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I'm Eastern-european, and not fully aware of the US cultural issues. I participated at a company (US) "principal scientists summit", and the issue of women in tech was brought up. As the lady presented the data, and how we're making progress on hiring more women but there's still no equality, I asked the (innocent/legitimate, I thought) question "how are we doing compared to graduation stats". Seemed natural to me to look at that data in order to figure whether we're getting increasingly worse "return on investment" by focusing exclusively on hiring, but it was immediately spun off into me being somewhat sexist for suggesting that "we don't have a women-hiring problem". Which is not what I meant to imply at all! And from there on, there was sensible tension in the air, with some people taking to take my side without making "career-limiting" statements. It's crazy how taboo some subjects are, at least in California...

(it's secondary, but FWIW, I'd debate that the Damore memo contained a lot of truth: yes it contained some truth, but it contained more/deeper falsehoods and wrong conclusions, IMO. So it's a bit unproductive to focus on the "truth" part. OTOH it's horrifically unproductive and wrong to fire someone for expressing a misguided, but not inherently evil/malicious p.o.v.)
I've noticed that very few actually write or post content to Facebook at this point. Of cause it may just be within my circle of friends, but it's mostly just stuff people liked or shared. At this point, if Facebook would allow me to just view friends posted content, chronologically, then I could browse a weeks worth of posts in five minutes.

The trend of people posting updates on their lives on Facebook is dead I think. Either people have moved to snapchat, or they don't want to play that game anymore. Facebook has been reduce to a platform for party invites and messaging.
TL;DR imagining yourself dying every day, meditating on it, will change your brain in a way that will make you a better person. This technique is about one thousand years old.
This. Being "difficult" might be an option for US citizens, but if you're a visitor you're really only going to have a choice between cooperating and being refused entry. If you're refused entry you'll have a much harder job returning.
Imagine a species with a version controll system in there DNA. What epigenetic wonders it would allow for - to revert forward, backward- or fast forward to a diffrent branch.
Everything we interact with has an effect on us. We name the causal origin of these effects, we do not name the effect.

When I say "the flag is white", I mean that it is causing a white-effect. Whiteness is the property which causes the white-effect (ie., a perception of white).

By communicating to you that it is so-causal, I am saying that it will cause you to experience the same thing. "White" isnt just any part of the process we want to choose it's the feature of the object which does the work. Communication is incohrent and impossible if "white" is naming something radically subjective like my state which is private.

There is then the open question about whether what causes my white-perception now is the same as what caused it earlier, and whether the defintion of the kind "white" can therefore be performed by a physicist alone.

Probably, it cannot. Our sensation of colour is provoked by different stimuli.

That doesnt make colour relational, or physiological, or necessarily anything of that kind. It simply makes it plural. There are several ways to be blue, though we detect them all as-if they were the same.
sorry I cut the end: later you will change something to https://www.godesignergo.com/ pricing model with limiting
Retail it's not all day, every day but not uncommon either. The military can be that way though I guess it is expected a bit. Lots of jobs include abuse.
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I don't think so. The advertising business is all named under Google, e.g. Google AdWords and Google AdSense. Even the YouTube-specific TrueView ads fall under AdWords.
Going through immigration and customs is definitely not the time to try develop a sense of humour ;-)
In all seriousness, no, I don't think so. They get some of that, but not all day, every day.

I shadowed a call center person for an hour at a Fortune 500 company. None of the calls were like that. They do get such calls. We talked about that. But, no, it is not exclusively what they deal with.
> You just need to not give a fuck

Given this is an emotional issue, I suspect this is easier said than done for many people. Whether it be physical pain or emotional pain, some people are more sensitive than others.
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Not giving a fuck isn't the same as apathy.

My personal example which I am working on is cycling. A lot of drivers in the city are arseholes and think I should get out of their way if they are behind me and honk their horn (despite the fact I am a pretty fast cyclist). I used to get annoyed, flip them a finger and start shouting at them and they would usually shout back. That just gets me angry as well and doesn't really benefit anyone.

These days if I get honked at, I try not to get angry. I slow down to indicate that I heard them honking and I am not going to get out of their way just because they think I should. End result is the driver gets angry while I have a chuckle to myself at them for it. That's "not giving a shit".
Oh fuck off you tedious twat. What an asine idiotic argument.

Were you born a moron or did you work hard at it?
What about don't bring any tech at all. Keep it all on the cloud encrypted.
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In Croatia it is "čaj". Although it has a coast on Adriatic and coastal people use "čaj" as a word too, despite Italian influence (which uses tè for tea). Even people on islands that were influenced hugely by the Republic of Venice.
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It’s interesting. I’ve switched to using ‘h’ as an alias of ‘createElement’ instead of jsx. Which breaks 2 of their top 3 rules.

I find it has a few nice advantages.

1. It doesn’t introduce another language with different syntax that I have to mentally flip between. Remembering stuff like surrounding variables with curlies and using = instead of : etc.

2. nesting thing also is much easier

3. It’s more concise (when createElement is aliased to h)

4. Most importantly it keeps me in the flow.

5. It’s just another function call so additional features can be added. For example I made a version using X instead of h that will parse the tag for “#id.class1.class2” tokens and add them to the props as appropriate saving a pretty decent amount of space. This is very similar to emmet so it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

6 I think HTML looks like garbage when the number of attributes overflows the line length. Js formats much nicer, it’s basically one token per line when it gets that long with indenting like the rest of the file.

7. Pulling logic out of the render call doesn’t require a as much of a code transformation.

The biggest downside by far is that I seem to be the only one that prefers this style from looking over lots and lots of tract libraries.
> The thinner the laptop, the more stuff I can cram in my carry on. ymmv

This is important. Because all those adapters do take up space.
Sadly your view, which is the same as kind, seems to be seldom held by our peers.
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Wanting to preserve my privacy is very different from having something to hide.

I don't want border officers looking into my personal pictures that might have nudes from my girlfriend, fiddling around conversations with friends with jokes about drugs, conversations with my girlfriend about her mental health, same with some other close friends.

Those are private things, not necessarily harmful or criminal but things I surely don't want to be sharing with random people making decisions about entering a country.

Unfortunately the effect on me is a full deterrent: I have the money, time and desire to visit more parts of the US. I have been to San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York for vacations once and would love to go back to the West Coast and check out national parks like Redwood or Yosemite but I really can't be arsed to be "digitally frisked" around, the world is huge and I can afford to go to other places.
It wouldn't be too hard to assume they'd simply take that as a refusal (which it actually is). You might try to say that you've got some corporate policy going with your employer where someone else knows the password and you don't I suppose. I suspect that answer wouldn't go down well either though.
Tea to Japan was certainly not "by land". I know they want to make it into a simple rule, but that's just not as simple as they pretend.
From what I heard, it was the same in France, with various vehicles converted to use wood gas too.
Different words are used, but the meaning is sometimes the same
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Living an insignificant life and living in misery are not the same thing.
I think if developers are ignoring feedback for months they should expect overreacting.
Thought experiment: if I were to take some medical records and XOR it with a one-time pad, then stored the result somewhere not HIPAA compliant, would that be illegal? How about if instead I stored the one-time pad somewhere not HIPAA compliant?

It would seem a little strange if one were illegal but not the other.
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You make a good point - they appear to make themselves part of the problem, which in my view is the increasing polarization of topics. There no longer seems to be any middle ground in the public discourse, instead everyone is entrenched on their respective poles. It's immensely frustrating.
I don't know what's wrong with the unnamed Googler in Altheide's account that would compel him to say such things. No rational person would say those things, so whatever his hateful, abominable racial views clearly must be, I think it's safe to say there's likely other, potentially more serious issues affecting him.

This is certainly not to excuse what he said, as his statements condemn themselves. I just think his shocking statements betray some much deeper problems.

> Was this really written by someone who works for Google?

Google is such a large company. They have nearly 74,000 employees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google).

With so many people, it's impossible to screen everyone perfectly. I once worked in a startup, with only 10-15 employees at one time, and yet they still let a slightly unstable new hire slip through, once. He seemed perfectly normal--pretty cool, actually--at first, but within a few months he was saying some pretty weird stuff.
Everything I know about economics tells me that anytime that you artificially put price floors and price ceilings on anything - including wages - there are unintended consequences. I don't think they should have raised the minimum wage at all. Let the market decide what a fair wage is.

On the other hand, I do care about other people and think that people who are willing to go to work everyday deserve some minimum amount of money. I don't know what that minimum should be.

How do we square that circle? Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit and come up with a way to allow businesses to distribute the credit back to their employees just like we have a way now for employers to take payroll taxes.

Historically, raising the EITC has been popular among Republican and Democratic presidents. Giving more to the poor - who will definitely spend it - does a lot more for the economy than giving it to people who already have enough.
Almost the opposite; one of the things that most bedevils successful humans is the drive to make their lives significant.
I'd also love to have a slightly lower tier than 1TB, maybe just 20GB or 50GB.
To be clear, "tea" in almost all cases doesn't imply the meal will be served with tea. It's just a name for the evening meal in the north of England.
This is an excellent map for the purpose of it, lifted from a bunch of research (shows the words in each individual language and also which language they originated from)

http://wals.info/feature/138A#2/25.5/143.6
I think this sort of thinking is far too fatalistic and basically throws people who cannot deal with abuse and hate under the bus to boot.

The platforms hate and abuse are delivered on are currently under human control. The idea we have no control over whether or not we receive hate and abuse is simply not true. The solution, moderation, isn't even new and is a core feature of all polite online spaces. HN is a good example.
1. Google engineers took the challenge personally and there is no evidence suggesting Prisma capabilities were regained. 2.I tend to agree in a sense that it is rather difficult to delete all the data. But no more difficult, than to find it later when requested by law enforcement.
As a professional computer toucher, I definitely value battery life because a dead laptop doesn't let me get work done
At Google there's no ,,outside workhours''. All engineers get laptops so that they can work from home all the time.
The leads are especially encuraging people to work in the evenings and weekends, prasing Engineers who did it.
Energy crops (subsidized by the government) has already replaced agricultural land for Ethanol fuel production, up to 1% of cultivated land worldwide being use for it.
But "Kohlenstoffmonoxid" is the actual correct term. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlenstoffmonoxid
I’m pretty sure it’s just revealing the dumb, at scale.
Hm? The screenshot was merely showing the good parts (8 cores, 16 virtual).

It's not getting particularly hot in general, entirely depends on the use case. When I max out the cores or run a game? Quite hot. Otherwise: Mostly fine..

It's just unwieldy, big and heavy, hence not really useful on a lap..
The article doesn't mention it, but you can lint your git commits to enforce a style (eg https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint). Developers are human, and will sometimes forget to follow a process so using a tool to improve quality is more likely to achieve the desired result.

Alternatively, use a tool that makes commits in a more rigorous way. Eg https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli
Well, I've gone through SICP (book and exercises), so I might say that I have some familiarity with Lisp, as well as Python - but it's one thing to do toy or personal projects and another altogether to work on a full-scale project with several collaborators and a complicated history. There's a whole class of issues you experience in such a project that really shed a new light on a language as a tool of communication between developers.

By the way, the speed I mentioned is speed of development. Both Javascript and Python are used nowadays in speed-critical applications, with NodeJS on the servers and Python in various roles in big data and machine learning because the critical path is actually done on C level (I/O for NodeJS and GPU/math stuff for Python) while these languages are in charge of the stuff that is not that critical in terms of speed but much more complicated in terms of logic. This brings me to think that if you use a language on an appropriate domain and separate concerns between domains in a good way, it wouldn't matter if the language itself isn't that fast.
I'm curious - was the Croat language (or some parent of it) pretty predominant during the times of the Republic of Venice? Or is that a "new" thing after the unification of Yugoslavia, and prior to that Italian (or some Venetian dialect) was widely spoken?
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This is very reminiscent of another article on the philosophy of color, from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910332

In both cases, the most interesting thing about the article is the artwork used to illustrate it!
> Wanting to preserve my privacy is very different from having something to hide.

Absolutely agreee. But as long as the only people who argue their privacy actually are those that have something to hide, the two will eventually be conflated. And the way they implement this is by giving a lot of wiggle room for border staff to implement these terrible laws.

> I don't want border officers looking into my personal pictures that might have nudes from my girlfriend, fiddling around conversations with friends with jokes about drugs, conversations with my girlfriend about her mental health, same with some other close friends.

I don't want that either. I don't think anyone wants this.

The bottom line is: all you can do, at least as non-citizen, is a) don't visit or b) comply with whatever stupid laws there are, including complying with officers that don't follow the law. Because if you want to enter you do as they say.
We do not know that there wasn't any sex at the party.

If we assume all statements are true, then we know that Musk didn't see any sex at that party before he left at 1am. The original Vanity Fair piece says "Before dawn, she jumped into her car and left". Lots of things can happen in 5 hours.
No, not a regression just a gimped progression. Thunderbolt 2 carries 20Gb/s, while version 3 does 40Gb/s and requires 4 PCEe lanes. GPU wants another 4 and so does the SSD for a total of 12. My guess is that in older MBPs Tb would take 2 lanes leaving 2 for the legacy breakout hub, but Tb3 needs all of them to support multi-monitor 4K and imagine the howling if Apple gimped that instead.

I tend to blame Intel for cheaping out - or scrooging - on the PCI lanes... hopefully Ryzen and the Meltdown blunder will make Intel more generous.
I would, if it were something between Snapchat and Dropbox. Anything a user posts gets deleted after a while and they would be able to archive posts for a fee.
>HEVC is actually a standard, and has been for many years.

Once the AV1 bitstream is frozen, it will also be a 'standard', only this will be royalty free.

>there are Open Sources like x265, and many other commercial solution as well.

Nothing prevents x265 devs from making xAV1 (or whatever AV1 will end up being called), their spokesperson over at Doom9 has already said that they will go where the market goes in terms of encoder development, they are also very pissed in regards to the HEVC licensing debacle.

>we shall wait and see when it finalized.

Indeed, the bitstream is (supposed) to be finalized this month, after that happens we will finally see optimization take place (basically rewriting all hot spots into handwritten assembly) and thus be able to assess the quality claims and just how much slower it will be.

>Well that is only half correct because Netflix are already encoding in HEVC.

Netflix was one of the first companies to join AOM to develop a royalty free codec, it seems clear their intentions is to replace HEVC with AV1 once wide hardware support arrives.

>There are zero Full hardware AV1 decoder

There can't be until the bitstream has been frozen, from what I've read the first hardware supporting AV1 will be 12-18 months after said bitstream freeze.

Throughout the development of AV1, there's been constant consulting with hardware developers and they have had a large say in how AV1 works, the hardware companies that are part of AOM are:

Intel, AMD, ARM, Broadcom, NVidia, Realtek and now recently Apple

>So apart from being royalty free, AV1 doesn't have a lot of advantage to it.

If the estimates are correct, ~30% better compression is a HUGE advantage, another advantage from the point of the companies in AOM is that developing a codec themselves means it will fulfill their needs much better.

Google was going this route ever since they purchased On2, but now it really has reached critical mass with their third generation codec (VP10) being the base for AV1 which has made practically all the big tech companies come together and solve their codec needs using it.

>Apple joining on board, with No Press Release from AOM

I think Apple didn't want to ruffle any feathers with MPEGLA and the other HEVC licensees, Apple picking up HEVC support across their products was seen as a good sign for HEVC, the same Apple joining all the other tech giants in AOM backing AV1 is quite the opposite. Thus they join with no fanfare. Pure speculation of course.
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft can easily recompile Windows. Probably even Windows 95 with some prep time.
I would disagree based on experience at a previous workplace. We were paying a Salesforce consultancy a lot of money, so our technically clueless founders thought that gave them a licence to act like arseholes. One consultant had a nervous breakdown after a couple of months.
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It's true bitcoin cannot become a global currency. The core devs are employed by blockstream. Blockstream doesn't want bitcoin to succeed. They want to implement the LN because can profit off it more than from bitcoin. The Lightning network is independent from bitcoin any currency can implement it to support atomic swaps at which point it no longer matters which currency you use.

Bitcoin cash is a fork of bitcoin because blockstream opposed the 2x blocksize increase which would have solved bitcoins current problems. Bitcoin cash has now a 8MB blocksize and can process significantly more transactions. Increasing the blocksize up to 1 Gigabyte is practical today which would result in a transaction rate in the order of of 7000 transactions per second.

If we assume every human on the planet makes 50 transactions per day it would require terabyte blocks which are still feasable with current technology but it would cost roughly 26million per full node over 20 years. The expected fees of half a cent per transaction would be enough to fund at a minimum 300 of these nodes.

The blockchain can scale. Bitcoin can't. It's 100% speculation until LN arrives but even then bitcoin might become irrelevant
I have the same issue, I wouldn't call it a big problem, just annoying. What it does is show us where Facebook believe there's a possibility to make a profit, and it's not by keeping you up to date with your friends lives.
There's so much range confusion over at Apple right now it's starting to feel like the 90's all over again.

Compare the Macbook with the 13" Macbook Pro, there's a ridiculous amount of overlap there that makes their pricing structure seem ridiculous.
Even if we can't justify drawing a sharp line between humans and everything else, you get into very tricky ground if you do not.

Ant colonies have a similar biomass to humankind [1]. If humans aren't exceptional, do we acknowledge some sort of responsibility to provide for ants? Can they draw on welfare?

If we separate by intelligence ... humans are clearly quite exceptional. Even then though, if we reject human exceptionalism we will need convoluted definitions. Can a town itself sue you for leaving because the intelligence of the town itself decreases? Is a corporation a philosophical as well as legal entity? Can they feel pain? A corporation can 'speak'; to some extent independently of the people in it.

Humans may well not be exceptional in the harsh world of facts and science. We still have to act as though we are or we may as well give way to nihilism. The line has to be drawn somewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)
Poland represent! We also have a word for "woman" that is unlike any other Slavic language.

Polish goes its own way.
Most of the time I would prefer to have no javascript / plugins / videos / animated gifs / etc. running except on the frontmost tab of the frontmost window.

I wish all tabs loaded with all of the above turned off by default, with a button at the top of the window to turn on javascript/etc. just for that tab.