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> big internet companies are the utilities of today

IMO this is a dangerous conflation.

Many large internet companies are monopolies. Anti-trust mechanisms should be used to force competitive market places. But there are substantive differences between being the far-and-away best option in a competitive market place, and the sorts of things we typically call utilities.

This comment on a story about Shopify is even more disturbing. Amazon or Facebook or Google... okay. But Shopify?! Nothing about Shopify is utility-like. Shopify isn't even a monopoly, let alone a natural one.
a.) yes

b.) I don't like or use that feature

c.) But aren't that searches?
> I personally don't like to see companies having any morals. There's nothing courageous about it. I would like to see companies have ethics instead and follow them to the best of their abilities.

Yes, absolutely. Corporations are people and don't need to take moral or political stances, especially when there is still so much work to be done just getting Corporations to behave at all ethically.
Yeah actually, you're right. It was the founder who should have stood up here rather than throw Pao to the wolves.
That the US has stronger freedom of speech protections?
Discussing "safety" isn't safe unless you properly define your terms. That is, otherwise, you don't know what type of "safe" people will interpret your words to mean.

(Sorry, tongue got stuck in my cheek.)

Of course, you probably mean type-safety? For example, if you try to add an integer and a string in Python you'll get a TypeError.

Hindley Milner proves that we can infer the most general type of a program. I wonder if your concerns about safety are misplaced, but then I think of languages where one can add 1 and '1' and then I think you've certainly got a point.
It's included in Windows search.
Aren't Firefox/Ubuntu/Chrome doing the same for Google (eg type a few letters and they search for suggestions in their local db [bookmarks, history, ...] but also make a remote search for more) ?

Not saying this as anti-Google, pro-Microsoft or pro/anti anyone, merely agreeing with you that the "% of {area|time|...} search" means absolutely nothing.

Especially in the context that matters for potential Bing customers, aka ads buyers: I don't care about how many search there are, I care about how many people can see my ad.

Of course no big search entity has any interest of giving those "real search" numbers, neither the front runner nor the underdog.
My experience of using both is that Electron apps are far worse.
Alternatively, technical people projecting their understanding onto culture.
Nazis are centrists now? What the fuck.
Just not in time for back to school - good for intel's margins, bad for all the students stuck with dual core lie5's/7's.
Yeah this is just click bait. I haven't looked at the model they deployed, but it's likely just not sophisticated enough to represent aspects like tone and frame of reference. It might just be a great word-based language model. That doesn't mean it's intentionally biasing against civility.
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The situation is a bit different with video games.

Did you notice how movies always look smooth at 24 FPS while games tend to look horrible at the same frame rate?
That's because unlike with real cameras, games render frames with a zero exposure time (no motion blur). You can also call it time aliasing. Modern 3D engines use tricks to alleviate the problem it is far from perfect.

The result is that you need a much faster framerate than what is normally perceivable in order for fast-paced games to look smooth.

As for latency, even at 60FPS, the resulting 16.7ms is well under human reaction time. It matter in competitive gaming because what matters is not your gaming experience but how faster you are than your opponent.

Also note that VR has its own set of problems and requires even faster refresh rates and lower latencies. That's because the brain coordinates vision and head movement and any discrepancy feels weird.
I've consistently seen searches coming from Google at >95% of search hits on all my blogs. Where are these invisible Bing searchers?
Ah, so the problem is hot-button topics, not analogies. That is a bit more complex. It is hard to know where to draw the line between the listener being over-sensitive, and the speaker being a sophisticated troll. Dang and I actually butted heads over that one a few weeks ago.

I think it is just as important to take things at face value, instead of assuming malice, as it is to be sensitive to other people's issues (for lack of a better term). I've actually had decent results debating obvious trolls, just by postponing emotion, identifying and avoiding assumptions, and focusing on the actual meaning of their statements.
better admitting accident and ill advised burial than rape, murder and cover-up.
Kleiner Perkins', etc., portfolio:

http://www.kpcb.com/companies
Can please you share the list of textbooks or the courses that you took?
Would be better if you share the 20 pages
Nobody is forcing them to take the job, just widening the target audience of the job search.
It is also a weird symbiotic relationship- most channels seem to only have interest in making one video for a game so you really only have to polish the first 5 hours of gameplay into something video-worthy. The game-to-completion train has been dead for a while it looks like so just spamming first run type videos generates a lot more views.
In most jobs you are being paid for a blend of:

- Skills and abilities.

- Availability.

In workplaces where facetime is valued, they are maximizing availability.

Sometimes this can be legitimate, since you do have to collaborate with others and be available to answer questions etc.

However in my experience those workplaces which are obsessed with availability tend to be disorganized firefighting organizations that operate in an in 'all hands on deck' style.
To your C), see my other comment on this same thread. Yes, and it's valid in a "which search engine handles the biggest amount of search".

But what matters money wise for their share holders, for you as a potential customer (ad buyer), ... is not how many search they take on, it's how many times your ads can be seen. And in that context, those aren't worth anything.

(of course that is until they try to embed ads there, but since even Google hasn't found a way yet I don't see Microsoft taking the first step)
Even if this was at all believable, to change your answer from 'I dropped her off' to 'she's dead' isn't really going to do you any favors...
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I'm surprised there isn't more discussion about hype cycles and the poor efficacy of "AI" here. Sentiment analysis (find the uncivil words) is a trivial solved problem in 2017, and is many, many orders of magnitude less computationally complex than the semantic intelligence problem that would have to be solved in order for robots to be useful here.
It's for Telex service. You dialed up another Teletype machine to send a message to it. At startup, the other end was interrogated to print its answer-back on both Teletypes, to confirm that you'd reached the right destination. Then you could type to the other end, or send a paper tape and have it print or punch at the other end.
It is different...but it is even more different than the Nazi eagle emblem. Your logic is like saying a rat is bigger than a mouse so it must be an elephant. Perhaps context helps here? Did Nazis used the phrase "e pluribus unum"?
I thought they were brilliant and I greatly enjoyed them. Certainly they are not optimistic American-style SF but I wouldn't call them "grim" - they are grand novels about the cycle of civilisations, "deep time" and the impact of individuals (or not) upon those.
Is it really as nefarious as you make it seem? Is Google allowed to count the number of browser that have Google search built in? Are they allowed to count Android phones where Google search is the default? Why would Bing not be able to count searches done on there just because they're done via Siri?
Thx, didn't see them at first. Since i like to complain: continuous integration and code coverage with nice badges are missing ^^
I was wondering, given that 90% of the javascript in browsers must be standard libraries (jquery, bootstrap & co) wouldn't it make sense for google to hash the source code for every published version of these libraries, compile those statically using full optimisation and ship the binaries as part of their updates to the browser, so that you only have to compile the idiosyncratic part of the code?
My mom has a Windows laptop which she uses without even really understanding what a web browser is, or what a search engine is. She uses Bing because that's what the Windows search bar defaults to and because the default web browser on Windows by default opens with MSN as its home page, and she doesn't understand she has a choice in any of this, and probably wouldn't bother to change anything even if she did understand and knew how to change it.

I strongly suspect that many Bing users are similarly borderline computer-illiterate, and just use Bing because it's the default.

The same probably goes for many Google users, a lot of whom were probably tricked by some software they installed that had a tiny checkmark and small print telling them it was going to install Chrome and make Google their home page.
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they aren't using Bing to search for your blog, they (i.e., my mother) are using Bing to search for Google.
> recruit junior devs from the ranks of biology grad

Targeting specific groups just because of the racial or gender makeup of the group seems inherently wrong to me.

A biology major doesn't give people many relevant skills for programming. If it was a math intensive subject like Physics, Stats or Math, I could see it being more fair and valid.
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All economists, no electrical engineers.
For the curious, the Asimov story is called Sucker Bait, from 1954.
I have a project that provides a little tool for Windows and a lot of documentation for Windows, Linux and Mac to map Caps Lock to Escape as well as remapping keys in general.

Project URL: https://github.com/susam/uncap#uncap
So you want to become a professional web developer?
Not that it is undesireable, just that it doesn't exist.

The mess you are talking about is fact. Maybe this is because managment sucks, but it's still a fact. Goals & requirements are unclear. This is a fact almost everywhere. Very few people (definitely programmers) have very clear requirements and goals to work against.

So, I agree with you that having clear goals and requirements is a path to virtual workplaces. But, I think this is a troublesome route. Clarity is elusive. If it wasn't elusive, all the outsourcing efforts of 10 years ago would have been more successful.

Computers are against us on this. If something is very clearly defined, it is a candidate for automation, outsourcing and such. The stuff we're left with is the poorly defined mess. That's why we have so much of it.
We should all be encouraged to be polymaths since school. But I believe the great challenge is not really to push such idea to students, but to actually make them find interest on what they're expected to learn, be it to become polymaths or leech brain experts.

I'm saying that given the education background from my country, Brazil. I was surprised, back when I was teaching programming to kids, at how seem to care so less about the actual learning process, while still having a lot of learning potential.
Will reading novels help your programming skills?
It's interesting how much you "know" without, you know, actually knowing anything.

Anyway, thanks for writing that up in detail, I will just leave it at that, because you've done a better job at discrediting yourself than anyone else could ever possibly do.

This is how free speech works: just let the other side talk.
The Futamura projections are such a cool result of partial evaluation! Thanks for pointing it out, otherwise I would not have known about them.
Thanks for keeping the S/N ratio down, even if it's me. Hopefully you can be replaced by a good AI at some point!
> So, they're engaged in other STEM fields at 2x-3x the extent they're engaged in CS...

That statement is so broad as to render it utterly meaningless. I don't doubt it applies to medicine, for example. But does it apply to automotive or mining engineering?

And even if it did apply to every non-CS STEM field, that still would not preclude the possibility that women, as a group, are simply not as interested in CS to the same extent men are.
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Actually didn't realize this until you pointed it out. It is written like that in the original. I like to interpreted it as a hilarious self-referencing pun^^
Probably not in your demographic.
Yeah, it isn't a coincidence that windows 10 was the first "free" major OS upgrade from MS and then we see numbers like this.
Maybe ship popular libraries as web assembly?
Yahoo is only used in the US, in Europe it's all about Google.
Wrong on both counts. Mathematics PhDs are issued at a ~70/30 ratio, substantially higher than that of CS PhDs (and way higher than CS undergrad degrees) --- this despite mathematics being among the small number of heavily gender-segregated STEM fields.

Further: almost nobody practicing computer science in the industry has a PhD. There are, believe it or not, places where having a doctorate is frowned on. For the degree that actually matters --- the bachelors --- math has as you say something approaching parity.

Tell me again about the innate limitations women have performing in STEM.
I think an interesting issue is that the higher you are in a hierarchy the more rules don't apply. It's impossible to govern with rules because they are the source of rules themselves.

Some rules transcend companies and are socially tethered like ethic, morals, maturity, responsibility, etc... But disregard for social judgement is actually a strength in achieving power.

This may be why grassroots true change takes so long. The upper levels needs to pass away because they can't be convinced because they aren't bound by anything.

Most people think they can handle power, but the "true" freedom it provides will corrupt almost anyone because most people are unaware of just how much they delegate thoughts and outlooks to outside frameworks. ("Culture")
Before google they were running higher than 33%. They fell down flat on their faces because of the union of greed, technical illiteracy, and market illiteracy among managers/leaders.
There was a time when, if someone in your traveling party died, you'd dig a hole 6' deep and bury them with some words of tribute. Or at sea, you'd weigh them down with a rock and slip them over the side.

For future reference, if a traveling companion dies far away from any emergency services (which wasn't really the case here), what is one's legal and moral obligation to bring the body back to civilization?
What do you miss that's not in F#? Legitimately curious, since F# is the language I miss (or wish to use, I suppose) the most at the moment.
Sounds like a bunch of BS from the sugar/soft drink industry.

I'll suggest a more practical/simple explanation between the different glucose and fructose and the diseases I mention.

Fructose: primarily broken down in the liver.

Glucose: When blood glucose rises, the pancreas releases insulin.

Again I am talking about fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance), based on numbers alone it would seem children are more susceptible to developing fatty liver rather than insulin resistance, but that seems to be a very bizarre basis to suggest one is healthy. Moreover, even if a body doesn't develop insulin resistance, insulin itself is enlarging cells throughout the body, including fat cells, priming the body for obesity, which carries its own health issues. And again I only say sugar is a contributing factor to obesity, but no doubt insulin is a hell of a primer for obesity.
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Thanks! I hadn't actually followed that. I remembered about an argument between him and Kristian von Bengtson (which led to vB's departure), but thought he was still with the group.

Looking forward to the upcoming launch!
Chip inside of the computer with a little telephone hidden inside.

You don't mind if your computer will dial in to China sometime, do you?
Specs?

Low end: 2Ghz P4 Celeron
High end: 2.4Ghz Xeon

With a couple more resting in between.

Distro: Slackware on everything.

Why Slackware? Partly because it is what I started with when SLS was no more, and a lot because it adheres much more to the Unix philosophy than the rest. The adage of "Learn Ubuntu and you know Ubuntu [1], but learn Slackware and you know Unix" is in many ways true.

[1] Substitute any other "hand holding" disto. of choice for Ubuntu if you like.
You can emit normal events (they bubble up normally), you can use a notification bus, redux, whatever you want. And your elements are visible in DOM normally like all other elements.
I think the demographics that just use the default search engine are probably most desirable for the advertising publisher as they are more likely to click on ads.
Could be done, although it would have to be done carefully.
Thanks for clearing that up. I thought it was a Damore reference.
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Ask HN: Where to start with CSS?
Hi HN folks,

I am confident writing code in almost all layers of a modern web application now. Node.js/JavaScript, SQL, Angular etc., all took me some time to grasp but now are a breeze to write.

My pain point is currently CSS. I have a good understanding of advanced selectors and properties, but my final CSS code always end up being a mess. I am constantly overwriting styles, writing classes that can't be reused or composed in more than one element and using way more !important rules than I probably should.

Where do I start on the path to write clean, reusable and maintainable CSS?
The entire article offers as much evidence for their claims as I do: none.

Have you visited the offices at Google? Yahoo? Facebook? Tesla? Square? Twitter?

They are all bursting at the seams and are fighting on a daily basis with each other to find new space to expand, which is very hard to find here. Same for pretty much all the companies in the Bay Area, actually.

The mere idea of switching these companies from an open floor plan to individual offices will get you laughed at for proposing something completely nonsensical.

Open floor plans are here to stay.
Actually, for a while, Ubuntu tried to do this with Amazon. I'm not sure if it is still there, I doubt it, but I remember the unity-advertising-lens-removal fix being pretty popular at the time.
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That is almost certainly a very complicated issue which has a lot to do with where the person died, your country of origin and so on. In this case however the guy lied about the timeline and events, which speaks to something other than death of natural causes.
Weren't Windows 7 and 8 already having "web search" enabled for the start menu ? I'm sure it was there, but not if that was default behavior or if it needed to be enabled.

Not a Windows 10 introduction, although that one tends to find any excuse it can to call home.
Ubuntu got a lot of shit for doing that with Amazon so I think they stopped doing it, and Firefox has as far as I know never done a remote search until you press enter, the suggestions in the bar are all based on local data.
I think apple opposed is="" and its not implemented in their browsers.
Not the premise. This is an issue of taking a cheap, touch-tone chip and repackaging it as a more expensive product. The chip itself is not dialing out to anywhere since the final product wouldn't even work when installed. Just a counterfeiting scam.
> Because I don't attend team building sessions especially if they involve sports or touching other people or being touched.

I had never put together quite how awful your average "team building seminar" could be for someone with autism or other physical-touch issues. I've never been in a position to call one, so I've always just left it at "those are annoying". But on reflection, "a room full of people openly pressuring you to let people touch you without warning" sounds like hell on earth for several people I know. And yet it's quite common to make them mandatory and expect everyone to act like they had fun...
Probably a large part of that is because they are much more permissive to bots/crawling than Google searches.
This has been an ongoing issue in Vietnam. I taught in Vietnam at a teacher training college four years back. Most of my students who attended had no aim to become teachers: they instead wanted to work as tour guides or translators or gain a standard white-collar office job in international business. Their reasoning was that it was too hard to become a teacher--too many applicants for too few spots. (And besides, the pay was terrible.)

The comments on 2 years of Marxist ideology are very exaggerated, but there is a general truth in that there's a large mismatch between the education and the outcome for university students. Vietnam would do well to encourage skills-building instead of limiting studies to professional tracks where job prospects are limited and theory is of no use.
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Wait, before Google search existed Bing was doing better with search results? I don't think Bing existed back then. Even MSN search didn't exist back then.
It's useful but doesn't take care of state management AFAIK which can be a big part.
I know it is fashionable to bash on C++ lately but I dont fully understand the motivation behind it. Could you please elaborate what drove you to write a post expressing your derision about C++? Does the frustration come from trying to use the language in the past and running into its limitations?
I completely agree with you on tough topics. I think the idea that politics are considered taboo is one of the great American tragedies. I'm honestly a bit addicted to debate.

I'm referring to resorting to crassness on an already contentious topic. As an example, I often spend time defending my religious beliefs to atheists. I'm happy to talk all day about how I feel about Dawkins' arguments and the like, but the second someone brings up 'your stupid f———— sky fairy', I can tell that the conversation is not going to be productive any longer.
Sexism is far from unique to the tech industry. See for example [1][2].

You note that "medicine and law were massively male-dominated for a very long time," yet confusingly you wonder whether "the anti-women practices that forced women out of tech were simply never applied to these other professions" (emphasis mine). Another possibility comes to mind: That anti-women practices were in fact applied to these professions, and some modicum of progress has been made in dismantling them, with varying degrees of success.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/26/pf/gender-pay-gap-doctors/

[2] https://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Features/06062017-Fem...

"Although junior lawyers are split roughly equally between male and female, the senior positions at law firms, barristers’ chambers and in the judiciary are still overwhelmingly dominated by one demographic – white, upper-class men"
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You wouldn't be able to optimise the standard libraries very well without any information about the program calling them and the data they are using, though. I guess it would turn out to be a lot slower in practice.