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Yeah, that’s gonna be a no from me dawg.
37 things you need to know about IPCC and 1.5C global warming
This isn't a fair take. You can click on the original poster's comments and see that they're a legitimate member of this community. You can't just say someone is arguing in bad faith because you disagree with them.
That doesn't help much unless there's a meaningful punishment for officers who abuse this access. Since in the US we are happy to re-hire police officers who have been publicly known to kill people without actual cause (e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-who-fatally-sho... ) I have trouble believing that a record of police officers who merely abuse surveillance data will do much.
Is Linux? Is Mach?
Ask HN: How do you help your kids with schoolwork?
How do you help your kids with their schooling (beyond homework)?

I'm interested in things that you feel advance their understanding of math, sciences etc.

My oldest son is 10 and in Grade 5, and I feel like the classroom curriculum is targeted at the slowest student, and the average and above-average students aren't challenged enough.
> Also you'd have to invent a sales/marketing scheme as an alternative to the existing one that is based on increasing clock rates. GHz is to the PC what HP (horsepower) is to the car.

The GHz race has been over for a long time. Since Intel Core (and AMD Zen, I think; at least AMD Bulldozer had in my opinion a different design philosophy), it is all about smarter cores that do more in less clock steps. Also since AMD Zen, the "number of core race" has regained traction. Finally, in particular Intel tries to promote extra-wide SIMD instructions (AVX-512).
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We don't just carry some of their DNA, but somewhere between 25 and 30% (maybe more) of the Neanderthal genome exists in the non-African human population. Us non-Africans each have a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA in our genomes, but the genes are different between different individuals.
have you actually been around Krakow much? There's climbing spots in the city itself, skiing slopes 1-2 hours away, Tatra mountains 100km away and beautiful Jurrasic valleys to the North-West, lots of green areas in the city and huge forests to the East, perfect for cycling or running.
Weather is a mix - some snow in the winter, some lovely sunshine in the 6 warmer months and lots of rain and in-between weather on the bright side it does give you some time to work where you don't mind being indoors and you get to appreciate when it's nice outside.
In this context a laptop and desktop are the same.
I can't speak about this particular person, but I feel like there are a fairly large group of people who are genuinely confused by feminist ideology to the point that it seems utterly bizarre to them. I think it's important to take their arguments at face value and debate with them in good faith.
Leaving aside the culture war third rail topics, the idea of meritocracy is on ethically shaky ground anyway.

People who are highly intelligent and motivated already reap the largest share of the rewards in society. Why do we have to go further than that and say that these people "deserve" more? A person who is born with low IQ or low conscientiousness (or both) "deserves less"? At least in a society where rewards are distributed somewhat randomly there is a chance for everyone to have a share. With a meritocracy, no such chance exists, since rewards are then determined by immutable aspects of a person's brain.

Maybe if we could build a society where decision-making was separate from reward, we could have a just meritocracy. But right now, as it is, those who make the decisions use their power to grant themselves all the rewards.
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Hmmm are you in favor of helping diversity and equality in Mozilla?
To become a manager, or at least a tech leader with a juicy title like Principal Systems Architect.

I am not sure if you are Indian or person of Indian heritage, and if you are working in India or abroad, but within Indian context, being a developer at 30+ is not seen favorably. I tried changing jobs at 34 in 2014 with 12 years experience, and was constantly offered a "leadership" position when all I wanted was to be a lead developer with freedom, basically same as my last job. I didn't take any of the offers, also because I wanted to start my own company. Things didn't workout and now I am looking for a job again, at 38. This time I have wised up and won't insist on engineering position. I am a realist, and have made my peace with it. I am preparing myself mentally to do something that I have always despised - filling excel sheets with colored cells.

---

Further, personally, because I will indeed start my company once my financial condition improves, and I can do all the engineering I ever want with all the freedom I always wanted, I don't much care for the nature of the task I do as an employee elsewhere. I have no intentions of making a career working for someone else.

That said, I have an inkling that I might have it harder this time since I was unemployed chasing a dream for four years, and I am not sure how Indian companies (well, Indian outposts of Amerieuro companies) consider it. The weak link is of course the mind set of Indians who do the interviews, who would be mostly my age, and I don't know if the hype around startups has made them "open minded" or created further loathing of people treading that path because, let's face it, most Indian startups are copycats and hardly innovative, and its quite challenging to appreciate efforts of people who whip out yet another clone and pose as if they are innovators of cutting edge technology, and its quite likely that startup attempters will be prejudged negatively.
I read the gp comment as basically: desperately needing improvement through the entire non-lethal ‘stack’. This would include new training materials, R&D for better equipment, and so on.
Most of the US has much lower taxes than California.
Is ORTC used by something else than Skype?
"You can do good computer science with a desktop, a tablet, or a pen and paper. "

What development environments run well on a tablet?
I don't get why Docker Swarm mode is so underrated. Docker Compose is excellent for local development, and Docker Swarm mode uses the same file and is almost the same thing. Some minor additions in extra docker-compose files and it's ready for production in a cluster. For the same $5 bucks in a full Linux VPS with Linode or DigitalOcean (or even the free tier in Google Cloud) you can get a full cluster, starting with a single node, including automatic HTTPS certificates, etc. Here's my quick guide, with a Linux from scratch to a prod server in about 20 min. Including full-stack app: https://github.com/tiangolo/full-stack/blob/master/docker-sw...
Absolutely, might as well enjoy the rich Python ecosystem!

Starting with aiortc 0.9.9, there is now also deep integration with PyAV for all your FFmpeg needs.

- At the lowest level : aiortc uses PyAV's AudioFrame and VideoFrame class, and PyAV is soon to gain more ndarray converters: https://github.com/mikeboers/PyAV/pull/415

- At a higher level : aiortc provides MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder classes to read or write audio/video
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Ask HN: Has Anyone used pure Lambda Calculus for anything serious?
I was reading this post [1] and while I found it interesting, I was curious if anyone has actually used the pure Lambda Calculus for a serious project. If so, why?

[1]https://www.jtolio.com/2017/03/whiteboard-problems-in-pure-lambda-calculus/
> The biggest problem with video calling right now is that the networks are garbage

As in your internet is slow? That's not a problem for everyone I guess. For me it's pretty fast.. Facebook has tried projects to speed up last mile internet (beam it down with drones, etc), but that appears to be a hard problem to solve.
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The OP specifically addresses that issue.

"Sometimes good words and good aspirations get tarnished with history, and need to be set aside"

...and...

"Sadly, “meritocracy” is not that word. Maybe it once was, or could have been. But not today."

Like it or not, words have more than etymological meaning. They also have historical and cultural meaning, that might be sharply at odds with their etymology, and that precludes their use even in situations where they're technically accurate. "Meritocracy" has become such a word. Like "traditional American values" and "celebration of European culture" as synonyms for racism, "meritocracy" has become a rallying cry for opposition to diversity, inclusion, and egalitarianism. All as the person who originally coined the word meant it, BTW. We can coin new words that are just as etymologically valid without the cultural baggage.
Wow, when I saw Vienna mentioned the smoking was the very first thing that came to my mind. Funny to see others have shared the same experience. A real shame as it's such a beautiful place otherwise.
The "provided" is a big proviso. As is the selectivity. Heavier surveillance of one party than another is political in itself, and lots of places have a problem with aggressively policing the left while leaving rightwing subversion and even actual violence alone.

See this ridiculous scandal about a Macron aide dressing up as riot police to beat up protestors: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/19/macron-aide-ac...
Do you have any opinions on an X280 vs an X1?
more like, threatened with 30+ years by the prosecutor, but plea bargained down to 5
Any ideas on how to solve the problems that befell previous attempts at things like this?
LOL idealistic. Basically, if Tesla hasn’t made the absolute safest cars on the market, the auto industry would have sufficiently spread enough FUD about people’s kids burning up in battery fires.
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I am surprised how the portal+ with a 15.6" screen doesn't look like it has that big of a screen. Even with the 1 picture that shows it in a livingroom it doesn't seem like it is that big.

If you are selling a "plus" version that's main feature is a bigger screen, you would show the screen is large?

edit: I see there are 2 more pictures, which do a little better job.
I think the key observation is that metrics (of employee performance) are always bad. And thus it makes sense to compensate for that by taking into account other factors.
You don't need more non-lethal deterrents, you need to educate your police officers about how to deal with a human without shouting and threatening.

And nope, no industry needs to be disrupted, no industry needs ignorant individuals without domain knowledge to reinvent the wheel or replace human interaction with a machine interaction, 5 star ranking system and all your personal data sold away.
No it’s more akin to black lives matter not allowing themselves to say “all lives matter”. Fine in a vacuum, but the phrase has become loaded by the opposition, which Mozilla mentions in TFA.
Well, maybe the network effect: if you buy this gadget and log in using your FB account, you already have your contact list (all your FB contacts) ready to call.

Interestingly the other party doesn't even need to have this gadget, if they have FB Messenger app (which has the video functionality) you'll be able to talk to each other.

And what do Android users use? In Europe it would be most likely WhatsApp, and guess who publishes WhatsApp.

If they manage to add WhatsApp integration...
I've been very curious about how life is in Greece now. What is the vibe like? Is there any hope amongst the creative youth? Any interesting cultural movements that we generally tend to see emerge in times of hardship?
How come the "behind the scenes code" is unavailable?
“Typical mutations in children of radar soldiers”:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181005111447.h...
I would love to hear if there are any efforts in the computer industry to help deal with this great challenge. Seems we, as professionals, are going to be essential here.
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Problem being that they are portuguese. Things look a lot better if you're foreigner, keep work connections to the outside can avoid the new crazy renting laws that make it easier to put people out. For a lot of locals living in the big cities gentrification context is pretty much 2008 crysis part II.
Seems like a good product from the wrong two companies. I don't want Alexa nor Facebook in my house listening to everything, regardless of how "private" they say my conversations are.
ORTC is what Microsoft has chosen to implement in Edge, so if you use WebRTC in Edge, you're most likely using the WebRTC-over-ORTC adaptor.

In short ORTC is: break WebRTC into objects you manipulate directly, instead of everything being instanciated via RTCPeerConnection. There is significant overlap between the two specs, for instance RTCRtpReceiver / RTCRtpSender.
4GL solutions are one way to attack the problem of scaling and maintaining large applications. However, you tend to end up with a traditional code base and a relational database, without a strong core specification. Especially once you start customizing an application like that, you run into the same problems as a 3GL stack.

Alan plays a longer game, with a drastically different approach to specification and development of applications of any level of complexity. Models drive everything and you can't look "under the hood" to look at or modify the implementation. Even at the level of the platform itself, models and code generation drive down the amount of 3GL code we have to deal with. WYSIWYG editors and drag-and-drop UI builders aren't a starting point, it's something we might grow towards supporting in the future.
"From the background, we notice that you're at the Grand Canyon. We suggest using our landscape filter to make the canyon really POP! Oh and here's an ad from the Bright Angel Lodge."
I like that this picks up where excel drops off. But I would like to see some concrete examples. Someone here mentioned a video, that would be good, or even just a list of several specific use cases.
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> Python comes very close, but is far from simple (pip, IDE, maybe mypy, ...

This might be of interest for you to try---it's a super simple Python IDE for beginners: https://codewith.mu/
I've tried it out for doing basic coding demos and works really well...
Ironically the way they insist it's "privacy friendly" and has a physical camera cover included might get people thinking "hold up, should I trust this for privacy" while they wouldn't think about it otherwise.
> AVX-512 is gated, but causes heavy throttling.

In its current implemention, it does. Consider that this is Intel's first iteration of AVX-512 and don't forget that in its first iteration, also AVX was plagued by performance problems. These first iteration's main purpose is that "ordinary developers" (i.e. not only highly selected specialists that have to sign lots of Intel NDAs) can begin to develop and experiment with these new extensions. I believe that Intel has grand plans for AVX-512 and its next iteration will be the one that aims that "ordinary users" can profit performance-wise from applications that use AVX-512 instructions.
If he stuck to just China I would agree. But by trying to change up numerous different agreements, he lost the goodwill needed to have a collective crackdown on China. Even if he is the first to be willing to pick these sort of battles in a long while, he has a new issue of picking too many battles. Seems like a Goldilocks problem.
Looks decent. Thanks!
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> Yes. Neanderthals as a population don't exist anymore.

But then neither is the Homo Sapiens of that era, surely?

> The house cat and tiger shares 95% of the same genes. If tigers disappeared, you wouldn't consider it an extinction because we have house cats around?

If they interbred now and there was gene transfer within that 5%, I think that would be an entirely different situation to the one you describe.

The picture that is often painted of the Neanderthal following a parallel evolutionary course to 'us', Homo Sapiens. But 'us' is actually a hybrid of the two.

> Also, the common ancestors of humans and the common ancestors of cats became extinct a long time ago. Are you saying those "creatures" aren't extinct because humans and cats are around?

Of course not, and you seem to be entirely misunderstanding my question.

If humans and cats somehow interbred and the ongoing population of cat-human hybrids was what carried on, identifiable fully as neither, the picture is much more grey.
After losing all but 1 steel mill about 40 years ago, it's quite diverse. There is lots of healthcare (UPMC, Highmark), finance (PNC, BNY Mellon) and sports (Steelers, Penguins, Pirates), with plenty of retail and manufacturing. There's a little tech, but it's not big compared to healthcare and finance (check back if we get Amazon HQ2). This list is accurate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_in_Pittsb...
> t's getting to the point where simply opening a Microsoft Office document is roughly the same as opening a random .exe file.

This isn't exactly new. In fact it was much worse the late 90s / early 00s, the heyday of windows viruses. There was absolutely no security, opening an excel document automatically meant running arbitrary code that had full system access (via COM, etc). Many viruses spread over email by word and excel documents.

At least now, macros execution is disabled by default. Unless you explicitly enable automatic macro execution on all documents, I wouldn't be too worried about opening a documents. Of course, there's the occasional vuln (http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html) but excel isn't exactly the only software with occasional findings of execution vulnerabilities.
I underestimated how high the competition is for remote work. All my attempts failed so far despite having well customized application materials. I didn't submit to hundreds maybe around 20. Most of the time I never even reached a technical test at these companies which I thought would be the hardest part.
I moved from Seattle to Chapel Hill about a year ago (also grew up in Durham, a lot longer ago). I second everything cbarnes89 said, and I'd add that there's a small but growing Microsoft office in Morrisville.
Where is the definition of the password being hashed? The tutorial defines it as text:

/*
'Users': collection {
'Password': text
}*/

How does the platform know to hash that? Is it looking for magic property names?
Seems like a good time to recommend people read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
Agree you should not work for something that is not align with your moral and personal believe, as for me I can totally see myself saying "I will take this job for the money, and the gun I help engineered is used to kill humans during combat".
There is simply an infinite amount of levels to it. You might start off by just being able to recognize the difference between a minor and a major third. Then you expand that further. And to recognize what note it is relative to the scale.

At some point children's tunes become easy. At another you recognize the specific chords in children's tunes. Then you expand that to be able to identify the notes in more complicated tunes. At one point you might pick up jazz...

The point being that at any point in time during your development you will feel mastery of some level of melodies/chords/harmonies but feel utterly confused (tone deaf) by more complex ones. It's an infinite journey and the key is enjoying it, there is no final destination.
Interesting.

In the early aughts, my TA in University was writing a similar paper for his doctoral degree. All of the professors in the department said it was good enough to be a PhD paper.

His premise was there were several divergent populations not only in Africa, but in Nordic regions and Eastern Europe from where we evolved from.

It's cool to see this shift in the dominant paradigm is finally starting to shift, some 20 years after my TA (and presumably many others) proposed it.
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There was no "tone" intended. I was making a falsifiable prediction that the SEC would not penalize Musk or Tesla based on the harm suffered by short-sellers, but rather based on the harm suffered by purchasers of Tesla stock who "overpaid". Looking at the modest size of the civil settlement, we now have enough information to say that my prediction was NOT falsified by events.

As I also pointed out, this does not mean that one cannot commit fraud vs a short-seller. However, from what I gather, the rights of short-sellers under 10b-5, based on a "fraud on the market" theory, are rather murky in established caselaw and differ between federal circuits.
Ask HN: Looking for a coach
I am the solo founder of my startup HiringPlus. We developed the technology which helps hiring managers find culturally fit candidates. It matches the company's values with a candidate's personality and helps avoid bad hires.

My team and I are working on this platform from more than a year. We came out of beta 3 months back.

Now I am focusing on finding early customers. Being from an engineering background, sales and marketing have not been easy for me.

I have learned a lot so far and now looking for some help.

Before starting my company, I had a life-coach from TonyRobbins. She was great and helped me overcome my personal issues. I understand how beneficial having the right coach can be. But it is hard to find one.

That's why I am turning to this community. If you know a coach or worked with a coach who produced the result for you, please let me know.

TLDR: Would you refer a business coach who can produce great results?

You can learn more about HiringPlus at https://hiringplus.co
I haven't tried it, but people say nice things about Swift Playground. If you add a keyboard and an internet connection you can also use any of the web based IDEs and programming notebooks out there.
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> women don't get 'merit'. They get 'social media' positions.

Well, hang on - some do, but not all. I've worked with plenty of very competent women programmers (Grace Hopper was a woman, after all), BUT they weren't exactly 50% of them. In fact, they were far fewer. I think most people have observed the same thing and the problem comes up when you try to figure out why, since, so far, there have only been two suggested possibilities: 1) women just aren't that interested in programming or, 2) the men are being sexist and keeping them out. Whenever somebody goes off on an "anti-meritocracy" rant, they're almost always _also_ insisting that the second suggestion is the truth, but there's really not that much evidence to support it.