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Lots of great documentaries already mentioned, but one of my favorites "Tim's Vermeer" hasn't been yet.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tims_vermeer_2014
> Basically, nothing too much out of the reach of your average teenager -- with the exception of interest/dedication to the art.

My father grew up, went to school, and finished university in the 70s and 80s, in the Soviet Union, where none of those things were within the reach of an average person. He's only started programming towards the end of his physics PHD. Since moving to Canada, he's done ~20 years of programming.

Biasing hiring towards people who programmed in high school is incredibly ageist.

Sure, a computer is within the reach of most teenagers now. No, a computer was not within the reach of most teenagers 30 years ago - or even 20 years ago.
Asking if they programmed in high school doesn’t necessarily gage their current passion anyway, just their one time passion. Perhaps it’s better to just ask directly: “can you give examples of how you’re passionate about programming?”
> The other guy can just 'take' your stamps. As they don't belong to you.

He could, but he won't—not unless he is so much stronger than you that he has no need to worry about reciprocation—because there are things that he thinks of as "his" and doesn't want you to take. It's easier to just tacitly agree, between the two of you, that some things are yours and some things are his, and any changes in that status ought to be worked out on mutually acceptable terms.

This is why private property is one aspect of natural law. The concept arises naturally wherever there exist scarce resources to be allocated for individual use. Societies which recognize this trend and align themselves with it consistently tend to prosper, while others which either ignore it or actively reject the concept of private property struggle to rise above mere subsistence.
This will significantly bias the second study towards getting the same result. Providing help and assistance beyond the paper itself will create experimental controls that are undocumented - assumptions that were shared between researchers but not published in the papers themselves, because humans are bad at that. Further, giving any sort of relationship between the experimenter and the reproducer will taint them - people are friendly and want to see their friends "succeed" - they will taint their own work out of empathy.
That's exactly what The Washington Post does. They have a free option where "You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads" and a "Premium EU Ad-Free Subscription" with "No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/
It's a politicised subject; there will always be some downvotes. It will usually self-correct relatively well.
So basically, they differ in how the tribal group allegiance is oriented. You will find that there is more nationalism forwarded by the Chinese government nowadays.

It is claimed that National Socialism and Fascism aren't of the political left primarily because of the appeal to nationalism. The problem with this, is that historically, all totalitarian regimes eventually start appealing to national and ethnic group affiliation.

The most useful political dimension isn't left <-> right. The most useful dimension is the one measuring individual freedom vs. totalitarianism.

I remember a time when everyone other than a few select groups were tolerated, no matter how out there they were. Now the left is trying to expand the scope of their intolerance by normalizing the behaviors of intolerance and expanding the scope of labels.
Yep. And I don't know a way to get around shadow profiles.

We should try to find one. I fully support the privacy fixes people are proposing. I think that's really important. But it's pretty obvious that Facebook is winning right now.

However, the only thing that Facebook cares about is getting you to click on an ad. So even if you can't stop Facebook from getting a shadow profile on you, at least you can make that profile worthless by blocking ads literally everywhere that Facebook can think to display them to you, for you and your family/friends.

And you can be public about it to ensure that when Facebook goes to companies and says, "we have all this data for your next campaign", somebody in the sales-pitch meeting raises their hand and says, "yeah, but nobody looks at your ads."
> In those environments, discrimination can 100% be present.

Where? When?

Because this came about on Linux specifically, where are the examples of someone refusing code or discussion because of another's physical traits... -OR- is this all at it's very base an accusation that can never be proven? (edit: Because no one is going to come out and say "I shut down this conversation because its a bunch of <derogatory names> just yammering")

I think the obvious specific example is of Google's Ted Tso who was targeted to be banned from submitting - and at the same time breaking their own new code of conduct by smearing him as a "rape apologist".

> Either way, CoC documents tend to be just talk.

I'm not seeing that here, I'm seeing deliberate actions. My example above, Torvalds letter here. Are you seeing just talk?

>Only recently, I tried to contribute to a project, only to be completely ignored and shut down without any discussion because the project owner didn't like my feature proposal.

So, you're saying you were discriminated against because of some physical feature or that he just didn't like your proposal? If the latter, isn't that kind of how it's supposed to work? It's his project and if he doesn't like your contribution you're sometimes free to fork it, or make your own? There is no right for people to like you or your ideas. The internet would not exist if everyone's ideas have been given equal opportunity.
As a matter of fact, semi-annual reporting is standard in Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It requires only semi-annual reporting, for long-term investing.

[1] https://www.arx.cfa/up/post/569/Asia-s-Financial-Reporting-F...
FB is now running it's own branding ads in out of home media [1], which is a signal they've done the cost/benefit analysis internally and are now losing enough user trust to justify this brand spend.

Also, FB MAUs and DAUs are stalled [2], meaning users are becoming less interested in the blue website.

If anything, FB is closer to a 'boiling point' now than ever in the past.

[1] https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wUQP/facebook-a-little-closer

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-maus-daus-stalled-u...
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Look at Figure 1B. The variation in the gut microbes is large at the start of the study (day 0). Feeding the bees 5 mg/liter glyphosate, they have a statistically significant difference from the control (no glyphosate) in 5 microbes out of 8. But feeding 10 mg/liter, they get no statistically significant differences from the control.

They have no explanation for why glyphosate seems to have an effect at 5 mg/litre concentration but not at the higher 10 mg/litre concentration ("The relative lack of effects of the G-10 treatment on the microbiota composition at day 3 posttreatment is unexplained"). They do give speculations, though.
i don't think BBC need to push anything, they are financed from gov budget, more likely their author of those stories or editor of that department wanting more page views
Move fast and break moral and ethical standards.
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But there are also a fair number of subreddits that are the primary gathering place for that community, and thus the best place to go for advice on that topic.

With absolutely no way to vet, verify or validate anyone who proclaims to be the expert they say they are outside of asking, and hoping what you get isn't a complete fabrication.
Good 2FA does not involve phone numbers.

I use 2FA on sites that support TOTP.
I connect my old phone to my speakers during parties as a kind of streaming device. It's easy to control them from my main phone
I see what you mean, but I'm under the impression that Facebook is not "your father's social network" in that it's not even comparable to what MySpace was, neither in numbers nor in qualities.

What I mean is that we are comparing two different beasts, so I'm not sure "it happened to MySpace" is a good telltale sign of what will eventually happen to Facebook.
That said, there is nothing saying you can't combine this with some higher level classes when you need to DRY things up.
This is why acquisitions such as IG and WhatsApp are crucial. If they purchase the next cool thing, they never really go out of fashion.
FB has gone from throwing sheep at your friends to this. I don't think they are stopping anytime soon
> So excited for this addition!

I've been using it for a while in the devel version (Nim v0.18.1), and it is great — I like it very much and I completely understand your excitement!

Before I didn't bother with {.noSideEffect.} pragma, and now with `func` here — my code is much more clear (at least to me ;)), and I can immediately tell which of my procs are 'pure'.
> This is also why the Catholic church forced their way into the MPAA very early on. They wanted to ensure that movies portrayed Christian morals

Well, that didn't lasted for long...
I guess for what they'd consider unjust and bullshity reasons that have nothing to do with the project, yes. Publicised instances such as donglegate, opalgate, drupalgate, Brendan Eich all fit that mold.

But really I'm just wondering when you say things like "they did drag us down and ruin things for everybody", who exactly are you talking about? Examples? Every group will have its pariahs but I don't see hacker culture as being "ruined for everyone". Quite the opposite. They do eschew social norms, which I guess is more of a problem since open-source has been taken over by big business with the usual endless need for bureaucracy and PR.
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I had a feeling this would be misinterpreted. I wasn't sure how to word it but no. It's possible to find your passion at a young age. I'm skeptical though. I think it would be a question to branch off of if your discussing it with someone. At 13 how much do you really know, or even really experienced.

Lately I have been thinking that passion is something learned.
They are abjectly, truly remorseful and sorry that they got caught.
There is also this from his college days. Nothing much has changed:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb f*cks

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
"Why should I care about your mission "

I don't care if you care about the mission of the company. It probably helps but I don't care that much either as long as the company doesn't do anything illegal or something I find ethically objectionable. I care whether you care about your craft and want to improve. I care if we can have interesting discussions about work and tech or if you just want to be told what to do next and never contribute anything interesting.

I spend around 40 hours a week at work so I want to make this as enjoyable as possible. To me that means mental stimulation and enjoying working with my team. From my experience people who respect each other and enjoy each other are vastly more productive than people who don't.
What kind of cooperation level did YOU expect from a $240MM check?

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21458486/ns/business-us_business/t...
You can tease it apart by carefull measuring the order in which events occur. In medicine, you can measure various biological entities as well as psychological profile, and see to what extent psychologcal changes can affect biological changes. (Of course, psychology itself is in large part its own biological process.)

But you can do experiments like psychological interventions (counseling, inspirational/depressing media content) and see if some tend to cause statistically significant biological changes.

There are some obvious cases like if you hurt yourself and don't care enough to clean up or seek care, you risk infection or permanent injury.
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I think GNU and open source will have a long-lasting impact on science as well. One of its contributions is that now we can point to computer science (esp. in areas like cryptography) as an example of an area where code and methodology etc. are shared openly, setting an example for scientists in more traditional areas, like chemists and biologists, in becoming less closed-fist about their experiments.

Going forward, I think we should also emphasize "free data" practices.
There is a book "Nim in Action" https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action by @dom96
I've heard this distinction before, and I think it's a difference in the base quality of the place. My last three jobs all put "passion" as a major hiring criteria, but all maintained a strong work/life balance (average work week was 40 hours give or take a few, and though crunch times happened more than a few weeks a year was considered a bad thing. I conducted plenty of interviews myself and helped write interview questions so I'm pretty confident in what _we_ meant at least, even if I wasn't a hiring manager.

One of those places, however, did slide after a few years into the nastiness described (I left when the slide started, and it reportedly continued). Another

So while "Passion" CAN mean "we want huge levels of uncompensated work without complaint", that has not been the norm for mean and I think it's a mistake to assume that is what is always meant. Certainly I've been at some great places to work that I'd have avoided if I thought asking for passion was a negative.
It certainly isn't sarcasm.

The class is "Advanced Programming". If it isn't going to be advanced, then the name is improper. This could be a case of name inflation.

All of that stuff is great to learn. All by itself, the first suggestion makes one immediately employable.
I made a Myst linking book like this https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/myst-linking-book but it was way easier to do with a smartphone.
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okay so…

- not all people buying FB ads are experienced marketers

- companies throw tons of money at ineffective ads, that should be obvious…

- we have no idea what the ratio of "successful" to unsuccessful campaigns is

- even if that ratio is negative, Facebook is still one of the only remaining "games" in town, so people _will_ continue throwing money at it. “Least worst” is a fine and lucrative place to be in.

- can we just get over this idea of rational economies, by the way

- marketing is less of a science than a craft, and all the implications thereof
Please give Tailwind a try before knocking it. The syntax seems strange, but after 15 minutes you'll be in love. It doesn't work for every project, but it's a great tool to have in your arsenal. I've been following Adam and Steve on Twitter for quite some time, and these guys are total pros.
The best place to learn is when you're hired as a software developer at a company. It doesn't matter if the company is good or not, you'll be forced to learn to make the product work. Change a few jobs and some years of tinkering and you'll likely get the fads, buzz, experience, etc.. Best place to start is as junior dev and quickly move up. Learning at home will never give you work experience since the 'real world' environment is not replicable at home.
Yep only iPads and AppleTVs
Could you not generate an "expert score" by comparing expert candidates with open data sources for domain expertise?
They’re the perfect women to ask why they chose to code. Because obviously their reasons not to code weren’t enough to stop them so presumambly not too strong.
I only use Facebook like every month now but it always asks about my phone number. It also asks me to enable a log-in short-cut every time.

This last time, they crossed a line: they pre-filled the field (I do NOT have this set up in the browser), meaning they already figured out my number (probably by scrubbing some friend’s phone) and just want it confirmed. To hell with that. I would not be surprised if every spam call in existence can be traced to Facebook.
I mean a lot of those things were possible with bootstrap-sass years ago.

> Define the essence of your design in a JSON - typography, colors, spacings, shadows, borders et al.

_variables.sass

> Anyone in the team including backend developers can create new interface components without waiting on a designer, thanks to well-defined scales that compose well.

This is true, but is solved by any sort of component system and not unique to tailwind.

> The component (HTML+CSS) is the unit of abstraction. eg: "ProfileCard". Inside ProfileCard you'll use Tailwind's utility classes to build your component. You reuse this component everywhere, and if you have to "change a button's padding across the product" (which to me is far too rare) you open your component files and change them there.

Why would you change a padding in multiple files when you can set `$base_padding: 10px`?

> It is so easy to build UIs - you don't have to name every single element in the DOM - these names are _only_ to act as "hooks" into the CSS, and serve no abstraction. With Utility classes you can just assemble them in the HTML without touching the CSS

Going by the first example in the linked article, something like "text-grey-dark" seems like an awful idea when what it really means is "text-quiet". Heck in their example "dark" is _lighter_ than the surrounding text.
> concepts themselves rather that coming up with a rather meaningless and probably misleading label.

Most of communism, anarchism and Marxism is fighting over the possession of language and labels. Different factions were named after different people who fought over the correct form of communism and had periodical ideological purges.

I have been reading about communism and anarcho-communistm recently. Daniel Guérin s book Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, 1970 (originally L'anarchisme. De la doctrine à l'action, Paris, Gallimard, 1965). It's a classic.
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Didn't realize, sorry. I was legitimately curious, because it was such an unusually hard-lined perspective to take in this discussion, one that they repeated in several very similar comments on this thread.
Makes sense. Now that yoo bring up dust, how does erosion occur in space, or how would dust form other than perhaps through temperature fluctuations?
YMMV but numbers of them! we offer good salary/benefits etc, but on the whole senior and mid-level devs seem to be contracting for our tech stack (React/Node) and that's a path I'm not particularly keen on going down.

edit: if anyone reads this and wants a job, I've put my email in my profile.
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Paint.NET/Pinta and XPaint are made as enhanced Paint, so someone that wants a not-trivial graphics editor will find those perfect.

>I commend the Krita team for not merely copying Photoshop/GIMP

Krita (as well as MyPaint) is mainly a painting software whereas Photoshop/GIMP are mainly photo editors. You can do similar things in both, but they target different niches.
Man, when you read stuff like this you start realizing: China's firewall DOES work bidirectionally. There are constant protests in China.

> shareholder value maximization

The biggest causes of abuses in China are the world doing nothing, not when China was brutally taking over Nepal, not when brutally annexing Hong Kong (which was brutal despite the dog and pony show put up for the Queen). Hell, we are mostly choosing China's side over (tiny) annexations in India and Pakistan.

There were very little protests about the extreme abuses in Xinjang, the "criminal" organ donor scandals, the lead poisoning of (chinese and western) children just to use cheaper paint, ...

So yes, you can protest company actions, but first and foremost governments, most of all the EU, but also the US, are to blame. And of course things like the UN ... they're ... they're a farce.

The reality is that, imho, Google coming to China will make one hell of a lot of information available to Chinese citizens. I would expect this to have positive results, not negative.

We also know what the outcome will most likely be of not doing anything in China.

It seems to me A > B, do you disagree ? The attitude that doing nothing is superior to taking action is toxic and stupid. But yes, some very bad actions will have to be taken because that evil government demands it, and yes, some people here will need to do that.

But the first point is: the Chinese firewall clearly needs piercing from the western side as well. Here's more recent, mostly large scale, Chinese incidents, lightly categorized:

Labour abuse:

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/13/china-coal-protests-highligh...

(there have been years of constant protests everywhere in the Chinese coal industry, for at least years since 2013 or so)

https://thediplomat.com/2018/08/communist-chinas-crackdown-o...

Racist state attitudes/discrimination:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio...

Pro-democracy and Hong Kong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/protests-hong-kong-hi...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-40406429

(one thing about the Chinese state total control, they want to control everything, including of course language. And they do it with a very heavy hand)

Generally protests against the state and party, with various focus points:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chinese_pro-democracy_pro...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-students-missing-after-r...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-protest-over-cash-strappe...

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/31/asia/vaccine-protest-scan...

https://money.cnn.com/video/news/2018/08/08/chinese-lending-...

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/protest-beatings-0906...
Ask HN: Minimal static site builder?
I have very basic needs. Just want to make a couple clean-looking webpages.

There are hundreds of static site generators that all require dozens of dependencies. But all I need are some flat-files or a minimal command-line app to help. Then I’ll fill in some HTML the old-fashioned way, or maybe write something up in Markdown and have it magically look nice in HTML. (I can play with the styles, I don’t care about that aspect. I just want it to have a clean structure.)

Any suggestions?
I'm definitely just throwing that out there, as a solution for decentralized monetization and incentivizing resource sharing. So far, blockchain/crypto tech is the only sustainable solution I've seen to distributed computing where no one entity owns the execution of computation or storage of data. Definitely open to alternative ideas though, this is just a thought experiment.
That's a really good question, the closest thing to this I think is the 'delta' feature on /r/changemyview. How do you see something like that operating in the reddit ecosystem?
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I take it it's not a coincidence this came on the heels of the Shazam acquisition.

Has anyone used both? I've used Shazam a dozen times and it's good.
You make interesting points. For me, as a back-end developer, the prevalence of Bootstrap is a major con because I can't (due to lack of knowledge or confidence, I'm not sure) make a Bootstrap site look like anything other than a Bootstrap site with different colors. Tailwind is the first front-end framework that successfully got me away from that and helped me execute own unique design vision. What seems to come to you easily is a complete struggle for me.