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That logic only works in isolation, and because the particular class under discussion doesn't "feel like" discrimination. Seriously, would you really willing to go on the internet and explain how women aren't a "fit for the culture" or how south asian workers don't "provide value"?
True. We gain in experience, knowledge, and webs of relationships as we age. When somebody proposes a project, we sometimes know enough to say "we tried something like that on the frobozz contract. Here's what we learned about the pitfalls."

Productivity: Maybe older workers can't / won't pull lots of all-nighters. The same is true of working mothers. But we plan ahead and get our work done.

The anti-discrimination laws aren't supposed to shackle companies to pointless costs and dead-weight people. They're intended to promote company culture that values people for what they bring to the table.

What is a company to do when external forces throw it into relentless decline? It takes a lot of guts to exit entire businesses or markets and refocus. Closing an office or shutting down an entire department isn't age discrimination. It's still nasty.

Look, western culture allows companies to have limited liability (to be corporations). The culture grants them patents for their inventions (hi IBM!). We trust them to take lots of risks to build their businesses, and give good rewards for success.

In return it's reasonable to expect compliance with laws.
Pinned to the front page, while highly political, but why?
> The strategic situation is that Democrats care about the country, and Trump does not. However, not enough Americans are convinced of the latter fact.

I'm not an American, just an immigrant. Historically this isn't about caring, it's just about politics.
Hm, I don't agree fully. There is zero hardware innovation for digital keyboards at least. Some old electronic instruments are 'vintage'; what makes a Moog is the vintage Moog sound, so yes, you can't upgrade from there. But most digital tools are not instruments in that sense and definitely have the corporate gadget-marketing schemes going on.

- Yamaha's Motif XS has some sounds that were adopted as signature sounds for some subgenres of funk, soul and gospel, but these are just samples that the upgraded versions XF, MX, MOXF have as well for this reason, and I don't see anyone with the XS anymore.

- Nord clearly limits the features, storage and processing power of each keyboard they release so that they can upgrade it slightly the following year (the latest 2018 flagship model has 480MB of sample memory vs. the preceding 2015 model's 380MB).

- Korg rereleased the Kronos with an SSD instead of a HDD and marketed it as a new machine. You could open it up and DIY for 80 bucks and save yourself ~$1.5k+ upgrade costs.

- Roland still slaps the Juno brand name on random iterations of digital instruments that just have an extra button for this or that function that could have been added with a software update if they wanted to.

New digital keyboards these days are just software updates that model familiar sounds slightly better, packaged in "new" hardware. The $3.5k pricetag for flagship keyboards that have barely changed in size/shape/material for years is a clear sign. I wonder why no manufacturer has just come out and said "this is our flagship keyboard until 2030, buy it for $2k and subscribe to software updates for $10/month" or "new software verson at $100 every year". That way what buyer's pay for would be much more closely connected to what they are actually getting.
If you're a decent programmer, then use those strengths. As you say, web designers are ten a penny now and there are even drag-and-drop website builders like Squarespace and Wix.

You need to go upmarket in terms of delivering value and consequently charging more for this extra value. Sit down with your prospective customer and learn more about his business. What are his pain points? Where and when does he earn most of his revenue, and from what type of clients? Can some of his processes be automated to save him money and bring in more revenue? That's where I think your focus should be.
This Handwavy denial of a biological process does not help the discussion or anyone on the long term.

Reaction time and reasoning skills are cognitive skills that declines with age, specially in relation to complex tasks.

The studies are worth reading or skimming thorough at least, more importantly, everyone should look into how they can manage aging tax on cognitive skills, you can't stop it, but you can slow it down, just like physical health.
>> One's outlook and productivity changes with time and age, just like an athlete's fitness.

According to the former exec's claim, the workers laid off were over 40. The following is a list of 40 athletes over 40:

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14799377/who-cal...

Which should lay to rest any sweeping assumption about the fitness of athletes that are older than some arbitrary cut-off point after which it's all "downhill from there".

And that's not before pointing out what a huge assumption it is that your ability to perform office work declines at the same rate as muscle fitness. Or that having say 10 years of experience in an industry is rather more valuable than having firm biceps.
I would assume the money is in the customization. Every business is unique and the cookie cutter website builders get them 80% of the way but there is usually something they really want that needs to be customized. All of the players have plugin systems and raw editors to tweak as needed.

The website presence itself is commoditized. The processes that accelerate business usually require customization, even if it’s using an off-the-shelf product and then integrating, configuring, and training. You could even become a sales channel and get a cut of the product revenue for making the sale.
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If we were on HN, we’d be talking about technology.
I wonder if you could sue anyone for damages? The harm done must be in the trillions by now.
I hope that material design is temporary...
>Tertiarily, there are unique tax optimization opportunities that emerge when you have established wealth but have no to little income in a given tax year.

Interesting. Can you briefly mention such opportunities? I know they can be different by country, but still would be good to have an idea. I'll check out the Mad Fientist blog too.
I think Occam's razor applies here. I don't think it's intentional, but this is the effect. I think what started off as a way of screening out completely incompetent people just turned into this arms race to be more and more selective without considering the fundamentals of the selection process.
In a study two years ago Apple Watch was the most accurate tested device with a median error of 2%.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/24/apple-watch-heart-rate-...
I'm not talking about the hw specs, I'm talking about the shitty build all cheap Windows laptops have. Correct me if wrong but I think all Chromebooks are sturdy and durable regardless of the price.
And ... ?
> Here's hoping that someday, Octave does to MATLAB what R has done to SPSS and SAS.

SPSS and SAS have horrible, horrible scripting languages. R is just ...slighly wonky. So as a language, R was a huge improvement on its alternatives. Whereas Octave is just a clone of the Matlab language, (almost) no improvement, just slower and less access to libraries.
I agree if you're hiring someone with a notable reputation then you wouldn't run them through the same kind of coding challenges but I'd expect that would be the case regardless of whether they had worked at FAANG, open source, start ups or wherever else. Thus we come back to my point that a decent engineer shouldn't have any problems getting hired regardless of having FAANG on their CV. What I was wondering was whether having FAANG (rather than reputation) allowed an applicant to shortcut parts of the interview process.

To be honest, judging from your last post I suspect our opinions aren't that far apart. :)
And if a man wrote an article about visiting India and how this curfew was applied to him and titled it "The night I was mistaken for a rapist" and I said "Eh, they may not have actually thought he was a rapist. It was a policy applied to all men." I seriously doubt I would have so very many people pile on to wildly twist that nitpick into "So, why are you so strongly pro sexism?" or some nonsense.
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I only had short experiences with MATLAB/Octave as a student but found that writing MATLAB/Octave rather than MATLAB or Octave was tricky... (IIRC mostly with differently named library functions)

Is this a nuisance also for you? I would be interest in how do you overcome this (asking for a friend working in image processing in MATLAB)
Neat, that's actually something I'll find useful in one of my personal projects. Guess I'll have to check it out.
US life expectancy is dropping. Globally obesity is on the rise. Those things are correlated.
A nice case of parallel construction.
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It this legal in New York?

Where a man is allowed to eat at a bar but a woman is not?
Used to run it with Pi-Hole, but ultimately failed and I have to resolute to use my homelab. I was facing egregious segfaults and kernel panics due to the SD card controller, in high mysterious, cannot respond to IO requests. This also happened to my Rock64.
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Last week, or maybe the week before it, I read an article called “the death of snow” in a Danish newspaper called weekendavisen. It bluntly stated that we might need to get used to the idea of being the only Scandinavian country without snow, and how it would change our national identity.

This got me thinking about a story from my childhood. My grandparents told me that my great grandfather used to work as a sleigh driver during winters at the end of the nineteenth century. I hadn’t believed them of course, I mean, how could one occupy such a job, where you would only be needed a couple of times each year. I had forgotten the story until I read the article about our dying snow. Now that I was reminded, however, I decided to find out if it was true. It was, it turns out that we used to get so much snow each winter that sleigh driver was a legitimate job title. At least until some time during the past hundred years.

I’m sure we would have replaced sleigh drivers with modern snow machines by now. Only the truth is that there has only been one or two winters in my life, where we’ve even had enough snow for a sleigh ride to be possible.

I’m afraid the death of Danish snow, and, the drying out Europe’s most important river, is only the beginning of our trouble.
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The other factor is website quality. When all the competition uses a Squarespace or Wix site for their marketing pages, your site can stand out using something like Gatsby JS to be ungodly fast. But this involves writing the whole thing from scratch specific to the customer.

I’ve had very good success with this marketing pitch. Customers love to see how their sites are faster and better looking than their dime-a-dozen competitors.
What would you like better?
I work at an eCommerce firm with a design/dev arm. It's absolutely integral for us to be able to provide the full package for clients for a number of reasons.

Sure, straight-up "let me build your website" style sales may be an industry that's slowing down, but it certainly isn't for online sales or integrating any other services, so ymmv.
SD cards have been running RTOSs for some time.
This is correct. Additionally, many of the subsidies for agricultural businesses go to the largest player. That's why your local diary farm's milk is $8+/gallon versus the grocery store.
And for people who make these mistakes it's probably helpful to re-read Allen's book and fix these issues.

> It's pretty easy to OVER categorize your life and never get anything done either.

This is called procrastination.

> perpetually planning and never actually doing

GTD is specifically about clearing your mind so that you can focus on doing without distraction.
The guy is a quack. Bunch of stuff he says in his Bitter Truth talk is false.

For example, Japanese consume much more fructose sugars than an average USA citizen. He somehow skipped that, when he used the Japanese as an example of healthy diet people. Japanese individuals consume 1000kcal less than USA daily average. That's probably the only thing that matters.
Did you use some opensource IDS software or just your own scripts? Stuff like nmap, snort? I've been wanting to do this for a while .. just tracking comms statistics from various devices so I can see what phones home.
This is native advertising.

But it does have the tone of a type of “data journalism” that we should see more often.

I would appreciate a site that treats all news the way 538 treats politics.
"process x is temporal like y" does not suggest that they follow the exact rate or trajectory.

My intention was not to suggest that cognitive skills decline the same rate as muscle fitness, though, physical fitness certainly does impact cognitive health.

Nor I suggested that 40 or any age as a cut off point, but age related cognitive decline is a fact, specially in relation to complex tasks, so it is given that as people get older there will be a higher change in their productivity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767530/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015335/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683339/
There is a significant cohort of users who flag this type of article. As there is no way for them to say why they dislike it, I doubt we will ever be certain. Obviously it isn't technical or scientific, it is anecdotal, perhaps valid reasons for not upvoting, but surely not flagging?

I've only flagged obvious spam and a dangerous pseudoscience article. And after that, I couldn't flag anymore, so I guess I'm not in sync with the powers that be.

I think it is just necessary to accept that HN is imperfect, only one venue, and reflects the biases of its users to a significant degree. It is a shame those biases are not more transparently revealed.

If you want to see things that people you respect recommend, go to twitter and curate your feed. Although the constant reordering and sometimes-showing and so on is even worse on twitter.
There's an open-source reader called Monocle already, that's an unlucky naming collision (although somewhat expected if using normal language nouns): https://github.com/aaronpk/Monocle

As a happy user of Inoreader, my main question about "yet another" would be: What can you offer that the established players don't have? Growth is probably fairly slow for traditional feed readers, since people likely either don't care or already have chosen one that works for them. E.g. the open source project linked above is part of an attempt to get social network style features into a reader: https://aaronparecki.com/2018/03/12/17/building-an-indieweb-..., and thus has a clear answer for "why not one of the ones that has been around for years", even if many users of feed readers aren't necessarily interested in that.
There is a pretty big range. Amazon, Uber, and Microsoft have or are opening offices here. And I’ve seen startups offering up to $140k/year for “senior” level developers. And there are many more that will offer $90k for the same experience. It also depends on the industry.

Why do you say salary? Are you currently working contracts? I’ve heard some of the big banks’ and insurance companies’ digital labs will pay around $120/hr for developers.
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It's not much different in the UK if you apply to FAANG, hedge fund, or a cargo culting startup.
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with all the website builders that are available, is there any money in doing web design for small businesses?

If you’re willing to be the person configuring a website with one of these builders, yes. As other commenters have mentioned, these builders only get clients so far (pretty far in fact) but eventually they’ll need something else. Being a web “guy” or “expert” to them is what you want.

Clients want a convenient solution to this problem. That’s why website builders are so successful. Once they’re busy enough, they don’t want to think about this at all and that’s what they’ll pay for. Be that person.
I think it only cares about dupes of posts that have activity.
Hence my correction. Without looking it up now, the actual replication error rate is probably close to the deCODE rate for de novo mutations (modulo gamete selection, so probably higher than that).
The ember part is a giveaway too since it's a language that has a small but passionate base you'd expect the person behind it to care about ember. That being said the reasoning doesn't rule out wycats.
Well statistics says that. Prostitution is one of the oldest jobs and it was always a women domain, not men. It is of course a very bad thing and in my opinion it is sad that so many women are forced to enter this profession...
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With the shutdown of nuclear reactors, Germany is starting to rely more and more on coal plants to provide a stable source of power that isn't dependent on weather patterns (sun for solar panels, rainfall for hydro electric).
Yes, but historically this research is barely seven years old (Alexnet was published in 2012). There was lots of research into object detection before deep learning became usable, mostly based around feature engineering (keypoints, deformable parts, hog classifiers, etc).

Fundamentally the shift is that we've gone from handmade features developed over years of research to simply letting the model itself learn what's important. It would be nice to set the scene to realise just how transformative deep learning has been.
I think MIDI over USB is most common nowadays, especially for connecting with a computer. There is no lack of devices with the 5 pin DIN connector though. I recently bought a new keyboard and it has In and Out DIN connectors besides USB. The keyboard model was released in 2016, I think, so nothing vintage.
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Posting a sign does not allow you to break the law with impunity. Clearly they can kick everyone out, less clearly can they target one person.
Yet the longest lived populations on the planet eat diets loaded with carbs and mostly unsaturated fats.

https://www.bluezones.com/2018/09/news-study-finds-low-carb-...
There's plenty of refurbished hardware that's built in a sturdier way. Or you can pay a few hundred dollars more and get a new laptop with a better build - it's worth it just to not have to deal with the weird issues in Chromebook firmware. I'm sorry but a computer that will wipe its install simply because you did not press the right key combination at startup is a useless toy, nothing more than that. (And no, I'm not going to look up my Chromebook model in a firmware-replacement guide and spend my weekend tinkering with it just so it doesn't do that anymore. That's ridiculous.)
Kudos to you for noticing but! I think they should add some kind of disclosure.
In the days of the dinosaurs, some audio cards had a connector that could be used as either a joystick port or a MIDI port (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port ).
The cards themselves?! Or the readers?
I would ditch website design and move into marketing.

Leads are what any business wants the most:

- How to drive free traffic to sales funnels.

- How to connect with a potential customers.

- How to build the right audience for the product.

- How to craft the sales message that resonates.

- How to understand A/B/N metrics and speak in plain english to the business owner.

I know of companies which do the entire process for big companies:-

1) Manage the ad spend for campaigns

2) Build the websites to convert, the sales funnels to sell

3) Some even offer the customer support for the website.

Some even charge a fee for the building of said materials and even a % of each product sold.

I would be careful though. These systems for online businesses are becoming better and better and some aren't just 1 products, but multiple products now.

Give it another 5-10 years and even what I'm talking about will be fully automated!
Why? You’re in this fight so hard, it requires no effort to convince you of anything you don’t already believe.

You should learn to write with a voice that’s more urgent and stressed.

Anyway, Naomi Wu has such a feminine face. To look at it, your mind doesn’t even flicker a question of sexual identity. You look, your mind adjudicates “female” and moves on. There’s simply no question.
>> Eh, they can't prove who is or is not a call girl. They have blunt tools at their disposal for trying to "crack down" on this, such as saying "Hookers typically sit alone at the bar. So no more single women sitting alone at the bar."

If you want to be rational about it, the information you need to make a decision is not limited to how many hookers sit alone at a bar, but also how many hookers there are in the general population. If that number is low, then you have no good reason to assume that a woman sitting alone at a bar is a hooker, and therefore no good reason to stop women from sitting alone at a bar.

That's Baye's rule, right? What's the probability that a woman is a hooker given that she's sitting alone at the bar? It's the probability that a woman will be sitting alone at a bar given that she's a hooker, weighted by the probability that any woman is a hooker, normalised by the probability any woman will sit alone at a bar.

Nerds should know those things, if nothing else, to avoid many awkward conversations: "Why do you want to know how much my spaghetti carbonara cost?".
It’s skewed towards startups but another good resource is angel.co

Many of the job listings there for Toronto have salary info attached.
hey, I'm fine with 20 if you tell me ahead of time that is the maximum. My generator just goes up to 64, so that's where I start. Though I usually find through trial and error that 16 is the maximum in a lot of places...
My ability to come first to bar where I will wait for other people (as opposed to have to make sure to be late so that they kick me out) is something I want to keep.

And as long as people in your thought experiment have zero consideration for me, I wonder, why should I be considered toward their bigotry? Because the conviction thay alone women must be escort is exactly that.

The example in former paragraph is quite relevant to me, because apparently stereotype people openly express here (sometimes as joke sometimes serioisly) is that women are often late. Come soon, understand that you are escort, come minute late you confirm stereotype.
Mind if I take a look at your portfolio?
Cognitive function is not a single thing. Look at the highest ranked Go players and they are not nessisarily young. At the same time Starcraft players peak very yong.

Business is not about twitch reflexes.
I sometimes wonder whether the ongoing USB-C trainwreck is partly due do trying to be everything for everybody. Leading to complex and flaky HW and SW.
Upon further investigation, nothing about their API is consistent or well done (and/or the docs are terrible and incomplete). I understand that this is a small company, but this level of inattention to detail is unacceptable. What are they doing with my customers financial data if they can't even get a simple API right? Even if I did decide to use them, the docs are so incomplete I'm not sure that I could actually build an integration without reverse engineering what half these values can be, or guessing at parameters that are used in examples but left out of the actual list (where a list even exists), etc.