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The pie. The pie... about that pie. Recognizing immigrants increases the tax base. Recognizing immigrants ensures better wages and changes the entire narrative. Come, work, share in our bounty and our responsibility to each other.

Increase in population relate to increases in infrastructure, housing, services, global workforce competitiveness, military capabilities, and a myriad of other indirect and direct supporting features of societies that fare well historically. Do more with more instead of thinking you can always do more with less.

Increases in demand for food, services, schools, etc grows the pie. Sure, at some point, demand needs to be able to keep pace. But the US is not at that point.

It's easier to use the steamroller of global goodwill described by the statue poem than it is to simply sharpen the blades of dominance. Eventually, there's no metal left to sharpen and nations of billions will route a nation of millions.
@woof : I'm pretty sure that running ads with the person's face who you want to target isn't how linkedin intended their ad-system to be used!
Sony has some decent options. I just switched to 'stupid' Nokia.
Leaving the question of debt alone, at this point, you're kind of an idiot if you don't use a credit card as much as you can. At a minimum you can get cash back on every purchase. If you have the discipline to pay your total balance on time you never pay finance charges.
Please, make sure you are eating healthy, exercising, taking regular breaks, and sleeping. Burnout manifests itself much quicker and continues to linger even longer when our health is neglected.

Start a conversation with your manager and a HR representative immediately. Burnt out engineers are a sign of bigger problems, and I guarantee that you are not the only one in that situation. If your company is worth working for, this type of conversation is welcomed.

Some context: my most recent experience with burnout was about a year ago. A result of 8 sequential 130+ hour weeks. Around week 6 or 7, my code was utter garbage (more than usual), my attitude towards the project was awful and I was setting a bad example to my peers & team. In retrospect, I was probably hurting the company more than I was helping.

Today, those 20 hour days with 2 to 4 hours of sleep screwed with my memory retention and general ability to focus. Wish I could take it back and do it differently.

For me the burnout cycle ended after several conversations with the company's founders. They were very clear that employee health is paramount to the company's success and continue to work on mitigating the root causes of engineer burnout.
> They work globally, for values of "globally" which include "most parts of the first world which you, as someone in the middle or upper middle class, are likely to find yourself in."

For the record the same middle/upper class Westerner, if dumped in the global south, will be able to pay for things with credit cards. You can pay for some hotels in Africa with credit cards. You can pay for expensive restaurants there. You can go to an ATM and withdraw money to pay for things that need cash.
I agree there is a problem, but is it ever frustrating having to tolerate completely fallacious statistics and bogus metrics every time someone talks about this. That sets the conversation back.

There is no such thing as equally qualified for a promotion. To pretend that performance is a simple formula with two inputs is being disingenuous.

It is a pipeline problem, because I have interviewed zero females and 100 males. I've never even received a woman's resume.

Any study related to people being more likely to hire, or pay more, involving names being switched on a resume, doesn't make sense. Nobody hires a resume, they call you in for an interview.

VCs investing disproportionately in male CEOs is hardly surprising because even if they have no bias, they know their money is on the line for someone who will be up against the rest of the tech and business world, with all of its bias.

Diversity quotas are harmful. Great, now nobody takes you seriously not just because they're biased to begin with but also because you only got the job over more qualified applicants to fill a quota. That isn't helping anybody. A much better option is to get more women to apply.

I have actually taken bias training and yes, I'm biased as hell. I don't like this fact and try to correct it. I also point it out to my male peers. But it's really hard to overcome when nobody has non-junk data and nobody is showing up to interview.

And are we allowed to be open to the fact that maybe, on average, women are weaker performers in tech? It seems like that is not allowed to be an option. It should also be a possibility that they're actually stronger performers in tech (I bet you reached for the down arrow before getting to that sentence). Pretending everyone must have equal ability and 50% of executives and 50% of programmers should be women doesn't get us anywhere.
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I would not mind if the entire entertainment industry just die. Some (likely, the only worthy) part of it will adapt, and the rest is totally worthless.
How do you know if you have product market/fit? It's great to focus on 90 days retention numbers, but how high should they be? 0.5%, 1% 5%? I assume 10% is totally nailing product/market fit, but how low can a number go and still be considered product/market fit.

Edit: Sorry, I got confused, I'm taking about conversion rate instead of retention. Sorry for the confusion. But I assume product/market fit is also measured by conversion and not retention alone.
Maybe he is an expert in both neuroscience AND bone surgery.
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IMHO if you wanna have impact, you write. You write theatrical plays, social and political philosophy, satire, comics, songs, whatever.

Anything that will connect someone in 200 years from today, with your mind and soul, can make a difference.

At least, this is how I feel when I read poems, watch a play, read a book or listen to a song.

ps. A prominent example is Tolstoy. The impact his writings had on Gandhi is outstanding IMHO.
It doesn't neatly fit into the "rebels" headline, but I think it should've given a sentence or two to the fact that countries like the UK, Canada, and (parts of) the US are now on summer time for most of the year. It's as though their timezones are all wrong.
So I noticed that maternity leave is cited often, but that strikes me as a lesser problem in tech relative to the cost of housing. Raising a family in San Francisco is not a cheap proposition. Rent keeps rising in the Bay Area.

Let's do a thought experiment.

Lets say a man and a women in tech both moved here 5 years ago and each got small rent-controlled studio apartments for about $1000/month. Let's say they met and started dating two years ago. They decide they want to move in together. They can forego one dwelling and share a studio apartment, or they can look on the market. They look around for a one-bedroom. Two years ago, a one bedroom is probably going for $2500 a month. Fast forward to today and they decide to have a kid. Everything is great for the first 1-2 years, but by 2017, they feel like they need a 2-bedroom. They start looking around and see that the only options cost about $5000 to $6000 month. That's a huge cost of living increase before the cost of child-rearing and is far more likely to drive people (men and women) out of the industry than unfavorable maternity leave policies.

In the thought experiment above, both a man and a woman both leave tech in SF together once they are forced out of the area by the conflict between housing prices and raising a family. The different is that the age distribution for men is likely to much broader than for women because of the biological clock. A man marrying and having a kid could likely be anywhere from 27 or so to past 40, where the range for women is likely to have approximately the same lower bound, but a much lower higher bound. I suspect 33 or so. This would suggest that housing prices are more likely to prematurely end the careers of women in tech in San Francisco.
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Tax dodging, conspiracy to suppress salaries, non-meritocratic compensation policies - the list goes on.
At this point, a large portion of the fee goes to fund rewards. Despite that, there's been an inexplicable shift in payment volume to debit cards which have little or no rewards.
That sounds like a security gaffe just waiting to happen - credit card information automatically synced everywhere.

Oh wait, didn't this already happen to some guy who got locked out of all his devices with via iCloud?

Now you can automatically lose all your emails, max all your credit cards, and send all your porn files to your grandmother.

Progress!
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I love the way how iPad works with PDFs,epubs etc. It is a glorified reader but works perfectly. I wish something like kindle would match the experience.
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Companies are governed by market forces. The whole point of a forest supervisor is to protect the public good against, among other things, market forces. That's why it's a conflict of interest when people in government positions of power later get a cozy job in the same industry. It's thinly veiled corruption. The only difference is that the payment is delayed.
Apart that the only illegal thing is the second, do you really think that people is aware of this or that they give a shit?
In an Internet (read: global) article about Time Zones around the world, and local customs related to such things, we get this gem:

> South Australian Premier Jay Weatherhill reintroduced the time zone debate this spring

The linked article is from April 2015. Spring in Australia is September-November.

This concept of using weather seasons as terms of reference for periods of time, is ridiculous, and kind of reinforces the view that Americans can't think outside their own little world.
Raising it from 12 to 18 clearly had a very positive effect. I'd wager that there is more to be had by raising it further. So this is a cold hard HR calculation - not something I suggest they do out of altruism. Although that would be OK too.

Just for perspective, where I live 52 weeks is mandated by law. Now, a private company doesn't have to offer full payment during that period (or any), but it's quite common to do. Personally, I have a hard time imagining passing my child on to day care at the age of 4 months. So that means at least one of the parents needs to stay out of work. For various reasons, that usually ends up being the mother.
When mobile OS gets good enough to export HDMI (and a docking bay) and use it as a desktop-type replacement, then I'll want a more badass phone. Unfortunately the thing I care about the most (slow-motion / high frame rate video recording) isn't being pushed by anyone but Apple, which means the current 120/240 FPS sensors that Apple uses will be the peak of technology. Very disappointed Android or others didn't push this; it has implications for machine vision and other externalities that make the price of some of the most interesting tech (high sampling rate video for computer vision and other related industries).

Oh well.
Is the private-public really such a big difference?
It seems to me that if the market crashes the tech industry will get affected the same way whether it's the public or the private market - harder to get funded, harder to get jobs etc.
The difference is in how the crash propagates to the general economy.
Am I wrong? I honestly don't know.
If you don't mind shelling $$$ there's the Sony Digital Paper: http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-digitalpaper/resource.solu...
"Kids" is a huge group in both countries, among which you can find good and bad behaviour.
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Working out for sure. Not just from a "spiritual" self-development feeling, exercise does actually release endorphins.
In Hungary the train company sells home printable tickets and they use QR code to ID it. I think it's weirdly encoded, maybe even encrypted somehow. You don't have to print it though, you can just open it in your phone than the ticket control scans it with their own phone and in-house app.

As for personal use, I don't really know. Storing your larger bitcoin wallet on paper could be reasonable.
From what I know, I think tanks reach out to you — or word of mouth.
Can't find source but I remember reading here the story of a payment business that competed with VISA and was taking off until VISA started threatening his client, making them fear that their payment wouldn't be processed at some point, and they would be subject to fines, if not worse.

I remember reading other stories on the same line, about visa using shady approaches to frighten people to preserve their monopoly, but a quick search can't bring any up. Search terms are too generic.
post-retirement gig as an activist

Go on, find an example of someone becoming a paid activist after retiring from a government gatekeeping position. Note that "activist" often means "unpaid".
I think it would be possibly anti-competitive.

However, Google already attempts to reward original content so if they could do it algorithmically to everyone (hence not disrupting the competitive marketplace) I think they'd be able to claim "oops."
Can you recommend a good chinese phone with similar specs that I could find on aliexpress?
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> I have a credit card, but not the american kind of credit card. I have the European kind that gets locked and blocked if it isn't paid off by the end of the billing period (1 month).

That's sounds more like a charge card, kinda like an Amex. Your bog standard Visa/Mastercard credit card only locks and blocks if you don't pay the minimum repayment amount at the end of the month which is usually around 2.5% of the outstanding balance. There's nothing particularly "american" about this, it's pretty standard around the world.
I fear the AI arms race may be inevitable. Even if all the nations could agree to place limits on AI research there will always be a huge incentive to develop something in secret.
DigitalOcean gives you a VPS with root access, nothing else.
They have some pre-built images (LAMP, Rails...) but it is your Job to get everything up an running.
Depending on how heavy your use is, you should look at the Xiaomi Mi4i.

I picked it up as a Nexus 5 replacement solely for the ridiculously large battery (3100mAh or 72% more than the similarly sized iPhone 6 and still 6% more than the 6 Plus). It's slimmer and more solid (the N5 has a tendency to get dented), and arguably has better specs (it definitely deals with Skype, my only performance hog, much better). When I was in the market, there was nothing that came close in terms of battery life. IRL it has been alright, if I read a book and check emails most of the time it will die in about 32 hours but going into town for meetings (i.e. only using maps, email and the odd Kindle), I've found it only lost 30% battery/day.

Cost me around 205 USD including shipping and a 6 month warranty, but if it breaks I'll just buy another one. It's only 1/5th the cost of an iPhone...

The Xiaomi portable chargers are also pretty neat.

I don't know about US availability as it appears most things Xiaomi are directly ripped off Apple and there's probably copyright issues. Check out the Mi Note to see what I mean...
> editorial suggesting slumping stock prices

Is this not fraudulent?
Hmm, not sure exactly what you're saying but if it's that Gmail accounts came first and then the ability to have accounts without Gmail then you're incorrect.

Google had products that required accounts way before Gmail came along. Adwords started in 2000 and I think Google Groups started in 2001. I'm pretty sure I personally remember having an account for Google Groups before Gmail even existed, but I could be wrong.

I'm also certain I had a blogger account with Google back in 2003 sometime and Gmail didn't come along until 2004 for an April Fools day joke I think.
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>> Then those efforts suddenly stopped, and nothing in the records indicates exactly why.

Nothing indicates why? It's not like they'd write down: "Got bribed. Stopped permit review."
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I never said such a thing, nor did I imply that. lawnchair_larry nailed it with his comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9960327

"I agree there is a problem, but is it ever frustrating having to tolerate completely fallacious statistics and bogus metrics. That sets the conversation back."

The statistics you cite are quite frankly bad statistics. You could have written the following and it would have been just as meaningless:

* "716 humans who left industry X"
* "I have collected stories from 716 other humans who have left industry X"
* "Of the 716 humans surveyed, 465 are not working today."
* "Two-hundred-fifty-one are employed in non-Industry X jobs, and 45 of those are running their own companies. A whopping 625 humans say they have no plans to return to Industry X
Which strongly implies "left the industry", not "moving to this job" or "that job". 2/3s of them aren't working at all, not "promoted to something else"

When you eliminate the nouns that allow our own biases to fill in the blanks and arrive at our own strong implications, it's quickly obvious that those statistics mean absolutely diddly-squat without additional related figures (like base rates) that allow us to perform an informed comparison.
Odd that the product page for Lightbeam makes no mention of the granular blocking feature. It's almost like they don't want to advertise that, rather calling it a visualisation tool.

Not until you install it and take a look do you find that blocking any particular site is easy to do and manage.

I've noticed a few sites I regularly visit are faster now that I've blocked some of their third party tracking and advertising crap with lightbeam. I've even blocked facebook.com and facebook.net, I hate their stupid junky web page widgets cluttering the web. Now I'm finally rid of it. Sure, I can't visit Facebook at all, but that's a small price for not seeing any of their crappy like buttons on the web anymore.
> For $300, you got a well-made, nice-looking phone with cutting-edge hardware and few compromises to be found

I don't think it is nice-looking. It's not ugly. It's just normal. It looks very similar to some Android phones.
Thanks for the list! I had #1 and #3 in my list already, I'll check the others too :).
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The problem with the "unicorns" in the private market is that its getting funded size wise as if it's a publicly traded company. Ubers 40Billion valuation isn't based on it's funding not on it's actual performance (400million revenue, 400million spend).

As long as a private company can getting to the next round of funding it doesn't matter if it's actually even close to becoming a sustainable business. So you can basically keep extending a "false" business in that all you need is convince someone to believe you can become even bigger than you already are, but without showing it through your actual revenue.

As a publicly traded company this wouldn't ever work. Amazon isn't making a profit but it keeps growing revenue wise (for now) if that somehow stops then it will get hit too.

At least thats my take on it.
Also airburst weapons result in minimal local fallout. There is the long term global fallout, but that risk wouldn't be catastrophic from a 30kt weapon. So the "local" blast would be the only operational damage. Granted it would be an insane amount of damage, but minimal long term dangers. I was an NBC officer in the Army and we conducted all sorts of scenarios dealing with tactical nukes (specifically maximum cross time calculation and blast diameters and cones of contaimination; I am so glad that much of that is academic at this point however there certainly is a danger from nuclear arms in the hands of nefarious actors. The asymmetric battlefield is so much harder to defend against than the old Societ threat.
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this option do not defrag actual ssd. it will reduce the write operation, which supposed to expand the lifespan of the drive only. potentially it will reduce the performance. i would not bother.
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They could just choose to reward rankings to the original movie, which means Hollywood will have to make movies that are not just reboots or sequels.
You seem to be conflating UX and UI. The article is no more than the title promises; principles of a good UI.
I think the similarity you're correlating is memory addresses. You see this a lot if you go into C, especially if you're debugging.

If you think memory addresses are cool, check out GDB + Linux Kernel and how it allows you to examine data structures: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelDebuggingTricks
If people spent extra money on entertainment, wouldn't that drive down the cost of entertainment? Since the costs associated with entertainment are less and each company can afford to cut prices in order to compete?
That is true, but also Moscow is not on its "own" geographical time zone. The middle line of UTC+3 is 45°E, east of Nizhniy Novgorod or eastern Caucasus.

Crimea (Sevastopol) is about 33.5°E. Naturally, this time zone change is part of the process employed by Russia to severe Crimea from Ukraine and attach it back to Russia.

St. Petersburg, or Leningrad as it seems to be going, is also on the same UTC+3 zone even though it is even further away to the west, with the "geographical" UTC+2 line (30°E) passing through the city.
Claiming we're not going to be able to simulate the human brain this century is a little bold. That is 85 years away. Eight five years is a long time in technology. Compare for example where we are now with where we were 85 years ago. In 1930 electronic computers did not exist, there was no sharing of information and research via the internet, the global population was around one third of what it is today so there were fewer people to work on technology research, and so on.

And forecasts about what won't happen which turn out wrong (false negatives if you like) don't tend to be viewed in the same way as forecasts about what will happen which turn out wrong (false positives). Compare how we view "there is a world market for maybe five computers" and "640Kb ought to be enough for anybody" (we tend to laugh) with all the false predictions about flying cars and so on for example (we tend to be more rueful). I was just thinking this morning about Clifford Stoll's 1995 book Silicon Snake Oil about the over-hyping of the internet, and wondering why someone would commit to a negative position in such a way.
What's the point of asking only the ones who left? That's about the worst sampling method I can think of.
Some of their uses (like the private property convention the article mentions) just seem to be making up for the language itself not being strict/expressive enough.

Once you already have a large existing codebase, adding some of this stuff via static analysis later is a nice and cheap way to get those extra checks anyway.
There is more to code reviews than just preventing issues. Code review is a valuable tool for maintaining code quality, and share code knowledge across the team. Those two things can be achieved with post-commit reviews.