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Kudos apple for this. Even though most of these (including this one) dont benefit me, this is always good to see. So many of these accessibility devices are ridiculously expensive, and Airpods are far cheaper than hearing aids. Maybe a little competition will bring down the prices to something more reasonable.

Only 1/3rd of the 15% with hearing loss are using hearing aids. That's a lot of suffering for what is really just from poor insurance in the US:

High-quality hearing aids fitted by an audiologist cost between $2,200 and $7,000 per pair. Prices vary by region, but the average cost of a mid-level pair of hearing aids is about $4,500.10 Most private insurance does not cover hearing aids. Only 3 states—Arkansas, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island—mandate coverage for adults, and just 20 states require that children’s hearing aids be covered by health insurance.11 Insurance companies say that they do not cover hearing aids because hearing aids are “elective” or because, unlike cochlear implants, hearing aids do not require a medical doctor’s prescription or surgical intervention.
...

Hearing loss can have a dramatic impact on work performance, family and social relationships, and mental health. Studies have found that hearing impairment is significantly associated with depression and social isolation, particularly among women.16,17 A national survey found that hearing loss also has a negative impact on household income, with a loss of earnings up to an average of $12,000 per year, with the severity of hearing loss directly correlated with the amount of lost income. The use of hearing devices was found to mitigate this effect by 50%.

https://altarum.org/health-policy-blog/millions-of-americans...
I wonder what breitbart smells like?
Outside the USA and its cultural appendages, Canada, South Korea and the like, it is assumed that anyone who goes to university has studied the liberal arts at secondary/high school. Given the low quality of secondary education in the US in the formative period of its third level system this could not be assumed so what would in Europe be considered (grammar school) high school classes and subjects are taught at university.
March 2017, to be precise...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

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My first CC programming course (early 80's) was in Fortran (probably because of that mainframe they had chilling in the server room,) but I had several others on micros (TRS-80!) I have found being exposed to multiple environments helpful in the time since then.
I'm not saying that they'll abandon it, I'm saying that as publicly available art trends towards realism, being an 'asset flip' won't be such a bad thing anymore.
Not so much, because they'd be more aware of their UTC offset. I usually get people not even knowing that their timezone changes with DST.
Your characterization of adjuncts is unnecessarily harsh. Many simply enjoy teaching in a university environment and aren't "desperately clinging" to anything.
Twelve hours of video for $20, if you only watch it once, does not qualify as 'prohibitively expensive'.
While I share your views on DRM for rented media, I think the broader point here is if we continue to accept this form of access, the idea of "owning" [an indefinite, singularly transferable license for] media (eg a DVD) will evaporate.

I honestly don't have answers here but being reliant on a stack of third parties just to have continued access to my favourite films isn't a prospect I look forward to.
I read all 13 pages of that article and didn't find any discussions refuting the possibility that it could be something else, like some piece of equipment on a submarine. The fact that it's very close to 50Hz mains frequency and is otherwise very "un-whale-like" in behaviour suggests to me that it's man-made.

This is probably getting into the realm of conspiracy theory now, but what better than to disguise a submarine to make it sound like a whale, and moreover convince everyone else that it is? Of course if it is actually some highly classified stealth submarine, we may never know...

It somewhat reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton_(astronomy)
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> (I've never had an interview where they asked about my college education.

They don’t ask, but many places throw your resume without a bachelors into the trash at the first step in the hiring process. Ask me how I know.
I'm at least as amazed that you can't fathom why people would see benefits in applications being self contained. For all of time, anyone installing anything has appreciated applications that have very few dependencies. At scale, much of the Ops complexity of many organizations comes from matching the production environment with the development environment. That goes away when applications are self contained.

I don't mean to argue that one way is better than another. Of course there are down sides to things being self contained. Just that if you can't understand the benefits of things being self contained, you might not be thinking hard enough.
How likely do people think it is that we'll see another divestiture a la Bell Telephone with Alphabet and Amazon?

I'm not going to make the case for divestiture, I don't really know what should be done. It seems to me that the places you'd divide these businesses are far fuzzier, and the argument that their free or cheap products are hurting consumers is more difficult to make, but that there is no real chance of a new competitor challenging them in the market and that liberties protected by our governments offline are increasingly offered at their pleasure online.
Using make up to defeat facial recognition has been a thing since at least 2010: https://cvdazzle.com/

Juggaloes make for a good headline though.
I don't think your view is quite right. That is, some private companies operate as common carriers, and therefore are not allowed to censor what their users do. For example, your local phone company cannot censor someone on the basis of their political speech, nor can FedEx refuse to deliver material with a right wing bent.

Also, Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins established that "under the California Constitution, individuals may peacefully exercise their right to free speech in parts of private shopping centers regularly held open to the public, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by the shopping centers", and that "under the U.S. Constitution, states can provide their citizens with broader rights in their constitutions than under the federal Constitution, so long as those rights do not infringe on any federal constitutional rights." (Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R... .)

That is, there can be free speech rights even at a private business.
I have 0 love for what Google is doing and turning into, but this article is deeply flawed. Their focus is implicitly on the accuracy rate of Google's actions, yet it makes no effort to statistically demonstrate this. What would matter is not an anecdotal incident, but estimations of the error rate of Google's algorithmic censorship/deranking/demonitization as compared to how human's might perform. Humans regularly make dumb mistakes if not out of misunderstanding then out of sloppiness. Are these algorithmic decisions more accurate, on average, than we might expect of a collection of humans along the lines of Amazon's Mechanical Turk? We can only speculate, but I'd be quite surprised if they were not, but if so that refutes this article's entire premise.

This is one of the biggest problems with advertising driven media. They love anecdotal evidence because we love anecdotal evidence which means the story gets clicks and they get their ad bucks. But it entirely misses the point of issues. For instance here, should the issue be the accuracy rate of Google's behaviors or Google's behaviors themselves and their desired endgame? Their accuracy, as a whole, is almost certainly going to be quite acceptable relative to human accuracy. So consequently you end up targeting them in a spot where they're extremely well 'defended.' By contrast, I think the world Google is trying to shape is certainly not one many would particularly enjoy. And the worst part here is that there is great potential for countless longform consideration and analysis of such a world. But putting out an anecdotal bit is far easier. It's just plain lazy.
As an enterprise boot camp instructor who taught the same fullstack web dev curriculum to career desktop application engineers at a big company, I saw this three-way split as well.
This fails to consider the fact that with 25% confidence, 3 out of 4 candidates have no chance, and you're just wasting time, theirs and yours.

There are two kinds of hiring managers- those who think the system works and they're skillfully picking the best talent, though at the last minute, without formal education on the subject, without metrics, without reproducibility, without accountability, and with minimal prep time; and those who recognize the system is deeply flawed and go along to get along.
I have been wearing hearing aids for about 6 years. They work, but are incredibly expensive. If AirPods and an iPhone could be used as an alternative, that would be an incredible thing. My current hearing aids come with a blue-tooth adaptor which I never use. I don't use it because the sound quality is very poor - I have a common, age-related high-frequency drop off. So my aids boost the high frequencies, but do not transit the lower frequencies: these I just get as normal. (My hearing aid dome allows low frequencies through to my ear). So when I use the blue-tooth adaptor, all I get is the high frequency sound: very unsatisfactory. The only objection I can see to an AirPod alternative is that the AirPods show - my hearing aids are the behind-the-ear type, and most people do not notice that I am wearing them.
He says he interviewed X candidates to hire X/5 engineers. That means they probably selected more than X/5, but that’s the number that accepted offers. Maybe the problem is their offers aren’t competitive.

I totally agree that seems like an excessive amount of interviewing for engineers on the team.
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Neat. Based on a brief Google search, it appears to use DPDK if available.

I’m going to switch my home router to use it, it seems to support PPPoE: https://docs.fd.io/vpp/18.07/clicmd_src_plugins_pppoe.html

And works with FRR: https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/wiki/Alternate-forwarding-p...

More docs on VPP can be found here, including installation, getting started, configuration and FAQ: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP

There’s even a Kubernetes networking plugin for VPP: https://github.com/contiv/vpp
What an amusing name, WIF.
Thanks, that's much better. I think it shows that Mojave renders the fonts clearly better: check out for instance 'll' in 'ullamco'. Generally, almost identical pictures though.
Interviews here are normally 30 mins on phone or Skype and around 90 mins face to face. There no way in hell I'm doing hours of interviews for one company. I also know very few developers who would put up that sort of process.
The cheapest HiDPI monitor I would even consider buying is $2000. There are no ultrawide HiDPI monitors in existence at the moment.

Of course HiDPI is a regression in some ways. You can get far better non-retina monitors (low latency, higher refresh rate, wider range of aspect ratios) at any price point.
I wonder how publishers would feel if they were charged for the cost of appeals.
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The bitter fight between those who pronounced it “whiff” and those (Deutsche) who said “veef” didn’t help the latter format.
That would have been an absolute perfect opportunity to to draw a middle finger and walk out. That sounds like an absolutely idotic application process.

I might have even laughed at the HR person and asked the question "are you fucking serious?"
My site was hit around 2010, so that's definitely not it. And they've been censoring adult content for longer than one year.
Flagged! Quickly quickly hn censors, don't let the kids discuss!
There are choices. You can buy content and spend more money or you can rent it. There is little video I care about owning.

True, in the perfect world you would have something like iTunes + Apple Music for video. Where you can buy DRM free music and subscribe to receive music with stricter rights and mix the two.

Microsoft back in the day had the perfect model for subscription music with the Zune. You subscribed to unlimited music and and you got credit to buy 10 songs a month that were DRM free.
Right, but vpp tries to solve, at least part of this, by implementing many of the user space protocols. The only concern I have is I don't know how Cisco plans to monetize it, or why they're paying people to work on it. It seems very anti-cisco.
And that Apple is heavily pushing the HEIF/HEVC formats in ways that provide similar image quality with lower storage uses.
Can you recommend what is the best sequence of books in your opinion to get to rigorous probability theory? E.g.:

- Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Rudin

- Finite-dimensional vector spaces, Halmos

- Real Analysis, Royden

- Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability, Neveu

Would that be something like this? Any alternatives?
Let me take you further in this direction of thought- many offers aren't accepted because the candidate, after having been through a dysfunctional interview gauntlet, realizes a different opportunity is better (sometimes after waiting weeks to get the start date).

If interviewing has been skillfully conducted, and the candidate gets an offer in 24 hours, there's substantially less likelihood they'll turn it down, because they won't have had as much time to interview elsewhere, or wonder what organizational deficit is causing the delay.
$1.4 trillion is a scary number to throw around but it's a lifetime cost. Add up the total life cost of all the F-16s and F/A-18s that it will be replacing for comparison.

I'm no fan of the F-35 but it is what we've got for the next 50 years so let's stop sniping and start fixing.
1.4 trillion has not been spent yet! Only a fraction so far. Unless we fall for the sunk cost fallacy, there is still plenty of time to cut our losses.
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His face always had a hard stand, nick-named "Birne" (pear, but also just "head") http://taz.de/!5162730/ I'm able to recognize him on late photos and I'm born in the same year he became Bundeskanzler. I don't see anything wrong with using a current photo when writing about someone. Age happens, either get used to it or die young.

On the article, the be fair, neither Kohl, Schröder, nor Merkel managed to fix the mess caused by the re-unification. Kohl, alongside Mitterand had the right feel and ambition for the EU that I'm so happy to live in. But, the problem with Kohl, Merkel and many other leaders, is not the scandals about illegal contributions (the CDU did this since it's founding). They miss the point to step back, some even fail to build up candidates for their succession. Looking back at Great Britain when Churchill lost the General Election right after the war, that's probably the best thing that could have happened to them and I wish the 1990 Bundestagswahl would have ended with the same message: "Thank you for your service, let's see what the other guys can do".

PS: Whenever someone claims Germany's current government will fall due to #mersee I just laugh: There's no alternative to Bundeskanzlerin Merkel in sight and if the stubborn bavarians finally just the opposition (where they have been mentally for the last years) the Green Party will replace them and business will continue as usual.
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Currently using AirPods (I call them AirBuds) to listen to ANYTHING playing on my Roku TV. They work great on Android and Windows 10, too.
I'm having a similar though tangential reaction: is this trend saying something about the four year degree against changing demands for talent? I don't know but if I've long argued that if the Associates degree in the US was valued as something more than just "doorway to a BA/BS", the talent "shortage" (sarcastic quotes intentional) would probably disappear overnight.
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I don't know he did mention there are phone-screens ahead of time.
Also mentioned that the reason they are bringing in more is to figure out who they are before simply disqualifying the candidate because they don't meet the specs. If you simply don't agree with that premise, suggest that, rather than you would be embarrassed to admit those metrics. That's more of an insult than describing how the method he describes specifically and the reasons behind them are wrong.

Also those 400 interviews happened in 7 years, which is one per week. I am currently in a hiring phase and we do 1 or 2 per week.
It's Stallman we're talking about, so yeah - this is him being 100% dedicated. I would be a bit more chill, because hell, we just want to watch a f*in movie.
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> They don’t ask, but many places throw your resume without a bachelors into the trash at the first step in the hiring process. Ask me how I know.

I'm very understanding of this sentiment. I have suggested to people to get around this by simply lying about having a bachelors degree on their resume. If the employer verifies, you're out nothing. If they don't, you have a job you otherwise wouldn't have had. You have to be able to do the job though.
I read this book about a year ago and later wrote another Lisp [1] from scratch but based on the design in the book. It's still one of my favorite computer science books. He covers quite a range of topics (C programming, traditional Lisp stuff, some other functional programming topics like currying) and the quality is superb. One thing the Lisp interpreter described in the book lacks (if I recall correctly) is a proper garbage collector, which can be an interesting extension to the project if you're up for a challenge.

[1] https://github.com/iafisher/scam
The fall of the Berlin Wall saved him back then. He was facing internal opposition that wanted to get rid of him as party leader and given the economic situation people believed he would not win the next federal election either. Then history happened and he grabbed the opportunity to become the father of modern Germany.

Regarding your point about populism and lack of political platform: apparently conservatives back then embraced at least right wing populism and only as everyone tried to become more centrist, the new generation of populists became relevant.
If the underlying hardware of the phone is compromised, then it doesn't matter what you run on top of it.

I am not saying that you shouldn't try rattlesnakeos just that the people you would be installing it for, still have access to everything on your phone.

If you value your privacy you would buy a simple dumb flip phone, solder out the microphones and cameras and use a wired headset. They can still get an approximate location of you through stingrays and such but it's better than nothing.
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I opened them in my browser in separate tabs and flipped back and forth between them. Very subtle difference for me, but I could see it.
>> The F-35 is being sold to the American people ...

Can we get a refund?
Being on outlaw is the basic reason for creating a libertarian place, but the law is not all criminal. Most libertarians I see on the web (I rarely see one in person, I guess they are rare) mostly want lower taxes and less public services.
I suppose what you're basically saying here is that I'm so steeped in Newtonian thinking, culturally, that I'm more or less incapable of understanding the Aristotelian viewpoint. Which, fair.
That is certainly true. Since you had already jumped to implicate the interview process as the reason it took so many candidates to make a hire, I was simply offering an alternative. In fact, it could be that both the interview process and the offers are flawed; there can be any number of reasons why a candidate doesn’t convert to an employee, and you’re solely focused on one.
>"When model predictions are statistical, then, you want to answer the question: how "likely" is this model, given the data?"

Huh? Here is a model with statistical predictions. Its a model of flipping a fair coin 20 times a day for 365 days:

p = 0.5
nDays = 365
nPerDay = 20
dat = rbinom(nDays, nPerDay, p)

hist(dat)

https://image.ibb.co/bwuYCT/flips.png

Here is how I compare theoretical to actual results:

> mean(dat)
[1] 10.06575
> var(dat)
[1] 5.479181
>
> nPerDay*p
[1] 10
> nPerDay*p*(1-p)
[1] 5

>"So, in the frequentist approach, you check whether the data is sufficiently more likely to have resulted from your model, rather than the null hypothesis model. The "sufficiently more likely" is quantified by a p-value."

A p-value says something about the fit of the model used to calculate it. It doesn't say anything about any other models.
“This is US's F-35 Lightning II It has been in development since 1992”
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Where is "here"? Talking to 4-5 people in SV and large tech firms is common in my experience.
This is a macOS thread, but it would be helpful if Apple allows micro SD cards to be connected to the lightning port of iOS devices.
I would train them on liberal arts, philosophy & politics so that we have 100 techno-humanists able to connect more dots while thinking of the future of mankind.
I have to disagree. I bought both a 2017 air and a 2017 mbp 13” to compare, and ended up returning the MBP. The screen on the MBP is far and away better, which made it a painful choice. On the other hand, the air was superior for the keyboard, and also for noise/heat, and of course several hundred dollars in price. The MBP didn’t really feel any faster for the type of work I was doing on it.

Most annoying was that the MBP fan was kicking on in high gear consistently when I was doing nothing of note, while the air very rarely does so. It’s always cool and quiet, which I love.

If they just threw a retina screen on it, the current Air could be a hell of a computer for several more years.
> We are used to consider time-zones due to the useful subdivision of the Longitude in 24 steps and with that we all (should) agree

Time zones don't actually form an even division of longitude into 24 zones, or even consistently follow lines of longitude at all.
Yes it did. It controlled for hours worked and industry. That is, it controlled for men working harder and choosing higher paying jobs.
> Kohl was tall, voluminous man, ...

... and this was frequently used in photos. Just Google for "Kohl Honecker" or "Kohl Putin" and you'll see what I mean.
Although there are teething issues, for US allies the unit the F-35 is attractive due to a unit cost which is lower than any of its competitors (such as the Eurofighter Typhoon).

For domestic use, the F-35B STOVL jet used by the Marines is a dramatic improvement in range and capabilities over the Harrier.

The F-35A/C are less of an improvement, but I would by no means call them a failure. It's easy to criticize a program due to cost overruns and mismanagement, but that doesn't mean the end result is bad. At the very least it's a sunk cost now, so we'll just have to deal with it.