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> They can focus on hiring Millenials all they want,

Millenials would be 40 in just couple of yrs.
As xbkingx is writing, it would seem like Windows version of Gimp has some serious performance issues. I'm mainly running Gimp in Debian on a laptop with 512 MB RAM, and the performance is pretty OK (as long as I don't go above 150dpi on A3 prints).

Inkscape has also been crashing on me a lot in the past and was way too heavy, but since they released the 0.91 with the new Cairo-based renderer, it's been pretty fast and stable.

I've personally had a harder time with Blender. I've found it particularly confusing that about half of the functionality seems to just not work when using the game engine. And when importing a video for editing, the length of the video and the audio may not match up.
Maybe I'm misreading but it looks like this only passed the Senate - doesn't that mean it isn't law yet? Am I misreading or is this more of a protest?
We’ll miss the good old times where road accidents were a matter settled between two humans on equal rights, no a individual vs multi-billion corps and their army of lawyers
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Are you talking about sex trafficking, mass shootings, deaths from alcohol related accidents, deaths from drug usage, sexual assault from drug usage, crimes committed by those on probation, crimes committed by people from certain cross sections of society, or crimes committed because we don't have a camera in every room of every house that is monitored?

Because most every bad crime out there can be reliably estimated and has ways of being prevented. The question is at what cost? We could prevent the vast majority of crimes committed by criminals released from prison by having all felonies punished by life without parole. But is that really reasonable? We could cut down on sexual abuse of children by outlawing any single adult from ever being alone with a child, regardless of relationship. But is that really reasonable?

And I highly suspect that there is no consensus on what liberties are acceptable to exchange for safety.
And recognize that any work people do while stressed and tired is probably adding enough back end technical debt that you'll be double paying for those hours without a long term gain in progress.
So the use of Facebook data was lauded as genius and now isn't. [1] Now you got me curious if the media would be saying all the same things if Cambridge helped the other candidate get elected.

[1] http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-fo...
I think your coursework-only MS needs to be further broken down into those programs that require a BS in CS and those that don’t. There are at least 3 types of MS in that sense. Without this distinction, your article is short-sighted, not realizing that there are actually many rigorous academic MS programs in CS that would not be doable by someone lacking deep knowledge already.

Erosion of the value of the MS is not isolated to CS.

Forget some universities eroding the MS, entire countries are eroding it. If im not mistaken, Italy is a massive supplier of MS degrees.
I doubt reddit is happy about the popularity of porn on their site in general. Look at /r/all with the NSFW filter off and it's like 10% porn. That can't be good when they're trying to attract advertisers. I agree it won't be long until they start cracking down on it, probably using possible child pornography or sex trafficking as an excuse.
No, I don't think it can - you are being completely unrealistic about equity. The time for negotiating equity is before you incorporate or before you take funding; not 9 months down the line.

Frankly, if you pursue this equity issue - it is very unlikely to end well - you are likely going to destroy value in your business based on what? Some online calculator, put out as lead-gen?

I think you are confusing two issues - equity and leadership. Leadership is a perfectly reasonable conversation to be having; yesterdays CEO might not be the correct CEO today. This is probably 9 months too late, but maybe something like 'Founders Dilemmas' could help you.
People simply want to be outraged, period :/
If the value of the real-estate was higher, why is it sitting unused?

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/abandoned-drive-in-mo...
Obama for America was upfront about what they were doing, and the user initiated the action willingly. Cambridge Analytics was not, and people had no idea what their data was being used for. This is not some capricious delineation.
I know people who have gotten those letters in the US; the companies that send them are contracted by major media corps and don’t care about where you live.
It's not only old ladies that have to count their coins, everyone young or old stands there with the head deep down over the purse trying to find those microscopic coins :-)
I agree, seems the few others comments left at this point also agree.Whether it be a knowledge issue, a ego issue, or whatever, this person is wrong in their standing. Even if the CEO is a lazy, fruitless person, this persons job position would not exist without the CEO taking the initial risks. I'm curious to see how he responds, or if he even does. I won't imagine he will, people in cases where they are seeking approval generally don't respond well to criticism, mass criticism at that.
Well, my insurance company is one of those corporations. So we have that.
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While I admittedly did not look up any hard data, I take it for granted that the cocaine market is much more of a public problem than the smuggled cigarette market. This flies in the face of your admittedly compelling thought experiment. Siblings have made some compelling points regarding why that might be.
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"The paper does not make a real effort trying to consider different evidence and honestly investigate the subject."

Here's some food for thought: If you don't work an additional hour, because the economic environment you are in has provided you no meaningful economic task that would be worth doing in that hour, are you better off than someone who does have that opportunity and works for benefit in that time?

It's difficult to compare across such time spans meaningfully. I've often thought if we could bring someone forward in time from, say, a thousand years ago and give them a tour of your local 7-11 that it would re-align a lot of people's perspectives on our modern societies. (I'm not even picking that for the cold drinks or snacks, either; it's things like "here's a tube of cream that you can buy for roughly 10 minutes labor, tops, that when you smear it on a cut makes it so the cut won't kill you anymore". Or, "condoms", that work reliably. I'd expect tears from our visitor and a high likelihood of violent resistence if you try to send them back.)
National productivity numbers do not have that problem either.
It's fast, free, has native apps on every platform, has good APIs and fun stuff (stickers, etc).

I don't understand why chat apps are so hard for large companies.

How to make a good chat app:

Just copy Telegram, but end to end encrypt everything by default.
The problem is, I don't smile to people I don't know. I've sometimes smiled to babies, but then afterwards I think "Why did I do that?". If I started smiling and waving to disabled people, that would be me treating them differently than I do other people. I think that's the last thing disabled people want.
Because to manipulate the topic of the day, it's far easier to make a single article or interview which will then be reposted, rewritten and mixed with opinions countless times without really checking it or even critically thinking about it, than to organize a collusion with evil masterminds on top, involving huge amounts of people.

All the viral trends can be traced back to one-two sources which got picked by influential media, everybody else is talking about it because others do the same. The media always worked that way, it's nothing new, it's just more apparent in the age of hyperconnectivity.
I completely agree, except my experience was on a Surface Pro 4. Let me start by saying it's a fantastic product and the experience of writing/erasing with the pen was great. I commit to it for a few months in college and while it was fun to write on, I found that it became more of a hassle when I would try to study or refer back to my notes. I would be switching tabs constantly on OneNote then back to a browser, then back to my notes, etc.

With traditional pen/paper, it leaves your computer fully available for research, videos, or quick references without having to switch around. Great products overall, but the experience is still lacking in that regard.
The cynic in me thinks this is exactly the intention. Shut down any site you don’t like, with the argument being literally “think of the children”
This calorie amount cannot possibly apply to everyone. For example, if I spend an hour weight training and then later in the day go for a 1-hour job...I'd be in a calorie deficit for that day.
Well say goodbye to any goodwill from me regarding Youtube. I will now feel no qualms about using any means at my disposal to block their ads while watching their video and not paying for it.

They may not be legally required to allow free speech, but I believe that free speech is a cultural norm that we need to work to preserve. Excusing rampant violations of free speech because it isn't technically illegal or unconstitutional right now is paving the road towards actual government tyranny. And when it comes, nobody will be able to hear you complain about it, because every platform will shut you down while technically not violating the law.
What significance does that have with the content of this article?
It is like Schrodinger's cat, you don't know if it is illegal or not if you can't decrypt it.
I think the detection rates are significantly different. Your link shows that for trisomy 18 there's a 3% false negative rate with the Harmony test. I think the false negative rates are significantly lower for CVS.
Uber is a corporation, so it as a legal entity is liable, any kind of individual liability is possible to be litigated but very difficult to win. One problem is that corporate charters once granted are never revoked so corporations just keep doing terrible things and diffusing the costs of their actions onto society with minuscule repercussions. You can bet if I was looking down at my phone and not at the road and then hit a woman in the dark (all captured on camera) I would be going to jail... But, Uber has done some really despicable things (stealing the medical records of a rape victim to use for intimidation), and now they've likely killed someone and no one will ever see cell time.
I'm in favour of careful legalisation.

The submitted article is talking about a reaction to the behaviour of one publication who were openly allowing people to advertise kidnapped drugged children for sex; and then when they took a minimal step back from that the publisher was giving advice to advertisers about how to create an ad to sell drugged kidnapped children for sex without hitting the publications new filters.

Once these children were rescued they were telling the publisher that some of these ads contained images of them; that they had been kidnapped, drugged, and repeatedly raped; and that they'd like the images taken down and preferably for the ads to be taken down. That publisher refused.

One of the problems of decriminalisation of buying and selling sex work is that someone who wants to fuck a 14 year old child isn't going to use the service a 25 year old provides, so legalisation has limited usefulness to prevent the kidnap and drugging of children.
The meta-narrative of this thread: people have outsourced their thinking to massive media companies who have a rational self-interest to capture their audience's attention in order to increase revenue. People assume that these media companies are portrayers of truth. While these companies are not (usually) telling lies, they are presenting a point-of-view that suits their interests. The narratives being consumed by the public are designed to keep them in fear and outrage. By being in a state of fear and outrage, the mob produces more stories for the media to sell back to it to induce more fear and outrage.

The other day, I took a taxi. The driver was talking about how he stopped logging into Facebook, consuming the news, etc. and was instead focusing on spending more quality time with his wife and daughters. He was the happiest person I spoke to yesterday.

We already had what we needed to be happy. Entertainment tools like Facebook are good insofar as we are made better people. Perhaps it's time for us to reflect on how satisfied we are with the people we've become, and accept the personal responsibility of bettering ourselves before we try to save the world.

"Turn on, tune in, and drop out."
Germany has strange laws about the conditions of employment and education.One of these rules is that you should definitely learn German language to be able to find a job and study there.but anyway good luck!
Do you think these large government agencies with hundreds or thousands of employees are some sort of magical super-organizations where everything and everybody is 100% on, all the time? These are all regular people like you and me working there. We're talking about the world's most organized agencies, yet who put or leave an internet-connected webcam with a default password in front of their building; or hire someone who will copy gigabytes of data and run off with it - and fail to notice; or give their most secret and valuable spyware to an ally who then gets impatient and exposes it with some stupid mistake.

This is not about being an 'idiot', this is perfectly normal behavior to happen once in a few years over hundreds or thousands of people.
If you think about it the less "productive" you are the more "productive" the people extracting the value from your job will be.

That is if you work more and earn less then whoever captures the difference in value produced would have augmented their productivity. It all depends where you measure the ratio and in which terms.

Parasites are always the most productive if you don't measure in absolute terms. The same happens among countries.
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This article practically comes off as apologetic for Facebook and absolutely ignores the point of outrage for a lot of people. Great example of language designed to lead.

"Facebook, of course, lets you target exactly those boring, old demographic qualities" - just boring old mundane everyday Facebook. No worries here

"To be clear, what Cambridge Analytica did was somewhat worse" - Just a bit worse, but not too far from the norm

"Facebook no longer allows anyone to do this, thankfully, and hasn’t for years" - this has been a non-issue for years, what are you worried about?
Hmm, interesting. Anyway, I shouldn't pretend I have better insight in what products work well than Mozilla themselves, so thanks for sharing yours :)
Yep, they re gonna fight to death in return for your 100$ fee
And do those professionals need access to YouTube tutorials to see how to use the plunger?
here, roughly, is the dipshit’s playbook

1) never stop looking for who to blame because people hate hillary fucking clinton so much that donald trump became a viable candidate

keep up the good work!
To add to that, just scan your notes into Evernote or whatever platform if you want digital copies. It takes a few seconds.
Couldn't a competent developer just ask for direct funding from a Kickstarter campaign? No need for any central authority really.
I think we should try finding solutions for the bad drivers that text, drive drunk or speed on the roads, is not impossible to fix that and it will not cost lives.

Do we have any proof that with our current hardware and software we can make a self driving car that is better then the average driver (also this score should be adjusted for the location where the car is used, I do not want the claim to be that this car drives better then average drivers from X where X is a location with tons of bad drivers)

I think we are too optimists that we can train this cars on the roads and by the magic of neural networks and computer vision we get better then average driver. The human brain has evolved to detect moving objects very well, add on top of that intuition where you can anticipate some situation and the capability to adapt to new things.

So we would need some numbers to measure this AIs, but I do not see anyone trying to do this measurements, creating tests courses, checking the sensors quality for this cars, checking the reaction times of this cars,
politicians just approved them to test before making any minimal checks.
I use a little app called toggl to track my time. Works pretty well.
The Cambridge Analytica / Facebook story revolves around the issue of privacy, so it has a place on HN (even if it is a bit of a dead horse at this point).

However articles like these use the story as a springboard to write about other topics or push other agendas - many of them purely political and therefore out of place on this website.

Just my $0.02
It's really weird that an app so lacking in security has a reputation for good security and privacy.
In Israel there's a huge phenomena where the illegal weed trade went telegram (they call it telegrass) people actually have to give their identity (photo of themselves holding their ID) to potential dealers so the can buy some weed.
Somehow people think it's reasonable to pass this sort of information because telegram is secured and encrypted.
"A fish with a polymer of "innocuous" organic atoms in the digestive tract is likely to disagree."

First of all, since the topic was landfills, I have some questions as to how the fish managed to get plastic from a landfill stuck in them. Yeah, it's possible, but somebody screwed up along the way.

Second, that's the exact opposite of what I meant by thinking just from an atom and energy perspective. It's a small amount of energy to turn those organic atoms into something less harmful, and probably a net gain from a strictly chemical perspective (i.e., plastics tend to burn). We are intrinsically speaking from a much higher tech than we currently have here. The process of extracting out mercury and cadmium and such can be reasonably assumed to either process waste to something safe before putting it out into the ecosystem, or that they will place the plastics somewhere where they aren't going to affect anything when done. I don't think our hypothetical future landfill miners are going to be allowed to just tear open the landfills and start shooting whatever they decide they don't want with cannons into the surrounding countryside.
Ask HN: Why does Google Pay insist on getting so many Permissions on Android?
I've disabled all permissions for all apps that I think don't need them, and now I get dozens of notifications a day from Google Pay that it can't work properly without access to: Calendar, Camera, Contacts, Microphone, Telephone, Body Sensors, and SMS.

I understand security might be enhanced by having more access to these items, but it's a default app and they're default permissions and they just seem a bit much.
As I understand it, the Trump campaign mostly used Facebook's in house ad targeting services. In contrast to the Clinton campaign that relied on their own data team for targeting.

It's hard to get a read on it, but there are plenty of people slagging Cambridge Analytica as being pretty worthless.
Gerrymandering sways House and state-level elections. It doesn't have a direct impact on Senate and Presidential elections.
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If you're comfortable billing for lunch, you're probably not charging enough. I'd tend to agree though that you should be charging for debugging, but I've had some things where I couldn't in clear conscience charge for. Things like troubleshooting an issue with my tooling that went beyond just 'sharpening my ax for the job'. Especially if I'm using a job to try out some new tooling, rather than using something tried and true.

That said I understand getting to daily or weekly rates can really let your rates take off, and you don't have to worry about what time you're on the clock in the same way.
even intelligence agents are human. how many spies were caught by doing stupid shit?

For example, Rudolf Abel was caught because he paid with a fake nickel on accident.
I don't think the author was trying to excuse Facebook's business model by bringing up Cruz. She was pointing out that if this 'psychological profiling' technique from CA was really a silver bullet for swaying votes, Cruz would have done better in his run the Republican nomination. It's a single data point that arguably isn't worth much, but it was interesting to me as I'd not heard of any other prominent politicians using the service. Balanced article by WAPO in my view.
> is that there are rules to traffic (pedestrian, bike and auto) that we are all expected to obey

The point of defensive driving is that you can't rely on other people not to be incompetent.

You have a green signal at a traffic light. That does not mean "go", it means "proceed with caution".
Especially don't outsource your sales if your core competency is sales. The bet Toys R Us was making here was, essentially, that this whole e-commerce thing would be a flash in the pan and they could go back to selling primarily through brick and mortar stores before the decade was through.
That's a rose-tinted view of things. There's plenty of dirt-cheap land just outside all but the biggest American towns, but no drive-ins on them. Seriously, without knowing you, chances are you and a couple of friends could pool your savings and buy a plot and setup a drive-in theatre. But chances are you'd fail. Land increasing in value is far from the only thing that changed that affected drive-ins. A car (and especially the sound options in one) is far from an ideal place to enjoy a movie from, streaming (or before that, renting a video or just watching on broadcast TV) on a large colour TV is much, much better. Modern, multiplex theatres provide a technically far, far superior experience to either. Attitudes to pre-marital sex have decreased the value of having somewhere to legitimately park in the dark for an extended period.

Many analogous things are true for toy stores and hardware stores etc. And people are banding together to support things that aren't commercially viable, the closest thing to hardware stores in this regard is probably hacker spaces.

And to answer your question directly, yes, I strongly prefer to live in a society where businesses are allowed to fail when they've run their course rather than being kept on life-support for vague past-romantic reasons.
I have now actually seen the movie of the crash and I can agree that it most likely was hard to avoid for a human. What surprices me is that the LiDAR completely missed her because she didn't run, she didn't jump, she was slowly walking across the road. I can't say if the light was too bad, a camera often looks much darker than what you see with the naked eye, not blinded by other lights. The driver was looking down on the instrument panel at the time of the crash, does he have some view of what the car sees there?

This looks like the exact situation the selfdriving cars are supposed to be able to avoid. A big object in the middle of the street. I expect the car to try to avoid this even though the bike didn't seem to have any reflexes. If the LiDAR doesn't catch this, I don't think they should be out in traffic at all.