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> From a democratic perspective the doctor can in theory earn much more as long as that doesn't grant them more influence or rights. Someone having a sports car isn't in isolation a democratic problem. Access to education, communities and security is.

I think this is a misunderstanding of why people want money. Because none of that stuff is boolean. You don't have education or not. Harvard and community college are both "education" but they're not the same.

Even when people buy a sports car, it's not because they derive $60,000 worth of benefit from fast acceleration, it's primarily a method of status signaling. Which in turn creates social opportunities in everything from business networking to romance.

You can create a minimum floor for everyone (NB: a UBI is an outstanding way to do this across all domains), but "money buys stuff" applies to pretty much anything, including incremental amounts of education, community and security.

> One can of course question whether most authoritarians care much about their own ideology. But as an ideology they do care that the system is fair, just not society overall. People do believe that it is fair to have a "strong leader".

This is fundamentally impossible. There is conflict in politics not only because of misunderstandings but also because different people have different interests. The "strong leader" will have to make choices that benefit some people over others. If all you're doing is redefining fairness to mean whatever the leader decides it is then you're not creating a fair society, you're just creating a society and defining fairness as whatever subsequently happens.

In some sense that is also what we do with the output of the democratic process, but that only has a claim to fairness as a result of the fairness in the inputs (one person one vote). With authoritarianism the selection process can make no such claim, not least because the existing "strong leader" would by definition have enough de facto control to stay in power indefinitely and then anoint a successor at the end.
>As far as I'm aware the climate models have been fine

Sources?
because they really really haven't.
Meta-analysis is a sound principle but undermined by selection bias. This is why every meta-analysis includes selection criteria for which studies are incorporated into the analysis. Unfortunately publication bias is systemic and biases the results.

The quote referenced is poetic and pithy but I fail to understand how it applies to meta-analysis and selection bias. What is the cow pie in this scenario?
> See above. Even if you were to trace every molecule in my brain, you would be no closer to really explaining a subjective experience. You would be able to show correlations, yes! 'Now he's angry, look at this cluster of atoms'. But that's not an explanation of the experience as such. That's the unbridgeable gap I'm talking about.

Personally, I don't see a basis to believe there's something more to it. I'd look at the cluster of atoms in your brain and say this is anger. This is the computational process that is anger in your brain. I don't see a meaningful difference between this and doing the same to a computer - I could point at a cluster of atoms and EM fields in the CPU and say, "this is factorization of numbers; this is how the cryptographic routine this CPU executes manifests". Why would there be anything else here?
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Ask HN: Best European companies to apply for a Master's degree internship/thesis
Hi everyone, I'm an European student at the last semester of a Master's degree in Software engineering and CS.

I wanted to ask if you can recommend some particularly interesting IT company that provides internship programs I could apply for. The only constraint that I have is that the company must be located in an English or Italian speaking country inside Europe.

My aim would be to carry out a curricular internship and/or my final thesis inside a big company, and then try to get me hired after completing my studies. Plus, I think it would be a nice abroad experience from which I could profit from also on a personal level.

Thanks to everyone that will take time to respond or to give me any advice.
Code or gtfo?
Ask HN: Do Udacity nanodegrees get anyone a job without academic background?
For example someone with limited programming knowledge ? https://www.udacity.com/course/c-plus-plus-nanodegree--nd213
No Safari on Android, so no ad-blocking doesn't work like on iOS :-)

Firefox Focus itself works all right on Android Pie. You can even set it as default browser for opening links in place of Android Web View.

Android Pie has DNS-over-TLS for both WiFi and LTE so I am ad-blocking via my private DNS server and blacklists.
Am I reading the data right? It has Canada as the top BS avg? Any ideas as to why this would be?
I really want to see his financials. He said that an unexpected $10K cost nearly ended the business and I got the sense from the article the margins are fairly slim after factoring everything in.
I use the D bindings to qt regularly when I'm not using dlangui for GUI.
Thanks didn't know, was just replying to the parents "efficiency" argument.
How so? Do you think apple sales would drop if they switched all development to using a more mainstream language?
With at most 4000 drivers spread across many cities, it sounds right now like Uber will be positioned to shrug it off entirely.
Delivered. Sorry.

Deliveries were approximately 63,000 vehicles, which was 110% more than the same quarter last year, but 31% less than last quarter. This included approximately 50,900 Model 3 and 12,100 Model S and X.

https://ir.teslamotors.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
Someone has actually just bought that!
That's fake news and founders have denied that multiple times.
Probably never, unless you're also downsampling because you only plan to watch videos on your phone / downgraded your TV forever / are losing your eyesight. Lossy transcoding barely makes sense when the source is a hilariously bad codec like MPEG2 (by modern standards), and even then you lose a lot of texture (the main benefit is inverse telecine and dealing with any other weirdness of the source disc ahead of time). You pay in quality for every time it's been lossily encoded, but only reap the space savings of the last (to a first approximation). You might save a little HDD space, but you'd have very poor quality for the bitrate.
1. Corporations exist to benefit their shareholders over some term (short, long, whatever) as the shareholders ask for, through their elected board of directors. I tend to be sympathetic to what you're saying about taking the long view (esp. for a company like 3M) but the many vs. few doesn't make sense in a corporate context. It's the now vs. the later.

2. "Buy bonds"?? A corporate CFO would be pilloried for buying bonds. The shareholders are emphatically not interested in the CFO playing amateur bond-picker in order to generate a bunch of double-taxable income.
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I've been Apple user since the first iPod came out. Unfortunately I'm starting to realize that this brand is not what it used to be anymore.

The reason that brought me to this conclusion besides many bugs that I've been experiencing in the latest version of iOS and OS X is that I cannot download any app from the App Store without being able to accept their updated Terms & Conditions.

How is it possible that a bug like this happens to a company like Apple? I have no idea, but imagine this:

When you need the phone that costs 1000 USD the most -- while traveling to retrieve a train ticket from the App Store, Apple won't let you download the app because of the bug.

I tried signing out of the app store (and overwhelming my phone with an unnecessary iCloud sync), using Wifi, restarting the phone... nothing helps.

Is anyone else feeling the same? I'm starting to think that this is my last iPhone.
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The whole reason this thread exists at all is because the explicit hierarchy you have so much faith in is not working, and never really has.

I'd love to see an example of a union using their structural philosophy as an excuse to evade accountability. Don't suspect you had one in mind?
I remember reading long ago that something like 70-90% of new startups are dead by the 7th year. It's not that big of a deal.

Edit: Small business rates are a bit better as startups require a bit more than just some revenue but some growth metrics. VC-backed companies fail at a pretty high rate (75% fail to return). https://fitsmallbusiness.com/small-business-failure-rates/
Seemingly every other week for months now a Pihole post makes the front page on HN. Every time I wonder why. IMO, it's just a DNS black hole with a slick interface.

Before adblockers came along I had a script that updated my hosts file. I then moved to a DNS black hole but it’s been more than a decade since I’ve used either solution.

Do you people have that many hostile IoT / Smart thingies connected to your networks? Are you just unwilling to pay for the ad-free versions of apps. Are you using apps/services on these devices that don’t offer an ad-free option, if so why? I’m genuinely curious.
What do you mean by "exist intrinsically"?
I think this article maybe self referential.
I suppose I might have listed "form a company to commercialize" as one of the approaches, and tagged it as the one with greatest flexibility to add more offerings on top of license rights. I think License Zero, Tidelift, and other "sustainability as a service" offerings exist largely because the overhead of company-based commercialization is so high, and it doesn't scale well down to very small open source projects.
Thank you for sharing this video. It can be more helpful for novices than the flat-out adversarial approach of "I'm going to mess this sandwich at every possible step to show you that you need to be precise".

I've found that learners will succeed when they are able to answer affirmatively these two questions: "can I do this?" (self-efficacy), and "do I want to?" (motivation).

The robot scenario with a handful of commands is preferable compared to the "make me a sandwich" task in both respects, because failing badly at even getting bread out of the bag (say) can destroy both self-efficacy and motivation.
I think it opens a new connection for each request.
Are the fizzbuzzers real? I feel like their existence is somewhat mythological.
Reaching the objective as efficiently as possible... yeah, sounds about right.
Was the video officially released by DoD?

Traditionally, when govt sources added to UFO sensations it has been stated to divert attention from something else.

Edit: Wasn't -> Was
From my point of view Tesla hasn't driven BMW, Audi or Mercedes out of business in the last 15 years, but I didn't take a look at their recent numbers, perhaps they already have.
Brave has an Block Scripts option in its shields settings, if you have it on, then no.
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But these are exactly the reason why it should have been done earlier, And these reason would have been the same in 2010 - 2016.

When Google started negotiation in 2010 and announced their HK Datacenter project in 2011, every one thought this should finally kickstart what was then even consider as being late to the DC and Connectivity race in the region. And all of a sudden 2012 Google decided to pull out. Cloudflare could have opened an Office in HK but decided Singapore instead. Lots and Lots of Datacenter / Hosting companies came and looked and decided to give it a pass.

Something changed in 2016 and there has since been lots of investment in Data Center and Connectivity.
Dijkstra had issues with the older BASICs where the only way to control flow was with GOTOs and people flinging them all over the place. Visual Basic 6 (and QBasic before it) has Algol-like structures like subs, functions, while/repeat loops, etc so it would satisfy the issues Dijkstra had with older BASICs (if he'd dislike it for other reasons is another matter though).

Most people just repeat Dijkstra's headlines without having even read his text, let alone understanding it.
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Frank Herbert was preparing us for the Butlerian Jihad
Schibsted is one of the best in EU. They're basically like the Google of the Nordics but they are behind many brands instead of just one. The company culture is very diverse and there's a lot of opportunities inside the company as you can move from team to team and company to company inside the mother company.

Disclaimer: I am a happy employee there.
Sounds reasonable to me. Typical Lithuanian politics and a try to compromise ex-banker president candidate painting all financial institutions black.
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> I’d love to hear your take

Well, I guess you already noticed that regular keyboards are made for people with arms growing from the front of their chests. Some, like MS, now generously provide some angle between the halves so people with shoulder-mounted arms can curve them in more comfortably without keeping the wrists crooked.

Now, let's take the flat profile, specifically crosswise the keyboard. It seems greatly suited for people with digits extendable in the plane of the wrist. But where I am, fingers mostly rotate on joints instead.

While we're here, feeble attempts at wrist support on most current boards don't have much respect from me. MS at least made the board incline the other way, which is vastly better (though I'd like some forearm support now).

As for the staggered key layout, it works sort of okay for the left hand where the key columns are staggered to the right (going away from the user). Now, which way are they staggered under the right hand? Also to the right. Meanwhile my fingers mostly move forward and backward in line with each forearm, so I'd imagine ortholinear layout to be more reasonable.

Kinesis Advantage and Maltron boards seem to get all of this right, but I'm yet to buy one.

I'm not sure about the next point, but apparently in the ‘palms down’ position the bones in the forearm are rotated DNA-style, which may or may not be suboptimal. Some boards, like Kinesis Freestyle, can be mounted in a vertical accordion-arrangement, and there are also mice that are handled like joysticks.

The sad thing is, while plastic boards could probably be manufactured in any shape you'd like (at least other gadgets don't seem to have a big problem), prevailing designs are seemingly dictated by the inertia of the market instead of the ergonomics, so they still hold on to ideas of typewriter design from a century ago. And better designs are caught in the bog of higher prices because no mass production for these weird things.
Academia's disconnect with practical things is amazing.
could be any of a number of reasons (or combination thereof) why you got that job.

* comparison to other candidates
* truthfulness/honesty
* track record
* personality

At some point, the "I know nothing about this" really isn't all that true, especially for senior dev folks. I'm not sure there's much tech I couldn't say "I know nothing about X", because I understand fundamentals. I don't know much about a lot of tech - erlang/lisp/rust all spring to mind. But I understand variables, scoping, order of operations, etc - even if the behaviour is somewhat different from what I'm used to, I know some fundamentals that I didn't know in the beginning (or... were not muscle memory on day one).
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Sometimes a bullshitter consistently peddles untruths, but is unaware of it, and so isn't a liar, just mistaken. I grew up with an older brother like that. He regularly spouted pure bullshit that to him was Truth.

That became clear once when I was struggling with math homework. He looked at the problem, pronounced that he understood it and could solve it easily. So I handed him the pencil. He didn't know he was bullshitting so didn't make an excuse or acknowledge that I'd called a bluff. He took the pencil and sat down, then stared at the book and the problem for 20 minutes. Then shrugged, got up, and walked away. But he really thought he could do it so he did try.

Since then he's made a living in a retail construction trade and hasn't changed. He'll visit a homeowner who will explain the problem. He'll confidently and convincingly explain how he can solve it, and get the job. Then he'll utterly fail and ignore the resulting problems, and not understand why the customer gets upset. His last name, and so mine, is dirt in the city where he works, which he seems to be unaware of. But another sucker is born every minute so he moves on. As a tradesman he is crap but as a salesman he's golden, largely because he honestly believes in his own competence.

Growing up with that has inoculated me against this mode of bullshit so it's been a blessing. I suppose it's like the benefit of raising a kid in an environment that's not too clean.
There being a subjective perspective, having qualia, sentience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
Well this is my daily dose of dystopia.
What an oxymoron ? Regulation and Internet. If you regulate it, everyone will leave your regulated network for another parallel open network IPFS anyone.
Words aren't used because they are in the dictionary, they are in the dictionary because they are used.
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Rhubarb is actually a very useful food. It is a good source of Emodin, which has gentle laxative properties. IMHO, it's better to eat foods that gently facilitate bowel movements than than to rely on laxatives.

I've been growing rhubarb for several years now. It comes back by itself every spring, and can be frozen for off-season use. The rabbits and gophers won't eat it, because the leaves are rather toxic to us animals (the stalks are perfectly edible, either cooked or raw). All I have to do is make sure my plants get adequate water.

This spring I bought three more bare rhubarb roots when they first appeared at the garden store. Last spring I bought bare root rhubarb late in the spring, when they were half-off, but they never grew.

The instructions say to not harvest any stalks the first year, so the plant can put energy into its root. When I bought my first plant it was already a year or two old. The garden center guy said to cut the bottom out of the pot it came in and put that over the plant, so the stalks would have to 'stretch' to reach sunlight.

Here's a random page about forcing, as this bbc article mentions: http://rhubarbinfo.com/forcing

My blog post about Rhubarb as a 'functional food':
https://radialappliance.teslabox.com/2017/06/pie-plant-rhuba...

I think Rhubarb roots can be split when they get big enough, sort of like bulbs, but I haven't gotten to that point yet.
To add to this, if you like concept/portability/cost-effectiveness of Electron but don't want to mess with the Node/npm ecosystem, there are chromium embedded frameworks out there for Java and Python[0][1][2].

[0]: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/java-cef

[1]: https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython

[2]: https://www.teamdev.com/jxbrowser
Since you replied with a personal attack and added nothing to the discussion:

It's still unsafe and if you think otherwise either provide an argument that refutes me, the book and othets on this thread instead of blindly dismissing us as: you're reading it wrong.

Your very copy-pasted paragraph from the book stated that's still unsafe and it's left to the programmer to get it right.
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Competitors exist. And I don't remember the last time I've bought scotch tape.
This is recorded from vibrations in rock, not in air. There is some sound in the very thin Martian atmosphere, and there is plenty of sound in the Martian crust.
Amen to that first paragraph.

> both of the worst bullshitters I've ever met were in academia - and the business world has been a breath of fresh air in comparison.

I've had the opposite experience. One example was a company with bicoastal research operations: A fairly high-level manager had the west-coast operations convinced that he was pretty consumed working the east-coast ops and could spend only a little time with the people in the west. In a parallel development, he had the east-coast operations convinced that he was pretty consumed working the west-coast ops and could spend only a little time with the people in the east.

The company pretty much melted down before specific action was taken against him.
I've planted some hops in my garden this spring and am really interested to watch that grow. Apparently up to 30cm per day is possible in ideal conditions. I'd just be amazed with 10cm per day.
We had an interviewee (is that a word?) today who said that he didn't know and to me that was a reason to hire him.
I think they've been steadily hollowing themselves out just like the every other American / global company that makes stuff. They don't spend on R&D like they used to, instead they've tried to acquire new products and technology.

It feels like the culture of innovation they built is lagging, and like for many American companies losing their way, I wish they could make a case for a real reinvestment in research with a 10 year payback instead of a next quarter result. This is anecdotal and I've only worked with one division of 3M in the past, but i've seen changes in how they support companies downstream. It may just be how everything is changing everywhere.

They still make good products, and they're consistently very good but always premium priced.
I can't agree with this. High IQ can't be everything. Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero?
Imo there are a lot of great/amazing and productive Software Engineers that wouldn't do well in a whiteboard algorithm interview. The people that tend to do well, are the ones that have a lot of practice with the kind of problems.
I see this trope trotted out so often with nothing to back it up that I can't help but wonder if there isn't a hidden agenda behind it:

"The best devs I've ever worked with didn't have a CS degree"

"The best devs I've ever worked with didn't have a degree in anything"

"The best devs I've ever worked with had no prior experience"

"The best devs I've ever worked with were drug addicts I found at the methadone clinic"

"The best devs I've ever worked with were wild bushmen in the jungles of Africa who had never encountered any technology more complex than flint and tinder"
The math faculty at Waterloo has a number of crusaders against grade inflation. They track the high school of every person who applies and see how their grades correlate between high school and university. Schools that consistently show large drops get penalized in future applications.

I am learning a lot and enjoying the challenging course work so far. As I get closer to graduation, I'll see whether my GPA improves enough to consider grad school. Otherwise, I'll be relying on Waterloo's excellent co-op program to get my foot in the door with employers.
I don't understand what people enjoy about this plant, seems like it always needs to be combined with something else to make it palatable. In America I'd say its main use is in strawberry-rhubarb pie. But maybe the increased sweetness of this kind makes it worth bothering with.
Yes, and these people: "bad product, bad sales strategies, bad market fit, bad business model" never get "tested" on anything during job interviews.
algo is great for an automated setup of a secure Wireguard(and IPsec) server with ad-blocking capabilities. DNS adblocking is necessary to block tracking in iOS apps. Content Blockers only work with Safari.
> to reveal it is to never leave the house

and don't throw away/flush any biological material. in most jurisdictions, trash is public property. if someone really wants your DNA they can hunt through your garbage till they find a hair, flesh, blood, etc.