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>The elephant in the room is that in quite a few European countries (such as Italy, Germany) it's free, hence the well-known phenomenon of the "eternal student".

You are simplifying it a tad bit too much.

In Italy Univesity course is not "free", it has a low cost (taxes and fees + books), but - unless you (with your parents) already live in the city where the university is, there are transfer/lodgement costs.

There was an article just the other day on the Corriere della Sera about the situation, I assume you can read Italian, otherwise it is not that bad via Google translate:

http://www.corriere.it/dataroom-milena-gabanelli/quanto-cost...

And - with the exception of very few specific and "technical" courses the issue is that once you have spent these 15.000-45.000 Euro you are not going to receive - if you find a job - an increased wage when compared to someone without a degree or with an undergraduate degree.

Of course the main underlying reason is that there is a high unemployment rate, and "on the market" an "average" degree has not much increased value.

Possibly something similar happens for CS, firms have "basic" CS degree as a requirement but do not value much an additional Master.
They should stop enforcing laws about driving while intoxicating. It really cramps the style of some people I know. They should also stop regulating messaging and advertising on pharmaceuticals, because freedom of speech.... right?

I get that you complaining about encroachment upon libertarian ideals, but sometimes the complaints are just extreme baseless absurdities.

Maybe I am just having trouble empathizing since I don't go online shopping for sexual encounters.
> I look repulsive and my personality isn't much better.

If you tell yourself those things often enough, which frankly sound like what other people have said about you in the past, eventually you start to believe them as fact.

Both looks and personality can be improved upon, even if you are on a budget.
It's possible, but it severely limits you if you don't speak German. I've been working with large companies - either international branches or German multinationals - and they don't like to speak English at work. They can, but it is dumb to have ten German engineers to discuss a topic in slightly broken or less than perfect English, just because there is one guy in the room not able to speak German. Documents or code might be English, but the whole conversation around it is preferred in German.

This means when you don't speak German, you are mostly limited to work in projects where English is possible or the default - there are jobs like this, but this is actually limited.

I've met persons who were ten years in Germany and were not able to do a general conversation in a job interview in German. I would not hire them - other than for specific projects/tasks where that would not be a problem.
And there's some staff reporting as well, which is actually pretty reasonable. This is from the Post last August:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/08/01...
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What would normally be already somewhat creepy is amplified by the irony of having this appear at the same time as the several other items about SESTA/FOSTA/CLOUD.
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I often think that people conflate bad product with bad luck. Specifically wrt tech startups/companies, there are way too many copycats that churn out half baked and substandard products that are yet another version of an already established and popular product. Further, there won't be many important things that set them apart from the products they intend to siphon off the customers from. These are destined to fail.

If anything, some copy cats are indeed lucky and take off, leaving most wondering how exactly did they succeed. Of course, these lucky ones later cobble together stuff that makes then a bit different from the competition, possibly eventually acquiring big competitors.

The only thing I agree with is that weak promotion and marketing can harm the success of a good product. That said, it is my firm belief that quality always wins. A really good product will become a sleeper hit sooner or later if it has gathered enough mass.
It's nice to finally have some evidence in this story, but it's good to keep in mind that there is also evidence it's an internal leak. (1) Wikileaks stated their source wasn't Russia and (2) The timestamps on the leak point to a local copy over USB2:

https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/guccifer-2-ngp-van-met...
Very possible that he felt something was off and left a breadcrumb just in-case.
Live closer and smaller so no commute. Don't let the wife be a SAHM, this is utter nonsense.
I suppose we've had different experiences. I think virtually everyone would like to leave earlier, but the point is that they also don't want to disappoint. In my experience, it's not about kacho watching over them -- they'd still be there if kacho went home (and I've personally seen that the few times kacho went home early). The kacho is only there to be loyal to the workers -- he wants to leave too. Or at the very least he wants to go out for a drink.

There definitely are people watching the clock and desperately trying to look busy while doing nothing, but again my experienced is that those people are pretty much despised by everybody else on the floor. There is a ton of work to be done.

I only ever worked at the one school, but I have a really hard time believing that my school had exceptional workers. In fact, it was ranked near the bottom and was the place that problem teacher were sent in order to improve.

We could argue about this forever I suppose. I don't disagree that the work methodology is needlessly inefficient, but I strongly disagree that your first sentence is true. The work culture here is different and everybody participates in it. There are parts of the work culture here I miss now that I'm working remotely for a UK company -- especially the dedication to working as a team.
Seriously they have to? Isn't this obvious enough? When downloading TEST RELEASE you willingly accept that it will collect anonymous data and send it to them. If you do not want to test something, because you're opposed to it, do not do it.

A lot of companies do that and I do not see anyone complaining about it for example Apple and macOS betas.
>Rise in cancers 'caused by weight'

>The charity also found that excess weight now caused 6.3% of all cancer cases - up from 5.5% in 2011

>Prof Mel Greaves, a cancer biologist at the Institute of Cancer Research, in London, said the study was an "endorsement" of the idea that many cancers were potentially preventable. But he said the idea that obesity itself or eating too little fibre "causes" cancer was "somewhat simplistic" and still needed to be explored further.

What a rollercoaster.
Every app that has data security as one of its main selling points should be based in the EU. The EU is responsible for a lot of crap, but at this point they're the biggest government institution in the world that still takes protection of user data seriously.

Basing their company in Russia, they knew exactly that the government would come for the data eventually.
Real sex trafficking is horrible but censorship can end up bad as well and harms the majority of people who aren't doing horrible things.

At least you knew where bad actors were as a sort of honeypot, closing down stuff like this just makes them go dark and spread like roaches. It is messed up to use 'trafficking' to go after porn as well.
We can talk about that too. In the original article's context you have government regulation using the tiny, mostly irrelevant threat of 'human trafficing' in order to justify imposing their moral standards on people who don't stigmatize sex like all those old religious farts in congress do.

But really it's not even about that. "Think of the children" is and always has been a cover to simply expand federal power.
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This will realistically never happen, no need to worry. Yet a bit less new people everywhere would help so much.
Man running an old, insecure version of Firefox with several unpatched critical security issues is outraged at DNS hostnames being sent to a US company (in a more secure manner no less). Ok.
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(FYI this isn't the case in at least the UK...)
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This paper basically proves that neurons which people understand better are not any more "important" to the network than the ones we do not understand as well. It is absolutely true that a generalised network will have much lesser drop off in accuracy as compared to a network which basically just stored the input data.
If we knew that, then we would know a lot more of the hidden variables of the current geopolitical state of play.
Was the DNC hacking done for its own benefits to the hackers, or was it done as a move in a larger strategic game of indirection and manipulation? A false flag attack? A timebomb reveal set to sow chaos in the US political system after the fact?

Was it the latter, but still goofed by good old human fallibility?
Could this be data sharing between Facebook and Whatsapp? FB was asked to stop that practice around the end of 2017
> If your primary motivation is not to improve the life of those within a country, you must keep out of their politics.

I don't think this is a clear moral line in international politics.

If your primary motivation is to improve the life of those within your own country, it can be justifiable to get involved in another country's politics. And that's what is done. Ostensibly to prevent war, enhance regional stability, etc.

Even just looking from Russia's perspective. If the world's leading country is so weak that a few phishing attacks can swing the election away from a less favorable candidate, is it really morally wrong to do that to benefit your people?
> I will be pissed off if Google deletes it.

They've all been cross-posted here. https://www.full30.com/channels/forgottenweapons
Nope, as part of the golden visa, he would've paid an immigration attorney to set up a Canadian company, shove some money into it and hire the minimum amount of employees. This is unrelated to the coffee business and doesn't have to be profitable, it's merely a requirement to gain residency.

After 6 years of residency, he can then apply for citizenship.
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Pole Position on Vectrex is always fun at parties.
> Yes, that would probably yield much less data

So in other words, probably not much better than doing nothing at all.
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and Iran.. Maybe Egypt? Turkey of course claims there too (though I don't believe it).

To me this and the trade war with China suggest that the US is losing it's status as pre-eminent super power. The crown is slipping and the vultures circle.

Worrying times really.
As an interesting tidbit on this point, the reason robotics is favored by car manufacturers in production plants is not because it's cheaper (it's actually more expensive), but because it's more flexible, i.e. changing a line to manufacture a new line is cheaper. This runs counter to most people's intuition of robotics.
I think you're on to something. In our current culture, the general consensus seems to be that everything can be measured, and what can't be measured doesn't exist.
It's much easier to hide illegally activity that mirrors legal activity than it is to hide illegal activity where all the surrounding paraphernalia is direct evidence. Your assertion that legalisation of prostitution will lead to less trafficking of people seems naive to me - you create a larger market and allow people to easily hide.
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I don't think your premise is right. University degrees are not only for certification and reputation. Your specific example of medical practitioners alone goes against it. There is no other practical way for people to learn to practice medicine than in university. You can't really pick it up on your own in your spare time, unlike CS.

As well as being an opportunity for someone to have time and freedom to study for a period of years university also provides a safe world to learn other soft skills and grow as a person. It's not prerequiste to develop those, of course, but it really helps.
"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid"...
> Completely ignoring that Google is steering Chrome into a new IE-Era of web development

Yes! I'm happy to see I'm not the only one to notice this... Chrome has become a new IE.
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This is the important point. A whole lot of things are dangerous when you're using them. But when you're not they're largely safe. Various saws, tools, cans of gasoline, propane, butane, etc. They're all unlikely to be used on a 'set and forget' kind of basis.

Whereas a battery bank is VERY likely to be used that way. Set it up and get on with other activities, likely including leaving the building entirely. Meanwhile the unsupervised device has an exponentially greater risk of become unstable and causing tremendous damage.

It seems like a clever idea but how much risk it poses is debatable. One would hope anyone attempting to do this is going to be dissuaded from pursuing it on a grand scale because of the various problems they're going to have along the way. But some 'mad scientist' types are never going to be dissuaded. With luck the rest of us will at least get an entertaining video clip of their disaster. Hopefully without anyone else suffering from the ignorance.
As a fellow Briton who quit university to become a software developer, I can confirm this. It depends on the field, of course.
Looks cool - would love to implement some things using D3! Would be interesting to know how people plan to handle browser incompatibility, or is it even a concern when approaching ~90% of browser usage support? [0] (for fetch, promises but mainly async/await in this case, if I understand it correctly)

[0] https://caniuse.com/#feat=async-functions
>> My son turned out perfectly fine in the end

your son has plenty more opportunities to be other than fine in so many possible ways. Perhaps he'll even do it to himself.

We can all keep striving to be less binary when assesing other people.
Ask HN: Plugins for eye contact
I saw catch-eye.com used to offer a plugin to correct eye contact on video calls.

It's no longer supported.

Anyone know of an alternative?
The tortured protagonist is a core online archetype.
My particular case was not related to WhatsApp (OP of the tweet here) as I had never installed or used WhatsApp until yesterday.
My son has trisomy-21 (Down Syndrome) and I think you're whole post misses a big point. You have a huge amount in common with a severely disabled individual (most of your genes in fact). And all it really takes is to treat them like you would anyone else their age.

If you're running at a park and ignoring all the kids on the playground, don't stop to greet (or gawk at) a disabled child. If you're greeting all the kids at Sunday school, don't skip over them (or switch to baby-talk just for them).

So if you default to treating them like any other human, they'll be happy and you'll make their parents happy. And at this point, parents will happily let you know if there are any specific ways to interact with their child.

Note: Some kids have aural sensitivities ... don't yell at them like their deaf during your first interaction. I usually start with a voice slightly lower than my regular speaking volume.
FYI Magnus Manske wrote the first version of MediaWiki, the PHP software which is underlying Wikipedia. It is constantly evolving and nowadays still a state-of-the-art code with a mature code base, a great documentation, API, extendability. Ontop of MediaWiki, people built WikiData or the semantic MediaWiki extension which can be used in a way to write complex web applications right ontop of a wiki with a minimum of code (wrote a video portal once based on SMW).

Having that said, the wikipedia ecosystem lives from a number of seperate tools which query the wikipedia database. One of the early well-known tools was the editcounter which allowed people to count their edits on wikipedia, for instance.

I think it is fair enough to let these tools be tools. Either they work for you or they don't. Many of them are open sourced and you can go on, fork and host them on your own.

Instead, this tells nothing about the quality of MediaWiki, IMHO. There are a number of maintainers keeping up quality and progress in MediaWiki itself.
Because the US doesn't have a cartel problem so they are not going to have the same demand Mexico does. I really do not know where you are trying to go with this.

Mexico has a demand for guns. US has a supply. The guns go south. US cutting its supply will not increase the demand internally to the level of Mexican cartels, and even if it did it is a stretch to think Mexican cartels can run guns as effectively in the US as they do in Mexico.

We have much more enforcement and LEO structure all around than Mexico.

If your solution is a wall at the border you have completely lost me.
Medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern workers (2013)
I just received this email from my bank. Something like this would be nice:

"Below is a link to the 2018 Annual Privacy Notice. This Notice provides details on the types of information we collect, why we collect it, and with whom we may share it. Collecting and permissible sharing of your information allows us to offer you a comprehensive range of services to help you meet your financial goals. "
> The actual program didn't change

I was studying physics in Germany right when the transition from 5-year diploma to 3+2 BSc+MSc happened. While most parts of the curriculum stayed the same, faculty took the opportunity to modernize the curriculum. For example, Computational Physics (an introductory programming course with a focus on numerical calculation methods and how to deal with precision-induced numerical errors) was upgraded from optional to mandatory, given that nearly all physicists have to write some code these days.
> if you have only a bachelor, people assume something went wrong

I'll throw in my 2 cents - this is not true at all for Estonia for example. It might be in some fields of study that I'm not familiar with but definitely not in CS.
> Hooking up for a one night stand is trivial.

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I think they mean your partners mom or your partner had WhatsApp.
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Tell HN: Algolia search stemming issue
See screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/t6Ydooc.jpg

I don't think I needed that "Chicago" result. Does algolia need manual filters for errors like this or is it some ML anomaly?
Oh, I don't know. It seems Mozilla wants people to be outraged at itself. You may say that all this isn't reason enough, but I'm thinking that someday I was quite a Mozilla fanboy, and now I don't even know what browser to use… And it doesn't seem like I'm alone.
Or that you understand opportunity cost and wanted to start making stuff instead of burning more life before doing anything useful?

Anyway, I've never had my lack of a Master's come up in Europe. Maybe it's because I'm American.
> which is moving people across borders

That's only one definition. Other countries have broader definitions.
I've lost the original files, I digitalized some of the important part back, here https://imgur.com/a/w2BCy

it was 2004-2006, we used weight quantization as noise function and a modified levemberg-marquad for training, matlab was the hot stuff back then and by today standard everything is ancient, so there's that - the training alghorithm was changed to train toward a flatter area of the noise function, so it used the second derivative to hold gradient descent and overfitting.

I can answer specific questions if you want.
Perjury according to Google: the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.

"I must have misremembered" "Oh ok"

Perjury is a joke, it's something that is used against citizens not against police officers or the like.

In any case, you have to prove that someone wilfully told an untruth. That's tough.
and this kids is why you a) don't use Facebook apps and b) don't use your real name on FB (or really anywhere if not absolutely necessary)
Checking now, it looks like both of them have WhatsApp accounts.
This will have you unexpectedly slowing for road signs, guardrails, and other stationary objects on the side of the road when they are on the inside of a curve (as they will have apparent motion towards your lane)

Set "too tightly", it will also have you slowing for every car approaching a stop sign from a side street.

Cars that randomly slow out of an excess of caution are also a hazard to other road users. Don't believe that? Go drive for a month and set a series of alarms on your phone every 5-10 minutes. Everytime the phone goes off, abruptly slow to half of your prior speed. Do you think you'd make 1,000 miles without causing a road hazard or collision?
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Couldn't you just eat more nutrient dense (but low calorie) foods at your one meal? Veggies are a prime example.
Slack doesn't even tell you when your employer is looking at your private chats. Do you think it will tell you when a government's law enforcement arm asks them not to tell you?

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2018/03/22/slacks-new-policy-let...
Jesus christ, just 1-2 months ago there was another HN "scientific" post that it actually does not.

Can we make up our minds already?
Senator Rand Paul has said that the Deep State exists. Is he a nut also?
Do you think the actual intent is closer the stated intent, or to the actual results?

We're talking about seasoned politicians, not naive dreamers.
It is not office work's fault that most people don't take care of themselves to counteract sitting on their ass all day.

All you have to do with an office job is actually use your gym membership and not eat take out every day.
Yup, can confirm. As far as I can tell, only some managers do some work during their vacation, but I'm sure it's because they want to (i.e. they feel that the world would fall apart without them).
Wire worked well for me until an update broke text and ping notification sounds. They know about it but it's now at least 8 months later and no fix.

I moved friends+family to Signal after a month.
> Figuring out foods high in nutrients, low in calories will require a lot of discipline.

Will it, really?

1. Skip the snack aisle

2. Visit the fruit and veg aisle

3. Eat meat and replace candy with low-sugar nutrition bars
Yes, for stable version if they want to track something more. But we are talking about test version. You accept this when downloading "Firefox Nightly automatically sends feedback to Mozilla.": https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#telemetry

How you want to improve something without data? Based on intuitions?
It's very easy for a highly credentialed person who has lived in the first world of the first world for years before this startup.

These are becoming spammy.