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Page 15: animal rights extremism is covered.

That feels reasonable so long as it's focussed on extremists: we had a spate of "fire bombing" incendiary attacks on department stores in the 1980s; and one group dug up a human corpse.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 236: Joseph Coors
You don't buy a single stock, you buy a basket of stocks which reduces the risk of some companies failing or losing value. Absolute minimum 5, preferably 10+ or an ETF which effectively combines dozens or hundreds of companies under one ticker.

It's easy to find one stock with way better returns than what I described over the long run, say 20+ years (example AAPL). It's also easy to find a stock that's way worse over 20 years (example HPQ). You have to keep up with that, sell the companies which are not good anymore, buy new ones, etc.

That's why an ETF is an "easy way out" for a small fee (usually 0.1% of the money invested or lower).

You can check the historical returns here and do the numbers for this ETF https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0970&... . You'll find it's very close to what I am describing.
uh ? I have a large Qt / boost app (300kloc) that I compiled with Qt/WASM and the resulting .js is less than 20 megabytes.
That makes it sound like it's all the students fault.

I studied CS at a top tier UK university (not Oxbridge but a tier below). The course was a mess. The professors were useless, often didn't understand their own subjects, marking was random and arbitrary, most of them quite obviously saw teaching as a chore to be disposed of as quickly as possible and many failed hard at even basic principles of teaching, like "if you set coursework, students should all have the same amount of time to complete it in".

There was no effective way for students to complain or get anything fixed. The department ran a student/professor relationships council or something which was a joke, the students on it had volunteered mostly to suck up to the staff and didn't have any idea how bad the teaching was or how hard they were getting stiffed.

If universities were _actually_ real businesses I'd have been furious and demanded my money back, but they aren't so what can you do? I just tell people not to go to university at all these days.
What could _possibly_ go wrong? Actually, this is an innovative idea to try to solve the problem of how a retailer with little to no physical locations can be more convenient. If weren't constitutionally impossible I could see Amazon wanting to take over the Postal System...
> he doesn't want to sacrifice individuality and creativity for the sake of maintaining a banal existence that doesn't deviate from the norm out of fear

Exactly. Just apply that to the fear of running afoul of draconian speech codes designed to reduce the amount of "offence" people experience.
The Typography of ‘Stranger Things’ (2016)
I don’t like when the title changes without apparent reason but, at least you could use a gramatically correct title.
There are so many variables here I couldn't even begin to answer but I will take a stab and say A because that student is most likely fiscally responsible and proven they can juggle multiple responsibilities and still make progress towards a goal. These typically tend to be very productive members of society. In B's case, this also may be true, but I am less prone to have the same expectations since your university schooling offers you entirely what you decide to get out of it: meaning you can slack off and only study for the test, and forget it as soon as you step outside in the real world, or you can remember it all and excel. Now I am not saying with A you can't also slack off in school and not get anything, but on average I would say a working student values their education more than a non-working student since they have a larger motivator and a early reality check of what life is really like.
No that is not true, there are genes that does not contain protin coding segments.

There is no clear definition where a gene starts and ends. Some define it as a segment that codes for a specific feature but that is a recursive definition.

Here is an article about what I mean:

https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/archive/2000/8975-genetic-de...
>I read someone commenting that pay for software engineers in Japan and Korea are similarly uncompetitive for the former reason.

Pay for software engineers in China is actually more competitive than in Japan/Korea, in spite of China's GDP per capita being much lower. I suspect a key difference is the presence of many startups and large tech companies, something that Japan and Korea seem to lack.
How to build your MVP without a technical co-founder and without code
There is a difference between east and west Germany, but not specifically between the Länder.

In 2009 you would have gotten (before deductions) ~34873 in the east and ~37852 in the west. In 2018 it is ~45863 in the east and ~45900 in the west. This is all assuming a full-time E13 position.

Source (German): http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tv-l/west/
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (2005)
Perhaps I’m missing the question, but there is a regular expression for matching a URI. Remove the leading carat and it can match anywhere in a text.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-B

Edit: I see it's not quite that simple. However, I still think that with some stricter matching requirements this could work.
And honestly, my courses at the community college were much tougher but also much more rewarding than at university. It was almost as if the community college professors had a chip on their shoulder and had to prove they were "real" professors, while your university professors just cared about getting back to their research and were barely invested (most, not all). Just my observation.

In a country-side suburb here in my state, we have one of the (to my surprise) largest clusters of aerospace engineering companies (I believe over 20+) -- they receive over 80% of their candidates from the regional community college nearby. If you think about it it makes sense for the employer: they get to work with the college to basically create a curriculum that will ensure their future prospects have the highest chance of being the best workers for them.
It's also because companies want the managers and co-workers to know the company did right by the terminated employee. Laying someone off isn't fun. Seeing your co-workers get laid off isn't fun either. Severance keeps the process more humane.
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The liberal media narrative for every tax cut ever is that it only benefits the rich. Forget that your paycheck and mine saw taxes go down, it was only for the rich according to the media.
Good question! At the student level, I was quite impressed with the polish shown by the startups at Princeton's eLab. Here's a link to their demo day presentations. Including the "hangover-cure" Thrive+, which eventually did a Shark Tank deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-WfgaSzEKA

The one every is talking about today is of course, The Final Straw. Yes, its "just" a non-disposable drinking straw.

http://www.core77.com/posts/77205/FinalStraw-This-Folding-Me...
Doesn’t matter. This is what the eu justice court said when it was challenged in court: going from ip to identity is one simple legal request away so it is personal identifyable data. End of the story.
Cosmetic testicles would be tremendously simple, too, compared to the operations complexity.

Google tells me that "testicular prostheses have been used for 50 years to replace missing or removed testes"...

I would speculate that they would be a relatively simple addition to the surgery itself, but at the very least it would be very simple to do as an additional operation once the transplant stabilized.
Similar story here. Most PIPs do end in termination or voluntary resignation, but I have seen some engineers completely turn around and blossom under the focus and structure (and frankly, scrutiny) that a PIP provides.

Sometimes people just don't know how to work or how to accomplish what's expected of them and outward observation of lack of productivity can miss the underlying cause that might be correctable.

(It's still the least common outcome, of course, but it's not as rare as I first assumed.)
The new context api isn't meant to replace stateless components and recompose [0], it's meant to be a more sound context API that lives almost exclusively in library code, replacing usage of the old context + (maybe) 5% more use cases.

[0] https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/984510107923963904
I came across Conduent's web portal for checking your balance, only to be greeted with this lovely error message that demonstrates just how accessible and up-to-date this company is:

> You're using Chrome 66. Please use Internet Explorer or Firefox version 4 or above.
Yeah, unlike most sites, HN includes the dot in the link for some reason...
You can make Games in Go
Here is my fourth Ludum Dare entry written in Go:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/no-brain-jogging

You can play it on Windows and Linux, should also build on Mac but I have no binary for that.
We have the opposite, it's more of a skyline graph. If you receive subsidies, a lot of the time, working or studying will yield large and unexpected decreases to your total amount of income.
I tried to use RSS and I added some websites I liked. However, websites have too much articles nowadays and many news sites have the same stories. I am going to need filtering and grouping of articles in order to use RSS again.
They've changed their mind because of the community backlash: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-45455
> If academics are being hired into industry, that frees up grant money to be spent on other areas

That's great for those other areas, but the open letter in question is about machine learning.

> It doesn't actually 'deplete' academia except in the short run, unless the supply of students who want to do research becomes fully tapped out.

... or the very limited supply of established researchers who can train them is tapped out. Also, "fully tapped out" is a squishy notion; you can always lower your recruitment standards, with obvious consequences.

But there is no need to get into hypotheticals here:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/02/big-tech-fir...

> people who are trained already can always go into academia or return to Europe

But why would they want to? They chose to move away for a reason, so something would have to change for them to change their mind. What would that be?

The authors of the open letter seem to think that a European AI hub could be that thing.
just as soon as someone who knows C/C++ ports numpy and scipy and pandas. and gensim and nltk and sounddevice. and tensorflow and scikit-learn and keras....
> The corporate world doesn't care what one has gained from their degree apart from the social skills

As someone who interviews people for jobs - nonsense.
You seem to underestimate how annoying modern air travel is, at least in America. One has to stand in at least 3 different lines (baggage, security, boarding) before getting on the plane. Whether in the terminal or on the aircraft, the seating feels like it was designed to be as uncomfortable as possible.

I imagine that there will be people willing to travel via rocket just because of the 3+ G's. And I'd take a 30 minute roller coaster ride over a 10 hr first class flight any time, all the time. Less time spent flying > comfort while flying. One immediate benefit is that one doesn't have to take a week or more off of work for intercontinental travel. Weekend jaunts to Pattaya or the Alps are possible when you aren't spending 20+ hours in transit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
And with Uber, you can pick up and go to lyft if/when they treat you poorly, without completely losing an audience you spent years building

You might argue that the audience is YouTube’s and not yours, but in practice it doesn’t really work that way on the internet.
What is it to have a democratically elected communist party?
I’ve been using the Monzo Current Account since August 17’ (back when it was in closed beta) as my main account and it’s never failed me.
SO has never quite cracked the "be nice" rule. You can still get some pretty nasty feedback on your questions, and I completely understand why some beginners would be put off.

Its also worth noting that the top result for a software question in Google often takes you to a SO question that is "closed as off-topic" or "marked as duplicate".

I have a lot of sympathy with Joel's view that you should mercilessly enforce standards, but some of the "SO approved" moderation and feedback is not just rude, its actually wrong and unhelpful in the wider scheme of things.
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Thank you I did not know about that. Last time I checked with the sales guy it was not going to happen.

I hope they improve their ways, it's a nice tool and I invested a lot of my time into it, but right now GoCD is my default option from now on.
Some guy derailed the conversation for no reason. Jonathan Haidt is far from right wing propaganda (though he is heavily focused on morality and religion like many D's).

Below is a quick dirty quote from Wikipedia.

In chapter 8 of The Righteous Mind, Haidt describes how he began to study political psychology in order to help the Democratic Party win more elections. But in chapter 12 of The Righteous Mind Haidt argues that each of the major political groups – conservatives, progressives, and libertarians—have valuable insights and that truth and good policy emerge from the contest of ideas. Since 2012 Haidt has referred to himself as a political centrist
Which, in turn, will reward no mainstream employers. After 11 years of design/engineering career without a degree, I don't think it's such a big issue.
>That is the issue. Just because someone considers something offensive does not make it so. With a tiny bit of effort, so many things can be "considered offensive". A generous interpretation would be that a governing body must consider it offensive, but more likely this means the recipient of a message can take offense where none is given.

I agree with the principle in theory. Of course outright banning anything "offensive" without clearly defining what is and is not offensive is very open to interpretation and can be abused. But when it comes to writing rules regarding offensive communication and harassment I think it's better to be over-zealous and treat all incidents on a case by case basis, especially in organisations where they're more concerned with incidents being made public and the organisation getting bad PR.

Also an important point is the "cannot be considered offensive" rule is an IT policy, not a general university one. Every employer I've had has made me sign an acceptable use policy from IT that says (among other things) "don't send offensive emails". It's not that much different. As I said in the original comment, the site is an oversimplification of a complex problem, and generic IT policies shouldn't really be considered anti freedom of speech for various reasons.
I just started using godo [1] and I like it so far. Implement tasks in Go, bash, or the provided wrappers around os/exec.

Biggest advantage over a generic tool like Make is that you can import your project dependencies (such as your database configuration) into your task.

[1] https://github.com/go-godo/godo
The Science of Optimal Human Performance: Flow
>In those states, where 60 percent of Propel’s users live, Conduent maintains the database that Propel’s app uses to let people check their accounts.

there's the problem. decentralize the database, i.e., take it out of the hands of a private entity. why do they control it anyways?
As I understand it, these VGA adapters need the bandwidth of USB 3 to function. Raspberry Pi only has USB 2 ports.
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Why SEO Spammers Are Ruining the Open Web
You don't need Cookies. Your browser requests it from Google's server, which gives them your IP address. And your browser sends what webpage you're currently on as part of the HTTP referrer.

So, if every webpage you visit loads in its fonts from Google's CDN, they have your complete browsing history from that alone.

Other commonly used CDNs of Google:
GStatic, JQuery, ajax.googleapis.com
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If you've got an actual argument to make then please make it, I really don't have the time or patience for no-effort bait comments like

>Define "sexual", define "harassment".
Well you do expect them to host and stream your video for free, no matter the quality and quantity of it, of the size of your audience.

If you want to have control of the deal, use something like dtube, otherwise remember you are __doing business__ with google.
Here is an interesting read

http://www.culturewars.com/2002/potter.html
Just replied with a longer argument here

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16911880

tldr is that it's an IT policy not a university one, and every single employer whose email server you ever used has exactly the same policy in place. I actually looked up a few more universities and all the times the "no offensive speech" policy was cited it was an IT policy.
Ask HN: Feedback on this CSS library I am writing
Hi everybody, I would like to get some feedbacks on DSS - a css library that I am working on. DSS stands for Deterministic StyleSheets and aims to solve one of the many issues with CSS that is deterministic styles resolution i.e. when you apply class "a b" b styles should always win over a's. If you invert the order "a" styles will win over "b".

I am a CSS guy and didn't want to make yet another CSS-in-JS library - there are a few that already solve this problem. What I want to do is make a simple library where one can author normal CSS and get those features for free. I want it to be language agnostic so it can be used with any language like CSS Modules do. Technically you could even use preprocessors like SASS before compiling with the DSS compiler.

Any feedback would be appreciated! Thank you

https://github.com/giuseppeg/dss
My team at Vanity Fair launched a paywall today. Any comments/suggestions?
He's not showing off. He used vs code for a while but I believe got frustrated with issues, so he went back to something more stable and familiar for him. I can't blame him there.
For questions like this you should email the moderators - hn@ycombinator.com.

At a guess, posts like this are wildly off topic for HackerNews and will likely get your account banned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16902053
The banks owners LLoyds PLC have an earnings call 26/04/18. Will be interesting to see if this incident is brought up.

EDIT: Sorry correction, looks like they sold the stake in 2015.
I like podcasts, and think we're in something of a golden age for them right now.

However, the "sponsorship" model (a very few advertisers paying content creators to--usually manually--include mention of them in their content) is much more concerning to me than the "black box ad auction" model (content creators get money from an advertising aggregator like Google for putting a box on their page).

There's a spectrum there, to be sure, but with sponsorship it's much easier for advertisers to explicitly or implicitly influence the content creators outside of the "this podcast funded by FooBarCorp!" segments. Even without strong-arming creators, the knowledge of sponsorship can have a chilling effect on some content (i.e. it's just tawdry to start a segment about military drones being bad and then have to state that Lockheed Martin is your sponsor).

This can have two outcomes, neither of them good. Option one is that content creators can spend a lot of time trying to select/vet/court sponsors that align with their interests. This is the NPR model, and even they have trouble getting it right. Smaller creators may not have the time or ability to emulate it.

Option two is content that drifts into the realm of affiliate marketing as sponsors exert more influence over creators.

Neither of those have happened yet because the market is not yet saturated, I suspect.

I'd prefer black-box auctioned ads over that any day, even with the drawbacks of that system (ad aggregator influence, pervasive tracking, content delivery engineered for metrics collection, potential for sketchy ads to run on your site).
My entire time in the UK I've lived in flatshares - out of sheer necessity due to the ridiculous rent prices. This "co-living" space is no exception in that respect. Only somehow they manage to spin it as "hip" to live in a shoebox for 1000£ a month. This is just making money off of the dire housing situation, imho, by squeezing the maximum amount of people into a building.

It's probably fine for short term tennants who just need a place to sleep after work ("bedsits" that are being offered in the city are at least as expensive).

Now, mind you, having lived in flatshares for over 12 years, I've grown to hate it with a passion, so maybe I'm totally wrong here (doubt it).
> Curricula don't have to be easier if you have a large student body, and graduation requirements don't have to be lower.

Only if everyone became a lot more skilled than their grades imply.

Academic achievement is not be a perfect measure, but if you go from the top 3.4% of the population to the top 50%, the only possible situations are:

1) everyone is doing a lot better at school now

2) graduation rate goes down

3) standards go down

Or some combination of those.

That doesn’t mean there is no benefit in getting half the country to spend three more years in education, just that nobody should expect 18.7 times * as many of whatever made you want to get half the population into university in the first place.

* population growth too.
Did you even read the second sentence of the article you opened?

While it might not be happening in the UK so often now, the blatantly racist act — synonymous with treating players as apes or monkeys — endures elsewhere in European stadiums from Spain to Russia.
i would assume they are not contributing but if i wanted to find out if they did, i'd ask them.
should be fairly easy to validate if you know what they're contributing to.

while i agree with your point about this being sub-optimal for both software-development and free software as a whole, i think it is a separate issue.
Wow you are being selective.... Theres is a reason they left her.
Agreed. Good greats for anybody; excellent for people newer to software development (including managers, leads, and other non-programmers). On his website https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ scroll down to "Reading Lists"; he has a link to his archives, as well as top reading lists by topic.
I am planning on releasing a macOS app in the near future.
For a decade we told you "careful, don't rely on giants like google, they are not your friends, they are centralized, they are a private for profit black box, if it's free you are the product, etc".

Now you wake up and say those investments of your years of work are in jeopardy ?

Google is just google. It's nature is clear from the beginning. Their business model is clear from the beginning. The pros and cons of using youtube and the potential future pitfall were known from the beginning.

And even after that, they demonstrating by their actions that you could have problems with them. Many times before today.

It's like complaining about your weight after years of drinking soda.

Soda is not the problem.
This is morrowind, where there is not just invisibility but also chameleon. If you boosted it high enough you essentially were undetectable while stabbing someone in the face under the watch of an ordinator. (Invisibility wears off on actions; Chameleon is more expensive, but does not)

Not that you actually need it, since you can also be invulnerable, perma-healing, damage-to-health converting, flying, damage-reflecting one-hit-killing at the same time. But yes, stealth is an option.