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> If you compare the effort required to get a high paying tech job (really just doing practice problems for a few weeks/months) to any other high paying, professional field we have it much better.

So here's the selfish-as-a-hiring-manager side of not liking the current style of interview questions: I don't want my bar to be so low that studying for a few weeks or months is all it takes.

One or two medium-level problems to make sure they're not full of shit about being able to write code at all, sure, but the rest is gonna be a lot more targeted to the role.
Show HN: Mado – video telepresence for families
And that's how people die. Like slamming the brakes when on ice and losing all traction.

Yeah, it's like dogs digging on paved roads -- your millions of years of experience don't apply to when the technology changes.
Not perfect, but you could connect to wifi, and look at the connections the phone makes.

Of course, it could change its behavior if it detects a cellular connection...
Mado is a new kind of video chat that strengthens relationships across distances and generations.

Like you, we figured the world had enough video chat apps. A few of us started families, and then we realized the existing options maybe weren’t so great after all. Our families still felt disconnected. Our children and their grandparents simply didn’t know one another. Why?

Families are spread out. According to the AARP, 43% of grandparents have to travel 200 miles or more to see one of their grandkids. Because kids are growing and changing so rapidly, every visit between our kids and grandparents can feel like the first visit all over again.

Families are busy. Today, it’s more likely than not for both parents to work, and older Americans to delay retirement. Kids have school and a range of activities after. Finding the time talk has become a challenge. As one parent told us, “It takes six texts to have one video call.”

Video chat is not as easy as it should be. Every call needs 10 minutes of tech support before a conversation can start. Video chat in little hands can be jarring and interruptive. As one grandparent told us, “[Video chat] just feels like everyone’s doing each other a favor.”

Mado is a new kind of video chat for families that’s designed to help children build relationships with their grandparents who live far away.

Mado makes connecting effortless. Tell Mado when to connect, and it automatically turns on live video to eliminate calling, texting, and tech support. It’s so easy, grandkids and grandparents can get together even if the parents aren’t around.

Mado makes connecting fun. Once together, families can focus on each other. Rather than offer experiences that may seem distracting, Mado helps foster collaboration so families can read, do homework, play games, and more.

So, who do you want to spend more time with? Get Mado, and strengthen a relationship with someone special today.

Thank you!

- The Mado Team
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work at large company. can confirm.
I don't understand this. I spent $100 on a Google VR headset recently. It has no tracking or weird crap that would count me as a "product". What are you talking about?

Google has a lot of products, period. Many of them have ASPs in the hundreds of dollars. Google sells real products.
The tech scene seems to be booming in Manchester, NH, so that can't be the only factor.
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How can't this be a legitimate opinion?
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It's not the interviews. It's what it takes to even get an interview. Doctors have 4 years of med school, then 3-7 years of residency, then probably a fellowship if you're in a competitive specialty. Lawyers get 3 years of law school and then probably only get a job at a good firm if they went to a top law school. Then they work terrible hours. Finance jobs are very hard to get unless you have the right background. Other engineers might have an easier interviewing process but they don't get paid as well (plus they need a real engineering degree).
And Google is free to use its billions of dollars of stashed away money for "lobbying".

I'm sure it's going to be a fair fight between the little guy that has a million other worries in his little life and the corporation whose business model is being threatened and therefore will have a laser like focus across years or even decades.
>>> With this system, the researchers claim that the way a person walks and analysis of that individual’s footsteps could be used as a biometric at airport security instead of fingerprinting and eye-scanning, providing a non-intrusive method of identity verification.
Lol. Does anyone here think this is possible given the realities of airport "walking". Pressure patterns? You mean the pressure my feet place on the ground as I shuffle because my laces are untied approaching security? Or my stride length as I drag my roll-aboard with its one broken wheel? Or my pace as I run between flights, limping because one foot is still asleep after eight ours in an economy-class cage.

And ... I don't drink but many people do drink at airports. Everything with your walk changes after a beer or two.

And women in heals.

>>> the process is non-intrusive for the individual

Yes... until I get pulled over for questioning because my walking pattern doesn't match my last walking pattern. TSA is already security theater. If our missteps will result in bad reviews, that theatre is now a security ballet. If you want to make your flight, remember to hit your mark.
How are parents better than bureaucrats in this case? There are countless towns in the US that if left to their own devices would soon resemble Sunday Schools and would utterly fail at educating students to a reasonable level.
This was flagged and dead so I vouched for it and it returned (I wasn't aware I had such power!)

I think it's a very valuable post but I agree the title needs fixing.
I think you are talking about the reverse -- how can FB know you are just an American visiting Europe vs. one actually living there? Because in the latter case, you are covered under GDPR but I don't think you are under the first one.
I like how it's ALWAYS the case in HN that any opinion that's not 100% politically correct && strictly SJW standard compliant is suppressed.
I think film is awesome, provided you have the right process and you actually enjoy that process (or you are fine spending $20/roll to have a lab develop and scan for you). Certainly has been going through a hipster revival of sorts lately.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, such as sports-team-style BigCorp flamewars.
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> physics solves this problem by assigning different people to each phenomenological class (organized by the engineering similarity of the experimental devices needed to probe them)

That's an example of how multiple equivalent formulations of the same theory can be useful for different things even though they are ultimately equivalent.
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In use both companies products.

Os = Windows en android.
Docs en Office
Chromecast
Xbox 360+ kinect
Google
Azure
Google cloud for maps api
Right. Most advances Canon has made in SLRs (say, the AF upgrades the comment you are replying to above mentions) could be easily 'backported' to a film camera: in a real SLR, the sensor isn't exposed to light until the picture is ready to be taken and focus/exposure settings have already been decided, so it's not like those features rely on the digital image sensor in any way.

The reason why Canon doesn't make a film SLR that includes the features that bring their cameras ahead of Nikon is because they don't think enough people will want to pay for them. And that's probably right.
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How hard is it really to run your own VPN from home, connect to it from iOS and have your home VPN block ads?

https://github.com/BobNisco/adblocking-vpn

Why trust a third party that can monitor your traffic?
In the article, Juncker is described as "the head of the bloc’s executive". In reality, he's the former Prime Minister of a dukedom of about half a million people (about the size of Fresno, California) but is now President of the European Commission. And he's complaining about the U.S. president having too much power for his post.
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It's exactly the subject of this article. They even say so.
Keep in mind instructors don't really ever get paid 97% of their list price.

Let's say I give you a coupon to buy my course for $19. Technically I would receive 97% of that, but that never happens because Udemy constantly puts it up for $10 and as soon as you reach the course's description page you will see Udemy's "better" deal, and naturally you'll click that.

So instead of receiving 97% of $19 as an instructor, you'll end up with $5 (50% of $10 because you normally only get 50% revenue).

Also Udemy tries to push instructors to make 7-8+ hour video courses which could easily take 3 to 4 full time months to create.

Then of course they play favorites with certain instructors. For example it's not uncommon for Udemy to reach out to certain instructors and then go into a bounded contract with them which basically says "look, if you make a top quality course, we'll promote the shit out it for you. We'll even give you a direct internal contact and resources to help you make the best course possible for this niche." which essentially means if you're NOT part of this, it will be impossible to compete with someone who is because the biggest factor in ranking well is number of sales + number of positive reviews.

Long story short, I've spent a few years teaching on Udemy (and even made decent $ on it without any special treatment on Udemy) but I'm slowly trying to remove myself from them because of how poorly they treat instructors.
If you're going down this route, I strongly suggest PiHole.
I come from academia and can confirm your #2. If you want to get a professor job, it's all about letters of recommendation, publication in prestigious journals, talks at prestigious conferences, etc. Programming interviews are extremely fair and meritocratic by comparison.
Not the BBC report. Nor the quoted excerpt from the airprox board on HN.
It is hard, but it's very common and pretty easy to prepare for. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect candidates to have stuff like this ready to go.
You're right. That's why we need stronger medicine. Anti-monopoly sentiment is rising quickly.
What is the modern alternative to w2ui
Hello, I would like my site to have a layout "similar" to https://codesandbox.io/s/new . I can find similar layout and navbar in w2ui (http://w2ui.com/web/demo). I keep hearing that there exists more modern alternatives, but I never find any. Am I stupid ?
Search ads do not require the collection of user data beyond the search query to be profitable. it can be argued that they don’t violate user privacy.
Google changes the way people interact with the internet ->
Google changes the way people think about how other people think ->
Google uses it's own metrics of intelligence to determine intelligence WHILE Google is actively changing what intelligence is (or at least what people think it is)

Hm...Sounds like a paradox right?
And in addition to the desktop offerings, they have Azure which has decent corporate penetration, and Xbox which fairly successful in homes. They really dropped the ball on mobile, but perhaps they will claw some back through Surface.
Ask HN: Why SaaS companies do not offer other payment methods?
Most of them do not even accept cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ether.
Why is that? Is it too difficult to accept?
and their hiring standards have also slipped......
Laws don't protect consumers or enforce moral obligation and you know it. They serve as a facade to the population to keep society from disintegrating.

Direct boycotting of companies forces change very quickly.
Yeah, no it wasn't. My comment compared quality of life while failing to account for per-capita GDP. So did GP. How is mine more specific about it?
thanks for pointing that out. terrible housing makes it a complete non-starter.
The 10 year standard counts as well, if I remember correctly.

Basically only deferral or taking the extended 30 year plan don't count.
> Only with the consent of the parents.

Why should the consent of the parents matter when designing the curriculum? If the parents in an area suddenly decides that they all believe the earth is flat, would you be okay with that being the science education?
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Apple bans system-wide adblock as well. Mobile Safari ships with adblock IIRC but that doesn't help with all the other random apps that want to show you ads. Meanwhile, despite Google & Amazon's changes, you can still install any adblock you want on an Android device without using a computer or paying for a signing key as you'd need to on an Apple device by just downloading the APK using Chrome and installing it directly. Alternatively, you could install an alternative app store like F-droid and then install & upgrade adblock apps through there.
Hopefully there's a different bar for different roles.

If you're someone who's been a technical manager for 5 years, and I'm asking you about, say, a time you had to give (or receive, for that matter) negative feedback, then if you've never had to do that I might question the breadth of your experience and readiness a bit.

I think the key here is to be very specific about the type of situation you're looking for, and to ask a bunch of them to get a broad look at the person's experience.
HTML has lots of problems, but it's there, sitting on every computer and mobile phone that you can think of. There's not really another viable cross-platform alternative. Your only option would be to render to HTML5 canvas and create some alternative rendering model from the DOM (not unlike Flash). There are tools that exist to do that today (CreateJS, for example), but they're not mainstream. You pay a huge penalty by going against the standard platform. All the interop, tooling, and libraries out in the world work on HTML/JS. Re-inventing that from scratch and coming up with your own hacks/solutions for accessibility, responsive design, style sheets, components, etc, is expensive and unlikely to succeed. I agree that OOP is an expensive disaster...but thankfully JS is flexible enough to code using functional patterns.
There are multiple app stores available on Android, users are also free to side load apps.
Are you saying that this article makes the claim that the government has successfully dealt with the problem or just that the current campaign seems to be effective?
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I'd argue there is for Medium/Large format, but that's a whole different ballgame compared to consumer SLRs.

Last time I looked the digital back for a Hasselblad was ~$30k.
We've changed the title above to the relevant phrase from the article, which mentions both Google and Apple.

(Submitted title was 'Amazon follows Google and bans system-wide ad blockers on their AppStore'.)
Do the things that have a real impact.

Choosing to work for a defense contractor with restrictions on projects gives them nearly as much benefit as without the restrictions. The fruits of your labor are still easily funneled into military projects and at a minimum they are keeping the company alive longer while serving the military.

This isn't someone doing 80% of what's required. It's them doing active harm to a cause while continuing to take credit for pretending to help.
LibreOffice is now an excellent alternative for both business and home use.
I’ve installed Windows 10 Pro 1803 on two separate machines in the last month. Both with local accounts.
Google / MS / Amazon don't need any credibility and Nikon and Canon already have it? It's a niche business without a ton of growth potential?

Google already got into the pro photo market by buying Nik and decided it was not worth the effort.

https://petapixel.com/2017/05/30/google-abandons-nik-collect...
I agree that there’s something magical about film cameras. I’m 25 years old now, so I’m probably one of the last people to ever experience working in a darkroom during photography class.

There is a sense of anticipation and discovery in having a limited number of photos on a roll of film and not knowing how they’ll turn out until you develop them yourself. Undoubtedly, the photos that you thought would be incredible turn out to be duds, but you’ll also find a gem or two in shots that you thought would be mediocre.

In an age of infinite options, limitless data, and constant connectivity, I’m drawn more and more to these examples of deliberate limitation / non-scalable craftsmanship.
What credibility are Nikon or Canon missing? Both companies have a level of brand recognition unrivaled in the Photography world...? Only in recent years has Sony and maybe Fujifilm developed more respect due to some of their advancements where Nikon and Canon have lacked.

Their DSLR's are market leaders still. Again, only in recent years have Mirrorless cameras have started to catch up with the DSLRs Nikon and Canon have been releasing. Based on current rumors, both Canon and Nikon are supposedly working on their first serious Mirrorless cameras to compete with the likes of Sony's A7 series...

EDIT:
Personally, I would avoid any camera that had Google integration built in. Part of the reason I still carry around a DSLR today is because I like knowing that the photos on my camera, and then stored on a local HDD at my house. I don't think I'm alone in this thought either. Computational Photography is cool and all, but I don't need to provide all my photos into a server farm to be analyzed.
I completely agree, although it would only apply to Apple right now.
the data they collect on those platforms feeds back into improving their ad business. It does not make sense to look into "Chrome" as a business in itself.
They were IMO the only funny/interesting part of their whole interview process. Now it's like a sterile academic discussion.
Bryan from Entrepid Partners here... we find that highly targetted, outbound cold emails are actually the best place to start prospecting.

In our experience, if you do the extra work to personalize the email and focus in on why your product/service is relevant to the buyer's pain points, we've seen response rates as high as 30% with the majority of those replies turning into an intro call with the buyer.
In general I agree with your sentiment. I do think this is different, in a nuanced way, from the ISP bans though.

The ISPs banned them from their platform. Google and Amazon allow these apps on their platform (the Android OS), but are banning them from their app distribution channels.

Taking Google's perspective for a moment, they are not willing the facilitate distribution of apps whose sole purpose reduces their revenue.

These ad-blocker apps can still be distributed and installed outside the app store. I can download from adguard.com and sideload it onto my device.

The interesting question here is if the app stores are considered a functioning monopoly on apps. I lean toward yes.
Americans have an anomalously high death rate due to injury, notably automobile accidents, that significantly drives life expectancy down. It is an adverse consequence of driving far more miles on average than people in any other country. Most Americans know someone who died in an auto accident.

An American that drives relatively few miles over their life changes their life expectancy to be one of the highest in the world. It is a high impact lifestyle choice that I made a decision to adopt many years ago in part for this very reason.
And in the scheme of things there is almost no market for medium / large format cameras (digital or otherwise).
> Google Play are unprofitable.

???

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/05/app-revenue-climbed-35-per...

$20B in revenue.
downloading the global ad blockers from the web (instead of the app store) is a more practical option
>Google’s demotion is undoubtedly only temporary.

I think so, the revenue trend for Google is too strong. Google passed Msft in revenue in FY2016 I believe.

But the public perception around Google has taken some hits, and Microsoft has reformed its public image.

>Still, this is big news for Microsoft who has shifted focus under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella

Hope so, I've been bullish on Nadella.
This is my true "killer feature" from org-mode. I can do outlines in almost anything. Markdown is good enough for a lightweight, text-mode document formatting system.

But the ability to integrate code from any language into a document, and spit that same code out for execution, makes it a near ideal environment for me. I miss some features from IDEs doing this, but honestly it's not that big of a deal for me. I end up having to commit more to memory. Or write up my own tutorial/example section for things that I keep forgetting. You can have code blocks that don'
Powered by Caffe, an open-source framework developed at Berkeley. The irony.
Agreed. That would be an easy fraud case to prove. As an extra check, all these polyps get inspected under a microscope by a pathologist to make sure they aren't cancer. They would also be committing fraud to say the "not a polyp" was a polyp.
I also think Hacker News lens might be focused on smaller companies and startups where Google Docs and G Suite have become much more prevalent.
I said "secretly" for a reason. Because every company does everything by the book ;)
Sigh... That is just absurd. Our company is domiciled here but nearly all our income comes from outside the state so we provide the same economic benefit. Even if the state wouldn't pay moving expenses I'm sure we would for the right candidates.
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But among all the free search engines people choose Google. That has to mean something. It's true after all that competitors are only a click away.

And I'm saying this in spite of being less and less happy with Google's search results lately. It has become very difficult to prevent Google from generalising queries beyond all recognition.
Possibly because until recently NH had all high schoolers take the SATs to be used in statewide assessments. It would follow teachers would then spend classroom time preparing their students for it.
This type of "cares about one thing, not the other" is close to be nonsensical:

Market is complex, there is not one thing or another can explain.
How is the app store unprofitable? Serving too many free apps?
I have used conky to do a lot of similar things in the past. It has a GUI window, but is configured and displays mostly in text.
Australia is a nation of immigrants. About 30% of the Australian population are immigrants, and rising. Less than 50% of Australians have both parents born in Australia.

Australia still manages to have great quality of life (unless you are an Aboriginal). I'm not sure how they manage it, I haven't looked into it, but somehow they have.
That's an unpopular opinion but I am ok with that.

I would rather pay for the apps I use (with money, not eyeball time) than continue this course to the bottom.
>so what, am I suppose to just change careers?

Of course. If you like to make ice cream and the only organization employing people to make ice cream is the mafia, you stop making ice cream professionally.