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I completely agree, I got downvoted to hell in another thread for implying this but I think its true - HN has grown/jumped ths shark, it used to be startups people and devs and the content reflected it, now HN audience seems to be anyone in a slightly technical role or industry. There was a sweet spot for a while where we had a lot of stimulatingand diverse comversation about good topics but now I find too much noise in the feed.

If Im right (the HN admins will know by checking the user counts), maybe HN should split up unto subboards, have dedicated web dev or ML sections etc.
To me it didn't look like they tried too hard to take the picture from the same angle etc.

I remember a person from the old West Germany saying to me that they'd like that wall back twice as high and the same depth underground because of all reunification cost and the entitled attitude of 'osties'
Insanely great hack, not surprising it came from a Bell Labs specialist in manufacturing.

For easier search, from the video: U.S.Patent 2,402,463 , Miles V. Sullivan

(P.S. reminded me of Claude Shannon, also from Bell Labs and dabbling in toys ... https://www.google.com/search?q=claude+shannon+toy )
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Definitely. I use it from time to time, but rarely I can get through more than a short article without being too frustrated with something of how it works.

Things like pronouncing in an inintelligible way any english words in the middle of an article in spanish, or reading A.P.I. as "A, period. P, period. I, period." make it so that it works great for some articles, and terribly for others.
My point about child speech is that the kind of utterances produced by GT would not be acceptable as correct speech if they came from a child, let alone an adult. We'd recognise them as imperfect. Coming from GT though they're considered "good".

Two other comments accuse me of letting perfect be the enemy of good. But for this to happen, GT translations must be "good" in the first place. Well, they're not. They are often terrible.

I don't understand why this criticism is even controversial. Terrible won't become good if we don't point out that it is, in fact, terrible.

Plus, I'm very concerned about promoting commercial products as examples of technological and scientific progress. Of course Google has an incentive to claim its translation service is great. Why does anyone else?
You just cant handle the fact that a genuine really professional girl who is a coder cant be snarky when calling out a pleb of a teenaged liar?

If anything its very civil language towards a spoilt brat whose parents should be ashamed to have raised a liar.
i believe today "sweetie" is mostly used by women
This is one of the big things I miss from implementations of ad-hoc polymorphism in dynamically typed languages - for example protocols in Elixir or Clojure.
Remember the sliding doors button technique? Good times.
Thanks for the suggestion, i'll check it out right away.

It's a service that converts text or websites to audio. It's voices seem pretty good (I've just tested a couple, both with text in english and in spanish).

I love that it haves the ability to integrate the articles I send to Narro into a podcast feed, that I can suscribe to see in Overcast next to my "real" podcast.
> proceeded to remove ... can't see the photos ... When Apple Music expired it wiped all the playlists ...

Adding my own experiences with iTunes-wiped devices and music-collections...

The only consistent thing with Apple and music/services is them accidentally wiping or deleting your data from both your devices and their services.

Applied this consistently, it's clearly a design decision.

What kind of company designs things to behave this way? Really?
Why do people always try to inconspicuously promote their products on hacker news by posting links to them in the comments... I find this rather annoying.
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Is it really though? I've lived three places in London and made sourdoughs with tap water in all with no trouble. If it can't kill nacent yeast cultures, I wouldn't expect it to have many chances against sewer bacteria.
Its amazing how much nicer most European cities have become since the '80s. The wall was one thing, but the general crime, grime and sense of decay was almost as bad.
it might have been knowingly condescending, which would be reasonable since we are talking about plagiarism
The conversion you are talking about is true only if you annihilate your fuel (which creates photons), and then you convert photons into speed in some way with 100% efficiency.

But really this never happens, rockets work by ejecting mass at a tremendous speed. Thus not all the mass of the fuel is not converted into energy.

But otherwise, yeah, converting mass to energy completely works. This is what happens in stars and nuclear bombs, actually.
I've seen so many pictures of the wall in my life, yet I can't remember seeing even one taken from the eastern side. Probably because it would have landed you in jail?
Its still not clear to me why native CSS doesn't/shouldn't support variables.
I don't believe (nor do I believe I have expressed) this:

> You seem to think everyone should be a high paid developer and any writing they do should be on the side.

Also when you say that my position is "that content creators should apparently not expect to be paid" I would say that (1) that is not really either a good description of my beliefs in general, but (2) that yes there are many cases where you shouldn't expect to be paid simply because of what's already available. This is no value judgment and honestly I can't understand how you could reasonably disagree. I also don't recommend swimming upstream and expecting the same results as still water. The market for content and ideas is as it is and to no one should expect to be able to ignore that and live in their bubble.

I'm fine ending this exchange. It's clear to me that we would need to be in the same room with a cup of coffee and some patience for you to understand me. You're hung up on certain ideas I have not professed and seem to be reading my posts within a historical context of many other posts. That's unfortunate because I don't think we disagree very much in general. I generally respect as well as agree with your posts on HN.

Regardless, I hope you find a way to work as you wish and support yourself.
> I assumed he was an employee like he would be with say Fedex

Hate to break it to you about Fedex...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fedex-settlement/fedex-to...
"semantic class names"

What?! Leave the semantics alone!
New York went through the same transformation. It's a "general" culture shift, suburbs went out of fashion for generation X. No sure what the exact underlying dynamic driving it was, but it's happened, as you note, more or less in tandem across Europe and US during the 90s and into the 00s.
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> Instead of large immediate rewards that can't be kept up over the long term, they rely on hopes about the indefinite future (e.g. paradise)

I think that's ignoring many immediate things people get from religion. Immediate sense of belonging, getting to listen to someone who's "got life figured out", getting some motivation, and many other reasons. Whether that's provided by a megachurch, a local friendly priest, an MLM convention with a charismatic speaker, or another way doesn't matter. I met a masonic priest who joined the group because his wife died and he needed people who would take him out for dinner once a week.

I come from a country that's virtually 100% Catholic (or at least was) and don't believe that many people really cared about the final paradise. Or at least that wasn't really the reason they turned up to the church every week.
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And people say perl is unreadable ;)
Yes. "If you manage to get social media on your side by endearing them then you can lie and steal" is the better lesson to teach a 16 year old.

A 16 year old can waste his or her life by this age if he or she does really badly in school or smokes weed and gets caught. I can forgive teens for a lot of silly things like lying, cheating, petty crime, etc. but not doubling down when caught and creating a social media hatemob for someone questioning her.

Also - she is not a kid. There are at least few countries in which a 16 year old can have sex, drive, drink alcohol, join military academy, etc. and at 17 or 18 the list of countries grows to hundreds of entries.

And she is a "prodigy", not any ordinary kid and she defended herself very well (and evidently successfully considering the thread calling her out on reddit got outright removed, not just downvoted) on social media and even called the person claiming she is lying a "jobless disturbed harasser and bully".

She has attended MIT Launch, was intern at Sales force. Along with writing that app she also localized this app to 10 languages (I'm not sure if she did it herself via Google Translate, the way she writes about it is not clear), optimized it for iPhone X, prepared a full release, all within these 2 months while coming across new techniques and concepts and learning them on the fly.

This is all in her medium.com post and if she can do all of that she can get held to the same standard as an adult. And if it's someone just using her persona and doing all this then there is even a bigger problem, bordering on personality theft and fraud.
> Wasn't the whole point of gig economy to setting personal time, working and getting paid only when the work is done?

That's the gig companies' marketing, not their intention. The intention was to get cheap, disposable labor. In the US and other developed countries, an employee has a lot of rights and an employer has lots of responsibilities, so under-paying and firing employees is pretty difficult to do.

If a business model only works if you under-pay and mistreat workers, someone (e.g. Fedex, Uber, US govt, and even Microsoft) will fin a way around it by misclassifying employees as contractors.
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It may have less priority, 6 months between updates is not a problem unless the app has some serious bugs.
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We seriously underestimate the importance of boredom. I used to be like OP,constantly seeking stimulation/engagement with either books/mobile when bored but reading this https://hbr.org/2010/06/why-i-returned-my-ipad has deeply impacted me. While commuting, waiting in queue etc. I just let my thoughts wander and wonder at its nimbleness. Thank you for the quote.
Cool game!

Is there a chance to get longer words in the mix? I could be blind, but the longest word I was able to spot was 5 letters long, I think.
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Unless the copyright holders donated it into the public domain (fat chance), it's still under copyright for at least another 70 years.
Isn't the whole point of this article to show that that is not how it works out in practice?
Bitcoin is incredibly illiquid if we're talking about large amounts
> being homeless is basically impossible if you are of sound mind

So everyone should be OK with the bare minimum of living standards? Just because you won't be on the street doesn't mean you'll be safe, comfortable, and happy.

> The man chose to go to work

It's easy for someone with lots of choices to look at someone else and assume they also have choices.

Old people live in terror of losing their source of income. They're essentially unemployable, so they end up doing some of the worst jobs that are available.
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Absolutely. The decay was grim. Take Leipzig for example, once one of the trade centers of Germany and what it became after 40 years of socialism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cDOqb53Kfk [1]

And mind you, that when we're speaking about Eastern Europe, we're talking about the more prosperous part of the communist bloc.

[1] granted, WW2 left its mark as well but Western Germany started with the same handicap and didn't turn it's inner cities into Favelas.
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Was the $3.5M just for the launch or also for the development costs?

I think it was the latter, but I'm not easily able to find that answer.

http://spaceflight101.com/ss-520-4-smallest-orbital-rocket-s... suggests a goal of $400,000, but doesn't specifically say if that estimate comes from this rocket design.

That would still be more expensive per pound than a Falcon Heavy, but if you only wanted to put up 2kg then a FH is overkill.
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My comment about security still applies. In fact, I think it was precisely fastmail that a while ago I read on HN someone complaining that someone else hacked them by calling customer support and kind of guessing some questions.
Amway is another example. It has established close ties to the US government to help ensure its survival, even though it is another parasitic multilevel marketing pyramid scam.

Like biological parasites, the long lasting ones seem to have optimized the level of damage and chaos they cause, along with maintaining protection mechanisms (lobbying, political donations, corruption) that enable them to continue to survive and be incredibly lucrative to their founders.
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Is there any country with a working anti-mlm law? I think the line is so fuzzy, it would be really hard to define what's a scam and what isn't. What's the difference between a franchise/dealership and an MLM where some product really exists and you're expected to pay for the stock up-front? If there was a law against one of them, how close would they get?
It's quite common for professional video game players to get so consistently good at the games they are playing that getting the top score becomes more about luck than skill.

Sometimes this causes them to think that a game owes them a certain score/time (maybe they they pass all the hard 1 in 20 RNG events and then a stupid 99 in 100 RNG fails them) and occasionally decide to cheat just to get that score/time.
In 2d. The OP was using the term "top layer" in a 3d sense.
Yes, it's called "OS fingerprinting" and is a known thing for longer than
a decade.
The US government’s revenue is not 100% of GDP. It could never tax anywhere near that.
What conference call tools do you use in a mixed Win/Linux team?
I am the co-founder of a company and some of our team members work remotely. I use (Ubuntu) Linux but most team members use Windows.

I have found it difficult to find a good tool for conference calls and screensharing which is for free or cheap (<100$ per year) and works fine both on Windows and Linux. So far I have tried Skype (increasing potential on Linux but still a bit buggy), Cisco WebEx (cumbersome on Linux) and Teamviewer (expensive).

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They're very special cases, and still, I'm not sure that Australia (and even US) fares much better than e.g. source England and Norway.
Leaving water out for 24 hours will get rid of chlorine, so will boiling. Did your process involve either of those?
That's not a credit card. In Germany we call it an ec card or Girocard, it's a debit card. The amount is deducted immediately from your bank account when using it and it requires PIN and chip.
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If you become intentionally unemployed there's a delay before you get any money.

If you're in a Universal Credit area there's a minimum 6 week delay before you get any money.

> being homeless is basically impossible if you are of sound mind.

This is horseshit.
She personally claims to have written it all on her own, in the press release she also says she was intern at Sales force in Bangalore, attended MIT Launch and her profile says she is a "16 year old programmer and entrepreneur" along with a link to "my app".

She also called the person disputing that a jobless disturbed bully, harasser and troll and due to internet "siding with her" the author was met with abuse for "harassing a kid" and insults despite the proof they provided about app possibly being a team work or work of someone else.

And if all her social media posts are "a team" then this is even more unethical.
You'll also find old Eastern Germany people say they want the wall back because they had it better in the DDR. Or at least they think they did.
To be fair, maybe around half of all websites with login and password don't seem to require them at all and only seem to have accounts in order to obtain a valid email address for marketing.
The 83A of the Extradition Act 20013. It allows judges to block extradition to the US and other countries if a crime was committed in the UK and if it is in the accused's interests to stand trial in the UK. Src: wired [0]

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Sorry, this is already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307218
Ah, thanks for your comment. I also thought the measurement was just revealing an underlying property. But now if I understand correctly the method of measurement is biasing the results, and the other particle will still be correlated with the biased result. So the way we measure the first particle has an impact on the value of the second one.
> To me it didn't look like they tried too hard to take the picture from the same angle etc.

And to me it looked pretty spot on. I imagine it's pretty hard to find the exact same position after twenty years.

> I remember a person from the old West Germany saying to me that they'd like that wall back twice as high and the same depth underground because of all reunification cost and the entitled attitude of 'osties'

That sounds like a very selfish person. Freedom for our east german brothers and sisters, unless I have to contribute...
True. RATP (the French, state-owned public transport operator) runs many bus lines in London. And EDF (the French, state-owned utility) owns EDF Energy in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_United_Busways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDF_Energy
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As standard, yes, it would be a bad idea for a normal recruitment agency to do this.

My problem with recruiters is that they are salespeople. That's all they are. They take a CV, and they sell it to someone, and ultimately it doesn't matter if the person is good or bad, all that matters is that sale. As you've rightly said, they don't know enough about the technical side to provide a technical review.

So, why not have a separate team wholly dedicated to technical vetting? Have the process be completely open to employers, so anyone looking to hire a developer can see exactly what is to be asked of their prospective employees. If the questions are bad, the employer can say so and a qualified developer hired by the recruiter can tweak the process.

It's essentially adding a separate team to the recruitment process, one that builds a robust interviewing framework. They don't need to be full-time either. They can be working developers on a freelance basis that have gone through the interview process, and know what questions to ask based on the stack an employer is using.
(Relativistic) mass is totally frame dependent in SR. That's why SR normally talks about the rest or invariant mass, which is the mass in a special frame, the rest frame of the object.
This kind of mishearing is known as a "mondegreen": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
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If the flaws can expose passwords, there's no particular reason that it couldn't also expose biometric data. You use can hash it and put it in a secure enclave - but you could do that with passwords.
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Well, if you read the article, he addresses this.

> What does this mean for the individual student? Would I advise an academically well-prepared 18-year-old to skip college because she won’t learn much of value? Absolutely not. Studying irrelevancies for the next four years will impress future employers and raise her income potential. If she tried to leap straight into her first white-collar job, insisting, “I have the right stuff to graduate, I just choose not to,” employers wouldn’t believe her. To unilaterally curtail your education is to relegate yourself to a lower-quality pool of workers. For the individual, college pays.

> This does not mean, however, that higher education paves the way to general prosperity or social justice. When we look at countries around the world, a year of education appears to raise an individual’s income by 8 to 11 percent. By contrast, increasing education across a country’s population by an average of one year per person raises the national income by only 1 to 3 percent. In other words, education enriches individuals much more than it enriches nations.

Essentially he makes the point that, indeed if he were a parent or would advise a parent or a student, he'd argue today, you absolutely should get a college degree. 'For the individual, college pays'. But that as a matter of national policy, we should realise there are zero-sum aspects to education, i.e. a person getting a degree competes better for attaining a job than a person without a degree, but that this doesn't translate into higher productivity / value. In other words, college should not be pursued as a national policy like say a Bernie Sanders often talks about.

And that makes sense. I'm all for distributive justice, universal education is part of that equation. But if governments and companies receive plenty of data that the marginal return of education approaches zero, they should act accordingly and fight back in some manner.

And that makes sense. For example, I can buy and eat meat while still saying that as a society, we shouldn't eat as much meat, and that we should double our taxes on them. Or sugar. Or cigs. Or SUVs. Or indeed, I can make use of a tax loophole while voting for a party that wants to end the loophole. Just because I'm self-interested in the short-term, doesn't mean that I don't want society to be shaped to make all of us better off in the long-term.
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I thought that was all settled now? Or maybe I misremembered, I had the association of “FedEx” and “employee” in my mind...