granted. Promises of a high potential salary usually lures these people.
Yes being a swm is totally comparable to being a member of king Louis xvi's court.

Smdh

Hacker news is going nuts in this thread, or being actively brigaded.
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Why isn't the Emscripten SDK distributed via npm? Doesn't npm support host specific binary artifacts?
I recall reading (no ref) that nazi experiments determined the optimal temperature for mental performance was 59F, which coincidentally is the average temperature of the earth.
Youre right this matters for everyone, but there are additional benefits if you are a woman.

Your manager in many ways is your advocate and prescreens his job responsibilities to trickle down to yours. He/she is the one giving your feedback.

if they are inherently biased towards women, youre life becomes more difficult.

Furthermore, people are NOT stupid. they know whats what. People will know if your manager is going to take action if another employee acts against you, and support your through the HR process, or look the other way and ignore it. If your manager is a good person, then its a signal for everyone else to treat you well.

It should not have to be like that, but it is.

When it comes to being a woman, then this translates over to a layer of protection against sexual harassment or other forms of biased based on your gender, in most cases preventing you from ever having to deal with it, and knowing you have support if you do.

Believe me it makes a world of difference I've had experiences with managers who want to date every female employee they have to very good professional ones who screen me from the usual suspects and delegate my work in such a way to minimize my interaction with them and we never even have to have a conversation about it. One manager makes my life a living hell, the other one makes me able to focus on my job.

Both managers can be competent and good at their job, and so can you in both cases, but the only difference here is how much one follows policy and respects your right to focus on your job in the work place, and knows that dealing with that stuff in the workplace is, at the very least, distracting and in all cases an emotionally frustrating experience.
I wish there was some kind of "account sharing" with the media companies. I have a Globe and Mail and a New York Times subscription because I want to support journalism.

But then there is The Guardian, The Toronto Star, WSJ, ...

I'd happily pay $200 for a mega-subscription that went to a bunch of them.
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>It really doesn't seem very many steps above slavery

Zero. It's literally slavery. The thought of it is barbaric and horrible.
You are blaming unethical people for profiting from a flawed system. I would say fixing the system is a easier problem, then fixing humanity as a whole.

For instance, what are the consequences for the mid level government bureaucrat who accepted the 7$ a tube toothpaste contract? It is obviously a flagrant violation with a paper trail. Even if it is revealed he gets a fully paid vacation every year from the bidding company, how do people even hold him accountable?

The government is involved in so many projects and employs so many people, that your one vote every few years means next to nothing.

Democracy was meant as a safeguard against tyranny. It cannot hold individual people in a vast system accountable very well.

You either split up each department in separate elections or reduce the scope and size of the government such that essential services like law and order get maximum visibility and priority.
The day you suddenly feel affected by the issue, you won't be commenting on HN anymore.
And with the questionable state of the US justice system you don't even have to commit a crime. An estimated 4% of inmates are innocent.

Also, the problem is too long sentences for pretty much all crimes.. Americans aren't very forgiving.
Humidity and/or wind?

I've noticed temperatures in Scotland on mountains feeling much colder than lower temperatures in the Alps.
Hey, still on time? I think is an awesome implementation!

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What does "nimiq" means?
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The project was on the brink of collapsing a few years back, there was a ProPublica article back then that shed some light on what you're asking.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...
To be honest, I blame Unicode. Why allow different representations for the same character, and then provide a normalized form anyway, except it's not one normalized form but several? Sounds like job security to me.
Check this out: https://github.com/dcodeIO/webassembly

Binaries are hosted on GitHub but will be downloaded for you
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This is a neat. However, there is nothing explaining fundamental operation I can find except the source code itself, and it seems to me that it suffers from pretty serious scale limitations. I.e its ability to deliver on the value proposition in its current form is low.

Also, your proof of work is Sha256 which means that the moment this thing goes live and there is any value attached it won't work. You have to switch to a memory hard proof of work to even begin doing this.

Finally, most of what you are trying to accomplish can already be done using SPV onto existing digital currency networks. Pushing the entire network into the browser doesn't really help. The cynic in me wants to say this is an ICO pump for people who don't know any better.
On the bottom of the website it says: "Nimiq is an Inuit word used for an object or a force which binds things together."
I'd be inclined to agree. Unless the point was not to show off, but that a 30 year-old computer is as fast as the bleeding edge in browser rendering technology.
... I don't share your sentiment at all. I find this relevant to the subject matter as he is, albeit indirectly, mentioning the performance of WASM. I would be surprised if you got the same performance using just plain old js on the hardware he is referencing.
Why? It gives a perspective on the resulting performance.
The article forgot to mention that the California prison guards union bankrolls most California politicians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peac...
Low-tech magazine has an article on how useful ceiling fans are: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating-fans-air-....

They don't pollute nearly as much and work remarkably well. I live in Manhattan, which gets hot and humid in the summer, and basically never turn on my air conditioning even though I pay for my share of the building's central air conditioning. I don't need it and prefer not to cause the pollution.
Let's not get carried away, they are criminals who committed crimes.
The other way of looking at this story is that Harvard nearly costs $75,000 per year despite being tax exempt with billions of dollars of tax deductible donations/endowment.
Seems like it would be smarter to just give them the money and revoke it if they break the law again.
Ouch. But do these segments come from another, PD, source? Or is it just direct theft from Facebook?
The problem with displaying year numbers is that it becomes an embarrassment when they let a product languish for oh...3 years or so
Of course sexism exists. The overall ubiquity of it is what I am somewhat skeptical of.
Isn't that BuzzFeed's business model?
Agreed. As a photographer, I use and love Guetzli, and it offers a bona fide size reduction of more than 30% over typical JPEG compression algorithms at a similar visual quality level.

But it's extremely computationally-intensive, taking over a minute to compress a single web-resolution image on my i7 laptop.

I can't see it being practical in a high-volume server scenario.
One could just as validly make the much-overused "citation needed" call on the assertion in your second sentence - except that we can reasonably require a purely graphical response in this case.
high-risk high-need human beings belongs in a mental health facility, not a prison...
Yes! Time spent at the office != time spent working.

I often have to retrain my employees because I'm gone by 6 and idgaf if you stay later, but if something is due by end of day, that means I need to have it by 5 to review. Not 11 because you procrastinated and spent all day swiping tinder.

Working late should be a badge of shame. And I make sure my employees know that expectations are not lower as a result.
re worldpay - they may be cheap, but you get what you pay for. Their backend still does not support SNI for payment callbacks. I had to debug once my client's integration with their hosted payment form (the one under https://mms.cardsaveonlinepayments.com) - and during debugging I have seen things like this: http://hiciu.org/2016-02-06-010735_1920x1043_scrot.png http://hiciu.org/2016-02-06-010743_1920x1043_scrot.png.

I believe you still can break their hosted payment form if you provide your telephone number with leading zero.
The word comic comes with expectations about graphics style and content, same as manga has some expectations (through that has more variety of stuff). That is quite practical for people like me who don't like the comic style, but do enjoy differently painted pictures with bubbles.

Does not mean it must somehow inherently superior, it is more of attempt to sell to people who are aware of how it looks like usually and that they usually dont like it.
The more company advertises being woman friendly, the more they are not on the inside, and are usually trying to convince the public they are after multiple women have spoken out. In fact every company I've worked for who had a woman leave because of issues with men and the company realzied they handled it poorly, ramped up their we have lots of women bs campaign right after, and they bring SWE in once a month and all that crap but it has no effect on yoru day to day quality of interaction as a woman in the workplace.

ignore the hype, tune into the culture.
Asian female SRE here. I've never worked out in the Bay Area so I can't speak to it there, but I've found many places in LA are wonderful, encouraging, and not shitty to minorities in the startup scene. Maybe I've just lucked out, but everywhere I've gone I've been either the only female or one of a few female engineers, but everywhere I've had coworkers who encouraged and mentored me and didn't treat me differently because I'm queer or female.
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