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> a wealthy Stanford alumni

Grammar tip: In English, the word "alumnus" is typically declined as it would be in Latin. Especially amongst academics, I'd say.

So if you're writing for that audience, the appropriate forms of "alumnus" are, I think, as follows [0]:

"alumnus" - One male, or one person of unspecified sex.

"alumna" - One female.

"alumnae" - Multiple females.

"alumni" - Multiple persons whose sex is all male, mixed male/female, or unspecified.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alumnus#Latin
Its either "Organizing the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." or its a propaganda machine to maintain its position in the Chinese market (which will be the largest in the world soon).

I prefer google stick to its mission and serve the 6 billion of us that require free information to do our jobs.
Let's say you subscribe to the basic plan, install 10 apps and then unsubscribe. As I understand it your app will continue to run, you just loose update and management abilities linked to the Cloudron sub right ?
You probably won't have to wonder for long. Just continue to observe the USA.
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I would hope they can sign this letter without incurring "personal risk". Has the environment at Google changed so much that writing letters could risk people's chance at employment?
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That's an easy way to become the most competitive medical school in existence.

Of course, no tuition doesn't mean no debt in a town like NYC. But what a difference!
I can relate to that feeling - I cut my teeth on A* in Standard Pascal nearly a quarter of a century ago as a freshman, and the equivalent LISP was so tiny and concise to be a thing of beauty.
>More to the point, the US system is so different from the patrician/pleb system of Rome that calling our system Republican while calling (our system minus geographic distribution) not Republican is a pretty freaking arbitrary line in the sand.

That wasn't the line in the sand I was drawing. I was saying that a system of direct democracy doesn't support the Kantian Republic we set up, but a system where there is uneven distribution of power based on region does.
I disagree with that statement because they have fundamentally different purposes.

Free speech affects my ability to improve society. Right to privacy affects my ability to cover my own ass.
Your second paragraph is exactly what I meant by adding hardware emulation code to create a less efficient and uglier API.

The hardware-like interface to the hypervisor is both inefficient and not very abstract. For instance, a guest kernel attempts to perform a series of manipulations of the page table, each of which traps to the hypervisor, or else it performs an equivalent upcall to manipulate the page tables.

The hardware emulation code ads a lot of potential bugs to the hypervisor. I hope our current hypervisors are an evolutionary transitional form and in the future we'll interact with hypervisors solely through upcalls.
Some things that don’t help are the artificial restrictions on building new medical schools, the difficulty of becoming a doctor in America if you were trained in a foreign country (even a developed country like France), and union-style laws that prevent nurses from doing routine procedures reserved only for licensed MD’s (even banning certificate programs).
And Tim Cook smiles with glee as they eventually will give in and buy new ones
No, the problem is often the company doesn't care. In their defense, they believe they are trying to help you and probably 99% of the time, that is what they are doing.
Speaking of Windows Update breaking things, my Windows 10 tablet (a cheap Kiano) tends to gain or lose the ability to detect screen orientation every other update. At this point I'm (again) stuck having to manually change the orientation whenever I want to work in portrait tablet mode.

I do not understand how this happens.
> There is a lot of light in rio;

Rio de Janeiro is located at latitude 22.9 South while Paris is located at 48.8 North. The solar exposure of those cities throughout the year is very different.
Physical presence wouldn’t be required unless you forgot your credentials. If you are mugged and forgot your password, then you’d be screwed. I’m not sure how reasonable it is to try to make that particular situation better though.
More to do with undergraduates not pursuing MDs. I believe # of applicants actually dipped last year for the first time in a very long time.
https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE
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Depends on what the letter is about.

Though this particular issue seems harmless enough.
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Intercom is quite good and also works as a customer support platform.
Well, now those same graduates “of mid to low tier universities” will be graduates of high tier universities.

Will your logic still hold up?

Are you assuming a certain correlation between the university one goes to and their abilities, given equal opportunity? It sounds like you might be, but please explain yourself if not.

The more humane way to categorize people might not be to start with what “tier” their college is, especially when you’re discussing what “tier” they should have access to.
The reason I focus on Republic over Democracy is because we do not live in a system with complete and proportional representation. We live in a system where the Executive and Legislative is separated and where there is a somewhat uneven distribution of power in terms of population.
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really? google censors content in the u.s. it's called porn.
I'm convinced that it's the cost structure, implemented by many-to-many negotiation between providers and insurers, that drives the uniquely high cost of the US health care system. (Unique as in twice as much per capita as the rest of the industrialized world.) Japan's system is structurally very similar to ours - employer-provided private insurance - with one key difference. In Japan, pricing for all medical goods/services are set by a government agency, with an eye to keeping the industry functional/profitable while keeping costs under control. There are no "networks". Everyone knows what it's going to cost, everywhere.
So welcomed in fact they invited American troops to remain there for 10 years.
This headline immediately make me think of Arthur C. Clarke's "The Trigger".
Yes, they would need to organize, but what’s happening at Google is a nascent form of this kind of struggle. Before there were ever such things as unions, workers banned together and rebelled in precisely the way employees at Google are doing so now. Over time, they recognized the need to create a formal, more durable structure, which culminated in what we today think of as unions.

In terms of the practical realities of organizing developers, check out Tech Solidarity or your local DSA branch. Both groups are deeply involved with helping workers organize and restore a sane power balance to the American economy.

https://techsolidarity.org/

https://www.dsausa.org/
This seems like a really good approach to practical driverless delivery. No heavy high speed cars or trucks, no flying meat slicers, just relatively slow and lightweight vehicles. Let's try this for a decade or so before loading the streets with autonomous things.
Tried the Django tutorial and loved the framework.
I live there, so I’m not super thrilled about this social experiment.
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I rarely hear that anymore. I almost always hear "alumni" in all cases. I've tried saying to the librarians of my alma mater that I'm an alumnus and they repeat back to me, "oh, you're an alumni, sure, let me get you alumni access to our system."

Maybe it's common somewhere else to make those distinctions, but they're not common at McGill.
I grew up in Kaliningrad. I haven't heard about this puzzle until I moved to US. I think this is partly because graph theory or topology are considered too advanced to be studied in typical schools and partly because very few residents know much about Konigsberg history. It's kinda like very few Americans know much about American Indian history before Columbus.
The challenges are years old and not actively maintained. Until this thread I haven't seen any people who passed level 12 or so
It's gotten even worse than airlines: they pressured 85C, the Taiwanese Bakery, into espousing a one China policy: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/08/16/taiwans-85c-bakery-caf....

It's remarkable to me that the "feelings of 1.3 billion people" are so fragile that they're unable to enjoy their coffee cake if the company that made it doesn't kowtow to Beijing.
Discussed in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7591119
For one labor unions represent people across all companies, whereas without it, one can deal/negotiate directly with companies individually.

Also, nothing is preventing one from founding a startup which elects its leaders democratically.
Wasn't the marshmallow experiment this articles argument is mostly referring to recently debunked? https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/01/famed-impu...
My cynical post script to the title, without reading the article: "in a laboratory setting".
Yup. I've called him a "one person smoke-filled room", it was pretty obnoxious, even in the days when companies allowed smoking indoors.
Given the high individual variance, dosing psychedelic substances by bodyweight isn't usually considered very effective at estimating the final effect.

Always start with a low/threshold dose first and go from there (this might be less practical for MDMA, where you want to limit repeated exposure).
Which would be the case if Kerckhoff's principle was enshrined in law, which it's not.
And what is the state of Iraq right now? How many people have died just because some power hungry lunatic "was sure" that Iraq had WMD's?

What about Libya? What is the state of Libya? Let's not even get started on Afghanistan. Do you even know of Task force 47 in war of 1971 between India-Pakistan?

I'm not well versed in geo politics of Latin America but there have been cases over there as well where US would meddle in internal affairs of a country and overthrow a ruler.
Google pulled out of China not because they wanted to liberate the Chinese people, but because the PLA was hacking (as the PLA likes to say, “liberating”) Gmail accounts of HK dissidents.
Especially when they've probably raised it by at least that much just in the last few years.
> google censors content in the u.s. it's called porn.

You can turn safe search off in the US.
I think this is key. Used to do it, then didn't need it!
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It's seems highly unlikely that this is some long game by Google where they're going to "bring down the man from the inside"
Being the propaganda machine is the better option because it's going to happen regardless of whether it's Google. Another company will just take Google's place.
Yeah

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_...
> If you did nothing wrong then you have nothing to lose by unlocking your phone

What's right and wrong changes every few decades. Not too long ago a guy was jailed and pushed to suicide because he was gay. In UK.

There are countries today, where you can be put in a concentration camp for being gay (Chechnya Republic in Russia).

There are people that had to escape USA because they warned people of government institutions abusing the law (see Snowden for 1 example).

There are people killed in Mexico for protesting against drug cartels and corruption in government protecting them.

Liberal and paceful France sent spies to put a bomb and explode ecologists' ship that was protesting against nuclear tests in international waters. Later New Zaeland caught the spies, and France blackmailed them to release the spies threathening war.

It's pretty common for nice democratic governments to do EVIL things. It's even more common for non-democratic, or non-liberal governments to do that. Most of the time you're fine, because government ignores most people. But the law is concerned with protection of the few that wouldn't be fine.

> So if you don't unlock your phone, it's an admission of guilt.

Even medieval inquisition had higher standards than that. They tortured people, but at least they required them to admit the crime. You don't even want that. Congratulations.
Be sure you're sorting out partisan political information in your studies.
> Their absence from China didn't liberate the Chinese people and their reentry won't either

Google's reentry into China will definitely give the Chinese government leverage over them. It's opening the door for stuff like this to happen:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/nov/14/news.yaho...

> [Yahoo] claimed it had no choice other than to comply with a request from Beijing to share information about the online activities of the journalists. Yahoo handed their email records to the Chinese government.

> The journalists, Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao, are serving 10-year jail sentences. Wang was accused of "incitement to subvert state power" after he emailed electronic journals advocating democratic reform and establishment of a multiparty system to replace the present authoritarian state. Shi was charged with passing on information that was designated a state secret
It may not have a thing for Jesus, or the Bible, but it's very much a thing for Christianity.

Yet another illustration of the fundamental divergence of that institution from its origins.
I'm not disputing that, and that's a pretty odd assumption to make. I'm simply saying that if 10% of Google employees had signed this, it might be news. Barely 1% doesn't seem particularly newsworthy.
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Businesses that do white / private label goods often don't want to say who the original manufacturer is. For example, my daughter has a Cyberpower PC gaming laptop and it took some digging, but we found the original Chinese manufacturer and from there were able to track down drivers and other things.
It's not just bad tasting food either, too little salt is bad for you in itself.
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I know in C++ multithreaded programs share memory as to way to track resource access. However in Go this is done through channels. I'm trying to explore some subtle differences writing concurrent Go code the C/C++ way. My aim to find some bad practices in the process and figure out the best way to fix them. I'm currrently out of ideas.

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Those competitive jobs will likely to go to the better-credentialed people anyway, regardless of debt status.

On the other hand, perhaps some great minds choose to go into medicine rather than banking, or more important but lower-paying medical disciplines, because they know they won't be graduating with crippling debt. That seems like a big win.
As long as most people still use Google for search, and the alternatives aren't comparable, they can continue to move from their "foundational values"
Thanks! Yes, probably around big public holidays and when we think of more! Yes we ship to the US. I'll add a pack now!
Does any money go back to the app developers?
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A notification just popped up: "X and Y are on snapchat". I have X and Ys phone number, just like i have 10s of other business contacts. But there is a reason I havent added them on snapchat.

I don't really like it that it gives me such notification. Ive also been added by other people today who presumably got notification on their screen about me. Just feels privacy-intruding for some reason. I left facebook because people who i barely knew were in my friendslist and spamming my newsfeed. Now I feel its happening with Snap too.

I suppose this is Snap Incs attempt to reverse the trend of decreased user activity. It may give them short term "profit", but on long term I think this is going have the opposite effect.

Anyone else got this notification? Im in europe
I spent the better part of two years absolutely positive it stood for Secure Compartmentalized Information. :)
Fair enough. I don't put a lot of stock in the SEC anyway, a 'who watches the watchers' lack of ironclad faith in these regulatory agencies tends to afflict me. That said, all credit to them when they do enforce.
I buy Pilot Precise v5 pens, and hoard them jealously. If someone wants to borrow a pen, they can have the shitty one I picked up from a bank.
"Should? Hard to answer and not too practically relevant."

Considering that's kinda what you're arguing for when you say that they should just quit, yes, I would consider it relevant.

"People also sometimes willingly make themselves exploitable, through their own fault, by adding tons of debt and liabilities (children, houses, vehicles) into the equation. One would be a fool to think people aren't looking at those to assess your risk tolerance"

No. The fault for exploitation is ALWAYS entirely on those doing the exploiting. Always. They are the ones actively choosing to fuck people over.
Refusing to unlock your phone isn't an admission of guilt. It's just being smart when you know your legal system regularly engages in parallel construction and fishing expeditions.
The problem, as always, is that there are no apparent penalties for being Worst CEO Ever, except “fewer millions of dollars”. And the screw-ups are the ones that make workers say “hell, pay me 1/100th of what you paid him and I can make bad decisions too!”.

Worse, there is a scale of effect here. If you take a million dollars away from even an above-average worker, his life savings is gone and he’s screwed and in debt. If you take it away from an overpaid exec, he’s just a little pissed but he’ll be fine. Heck, the excellent PR alone should make it a good idea for companies to spread extra millions among workers, as it is unquestionably the right thing to do morally (besides: the workers probably deserve it due to inflation alone, the company will do better due to worker motivation, etc.).
No, I definitely resort back to entertainment every once in a while. I wouldn't go as far to call it a problem though. I suppose entertainment in low doses is fine but entertainment as the main staple of our diet is no good. In terms of deep work, I think it's important to see the side of spectrum of how entertainment only exists to stimulate a neurological response. For instance, think about always refreshing a site we are particularly fond of when we know implicitly that we should not be doing that and we should be doing something else. But hey, it's increasingly hard do so, especially now when technology is growing exponentially. There's no doubt it's difficult, we know that. It takes real mental fortitude. But this is where doing away with the nonessentials comes into play - when you do so, what's left is us, face to face with what we have to do. If anything above makes sense.

All this talk about entertainment reminds me of David Foster Wallace on Entertainment Culture: https://tonyreinke.com/2018/03/05/david-foster-wallace-on-en...

A few good bits:

> "It just, I guess my point is, right now and I think the next 15 or 20 years are going to be a very scary and sort of very exciting time when we have to sort of reevaluate our relationship to fun and pleasure and entertainment because it’s going to get so good, and so high pressure, that we’re going to have to forge some kind of attitude toward it that lets us live."

> "what it’s going to be like and what sort of resources we’re going to have to cultivate in ourselves and in our citizenry to keep from sort of dying on couches. I mean, maybe that sounds silly, but the stuff’s going to get better and better and better and better and it’s not clear to me that we, as a culture, are teaching ourselves or our children what we’re going to say “yes” and “no” to."
Indeed. Some of these universities (Stanford, Harvard) are so filthy rich that they could provide free tuition for everyone and still watch their endowments grow from investment returns alone. Not to mention the enormous gifts they receive from successful alumni. Harvard has received hundreds of millions from the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
> Advanced facial recognition systems, email harvesting, stalking people across the internet and monitoring their every keyboard press

These things have clear benefit to the user (face unlock and personal photo search, personal email search, search ranking, instant search). Adding yet another censored search engine in China does not.
I predict this will have the opposite effect. This will increase the appeal of NYU leading to stronger students applying/accepting offers of admission who go on to get into higher paying specialties.
Well, for one thing, it might suddenly become difficult to travel in China as a result of signing this letter. That would not be unprecedented.

As for Google, companies in general value employees who are flexible in the projects they're willing to work on. Without efforts to counteract bias, employees who decline projects due to ethical objections risk being seen as difficult.
>> Antifa communists

> Welp.

This is sort of a non-central question, but is there something controversial about this? I probably have more familiarity with Antifa than most people, but I'm by no means an expert; I thought that many of them do directly identify as Communists (along with anarchists, socialists, and anti-liberal social democrats).
That is a shame. I wonder what the stipulations are. Of course, we will never be sure.

But there’s no doubt private money is ruining science enough as it stands.

A far more humane system would not be giving wealthy people so much influence on what people learn at school.
Idea: What if tuition was initially free for all students and universities collected a percentage of the graduate's pay for a fixed number of years?
You've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's an abuse of this site, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which politics they're blessing or smiting. The reason is that HN exists for intellectual curiosity, and these two phenomena don't go well together. Indeed, one destroys the other.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended in the future, we'd appreciate it.
"And then diminish it to zero again because yes it should be possible for employees to do that."

Absolutely not. It never should be possible for a single employee to do that with no checks at all.
It's also important that it's alumnīs in ablative when you're going away from multiple alumnīs.

My friends don't seem to like when I tell them about proper declension when we're in the stadiō.
or twitter (and likely other social media platforms as well)
seems like you could add a "feature request" tier that pays money back and aggregates feature requests.
If the storage is encrypted (standard on iOS, depends for Android) then the data should be pretty well unrecoverable.
Except good and bad are relative, not absolute. In your case you seem to be comparing to a personal notion of "good", but it's still relative.

You also state that "not everything has to be binary" and then say something can be "worst", which is the same absolute you seem to be arguing against