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Your point is that Soviet education was bad. By 1980 it was as good (if not better) than American education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_the_...

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-Soviet-Union-education-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2ycco6/how_d...

What you're talking about is Lysenkoism and it was mostly during Stalin rule. Later Soviet biologists actually criticized Lysenko and the whole anti-genetics stance. Similar movements also happened in Western science, like Social Darwinism for example.
They invested $175M in LivingSocial, rebranded it "Amazon Local", then killed it off.
CloudFront has this anti-pattern it drives me nuts!
Ukrainian and Russian (and Polish) are spoken within the borders that today are called Ukraine, and are not the same language...
When a friend posts on Facebook and it doesn't show up in my feed that's FB making a call as to what to show me.

Why? Because algorithms.

Maybe "censorship" is a strong word in this instance — do we prefer "selective disclosure"?

Regardless, not what I signed up for. Deleted FB.
Smartphones used to track migrations caused by climate change
I noticed a very substantial drop in scammy ICO ads on my Facebook account.
>Statistics have a well-known liberal bias.

Especially FBI crime statistics.
You failed because:

> One is counterfeit and is either heavier or lighter

It turned out the counterfeit was lighter and you discarded it after the first weighing.
Actually, with Tensorflow as a Keras backend, I would expect them to be the same. I am not sure where the performance difference between TF and TF as a backend come from.

I do think that pure TF would be easier to scale up over multiple servers etc. but that's only because I don't know how it would work in Keras. Maybe its easy.
A marketplace and something like pharmacy are completely different. They will still get their drugs from known producers, and on the generics side you'd have things like teva.
How has this not been a thing since Reaganomics became standard policy for the last 6 administrations?
You could consider it to be another API - like that provided by AWS. An API with hundreds to thousands of endpoints, and each endpoint can have several dozen endpoint-specific arguments. An API that evolves over time, that you need to keep on top of.

And an API which, like all forms of abstraction, falls apart at the seams. There are still networks, interfaces, operating systems, files, cron jobs, sockets, flow logs, ACLs, security holes, and so forth.

Do you, as a developer, want to spend all the time required to keep up with that API? To be the one expected to fill the gaps when the abstraction falls apart? Or do you want to hire someone to take care of that for you?
Because the technology and hardware being debated was obsolete.
What got me thinking about corporate evolution was Richard Dawkins, who applied concepts from evolutionary biology to non-biological spheres with "meme". You might consider his book "The Selfish Gene".

This is a popular line of thought (try googling "corporation evolutionary biology", which gets you to pages like https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-biology-of-corporate-survival ), but it has a weakness: it's hard to be rigorous. In the field of evolutionary biology, experiments are hard to design and hypotheses are hard to falsify, so a lot of the writing is deeply infected by the author's prejudices.

I'm sure there's something there, and I'm confident that whatever it is is more plausible than fragile conspiracy theories like the Illuminati. But exactly how non-biological entities compete and evolve is hard to say.
DRF's code is realtively easy to read and it's designed in a way where you can just roll your own parts quite easily.
Somewhat unrelated. Advertisers dont want their to be a clear distinction anymore. Hell pretty soon the most effective marketing strategy wont be shameless plugs but offhanded ones. Ones that sneak in like oh hey yeah I was using x the other day and it helped me with y. Once gun manufactuers catch up it might look something like: popular social media user offhandedly mentions purchase of lgun, posts some pictures firing gun, learning gun safety, talks about how much fun they had. Itll be hard to censor and I wouldnt be shocked.
Up until 90 minutes ago the previous change to this was 8 months ago. Before that it was 4 years ago.

I think you might be complaining about out of date documentation :)

Given django's docs are impressive, I doubt this is used actively by people.
I'm wondering, is there support for multiple queries in one request in DOH (DNS over HTTPS)? Currently that looks like where browsers are most likely to try new things.
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I can fully believe that. Try for instance to have a discussion here on hacker news about the less fortunate sides of diversity initiatives.

Then see how many minutes it takes before your entire thread is flagged and effectively censored.
Anyone know what linux desktop they are using?
I don't think refusal to allow a custom emoji with a hashtag is censorship - they didn't ban the hashtag. Custom emoji are a business/marketing/advertising thing, and if we want to restrict the ability of private businesses to decline advertising deals with other private businesses for any reason at all (including "we just don't like you"), that's a whole different conversation, and one I suspect many conservatives will not be pleased with the outcome of.

As the article says, this move cost Twitter millions in revenue. If you don't have the ability to just choose not to make money because you're not interested in the transaction, you don't actually control the company, the public does.
Really? You put a dozen people on the same _project_? I find it hard to believe that your project is so unique that A) requires 12 devs and B) is also deployable by all 12 of them (without relying on automation) in a way that doesn't throw off any of the other 12.
> Does the GDPR do anything to put your concerns on this issue to rest?

If the company starts doing things right ONLY after there's some legislation making the wrong thing illegal, what does that tell you about the company?
People wash their hands. People don't usually wash their phone.
The difference is that before languages were newly created too, due to separation. Now, languages just die.
The word can't is used in the title.
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There are clearly some ethical concerns with creating an open market for organs. The Israeli system I think is a great compromise. In Judaism, corpses are sacred so even autopsies can be controversial in some circles. Therefore the organ donor rate was very low. The solution? Whoever is a registered organ donor receives priority over those who aren't. Since there are so few organ donors in Israel, having priority is crucial and can mean the difference between life and death. Therefore the number of organ donors have skyrocketed. I think it is an ingenious system.

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/164976/is...
Interesting.
So do you recommend Keras+Tf as well, or drop Tensorflow altogether ?
The amazing thing about 1 is that modern immutable database patterns get it for free. When things like https://www.datomic.com/ get mainstream the world is gonna be in a very different place. Not as in today's apps get faster, but as in they are so much faster that new kinds of apps become possible that couldn't have been dreamed of before. My startup http://www.hyperfiddle.net is an experiment in this space
Being banned by a user-moderated forum is not equivalent to being censored by a social media platform.
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Google Home and Chromecast outage hits millions of users worldwide
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I can already get my pharmacy prescriptions from mail order fulfillment houses (up to 90 day supplies even depending on the prescription). What does Amazon offer on top of that? I’ve never not been within 15-20 minutes of a Walgreens or CVS when I needed a prescription immediately, so I don’t see what benefit Amazon brings to this.

They’re (Amazon) not faster, I don’t care if they’re cheaper (insurance coverage), and I don’t trust them (supply chain, motivations, etc).
Which is highly distributed with multiple contributors, maintainers, etc. The "monolithic" aspect is just one glorified repo: Linus's
Investigation of fake net neutrality foes has been stymied by the FCC
To be fair, when you're actually in work, do you not find a less cramped keyboard, proper magic mouse (or magic trackpad) and dual monitors make you more productive? I know they do me.
And it's true. Case in point: the gun emoticon.
That is insane...
Are there examples of Democrat-funded attack ads like this with hashtags that Twitter allowed icons for?

EDIT: I ask because this is an example of an attack ad targeted to an individual candidate rather than a general promotion or political concept, which I can see why Twitter wouldn't necessarily want to promote.
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Armies of lawyers I guess. Don't need soldiers if someone else is doing the enforcing.
> Post an article in r/politics about anything positive Trump has done and you'll get a ban.

That's no more "censorship" than me unfriending you on Facebook would be.

> On Facebook, a similar phenomenon might occur due to liberal users reporting conservative ideas they don't agree with as hate speech.

That'll put it in a review queue, upon which Facebook employees make a decision. If it gets deleted, it's because you violated Facebook's rules.
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It’s an alternative, selectable by changing the proxy-mode flag on kube-proxy. If the iptables implementation is working for you, I wouldn’t necessarily jump to it—though note that iptables has a big performance hit when you start getting to hundreds to thousands of overlay IPs and you’ll notice it if you manage a mid-to-large sized cluster. Certainly worth playing with (throw it on for a node or two for now), or worth the default for a new cluster, but like with any recently stable option, if it ain’t broke …
> I don't think refusal to allow a custom emoji with a hashtag is censorship

It is if you allow the other side to do exactly the same, as noted in the linked article.
They could acquire them purely as an investment that generates returns. A dividend, or whatever.
> what's stopping Facebook from introducing FaceCoin tommorrow

The same thing that's stopping them from building a rocket ship or a Facebook-branded pocket knife. Why would they do it?

Either this theoretical coin gives Facebook some advantage -- i.e. the ability to mint new coins at a whim, or an ICO that gives them a bunch of capital -- in which case that will make it unappealing to large swathes of users compared to fiat or existing cryptocurrencies, or exposes them to possible regulatory risk in exchange for capital, which they can easily raise through normal capital markets. Or it gives them no advantage, so ... why do it?

Purchasing a company like Coinbase doesn't seem to make sense to me in terms of aligned business goals, but my experience with M&A people is that it doesn't really matter -- they get rewarded based on perceived dollar value and execution, rather than whether their actions benefit the company. In the end nothing would surprise me here, but a priori acquiring a growing company at a perceived discount to its discounted future value is a good use of cash, even if only seen as an investment.
Even Old English is pretty much unreadable by most speakers of Modern English. They still used runes rather than Latin letters 1500 years ago, but even transliterated you'd have a hell of a time.

First stanza of Beowulf in Old English, transliterated into Latin characters:

> Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning. ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned, geong in geardum, þone god sende folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat þe hie ær drugon aldorlease lange hwile.
It's like the rest of the country doesn't really exist to certain people.

There are SO many cities with environments that this is possible, you just have to do a little cursory research. Businesses in these cities are hiring all the time because no one thinks about them. They don't have enough Starbucks or bike lanes. So we get articles talking about "can't" when it's really "won't."

Austin, Dallas, Kansas City, Des Moines, Detroit, Tampa, Miami...

The list goes on and on of medium sized cities starving for dev talent without enough coworking spaces or incubators.
>Any developer who hasn’t taken the time to learn basic RDMS theory like normalization, indexing, foreign keys, etc. doesn’t take thier craft seriously.

Yet I've never once been asked about this in an interview despite using it maybe once a week for years.

O(n) on the other hand...
Yep, I'm running Arch. Battery is great. On my work laptop (the 6th gen) I easily get >7 hours if I'm not doing things in the browser too much. Yes I know there are a million factors, and my general use case isn't the same as everyone elses. Let's put it this way, the way I use my previous mac and my new thinkpad, the thinkpad lasts around 1.5x as long (sometimes more).

In terms of WiFi. I haven't noticed it being worse than my mac, but I also don't think I've ever dug deep enough into this kind of thing on either platform to really say. Every time I've spent any energy looking into WiFi it's been on Linux.
I'm amazed how well the music sounds, especially with instruments like glockenspiel and pad.

Is there a license for the generated music? It would be nice to include it in Youtube videos, for example.

Jukedeck is another music generator (https://www.jukedeck.com/), but they limit to 5 songs per month for free accounts, I think.
Didn’t sound like a political point to me, just a reflective/thoughtful comparison.
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> The increasing scope of responsibility of the "developer" (whether or not that term is even appropriate anymore is debatable) has given rise to a chimera-like job candidate: the "full-stack" developer. Such a developer is capable of doing the job of developer, QA team member, operations analyst, sysadmin, and DBA.

Is this really what a full-stack developer is understood to be? I'd always assumed it was just someone who was comfortable doing both frontend and backend development on the same project.
1999 Amazon when after Ebay with Amazon Auctions, about the same time Amazon zShops (now Marketplace) started. Back then a big bet in terms of money and resources that failed.

https://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/04/early-amazon-auctions.h...
That would be weird in this situation since "I mention every gender in general" would be quite a bizarre response (and behavior)... and arguably even more fuel for subsequently accuse the speaker of sexism if that's the intention.
Or don’t, and keep your immune system on its toes. Over-cleanliness is known to be problematic, and it’s why we have kids who can be taken out with a peanut. If dirt in a a particular regime is positively linked to illness (i.e. cross contamination of raw meats during food prep) then take measures. On the other hand the mere fact that something is dirty or bacteria-laden is not a reason to run for antiseptic wipes.

The whole world is teeming with bacteria, most of it is harmless.
All the time.

They tried to make a move into retail registers to compete with Square, and failed. They shuttered Amazon register in 2015: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/amazon-shutting-do...

They tried to take on Etsy with Amazon Handmade which bombed Etsy stock, but Handmade has gone pretty much nowhere, except some re-branding this year.

People just forget Amazon's failed ventures, even fairly high profile ones, because there are so many, and the hits sometimes so large (like AWS).

Quoting myself from April:

> Amazon's ethos of "Announce fast, Release fast, if it fails, oh well" is intentional. From Bezos' point of view, this is actually a feature. In a shareholder letter in 2016, he called Amazon "The best place in the world to fail." He wants lots of teams working on lots of products, and if some of them don't pan out, that's OK. This has lead to a lot of successes, but also a number of small headaches for consumers who use products that are quickly discontinued and (charitably) forgotten.
I agree and have noticed the same thing. Some engineers won't turn in code unless it's perfect which can be at the detriment of the company.

If the code is being written/problem solved is for your job, you need to come up with the solution has the most business value and impact, not just spend the time to write the best code that will also happen to solve the problem.
This is already similar to how a lot of gun culture videos on YouTube operate. Go watch Hickhock45. Guy just shoots and chats about guns in a casual, mostly non-political manner. He’s really popular and the whole shebang is one big (indirect) advertisment for various firearms.
I don't understand the inclusion of wealth inequality stats. How do rich people making more money affect the "average" American? The idea of forcing an upper limit on wealth is the exact opposite of the American system.
Part of my perceptions were likely shaped by my previous employer, which was completely schizophrenic, technology-wise. We were never allowed to complete anything, and I think our performance was measured on how quickly we could become 30% proficient with some new technology stack before our work-in-progress would be tossed out and we were redirected to work on something totally unfamiliar. Rinse, repeat.

It really made me yearn for just a year or two of competence and productivity on some set task in between having the rug pulled out from under us.
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9409089.pdf (DOI:10.1063/1.531249) cited 3221 times:

Let us begin with a maximally dense object, a black hole. It will be assumed that the entropy is found on the horizon and that no more than one bit per Planck area can
stored there.

The only thing I stated incorrectly was planck cubed instead of square.

https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.74....

The metaphorical name of the principle (’t Hooft, 1993)
originates here. In many situations, the covariant entropy bound dictates that all physics in a region of space is described by data that fit on its boundary surface, at one bit per Planck area

https://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/787/483/RUG01-0017874...

3.5 Holographic screens

An important implication of the holographic principle is that all the information in a given region can be encoded on a surface B, at a density of one bit per Planck area. We can now ask ourselves if the information contained in an entire spacetime can be encoded on a certain
hypersurface, which we will call a screen.

What's that you were saying? I can't hear you over the sound of how right I am.

And why is a planck area one bit?

Because at the planck length, h=G=c=k=1. Where h is the Planck constant, G is Newton's constant, c is the speed of light and k is Boltzmann's constant. Or if you like some Einstein. E=mc^2 reduces to E=m
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It's not just the welfare state that makes this possible, it's maybe more so the fact that (as far as I understand) Germany has a functioning housing market, and Berlin especially is very cheap for such a big city.

In many parts of Europe housing costs would have killed you.
Author doesn't understand the DevOps skillset. The average developer can hack things together, but they don't have an appreciation for operational principles. DevOps is actually higher on the totem pole than dev, because DevOps requires you to be skilled in both operations and dev. A traditional ops person couldn't cover for a dev, but neither could a regular, even "full stack" developer stand in for a sysadmin.
I heard it on a podcast and I am going to butcher the explanation but they explained it as knowing the “abstract machine”.

When I started learning AppleSoft Basic back in the 80s, I knew how to optimize my BASIC programs because I knew how the interpreter worked and so knew assembly.

When I started learning C#, I knew both C, Win APIs and how the CLR worked.

But for a web developer who communicates with backend servers, I think it’s important to understand HTTP.
Ask HN: How does your company allow remote access to internal tools?
Whether you’re a startup or work at Google, how are your internal tools accessed remotely? What is your workflow? Is everything backed behind a VPN or do you have a proxy service that once authenticated allows you internal access?

SSH bastion is common for SSH access, I’m curious about dashboards, wikis, etc.
We're definitely going to hear a lot more on service mesh in the coming period. In one of my startups, we are in the process of implementing a service mesh based on Istio (using Kubernetes and Docker). For complex transaction handling, our goal is to implement them using an event-driven design (RabbitMQ). So our architecture will end up being a hybrid of service mesh (service orchestration) and event-driven. We feel that is the way to go to build complex microservices based architecture.
The exact same way it happens on this site: users flag, system automatically responds, moderators might also respond, and if they do, typically it is to confirm censorship that has already begun.
I am genuinely surprised that that combination is affordable in Berlin. Not like that is a small city or anything. How can you possibly find that much space at an affordable price?
Guy is director of advertising for RNC, so smoking gun no. What part of their message was censored.
There's also the self-censorship that develops by encountering moral outrage when one express's one views on a social media site.
Thank you for bringing up the PWA. Before Instagram didn't allow posting pictures. Just opened it and added to homescreen and it works and looks just fine. Will have it in parallel for few days, but I think Instagram is going away and I hope much of other apps as well.
> This begs the question, why doesn't Facebook just completely redo their apps? I'm sure it wouldn't take long to achieve feature parity with the old app

It's hard to tell on the internet . . . you mean this as satire, right? It would take a hilarious amount of time and money to achieve feature parity.
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Well put. The article makes it sound like training the "quiet eye", i.e. improving eye focus by X percent, will improve elite athlete traits of calmness and zone/flow. When cause/effect operating in the opposite direction is equally (if not more) likely.
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I dual boot Linux and Windows.

I wish I could just use Linux, but any program that is likely to need to use my Nvidia graphics card just needs to be on Windows.

I don't want my laptop to be constantly using a hot gpu just for displaying the screen, as I need to have EITHER the gpu or integrated graphics selected for use - swapping requires a restart.

Windows has the capability to swap between the integrated graphics for simple display tasks, and GPU for more intensive tasks.

Linux has bumbleebee but it hasn't been actively developed in years. I know the main cause is Nvidia's attitude but it is still disappointing.