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If you did that then you might as well nationalize the universities because otherwise they'd shut down. There's simply no way universities will grant degrees to students who write exams that they did not administer.

Universities live and die by their reputations. The entire purpose of a university degree is so that the school can vouch for their student, putting the weight of their reputation behind the person so that they have an easier time securing employment.

I would also like to take issue with your choice of the word "responsibility" as it pertains to grading. Universities have the right to grade their students, as organizations made up of individuals in a free society. They will not relinquish their right to administer examinations without a fight.

Moreover, if you were to succeed, you would only replace the economic pressure to inflate grades with political pressure. In my experience, public schools are under far more pressure to do this than universities are. A major part of this pressure is manifested in the tendency to standardize exams, leading to hyper-focus on exam prep at the expense of general learning.
The point remains.
I agree. I'm quite stumped as to what this shadowy yet incompetent entity is that has the power to compel or manipulate FedEx into redirecting documents to the USA, but is incapable of getting them lost / delayed for a few hours to be secretly scanned, in an allied country no less.
I didn't say that racial minorities were less capable of rigorous study, merely that the article did not actually functionally advocate for rigor with that statement, but instead is equating meritocracy with a time period that didn't have meritocracy because people were excluded based on race. Which is concerning.
Weird article. The author seems to want the masses to be enthusiastic for the kind of thing (rubbish apps, "Yo" etc) that have dampened enthusiasm.

I think the author confuses cause for effect.
Incentivizing things is how the market decides.
Have a single source of randomness and record the seed as part of the test run. Then you have repeatable failures combined with finding obscure bugs.
> Pedestrian and bicyclist deaths have been climbing due to distracted and impaired drivers, as well as more vehicle miles being driven overall

... and electric bicycles.
As with all tech, whether it's a blessing or curse depends on how it's used, and what it's used for.

Given the way biometrics is currently being used in general, I'd say it's a curse.
Because the GP said "I work at Google but not on YouTube", and was speaking of Google and the sorts of technical challenges Google has in general, not any specific product.

So danShumway pointed out that in one flagship product, they didn't seem worried about latency, so it could be argued that avoiding user-agent detection is more important than latency on youtube too.

But yeah, there are lots of competing things going on, I found both comments helpful.
It started when they stopped following "Don't Be Evil" motto. If they want to be evil, then people might portray them in negative ways. Usually based on their own behavior.
It's remarkable that such a fine institution as the New York Times would publish unsubstantiated allegations that could ruin someones career.
iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
Hopefully. It will be a good thing to see these privacy abusing services/companies ceasing to exist in the EU.
So? Maybe canada's laws say they can compel Zuck to show up, but America's certainly don't. Those are the ones that matter, as Facebook is based in America and Zuck is currently in America.
Docker is nowhere near as close to the metal as what Microsoft has done with WSL2—it's got better performance and runs as near-native as you could possibly get.
The fact that discussions over syntax generate pages and pages of furious bickering, while discussions over semantics (which is what actually matters) get a shrug, is the ultimate example of bikeshedding in PL design. Honestly, syntax just doesn't matter. Yes, particular poor choices can impede usability, but that's not applicable here, and ultimately after two minutes or so of learning the new syntax there's no difference between this and "await foo".
Because HTML was a document format, not an application container. Try positioning something exact in Latex.
An example would be that when a member of the Free Software community asked for clarifications on the OpenBSD mailing list, because someone had recommended the OpenBSD distribution to them, the response produced gems such as:

"you are a power-misusing hypocritical liar"

"you are being the usual slimy hypocritical asshole"

And that was just the OpenBSD project leader...
I think Deleuze (who described some of his work as belonging to the genre of "generalized anti-Hegelianism", which I take to mean a kind of inversion of Hegel, i.e. a materialism) would just have laughed if you said his ideas were iffy. It's part and parcel of being on the radical cutting edge "producing concepts" in the philosophical tradition (participation in which necessitates acknowledging Hegel).

Is there a philosopher whose significant ideas were not steps into the unknown, moving beyond accepted thought? No philosophical idea worth considering is incontestable.
Why only Canada's legislature? The parliamentary committee that summoned Zuckerberg and Sandberg represents more than just the Canadian Parliament. If one were to expand the conditions under which you feel this could be good "governance, policy, economics and ethics", you could find many cases of executive officers of publicly listed companies being summoned to testify before parliament. Philip Green comes to mind, but I'm sure there are many more - requesting testimony from corporate offices it not as unusual as you may think; I don't recall the names now, but I'm pretty sure I've seen the CEOs of some major American corporations in front of the House and Senate on numerous occasions, such as after the Great Financial Crisis.

>the contents of that interrogation have led to substantially unanticipated outcomes

How would one prove something like that? I think some more specificity would be necessary to be able to answer that question. Do you mean unanticipated by the mainstream of commentators, unanticipated by the legislature itself, by the corporate officer in question, by literally anyone on the Earth, or by yourself?
It has been usable on nightly since `nightly-2019-05-09` (with https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/60586 )
I wonder if you could use the websocket API to scan for other (non-http) open ports.
I mean, why should they? Clearly Google thinks how they do things is in the best interest of their shareholders. Maybe you could argue that contractors are detracting from shareholder value because their interests aren't aligned, but that's not the argument you're making.

What you're saying is, essentially, if a company is making a lot of money, then they should give that money to their employees. But the purpose of a company isn't to hire or pay people, it's to generate a return for your investors.
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Not all fields are "tech" (really, software), and in "real" engineering fields, it appears you just get paid less and seen as a vocational/applied science guy without a master degree.
A Git security breach (and ways to prevent it)
This is every topic on Hacker News so I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised or really care.
If you (the general You) are one of the people who would have an adverse reaction to the idea of eating a beloved pig from Instagram, but you eat meat otherwise, examine and consider carefully your preferences and opinions. Same thing if you feel outraged at the fate of Cecil the Lion or at the thought of other people eating dogs for example.

There is a contradiction there. Look at it carefully. Try to generalize that to other living things, for example humans.

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Not if they've never done it before.
Long term, large scale containment of radioactive waste is an unsolved problem. Nuclear advocates have two answers to this problem:

A) We'll solve it later (we should research fuel reprocessing, we have an urgency to act, etc.)

B) It's not really a problem (people don't actually die from radioactive waste, most nuclear plants have proven themselves safely managed, etc.)

Both answer sound like sweeping the dust under the rug. What happens when (not if) a catastrophe occurs? If a war breaks out, how can you guarantee the safety of all nuclear power plants around the world? If a country economy collapses, how will nuclear engineers get paid? If an epidemic of a deadly disease spreads worldwide, how many people can die before there is not enough people to safely operate a nuclear plant?

We cannot sweep this under the rug. Nuclear energy may be theorically cheap to implement, but the potential cost of an uncontrollable failure is too great.
> As I progress (perhaps, already at a sunset) of my career, I can see that lack of fluency in mathematics (both algebra and analysis) is a major impediment for transition into more highly compensated (and impactful) , yet, still technical roles for many of us, out there.

Do you have an example off the top of your head? I'm assuming that by, "fluency in mathematics (both algebra and analysis)", you mean something beyond basic calculus and linear algebra.

My experience has been that software engineers at the staff, principal and architect levels don't really need to know advanced mathematics at all. From what I've seen they usually have a breadth of experience as generalists and a depth of experience in one or two particular specializations, which may or may not involve any advanced mathematics at all.
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I agree there are just a bunch of trade offs, and this shows you can’t please everyone. If you ship large bundles of polyfills people are sad they get some slow JavaScript, and if you give them fallback html and JavaScript that renders quick and supports their feature set, they are sad they didn’t get the same feature set as chrome latest. You have to minimize the fallback sadness as well as keep pushing better and better cutting edge experiences. This demanding environment is one thing I do like about the job even if it makes me feel constantly unqualified and doomed to fail :D

Speaking personally from my time before working at Google, the second network request is definitely the worse of the two options if you can’t do anything until it completes for most people- the round trip time kills you in the median US case I am familiar with.

At Apple for my small project we didn’t have these constraints so we just shipped a giant JavaScript bundle with feature detection and browser-side re-rendering that worked alright.
>Is Youtube still using Polymer 1.0

Yes if you are logged in. If you switch to private mode - yt will serve you v3.2

>>Polymer.version
>"3.2.0"
My experience in law school was that, while this sort of destructive behavior thing did occasionally happen, it's way overblown. In all the courses I took, the missing book thing (1) happened _once_, during the first year, (2) was corrected within hours, (3) because of #2, was never shown to be out of malice rather than ignorance (4) had substantial negative social consequences for the person suspected (i.e., rumors, lack of trust) ANYWAY, and (5) never happened again throughout my entire law school experience. Nor did the competition prevent the formation of study groups.

There were also some upsides to the competition in terms of motivation and focus, though admittedly with extremely ambitious law students it was a little over the top for the first year. But based on my experience teaching undergraduates, the middle ~60-70% of the class would benefit from an environment with more immediate competitive pressure.
Let it run its full course, and humanism will lead to an unimaginably horrific dystopia. Think "Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley. The surest way to make a man stumble and fall is to puff him up with flattery and tell him how wise and sure-footed he is.
What a milestone! This was the most impressive work in open source decision-making that I have ever followed (in my limited experience). People have contributed thousands of comments discussing this for over a year. It has even caused the team to rethink how discussions like this should be guided in the future beyond comments on GitHub issues. I cannot imagine how difficult it has been to manage it all, and I applaud and thank the Rust team for their hard work in fielding comments, weighing trade-offs, and ultimately making a decision in order to move the project forward.
Let’s talk about the real Facebook, which has physical offices in Canada and sells products in Canada.

The question of whether a company should be subject to legislative summons like this when that company is only incidentally involved with the country is an interesting one, but it’s also completely irrelevant to this discussion.
I've formed and run an sole member LLC, S Corp and C corp. Sometimes I get people asking me about forming a company to do EBay, Amazon FBA, and other side gigs. Here is basically what I tell anyone who asks (cliff notes version), off the top of my head:

1. If it's not making money, it's a hobby.

2. If it's making a little bit of money, don't form an business entity. Just do it as a sole proprietor - this is basically the easiest thing to do. Just open a separate bank account for the business and Schedule C on your tax return. Save ~25% of income in savings account for self employment taxes and taxes. Converting to an LLC, S Corp, etc., is always a possibility later.

3. Your choice of business entity will have consequences down the road that your attorney or accountant may not explain to you up front. For example, I did most of my consulting through an LLC on the advice of an accountant who convinced me to give up my S Corp. When my wife and I went to purchase our first house, they convinced me drop off of the mortgage application because they didn't like the fact that I was "self employed." If I had kept the S Corp, I would have W2 wage income and they wouldn't have batted an eye.

4. The rules regarding business entities vary state to state. Some states will allow a single member LLC and single owner S Corp; others may not. Make sure you understand your state laws and the taxes. Some states have an income tax; others have franchise tax. You can form the corporation in another state, but you will likely have to register as a foreign corporation in your state. For a few years my corporation was chartered in Delaware, and I would register in a state when I had business activity there.

5. The IRS has no sense of sympathy or humor when it comes to payroll taxes. State governments are even more fanatical about getting their money, on time. Penalties can be severe. I was depositing payroll taxes quarterly and was surprised when they wanted me to start depositing monthly. They notified me with a 17% penalty.

6. Understand that filing a tax return can trigger the requirement to keep filling out tax returns even if you don't owe anything. If you shut down the business, make sure you spend the time and be persistent in closing tax accounts or you will get notices for years. Don't trust it when a government employee says the account will automatically get closed.

7. Understand that with an S Corp or LLC you will have to do the business tax return first, before you do your own tax return. If you are an minority owner of a corp, make sure they get the tax returns done on time and you won't get surprised. Once you get surprised with a $20k tax bill...

8. In some cases a C corp can make sense, regardless of what everyone says.

9. Make sure you setup a proper retirement account and make contributions. This can payoff over the long term, even if you business isn't super profitable. Make it a priority.

I have plenty more, but that's a few thoughts.
They were sold a mislabeled item. They're just returning it to the store.
You hit the nail on the head here. The canadians are doing the same thing the American Congress did recently: pulling in the big bad zuck for a stern talking-to. Notice that they passed no laws. It's televised political theater of the kind we have seen ever since C-Span showed up.
The detection only needs to be done once on a given browser; only an extremely incompetent engineer would suggest performing that detection on every single page.

As such, I'm unsurprised to learn that a Google engineer thinks that the only possible way to solve this is to perform feature detection, repeatedly, on every single page.

The reality is that Google hires mediocre and lazy engineers, and that they also have a vested interest in pushing people into their proprietary browser. The result is that they do the thing that's best for Google as a business (pushing their invasive browser), and their incompetent staff line up to publicly defend this selfish and immoral decision.
It's called GaussDB. don't know details of it yet.
We need to differentiate between a number of different problems.

One is cleanup of nuclear sites, in that are there is a separation between civilian nuclear reactors and the much, much more problematic site management for nuclear waste from nuclear weapons production. Most problems from civilian sites date back to the early days of nuclear and most states have put in place some live cycle protocols for these sites.

Old nuclear weapons production sites are a whole lot of a bigger issues and its a desperate topic. Its not fair to accuse nuclear power of being problematic based on issues from those sites.

In general, I would argue most of these problems date back to the early days of nuclear technology and should not be used as a argument against new nuclear power.

In terms of waste management from civilian waste there is a very good argument to be made that putting all that waste into a long term storage (1000s of years) is not a smart thing to do. The nuclear waste is so small in overall size and relatively easy to story that it is not really a pressing issue for the next couple decades or even small number of centuries.

The technologies to use the energy from nuclear waste will not happen unless nuclear energy get used and finds larger commercial adoption. If you believe in 200 years nuclear will not exist and solar and wind will be used, then these technology will never exists. However if you assume that humanity has any kind of nuclear future, these technologies will very likely exists and that nuclear waste will be considered a resource.

Technically its pretty clear that we can build such long term facilities for the eventual small amount nuclear waste without much technical difficulty. What bother me is the push to demand that this problem is handled, before any other nuclear innovation can take place. It is used as an argument against nuclear even if the problem is not pressing in the least and compared to the continued exists of coal and utterly disingenuous way to attempted prevent usage of nuclear technology.

Finnland has build a repository called, Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository, and has shown that this is not really that crazy of a thing. Again, for me this is a problem that should be pretty far down on the list of priorites to solve for the world. The reason it doesn't exists in most countries is political, not technical. See the Yucca Maintain political shitshow while at the same time much better sites exists in the US but those can't be considered because of political deadlock.
What's the insurance cost in Ft. Worth?

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-wort...

My relatives have had to replace their roof twice in the last 15 years. What's the hail-proof solar cost?
TY, good to know! Now I think I recall Apple allowing "scripting" languages, since they're often used in apps/games (like lua).

Although py is pretty fast, esp if using opengl (or I guess metal now?) or even use JS with webGL (but Apple dropped openGL?), I'd like something faster, C or objective-C or even Java.

Is it known why Apple opposes non-"scripting" development on iOS?
The parent is making the correct claim that the voting outcome by state (or CD, in the states that split their vote) fully determines the winner, and the electoral college is a procedural formality. The way the votes are weighted is different from "count the popular vote nationwide", but that doesn't mean we don't directly elect the President.
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Chernobyl had a different perverse incentive, in that perceived failure to perform under a command economy such as that of the Soviet Union could be and often was individually punishable.
It's not really a race. It's more like a scam.

The telecoms and equipment manufacturers want to make it seem like a race in an effort to make people demand 5G, to increase the amount of subsidies as much as possible.
At my last job, I was getting paid $45k/yr and was expected to work 80-100 hours per week, on top of a 1.5 hour round-trip commute, because the other people on the team for the project were pulled to do other things that were deemed "more important", but the timeline for the project didn't shift at all, because it was also "vital".

There's a really great Usenix talk about burnout I stumbled across, and it so perfectly described what I was feeling, even down to the fact that I found myself drinking more and more each night just to be functional.

On paper, I took a pay cut at my next job, but I earned enough in overtime to more than make up for it, and I've gotten significant raises since then.
Let's be fair, Google does usually deliver a working product, even if they take it away just as everyone starts using and liking it.
I did something similar to this many, many years ago with C just for fun.

https://gist.github.com/sli/718436
The promise of "promotion to FTE" from a large company is about as worthwhile as a stripper's promise to text you later when you give her a big tip.

Sure it happens, but it's mostly to string along suckers.
I know this is a somewhat controversial statement, but I sometimes feel that Democracy is ruining our chances of survival as a species.

Long-term project planning and execution is very difficult when administrations, and their inherent focuses, change so quickly compared to the length of time necessary to achieve massive projects.

If we want to "fix" climate change by terraforming our planet, it'll take multiple lifetimes. Same with substantial space engineering projects.

It flies in the face of my liberal demeanor, but I think the only form of government with the ability to stick to plans for hundreds of years would be a Monarchy, strict dictatorship, or something similar. In theory, we could get lucky and they would be benevolent.

We could also just embrace the plausible AI "singularity" and ask the machines to take care of us and tell us what to do. It just takes faith that an AI would be more reliable over hundreds of years than a succession of different people. It also takes faith that it wouldn't decide to just throw in the towel and remove the people to save the planet.
Of course. Facebook should feel free to ignore this subpoena. In exchange, Canada should feel free to bar Facebook from doing business in their country.
The funny spelling of centre always gets me too, it just looks so wrong! I can get used to writing words that end in ise as ize, and colour as color. But center, fiber, liter, etc just don't sit right.
> We should also make it illegal to ship our garbage outside of the country. That will force us to deal with our own problems.

It should also be illegal for NYC/SF/etc to send their sewage/trash outside of the metro city limits. I don't care if it ruins their economy. It will force them to deal with their own problems instead of offloading it onto others.