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At last, they do agree that brainteasers are not a measure of how well you can code. In my _opinion_ code & communication skills should be enough, immaterial of whether you can figure out how to measure 4 gallons using a 5 & 3 gallon jug.
That's what free movement of capital without free movement of people does. Military and economic dominance means USA has a lot of the capital and keeps out a lot of the people. That money is coming from somewhere, like e.g. Africa where you see the opposite trend:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/africa-subsi...
I am very happy to take a month of brushing up on algorithms and so on every few years as I want a new job as opposed to an additional several years of school.
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I agree and even if these talks would be going on what are the chances that Alphabet would be happy for him to go to the press at this stage?
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Matias makes absolutely awesome keyboards, like the Tactile Pro:

http://matias.ca/tactilepro4/

which uses the same keyswitches Apple used in their legendary Extended Keyboard from yesteryear.
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> The traditional excuse for stripping away ornament has been about improving legibility, especially for small screens. This is a fallacy

No, serifs really do have legibility issues, but not for small screens; they cause problems at (very) small font sizes where glyphs are only a handful of pixels tall.

> You can render a serif letter in seven pixels

Yes, but that's pushing it and the legibility will depend on the quality of the font hinting, how the font rasterizer antialiases, and the way subpixels are utilized[1]. Legibility will even depend on the display technology: low resolution fonts on a CRT can be a lot harder to read compared to an LCD. (a shadow mask means phosphors do not align 1-to-1 with pixels[2])

Of course, legibility is in the eye of the beholder, and many people find serifed fonts to be easier to read, while others prefer sans-serif, and some people just don't care. For some people, anything smaller or more complicated than high-contrast 96pt simple sans-serif is unreadable.

> drops the serifs from its logo

A logo, however, is probably (much?) larger than the small font sizes where serifs often have legibility issues.

[1] http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6tw-gulnQ
Good to see someone from Bhilai on HN community?
Look at this chart and you’ll see what he means:

http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cotd52602.png

you really can’t compare them to microsoft
Where did you get the idea that Americans don't have a high quality of life?

If this is an outside looking in scenario, I'll just say that I'm amused and disappointed by international press coverage of the US whenever I travel abroad.
I like it, and have considered adding something like this for my next project. Does seem a bit wordy, though.

My version:
1. Don't be an ass.
2. Anyone who mentions "Code of Conduct" will be immediately banned.
You're right in theory. In practice - especially due to adsense, they HAVE TO track users at least to distinguish fraudulent clicks. At least, fraud was the initial reason for tracking.
This seems exceptionally obvious.

"Better nutrition can increase athletic performance among the poor"

Well no shit!

Education lawmakers are typically the scummiest, grimiest, awful people. Lots of school districts are sabotaged by privilege politics bordering on rye educational equivalent of separate but equal.

That's a strong claim, but I work with a few young men that grew up in rough neighborhoods in Chicago and Boston, and their situations have a lot of similarity when it comes to how school was.

I know the language in this comment is strong, but America is really fucked when it comes to public education. Shit like common core is the tip of the incestuous, corrupt iceberg.

Bad schools lock down neighborhoods within a generation, and are a huge burden on the socioeconomic development of the people there. It's as important in communities as affordable groceries.
Just based on the fact that Google's business model is inherently incompatible with privacy, I'd stay away.

It is in Google's best interest to sneakily track people despite claiming not doing so, and they can be very good at it and do in a way that's undetectable from the outside. In fact, I would be surprised if they're not doing this already.
Hence their shock when they realized how Facebook makes money.
Of course there is a market. Look at used cameras, they sell at very high prices. There is no "mass market", but there is definitely one with quite a few people willing to pay premium for high end film cameras.
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> Well, this isn't the 80s anymore, no one talks of Russia anymore.

What now?
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that's good to know and somewhat depressing.
I don't think that home-made crypto in Telegram is a problem. As long as it cannot be easily broken, it is fine. The real problem is that it requires a phone number (read: your ID) to use it and tries to steal your contact list to its servers. Also, it keeps your messages on their servers forever.

A messenger that really cares about privacy would never require user to provide a phone number and would not keep decrypted messages on the server.
The challenges of integrating with the very conservative and traditional Japanese corporate culture of a Nikon would be enormous. Google had enough trouble with Motorola.

Canon has all the same challenges and also about $47 Billion USD in equity. They're a huge multinational.
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Listen up, I get your use case, but comparing it to Reddit is disingenuous, obviously they're not pushing to enter your email for being able to help you out of the good of their hearts.

Maybe your site does, but Reddit is a huge data mining company just like the other big players on the Internet. That is their motivation. Like Caprinicus' story demonstrates, if the situation were reversed, suddenly it takes weeks to provide customer support. That clearly shows the email isn't about being user friendly, they want to grab it just because they want to lock on to you and let themselves drift away from the anonymous registration they so proudly offered one day.

There's not a lot of goodwill left for this behaviour on the Internet.
One man's decrease in QoL is another man's increase, when it comes to the rural/urban distinction.
Yes, but not for long:

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-ios-1-3-0/
I couldn't think of a better advertisement for AdGuard.
CSS box layout progress currently offers two very powerful systems, Flexbox layout (for mostly adaptive boxes) and Grid layout (mostly for equally sized modules).
You can implement almost all reasonable page subdivisions with CSS, no scripting, no tables, and unless you are too cheap to spend a day or two studying CSS no invasive frameworks.

The two examples you give are actually too different to offer specific suggestions.
Exactly. It's a VPN in name only, and the only reason is to route traffic to be able to bypass the security features in the OS.
I think you can get digital backs starting about 8k for medium format TLR. But yeah, as you point out, higher end digital backs sell for a fortune.
Reading through these comments, especially about Burlington reminds me that everything is relative.

Coming from a relatively rural area, Burlington appears to be thriving, tech savvy and a wonderful place for a young person. I went to school there in the late 90's and just recently visited with my kids and was blown away by the growth outside the city downtown. My wife and I both were intrigued at the idea of living there and wondered if the town/city could support our small business.

However, reading comments from those used to Boston, San Fran or even those who have lived IN Burlington paints a very different picture.

I think if you're coming from a rural area, Burlington is a massive upgrade. However don't expect big-city tech infrastructure or any sort of comparable startup scene if your benchmark are the East/West tech hubs.
>The University does much more to "Jersey" or "Masshole" Vermont, and that doesn't even do much.

Agreed about the impact of 30 people being negligible (and some of them will probably be people who are from VT and want to move back but need a little extra incentive to kick off the process)

That said, the fact that they're looking to import talent instead of retain local talent is what annoys me. There's plenty of STEM grads who don't want to leave northern New England but feel forced to in order to make money.
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Maybe in a decade they'll admit their current interview process is also busted :) .
It does not level the playing field. A foreign company cannot reclaim GST on input cost. A 10% levy will kill the profit margin of the magority of businesses and make it impossible to compete in Australia. You are probably best creating an Aus subsidiary but then you open yourself up to accusations of transfer pricing. In addition it’s likely other countries will do something similar in retaliation and this will hurt Aus exporters. There is a reason why this wasn’t done earlier and it’s because it’s really stupid. Only big businesses can sufficiently amortize compliance cost and hire enough lawyers and accountants to transfer price away the profits to some tax haven. Small businesses will get hosed.
I disagree a bit here, but I do have a limited understanding of the history of education. US high schools lag significantly behind international averages [1] across almost all metrics, and are used for socializing more than other other countries.

It's so easy for us to blame teachers, or to wishfully think they could turn it around on their own, but the approach has to extend beyond the classroom. Non-school factors are estimated to have 4-8 times the impact as teacher quality. [2]

We should work on removing vocational program stigma and drop the illusion that everyone should aspire to a 4 year degree, even if in disciplines with terrible job markets, to "succeed".

I really wish there was some way of incentivizing parents to be more involved, or moving to year round all day education to mitigate their impact.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/02/high_sc...

[2] https://www.rand.org/education/projects/measuring-teacher-ef...
Those ones need root. The VPN ones are there to bypass this requirement.
Actually, yes. I was pitched by ad reps from the largest carrier - they claimed to be able to send an SMS when one of their customers enters a geofenced area.
The real complaint right now should be Babel v7 -- or more specifically, the community around it. Babel v7 has been in development for quite a while. It's still changing and isn't even a RC yet.

I understand the need to test new compiler builds, but production isn't the place to do that (especially not until a RC is released). A beta designation is meaningless if its used as though it were just a normal production release.

Using a beta compiler in production tools, libraries, etc shows EXTREME inexperience. I have a number of dependencies that I cannot update because the new versions rely on various v7 builds (ranging from ancient alphas to bleeding edge betas).

I suspect the issue is that most JS dev teams are small with projects small enough that edge cases are uncommon and easier to find and fix.

Stackoverflow dev survey shows that the average US dev is 28.7 (down from 31.6 in 2015) with an average of 10 years of experience despite 58% having less than 5 years of experience.

That means that on average, you have a very young team. Further, the vast majority of teams most likely do not have ANYONE with more than 5 years behind them. It's not surprising that such things aren't recognized for the disaster-in-the-making that they are.

Web technologies have settled down and stabilized dramatically over the past 3 years. I suspect that as more web devs gain more experience, we'll see this continue as rashness is replaced with a more conservative approach.
If you are a great programmer, then within two weeks of working with me you will be great at my company - in fact when asked how you are doing I will be shocked when I realize that you have only been here 2 weeks instead of 5 years.
Only in recent years have Mirrorless cameras have started to catch up with the DSLRs Nikon and Canon have been releasing.
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I think most people really don’t understand the wide breadth and the real market of Microsoft as compared to other companies. Just look at these charts of income sources of each company:

http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cotd52602.png

Google is literally just Ads whereas Microsoft is very evenly spread. If it lost one area itd be fine in the others.

I think people have an exposure bias where they can only comprehend fo the consumer market. When in reality a lot of the consumer market is free and Microsoft is making a killing selling to businesses.
It seems like a hidden success factor of organizations is alignment between the success of each individual within the organization with the success of the organization. At the size of a large retail operation that seems exceptionally hard.
>MS collects user data but so do Ubuntu and CentOS

Wow, that wins the most disingenuous statement of the year. Ubuntu just asks for your system configuration, which you can say no to.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-data-collection-o...

Microsoft's data collection is far more insidious and can not be disabled.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2968288/microsoft-wind...

Microsoft also collects:

- User contacts

- Calendar data

- Location data

- Keyboard input (keylogger)

- Microphone input (wiretap)

- Local files

- Installed programs

- How long you interact with programs

- Browser history
I recently wrote one for C# / MSSQL. I've been using EF on side projects, but work was concerned with it, so I just wrote a CRUD sproc / Entity / Repository / Service / DTO generator. Connect to a database and select the tables you want to build for, and done. 5 layers of abstraction in under a second. It gets me to about 95% of what I need and I custom build the special circumstance stuff from the generated objects. It creates the "if exists / drop" stuff, exception handling and comments w/ dates in the sprocs that reference the objects in C#, and vice versa, what table was referenced, proper [Key] and [MaxLength] attributes, etc. Puts them in their proper folders for git too. It does exactly what I would have done had I done it manually.

Works great with no ORM abstraction and it was fun to write.
I'm guessing you're downvoted because your implied solution is no better (and arguably worse) than parent's "unless you jailbreak". Regardless, it's not a solution for "normals":

1. Download and install Xcode.

2. Find the source code for the application you want. You know GitHub works, right, Grandma?

3. Compile, sign, and deploy to your device. Assuming it built without error, that is.

4. Aww, shit, Apple's signing process is still a hot mess. Best get to Googlin' on those validation errors!
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Laszlo Block was never a useful source of information on how Google worked. He just used his position to gain attention and publish books.
I can't understand why MS hasn't made an Adsense competitor, it'll be a fairer fight.
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No need. Even film cameras from the early 2000s sell for quite cheap these days and take excellent photos. What matters for film more is the end medium, i.e. the film itself. The optics and sensors make it easier to take good pictures but that hasn't changed the game for film since the 70s, except for specific things like sports where having a camera that can take 6fps was a great feature.
That's okay if you run your own router. Point your device to that as default gateway, then the router can catch any DNS connections and do pi-hole style lookup mapping.

Pfsense is one good example.
IANAL but I think you still need to sign a data processing agreement with them and have your users confirm that they'll have access to their data.
Getting down votes from all the supremacists I guess. Their standing with Andrew Anglin and stormfront.

I said it and I'll say it again: Nazis and white supremacists are not welcome here.
Elaborate on this.

Are you saying Google has crossed the line into social intelligence territory like china has?

Is there evidence for this, beyond "google is bad!!1!" ?
When a metric becomes the target, it becomes subject to manipulation and the metric becomes no longer useful.
Nobody owes you anything. He gets to have whatever perspective he wants and it's not rude because you disagree with it. You need to take a step back and pretend for a moment that your perspective isn't the only one.
I wish the whole package.json could be replaced with something like this.
This is a shame. For professionals, it has long made sense to make the transition to digital. For the amateurs of the world and those of us doing it for the sheer joy of it, film is unsurpassed.

Developing B&W prints is as close to magic as I've experienced. For those who don't know, B&W paper isn't sensitive to red light, so once you've exposed the paper, you can put it in the developer and actually watch the image appear. Plus there's something about the smell of a darkroom. The hot lamps of the enlargers create a smell that mixes with the smell of the fixer and the stop bath that's unmistakable.

Would I want to do any of this if I were shooting weddings? Definitely not. If I'm taking my camera for a walk and want to see what I've captured, absolutely!

The other thing that's a damned shame is the way the manufacturing has changed. I've long been a Pentax man, and the old Super-Takumar and Super-Multi-Coated (as distinct from the later SMC) lenses are a pleasure to use[0].

Everything about the way they fall to hand is perfect, and the machining is immaculate. The focus ring is scalloped and knurled, and it's metal. They must have cost a fortune to make. The SMC, K, M, and I'd assume the A series lenses have a lot more plastic on the outside of the lenses, but the feel of the focusing helix is still beyond reproach. Modern lenses, by comparison, are made so that they can be driven by the autofocus mechanisms, and the feel of the ring in manual mode is terrible.

That isn't to say that the modern lenses are optically worse; I'm sure the situation is quite the opposite. Nonetheless, something has been lost. Again all of this is moot for most people looking for the most productivity out of their tools, or for the people shooting casually. The small group of people in the middle, they'll miss it.

Honestly, it's like CD (or any other digital medium) vs records. Records are quantitatively worse by any measure, but for the sheer pleasure of the experience, they can't be matched. If I want to sit down and actually listen to music, part of the enjoyment is the smell of the record and its sleeve, and the tangible process of putting the needle on the record.

[0] Super Takumar and SMC Takumars here: http://blog.prairierimimages.com/2011/08/old-glass-asahipent... The Super-Multi-Coated Takumars are essentially identical from the outside.
> That says a lot about how few they have been selling.

Well, Canon has done zero marketing for this model and focused solely on digital cameras, so I would even wager nobody knew it was still being sold!
This is not very surprising news - very recently I was wondering who still sells film cameras. Digital has surpassed film in almost every way.
It is however quite scary to see technology completely go away which was so common not long ago, sometimes even completely lost as technology. You can’t buy proper Polaroid film any more, many other important film materials are completely gone as well.
That's why I said "in the scheme of things". It's a tiny business. I love cameras and will probably have a medium format digital camera at some point, but it's a tiny business that can't move the needle in a $34b company like Canon.

Put another way, if over night Canon had won 100% market share of all film cameras it would not be noticeable in the next quarterly earnings report.
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I don't think it's karma per-se, I think it's his marketing strategy. Take this very specific instance and we have:

1) OP submits 2-3 stories per day

2) OP comments far less frequently than his submission rate and those comments are almost never on his own submissions

3) OP's profile contains contact information for him as a B2B consultant and a link to his blog
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Who needs social credit scores telling you what to think when you have HN!
Anecdotal, but installed Home on my computer about a month ago and used a local account with no problem.
Just spending money on education is meaningless unless it is used wisely. This is a common political tactic to talk about how much a politician authorized or increased spending on a program that is important to his or her constituents but it says nothing about the results. President Obama started the military down the path toward "smarter, not more expensive" weapons programs. That thinking should be expanded into everything.
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What world are you in? I have a Cox cable and AT&T bill for just internet/data.
" describe a time they solved a difficult problem."

I actually like this type of question either as being interviewer or the interviewee. At least it allows me to demonstrate the thought process I put into a problem I actually encountered instead of talking about stuff I never had the need to do like a lot of algorithmic stuff.
Thank You so much for This question. I Want to start a blog about my grad school learnings as well. I found available online resources for some topics somewhat lacking and hoped I could fill the breach. But I never dared to pose as an expert on the topics, since most of my knowldege comes from the lectuters and associated materials. The awnsers to your question really helped me out!
Using subresource integrity "random-js-library" hosted on a 3rd party isn't "arbitrary code execution", as the useragent will refuse to run the script if it's hash changes in any way from what you provided.

The same can be used with all other "subresources" like stylesheets and fonts! However Google specifically makes this hard as they have been known to update the served font from time to time, which if you are using SRI will break the font entirely.
My hunch is Sylvan was just trying to moving conversations about Pony language past some of the "shallower" topics that swirl around new languages.

The amount of times new language conversations nitpick c-style semicolons and curly brace blocks, lisp's parentheses, prolog ending statements with a ., or Python's significant whitespace ... It's exhausting. If I never have to read the words "visual line noise" causing "cognitive load" again I'll be happy. It's not that those aren't occasionally interesting but they are over trodden topics.

I've found myself steering conversations like this: "It's not the language it's the runtime!" Whats interesting about erlang, go, and pony are the runtimes. The languages play a role in how they expose those goodies but that's a conversation well beyond whitespace and semicolons.
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