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I do not envy the kids who nowadays stand 0 change to ever learn the complete stack of code running on any modern device.

I also started back when things were simple (BBC B with interpreted BASIC, no GUI).

Having transitioned to modern development, I think the bare bones system was good for self-learning. But for the last 2 decades I've worked on systems where many layers were hidden from me (Windows, RDBMS, Salesforce etc) and most of the time it doesn't matter. I very rarely need to learn anything about low levels Windows stuff. With SQL Server you need to learn a bit about query plans and how to influence them, and where to put indexes. But mostly, you can ignore lower layers and just let them get on with what they do. And thats the whole point isn't it?

One huge exception to this is the modern web stack, if you think of the browser as the bare metal, with HTML and JS and CSS as some sort of machine code. On top of that you have Content Management systems and PHP and so so many JS frameworks. And whatever you do, soon enough you need to get down to the HTML/JS/CSS level. So thats the modern equivalent to our experience of the old days - no matter how many frameworks and CMSs we throw at the web, everyone still has to know their HTML/JS/CSS to get anywhere.

Perhaps one day we will escape from that and people will reminisce about angle brackets and escaping ampersands.
I like the start the small and ramp up method they are using. This should get plenty of investors mouth watering if they can prove it works and can scale
Ha ha. Imap hacked into a mail delivery system. Except that it requires to trust the guy who runs the forwarding server with your gmail credentials.
> Today's students have to learn in the same time: a shortened version of the old course PLUS nosql, column-oriented DBMS, DHTs etc.

If your university is good. I took a computer science bachelor the past three years in the Netherlands. In my case, I fear that I learned as much about databases as your basic course taught you, and maybe even less. In particular, the implementation of databases wasn't even touched on. I definitely learned nothing whatsoever about nosql db's, column-oriented db's, dht's and other cool things, though the existence of the first two was hinted.

Luckily I can usually figure out what I want to know without help of a teacher, but there's a definite difference in level of difficulty and amount of content between universities today.
Yeah you’ll never step in the same water twice, but I was born in 85 and I don’t miss 90s hardware much, not even nostalgically. Do you miss 70s hardware? I mean in terms of what you can practically get out of it, not how nice the keys felt. Yeah I missed seeing and learning from a lot of advancement unfold, but progress has been massive and I do enjoy my computer-video-phone global communication device. What an amazing thing to have seen in a lifetime. As a kid I did not expect there to be videophones.

You’re right, my generation definitely missed a lot but I hope some day to work through NAND2Tetris. Furthermore, also I didn’t study CS, but a good CS/EE program would really take you through first steps. No matter what, you can’t keep a book from a scholar. There appear to be many resources to learn this stuff if one has the opportunity. Combine NAND2Tetris with the x86-64 assembly on Ubuntu book I saw here yesterday and you should be golden, right?
No, the "problem" they're trying to solve is that women want more power and money. Have you noticed how pushes for "diversity" always ignore jobs that are dangerous and unskilled? Brickies are 95%+ male, you don't read about the importance of setting quotas for female bricklayers do you? Primary age teaching is essentially a female only job at this point, we don't see governments imposing quotas for male teachers.

Board seats and other senior management roles however get enormous pressure from feminist campaign groups - because that's where the money and power is.
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This is truly unfortunate, I can understand giving incentives to bring more women into upper management, but a quota is somewhat punitive in nature.

The main objective of the article it seems is to allay fears that more women in boardrooms would not be a bad thing. I honestly don't care for such studies. What I do care about is the fact that more and more businesses are going to be told _how_ to hire. This is a terrible idea.

Furthermore, the article goes on to say that there have been no changes in the profits reported and that the companies across Europe have seen no change whatsoever. This might say much more about boards and their lack of effect more than anything else.

What I see happening is that due to the increased regulation on how businesses operate, more of them will not go public and thus prevent a lot of the population will miss out on good investment opportunities.
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> Looks like an MIT Media Lab graduate's painfully pretentious arg/art project (i love it) :D

Then it leads here: http://isthisabook.club/
Just remove the stripe or wipe it yourself.
Sort of - for chip readers that don't have a magnetic swipe on them, yes. However all cards have enough info in the magnetic strip to validate transactions, so if your card ever goes in card reader with a magnetic swipe reader that is compromised it's not a proper factor.
It's 73 years since then. They are dying out.
I don't know if there is a typical career path here. I work in this space and see people from all over.

Working on the math side of it really does require a PhD and several published papers.

Working on the implementation requires mostly a healthy sense of paranoia and willingness to really pay attention to the details. After that it really is about experience, practice and lots and lots of code review.

If you think you're interested in doing this and you're in the NYC area, I would be happy to chat with you. We do have a few openings. I have contact info in my profile.
The average carbon footprint of an individual is however much larger for rich countries. It is true that n_children is higher for say, Nigeria rather than Germany. However n_children times footprint_of_a_child is much higher in Germany.

Using the very limited numbers from this wikipedia page [0], the carbon footprint of a German individual is about 15 times more than a Nigerian individual. Yet Nigerians "only" have 3.7 more births per woman than the Germans, and that's without taking into account the enormous difference in life expectancy. Taking the two numbers, the carbon footprint of the average German couple fertility behavior is about 4 times bigger than for a Nigerian couple.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
> Let's also say that the internet has a mass m

silly, the Internet doesn't weigh anything! ;-)
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In all current cases there aren't very many people trying to cross the border at once. If Egypt became uninhabitable there'd be 100 million people trying to leave. If it was even just 5% of that trying to get in to Israel then a wall or an army isn't going to stop them unless that army is willing to actively murder innocent people. I don't think any army on Earth would be willing to do that. Consequently a military solution isn't ever going to work.
That story seems to come up a lot in these discussions. IIRC it appeared in a prior HN discussion of the same thing.

The bursary in question is only £3,000 which is nothing. And the total fund is only £30,000 - so enough for 10 nurses.

This doesn't even begin to compare with organised political lobbying on a continental scale to force women into jobs where people earn £3,000 for simply sitting in a single board meeting.
They meant that the MBP in general is favoured by software developers (especially until 2016), and the post-2016 MBP is the successor to that but doesn't live up to the reputation.
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> You can't demonstrate where my reasoning is wrong

I specifically said why your argument was wrong. Without independence it is simply untrue.

> Congratulations, you're an ideologue.

I am. Mathematical flummery triggers me.
This has been my experience as well. Apple seems to have spent a lot of effort in making their software use very little energy. Check out the energy usage of Safari vs Chrome sometime, for example.
I don't get it. You can't "monopolize" anyone as far as casual encounters are concerned, since they're by definition 'casual', i.e. temporary, non-exclusive, short-term, etc. Or are you implying that each man in that supposed top 10% has literally eight women waiting in line for him and abstaining from any other kind of encounter? That's a quite bold statement and not one I've verified from personal experience. But then I don't live in America?
7.2, not 17.2, so about 46 sqft per person. Point taken, but if a submarine is the point of comparison... yeah, that's really really not a lot of room.
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Yours are thinner, not smaller overall I think. The Vocore is basically the size of an ethernet port, judging by screenshots.

Still, in the end, you're correct that it's not real news that the size of a full Linux-capable computer is now entirely dictated by the type of physical interfaces you need. There is nothing you can do with a Vocore that you couldn't already do with other similarly-sized boards.
Building a business around another platform can be extremely profitable, but has great risk attached to it as well. We have seen this time and time again. Be it changes to Twitter's API or changes to Instagram's API, it happens time and time again. The only way to stay safe from this is to build your business around an open source system, like Wordpress. However, I do think that there should be at least some protection against moves like these - depending on context of course.
You're at least somewhat correct, at least judging by the headlines on realclearpolitics, for example, or by browsing politically opposed subreddits simultaneously. But I'm really astounded that you've said that anti-vaxxers are specifically right-wing. I thought it was a bit more like the flat-earth phenomenon where it's unclear who is being satirical, who supports it simply because of some disposition to conspiracy, and who actually believes that they've found evidence more compelling than the near entirety of the foundation of our scientific system - the same scientific system that has managed to create the device of incomprehensible complexity on which you're reading this comment.
Yeah, but the problem is that it takes time. Learning assembly takes time ('cos you need to understand the whole system at the level of machine code : bios calls, memory protections, interrupts, DMA, graphics cards, sound card, I/O,...). Then you have to go up a level into the OS stuff (hello file systems, processes, threading, paging). Then once you get that, you have to learn how a (extreme example) Java VM connects to all of that (welcome GC, optimization, compiler, byte code). then, ah finally, something one can easily understand : Java code :-)

(and don't even start me on WS/rest over HTTS over SSL over IP).

Learning stack by stack, one generation at a time, let us, old gray beards, digest the whole thing. But now, starting from scratch ? Not even with a 10 feet pole.
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On HN, if you present a technical hack, everybody likes it and thinks it's a interesting proposition. It does not matter that it is usually illegal to exploit it in real life.

However if you come with a business hack, people tend to point out that it's so illegal. The point of the OP is that black hat business hackers could still exploit it and they likely have ways to leak such information anonymously.

It's understood that just like black hat computer hackers they are in huge trouble if they get caught and OP does not encourage anyone to perform illegal actions.
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Also BJP campaign in UP was less affected by demonetization than opponents’
I’ve fired and been fired for sub-par performance. I’m from the EU. Its not that rare at all.
We're not yet 30% into the next century from 1990, so mean 0.3°C per decade is still possible.

Given how things are going, about 1°C by 2025 is still possible. Also, there was a slowing in temperature increase from 1998 to 2012. But now we're back at the long-term trend. I suspect that Chinese SOx emissions from coal played a role, by increasing cloudiness. Cuts in SOx emissions in the 70s arguably increased the warming rate. And if that's true, the shit will hit the fan as China cuts coal use. Because the residence halflife for SOx is so much lower than that for CO2.

I don't know the water stress stuff. But California has been pretty screwed. Let's see what happens in the US Southwest over the next decade or so.

Maybe we still have Himalayan glaciers, but high-altitude glaciers have generally not fared so well, I think.

You're misusing that data on area burned by fires. The page actually says ...

> The ongoing transition from nomadic cultures to settled lifestyles and intensifying agriculture has led to a steep drop not only in the use of fire on local lands, but in the prevalence of fire worldwide, researchers found.

... and ...

> Across Africa, fires typically burn an area about half the size of the continental United States every year, said Niels Andela, a research scientist at Goddard and lead author on the paper. In traditional savanna cultures with common lands, people often set fires to keep grazing lands productive and free of shrubs. As many of these communities have shifted to cultivate more permanent fields and to build more houses, roads and villages, the use of fire declines. As economic development continues, the landscape becomes more fragmented, communities often enact legislation to control fires and the burned area declines even more.

The recent experience in Russia, northern Europe, California, etc does seem consistent with predictions. But I agree that there's not enough data to be confident yet.
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This doesn't even begin to compare with organised political lobbying on a continental scale to force women into jobs where people earn £3,000 for simply sitting in a single board meeting.

Of course, because no such jobs exist from which men are mostly absent. You can't expect a response of the same size when the problem is nowhere near the same size.
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You can stratch it off, or use a very powerful magnet to erase the strip. When scratching be careful not to damage the NFC antenna which loops around in the card.
No, thanks for the heads up.

Yep pretty crazy nowadays, although if I would be playing with electronics, I guess I would just use the ESP32 instead.
It's all chip and pin where I live too, and has been for ages.

Often enough, the chip or the reader is dirty and fails to read, the terminal will prompt you to swipe the card through the mag-reader instead. Usually, it will prompt you to try the card reader again, then back to the mag-reader for a final swipe before continuing.
I'm halfway into the video and it seems like an impressive use of half a million lines of code. The developer(s) is a UV artist himself and says the algorithm's process is close to how he would do things himself. He discusses the entire algorithm but it comes down to identifying different features like hard flattish surfaces, cones, strips, smooth surfaces, etc and handling them independently.

It's probably not open source. It says email Quel Solaar for licensing. He is targeting game studios before moving on to film vfx studios.
Yeah it’s not the same but it’s amazing starting from scratch at a new baseline. Every generation of humans has had to do that with everything.

I missed out on all the stuff you mentioned and really want to learn it, but I am grateful that I get to use all this stuff that’s developed. Instead of spending time learning the above listed fundamentals, which would have been revelatory in its own way, I have the opportunity to use Java on Kubernetes to build and operate globally whatever Internet software dream comes to mind. It’s not the end all, and I am crippled by lacking fundamentals, but it’s so much more than before and I am grateful to have the opportunity to have these tools.
That is one long non-article. Let's try:

It's an aplication of the placebo effect. It gives people the feeling of having an impact on critical systems which work better automated when they have not, like on traffic lights. A net-positive effect is widely observed.
Let me suggest to come up with a different hook. Lack of tracking and lack of ads are two of the fundamental defining (anti)characteristics of RSS. The whole point of RSS is to directly connect individual content providers to individual content consumers. This current hook is like trying to sell pillows on the basis that they don't spontaneously explode.
Same here. I like the feel, and type very fast because of the small travel. I cannot speak about the dust issues, since I haven't had the problem.
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In fact, it should already be possible to gain competitive advantage to hire talent from cheaper locations using remote work. There's some great talent out there that's hungry for quality work.
Did anyone use it? Is it any good?

Why there is no demo to try but it forces me to create an account?
I'm reminded of this DEF CON talk from 4 years ago detailing a similar technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1C3WB8c0o
> Maybe you can force the measurement device to move only in one direction, but if I were to design the ATM, it would detect inconsistent, physical card movement.

That would be very prone to false positives. Weather variations (temperature, humidity), card types, dirt (grease , dust) and foreign objects (stickers on the card) etc etc would all make the card movement inconsistent.
Excessive check-box rulemaking certainly does.

Clean-desk policies, bans on "personal items" (want a photo of your family on your desk? nope), strict uniform policies ("failure to wear the company polo shirt AND jumper, even if it's 30C, will result in dismissal")...

Individually the rules don't mean much. But when they're added together -- and especially if they're changed (removing 'dress-down Fridays', say) can end up creating a bit of a "death by a thousand papercuts" scenario.

Because really, who's harmed by someone putting a photo of their wife and kid on their desk? Or a quiet little office toy (a stress ball maybe?) they were given at a trade show?

But easily the biggest way you can show that you don't trust your employees is to pretend to listen to their concerns and suggestions for improving the workplace, only to laugh at them and dismiss them. That type of treatment is just about guaranteed to lose you good people.

Let your staff work on their own initiative, foster their creativity, and they'll produce magic. And when they're slipping a bit - have a polite, private conversation, away from the eyes of the madding crowd and office gossipers, and ask how you (As a manager) or the company can help them.

TL/DR: Treat your staff like adults.
Well, feedly does inject ads so it is a thing.
What's wrong with USB-C? Sounds like a cool idea in theory - you essentially don't need a docking station.
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A literal Rockstar head of development. Wow. :)
It's quite reasonable to suppose that there are many reasons why one person would or would not mobilize to vote, and, correct me if I'm wrong, it's common knowledge that the "swing voter" effect is not due to undecided people becoming decided, rather that people are marginally motivated or unmotivated to vote.

So, in the spirit of democracy, where the desires of all those who /can/ vote (not just those who /do/ vote) are respected, it is probably interesting to examine why voters do and do not find the motivation to vote. Hypothetically, if we had mind-reading devices, and motivation was not a prerequisite for voting, which side of the vote would have benefited?

Asymmetrical motivation is the hypothesis that in referenda where Action/No-Action are the choices, there will be more voter motivation for Action rather than No-Action. This very reasonably applies to Brexit.
I live near the beach in Japan. I admit that I don't go and pick up plastic off the beach. I definitely should because it's not really an onerous task. I'll try to schedule it occasionally (I mean, I'm near enough that I can actually walk to the beach, anytime I want).

However, on the beach near me, there isn't much garbage. And pretty much any day I go, there is a group of students picking up garbage on the beach. When I used to work at the school, each home room would have beach days where they go and pick up garbage. And each club has beach days where they go and pick up garbage.

I live on Suruga bay, so it's not right on the Pacific and I'm sure that cuts down a lot of the garbage. But just with the local high school sending 20 people down there practically every day, it seems to keep it under control.

It's one of those cultural things. There is garbage everywhere because we don't have a culture to clean it up. We feel like we shouldn't have to. We feel like it should be someone else's job. Maybe that's true and maybe it's not, but a consistent effort by a small group of people can make a big difference.
OK, good points. I agree that it's hard to talk about such gradual changes. But what worries me is that stuff isn't always linear.
Exactly, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Russia. Arguably less percentage in EU.

Or more like, the world has always been like that in some form or another. Sugar Daddy is nothing new, we just happen to have Internet to spread this information far wider.
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Indeed some of these rules and policies are ridiculous. I particularly enjoyed my time as a mid-level manager at a large aerospace company where we did stack ranking each year. We had to stack rank an organization that consisted of five departments with over 300 engineers. I was one of the department managers. Each department manager's goal was to get as many of his members ranked as highly as possible. The game theory was thick in those meetings. Unfortunately, one of the other managers had weak game and ended up with poor rankings every year. It seemed very unfair to his better people.

However, this statement in the article is pretty dumb:
"If you don’t trust the people you hired, why did you hire them?" How about because they interviewed well and you thought you could trust them but once they started working they proved themselves untrustworthy. That's not rocket science; it's something that happens and is not particularly rare.
> Nothing sterilizes a book's emotional or intellectual impact quite like being forced to read it.

at the rate of one fucking chapter a week

I always remember Flowers for Algernon, a book which we read as part of English class. I devoured it in about 2-3 days and it was definitely the first book to ever make me cry. Like, that book is fucking incredible. I told the teacher next day - who (wisely) said I shouldn't share this with fellow students lest I get mocked.

4 weeks later we're being asked questions about the motivations of characters. Or what do we think the author meant by this paragraph. All in chapter 4.

I couldn't remember, I didn't care. The book had a profound interest on me and nobody else was actually reading it. Just micro-analysing all possible joy out of it. Ugh.