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I for one won't be using iCloud for the foreseeable future. It had a lot of issues with syncing and kept asking me for my password on various devices.

I keep using Dropbox for now, but without the app installed on my machine, just using the website. The reason being the sneaky way the Dropbox app tried to get Administrator rights to install some tooling on OS X [0].

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[0]: http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/07/28/revealing-dropboxs-dir...
>Gender equality in Europe makes the states look like a joke

Not necessarily true when you consider all of Europe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/10/25...
Both of you are violating HN's guidelines by engaging in ideological flamewar and being personally uncivil. Please don't.
- To build confidence: work on personal projects. Set achievable milestones and meet them. There are a lot of new posts on hacker news, but most of them won't apply to your projects and you'll be able to ignore them.

- Concentrate on problems and how to solve them. Ask questions. Do research.

- Think of yourself as a professional providing a professional service to the best of your knowledge and abilities. Sometimes you don't have all the answers.

Remember: your job as a professional is to not worry about yourself or what others think of you.
Both of you are violating HN's guidelines by engaging in ideological flamewar and being personally uncivil.

We've given you a ton of warnings about not doing this. If you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14679822.
In that case, should 50% of men at your current workplace be immediately fired for previous harassment? You are probably assuming it is one or two people doing all the harassment, but what if it's uniformly distributed?

Different people find different things offensive. Some have a very low tolerance. Some joke to build camaraderie. On the other hand, there is always a way to interpret almost any joke as offensive. Getting the gender wrong by accident is another big one.

Luckily, I haven't ever worked with anyone who might consider reporting someone for an "innocent" from my PoV mistake, but I have met a lot of people like that outside of work.
> When even being accused could be career ending

I'm surprised by this. Would you really be damaged if someone makes an accusation against you without any evidence?
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Thanks for the cool video, I'll definitely start small first.
Yup, it makes a mouse mandatory for anything requiring precise action. I had my personal woes with Sketchup
Numerical methods quite easily give the roots of arbitrary polynomials of much higher order. QR-iteration works well up to some polynomial order, say at least 20. The idea is to construct a matrix that has the studied polynomial as its characteristic polynomial, and find the eigenvalues using a repeated QR decomposition. This gives you all complex and real roots.
It seems your account has been using HN exclusively for political battle. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't. Instead, see the following about the intended use of this site:

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You could write down what you're thinking while you're thinking it. I usually use a google doc to organize my thoughts. It frees up active memory to get your thoughts out of your head and onto paper where you can see them and no longer fear forgetting them.
Recent Sony Alpha 9 camera has quite a revolutionary mirrorless system with global shutter on a 24MPix full frame sensor capable of 20 RAW frames per second with up to 1/32,000 sec. shutter (not affiliated with Sony, just impressed by the camera).
So it is already possible, but a bit pricey at the moment.

Edit: technical details based on dpreview claims it's actually not a global shutter, just a very quick rolling one.
"...this capability stems from a stacked CMOS image sensor, which includes processing circuitry nearer the pixels and features built-in memory to deliver all this data to the off-board processors at a rate they can cope with. It's this structure that enables the camera to shoot at 20 frames per second and do so with an electronic shutter that's fast enough to minimize the rolling shutter effect."
What are you talking about. Health is the definition of inelastic demand. Then add the almost missing negotiating powers of a single consumer vs an insurance giant and you have a very efficient system for those on the supply side of the equation and a death sentence for a lot of people on the demand side. The American system is efficient only for health insurance companies and no one else.
I think not knowing the laws and cultural rules makes you feel more insecure in a foreign country.

That's what I experienced while visiting the US, but I assume it feels the same the other way around for an American in France.
There are ways to mitigate such attacks at the operating system level, as explored in the following link?

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/timingchannels.pml
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You've already got a say: it's called the ballot box. What you're asking for is bespoke, micro-managed education. Once you've given up on the idea of consensual reality, you've pretty much abandoned society. Pretending that views are "alternative" when in fact they're just wrong isn't moving knowledge along, it's holding it back.

To give an extreme example: do you think American secular education should be given equal footing in Florida with a madrassa run by a Saudi-educated iman? What if that's what most of the parents in the local area want?
> It sounds like maybe you do know what your goals are, you just aren't sure how to get there?

I kinda know the direction in which i want to proceed, but as you said i do not know the how! Actually, i am lost on my next steps - caught up between a craving for mastery and moving to the next phase of my career which might involve handling people.

> I am skeptical automation will make all jobs redundant. Someone needs to figure out what to do, for example; there's no way a computer can do requirements gathering, or UI design, or process improvements.

Exactly! But at present, in bigger corporations - the "what to do" requirements gathering is done by sales interactions and customer feedback / requests - which makes the techies redundant in the chain. I read elsewhere that some big university is researching on generating code from code by using code snippets from open source - if this successfully gets implemented then tech jobs would become difficult to find - just sharing a thought!
Lifelong sufferer of impostor syndrome here (after having failed university), now Cofounder & CTO of a pretty successful Series B startup:

1. Work together with awesome people who can reflect you. Now that I'm working together with world class founders that I fully trust and we're doing regular feedback sessions with each other, I can take confirmation of my abilities much more serious from them than from anyone else.

2. Practice self-love and compassion. No, really. I'm serious, there's a ton of studies about this. Get a therapist. Best thing I've ever done for myself.

3. If you compare yourself all the time with others, that's okay - but do so fairly. People like us love choosing the best ones worldwide for comparison and that does nothing but inflict useless pain. Instead, take the next 10 of [insert your job title here] that you can think of and compare yourself with them. If you compare favorably with at least half, you're average already (which means you're not an impostor).

4. Keep this diagram in mind: https://twitter.com/rundavidrun/status/587671657193455616
Big part of impostor syndrome is devaluing the stuff you already know (but others don't) since it's "common knowledge". If someone else appears to know more than you, they're probably just as smart as you are. If they know as much as you do, they're certainly less able.

5. Fake it 'till you make it. Citing http://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html here: "Believe in yourself. You can’t lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."

6. Ask yourself better questions. Tony Robbins once quipped: "Your brain is a computer and it will try to answer any question you give it. You may not like the answer though." So instead of asking yourself

7. Success definitely helps, but it doesn't cure. It's also the hardest to come by as there's some luck, good timing and great people involved along the way, so work mostly on the other things instead.

8. If you still think you're an impostor, rest assured you're in good company. We impostors are pretty smart people. Frank Abignale passed his bar exam without cheating and Ferdinand Waldo Demara successfully operated on people as an untrained surgeon. :)

I think by now I'm 50% done with that topic, and as `hajak` wonderfully put it - don't worry too much about it, it's not just a curse, there's good sides about it too.

EDIT: Slightly amended the list and copyediting
I think this is perhaps overstating the difference over the status quo. Scientific knowledge has always been very unevenly distributed in the U.S. Its victory in WW2 could be interpreted as the guys in Washington using technologies devised by the guys at MIT/Princeton/Berkeley/Stanford/UChicago to send guys born in Florida and Georgia to their deaths overseas.

This is not all that different from the present day: the guys in Washington still use technologies developed by the guys in Massachusetts and California to send the guys from Florida and Georgia to their deaths overseas. If you visit a high school in Palo Alto CA or Lexington MA, you will still find huge numbers of scientific overachievers.
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It probably is a US thing, but so what? We're all culturally conditioned depending on where we're from and where we live. Don't forget, the US is a very litigious society, and I'll wager that plays into his comment.
Hmm. I got it all wrong comparing the acidity figures. The Wikipedia article states "Formic acid is about 10x stronger than acetic acid.".
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> All they have to do is make the accusation.

I doubt that. It seems that without witnesses or physical evidence the accusation will go nowhere.
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>I still can't figure out how to access files in iCloud from my Mac and iPhone.

On Mac I just open the iCloud folder and the files are there, just like Dropbox

On iPhone I open the iCloud Drive app and the files are there just like on Mac, much like in Dropbox pp expect Dropbox uses list format.

Personally I like iCloud currently more, but as you said it only works in Apple ecosystem (which I'm currently fine with). Recently I also setup OwnCloud on my RPi and it seems to fill my niche usage just fine as well, but I still don't quite trust it.
Table scans are good.
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I used to run NetBSD about 15 years ago but I haven't even spared it a thought for at least 3-4 years. Is the community and codebase still active - and does NetBSD still have an edge in some areas?
What I say applies to the females and males mentioned in the article who indicated they are uncomfortable being in a one on one situation with the opposite sex who is not their spouse, some of whom are already managers. Being outside those organisations I am not in a place where I can demote them, and thereby I made my proposal, maybe it will get picked up by the males and female workers mentioned in the article to reduce disadvantage in not being able to have one on one time with their opposite sex manager.

I encourage you to push your opinions and beliefs within your own organisation. But I hope you don't go around outing people who are uncomfortable with being alone with the opposite sex to get them fired, before they have done anything. (And if anything IMO they ought to be commended for actively avoiding situations where they will have inappropriate thoughts about their colleagues)
This comment could just as well be from another planet to me. I'm in my twenties now and have a GF. I still drive to work with another woman in a car, I have meetings 1 on 1 with my female manager.

In my personal life I have girl friends that I am not dating with but that are part of my friends group and that I hang out with. Also in 1 on 1 settings.

The fact that the 'risk' you talk about is even part of your daily routine baffles me. Truly baffles me. I have never heard any story (aside from Reddit) like this where a guy loses his work, friends, family and life because a woman simply accused him after being alone with someone.

No offense, maybe i'm wrong. I'm not American after all, but I have met Americans and none have opinion even close to the opinion you have on women. It's bizarre to me.
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I'd love to see a game with high complexity, long term planning, incomplete information etc in there as well, e.g. Star Craft.
There's enough humans walking around and 200,000 new ones are being added to the pool every day.

It's not really a choice.
Empires usually last centuries, and get off to various shaky starts. I think these are just teething problems at the start of a long reign. (I am not American.) High debt, mass unrest, controversy, and factionalism all coexist to some degree at the start of what later became very long-lived empires.
What if both parties collude against you? Then you're in even more trouble.
I don't get this paranoia against mixed gender one on one meetings at work. You're truly paranoid. I hope this is only a problem in the US. I have never heard of it in Germany or Europe.
Do you really have an Anstandswauwau (chaperon) standing by? I would feel very weird participating only because a man and a woman cannot be trusted to behave professionally in a work environment.
There is a burgeoning medical tourism industry (e.g. fly to India to do your surgery for a fraction of the price), but since the cost of airfare, lodging, food, etc. is at least a few thousand, there's competition with other countries only for well-understood procedures with large out-of-pocket expense.

Otherwise, how is the information relevant? Let's say you know that some medicine in the US is $1000 per month , but only $20 per month in India.

Well, if a patient is insured, then they don't care about the cost. If that drug is medically necessary, then the insurer has to pay for it even if they're getting gouged by the manufacturer.

We're getting the worst of both worlds in a way -- regulations to protect patients make it very difficult for insurers to negotiate on price, but then we also don't generally allow the government to step in and force lower drug prices directly. So in the pharmaceutical market, the US just pays higher prices than everyone else days; American consumers basically subsidize drug research for the rest of the world, including other developed countries.
You're right. Asking if you could imagine such a person could be construed as implying that I'm only reacting to imaginary offenses like some sort of snowflake (after all, the word "imagine" was right there in my comment!)

So I'll be more clear; assholes that hide behind weaselly language are not imaginary; maybe I attach too much importance on not being mistaken for an asshole, and if that makes me a snowflake then so be it.
AliExpress has another benefit though; zero to very low shipping costs.

In the EU buying electrical components at a hobbyist scale often means having to save up your purchases (e.g., €0,24 for the NE555 at Conrad) until you hit the minimum free shipping limit (in this case €20) or pay the full shipping (€4,95 in this example) for one little component.

AliExpress just has the better user experience if you are learning and experimenting (just buy a couple of spares and be prepared to switch to genuine stuff when needed).
At least 3 options:

1. You're not an imposter and you're just over estimating the competition.

2. The competition is better than you and you are in imposter.

3. This is all a proxy for something else.

It's hardly a partition of all possibilities but it may help you to work by exclusion, and at least under stand what it's not.
Perhaps, these just feel like such common things to ask and do that I don't get why they're not planned for. The conversational side works for the weather, the remaining problems are:

1. There is an in-built assumption I am always where I currently am. This part isn't anything to do with the NLP.

2. "the day after" is translated to "today", possibly. [edit - see lower, it is in only one case]

3. This is more of an NLP one, it understands that the context of "weather" carries from one question to the next, but not the timing. So asking for the weather tomorrow and then "one day later" gets tomorrows as well. [edit - more complex than this, it's actually working in some areas and not in others]

I'd like to see what user-stories it's trying to solve, because apart from setting timers and alarms it's been massively hit and miss for me.

I tried to repeat what I'd put in and this time I had:

"What's the weather the day after" - translated to tomorrow, with no context, that makes sense.

"What's the weather today?" - weather today, followed by "What about the day after?" which gave me results about the film.

"What's the weather tomorrow?" - weather tomorrow, followed by "what about the day after?" which then worked.

So it works just fine for "weather" but not for asking if I need to take an umbrella. And it doesn't work if I ask for today then the day after, but does for tomorrow and the day after.

Why does the context get passed on for the day correctly for "tomorrow" but not for "today"? Why can it get that "the day after" means tomorrow, unless I've asked about an umbrella in which case it means today? At the core of my question is how is it this inconsistent?

What tests have they got around this?
Wow. People still use Bing?
That's so fucking backwards. France was, is and will remain a shit place for any serious entrepreneur. Literally no single unicorn founder from the US would have satisfied these old fashioned conservative anti-progression requirements.
Giving all residents a standing in what your kid is taught is not about giving parents a way, it's about giving highly motivated single issue organizations a platform to mess with education.

> But relationships are so much more than the simple mechanics of penetration

Nobody said it wasn't. That doesn't mean schools shouldn't teach biology. Schools must teach how biology works whether it's calculating birth control or blood alcohol levels.

As for the morals of alcohol use or relationships, those are things you are responsible for teaching.. That's not to say that schools can't discuss those subjects, but they are different from the biology.
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Yes, people should start by standing up in church and debate the validity of sermons and their source material.
I always feel like the guy in this meme when someone suggests I should interview for some hot new opportunity http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/i-know-mor...
I think having constant surveillance can have a negative impact on work life. I know that when discussions moved to Slack at my work place there was a very different way to communicate due to us knowing our conversations may be read. Not that there were any instances of harassment, but sometimes it can be relieving to tell a coworker that your boss is a dick. It can help get feelings out before they build up.

I do see some value in surveillance, such as the GP's instance (whether or not it's true -- it's a reasonably plausible story). I, however, don't think that constant surveillance that upper management has free reign over is good. I did have an idea about this. Is there a way to have a file (such as video/audio) encrypted in such a way that it can only be decrypted with multiple keys? In GP's case, GP and the employee that made the accusation? That way you can still feel safe(-ish) that your small slacking off won't risk your job, while allowing for evidence in serious situations such as GP's.
> In that case, should 50% of men at your current workplace be immediately fired for previous harassment? You are probably assuming it is one or two people doing all the harassment, but what if it's uniformly distributed?

What if!

I'm guessing there is a cultural issue here, since you've jumped onto firing, which I didn't even realise was something we were talking about . It sounds like in your (US-based) experience people can be trigger fired based on an honest miscommunication (e.g. a joke that unintentionally offended someone).

This is not anything I have ever experienced.

I guess this comes down again to why I found the statistics to be so surprising. Taking those stats by themselves, the US appears to be incredibly paranoid and puritanical about "the other sex", to the point where you're scared to be in the same room as one of them.

In my non-US experience if you make a shitty joke you are called on it, but you're not going to be insta-fired.

If you physically assault someone, or continue to be a misogynistic shit-heel, that is another story..
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One large problem with making preventative care a separate market is that people who are too poor to get preventative care and get sick usually end up in an ER, where the rest of society ends up footing the bill.

And a sick person in the ER can easily cost tens to hundreds of times as much as the preventative care would have been in the first place.

So making preventative care mandatory actually saves everyone a lot of money in the long run -- even if the preventative care is run extremely inefficiently and poorly, it would still be cheaper than what we have now, which is socialized medicine that only kicks in after people get incredibly sick and expensive to treat.
>What could go wrong?

What happens when birds try to eat the fake bees? What happens when they break? Do we just leave them there? What would their batteries made of? Any dangerous material Lithum is not something you want on your water supply
> Growing in the workplace is often about effectively selling your vision and then making sure it gets executed

It's so hard for me personally. It can be really discouraging knowing your idea is good but you can't get any buy in. I have to stop and think, and ask myself "is it worth it for me to jump on my sword for this?" Often times the answer is no.
I am often bemused how people actually end up being so busy. At times, I have felt insecure about my "free time" — sort of how I might be running behind people who are constantly occupied. But, taking a closer look, you can see how a lot of work that busy people do is something that can be reduced, optimised, and even completely done away with. Checking emails, and reports, taking calls that need not be taken, endlessly digressing in meetings, and sometimes, even more obvious, like, squandering time in checking HN, Reddit, and Facebook.

The latter isn't so harmful in moderate amounts but I have people who spend their entire workday talking and checking FB, finishing their work only late at night — being "too busy and hard-working".

I think our society needs to learn that having no free-time is pernicious, but more importantly, unnecessary. There are multitudes of ways in which the work can be optimised with a little effort.