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The trouble with entirely self consistent philosophically positions is they have tended towards extremism. At least according to my reading of the history of philosophy.

As with science, we have to accept that we can simultaneously hold two theories to be "true" even when they don't square with each other. To do otherwise is an exercise in frustration. Or extremism, if you choose to discard all philosophies that do not fit with your preferred one.
Majority of my time?
That would be congruent with them being unethical.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions and a lack of ethics. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks 'geez it's a great day to do some immoral shit.
I initially wrote a rather long post about the disaster that was my experience. I have not really talked about it in a decade and it felt good to rant about it. If there is interest, I'll post the longer post as well.

I'm sure there are great small towns and not all experiences will be like mine. My caution from personal experience is this: Make sure you actually understand the politics before you invest any resources. Perhaps as a this is your hometown you will be able to succeed where I failed.

Small town politics are insufferable. In this town of 2800, one extended family held every political office and every board membership, and by extension controlled every municipal job. If the town leadership don't support you, you are screwed.

No matter what your intentions are, you should expect that some members of a small community will question them and distrust you if you are an outsider. This prejudiced will extend to any out of area employee you bring on board. Someone actually challenged my efforts to install solar power stating it would cause cancer.

The graduating class typically had one kid moving on any form of higher education. Education and technology were just not priorities for the people of this more agrarian community.
I would and have…. If you’re in a position to specify that images can consistently be identified by a small key, that’s nice and simple. Go for it.
I get that maybe you'd prefer the artists were producing one type of art, but why would it make you sick that they're producing a different type?
To each its own, maybe. But I didn't find the trailer that gory and certainly not realistic. MK has always looked like a silly US fighting game to me.

There are hints of really gruesome things regarding joint dislocation in the trailer but it doesn't come anywhere to the discomfort I have experienced watching certain movies.

I am not talking about over the top, blood everywhere, fake and grossly exaggerated gore movies. Think of scenes involving cutting tendons in one, eye gouging and the eye hanging in another one... That kind of things, which were only glimpsed at in those movies, upping the discomfort level way higher than a 2 minutes brawl between an electric god and a razor man throwing each other 12 feet up in the air.

edit: Now, I am not saying setting up and producing these scenes has no impact on the people working on it for months but spectators experience something different: the end result, not the process.
I just had lunch with folks that I last worked with twelve years ago. We seemed to remember each other.
Yes, this is why developers should use URI-building libraries instead of direct string manipulation to modify URIs.

If I visit an HTML page with a link to “.evil.com/people/123” and click on it, the user agent won’t append “.evil.com” to the hostname. You’d instead get something like “https://api.hotstartup.com/.evil.com/people/123” which would be safe (if not broken).
I used to teach maths (undergraduate level) and I was also a snowboarding coach. These two roles aren't really comparable.

- In my snowboarding groups, there were usually about five students, no more than ten. We would spend a full day together, and I had time to spend quite a lot of time with each student individually. In my math "exercise" classes, there were up to 25 students. I would see them 3 hours a week (they had other teachers as well).

- Unlike math students, snowboarding students were all very motivated. Nobody forced them to be there.

- Snowboarding students have usually quite similar level of abilities. Of course, some learn faster than others but nobody improves 10 times faster than someone else (which happens in maths). If a student is better, she/he can move to another group the following week (something impossible in my math class).

- As a math teacher, I'm also the one who evaluates them, and who stands between them and their degree. As a snowboarding coach, I'm the one who helps them achieving their goal. Different dynamic.

- I'm confident that anyone without disability can learn to be a decent snowboarder after a few weeks of training. But I think that a lot of students don't have what it takes to learn the mathematics curriculum they signed up for, no matter how you teach them.
> A San Francisco Police Department spokesperson defended their action in a statement Friday, saying that the warrant was granted by a judge and the raid was “part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the leak of the Adachi police report.”

Remember this when they try to sell encryption backdoors, saying it's okay because it'll require a warrant.
They'll never go for the ultimate level of "realism": once any particular character dies they're gone permanently.
The number of Swedes who self report being fluent in English is absolutely nuts. When hired a lot of them have problems talking about anything other than situations you'd encounter as a tourist.

Sure, they are _pretty_ good, and can manage, but I find calling it fluent silly.

Maybe I have a very high expectation of what 'fluent' means, but when a person can't explain anything more advanced than what they did over the weekend I start to worry about them coming away from meetings with a full understanding of what was said.
Walmart store managers make $175,000 a year on average. Wonder what’s the median
You made my case for me.
The 737-MAX with the larger engines turned the statically stable airframe into one that must use computers (eg MCAS) to make it dynamically stable which is a technique used on modern fighter jets but to my knowledge has never been applied to a passenger aircraft.

In this plane which is not "fly-by-wire" the pilots are part of the safety loop and are given a certain short amount of time to respond to an emergency.

Troubling to me is the footnote in the manual which there are times where the manual wheels for the trim require 80 lbs or 100 lbs or more of force. This amount of force would potentially preclude female pilots on these planes to handle these sorts of emergencies.
Blogging, but really marketing in general, thought me to ask "what do I want to say?" and "to whom am I talking?"

To an extreme this is also important in the code, because you can get the most clever algorithm or implementation or optimizatiton, but if your code should be maintained by someone else, you'd better keep it clear over clever. In short, write code that others can understand and modify.

More generally, with code we have comments, commit messages, readme and sometime even documentation. This is an example of how, at a certain point in time, we reviewed our README. From a confusing list of instructions, it's now a clear how to:

https://github.com/solokeys/solo/commit/bbc61d5743b45d62f7e2...

- What is this? A security key, with call to action (you can get one)

- First FAQ: Security

- First User / Use case: Hacker who wants to personalize his key

- Advanced User: Developer who wants to contribute

- More docs

- More bla bla

- Call to action again (you can get one)

As you can see this is the classical structure of any blog post / marketing page.
Ah, that's perfectly okay! Is there anything in particular that you dislike or find missing in Tabtation, or love in Workona? Would love to hear your feedback!
> or have strong math backgrounds in general. Makes sense given that most people with strong math abilities can make much more money doing something that's not teaching.

That argument supposes that high school teachers ended up with that career by looking at all job prospects and picking the one with the best economic prospects. Based on my experience, exactly none of them did that, in any field. My sophomore English teacher used to work at an aerospace company, and my biology teacher studied to be a physician, for example.

> Most great high school math teachers are doing it for pretty pure reasons. Admirable, but hard to expect from rational people.

Exactly so. Until we can reliably identify success in a field (like football wins), and then make the economic incentives align to promote that success, we can't hope to increase the number of great people in a field by economic metrics.
The real limiting factor would be space to store the machines and tools. The cost per square foot of real estate is expensive.
Ask HN: How Do You Sell?
I don't think it's challenging to convince an artist, they'd be happy to do this work at these costs. Finding artists is a bigger problem, and I'd guess they solved it by knowing someone with ancestry from a painting-oriented village community.
Unlocking New Capabilities for the Web (Google I/O ’19)
I'm looking at InstaPainting, and their website claims:

MADE IN USA BY AMERICAN ARTISTS

And I can't find any mention of China.
It's the first step. No one has successfully deployed a Linux desktop to the mass market and I've outlined how MS could. And I think they will. It's actually a Very Good Thing for Linux because it cements its position as the underlying operating system -- something which is now required by enterprise IT.

As I said, this will result in more desktops running Linux, not fewer. I've never been a big MS fan but I have to say this is quite smart and will very likely be hugely successful.
It's a kick ass anthem but I like the Pet Shop Boys Go West better, especially the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBjMRvOB5M
Recycling already is a more effective expenditure than landfill. If there are even better ways, please contribute them to the discussion!

> military spending has nothing to do with it.

That’s right. Military spending is simply what one should be concerned about if they are worried about taxes. Military spending is greater than 50% of all tax expenditure in the US. Waste management is such a small fraction, it’s in the noise, far below military, and other things like roads and education.
I was bothered less by his expression than the fact that a pear torte is neither frosted nor pink: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pear+torte%22&tbm=isch

The demonic expression can be explained by an individual's artistic limits. The extreme misrepresentation points to a editorial system that doesn't care about accuracy.
I can’t get over how they designed the packaging of 60 satellites into the fairing.

Elon said there’s no separate dispenser to deploy them. I really hope we can see them deploy, that would be an incredible sight.

Best of luck. They are expecting a lot will go wrong, but let’s hope they’re wrong about that!
There's a huge difference between silly gore (e.g. DOOM) and disgusting/frightening gore (e.g. Resident Evil). I, for myself, certainly know that I finished RE5 despite its gore, not because of it, and I realize I will never play certain games (e.g. Alien Isolation); if I could go back I'd probably stop myself from watching the Alien movies and a bunch of other gore / psycho movies, too.
> I have been teaching languages for years and the bottom line is the vast majority of adults don't put in the hours.

There is another important aspect: learning your second or third foreign language (or subsequent ones) is easier than the first one. I think studies or comparisons which neglect to take that into account are flawed. Adults (at least outside the US) are likely to be learning their second foreign language, not their first, hence should do relatively well, in spite of a (possible) age handicap.
Why would anyone bother doing that?
> It's like going out in life expecting padded roads, walls, and everything, lest you ever get hurt...

What? How offensive.

Let me be clear, then. The United States is committing a genocide against minorities as we speak and it is enabled and emboldened by "trolls". This is not touchy-feely. This is children in cages, separated illegally from their families and put into places of extreme disrepair, unhealthy conditions, etc, while the President goes on TV to state that machine guns would be a more "effective solution".

This is not touchy feely or snowflaky stuff and I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. What I'm talking about are trolls going online an on TV to spread messages of hate and cruelty. This directly results in human suffering and death of innocent people.

There is no logic behind talking about using machine guns to kill people who are trying to legally migrate to your country. To make those statements is to wage a weapon of war and to do it online and on TV en masse is a new kind of trolling that is physically dangerous.

Your ..... dismissal of the problems of youth....and use of .... to not finish...sentences makes it difficult to understand your point.

Trolling in the modern era has nothing to do with any of this "touchy feely" or "snow-flakey" rubbish.

It has to do with enabling genocide. Trolls normalize bad behavior to the point where it goes unpunished. Bad behavior to the extreme, unpunished from the top, for years on end, can and does result in really bad things like genocide.

I'm not making leaps here. This is real, it is physical, it is urgent, and it matters.
I've shared this experience of being a mentor and babysitter for people who seek all the things you listed, although in my case it's inexperienced coworkers who are "self taught" (no boot camp even). Their charisma and our shallow interviewing process usually lands them a job and leaves me cleaning up after the messes they perpetually make. You would think proper communication would prevent these things, but often they are so alack of experience it goes right over their head, and other times they're overconfident or just disinterested in improving themselves. If you try and give them too much constructive criticism, then you quickly become the office asshole.

Other engineering industries have to take rigorous exams to achieve any forward momentum in their job (civil engineering had the PE, for example). This is something I think I could get behind for our industry .
Because that doesn't solve the problem of not having an internet connection. Also, it's not that I don't trust providers not to read my data, it's that I don't trust them not to lose it. I have no way of knowing what goes on behind the scenes at a cloud provider. For all I know, they are one hardware failure (or one financial failure) away from losing my data.
Yep. And, additional IPs cost like $1/month
I'm a math professor, a white male, I was something of a child prodigy, and I was enormously blessed with math coaches who went far out of their way to help me.

I agree wholeheartedly that opportunities need to be made more available to everyone:

- Roughly 80-85% of those who get their Ph.D.s in math are male. That's a depressing statistic, and we need to do better.

- Nearly all Americans who get their Ph.D.s in math are white. African-Americans and Latino/a Americans are underrepresented. Moreover, perhaps surprisingly, so are Asian-Americans. (There are many Asians in math, but usually they grew up in Asia and only came to the US for university or grad school.) Here, too, we must do better.

That said, your comment strikes me as rather nihilistic. Because opportunities aren't equally available to everyone, they shouldn't be made available to anyone?

Most people aren't like Urschel: most students won't go on to love math or excel in it, no matter how many opportunities they have. But some people will. Those people are spread across ethnicities, across genders, across socioeconomic groups, all over the world. We need to do a better job of finding and nurturing talent from diverse sources. And we need to make individual mentoring more widely available, not less.

Have I misunderstood you? Am I saying things you disagree with?
There are two possibilities:

1. it's practical impossibility to make unarmed nuclear warhead to explode spontaneously. The worst thing that can happen is conventional explosion that spreads the contents into the sea.

2. it's ancient fission bomb designs where water getting inside the warhead slows down neutrons and starts the chain reaction.

I'm 99.9 percent sure than no ICBM ever had the #2 types. Only bombers had them few decades. Even if there were, putting one into a sub would be the definition of insanity. One mistake and Murmansk is gone seems too risky even for Soviets.
Inko (a gradually-typed object-oriented programming language) 0.4.0 released
"I had to admit I was happy that a Ph.D. had been a potent prologue to my current life, disciplining me into a more patient thinker, a slicker architect of arguments. Asinine and medieval it had certainly been, in many ways — prelims! The dissertation itself! — and had taken time, tracts and tracts of it. But the tracts of time — seemingly an endless postponement — had turned out to be their own reward, not least because I’d gotten to spend them with the person across the table, who’d built me up and modeled a new intellectual intensity for me."

Amen, brother! Sing it!

-- Ph.D., 2004, UTCS.
I was once part of a project where we were porting "MK:Deadly Alliance" to mobile platform. Every time when I saw heads being ripped-off or likes during unit and integration testing I use to think "People(lot of young people) will be playing this?" I am not a gamer and have not directly worked in gaming industry, so this could be just me I think.
When you say females, do you mean women?
Oh, that's bad. In that case, I expect we will see it forced through the regulatory pipeline, because Boeing is "too big to fail". This is not good, neither for us passengers nor for aviation safety in general.
I don't understand it, either, but somehow they blew through $740 million on this last year. It seems ridiculous and only underscores my argument that they aren't really a tech company. If I pitched needing $740 million to create a taxi dispatch app, I'd be laughed out of the room.

Uber survives on a never-ending series of fantasies: they'll "disrupt" travel. They'll disrupt logistics. They'll have self-driving cars. They'll have flying taxis! No, they won't do any of these things. But what will happen (and already has) is that the founders and their friends will become obscenely wealthy while drivers have to sleep in their cars.
Is this a spoiler ?
Whonix vs. Tails
What is the best method for remaining anonymous on the internet and not leaving a fingerprint?
I often don't enjoy nyt articles but this one was fine.
So at least we have a good idea where Godzilla will likely rise from the ocean and decimate San Francisco!
I worked for two years at Microsoft, and I saw nothing like this. Maybe the most telling part of this post is where she says many people had (she says fake) pleasant lives, presumably the same people she criticizes for being “closed-minded”, apparently for being focused on delivering for their manager.

It was a no-drama workplace full of great people who come in to work every day to do their job well and then go home and do what people are supposed to do, build a fulfilling family life. And if anyone had a disastrous personal life, it certainly wasn’t something they brought into the office.

I left Microsoft because I wanted to go a totally different direction with my career (I’m in law school now), but it really was a delightful place to work full of great people.
Due to the length limit of HN titles, here is a short summary of what Inko is about:

Inko is an object-oriented, gradually-typed, safe programming language that lets you write concurrent programs, and is inspired by languages such as Smalltalk, Erlang, and Rust. For more information, please take a look at the website: https://inko-lang.org/
If I had to choose I'd used Stripe and Protobuf for inspiration.

Stripe uses a date as its version and it maintains state for each user, so it knows whether to serve an old version or latest and greatest. They offer UI and tools to manually migrate to a new version, with clear expectations and changelogs provided. They can build a rollout and sunset plan around that.

Protobuf is append only until you change the actual package. This gives you the opportunity to make additive changes without making a breaking change and you don't need to maintain separate releases as you make incremental updates or bug fixes. If the API changes significantly, it's no longer the same API, it's a new one.
+1

If you're not troubled by ethical issues, Facebook is probably a great deal. If you are, then you might regret working there in the future. A lot of people mistake the notoriety of people who make these bargains for fame
I show a legitimate use case other than “ICO pyramid scams” and you move the goal posts. It shows that you have an opinion about cryptocurrency that cannot be changed by logic, and are essentially a troll.
That sounds JUST like USAA...
It precisely the point that when we can easily measure results, it clear that the adhoc excuses in the grandparent comment are just that.
Commodification of human art, here we go
Isn't job hopping expected for somebody this young? An entire career of job hopping I could understand but somebody in their twenties is going to benefit from different experiences, no? Seems like working at a few different places would be more helpful to a potential company than somebody whose only experience is one place for five years.
No, I think it's exactly right. The "destruction" the author describes is the cause of the inwardness and nearsightedness that makes much of it useless.
Quoting the tweets in case they're taken down:

> .@amnestyusa was excited to move to a new headquarters location in New York. Today, however we were notified that a Chinese SoE had purchased the building and unfortunately due to our work on human rights in China can no longer move there. Bc of our work on human rights in China.

> We’ve seen the Chinese government harass civil society halfway across the world and especially within its border but to see it in the city I grew up in is alarming & concerning. It speaks to the danger and precedent of Chinese SoE influence abroad. #chinahumanrights

> If promoting human rights is in the US national security interest why are Chinese SoEs who are buying property and excluding human rights orgs not a national security threat? Why shouldn’t these fall under scrutiny under CFiUS?

SoEs are "State-Owned Enterprises"
I'm always so disappointed to read comments like this on HN. People who won't work for Facebook because they think it's actually an evil, unethical corporate machine. There's lots of reasons not to work there, but "they're unethical" does not ring true for me.

I used to work there, and I only very, very rarely saw behavior that I truly disagreed with. Leadership's decisions will look weird when viewed through a New York Times lens, but are sensible when you have the whole picture and can ask leadership questions directly.

You're giving up the opportunity to work with some of the best minds in the industry, working on actually novel engineering problems that only come up when you're at the sale of billions of users and trillions of datapoints. They're a great place to grow your career when you're just starting out, because you get a peek at how a global scale company is structured, and how the tech was built. There's no shortage of senior engineers who are incentivized to mentor those just starting out. There's literally hundreds of teams to choose from, and switching teams is easy.
I can concur with OP, I'm certain instapainting had Chinese artists at some point of time. Maybe they found the higher costs of native artists to offset shipping costs from China and changed their model.
Indeed. Ideas are worth nothing. Only execution matters.