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When I graduated from a far-from-top-10 CS BA program in 2002, I couldn't get the time of day from any of the top software firms. I spent 9 months throwing resume after resume down the corporate waste chute. Then I noticed that Apple was holding a recruiting event at MIT, so I crashed it. Didn't mention that I wasn't from that school. A month or so later I got the job that launched my career.

Not sure what the lesson there is. But maybe a community college grad should consider finding ways to get through the school-based recruiting filter which is all too common in tech.
I don't know about the others but Evian and San Pellegrino each come from one source, respectively situated in Évian-les-Bains, France and San Pellegrino Terme, Italy.
I'm confused - did he read all that as his opening remarks? Seems pretty wrong, but it's written that way...
Uber just follow from what its China rival's strategy:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/17/didi-platform-bike-sharing...
Staying with this analogy: The nurse also has a near monopoly on providing targeted care and it sure appears that (s)he knowingly or negligently assisted the spread of the fever causing pathogen. Then, leveraging her unique familiarity of the illness, (s)he made ~$500B selling a targeted care plan.
This is because in general people have absolutely no idea how to properly rank and review things. The other part is people generally don't have time so they review only when they hate or love something. The last is people review for personal gain or retribution and has no basis on the product or service.

I admit until I was asked to judge an event and received a short training session on judging I also fell into this category. I now realize how bad I was. There should be some sort of how to rank/judge/review things class that everyone should take in school.
I read it and I am still confused.

Does "in the Union" mean within the geographic borders of EU states?

Does "established" mean having a physical presence? Having been incorporated? Registered with a regulatory body? Having remote employees who live there?
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Just my personal experience: tap water in US tastes bad, bottled watered in US tastes also bad ("purified" water). As European on business trip I was forced to buy San Pellegrino or other imported (and expensive :/) brands. On the plane they also give "purified" water -> distilled water + salt.

You go to a restaurant, they insist on infinite refill on that bad tasting water...

I'm seriously not surprised with so called "Raw Water" movement in US.
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I guess one method is to marry a rich man/woman.
Top Gear once did a race where they dropped a letter in a box in the Isles of Scilly, addressed to a house in Orkney, then climbed into a Porsche and tried to beat the letter to its destination.

The letter got there first.
Hopefully the EFF is getting a big surge in donations from this latest outcry over privacy.

You can donate here: https://supporters.eff.org/donate
I'm curious how vulnerable these under sea cables are. IE if there was a war, surely a few subs could snip a dozen cables and break the internet into pieces. Is that wrong?
It has nothing to do with github, it is trivial and common to have images/screenshots/whatever in the in-repo documentation (or in the wiki).
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/zuckerberg-gdpr/
> I actually feel for anyone that buys ad space for politics on Facebook as they obviously don't handle it particularly well.

Why,? The world would be a better place with less pointless political advertising
Same in German. It's a quirk of English that free as in freedom and free as in no cost are the same word.
My guess, he is talking about having 2 incomes instead of only 1.
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Getting married is, without a doubt, by far the best financial decision I've ever made. I doubled my income and only very marginally increased my living expenses. I'm saving more money now that I ever thought would be possible, and that savings generates income in itself as capital gains and dividends which is reinvested and compounded. It's friggin amazing! After several years of marriage our passive income (dividends and capital gains) has become significant.

That being said, I wouldn't advise doing it solely for financial reasons. :)
No, in this case they are not.
In a pond, gravity is uniform in all directions and not dependent on the distribution of objects -- everything is competing to get to the bottom.
get a megahome distiller. Doesn't require installation, so you can take it with . you when you laeve. Be prepared to be disgusted by the residue remaining.
That's fair enough. That said, it's generally hard to generate purely passive income by just investing labor. Software is somewhat the exception for this group but if you just write something and stop working on it, any income is probably going to decline fairly quickly.
Oh weird. I didn't get the redirect the first time I had clicked the link.
Kids who go to pre-k have a small advantage at first, but become statistically indistinguishable after a few years. So universal pre-k is not a great equalizer.

Teacher salary is so low because supply is too high [0]. The top 10% of teachers have a huge impact on the success of their students, but it's difficult to impossible to reward them [1]. On the other side of the coin it's practically impossible to fire incompetent teachers [2]. We might also need to increase funding for schools, but I don't believe it will work without fixing these other systemic problems.

I think credentialism is really the core issue here. People use credentials as a proxy for merit because they lack better tools. The science is pretty solid around the correlation between IQ/EQ and workplace performance, but it's illegal to give IQ tests to potential hires. If you can't get into Harvard due to some social/economic issue, you may at least have a high IQ. The more useful metrics we give to hiring companies the closer we will likely get to meritocracy.

[0]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/18/oversu...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/01/02/are-teacher...

[2]: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
No, because it is a website.
They are also popular because the company is owned by the share holders of their funds. So huge dividends and salaries aren't going to employees or shareholders.
Full quote: "Mason's team was able to identify specific plastics over 100 microns (0.10 mm) in size but not smaller particles. According to experts contacted by CBC News, there is a chance the Nile Red dye is adhering to another unknown substance other than plastic."

Key point: they're unsure about the smaller particles, but they're sure about the bigger ones. There is microplastics in the samples.
This is wonderful, thanks. I hope to leverage this into a Home Assistant[0] component (assuming someone else doesn't do it first).

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/
In an analogous situation. I try to think of my current work as a stepping stone to other opportunities, but admittedly it's tough. I'm also genuinely interested in data science, but am skeptical that to do data science you have to 'retool'. I think it's about striking a balance between the skills you have and developing in areas that make you more productive. Good employers know how to motivate people and keep them engaged (if they speak up).
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0.1 millimeter or larger is not really that small, it's the size of fine sand. I admittedly never look for sand in bottled water but just assumed that such large particles would never make it through the filters.
I belive it was written for the very first version of Windows, using what would later become known as the Win16 API.
C implements the concept 'pass by reference' using the mechanism of 'pointer passed by value'.

You have no problem using the terms 'loop' or 'recurse' to describe C code, right? But these high-level ideas are implemented without using those terms in the code. Same with 'pass by reference'.
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It's certainly no proxy, but it is a standard metric to measure said qualities against. I hope we see a rise in autodidact accreditation and acceptance of non traditional paths, along with more decentralized and public research taking place.
I'm with you on that but I've had that price in my head for a long, long time. The sub $50 point is what I'm aiming for and having thought enough about the plastic version after having made the wood version, I also have a good handle on what it'll cost me.
I wasn't exactly blessed with good looks. That would not be a passive strategy for me, considering how much time I'd have to spend at the gym.

Can I hire a younger, better looking guy to go marry a rich lady and send me back dividends?
>Tons of times in 2016 I saw ads for where someone was running for in-state legislature of another state entirely

I think that's a Facebook targeting problem, not a problem with the people buying the ads.

Somehow Facebook has no idea where I am, and I get local ads for all kinds for businesses in random cities to which I've never been.

There's also the concept of extended targeting. For example, as an advertiser, you run Los Angeles ads in Palm Springs because there's a lot of people who live in or frequently visit Palm Springs who also have homes/businesses in Los Angeles. Ditto to LA-Las Vegas, SFO-Reno, Chicagoland-Wisconsin, Minneapolis-Southern Manitoba/Western Ontario, Houston-Austin, San Antonio-Padre, Cincinnati-Carolinas, etc...
Thanks for leaving a comment here :)

Now that I have your ear, may I make a suggestion? Please be a little more specific about what Bitmovin does on your website. Right now the first thing I read is:

"Software to Solve Complex Video Problems.
Bitmovin API based products help developers around the world
solve the most complex video problems with cloud native software that runs anywhere"

That is a very broad statement. I would consider myself quite technical but I don't have deep domain knowledge in video coding and infrastructure. Quite honestly I can't get much information out of this.

What kind video problems are you solving (except that they're "most complex")? What is "cloud native software"? How do you define "runs anywhere"? Will it run on my Smartphone / PC / Car / Container / Toaster?

I just want to know what your company does [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170182
You do know that private delivery services intermingle heavily with USPS, right?

FedEx and UPS both use USPS services (a lot of "last mile" work), and also both provide services to USPS (contracts to carry mail by air).
You would?
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Are you talking about at the distribution centers?
>Why,? The world would be a better place with less pointless political advertising

Who gets to define "pointless?"
To me it's more about people waking up and realizing exactly how much and what data is collected on them. Private messages, texts, things facebook has no business having etc.
> Pretty much everyone is going to [...] even AWS qualifies...

I worded this badly. This is optional on a case by case basis, i.e. there's a cost-benefit to using each 3rd-party, and this burden is worth considering for each. It's still not a massively onerous burden tbh if you do use a lot of 3rd parties.

> And "detail all your security measures". Which, for a small company that doesn't have an InfoSec group, probably means next to nothing. An admission that feels a lot like liability...

I'm sorry but if you're really defending companies with no competent security measures in place, regardless of size, I think you're in the wrong forum here. If you are a commercial entity of any size there should be moral hazard in ignoring security of your users' personal data.

> It's the sort of thing an angry consumer might do, and most startup founders subject to GDPR are not deeply knowledgeable about it.

Exactly. And unlikely to be more knowledgeable if they're reading misleading scaremongering articles like this on LinkedIn!
I don't really mind being tracked, I'm more interested in knowing what site I'm visiting before I actually visit the site.

Caching short URLs might be problematic when the short URLs are editable, so you might end up with old URLs that are no longer valid.
Cancer is obviously no good, but other terrible life damaging consequences can also happen. Witness lead poisoning, with its reduced IQ and tendency towards violence for people who've ingested or breathed in lead. Also bad would be clogging of capillaries and causing some strange diabetes, with subsequent organ damage. Reduced fertility is another concerning type of biological damage.

All of these are life-changing and won't kill you on short order. I think these kinds of damages are more pernicious as they're less obvious but still impact your quality of life, and maybe more so than living in a developing country.
Scary shit. An aside: what are people using for tap filters? Is Brita still the go-to company, or are there other better solutions?
I was really wondering if I should chip in Feedpresso here (that I've been developing) to avoid shameless promo but your writing struck a chord with me.

All of the things you mentioned there, is basically a reason why I started Feedpresso. After GReader was shut down, and after I got pissed with unread counts from a local newspaper on Feedly, I've put some basic probabilistic machine learning together to "avoid a mess" (what a strange thing to do - to avoid a mess, you start an even bigger one :-D).

One thing led to another, and I have to say Feedpresso is a pretty decent reader that is easy to use (my dad uses it without knowing what's RSS) compared to the most of the RSS readers available.

My feeling is that this problem about content and updates boils down to a mix of a few things:
- following local and international news
- following writers that produce high-quality industry-specific content
- how do I get that conveniently in one place?
- how should I not lose sanity and hours of time doing that?

And you are right about the amount of the content. It extremely magnifies the mess.

Also, let's not forget the whole hell with ad-incentives that make publishers produce lots of low-quality content (with ad-bloat) just to get a few extra page views (impressions). I would even argue that "free content" and ad-incentives is what ruined the regular news, and it is what drives most of the stupid viral content on FB.

Anyway, give Feedpresso a go - maybe it will stick. PM me for a discount at tadas@feedpresso.com .
Is it also enabled in old ARM only chrome books? Mine is in dev mode and I would switch it back to regular if I can run kvm inside.
I just had a vision of all major OS projects providing developer containers for their projects. Like, you could just pull the latest Firefox dev container and run a single command to have a running debuggable app.

I know one of the major pains we have when on-boarding new people is the whole dance to get to that first working build / first meaningful change. I can imagine this being significantly more simple if a working dev environment was shipped as a container.
Usually they have water purifiers. From simple ceramic filters to fancy machines using reverse osmosis and UV treatment.

In Thailand for example, they have vending machines dispensing drinking water into your own bottle.
The tax benefits are also quite nice. The tax bracket thresholds basically double.
What if you want to avoid fluoride?
Open source client, as far as i know the server is still closed source.

I suggest using Riot, preferrably self-hosted.
Fair. Perhaps the most salient criticism is that Zuckerberg's top priority is connecting people because his company is designed to use those connections in order to sell lots of advertising.
Diskeeper Lite was what I had in mind. It didn't defrag the directories.
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See I'm totally ok seeing a 23 yr old doctor. And if there were more 23yr old doctors then you'd be able to spend more time with your 35 yr old doctor because he wouldn't be busy with me.
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Validation of genuine political identity is a logical next step. One that will require an Army of human curation (not an AI problem).

However, I wonder about the reliability of "PO Box" as proxy to political identity.

Or how FB is going to stop Mom-and-Pop retail pages from advertising false political messages ("2-for-1 sale! All proceeds go towards stopping the Trump-ordered seal beatings in Antartica!")
I am informed that gender is entirely socially constructed. So then motherhood must be too. Therefore the solution is straightforward: Require that men give birth to half of the babies.
Sounds like they invented Continuous Delivery ;-)
It's not clear to me why the existence of off-target mutations with CRISPR would be worrying; random mutations naturally happen to genomes all the time, both during normal reproduction, and during selective breeding (which CRISPR could replace). As sibling comments have mentioned, the newly modified genotypes are going to be tested to make sure that any modifications were net-positive.

However, if you are worried about such mutations, you should be asking the question "does CRISPR produce more mutations than a selective breeding program?" Even if mutations are bad, CRISPR might be less bad than what we currently do (for your definition of bad).
This internet outage looks like it affects 22 countries (some more than others) and covers a much more expansive area. I don't mean to detract from the tragedy in Puerto Rico but these events aren't comparable because their causes are completely different.
You seem do think in a waterfall model of cooking: a big plan first and starting from and ending in an empty kitchen.

Speaking for my experience: I go to the supermarket once a week, replenishing staples and looking for interesting (and cheap..) stuff. Then later in the week I know what's fresh in my fridge and what's stored the pantry and when I get hungry late afternoon my subconsciousness is thinking about possible meals while I do other stuff. Leftover ingredients go back in the fridge and the cycle of "What's available today?" continues. And I ignore the dishes for every other day or two, because I'm lazy.

There is most of the time just one or two steps, because there is a rhythm and practice and a cycle. One-time event cooking in a tabula rasa environment, yes, that's more complicated. But that's not daily life.
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Gnome is moving in this direction by using Flatpak + Gnome Builder. They're also running CI inside the Flatpak environment.
cool! Let me know if you have any doubts.
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Woah, Whoops! Typo - wouldn't. Fixed, thanks.
If your letter from London to Edinburgh was posted at Kings X at 0800, and sent on the 0830, it may have arrived in Edinburgh at 1530 and arrived at the office at 1600. The contents could be "I'm taking the 1000 train, meet me when it arrives at 1700"

If you were to then catch the 1000 train, arriving 1700, that would give the recipient time to get to Waverley in time for the arrival.
I am not even sure what you are replying to. I never said opposite of "actually emails with dots in different positions should be different emails". I also strongly think so. Netflix suck for not letting the owner of the email know an account is associated with it in a much better way.
Pandora's box. Can't put things back.

I just try to avoid screens and spend time with books in my free time. I still succumb to the infinite scroll thing with the reddit mobile app -- until just this weekend I didn't actually have the adequate lighting fixtures in every place in my home where I lay back to relax.

(Books. Not "ebooks".)

Facebook and RSS will both die before books do.
Oh yeah, I would love that! And if you do, email me and I'll add it to the open source list, where you can also find the API and my email: https://turntouch.com/api
Would be happy if you share the link
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It is possible for two things to be wrong at the same time.
> Is that a legal / enforceable term, or is this something that Facebook gets to decide?

In this context, Facebook decides. Broadly, the FEC has jurisdiction over defining and regulating "electioneering communications" [1].

[1] https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/spec_notice_broch...
> I prefer to support companies that have a moral backbone and criticize those who don't.

What are some of the companies with a moral backbone that you support? I'm genuinely interested to see what that business model looks like in the real world.

My own take on Microsoft's historical success in the 80's and 90's is that it's a combination of producing a product people wanted at a time people wanted it (and lack of well formed competition). A state of the art PC in 1991 required separately purchasing an OS, GUI, memory manager, shell, file system utilities, browser, etc.

So... while you might argue that it was anticompetitive of Microsoft to bundle these together, there's never been a huge demand for the ability to buy them separately. (Even before Microsoft started bundling all these parts together, the system vendors like Gateway, Micron, and Zeos were doing the bundling for them.)
I'm reading through it now. This sounds like really good advice. Thanks for the great share!
There are no formal prerequisites to maintaining peace and avoiding war, and I don't think a formal education or a "scientific mindset" is of much help here. Further, the opposite of a scientific mindset is not ignorance, for the opposite of ignorance is awareness, and awareness is not synonymous with the ambiguous 'scientific mindset'.

I believe one could argue rather successfully that we need more poets, painters, cinematographers, musicians and artist of all shades and stripes over scientist if peace is the ultimate goal.
What's his competitor? I'd be curious to try a social network developed by Woz.
[Riot](https://riot.im), native mobile clients for all platforms plus web client.

It's self hostable or you can just login on their Matrix server.

Ah, and no phone number needed.
Any project that dog-foods is a good sign, in my view. Good luck with it.
What a great story! When I first moved in with my wife and was cleaning some stuff out to make room, I found a bunch of rolls of undeveloped film and had them developed. There was no mystery as to who owned them, but the surprise at seeing photos she forgot she had taken was really fun to watch.
No, I'm talking about the end franchisees that makes and bakes the pizzas for the consumer.
Maybe that's true for Harvard, where they have the largest endowment in the world, but it's not true for the vast majority of colleges.
> Too many sites block + aliasing.

You actually mean: Too many sites were coded by incompetent people and have broken input validation.
Interesting to see this is from zcbenz, who was the initial creator of Electron. Slack's desktop app, which is based on Electron, is often criticized for its memory and CPU usage, so I'm wondering if the creation of Wey and its underlying Yue library are an answer/atonement for that.
First line after title:
Unofficial GoPro API Library for Python - connect to GoPro cameras via WiFi.

If it was official, the repo should be under @gopro not my username. I have worked with GoPro cameras and published a lot on my GitHub and I had no problems with them.
Please share the link of your product.
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