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> Google invented infantilism of their workers. They invented basic colors, office slides, and office ball pits. They make new employees wear propeller hats.

In 1999/2000 I was riding office slides at excite@home[1], and jumping in ball-pits at idealab when Google wasn't at all noteworthy except that their fans were exhausting directly into mine from their adjacent cages at globalcenter.

> They want a naive "ender's game" work force while their business of monitoring the web browsing and location of hundreds of millions of people is actually very serious.

Interesting choice of comparison, as Ender's Game is frequently criticized being an apologia for Hitler[2][3] or a Handmaid's tale for conservatives. Fanboy thugs of Card's "Handmaid's tale for conservatives". and fanboy thugs of Orson Scott Card were encouraged to attack the writers who posed this argument[4]. Card himself is a rather outspoken conservative and homophobe[5], [6] whose work is primarily about encouraging mormon ideals/moral absolutism and has essentially called for an anti-gay genocide[7].

Ender's brother and sister over the world by putting on online personaes, Locke and Demosthenes of both the right and left soas to control popular opinion by owning both sides of the debate. In a way was sort of a guidebook to modern right-wing political strategy. In a subsequent book, Ender moves to a world colonized by Brazilians. Brazil itself was a favorite post-WW2 hiding spot for Nazis.[8]

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Who-killed-Excite-ho...
[2] https://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html
[3] http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
[4] http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2005_5_28_22428_7034.html (postscript section)
[5] https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/arti...
[6] https://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_car...
[7] http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2013-05-09-1.html.
[8] https://www.history.com/news/how-south-america-became-a-nazi...
I just found out today that I helped my client potentially double or triple their sales on Amazon. They went from $5k daily sales to $10k. I'm still trying to process that that could be $1-2m in revenue. They're basically for the time being now one of the top 3 products on Amazon for their category, beating other established brands.

My colleagues and I are building new brands on Amazon every day. There are other ecommerce entrepreneurs building brands on Facebook ads and social media. It is now easier than before to find customers, build that list, and retain customers. There's been a shift and I see new brands challenging dominant sleeping brands every day. The craziest thing is that all these new challengers have very very small teams. I'm working on launching a product to challenge P&G, but I already know one startup, 3 founders, backed with VC money, that are already doing $50k+/mo on Amazon on that product.
Of course intense seething long term anger of this sort is usually indicative of cognitive dissonance (as liberals easily notice within groups like religious fundamentalists.) Apparently turning the mirror of objectivity on themselves is highly difficult though.
This is possible because you apply for the ballot first, and can do so in someone else's name. With vote-by-mail system, it doesn't work, because voters have their ballots mailed directly to them.
Imagine how much college you could pay for if you curbed your half trillion dollar budget just a bit. But say that and people get upset.
It has nothing to do with the size of any wires. The chip itself is a solid wafer of silicon with a tiny bit of copper, aluminum, etc deposited on top. It's all one solid piece though, the silicon die itself is never going to be damaged from shock unless it's strong enough to break it in half which isn't going to happen before the rest of the device is toast.

There's tiny bond wires that connect the silicon die to the pins on the outside of the chip but that has nothing to do with the process size of the chip. Basically the feature size just means that somewhere on the die there's a tiny spot 7 nm wide. It's a measure of how fine they can get it when etching and doping a silicon wafer.
I am going to side track the discussion a bit, what are the implication of this to Petrol Dollar as the world's reserve currency?

One of the reason US dollar is being used as reserved is its absolute influence / Protection in Oil and OPEC. Now US is producing more Oil than anyone else, China is buying more from and start to settle those deals in RMM, what happen next?
> there is no shadow banning on HN

No, shadow bans of HN is definitely happen.
After this beginning:

> To millions of parents and students, they're magical words: free college. But is the idea pure fantasy?

I had trouble to take the article seriously, given that it does not even mention the free colleges in other countries.
42M Credential Stuffing Records Discovered on Kayo.moe
My thoughts on this from practical experience at Perl conferences and Open Source conferences in general: many (former) Perl 5 programmers are looking forward to finding a use-case to use Perl 6 for a project in their environment. And some have done already, and put the result in production, which may be specifically easy with micro-services using Cro (https://cro.services).

Of course, there are (former) Perl 5 programmers who still think Perl 6 is the sole reason for Perl's demise. These are fortunately very few, but alas also very vocal.
I'm curious about "boots & suspenders", searching for that gives a lot of porn results! Is this really an idiom in the US, or should it be "belt & braces"? (braces are what you call suspenders, what we call suspenders is the waist garment that secures stockings for the ladies)
And you will never see on the road. As a motorcycle rider, I will not be happy to see surprise manuever !!
My experience in going from being very insistent on static typing and moving to Ruby (after lots of hesitation) is that you run into lots of type errors, chances are you also have uncaught logic errors in code your test suite isn't exercising. E.g. the above example would presumable be caught if you actually tested all the code acting on the account balance, even without a single test to explicitly test the types.

That goes irrespective of if those type errors are caught at compile time or runtime - if those errors aren't caught by your test suite, odds are you have a problem that static typing will not fix but writing more tests will. In either case my response to type errors these days is to consider it a bug in the test coverage.

(I'm sure some will argue that typing in languages like Haskell avoids this more than others, and that might be true, but languages like Haskell are too hard to work with for most people to ever get mainstream traction; I'd love to see more experimentation in making more advanced type systems more accessible, though)
Can you specify which country or university your experience is based on?
In my experience (Austria) there were issues sometimes, but nothing which would even by a long shot could be called "rampant". Here it is more of an issue that there is a lack of funding and not much political will to increase it. The amount of the GDP which goes to funding universities is lower than average recommended by the world bank [citation needed].

Edit: I couldn't find the recommendations but here is a chart by the world bank: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS

The most recent data is from 2014 though, interesting nonetheless.
Its not a thought stopping question, I'm asking you to put some thought into it and propose some solutions.

Or at least make your complaint a little specific, like what was tried, what didn't work, etc. As it stands, it's just whining about the general state of things, which I would say isn't actually very useful, unless the goal is to mope collectively.
It would help if people read the article. This has nothing to do with social democratic calls for government provided universal college, it's about scholarship and grant programs sold as "free college" subsidies in various states in the US and how they all sort of fall short of being "free" or being "college".
I did not compare it to anything. I was an IT employee at a faculty for a while. I can't cite since there isn't anything formal going on, it's just an observation and since I'm asking, I'm not going to support any argument, since I'm not arguing it's true - I'm just asking others if they have similar observations or not.
Europe’s Home and Living ECommerce Giant Westwing Plans Initial Public Offering
Not at all. Introducing a new reason for it to happen isn't going to help, though.
The article already states that it will never be on the road and already mentions your concern as one of the challenges.
Classifying government documents is not censorship, since it's not government suppressing anyone's speech. It's strictly a transparency issue.

All of your other examples involve private censorship (which can be rephrased as "people and companies exercising their property rights and freedom of association"), not government censorship.
I'm Czech, living in Czechia. I'm not going to say more, sorry - I'm not trying to convince anyone about my story, I am trying to collect more data, see if other people have similar experiences.
And in fact, in many of these countries, private (paid) universities have quite bad popularity - it’s where people who can’t pass in the “free” one go, with very few exceptions.

I mean, there are so many examples of fully or almost fully covered tuition around the world that it makes me wonder how such meme is still alive.
If a website doesn't want its content to be summarized by Google couldn't they just block it in their robots.txt? From what I've seen that results in Google listing the page's title but with no description.

Maybe search engines could adopt some sort of standard that would allow pages to provide their desired description using meta tags if they don't want an automated summary. I could see a problem with pages using dishonest summaries, but perhaps that could be addressed by penalizing the page rank if the provided summary is too different than the summary that Google would have generated.
It need not be moralising at all. In many countries for pretty much every "life changing" contract such as marriage, buying a house, changing the will, etc. there's a cool down period that tries to prevent being rushed to do such things.

Also here in (some cantons of) Switzerland, during the month of notice you have to give to get married, the names of the couple is published so that people can protest the marriage if they know it's not a legal one, which is for sure something some people can find odious but it's not done for moralising but for practical purposes.
What's atheism got to do with any of this?
Someone once said "Terrorism is the one thing where white men do all the work and get no recognition for it."
> would jump

This used to exist: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

Not many people were interested, so it got scaled back to an opt in model.

So it's not that many others willing to pay for this.
It's not curious. To me it's quite obvious. The intentions are not much different either: protect the interests of a few against those of the many. Sometimes they may use words that signal a different intent, to assuage the populace, but the reality is all too obvious, in every single regulation that came out of that monstrosity.
Try linking to evidence rather than making widespread assertions. You have three claims here; can you find URLs to reputable sources to back each of them up?
I know it's not about cardiology, but I remember the day after the attacks. As I'm an Australian, I had gone to bed early so I didn't see what happened till the next morning, when I turned on the television.

There aren't too many events that you can say utterly changed your view of the world. I remember listening to Triple M that day, and listening as grown, gruff Australian men who listened to rock music called in to Andrew Denton, crying and in distress.

I can only imagine what it must have been like for the doctors who had to do to identify bodies, and bits of bodies. The thing that hit me most was that they were doing their job, waiting for patients that never came. They were all dead. I can barely comprehend this.

I will never forget September 11th as long as I live. I work with young guys now, mostly 21 to 24 years old. None of them truly understand what happened that day, they were all too young. I'm glad in many ways they don't, but they also don't understand how truly profound that day was. I hope they never do, nor never need to.
A big issue is that in America almost everyone wants to study in college even if they want to study a master's in gender studies and later work in Starbucks. In most countries with free colleges (at least the ones that I know), it is free because not enough people want to study in colleges, and the ones who do want to study, for the most part, have a realistic plan on how to get a career based on the degree.
Game of Thrones sounds like a kindergarten show now. Almost sounds like a good game idea too: you play a roman emperor and the goal is to survive as long as possible knowing surviving a day's gonna be hard.
Depends on how feasible a Hack -> PHP7 transition would be.
I thought it was a month and a day notice you had to give.
I'm another one of the disappointed long time users. Just tried Gmail again and the UI/UX is not yet there, the ads in the app is also a big downgrade...

I also loved to use "save to inbox" feature (creating reminders from outside). It is a share option on android so accessible from pretty much anywhere and on PC I used the Inbox extension on chrome that has the same feature to save the current page.

Now for the future... I'm probably dreaming but I wish the snooze/done paradigm would be provided by a stand-alone service and available system wide and in the cloud (with an open API). We should be able to "snooze" anything (a watsapp message, a sms, a web page) and select a date/location/device that will wake it again. Bundling could also be provided by the same service...

Edit: that service should of course also replace the several tasks/reminders services and apps that google has created these last years.
Tips on building a data analytics warehouse
My only theory is that you need to

1) find foreign things to do to stimulate your brain in non known ways

2) possibly pleasurable/happy things (shared games/challenges with people you like or care about)

3) do them slowly~ enough to be aware of when you're reaching your limits and then keep at that level to not overload your system.

After I partially lost control of my left hand fingers, I could clearly sense when a movement was triggering jitter or finger locks. If I tried playing around that movement again, I could feel my brain clogging just a little, it's was almost a mind tickle. I have zero proof that it made things better, beside a belief in that challenging your brain/muscle system is how we learned skills when we were born. I think newborn have the structure to get a lot of reward out of sensing their body or the world. So I just try to re-apply that strategy.
If there was an election on the 28th of Feb 2018, would this girl have been able to vote?

How about buy alcohol?

If we agree there has to be some arbitrary line, then we probably ought to apply that sharply.

> it indirectly implies that their client will likely be found culpable.

I don't think that's fair at all. We don't know the specifics of the case.

> if the defendant is found guilty there is a likelihood that their punishment

This assumes that punishment, as dealt out by the courts, is an appropriate way of going about healing society after a crime has occurred.
Corruption is rampant (not in relation to academic results, but other things like employment, grants etc), favourism is flourishing, and huge amount of money is wasted instead of used to help the students.

Sounds like SNAFU: Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up.

Humans seem unable to escape favoritism, etc. The older I get, the less convinced I am that this is entirely bad. As I get healthier, I seem to get more "likeable." I find myself wondering exactly how much "I just like you" is actually some form of shorthand assessment.

I don't know the answer. But I'm quite certain that where humans are involved, you can count on it being a morass. You can also count on some people objecting to something about it, even while others claim it is essentially perfect.
Fair enough. N:M surveillance is worse than N:1 surveillance from a personal perspective. Though unclear if that also holds at scale. They are still both evil and much worse than no surveillance.
Spanish actor detained after ridiculing 'God and the Virgin Mary' in FB post
You can also install linux or on some even windows if you want
Alternatives:

(-) Dom / Sub

(-) Boss / Tasklet

(-) Pat / Pleb (short for Patrician / Plebeian)

(-) Planter / Seed

(-) Client / Contractor

(-) Cat / Human

(-) Doctor / Patient

(-) Dog / Sheep

(-) Knight / Page

(-) Planet / Moon
> AMD promised open drivers. We're still waiting.

No, we aren't. AMD's promise was fulfilled quite a while ago. They officially contributed, and work on, a FOSS driver for the Linux kernel, and also for Mesa. One of their devs is one of the most active Mesa committers this year alone.

AMD are more committed than Intel is, it would seem, given that AMD's drivers are far better quality than Intel's.
Not exactly inspiring, but could be worse.
American dream is long dead. Paradise is here in Europe :)
How much has it really advanced? I hear this all the time, but I am always unimpressed when I see actual results.
Also

3. China does not want Mandarin to become a Lingua Franca in anything.

Let's remember that China is a strongly nationalistic, protectionist, autocratic and most importantly successful country. Keeping Chinese for the Chinese give them enormous control leverage economically for their local market but also in entertainment, culture and more generally information.

I can see China simply promoting English in every field where it gives them a competitive advantage outside their border, like here in science.

Also there are technical and cultural difficulties for Mandarin to impose itself. Technically, Kanjis are a huge barrier to entry for learning, it takes years of personal investment to acquire basic literacy. You can't mix Chinese into English or English into Chinese very easily either. Culturally, probably by pragmatism because of the technical difficulties I mentioned, Chinese immigrants have not pushed for their language to the same level as South American for example.

So sure it is possible that this will changes, but that will take many decades.
I'm not sure you understood my point. I am actually in agreement with you that we should be looking to the rest of the world for a voting model that works, because I feel that ours is a failure. I am not advocating against voter-id laws in fact, I am quite for them, but I recognize that these laws in the United States are frequently designed as weapons to be used against members of other parties.

My point is that the rest of the world has exactly 1 legislative body governing elections. America has 51 (perhaps more, I'm not sure to which level of influence local governments can influence electoral processes, but they can certainly influence zoning of polling booths. American resistance to a federal identification card is quite unique, and silly.
My dad and his two older brothers fought in World War 2 for the U.S. They grew up poor during the Depression. After the war all three of them went to college for free as part of the GI benefits. The three of them went on to have good careers and lived well.

The two younger brothers did not go to war. They were not able to go to college. They ended up poorer and died younger than the older brothers. They did not prosper nearly as well as the three older brothers.

We call the World War 2 generation the greatest ever. I think they were the greatest generation because they ended up with the greatest opportunities not because they were more special than other generations. Government that cares for its people and seeks to create a fair society is what creates great generations.

Universal access to healthcare that is free at the point of service and universal access to higher education for those who are qualified are not too expensive. It just requires a shift in priorities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619342
You misunderstood me. I agree that scripting and programming have nothing to do with dynamic types.

> It's technically scripting, not programming, but can you imagine if Bash files were type hinted?

I was clarifying that writing Bash files was scripting and not programming.
This is cherry picking. Yes, there are some services that work on Linux. There are many other popular services that do not, and I even gave specific examples.

Most people who run Linux on the desktop probably won't use iPhones, yeah. Which is because they're computer geeks. Which is to say, not the "kind of people who only use computers to consume content" at all.

In US, iOS market share is about 45% as of 2018. Globally, it's 20% (15% is counting smartphones only and ignoring tablets).
Thank you, that gives more context! It is just anecdotal and a few years back, but last time I spoke to students in Prague they didn't bring it up as there being that big issues.
Is this something that changed in the last years or has it been that way for longer?
Which is the best training institute for selenium automation?
> Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition).

Because competition and central control optimise for different "ideal" outcomes: we often reach for central control when the market fails to optimise for the desired "ideal".

This ideal is different in each case, but is usually largely differentiated on the basis of income inequality. Even a perfect market can't bring about perfect wealth distribution, and central control of education aims for universal access. Market-based price control will produce lower education costs, but only to include an income bracket that provides optimum profits, rather than universal accessibility.

> By it's nature, anything the government subsidizes is going to be taken advantage of.

This isn't entirely true: only unregulated subsidy has this flaw. The problem with many purported small-government advocates is they lobby for removal of regulation without removal of subsidy. One requires the other.

> Schleicher at the OECD. “It’s the inevitable outcome of an unregulated fee structure.”

In this particular quote, Schleicher seems to advocate for central control via regulation, rather than removal of subsidy.
CookList: From side project to finished app
And also in Latin America, at least in Argentina, in Chile they fuck you up with debt AFAIK
Containers as I didn’t know them
have you had a look at
https://github.com/oklog/oklog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWWK2eyZ-sc

I think it's fairly simple and might be enough.
Can't comment on storage requirements thou.
I've lived in both the US and many countries of Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Spain for some time). I believe that there are many great options even WITHIN Europe where it's both 1) easy to move to and 2) a great tech culture exists. Switzerland, Zurich and Germany (Southern Munich and Northern Berlin) had some of the greatest tech hubs on the planet, with huge supportive communities, top-notch talent and lots of funding, as well as fantastic working situations and top-salaries (easily matching the Silicon Valley after taxes and everything).
Here's my strangely unpopular opinion these days: it still counts as racism when it's white people that you're negatively stereotyping.