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I agree with the general sentiment that education needs to be overhauled but I feel that you undervalue literature and history. Hopefully someone comes along that is more qualified than I am to speak about this.

There must be better ways to teach algebra and higher math, science, history, literature, etc. But to say they are useless is bonkers to me. Especially at a time where menial jobs are at great risk due to outsourcing and automation. The solution has to be more and better education, not less. I don't know how you expect people who know basic math, reading, and writing to succeed.
Surely, but as history proves since OpenMoko, that dream requires the buy-in of an OEM willing to keep the ship going, even when there is no wind to push the sails.
They did manage to get many of the top 50 apps to their platform, however, top 50 isn't enough. When all your friends have the latest and greatest on their iOS and Android and you have to wait a year or two for a WP port you get tired of that. Plus there are many industry-specific and workplace apps that never made it to WP. You can only face so many let downs in the app store before you give up on a platform. Nokia did make some damn good hardware though.
That sounds exactly like the state of affairs the moment you pick a JavaScript framework, which was my point.
I find it very difficult to buy the idea that a person is characteristically stupid. People does things like described by the definition all the time. It's called mistakes. Some people are ignorant sure. But my guess is that even the most ignorant person is not an idiot most of the time.
> No volition to change the status quo.

I interpreted that as proof that they weren't fully human. There was a constant discussion about whether they had a soul, and fruitless efforts to prove it through art, expression, love. But in the end, they all lacked the will to survive.

Most human beings, even those that are hardly extraordinary would have fought against those circumstances. But none of the Hailsham children did. They always, ultimately, accepted their fates, showing that they are more cattle than human.

Maybe that is an even more dystopian reading of an already dystopian novel, but I've read the novel twice and watched the film, and I keep coming back to it.
Absolutely not, it was added on after, but no, that was the plan all along. You don't build that in just a year. That was part of the plan all along, but why waste millions of dollars on an app ecosystem before the phone itself is proven? No, you start with an amazing minimum viable product, see if it succeeds, and if so, you recoup lots of R&D money, and pour that into building the app system you already planned out. Yes, Jobs talked about web-apps and such, but that was just cover.

Yes, Walter Isaacson said that others tried to convince Steve about apps at launch, but from the moment he started talking about web apps on that stage in 2007, I never believed for a moment it was really the angle. I knew a couple folks who worked on the first couple revs of iOS, installable apps were always possible, if underdeveloped, from day one. Jobs had lots of resources at Apple in the 80s, and frittered them away on the Lisa and Apple III. He stumbled on Pixar, not knowing where it would go, and had a hell of a time figuring out how to position NeXT, but all those failures taught him that in business, like in art (and we know he felt himself an artist), making the most within the constraints of the medium is they key to success. He came back to Apple on its deathbed. He negotiated with MS for a transfusion to stay alive, and knew even though OS9 sucked, they needed a splash. They had the iMac. Pare down a personal computer to what was needed at the time. Monitor, modem/ethernet, CD drive. No need for a floppy, they're dying, chuck it for an external one you can charge for. No need to pack it with a super spiffy CPU or oodles of RAM, people can pay for an upgrade. Just make it slick looking and work well. Same with the iPod. Pimp it out with upgrades later, after the MVP proves its worth. The G4 cube failed, it never was really iterated on.

He learned from Microsoft, create a MVP, if it seems to catch on, iterate fast.
Norwegian arrogance can only be described as a dog barking on the side of the street. If you go and ask, what’s your problem it will bite you before it starts to argue on anything. How can humanity conceive such an abhorrent race of people whose insignia awards murders and criminals with a peace prize.

Can we conclude human rights as our right to exist in peace not in pieces. Being a mouthpiece of legitimizing western warmongers lists nuclear weapons as a must have. Humanity constructs ideals based on work performed for humanity by individuals who have given their life up for others. While the new norm is the elites bickering on who serves them well in creating wars and hell on earth, the richer the better, the Norwegian the chosen nobel. For world would see no peace till we recognize this face that haunts humanity.
Prices are higher, and people eat out less often...

At least that's the case in northern Europe, wages are much higher, but services that relies on humans a super expensive.
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Norwegian arrogance can only be described as a dog barking on the side of the street. If you go and ask, what’s your problem it will bite you before it starts to argue on anything. How can humanity conceive such an abhorrent race of people whose insignia awards murders and criminals with a peace prize.

Can we conclude human rights as our right to exist in peace not in pieces. Being a mouthpiece of legitimizing western warmongers lists nuclear weapons as a must have. Humanity constructs ideals based on work performed for humanity by individuals who have given their life up for others. While the new norm is the elites bickering on who serves them well in creating wars and hell on earth, the richer the better, the Norwegian the chosen nobel. For world would see no peace till we recognize this face that haunts humanity.
> Their club, their rules.
I too love the idea of there being filaments of matter connecting distant galaxies. I can only imagine the artistic renderings will make the universe look like a neural network.

Can anyone clarify how these filaments remain “hot”?
I very much feel for this guys plight and what he's going through. He says the whole story right at the top. The venue is what screwed him. He didn't know all the things he learned about the food after he opened the place, but what he REALLY didn't know was about the operations of a building and the cost of the corner he wanted to end up on. That fucked him from the jump.

I know he's frustrated, as anyone would be, but the deck was stacked from the get go and it's no one's fault but his. Not the landlord or the grease trap. That was writing on the wall about unknown unknowns.

He starts by saying how "hot" the market is, like that's a good thing for his persuit. He starts with talk of it being saturated. The landlord doesn't need to take any risks on that hot corner for your grease trap or electrical.

I've taken a bath on a few things where I over invested in fixed costs. I've had to take a couple years off after a six year startup struggle because of burnout. I will say that when I've come back around, after really fucking kicking myself and licking all wounds, it was a VERY expensive lesson. Emotionally, fiscally, and socially. Usually cheaper than a masters degree though and infinitely more applicable to future runs at the real goal.

You want to get free and run a creative operation? Great. The world does not give a shit. Worse than that, it hates you and wants you to fail. The path to real freedom is paved with bloody miserable failure. Bad leases will eat you, which is not the landlords fault. If you want to make money, buy a Chick-fil-a franchise. They have a great track record and financing. If you wanna make art, be prepared to suffer for it and have no one give a flying fuck about how much it hurt to try.

The desire to blend art and commerce is something that very few people succeed at. Just because you have worked in a kitchen and scored a half million in inheritance doesn't mean anyone needs to care. No matter how much you spent. You could have put the cash in an account and get so good at cooking that someone else will take the ops risk to open your counter or take the risk yourself and learn hard what you don't know. The world sheds no tears either way.

Bunk Sandwiches in Portland didn't start with a $40 chicken. They started with a hole in the wall and a Cuban Sandwich that would make you slap your grandma. Also they could make them fast for $12 and had a line out the door. Eight years later they have several locations and a concert venue. The sandwich isn't as good anymore, but they made a legacy out of thing that could support itself and can continue to grow. I don't know anything about their owners, but I bet they can tell you some shit about surviving upside down leases and kitchen costs.

I seriously wish this guy the best. I'm sure some days that chicken was one of the best things anyone has ever tasted.
The amount of property crime in at least some parts of SV is pretty ridiculous. My most recent bike was stolen within a month of buying it, to replace another bike that lasted 3 months before being stolen. That was bought to replace a total beater, torture to ride, flat tires, etc. Also stolen, though I can't imagine why. Next Door is also full of posts about broken car windows and stuff stolen from the back seats. So it's understandable that people get a bit antsy about people that they doubt are locals.

I haven't noticed overt racism on ND as much as crotchetiness, though. A lot of complaints about the local ice cream truck, for example, and about the number of camper vans parked along certain roads that people are using as housing.
> The white and Asian population is passing with a high rate. It's not the schools failing then.

If the schools are only effectively serving White and Asian students, they are failing.

If the schools are effectively doing nothing and success is determined mostly by parents educational attainment which just correlates with race, then the schools are still failing.

So, no, I think your basis for concluding that the schools are not founding is inadequate to that conclusion.
For those of us building anything that processes information with any level of sensitivity, it's not so funny. It's almost impossible to verify the integrity of JS dependencies.

I've had to adopt a policy of ignoring anything but the most carefully curated and dependency-minimised JS packages, and to avoid the language in general except when it can't be generally circumvented (i.e. in the browser).
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Perhaps look at an OS packaging system. Debian has a particularly robust one, and it simply couldn't be brute-forced like this (as it's key-based).

Even just simply forcing 2FA would be a significant improvement.
If you open a .csv file in excel and save it, you may find that it has converted any long numbers into scientific notation for you, and saved that as text. It will also get rid of any leading zeros for you.
Is there any reason this matters? Besides the automatic reaction of "data = evil" that I'm seeing, I see no reason why it even remotely matters that this data gets out.* I see no practical way MS could benefit from this other than by improving the open source project. Maybe if they reallly wanted to they could link your IP to a Facebook/Google account so you could get ads for developer tools? Is there actually a good reason to turn this off?

* I'm assuming MS is being honest about what they're collecting in their documentation. If someone has evidence that their sources/binaries say something different, feel free to bring it up.
Just sprinkle the donuts with cocaine and you've got user lock-in :)
Move fast and break things...
I would recommend adding Carrd.co to this list. It's been great for me to quickly create beautiful landing pages with no coding.
I was looking for something that will send me daily email report with the rates of the cryptocurrencies I'm interested in. Seems trivial but couldn't find anything simple that just works. So - I just built it on my own. Would love any feedback or feature requests.
As anecdote, none of our customers use anything that risks putting their internal data into someone else data center.

They value their business and possible legal consequences, in case there is a data breach coming out of Gmail or similar online services.

Of course companies that don't care about NDAs compliance, medical data, critical research information, offshoring of customer data, the upcoming GPDR 2018 and similar laws, can put their internal data wherever they feel like.
I disagree with you here. I think it is a social benefit to expose everyone to a variety of disciplines. How many chemists or engineers or astronauts or authors found their calling in a classroom? I would wager there are a lot of them. Is it the only way? No, but for a lot of people it is how they find their way in life.

Giving everyone access to this kind of exploratory environment can yield huge benefits to society. Could we do a better job teaching these topics? Absolutely. Does that mean we should just give up in the name of maximizing resource efficiency? Not really, we have the resources, we just need to spend them properly.

I think it is unreasonable to expect that people will come to higher or secondary education on their own. Some will but for a lot of people they may go through life never realizing their potential because nobody challenged them and they never knew what was possible.
I’ve been at it for a while. I’ve learned that if you want something to change you don’t let it go.
also:

(!) - Drawing extra attention, maybe belittling: "He wore sandals(!)"
Have you used Presto for doing sql queries on kafka topics ? Would be interested to see some experience reports on using this in production.

I have used Presto by the Hive connector and the results were pretty nice.
*non moon-math
Because that would preclude the internet from being useful for a rather large portion of people's lives.

(Not that I believe you have a right to privacy when you organise as a neighbourhood group and basically act like a tiny, kleptocratic, unelected apartheid regime.)
I'm not going to say that education is great as it is, but the worst attitude you can come across from a student or a person in general is the question "When am I ever going to need this?"

The most important point of school isn't accumulating facts or skills but teaching students _how to think_. How to reason, how to solve problems, the absorption of a diversity of ideas and topics. To expose everyone to the knowledge, and skills to be free in society. It isn't a trade skill to teach them precisely and only the things they will need for a specific job.

The thing they teach wrong very early to very many people is that learning is labor, and the key to success is following rules from an authority.

Back to the main point I'm trying to make is that school is about teaching children how to think. You don't achieve this by sending them to a seminar about thinking, you do this by exposing them to history, art, literature, mathematics, and all the rest. You learn how to think sideways by being exposed to knowledge and challenged to remember and analyze and master many different subjects in many different ways. It's been pushing increasingly more and more towards achieving certificates, honors, and test scores, and these things are poisonous to actual quality learning and as an effect quality life.

Just like in technology, optimizing for a poor metric makes you worse off than if you did nothing... and what YOU want to do is optimize for an even worse metric, myopic utility.
Hi Strilanc. Author of PurpleWave here.

That particular scene at the sunken colonies was equally frustrating to watch. I fixed the most likely cause of that behavior shortly after the tournament deadline.

But for sure, you're correct. There's a lot left to do on all fronts. There's noticeable progress every year -- none of last year's entries finished much over 50% -- and the growing research community should help accelerate that even more.
What an excellent game! It absorbed me until completion.

Congratulations to the creator(s).
"At Sephora, Nida Mitchell, 29, got her chance to grow into a new role when she was promoted from web developer to IT project manager after two years at the company. The new job put her in charge of 14 male engineers"

How are they defining "tech role" exactly, is it that most of the developers are male, but "tech sales", "tech marketing", "tech product management", "tech PM" roles are female?

Is this merely a case of a company run by women, with a bias toward hiring and promoting women?

That's perhaps not unlike other companies run by men, so I guess it balances, but it's hardly a new model that everyone should emulate.
The title is effectively click-bait because of: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/75944s/half_the_univ...
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This is a good question. I haven't worked in the industry. I have no idea.

With higher prices for restaurant/café meals?

With less competition?

With lower costs for other inputs?

With greater demand for labour across the economy?

By illegally paying employees below award / not paying superannuation payments?
Adding to the other comments that this "regular" matter wasn't really missing. All the models predicted that it was there in the filaments between galaxies but we had no way to detect it. These experiments are just a confirmation of the current consensus and strengthens trust in our models.
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https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2017-chicago-murders

Maybe it's time to get rid of identity politics first.
A) labor costs in the US is very low (compared to other industrialized countries)

B) the real question is whether you want servant class of citizens who are essentially exploited?

Personally, I prefer only going out to eat on special occasions, paying well, and knowing that the people serving me makes a living.

Note: in some utopian world restaurants would automate the kitchen and reduce labor requirements, without having said automation impair quality. Maybe one day :)
I have very limited apps in my phone. And I have disabled almost all Google creepware (except Google Play Services, Maps etc) and opted out of anything Google allows me to do. Still, I see this in Disconnect Pro:

https://imgur.com/a/ajRbI
That only ever foster user creativity as they probe the bannable limit
In countries were top education is essentially free, i really see no reason anyone should forego it, even if they don't value it as much as others. Sure, there is the off chance you might do better without that degree because you can start earlier, but statistically that chance is slim and the benefits of good education will serve you all your life.
I understand the anti movement in the US, because of their state of top education in return for lots of money which might never pay off, but this really should not inspire people in europe to drop studies.
It seems people want a way to express emotion in something like a side-channel. Interpunction is fine for that, however we can't pronounce interpunction by itself and second interpunction can be placed only at specific points in the sentence (usually at the end). Emoji can be placed everywhere, however emojis can't be spoken out loud.

Lojban, a constructed language, has a very interesting feature: attitudinals: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lojban/Attitudinals

An example from Wikipedia:

mlatu .ui (a cat! yay!)

English has also attitudinals however they belong to informal speech.
You can definitely start a single node Flink-on-YARN cluster. That's how all the integration tests are set up.

What do you think of posting the questions on the mailing list [1]?

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/athenax-users
Summary of the key problems:

1. Microsoft won’t engage with customers on removal of this even if it causes problems.

2. The feature fires off before it informs you.

3. We don’t trust Microsoft after they turned their platform into a data gathering and leak risk.

4. This spans more than just windows as a platform so the assumption that opt out is OK is leaking onto privacy respecting platforms.

5. This is resurrected because it’s still being fought.

6. No one else does this. This is new and we don’t want the assumption that it’s ok to go forward any more than it has.

7. Steamrolling opinion is not how you treat customers. That’s how you lose them.

Microsoft are doing a big platform push for tooling I.e SQL server, powershell, VScode etc and we’re making it known that when in Rome, do as Romans do.

A lot of younger users will be used to telemetry as a feature and are not sensitive to it. This does however pretty much kill the product for healthcare, finance and defence sectors.

In my case this signifies the end of a 15 year investment of my life in a platform.
HSM have other security properties that you cannot replicate with software. They are tamper resistant in a way a regular server is never going to be, and they have been engineered to prevent sidechannel attacks. The latter is something very hard to prevent with a regular server.

I agree that for the majority of usecases, a HSM is not necessary, but they do bring security to the table that a simple auth server cannot, at least not without significant engineering effort.
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For a work related dashboard type of app. What do you think is the "upper limit" of time delay in each ?
I had to quit NextDoor after my neighbors demonstrated all the vile hatred we've come to expect from the anonymized Internet, but with the added benefit that people know who you are and where you live.
Hi! Author of PurpleWave here. A bit late to the party but happy to answer questions.
It's too late to edit but this comment feels like it dismisses your hard work which I do not intend to do. Having said that I am concerned that this approach leads to the ford-vs-chevy type arguments that don't help anyone make an informed decision.

What do you think about doing a series on the workloads that each database engine is best at? Surely each model has benefits and disadvantages. Finding what each system is best at will help people decide what system they really need.

You are in a unique position to answer this question because as you say, you have no interest in any specific solution and your customers use all of these systems.
I've never seen Nextdoor. But from what I've read here, these are semi-public groups and may act as a sort of informal, ultra-local administration.

If that includes making any group decisions that affect others in the neighbourhood, I believe it's important that at least the possibility of journalists making it public remains.

There are all sorts of organisations that are free to choose their members and keep their meeting private. But the focus on specific neighbourhoods changes the power dynamics somewhat, because you cannot escape such a group's power (if it has any).

It may be comparable to professional associations like the various local bar associations: they are required to admit any local lawyer in good standing, because their decisions can affect everyone practicing law within their jurisdiction.
Do apps matter much, after the top ones? All the volume is in the top 10 apps now. After the top 100, does it matter at all?
Photons lack mass right?
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It's like patenting idea of using TCP/IP to send packets of data over a computer network.