skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) The test itself is randomly generated from a huge set of master questions many of which are actually IN the study materials. Everyone studies "from a copy of the test". Its like saying you cheated at a spelling bee because you memorized the dictionary.

2) There are several parts to the exam but none of them involve an evaluation of how you write code, its all multiple choice.

3) The cert itself and studying for it doesn't prepare you for actually building a Magento site in any way. The Magento certification program is really just a way for businesses to get access to "leads" and get free advertising from Magento. Having more certs just helps a company look good.

4) If your buddy is experiencing a lot turnover my experience of the eCommerce industry and Magento shops specifically is that they are more inclined to put a heavy emphasis on "culture fit" and be high stress environments. They say, "If you see assholes everywhere, maybe you should look in mirror..." but it might just be your friend is experiencing the reality that eCommerce development is NOT the same environment as the Wordpress chop shops he may have started in.
We know an order of magnitude more than that as well, and most the time when people reach out they just don't understand email and how to have decent content people actually want.

The flip side of this is that many of us know the excuses big email services make about how bad a problem spam is and how our content might be spam and we just don't understand... when the content is the kind of reasonable and necessary communications that 'tzs mentioned further up in this thread.

I'm getting awfully bored of bounce messages from apparently credible organisations whose members have signed up, telling me that the legally required and personalised information we have just sent to our customer appears to be unsolicited bulk email. There has been a small wave of these recently, which leads me to think that someone screwed up a scoring system that multiple organisations are using to vet incoming traffic.

In any case, that's not a minor mistake, that's an automatic recognition system that is hopelessly inaccurate. It could even be dangerous, for example if a customer isn't getting notifications about payments and forgets they haven't cancelled a subscription, or if some action is required of them if they don't want to accept some change in terms for a service they use.
Nice try, but there's no logic to choosing restrictive technologies under the guise of the manufacturer not being a monopoly (which is debatable if the segment under consideration is "phones greater than $500").

Shooting heroin is a choice, but it isn't wise, just as choosing to institute the manufacturer as an app gatekeeper, nay UNIVERSAL overlord of the hardware, software, services & content - something unprecedented in history.

And you're making me defend Google though I do not want to, but for accuracy's sake, they are neither a monopoly in email nor are they forcing other providers to choose AMP within their email. Just download all your Gmail data via IMAP and siphon it off to Apple's email client/server. And pray hard that Apple will CHOOSE to let you read emails tjhat weren't originally received/sent via their server/hardware/asshole
My debian install automatically builds the zfs module during each kernel upgrade.
They are only guaranteed until some elected official decides to give you a haircut on your deferred paychecks (Which is what a pension is), right as you're about to retire. (Or shortly after you do.)

I'd hedge, and prefer splitting my money between both.
What meaningful local connections have you formed taking to strangers in a coffee shop? I listen to the conversations people have at coffee shops with random people and it's been pointless smalltalk every time so far.
The first page (no snark intended) shows that about 21% of the income goes to salaries, and 79% passes to charities. Regardless of what one's conclusions are on whether this is an acceptable overhead, it is an important consideration in how "efficient" it is to donate through GW rather than directly to your favorite charity.
Apple is so most definitely going to release an Apple Coaster for $89.
People claim that same about command line interfaces (and they are mostly right about them being more functional) but they are not the interface the 99% is going to operate their computer with.

Voice will be the next GUI.
Perhaps it is the case that women are just smarter and find education more appealing than their male peers, in aggregate.

Access to higher education for women is still a relatively new thing, historically speaking, so why is it even surprising that the demographics continue to change?
What you're saying is true today, but not in the future. China's GDP is expected to surpass American GDP in the next decade, and India will follow suit in another ~3 decades. The combined South-American/African markets will likely surpass North America in the 21st century as well. Not because of any special merit on their part, but simply because their population exceeds America's by a factor of 3-4.

If you're a company like Google, that is well established to last for another couple decades, you'd be foolhardy not to ride this massive wave.
I agree completely, but I still think it's interesting to explore the data behind WHY hardware is hard. As a hardware founder who went the Kickstarter path (along with 56% of hardware companies), a lot of what the article says about early funding resonates - crowdfunding isn't enough, unless you're wildly successful (and even then, not always). It may seem obvious to you, but it's something most aspiring hardware founders I talk to don't understand (and I didn't really grasp either).

The crowdfunding platforms bill themselves as just that - funding platforms. Once you raise on Kickstarter or Indiegogo, you're supposed to be able to take off like a rocket. The only problem with the story they sell you is that most startups don't take off, even after a successful campaign. You could say maybe they didn't raise enough money (and in most cases, I think you'd be right), but that still doesn't solve their problem - they raised what they could. If they couldn't raise enough money through crowdfunding, is crowdfunding really a viable option for hardware? And if not, why do over half of hardware startups choose to go that route?

On the other hand, maybe the horrible survivor rate for hardware startups is partially due to crowdfunding. After all, it allows companies to raise funds without being vetted in the same ways that a VC-backed company might be. Maybe it allows a lower quality of product/company/founding team through the gates, and as a result, we see a lower success rate for hardware.

The bottom line is I have no idea, but it's interesting to get a peek at the mechanisms behind "hardware is hard", rather than just falling back on the mantra and ending the discussion there.
The articles' subtitle:

>> Males are enrolling in higher education at alarmingly low rates, and some colleges are working hard to reverse the trend.

This may not be alarming depending on how you weigh the value added by college. Conference of credentials by/for authority vs competence and independence with work.
I suggest to look at Mill Computing. They are designing a new CPU which has the power of Intel, the security of a mainframe and the power usage of Raspberry Pi.
Yeah, the funny thing is that the accountants and HR all had private offices with doors that locked because they dealt with confidential matters.
The Sokal Hoax
Did you ever look at synthetic spider silk?
What were some of the tasks you did during your internship?
Facebook uses 2FA phone number for status updates
We actually have this functionality as well: we can send a signal to the process which will cause it to display a message to the user asking them to reload to upgrade. There is a similar feature in slack and riot that I've seen as well.

Making this handoff automatic is definitely possible as well, though we do want people to reload occasionally to get new client-side code.
jhayward elsewhere in these comments explains what they might mean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16378486
You still can do both if you work for the government.
It appears the issue was running pods for deployment colors not in use if they only deploy 1/week, and this solves it because they are cleaning them up regularly. This does nothing for the overhead of needing lots of pods to support a high number of deploys/week.

You could do the same with $Color, just seems to be clearer since people often think of $Color as being static deployment infrastructure, whereas people are used to SHA's pointing to branches that are naturally cleaned up.
There's only a couple numbers I actually remember... My grandmother's whose hasn't changed in 50+ years, my own google voice number, the one I use for everything, don't even know my actual cell phone number. I have contacts in my phone for that.
> transliteration involves a good understanding of english alphabets and query. Many people in india don't have that.

That's true. I hadn't thought of it. OTOH transliteration tools are more for desktop/laptop users who use the keyboard that comes with their machine. On mobile (which is where most of these "next billion" users are going to be) it'll be a language-specific keyboard with no knowledge of English letters needed.
Is it possible that for some women the first weeks on campus they were made to feel like potential rape victims?
> A monopoly situation would have some kind of limits enforced, correct?

No. A monopoly simply means market domination. It can arise naturally, as has been the case for Google in search in the past.

Microsoft had a monopoly on operating systems without "enforced limits".

The specific legal tests often require e.g. "over 80% of relevant market" by some measures - and I'm not sure Google mail qualifies as a monopoly under this definition.

p.s. having a monopoly isn't even illegal - abusing a monopoly position is. It feels to me that Google is, in many ways, abusing its dominant, perhaps monopoly, position in mail handling.
Did you read the manual where it says the driver permits connection pooling?

http://neo4j.com/docs/developer-manual/current/drivers/clien...
JSONTools, a webapp for extracting/filtering/formatting JSON collections
I don't disagree with any of that. I'm sure there's an element of "Why is my precious being made to take trade school classes when he could be taking a class that will help him get a better AP math score and into a better college?"
Sounds like you need to read more Clay Shirky.
That's a very subtle cameo, but upon rewatching it, I can clearly see his long, luscious hair.
Nothing against Bernie, but the dude is 76. I'd prefer someone who will statistically be alive for more than 10 years.
Anecdotally I know a lot of people who use IG, FB, WhatsApp and Snapchat along side just fine though.

Lets use some math to answer this:

2 billion Smartphones users
2 billion Facebook users (Smartphone mostly)
1 billion Instagram users (Smartphone only)
1 billion WhatsApp users (Smartphone mostly)

So just looking at these numbers there must be a huge overlap in usage
Not in the US, where majority of mortgages is 30 years fixed.
I think the point of the quote is that the majority of rapists are men, but the majority of men aren’t rapists. The original quote was from someone who felt like they were in a male hostile situation.

Unfortunately, I don’t really have a solution other than “don’t do that” because those people are out there, you never know who they are, and it requires constant vigilance.
You are being downvoted, but are asking the right questions.

I learned the fundamentals of graphic design through print design, as that is a medium that designers have worked with for much longer than the computer screen. A lot of designers approach print design by starting with a grid that describes how their content will be laid out, and proceed from there. Of course, you can find exceptions to this (although in many cases they will be an example of a designer breaking the rules because they know them so well), but most design students will be familiar with that approach.

"Grid Systems in Graphic Design" (1981) is one of the reference texts on this subject, if you're interested in getting deeper.

The other commenters say, in reply to your question, that it was just for formatting HTML, and for web documents rather than applications. That is just completely missing the point - print documents are documents too, not applications. The main argument that the web is so different from print because the canvas is infinite doesn't make much sense either - even if the canvas is conceptually infinite, it still renders on a finite surface (your screen), and one can design modular grid systems that easily accommodate that (as well as the other related concerns, like the user not having the right font installed, or different pixel densities/aspect ratios, etc.).

In the end, the best explanation seems to be that the CSS spec was never led by actual designers who could envision the sort of problems that one would face when designing documents for the web. The CSS spec committee is full of very hard working, smart people, but they have the concerns of engineers first - browser compatibility, rendering complexity, etc. - rather than designers.

The fact that the "holy grail of web design"[0] is a thing is absolutely mind blowing to me. This is the kind of design any first semester design student would execute, and any styling language that does not let you implement it in 10 lines is a styling language resolutely not designed by (or for) designers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_grail_(web_design)
We force reconnects eventually, there just aren't that many people affected at that point. There's a very long tail of people keeping their browsers open for days, but it's only a handful of people.
They've only tested up to 50 wears, I suppose?
> In industries (eg, merchant banking, corporate law, industrial engineering) where the plans are longer term, the thinking is longer term

I work in banking at the moment, and the thinking is anything but longer term. Management is so desperate to hire enough qualified developers that it fills a lot of the vacancies with contractors, which are, by company's definition, temporary. So, in other words, the company is already planning to let go of people who will build its vital systems. That's myopic thinking at its finest.

What's interesting is that big part of enterprise market in, for example, London seems to operate like that - management pretends that people are replaceable cogs that hold no company-specific knowledge and require no ramp-up time. The stupidity of it is mind-boggling.
1) A typical pair of sheer pantyhose lasts 1-2 wears. Generic pantyhose cost about $10, and name-brand pantyhose cost $25-35 (Commando/Spanx), designer pantyhose cost $60-$85(Wolford). So 50 wears in another pair of sheers would cost anywhere from $250 - $1500. When you look at it like that, our cost actually saves women money, not to mention frustration, over time.

2) Pantyhose are made with a pretty open weave, and are much lower denier than any shirt you would own, making them more susceptible to wear and tear - even when made out of an incredibly strong fiber like ours. But well taken care of - I'm sure they could last more than 50 wears. That said, it is an underwear product, so you may want to swap it out eventually :)
They did not have matches for chemistry class? I certainly did in the 6th form (last two years of school) in the Uk
You'd think so. When I looked at my mortgage paperwork a few years back in the US I looked for what I thought was standard "3 consecutive quarters of high interest rates" and couldn't find anything to imply my rates will ever change. I'm still not convinced I have a truly fixed rate mortgage, but it seems inflation has been so low for so long in the US, it's fallen out of standard mortgages here...
Here is one of the two young entrepreneurs (19 and 23 years old) that secured ~$300M DoD contract. So obviously, it is not as bad. ;)

In 2005, Packouz (23 years old at the time) joined Efraim Diveroli (19 years old at the time) in Diveroli's arms company AEY Inc. By the end of 2006, the company had won 149 contracts worth around $10.5 million.[1] In early 2007, AEY secured a nearly $300 million U.S. government contract to supply the Afghan Army with 100 million rounds of AK-47 ammunition, millions of rounds for SVD Dragunov sniper rifles, aviation rockets and other munitions

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

EDIT: added quote from Wikipedia
As a native German speaker, "die Fräulein" sounds odd to me, while "das Fräulein" is perfectly fine.
I agree with everything you said, but wanted to add some more.

Boys behave differently than girls do. Boys need much more rough and tumble play time. These days that's going to result in a call to the police. Not to mention behavior is now a part of your grade, so normal, healthy boy behavior is penalized.

Boys tend to perform better on tests but relatively poorly on homework compared to girls. Grading emphasis has been tilted towards the benefit of girls here.

I want to be clear that I'm not advocating re-masculinizing education. It seems obvious to me that the maximal benefit to society would be a system in which everyone reaches their maximum potential. There must be a third path where boys are still encouraged to be properly socialized while simultaneously not penalized for being boys, and we must be able to do that without harming girls.
Good on Apple for allowing tracking cookies to be blocked, i'd next like to see them implement blocking of tracking scripts.

They are a nuisance to privacy as well as contributing to web bloat. I've seen sites with 20+ trackers each with their own javascript and all it takes is for one to be compromised for an XSS vector to be opened.
Ugh... The US Federal Gov was mostly paid back money that the US Federal Government loaned, which was a small fraction of the total bailout. My comment is not even about that. The comment is about a non-government entity, the US Federal Reserve. The banks have not "paid back" one cent of the 4 trillion dollars which was showered on them.

The fact that so many people could upvote this is a troubling signal of the misunderstanding and lack of awareness that exists even among educated, intelligent professionals.
How to you picture holding on to a coin as a productive enterprise? I buy a coin and in 100 years I sell it. In that time the coin has gained value because that coin what?
I agree but we have to regulate current behemoths better and democratise access to attention economy.
Google has customers and users. One gets support, the other doesn't.
How Google et al. drove the web from plaintext to HTTPS
This concept came from Zappos, which Amazon acquired.

(2008) https://hbr.org/2008/05/why-zappos-pays-new-employees
I'd have to disagree...

I think this problem exists with all teachers towards different groups of students. Again, it's not just boys affected by this sort of thing, what if you're hispanic and the teacher just doesn't like hispanics?

Burying our heads and saying that the problem doesn't exist won't help us to make progress towards better outcomes. Which is the ultimate goal here.

We need to answer the question of how to help all students successfully traverse these kinds of obstacles? Answering that question and integrating such training into their educational practice will not only help them in class, but it's a skill that I have to believe will serve them well throughout their lives.
A good reminder that Google's customers are actually advertisers, whereas Apple's customers are the end-user.
first world problem...
From the article: "This [usage of Google Assistant] isn’t just due to many semi-literate or illiterate users, but also the fact that typing is difficult for people who never grew up with a computer keyboard."

Another thing I'd add to that is "what about languages that don't have a good keyboard input story?"
Yes! Very promising fiber. Sadly none of the manufacturers we spoke to were ready for any sort of mass production yet.
Engineering tasks.
Also, size your root element font using vw or vh. Then things become really responsive when done right.
I'm a guru. Still looking for that project to master with that company that values me.

It is literally a dream of mine to finally finish paying off tech debt while putting in policies to never have to take any on again.
They're just Russian trolls.
I completed and published my first dark romantic science fiction
And I'm saying that your arguments are wrong. I don't care how good the junior dev is, I can out code them every time.

> If you're working on the premise "we can’t afford to have our senior developers mentor juniors" , you're misusing the senior devs.

Actually, no argument there. Mentoring is indeed a critical function of senior devs.

> It's not just cost-ineffective (you're paying a senior do to a junior's work)

And you lost me there. I'm so much more effective that it's always cheaper to have me do it, assuming I don't have a higher priority task (in which case it's a non-issue, since I'm working on that one). I.E. I'm a 10x (or 100x) developer, but I don't get paid 10x (or 100x).
>There's no other avenue for the rail to collect revenue in that case

They already get paid around $9 billion/year, so I guess the government would just pay more.
It's a symptom of normalized salary ranges for entry level positions, a saturated market, and massive range in the skillset of entry level developers.

There are two sets of juniors that I've come across. The first critically assesses a problem and it's edge cases, how to integrate the solution into the greater body of work, and considers performance. They might not know the stack of the company but they can be brought up to speed quickly by more experienced team members. The second is one that is incredibly proficient at the most cutting edge tools. They are hired because they are up to speed with what the company considers valuable at that moment. There is a much greater emphasis on getting shit done quickly rather than considering how it fits in later, how performant it is, or assessing how to integrate the solution in larger contexts.

I've found the first type to be much stronger teammates over an extended amount of time. They are also the ones that are able to command higher salaries when starting out because of the approach. The second type sees the salary numbers being set by the first and has an expectation that it is what they too are worth. Now you have two drastically different candidates competing for the same entry level positions, at the same rate. The first won't have an issue getting a job and the second will struggle.

Both can flourish in the right situations. We need to do a better job at distinguishing the two.
>"Sorry, we threw away your mail for some random reason, and we won't tell you about it" seems like poor service.

I did testing and found it was not random. Also, maybe my experience running SpamAssassin in the past helped me. Look up how SpamAssassin filters emails and it may help you with your problem.
Yes, also this. As we mature as a company I'm sure we'll get more data around # wears under different types of circumstances and after longer periods of time.
The burden of proof is on the side making the nonsensical claim that hyper-inflation is always caused by supply problems, never ever by monetary policy.
I've been nice enough to provide some first-hand reports and a few pointers.
I'm not your google. If you'd rather remain believing in Keynesian fairy tales, so be it.
Emojis in real life are just tone, facial expressions and body language. Natural language is feature rich, you just overlooked key aspects in which smilies and/or emojis are attempting to replicate.
That being said, the Chinese do have a term called: shan zhai which deals with copyrighting/conferfiting. While I'm not endorcing it, it does have some cultural roots.

The strange parts guy explained it some in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdKV6x13cz8