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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15542507 and marked it off-topic.

Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines by posting generic commentary about the voting on your posts, how unpopular your opinions are, and whatnot? It's pontificatory, tedious, and off topic.

Also, if you're going to post on an ideologically inflammatory topic like slavery or race, make sure your comment is substantive enough not to be flamebait. An example of how to do this is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543652. Your comment fell on the flamebait side. We don't need yet another flamewar! We need thoughtful discussion.

Worse, when you start posting comments that go Atwater, Erlichman, and Flint (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543975), you're just going full generic, which is what makes flamewars burn hottest and be most tedious. Please don't.

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Ask HN: Are there any good open-source libraries for co-browsing?
There are lots of tools like Hotjar and FullStory that seem to contain the necessary pieces, but I haven't been able to find a good, open screensharing/co-browsing Javscript library. Does one exist?

What I'd look for in such a library:

- Browser compatibility

- Lightweight

- Captures the full DOM (including dynamic components, SVG, etc)

- Understandable codebase

- Open source
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It's also worth noting that there are Keybase alternatives in the works, e.g. Linked Identities [0] for proofs about social accounts (Github, Twitter etc.) that just utilizes OpenPGP, and Key Transparency [1] for tracking changes in keys.

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vb-openpgp-linked-ids-01

[1]: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/security-through-tra...
>I addressed him

That's the part I was replying to. When you say "I agree" with parent post that disagreed that "[monopoly] is also good for society as a whole."

>A monopoly is a farm,...

I wasn't replying to this alternative analogy. I think we both agree that PT wasn't using "monopoly" in this manner. His usage of "monopoly" was closer to your "jungle" ecosystem. My point was that you may actually not be disagreeing with PT.
I'm a lowercase-l libertarian, not a right-wing American trying to avoid the stigma.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Yet ironically, Excel introduces errors.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-pap...
I’m a current UB student. There are some more visits from the top here, but only Bloomberg has any real recruiting events... I think google and Facebook appear sometimes but more to give talks and in smaller/tucked away areas. It’s quite hard to get seen by anyone.
That helped a lot
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It turns out that not having to name things is a feature. Users often avoid naming things and dislike being forced to do so.

The reason is what developers already know: naming things is hard! (Two hard problems, etc.)

Of course, developers also know how valuable good names are, so we like to take the time to pick good names. Users would rather just skip naming altogether and refer to things by letter/number or just by clicking on them.
I think a smaller reason is that Selenium for the longest time supported Firefox as the simplest default.
Bias also comes from having knowledge. Statistical racial profiling and stereotyping based on facts are examples of this.

Morally I still haven't figured out what to think about this. Generally stereotyping people is considered okay unless its about something outside of their control (race, etc). e.g. its okay to stereotype about rednecks or Californians, because they could choose to move, etc.

But generally I don't believe in free will - nothing is a choice when you consider all the circumstances. You'll find plenty of articles on Washington post that follow this line of reasoning about the circle of poverty, etc.

So if you don't believe in free will, you're not allowed to judge anyone for any reason - which sounds ridiculous.

So in short, I have not figured out how the morality of stereotyping works, and that bugs me. Has anyone figured it out?
It will probably lead to the advent of the "car as as service" sales model. Although the pushback from traditional dealers will be huge.
100% why I didn't even consider trying another browser
Good luck convincing Google (or Netflix / Amazon / Microsoft / any other major company) that anything they do is 'just a CRUD application'. Even when it's true, they'll never admit it.
> Nothing new here, all this and more can be accomplished by a simple desktop app.

FTFY
Exactly. And I think the idea to encode direction is a bit anachronistic, in those days they didn't even use punctuation or spaces so it was pretty hard to read anyway, you'd have to do a lot of thinking. And of course with Semitic writing you didn't even encode the vowel sounds.

In hieroglyphic inscriptions the animals etc do face the direction of reading (which varies), but I'm not sure this was in order to help people read it easier.
I work at Google and have done some university recruiting (not a ton, but some) and I have not had this experience. Recently I saw a list of hundreds of schools of all sizes and locations that we were committed to sending reps to, so I think Google is actually way out ahead of the field when it comes to not only looking at Ivy League / Stanford / MIT.
The best way to pay them back is to succeed, but it's not easy!
You can attack the presentation of the content, but do you think anyone wants to go back to the days of dealing with Oracle and SAP charging you for perpetual license and support, and then also needing consulting by the hour from them or a Deloitte/Accenture? Things really sucked in enterprise software in the 90s, and SaaS has made a lot of things so much better.

And I'm not talking about off-the-shelf vs built-in-house, I'm talking about billing method.

In many cases, the billing method has influenced the way the products work and how they're developed.
You can get a similar view in Chrome by turning off the filter button and the two view buttons in the network toolbar, then ctrl-click on any of the columns in the table to hide the ones you aren't interested in.
Same here. I wish there was something like Firebug for Android Studio. Unfortunately it isn't exactly the same idea. MIT app inventor is to simple.
These add ons are voluntary and you have to enable them. If someone is under the illusion that Google is better at privacy than anyone else they should re-educate themselves about that .
Are CRUD projects really the most guilty of only hiring from "elite" schools?

Sure, there are software jobs where you're setting up wordpress blogs, but there are plenty that require you to think about algorithms and how your database actually works in order to do them well.
I've been looking into the linked resources more and more of late and they reveal a perspective of computing research I find I'm really excited about.

I wonder how one can start studying and taking part in this direction of computing research.
Although the findings in my previous comment are my own extrapolations from years of dabbling, I'm confident most people can become very healthy by having diet rich in helpful cultures (party in your tummy), all the essential amino acids (that will become good neurochem), and letting the body rest in an aware and balanced state without forcing anything (zen out and in) regularly.

There being no concise source on the matter of general health, diet, good neurochemistry, and mood, I can but offer a collection of disparate books:

Principles of Neuroscience (Kandel, Schwartz, Jessell) is a great textbook.

Emotional Intelligence (Bradberry)

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Suzuki Roshi)

I also read a lot of personal experience vault essays on erowid.org (regarding "experimental medicine," for lack of better terminology)
I've worked with great engineers and most of them have degrees from state schools. I've found the biggest difference between the large tech companies and other places from having talked to people is that the big places have a lot more money to blow on stuff.
Do you guys thing “understanding” needs more that what we have right now in terms of AI, does understanding require intelligence that is self aware? I mean when we talk to each other, we understand in spoken words, little expressions, even when we talk over the phone. I feel like without the ability to process emotion and self-aware AI we wont really achieve “full understanding” only simulated ones.
Coda is a text editor.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or snarky comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I had a working cmusphinx setup at one point. It was so bad that I eventually just tore it down.

It showed promise, but I don't know if any work is being done on it.
Me too.

I also cringe whenever I think of the ludicrous amount of my tax dollars that NYC gave away to the Yankees (one of the richest sports teams ever) and the Mets to rebuild their stadiums.
Also known as the tensor product of linear maps in a particular basis:

https://jeremykun.com/2014/01/17/how-to-conquer-tensorphobia...

http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/25b_spring_05/tensor.pdf

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/tensors3.html
That was part of his delivery. He presented like in the 70's to make a point. Even his design is retro.
> CS curricula vary widely in terms of technologies and depths covered, and applicability to real world problems.

This might be true for graduate level programs, but between decent state schools and Ivies, the difference, so I have found having been in both "types" of universities, in the curriculum is far, far less than you would lead us to believe. From having met and interviewed a number of people from both, the talent of the individual seems to shine through regardless of the school they attended (if it was at least reasonably decent, i.e. most research-oriented state schools).
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Why teach the humanities? Why study them?
Does anyone know the history of the `console` object? The first time I ever saw it and used it was with Firebug, but it occurs to me that I don't know if Firebug invented it. Did it just decide to inject this name into the global namespace? And having it become a common API across multiple JS environments was due to its popularity in Firebug? Or was it somehow already in JS and I just wasn't aware of it up until that point?
There is a very large problem with comparing these sorts of issues between pre-Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment cultures. Prior to the Englightenment, all knowledge was religious knowledge. Astronomy was the study of how God arrayed the heavens. Geology was the study of the firmament and how God created it. Physics was the motion God gave to every object. Agriculture was when God wanted you to plant your crops. Biology was how Gods morality was reflected in the living things in nature. There was no difference between religious ideas and ideas about reality - there was no separation whatever.

The Enlightenment was significant because it gave us a wedge. It allowed us to say 'religion is about the spiritual, about the ephemeral and ineffable, and science is about material reality'. That is a difference larger than modern people can easily understand. If your religious beliefs are beliefs about your everyday life and the visceral world you live in, you see things very differently. You can't simply live next door to someone with a different set of beliefs from your own. That person is an agent of evil, a soldier fighting in the cosmic and Earthly war between Good and Evil which will either see an eternity of peace and paradise (here, on this planet, not somewhere else) or an eternity of suffering depending upon who wins the war.

While Kolmogorov might have been able to build a bubble, those before the Enlightenment could not. It was impossible to defer judgement to some never-to-come 'afterlife'. It was impossible to extend to others a tolerance for their differing views. It was impossible for considering different ideas about how reality worked to not have a moral and religious consequence. The Enlightenment was so profoundly and deeply successful that those who grew up in societies where it took root can't even conceive of how different it would be to believe that everything which occurs in the world is the direct and immediate expression of the will of a god which suffuses all things and which the material world is but a slim skin over.
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In general yes, though at my home office when my desk is clean my cat walks across it and takes liberty in lying on my keyboard or jumping in my lap whenever he wants. My clutter defends against him :-)
I still need some extensions https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Extensions
Traditional dealers push back against anything and everything, so, that can only be expected.
Then you would be objectively wrong, because there is no fiduciary responsibility to maximize anything for shareholders.
I'm surprised he recommended a time interrupt of around 1000 Hz, for a machine with microsecond memory cycle times.
Not impossible, but difficult. And more difficult for some than others depending on initial glucose level.
Yep. I use Panic's Coda on Mac and iOS platforms.
Deferred rendering is on the way out, in my opinion. With the advent of clustered forward rendering, we can get many, many lights without having to do multiple passes, cram everything in the gbuffer, use a single shading model for the whole scene, and be limited to screen-space anti-aliasing like FXAA and TSAA.
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Why would it matter whether his political party is on board? The GAO puts out a report regardless of whether it expects one party or the other to disagree with it.
> Actually, Apple has a need for people like these. Their whole web/it/retail infrastructure is a Java backend

Not only this, but most new grads are hired in a pool and not for specific skills.
> But, other Scottish people certainly don't have trouble with understanding a Scottish accent. So I view that as a certificate that we should be able to build a speech recognizer which can recognize Scottish accents.

As a Scottish person, I'll say there's a huge amount of variation between Scots dialects. As someone who grew up in Fife, it took me well over a year of living in Glasgow to be able to reliably understand people there—and both of them are typically classed as Central Scots.
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Well, their privacy policy prohibits that sort of thing. It also doesn't make a lot of business sense, as Google's biggest advantage is being able to target ads based on that data.
Ask HN: Do you track your blood pressure?
Do you track your blood pressure? How do you store your logged data? Does your device log it automatically using bluetooth/wireless. Any open source tools you are using?
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Google says they no longer scan Gmail for advertising. I guess it depends on how much you trust them, but frankly one's emails are often pretty juicy by themselves, so if you're really worried you should probably not use it at all. I moved off it years ago.
You're right! Will fix.
>They just don't understand that some people like me, who can get into the (mostly private) elite schools choose to go to a "long tail" school for a variety of reasons

why stop here though, couldn't you just extend this argument to people who go community colleges or online schools or even people don't go any school ?
People will not be buying for a long time. Use will come through ride sharing services.
I don't know what "it" is that you are referring to, but they did change their leaders once every ten years.

You make it sound like they had to choose between capitalism and democracy. In fact, they had neither. Former, they could implement by allowing things to happen. Latter, they could not get in any obvious way.
Except that the track we're on now was started then. Unix was created during the time period he's talking about. We've just stopped looking at the other stuff. They weren't "on the right track", they didn't have a track. That's the point: they were doing everything
I like ETH (especially the lack of fork drama every few months) but the only thing that's stopping me regularly buying more is a fear for what will happen to the price if the ICO market starts receiving sustained negative attention from regulators. Blog posts like this one suggest a (probably necessary imho) storm is coming: https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0

I know ETH isn't just about ICOs but I remain skeptical how big of a market there is, outside of the ICO world, for Dapps and smart contracts. That's before considering potential competition from projects like NEO, ARK and LISK; which could further splinter demand.
Speech Recognition (STT) used to be completely monopolized by Nuance. Slowly the gates are opening (thanks to google and DL), but I guess it is still a minefield of patents.
If that's the case you could also boost the replication # of a given folder/file in HDFS and see a similar speed up. There are circumstances where IPFS is nicer by default, but it might not be something that is a clear winner.
Wait DDG couldn't possibly have existed when 0.2 was released in 2006? Is that image a reconstruction on an XP VM?
I disagree that the solution is a balanced one somewhere between the only two puristic and unrealistic options as in both money is key, and I disagree that it should be the centerpiece of our society as it's already proven to be a weak motivator and leads to very negative consequences.

There are good things in both orders, we need to learn from them, but something in the middle we already have in EU, and it's not working so well.
There are a few things where I, as a software developer, would almost always go for as big and as many and as high quality as I could get. Desk space, shelf space and chairs are all on that list.

These days I think my perfect work space would probably have a good chair with desk on three sides. I'd like the central desk area reserved for my main workstation screens and other peripheral devices. I'd have one side for all the organisers and phones and gadgets and chargers. And until someone invents an electronic version that beats good old pen and paper, I'd have the other side include a large, comfortable writing/drawing surface, a magical unlimited supply of paper and different colours of pens, all the writing/drawing aids like rules and compasses and so on, along with a good printer and a good scanner.
I am a native English speaker from California. It is hard to get my Google Personal Assistant to understand the difference between desert and dessert. It's also hard to request music by an artist with name similar to another artist.

"Hey Google, play Mika radio" has a 50/50 chance of starting music by Meiko. The additional "problem" is that I like Meiko, too, but I feel obligated to cancel the Meiko music & re-request Mika so that Google (hopefully) learns to recognize the difference between Mika and Meiko.

Maybe our spoken language will start to transform into distinctly unique sounds so we can verbally interact with computers with relative ease. When I was in the US Army, I was trained to speak in a certain manner to help my communication to be more clear. [1] I don't see a reason humans and computers can't each make reasonable compromises to make verbal communication easier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_procedure
>"A company like Apple has litte use for someone who has only ever worked on IT-focused Java development."

I find it odd that you have chosen to respond to an article on diversity with comments that display a knee-jerk bias. Also "IT-focused Java development" is not even a real term. I can only imagine you mean Enterprise Java Development.

I can assure you a quality engineer with great problem solving skills, CS fundamentals and real-world experience working on large important projects with real deadlines and bottom line impact can be of great use to a company like Apple.
That's because it doesn't care, it just goes for the most statistically probable phrasing in a general conversation, not the one you're actually having.

As for the OCR problem, try writing one for Chinese calligraphy and get back to me on if context is important or not.
He is just obsessed over Tesla and is making wild claims. Has no way to back up with any data except saying that this is coming from Tesla - so, who knows, it may be true.
And even if they didn't have so much Java, they'd quite possibly still be interested—plenty of major places are more interested in your problem solving skills than your knowledge of any given language.
You raise a good point in that we don't read letter-by-letter anyway. So, this variant, which leverages recognition of whole words at a time, would have the line tracking advantage of Boustrophedon without the problem of duplicating letters for forward and reverse directions:

THIS EXAMPLE OF BOUSTROPHEDON TEXT WAS
WIKIPEDIA THE FOR SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN
ARTICLE ON THIS OX TURNING METHOD OF
ANCIENT IN TEXT WITH WALL A COVERING
GREECE AND ELSEWHERE
Thanks for indulging my curiosity :)

Yeah, cycling near trucks is terrible, I wouldn't do it either.
helicopter prototype was off (just needed different shape propeller, additional stabilizing propeller and proper weight distribution)...

And an ENGINE!
I hate that place!
I think the big breakthrough with cryptocurrency will be when someone invents a "Basic Income" cryptocurrency.

I've been thinking about it for a while, and have even started writing up a specification (may not need to write the actual implementation).

I think it's a tricky problem, but I'm almost 100% certain now that it's probably going to be invented and used in the near future.

EDIT: And by "near future" I mean "within 5-10 years".
this really hits me at the core of my existence right now. I just built my "big" desk and the real-estate I have now is revolutionary but the struggle of being AT my desk still remains my primary foe.
But there's still a chance that Google will discontinue the gmail addon marketplace, just like they previously killed Chrome apps: http://www.omgchrome.com/not-joke-google-killing-chrome-apps...
> to bring in international visitors who are reticent to visit or invest in Saudi Arabia because of the way the laws treat women/homosexuals/etc.

... but who are still willing to work there and pay taxes to support this very system.
Do they "no longer scan Gmail for advertising", or do they no longer scan Gmail?
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