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> Instead of trying to manage outcomes by focusing on quotas, we should target root causes and create the kind of hiring process that will, by virtue of being fair and inclusive, bring about the diversity outcomes we want.

Basically Damore's argument without the scientific language and I'd argue much nicer formulated. However, the biggest factor why her argument won't incite an internet rage mob is because she's not a white dude (To be clear, I criticize our infantile outrage culture, not her argument, which is spot on).
That's a bug that's been around for AGES that they still haven't patched. I hate it.

If you force kill the app and reopen it, suddenly you can choose songs(usually). Then after a while, suddenly you can't. It took me months to figure out what was going on because i'd have another phone in my house right there that could do it, then that wouldn't be able to either suddenly...
By the way, thanks for the suggestion.
This is stupid. Using popular vote to find best quality :D
Different Colors of the Upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 9
I have no idea what you’re talking about
Confirming the diagnosis might or might not be prudent, depending on the injury and how likely false positives are in those sorts of injuries. Confirming the exact location shortly before the surgery? That might be prudent, especially if the damage was likely to move a bit or become worse during the waiting time. This should have been explained better.

Otherwise, I'd agree that the test was unnecessary and shouldn't be done a second time. Weirdly, it could have asily been that the first test wasn't in his particular working network - I've seen this done in hospitals before (redoing tests from places not in the hospital's network). This still isn't an issue with the referral system, though, but points to other problems.
Would Telegram and others please stop using phone number as a primary source of identity? It's 2018, I have a data only sim and I have no desire to have a phone number.
Maybe there is no "free market". But without Phoebus, customers could have chosen between shorter-life bulbs that were more efficient, and longer-life bulbs with lower replacement costs. How is that bad?
But when you're down to the bottom of the fifth...

Sorry, I'll get my coat...
Her examples look like those you can find over at gridbyexample.com. She's just showing what the differences are between Flexbox and CSS Grid, not real-world usage.

Responsiveness with Flexbox or CSS Grid is best achieved through media queries. You could make a really simple Flexbox or CSS Grid site with no media queries and have it be responsive, but if you want complicated layouts you'd make use of media queries. e.g. named grid-template-areas and media queries play really nice together.
Interesting. I'll check out the courses they have over the weekend. I appreciate the link.
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Looks like Jony caved, because Steve's rude remark was "brilliant".

I don't see that as standing up to Steve at all - just the opposite. Jony justifies Steve's rude behavior.
I loved her honesty in admitting that she will probably never have an idea of whether her gender played a role in her admission to MIT. I was not however expecting the hard sales pitch at the end which felt like an improper way to end a relatively interesting train of thought. Maybe that's why the bulk of the post lacking specific answers to the proposed problems.
Fault Tolerance at Heart of Google’s Quantum Strategy
Stream Database Oneplaylist Space
This seems really nice and clean. I appreciate the solid documentation as well.
Don't know how the two compare, but my experience is there are countless seemingly impossible to discover curated playlists in Apple Music. This helps: http://mixing.io/
What-about-ism is not a defense.
> Certainly wasn't meritorious

Could you read a little more about that case?

1) McDonald's had burned hundreds of people by that point, as the plaintiff's lawyer said in "Hot Coffee", "they were on notice." They served it that hot IIRC because it would stay hot slightly longer, even though lowering the serving temperature a tiny amount reduced burning disproportionately and would have prevented that and hundreds of other accidents.

2) The server didn't actually attach the lid to the cup.

3) She had horrible burns, 3rd degree.

4) McDonald's received an offer to pay for her ~$10,000 medical expenses, and counter-offered $600.

5) This was an old lady who had never sued anyone in her life.

6) She ultimately gave up on life in her old age because of the shaming.

"Hot Coffee" opened my eyes about the whole matter. I suggest you watch it.
I've wanted something like this for a long time as well. The ability to generate and discard one-off card numbers. Much less worry about those card numbers leaking, unauthorized transactions, etc.
You think? In my opinion, it's the manifestation of the hippy culture of the 60s and 70s.

California was never a hands-off state, never had the hands-off tradition that Texas had.

I don't see any reason to expect that the same stuff would happen in TX.
The US healthcare system is a raging river of money, and you can bet that every doctor, lab, hospital and other medical service has their buckets dipped into it. The entire system seems to be set up to squeeze as many billable office visits out of you as possible.
Privacy.com is doing this today although it’s a debit card (AFAIK).
Completely serverless solution allows easier maintenance and easier start. In full production environment with large number of requests K8S would be better.
You Just Have to Bear the Homesickness
It's less a matter of scale to me and more a matter of facilities. Given the ability to scale PostgreSQL in places like Amazon RDS into utterly enormous system proportions, way less about performance to me. Is your data heterogeneous at a record-level? Do you store hierarchical data more than relational? Mongo might be a better choice with a schema-tracking system on top of it.

Saying that Mongo is the choice just for scaling is silly.

That said, Postgres is my go-to database as well, almost always, and I've never much needed anything different. Yet. Waiting to find something that it doesn't fit.
> U.S. IP-heavy multinationals now employ a quarter of Ireland's private sector workforce,[28] pay 80% of Irish business tax,[29] pay 50% of Irish salary tax and VAT,[30] and create 57% of economic value-add.[28]

Doesn’t that mean Ireland is fucked in 2020?
I can also imagine of lots of future, intensely frustrating use cases where a user scans their card in a line at a point-of-sale, or is waiting on a "Confirming purchase, please wait" page on a website while your human in the loop puts this approval on hold for a few minutes until your cell phone finally rings.

Currently, human-in-the-loop approvals do happen, but they happen long after the purchase goes through - ever gotten a call from your bank's card services department as you were leaving a gas station on a road trip? Much more convenient for the common use case where the human approves the transaction than the rare cases when the bank is on the hook for the stolen gas.
Steve challenged him. Burrell caved and walked out instead of standing up.
True, though small companies can be held as LLCs or taxed as SCorporations if they have less than 100 investors, and they wouldn't pay corporate taxes anyway. At that point taxes on gains trickle to the owners/partners and are taxed at personal tax rates. C-Corporations pay taxes twice (Corporate taxes, then taxes on distributions as salaries or dividends).
Do you think this API could be used to create non-card payment tokens? For instance an implanted Java card like the VivoKey[0]?

[0]https://vivokey.com/learn-more.html
I know a lot of other comments are for learning life skills but if you ever wanted to learn Vim in a fun way!

https://vim-adventures.com
I've used them all by the hundred.

Mikrotik is very "opinionated" on how you configure and use them. Some people love this. I've come to loath them whenever and wherever I see them. Professional grade price and hassle for amateur grade performance. (on the bright side, they've been pretty stout physically... I had one unknowingly working underwater)

Ubiquiti is what I use everywhere I need commercial grade "stuff" I can hand off to a customer. Also very picky about using their software to configure and use the parts, but all free, can self-host and very easy for novices to get the hang of.

At home, I've been using PC Engines since "WRAP" with addon Atheros cards for wifi and my own custom spin of read-only debian. Its a full on server in a router box. It can do anything. The best for hacking by far.
Is there empirical evidence for “Defensive Medicine?”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19201500/

“The net effects of medical malpractice tort reform on health insurance losses: the Texas experience”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5701901/
Nope, it's not with uploaded music. I don't upload any music to Spotify because it (as far as I know) doesn't sync across devices. This is the issue I'm seeing: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Downloaded-songs-an...

I believe it's something with Android and restarting the device. It'll happen on my Android tablet, too.
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> How could one person possibly keep track of all the battery-saving API changes in OSX, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Android?

You don't. You just use system-provided APIs and get the improvements for free whenever the system frameworks are updated to be more efficient.
Why you should never ride a Duck Boat
Since the Sun isn't a planet, it shouldn't change anything for those.
holy crap, i've never seen this before. it's still up
I really wish telegram would focus on being a messaging app and not whatever this is. I'm not going to trust them with my info.
> Large companies should be taxed where the value is created.

Tax land.
Indeed that's the point:

> The team compared the position and velocity measurements from GRAVITY and SINFONI respectively, along with previous observations of S2 using other instruments, with the predictions of Newtonian gravity, general relativity and other theories of gravity. The new results are inconsistent with Newtonian predictions and in excellent agreement with the predictions of general relativity.
For whatever it’s worth, I found Deezer extremely frustrating while using the free year of it I got with a Sonos purchase. I would run into inconsistencies and errors in their catalog several times a week, and despite submitting support requests, these were never fixed. A common example would be several artists with the same name but vastly different styles of music and from different decades clumped under one entry. It felt like a music service run by people who didn’t care about music. This is much rarer in Apple Music and Spotify though still a problem on all services.
AFAIK Obama didn't break the law so his contribution is not under question

I think your questions could be seen as whataboutism[0], but as an answer I do know somebody who was furious that Obama was "telling us what to do" and subsequently voted leave. I don't know anybody who voted remain but was obviously swayed by Obama. Sample size is small but thats what I know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
> Electron [native] apps have a good user experience.

No, they don't. Ever tried to drag and drop into an Electron app? How about used VoiceOver?
Here’s a hint - it’s not in web development. That world was taken over by ad-tech years ago. If you want to find people punching the envelope, it won’t be in last decade’s tech.
THere's similar things like this in other sports, like American Football. You don't tell an amazing cornerback by just counting how many passes he broke down or intercepted: You also look at how often the player he was covering was targeted at all, and compare to their baseline. When a received that is normally amazing barely gets passed to, and when he does, the plays are not very fruitful, it's the defender's fault. When it comes to easy to digest statistics, that's handled by counting passing attempts towards the defender's area.

You can do the exact same thing in soccer, if you have the data: You can assign responsibilities to players, just through computer vision. If Messi gets 3 touches in an attacking position when Sergio Ramos is defending him, you can credit that to Ramos, and compare that to Messi's touches vs the average Barcelona opponent.
This article is exceedingly boring, why was it submitted?
Galileo satellite launch brings European GPS closer
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business
In laymen’s terms, how do we know this dramatic shift in the past decade(s) is directly due to human pollution? Is there any chance it’s not manmade and if so how much?
Citibank already offers this feature on their credit cards, I believe: https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...
Not only are people trashing Mongo, but this article is a ten minute walk through the barest of API surface for a library... There doesn't seem to be anything too novel in the API itself, and the pymongo project is a few years old...
Also, on iOS you can swipe right on a song to queue it, but can't do it on android! Also a popular community idea
The 1st Amendment is just US law. What would be the argument elsewhere?
What about it? How does that relate to "illegally bought or misleading advertising"?
Great list, thank you
Really? It may be an A/B test with different copy, because I don't see anything.
Hi all, Discord engineer here! If anyone has any questions about the post or our experience using React/React Native the team would be happy to answer them!
There is no 1st Amendment in the EU.
A society where the primary driver behind decisions is emotional rather than rational.

For instance when individuals choose their views not based on an impartial analysis of the choices (and their consequences in particular), but on which view is most emotionally appealing or acceptable to them. And when evidence which comes into conflict with those emotionally chosen views is presented, is the response emotional or is it rational? Even when deciding on an individual system of morals, are choices driven by emotion or by rationality?

For many people, the answers to all of these questions is now heavily emotional. This is dangerous in many ways. Aside from the fact that emotions can and regularly do lead people to make very bad decisions, they are also regularly exploited by others for their own benefit. Politicians get people to support them or oppose their opponents with emotional arguments. The media gets people to click on things by creating emotional stories. Even individuals can increasingly exploit others' emotionality to either try to increase their own perceived 'standing' in some group, or at times even for direct economic benefit.
Ok, so I guess that means that all of the democratically elected parties are currently in favor of brexit.

That's democracy for you. If you don't like it then people should vote for someone else.

The fact that these major parties are committed to enforcing brexit IS the democracy.
A book I wrote was pirated a few years ago. I didn't do anything and let the publisher deal with it. I have no clue if they really tried to do anything about it.

I didn't write the book for the money so missing out on the royalties didn't upset me that much, I just took it as a compliment and moved on :)
It’s been on my ‘sometime later’ list, but after seeing it mentioned again and again, I’ll will start reading it tonight.
Most people have a collection of reasons that build up to a tipping point of why they leave. I have left 5 jobs, and had 2 jobs leave me (laid off).

First in Highschool I had 2 jobs in the summer working about 60 hours a week, parents made me drop one. I kept the one where management was nice. Other one just seemed angry all the time.

Second was the other HS job when I started college. But the new management had become a jerk and so I left a month early.

Third was from burn out. Too many long hours that were not appreciated. I wanted to take 2 months off to get my head straight but they thought I would not quite. I did.

<insert layoff #1 - 20% pay cut - glad to have a job>

Forth was at a place that treated me well, but was a bit of a drive, and the pay was slowly going up, but insurance was going up quickly. The kicker was it looked like my future was ADA. So when an offer came, and it came with more money, much shorter drive and Ruby On Rails ... I jumped.

<insert layoff #2>

Fifth was a softer exit. I was working for a contracting firm. Well they were a subcontractor and tended to try and squeeze people. But I nedded to feed the family. When the contract was renewed, they did a 15% pay cut on people. Tough times don't you know. Well the company I was doing the work for offered me a decent job, slightly less money but much better benefits.
> explain the argument against passing laws forcing

If laws protect people. more laws = better? What is the downside of passing any law?

In this case I could face discrimination at work if they found out that I was buying ads for my anti abortion website.
Your "how it works"[1] page makes it look a little like a cross between Codepen and Google Tag Manager. Is that a fair characterization of what Mods do? I like the 'shared library' idea, that's something GTM makes actively harder.

1: https://anymod.com/how-it-works
When Merkel donated 5 million Euro to the Hillary Clinton campaign, was that then a foreign entity interfering/manipulating in an election?
A few banks provide a system like this. I'm aware of at least Bank of America and Citi.

Bank of America calls it "ShopSafe"; you can generate a number for one-time or recurring payment with an associated limit and expiration date.

Citi calls it Virtual Account Numbers. Theirs don't have a limit by default (but you can create one that does).

Unfortunately, both systems use archaic Flash applets to generate and manage the numbers... I hate the Citi one in particular because it has sound effects when you press buttons.
"Invest in Jim" might be the real winning strategy here.
They hate it when they have to change their card number and have to update it on a ton of places. If that ton of places have their own numbers, you don't have to update them all when you have to kill one number.
Question: why isn’t there an international entity that is to tax-law normalization as WIPO is to IP-law normalization, that could—like WIPO—punish offending non-members by requiring members to impose trade sanctions on them?

The big players (none of which are tax havens) certainly would have an interest in building it, and in giving it power.
It's really interesting coming to HN and watching the indignant 'stabbed in the back' theories about why the establishment lost the Brexit referendum and 2016 US presidential election. 2 years on and it still stings that the people didn't vote the way they were supposed to. There is definitely a classist, privileged undertone to the discourse as well - ironic but not surprising coming from many self-described socialists.
I'm not making a point either way than to say this. Legalism is probably the weakest argument to make for or against something. Slavery was once "legal".
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Really? I suspect you have very little knowledge of the EU or how it works or its history. Here for example is an EU treaty, which took years to prepare and agree by the governments of all the countries but was abandoned after failing narrowly to pass referenda in France and the Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitu...
> Is your data heterogeneous at a record-level?

I usually just use JSONB columns for this.
I think the main problem is that both Nvidia and AMD miss the cycles of bull runs. They start pumping out GPUs for the crypto market when the market is almost at its peak. Then, the market crashes and they're left with a factory full of unsold GPUs. Then another bull run happens, and they're left without any card for a couple of months.
> If laws protect people. more laws = better? What is the downside of passing any law?

No this is a question about a specific law. Making it a general point about all laws is disingenuous. Why do anything ever?
Add signal and whatsapp (not that i use whatsapp) to that.
I think a better analogy would be a bridge or building- they are regulated by a rigorous code that will exonerate the engineers behind the implementation only if it was followed to the letter.

Will that slow things down and make them more expensive? Absolutely, but that’s the cost of safety.

In this case though what is probably most lacking is public knowledge about the shortcomings of such systems. The public needs to understand that 90% accuracy, while it sounds high, mean it’s wrong a lot, and the chances of it being wrong if it was continuously run all the time are actually quite high.
Fraud is what I keep thinking about. Hopefully Stripe put in place some robust tracking, or it will get messy.
Good! Next I hope they pass a law requiring all guys to compliment the homely wallflower once a day and not just mack on the hot chicks.

To the barricades!
I'm talking about VoIP as in Mumble, Teamspeak, Discord, etc. And i am talking about bare metal, but dynamic hardware resources would require some sort of virtualization, but if doable without needing to be the size of Google could be a good business because you don't need to completely reserve hardware and a bandwidth line.
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This really comes down to what you expect from the product and what your use case is.

I don't want something to select music for me. I listen to whole albums. I want to be able to search or an album or an artist and listen to one of their albums. Not a playlist that might feature them.

I hated Spotify's UX because it felt like it was hiding all of its music and trying to force me to listen to what it wanted me to hear.

The entire iTunes catalog free for me to listen fits my needs exactly.
I didn't mean to use the term that way, just that different textbooks can be more effective than others.
What blows my mind is that you cannot connect to a Chromecast from the desktop client. Apparently there is no official desktop SDK for Google Cast (outside of Chrome). So perhaps that is what really blows my mind. Errhm.
>Yet they probably could both stand to be reminded a time or two what a light-year is

Ok, but you said:

>It appears astronomy articles have completely given up reminding us that the phenomena being observed at x light-years away

So how should the author decide on how often to remind their presumably educated audience (this is eso.org after all, not some pop-culture magazine) of the basic of light travel? Once every five articles? Ten? Or maybe they just assume as I do that anyone reading this article knows this already and to mention would be at best a waste of screen real estate.

This site is run by the people who run an observatory. It's not LIFE magazine, the writers know their audience.
How are any of those xenophobic? To me that sounds similar to labeling someone as antisocial if they don't want a stranger living in their house.
Not hard enough. You can't become better if you aren't challenged.
Telegram has a history of including fairly obvious backdoors in their products https://habr.com/post/206900/

Why should anyone trust them for identification or for storing sensitive documents?

(And no, that DH behavior cannot be explained away as a simple mistake)
At a company the size of Microsoft, the software they use to run their corporate HR and financial analytics on is of little consequence - the key is the software/platform that they sell to their customers, IE Azure, AWS etc.

The amount of resources that go in to SAP, while large, are a rounding error compared to the resources spent on building a compute platform.