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I'm from India and a lot of what the article says is considered very normal also in India. At least, in the southern parts of the country.

But the western culture does have an impact, for the past couple of decades or so. While it is the norm, people have now started accepting deviations from the tradition.

The time's not far when the western ideologies will become the new "normal" in India.
I can't find a free plan for students option anywhere. Can you please explain how that works?
Why post the Forbes version and not directly the Quora version?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-use-cases-for-which-it-w...
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I'm honestly not sure if you're speaking of Facebook or the New York Times here...
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How do you actually get any work done?
And in buses you can't really lock yourself out as a driver.
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The way it feels on my 2014 MPBr, I figure one those new, fully-spec'd MBP's ought to be able to play it acceptably... on medium settings.
Had never heard of that before, but after reading I'd say it's exactly that.

Getting the bumble bees back to a state of working in the same direction so we can be competitive with countries who've already achieved that is the tricky part.
Social dynamics being in your favor can work for you and against you. It's delusional to think that just because you can make that graceful transition that that doesn't mean people aren't going to get pissed off at it. All you've done is silence their perspective as you are making that graceful transition. That builds up over time, and this is why this stuff goes in circles. You have to actively listen to people and make an effort to understand that the social dynamics being in your favor is not something you control. It controls you. You are the head of the crowd therefore all your actions must be aligned with the interests of the social dynamic. If you silence any single one of them you create a different dynamic. So you have to make the effort to be aware of alternative perspectives instead of choosing blind ignorance in the face of valid arguments. That's just the business of politics.
It is good that it starts with ecosystem. It is IMHO the biggest practical argument for or against any language (along with, what is related, community).

R, language-wise, is awful, but thanks to its community it is very popular in statistics and some parts of machine learning (albeit it is getting less popular than Python, in the last years, vide https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/05/poll-tools-analytics-data-...).

Python has pros and cons, but is de facto standard for data science due to its ecosystem.

Haskell... well, show me a working Haskell data science project, and I may change my mind. So far I hear about Haskell from people wanting to make things clean and abstract (and as a self-development tool), rather than done.

Julia may be more interesting (and it offers types!) plus much more focus om performance for iterative operations (which Haskell is lacking). Though, each time I tried it, I had to go back to Python - again, due to maturity of its data science ecosystem.
Seems like if your bot can or could meet the expectations of the challenge(s) the contest is open to you.

I'd be wary of signing anything to compete though.
Companies have been studying, measuring and carefully quantifying knowledge worker productivity for a hundred years.

I laughed at this but I guess you meant it seriously?
I wonder if cubicles are considered open plan or not? I used to work in those and found them more private than the open plan I work in now. I imagine most companies are trying to avoid the corporate cube farm appearance in favor of the cool open plan startup vibe. Personally I try to work from home once in a while so I can concentrate.
https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy

https://unity3d.com/legal/gdpr

Despite their claims, I've never seen any opt out options like that. Games simply always collect data and send it "home". And really this should be opt-in.
Oh my aren't we persistent in our passive aggressiveness.
I have two screens before me; they take ~90% of my field of view, the rest occupied by the desk. I look at the large windows sometimes, when I need to contemplate and refocus my eyes.

I have good ear-on headphones that isolate me from the sounds of the office most of the day.

I have a comfortable chair, and a large enough desk to never touch my colleagues who sit next to me. I have a pretty minimal amount of personal stuff on the desk: a mug, a phone charging stand; my backpack is under the desk.

I'm pretty much insulated from the rest of the open office I'm sitting in, and have no idea what's happening around unless I choose to take a look. If you want to collaborate, well, come closer and wave your hand so that I noticed you and removed the headphones. Good thing you can notice if I'm sitting at my desk (or went for a coffee) from the other end of the open space.

I did work in smaller, near personal offices. They used to have a somehow poorer window views, and did not offer a lot in the quietness department, because people talking next to you make the same noise in a small office and a large (open-space) office. Only a truly personal office helps here. OTOH a properly sound-insulated personal office would either feel claustrophobic to many people, or have to be rather large. With large, low-density personal offices, walking to someone becomes a lengthier process.

Instead I think that an open(ish) office, a culture of keeping reasonably quiet, and a good set of meeting rooms and phone rooms gives you the best of both worlds: a private space when you need to talk at length, and close proximity when you don't.
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I recently spent a small amount of time diving down the functional programming rabbit hole (following SICP, poking at Haskell, and such). My general impression is that the coolness of the languages is overshadowed by the poor ecosystem for a lot of use cases, exactly as the article suggests for data science.

It all seems possible to overcome, but you’d end up needing to deal with C/C++ bindings for many situations. Cryptography libraries, for example, appear to be mostly hobby projects, which would be clearly not trustworthy for serious uses, so now you’re writing/finding bindings.

Is that a fair assertion? I’m not at all an expert; I got kind of excited about the area and then a little disappointed when I considered doing some of my pet projects in a functional language and saw the immature ecosystem.
Love the beginner/advanced tags. Also, just generally well-organized. This is great.
You mean like Chicago?
What? I would forgo the donation, and wear jeans anyway. For me it smells of coercion to fund something.
> Isn't it pretty simple when a corporation is posting fake news?

By who's definition of "fake news"? Do you want anyone who contradicts the current US administration thrown off the platform? Anyone who contradicts current Facebook leadership?

> Shouldn't corporations know better and be held to higher standards than individuals?

Corporations aren't magic. I have a corporation, its HQ is my home and I pay ~$20 every year to stay registered, it's not like that corporation knows any better than I do. One of my hometown churches publishes a newsletter that's essentially whatever my dad wanted to write. I would expect a lot of niche or local news sources are similar.
But how did sewage water get in there?
I saw it put succinctly like this: "Don't give a platform to people who wouldn't give you one."
How is this false outrage? Even if a particular dev doesn't care about who the users are, the data is being tracked and can be used by anyone with access to that data to track people. Consumers do not want to pay money for a product and then also have their data harvested to be used to make even more money off of them.

If you really think this is false outrage you need to work on seeing things from other people's viewpoints
The article goes into this, but I suppose the short answer is today - No. There are various future proposals that will tackle this (enumerated in article).
Well my bots are all software and they’re very bad at piling rocks. I’m just curious what the hobbyists who are in this space think of the competition, and whether they can be competitive.
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In the case of the open office it should be required that the people who make the decision also work in the same office layout. That's not difficult to do. Don't overthink it.

Let's start with CEOs and VPs work elbow by elbow in an open layout and have to buy headphones.
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Yeah I think this actually explains part of Elm's success a bit is that they provide a very straightforward approach to javascript interop which extends the type of functionality an Elm developer can rely on quite a bit.
Are government systems like this usually insured?
Having switched from .NET to Ruby/Rails, I've noticed that different stacks tend to favour different design patterns, based on how much heavy-lifting the language and framework does for you.

For that reason, I'd suggest picking a set of languages/frameworks, and taking a list of the more popular design patterns on each stack. Once you've implemented these, start to cross them over. You'll not only expand your knowledge of other languages, but you'll learn where certain frameworks have developed abstractions that cover these patterns for you.
as someone who works a blue-collar job, we tried this in one of our larger auto repair shops and it was a hillarious disaster.

The layout is simple, the back of the shop handles repairs, maintenance, customer orders and such for things like oil changes, and the 'front office' handles your paperwork and such. our owner decided (after a TED talk and one too many martinis at the motel wet bar) we needed to be more open. We tore down dividers and pushed all the desks together and after six months, we'd made nearly everyone insane. invoice printers (impact style) drowned out most of our sales calls. accounts and finance often took their laptops into the garage bays for peace and quiet, which meant laptops littered all over our workbenches during their lunch break. Insurance cited us for having them in the work shop. Some customers...well most...mistook us frequently for a bank, or an adjacent business. our dock/shipping delivery clerk was now hammer-stamping bills of lading right next to one of our senior managers and had to hike back to the docks every 20 minutes (his fitbit tracked 10k steps in 4 hours one day.) The whole thing fell apart when a parts manager accidentally kicked over a waste urea tank fluid container and sent two gallons of rancid liquid into the waiting room carpet.
We find that it REALLY helps us minimize meetings and email/Slack since we can quickly turn to the person we need, ask our question, get an answer, and get back to work.

Someone downvoted me in another thread about open-offices because I do this. A coworker who sits three feet away often pings me multiple times a day with questions that are much easier answered by turning around, wheeling over pointing to a few things on their screen, explaining how they related and wheeling back over.

They said "I was part of the problem".

Because it's quicker to turn around and have a human conversation with someone sitting a yard away than type, take screenshots, and beam them over the network?
Also, tho per capita income may rise, that does not account for (re)distribution of income, in this case drastically upward. The portion of US GDP going to workers who earn a living (vs capital holders) has never been lower in modern times.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA
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I recommend everything by Joe Celko and CJ Date. Start with Celko.

The most advanced book on SQL I have read is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1255518.SQL_Design_Patte...
There's a growing threat of a full blown China trade war
You can make your resolver verify the entire chain.
Nicely done git web. Love these things done "right"
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Answering a question in person likely breaks your concentration for a few minutes.

Having to wait for 5-10 minutes for an answer in Slack breaks the concentration of the person asking the question, _and_ your concentration because you still need to get distracted and answer the question.

Async communication is great in many cases, likely most cases. Sync communication does have important uses, though.
That certainly goes against the free speech traditions of Facebook's home country. Why should Facebook lower itself to the least common denominator? Why not act with integrity and principle and uphold dearly held values like free speech?
once change is achieved it needs to be preserved and defended from attack, forever.
Indeed, but everyone is at least getting their own orgasms, even if some are getting much more than others.

The capitalism mapping would be that, as a worker, you do the seduction, foreplay, and most of the build-up, and then hand the profits, the orgasm, to the owner of the venue that facilitated the encounter.

And those owners are getting far more orgasms that they can possibly enjoy directly, it becomes about the pleasure they get from the power of having so much more than everyone else.
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> They had all forgotten about blue collar America. They all thought people would change jobs and these jobs would offer a good living to blue collar workers.

But.. people did change jobs? Unemployment is at an all-time low and goods and services are very cheap. Housing is not cheap, but that's a function of the wage rate (which could be argued is a function of housing costs).

Just because there are more services industry jobs and less manufacturing does not mean that 'blue collar America' is forgotten -- it's just changed identities.

Everyone benefits from global trade because the terms of trade should always benefit both parties.
It's basically impossible to have nice things because people will always try to any little thing into a career and then complain when it isn't viable.

Made an app so that kids can deliver lemonade on weekends to neighbors for a few bucks? Someone will try to make a career out of delivering lemonade full time and sue you because it doesn't pay a living wage with benefits.
I had this same realization. In this context it doesn't work as well, anyway, because senior leaders are in meetings so often that their desk is fairly meaningless.

But to generalize at a higher level -- "by what mechanism do we force management to be decent?" -- the only one I've discovered is to be willing to leave jobs that have management practices that one doesn't agree with.

Unfortunately that advice doesn't work in the general case -- mobility is relatively easy for developers but we don't make up a large part of the population. I feel like the right answer is some changes in our social structure or economy that makes job mobility much (much) easier. Like a BI/Negative Income Tax, or free education, etc.
As someone who’s not married it also isn’t good for relationships in general. Staying home all day basically makes you the least interesting person in the world. You never have any crazy stories, weird colleagues, office romances, and whatever else normal people talk about. How do you answer “how was your day” and make it interesting?
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I don't believe so, integrating such a thing is a pretty big change, though I believe there are (or at least were, last I checked) systems which didn't require a full custom OS to work with.
> All the whole milk workers, garment workers, furniture workers were forgotten and left behind.

This is valid point but there is a catch.

Economic growth and progress happens when countries are developing and moving up in the value chain. Developed economies are constantly moving towards high-tech and less labor incentive work. China is still industrial economy. US has moved into postindustrial economy. US manufacturing will decline despite trade wars. Manufacturing work will decline even more than GDP share of manufacturing.

When low productivity work (milk, garment, furniture workers) moves to China it allows redirecting investments and resources to higher value added products.

If these low productivity workers would be zombie/robots, companies would just write them off and recycle them into trash and compost - or sell them to China. But they are citizens and they vote. In other words, we have a political problem.

Possible solutions:

* Use tariffs to protect workers in low productivity work. This moves economic resources in the US to less competitive industries. Over decades, US falls behind other developed countries because it wants to protect industries that developing countries have.

* Solve the actual political problem directly. US citizens not earning living wages with skills they have.
I’ve learned to appreciate open offices after a while - I really like having quick access to colleagues (after quickly asking through chat or when they’re obviously available).

I believe that a good culture and library-like rules can make it work and provide some benefits. It also has some obvious drawbacks (more visual distractions, flu spreading, etc), but I believe the main culprit often is companies having open offices with no “rules” e.g. random people screaming or laughing histerically. People is then forced to isolate themselves with NC-headphones which obviously kills the benefits this layout has.
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I think Facebook hate is clouding out reasonability in this thread. E.g., there's even a comment asserting that people who collaborate with facebook (a.k.a., Jessica Hodgins, Andrea Vedaldi, and Jitendra Malik) are "not worth their salt" (?!?!?!).

IDK. Maybe -- just possibly -- there do exist researchers who have their choice of funding spigots and are choosing to work with Facebook. Either that or HN has some damn high standards for what it means to be "worth their salt".

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with industry collaboration, even when it involves companies whose impact on the world you might not like. The big oil companies are, unlike FB, an actual existential threat to humanity. But I wouldn't fault renewable energy researchers for taking research dollars from those companies.

The question is: will the funded research agendas push science forward in the direction it was headed anyways, or will this money distort the type of research being done?

In any case, in a week we'll be back to our regular programming bemoaning the fall of the industry research lab and the paltry salaries offered to phd students...
I think this depends on personalities. I worked in an open office where there were people going crazy because there were a bunch of loud extroverts. I am extroverted and cubicles make me develop bad habits like watching YouTube all day, and such. I need constant interaction with people. Ideating with other designers gives me life, and expands my creativity.
That might be true, but don't confuse FAIR (their DL research lab) with FB. FAIR employs good people doing interesting and useful research. They promoted pytorch as a framework, and it is perhaps the best framework for non industrial applications.

On a parallel line of thought, I prefer FB's React to Google's Angular. In both React and Pytorch I see the same elegant design. TensorFlow and Angular on the other part are unnecessarily complicated.
Answering a question in person likely breaks your concentration for a few minutes.

I'm going to argue that their concentration is already broken because there's a problem, needing remediation and help from a colleague on to the point of bothering to ask in the first place. And if you're sitting three feet away from me, I'm sorry but I'd much rather just flip around, ask if you have a minute, answer the question, and drive closer to the desired team outcome.

Change my mind.
When I dabbled in this space I use to follow this blog[1], and found it very informative for what was going on in the Australian eHealth space.

[1] https://aushealthit.blogspot.com/
The point of DNS over HTTPS is enhanced privacy. Currently, DNS packets are unencrypted, but can be signed (with DNSSEC). DNSSEC does nothing to hide to content of DNS requests /responses, but makes sure that they can't be tampered with. Adoption (client side DNSSEC validation) is currently at around 14% [1], which is indeed low.

There is the DNS Privacy project, which proposes some solutions to the privacy issue [2].

The alternatives you're mentioning are really not alternatives at all (except namecoin, but only for .bit). How the other solutions (e.g. Steemit) are connected to the problem at hand is beyond me.

[1]: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/dnssec/XA?c=XA&x=1&g=1&r=1&w=7&...
[2]: https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+-+The+Sol...
It's usually cancer institutes; pet rescues, shelters, etc... The employees submit suggestions where to donate every month and the business chooses 1 every month. Not like it's going to a shell company or some other ridiculous movie story plot, lol...
>Yesterday, DARPA announced a new program called SHRIMP: SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms.

When did DARPA turn into a company from the Fallout universe?
If he's 'recognising the grievance', why does he spend so much time talking about immigrants and foreigners? He's a con artist swindling disadvantaged, desperate people by telling them that their problems are all the fault of other people in their class (immigrant workers, etc), rather than people like him.
"Fake news" is often interpreted as "news I don't agree with". That is not the definition.

News can be defined as genuine if it's truthful, in reporting facts, in reporting uncertainties & limits of current knowledge, in reporting potential conflicts of interests and finally in explicitely outlining when unproven opinions are put forth, whether by the author or by an interviewee.

News is deemed fake when it fails to be truthful. While there can be some grey areas, or perhaps poor journalistic standards, there are plenty of cases where articles fail to disclose conflict of interest, put forth unfounded opinions and intentionally mislead the reader to draw an untruthful conclusion. That is fake news.
What level are these professors being hired at within Facebook? What sort of base salaries, stock options do they command? Any idea on total compensation numbers here?

With them being part-time professors what are their university salaries like?

In total compensation between industry and university I'd imagine this would be a good deal.

Lastly, how does recruiting work here? I assume they don’t make these people go through 5-6 algorithmic interview rounds.
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Could you name a specific instance of asking other countries to impose tariffs on China? I'm in Canada, and can't recall the US ever asking.

Further, the US keeps one foot out of international tools like the WTO or the UN law of the sea, neutering the very mechanisms with which the rest of the world could coordinate action.
I absolutely agree. We need to be fighting for modern legislation to protect workers as well as trying to hold on to badly eroded victories of many decades past.

I must admit that I’ve been working white collar engineering jobs for nearly 15 years now, so I’m not exactly an authority on being a minimum wage worker. I thought you were still eligible for unemployment and that it was paid for by your employer?